#历史上高祖李渊为什么会畏惧李世民 #
Tang Taizong Li Shimin
Author Lantai
The history of how Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin's father and son seized the sui dynasty has been completely changed by Li Shimin.
This is already the consensus of the Chinese Tang historians.
For example, Huang Yongnian (Mr. Chen Yinke, Gao Zu), the first secretary general of the Chinese Tang History Society, specifically mentioned in his masterpiece "Political History of China in the Sixth to Ninth Centuries" that "from the first-hand document "Notes on the Entrepreneurship and Living of the Tang Dynasty", from the Taiyuan army to Gao Zu's entry into Chang'an to call the emperor Jiantang, the achievements built were no less than Li Shimin.' ”
Professors Zhao Keyao and Xu Daoxun of the History Department of Fudan University simply said in the "Biography of Tang Taizong" that the history books of the Tang Dynasty have tried to scandalize Li Jiancheng, "The official history books of the Tang Dynasty always scandalize Jiancheng and Yuanji, and try to whitewash the people of the world." ”
Mr. Niu Zhigong, vice president of the China Tang History Society, criticized Li Shimin for tampering with historical materials in the "Ancestral Biography of Tang Gao", "Under the influence of these history books, Gao Zu lacked the ability to deal decisively, Li Jiancheng was mediocre and incompetent, and Li Shimin's merits were outstanding, and it almost became common knowledge for women and children. It can be seen from this how far-reaching the influence of Li Shimin in distorting history and tampering with the "Record" for the sake of excessive literary ornamentation. ”
Meng Xianshi, a professor of history at Renmin University and an expert in Tang history, also mentioned that the academic community has always believed that Li Shimin revised a large number of records at that time, "In fact, this period of history (the change from the early Tang Dynasty to Xuanwumen) is unanimously believed to have been systematically tampered with." ”
It can be said that after Li Shimin tampered with the historical materials, the "Old Book of Tang", the "New Book of Tang" and the "Zizhi Tongjian" about the history of the early Tang Dynasty and the relationship between Li Yuan's father and son were basically wrong.
When some people see this, they will ask, since you and so many experts and scholars have said that the history of the early Tang Dynasty was tampered with by Li Shimin, why do you still advocate that "Li Yuan is really wary of Li Jiancheng, not Li Shimin?" ”
Although history has been tampered with a lot, but after all, it cannot be completely tampered with, we can still find the truth of history from some clues, please note that I am talking about the truth of history, not the real history.
Tang dynasty
From the perspective of historical research, real history can never be restored, and historians and history enthusiasts can only get infinitely close to the real history through the analysis and combing and even inference of existing historical materials, which is called the truth of history.
Gao Shilian, friends who may not be familiar with history, do not know who this person is.
Gao Shilian was the eldest grandson of empress dowager and the eldest grandson's maternal uncle, and the eldest grandson empress's sister and brother died when their parents died at an early age, and it was Gao Shilian who raised him, although legally he was the maternal uncle, in fact, he was Li Shimin's father-in-law, and he was a natural "Qin King's Party".
In the fifth year of Wu De, Li Yuan appointed Gao Shilian, who had returned from Vietnam to Chang'an, as the ruler of Yongzhou.
Shi Lian and he returned to China and moved to Yongzhou to rule the country. - Old Book of Tang, Liechuan XV
What is the position of Yongzhou Zhizhong?
Before Emperor Xuanzong li longji established Chang'an County and Wannian County, Chang'an, as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was nominally the highest administrative officer of Yongzhou Mu, but also because Yongzhou Mu could govern all affairs of Chang'an, this position was only used as an honorary position for male members of the imperial family, not really granted.
The person who was really in charge of the administrative affairs of Chang'an was Yongzhou Mu's deputy, that is, Yongzhou Zhizhong. At that time, Yongzhou Mu was Li Shimin, the King of Qin.
In other words, in the fifth year of Wude, Li Yuan appointed Gao Shilian, the maternal uncle of Li Shimin's wife, as the ruler of Yongzhou, responsible for all administrative affairs of Chang'an.
Map of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty
That is, Gao Shilian, after the change of XuanwuMen, led a group of prisoners, and the momentum of the five squares, directly pounced on the Taiji Palace Garden; it should be known that each square in the Tang Dynasty city was a small castle, there was no difference between the square wall and the city wall, the Tang army had garrisons in every square, if Gao Shilian did not have the identity of Yongzhou Zhizhong, he could not lead people to rush to join Li Shimin.
Shi Lian led the officials to release the prisoners, gave them armor, and rushed to the Fanglin Gate to prepare for the alliance with Emperor Taizong. - Old Book of Tang, Liechuan XV
Why did Li Yuan, the king of Qin, make Li Shimin, the king of Qin, actually father-in-law Gao Shilian, serve as the governor of Yongzhou? Didn't this hand over Chang'an to the Qin king Li Shimin' faction?
Doesn't this mean that Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng have joined forces to persecute Li Shimin?
Why did Li Yuan give such an important post to Gao Shilian? And do it until the xuanwumen change breaks out?
If Li Jiancheng's cronies were in Yongzhou at that time, then any armed force that wanted to support Li Shimin at Xuanwumen would have first defeated the Benfang garrison.
As long as we look at the historical data, we know that in the fifth year of Wude, Li Jiancheng led a large army to destroy Liu Heimin, who was wreaking havoc in Hebei.
Now, everyone understands who Li Yuan is watching out for, right?
Why should Li Yuan beware of Li Jiancheng?
Because Yang Guang is also the prince.
As early as the end of the Sui Dynasty, the gossip about how Yang Guang poisoned Yang Jian had spread all over the world, and Li Yuan had certainly heard it.
Although our descendants see that Yang Guang was the second son who usurped the position of crown prince and then killed his father to seize the throne, in the eyes of someone like Li Yuan, he only saw Yang Guang kill his father and seize the throne after he became crown prince.
In the TV series, Yang Guang killed his father
Therefore, Li Yuan was really wary of Li Jiancheng, the crown prince, not Li Shimin, the King of Qin, because Li Yuan knew very well that Li Shimin's enemy was first Li Jiancheng, and then he.
Therefore, we see that although Li Yuan asked Li Jiancheng to handle government affairs as a prince in the second year of WuDe, Li Yuan handed over the defense and administration of Chang'an City to Li Shimin and the Qin Wang Dang.
It was precisely because Li Yuan handed over the defense and administration of Chang'an City to Li Shimin and the Qin Wang Party that Li Jiancheng was very uneasy about secretly forming the Changlin Army.
At that time, the rupture of the relationship between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin was already public, and Li Jiancheng's position as the crown prince was a nominal advantage, so what he did was not to let Li Shimin him, so he formed the Changlin Bing to protect himself:
Jiancheng was privately summoned to the four sides of Xiao Yong, and recruited more than 2,000 evil teenagers in Chang'an, and the animals were called palace armor, and the left and right Changlin Gates were divided into Changlin Soldiers.
Why did Li Jiancheng already recruit more than 2,000 "evil teenagers in Chang'an" and ask Yang Wengan, the governor of Gyeongju, to recruit "warriors" for him?
Yang Wengan, the governor of Gyeongju, was built to recruit athletes to send to the Beijing Division.
Yongzhou Zhizhong is Gao Shilian.
As a result, Li Shimin made the "change of Yang Wengan", deliberately planted li Jiancheng, and stimulated Li Yuan by the way.
In fact, from the change of Yang Wengan and the arrest of Zhang Liang, a close associate of Li Shimin, in Luoyang, it can be seen that what Li Yuan was really angry about was the Yang Wengan incident, because Li Yuan really thought that Li Jiancheng had plotted a rebellion.
If it were not for Li Jiancheng's single ride into the palace at the critical moment, Li Shimin's plan would have been successful.
And Li Shimin asked Zhang Liang to go to Luoyang to recruit Hao Jie, Zhang Liang was stolen by Li Yuanji and captured, Li Yuan did not seem to care at all about what Li Shimin sent his cronies to Luoyang to do, which was in stark contrast to the anger when he heard that Yang Wengan was plotting rebellion:
(Li Shimin) dispatched Luoyang to Liang, commanded Wang Bao and more than a thousand other people, and yin led Shandong Haojie to change, more gold, and used it at will. Yuan Ji told Liang that he wanted to misbehave, and he sat down as a subordinate official, and Liang Shu had nothing to say. He was released and returned to Luoyang. - Old Book of Tang
This is even more obvious to see that Li Yuan is really wary, and it is Li Jiancheng who is really afraid.
The change of Xuanwu Gate
This is also the reason why Li Shimin deeply hated Li Yuan after the Xuanwumen Incident, because Li Yuan used Li Shimin to restrain Li Jiancheng, which was a wonderful move for Li Yuan personally, and Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin mutual restraint ensured the stability of his position as emperor.
Facts have also proved that Li Shimin's change of Xuanwu Gate killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, but did not kill Li Yuan.
However, assuming that Li Shimin did not engage in the Xuanwumen Revolution, and the relationship between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin was bad, how would Li Jiancheng treat Li Shimin and Li Shimin's entire family after Li Yuan's death?
Li Yuan used Li Shimin to restrain Li Jiancheng, only considering himself, and did not consider Li Shimin's own son for a minute at all.
This is also the real reason why Li Shimin deliberately mistreated Li Yuan after he became emperor.
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