One day before Xu Maogong's death, he suddenly returned to the light, and he took his brother's hand and said: My illness seems to be better! You go and arrange a cabaret party for me, I want to hi pi!
The younger brother immediately turned from sadness to joy, and shouted out to his brother's favorite singers and dancers, wanting to give his brother a dose of strong medicine! Halfway through the party, Xu Maogong was on top!
Good guys, such a group of lively and cute, young and beautiful girls, who can bear this? Xu Maogong immediately felt that he could not do it again! He quickly took his brother's hand and said tearfully: "Brother, in fact, I am almost dead!" This party, even if it's my farewell party!
Younger brother Li Bi was immediately dumbfounded, he did not expect the party effect to be counterproductive.
Without waiting for Li Bi to be sad, Xu Maogong shook his head and said: "Don't cry, you will listen to me my words!" Fang Xuanling, Du Ruyi, Gao Feng, these gangs, worked hard all their lives, and as a result, they were all pitted by their children and grandchildren! My children and grandchildren are now entrusted to you, and if they do something wrong, they will kill me immediately, or they will not harm the whole clan!"
Where Li Bi could listen, Xu Maogong looked at the sad Li Bi, and could only smile helplessly, and he passed away the next day. Many years later, Xu Maogong's grandson Xu Jingye "plotted a rebellion", which eventually affected the entire clan.
1. Xu Maogong and Li Jing are equally famous.
After reading the beginning, many people do not understand, why is Xu Maogong's brother named Li Bi? In fact, Xu Maogong is just one of his many names, which everyone is most familiar with.
Xu Maogong's original name was Xu Shixun, and later Li Shimin felt that his merits were too great, so he gave him the surname Li, so Xu Maogong got a new name called Li Shixun.
As we all know, there is a shizi in Li Shimin's name, so Li Shiji naturally can't be called like this, so he withdrew the shizi and directly changed his name to Li Ji. And Xu Mao Gong character Mao Gong, so it is also commonly known as Xu Mao Gong.
In this way, he had four titles in his life, such as Xu Shixun, Li Shixun, Li Ji, and Xu Maogong. Regardless of what he said, Xu Maogong was a famous general of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
His battle record is really too brilliant, he has defeated Xue Yantuo, Eastern Turks, Goguryeo, etc., ranked as one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyange, and was named a British Duke by Li Shimin, on a par with the founding father Li Jing.
Second, Xu Maogong was still pit by his grandson.
Even if Xu Maogong told his younger brother Qian Dingwan before his death, he still could not change the behavior of his descendants. There is no way, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and the elders can't manage so much.
After the death of the 76-year-old Xu Maogong, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi did not mention how sad he was, and immediately announced that he would have a 7-day holiday, and he would cry and mourn for Xu Maogong! Yes, the great hero is so face-saving. Not only did Li Zhi cry himself, he also pulled the crown prince Li Hong to cry together.
Later, Li Zhi was not in good health, and his daughter-in-law Wu Zetian began to interfere in the government. After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian completely emptied his son and became the empress dowager of the Linchao dynasty.
All the affairs of the DPRK and China were under the jurisdiction of Wu Zetian alone. Later, Wu Zetian deposed his son Li Xian of Tang Zhongzong and replaced him with another son, Emperor Ruizong of Tang, Li Dan, as emperor.
This matter could make those who supported the old Li family angry, how could the emperor abolish it without permission? Not to mention the successor personally selected by Emperor Gaozong of Tang? Of course, most people just played mouth cannons and did not dare to argue with Wu Zetian at all.
But some people are not convinced! Xu Maogong's grandson Xu Jingye is one of them. In 684, Xu Jingye, under the banner of "restoring Li Xian, the King of Luling", chose to openly break with Wu Zetian.
They had pulled up a force of up to 100,000 people in Yangzhou, and if they could immediately march westward and attack Luoyang, then Wu Zetian would not be able to react.
But Xu Jingye did not have any achievements, and he began to consider what he would do in the future. He did not go straight to Luoyang, but found that Jinling had the spirit of an emperor, so he planned to take Jinling first.
This is good, the best opportunity is missed, and Xu Jingye's idea has also changed from supporting Li Tangjiangshan to making private profits for himself. You say who else wants to follow Xu Jingye?
Therefore, it only took 1 month for Wu Zetian to rub Xu Jingye on the ground many times, and finally Xu Jingye could not resist and had to choose to commit suicide.
Xu Jingye died, but Wu Zetian did not dispel the punishment for their old Xu family. First, their surname was revoked and they were restored to the Xu surname. Secondly, Xu Maogong was dug out of the ground, and even the coffin was dragged out and cut down.
Why did Wu Zetian think that Xu Maogong was a cunning person?
To tell the truth, such a person who can use soldiers must be a personal essence. Dealing with such people, the IQ of ordinary people is not enough at all. Therefore, Wu Zetian felt that Xu Maogong was cunning, and there was nothing wrong with it.
But before that, Xu Maogong's behavior really made Wu Zetian look at him with admiration.
Wu Zetian was a talented man of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Li Shimin, and according to the reason, he was to be sent to the Ganye Temple for renunciation. But when Li Shimin was seriously ill, Wu Zetian was already with his son Li Zhimei.
Therefore, after Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, he immediately ran to the Ganye Temple and Wu Zetian hi pi for a while. Li Zhi was thinking about it and planned to get Wu Zetian back to the palace, but this act was indeed a bit unreasonable.
Li Zhi thought about this for a long time, and he didn't come up with a good idea. At that time, Empress Wang was suppressed by Xiao Shufei for a while, and her heart was very unhappy, and she was planning to find a helper to deal with Xiao Shufei. After she learned that Wu Zetian was favored, she didn't know which brain nerve was wrong, so she actually took the initiative to invite Wu Zetian into the palace and let her deal with Xiao Shufei.
Wu Zetian was indeed very powerful, and cured Concubine Xiao Shufei obediently. The point is, she even ousted Empress Wang by the way. Good fellow, this woman means enough!
At this time, Li Zhi planned to make Wu Zetian empress. This incident was strongly opposed by his uncle Eldest Sun Wuji, and Wu Zetian hid behind to watch, gritting his teeth in anger and vowing to tear up the eldest Grandson Wujie!
Li Zhi didn't know what to do, so he called Xu Maogong to ask questions, who ever thought, Xu Maogong opened his mouth and came: This is His Majesty's family affair, ask others what to do?
This answer is worth playing, do you support or not? Oh my! Sorry, we're playing metaphysics. You see, Xu Maogong is cunning enough, right?
Summary: Too sleek is not a good thing.
Xu Maogong's biggest mistake was that he was too sleek. At the beginning, before Li Shimin died, he demoted Xu Maogong to a foreign official, in order to give Li Zhi a chance to show favor to Xu Maogong, and by the way, to see Xu Maogong's loyalty.
Who would have thought that all this would be seen through by Xu Maogong! He ran to work in other places without saying a word, and Li Shimin was completely relieved, but the clear-eyed people knew at a glance that Xu Maogong was a thief and clever.
On the matter of whether to make Wu Zetian empress, Xu Maogong's smoothness was also obvious. His kind of answer is obviously to throw the pot. No matter what the result was, no one could blame him on Xu Maogong's head.
But the emperor asked you with obvious intentions, not to seek your opinion, but to seek your support. You are now putting it here to play tai chi, you said that Li Zhi and Wu Zetian can be happy!
References: Old Book of Tang, New Book of Tang