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Li Baizhou's demise had a precursor
Li Baizhou, from Gaomen, belongs to the rising star compared with the old nobles.
When he first entered the throne, the government was still the Gu family's hand to cover the sky, so emperor Xiao Ruijian specially supported Li Baizhou in order to consolidate the imperial power and suppress the gu family's power.
As a result, after Li Baizhou grew up, he did not know what to do, and his ambition gradually expanded.
In his career promotion, he colluded with the military and Korean officials all the way, formed a henchman, and mixed with the King of Qi, and even more yin and yang against the emperor, making it difficult for the Son of Heaven's decrees to pass.
Under such circumstances, how could Emperor Xiao Ruijian tolerate him?
Emperor Xiao Ruijian's ideals
Emperor Xiao Ruijian had a political ideal, that is, to imitate the Western Zhou Tianzi to directly control the six ministries and take over the power of the prime minister to the Tianzi.
In order to achieve this ideal, he has endured Li Baizhou for many years.
The delay in cleaning up Li Baizhou is mainly because the conditions have been immature.
Now that there are strong generals on the outside and powerful ministers on the inside, he is worried that if he openly kills the prime minister of the imperial court, he will provoke Li Baizhou's counterattack and cause turmoil in the government and the opposition.
This will not only ruin their own virtuous name, but also arouse the vigilance of the Gu family who are leading the soldiers outside, and it is even more unfavorable to the recovery of military power.
The emperor made Crown Prince Xiao Dingquan a thug
Emperor Xiao Ruijian, while enduring Li Baizhou, also plotted in his heart how to get rid of this strong minister at the least cost.
In the end, he decided to let the prince be this evil person, and took the initiative to provoke a contradiction between the prince and Li Baizhou.
There are two advantages to doing so.
First: Li Baizhou can focus on the prince.
Second: you can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and make a profit.
When the emperor made this decision, he did not consider that the prince was his son, but regarded the prince as his own courtier.
As an emperor, there was nothing wrong with that; but as a father, he was still too cruel.
The emperor created conditions for the crown prince as much as possible
In order to create conditions for the crown prince to fight with Li Baizhou, he specially took care of the King of Qi and let Li Baizhou see that the King of Qi had the hope of becoming a crown prince, so that Li Baizhou would do everything possible to overthrow the prince.
In order to keep his throne, the crown prince would regard Li Baizhou as an opponent and fight with him to the death.
To this end, the emperor also let the crown prince live outside the palace all the time to facilitate his cheap behavior.
These were Xiao Ruijian's good intentions, and they were also the ultimate in his use of imperial skills.
In his planning, the prince and Li Baizhou are like pawns, and he is the one who plays chess.
The prince fulfilled his mission to defeat Li Baizhou
Time flew by, and the time for Emperor Xiao Ruijian to wait was finally ripe.
So he took the opportunity to leave the capital and completely handed over the battlefield to the prince and Li Baizhou.
Li Baizhou made a divine operation, asking the prince to lift a stone and drop it on his feet, and catch the thief who sold military horses, and as a result, he became a thief.
As the saying goes: don't be afraid of opponents like gods, you are afraid of teammates like pigs.
And Li Baizhou's failure, in addition to Xiao Dingquan's strength, is actually mainly dependent on Li Baizhou's pig teammate: Zhao Wei.
In any case, the emperor's plan for many years finally succeeded, and Li Baizhou was completely defeated.
The Li Baizhou incident made the prince notorious
Faced with the ironclad fact that Li Baizhou stole and sold military horses, Emperor Xiao Ruijian did not take this hot potato, but continued to let the prince try it and finally closed the case.
In the end, the crown prince gave Li Baizhou a major crime of rebellion and wanted to exterminate his relatives.
In fact, for the prince, this is more harmful than beneficial.
Why?
Because Li Baizhou has been in the army for decades after all, he has had but also made merits. Having been punished so heavily, it was inevitable that all officials of the same dynasty would have the feeling of rabbits and dogs cooking.
So the prince took all these notorieties as ordered, and the emperor, because he stayed out of the matter, he got all the benefits without insult.
Emperor Xiao Ruijian succeeded in regaining the power of Zhongshu Ling
After Li Baizhou's death, the post of Zhongshu Ling, Emperor Xiao Ruijian, was not appointed immediately, but was vacant for a long time.
In this way, the direct control of the six ministries naturally fell into the hands of the Son of Heaven.
Later, the idle time was too long, fearing that it would cause dissatisfaction among the courtiers, so he found a He Daoran who was about to retire, with sufficient seniority, weak personality, and no desire for rights, to do the Zhongshu Order to block the mouths of the officials.
At this point, the emperor finally completed his first major task since he succeeded to the throne.
Summary: The prince's methods made Xiao Ruijian vigilant
The crown prince executed Li Baizhou by means of turning clouds and rain.
This divine operation is actually a big mistake. The correct approach is that as long as the prince can protect himself, there is no need to completely kill Li Baizhou.
Look, what did the prince get through this?
In addition to his notoriety, there was also the vigilance of his emperor father against him.
Knowing his method of dealing with Li Baizhou, even Emperor Xiao Ruijian felt shocked.
In a word, the prince is still too young.
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