In the face of the temptation of imperial power, no one can calm down.
Li Yuanji had his own careful thoughts, but Li Jiancheng had to face the fact that the Qin Palace was becoming stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye, and there was a tendency to surpass the Prince's Mansion. Although the old father had the intention of suppressing Li Shimin, he could hinder the love of father and son, and there was never much action, and everyone had to get by.
The situation is very clear, the old father does not like Li Shimin, but the palms of his hands and the backs of his hands are meat, he is not willing to get involved in the dispute between the two provinces, Li Jiancheng wants to sit on the throne of the prince, he must find a way to break through.
Objectively speaking, Li Jiancheng has many advantages.
For example, the identity of the eldest son, the legitimate heir to the throne. Unfortunately, Yang Yong, the former crown prince, also had such an identity, but in the end he could not end well, and it seemed a bit out of the blue to count on the identity of the eldest son.
For example, harem concubines take a strong stand. Speaking of which, the pillow wind of the harem girl group is not small, as long as they can "say a few kind words" in front of their father, Li Shimin's miserable days will not have an end. As the saying goes, if the enemy suffers a big loss, it is equivalent to taking advantage of himself!
For example, there are many helpers in the Prince's Mansion and the DPRK. In the Prince's Mansion, there were Wei Zheng, Wang Jue, Li Gang, Dou Rail, Pei Zhi, Zheng Shanguo, Feng Li, Yuan Lang, Wei Ting, Tang Xian, Rong Jiusi, Wu Shiyi, Pei Xuanyu, Xu Shimo, Ouyang Qian, Tang Lin, and others.
However, what Li Jiancheng lacked most was the army. Over the years, he has been taking the route of the crown prince, and his daily life is to subdue people with virtue, as for the army, Li Yuan feels that he does not need it, and Li Jiancheng himself does not feel that he needs it. The problem is that the Prince's Mansion and the Qin King's Mansion are fighting at the moment, and the Qin King's Mansion has an army, and since the old father sealed a Tiance Mansion, the establishment of the Elder Brother's Nursing Home has eight hundred people, what a terrible existence.
Li Jiancheng thought about it, he still had to cultivate his own army!
Next, Li Jiancheng sent people to recruit more than 2,000 strong men, and let them divide into the left and right Changlin Gate of the Tai Gong, and the Su Wei Tai Gong was safe, known in history as the Chang Lin Bing. Not to mention, Li Jiancheng also sent his cronies Dazhi to Youzhou secretly, and from Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, he recruited three hundred cavalrymen and scattered them in the workshops near the Tai Womb as the most important armed chip of the Tai Gong. Think about it, Luo Yi is the land snake of Youzhou, the soldiers under him have experienced hundreds of battles, and they can be a ragtag group of people he sent to Li Jiancheng?
Unfortunately, the movement of the Tai Womb was so loud that it alarmed Li Yuan.
For Li Yuan, it was normal for the Prince's Mansion and the Qin Palace to secretly compete, and it was also normal for Li Jiancheng to recruit Eastern Palace guards, but Luo Yi was a feudal official with military power, and Li Jiancheng and he hooked up with him. Once the foreign ministers were allowed to participate in the infighting of the royal family, Li Yuan would not be able to control the situation at that time.
Li Yuan was furious, he called Li Jiancheng to the palace, reprimanded him fiercely, and then released the words, Changlin soldiers you keep yourself, three hundred cavalry immediately disbanded. As for Dazhi, Li Yuan arranged a secluded place for him: Weizhou (巂州, in modern Xichang, Sichuan).
In June of the seventh year of Wude (624), the heat in Chang'an City was unbearable, the Taiji Palace was humid and hot, and Li Yuan was irritable inside. In recent years, the contradiction between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin has become more and more large, almost to the point of fighting, Li Yuan did not want to see his son erupt into conflict, so he took Li Shimin and Li Yuanji to renzhi Palace to escape the summer, and held activities such as hunting and martial arts here. According to historical records, the Renzhi Palace was just completed in May, and is a palace that integrates patrol and border defense functions, and the ruins are located on Yuhua Mountain in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province.
As for Li Jiancheng, as usual, he sat in Chang'an City and handled the imperial government in place of his father. Since Li Yuan became emperor, all major and small affairs of the dynasty have been entrusted to Li Jiancheng, and only major issues will attract his attention. Therefore, for Li Jiancheng, supervising the country is only a small matter.
But at this moment, a suspicious conspiracy occurred.
According to Li Shimin's state history, Li Jiancheng had a close associate named Yang Wengan, the governor of Qingzhou (present-day Qingyang, Gansu), who had been helping Li Jiancheng recruit soldiers. On the eve of Li Yuan and Li Shimin's trip to the Renzhi Palace, Li Jiancheng found Li Yuanji and told him that it was a heavenly opportunity and hoped that Li Yuanji could keep an eye on Li Shimin.
Subsequently, Li Jiancheng sent a message to Yang Wengan, asking him to urgently recruit a group of warriors to send to the capital, and then handed over the weapons and armor prepared in advance to the loyal warlords Erzhu Huan and Qiao Gongshan, so that they could send them to Yang Wengan, and asked Yang Wengan to raise an army in Gyeongju to cooperate with Li Jiancheng's actions in Chang'an City.
Li Jiancheng chose to let the Gyeongju side do it because Gyeongju and InjiGong were very close, only three hundred miles away, and the army could arrive at sunset. Unexpectedly, when Erzhu Huan and Qiao Gongshan walked to Fengzhou (豳州, in present-day Bin County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province), their hearts began to retreat. After all, the brothers are playing a military coup, and if they fail, they will definitely be the end of the destruction of the family.
The two did not seem to trust Li Jiancheng, and after much thought, they finally decided to change their route to Yuhua Mountain and prepare to inform the big boss Li Yuan. What is even more unexpected is that the interaction between Li Jiancheng and Yang Wengan was actually reported by someone, and the person who reported it was called Du Fengju, who was from Ning County, Qingyang City.
When Li Yuan heard the news, he was shocked. In Li Yuan's eyes, Li Jiancheng has always been a well-behaved baby, and it is certain that he and the second elder are in trouble, but Li Yuan really can't believe that Li Jiancheng has the courage to rebel.
This is a political incident, depending on how Li Yuan handles it.
According to historical records, Li Yuan considered it for a long time, and finally, without any military preparations, issued a secret order: ordered Li Jiancheng to rush to renzhi Palace quickly, explained the matter to Li Yuan in person, and sent Yuwen Ying, the secretary of si nong, to summon Yang Wengan. This means that Li Yuan still does not believe that Li Jiancheng will rebel and rebel.
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During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Han's crown prince Liu Zhao, because he was persecuted by the traitor Jiang Chong, had to raise an army in Chang'an City to defend himself. At that time, Emperor Wu of Han sent Su Wen, a henchman of Jiang Chong, to inquire, but this person did not have any communication with Liu Zhao, and when he returned, he directly falsely accused Liu Zhao of rebellion, and said that he refused to communicate with Emperor Wu of Han, which eventually triggered a scuffle of the Janissaries that lasted for several days. In the end, Liu Zhaobing was defeated and killed, and Emperor Wu of Han regretted it so much that he ordered the murder of a group of people who falsely accused the crown prince, and built the Si Womb and wangsitai.
Li Yuan was not so rude, at this moment, his mind was very clear.
Si Nongqing Yuwenying was a good friend of Li Yuanji, and Li Yuan sent him to summon Yang Wengan, just because he was afraid that Li Shimin's people would secretly cause harm. Yu Wenying knew the weight of this matter, if not handled properly, it is very likely to cause a political storm, and will invite the disaster of killing, Yu Wenying thought about it again and again, and decided to report the matter to Li Yuanji.
According to historical records, Li Yuanji was shocked when he heard about it, and after thinking about it for half a day, Li Yuanji decided to let Yu Wenying go and send a message to Yang Wengan. As for what Li Yuanji said, we have no idea, but in short, after Yang Wengan got the news, he preemptively raised an army in Gyeongju on June 24, 624, the seventh year of Wudeok (624).
At this time, Li Jiancheng also received the secret message from his father, he knew that the matter had been exposed, and he was frightened and trembled, and he was overwhelmed. How can this be explained? Saying that he raised an army to eliminate Li Shimin? Or did he even give his father a meal and become the emperor himself? To put it bluntly, no matter what Li Jiancheng said, this matter did not end well.
Xu Shimo, the crown prince, told Li Jiancheng to let him occupy Chang'an City, so he and Li Shimin worked to the end to completely resolve the enmity and resentment between the two provinces. Zhao Hongzhi, the master of zhan affairs, told Li Jiancheng, listened to his father's words, and quickly went to the Renzhi Palace to face the saint, explained the matter to the father clearly, and sought his father's forgiveness.
For Li Jiancheng, this is a decision about the survival of the Prince's Mansion, and if he is not careful, he will lose everything. After a fierce ideological struggle, Li Jiancheng finally heeded Zhao Hongzhi's advice and went to the Renzhi Palace to explain the matter, not only Li Jiancheng went forward, but all the officials of the Eastern Palace had to accompany him.
Less than sixty miles away from the Renzhi Palace, Li Jiancheng left most of the officials of the Eastern Palace behind, and only took more than a dozen of his cronies and rushed to Yuhua Mountain with trepidation. After arriving at renzhi palace, Li Jiancheng fell to his knees in front of his father, weeping bitterly, admitting his mistake and asking for forgiveness. Unfortunately, Li Yuan's anger was still there, and on the same night, Li Yuan ordered Li Jiancheng to be detained in the palace, and let Chen Fu, the palace supervisor, take strict care of him, and only provide him with coarse wheat and rice to fill his hunger.
For Li Yuan, how to deal with Li Jiancheng, he has not yet fully thought out. The most urgent task was to quell the local military rebellion caused by the dispute between the two provinces, and the first to bear the brunt of it was naturally Yang Wengan in Gyeongju.
Yang Wengan was not far from Yuhua Mountain, and Li Yuan was afraid that Yang Wengan would arrange a sneak attack by the killer, so he traveled south with the Janissaries for dozens of miles that night, hiding in the south of Yuhua Mountain. Subsequently, the officials of the Eastern Palace came one after another, and Li Yuan appeared very vigilant, ordering thirty of them to be a team and sending people to strictly guard them.
In the early morning of June 25, 624, in the seventh year of Wude (624), Li Yuan returned to Renzhi Palace to take charge of the overall situation, and ordered the Wuwei general Qian Jiulong and the Lingzhou governor Yang Shidao to encircle and suppress Yang Wengan.
On June 26, 624, in the seventh year of WuDe(624), Li Yuan summoned Li Shimin, and the father and son had a conversation.
Li Yuan: "Yang Wengan rebelled, according to your opinion, how should he deal with it?" ”
Li Shimin: "Yang Wengan is just a shaft, presumably His Majesty has already captured him, otherwise, we can send a general to fight him!" ”
Obviously, Li Shimin's words were not painful or itchy, and did not deliberately involve Li Jiancheng.
Li Yuan: "Hum! It's not that simple! This matter involves the prince, I am afraid that there will be many people who respond, you have to go in person. After success, you are made the prince. Emperor Wen of Sui could not emulate Emperor Wen of Sui in killing his own son, and after this incident, He made Li Jiancheng the King of Shu. In the future, if Li Jiancheng can submit to you, you will treat him leniently, and if you do not obey your rule, it will be easier for you to fight. ”
After Li Shimin received the order, he rushed to Ningzhou.
As soon as Li Shimin left on his front foot, Li Yuanji found Li Yuan and tried his best to help the eldest brother intercede. Li Yuanji also launched a group of women in the harem, including the chancellor Feng Deyi and others who were also trying to rescue Li Jiancheng. Everyone's tone is very consistent, Li Jiancheng's move is not aimed at Li Yuan, there must be some misunderstanding, which led to the mutiny.
With so many people interceding for Li Jiancheng, Li Yuan's heart began to soften.
In the end, Li Yuan's disposition was as follows: Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin had always had contradictions, so they would make a misunderstanding, which was not a big deal, and ordered Li Jiancheng to return to Chang'an.
Interestingly, Li Yuan, however, sent the crown prince Zhongyun Wang Jue, the crown prince Zuo Wei to Wei Ting, and the Tiance Prefecture soldier Cao Tou Yan to the prefecture of Xī. Wang Jue and Wei Ting were people from the Crown Prince's Mansion, and it was reasonable to say that Li Jiancheng was at fault and punish his subordinates, while Du Yan was a member of the Qin Dynasty Palace.
Li Yuan, why do you have to play fifty boards each?
I will leave this aside for the time being and continue to finish the story.
Facts proved that Yang Wengan was not prepared to raise an army at all, and after Li Shimin arrived in Gyeongju, Yang Wengan's henchmen scattered. On the fifth day of the seventh month of the seventh year of Wu De (624), Yang Wengan was killed by his subordinates, and Li Shimin executed the emperor's Qincha Yuwenying, and the matter came to a temporary end.
What scene did Li Shimin see after he returned?
Li Jiancheng was not guilty, returned to Chang'an City, or became his crown prince. As for the position of crown prince promised by Li Yuan to Li Shimin, I'm sorry, I can't fulfill it. Even so, Du Yan of the Qin Dynasty Palace was actually assigned to other places. That is to say, the brothers made such a big fuss, and they were actually beaten fifty times each?
Regarding Yang Wengan's rebellion, it can be said that there are many doubts.
The first doubt: Does Li Jiancheng really want to rebel?
If Li Jiancheng wants to do something, no matter who it is aimed at, it is an unforgivable felony, at least after dealing with the results, Li Jiancheng's position as prince will not be guaranteed. The question is, in the face of Li Yuan's edict, why would Li Jiancheng willingly take all the officials of the Tai Womb to the Renzhi Palace to plead guilty? Could it be that he believed in his innocence, that Yang Wengan's rebellion was just a joke?
In addition, what was Li Jiancheng's motive for rebellion?
Li Jiancheng was the prince of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and was deeply supported by the courtiers, although there was a threat of Li Shimin, but it did not reach the critical point of life and death. What's more, between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, Li Yuan has always supported Li Jiancheng, and no matter what, Li Jiancheng occupies an absolute competitive advantage.
To put it bluntly, if Li Jiancheng does not move, he is the prince who cannot move, and if he moves, he is an enemy of Li Yuan, and by the way, he sent an assist to Li Shimin.
The second doubt: What is the relationship between Li Jiancheng and Yang Wengan, the governor of Gyeongju?
Yang Wengan was born as a guard of the Eastern Palace, and there was no doubt about this.
According to the Zhenguan historical sources, Li Jiancheng wanted to launch a military coup, so he sent a message to Yang Wengan, asking him to send a group of warriors to Chang'an, and then sent a batch of weapons and armor to Yang Wengan, hoping that he would raise an army in Gyeongju. The question is, as a feudal official, Yang Wengan has a conventional army under his command, and does he need Li Jiancheng to equip him with weapons? Who didn't even have their weapons ready before they rebelled? Moreover, if you want to arm a group of military forces, where does the armor come from? Li Jiancheng's centered operation, how could he escape the eyeliner of the Qin King's Palace?
Even more outrageous, Li Jiancheng asked Yang Wengan to send the warriors to Chang'an City, which must have been intended to launch a coup d'état in Chang'an City, but he also sent his weapons to Gyeongju and wanted to launch a military coup at Renzhi Palace. Isn't Li Jiancheng's best choice to put these warriors in Gyeongju? Judging from Yang Wengan's layout and Gyeongju's preparations, Li Jiancheng had no chance of killing Li Yuan at all, and this was not a political gamble, but a search for death.
The third doubt: How did Du Fengju know that Yang Wengan was plotting rebellion?
Li Jiancheng and Yang Wengan did have contacts, and Yang Wengan also sent soldiers to Li Jiancheng, but what did Du Wenju rely on to persuade Li Yuan that Yang Wengan wanted to rebel? What is even more strange is that Erzhu Huan and Qiao Gongshan's front feet just arrived at The Renzhi Palace to report it, Du Fengju followed up on his back, and the two groups of people reported Li Jiancheng's rebellion from Chang'an and Gyeongju respectively.
The fourth doubt: why Li Yuan once again promised to make Li Shimin the crown prince.
According to the Zhenguan historical data, Li Yuan promised to make Li Shimin the crown prince before he started the army, but in the end he broke his word and made Li Jiancheng the crown prince. This time in the Renzhi Palace, Li Yuan actually repeated the same trick, is this an insult to Li Shimin's intelligence, or is Li Yuan dizzy? Moreover, Li Shimin's mere pacification of Yang Wengan's rebellion was not a great merit, and Li Yuan had to use his position as crown prince to motivate him?
The fifth doubt: Why Li Yuan would play fifty boards each.
If Li Jiancheng's crime of treason was convicted, Li Shimin would be a great meritorious man, and afterwards Li Yuan would definitely reward the people of the Qin Palace, but on the contrary, Li Yuan not only punished the people of the Prince's Mansion, but also punished Du Yan. Facts have proved that Li Yuan's punishment is targeted, and these three people must have participated in the matter.
The sixth suspicious point: Li Shimin's attitude is extremely strange.
Li Shimin's personality is very straight, if his subordinates are wronged or targeted by Li Yuan, Li Shimin will definitely rise up to resist, Liu Wenjing is a clear proof. Not only that, the people in the Qin Palace were also violent, not to mention that they had not made mistakes, even if they made mistakes, they would shout in front of Li Yuan. Later, Li Yuan unreasonably criticized the capture of Lieutenant Chi Jingde and released Cheng Yaojin as an official, which was strongly protested by Li Shimin. But this time, Li Shimin was completely toyed with by Li Yuan, why didn't he even have a record of arguing?
According to the author's analysis, the facts may be like this:
Li Jiancheng had no intention of rebellion, and he asked Yang Wengan to send him soldiers, just to get more military chips and form an advantage in Chang'an. As for sending Yang Wengan armor, it is estimated that it is not the armor that equips the army. It is undeniable that Erzhu Huan and Qiao Gongshan were indeed entrusted by Li Jiancheng to go to Gyeongju, but the Qin Dynasty Palace had already secretly bribed them, and they went to the middle of the road and decided to go to the Renzhi Palace to file a complaint, which aroused Li Yuan's suspicions.
As for Yuwen Ying, he is indeed a good friend of Li Yuanji, which is why Li Yuan trusts him. However, when he arrived in Gyeongju, Yang Wengan declared a rebellion, which was several possibilities.
For example, Yuwen Ying was commissioned by Li Yuanji to scare Yang Wengan and force him to rebel. For example, Yuwen Ying was also bribed by the Qin dynasty, lied under Li Shimin's arrangement, forced Yang Wengan to rebel, and was later unilaterally exterminated by Li Shimin. For example, Yang Wengan's psychological quality was not good, and he was worried that going to Renzhi Palace would be killed by Li Yuan, so he took the risk and rebelled. All in all, Yang Wen was in a hurry to do a good job, and even his men didn't know what he was going to do, so he disintegrated himself and disappeared in an instant.
In this political turmoil, Li Yuan is the final winner. Li Yuan's political sensitivity was high, and he realized from the beginning that the matter might not be so simple.
First of all, Li Yuan did not rush to put on the hat of rebellion on Li Jiancheng, but gave him the opportunity to defend himself.
Secondly, Li Yuan sent Yuwen Ying out of the horse, and his attitude was still biased towards the Prince Mansion.
Again, Li Yuan left the Renzhi Palace for refuge, saying that it was to prevent Yang Wengan from sneaking attacks, so why not guard against the Qin King's Palace?
In the end, Li Yuan did not decide to use Li Shimin to suppress the rebellion until the last moment, and also said a bunch of reasons and promises to appease Li Shimin, which showed that he did not trust Li Shimin very much.
Inside the Renzhi Palace, don't look at the harem girl group as a lobbyist for Li Jiancheng, the real influence on Li Yuan is actually Feng Deyi. Although this elder brother was Li Yuan's minister, he was very close to Li Shimin, and it was indeed very convincing for him to speak to Li Jiancheng.
All in all, in the ten days since Li Shimin left, Li Yuan learned the truth of the matter through his intelligence network, and finally made the decision to play fifty boards each. The old brothers did not dare to make trouble again.
Li Jiancheng was punished because of his military collusion with foreign ministers. Li Shimin was punished because he secretly bribed the people in the Prince's Mansion and falsely accused Li Jiancheng of plotting rebellion, which almost caused an earth-shattering change. In this way, the sensational Renzhigong incident came to an end for the time being. Within a few days, Li Yuan also drove back to Beijing from Renzhi Palace.
The Renzhigong incident was just an episode in the dispute between the two provinces, more like a stone thrown into a deep pool of still water, and the aftermath could not be calmed for a long time.
Text/Jiugao Han shuo