Chapter 58 Chapter Fifty-Eighth: Li Shimin Kills His Brother Xue Wanche of the Xuanwu Sect and Raises a Trouble in the Palace of the Prince of Qin

The most painful thing in the world is not that you don't know what will happen in the future, but that it has already happened, but you can never know the truth.As an excellent feudalist politician, Li Shimin was very successful, but as a novelist, the stories he made up showed many flaws. For the following paragraph, please read the description in Sima Guangzhong again. Its content is not much different from the description in the new and old Tang books: 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 hung by a wooden 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.

The translation of the previous paragraph into modern Chinese is as follows: Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji rode their horses to the Linhu Hall and found that something was wrong, so they immediately rode their horses and fled towards the East Palace.Li Shimin led a group of people shouting and chasing after him. Li Yuanji hurriedly picked up his bow and arrow, turned around and shot Li Shimin, but missed three times.Li Shimin shot Li Jiancheng and killed him with one arrow.At this time, Yuchi Jingde arrived just in time with more than 70 cavalrymen. A group of people shot Li Yuanji, and Li Yuanji fell off his horse with an arrow.Li Shimin chased Li Yuanji, but the horse tripped over a branch in the forest and fell to the ground, unable to get up for a while.Li Yuanji ran up to Li Shimin, put a bow around Li Shimin's neck and pulled him to death.Yuchi Jingde chased after him on horseback and shouted loudly. Li Yuanji was afraid of Yuchi Jingde, so he hurriedly fled towards Wude Hall, Yuchi Jingde chased and shot him, and killed him.

When I first read this passage, I didn't think it was very believable.But after thinking about it, the detailed description is so vivid, it should not be fake.However, I don't think it is very reliable that Li Shimin's horse tripped over a branch in the forest. In a palace like Tai Chi Palace, the ground is all bricks. How could it be possible to plant trees?It was only later that I realized that this sentence was the most reliable in this large paragraph of text. Next, I will give you an analysis of the space and scale near the Xuanwu Gate of Taiji Palace. Chinese imperial gardens have a characteristic, which is symmetry, but not absolute symmetry; seriousness, but not absolute seriousness.Walking into Xuanwu Gate, beside the main road, there are landscape pavilions and corridors, and Luotenggou pool, among which there are faint pavilions and pavilions.To the north of the Chang'an Imperial Palace Xiyuan, that is, the Taiji Palace, is a very long and tall city wall.Xuanwu Gate is the only passage to enter the dynasty from the north.Pushing open the Xuanwu Gate, the first thing you see is a broad avenue, with the small garden on both sides of the avenue.There are two pools in the woods on the west side of the road, and one pool in the woods on the east side of the road.In the small landscape, there are several temples, one of which is beside the road, near the pool, and is called "Linhu Temple".Going south along the right path is the building complex in Tai Chi Palace.Among them, Wude Hall is at the easternmost side of the whole layout.The entire accident site is no more than the size of a playground.

Knowing the layout near Xuanwu Gate, it is easy to figure out how Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed. The small cavalry led by Li Shimin happened to be in the place covered by the Linhu Palace. When Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji walked here during the conversation, they found Li Shimin lurking here, turned around and ran away.Li Jiancheng was shot to death by Li Shimin with an arrow. Li Yuanjifu escaped with his life and hurriedly took out his bow and arrow to shoot.According to the principle of relativity, Li Yuanji's arrow was moving in the opposite direction to his own, which was not conducive to the exertion of recoil force, and he was nervous, so mistakes were inevitable.Therefore, he shot three arrows in a row and missed.

Li Er chased Li Si and ran forward. Yuchi Jingde, who was ambushing behind Li Shimin, had just followed up at this time, and led his cavalry to chase Li Yuanji together.The distance between Li Shimin and Li Yuanji was about ten meters, and the distance between Da Laohei and Li Yuanji was about one hundred meters. The two sides moved quickly towards the east garden. Li Shimin and his friends were abnormal in their arrow skills, they were numerous and calm, so it was easy to shoot Li Yuanji.Li Yuanji was still blessed and fateful, and he survived the arrow (think Li Daoxuan), so he jumped off his horse and fled into the woods.Li Shimin was in a hurry to chase, and he didn't pay attention to the road conditions. He tripped in the forest and fell to the ground with his horse and man.Seeing Li Shimin fell to the ground, Li Yuanji ran back immediately, used the bow in his hand as a sling, wrapped it tightly around Li Shimin's neck, and lifted it up violently as if gnashing his teeth.It is estimated that when Comrade Li Yuanji strangled Li Shimin's neck with a bow, he also kicked his head with his feet.In short, Li Shimin was very embarrassed.

The above is my inference, I am not present. But what is certain is that if Li Yuanji can strangle Li Shimin to death before the pursuers arrive, he will be the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty!For this unchanging dream, Li Yuanji must work harder!But Li Yuanji didn't have this kind of thought anymore, he just wanted to kill his second child quickly, survival is the most important thing. Li Yuanji as emperor? "No! For the sake of Datang's future, I absolutely do not agree!" God said so. Therefore, Yuchi Jingde chased after him, first shouted loudly, Li Yuanji knew that he couldn't beat Da Laohei, so he hurriedly got up and ran to Wude Hall.

Da Laohei chased and shot arrows, Li Yuanji was hit by an arrow and died. The whole process was so limp and powerless, and it failed to bring any rewards to those who tried to get pleasure from it. I express my deep self-criticism.What happened next, however, was rather interesting.Li Shimin and Yuchi Jingde held their heads together and found their father who was under house arrest. How could Li Yuan expect so many bad things to happen this morning, he just sighed.Li Shimin came as soon as he came, still wearing armor, holding the boss's head in one hand, and a helmet in the other, and next to him was a dark Yuchi Jingde, holding a spear, with a fierce look on his face.Li Yuan is a person who has seen the world and knows what it all means.He closed his eyes and waited for Li Shimin's verdict.

Unexpectedly, Li Shimin put his brother's head down, and tears suddenly flowed from his eyes.He threw himself into Li Yuan's arms, beat the ground and cried loudly.Li Yuan was wearing casual clothes (summer silk clothes), with his arms around Li Shimin, with a dignified expression.Li Shimin's cry was a cry of real collapse. Everything he did was unfaithful, unfilial, benevolent, unrighteous, rebellious and immoral, with no morals at all. Father, I don't ask you to forgive me, I have no choice but to! Li Yuan stroked Li Shimin's hair, and said in a calm tone: "No wonder why I have been hearing people saying that you are going to usurp power these two days. I believe it, and I feel very uncomfortable. I feel that I am the great mother who abandoned the tree and ran away. Looking at it now , I'm right, you...don't kill me?" Li Shimin cried even more when he heard Li Yuan's words, he didn't want to kill his father at all.A big mistake has been made, and the relationship between father and son is irretrievable.Li Shimin burst into tears, knelt on the ground in pain, and sucked Li Yuan's nipple (kneeling and sucking the breast).

Li Yuan spoke calmly, surprisingly calmly. Everything is over, and the struggle within the palace should come to an end. However, things are far from over. What about the princelings and people from Prince Qi's mansion?They moved first.Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's subordinates immediately organized elite soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Xuanwu Gate after hearing that there was an abnormal situation in Xuanwu Gate.Those in charge of attacking Li Shimin were Li Jiancheng's confidant Yiwei Chariot General Feng Li, deputy guard Xue Wanche, and Li Yuanji's confidant Qu Zhizhi's left chariot rider Xie Shufang. They led the elite soldiers from the East Palace and Qi Wangfu to the Xuanwu Gate. people.After learning the news of Li Jiancheng's death, the reaction of many generals was to quickly pack up and leave. The future emperor belongs to Li Shimin!But Feng Li said: "The prince was kind to me before he was alive, but now that the prince is dead, can I just sit back and watch!" So, after a touching speech, he led brave men to join the ranks of elite soldiers.The elite soldiers of Donggong and Prince Qi's Mansion gathered 2,000 elite soldiers, while Li Shimin's soldiers in Xuanwu Gate had less than 100 soldiers.Moreover, important figures such as Li Shimin and Yuchi Jingde were all by Li Yuan's side and could not command the battle.

Li Shimin was already prepared. The reason why things went so smoothly was because of the officers guarding the Xuanwu Gate.His name is Jing Junhong, Li Shimin's best friend, and he is in charge of the janitor work of the entire Taiji Palace. Li Shimin is indeed very thoughtful in planning things, but what is depressing is that Jing Junhong doesn't have many subordinates.When the elite soldiers from the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion rushed to the Xuanwu Gate, there were very few soldiers guarding the Xuanwu Gate.If troops are transferred from other gardens, I am afraid that after they arrive, there will be nothing but meat paste left in the Xuanwu Sect!

Jing Junhong never thought that the soldiers from the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion would gather so soon, what should we do?Jing Junhong looked at the elite soldiers rushing, a little flustered.Seeing that the elite soldiers were about to rush into the gate, suddenly, a warrior jumped out, stood outside the Xuanwu gate, closed the Xuanwu gate, and carried the gate alone, resisting the Donggong army who flocked towards the Xuanwu gate like madmen.This person is Zhang Gongjin (the one who threw the turtle's back), and his strength is at the level of Xiang Yu. Jing Junhong felt that although Lao Zhang was powerful, he would definitely not be able to do it alone, so he decided to go out and fight for a while.His cronies were very realistic, and they didn't want Jing Junhong to go out to die, so they stopped Jing Junhong and said, "It's not clear what's going on now, it's better to wait until the soldiers and horses are assembled, and it's not too late to fight in a row! "Jing Junhong refused, and rushed out of the city gate with Zhonglang general Lu Shiheng shouting, and fought against the elite soldiers. It's a pity that although Jing Junhong and Lu Shiheng are brave, they are still far behind Zhang Gongjin in terms of martial arts.Soon, the two warriors were bent and died, and were chopped into meat by the elite soldiers.Zhang Gongjin remained calm and continued to fight with other defenders.The deaths of the two warriors were mostly related to Xue Wanche, the elite commander.The guards fought Xue Wanche for a long time, but Xue Wanche still failed to break through the hurdle of Xuanwu Gate.Hitting and hitting, he became angry, he went crazy, and he suddenly figured it out. "The king of Qin caused a rebellion, and the soldiers were locked in the palace. It is already a capital crime for me to slaughter the Xuanwu gate. Why don't we kill them in the palace of the king of Qin?" "Yes, Lao Xue, you are so smart!" As a result, more than a thousand people clamored to go to Qin Wangfu to destroy Qin Wangman's family.At this time, the Qin Palace was just an empty shell, with no generals, only Li Shimin's wife (the maidservant and her friends) and a bunch of children, but there were also elders, such as Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.To say so much nonsense is nothing more than to explain that under such circumstances, once Xue Wanche invades the Qin Palace, the people in the Qin Palace have no reason to live, but to stay.A group of Confucian scholars in the Literature Museum and Li Shimin's wife and children are like eggs without shells, which can be broken with a poke. As I said before, although there were no mobile phones or walkie-talkies at the time, Xuanwu Gate was quite close to Li Shimin's location, not to mention that everyone was riding a horse.Therefore, the communication is also quite fast.Li Shimin was very shocked when he heard the news that the elite soldiers of the Qi Palace in the East Palace were going to attack his lair.The generals were also very panicked, Lao Dier was all put in the Qin Palace, how embarrassing you are for everyone! After being shocked, Li Shimin quickly calmed down.Head, head, show them the head!So, let Da Laohei show the heads of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to Xue Wanche and other two thousand people.The reason why these people dared to copy the Qin Palace was that Li Shimin would die if Li Jiancheng became emperor after something happened. The soldiers were shocked when they saw the heads of the crown prince and King Qi. died! Boss, you are not kind, why didn't you say that the prince is dead, don't you kill people?In fact, only the upper-level leaders (Xue Wanche, Feng Li, etc.) knew about the deaths of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.The art of war emphasizes the use of soldiers "not to make knowledge", that is to say, soldiers should not know too much when marching and fighting. If soldiers know too much, bad things will definitely happen.Therefore, Xue Wanche told everyone that the king of Qin was in chaos, and I will be ordered by the prince to destroy it. Now, everyone dispersed.Seeing that something was wrong, Xue Wanche led dozens of cavalry to escape, and went to Zhongnan Mountain to live in seclusion.The same is true for Feng Li. After he killed Jing Junhong, he sighed: "At least it is considered revenge for the prince!" Disbanded everyone and fled to the wilderness. The elite soldiers of the Eastern Palace have been disbanded, but there are still many soldiers, how to deal with these people? Don't worry, Li Shimin took out an imperial decree from Li Yuan and handed it to Pei Ju, the servant of Huangmen, ordering him to go out to comfort the East Palace.Li Shimin knew very well that if he didn't want to cause turmoil, he had to forgive everyone's sins. Xue Wanche, Feng Li, Xie Shufang...they were their own masters, and those who had worked so hard for the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion could be spared death.Li Shimin's heart is very big, he knows that he will be the emperor of this country, and the fate of the whole country will be in his hands!Everything, everything, will fall into his hands, and he must realize his dream! However, he still had to make a decision that was unbearable for everyone. This decision challenged everyone's human limits. Li Yuanji: There is a word in foreign languages ​​called "pillow slow", which sounds similar to embroidered pillows.Excuse me, how slow is this pillow? Li Jiancheng: Very slowly, very slowly... Li Shimin: A gentleman is nothing more than a patient wolf.