After Li Shimin became Emperor Taizong of Tang, his empress Dowager Changsun had concubines Li Chengqian, Li Tai, and Li Zhi, but after the crown prince Li Chengqian was deposed for rebellion, Li Shimin bypassed Li Tai and passed the throne to Li Zhi. So today we will explore why Li Tai was also the concubine of Empress Changsun, and why did he lose to Li Zhi when he competed for the throne?
Li Chengqian was very popular with Li Shimin when he was young, and the history books record that he was "sexually intelligent" and "specially wise", and he was only eight years old when he was made crown prince by Li Shimin. Unfortunately, Li Shimin put too much pressure on him, so that he had a rebellious mood very early, knowing that the prince was the prince of a country, and his daily studies were a lot, but Li Chengqian only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, and his legs were also disabled.
This made Li Tai, the king of Wei, who had been coveting the throne, see the opportunity, so he found various opportunities to brush his sense of existence in front of Li Shimin, who had gathered many literati and spent four years to finally compile a strange book called "The Chronicle of The Land", which made Li Shimin feel very happy, and specially put the book into the royal library to show his attention to Li Tai. All this made Li Chengqian feel very worried, afraid that Li Tai would take his position as crown prince, so he decided to take an extreme road, first assassinating Li Taicheng, and then colluding with the Han king Li Yuanchang, Du He, the duke of The Horse, and hou Junji, the founding hero, to prepare to force the palace one step ahead of Li Shimin's launch of the Xuanwumen Rebellion.
Unfortunately, the rebellion had just begun, and it was detected by Li Shimin, and as a result, Du He and the founding hero Hou Junji were directly executed, while Li Chengqian was demoted to a commoner, exiled to Qianzhou, and finally died of depression. At this point, Li Tai was very happy, because he felt that the position of prince was his own. But one day, Li Shimin asked him how you would treat your younger brother Li Zhi if you became emperor, because Li Zhi, as the concubine of Empress Changsun, also had the right of legal succession.
Li Tai replied that he would treat his younger brother Li Zhi well, and if necessary, he would pass the throne to his younger brother Li Zhi after a hundred years. But Li Shimin knew that when he killed his brother for the throne, as far as Li Tai's character was concerned, how could he pass the throne to his brother, I am afraid that the moment he became emperor was when Li Zhi died. On the other hand, Li Zhi, whose personality was benevolent and cowardly, would definitely not do such a bad thing as killing Li Tai if he became emperor.
Therefore, no matter how much Li Tai brushed his sense of existence, he could not let Li Shimin appoint him as the heir to the imperial throne, because Li Shimin no longer wanted the change of Xuanwumen to appear in his son, even if he bypassed the primogeniture inheritance system, he would pass the throne to Li Zhi.
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