In the ninth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, one day in June, the weather in the capital Chang'an was good, but Gaozu Li Yuan's mood was not good. Although the flowers are red and willowy green, the blue water ripples, a pleasant mid-spring scenery, and the boating on the lake in the palace, he does not have the appearance of Pingsuri's androgen vigorous and sexual impulses.
This old man, a little mentally ill, a little emotionally disturbed, and a premonition that something big is not good.
The scale of the Tang Dynasty Beijing Division, the current Xi'an including the suburbs multiplied by ten, I am afraid it will not catch up. Therefore, it is certain that the Taiji Palace, which Li Yuan expanded on the basis of the Daxing Palace in the Sui Dynasty, is several times that of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Pei Ning, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, and several other close courtiers who accompanied him on the boat tour were of course very detailed in their hearts, and it was his three sons, the eldest Li Jiancheng, the second li Shimin, and the third Li Yuanji, who had already made trouble in the dark and indissoluble for the throne, which made him anxious. Among them, the most inaccurate is the King of Qin.
At this moment, Li Shimin is definitely an active volcano that has begun to emit red magma, but I don't know when he will erupt? What kind of outburst does it look like? Is the sky shaking? Is it a sea of mountains? Things have developed into this helpless, powerless, helpless three realms, everyone is waiting for this scene that is about to explode and must be exploded.
Therefore, the entire Taiji Palace was shrouded in an ominous atmosphere.
In the early morning of June 4, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, launched an armed rebellion for the right to inherit the imperial throne at the north gate of the imperial palace in Chang'an, the taiji palace, and the "model" emperor in Chinese history officially stepped onto the stage of "Zhenguan Rule".
Li Shimin was a good emperor, that was an afterthought, but he did not dare to compliment him on his means of seizing power.
Wang Fuzhi was suspicious: "Emperor Taizong's heart is to seize the throne, is there a huge ambition that cannot be shown?" "慝" is evil.
The scholar considered him to be very "cunning". Because of his rule of chastity, which was once a golden age of longing in history, Chinese over the past thousand years usually avoid talking about his "cunning".
However, to be fair, Li Shimin's armed coup in 622 AD and his seizure of the throne should be highly praised for him personally. With his reign of 617-627 AD, he established the Tang Dynasty, and his reign of Zhenguan from 627 to 649 AD, Unification Uchi, can be regarded as the three masterpieces of his life.
In China's dynasties and dynasties, palace coups are commonplace and innumerable, but those who have reached Li Shimin's perfect level this time cannot find the second one.
Li Shimin fights the country and mountains beautifully; ruling the world is beautiful; seizing the throne is also beautiful.
As far as the coup d'état and talk about the coup d'état, you cannot but admire Li Shimin's wisdom and wisdom, his decisiveness, his resolute determination, and his royal demeanor of not dragging mud and water at all.
I don't know if the advisers in the Qin Dynasty Palace made political plans in advance when planning this coup? What is the price to be paid by both the enemy and us?
But the results of the battle deserve the words "more, faster, better, and provincial."
The least shedding, the smallest cost, the shortest time, the best aftermath, almost less than a right time, basically ending the battle, the sun has not completely set, the battlefield has been cleaned up. Unconsciously, a new owner appeared in the Taiji Palace.
The whole of Chang'an City was hardly alarmed by the coup, because the city was too big, and there were no mobile phones, text messages, no networks, no messages, and no entertainment and paparazzi, which was an important inducement to report on the coup.
This kind of coup d'état with very little investment and great output is a record-breaking record, not that we Chinese always like to show off that glorious past, take this "coupd'Etat", open the Encyclopedia Britannica, explain the examples cited in this word, it is simply laugh-out-of-cheek.
The book considers that on November 9, 1799 (18 Of the Misty Moon), Bonaparte Napoleon overthrew the Governorate, and Louis Napoleon dissolved the National Assembly of the Second French Republic in 1851, which is a typical coup d'état. oh! Oh, my God! The children's uncles and nephews, and the Change of Xuanwu Gate of Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, are not at all on the same level, and cannot be compared.
Why was the level of Li Shimin's coup d'état so high? Because his "heart to seize the throne" has been long!
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, faced with internal and external troubles and unstable footholds, Li Shimin certainly will not carry out a coup d'état. In 622 (the fourth year of Wu De), after solving the internal worries of the two warlords Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, and the external turkic Jieli was still gathering strength, he thought that he could free his hands and plan.
Although the zhengshi record of the change of Xuanwumen is very brief, and it is repeatedly emphasized that it was under the persecution of the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, That Li Shimin repeatedly backed down, retreating to self-defense counterattacks that could no longer be retreated. Of course, this is the rhetoric of the imperial literati, Li Shimin, who has mastered the state apparatus and the guidance of public opinion, even if he patted his chest and let him write straight, they did not dare to joke with their own heads.
First, Li Shimin is not a pussy; second, Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Li Yuanji, together, are by no means his opponents.
There is persecution, there are also frame-ups, and the reason why Li Shimin has repeatedly endured and not rebounded is precisely his cunning. The two brothers had no idea that all the evil deeds they had committed to Li Shimin that they thought they were proud of had given Li Shimin a wonderful selling point to create public opinion, to invite people's hearts, to motivate subordinates, and to display a big image.
Just as the story of Zheng Zhuanggong conniving at his brother in the Spring and Autumn Period and then cutting it out in one fell swoop is the same truth: first take advantage of the reason, you see, I did not mean it, I was forced.
In 624 (the sixth year of WuDe), also in June, Li Shimin began to carry out a coup d'état, he held a grand military parade, in the name of prisoners, in the form of triumph, personally led the field troops into the important town of Gyeonggi, directly challenged the prince's guards and the imperial forest army of the imperial palace, in fact, to prepare for the armed rebellion.
The canonical history goes like this:
"Emperor Taizong personally wore golden armor, Chen Tiema rode 10,000 horses, and armored soldiers 30,000 people, and the front and rear parts advocated, and the second false lord and The Sui artifacts were sacrificed to the Taimiao Temple. Gao Zu was overjoyed, and drank to the fullest to enjoy it. (Old Book of Tang)
Such a thousand armies and horses hiding the flag, such a strong iron horse with swords and swords poking at the sky, this is not a demonstration, what else can it be? The old man could not "please" in any case. There was no way, he was indebted to this son, and he had a heavy debt psychology towards this King of Qin, who supported the army and respected himself and led his troops to suppress the city.
What to do? Li Yuan could only appease him with a super-standard reward and carry out political redemption.
"Gao Zu said that Emperor Taizong was highly meritorious, and the ancient official number was not enough to be called, but he was called a general of Tiance, a leader of Situ, and a Shang Shu Ling." (New Book of Tang)
Why does the old man feel sorry?
Power, that is, temptation, the highest power, the highest temptation. An official with a sesame green bean, still grab the head and break the blood flow, let alone the emperor?
By 626 AD (the ninth year of Wu De), the tit-for-tat power struggle between the three brothers had become public, white-hot, and basically could not be alleviated.
After the change of Xuanwu Gate, the five sons of the crown prince, Li Chengdao, Li Chengde, Li Chengxun, Li Chengming, and Li Chengyi, and the five sons of Yuan Ji, Li Chengye, Li Chengluan, Li Chengxian, Li Chengyu, and Li Chengdu, were all cut off from the roots, and none of them remained.
Therefore, Li Shimin began his "rule of Zhenguan" from the "pool of blood" of Xuanwumen. Later, people remembered the "rule of chastity" and ignored the "pool of blood", so they did not care about his "yu" that could not be seen in broad daylight.
Because Chinese the requirements for the emperor who ruled them were actually very low. You don't kill him, he feels lucky, you give him a bite to eat, he feels the imperial grace. Having experienced too many mediocre kings, dark lords, adulterous kings, and tyrants, there are actually in a basket of rotten apples, and there is a relatively intact Tang Taizong, which is also too rare, too rare, too golden.
Even if there are some rust spots on the peel and some bumps and bruises, it is not taken seriously, and it is not hidden, helping him turn this page of history over.
Occasionally read the "Brief Treatise on the Origin of the Sui and Tang Systems" by chen Yinke, a close friend: "However, the change of Xuanwu Gate on June 4, 999, when Emperor Taizong was able to win the victory over the Yuan Ji, the key to his victory was to guard the forbidden army of Xuanwu Gate, and the old historical records were very secretive, and now the Library of Paris has hidden Dunhuang to write Ben Bo Xihe and No. 2640 Li Yifu wrote Chang He Epitaph for reference, and the reason for the success or failure of the day is clearly known." ”
It seems that the key to this coup d'état is Chang He, the leader of the Xuanwu Gate Forbidden Army, and the history books have kept it secret.
This subordinate of Li Jiancheng did not defect to the battlefield that day, abandoning the dark and casting light, but had long been attracted by Li Shimin, bribed, and became the internal response buried in the Xuanwu Gate.
On the night of June 3, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had already received a tip from Zhang Jieyu that Li Shimin had ambushed the Taiji Palace. Knowing the conspiracy, he still dared to enter the palace with a big swing, and he was also convinced that Xuanwumen was his territory, the forbidden army obeyed his command, and Chang He was his concubine.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the palace, the situation changed, and he immediately fell into the death of the enemy in his belly and back, and had to hand over his life.
It is conceivable that this process of buying Chang He is not a day or two; this process of firmly grasping the control of Xuanwu Gate in one's own hands is not a year or two.
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