After Li Shimin killed Li Jiancheng, he also did a big thing, but the history books of the Tang Dynasty did not dare to write it at all
Li Tang's Jiangshan
The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous dynasty on the mainland, when the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and it was not shouting and killing with various foreign countries and foreign tribes, but being eclectic, and getting along was also very harmonious, and it was very prosperous.
This can be seen from the Japanese state, which had no writing in Japan during the Tang Dynasty, and was in a period of alternating slavery and feudalism, and the powerful Tang Dynasty gave them a model to learn.
At that time, Japan sent "Tang envoys" many times to China to learn the system, writing, art, etc., and Datang also welcomed the Tang envoys, showing the arrogance of a big country, and until now the shadow of the Tang Dynasty can still be seen from the traditional culture of Japan.
The strength and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty could not be separated from Tang Taizong Li Shimin, who was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and during his reign, he not only had diplomatic relations with foreign countries, but also was enshrined as the "Heavenly Khan" in his own territory, creating the "Rule of Zhenguan".
Although he is the second emperor, it is not an exaggeration to say that he fought this world. Li Shimin was intelligent from an early age, and when he grew up, he began to join the army, conquer the north and the south, and saved the Sui Emperor at Yanmen Pass when he was a teenager.
After realizing that Sui's qi had been exhausted, Li Shimin began to plot to seize the world, he lowered his posture to recruit talents and recruit talents, and used his own money to attract doormen, laying the foundation for anti-Sui. At the same time, he also encouraged his father to start the first battle against the Sui, and finally helped his father to seize the Jiangshan of the Great Sui Dynasty and establish the Li Tang Dynasty.
The change of Xuanwu Gate
After Li Yuan obtained the throne, he still obeyed the principle of the crown prince establishing a concubine and made his eldest son Li Jiancheng the crown prince. Li Jiancheng, who was crowned crown prince, wanted to follow the emperor's father in handling the government, and he had no opportunity to accumulate his own power on the battlefield.
As the second son, Li Shimin was crowned King of Qin after his father ascended the throne, and his task was to serve as a forward to help Li Yuan stabilize the country and expand his territory. In successive wars and victories, he has continuously accumulated his own contacts and held a lot of military power.
With the passage of time, Li Yuan's military exploits for the second son have also reached the point where there is no seal and no award. As the saying goes, the merits of the lord, people's desires are always endless, and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, has begun to be dissatisfied with his current rights.
At this time, the crown prince Li Jiancheng also felt a crisis for his brother's success, and Wei Zheng, who was on the side of the crown prince at the time, persuaded Li Jiancheng to let him go on a crusade against Liu Heimin, who was weaker, in order to stabilize his own power and build his own reputation, which showed that Li Jiancheng's position was in jeopardy.
In this situation, not only could the crown prince sit still, but the emperor at that time, Li Yuan, was afraid that Li Shimin would launch a coup and seize the throne, and as a father, he was the least willing to see the brothers killing each other for the throne.
As a result, Li Yuan began to weaken Li Shimin's power, preventing Li Shimin from leading troops to fight, and allowing Li Yuanji, the King of Qi, who had a good relationship with the crown prince at the time, to balance Li Shimin's rights, and also ordered Li Yuanji to order all the soldiers of Li Shimin, the King of Qin.
What I never expected was that this also became the last straw for Li Shimin to launch a coup d'état, because when Li Yuan issued this holy decree, Li Shimin decided to launch the Xuanwumen Rebellion the next day.
It is said that the day before the xuanwumen change, Li Yuan also summoned Li Shimin to ask Li Shimin not to have the intention of plotting power and usurping the throne. Li Shimin burst into tears, indicating that he was safe and guarding himself, his brothers and brothers, and did not have the heart to seize power, and also denounced the crown prince Li Jiancheng as absurd and unscrupulous, entangled with the harem concubines.
This also aroused Li Yuan's attention, which completely changed the center of the father-son conversation, so that Li Yuan summoned Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji the next day, and also gave Li Shimin the opportunity to kill Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.
The next day, Li Shimin launched a long-planned coup d'état at XuanwuMen, successfully killing the eldest brother and the fourth brother on the way to Li Yuan's palace by Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji. His concubine Li Jiancheng was dead, and Li Yuan's grief was too late, so he could only accept the order to pass the throne to his second son Li Shimin.
The winner is the king, and the loser is the coward
The change of Xuanwumen has always been a stain on Li Shimin, because this coup shows that his throne is not coming from the right path, and in addition to this incident, Li Shimin also rushed some little-known things after the change of Xuanwumen.
After becoming emperor, Li Shimin repeatedly asked to check the records of the historians at that time, and he knew that what the historians recorded was to be passed on to future generations. As an emperor, he naturally did not allow his life to be stained, and he could only "tamper" with some bad things.
It can also be seen from the current history books that the history books beautify the Xuanwumen Incident as that the crown princes Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji wanted to murder Li Shimin, and Li Shimin was forced to fight back, and various "yanyi" novels were also affected by this, blackening Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.
In addition, Li Jiancheng's exploits cannot be found in the history books, and only Li Shimin's contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty are recorded. If you seriously think about it, if Li Jiancheng can become a prince, how can he not have any merit at all? This is obviously hard to believe. What's more, if Li Jiancheng "couldn't help him up", how could Wei Zheng assist him?
In addition, there are two historical books on the history of the Tang Dynasty that can be referenced, namely the New Book of Tang and the Old Book of Tang, both of which record the Tang Dynasty, but the records of Li Jiancheng are different, because they were not written in the same period.
After killing the crown prince Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin still did not relax, he cleaned up all the veins of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, killed all the men in the two families, leaving only the women, and passed one of his sons into Li Jiancheng's vein and another son into Li Yuanji's vein, so that he could be at ease.
Most of Li Jiancheng's concubines came from famous families, which was of great help to Li Shimin in gaining a firm foothold on the throne, so Li Shimin accepted all of these concubines as ordered. Under the coercion of Li Shimin, these historical materials were not recorded at that time, but were written by posterity.
It is also lamented that the winner is the king, the loser is the coward, and history is written by the victor.
