Li Ke is all right, he can't compete with Li Zhi, and in the end he can't become the emperor, the most fundamental reason is that he is not Li Shimin's son-in-law, and the strength of the maternal family "Hongnong Yang" is not strong enough, but regardless of his background and background, Li Ke is indeed very similar to Li Shimin, more like Li Chengqian and Li Tai.

Is Li Shimin's son Li Ke really strong? Why have future generations missed him for thousands of years?

Li Ke, the king of Wu, is the third son of Li Shimin, Taizong likes this son very much, and Li Ke also performed very well. However, Taizong was more worried about Li Zhi's overly benevolent and weak character, but fell in love with Li Ke, and finally dispelled the idea of Yi Chu at the insistence of the eldest grandson Wuji. Li Ke was later involved in the case of Fang's bereavement, was falsely accused of rebellion by the eldest grandson Wuji, and was killed, which became the biggest political injustice case in the early Tang Dynasty.

Li Ke, the son of Li Shimin, has been able to win people's sympathy and emotion for thousands of years, not because he has made any great achievements, but because of people's regret and sadness when they read history and see that there is no place for handsome and talented people and beautiful people are destroyed. This kind of unbearable emotion of pity for the tragic fate of historical figures is also a relatively noble feeling of human beings, after all, Mr. Lu Xun once said that tragedy is the destruction of beautiful things for people to see.

First, Li Ke was emphasized by Li Shimin. At that time, Li Chengqian and Li Tai competed for the storage position, and Li Shimin was dissatisfied with his two sons, so he wanted to pass on the throne to Li Ke, saying that Li Ke was "like me".

Second, Li Ke was deliberately attacked by the eldest grandson Wuji. After Li Zhi became the emperor, the eldest grandson was undoubtedly very wary of Li Ke. Later, he took advantage of the case of Fang Yiai's rebellion and slandered Li Ke for participating in the rebellion, thus killing Li Ke. If the eldest grandson Wuji didn't watch out for Li Ke and didn't feel that Li Ke was a threat to him and Li Zhi, he wouldn't need to kill Li Ke.

Third, after Li Xian came to power, he immediately rehabilitated Li Ke. The reason why Li Ke was rehabilitated was obviously because he was very sympathetic to Li Ke's experience and felt that Li Ke had been wronged.

Fourth, the Southern Tang Dynasty recognized Li Ke as an ancestor. Originally, Li Ke was given death, and the ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty all felt that it was unlucky to recognize a person who was given death as their ancestors. However, the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty believed that Li Ke, as the king of Wu, had brought great blessings to the Southern Tang Dynasty, so he recognized him quite a lot.

Because Li Ke inherited Yang Guang's intelligence and Li Shiming's wisdom and martial arts, he was deeply liked by Li Shimin in all aspects, and was once determined by Li Shimin as one of the heirs to the throne.

The three sons of Li Shimin and his original wife, Empress Changsun, are naturally direct sons, and naturally become the heirs to the throne in the first order. His sons Li Chengqian, Li Tai and Li Zhi are the first heirs to the throne. Li Ke, as the most accomplished prince, also appeared in the ranks of heirs.

At that time, Li Chengqian, as the eldest son, was determined to be the heir to the throne when he was very young, and when he grew up, he was attacked by his younger brother Li Tai and the people around him, and was often beaten and reported, which gradually caused Li Shimin's dissatisfaction. Li Chengqian was trained by the prince since he was a child, and gradually lost patience with this situation, and finally came to the side of the evil and remembered his father Li Shimin's means of launching the Xuanwumen Revolution to ascend to the throne, so he tried to launch a coup d'état to kill Li Tai and force Li Shimin to abdicate, but it is conceivable that Li Shimin smashed his conspiracy. The brothers were dealt with together, demoted to commoners, exiled to a remote area, and died of depression.

As the only descendant son Li Zhi came into people's field of vision, but Li Zhi was in poor health and had no intention of engaging in politics.

At this time, the hope of the son of the direct line to inherit the throne was dashed.

Li Ke, the king of Wu, walked into the field of vision of the imperial court, Li Ke was well educated by Concubine Yang since he was a child, and he knew how to be measured, advanced and retreated, and was very loved by Li Shimin. Originally, it was the most promising to inherit the unification.

At this time, a person appeared, this person is the spokesperson of the Guanlong Group in the Tang Dynasty who represents the infinite influence since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and is also the elder brother of the Empress Changsun, the first in the Lingyan Meritorious Pavilion, and Li Shimin's eldest brother, Changsun Wuji, this person has infinite energy, he not only advocated the establishment of his nephew as the heir to the emperor, but also constantly led his team to pressure Li Shimin, and finally Li Shimin considered that the Guanlong Group above the court was quite powerful, in order to stabilize the court, and finally set Li Zhi as the prince.

After Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi ascended the throne and was called Tang Gaozong, Li Zhi was actually a talented person, he was the queen mother first, and only the eldest grandson Wuji was the first to look forward. During this period, the eldest grandson Wuji monopolized power, created many unjust cases and implicated Li Ke, and finally executed Li Ke. After Li Ke ascended the throne, he took back his favorite former emperor Li Shimin's talented man Wu Cao, and he began a struggle with the Guanlong group for Wu Cao's identity, and finally fought to the eldest grandson Wuji with the assistance of Wu Cao, and exiled the eldest grandson Wuji.

However, the wise and martial King of Wu, Li Ke, became a victim and was killed by the eldest grandson Wuji. In the second year of Shenlong, that is, in 707, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian restored the title of Li Ke, the king of Wu.

The reason why Li Ke is remembered is because of the injustice of his death. Because he didn't have the heart and action to rebel at all, but the eldest grandson Wuji saw that he was not pleasing to the eye, so he killed him. And not because of his abilities.