karma? After Li Yuan abdicated, he cursed Li Shimin 14 words, predicting the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty
In the change of Xuanwu Gate, Li Shimin forced Li Yuan to abdicate, and Li Yuan's words explained the truth of the court struggle
The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous dynasty in ancient China, and at that time its politics, economy and culture were all in the leading position in the world, which was really a thriving and prosperous Taiping scene. At that time, many foreign fans would come to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, hoping to exchange for the precious silk and jade of the Tang Dynasty. The reason why Tang was so prosperous was inseparable from the contributions of its founder Li Yuan and its founder Li Shimin.
As we all know, since the tang dynasty founder Li Yuan rebelled against the Sui Dynasty in Jinyang, whenever there were more victories and fewer defeats in a war, he had pacified the world and established the Tang Dynasty in just a few short years, and the tang Dynasty was able to establish the greatest hero Li Shimin, who led the generals of the Qin Dynasty to finally march south and fight the Northern War to help Li Yuan pacify the world, but Li Shimin was extremely ambitious, and slowly developed his own strength in the process of pacifying the world, which aroused the jealousy of the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan, who both hoped to use their power to suppress the Qin royal family and completely destroy Li Shimin.
However, Li Shimin was not a vegetarian either, he had a premonition of the crisis in advance, and preemptively ambushed and killed Li Jiancheng at Xuanwu Gate, forcing his father Li Yuan to abdicate and successfully ascend to the throne of his dreams.
In the face of the strong and strong Li Shimin step by step, Li Yuan, who was more than half a hundred years old, naturally had no choice, and for the sake of his own life, he was forced to become the emperor, but in the face of the deaths of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, the two sons, he was full of guilt, and his memories of the past were not sentimental, and he may have thought that Li Shimin should not have been given "If things are successful, then the whole world is caused by Ru, and Ru should be the prince."
If there is no illusion that he can be a prince, then Li Shimin will not expose his ambitions step by step, and if he has the idea of taking Li Jiancheng's place, there will be no tragedy of fratricide. What Made Li Yuan even more unacceptable was the "big thing" that Li Shimin did next, forcing Li Yuan to scold Li Shimin for 14 words, and also predicted that the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty would not exceed 300 years.
Just after Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed, the issue of how to deal with their families was put on the agenda, and some people believed that Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, had died, and the crime was not as good as his family, and they should be let go.
However, Li Shimin believed that "weeding does not remove the roots, the spring wind blows and regenerates", he was worried that Li Jiancheng Li Yuanji's children would take revenge, so he ordered them all to be killed, except for one of Li Yuanji's concubines who was favored by Li Shimin and survived, the rest of the people were slaughtered, Li Yuan was greatly stimulated after learning of this matter, and publicly scolded Li Shimin for 14 words, predicting that the life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty would not exceed three hundred years.
These 14 words are: "Ru killed my descendants, and he day, Ru descendants, and so on." This means that you killed my descendants, and later, your descendants will also kill each other, and this sentence predicts that the life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty will not exceed 300 years, and Li Yuan's words will eventually be repaid to Li Shimin himself, zhenguan sixteen years, the crown prince Li Chengqian and the fourth son Li Tai failed to compete for the throne and were exiled to death, most of the other dozen sons participated in the rebellion and were executed, and only Li Zhi and his stepdaughter Li Fu survived among the 14 sons.
When Li Zhi ascended to the throne, favored Wu Zetian, and the imperial power fell to the Wu family, it was difficult to have a Shenlong coup to welcome Li Xian as emperor, Li Xian's nephew Li Longji and his sister Princess Taiping rose again, killed Wei and then seized real power, and afterwards it was a war between his nephew Li Longji and his aunt Princess Taiping.
It can be said that from the beginning of Li Shimin to the fall of Tang Dynasty, the ruling clique of the Tang Dynasty has always taken the pace of "six relatives do not recognize", and incidents of cannibalism in the same room are frequently staged, and such a regime, even if the country is rich and prosperous, finally loses in the hands of its own people.
Perhaps this is the price that Li Shimin must pay for usurping power and seizing the throne, and it can also be said to be karma. It was precisely because of the civil strife of the ruling clique that the Tang Dynasty terminated its prosperity in advance, and it took only 290 years, or no more than 300 years, from the founding of the country to its demise, which had to be lamented. However, from a historical point of view, we objectively speak that Li Shimin is a good emperor, and his sentence that "water can move a boat, it can also overturn a boat" is enough to prove his profound consciousness as a high-level leader, so his political achievements can never be erased.