The previous acting officials were not enough to call him, and the general of Tiance was placed on the throne. In the winter of October, with Shimin as the general of Tiance, he led Situ and Shaanxi Eastern Province Daxingtai Shangshu Ling, increased the number of households by 20,000, and still opened the Tiance Mansion and placed officials and subordinates. —— Zizhi Tongjian Tang Ji V
Referring to this record, in the process of the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin can be described as a meritorious person, can be called the first meritorious hero of the founding of the country, after the pacification of Luoyang, when Li Shimin was already ranked as the King of Qin, the head of the Three Dukes, in charge of the national military) and The Shang Shu Ling (Shangshu Governor, Prime Minister), in terms of Wang Jue, the Tang Dynasty prince, generally to the Spring and Autumn Warring States period of the princely states as the title, the Qin state is the most powerful state at that time, the King of Qin is naturally the head of the kings, second only to the emperor and the prince, In terms of official position, Li Shimin is also a lieutenant and a Shang Shu Ling, which can be said to be unsealable.
Under such circumstances, it was always impossible to let the crown prince Li Jianjian continue and let Li Shimin, the king of Qin, become the crown prince, and it can be said that Li Shimin was already a master of meritorious service at that time, so Tang Gaozu Li Yuan simply did not look at whether the previous acting official position was suitable for a false position, but instead made a special general of heavenly strategy, so that both sides would look good.
Nominally, General Tiance is second only to the first three divisions of nominal civilian officials (i.e., Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao), and is not a cap. But in fact, General Tiance has been capped, because the three divisions are all virtual positions, there is no real power, and generally granted to highly respected ministers, it is not suitable for Li Shimin, and even more often the three divisions are in an empty state, mostly used for the posthumous posthumous title of the minister of great merit and virtue, compared to the Tiance general, although he is not a real official position, but it is not a virtual position, it can be said that some are not different, but there is still real power, it is in charge of the national conquest, and the general judgement, and can also "allow himself to set up official subordinates."
Although this power has little effect on Li Shimin, it is of extraordinary significance, although in the process of conquering the world, he has formed a powerful political group with himself as the core through various means, but these people are not his subordinate officials, and they can justifiably follow and obey his orders, and the Tiance general can set himself up as an official, that is, recruit talents as officials in the Tiance Government, so that his political group can be legitimized, and this right is the same as the Prince's Eastern Palace system, which is equivalent to the formation of his own small team. Cultivate your own power.
Therefore, in fact, General Tiance has actually been capped, because this is an official position specially assigned to him by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan in the unsealed state.
And it is precisely because Li Shimin's merits are high and the lord is high, since then Tang Gaozu Li Yuan began to consciously support the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Qi king Li Yuanji to suppress Li Shimin, like the major military operations in the later period of Wude, the commander is no longer Li Shimin, but the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Qi king Li Yuanji replaced, on the eve of the outbreak of the Xuanwumen Rebellion, Li Yuanji, as the commander who rejected the Turks, wanted to seize the elite of the Qin royal palace for his own use, and wanted to empty Li Shimin, so Li Shimin relied on his powerful political group to come to a change in Xuanwumen, which was a complete reversal of the situation , and eventually became emperor.
Some people say that adding nine tin like Cao Cao, praising the nameless, and walking on the temple with the sword is the real cap, in fact, the two are not the same.
Like Jia Jiu Xi, praise is not named, the sword is on the temple, especially this Jia Jiu Xi, is often a powerful and powerful person, to usurp the throne before the necessary package, even if he does not usurp the throne, his son will also complete this step, usually, this is the courtier power to reach enough to take the emperor and replace it, and he also has ambitions after the water to the water, belongs to a special honor.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin's Heavenly Strategy General is only a comparison of official positions, and the two are not comparable at all. Nominally speaking, the Tiance admiral is second only to the Third Division, there is no cap, combined with the actual situation, it can be said that it is the cap, so after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he abolished this non-conformist official position, and then never restored, and finally Tang I, that is, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, was a general of Tiance.
In the later five dynasties and ten kingdoms and the Song Dynasty period, only six people won this honor, and the Song Dynasty's Tiance general belonged to a false position and a title, and in the chaotic world of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, because the imperial power was not prosperous, there were actually Tiance generals, as for the yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties in the future, there was no position of tiance general, because the tiance general, as the head of the military generals, could also open a government, and form his own forces in a proper manner, and the proper configuration was to compete with the prince's eastern palace, and once it was set up, there were definitely huge hidden dangers, and naturally never appeared again. Of course, with the strengthening of imperial power, the usurpation of the throne by the powerful minister Jia Jiuxi and the change of dynasty did not appear after that, and all this was on the basis of the gradual strengthening of imperial power.
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