Tailai Palace, magnificent, beautiful. The door of the temple is led by 999 smooth steps made of bluestone slabs, symbolizing the meaning of the Ninety-Five. Guarding the two compartments outside the hall is a huge crane-shaped incense burner made of brass, which burns with a faint smell of osmanthus incense, and smokes from the sharp beak of the crane all the time.

Because it was the bedroom of Li Yuan, the first emperor of the early Tang Dynasty, it showed low-key luxury.

Speaking of Li Yuan, this person is not an ordinary idle person. He is the cousin of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, and his title is Tang Guogong. Because the two grew up together, they are extremely brothers.

After Yang Guang ascended the throne, Li Yuan successively served as the Taishou of Xingyang and Loufu County, and was later promoted to Weiwei Shaoqing because of his great ability. Later, he was repeatedly promoted by the imperial court, until finally, the official worshiped Taiyuan and stayed behind.

Yang Guang originally thought that Li Yuan, as his elder brother, was constantly promoted, and he must be able to work together with him to protect the long-term stability of the Great Sui. Who knows that it is difficult to draw skin and bones, but Li Yuan, who has always been scheming, does not think like this.

On the one hand, he deliberately flattered, got closer to Yang Guang, and played the emotional card of brotherhood. On the other hand, they are secretly killing and waiting for opportunities. secretly raising his own soldiers, just wait until the wind and clouds are together, and he can take advantage of the situation and become a dragon among people.

Perhaps it was the will of heaven that fate was determined in a few days, and Li Yuan soon found the best opportunity for fate to rise.

When Yang Guang first ascended the throne, he was originally a promising master with lofty ambitions. But under the lure of huge fame and fortune, he soon exposed his great achievements and fame.

Not only that, Yang Guang also likes to often disappear for no reason, on a whim, accompanied by concubines and guards, take a dragon boat to play around, and enjoy the beautiful scenery along both sides of the river.

Although the civil and military ministers of the court also had a lot of dissatisfaction with the emperor's abandonment of government affairs, they always dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out because of the fear of their lives. No matter how angry he was in his heart, he didn't show it.

However, what no one expected was that this practice of pretending to be deaf and dumb was not a blockbuster like King Chuzhuang, but a complete absurdity.

In order to be able to give full play to his travel hobby, the hot-headed Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty actually ingeniously used the construction of water conservancy as a pretext, and had to take the north and south ends as the point to build a grand canal with clear waves and ripples.

It would have been enough to build this river in the prime of life and when the treasury was abundant. But the crux of the matter is that the Sui Dynasty at that time was at the end of the crossbow, and it could no longer withstand even the slightest bit of turmoil.

And it was at this moment that those naïve ministers finally discovered what kind of mistake they had made. In the face of the current crisis, if you still pretend to be deaf and dumb, I am afraid that the entire Great Sui River will be buried in an instant.

So, in response to this situation, everyone immediately came together and decided to awaken Emperor Yang's sober consciousness by jointly writing a book.

If life is a big gamble, then for this short-lived dynasty that has only been passed down for two generations and is about to be destroyed in the hands of the emperor, these loyal courtiers can only choose this way.

Unfortunately, this time, they were doomed to lose again.

After getting used to all kinds of words, Emperor Yang of Sui's mind had already swelled to the extreme. At this moment, he was dizzy, and he didn't even have time to let the courtiers who were struggling to persuade him finish his words, so in a fit of rage, he ordered all of them to be thrown into the heavenly prison and immediately beheaded.

At that time, Emperor Yang of Sui may have just thought that if he killed a few people casually, he would be able to continue to do the emperor's things as he wanted. Unexpectedly, it was this brutal act that completely chilled the courtiers who didn't want to involve themselves in this gratuitous right and wrong.

If the heavens die, they must first make them crazy. Throughout the ages, this has been an eternal truth. It's a pity that Emperor Yang of Sui, as the supreme ruler of the country, failed to break this reason.

However, in just a few months, the beacon fire in the sky burned from the rich and beautiful south of the Yangtze River to the vast Mobei.

In Jinyang City, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, has always been ill, and no matter how Emperor Yang of Sui invites him, he always refuses to show up. In order to set an example for him obediently and appease the emotions of other courtiers. Emperor Yang of Sui deliberately asked his concubines to set up a beauty plan to arrange right and wrong, and firmly held Li Yuan in the palm of his hand.

However, Emperor Yang of Sui didn't expect that Li Yuan, who had never had a backbone, was actually an extremely difficult bone to gnaw. In the face of the opponent's powerful attack, he first deliberately thought it was a snake. Then he took advantage of his vigilance to let go of his guard, said goodbye, rode a fast horse and galloped all the way back to Jinyang. Since then, he has been closed and dressed up to avoid cats and mice.

For this situation, Emperor Yang of Sui did not think much about it. After all, he was already anxious at this moment, and there was no way to be distracted.

In his opinion, since the other party is bent on being a turtle with a shrunken head, he should simply follow his heart. Anyway, Li Yuan is his cousin and has always been obedient, so let him obey his orders as a puppet. When you have time, you will show a little concern, and the world will praise your own virtue and name again.

But who knows, but there was a fierce man in the toilet, and the boat capsized in the ditch.

Although Li Yuan said that he couldn't come out, the turmoil not only did not stop at all, but became more and more violent.

Of course, every person who becomes a king must have a resourceful staff member behind him. Because that person's vital interests are closely related to the former, he can also intersect with his life, Wen can take care of government affairs for him, and Wu can go into battle to kill the enemy, even if it is occasionally at the cost of his life, that is a matter of eyelids rolling and a second.

Li Yuan's senior assistant is 19-year-old Li Shimin.

After learning the news that his father was going to send troops to attack Daxing, Li Shimin's heart was also mixed. Happily, although he is still young, he has been following Li Yuan since he was a child, so he has been exposed to a lot of things.

My father had great ambitions, but now he finally has the opportunity to change his life. As a son, he should be fully assisted. If his father really ascends the throne as he wishes in the future, then his Li family will naturally command the world as the dragon among people and own the country for 10,000 years.

The sad thing is that Emperor Wen Yang Jian, with the help of Empress Dugu Jialuo, created the prosperous era of the Great Sui after nine deaths, and thought that it would hang in the sky forever like the sun and never set for ten thousand years. But I didn't expect that in just a few decades, it was obscured by sudden dark clouds.

And what makes him even more nostalgic is that he has been a childhood sweetheart with Yang Jieer, the daughter of Emperor Wen of Sui, since he was a child, and his love is as deep as the sea, and he thought that he would be married as an adult, but who knew that he was going to be beaten with a stick and forcibly separated.

Thinking that once his father succeeded in raising troops, he would be a stranger to Yang Jie'er as the son of a sinner, Li Shimin's heart was tormented like oil cooking fire.

Under the repeated tearing in his heart, Li Shimin decided to run away from home. Since it is caused by fate, this storm cannot be stopped. Then, simply take your beloved cousin to leave the land of right and wrong completely, go away to the world, and live an ordinary life of a man and a woman weaving.

After some careful deployment, under the protection of his personal guard Mo Jue, he took advantage of the dark night Pegasus to leave Jinyang.

But he didn't expect that the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches were behind, because the news of the escape had spread in advance, and under the careful deployment of his father, a big net fell from the sky to capture him, which completely changed his life.

In order to protect Yang Jie'er from the murder of the palace coup, she became a ghost who died unjustly. Li Shimin could only assist his father Jinyang in raising troops as a pioneer general, and was pushed step by step by fate into a political whirlpool full of killing and blood.

After a desperate battle for the title, while helping his father successfully ascend to the throne, he also changed from the original young man with a pure heart to an executioner with blood on his hands.

Midnight dream, Li Shimin sighed to the moon with a sad look in his eyes, and after a hundred years, I don't know how those historians should comment on this past?

Whether it's right or wrong, leave it to future generations to comment, as long as you have a clear conscience......

Every time he thought about it, he comforted himself like this.

When he came to the gate of Tailai Palace, Li Shimin suddenly stopped, turned to Lu Yi behind him and ordered:

"You wait here, I have some private things to say to the Emperor alone, don't let others come in and disturb you."

Lu Yi clenched his fists with both hands, respectfully complying with yes. Under his silent gaze, Li Shimin slowly walked into the hall with a solemn expression.