In the long history of China for thousands of years, there are not a few people who have the talent of "wen can lift the pen to the world, and martial arts can go to ma and settle qiankun", but there are not many people who have really achieved this sentence to the extreme, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin is undoubtedly the best of them. On Ma Ding Qiankun, Li Shimin can be called one of the top two chinese emperors in the past, and there is a great man who once said that "since ancient times, there is no right person who has been able to join the army from Li Shimin"; on the topic of Writing an In the world, Li Shimin is an emperor of thousands of ages, opening the rule of Zhenguan, making the Tang Dynasty prosperous and submitting to the four seas.
But even if he is as great as Li Shimin, there is also a black spot that is difficult to erase - the change of Xuanwumen, li Shimin is therefore charged with killing his brother and forcing his father, but if you understand Li Shimin's power and situation during the years of Tang Gaozu Wude, you know that the change of Xuanwumen is imperative, why do you say so?
In the process of the Tang Dynasty replacing the Sui Dynasty to achieve the hegemony of the Thousand Autumns, the contribution of Li Shimin, the King of Qin, is undoubtedly the greatest, and I believe that everyone will not question this. In May 618, the Sui Gong Emperor Yang Youchan was located in Li Yuan, the Tang King, who was the emperor, and changed the name of the country to Tang and Yuan Wude. After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, in order to eliminate the separatist forces in various places, he fought six major battles, of which Li Shimin commanded four of them, and these four wars played a decisive role in the eventual unification of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Tangtianxia can be said to have been fought by Li Shimin alone, and he successively pacified Xue Rengao, Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong and other forces, and made great achievements for the establishment and unification of the Tang Dynasty. After the Battle of Luoyang, Li Shimin also because of his outstanding military achievements, resulting in Li Yuan's unsealed title, and finally created a position of "Tiance Admiral", the official position of Tiance General was second only to Emperor Li Yuan and Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, above all princes and hundreds of officials, and in the final Tang Dynasty, The Tiance General was only Li Shimin.
Before Li Shimin, the King of Qin, became a general of Tiance, he was already a general of Shang Shuling and Right Yiwei, ranking first among the hundred officials. After becoming a General of Tiance, Li Shimin not only had a higher status, but more importantly, Admiral Tiance could open the "Tiance Mansion", set up his own official office, and establish his own power system, which was originally the power that the Prince of Donggong could have.
Not only that, Li Shimin later had a power that even the Eastern Palace did not have, that is, to issue currency, WuDe four years, Li Yuan reformed the currency system, abolished the "five baht money", issued the "Kaiyuan Tongbao", Li Shimin because of his meritorious service, so Li Yuan rewarded three "money minting furnaces", which means that Li Shimin has the power to issue currency throughout the country, while the Prince Eastern Palace can only rely on government appropriations to operate.
In general, Li Shimin before the change of Xuanwumen, although not a prince, was comparable to a prince, and even his prestige in the imperial court was even greater, and in terms of power and prestige in the army, I am afraid that even Li Yuan could not compare with Li Shimin. Just imagine, Li Shimin has stood so high, will he let go of the supreme position within reach? What's more, in terms of Li Shimin's position, there are only two choices: either take another step upwards and the king will come to the world; or be kicked down by Li Jiancheng and fall into hell.