"Your brothers have really reached this step, not my King of Qin has reached this step, but the prince and the King of Qi have reached this step", Li Shimin angrily told Li Yuan, to launch a coup, Li Yuan's eyes experienced shock, disappointment, and intolerance, and finally accepted it with tears in his eyes. Li Shimin had already arranged his troops, and it was true that the army was raised, and Li Yuan's other sons could not escape death. Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Change, how did he kill his brother and force his father to do it?
Xuanwumen coup d'état
Launched the Xuanwumen coup d'état
Under the advice of the eldest son Wujie, Li Shimin's tactic was to lay an ambush in front of the Xuanwu Gate and wait until the Changlin army entered the Xuanwu Gate to solve the problem of the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Qi king Li Yuanji. The reason for choosing Xuanwu Gate is that this place is the garrison of the Imperial City Forbidden Army, and if you control Xuanwu Gate, you control the Taiji Palace, you control Chang'an City, and you control the world.
On July 2, 626, Chang He, the general of the Forbidden Army on duty at Xuanwumen, had already prepared an ambush at the behest of Li Shimin. But Li Jiancheng didn't know anything about it, what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin, the King of Qin, had taken control of Xuanwu Gate earlier. Li Shimin led the eldest grandson Wujie, Fang Xuanling's men into the dynasty, and ambushed the troops outside the Xuanwu Gate.
Li Shimin's brothers, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, did not know the details, and followed them into the Dynasty and rode to Xuanwu Gate. After Li Jiancheng arranged his troops, Chang He, who was guarding the gate, had already defected, and he trusted him with half a soldier's charm. After Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji entered the door, Chang He immediately closed the Xuanwu Gate.
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By the time Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji realized the danger, it was too late, and they had become caged birds. Li Shimin and Wei Chigong appeared in front of them, and Li Shimin set up a bow and arrow and shot Li Jiancheng with one arrow.
Feng Li, the subordinate of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, learned that Li Jiancheng was dead, and led the two thousand soldiers and horses of the Eastern Palace and the Qi Palace to rush to Xuanwu Gate to prepare to avenge the prince and the King of Qi. When they arrived at Xuanwu Gate, Feng Li led his army to attack the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty Palace, and Li Shimin commanded the soldiers to fight while Wei Chigong attacked.
And Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was still waiting for his three sons to see him, and the news he did not want to wait for was that the crown prince and the king of Qi launched a rebellion, and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, killed them all, and Li Shimin was afraid of disturbing Li Yuan, so he sent someone to protect them. Only then did Li Yuan know that something big had happened.
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The lieutenant Chi Gong outside the city had already carried the heads of Li Zicheng and Li Yuanji to everyone to see, and the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Palace and the Qi Palace were scattered and quickly defeated, and Feng Li's troops had already fled to Zhongnan Mountain. Feng Li's killing of Jing Junhong can also be regarded as repaying the kindness of His Highness the Crown Prince.
Feng Li dropped his weapons and fled, and this Xuanwumen coup d'état ended in the victory of Li Shimin, the King of Qin. Li Yuan wanted to oppose it, but it had no effect. After two months, Tang Gaozu Zen ceded li shimin and became emperor himself. At this point, Li Shimin ascended the throne and was known as Tang Taizong.
The cause of the change of Xuanwu Gate
In a coup d'état, Li Yuan grew ten years old in an instant. Li Shimin killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, Li Yuan lost his two sons, and in the face of his father's questioning, Li Shimin said word by word that he wanted to restrain the world's soldiers and horses. Was Li Shimin's coup d'état at Xuanwumen a helpless move, or had he been planned for a long time? What is the truth of the matter?
Li Shimin in the film and television drama
Most of the Tang Dynasty was fought down by Li Shimin, and starting from Jinyang, Li Shimin made important contributions to Li Yuan's pacification of the world. Speaking only of military merit, the sum of the prince and the king of Qi is not as much as Li Shimin. As Li Shimin's military achievements grew larger, Li Jiancheng became more and more anxious.
The contradictions between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng also increased, and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, knew that he was inferior to Li Shimin, so he defected to the prince group and jointly dealt with Li Shimin, for which Li Jiancheng killed Li Shimin. Li Yuan knew the contradictions of his sons, and in order to alleviate this situation, he took them out hunting.
In order to deal with Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng deliberately brought in a group of fat and strong wild horses, which were actually a horse that had not been tamed, and wild horses did not like people riding on their backs, and would use all their strength to throw people out. That is to say, Li Jiancheng wanted to use this way to put his brother Li Shimin to death.
Li Yuanji in the film and television drama
But what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin had experienced hundreds of battles, how could he be afraid of a wild horse, and did not hurt Li Shimin by half a point. In the end, Li Shimin tamed the wild horse. It was a deliberate murder, just an attempted murder. But Li Jiancheng's assassination of Li Shimin was more than once.
The Turks suddenly attacked the Tang Dynasty, and in order to defend against the enemy, Li Yuan again sent Li Shimin to fight, and sent Li Yuanji to accompany him. However, at that time, the army led by Li Shimin was still recuperating, not only the morale of the army, but also the weapons and equipment, which were not sufficient. Although Li Yuan sent Li Yuanji to fight, Li Yuanji refused to send troops for various reasons.
At the moment of national peril, Li Yuanji completely ignored it. In desperation, Li Shimin could only risk a small number of troops to fight. Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji have secretly killed Li Shimin many times, completely disregarding brotherly feelings, which makes Li Shimin treat them!
Conquest
But these two brothers did not give up the assassination of Li Shimin, and even Li Yuan joined in, and if Li Shimin did not act again, he would undoubtedly die. Li Yuan continued to weaken Li Shimin's military power, and at the same time Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were also brewing the Kunming Mutiny, and Li Jiancheng planned to take advantage of Li Shimin's sending the general to send troops, set up a banquet in Kunming Pond to send him off, and take Li Shimin down by the way, but this plan was soon denounced.
Li Shimin, who learned the truth, still had some scruples, but in the current situation, either you die or I die, and the eldest son Wuji and Fang Xuanling and others all advised Li Shimin to act as soon as possible. In the end, everyone planned the xuanwumen change together. From this point of view, Li Shimin's launch of the Xuanwumen coup can be said to be forced by the situation, and killing Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji is their own fault.
Does Li Shimin have any other options besides a coup d'état?
For Li Shimin's ascension to the throne, some people say that he is a cruel killer, but in addition to launching a coup, does Li Shimin have any other choice? No. If he didn't fight, he and his men would die. In order to reduce the minimum losses, it is necessary to control the Xuanwumen coup d'état within Miyagi Castle and not to hurt the courtiers and the people.
In the film and television drama, Li Shimin ascended the throne
At that time, there was also a choice to establish political power in Luoyang, but Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had been obstructing Li Shimin, and Li Shimin did not succeed. Fortunately, Li Shimin only launched this side inside the Xuanwu Gate, and did not fight a nationwide war. If it is in Luoyang, it will inevitably cause war and sacrifice more innocent people.
Li Shimin completed a coup d'état in only a short time, and did not hurt innocent people except for Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's family members.
However, in addition to Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, his biological father Li Yuan already had the heart to kill Li Shimin. Five years after Wu De, Li Yuan, who was worried about the merits of the lord, had been helping Li Jiancheng to suppress Li Shimin. Li Shimin eliminated Liu Heimin in the war, but under Li Yuan's operation, this credit went to Li Jiancheng.
Li Yuan in the film and television drama
In the sixth year of WuDe, Li Yuan also wanted to depose Li Shimin as king of Qin, but Chen Shuda said that Li Shimin had a strong personality, and if he was deposed for no reason, his generals would definitely rebel, and later Li Yuan repeatedly suppressed Li Shimin.
Li Yuanji even suggested that Li Yuan kill Li Shimin, but Li Yuan did not agree or oppose, and did not clearly express his opinion, Li Yuan already had the civil intention to kill Li Shimin in his heart.
Shouldn't normal parents, if they see two sons killing each other, reprimand? However, Li Shimin said that Li Shimin's merits were great, and the crime of conspiracy to rebel was not established, which can also be seen that Li Yuan has not found a suitable reason.
The eldest grandson in the film and television drama is unscrupulous
And Li Shimin's contribution to the stability of the Tang Dynasty, if Li Yuan killed Li Shimin in one breath, and followed the Qin King to conquer the world, those meritorious generals would not be convinced by Li Yuan, and if it caused the military to be scattered and the political situation was turbulent, it would be very unfavorable to the Tang Dynasty. After Li Shimin repelled the Turkic invasion, he was exchanged for Li Yuan's more serious suspicion.
After the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin ascended the throne as emperor, in fact, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, himself well educated, and born into an aristocratic family, Li Shimin, who witnessed the demise of the Sui Dynasty, knew better how to govern the country.
Li Shimin in the film and television drama
During Li Shimin's reign, he ruled the world over Neiwen, listened to the opinions of his subjects, and humbly accepted advice, and only then did he have loyal subjects such as Changsun Wuji and Wei Zheng; Expand the territory of the outside world, repel the invasion of the surrounding ethnic minorities, and harmonize and harmony among the various ethnic groups.
Under the leadership of Li Shimin, the Tang Dynasty achieved unprecedented unification. If there had been no Xuanwumen coup that year, Li Shimin would have only been at ease as a prince, and perhaps there would have been no later Tang Dynasty.