After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, although there was no phenomenon of wanton slaughter of meritorious men, most of the meritorious people did not have a good life, and the twenty-four founding heroes in the Ling Yan Pavilion were not particularly good after the country was stable. This Li Jing and others were unable to save the late festival, and in the very beginning, this Li Jing was the identity of Dai Sin Ligong, who followed Li Yuan to fight in Jiangshan, and a few years after Xu Maogong's death, his grave was even excavated. This Xu Maogong is still relatively lucky compared to the hero, there is no pain, after all, he has left this world, but the eldest son Wuji and others do not have such good luck as him, in the loss of the trust of the monarch Ling Yange heroes, most of the later years are relatively miserable, even the family is not spared. It's really mixed feelings, and I can't help but sigh.
The biggest mistake that this eldest grandson Wuji did was to want his nephew Li Zhi to sit on the throne, but this Li Zhi was not as incompetent as he imagined, and many times he was pretending to be stupid. In order to make Li Zhi successful as monarch, the eldest son Wuji removed many of his stumbling blocks behind his back, but after Li Zhi seized power, he directly eliminated him in the name of the rebellion of the eldest son Wujie. As his uncle's eldest grandson Wujie was so bitter in his heart that he could not say that, the reason why Li Zhi did not care about the three seven twenty-one to get rid of the eldest grandson Wujie was that he had become a threat to himself, and this Li Zhi naturally wanted to take this power into his own hands. The eldest grandson Wuji, who had been stripped of his power, was not well off, and Li Zhi sent him to the frontier areas, and this eldest grandson Wujie, seeing that he was so unpopular, committed suicide at home.
As one of the heroes of LingYange, Hou Junji ended up a bit miserable, only his son in the whole family was not killed, which was still Li Shimin's special kindness, but Hou Junji refused to admit his rebellion before being executed, and has been doing justice for himself, in fact, there is no sufficient evidence for Hou Junji to carry out rebellion. But this Li Shimin just didn't believe that he didn't rebel, just as the so-called king wanted his subjects to die. This Zhang Liang was also a little unlucky, reporting Hou Junji's rebellion, but he did not expect that Li Shimin directly arrested Zhang Liang. These two founding heroes were executed in this way, and many people inevitably felt cold in their necks.
After these two heroes were executed, Li Shimin also had some regrets, but the effect he wanted had been achieved, that is, to warn these heroes not to be proud of their achievements. After Xu Maogong's death, because his descendants once again angered the monarch, they directly took back the surname of the country that had been rewarded to Xu Maogong, and his cemetery was opened. This Tang Inspector was almost killed by Li Jing, but what he did not expect was that li Jing framed this Tang Inspector at the behest of Li Shimin. Li Shimin indicated that he would let Tang Guan take up an important position, while letting Li Jing lead the troops to launch an attack, and then let Tang Guan carry out the aftermath, which obviously wanted Tang Guan to die on the battlefield, fortunately, this Tang Inspector finally recovered a life, but Li Shimin also revoked the reward for him.
Knowing that many heroes suffered very bad wei Chigong in his later years, he did not live in the capital, and traveled around in his later years, and no one knew his whereabouts for decades, saying that he was traveling in all directions, and more was worried about Li Shimin's trouble finding him. At the beginning, Wei Chigong directly took the knife to scare this Fang Xuanling, as if he was not afraid of the heavens, but now in the face of Li Shimin's practice of getting rid of the heroes, he couldn't help but feel comfortable. At that time, the reason why he dared to pay no attention to Li Shimin in front of him was because he was in a period of war, and naturally knew that he needed to attack the city and plunder the battlefield, but now it was different, the country was stable, and there would be good fruit to eat as before.
Many heroes have not been able to escape the disaster, but this Cheng Biting Jin is still moving freely, not affected in the slightest, even this Li Zhi does not have much to do with him, who calls Cheng Biting Jin and Li Shimin are the sons and daughters of the family. His son even married a princess, and li zhi was naturally related to him.
However, in his later years, Cheng Yaojin also made mistakes on the battlefield, and when the monarch sent him to conquer the Turkic tribes, he did not heed the advice of his subordinates and directly slaughtered a city that the Turks surrendered, and after returning to the capital, Cheng Yaojin naturally could not avoid punishment. But not long after he was punished, Li Zhi still let him come to the local government as an official.