Chapter 281: From the Dragon
Not to mention the Renzhi Palace, Li Yuan Li Shimin and his son are mobilizing troops to prepare for the attack on Chang'an, it is in Chang'an City at this time, the prince Li Jiancheng is also anxious about the rebellion of the six gods and no masters, and his cronies Yang Wengan have always been in a hurry, this time the blow to him is not small, and therefore, when he learned the news, and then received the edict of Li Yuan's reprimand, he immediately called all his advisers over, wanting them to come up with ideas for themselves, however, what Li Jiancheng did not expect was that The opinions of these strategists were based on two completely different results.
Some of the strategists immediately advocated that since the matter had come to this, it was better for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take the lead and march to Renzhi Palace after occupying Chang'an, however, more strategists believed that since the prince had no objection before, then at this time, the prince should immediately rush to Renzhi Palace to justify Li Yuan and ask for forgiveness and apology, after all, the rebellion at this time was Yang Wengan's own initiative, and it had nothing to do with the prince, and the prince and His Majesty were father and son, so as long as the prince could explain clearly, With His Majesty's love for the prince, he will definitely forgive the prince's mistakes, and then, as long as he sends troops to exterminate Yang Wengan, then this one thing will naturally turn into a big thing and a small matter, and in the end, it will be as if it has never happened. In the end, Li Jiancheng agreed to the second proposal proposed by the strategists.
Li Jiancheng hurried to the Renzhi Palace, and then left the entourage when he arrived not far from the Renzhi Palace, and entered the palace alone to ask Li Yuan for his guilt, although when he heard that the prince was alone, the anger in Li Yuan's heart had dissipated for most of it, but even so, he still did not show a good face to the prince, and seeing his father angry, Li Jiancheng, who was remorseful and afraid, only felt that the sky was falling apart. So, he cried bitterly and cried to the kneeling at Li Yuan's feet, and even had the idea of dying, wanting to prove his innocence, just like that, in the prince's heart-rending cry. Li Yuan finally relented, he forgave the prince's mistakes, but he first ordered someone to take care of the prince, and after putting down Yang Wengan's rebellion, he was dealing with it. Then, he called someone to call Li Shimin to discuss the matter of quelling the rebellion again.
Yang Wengan's rebellion, as Li Shimin first predicted, no one was willing to follow him. And when the news came out that the crown prince Li Jiancheng rushed to Renzhi Palace to apologize to Li Yuan, Yang Wengan's subordinates even cut off his head and surrendered, praying for forgiveness from the imperial court. The impact has been far-reaching. For the first time, Li Yuan had the idea of abolishing the crown prince. And this idea will undoubtedly make waves again in the court, which has been extremely obvious, and when Yang Wengan was killed, Li Yuan sent someone to investigate the matter carefully. However, the result he obtained was full of various contradictions, which made people have to deeply doubt that behind the Yang Wengan incident, there was a well-planned conspiracy. Or is it an accident caused by the superposition of countless coincidences......
Li Yuan knew that the crown prince should indeed have no objection, otherwise, when Yang Wengan rebelled, he would not be so panicked, and immediately rushed to ask him for guilt, but it was true that the prince used his power to send the weapons and armor in the Chang'an City treasury to Yang Wengan to increase his strength; According to the confessions of the crown prince and his entourage, the reason why the prince did this was because he listened to the advice of his advisers, and was worried that when Li Yuan was taking refuge in the summer, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, would take the opportunity to hold His Majesty hostage, and then take the opportunity to attack Chang'an, so he prepared like this just in case, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not expect that the final result was actually in exchange for the end of Yang Wengan's rebellion!!
King Qin will be unfavorable to his father in the Renzhi Palace, trying to hold himself hostage and then take the opportunity to attack Chang'an and establish himself as emperor!! This kind of words, Li Yuan naturally didn't believe it, not to mention whether the King of Qin would have this idea, just talking about the Renzhi Palace, it is not just a palace, it is also the core hub of the Chang'an peripheral defense line carefully built by Li Yuan, the geographical location is extremely important, and therefore the defense of the nearby troops are all led by Li Yuan's most trusted generals, these people are loyal to Li Yuan, so even if the King of Qin wants to hold him hostage, there is no chance at all.
Therefore, the only benefit of the prince's act of strengthening Yang Wengan's strength in Gyeongju is to expand his strength in Gyeongju, however, since the prince is considering his own safety this time after all, even if he is exposed and punished afterwards, Li Yuan's punishment of the prince will certainly not be strict - and this should be the true meaning of the yƬ built by those strategists, after all, the prince had previously violated the Donggong system and expanded the establishment of the Donggong guards to form Changlin Bing without authorization. Because of this, he was reprimanded by himself, and expelled the Turkic warrior Dazhi as the general of the Changlin Army, Li Yuan himself can imagine that due to the impact of that incident, if the strategists put forward similar opinions again, the prince Jiancheng would inevitably refuse because of hesitation, so these strategists had to make this decision and coax the prince to give such an order.
Because the prince did not have any objections, Li Yuan did forgive the prince's mistakes from the bottom of his heart, but he firmly remembered in his heart that Li Yuan had never been a generous person, and he was even more cautious about his children.
Then, it was Er Zhuhuan and Qiao Gongshan, and it was precisely because of the two of them that they came to expose that Li Yuan knew that the prince violated the law and sent armor to Yang Wen, the governor of Gyeongju, without authorization, but these two people did not falsely accuse the prince of rebellion, but just because they did not dare to bear the responsibility of violating the law and transporting armor and weapons without permission, they wanted to be exempt from punishment, and their duties doomed the two of them to be just two small people, and Li Yuan would not pay too much attention to them.
Then, it was Yu Wenying who was sent by Li Yuan to Gyeongju to convey the order, and when Yang Wengan was killed, Li Yuan found out after a new investigation that when he sent Yu Wenying to convey the news to Yang Wengan in Gyeongju, because Yu Wenying was close to Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and the king of Qi had always been close to the prince. Therefore, I asked Yu Wenying to tell Yang Wengan what happened in the Renzhi Palace, and let him prepare! And now, it is unknown whether Yang Wengan had a misunderstanding because of Yu Wenying's leakage of the news, and finally launched a rebellion. Of course. Like trusting the crown prince and the king of Qin, Li Yuan also did not doubt his third son, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and only regarded his participation in this matter as an inevitable way to have a close relationship with the prince.
And in the end, it was a Gyeongju official named Du Feng who came to Inji Palace and exposed the news that Yang Wengan was about to launch a rebellion, and his words were confirmed later, Yang Wengan - really rebelled!!
However, the timing of Yang Wengan's choice of rebellion was so bad. Not to mention that he almost didn't make any preparations at all, and even his most trusted henchmen finally killed him because they didn't know about it in advance, and after learning the news, they didn't want to betray him. Thinking about it at this time, Yang Wengan's rebellion was a little unbelievable in a hurry, and it was a mortal option that almost any conspirator would not choose. However, Yang Wengan did just that. Could it be that he is crazy, not only Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng, but almost everyone is confused about this.
Moreover, when Yang Wengan died, all the clues pointing to him had been interrupted, and there was no way to restore the truth of this matter to Li Yuan!
With his own life experience over the years. Li Yuan could clearly feel that this matter was not simple, as if there was an invisible thug pushing behind it, however, since all the clues had been interrupted at this time, even if Li Yuan had the intention to continue the investigation. It can't go on anymore. Therefore, Li Yuan had no choice but to put the matter down, and only disposed of a few parties.
However, at this time, this matter still can't be settled, because when he finally investigated Du Feng, who came to denounce Yang Wengan's rebellion, Li Yuan found that the original name Du Feng actually had a trace of connection with King Qin, and after some trial, Du Feng also had to admit that the reason why he came to Renzhi Palace to denounce Yang Wengan was because he was instructed by Du Yan, a minister of the Qin Palace!
Now it's okay, the prince, the king of Qin, the king of Qi, born to the late Queen Dou, and Li Yuan's most favored and trusted sons, are all involved in this matter, if in this matter, the prince was bewitched by his subordinates and ministers, and he was confused for a while, and the king of Qi is a brotherly relationship with the prince, and he wants to protect his brother and deliberately does it, then what about the king of Qin? What role did he play in this? Li Yuan naturally trusted his son, not to mention anything else, just seeing the happy life of the Qin Wang couple in the Renzhi Palace at this time was enough to dispel any suspicions Li Yuan had about Li Shimin.
Then King Qin's problem appeared on this Du Yan's body. And this Du Yan is indeed very unbearable, he was the uncle of Du Ruhui, an important adviser of the King of Qin, but he served as a minister under Wang Shichong, and the relationship with Du Ruhui's family was not harmonious, and later when Li Shimin led the Tang army to attack Luoyang, in order to clear up the relationship with Du Ruhui who was known under Li Shimin, Du Yan even persuaded Wang Shichong to kill Du Ruhui's brother, and therefore, Du Ruhui hated this uncle to the bone, so that when the Tang army finally broke through Luoyang, Du Yan was about to be killed. Du Ruhui didn't plan to intercede for this uncle, but later Du Ruhui's younger brother pleaded in every way, and Du Ruhui made a statement to the King of Qin and spared Du Yan's life.
Then Du Yan came to Chang'an, and entered the Qin Palace, under the recommendation of Fang Xuanling, another important strategist of Li Shimin, and became a civil servant, however, because of his disgraceful past, Li Shimin, who was upright by nature, has always looked down on him, and therefore, Du Yan has not been reused in the Qin Palace, and is just an ordinary official.
Then at this time, the purpose of what Du Yan did was already obvious, there is no doubt that his purpose was to let King Qin replace the position of the crown prince at this time, and then he could go one step further and rightfully replace Li Yuan's position at this time. At that time, Du Yan will naturally be able to gain Li Shimin's trust by virtue of his merits at this time, and if he wants to gain high-ranking officials and rise to prominence, it is naturally not a problem......
So in the end, Li Yuan made a final verdict, and the prince's fault was pardoned, but those officials who had encouraged the prince to violate the law and use the armor and weapons of the Chang'an city treasury to expand Yang Wengan's strength without authorization must be punished, but because of the prince's strong plea, they were sentenced to exile; Du Yan, who conspired to sow discord between the princes and the king of Qin, was exiled; Yu Wenying, leaking military secrets without authorization, was executed! In order to announce the end of the Yang Wengan incident, Li Yuan returned to Chang'an City with the three sons of the crown prince, the king of Qin and the king of Qi, ending this unsatisfactory summer vacation. (To be continued......)
PS: Ps: It would be nice if I could have met a teacher who killed me when I was in school......