Since ancient times, most of the founding emperors have worked hard for more than ten years, or experienced more than a long time, in order to settle the world's disputes in the midst of the flock of heroes and deer, and finally unify China. Like Qin Shi Huang and their old wives, Yu Lie, the sixth emperor, was able to sweep away the Six Kingdoms. Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bangping destroyed Qin Chu, and almost took the lives of a wife and children, including himself.
The han guangwu emperor Liu Xiu was the same, and even once lost his brother and abandoned his wife, survived, sent people to the fence, and the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, who was forcibly pulled the yellow flag as a dragon robe by his brothers, and forced to go to the dragon chair, but he had to face the strong enemy of the Khitan in the north, the ten major non-ministers in the south, and finally the little Song Jiangshan, who had a hard time getting the remnants of the mountains and waters, was also accidentally "cut off" by his brother, and even died under the shadow of the candlelight axe. And Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was even more bloody after the bloody battle against Chen Youyu, Zhang Shicheng, Fang Shizhen, Ming Yuzhen and other princes, and then fought with the Northern Yuanxiong Division for several years, before he was able to mix a middle summer and calm Daming.
None of the above "emperors and ancestors" are in the "wind and dust companionship, dashing and sprinkling" to absorb the supreme throne, but there is really such a lucky person in history, born noble, his uncle is the founding emperor, extremely important to him, and later his cousin became the emperor, and entrusted him with heavy responsibilities, after he grew up, he looked good, the martial arts were also high, the popularity was also good, ordinary people looked at it, such a life was quite complete, but did not want the heavens to take care of this person too much, and gave him an invincible good son, Forcibly pushing him finally sat on the founding dragon chair of the nearly three-hundred-year-old prosperous dynasty.
At this point, many officials who know history have probably guessed his name, yes! He was Li Yuan, the Emperor gaozu of Tang, but how bizarre was his experience in founding the imperial industry? And is his life really so perfect? Today, Xiaobian will take you to see the life of Li Yuan, the ancestor of Tang Gaozu recorded in the real history books.
Originally a native of Longxi Di Dao in the great northwest, it is now the southwestern boundary of Lintao County, Gansu. He was the seventh-generation grandson of Li Huan, the King of Western Liangwu during the Five Hu and Sixty Kingdoms period, and Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu was once a general in the Northern Wei and Western Wei dynasties, and was named one of the "Eight Pillar States" by the Western Wei Dynasty, and gave the Xianbei noble surname "Daye Clan". Later, the Northern Zhou Yuwen clan was proclaimed emperor on behalf of Wei, and dayehu was posthumously awarded the title of Duke of Northern Zhou and Tang, and when the Sui Emperor Yang Jian became the great chancellor of Northern Zhou and was preparing to stand on behalf of Zhou, he restored dayuhu and his descendants to the Han family name, so old Li was again called Li Hu.
Later, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor on behalf of Sui and established the Tang Dynasty, so he posthumously honored his grandfather Li Hu as Emperor Taizujing, and his father Li Xun was also posthumously honored as Emperor Shizuyuan. Li Yuan was born in Chang'an in the first year of the Reign of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, Yuwen Yongtian, and when he was seven years old, he inherited the title of Duke of Tang.
When he grew up, he was open-minded and frank, charming, and tolerant, which made no matter how noble and lowly people in Chang'an City at that time liked him very much. Later, when the Sui Dynasty was established, Li Yuan made a "Thousand Bull Preparation" in the imperial court, that is, like Li Yuanfang on Di Renjie's side and Zhan Zhao on Bao Gong's side, it was equivalent to a sword guard in front of the imperial court.
At that time, the lone empress of Emperor Yang Jian of Sui Wen was also Li Yuan's sister-in-law, so he was also particularly favored in front of Yang Jian, and his official position was getting higher and higher, and the emperor's uncle successively let him do the three states of Qi, Long, and Qi, and at that time, a fortune teller saw him and said to him: "Your bone appearance is abnormal, you must be the son of the lord of man, I hope you cherish it well, and then don't forget what I said!" After Li Yuan listened, he secretly became conceited.
Later, Li Yuan's cousin Yang Guang, the Sui Emperor, forcibly ascended the throne, and he was arranged to be the Taishou of Xingyang and Loufu, and later he was recruited into the palace to serve as a young supervisor in the palace, and the Sui Emperor was promoted to Wei Wei Shaoqing for nine years, and when the Sui Emperor sent a million troops to Liaodong to attack the Goguryeo Kingdom, Li Yuan was also responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass in Huaiyuan Town, and later Yang Su's son Shangshu Yang Xuangan took advantage of the Sui Emperor's eastern expedition and raised a flag with Li Mi in Luoyang, the capital division, which frightened Yang Guang to quickly send Li Yuan to lead troops to the town to guard Honghua County. The rebels could not be allowed to approach the imperial front, and at the same time let him take charge of the entire Guan right army.
After Li Yuan supported the situation internally and suppressed the rebels externally, after being tried many times by his cousin Yang Guang, he also established his own lofty prestige in the middle of the dynasty, so he began to make friends with the world hero Hao Jie, and for a time he subdued many people and horses, but it aroused the suspicion of Yang Guang, who was originally suspicious of the courtiers, and the courtiers were also very afraid of his cruelty and suspiciousness.
Once, Yang Guangchuan's cousin Li Yuan went to see him at the location of his palace, but Li Yuan did not go because he was ill. At that time, Li Yuan's nephew Queen Shi happened to be Yang Guang's harem concubine, and Yang Guang asked Wang Shi, "Why did your uncle refuse to come to see the widow?" Wang Clan then said that his uncle was sick, and Yang Guang said angrily, "Then will he die of illness?" These words reached Li Yuan's ears and scared him half to death, so he drank and sprinkled all day in the palace, and asked for bribes from officials at all levels everywhere, creating the image of himself as a big fainting official, Yang Guang couldn't help but sneer after hearing this.
In the eleventh year of Daye, Yang Guang went to the Fenyang Palace in Shanxi to inspect Xingxing, and ordered Li Yuan to go to Shanxi and Hedong to suppress the rebels and thieves, his large army arrived at Longmen, the rebel mother Duan'er led thousands of people to Longmen City, Li Yuan only brought more than ten cavalry to battle, he fired seventy arrows in a row, the anti-soldiers fell in response, and the people of the mother Duan'er immediately exclaimed, thinking that Li Yuan was a god of heaven, so they collapsed. In the twelfth year of Daye, Li Yuan was promoted to the rank of Grand General of the Right Guard.
Thirteen years after Daye, Li Yuan was the retainer of the Taiyuan Palace, Taiyuan Commandery Wang Wei and Wuya Lang Gong Gao Junya was his deputy, at that time the world was full of rebellions, the Sui Emperor and the north in the southern Jiangdu had been blocked from any news, Li Yuan's second son Li Shimin and Jinyang County ordered Liu Wenjing to first conspire, instigating Li Yuan to raise the banner of righteousness, in the name of Xingshi Qinwang, preparing to create a new Tang Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Lieutenant Liu Wuzhou of Ma Yi actually took the lead in raising troops to rebel at the Fenyang Palace, which frightened Li Shimin, Wang Wei, Gao Junya, and others to quickly gather troops to carry out a crusade against Liu Wuzhou, when Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin, Liu Wenjing, and his guests Sun Shunde and Liu Hongji to recruit soldiers everywhere, they did not expect that after only ten days of work, they recruited 10,000 horses, and Li Yuan secretly sent emissaries to summon his eldest son Li Jiancheng and fourth son Li Yuanji back from Hedong, at this time Wang Wei and Gao Junya saw Li Yuan's soldiers and horses gathered, and began to fear that Li Yuan would really rebel So he asked him to go to the Jin Temple, and in the name of praying for rain, he prepared to kill Li Yuan in order to repay the Sui Emperor.
After Liu Shilong, the mayor of Jinyang Township, learned of the conspiracy of Wang and Gao, he rushed to tell Li Yuan, and Li Yuan secretly made full preparations, and in May of that year, Li Yuan went out of the palace with Wang Wei and Gao Junya to inspect the palace, and Li Shimin immediately led his troops to follow, in case of accident, he secretly sent Sima Liu Zhenghui of Kaiyang Province to suddenly report that Wang and Gao were plotting against each other.
Li Shimin immediately sent Liu Wenjing to the Eighteenth Division of the Northern Steppe of Saibei to ask for reinforcements to help. In June, Li Yuan's heart was settled, and he ordered Li Shimin to lead his troops to sweep across the Xihe area, and not long after the entire territory of the West River was taken by Li Shimin, so Li Yuan created the General's Palace and set up three armies completely under his command, and divided into two elite pro-army forces, with Shizi Li Jiancheng as the left-led governor, and was given the title of Duke of Longxi, specifically commanding the zuolu pro-army. Li Shimin served as the governor of the right consul, and was given the title of Duke of Dunhuang, specifically commanding the left road pro-army.
His own cronies Pei Huan (裴寂) were made the governor of the Great General's Mansion, Liu Wenjing was made the Grand General Sima (司馬), and Shi'ai County 's Ling Yin Kaishan (殷開山) was made the Grand General's Mansion Commandery, and this Yin Futuo was the grandfather of the Tang monks in Journey to the West. Liu Zhenghui, Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji, Dou Chun, and others all became commanders of the army. Li Yuan also ordered people to open warehouses and release grain to help the poor people around them, so they won the support and response of the masses near and far.
In the autumn and July, Li Yuan led a large army to Xitu Guanzhong Changhan, with Li Yuanji as the general of Zhenbei, and stayed behind at the Taiyuan base camp. At that time, Li Yuan marched west with 30,000 troops, and when he reached Lingshi County, he camped at Jiahu Fort. At that time, wu yalang of the Sui Dynasty stationed Song Laosheng at Huoyi and resisted the way of the Tang army. Moreover, at that time, the heavy rain had been falling for more than ten days, and the grain and grass could not keep up, so Li Yuan wanted to return to Taiyuan first, so angry that Li Shimin desperately advised him to insist that it was victory and that he could no longer go back.
At this time, an old man dressed in white ran to the military gate and said to Li Yuan: "I am an emissary sent by the god of Huoshan to inform the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty that the rain will stop in August, and you will march southeast of Huoyi, and I will definitely help you!" Li Yuan suddenly realized, "When the god of Huoshan helped Zhao Wuxi in the Spring and Autumn Period, and now that I hold high the banner of righteousness, how can he bear me?" In fact, this is all the way Li Shimin came up with.
In August, Li Yuan led his army to rush to Huoyi, quickly beheaded Song Laosheng, pacified Huoyi, and soon captured Linfen and Dai Commandery, the army arrived at Longmen, and the EighteenTh Parallel Of the Steppe Shibi Khan sent the general Kang Shao to rate five hundred iron horses, claiming to be 100,000, and sent two thousand superior warhorses to help the battle, Li Yuan let them be placed under Liu Wenjing's command for the time being.
At that time, the Sui Dynasty Xiao Wei general Qu Tutong was guarding The town of Hedong, destroying all the ferries and cutting off all the bridges, so that the hero Hao Jie of Guanzhong who wanted to go to Li Yuan could not pass, at this time, the people living by the river in Hedong rushed to prepare boats for these good Han and Tang troops, and swung them across the river, almost all of them came out of nowhere, and there were hundreds of people before and after.
In September, The anti-thief leaders Sun Hua and Bai Xuandu of Feng Yi Commandery each led the masses to surrender to the Tang army, and prepared ships to ferry for the Tang army, Li Yuan then ordered Sun Hua and wang Changhuan and Liu Hongji to lead the troops to cross the consumer goods first, at this time Qu Tutong sent Wu Yalang to attack Sang Xianhe and the tang army from thousands of nights, the Tang army's forward was blocked, Li Yuan was greatly worried, and hesitated whether to retreat, Li Shizong was furious, and led hundreds of horsemen to directly raid the back road of the SangXian and the army, the Sang army collapsed, and the morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted. Not long after, Feng Yi was too defensive of Xiao Zao's majesty and surrendered without a fight.
Li Yuan jumped up happily and immediately led a large army to besiege Hedong, Qu Tutong thought that Li Minshi was coming, and he was too frightened to hold out, and the Tang army desperately attacked the city, but without Li Shimin's command, he still could not attack, so he had to temporarily stop the attack. And Li Yuan's civil and military generals asked him to take up the post of lieutenant now, so that he would have the name of commanding the soldiers and horses of the whole world.
Li Yuan thought it was very good and immediately agreed, so he added all these subordinates who wanted to be promoted to his side and became the officials of the Taiwei Mansion. At this time, Huayin County ordered Li Xiaochang to surrender with all the grain in Yongfengcang, and Li Yuan once again led his army to cross the river and live in the Changchun Palace of the Sui Emperor. At this time, the scholars and doctors of the Three Qins came to join in, and even thousands of people came to see them one day, Li Yuan was so happy that his mouth could not be closed, and he was also very respectful to these people, everyone was overjoyed, they did not expect Tang Guogong to be so good at talking, and the people of the Three Qins were all happy and cheered.
Within a few days, Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Liu Wenjing to lead troops to guard the two military strongholds of Yongfengcang and Tongguan, and then sent Li Shimin with Liu Hongji, Changsun Shunde, and tens of thousands of other people from Weibei to Sanfu and swept all the territory in Guanzhong in one go. Li Yuan's cousin Li Shentong also raised an army in Yanxian to respond, and Li Yuan's son-in-law Chai Daguan also took his daughter-in-law to raise troops in Sizhu and ran to serve under the account of his second brother Li Shimin, and Li Jiancheng was very unhappy after hearing this.
Qiu Shili and Li Zhongwen, the commanders of the rebel army in YuXian County, and He Panren, the commander of the rebel army in Xu County, all came to surrender to Li Shimin. When Li Yuan heard that his second son Li Shimin's troops were increasing, he sent him to garrison Acheng and ordered Li Jiancheng to rush from Xinfeng to Bashang near Chang'an, saving Li Shimin the brunt of the storm. And he himself led a large army from xia yi to the west, ready to go to pacify his hometown, when passing by Yang Guangxing Palace Garden, he immediately announced that all the palace women in these palaces would be returned home.
In the winter of October, Li Yuan lived in Changle Palace in Chang'an, where the Tang army had a total of 200,000 troops, while The Sui Dynasty of Chang'an left behind Shangshu Wei Wensheng, the Right Wing Wei general Yin Shishi, and the Jingzhao Commandery Cheng Shuiyi held Yang Guang's grandson Yang You, the Daiwang, and refused to surrender to Li Yuan. Li Yuan sent envoys three times to persuade him to surrender, but the other side refused to accept it. The generals of the Tang army all said that they would besiege the city and attack it. In November, Chang'an was conquered, Wei Wensheng had died of illness before the destruction of the city, and the Yin Shishi and Shuiyi were all beheaded by Li Yuan, and then Li Yuan lost Yang You as the Emperor of the Great Sui, and unilaterally declared the world, abolished the throne of the Sui Emperor Tianzi, honored him as the Emperor Taishang, and at the same time pardoned the world and changed the yuan Yining.
The Sui Gong Emperor Yang You was so frightened that he quickly passed on the edict, and made his cousin Li Yuan the Grand Chancellor of the Sui Dynasty, the Governor of the Armies of the World, the False Huang Yu, and the Minister of Jiejie, and was also enfeoffed as the King of Tang, the Commander-in-Chief of the World Wanji, and the Wude Hall as the Chancellor's Mansion. Li Yuan was so happy that he immediately made Li Jiancheng the Prince of Tang, Li Shimin the Duke of Qin, Yin of Jingzhao Province, and Li Yuanji the Duke of Qi.
In December, Li Yuan also set up bureaucrats such as Changshi and Silu at Cheng Xiang chu, and Xue Ju, the commander of the Jincheng rebel army, led his troops to Fufeng County at this time, and Li Yuan was so frightened that he ordered Li Shimin to go out on a campaign, and at the same time sent Li Xiaogong, the Duke of Zhao County, to lead troops to collect the land of Shannan, and it was not long before all of Shannan was conquered. And Li Shimin also broke Xue Ju. At this time, Qu Tutong, an old rival of the Tang family, fled from Tongguan to the eastern capital Luoyang, and Li Shimin sent Liu Wenjing to pursue him in Fuxiang and capture tens of thousands of his men. Soon Hechi Taishou Xiao Yu also surrendered, and Li Yuan sent Yunyang County to order Zhan Jun and Wugong County to force Li Zhonggun into Bashu, and soon took all of Bashu.
In the spring of the second year of Yining, Li Yuanfeng's son Li Jiancheng was made the grand general of Funing and the grand marshal of the Eastern Expedition, and Li Shimin was made the deputy marshal, and the army reached 70,000, asking his brothers to take the eastern capital Luoyang in one fell swoop and wipe out the remnants of the Sui Dynasty in one fell swoop. In February, Dou Jiande, the grand marshal of the Qinghe rebellion, arrogantly proclaimed himself king and proclaimed himself the King of Changle, and Shen Faxing, a Wuxing man, also rebelled in Danyang. In March, the Sui Right Tun Wei general Yu Wenhua killed the Sui Emperor Yang Guang at the Jiangdu Palace, and occupied Empress Xiao, and established Yang Hao the Prince of Qin as emperor, proclaiming himself The Great Chancellor. When Li Yuan learned of his cousin's death, he was furious and immediately renamed Li Shimin the Duke of Zhao, and then forcibly used the Sui Gong Emperor to seal him as the Great Sui Xiangguo, adding the gift of nine tin, and built four temples for his ancestors in Chang'an.
In April, Li Yuan ordered that the use of the Sui Dynasty's bamboo envoys in the territory under his rule should be stopped, and instead promulgated the self-created Silver Rune Festival, and ordered Li Jiancheng, the son of the king, and Li Shimin, the Duke of Zhao, to temporarily train from the eastern capital Luoyang, and prepare to open the country and become emperor. In May, Emperor Gong of Sui ordered Li Yuan to wear a flat heavenly crown on his head, use the Tianzi banner in and out, and equip him with the Tianzi Guards, and the Queen of Tang and the daughters of the Tang Dynasty were treated according to the specifications of the Tianzi family.
Not long after, Emperor Gong of Sui issued an edict: "Heaven has sent misfortune to our Sui kingdom, His Majesty the Emperor Taishang of Daxing has suffered a great theft in Jiangdu and collapsed, and now only Li Yuan, the King of Tang, is willing to help the world, from south to north, from east to west, he is like the Duke of Qi Huan in the Spring and Autumn Period, the nine princes, decisively better than thousands of miles away, Yixia Wanmin all submit to him, and now the widows want to retreat and give way to The Sage, so he will hand over the imperial seal to Li Yuan!" Li Yuan was so happy that he did not know how to do it, but he resigned repeatedly, but the hundred officials did not hesitate and ruthlessly advised him to advance, and finally Li Yuan had to change the Great Sui Daxing Hall to the Great Tang Taiji Hall, and in the southern suburbs of Chang'an, he was called emperor, and changed the second year of the Great Sui Yining to the first year of the Great Tang Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty's Eastern Capital remained and the officials heard about it, they were so angry that they immediately established Yang Tong, the King of Yue, as emperor and changed his name to Emperor Tai of the Great Sui Dynasty, and he was the second brother of Yang You, the Emperor of Sui.
In June of the first year of Wu De's reign, Tang Gaozu appointed his second son Li Shimin as Shangshu Ling, Changshi Pei Ning as Shangshu's right servant, Sima Liu Wenjing as Nayan, and Minbu Shangshu Xiao Yu as Neishi Ling, and at the same time abolished the Sui Dynasty's "Great Ye Law Order" and ordered Pei Huan to reformulate the Tang Law. Soon, the eldest son Li Jiancheng was made the Crown Prince of the Tang Empire, Li Shimin was the King of Qin, Li Yuanji was the King of Qi, Li Xiaoji the Duke of Shu was the King of Yong'an, Li Daoxuan the Duke of Zhuguo was the King of Huaiyang, Li Shuliang the Duke of Changping was the King of Changping, Li Shentong the Duke of Zhengguo was the King of Yongkang, the Duke of Anji was the King of Xiangyi, Li Deliang of the Pillar State was the King of Changle, Li Daosu of ShangkaiFu was the King of Jinling, and Li Fengci was the King of Bohai, and the governor of the prefectures under the heavens was added the title of Prince of Jiejie.
At this time, his old rival Xue Ju invaded Jingzhou again, and Li Yuan immediately ordered Li Shimin, the King of Qin, to take command of the expedition, and soon added the Title of King of Qin as Yongzhou Mu. In the autumn and July, he posthumously honored the deceased crown prince Li Xuanba as the King of Wei, at this time the Eighteen Western Khans of the Steppe sent envoys to declare their subjection to the Tang Dynasty, and the King of Qin fought with Xue Ju, and Li Shimin, the King of Qin, who did not want to be extraordinary in wisdom and courage, would be defeated by Xue Ju. However, in August, Xue Ju fell ill and died, and his son Xue Rengao actually forcibly declared himself emperor, so angry that Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin to carry out another crusade.
In order to buy people's hearts, Li Yuan also posthumously honored Gao Jiao, He Ruobi, Xue Daoheng, Yuwen Bi, Dong Chun, Li Jincai, Li Min, and other sui dynasty founding heroes who were killed by Yang Guang as loyal subjects of the former dynasty, and sent all their implicated descendants and relatives back to their hometowns. Even the Liangzhou rebel commander Li Rail came to surrender, Li Yuan did not hesitate to make him the King of Liang, concurrently serving as the governor of Liangzhou, so excited that Li Rail prostrated his head on the spot like pounding garlic, shouting long live until his throat was dumb, and from then on the four sides of the world had no return to datang.
In September, Li Yuan changed the yinshu runes of the prefectures and counties under the heavens to copper fish symbols, and then posthumously honored Yang Guang as the Sui Emperor, at which time Yu Wenhua and the Sui Dynasty Qin king Yang Hao poisoned yang hao in Weizhou, and then called himself Tianzi, the state name of the Daxu Dynasty. In the winter of October, Li Mi actually ran to surrender to Li Yuan. In November, Li Shimin, the King of The Tang Dynasty, finally destroyed Xue Rengao in the shallow water plains and accepted his surrender, and the entire Long right was pacified. But at this time, the overwhelmed Li Rail suddenly claimed the title of emperor in Liangzhou.
Li Yuan was anxious, so he made Li Shimin the Prince of Taiwei and The Great March of Shaanxi Eastern Province, and prepared for him to pacify Li Rail, not wanting to be in Taolin against Tang in a few days, fortunately, the commander of the march, Sheng Yanshi, directly chased Li Mi under his horse. The following year, Dou Jiande defeated Yuwen He at Liaocheng and beheaded him, and sent huahe's head to the Eighteen Great Khans of the Steppe for assistance.
Not long after, Liu Wuzhou, an old rival of the Tang family, invaded Datang and Zhou. Li Mi's old general Xu Shixun surrendered to the Tang with the people of Liyang and the ten counties of Henan, and Li Yuan granted him the title of Grand Governor of Li Prefecture, the Duke of Cao, and gave him the surname Li, which was xu Jingye's father who later opposed Wu Zetian. Li Yuan began to make a micro-report on the tour to observe the people's feelings, and as a result, he returned to the palace after only playing for one day, and it was still very unpeaceful outside.
In April, Wang Shichong beheaded the Sui Emperor Yang Tong and established the Great Zheng Dynasty in Luoyang, proclaiming himself emperor. Soon, Li Rail, the King of Liang, was captured by his Shangshu An Xinggui and surrendered to the Tang dynasty of Chang'an, and from then on all of Hexi Longyou was pacified. During this time, the Eighteenth Steppe Shibi Khan died. In May, the deposed Sui emperor Yang You also died, and Li Yuancai posthumously honored him with the title of "Emperor Gong".
In June, Li Yuan ordered Pei Huan to be the commander-in-chief of the Jinzhou Province March to attack Liu Wuzhou. In the autumn and July, Wang Shichong sent the general Luo Shixin to invade the Tang Valley Prefecture, but Luo Shixin revered Li Shimin, the King of Qin, and immediately surrendered to the Tang. The Eighteen Western Ye Hu Khans of the Steppe and the King Gaochang of the Qu clan of the Western Regions simultaneously sent envoys to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty.
In September, the rebel marshal Li Zitong was proclaimed emperor in Jiangdu, and the national name was Dawu. Shen Faxing occupied Biling and proclaimed himself the King of Liang. Soon after, Du Fuwei, the commander of the Hezhou rebel army, sent an envoy to surrender, and Li Yuan gave him the post of Governor of Hezhou and the Governor of Southeast Province, Xingtai Shangshu Ling, and then entered the Chu King. At this time, Pei Huan and Liu Wuzhou's general Song Jingang fought in the Battle of Jiezhou, the Tang army was defeated, the Right Wu wei general Jiang Baoyi was killed in battle, and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was frightened by Liu Wuzhou and fled back to Chang'an, and the entire prefecture was occupied by Liu Wuzhou.
In the winter of October, Li Yuan made Luo Yi the Grand Governor of Youzhou the Prince of Yan Commandery and gave him the surname Li, and soon after, Li Yuan actually beheaded Liu Wenjing, the Duke of Lu, who was close to Li Shimin, the Prince of Qin, and Li Shimin began to be jealous of his father Li Yuan and his brother Li Jiancheng, and not long after, Li Yuan personally marched Liu Wuzhou, and the army was stationed in Puzhou to support the front-line troops. Liu Wuzhou besieged Jinzhou, and in November, Dou Jiande captured Liyang and occupied the entire land of Shandong, and Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, and Li Shixun, the general of Zuo Wuhou, were all captured alive by Dou Jiande. In December, Li Xiaoji, the King of Yong'an, Shangshu Dugu Huai'en of the Ministry of Works, and Yu Jun, the grand chancellor, were also attacked by Liu Wuzhou's fierce general Song Jingang, all of whom were captured, and Li Yuan was furious, but led his troops to Mount Hua to hunt.
In the third year of Wude, Li Shixun himself escaped from Dou Jiande, and Dou Jiande began to proclaim himself the King of Xia. Li Yuan realized the severity of the situation, reused Li Shimin the Prince of Qin, and made him the Commander of yizhou Dao, Li Shimin personally went out on horseback and broke Song Jingang in the Battle of Jiezhou, Song Jingang and Liu Wuzhou fled into the eighteen parts of the grassland together in fright, the Tang army immediately pacified the entire prefecture, and Liu Wuzhou's chief general, Chi Jingde, also surrendered to Li Shimin in Jiezhou.
In June, Li Yuan renamed Du Fuwei, the king of Chu, the King of Wu, and gave him the surname Li. In the autumn and July, Li Yuan again ordered Li Shimin, the King of Qin, to lead the armies of the world to attack Wang Shichong, and then sent the crown prince Li Jiancheng to guard Puzhou and guard against the eighteen departments of the grassland, at which time more than ten tribes of the grassland beheaded Liu Wuzhou, who had come to surrender, in Baidao.
In the spring of the fourth year of Wude, the Xingtai Shangshu under Dou Jiande, the King of Xia, ordered Hu Da'en to surrender, and Li Yuan made him the King of Dingxiang Commandery and gave him the surname of Li, at which time Li Yuan was afraid of Li Shimin's military power, and ordered the crown prince Li Jiancheng to lead the armies of the world to attack Hu. In March, Dou Jiande brought troops to wang shichong's aid. He also captured the Tang Dynasty.
In May, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, destroyed Dou Jiande's army at Wugaoguan and captured The Xia King Jiande alive, calming the whole of Hebei in one breath, while Wang Shichong was also very afraid of Li Shimin's divine might, and soon surrendered the eastern capital Luoyang, and the whole of Henan was also calmed by Li Shimin. In the autumn and July, Li Shimin shook the eight directions, triumphantly took prisoners, and offered prisoners to the Taimiao Temple, which made his father Li Yuan happy and worried, happy that the world was basically unified, and worried that the power of the King of Qin had already overshadowed the crown prince.
Soon after, Li Yuan beheaded Dou Jiande at Chang'an Caishikou and exiled Wang Shichong to a remote Shu land, but Wang Shichong was beheaded by the enemy before he could get on the road. Dou Jiande's subordinate Liu Heimin (劉黑闼) again occupied the south of Zhangshui to rebel, and in August, Xu Yuanlang (徐元郎), the governor of Yanzhou, also rebelled in response to Liu Heimin and proclaimed himself king of Lu.
When Li Yuan saw this situation, he became anxious again, so he made Li Shimin the Prince of Qin a general of Tiance, who was above all the princes, and also led the post of Grand Si Tu, and concurrently served as the Shang Shu Ling of Daxing Tai of Shaanxi Eastern Province, using him to quell the rebellion, and Li Yuanji, the King of Qi, was also crowned as the Grand Sikong. Soon after, Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhao County, pacified Jingzhou and captured Xiao Milling alive. Within a few days, Li Zitong, the commander of the Hui rebel army, came to surrender. Li Yuan then forcibly ordered the King of Qin and the King of Qi to join forces in their crusade against Liu Heimin.
In the first month of the fifth year of Wu De, Liu Heimin occupied Huan Prefecture and declared himself the King of Handong. In March, Li Shimin set up an array on the banks of the Shuishui River, broke Liu Heimin, and recovered all the fallen prefectures and counties, and Liu Heimin had to flee to the eighteen grasslands. Not long after, Gao Kaidao, the grand governor of Weizhou and the king of Beiping, rebelled. However, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, returned to Chang'an first, and Li Yuan personally welcomed him into changle palace.
In June, Liu Heimin entered Shandong with eighteen soldiers and horses from the grassland. In the autumn and July, Du Fuwei, the king of Wu, personally came to the dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty Hanyang Taishou Feng Ang surrendered to the Tang Dynasty in the land of South Vietnam, and lingnan was also included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. In August, Li Yuan buried his second cousin Yang Guang, the Sui Emperor, in Yangzhou. The Eighteen Jieli Khans of the Steppe led their troops into Yanmen Pass and marched to Shuozhou, where Li Yuan ordered Crown Prince Jianjian and Qin Wang Shimin to send troops at the same time, and Jieli Khan was defeated.
In the winter of October, Li Yuan sent Yuanji, the King of Qi, to attack Liu Heimin, and Li Daoxuan, the grand commander of the march and the king of Huaiyang, was beheaded by Liu Heimin at the place of Xiabo. When Li Yuan learned of this, he was heartbroken and immediately sent Crown Prince Jianjian to conquest. In December, Li Jiancheng broke Liu Heimin at Wei And beheaded him, and all of Shandong was pacified. Li Yuan was overjoyed, believing that the crown prince was not much worse than the Qin king Shimin.
In the spring of the sixth year of Wude, Li Yuan made Du Fuwei the Prince of Wu the Prince of Taibao, ran to Lishan to hunt in February, and went to Kunming Pond to play games in March, and feasted on hundreds of officials. In The summer of April, he also set up a high meeting of wine, rewarded the courtiers, and crowned Pei Huan, the Duke of Wei, as the left servant, Xiao Yu, the Duke of Song, as the right servant, and Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guanguo, as the official Shangshu. In the autumn and July, the steppe Jieli Khan attacked Shuozhou, and Li Yuan immediately sent the crown prince and the King of Qin to send troops to Huozhou to guard against it.
In August, the servants of the Southeast Province rebelled in Danyang and proclaimed themselves the King of Song, and Li Yuan sent Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhao County, and Li Jing, the ambassador of Lingnan Province and the duke of Yongkang County, to send troops to conquest. Not long after, Tugu Hun Guo expressed his submission to the Tang Dynasty. In September, the grassland army withdrew, and the crown prince Banshi, Li Yuan changed the eastern capital Luoyang to Luozhou, and the rebel general Gao Kaidao led the grassland army into Kou youzhou.
In the spring of the seventh year of Wudeok, Li Yuan forcibly crowned Goguryeo King Gao Wu as the King of Liaodong of the Tang Dynasty, Buyeo Zhang, the King of Baekje, as the King of the Tang Dynasty, and King Jin Zhenping of Silla as the King of Lelang Commandery of the Tang Dynasty. In February, Gao Kaidao was beheaded by the general Zhang Jinshu, and the rebellion was quickly put down. In March, Li Xiaogong broke the auxiliary gongfu and captured him alive, and the Danyang rebellion was put down.
In the summer of April, Li Yuan believed that the world had been completely pacified and began to promulgate the new laws of the Tang Dynasty. In May, Li Shixun quelled Xu Yuanlang's rebellion. In August, the grassland army entered Kou and merged into the prefecture, the beijing division Chang'an began martial law, and the grassland army saw that the Tang was too strong and retired. In the winter of October, Li Yuan ascended zhongnan Mountain to worship the Laozi Temple and recognized Laozi Li Er as the ancestor of the Li clan.
In the eighth year of Wu De, the grassland army entered Dingzhou again, and Li Yuan sent the crown prince to Youzhou, and the King of Qin to Hezhou to jointly defend against the grassland enemy. In August, Zhang Gongjin, the governor of the Prefecture, was defeated by the grassland army in Taigu, and Zhongshu ordered Wen Yanbo to be captured by the grassland people. In November, Li Yuanjia made Li Shimin the Prince of Qin the Zhongshu Ling.
In June of the ninth year of Wu De, the Tang Dynasty general Li Shimin the Prince of Qin, with the eldest brother Li Jiancheng, the crown prince, conspired to kill himself with his fourth brother Li Yuanji, the Prince of Qi, and led his troops to kill them at Xuanwu Gate. Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, had no choice but to edict the King of Qin as the crown prince, and he would rule the world. In August, Li Yuan announced that he would pass the throne to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin officially became Emperor Taizongwen of Tang, changed his name to Yuan Zhenguan, and honored Li Yuan as Emperor Taishang.
In the eight years of Zhenguan, the whole world was unified, and all the countries in the world submitted to the Tang, and the Tang Dynasty began the incomparably powerful "Rule of Zhenguan". In March, Emperor Taizong of Tang set up a banquet for Emperor Gaozu Taishang Li Yuan at the Two Yi Palace, and the emissaries of the grassland also attended the banquet, and Li Yuan said to the eldest grandson Wujie: "The second elder has now let all the barbarians in the world lead the soil to submit, which has never been done in ancient times!" "The courtiers and barbarian emissaries all toasted to the Emperor Taishang and congratulated Chitose on his long life. Li Yuan was overjoyed and gave Li Shimin wine, and Li Shimin said to Li Yuan with tears in his eyes: "The people are happy and the four Yi surrender, all of them have always obeyed the teachings of their father and emperor. Li Yuan was also in tears when he said this.
Tang Taizong and Empress Changsun shared dishes for Emperor Taishang, just like ordinary people's families, and Manchu Wenwu was all pleased after seeing it. In this year, Tang Taizong also invited Li Yuan to the west of Chang'an City to inspect the generals of the three armies, and then set up a banquet at Weiyang Palace, all the officials of the capital sanpin or above attended, Li Yuan ordered the surrendered Jieli Khan to dance for him, and asked Feng Zhidai, the king of South Vietnam, to chant poems for him, Li Yuan laughed happily: "Now the Hu and Yue families have not been there since ancient times!" ”
Tang Taizong then said to Li Yuan: "The son has been trained by his father's kindness since he was a child, and only then has he achieved today's achievements, from the time when he held high the banner of righteousness to the time when he was leveling the world, Xue Ju, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, none of these tyrants were not powerful, but in the end they could all be swept away by the ministers, and it did not take many years to unify the world, and the ministers were favored by the father's emperor's heavenly mercy, always shouldering heavy responsibilities, and now the heavens blessed, even the barbarian states thousands of miles away have all become our servants of the Tang Dynasty, this is what the intelligence of the ministers can do, This is all the Father's Emperor's holy deeds to have today! Li Yuan listened to him and looked at him, but his heart was greatly used, at this time the group of ministers shouted long live the Emperor Taishang, and the father and son were extremely happy this night.
In May of the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Yuan was seriously ill, and his testament said: "After the death of the widow, the emperor shimin still has to take good care of the major affairs of the military state, and the funeral rite system is like that of Emperor Wen of Han, don't be too extravagant, and be frugal!" On this day, Li Yuan, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, died in the front hall of the Tai'an Palace at the age of seventy, and in February of the thirteenth year of The Tang Xuanzong Li Longji Tianbao, he gave Li Yuan the honorific title of "Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty".
Later historians made such an appraisal of Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, saying: "This Majesty Huai Han Dao's generosity and peace, that is to say, there is the generosity and peace of Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han, but the gentleness is broken, and Xue Wenjing does not follow the law, always acting indecisively, and also wrongly kills loyal subjects such as Liu Wenjing, thus further intensifying the contradiction between the prince and the king of Qin."
The adulterers were blessed with the bees, and from then on, there were as many adulterers as sea shells and wasps. The dedication of the gong was in Shensheng, and Xiao Baining was pregnant with Zhao. Once the soldiers have made love to their sons, Yaji Shensun. He almost made the mistake of killing the crown prince ShenSheng by the Duke of Jin, and like the Duke of Qi Huan, he did not handle the relationship with his sons well, which led to a situation of chaos in the world, and all his descendants were stabbed by swords and turned into hedgehogs. The Northern Prisoners were found in Benqiao, and Gyeong-yi Xian was worried about Zuo Yuan. There is no Divine Son, the king is destroyed! That is to say, the grassland army has all been killed on the bridge of the Weishui River in Chang'an, and the capital Chang'an is almost about to be captured, if it were not for Li Minshi, the second son of Shengming Shenwu, who was in charge of the world, would the Tang Dynasty still exist? ”
A generation of famous kings Wen Wu Shuangquan assisted his brother to seize the world, and his descendants became the masters of "destroying the country and beheading the emperor"