As for Li Chengqian's absurdity, in a certain sense, it is nothing more than political smear, and it is not true at all. In other words, everyone was deceived by this emperor. This emperor was none other than Li Shimin, the Tang Emperor taizong who everyone was familiar with.
Because in the history books, Yang Yong, the crown prince of Emperor Wen of Sui, is also absurd, Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of Tang Gaozu, is also absurd, Li Xian, the crown prince of Tang Gaozong, is also absurd, and Li Chongjun, the prince of Tang Zhongzong, and Li Ying, the crown prince of Tang Xuanzong, also appear almost as clowns.
More importantly, when Crown Prince Yang Yong was deposed, a very important crime was that Yang Yong once made a big fuss and said, "When I become emperor, I will do whatever I want, and whoever dares to advise me will kill whomever I want, and after killing hundreds of people, I will see who still dares to advise me."
As for Li Chengqian's dethronement, a very important crime was also the crown prince Chengqian's bold remark that when I became emperor, I had to do whatever I wanted, and whoever advised me, I would kill him, and after killing hundreds of people, I would see who would dare to advise me.
At the same time, these people also have one thing in common, that is, although they are all princes, they have not been able to become emperors in the end. In the face of this astonishing similarity, do you say that all this is a coincidence? If this is a coincidence, there are too many coincidences in succession.
In fact, it is not so much that Li Chengqian was deposed because he was absurd, but rather that he became absurd because he was abolished.
As for the real reason for Li Chengqian's dethronement, it was because in the context of the time, the relationship between the emperor and the crown prince was very delicate.
On the one hand, the emperor hoped to cultivate the prince and equip the prince with a strong team; on the other hand, he was afraid that the prince would seize power. In this context, the emperor would habitually let the powerful prince contain the prince, such as Emperor Wen of Sui using Yang Guang, the king of Jin, to restrain the crown prince Yang Yong, Li Yuan to use Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to contain the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin to use Li Tai, the king of Wei, to contain the crown prince Li Chengqian.
For Li Chengqian, because there were two failure cases of Yang Yong and Li Jiancheng in front, when he faced the court of Li Tai, the King of Wei, Li Chengqian naturally did not feel safe at all.
In this context, Li Chengqian could only desperately expand his own power. As a result, because Li Chengqian's power was getting bigger and bigger, Li Shimin naturally became insecure, so Li Shimin thought that Crown Prince Chengqian was bent on murdering himself, so he deposed him and imprisoned him.
For Li Shimin, he deposed and imprisoned the crown prince Li Chengqian, naturally to give an explanation, at least to make Li Shimin's act of attacking his son become lofty, for example, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, for the sake of the people of the world, but also let future generations feel that Li Chengqian's deposed is his own fault. Therefore, Li Shimin needed to convict Li Chengqian.
Of course, this conviction is certainly not woven by Li Shimin, but by the people below, and in this process, this so-called disclosure is a process of taking sides.
In this context, it doesn't matter if the crime you're exposing is credible or not, what matters is that you make your stance clear. So at this moment, you dare to say that the prince's morality and thinking are normal people, and what he does is normal behavior, and there will be absolutely no good fruit to eat.
On the contrary, if you stand up at this time and say that the prince is a traitor and a traitor, the emperor will not only not feel that you are talking nonsense, but will be very satisfied with you, because your attitude is the most firm and clear.
In this sense, you can just take a look at the absurd content of The history books about Li Chengqian, and if you really believe it, it is really treating politics as a fairy tale.
In fact, as a top political figure, how could Li Chengqian be so mentally handicapped and evil and perverted? Because he was really this virtuous, how could he possibly climb into that position? Even if Chengqian became a top politician because he reincarnated well. But the problem is that his parents are all first-class characters, the education he received from childhood is also first-class, and his teachers, classmates and friends are first-class characters.
In such an environment, even if Li Chengqian is bad, it has a look, to borrow a phrase, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse! What's more, if Li Chengqian really had the strength to become that virtuous, what else did Li Shimin need to hesitate when he needed to abolish him?