The change of Xuanwumen is an event that everyone is familiar with, and it was this event that changed the fate of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin ascended to the throne of the Emperor from then on, becoming a generation of Ming Emperors of the Tang Dynasty, and creating the rule of Zhenguan, bringing the Tang Dynasty into the prosperous world. But Li Shimin's ascension to the throne was always through a coup d'état, not a legal one. However, due to the fact that Li Shimin's exploits were too great, many people would selectively ignore the illegality of the Xuanwumen coup and point the root cause of the error to the crown prince Li Jiancheng. In this coup d'état, Li Shimin not only killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng, but also killed Li Yuanji. Li Yuanji is precisely a key figure.
Many people will think that Li Jiancheng's murder is excusable, and Li Yuanji was also killed by Li Shimin, after all, Li Yuanji is only the King of Qi, but in fact, Li Yuanji played a role in this emperor dispute, or without him, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng may not have ended up in this end.
Li Yuanji is different from Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji has been an unprovoked lamp since he was a child, it is said that when Li Yuanji was born, because he was very ugly, he was disliked by his birth mother Empress Dou, and he was unwilling to raise him, so he was abandoned. The maid Chen Yiyi secretly took him back, secretly raised him, and waited for Li Yuan to go home and tell him, which saved Li Yuanji from the disaster, and Li Yuanji would take revenge, after he grew up, he had a cruel personality, liked to let people carry out actual battles, countless casualties, Chen Haoyi advised Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji was annoyed and ashamed, and killed her. Although he regretted it afterwards, this did not teach Li Yuanji any lesson, and he must have thought in his heart that what died was only a maid, although he had saved my life, he was still a maid.
In the process of Li Yuan's army, Li Shimin's credit was the greatest, followed by Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji had almost no merit, but added a lot of chaos, Li Yuanji left Li Yuanji to stay in Taiyuan when Li Yuan sent troops, and when Liu Wuzhou came to attack Taiyuan, Li Yuanji was very afraid, and even "strategically" gave up, although he was punished by Li Yuan, but it did not take long for the official to be reinstated, which made Li Yuanji even more arrogant.
Speaking of the struggle for the throne, Li Yuanji played a key role in the dispute between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, and he can be said to be the second person in Li Jiancheng's faction, contributing a lot and taking the initiative to ask for Li Shimin's killing. Li Yuanji did not really want to help Li Jiancheng, but had his own little nine-nine, he contributed to the fight between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, let them lose both, he was a good fisherman to gain, so he instigated Li Jiancheng to take a shot at Li Shimin.
Most of Li Jiancheng's methods against Li Shimin came from Li Yuanji, because Li Jiancheng was gentle and not as fierce as Li Yuanji. At the suggestion of Li Yuanji, Li Jiancheng recruited brave dead soldiers to shelter fugitive criminals. He also colluded with harem concubines, flattered one by one, and bribed Zhongshu Ling Fenglun as an accomplice, in order to slander Li Shimin and make Li Yuan lose trust in him. He also planned to kill Li Shimin many times, but he did not get his wish. Once, when Li Shimin and Li Yuan went to the Palace of Qi, Li Yuanji had his bodyguard Yuwen Bao lurk in his bedroom, preparing to assassinate Li Shimin. Li Jiancheng was worried that he would not succeed and stopped it, Li Jiancheng would also win li Yuanji over, once said that he would make him the emperor's brother-in-law, before the xuanwumen change, Li Jiancheng also conspired with Li Yuanji to launch a mutiny, but the news leaked, but forced Li Shimin to launch the Xuanwumen change.
Li Yuanji's behavior proves that sentence,
A wicked man is his own hell.
If there is no Li Yuanji in the push, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin will still fight, but not to the point of immortality, Cao Zhi once gave a poem: Ben is born of the same root, and he is too anxious to fry each other. It is said that Cao Pi disregarded brotherhood for the sake of power and wanted to persecute him. Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji, why not? All three were born to Empress Dou, but in the end they killed each other for power, and the most ruthless imperial family!