Chapter 441: The Dust Has Settled
Lin Sen was still watching the situation, and after Chang'an City restored the street to its original order, it began to review the officials.
Many people who were deeply involved in this rebellion were found out, such as Duhe, such as Fang Yiai, and so on.
Those important ministers above the court are rarely involved, after all, as long as Li Shimin is still there, they don't have to rush to think about standing in line, just follow Li Shimin honestly.
Hou Junji can be said to be the highest-level, most influential, and most involved among the officials planted this time.
It can only be said that he is too inflated, and his mind is not open-minded enough, probably except for being the emperor, he has no pursuit of his status.
This one is honest enough, and after he was imprisoned, he was honest about his mental journey.
The only request is to hope that Li Shimin can spare his wife and children, at least someone will collect his body, and there will be an incense to pass on.
Li Shimin showed his nostalgia in this regard, and also showed his generosity, and agreed to Hou Junji's last wish without much hesitation, which also made Hou Junji's death feel at ease.
This rebellion can be said to be another most damaging rebellion experienced by the entire Tang Dynasty after the Xuanwumen Incident carried out by Li Shimin himself.
Unlike the rebellion of Li Shimin's fifth son Li You in Qizhou not long ago, the whole thing is a joke, he hasn't left Qizhou yet, and his subordinates have almost run away.
Even the soldiers and civilians under his rule were not willing to follow him, that is, some diehards, who were trapped and fighting with him, and even had the idea of going into the mountains to become thieves.
In the end, he was caught by a local lieutenant, which is sad and lamentable.
In history, his rebellion also became the fuse for exposing Li Chengqian's rebellion conspiracy, and who made them all unlucky to run into an old scholar as a teacher.
However, the current Li Chengqian has nothing to do with him, but Li Zhi's rebellion is likely to have something to do with him.
I heard that it was because he was afraid that he would be involved and the matter would be exposed, so he launched it in advance.
The rebellion that Li Zhi made was not only much bigger than Li You, but also involved many more people, but also folded in the lives of a queen, a top general, and a group of soldiers, and the blow to the entire Tang Dynasty can be said to be very strong.
The blow to Li Shimin's own person is even more obvious, how energetic and confident a person he was is now, he looks a little defeated.
Li Shimin is probably a little physically and mentally exhausted, or he doesn't want to cause more damage, so he didn't deal with this rebellion very harshly.
Except for a few main culprits who were sentenced to death for the crime of rebellion, most of the others who were not deeply involved were exiled or on the border.
Most of the punishments for those sergeants were also lenient, because the number of people involved was indeed quite large, and most of the real diehards had already died in the previous purge activities, and most of the blame was put on those dead.
But the officials of the family are exceptional, as long as there is tangible evidence in hand, almost none of them have run away.
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone is sympathetic to him as the emperor, and the rebellion itself can be said to be a juncture of bitter hatred, Li Shimin is of course going to be ruthless.
He simply described the family officials involved as conspirators and demagogues, and almost became the source of this rebellion.
Although in fact, the officials of the family did intend to provoke the relationship between Li Chengqian and his brothers and provoke Li Tai's ambitions, but Li Zhi did this, it is really difficult to say how much it has to do with this group of people.
However, as an emperor who advocates reducing the influence of the family, he is not good enough to make good use of this opportunity, and he is sorry for himself.
What's more, Li Tai is dead, Li Zhi's fate has not yet been decided, anyway, it is not much better, these people from the family have indeed achieved their goal, and once again watched his Li Shimin's jokes, do they not allow him, a victim, to vent the anger and hatred in his heart.
In this counterinsurgency, the three generals with excellent performance, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chigong and Zhang Shigui, all received additional awards.
Xue Rengui also received a promotion and salary increase because he snatched Li Chengqian's outstanding merits.
It is conceivable that after Li Chengqian comes to power, his future will be limitless.
And Lin Sen, who doesn't seem to have much sense of existence, has become the one who Li Shimin praises the most.
It turned out that as early as after those important ministers and generals died violently in a short period of time, Lin Sen noticed the bad signs, and told Li Shimin in advance to tell him to be more careful.
Of course, it is still the same rhetoric for Fang Yiai, who was originally the master of good health, and it would be appropriate to live for a few more years, but now this situation is obviously strange.
After getting Lin Sen's reminder, Li Shimin was able to calmly arrange and deal with possible contingencies, and the holy decree and tiger talisman were also completed at this time, and they were secretly sent to several ministers in case of emergency.
In the middle, Lin Sen also found some unusual signs, and from time to time he would send them to Li Shimin.
In addition, in a certain sense, Li Chengqian was saved by Lin Sen.
There was Xue Rengui who was able to rescue him in the past, and he was able to hold on until Xue Rengui came to relieve the siege with his vital strength when he was under a key siege, in fact, it was all thanks to Lin Sen's arrangement.
Xue Rengui was called by him, and the backbone of the resistance force is Xi Junmai, Lin Sen's eldest disciple, and those soldiers under him.
And thanks to Lin Sen, he also sent Xi Weizhong and Xi Junqing over, and even sent some Lin family guards to help protect Li Chengqian's safety.
With the help of these top-notch armed units, Li Chengqian was able to persevere in the face of internal and external difficulties.
Even thanks to the strength of the wooden armor that Lin Sen gave him, he was able to survive one by one.
In the end, he was rescued, and he ushered in the current situation that was more favorable to him, and became the inevitable successor who could be replaced by no one.
And Lin Sen originally wanted to keep a low profile, as long as Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, the people involved, could read him well and know what he had done for them, and he didn't want to get too much cause and effect into this matter.
If people think that he is the biggest reason for the failure of the rebellion, they don't know what they think.
There must be envy, jealousy and hatred among the ministers, and those who had hoped that the rebellion would succeed had to hate him.
For example, the people of those families who are the instigators behind it, of course, this belongs to the families of those who have been killed or exiled because of rebellion.
If you don't know if these will become trouble in the future, who knows if there will be one or two crazy ones among them who will come to play with him.
After a period of disposal, the original situation was finally reluctantly restored inside and outside Chang'an City, and the matter was almost calmed down.
However, as the initiators of all this, how to deal with Li Zhi and his wife has always been the focus of everyone's attention.
And at the moment, Li Shimin has not made up his mind for a long time, even if he hates him again, but after all, it is also the youngest son he once loved quite much, how can he kill it easily like Li You.
At such a juncture, Lin Sen was called into the palace again.