Li Shimin's father, Li Yuan, had five sons and six daughters. One of them, Li Shi, was married to Zhao Cijing, the Assassin of Huazhou. Zhao Cijing was a famous filial piety and handsome brother in history, and Li Yuan married his daughter to him because of Zhao Cijing's handsomeness.
When Li Yuan raised an army in Taiyuan, Zhao Cijing, as a family member of the anti-thief, was arrested by the Sui Dynasty and beheaded. At the critical moment, the Sui Dynasty guards felt that the rebel was Li Yuan and not Zhao Cijing, so they let him go and imprisoned him.
After Li Yuan's uprising, when he led a large army into Chang'an City, he released his son-in-law Zhao Cijing from the prison. Li Yuan made his daughter Li Shi the Princess of Changguang, and Zhao Cijing was made a lieutenant of the Horse Guards.
Princess Nagahiro (?) –648), surnamed Li (李), whose name is unknown, was a native of Chengji, Longxi (present-day Qin'an County, Gansu). The fifth daughter of Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of Tang, and the sister of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin.
In the early years of Wude, Li Shi was renamed Princess Changguang, and later changed her title to Princess Guiyang. She had two sons, Zhao Jie and Zhao Bin (Zhao Cijing also had a son named Zhao Zhi, who should be Shuzi).
When Li Yuan raised an army in Taiyuan, Zhao Cijing was in Chang'an, and others advised him to run quickly, he did not want to leave his elderly mother, and was arrested and imprisoned together with Dou Sheng, Li Shenfu, etc., until Li Yuan led the army to capture Chang'an, he was released.
After Li Yuan became emperor, Zhao Cijing was sent by Li Yuan to fight the general Yao Junsu of Hedong and died in battle for his meritorious service to the Duke of Kaihua Commandery, as a literary scholar of xiangguofu, as a waiter in the army department, and as the commander of the marching army.
At the beginning of Wu Dechu, Princess Changguang remarried her second husband, Zhongshu Ling (i.e., Zai Xiang) Yang Shidao.
At this time, she conspired with her first husband Zhao Cijing's son Zhao Jie and the crown prince Li Chengqian to rebel and was killed by his uncle, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin.
After the change of Xuanwu Gate, Tang Taizong Li Shimin ascended to the throne and became the new emperor. He ordered zhao jie and Li Chengqian to be killed.
At that time, in addition to the chancellor Sun Wuji, who presided over the trial of the case, there was also Zhao Jie's stepfather, Zhongshu Ling Yang Shidao; Yang Shidao interceded for Zhao Jie, offended Tang Taizong, and demoted Zhongshu Ling to the official Shangshu.
When Princess Guiyang saw that her son was arrested and was about to be given to death, she quickly ran to her brother, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, to intercede. The princess knelt and prostrated her head as if she were pounding garlic ("weeping for the sin of thanking the child"). Li Shimin also cried and said: The law of the land is important. He refused his sister's request.
In fact, it is easy to understand this. No matter what Zhao Jie said, he was also the son of Princess Guiyang who was conceived in October. As a mother, Princess Guiyang has a big motherhood.
Princess Guiyang's reaction can be said to be a normal reaction of a mother. No mother wants her son to die, as long as there is a glimmer of hope to save her son's life, the mother will use 120% of her efforts to fight.
Princess Guiyang, as Li Shimin's sister, gave her brother Li Shimin a great gift of prostration and thanksgiving. Li Shimin saw that his sister was prostrating her head like pounding garlic, and she was also embarrassed.
Treason is the first of the most heinous sins. If Li Shimin let his nephew Zhao Jie go, the deterrent power of the law would be gone. When the relatives of the emperor and the state saw that they could not kill the rebels, I was afraid that they would take the risk one after another and follow Zhao Jie's example.
But if he insisted on killing Zhao Jie, Li Shimin felt sorry for his sister who was begging bitterly.
At the critical moment, Li Shimin also used the ultimate big move, he also knelt on the ground and worshiped his sister Princess Guiyang.
Everyone must know that Li Shimin is the Son of Heaven. His knees, only kneeling heaven and earth parents. Although Princess Guiyang was his own sister, she could not stand the worship of Li Shimin, the younger brother of Tianzi.
While praying to his sister, Li Shimin cried and said, "The country has the law, and when it is time to reward, even the enemy must reward it." When it is time to punish, even relatives should not cover up and connive. It's not my brother who wants to kill Zhao Jie, it's the law of the country that wants to kill Zhao Jie. For the dignity of the country's law, my brother and I can only be sorry for my sister! (Shangyi Prays and weeps: "Reward does not avoid the enemy, punish the relatives, the most righteous way in this world, do not dare to violate it, because it is a negative sister.") ”
The elder sister Li Shi cried, and the younger brother Li Shimin also cried. Sister worship, Li Shimin also worships. Princess Guiyang saw this situation at this time and knew that her brother Li Shimin had an iron heart to kill Zhao Jie. Princess Guiyang had no choice but to cry with her brother, and then there was no follow-up.
There is another way to say this.
According to this theory, after Li Shimin killed Zhao Jie, he went to the Princess Mansion to appease Princess Guiyang. Princess Guiyang apologized to her brother. Li Shimin returned to visit and comfort his sister.
The author does not accept this statement. The reason is very simple, the "Zizhi Tongjian" is clearly recorded, Li Shimin discovered that the prince was plotting rebellion in early April. At the beginning of April, li chengqian was deposed on the sixth day of April, Li Zhi was made crown prince in the seventh month of April, and the princess house was taken on the eighth day of april. In the short period of two days from the deposed prince to the Princess Palace, Li Shimin did not have time to kill Zhao Jie. At this time, Zhao Jie should have been sentenced to death and waited on death row for the autumn decision.
As a result of this incident, several people who launched the rebellion, including Li Shimin's son Li Chengqian, Li Shimin's nephew, Zhao Jie, and the ministers Du He and Hou Junji, were all killed by Li Shimin.