Incompetent Li Chengqian
In 643, in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, rumors spread in Chang'an City, and the news that Li Tai, the king of Wei, was going to replace the crown prince Li Chengqian as the new heir of the empire spread from Fangshi to the cabinet and then to Li Shimin's ears, and the Tang Tianzi, who had entered his old age, was surprised to find that he was repeating the old path of his father Li Yuan.
An ambitious prince who wants to put the prince to death; a lustful prince who is disliked by the four sides; an emperor who wanders between two sons and does not want the tragedy to repeat.
If you want to find out how the father and son trio at this time are different from Li Yuan's father and son before the xuanwumen change, it is that the crown prince Li Chengqian is too wasteful.
Compared with Li Jiancheng, Li Chengqian is simply the most incompetent of the princes in the past, suffering from foot diseases has made him greatly discounted in the image, greedy and lustful is even more so that the ministers who are devoted to assisting him are far away, especially his color is still male color, throughout the ages, there are many emperors who like beautiful men, but none of them are still princes, and none of them are tossed around when they are still princes, in the eyes of Li Shimin, who has always been strict, Li Chengqian is Yang Guang II, perhaps he can't even reach Yang Guang's toes, Yang Guang tossed for fourteen years, Li Chengqian if he ascended to the throne, Can he toss for a month?
Certainly not, because Li Chengqian had proudly told his subordinates that once he inherited the throne, he would run to his favorite Turkic and give up the throne to the Turkic Khan Ashinasimo, and he would be a general under Ashinasimo, indulging in the mountains and rivers, playing and hunting, which was his happy life.
Ashinasima was nothing more than a Turkic puppet regime that Li Shimin had deliberately cultivated when he seduced Xue Yantuo, and he did not expect that his son had not appeared to such an extent.
Tangled Li Shimin
Li Shimin's dislike for Li Chengqian turned into a love for Li Tai, and among his fourteen sons, only Li Tai was most similar to him, so he intentionally or unintentionally signaled to Li Tai that he was going to make him crown prince, which made Li Tai, who was already victorious, lose himself.
Li Tai would be wrong, secretly befriending, co-opting, and bribing the ministers of the dprk, and even the town generals became Li Tai's confidants, and What Li Tai did was not concealed from the Son of Saint Ming, from being favored to being snubbed, it was only a matter of an instant.
Li Shimin can make you Li Tai the crown prince, but you can't grab it.
Li Tai grabbed it, so he lost.
Wei Zheng became the crown prince and announced that Li Tai had temporarily lost the battle for the crown prince, and Li Shimin entrusted the heavy responsibility of teaching the crown prince Li Chengqian to his most trusted minister, who believed that the upright Wei Zheng would definitely be able to pull Li Chengqian back from the edge of the cliff.
Wei Zheng supported Li Chengqian
Therefore, at the Lantern Festival of this year, Li Shimin reiterated the importance of the crown prince in front of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu and made clear instructions that Li Chengqian was the eternal heir, li Chengqian died, inherited by his son, and others should not think about the imperial throne.
This was the heaviest support that Li Chengqian had gained from Li Shimin, and he could safely disguise himself and wait for Li Shimin's death.
However, two days later, the Optimus Pillar of the Tang Empire collapsed violently.
Wei Zheng was dead.
Li Shimin lost Wei Zheng, just like a broken arm, Li Chengqian lost Wei Zheng, and the disaster that had already passed away once again enveloped the Tai Womb.
Wei Zheng's death made Li Shimin once again consider li chengqian's succession, and between Li Chengqian and Li Tai, Li Shimin unsurprisingly continued to be entangled, and he no longer knew which son to make the next emperor.
Blindly arrogant Li You
Li Shimin's confusion, li you, the king of Qi in Shandong, helped him solve it, and this little prince who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, and spoiled the courtiers, under the inducement of Yin Hongzhi, killed two auxiliary ministers sent by Li Shimin in succession and declared a rebellion.
Li Shimin did not expect that his fifth son, Li You, who had no merit at all, was actually the opposite, and when he was old, he could not help but sigh with emotion, tearfully writing a letter of persuasion to Li You, but unfortunately Li You did not even look at it, and he was playing happily in Qi prefecture.
Li Shixun's crusading army finally marched towards Qi Prefecture, what was Li You doing, shielding all the bad news, the left hand wine, the right hand beauty, happy like a god.
The people of Qi Prefecture, who were forced to get involved in the rebellion, were unlucky, took their families with them, and fled over the city wall overnight, leaving Li You's piece of mud far away.
Saying that he is a mud is already a good praise, rebellion always has a reason, there is a direction, this is good, anti-flag, the emperor's position is sitting, do not ask anything, drink unconscious every day, more comfortable than the emperor.
Finally, some people couldn't watch it anymore, and following Li You to continue to do it was purely self-destruction.
Cao Du Xingmin, a qipin soldier in the Qi king's mansion, secretly found more than a thousand people and launched a fierce attack on the Qi palace, saying that it was a fierce attack, mainly because Du Xingmin found most of the people who did not want to go along with Qi Zhou City, and there was still a certain gap between the combat effectiveness of the guards of the Qi palace, but it was these people who finally broke into the Qi palace and captured the rebellious Li You alive.
And Li Shixun, who had laid down the Heavenly Lotus Net, was still on the way to fight Li You at this time, and the culprit had already been pacified.
Li You
Out-of-balance dry base
The rebellion of a little prince thousands of miles away is just a small episode in Li Tai and Li Chengqian's struggle for the position of prince, at most it is just to let Li Shimin shed a few tears, and what impact does it have on the overall situation.
The impact was very great, and it was Li You's rebellion that directly caused Li Chengqian's total rout and was deposed.
Li You and Li Chengqian basically had little intersection except for brotherly relations, and Li You, who was escorted to Chang'an, was given to commit suicide not long after, which was also considered to be deserved, but when liquidating Li You's party, he implicated a small person, Qigan Chengji.
Although He was a small person, his relationship was very hard, he was a defender of the crown prince Li Chengqian, and he was also one of the assassins who had secretly carried out Li Chengqian's plan to assassinate Li Tai, the King of Wei, and more importantly, the rebellion of Li You, the King of Qi, also had his share.
Li You failed, QiGan Chengji was beaten into prison, the big punishment was not yet served, he was a full move, after all, he was only an eighteen-line figure under the King of Qi, the sense of existence is dispensable, may feel that Li You really has no qualifications to reduce the sentence, he also shook out the matter of the crown prince Li Chengqian.
What can the prince do?
Li Chengqian once ridiculed Li You's naivety in front of Qigan Chengji, and it was simply stupid to rebel thousands of miles away, and the only one who was really suitable for rebellion and could succeed was Li Chengqian, after all, he was only separated from the emperor by a wall.
It turned out that Li Chengqian, the boy, also wanted to oppose, and it was a solid plan for a long time, and it was possible to stage another Xuanwumen change at any time.
Involved in Li Chengqian's rebellion were Li Shimin's son-in-law and Du Ruyi's son Du He, Li Shimin's nephew Zhao Jie, Li Shimin's younger brother Li Yuanchang the Prince of Hanyang, Li Shimin's general Li Anyu of the Forbidden Army, and a post-Li Shimin important minister, Hou Junji.
The lineup is extremely luxurious, with the support of the sons of the clan, the assistance of the important ministers of the imperial court, and the control of the generals of the forbidden army, without Li You's mud and wild entanglement, after a while, perhaps Li Shimin can see the change of Xuanwumen seventeen years later.
Li Chengqian plotted rebellion
Li Zhi, who rose to prominence
Forty-five-year-old Li Shimin was heartbroken to the extreme.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Li Shimin gave Li Chengqian a reassuring pill, but in April he was about to rebel, and within a few days of tearfully executing his fifth son Li You, he had to deal with the crown prince Li Chengqian again.
The evidence of the prince's conspiracy was conclusive, and even Hou Junji, who did not admit his death, was betrayed by his son-in-law Helan Chushi, except for the crown prince Li Chengqian, the rest of the people did not stay, Li Shimin took care of Hou Junji's merits, left him a son, and continued the incense of the Hou family.
As for Li Chengqian, how could he withstand the harsh environment of Qianzhou and walk ahead of Li Shimin after a lifetime of house arrest, deposing, and exile.
Li Tai, the King of Wei, did not expect that he would be saved by a younger brother Li You who suddenly killed Li Chengqian, and he did not expect that there was also a brother who suddenly killed out, which broke his lifelong dream.
He was Li Zhi, the King of Jin.
Li Zhi
Li Zhi was only sixteen years old at this time, the governor of The Great Governor of The Prefecture of Yao, and shi Li Shixun, the governor of the Prefecture who had been serving as his deputy, had now grown into the brightest star in the Tang Army, and his uncle was the eldest son of the Twenty-Four Heroes of LingYange and the second most important figure of the Tang Dynasty.
It wasn't until Li Zhi's name came out of the mouth of the eldest grandson Wu Ji that Li Shimin thought that he still had a concubine who could inherit the throne.
However, he immediately rejected the request of the eldest son Wujie, and Li Shimin's positioning of Li Zhi was simple.
Loyalty and filial piety, but father and brother.
When the emperor is such a thing, don't think about it, he is Li Zhi's father's teaching to his son, and li Chengqian and Li Tai are the emperor's cultivation of the crown prince, Li Zhi can be a little prince steadily, and enjoying his old age in peace is Li Shimin's greatest expectation for him.
However, the eldest son Wuji still insisted on his own opinion, and standing in the same trench as the eldest son Wuji was Chu Suiliang, Li Shimin's most trusted advisor after Wei Zheng.
Also a nephew, why did the eldest grandson Wuji insist on establishing Li Zhi and not Li Tai?
The reason is simple, Li Zhi is young, weak, elegant, and easy to control; Li Tai is old, strong, and fierce, and cannot be controlled. As a foreign relative who had held the power of the dynasty for more than ten years, the eldest son Wuji would never allow Li Shimin to fall to power after his death.
The eldest grandson is unscrupulous
Failed Li Tai
The insistence of the eldest son made Li Shimin hesitate, and he who had originally planned to put Li Tai on the throne of the crown prince was suddenly stopped by two important ministers, and Li Shimin felt very helpless.
He felt helpless for Li Tai, and had fought with Li Chengqian for so many years, he had never regarded the Yuanxun Chongchen as capital, but instead suppressed him with royal power everywhere, in order to show his lofty status, he did not hesitate to slander Fang Xuanling and others in front of Li Shimin, and now when it was time to make a choice, only Cen Wenwen's few scholars advocated that he should be the mainstay.
If Li Shimin suddenly died and Cen Wen confronted the eldest son, he could go on a few rounds.
Li Tai also felt the crisis, but the way he coped with the crisis was to cry bitterly in front of Li Shimin, pointing to heaven and promising to kill his only son before he died and pass the throne to his brother Li Zhi.
When Li Tai's son was really unlucky.
However, Li Shimin, who had lost two sons in a row within three months, was so moved that he conveyed Li Tai's words unchanged to every minister present, and he canvassed for Li Tai, and Li Shimin believed that Li Tai's benevolence would eventually touch all the ministers in the court.
But he miscalculated, and Chu Suiliang ruthlessly exposed Li Tai's false face and recalled seventeen years of old things.
At that time, you Li Shimin did not spare the ten sons of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.
Chu Suiliang's words were like a sharp knife, cutting off Li Shimin's heart flesh piece by piece, and at the same time cutting away Li Shimin's trust in Li Tai.
At this time, Li Tai was out of the moth again, and he actually threatened the sixteen-year-old Li Zhi, frightening the child to be sullen and depressed all day.
When the source of Li Zhi's fear was known to Li Shimin, Li Tai's political career was completely over.
Li Shimin, who killed his brother and killed his brother and came to power, was most afraid, most disgusted, and least wanted to see his son go back to his old path, and it was obvious that once Li Tai ascended the throne, Li Zhi and Li Chengqian would definitely die.
When Li Zhi was carried out by the eldest son Wuji, Li Tai was actually out of the game, and the rest of the time was just how Li Shimin persuaded himself to accept this suggestion that was most conducive to the stability of the Tang Dynasty but went against his inner thoughts. Whether or not he was worried about the recurrence of Xuanwumen's change, he could not directly confront the forces behind Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and Li Shijian, and Li Tai did not have this ability.