Chapter 48 Chapter Forty-Eighth: Gai Suwen Was Beaten for Clamoring Tang Taizong Confessions

Although Gai Suwen also followed others to send envoys, judging from the content of the letter, this person was definitely not convinced. (Returning from Koryo, Gai Su Wenyi was arrogant and unrestrained. Although he sent envoys to present him, his words were all absurd.) Li Shimin didn't care about him, and sent several groups of envoys to Korea, Gai Suwen received them, thinking that he could teach him a lesson, but the envoys found that Gai Suwen's words were very arrogant, and he didn't treat the envoys like onions at all. Until the end, Gai Suwen simply stopped talking to Tang Chao, geared up, grabbed Silla's little brother and beat him to death.

On this day, Li Shimin issued an edict ordering Yousi to no longer accept the tribute from Korea. In February of the twenty-first year of Zhenguan (647), the court meeting. The discussions among the ministers finally reached a consensus that instead of sending large-scale troops, only small groups of troops would continue to harass Gai Suwen. He could not eat well or sleep well, and various skin diseases and mental diseases emerged as the times require. , It made him pimples all over his face, so good.This is very effective. It is foreseeable that the people north of the Yalu River who are still under Gaisuwen's rule have no intention of farming and are always in a state of war readiness.Coupled with the continuous interference of small groups of soldiers and horses, after the people in these places are exhausted, they can surrender without a fight.

Li Shimin agreed to everyone's suggestion and divided his troops into two groups, one for Qingqiu Road and the other for Liaodong Road. The general manager of the Qingqiu Road march is Niu Jinda, the general of Zuowuwei, and the deputy director is Li Haijun, the general of Youwuhou; Gai Suwen, who was about to crush Silla to death, was once again attacked by sea and land troops from the Tang Dynasty. This time, it was not so fun.Within a few months, Li Ji defeated the enemy one after another, burned his city and returned.However, the most dazzling aura is not on this ever-victorious general.Niu Jinda, the general manager of Qingqiu Road, was even more eye-catching. He led thousands of people and fought more than a hundred battles, big and small, and won all of them.Under the leadership of Niu Jinda, Qingqiu Road pulled down Shicheng and pushed under Jili City.

Korea must react, otherwise Pyongyang will be completely finished. Therefore, the worried Gai Suwen sent ten thousand people to fight, preparing to use a long-term fighting strategy to fight Niu Jinda to the death.Li Haijun, the deputy head of Qingqiu Road, is a person who doesn't like to talk nonsense. He led the side cavalry, disturbed their formation from the flanks, and then smashed the enemy army, beheading two thousand ranks. Tang Jun triumphant. In the 22nd year of Zhenguan (648), just after the New Year, Silla burst into tears during the festive moment. Their Queen Kim Sun Deok is dead.

Li Shimin took Jin Shande's younger sister Jin Zhende as the pillar country, named Lelang County King, and sent a mission book. It should be noted that being neighbors with people like Gai Suwen, it will not be peaceful without two brushes.It's a pity that Jin Zhende has just ascended the throne and is a newcomer, and Silla has not been strong and his life is dying.When the king passed away, Gai Suwen took the opportunity to provoke troubles. Seeing that he was about to be beaten to death, Jin Zhende asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to support him. In the first month of the first month, Li Shimin issued an edict to take Xue Wanche, the general of Youwuwei, as the general manager of Qingqiu Road, and Pei Xingfang, the general of Youweiwei, as the deputy director.

... (10,000 words are omitted here, and the content is about how the Tang army won a great victory and how Koryo suffered a disastrous defeat.) After a long period of wear and tear, Gao Li could no longer support it.Gai Suwen complained again and again, crying and calling to become a minister, but Li Shimin ignored him. The fortune has come, Li Shimin expressed his thoughts: "Korea is already in trouble. Next year, I will send 300,000 troops to destroy Goryeo in one fell swoop!" If there is no accident, Goryeo will be finished soon.However, God's will tricks people. At that time, Li Shimin's father Li Yuan was going to destroy the Turks, but there was an accident, and Li Shimin fulfilled his last wish.Today, Li Shimin wants to destroy Goryeo, God is not partial, and he is going to let him experience the feeling of dying before he can succeed.The final result has long been established in history. Li Shimin's son Li Zhi completed the task for his father, so we don't need to worry.

At this juncture, everyone has been arguing about why Li Shimin died of a sudden illness. After the Mohe people shot Li Shimin's shoulder with a poisoned arrow, the toxin remained. Li Shimin tried all kinds of methods, but he still couldn't relieve the pain.Later, I don't know who is a god (probably Sun Simiao), but after using some methods, Li Shimin's condition miraculously improved, and all the officials congratulated him for it (according to historical records). This shows that the poisoned arrow was not the main factor in Li Shimin's death. But then, Wang Xuance broke through India and brought back a demon monk.

The foreign monk could recite scriptures, Li Shimin decided to let him make alchemy, and swallowed a large amount, so his condition took a turn for the worse.At this time, Li Shimin also suffered from wind disease. But this is not the result of Li Shimin's tossing around, because this kind of disease similar to wind arthralgia and hemiplegia is a family disease of their Li family.In this way, Li Shimin already felt weak and painful after taking the elixir and wind disease.But with his physique, wind disease alone is not enough for him to die so early (he can still carry sacks on the battlefield).So, according to historical records, what happened at that time was:

In the spring of the 21st year of Zhenguan, Gao Shilian died of illness, and Li Shimin attended the memorial service in person, mourning his death. In the spring of the 22nd year of Zhenguan, Ma Zhou died of illness, and Li Shimin personally prepared medicine for him. After his death, Li Shimin was in extreme pain. In March of the 22nd year of Zhenguan, Empress Xiao passed away, and Li Shimin ordered her to be buried with Yang Guang in sincere condolences. In June of the 22nd year of Zhenguan, Xiao Yu died, and Li Shimin gave him the posthumous title of Duke Zhen, mourning. In July of the 22nd year of Zhenguan, Fang Xuanling died of illness. Li Shimin shook hands with him and said goodbye. He was so sad that he almost fainted.

In March of the 23rd year of Zhenguan, Li Jing passed away. Li Shimin came to his house in person and mourned with tears. The most ruthless thing to hurt someone is sadness. At that time, Li Shimin was in grief. In May of the twenty-third year of Zhenguan (649), when Li Shimin was dying, people in the government and the wild were panicked. On the sickbed, he must be thinking about his life, the dark Li Mi, the woolly roaring Wang Shichong, the Qin Palace, the Literature Museum, the South and North Wars, the East and the West, those heroes, those horses, the battlefields in memory, and what they did. Son, Qing Que, maidservant, father with a mother-in-law face, mother who passed away early...

Someone singled out his four faults based on his behavior in this life. The first is to launch the Xuanwu Gate Change; the second is to have a strong lust and even rob his brother Li Jiancheng's daughter-in-law; the third is to tamper with history books and beautify himself; too much. Is this true? First, launch the Xuanwumen Change. Q: Is this a bug? Second, the lust is strong, and he robs his elder brother's daughter-in-law. First of all, what Li Shimin married was not Li Jiancheng's daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law of his younger brother Li Yuanji.Many, many years after Li Yuanji's death, she remarried to Li Shimin.And it must have won the favor of Li Shimin (the emperor's favorite). She and Li Shimin's son was established as King Cao, and Li Shimin decided to let him succeed Li Yuanji.In addition, the queen has the responsibility to recommend a virtuous wife to the emperor, which is a rigid rule, not a personal behavior. Third, the large-scale construction, even I feel that it is too much. A few years after the 20th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin thought that all kinds of palaces in Chang'an were too rough when all nations came to court, so he ordered to build gorgeous palaces, so he used a lot of corvees.This was indeed his mistake, and he felt ashamed in the end.He once said to Li Zhi: "After I became emperor, I did many wrong things. I like beautiful jewelry, I also built many palaces, I like hunting, I like traveling, so in the end, the people in some places are very tired. This is my most unforgivable sin, you must never learn from me in the future!" Li Shimin's old age was indeed a bit deserted, which disappointed many people.But he is a shameless emperor.The "New Book of Tang·The Second Ji·Taizong" compiled by the Northern Song Dynasty commented on Li Shimin's life in this way: In the Tang Dynasty, there was a world, and it was handed down twenty times. It can be said that there are three emperors, Xuanzong and Xianzong are not able to reach the end, so prosperous, Taizong is also strong!Its elimination of chaos in the Sui Dynasty is comparable to that of Tang and Wu; the beauty of governance is almost as good as Shucheng and Kang.Since ancient times, it has been both meritorious and prosperous, which has never existed since the Han Dynasty.To the extent that he was led by Duoai, he restored Futu, made great achievements, and worked hard to keep his troops far away. However, the method of "Spring and Autumn" is often blamed on the sages, and it is the gentlemen of later generations who want to become beautiful, and they all sigh at this. Ouyang Xiu believes that Li Shimin's great success in his later years is something that a mediocre monarch can do, that's all. People in future generations all want a perfect role model, but only in fairy tales can there be perfect people.Li Shimin's crime made all the gentlemen of later generations feel very sorry. Li Shimin: Life is a game of chess, without appearance, being handsome is useless! Fang Xuanling: Life is a game of chess, either you go first or I go first, anyway there must be someone who goes first.