During the Zhenguan years in history, Li Shimin suffered the most dangerous assassination and was almost killed, if it were not for the close guard swearing to protect him, Li Shimin might have become the first person among the emperors to be successfully assassinated, then the rule of Zhenguan would be gone! Where Datang is headed is unknown!
In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, in April 639, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin went to Jiucheng Palace on Tiantai Mountain, and the emperor traveled, accompanied by ministers, bodyguards, concubines, etc., and the team was huge.
The Janissaries in the team are mixed with Han and Hu, and one of them is the protagonist of this incident. Ashina was a Turkic nobleman who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with his brother Tuli after Li Jing destroyed the Eastern Turks. They were all sons of Shibi Khan.
After ashina's association led after the surrender of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin gave him the position of lieutenant general and served in the Janissaries. Shi Zai's personality was sinister and vicious, and his brother Wu Zhi taught him not to listen to his advice, coupled with his unhappiness in the Tang Dynasty, he was restricted everywhere. Therefore, he also hated his brother Tuli, so he framed Tuli to Li Shimin, who already knew his disposition, so he did not punish Tuli, and reprimanded him, and from then on he no longer paid attention to him, and the road to promotion was cut off.
For more than ten years, when his heart was depressed and he began to yearn for the life of the Turkic tribes, he had a rebellious mind, wanting to support Tuli's son, his nephew Heluo as a khan, and returning to the Turks in the north.
Ashina's association hated Li Shimin very much, so he thought of killing Li Shimin before returning to the north! Just when the opportunity came, Li Zhi wanted to meet Li Shimin on the fifteenth day of April 639, so he planned to raid Li Shimin after Li Zhi entered, and then kidnap Li Zhi.
Because Ashina's association rate itself was a Janissary, it was very convenient to lurk outside the palace gate, waited for a long time, Li Zhi did not come, so he led forty people, with bows and arrows in his hand, to force an attack, after killing the soldiers guarding the palace gate, they set fires all the way around, killing people when they saw them, and Li Shimin's side, because the enemy was wearing Tang army clothing, for a time could not distinguish between the enemy and us, the situation was very chaotic, several times attacked Li Shimin's palace, the situation was very critical, at this time Li Shimin's next bodyguard named Sun Wukai, stood out, organized the guards to defend in an orderly manner, while fighting. While shouting a warning, he stubbornly guarded Li Shimin's palace, and soon the forbidden troops on the periphery arrived, and the assassination failed.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ashina's association took the door and fled north, where he was beheaded on the edge of the Weishui River.
Afterwards, Sun Wukai was promoted to the rank of General of Folding Chong, and the son of Tuli Khan, He Luolu, was pardoned for capital crimes and exiled to Lingnan.
In this incident, Li Shimin did not make a big fuss, and the hero Sun Wukai only appeared once, and never appeared in the history books again. This assassination was also the most dangerous one for Li Shimin during the Zhenguan period, and if it succeeded, would history change in an unpredictable direction? I don't know, what do you think?
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