Speaking of the history of the Tang Dynasty, everyone can't avoid the heavenly khan Li Shimin, and when it comes to Li Shimin, many people will think of the changes in Xuanwumen. There are too many articles about Li Jiancheng, but Li Yuanji is a very unfamiliar name, but this person is everywhere. When the Tang Dynasty founded the country, he was the one who pulled the hind legs, and he was the one who built the world to win the heirs, and he was also the one who blindly mixed in.
Li Yuanji stills
So, what kind of person is Li Yuanji? What kind of consideration did he have for actively participating in the battle between the eldest brother and the second brother? Anyway, the throne has nothing to do with him, so isn't it good to be a vassal king quietly?
Li Yuanji is actually quite pitiful, he has lacked maternal love since he was a child, which has also led to his cruelty and ruthlessness as an adult. "New Tang Dynasty Book" records: Yuan Jisheng, Queen Taimu hated her appearance. Li Yuanji was hated by his own mother when he was born, disliked him, and was unwilling to raise him. Fortunately, he was born in a wealthy duke family, and Li Yuan found him a wet nurse and asked the nurse to raise him. But it is estimated that the wet nurse did not expect that this child, who she had worked so hard to raise, would finally kill her with her own hands.
When he was a teenager, Li Yuanji was a cruel and bloodthirsty evil boy, and his favorite game was to let his guards play the role of fighting, killing each other with real swords and guns, resulting in many casualties. The kind-hearted nurse persuaded him, but he was killed on the spot. This incident illustrates the meanness and ruthlessness in Li Yuanji's character, and it is not difficult to explain the various small actions in the subsequent succession incident.
In historical materials, I have seen a strange phenomenon more than once, in the battle for succession, Li Yuanji was more urgent, more direct, and more extreme than Li Jiancheng. For example, Li Yuanji directly said to Li Jiancheng: "King Qin's achievements are growing day by day, and he is loved by the Lord, although His Royal Highness is the crown prince, he is uneasy, please kill him for His Highness." Li Jiancheng couldn't bear it in his heart, and refused Li Yuanji's instigation several times, but Li Yuanji still persuaded him many times.
Li Yuan stills
Everyone has heard about the poisoned alcohol incident, so I won't talk about it. Li Shimin drank at Li Jiancheng's house, and after drinking, he was poisoned, and was carried back by Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, to save his life. This is more, if Li Jiancheng was poisoned, why did he do dirty work in his own house, for fear that others would not know that he was the murderer?
In fact, the biggest possibility is Li Yuanji's private operation. Li Yuanji is so manipulative, the original plan was to kill the two brothers together. Li Shimin was poisoned, and it was impossible for the emperor not to pursue it, and if he found out that the prince had murdered his own brother, then Li Jiancheng, the crown prince, would basically be finished, and his son-in-law would be left alone, would Li Yuan still have a choice? This was Li Yuanji's plan.
As the founding emperor, Li Yuan is definitely not a fool, and he saw that Li Jiancheng was innocent, and Li Shimin was a victim, so he downplayed the matter, "King Qin is not good at drinking, and you have drunk so much that his stomach bleeds, and you are not allowed to drink in the future." ”
Court banquets
The other time was even hilarier. On this day, Li Shimin accompanied Li Yuan to the prince's East Palace as a guest. Li Yuanji arranged for the samurai Yu Wenbao to assassinate Li Shimin, but was discovered by Li Jiancheng and severely stopped. Li Yuanji was furious, "I'm all for you, it's none of my business." ”
It's a pretty good plan, in front of the emperor's father, assassinate the second brother at the eldest brother's house, is it to kill the emperor by the way. Once this plan is implemented and succeeds, Li Jiancheng will inevitably incur the most severe punishment from the emperor, unless the emperor is killed together; if it fails, he will face the emperor's severe punishment and Li Shimin's crazy revenge. The only beneficiary of this plan is Li Yuanji himself, who is innocent and clean.
Drop the cup for the number
There is such a historical material in the "New Tang Dynasty Book", Li Yuanji's original words, "But except for the King of Qin, take the East Palace as a palm!" also confirmed Li Yuanji's true thoughts. However, I really don't know who gave him the courage of this His Royal Highness King Qi.
Taking stock of the battles he fought, to put it this way, if it weren't for his own son, he would have been dragged out of military law by Li Yuan more than a dozen times.
Li Yuanji especially likes to fight, and once competed with the top military general Wei Chi Jingde at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but this is not how good his military talent is, this is just to satisfy his excess energy that has nowhere to release, to put it bluntly, he is idle.
At the beginning of Taiyuan's army, Li Yuan took Jiancheng and the people of the world to chase the Central Plains, leaving Li Yuanji to guard Taiyuan's hometown. The warlord Liu Wuzhou came to attack with the Turks, and Li Yuanji panicked when he saw so many people, especially the barbaric Turkic cavalry. This guy lied to his deputy Liu Dewei and said: "This person is not enough for me to kill, you can take the old and weak to defend the city, watch me beat them with the elite!" Then, Li Yuanji took the elite troops overnight, Kaicheng escaped, and the treasures of his wife and concubine were not leaked at all, and all the treasures were taken away, and the elite troops became his personal dart game.
In front is the bloody battle of the brothers, and in the back is the old brother who lost the nest. Li Yuan could only punish a bunch of innocent soldiers, and Li Yuanji was just reprimanded, but he never dared to let him lead the troops to fight alone.
If you don't bring troops to fight, it won't affect Li Yuanji's addiction to food, so let's compete. The competition with no one is good, but I found the most capable Wei Chi Jingde, and let people grab the white blade three times empty-handed, and snatch his horse lance with empty hands and stab it back. Since then, Li Yuanji has hated Wei Chi Jingde, and even hates Li Shimin even more.
The consideration of interests, as well as the lack of maternal love, and the jealousy of the eldest brother and second brother, led to the distortion of Li Yuanji's personality, and also let everyone see his jumping up and down in the process of winning the heir, more positive than anyone else. He is not an outsider, but an ambitious participant.
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