The third king of Korea, Lee Fong-won, had a similar experience to Tang Taejong, and the temple name was also "Taejong", so he was called the Korean version of "Tang Taejong". Now many Korean stars are his descendants, such as lee joon ki, the male protagonist of "The King's Man", Lee Seung Ki, the male protagonist of "Flower Travels", and so on. The story about the Korean version of "Tang Taizong" begins with the rise of the "Jeonju Lee clan" in Korea at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
The "Jeonju Lee clan" was originally the home of the Goryeo Dynasty's Zhong Mingding Food, and for generations, the ancestors served as high-ranking officials such as Situ, Great General, Admiral, Servant, and Servant. In 1253, the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty, when the "Jeonju Li Clan" was defending against the Yuan Dynasty army in the north, they judged the situation, surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, and saved the family.
In 1356, a large-scale peasant revolt broke out in the Central Plains, and the corrupt Yuan dynasty rule was in jeopardy, and there was no time to take care of the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, Li Zichun, the head of the "Jeonju Li clan" who cherished his homeland, and his son Li Chenggui led an army to defect from the Yuan Dynasty and surrendered to the homeland to assist the Goryeo army in attacking the city and recovering the homeland.
Li Chenggui, the son of Li Zichun, liked to hunt since he was a child and practiced a delicate arrow technique, which was very similar to Li Yuan of Tang Gaozu. In 1361, 40,000 Red Turban troops from the Central Plains entered Goryeo, the King of Goryeo recruited soldiers and horses from all over the country to resist, Li Chenggui led an army of 2,000 to participate in the battle, repeatedly made military achievements, and then continued to establish meritorious achievements in the wars with the Yuan Dynasty, Jurchen, and Wukou, the strength of the Li family army continued to grow, and finally in 1388, Li Chenggui controlled the Goryeo regime through overwhelming military strength. In 1392, the 58-year-old Li Chenggui established himself as king and made the capital seoul.
When Li Chenggui became king, the Ming Dynasty was also established soon after, so Li Chenggui made it a basic national policy to honor the Ming Dynasty and sent tribute to the dynasty. With the approval of Zhu Yuanzhang, the name "Goryeo" was abolished and renamed "Joseon", and Lee Sung-gyu was the Grandfather of Joseon, thus beginning the history of Lee's Joseon for more than 500 years. Seeing this, Li Chenggui is relatively bullish, but he also made a mistake in his later years, resulting in the tragedy of father and son becoming enemies and brothers killing each other.
Similar to the experience of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, when the Korean grandfather Li Chenggui fought the world, the fifth son Li Fangyuan was outstanding, protecting his family and making many military achievements, these were basic operations, and what was more commendable was that Li Fangyuan also assassinated the Goryeo sage Zheng Mengzhou, paving the way for his father Li Chenggui to establish the country and become king.
Li Chenggui's harem is more complicated, there have been two wives in the main room, the original Han clan has six sons and two daughters, Li Fangyuan is the original wife born. After having two sons and a daughter, and being young and beautiful, he was deeply loved by Li Chenggui, and he loved Wu and Wu, and Li Chenggui made Li Fangshuo, the son of Kang, the son of Kang, the son of the world. So the family conflict broke out.
According to the ceremonial law, the heirs should be established as concubines, and the eldest son of the original wife is naturally the first heir. The children born to the Han family originally had a bad relationship with the young stepmother, and Li Chenggui disregarded the iron law of "orderly growth and childhood" and the merits of the older sons in the process of founding the country, which caused great dissatisfaction among the sons of the Han family, especially the fifth son Li Fangyuan, who had the greatest merit. If the eldest sons are all sacks of wine and rice bags, it will be enough, but Li Fangyuan is a capable and ambitious person, so some things are inevitable.
In 1393, Li Fangyuan led a Korean delegation to the Ming capital Nanjing to pay tribute, and when passing through Beiping, he had a good conversation with Zhu Di, the King of Yan, and the two were later "anti-bone boys", and they were indeed like-minded. Both the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the founding monarch of Korea tended to pass the throne to younger heirs, only to be taken away by other older sons.
We are all familiar with the Battle of Jingnan of Zhu Di, the King of Yan, and the focus here is on Li Fangyuan's history of ascension to the throne. Although this person is older than Shizi, there are still several brothers in law above, so li concubine lichang can't take his turn, so his ascension is divided into two steps.
Li Fangyuan used the Korean private army system to recruit a large number of private soldiers, so when Li Chenggui stripped the princes of their military power, only Li Fangyuan still had the strength to resist.
In August 31, When Li Chenggui fell seriously ill and all the princes and clans were on duty at Gyeongbokgung Palace, Li Fangyuan's wife Min sent a message: "My chest pain and abdominal pain may soon be over." ”
So Li Fangyuan was able to leave Gyeongbokgung Palace to go home and conspire with his wife and brother-in-law Min Wujie. Coincidentally, Li Shimin had a brother-in-law, the eldest grandson Wujie, and the names of "Wu Jie" and "Wu Jie" were so similar.
On the night of August 26, a eunuch sent Li Chenggui's royal order, asking the princes to visit the palace, and not to bring retinues and blades. In the palace, Li Fangyuan was keenly aware of the crisis, and he suspected that his father would ambush the sword and axe hand in the palace and wipe out these half-brothers in order to pave the way for his stepmother's son to succeed to the throne. So he shed his shell and led his half-brothers Li Fangyi and Li Fanggan out of the palace.
Immediately after Li Fangyuan left the palace, he summoned private soldiers and sent someone to send a message to his half-brother Li Fangfan to make him submit, otherwise he would be an enemy and rejected. Li Fangyuan then led his men to the Three Armies Mansion and slaughtered the ministers who supported his son Li Fangshuo, who announced that his father was going to depose Chang Liyou, and that he and others were only protecting themselves, at this time his eldest brother had died, and the second brother Li Fangguo was the nominal first heir, so he was pushed out by Li Fangyuan. After all, his banner is "respect for the elder", so he cannot directly seize the throne himself.
Li Fangyuan opened the arsenal, distributed weapons, and set up his second brother Li Fangguo as his son, plus Li Fangyuan was already a hero of battle and had a high prestige, so he easily controlled the situation. In the evening of the same day, Li Fangyuan brought hundreds of officials into the palace to play: "The etiquette law cannot be abolished, and only by standing up for a long time can we ensure the foundation of my eternal life!" "It is requested that Li Fangguo be reappointed as the son of the world."
Li Chenggui's mood at this time may be similar to that of Li Yuan at that time, in the face of the threat of hundreds of officials, he can only agree, and also said to Li Fangshuo, a wasted son who was standing next to him: "Hello self-help..."
The 16-year-old Li Fangshuo bid farewell to his father and wanted to temporarily return to the Eastern Palace, but was killed by Li Fangyuan's men just after leaving Gyeongbokgung Palace. Then Li Fangfan, who did not want to stand on the side of Li Fangyuan, was also killed, his stepmother Kang shi "violently died", and the people who had once been loyal to the deposed son Li Fangshuo were eliminated, which was the "first prince rebellion" in Lee's Korea, why is it said to be the "first time"? Because there will be a second time!
After that, Li Fangguo became the son of the world, but the real power of the state was in the hands of Li Fangyuan. The following year, Li Chenggui "voluntarily" gave the throne to Shizi and became the King of Taishang, and the new king, Li Fangguo, tired of the bloody smell of Seoul, moved the capital to Kaesong. Li Fangguo is an ostrich personality, benevolent and modest, with no dispute with the world, and the government is controlled by Li Fangyuan.
Li Fangguo can only play ball in the palace and enjoy it. And he rewarded his half-brothers Li Fangyi, Li Fanggan, and Li Fangyuan, giving them military power and letting them contain each other. However, what should come will always come.
In the second year of Daming Jianwen, Li Fangguo had been on the throne for two years, and Li Fangyuan finally did not want to live in seclusion behind the scenes, exiled his fourth brother Li Fanggan, who was interested in competing for the right to inherit, and accepted Li Fangguo's Zen concession at Songjing Shouchang Palace to become the king of Joseon, but even if he gave up the throne, Li Fangguo eventually died violently.
In the year that Emperor Taizong Li Fangyuan succeeded to the throne, emperor Jianwen's emissaries came to Korea, and Li Fangyuan led hundreds of officials out of the city to greet him, becoming the first king of Korea to be officially canonized by Daming. Two years later, When Ming Chengzu Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, Li Fangyuan was recognized by Zhu Di, and from then on, Li Fangyuan's status as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty was unshakable, and Li Fangyuan's status in Korea was also unshakable.
In general, this Korean Taizong's life experience is not much better than that of Tang Taizong, but he seems to be much stronger than Li Shimin.
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