Chapter 57 Chapter Fifty Seven

Comrade Fang Xuanling, who was the Minister of Personnel at the time (Xingtai Kaogong Doctor), and Comrade Sun Wuji, then Director of the Central Audit Bureau (Bibu Doctor), had an in-depth conversation on the two or three incidents of Li Shimin's uprising.Fang Xuanling pointed out that the situation is very tight now, and there is no room for recovery.If the incident happens, it will not only be a tragedy for Prince Qin's Mansion, but the whole country will be in turmoil.We might as well hurry up and persuade the King of Qin to do the work of the Duke of Zhou (actually referring to seizing the throne), now is the moment of life and death, and we can't delay for a moment!Fang Xuanling's words fell right into Changsun Wuji's hands. Changsun Wuji had long wanted to do this, but he just didn't dare to say it.He said to Fang Xuanling: "I have thought this way a long time ago, but I just dare not say it. Now that I know that everyone thinks so, then I will be responsible for communicating with King Qin."

So Changsun Wuji told Li Shimin about this, and Li Shimin fell into extreme entanglement.At this time, he is an ant on a hot pot: first, he never wants to be charged with usurping power; second, he does not want to kill his relatives, especially cutting grass and roots; Man will pay with his life for this decision.For a moment, thoughts are like ants. Facing difficulties, Li Shimin lost his mind for the first time. If you have no idea, you can consult Fang Xuanling, who is full of strategies, and if you dare not make a decision, you can consult Du Ruhui, who has a good vision.Everything seems so simple, but in fact, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui at this time have already been targeted by Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji who are like tigers and wolves.At this time, Li Yuanji said to Li Jiancheng: "Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui are the only ones who can pinch and count in the Qin Palace. The others are nothing to worry about. Just get rid of them." Li Jiancheng said: "Yes, but not all. Even without Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, those generals in Prince Qin's residence are enough for us to drink a pot."

Speaking of this, there is nothing embarrassing about making a move.Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji first criticized Fang Du at his father's place, and transferred the two counselors from the Qin Palace.Then he found Yuchi Jingde, the eldest son of the Prince of Qin's Mansion who was the most capable and responsible person. What Li Jiancheng thought in his heart was to give the elder black some money, and then promised to do what he would do when he became emperor in the future. I hope Da Laohei can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and use it for himself.Da Laohei received a letter from the crown prince, which said:

"Although I am a prince, our backgrounds are all the same. Please make friends. (May the relatives of the elders be friends with Dunbuyi.)" This is an extremely humble friendship letter. After reading it, Da Laohei is full of emotions.Immediately, he wrote back to Li Jiancheng.It is better for subordinates to write more letters to superiors than superiors to subordinates, this point is very clear to Da Laohei.The content of the letter is as follows: "Jingde is a rough man. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he suffered wars and worked hard for sinners. His crimes were not punishable. Later, he followed the King of Qin, who treated me with a kindness of rebuilding, and gave me a high-ranking official and rich salary. The only thing I can do is to kill myself in return. Respect De has never worked with His Highness, and has not made any contribution to you, so he dare not accept your heavy reward. Besides, if you have a personal relationship with His Highness, you have two hearts, and it is ungrateful. Who will give me some more at that time? I will betray His Highness again, what should His Highness do? Well, this is my attitude, so don't worry about it."

After Li Jiancheng received the letter from Da Laohei, his nose was crooked with anger.Li Yuanji was young in everything, but he had a big temper. He learned that Yuchi Jingde would not eat fine wine when toasting, so he simply sent a few assassins to his residence to assassinate.Big boss Hei expected that the princelings would do something like this, he was not afraid, because he had never seen anyone in the world who dared to touch him.He opened the door and waited every day, waiting for the assassin to come.In the General's Mansion, several doors were all wide open, and Lao Hei was resting on the bed, waiting for the assassins to arrive.

Here comes the assassin. Although the leaders of the assassins were idiots, they were not idiots themselves. They had all seen Yuchi Jingde's ferocity in battle.The assassin wandered back and forth outside the gate several times, but did not dare to enter.But King Qi had to listen to what King Qi said, so he made up his mind countless times, but he still didn't dare to rush into the house.The assassins felt that there was something to be said, so they rushed to the door of Da Lao Hei's bedroom together...they stopped collectively.Because no one dared to go in again, you looked at me and I looked at you, and almost didn't cry in the end.Living between Li Yuanji and Yuchi Jingde is death anyway.The endings of the assassins were not recorded in the history books, so they probably did not end well, because in the end, it was Li Yuanji who came out to take care of everything.

Li Yuanji was still thinking about the scene where he fought against the big boss back then, so it would be fine to assassinate him himself, but he should slander and slander his father, create some seemingly real evidence, and put the old black in prison to death.Li Yuanji took action. He presented the evidence of Lao Hei's corruption and lawlessness in front of Li Yuan, and hired several witnesses to tearfully accuse Yuchi Jingde of his crimes.The effect was very, very good, and Li Yuan was furious. Seeing that Yuchi Jingde was about to be killed, something happened that made Li Yuanji's head swell.Li Yuanji never expected that at this critical moment, Li Shimin would go out in person and kowtow to his father, exempting Yuchi Jingde from the death penalty.Li Yuanji was in a hurry, he created a lot of unjust cases one after another, and put Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong and others to death.

Some people forced others to be forced, the generals including Hou Junji, Yuchi Jingde, Cheng Yaojin, Duan Zhixuan, Qin Shubao and others were not as calm as the people in Tiance Mansion, they urged Li Shimin to start an incident before the personnel change.However, people are not as good as outsiders, and the lovely Turk came out at this extremely tense moment to call a timeout for the internal struggle of the Tang Dynasty.They're out grabbing stuff again, putting everything on hold. The place where they were robbed was Wucheng, Henan. Li Yuan wanted to send Li Shimin there, but Li Jiancheng strongly recommended Li Yuanji.

At this time, in the big plan, only Li Yuan was kept in the dark. Li Yuan only thought that this was a strategy used by Prince Li Jiancheng to search for power, but he did not expect that Li Jiancheng wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to transfer all the generals of the Qin Palace to other places to fight, leaving Li Shimin and a group of people who would only fight. The old Mouzi who made the calculations, when the time comes, no matter how clever he is, he will kowtow and smash, surround him and kill them all.The arrow is on the string, I have to send it, Li Shimin, it's your turn!

Li Shimin pursed his lips, he really didn't dare to make such a big decision. So, he found his own government officials. Someone told him the following message: Qi Wang Li Yuanji has already started thinking about how to kill the prince before he has finished with you!Li Shimin's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "What's the matter?" The man said, "The guard Xue Shi once said to the king: 'The name of the king is a Tang character, it seems that Tang is still yours after all! ’ Li Yuanji was very happy, so he said to Xue Shi, ‘It’s easy for the crown prince, but it’s difficult for the king of Qin to deal with it. If he is dealt with, everything will be as the guards said!’”

First of all, many people wondered why Xue Shi's eyeballs were so long. How could he tell that Li Yuanji's name was combined with the word "Tang"? In fact, it is quite simple. The cursive script of Yuan characters looks like Guang, and the last stroke and Ji characters are added together to form Tang characters.How about, imaginative, right?This is the reason why Li Yuanji wanted to kill his second brother so crazily, even more crazily than Li Jiancheng.Li Shimin was dumbfounded, and everyone took advantage of Li Shimin's dumbfoundedness to persuade him to start a riot.Li Shimin said, let me think again... Now it is no longer a question of who is pitiful to whom, but a question of death if he lives.Li Shimin was depressed. Suddenly, someone asked Li Shimin: "What kind of person does the king think Dayu is?" With him, who would enjoy the happiness that a sage brings to the people!" Li Shimin knew that asking such a question in the current atmosphere would simply be contemptuous of his own IQ, and everyone was waiting for him to nod.There are only two outcomes for not nodding: A happy death, a miserable death. "Okay." Li Shimin said. Everyone cheered, but then, Li Shimin added this sentence, "Then I have to do a fortune-telling first to see if this is the right time to act." There was a commotion among the crowd, it was true that dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix, and Li Yuan's son would dawdle.This is all imminent, and you still do divination.Okay, look at Comrade Qin Wang's confusion, let's do the divination... (here the 200 words of Li Shimin's divination process are omitted) I am pinching a tortoise to burn, and the staff member Zhang Gongjin just rushed back from outside.Seeing Li Shimin doing divination in the shape of a turtle listlessly, he was very angry, grabbed the back of the turtle and fell to the ground: "Divination is for casuistry, and there should be no doubts about this matter now, even if the divination reveals something that should not be done." If the result comes, can you avoid death!" Li Shimin stared at Zhang Gongjin, and he suddenly came to his senses. That's right, it's dead anyway, what am I doing! So, he asked Changsun Wuji to find Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.The two reported back: "The emperor ordered me not to communicate with the palace, otherwise it will be a death penalty." When Li Shimin learned about it, he asked Da Lao Hei to invite him in person. He gave Lao Hei a saber and gave Lao Hei an order. If the two of them refused to come to the Prince Qin's mansion to seek help, they would be shot dead on the spot.Lao Hei took the order and went to find the two of them, but they didn't dare to wear official uniforms to come to Qin Palace, so they changed into Taoist uniforms and entered the palace with Changsun Wuji.The generals and counselors were on par, but it was a pity that when Li Shimin invited Li Jing, Li Jing expressed his unwillingness to participate; when he invited Li Shiji, Li Shiji was also unwilling to participate.They knew that Li Shimin didn't just want to make trouble with the prince, but... The next day, on June 3rd of the ninth year of Wude, Li Shimin denounced Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to Li Yuan for their crime of adultery in the harem.Li Yuan expressed shock and announced that a meeting would be held early tomorrow morning to resolve it. On the third day, on the morning of June 4th, at the court, Li Yuan discussed with Xiao Yu, Pei Ji, Chen Shuda and others about the affair between the crown prince and King Qi. At the same time, Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others led elite troops to Xuanwu Gate. At the same time, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were chatting. The content of the chatter is serious this time, discussing whether to go to the court or not.The reason why Li Jiancheng knew about this was that Comrade Zhang Jieyu, Li Yuan's favorite concubine, and Li Jiancheng were figures on the united front.Zhang Jieyu immediately sent someone to tell Li Jiancheng about Li Shimin's complaint. Early this morning, Li Jiancheng called Li Yuanji to discuss this matter.Li Yuanji asked Li Jiancheng: "The crime is not light, should we go?" Said: "It's okay, my soldiers are on alert, it's good for us brothers to go and ask together." So, the two embarked on the journey to Xuanwumen. The Change of Xuanwu Gate is recorded in the original text, those who don't want to read the ancient text can skip it directly. Gengshen, the commander-in-chief of the world, Sun Wuji, etc., entered and ambush at Xuanwu Gate.Zhang Jieyu secretly learned that the people of the world expressed their opinions, and Chiyu built it.Jiancheng called Yuanji to seek him out, and Yuanji said: "It is appropriate to let the soldiers of the palace mansion stay away from the imperial court in order to observe the situation." Xuanwu Gate.In the past, Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, etc. had been called to follow suit. After completion, Yuanji arrived at Linhu Palace, and felt the change, that is, Bama returned to the palace eastward.The people of the world call it out, Yuan Ji shoots at the people with his bow, but it is not enough again and again, the people of the world shoot at the building and kill it.Yuchi Jingde followed with seventy riders and shot Yuanji from left and right.The people of the world, Ma Yi, went into the forest and was trapped by a branch, so he couldn't get up from the fall.When Yuanji arrives suddenly, the bow will be strangled, and Jingde will jump on the horse and scold him.Yuan Jibu wanted to play in Wude Hall, Jingde chased and shot him, and killed him.Yiwei chariot general Feng Yifeng Liwen Jiancheng died, sighed and said: "how can there be a life to receive his kindness, but death is difficult to escape!" There are two thousand elite soldiers from the Qi Mansion Chiqu Xuanwu Gate.Mr. Zhang would like to work hard and retreat alone to refuse, and he is not allowed to enter.General Yunhui Jingjun Hong took charge of the guard, stationed at Xuanwu Gate, and stood up to fight. He said in person: "Things are unknown, and Xu Guanchang will wait for the soldiers to gather and fight in ranks. It is not too late." Jun Hong If he didn't follow, he and Zhonglang General Lu Shiheng shouted forward, and they all died.Junhong, the great-grandson of Xianjun.The gatekeepers fought hard with Wan Che and others for a long time. Wan Che clamored to attack the Qin Mansion, and the officers and men were terrified.After Feng Li killed Jing Junhong, he said to his disciples: "It is enough to report less to the prince!" Then he dismissed his troops and fled to the wild. Rafting above the sea pool, the people of the world envoy Yuchi Jingde to enter the guard, and Jingde holds the armor and holds the spear until he reaches the upper place.The superior was shocked, and asked, "Who is evil in today's chaos? Why are you here?" Confrontation: "The king of Qin used the crown prince and the king of Qi to make trouble, and he raised his troops to punish him. He feared alarming your majesty and sent his ministers to stay in the guard." Pei Ji and others said: "If you don't plan to see this today, what should you do?" Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda said: "Jiangcheng and Yuanji didn't plan for righteousness, and they didn't make any contribution to the world. Treacherous conspiracy. Now the King of Qin has been punished and punished. The King of Qin has conquered the universe and brought the land back to his heart. If His Majesty punishes Yuan Liang and entrusts him with state affairs, nothing will happen." The Shang said: "Good! This is my long-cherished heart." At that time, Suwei and the soldiers of the Qin government were still fighting with the second palace. Jingde asked for an order to order all the troops to be punished by the king of Qin and follow him.Sima Yu of Tiance Mansion went out from the gate of Dongshang Pavilion to announce the edict, and then the crowd decided.The emperor also sent Pei Ju, the servant of Huangmen, to the East Palace to tell all the generals and soldiers that they should all be dismissed.Shangnai summoned Shimin, caressed him and said, "Recently, I have been tempted to cast a stick." Shimin knelt down and sucked his breast, mourning for a long time. The progress of the following things will subvert your previous thinking, and will also tell you a real change of Xuanwu Gate.Keep your eyes wide open and your forehead bright, from now on, you are not alone.I don't believe in Li Shimin's later historical records about the Xuanwu Gate Change. For this reason, I checked a lot of materials, hoping to find the truth of the matter from them. The results were astounding! According to various sources, among the soldiers who participated in the Xuanwu Gate Change, there were both the bodyguards of the Supreme Emperor (Li Yuan) and the elite soldiers of Li Shimin.More importantly, Xiao Yu and Yuchi Jingde later accidentally revealed the truth about the Xuanwumen Incident, which made Li Shimin very annoyed, demoted and criticized.What could make Li Shimin so taboo? According to historical records, Li Yuan went boating in the lake after discussing with Pei Ji and others about the prince's promiscuity in the harem.That lake was called "Hai Chi", and when Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji rode to the lakeside hall, they happened to run into something that scared the crap out of them, so they turned around and ran away. Let me ask: The majestic seven-foot man was so frightened that he was scared to death, did he meet a ghost? Of course they couldn't meet a ghost, what they met was the Xuanjia Army. In fact, when Li Yuan, Pei Ji and others were discussing political affairs, Li Shimin rushed into the hall with a group of people, killed the palace guards, and then carried Li Yuan to Haichi.The reasons are as follows: the palace where Li Yuan discussed political affairs, Haichi, Xuanwu Gate, and Linhu Hall are all in the Taiji Palace. How big is Tai Chi Palace? It is 1492.1 meters long from north to south and 2830.3 meters long from east to west. Some people say that the Taiji Palace in the Tang Dynasty refers to the Taiji Palace, the East Palace, and the Yeting Palace.That's right, but the above length is the sum of the three.The more destructive truth is yet to come. If you carefully check the location drawing of Chang'an Taiji Palace, you will find that Xuanwumen is the gate to the north of Taiji Palace, and the pool where Li Yuan rowed is less than 300 meters away from Xuanwumen. . Thinking about it carefully, Li Yuan would not be aware of a group of men with weapons on horseback entering the place where the emperor held meetings, played, and worked?What do the guards eat?Can Li Yuan leisurely row a boat in the lake?The palace guards are on duty day and night, why didn't they report the situation of Xuanwu Gate at this moment?Even if it is a commercial building of an ordinary company, the precautions cannot be so lax, let alone a palace! Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, Li Yuan should be coerced at this time. This is usurpation. The main reason why Li Shimin was reluctant to make a decision was not because he was not thick-skinned enough to seize the crown prince, but because he was not thick-skinned enough to usurp his father's position.This is a very serious problem, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji would never have imagined that Li Shimin had already controlled the entire Taiji Palace, and they were just thinking about how to cry out their innocence to their father. The two headed towards the Xuanwu Gate. What greeted them was a fierce general in golden armor and a group of heavily armed cavalry! Li Jiancheng: ... Li Yuanji: ... Li Yuan: Don't be so deep, everyone!