On the fourth day of June in the ninth year of Tang Gaozu Wude, the Li Tang imperial family broke out the most brutal dispute in history, and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, killing his brother Li Jiancheng, his younger brother Li Yuanji, and the ten nephews. At that time, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was rowing a boat on the lake in the palace, and Wei Chigong, who was sent by Li Shimin, was placed under house arrest in disguise, and by the time he heard the news, it was too late, and the King of Qin had already achieved great power, and he could only obediently hand over the throne.
Although Li Yuan was emperor, he lost two sons and ten grandchildren in one day, and naturally hated Li Shimin to the bone. However, he could not pose a threat to Li Shimin, and even his own safety was in jeopardy, and it was not uncommon in history to kill his father in order to compete for the throne. Therefore, after Li Yuan ceded the throne to Li Shimin, he could only say to Li Shimin with hatred: "Ru killed my descendants, and his descendants will do the same!" At that time, Li Shimin was proud of the spring breeze, and naturally did not take what his father said in his heart, thinking that this was just li Yuan's attempt to make a profit.
After Li Shimin became emperor, he worked hard to create a brilliant "rule of Zhenguan", and was praised by the nomads as the "Heavenly Khan". Although he was too vicious in the xuanwumen change, as an emperor, Li Shimin was definitely a qualified emperor, and he was one of the few people in history who was qualified to be awarded the honor of "One Emperor of The Ages". However, there was one thing that made Li Shimin very uneasy, just as Li Yuan said at that time, the scene of cannibalism between the Li And Tang royal families seemed to have really become a reality.
Li Shimin had 14 sons, but most of these sons, like him, did not stop much, and were either executed or exiled for involvement in rebellion. Li Shimin was very worried about this, afraid that what Li Yuan had said would become a reality, so he was very eager to know the fate of the Li Tang royal family and wanted to know when the Tang Dynasty died.
In fact, Li Shimin's worries are really not superfluous, and most of his 14 sons will not die well. Because of the fierce infighting in the Li Tang royal family, Li Shimin himself deposed 4 princes, resulting in them all dying in the place of exile. After Emperor Gaozong of Tang succeeded to the throne, Li Zhi killed 3 more brothers, and then Wu Zetian put 2 people to death after he came to power. In this way, in addition to the early death of the prince, among Li Shimin's sons, only Li Zhi, who succeeded to the throne, and Li Fu, the thirteenth prince, were able to die well, but Li Fu did not live past the age of 37.
It is said that Li Shimin has been playing drums in his heart, and seeing that his son is making a fuss because of the competition for the position of crown prince, he does not know how long the jiangshan he has worked so hard to build can last, so he wants to find a xiangshi to calculate. Who can you look for? Thinking about it, I could only find the two most famous masters at that time, one was Yuan Tiangang and the other was Li Chunfeng. Both of them were well-known xiangshi at the time, and both were good at predicting the future, and Li Shimin hoped that they could help calculate the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty.
The emperor had a life, and Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng naturally had to follow, so the two spent their efforts compiling a "Push Back Map", which claimed to be able to predict the prosperity and chaos of future generations. When Li Shimin learned of this, he was naturally overjoyed and hurriedly asked Yuan Tiangang, then when did you see when the Tang Dynasty died? Yuan Tiangang shirked that the heavenly opportunity could not be leaked, and resolutely refused to tell Li Shimin about the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty. But Li Shimin was the emperor after all, and he really wanted to know one thing, and there was a way to make Yuan Tiangang open his mouth.
Yuan Tiangang was forced to be anxious, and finally had to say cryptically that if he wanted to destroy the Tang Dynasty, I was afraid that he would have to wait until the pig was on the tree. Li Shimin was overjoyed to hear this, how could such a stupid and stupid domestic animal as a pig get on the tree? This is not clear whether the Tang Dynasty can unify the world for thousands of years?
In fact, Li Shimin was still too careless. Yuan Tiangang had already said it very bluntly, but Li Shimin still did not understand. This "pig" is not a "pig", and the "pig" that Yuan Tiangang refers to does not refer to domestic animals, but to Zhu Quanzhong, who is famous in history, that is, Zhu Wen, who single-handedly brewed the "disaster of the white horse". He not only destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but also executed 9 Li Tang princes in one day in the "Disaster of the White Horse Stagecoach", and only one point almost made the Li Tang royal family extinct.
In folklore, the "Push Back Map" has always been very magical, and Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng and others have also been described as land gods, the kind of gods who can know five hundred years before and five hundred years later. In fact, according to the research of literary and historical experts, the "Pushing Back Map" circulating today is just a forgery of posterity, and the real copy has long been left in the long river of history. Moreover, those who have received modern education should know that the so-called fortune telling is just a feudal superstitious activity of the ancients, and the future is unpredictable. Instead of hoping for the future, it is better to live in the present, and the current time is more worthy of people's cherishing.