I noticed a piece of news in the early days. This news record: In November 2016, more than 20 experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the National Museum gathered in Taiyuan, after visiting the No. 2 building site of Jinyang Ancient City and viewing the excavated cultural relics, it was initially determined to be a large base site in the late Tang Dynasty.
When it comes to Jinyang Palace, it can be regarded as a famous name in Chinese history. It was founded in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and its real famous period in history should be the early Tang Dynasty, that is, The Tang Emperor Li Yuan rebelled against the Sui here, which can be regarded as the land of Longxing of the Tang Dynasty.
In the third year (545) of Emperor Xiaojing of eastern Wei, gao huan began to build jinyang palace in Jinyang county, and excavated grottoes at Tianlong Mountain to build a summer palace. After the Sui unified the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Emperor expanded the Jinyang Palace as the palace of his northern tour, and set up the Jinyang Palace Supervisor and Deputy Supervisor. In the thirteenth year (617) of the Sui Dynasty Emperor's great cause, Li Yuan stayed behind in Taiyuan and led the Jinyang Palace to be the superintendent, and Pei Huan was made the deputy superintendent. After that, Li Yuan began his great cause of building the Tang Dynasty on behalf of Sui.
According to the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang, Li Yuanxing's rebellion against the Sui was not his intention, but the result of his second son Li Shimin's design and supervision. When Li Shimin saw the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he plotted to raise an army, fearing that Li Yuan would not agree, and secretly planned and consulted with Pei Huan. Therefore, Pei Huan, without Li Yuan's knowledge, arranged for the people of jinyang palace to sleep. The next time he drank with Li Yuan, Pei Huan told Li Yuan about the conspiracy to raise an army, and Li Yuan was shocked and refused. Pei Huan then frightened Li Yuan and said, "Last time, you arranged for you to be a palace attendant privately, and once the incident occurred, everyone was a capital offense, so we had to raise an army." Li Shimin also entered the meeting, stating that he was already preparing for the start of the army, Li Yuan began to ostensibly not agree, and wanted to arrest Li Shimin and send him to the official palace, but later, afraid that the palace people's bedtime case would be leaked, he reluctantly agreed, and said to Li Shimin: "I agreed because I love you and can't bear to report you." ”
Only one year after Taiyuan's army began, in 618, Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty as emperor. At the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the territory was limited to Guanzhong and Hedong, and it had not yet completely ruled the country, so Li Yuan often sent three sons, Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng, and Li Yuanji, who were mainly Li Shimin, to go out on expeditions to gradually eliminate the forces in various places. Finally in 624 the world was unified.
In the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang, Li Yuan is completely lustful and incompetent, and the establishment and consolidation of the Tang Dynasty is mainly the credit of Li Shimin.
However, in the history book "Notes on the Entrepreneurship and Living of the Tang Dynasty", there are many places that are different from the later historical books such as the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang. As far as the history of Li Yuan's Taiyuan uprising is concerned, the "Notes on Living" records Li Yuan as his mastermind, while the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang record Li Shimin as his mastermind.
The "Notes on the Entrepreneurship and Living of the Tang Dynasty" records the situation when Li Yuan first started his army:
At the end of the twelfth year of Daye (616), Li Yuan was ordered to go south to suppress the rebel army, and the Northern Turks took the opportunity to capture Mayi (present-day Shuo County, Shanxi) under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan, and the Sui Emperor was furious and sent people to capture Li Yuan. Li Yuan was very annoyed, so he thought of bing, but because there was only one second son Li Shimin by his side, the eldest son Li Jiancheng and the fourth son Li Yuanji were far away in Hedong, it was not an excellent time to start an army, so he had to hold back for the time being.
Due to the rampant invasion of the Turks, the Sui Emperor hurriedly ordered a pardon for Li Yuan and ordered him to stay in Taiyuan to block the Turks. Li Yuan thought that this was a good time for him to raise an army, and he quickly informed the eldest son Jiancheng and the fourth son Yuanji, so that they could immediately prepare to raise an army. After receiving the secret order, Li Jiancheng quickly gathered the heroic soldiers in Hedong, and Li Shimin also gathered all the forces in Jinyang. Soon after, Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji's brothers, and son-in-law Chai Shao all arrived in Taiyuan in accordance with Li Yuan's secret orders.
In January of the thirteenth year of Daye (617), Li Yuan ordered Liu Wenjing to forge an edict from the Sui Emperor in Jinyang and recruit troops in Taiyuan, Yanmen, and Mayi counties. In mid-February, Li Yuan took advantage of the rebellion against the Sui Dynasty that Liu Wuzhou had rebelled against the Sui Dynasty and marched south to Fenyang Palace (汾陽宫, in modern Wunan, Shanxi), and ordered a large number of troops to be recruited in the name of guarding against Liu Wuzhou. At the same time, Li Yuan submitted to the Turkic Shibi Khan behind the back of the Sui Emperor, thus gaining the trust and support of the Turks, and also relieving the worries of being attacked by the Turks.
After making all the above preparations, Li Yuan finally decided to rebel against Sui. Because Li Yuan had made relatively adequate preparations in advance and made meticulous plans, coupled with the large number of generals and the courage and good fighting, the rebellion against Sui progressed smoothly, and the momentum along the way was unstoppable. Li Yuan's father and son quickly attacked Xihe City, and after entering the city, they did not commit any crimes, comforted the people, restored their old business, and quickly won the trust and support of the people. In July, Li Yuan ordered Li Yuanji to stay in Taiyuan for the zhenbei general and take charge of all matters in Taiyuan. Li Yuan personally led more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to march to Guanzhong, and in less than half a year he quickly overthrew the Sui Dynasty rule of the Sui Emperor.
According to the record of Li Yuan's taiyuan uprising in the "Notes on the Entrepreneurship and Living of the Tang Dynasty", we can see that the process of rebelling against the Sui and the painstaking operation of the previous years were all handled by Li Yuan, who made very outstanding contributions to the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the main credit for the founding of the Tang Dynasty should be on Li Yuan's body; and Tang Taizong Li Shimin was his father Li Yuan's right-hand man, and he was only an active supporting role in the process of rebelling against the Sui dynasty and creating the Tang Dynasty.
So, who is the mastermind of the establishment of Datang, Li Shimin? Li Yuan? Who is more credible, the Notes on The Entrepreneurship of the Tang Dynasty, the Old Book of Tang, and the New Book of Tang?
This can be talked about first from the author of "Notes on Datang Entrepreneurship". Its author was Wen Daya, a famous thinker and historian in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, in the thirteenth year of Daye (617), Li Yuan raised troops from Taiyuan, Hou Li hired Wen Daya as a general's office to join the army, specializing in the management of the secret, the following year (618), Li Yuan established himself as emperor, and ordered Wen Daya to be the Yellow Gate Attendant.
Wen Daya's book "Notes on the Entrepreneurship and Living of the Tang Dynasty" is a true record of the history of his personal experience, which mainly records the historical events in the 357 days from Li Yuan's Taiyuan rebellion to his official ascension to the throne, which was written during the Tang Wude period. Because Wen Daya joined the army for the General's Office for more than a year, most of the records in the "Notes on Living" are for their own personal experiences, which are solid and historical facts, and have always been recognized by Chinese and foreign historians as the most authentic historical materials to record the process of Li's father and son establishing the Tang Dynasty.
The Old Book of Tang, the New Book of Tang, and the Zizhi Tongjian were written more than three hundred years after Tang Wude, and the main reference objects of these three historical books were the history of the Tang Dynasty compiled under the auspices of Li Shimin during his reign.
Who is closest to the truth is self-evident! This is also the main reason why scholars and literati since the Tang Dynasty believe that the records of the "Notes on Living" are more credible!
Why do such contradictions occur in various history books? This is related to Li Shimin's re-revision of the history books after he seized the throne, and this has to start with Li Shimin killing his father and brother to launch the Xuanwumen coup!
On July 2, 626, Li Shimin killed his brother Li Jiancheng through the Xuanwumen coup and ascended the throne as the second son, which was in any case unethical and ethical. In order to cover up this brutal act and to prove the legitimacy of such an ascension to the throne, Li Shimin set up a historian to rewrite the history of the country.
At the same time, in order to make the rewriting of the history of the country more reflect the emperor's intentions, Li Shimin ordered the creation of a system of the chancellor supervising the revision of the history of the country, which made it difficult for the historians who wrote the history of the country to write straight books, and could only write history according to the intentions of the rulers. During his reign, Li Shimin repeatedly violated the law by asking to personally read the history of the country and the notes on his life, and defended himself: "Those who want to see the history of the country now have good deeds, and they do not need to be discussed, and if there is any badness, they also want to take it as a warning, so that they can change their ears." ”
In accordance with Li Shimin's intentions, when writing the Records of Gao Zu and the Records of Emperor Taizong, the shi courtiers went to great lengths to lay out Li Shimin's historical merits during the Wude years, tried their best to erase the achievements of his brother Li Jiancheng, and deliberately reduced the historical role of his father, GaoZu Li Yuan, and portrayed the plot of the Taiyuan uprising as completely planned by Li Shimin alone, while his father Gao Zu Li Yuan was in a completely passive position.
In this way, Li Shimin became the first person to create the tang dynasty, the throne should have been his, and after Li Yuan abdicated, he should have inherited the throne, and Li Shimin's ascension to the throne seemed to be a natural thing.
Two months after the Xuanwumen coup, on September 4, 626, Li Yuan abdicated as Emperor Taishang and Zen was located in Li Shimin. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 635, Li Yuan died of illness in the front hall of the hanging arch, at the age of seventy-one, and the temple number was Gaozu.
Nearly a hundred years later, Li Yuan's grandson, Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong, on the way to Taishan Fengchan, temporarily stationed in Chenggao, passing through Niukouyu, the site of the Battle of Tiger Prison, captured the "Place of The First Saint's Capture and Virtue", and felt a lot of feelings, so he wrote the poem "Passing through Jinyang Palace" that remembered the great cause of his ancestors, which shows the importance of Jinyang Palace to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty:
Burma wanted to seal the Tang Dynasty, but at the beginning of the founding of the country. Look down at Yi Jinye and look up at the void. Jingyi Longsi yue, chengchi Fengxiangyu. Lin Tang is still peize, and Tai Xie Wan's former residence. Yun Ge Zuo in the middle of no, the time to move the fate of the symbol. Gu Xuncheng was constructed, and he was worried about it. Still afraid of intimidation, the reconsideration has not been made. It is in vain to train the chariot. The custom is to ask the Li people and personally patrol Li Lu. Yong Yan Nian Success, Song De Lin Kang Qu. Long nostalgia for the day, sighing in the corner of the court. Hardships can be forgotten, and I want to go to the good.