Li Shimin has a praiseworthy advantage is that he treats meritorious people well, who have always been the most feared people of the rulers, and Zhao Kuangyin came to a glass of wine to release the military power in order to seize the military power in the hands of the military generals, but this also greatly reduced the strength of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later in the war with the Liao people, he was often at a disadvantage.
In order to prevent the heroes from taking power, Zhu Yuanzhang actually killed them with a knife. However, Li Shimin was different from them, after Li Shimin became emperor, he did not seize the military power in the hands of the military generals, nor did he kill the heroes.
There were many generals under Li Shimin, such as Wei Chigong, Qin Shubao, and others, and there were also many strategists, such as the eldest grandson Wujie. However, there are not many people who know how to fight wars and have strategies, but there are not many around Li Shimin, probably only two, one is the famous Li Jing, who has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty.
The other person is Li Ji, Li Ji is a brave and strategic person, deeply loved by Li Shimin, but Li Ji and Li Jing are not the same, Li Jing is a very low-key person, and Li Ji is not so, Although Li Ji is not very ostentatious, but not low-key.
It can be said that among the heroes of Ling Yunge, Li Shimin was most jealous of Li Ji, and he certainly would not be afraid of Li Ji when Li Shimin was alive. Although Li Ji held a lot of power, many people at that time had followed Li Shimin from birth to death.
They will help Li Shimin, but Li Shimin is worried that after his death, Li Shimin's son Li Zhi will not be able to compare with Li Shimin, and it is still difficult for him to control Li Ji, so Li Shimin wants to help his son do this in front of him. Li Shimin did not kill Li Ji, but he used a very strange method.
To say how Li Shimin helped his son Li Zhi to surrender To Li Ji, we also have to talk about film and television dramas, in recent years, there are many TV dramas with the theme of Sui and Tang history, including "Sui and Tang Heroes", "Sui and Tang Yanyi", "Xue Rengui", etc. In these TV series, a very powerful strategist named Xu Maogong was also mentioned.
Xu Maogong can pinch and calculate, and he also knows how to use soldiers, which can be said to be a very good military division, so is there such a person as Xu Maogong in history? In fact, there is no Xu Maogong in history, but Xu Maogong is not a completely fictional character, and the prototype of Xu Maogong is not someone else but Li Xun.
Li Ji, the word Mao Gong, so Xu Maogong's name may be harmonic, and many of the deeds of Xu Maogong in the novel are the deeds of Li Ji in the history books, so Xu Maogong is the novel version of Li Xun.
In "Xue Rengui", Xu Maogong was later degraded by Li Shimin for no reason before Li Shimin's death. Many people know that this is Li Shimin testing Xu Maogong to see if he is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, in fact, Li Shimin has a deeper reason, which is to let his son Li Zhi use Xu Maogong, so as to sincerely Xu Maogong's benefactor, so that Xu Maogong will die loyal to Li Zhi.
In fact, Li Ji was also the same, he was once degraded by Li Shimin and used by Li Zhi, but li Shimin left Li Zhi's words to Li Zhi was, if Li Ji was willing to be used by Li Zhi and was grateful to Li Zhi, then use him well. If he hesitates, kill him immediately.
Seeing this, we seem to understand that why Li Shimin did not kill the heroes, because he had enough intelligence to control these heroes, so there was no need for him to kill these powerful assistants of his own, thus leaving a reputation and ruining his reputation.