Chapter 199: Li Longji 2
Wang Ju said to Li Longji: "The situation is already very urgent, and Your Majesty must act quickly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Shangshu Zuo Cheng Zhang said that he sent someone from the eastern capital Luoyang to send a saber to Li Longji, which meant that Xuanzong should make a decision as soon as possible to eradicate the power of Princess Taiping.
Jing Governor Shi Cui Ri used the court to perform affairs and said to Li Longji: "Princess Taiping's plot to rebel has been a matter for a long time. When His Majesty was the crown prince in the East Palace, he was still a courtier in terms of rank, and if he wanted to eradicate Princess Taiping at that time, he needed to use stratagems. But now that His Majesty is the lord of the whole country, he only needs to issue a decree, and who dares to disobey the order? If he hesitates, if the conspiracy of the treacherous people succeeds, it will be too late to regret it. ”
Li Longji said: "You are very right, but I am worried that it will alarm the emperor. ”
Cui Riyong also said: "The great filial piety of the Son of Heaven lies in making the four seas peaceful, if the traitorous party succeeds, then the Sheji Temple will be in ruins, how can Your Majesty's filial piety be reflected? Li Longji thought that he was right, so he appointed him as the servant of the ministry.
Wei Zhigu reported that Princess Taiping had launched a rebellion, and instructed Chang Yuankai and Li Ci to lead the Yulin army to break into the Wude Palace, and sent Dou Huaizhen, Xiao Zhizhong, Cen Xi and others to raise troops in Nanya to respond. Li Longji was the first to take the lead in exterminating the Taiping Princess Group with Li Fan, King Li Ye, Guo Yuanzhen, King Li Fan, King Li of Qi, Li Ye, King of Xue, Wang Maozhong, Jiang Jiao, the young eunuch of the palace, Li Lingwen, the servant of the Imperial Palace, Wang Shouyi, Gao Lishi, Guo Yi, Li Shoude, and others.
Through Wang Maozhong, Li Longji summoned more than 300 horses and forbidden soldiers in the idle stable, entered the Qianhua Gate from the Wude Palace, summoned Chang Yuankai and Li Ci to behead them first, arrested Jia Yingfu and Li You in Neike Province and took them out, and arrested Xiao Zhizhong and Cen Xi in the court, and ordered the four to be beheaded together.
Dou Huaizhen fled into the moat and hanged himself, and Tang Xuanzong ordered his body to be beheaded and changed his surname to Poison. After Li Dan heard the news of the incident, he climbed the gatehouse of Chengtianmen, and Guo Yuanzhen played Li Dan and said: "The emperor was only ordered by the emperor to kill Dou Huaizhen and other traitorous ministers against the party, and nothing else happened. ”
Li Longji also came to the gatehouse, and Li Dan issued an edict listing the crimes of Dou Huaizhen and others, and granted amnesty to the world, but the relatives and henchmen of the rebel ministers were not among the pardons, and Xue Ji was given to die in Wannian County Prison.
Princess Taiping fled into the mountain temple and did not come out until three days after the incident, and was ordered by Li Longji to die in her own home, and her son and henchmen were executed by dozens of people. Xue Chongjian was exceptionally exempted from the death penalty because he had been beaten for repeatedly admonishing his mother, Princess Taiping, and Li Longji gave him the surname Li and allowed him to stay in his original position.
Tang Xuanzong also ordered the confiscation of all the property of Princess Taiping, and found that the princess's property was piled up when he searched the house, and the treasures and utensils could be comparable to the royal treasury.
Fate is so arranged, it is always surprising, Li Longji just grabbed the throne by stealing the show twice. And Gao Lishi, who charged into the front and played a key role in these two coups, directly became Li Longji's most trusted person. Because Li Longji has been saying all his life: "When Colliers is on duty, I can sleep peacefully." ”
Why does Li Longji trust Colliers so much? There is a good saying: There are four kinds of relationships between men that have the most iron relationship, namely, they have been through the same window together, have carried guns together, have shared spoils together, and played with women together.
Li Longji and Gao Lishi are naturally impossible to be classmates together, and there is a huge disparity in status; playing with women together, even if Li Longji has this kind of Yaxing, Gao Lishi is afraid that he will not be accompanied because he has a secret that has to be said; but the two of them launched two coups together in a row, and these two are indeed lifelong friendships who have carried guns together. The test of blood and fire is the most reliable, so of course Li Longji trusts Gao Lishi.
As for sharing the spoils together, Li Longji has become rich in the world after two scenes robbery, not to mention it. It's hard to hear the spoils, to put it mildly, it's the harvest season in Gao Lishi's life, and Li Longji has given Gao Lishi a rich return.
After the coup d'état of Tang Long, Li Longji asked his father Tang Ruizong Li Dan to make Gao Lishi the doctor of Chaosan, the internal minister, and the envoy of the inner bow and arrow, and soon he was promoted to the inner permanent attendant and the envoy of the three palaces.
Doctor Assan, from the five grades, Gao Lishi's actual position is the internal service of the province, from the five grades. The Ministry of the Interior was the body that managed the affairs of the court, and he had already served in the Ministry of the Interior, but this time he was only promoted.
The inner bow and arrow depot envoy is the one who manages the bow and arrow depot in the court, and the Gao Lishi manages the bow and arrow depot, which is heavily guarded and heavily guarded. Among the inner envoys, the Inner Bow and Arrow Treasury envoy had a higher status, because many top eunuchs were later promoted from this position.
Gao Lishi was further promoted to the inner permanent servant, and under the fifth grade, he was also one of the senior officials belonging to the inner service province, and this time Gao Lishi became the third palace envoy from the inner bow and arrow library. The three palaces of the Tang Dynasty refer to the Taiji Palace, Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace in Chang'an City, and the envoys of the three palaces are the officials responsible for the comprehensive management of the affairs of these three palaces.
After the congenital coup, Li Longji gave Gao Lishi the position, so that he began to enter the ranks of high-ranking officials, General Yunlu, General of the Right Prison Guard, and Zhinei Servant. General Yunlu, a military officer from the third grade, is the leader of the Inner Service Province, and the new position is, the general of the right prison guard.
The prison guards are the national armed forces of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the regular army, called the sixteen guards, which are the left and right guards, the left and right Xiao guards, the left and right military guards, the left and right Wei guards, the left and right leading guards, the left and right Jinwu guards, the left and right Qianniu guards, and the left and right prison guards. Among them, the Qianniu Guard and the Prison Guard were specially set up to protect the Imperial Palace, and they were not ordered to go out to participate in the task of national defense and military operations.
Qianniuwei's task is to be responsible for the emperor's security work, which is the emperor's personal guard. The task of the prison guards is to guard the palace gates in peacetime, and to be responsible for guarding the emperor when he leaves the palace. In other words, the Qianniu Guard and the Prison Guard were directly subordinate to the Imperial Palace and were specifically responsible for the security of the Imperial Palace and the Emperor. Therefore, the person who can serve as the general of the left and right Qianniu guards and the left and right prison guards must be the emperor's most trusted and favored by the emperor, and Gao Lishi is such a person.
In fact, for the above official positions, Colliers refused at first. The reason for refusal was because the rank was higher than that of his adoptive father Gao Yanfu, and Li Longji appreciated this and agreed.
But soon after, Gao Lishi accompanied Li Longji back from his eastern tour, and was once again awarded the title of General Yunlu and General of the Left Prison Guards for his merits. This time, it's just that the general of the right prison guard has been replaced by the general of the left prison guard, in fact, the two generals are the same, they are both positive three products. It can be seen how much Li Longji cares about the promotion of Colliers.
Li Longji was in his heart, he didn't know that his move had opened Pandora's box, and since then it has opened the precursor of the dictatorship of eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Li Longji, who vigorously promoted Gao Lishi, the eunuch, would never have thought that in the period of Tang Dezong and Tang Zhaozong, there would be eunuchs who would dare to kill their children and grandchildren.
At that time, Empress Wei took power, Li Longji staged a coup d'état and killed Empress Wei, and Gao Lishi made a contribution. After the coup d'état, Ruizong was reinstated, Li Longji became the crown prince, and Gao Lishi was also promoted, and he became a doctor of Chaosan, an internal minister, and was in charge of all things in the palace, which was not only the duty of a eunuch.
Three years later, Colliers helped Li Longji stage a coup d'état, killing Princess Taiping and her henchmen. After the incident, Gao Lishi was promoted again, not only that, Gao Lishi was also very trusted by Xuanzong, Xuanzong directly called him a general, and some less important recitals were handled by Gao Lishi.
As long as Gao Lishi is good to Tang Xuanzong, he can be at ease. In fact, Colliers is also very similar to Tang Xuanzong's family, and he is a family member who holds real power. The princesses, and even the prince, were very respectful to him, and the prince once called him his second brother, and the princess and the concubine called him the lord and the man.
When Colliers later leaned into the opposition, whenever the Quartet marched into the table, he must first present Colliers, and then enter the emperor, and Colliers could decide on trivial matters. The era when Colliers made small decisions, but it was the prosperous era of Kaiyuan that was admired by the ancient emperors. There is no example of Gao Lishi's decision-making mistakes due to trivial matters, the fact is that he has many good opinions on national finance, food and water transportation policies, etc., and it seems that the Kaiyuan Dynasty has a share of Gao Lishi's contributions.
He once followed Li Longji in the parade, there were two eagles pecking at the corpse of the deer, the emperor ordered to catch them, Gao Lishi was ordered with an arrow, the two birds have flew, pull the string and the full moon suddenly opened, instantly shot the two eagles and fell, the surrounding army shouted long live to shake the sky. Gao Lishi's riding and archery skills can be shown in front of the army, which shows that he is not an ordinary person.