Due to the excessive dazzling image of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, it directly led to the eclipse of his father Tang Gaozu Li Yuan. But we have to understand one thing, Li Yuan is the founding prince of the Tang Dynasty, right? Moreover, he was the founding prince of the eight classics with real power.
After Li Shimin's image became tall, everyone only remembered the rule of Zhenguan, and even ignored Li Yuan's entrepreneurial process. Some people even feel that the Tang Dynasty was established by Li Shimin. Therefore, Li Yuan is called by everyone, the founding prince of the most repressive unified dynasty in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" >, Li Yuan is an official N generation. </h1>
Li Yuan did not accumulate a great family property for no reason, their ancestors had been several generations, all of them were nobles. Li Yuan's great-grandfather, Li Xi, was a Kinmen general of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Wuchuan Commandery he guarded was one of the six northern Wei border towns, so he was a real feudal official.
Li Yuan's great-grandfather, Li Tianci, served as the lord of the Northern Wei Dynasty and was also a general who led troops to fight. Li Yuan's grandfather, Li Hu, this person is a high-ranking person who directly brought the old Li family to heaven.
As one of the Eight Pillar States of Western Wei, Li Hu made outstanding military achievements, served as a lieutenant, and was crowned the Duke of Tang. It is precisely because of Li Hu's efforts that the old Li family has a foundation for building a country.
Li Yuan's father, Li Xun, inherited the title of Duke of Tang during the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and also served as the governor of Northern Zhou's Anzhou Prefecture and the pillar state. Although there is no old man, he has saved the family foundation.
Moreover, Li Xun married the fourth daughter of DuGuxin, one of the Eight Pillars of Western Wei, and gave birth to Li Yuan, which could hold Li Yuan to heaven at once.
It is not that Dugu Xin has many cattle (of course, he is also very cattle), mainly Du Gu Xin's seventh daughter Du Lonely Jia Luo, married to the later Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian as empress, which is equivalent to saying that Du Lonely Empress is Li Yuan's aunt, and Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian is Li Yuan's uncle. As for the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, he was The Cousin of Li Yuanzheng'er Bajing.
With this relationship, Li Yuan was only 7 years old, and he crossed several other half-brothers and inherited the title of Duke of Tang alone. After Emperor Wen of Sui established the Sui Dynasty, did Li Yuan still not eat spicy food? Therefore, Li Yuan's small days in the Sui Dynasty should not be mentioned much better.
Therefore, as soon as Li Yuan came out as an official, he went directly to the imperial palace to serve as a Qianniu Beibei at the side of Emperor Wen of Sui, that is, a military attaché of the Janissaries. After the imperial court was gilded for a period of time, Emperor Wen of Sui sent Li Yuan to serve as an assassin in the local area.
Li Yuan has successively served as the assassin of the three prefectures of Qi, Qi, and Long, and it can be said that Emperor Wen of Sui took good care of this great nephew. After his cousin Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he was better off Li Yuan.
Yang Guang first appointed Li Yuan as the Taishou of Xingyang and Loufu Counties, and then felt that he was not addicted, and then he sent this eldest cousin to the court to serve as a junior prisoner in the palace, not his own person, he would not get around. Li Yuan went through some training outside and returned to the imperial court, and his identity was naturally different.
Judging from the above experience, Li Yuan was basically constantly promoting by his own identity in the early stage. There seems to be nothing extraordinary, but we have to recognize a reality, without these identities, who can easily succeed? Moreover, if Li Yuan did not have any ability, the two generations of emperors of the Sui Dynasty would not reuse him successively.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > Second, Li Yuan laid the foundation for his own entrepreneurship during the Sui Dynasty. </h1>
Li Yuan was a very powerful person, he was easy-going, whether it was a high-ranking official or a common man, Li Yuan was able to treat him kindly, which was quite difficult in that era of strict hierarchy.
Therefore, Li Yuan's popularity is very good, coupled with his many years of local officials, he has accumulated a lot of contacts, which makes Li Yuan gradually smooth sailing in the official field.
In the ninth year of Daye, the Sui Emperor Yang Guang transferred Li Yuan to the post of Wei Wei Shaoqing, which was an official position of a military general and Li Yuan's first military general. Therefore, it was the Sui Emperor who brought Li Yuan to the road of entrepreneurship.
Do you think Li Yuan is just messing around? Of course not, when the Sui Emperor was crusading against Goguryeo, Li Yuan was responsible for transporting grain and grass behind his back, which was a very important post, and he did a good job.
After Yang Xuan felt that he had rebelled against Sui, Li Yuan realized the beginning of turmoil in the world, so he also began to plan a future for himself. He was appointed by the Sui Emperor to guard Honghua Commandery. At this time, Li Yuan may have thought of one person, that is, Yuwen Tai, the founder of northern Zhou.
Since Yuwentai can start a business, why can't he? Therefore, during this period, Li Yuan made friends with haojie in the world, which can be said to be a person who did not refuse. As long as you have a little ability, then stay, and you will always have a mouthful to eat.
The Sui Emperor, who was frightened by Yang Xuangan, immediately realized that Li Yuan had a disobedient heart, but he had no evidence, and it was not good to attack his cousin, so he wanted to call Li Yuan to ask two questions.
It was precisely because of this change that Li Yuan understood that the Great Sui Dynasty should not be overthrown by him, and as long as the Sui Emperor lived for one day, he should be loyal to the Great Sui Dynasty for one day. Therefore, Li Yuan began to drink and have fun, did not think of making progress, and finally escaped a disaster.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="62" > Third, Li Yuan gathered strength and was ready to go. </h1>
Yang Xuangan's rebellion only sounded the death knell of the Great Sui Dynasty, and there was still some time before the demise of the Great Sui Dynasty. During this period, Li Yuan had two things to do:
The first was to pass the pass in confusion and not let the Sui Emperor have doubts about himself.
The second is to accumulate strength, because the world will be turbulent at any time, and whether it can successfully start a business at that time depends on how many pounds you have.
Therefore, in the eleventh year of Daye, when Li Yuan served as the ambassador of Shanxi Hedong Comfort, he conveniently defeated wu Duan'er's rebel army and absorbed more than 10,000 people at the same time, which made Li Yuan feel confident.
After that, he defeated the rebel Chai Baochang of Daizhou and once again collected tens of thousands of people from him. Regardless of their combat effectiveness, these people are all living forces.
Because of his outstanding military achievements, Li Yuan was made a general of the Right Guard by the Sui Emperor. During this period, Li Yuan, while recuperating his strength, added new merits and defeated the Turkic army with fewer troops.
In the thirteenth year of Daye, the Sui Emperor was already in Yangzhou Jiangdu, and Li Mi of Wagangzhai had also cut off the Sui Emperor's way back to the west, so the Sui Emperor basically lost his right to rule the world.
At this time, Li Yuan officially served as the remaining guard of Taiyuan and the superintendent of Jinyang Palace, and was the highest military and political leader in Shanxi. During this period, Li Yuan also defeated the Snitch Zhen Zhai'er of Alexandria.
Li Yuan did not stop, but Li Yongzhong and for a short time continued to let his sons make friends with the world's Haojie, surrender and rebel, and expand their strength. There are people, people, and territory, now wait for an opportunity, Li Yuan can start a business.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="59" >4. Is it really forced to start a business? It's just a play. </h1>
Regarding The matter of Li Yuan starting a business, many people have put the credit on Li Shimin. Even in the history books, there is such a funny story:
Li Shimin, Pei Ning, Liu Wenjing, and others planned to plot an army, but they were afraid that Li Yuan would not have the guts, so Pei Huan picked a few beautiful women in the Jinyang Palace, and after Li Yuan was drunk, he let these beautiful women accompany Li Yuan for the night.
When Li Yuan woke up, he was almost not scared to death. Because the women in the Jinyang Palace were all the women of the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, even if they were palace women, Li Yuan could not touch them!
Pei Huan simply tore his face and said: You look at it, if you can't afford to fight, then your old Li family can only be killed by the whole family! Immediately after that, Li Shimin presented the entire plan for starting a military business, and instantly conquered Li Yuan.
Regardless of the authenticity of the whole thing, to say that Li Yuan did not have the courage to start a business, I think it is nonsense. At that time, the world was full of heroes, the Sui Emperor had no intention of returning to the west, Li Yuan had money, people, and territory, why didn't he have the courage to start a business? What's more, in the early days, it was under the banner of the Sui Dynasty to start a business?
Therefore, the story is too dramatic, exaggerating the merits of Li Shimin, and degrading Li Yuan to nothing, which is indeed a bit excessive. If Li Shimin is really the first entrepreneurial achievement, Li Yuan cannot prevent him from being the prince. After all, at that time, there was no such thing as the primogeniture system.
Fifth, on the means of starting a military force, Li Yuan moved quickly.
At that time, Li Yuan's Yingyang lieutenant Liu Wuzhou rebelled and declared himself the Son of Heaven. After this matter was known to the Sui Emperor, the Sui Emperor actually had to pull Li Yuan to punish him.
Li Yuan smiled, so he borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and began to recruit troops and horses everywhere on the pretext of guarding against the Turks and Liu Wuzhou. Li Yuan then slaughtered Wang Wei and Gao Junya, the deputy retainers of Taiyuan, on the grounds that they were colluding with the Turks.
Li Yuan threw the pot to the Turks when he didn't agree, and the Turks said they were very helpless. During this period, the Turks could not stand it and raised an army to attack the city of Jinyang.
In the historical data, the sentence "Li Yuan set up an empty city plan to scare off the Turkic army" is brushed off. I'll go, the most wonderful place, why should I pass it in one go? I'm afraid I have to ask his son Li Shimin, right?
After resolving the internal contradictions, Li Yuan wanted to learn from Yuwen Tai, seize the land of Guanzhong, and establish his own imperial business here. After all, the Sui Emperor took most of the troops, and Wang Shichong and Wagangzhai fought in the Central Plains, and capturing Guanzhong was the most suitable choice. Therefore, Li Yuan led 30,000 troops straight to Guanzhong.
At this time, Li Yuan had already torn his face with the Sui Emperor, and he defeated the Sui Dynasty's Eagle Tooth Lang general Song Laosheng, and then instead of confronting Qu Tutong, he bypassed him and went straight to Guanzhong. In November of the thirteenth year of Daye, Li Yuan officially invaded Chang'an.
You must know that he is from a civilian background, so the process still has to go. He made Yang You, the grandson of the Sui Emperor, emperor, and Emperor Taishang of the Sui Dynasty, and himself the titles and positions of King of Tang, Grand Chancellor, and Shang Shuling.
Before this, Li Yuan had always been the commander of this rebel army, and after he entered Chang'an, he established Li Jian as a son, which showed that Li Shimin had no right to speak before. Moreover, after Li Yuan became emperor, he was also the first to crown Li Jiancheng as crown prince, and Li Shimin was only the King of Qin.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > summary: Li Yuan just later played tricks on the art of scheming. </h1>
The capture of Guanzhong was not the end, and in the process of conquest of the world, Li Yuan realized Li Shimin's military talent. Therefore, he will continue to reuse Li Shimin and let him replace him in the southern conquest of the northern war.
In the war, Li Shimin continued to accumulate experience and contacts, so naturally he was not convinced that Li Jiancheng was the prince. This was exactly what Li Yuan wanted to see.
Li Yuan was in his prime, and appointing a prince prematurely would make the ministers all fall to the prince, after all, people were the future of Datang. Then how can he be an emperor? Therefore, he must support a role similar to that of the prince, that is, Li Shimin.
In this way, everyone is confused, who should I follow? Instead of guessing and guessing like this, it is better to follow Li Yuanchao, after all, only this one option is impossible to make mistakes.
Unfortunately, Li Yuan himself did not expect that this second son of his was really too fierce, and directly did Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji. If Li Yuan didn't obey, then he could only go down and play triangle mahjong with the two of them. Therefore, it was Li Yuan's last plot that was smashed, but no one could deny his leading role in the entrepreneurial period.
References: Old Book of Tang, New Book of Tang, Book of Sui