Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The "Sinners" of the Xuanwumen Incident

Official politics in the feudal era paid more attention to "standing in line", especially when it comes to major events such as the prince's fight for the heir, the official's position will have a decisive impact on his future destiny. With a successful master, he will naturally flourish in the future and achieve success alone Dogs and chickens rise to heaven, but if they follow the wrong master, the consequences may be very serious, ruining their reputation or even destroying their families. There are countless such examples in the thousand-year history. However, there was such a palace coup, which changed the succession of the Tang Dynasty's throne, made a successor of a "sage king", and opened a glorious ancient and modern prosperity.The ministers involved in this coup d'état had different positions, but the victors of the coup d'état ignored most of the past and kept their hearts open. The result of "standing on the wrong team" is that many of them who were on the wrong team still got the opportunity to display their talents and achieved a good reputation as a virtuous minister.This coup was the famous "Xuanwu Gate Change" in the history of the Tang Dynasty.

On July 2, 626 A.D., the second son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, Qin Wang Li Shimin, led an army to set up an ambush at the Xuanwu Gate of the north gate of Chang'an City Imperial Palace, intercepting Prince Li Jiancheng and Qi Wang Li Yuanji who were about to enter the palace to meet Tang Gaozu Li Yuan. .After a fierce battle, Li Shimin killed his elder brother Li Jiancheng and younger brother Li Yuanji.Then he reported to Tang Gaozu Li Yuan that "the prince rebelled". Under Li Shimin's aggressive military pressure, Li Yuan was forced to agree to "abide". Three days later, Li Shimin was established as the crown prince. On August 9, Li Yuan officially abdicated and Li Shimin ascended the throne. Proclaiming himself emperor, this is the famous Tang Taizong in history.

This battle for reserves actually started as early as the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.In today's history books, there are different judgments on both sides of the incident. Li Shimin is basically portrayed as "bearing humiliation" and "kindhearted". Qi Wang Li Yuanji conspired to frame Li Shimin, Li Shimin couldn't bear it and took a blow of indignation, and finally "justice defeated evil", the great Li Shimin defeated the despicable Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and woke up the confused father Li Yuan, and finally succeeded in ascending the throne.

However, a closer look at the historical data reveals that this may not be the case.First of all, Li Jiancheng was not what the world imagined. He had no achievements in the unification war of the Tang Dynasty, and he became the prince only by flattering and being the eldest son.During the entire process of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng was Li Yuan's closest assistant. His status was equivalent to the "big steward" of the entire Tang Dynasty political group.Li Jiancheng's achievements are more in the coordination and command, such as stabilizing the interior, dispatching materials, and coordinating and commanding things.Li Shimin did have a lot of military exploits, but this is just a difference in responsibilities between the two.And even if it is military exploits, Li Jiancheng has his own unique achievements.For example, in the rebellion of Liu Heikai in Hebei, the Tang Dynasty first took Li Shimin as its general, but after repeated battles and defeats, it was difficult to put it down. In the end, Li Jiancheng was ordered in the face of danger, and adopted a policy of gentle appeasement, which put down the turmoil that had tormented the Tang Dynasty for several years at a very small price. Therefore, Li Jiancheng has won the hearts of the people in the local area.Therefore, even after the Xuanwumen incident was settled and Li Jiancheng had died, there were still forces in Hebei that supported Li Jiancheng to rebel.

In fact, like Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng is also a person who is very good at winning people's hearts. According to historical records, he "has a benevolent nature, a humble man, and won the hearts of scholars." Li Shimin compares with each other.Even on the day when the Xuanwumen Incident happened, after Li Shimin launched the attack, the soldiers loyal to Li Jiancheng also launched a crazy countercharge and almost captured the Prince's Mansion.If Li Shimin failed to shoot Li Jiancheng in the early stage of the incident, then the winner of the entire coup conflict may still be unknown.

And after the general situation of Xuanwu Gate has been decided, those ministers and generals who supported Li Jiancheng back then will also usher in a turning point in their lives.According to the script of the feudal officialdom in the past, what awaits them may be a brutal liquidation.Li Shimin is not a soft-hearted person. On the day when the Xuanwumen Incident happened, the five sons and daughters of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were all executed by Li Shimin, and they were completely exterminated.So, what kind of punishment will Li Shimin give to Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's generals and advisers who have been helping Li Jiancheng against him for many years?

The first person to be liquidated by Li Shimin was Prime Minister Pei Ji.In the early years, when Li Yuan was hesitating about choosing the crown prince, it was Pei Ji who suggested that "Establishing a chief can ensure a clear system of succession to the country's throne", and Li Yuan's determination was strengthened in one sentence.Before that, Pei Ji was always "against" Li Shimin.In the early years when Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan and began to conquer the world, Pei Ji and Li Shimin disagreed on whether the army chose to go east or west. However, Pei Ji blamed Li Shimin mainly because of the "Liu Wenjing Incident".Liu Wenjing is Li Shimin's confidant. After Li Tang founded the country, Liu Wenjing and Pei Ji fought for power. At this time, Pei Ji, who was Li Yuan's stakeholder, took the opportunity to set up a trap for Liu Wenjing, accusing Liu Wenjing of treason. As Li Shimin's most important counselor in the early days, Liu Wenjing's death was a heavy blow to Li Shimin. In addition to the "establishment" theory on the issue of establishing a reserve, it is impossible for Pei Ji not to be hated by Li Shimin.

After the Xuanwumen Incident, facing the ending of Li Jiancheng's death, Pei Ji turned his mind fairly quickly. He immediately echoed Li Shimin and suggested to Li Yuan, "declare Li Jiancheng's crimes." Pei Ji really played an important role in succeeding in ascending the throne.In the early days of Li Shimin's ascension to the throne, he treated Pei Ji with courtesy and generous gifts. In the sacrificial ceremony in the first year of his ascension, he was even given to ride in a car with him to show his favor.But after the short honeymoon period, as Li Shimin's throne became more and more stable, Pei Ji's fate began to change.In 628 AD, the "Monk Case" occurred in the Tang Dynasty.A monk named Fa Ya spread dissatisfaction with Li Shimin everywhere, and this monk happened to be friendly with Pei Ji. Li Shimin took this as an excuse to dismiss Pei Ji and go home. Having complaints and making friends with the local monster monk, Li Shimin immediately declared Pei Ji "four major crimes" and exiled Pei Ji to Jingzhou, Guangxi.The once important minister of the founding of the Tang Dynasty ended in a melancholy end.

Compared with Pei Ji, many people are lucky. They used to go through life and death for Li Jiancheng, and confronted Li Shimin tit for tat. In this prosperous world during the Zhenguan period, he achieved his own achievements. Several of these "criminal ministers" who once worked for Li Jiancheng almost killed Li Shimin's family on the day the Xuanwumen Incident occurred. After the Xuanwumen incident, the entire Chang'an city was in an uproar. After hearing the news, the army of Li Jiancheng's prince's mansion immediately attacked Li Shimin's Qin prince's mansion, and the whole Chang'an city was smashed into a pot of porridge.Among them, three people contributed the most: Feng Li, Xie Shufang, and Xue Wanche.After the incident, Feng Li, who was Li Jiancheng's chariot and cavalry general in the East Palace, immediately led his troops to Xuanwu Gate to rescue him, fought fiercely with the troops stationed at Xuanwu Gate, and defeated them in one fell swoop.But it was too late. When Feng Li arrived, what he saw was Li Jiancheng's body.When the general situation was irreversible, Feng Li said to the generals with great emotion, "The prince waited for me well during his lifetime, and now is the time to repay his kindness", and then joined forces with Xie Shufang to attack the Qin Palace.At this time, most of Li Shimin's elite soldiers and powerful generals were concentrated at the Xuanwu Gate, and the Qin Palace was empty, and Feng Libing approached the city to attack aggressively.At this time, Xue Wanche, another prince's confidant, also came to help the battle. They once killed the Qin Palace and built a ladder outside the gate to force their way in. If it is true, then Li Shimin's family is likely to Killed clean.Fortunately, at this time, Li Yuan's imperial decree arrived, announcing the guilt of Prince Li Jiancheng. Although the generals were loyal, the soldiers under his command scattered like birds and beasts. Seeing that the matter was irreversible, the three generals sighed. Desperate.

Thanks to all kinds of novels, everyone knows that Li Shimin before the Xuanwumen Revolution had already been under the command of the Qin Palace, and his figures such as Cheng Zhijie and Yu Chigong had long been famous.At that time, the three generals who were loyal to Li Jiancheng during the Xuanwumen Incident were also fierce generals.For example, after learning of Li Jiancheng's death, Feng Li, who led his army to avenge the Qin Palace, was Li Jiancheng's confidant in the previous unification war.Especially in the battle to put down Liu Heita's rebellion, he served as a vanguard general and charged forward many times. Once he was wounded in a battle, Li Jiancheng personally bandaged his wound, fed him water and changed his medicine. To die for the confidant.And Xie Shufang, who joins forces with Feng Li, is not simple. He is the confidant of Li Yuanji, king of Qi.During the Unification War of the Tang Dynasty, what he did most was to stabilize the rear. Every time Li Yuanji captured an important place, he ordered him to stay and garrison to appease the place. Dading is a brave and resourceful general. The most famous of the three is Xue Wanche.He was not a subordinate of Prince Li Jiancheng's mansion. He was from Dunhuang, Gansu, the son of Xue Shixiong, a great general of the Sui Dynasty. He had been serving under the command of Luo Yi, the warlord of Youzhou. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was first ordered to garrison Youzhou to guard the northeast of the Tang Dynasty door.When Li Yuan was in power, the Turks repeatedly violated the frontiers, and the border guards of the Tang Dynasty suffered repeated defeats. Xue Wanche was the only one who played triumphant songs. The Yanzhao Jingqi under his command was the only force in the Tang army that could compete with the Turkic cavalry at that time.During Li Yuan's period, Li Jiancheng was ordered to take charge of the counterattack against the Turks. Xue Wanche served under Li Jiancheng's command and led the army several times to attack and defeat the Turkic forwards.After the war, Xue Wanche was transferred to the capital for meritorious service and served as the guard of the palace, but he was always loyal to Li Jiancheng.After the Xuanwumen Incident, Xue Wanche led the officers and soldiers to attack, and together with Feng Li and others attacked the Qin Palace.After the failure, the three people made the same choice - to escape disaster.According to the general logic, it is difficult not to be liquidated after being an enemy of Li Shimin for more than 10 years.

But Li Shimin just didn't want to settle the case. First of all, for Feng Li, on the day when the Xuanwumen Incident took place, the soldiers of Prince Qin's Mansion carried Li Jiancheng's head on a bamboo pole and showed it to Feng Li's troops. Feng Li's subordinates immediately scattered like birds and beasts.Feng Li cried bitterly on the spot, then left the army and fled.Li Shimin issued a warrant and detained Feng Li's family in Chang'an. To keep his family safe, Feng Li, who had been hiding in the mountains for a few days, voluntarily surrendered to Li Shimin.Li Shimin's anger has not dissipated.During the Xuanwumen Incident, Feng Li was eager to be the savior, killing and injuring many palace guards and Li Shimin's generals. Li Shimin interrogated Feng Li on the spot and asked: "You killed my soldiers that day, how can you forgive your sins today?" Li Hui kowtowed and begged for mercy, but Feng Li replied generously, "I am loyal to my master, and I will certainly have no scruples on the day of the battle." He didn't mean to repent at all. Thinking of the tragic death of his master Li Jiancheng, Feng Li felt even more sad and cried bitterly on the spot In this situation, even Li Shimin himself was moved. He not only pardoned Feng Li's crimes, but also appointed him as Zuo Tun Wei Zhong Lang, and handed over the power of palace guards to him.What happened shortly afterwards fully proved that Li Shimin's choice was correct. Less than a month after Li Shimin's ascension to the throne, Turkic Jieli Khan mobilized a large army and drove straight into the vicinity of Chang'an, seeing that the new Tang Dynasty was in danger.At a critical moment, Feng Li took the initiative to ask for orders to attack the Turks. Minister Feng Deyi worried that Feng Li would take the opportunity to join forces with the Turks and surrender to the enemy.However, Li Shimin disagreed and said: "I believe in him, and he must be loyal to him." As Li Shimin expected, Feng Li only brought a few hundred elite cavalry to encounter the Turks in Xianyang, defeated the Turks' 2,000 pioneers, and beheaded more than 500 people.This small victory had a different meaning at the time, and it was precisely because of this small victory that Li Shimin only led 6 riders out of the Weishui River, and angrily reprimanded Jieli Khan with the power of victory, forcing the Turks to retreat across the board.The Tang Dynasty was also able to escape a catastrophe.When Jieli Khan learned afterwards that it was Feng Li who defeated the Turks in Xianyang, he was shocked and said: "How can this old prince be used by him (Li Shimin)!" guarded the land, defended the country for the Tang Dynasty, and devoted himself to it.In the later Tang books, he was listed as the first in "The Story of Loyalty" because he was a master of the two. And Xie Shufang, who joined forces with Feng Li back then, surrendered himself at the same time as Feng Li.However, Li Shimin had a better impression of Xie Shufang than Feng Lilai. Just as Xie Shufang surrendered, Li Shimin praised him as a "righteous man", and then issued an edict to pardon Xie Shufang's crimes.Compared with Feng Li, who was in charge, Li Shimin used people to use his strengths to Xie Shufang. After defeating the Turks in the Tang Dynasty and expanding the territory for thousands of miles, Xie Shufang was successively appointed as the governor of Suzhou, Yiwu, Liangzhou and other places, specializing in the management of affairs in minority areas , and Xie Shufang is also "benevolent" as always. He treats the local minorities fairly, appeases the local tribes, and guarantees that these newly attached areas will be loyal to the Tang Dynasty.It is worth mentioning that Xie Shufang introduced the advanced agricultural water conservancy technology of the Central Plains to the minority areas in the Northwest. Today, many water conservancy projects in Zhangye, Jiuquan, Gansu, and Hami, Xinjiang, were repaired during his tenure. He also suggested that the Tang Dynasty build Anxi The post road, since then, the traffic between the Central Plains and the Western Regions has been unimpeded.Among the ethnic minority tribes in the Northwest, Xie Shufang enjoys a high reputation. It is recorded in history that the local ethnic minority tribes "serve with their fathers", which can be said to have a high prestige.After Li Zhi, the son of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, came to the throne, Xie Shufang was appointed as the governor of Guangzhou, responsible for governing southern China.In particular, he used water from the Pearl River to irrigate the farmland and recruited people from the mainland to cultivate it. The originally "wild" Guangdong area has developed rapidly since then.This "criminal minister" during the Xuanwumen Incident was actually the "best magistrate" in the prosperous Zhenguan period. In the "Loyalty Record" written by the historian of the Tang Dynasty, Xie Shufang and Feng Li are tied for the first place.But in comparison, another Xue Wanche who became a "criminal minister" during the Xuanwumen Incident, although he made a lot of achievements later, his name behind him is far behind these two. Among these three generals, if you want to talk about the best fighter, it should be Xue Wanche. Li Shimin also sincerely appeases this fierce general.After the Xuanwumen Incident, both Xie Shufang and Feng Li surrendered themselves the next day (the family members were all detained), but Xue Wanche was more foresighted. In Nanshan.Li Shimin sent people to summon him many times, and ordered the local officials to conduct a strict search and dig three feet to find Xue Wanche, but there was no news of it.In the end, Li Shimin simply announced to the world that Xue Wanche was pardoned, and Xue Wanche went out to meet Li Shimin.For this fierce general, Li Shimin really kept his promise and let him go, and appointed him as General Datong.A few years later, the Tang Dynasty launched a war against the Turks. Xue Wanche was incorporated into Li Shiji's Northern Route Army. On the way to escape to the north, less than a thousand of the 2,000 cavalry commanded by Xue Wanche returned after the war. He himself suffered 18 wounds. After hearing the news, Tang Taizong praised him as a "true brave general".In the subsequent wars of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Wanche and his generals were the vanguards of the Tang army. In the Tang Dynasty's campaign to destroy the Xueyantuo Khanate, it was Xue Wanche who launched a long-distance attack and destroyed the logistics base of the Xueyantuo Khanate in one fell swoop. The Tang army settled in the northwest in the first battle.In the later Battle of Gaochang, he marched in a hurry all night and traveled thousands of miles. At dawn, he appeared under the eyes of the defenders of Gaochang. Even the Western Turks who were watching during the battle were amazed by his powerful combat effectiveness, and obediently surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. .This brave and famous general is best at charging forward, performing long-distance raids and roundabouts to destroy the enemy many times.Tang Taizong once called him together with two famous generals Li Daozong and Li Shiji. It can be said that he was one of the three famous generals in the prosperous age of Zhenguan after Li Jing and Hou Junji. But this brave and famous general has an unavoidable weakness: simple personality.Xue Wanche was known for his bravery in wars, and his best tactics were offensive and surprise attacks, but in terms of strategy, he was far from the famous generals of the time. Tang Taizong once commented on Xue Wanche's "either a big victory or a big defeat".This weakness is reflected in life, that is, thinking about problems is simple, and doing things without considering the consequences.In Tang Taizong's later years, Xue Wanche's favor reached its peak. Tang Taizong married his daughter Princess Jinyang to him, and ordered him to accompany the army to conquer Goryeo.During the war against Goryeo, Xue Wanche was in full swing, but the overall progress of the Tang army was not smooth, and finally returned without success. Xue Wanche, who had made great contributions, was not rewarded for this reason.Xue Wanche, who was disgruntled, was indignant because of this, and often nagged in private, but was denounced.Before Tang Taizong died, he belittled Xue Wanche, and recalled him after Tang Gaozong Li Zhi ascended the throne.However, his final misfortune fell on a sensitive issue-supporting King Jingyang for rebellion. In fact, the chief culprit of this major crime of treason was Changsun Wuji, but Xue Wanche has always been friends with Changsun Wuji, so he was also implicated. After all, he has a heavy soldier in his hand and is a person whom the emperor fears. He also has Xue Wanche's aloof personality and usually offends him. There were so many people that no one interceded for him when something happened.In 652 AD, Xue Wanche was executed for treason. On the day of the execution, Xue Wanche was a man and shouted on the spot, "I am a good man. I should die in battle. How can I be killed for treason?"It was so heroic that even the executioner who had killed his whole life was terrified. When he beheaded, he cut Xue Wanche's head three times with a knife.This famous player who "stands on the wrong team" twice in his life finally lost his life because of "standing on the wrong team". In addition to the three famous generals who were "on the wrong team" who were reused by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin even ignored the past suspicions and trusted many of the civil servants, the most famous of which was the famous Wei Zheng. In today's history books, Wei Zheng is a famous minister through the ages, a real man with strong bones.But in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, especially before the change of Xuanwumen, Wei Zheng was more of a villain in the eyes of the world, because he had been "on the wrong team" many times. As early as during the Peasant War at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wei Zheng changed many masters, and whoever used him would be unlucky.First, Li Mi, the leader of the Wagang Uprising Army, appointed him as Wen Wen to join the army. Soon after, Li Mi was defeated by Li Yuan.After defecting to Li Yuan, Wei Zheng was very frustrated for a time. In order to establish his achievements, he asked himself to go to Hebei and persuaded Li Shiji, a hero in Hebei, to surrender to Tang Dynasty.During the battle of Hulaoguan, the key battle between Dou Jiande and Li Yuan, Wei Zheng first advised Dou Jiande to avoid the real and attack the false, and went straight to Li Yuan's lair. Wang Shichong, who was besieged in Luoyang, neither of the two suggestions was adopted by Dou Jiande.In June 621 AD, Dou Jiande's entire army was wiped out in the battle of Hulaoguan, and he was captured. Wei Zheng also accompanied him and tied him up, and returned to the tent of the Tang army. In the early days of "Second Entry into the Palace", Li Shimin, who personally directed the great victory at Hulaoguan, did not wait to see Wei Zheng.After Wei Zheng returned to Chang'an as a prisoner, he was only awarded a casual civil servant.He came to prominence again, in the second year after the Battle of Hulaoguan, Dou Jiande's remaining subordinate, Liu Heita, rebelled again and established a separate regime in Hebei. Compared with the devastation during the Battle of Hulaoguan, this time Li Shimin hit a hard nail. Almost all the people in Hebei were soldiers, desperately resisting the Tang army's invasion, and Li Shimin also adopted an extremely cruel purge policy against the people in Hebei. In the army, almost the whole family sat together.However, under high pressure, the Hebei area resisted more fiercely. Li Shimin was defeated several times. In desperation, the Tang Dynasty had to replace him.At the beginning of the expedition, he offered Li Jiancheng "Three Strategies to Calm the Chaos", that is, "pardon the prisoners, comfort the people, and sit back and watch the separation".That is, firstly, to pardon the prisoners who followed the rebels in the past, secondly, to appease the hearts of the people, and thirdly, to provoke internal conflicts within Liu Heitai. All three suggestions were adopted by Li Jiancheng.As a result, under Wei Zheng's strategy of "suppression and appeasement", the hearts of the people in Hebei were settled, and the people took the initiative to help the Tang army. "All the people are soldiers" collapsed at once. Hei Kai himself was tied up by his subordinates and sent to Li Jiancheng to ask for credit. The Hebei rebellion, which lasted for several years, was resolved under Wei Zheng's careful planning. The Hebei Rebellion allowed Li Jiancheng to see Wei Zheng's energy. Soon after his triumphant return to the army, Wei Zheng was appointed as the East Palace Washing Horse and became an important adviser to Li Jiancheng.At this time, the battle for the throne between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin intensified, and Wei Zheng stepped forward and offered advice for Li Jiancheng. His most important idea was to "preemptive strikes", that is, to solve Li Shimin first when Li Shimin was still fledgling.But Li Jiancheng looked forward and backward, and rejected Wei Zheng's suggestion several times.When the Turks invaded the border, it was also Wei Zheng who suggested that he take the opportunity to transfer Li Shimin's cronies away from him and weaken Li Shimin's power. All of the above caused Li Shimin great trouble.To Wei Zheng, Li Jiancheng was "very polite" at first, but Wei Zheng's problem is to care about everything, big and small, and he can't help saying a few words to anyone who doesn't like it. .Therefore, before the Xuanwumen Incident, Wei Zheng was a person who repeatedly caused troubles for Li Shimin. After Li Jiancheng's defeat, Wei Zheng was also liquidated.In the early days of Li Shimin's administration, Wei Zheng was imprisoned for a time, and Wei Zheng himself refused to accept his softness. When Li Shimin interrogated him in person, he showed no fear and shouted, "It's a pity that the prince doesn't use my scheme, otherwise there will be no disaster today."At the beginning, Li Shimin was not as "broad-minded" as the world imagined. In the months after his defeat, Wei Zheng was kept in prison. However, at this time, Li Jiancheng's old army rebelled in Hebei, and he did not deal with it for the sake of appeasing people's hearts.What really changed Li Shimin's mind was the advice of Li Shimin's close minister Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling said to Li Shimin, "Don't you hear about Qi Huan Guan Zhong?"Therefore, three months after Li Jiancheng's death, Wei Zheng was appointed, first as Shangshu Zuocheng, and then as Shangshuguan.Then, there was the reign of Zhenguan, Wei Zheng repeatedly spoke out and advised, Li Shimin accepted his faithful advice, and the monarch and his ministers were deeply in love with each other, and jointly created a good story about the prosperity of Zhenguan. Regarding Wei Zheng's political achievements, people today talk more about the allusions that he was good at speaking out and accepting advice.In fact, as a direct minister, there were many famous ministers who dared to speak out before and after Wei Zheng's life. Singing against Li Shimin.Especially in private life, Li Shimin wants to accept concubines, Wei Zheng wants to speak, Li Shimin wants to hunt, Wei Zheng wants to speak, Li Shimin wants to raise birds, Wei Zheng wants to speak, inside and outside, there is nothing he can't control.Li Shimin was furious by Wei Zheng several times, and even said bitterly in the harem once, "One day, I will kill this country bumpkin".In fact, the trigger of this incident was not a major national event, but Li Shimin fell in love with the daughter of a bureaucrat surnamed Zheng, and planned to take this girl as his concubine. Even if the "sufferer" Zheng bureaucrat himself categorically denied that his daughter had been engaged, Wei Zheng still tried his best to dissuade him.Li Shimin was so angry that he dared to prevent the emperor from "marrying a concubine". After the persuasion of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin calmed down.However, in the Guanzhenguan Dynasty, Wei Zheng has several times of admonitions in historical records. Although there are major national events such as light corvee and poor taxation, persuading farming and mulberry, more than half of them are such "small things" in the emperor's private life. In the Zhenguan Dynasty, he was not the implementer of the country's major policies, but more of a supervisor.In many cases, he exists as a kind of "role model". For such a role model, Li Shimin naturally tried his best to treat them kindly. No matter how excessive Wei Zheng's management was, or how harsh his words were, he always tried his best to be patient.Wei Zheng's official promotion was also fast. In the later years of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, he had reached the position of Dr. Zuo Guanglu and was named Zheng Guogong.But his main task is always to picket the gains and losses of governance and supervise the work of various departments, not the actual implementer.In his later years, Li Shimin couldn't listen to Wei Zheng's words.For example, in 638 A.D., seeing that Li Shimin had become more and more negligent in politics and indulged in pleasure, Wei Zheng wrote the famous "Ten Gradually Unable to End Shu", listing 10 changes of Li Shimin from the early days of his ascension to the present, and persuading Li Shimin to be diligent in government and love the people. Li Shimin still praised Wei Zheng's outspoken advice as always, but soon after, he launched a war against the Xueyantuo Khanate, followed by a large reward, and held a large-scale safari in the outskirts of Chang'an. Obviously, he didn't take Wei Zheng's words to heart. Four years later, Wei Zheng died of illness at home. Three months before his death, Li Shimin visited Wei Zheng's home. Seeing that Wei Zheng's family was poor, he ordered someone to repair Wei Zheng's house. A "mirror" can be described as the deepest grace.Wei Zheng made more than 200 memorials in his life, most of which were bluntly speaking about the emperor's faults and persuading the emperor to behave. Among the courtiers in the feudal society, it is really rare to do this. Except for Wei Zheng, most of the old ministers who followed Li Jiancheng during Li Jiancheng's period were appointed by Tang Taizong regardless of previous suspicions, and many of them established their own merits in the Zhenguan Reign.But what they didn't expect was that in Tang Taizong's later years, quite a number of Li Jiancheng's old officials were involved in the struggle between Li Shimin's sons, even Wei Zheng, who died earlier, was no exception.Du Zhenglun and Hou Junji recommended by Wei Zheng were later implicated in the rebellion of Prince Li Chengqian, and another Wei Ting, who was Li Jiancheng's counselor, was also involved in the rebellion of Li Shimin's other son Li Tai.After the incident came to light, Li Shimin said helplessly: "I have already punished Du Zhenglun, and I don't have the heart to punish you anymore." So he just dismissed from office.In the ups and downs of the officialdom, he was imprisoned twice into the "battle for the reserve", which can be said to be "hidden from the first day of the junior high school, but not the fifteenth day".