From Li Shimin's point of view, his father Li Yuan and his two brothers are actually the life and death opponents who really want to kill him, or want to end his temple life, and cannot compromise at all.
And the famous ministers and generals who have heavy troops in their hands and can open their own mansions are the "relatives" who are killed by him from the sea of corpses and blood, and their fate is connected. Referring to the lack of emotion, Li Shimin really regarded these subordinates who fought with him on the battlefield, except for his brother and father, and committed the following crimes, as "relatives".
Since Li Yuan's authorization, Li Shimin has been the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces of the group, leading military power, and has obtained various titles, including the right to recruit troops, absorb and demote generals, and cultivate his own forces. And Li Shimin was originally talented, and he was good at dancing on the stage, winning the loyalty of the world's talents.
These successively attached heroes were originally the strong pillars of Tang Taizong's ascension to the throne, and they had no contact with Tang Gaozu and other princes and grandchildren.
A typical example is Wei Chi Gong, who was the standard one Li Shimin surrendered in battle and was later appointed as the leader of the pro-army. The two were intimate on the battlefield, went to the soup and fire countless times, and fell into the enemy camp.
In the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, Li and Wei spied on the front line, Wang Shichong sent tens of thousands of cavalry to chase, and when he was about to be captured, it was Wei Chigong who came out from the side, stabbed the enemy general to death, and took Li Shimin out of the encirclement.
In the face of Dou Jiande, the two took the lead again, took the bait as a bait, fought and retreated, and finally introduced the enemy's main force into their own pocket formation, wrapped dumplings, and laid the foundation for the decisive victory of the battle.
Li Shimin himself said: With a bow and arrow alone and a gun on his side, even if he is in an army of millions, who can be the enemy?
Therefore, with the two brothers who have been in the rear for a long time, secretly poking and poking at their own heirs, Wei Chigong is the real blood relationship, which is called "intimacy".
In the battle of Xuanwu Gate, the one who directly stabbed Li Yuanji, and controlled and threatened Li Yuan, was Wei Chigong. Just ask at this moment, whether Wei Chigong is a general of the Tang Dynasty or Li Shimin's family? If Li Yuan had a slight disobedience at that time, it is estimated that he and his two princes will also end up.
Wei Chigong is just a microcosm of Li Shimin's countless heroes, and the loyalty index of the civil and military generals in the Tiance Mansion to the Tang Dynasty can basically refer to the degree of support of the Cao family's generals for Liu Xie.
After Li Shimin took control of the situation, he went straight to the inner palace and hugged his father and wept incessantly; after this extremely glorious picture of humanity, Li Shimin immediately threatened his father to issue an edict and slaughtered 10 of his minor nephews.
The attitude of the historian, with contrasting curved brushwork, vividly expresses the vivid faces of one who wants to live and one who wants to be in power, needless to say.
There is a legend that Tang Taizong originally wanted to give a group of heirs of his two brothers a way to live, but the civil officials of Tiance Mansion came out: with the allusion that the king of Huainan in the Han Dynasty was given to die, and one of his sons, Liu An, took over the title, he secretly accumulated strength and intended to rebel, and finally forced Li Shimin to take the way of killing them all.
However, although this legend is quite popular with "stall lovers", it is indeed false. The Wenchen of Tiance Mansion used the "Han Dynasty allusion" to speak to Taizong and persuaded him to kill them all, which cannot be found in the official history at all.
Who is Tang Taizong? The pattern vision can be described as one of the best figures, and he even dares to take his father's position for the sake of hegemony, how can he be afraid of a few children.
At the risk of being scolded and indiscriminately killing innocents, he also slaughtered 10 descendants who were related by blood, and it was true that he was cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, but he was not worried about the risk of the throne, but he revealed his heart to everyone - 1 attitude to the heroes who have been rebelling with him for many years: Rest assured, I will not cross the river and tear down the bridge. From the standpoint of these heroes, this is a unique brilliance of humanity since ancient times.
If you don't do this, the heroes must have doubts, yes, everything is good when you start a business now, what about 5 or 10 years later? When these nephews reach adulthood, Li Shimin will be crowned a prince to calm the grievances of his relatives, and then blame the mistake of killing his brother and retiring his father on the head of the courtier, or turn a blind eye and let the Li nobles fight back wildly, and he can still maintain the character of benevolence and righteousness.
Since the Jin Dynasty and below, so many sons of heaven have been replaced, not that there are no foreign ministers and border generals involved in the palace dispute, and a few years later, they were originally counterattacked by the royal descendants who were the opponents of the temple competition, and finally the history of the Yi clan is still vivid.
After stabilizing the overall situation, when dealing with similar contradictions "inside and outside the palace", the Son of Heaven generally turns a deaf ear, or secretly stands in line to pull the bias of relatives.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Wen of Song took away the throne with the assistance of Fu Liang and other three important ministers, but none of the three died well and were given death one after another.
The famous general Wenyang of Cao Wei abandoned Zhuge Dan because of the revenge of his father in history and defected to the Sima family. As a result, when it came to Zhuge Sun's grandson, Sima Xuan, became a powerful minister in the Western Jin Dynasty, he felt that his grandfather's death was caused by the ancestors of the Wen family, and his descendants were all over the place.
The dispute between temples and halls is extremely strange, and the disaster of destruction brought about by an inexplicable reason decades ago abounds.
The subordinates worked hard, without complaint or regret, did the bad things for the master, and the master was still reciprocating, and killed all the threatening relatives, revealing his attitude of treating his subordinates as more super-blood relatives, so that everyone could be loyal and have no worries.
Tang Taizong has not purged his heroes, because for his temple life, these heroes are his closest relatives.
A few years later, Wei Chigong was arrogant and domineering in the temple, even the two people in the Tiance Mansion dared to point their noses and scold. There are meritorious deeds, and Li Daozong, who is the prince, accidentally refuted him once, and he was almost blinded in one eye.
If according to the daily operation of the Son of Heaven in the past dynasties, it is logical that he can use this name to extinguish this threat of great power.
However, only Li Shimin really regarded the righteousness of the monarch and ministers as the blood affection, and accepted them all, but quietly persuaded them to stop in moderation. Then Wei Chigong woke up and corrected his mistakes, and the monarchs and ministers started and finished well, and finally the title was history.
Compared with the relationship between monarchs and ministers, such as Lu Xun to Sun Quan and General Nian to Yinzhen, they will be embarrassed when they see it. It turns out that the master can still operate like this, and a domineering courtier can also have a good death.
At this point, it is no wonder that Wei Zheng, who worked for the prince before, and characters like Wang Qi were also impressed by it, but became Zhenguan Su.