On June 4, 627 AD, Tang Taizong Li Shimin killed his elder brother Li Jiancheng and his younger brother Li Yuanji in the Xuanwumen Incident, which opened the famous Zhenguan era in Chinese history.
The rule of Zhenguan was characterized by a developed economy, an open literary style, prosperous martial arts, and the coming of all nations. It can be called the most perfect prosperous era in Chinese history.
There are some so-called prosperous times, either because the economy is developed, but it is unfavorable for foreign wars. For example, during the Song Dynasty's Song Renzong period, the economy was indeed very developed, but the war with Liao and Xia resulted in repeated defeats.
Either the martial arts is at its peak but the domestic economy is in a mess, such as The prosperous age of Han Wu The prosperous age of Yongle.
Only Tang Taizong Li Shimin's Zhenguan rule could achieve both civil and military skills.
So for thousands of years, people have highly respected Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and thus ignored the historical stain of his illegal rise to power in the Xuanwumen Incident.
And when people evaluate something or a person, they often have such an extreme view, that is, if he is a good person, everything he does is good; if he is a bad person, then he will do anything good. is bad.
Therefore, when people evaluate the Xuanwu Gate Incident, they often side with Li Shimin consciously or unconsciously, and criticize Prince Li Jiancheng overwhelmingly.
Youdao is the winner and the loser, and history is written by the victors. After Li Shimin succeeded in taking office, he also spared no effort to smear his eldest brother Li Jiancheng in the history books, portraying him as a "treacherous, crippled, lazy and slippery" scumbag with all five poisons.
In the eyes of future generations, these two brothers should be incompatible, sworn in, and have no physical ties.
In 2005 , the epitaph of Prince Li Jiancheng was unearthed in Xi'an. From the epitaph, people discovered that Li Shimin's feelings for the eldest brother whom he personally killed should not be that simple.
The epitaph of Prince Li Jiancheng is only a short 50-odd words:
Datang The epitaph of King Xiyin, Wang Jiancheng, died in the capital on June 4, the ninth year of Wude, the first month of Wuzi in the second year of Zhenguan in Guangdong On the 13th day of Yiyoushuo and Xinyou, he was buried in Gaoyangyuan, Chang'an County, Yongzong.
Maybe you will say that this epitaph contains very little information. Doesn't it mean when did Li Jiancheng die, when was he buried, and where was he buried? How can we see their brotherly love?
It is precisely because this epitaph contains so little information that it seems abnormal.
In ancient times, epitaphs mainly recorded the final conclusion of a person's coffin after his death. When were you born, when were you dead, and what great things have you done in your life? What contribution does it make to society? How is your character? What is the social reputation and so on?
But Li Shimin didn't mention a word about these things. If Li Jiancheng is really as described in the history books, he is full of five poisons and does all kinds of evil. He has deliberately planned to persecute his brother Li Shimin everywhere. So, as the winner and the sufferer, shouldn't Li Shimin write these things on his eldest brother's epitaph?
The reason why Li Shimin did not write it down is because the grudges and grudges at that time were not as simple as right and wrong.
It can even be said that neither of the two brothers did anything wrong in the Xuanwu Gate incident. What was wrong was just the position they were in and they couldn't help themselves.
Because of the Xuanwu Sect change, it was not because of how weak the brotherhood between them was, but because of the promotion of the interest groups behind each.
This epitaph is just like the wordless monument of Wu Zetian . It is difficult to describe right and wrong in one sentence.
It is precisely because of this that Li Shimin dared to reveal his true emotions slightly on the epitaph that has never seen the light of day.
So, in real history, what was the relationship between their brothers like? What forced them to finally turn against each other?
Li Jiancheng is not a mediocre person
Tang Taizong Li Shimin, Prince Li Jiancheng, Qi Wang Li Yuanji and Princess Pingyang Zhao were all born to Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's original wife Queen Dou .This Queen Dou was a strange woman in the Sui and Tang dynasties. She helped her husband Li Yuan many times to avoid the suspicion of Sui Yang Emperor .
can be found from the clues of the historical book that when Queen Dou was still alive, the relationship between the four brothers and sisters of the Li family was very good. But
is a pity. Before Li Yuanzhong called the emperor, Queen Dou had already drove the cranes in the west. The brothers lost the bond that maintained feelings and buried the root cause of the future tragedy.
about Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's rebellion. After the history books carefully modified by Li Shimin, this old Li Yuan was a confused worm, and he wanted to drink and play every day. When the world was in chaos, the second son Li Shimin persuaded him to rebel, Li Yuan didn't listen. In the end, in order to force the dad to rebel, Li Shimin stuffed the two maids in Emperor Sui Yang on Li Yuan's bed.
is within the scope of the emperor's woman in accordance with the rules of ancient times. Li Yuan did this to commit a crime of great reversal, but he had to reverse. In the end, Li Yuan had to be helpless.
In this story, the Datang rebels were planned from the beginning to the end. Li Yuan just acted as a prop, and it had nothing to do with Prince Li Jiancheng. Li Jiancheng just enjoyed his success. How can he be a prince? The prince should have been my Li Shimin.
, but Li Shimin was countless, and finally missed the same thing. This is " Datang Entrepreneurship ".
This book was a diary written by , the secretary of Tang Gaozu, , which was written. It records that Li Yuan started from Taiyuan to occupying Changan City in 357 days, everything happened.
and this Wen Daya retired shortly after Li Yuan founded the Emperor, and did not stir up the break between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin later. So this book is much more credible than those history books written by Li Shimin.
According to the statement in this book, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan had already had a rebellious mind, and before the rebellion, his eldest son, that was, the later prince Li Jiancheng went to Hedong to recruit heroes. After
Li Yuan's rebellion was rebellious, he marched from Taiyuan in his old base to the Hedong area. At that time, in order to prevent Li Yuan's rebellion, Emperor Sui Yang inserted a general called Song Laosheng in order to prevent Li Yuan's rebellion.
was responsible for down the block of Land Rover at the time, which was the pioneer forces led by Li Jiancheng. At this time, Li Shimin was only Li Jiancheng's deputy general. After
, after the Li family troops across Yellow River entered the Guanzhong Basin , this Li Jiancheng led the army to lay down the capital of Datang.
can be said that in the process, Li Jiancheng is a well -deserved protagonist. On the other hand, Li Shimin did not perform much. It can be seen that this Li Jiancheng is not a legendary wine bag that occupies an age advantage.
Li Jiancheng's death bureau
, but after Li Yuan hit Changan , all changed.
was 618 AD. Shortly after Li Yuan called the emperor, Li Jiancheng was established as a prince, setting time at this moment. Li Jiancheng, the prince, can be described as renamed and full of gold.
discusses the founding of the Datang from the contribution of Digong, Li Jiancheng's achievements; in terms of name. Li Jiancheng is the eldest son of genuine goods. According to the ancient eldest son's inheritance system, he is the first heir heir who is well -known. There is nothing about Li Shimin at all.
, it is precisely because Li Jiancheng was established prematurely as a prince, which caused him to leave the front line before the Datang dynasty unified the world.
must know that at that time, Datang was just one of the warlords in the world. If he wanted to unify the world, he would also defeat Hebei Dou Jiande , Central Plains Wang Shichong , Shanxi Liu Wuzhou , Wagangzhai Li Mi And those sedimentary regimes south of Yangtze River .
, that is, if Datang is unified, his volume will be several times on the basis of the present. In the process of this equity expansion, countless opportunities will be provided, and the equity of the old shareholder Li Jiancheng may be diluted.
has nothing to do with Li Jiancheng. He can only sit in the credit book to eat the old basis. Raise the ground.
said that here maybe you would say that if Li Yuan was not so early, then the fate of Li Jiancheng would not be different?
In fact, Prince Edward was an imperative thing at that time. If the prince was not established at the time, the Datang dynasty, who was just listed, would soon go bankrupt. External expansion can give people the opportunity to be promoted, but if you want to be promoted, there is still a more convenient way to compare foreign combat. That is the battle for winning.
As long as you can successfully stood in the middle of the leader's son, it will not take the power to make the sky one step. Isn't this easier than hard work to fight blood?
So any group must immediately solve the problem of the heir when he is slightly a little bit large. Otherwise, the internal employees will lose the motivation to expand external expansion and then turn to the internal fire.
's warlord Yuan Shao was a good lesson.
is because he has been hesitant in the heirs, so the group of people under his men, after he unified the north of the Yellow River, became the first in the world, and was no longer enthusiastic about the war against Cao Cao , but instead, he instead. Every day, wondering how to stand in the middle of Yuan Shao's sons. So that in 's Battle of Guandu , the faction struggle was buried in a good situation.
So, Datang Empire wants a more brilliant future, Li Jiancheng is not proper. The author calls it Li Jiancheng's death. Being a prince Li Jiancheng has no future, and the prince Datang has no future. After
was out of control, Li Shimin
Li Jiancheng retired to the second line, and Li Shimin began to be out of control. First of all, in the battle of shallow water, , he cleaned Li Tang 's largest enemy West Qin Bawang Xueju forces. The layout turned over and completed the first round of IPO financing after the Datang was listed.
With this credit, Li Shimin's limelight tied Prince Li Jiancheng. At this time,
, as the emperor, also found something wrong. The second child is now too prosperous, chasing the prince, in case the employees within the group think that Li Shimin also has the opportunity to win the position of Prince. After that, everyone can't figure out how to fight every day, who will do it with their hearts?
, so Li Yuan promoted Qi Wang Li Yuanji, who had no sense of existence, and asked him to guard his hometown Taiyuan. With Li Shimin east and west, check and balance each other.
is helpless. This level of Qi Wang Li Yuanji is really not enough. It was hit by the Shanxi warlord Liu Wuzhou at that time, and even his hometown was lost. In the end, Li Shimin personally came out of the horse and made Liu Wuzhou down.
Li Yuan's first checks and balances announced failure! After
settled his hometown and behind, the next step of the Datang Group was to enter the Central Plains and sighs the world. At that time, the two major Land Rover in the Central Plains, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, was no worse than Datang. If
is calculated according to the strength of the paper, there is no chance of one -to -two. As a result, he never expected that Li Shimin was too capable. He actually caught Dou Jiande, who had 100,000 soldiers with thousands of special soldiers in the battle of Tiger Prison.
Wang Shijiu opened the door to surrender. After this battle, the Li Tang Group completely removed the two -headed road of the Central Plains, and the overall situation in the world has been set. For Datang, this is a good thing, but for the old Li family, this is very headache.
is too much of Li Shimin's credit.Since the end of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, there has been no war in the world. Even if Li Jiancheng gave up his position as prince and went to the front line, he would not be able to find a greater opportunity to make meritorious deeds than this.
At this time, Li Shimin's contribution has been made, and only the position of prince can reward him. But the problem is that doing so is unjust and unjust. The prince did not make any mistakes, and he also had merit. Li Yuan could not kill him for no reason.
Moreover, with Li Shimin's merits, he is qualified to be an emperor, let alone a prince.
Therefore, not only the prince is worried about him, but actually even Li Yuan must guard against him. Based on this consideration, Li Yuan said that he had to protect the prince, two against one, so that he could compete with Li Shimin. If the prince falls, he will not be able to remain emperor for more than a few days.
The era created Li Shimin
Having said this, we have a question, why does it have to rely on Li Shimin to conquer the world? Could it be that the Tang Dynasty could not change without him? Of course not.
Let’s not talk about other people, let’s talk about the military god of the Tang Dynasty Li Jing. His fighting skills are not inferior to Li Shimin. It was he who expanded the last territory of the Tang Dynasty group and annexed the south of the Yangtze River. It was he who later destroyed the Eastern Turks with 3,000 cavalry. Dry.
It’s just that the Sui and Tang Dynasties were an aristocratic society. The so-called nobles are little emperors who have people, money, guns and status. Li Yuan, the great emperor, was actually supported by various little emperors.
For example, Li Jing, his ancestor was one of the Eight Pillars of the Guanlong noble group. If such a person were to replace Li Shimin, his threat to the Tang Dynasty would be much higher than that of Li Shimin.
After all, even if Li Shimin rebelled in the end, the world would still belong to their family, and the meat would still rot in the pot. If Li Jing, the little emperor, replaces Li Shimin, he can defeat monsters and upgrade to the great emperor, and then the dynasty will change.
This was an incurable congenital disease of that era. If the great emperor, who represents the central power, wants to effectively suppress the ambitions of the various little emperors, he must vigorously promote his own family, because outsiders cannot trust him.
If one's own family comes to power, all of these people are sons and grandsons of dragons. Who is not qualified to be the emperor? Therefore, using one's own family members can easily lead to human tragedy. Li Yuan could only choose the lesser of two evils. Even if he knew how harmful Li Shimin was, he could only use it by pinching his nose. The driving force behind
In order to stabilize Li Shimin, Li Yuan set up an official position for him for the first time, called General Tiance. What is important is not this official position, but the rights that come with this official position, that is, General Tiance can open a government office.
This also means that Li Shimin can openly recruit staff and form his own think tank, which is equivalent to creating a small court. You know, this kind of privilege can only be enjoyed by the prince, so that when the prince takes over in the future, he will have a ready-made talent team at his disposal.
Now that Li Yuan has asked Li Shimin to do this, it has laid the groundwork for future conflicts between brothers.
If this matter had not happened, then Li Shimin would not have been much of a threat to Li Jiancheng. Even if he has great achievements, credit is of the past after all, and politics is about the present and the future.
Throughout the ages, are there still few cases of ministers who have made great contributions being killed?
Therefore, merit cannot be used as a talisman for Li Shimin in the future. Li Jiancheng still retains the power of life and death over him.
Then there is no actual conflict of interest between the two parties, and the brotherhood can still be preserved. So, all this tragedy is Li Yuan's fault? Not really.
After Li Shimin later became General Tiance, the talented team he recruited was actually not because they came to join him after he became prosperous, but because they followed him to conquer the world from the beginning.
It's just that they used to cling to Li Shimin secretly in private, but now they are officially given a status.
Li Shimin's small group had already been formed during the expansion of the war.Li Yuan's appointment is just to give them an official certification. With the great achievements of Datang's unity, what is the significance of this small group?
certainly keeps their vested interests. For example, Qin Shubao , Captain Chi Chi Gong , Cheng Bite Jin , their credit was set up when he followed the world with Qin King , and was naturally labeled by the Qin King Party. After
Prince Edward, their credit will definitely be greatly reduced, and the future income will not be guaranteed. The best way is of course to let Li Shimin come to power.
We turned his sight back to the side of Prince Li Jiancheng. The talent team under his hand will also have this idea. After they become the staff of the East Palace, they will naturally be tagged on the Prince Party. If
collapses, Li Shimin is on the ground. The worst result of these people is to be cut by the door. The best result is never hired, and political death is never hired. Both sides have put on their own life and have no way back.
so Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling Daily Fire, Li Shimin, killed Prince Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng's Prince Edward Wash Wei Zheng also persuaded Li Jiancheng to kill Li Shimin.
has such a large group of people, arming in their ears every day. Even if their brothers are more affectionate than Jin Jian, they can't help the three of them become tigers.
, for example, those of the generals of Tiansica's general government planned Yang Wengang's incident without Li Shimin's consent, and wanted to frame the prince to rebel. The people on the prince were not polite, and they pushed Li Shimin to assassinate Li Shimin.
's emotional feelings can't stand this repeated tossing, and finally walking towards the basalt gate, basically destined. The real needs of
are destined to be a prince Li Jiancheng; the actual needs are also destined that Li Shimin must lead troops to fight in person and cannot use outsiders. The combination of the two is doomed to be dead.
are all pushed by the trend of the times, where there are so many right or wrong.
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