China has experienced a long historical process of five thousand years, the change of more than twenty dynasties, the establishment of new dynasties, and the decline of old dynasties, which is the natural law of development, and the progress of society is certainly a good thing, but how to deal with the officials left behind by the previous dynasty is a big problem. The idea of feudal centralization and divine empowerment in ancient China has left a deep imprint on people's hearts, which determines the situation of one heavenly son and one courtier.
In order to consolidate the new policy, some enlightened and benevolent new monarchs will use old ministers to stabilize people's hearts and minds for themselves, and at first they will not massacre the former dynasty heroes on a large scale. Some fierce new monarchs, in order to quickly seal the mouths of everyone, will also kill chickens and monkeys, so that the old minister knows that if he does not obey, he will get a bad end, and let people with bad ideas in their hearts die as soon as possible.
Even in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which is very famous in the eyes of the Chinese people, the rulers also brutally killed the founding heroes, and Hou Junji, Luo Yi, Zhang Liang, Li Junxian and others all died at the hands of Li Shimin. The fierce general I want to talk about today did not die at the hands of Li Shimin, but at the hands of Li Zhi.
Xue Wanche was born in the Shomen, his father Xue Shixiong was a sui dynasty general, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Zhenshou Zhuo County, Xue Shixiong after a defeat in a battle, seriously ill, died soon after. Xue Wanche and his brother were dependent on each other, and the two were appreciated by Luo Yi, a general of Zhuo County, and then they followed Luo Yi to Li Yuan.
The two brothers fought bravely, defeated Dou Jiande, and made many battle achievements, thus gaining Li Yuan's reuse. After the brothers were appreciated, they went to battle to kill the enemy even harder, and once created a miracle of defeating the Large Turkic army with two hundred people in Qinghai, with fewer enemies and more enemies, they still beat the opponent and fled, because of this vicious battle, the reputation of the Xue family brothers was greatly enhanced. Powerful people must be very sought-after, and both Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng want to take them under their command.
Li Yuan saw through the thoughts of his sons, separated the two brothers of the Xue family, and balanced the power of the two brothers, and Xue Wanche was assigned to Li Jiancheng. Xue Wanche undoubtedly became Li Jiancheng's most capable general.
After the change of Xuanwu Gate, the crown prince Li Jiancheng was killed, and Xue Wanche immediately led an army to attack Xuanwu Gate after learning the news, but he could not attack it for a long time, so Xue Wanche had a plan in mind and turned around to attack Li Shimin's old lair, Qin Province, which frightened Li Shimin's liver and gallbladder. If it were not for Wei Chigong bringing the crown prince and Li Yuanji's first rank to demonstrate and deter, the Qin government would be afraid of a river of blood.
After seeing the heads of the prince and Li Yuanji, the people of the prince's mansion were like birds in the forest who heard the sound of gunshots, and fled in all directions. When Xue Wanche saw this situation, he knew that the general situation had gone, and even if he was brave and fierce, he could not change the facts, so he fled with his army to Shaanxi.
After Li Shimin became the new monarch, he showed a tolerant and generous demeanor, not only did he not deliberately embarrass Xue Wanche, but he was very sorry for his talents, and sent people to persuade Xue Wanche five times, and finally Xue Wanche was touched by Li Shimin and made up his mind to follow Li Shimin in the future.
Li Shimin's benevolent heart accommodated Xue Wanche, and Xue Wanche did not disappoint him.
Xue Wanche, the general tiger, eliminated the uneasiness from many sides for Li Shimin. He once attacked Xue Yantuo as a deputy general, led hundreds of soldiers, came from behind the enemy camp by surprise, launched a fierce attack, made the opponent panic, even if Xue Yantuo had thousands of iron horses, there was no way to take Xue Wanche, Xue Wanche once again won a big victory with less victory.
When Li Shimin attacked Goryeo, Wei Chi Jingde took the initiative to ask to lead the army out, but Li Shimin considered that he was old, so he only made him a captain who supervised the battle, although Xue Wanche's age was comparable to Wei Chi Jingde, but he was entrusted by Li Shimin with heavy responsibilities, and he and his subordinates won two major victories in the war against Goryeo, defeating the 40,000-strong army of Goryeo successively.
Xue Wanche was also designated to fight against the Turks, and in times of danger, he reversed the situation of the war with hundreds of iron horses. Xue Wanche's strong fighting strength made many people from the surrounding small tribes at that time feel frightened and showed kindness to the Tang Dynasty. What really brought Xue Wanche to the peak of his life was to marry Princess Danyang, that is, Li Shimin's sister.
Xue Wanche is a good hand in leading troops to fight, but there are defects in handling things for people, he does not think much about the consequences, Li Shimin once evaluated him, fighting heroically, but either a big victory or a big defeat, never leave himself a little leeway. Such a personality made him offend many people in the DPRK, and he spoke very directly, and he often blurted out dissatisfaction and complaints about the imperial court in his heart, and would not play tricks.
Li Shimin often received many people's complaints against him, and at the beginning, Li Shimin would directly burn the folds of those complaints, and then persuade Xue Wanche. But helplessly, Xue Wanche's temper was too hard, that is, he could not change his own nature.
In the third year of Yonghui, Xue Wanche entered the dynasty, plotted a coup d'état with Fang Xuanling's son Fang Yi'ai, wanting to overthrow Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Establish Jing as emperor, but the plot was exposed, and li Zhi was killed for conspiracy and treason, and it took three swords to behead him. This famous general of the Tang Dynasty did not die at the hands of Li Yuan, nor did he die at the hands of Li Shimin, and finally died at the hands of Li Zhi.
In the DPRK as an official, it is important to have superior skills, but it is necessary to live in the world without learning, complex officialdom, every word and deed will be looked at by others, saying the wrong sentence may bring the disaster of killing to himself, Xue Wanche has already stood at the peak of life, but because of his temperament, he has fallen to the bottom, and even buried his life.