Liu Wenjing is dead!

This person was not only Li Shimin's mentor and friend, he was also one of the planners of the Taiyuan Uprising, and made extremely important contributions to contacting the Turks and dealing with the Turks. It was accomplished under the mediation between Liu Wenjing and the Turks, and when Li Yuan heard that the Turks had sent five hundred war horses and only a few cavalry had arrived, he said happily: "If there are few people, it will not cause danger to the people." From this incident, it can be seen that Liu Wenjing's virtuous ability. This person, of course, is talented, but he is also arrogant and looks down on people because of this, so he has a poor relationship with his colleagues with mediocre abilities, and he has many enemies. As for Li Shimin, who has had great ambitions since he was a child, Liu Wenjing showed extremely unusual enthusiasm, perhaps as he said earlier: "Li Shimin has great ambitions, and he will help the people of the world at the age of twenty!" Perhaps in Liu Wenjing's mind, this young man who is much younger than him is the master he wants to follow, so that for the emperor Li Yuan and the crown prince Jiancheng, who have a higher status but ordinary ability, although Liu Wenjing doesn't say it, but according to his character, I'm afraid that deep down he doesn't look at it that much.

Therefore, when many people, including Li Shimin, have not yet awakened to the struggle for imperial power, Liu Wenjing has unswervingly stood by Li Shimin's side and become his firm ally and supporter, young Li Shimin may not have seen the thoughts in the heart of this teacher and friend at this time, but there is no doubt that Tang Emperor Li Yuan and his old friend Pei Lin may not be as naïve as the young King of Qin at this time, they have not only already understood the arrogance in Liu Wenjing's heart, and, deeply knew that the arrogant Liu Wenjing had become a scourge of splitting the imperial power at this time.

So Liu Wenjing died. Accused of rebellion, his home was confiscated. In fact, of course, the crime was fabricated, although Liu Wenjing was arrogant, he really never had the idea of rebellion, besides, he was a conspirator. Even if he wanted to rebel, he did not have the corresponding manpower and material support. But since Li Yuan resented Liu Wenjing for provoking the affection of their father and son and brother, and wanted him to die, how could he live. As a person who can change Li Yuan's mind, his old friend Pei Lin is Liu Wenjing's sworn enemy, plus Liu Wenjing really can't be a man, and he has enemies everywhere in the government and the opposition, so when Liu Wenjing is convicted. Except for Li Shimin and a few others, no one spoke for him anymore. Therefore, he can only die.

Liu Wenjing once said when he was dying: "The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden!" In fact, it is inevitable to go astray, although he has talent and merit, but in the Li Tang Dynasty, which is full of talents. It's not too outstanding, although Li Yuan is suspicious. However, if Liu Wenjing hadn't been involved in the power struggle between the imperial powers, how could Li Yuan not tolerate him.

Of course, Li Yuan's handling was not appropriate, and Li Gang, who was the crown prince Zhan Shi at that time, tried his best to dissuade and spare Liu Wenjing's life, and the reason was also because of the struggle for imperial power, and it was easy to kill Liu Wenjing. But this will cause an estrangement between the king of Qin and His Majesty and the crown prince, Li Yuan did not listen, so Li Gang was discouraged and no longer cared about the affairs of the court. Here lies the sorrow of the wise: they can see the future, but they cannot change it - only a few years later. The Xuanwumen Revolution broke out!

Most historians of later generations believe that Liu Wenjing's death laid the groundwork for the Xuanwumen Revolution a few years later, and it was also the initial beginning of the intensification of contradictions in the struggle for imperial power during the Tang Wude period.

For Li Shimin, of course, Liu Wenjing's feelings are also extremely complicated, on the one hand, he is grateful to this elder for his care and teaching, but on the other hand, he is disgusted by his arrogant character and the behavior of trying to hold real power, every man has a hero's dream, Li Shimin is naturally no exception, but in the same way, not every man will extinguish his family affection and pursue the supreme power, at least, Li Shimin, who is in the second year of martial arts, can't do this, but, There is no doubt that Li Shimin does not want Liu Wenjing to die.

The inability to protect his teachers and friends made Li Shimin silent, so he became depressed and did not do anything other than training, and this happened to take advantage of the emperor Li Yuan's intentions, since Li Shimin made great military exploits in Western Qin, the government and the opposition have invisibly formed a tacit understanding to refrigerate the king of Qin for a period of time: because his military exploits have vaguely threatened the power of the crown prince and even the emperor Li Yuan - in the troubled times, people only believe in martial arts and the undefeated god of war. Therefore, unless necessary, Li Shimin will not lead the army again.

However, since the spring of the second year of Wude, with the beginning of a routine looting of the Turks, the world has changed abruptly, and the original shape of the Tang Dynasty has taken a sharp turn, and the Turkic Mayi town guarded, Liu Wuzhou, who was named Dingyang Khan by the Turks, led his troops south, and broke through the important town of Taiyuan in one fell swoop, Guanzhong was shaken, and the Tang Dynasty began to dispatch troops to prepare to encircle and annihilate Liu Wuzhou's troops in one fell swoop, but he did not know that Liu Wuzhou had a wise and brave general Song Jingang, under the fierce offensive of Song Jingang, The mediocre generals of the Tang army suffered defeats and continued to lose large tracts of land, the morale of the Tang army was low, and the call for the return of the king of Qin was getting higher and higher.

The second year of Wude was also a disaster year for Li Tang in Guanzhong, although the first year of Wude was threatened by Xue Ju's Western Qin forces, so that the Tang Dynasty, which was originally in a good shape, had to give up the strategic pattern of going east to Luoyang, but soon, with Xue Ju's illness and death and Li Shimin's rapid defeat of Xue Rengao, the Tang Dynasty also stabilized, at this time Li Mi and Wang Shichong's battle of Luoyang had just come to an end, Li Mi was defeated, fled into Guanzhong to Li Yuan, Wang Shichong was also a miserable victory, and the strength and strength were also lacking to the extreme, If the Tang army can take advantage of this opportunity to quickly advance eastward, then they will quickly defeat Wang Shichong, get the eastern capital Luoyang without much effort, and then they can use Chang'an and Luoyang as the foundation, go south to obtain Bashu, and go east to pacify Hebei and Jianghuai, and then use Bashu as a base to eliminate all warlords in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangnan along the Yangtze River, so as to calm the world in one fell swoop and restore the situation of great unification of the Chinese land.

However, this almost dream-like perfect strategic pattern, since the second year of Wude, immediately suffered a series of blows, first of all, the spring has just begun, the Turks began to plunder in the south, after encountering the resistance of the Tang army and getting the compensation paid by Li Tang, the Turks retreated, but followed the Turks to the south of the Mayi forces, Liu Wuzhou, who was named Dingyang Khan, was named by the Turks as Dingyang Khan, but did not return to the division, Liu Wuzhou led his own headquarters and horses, continued to go south, led by the brave general Song Jingang, all the way to break the Tang army, Quickly occupied a large area of land in Taiyuan, the land of Longxing, the main general of Tang Taiyuan, the young King of Qi Li Yuanji was frightened, and fled back to Guanzhong overnight, Tang Emperor Li Yuan sent Prime Minister Pei Lin to lead the troops to rescue Taiyuan, and was also defeated by Song Jingang led the troops, Guanzhong was shaken, and even produced a voice of abandoning Taiyuan Hedong.

Taiyuan is a place with higher terrain, west of Guanzhong, east of Hebei, south and overlooking Henan geographical location is very important, not to mention the Tang Dynasty's Longxing land, once lost, for the Tang Dynasty's cohesion of the people's hearts undoubtedly fatal, not to mention the further annexation of the world, is to protect the self-defense of the central place, it is estimated that it will also encounter many difficulties.

In fact, the extremely bad chain reaction has already appeared, in the south, the cannibal demon king Zhu Cang, who has taken refuge in the Tang Dynasty, ate the appeasement envoy sent by the Tang Dynasty and surrendered to Luoyang Wang Shichong, and Xiao Miao, who was born in the Xiliang royal family, also wanted to take advantage of the Tang Dynasty, but fortunately, Li Jing had been forgiven by Li Yuan at that time, and let him make meritorious service to support the unfavorable situation in the south. In the north, the shape shì is even more severe: after Li Mi was defeated and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, his territory east of Luoyang was also subordinated to the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan sent Huainan King Li Shentong to guard, and from the spring of this year, Hebei Dou Jiande, who defeated Yu Wenhua, began to expand to the west, and successively defeated the Tang army's army, Huainan King Li Shentong was defeated by Dou Jiande, and retreated from Hebei to Henan, and finally even his own army was defeated and captured, when Danyang Princess Li Xiuning was in the army, so they were captured together, Dou Jiande did not embarrass the two Tang royal families, released the two, and let the two return to Chang'an.

And Li Xiuning had an accident on the way back. (To be continued......)