Chapter 347: Li Shimin's thoughts
Fang Xuanling stood up, knelt on the ground, and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, you have good intentions and have thought a lot about my Tang Sheji, but now Your Majesty can't give up the crown prince and support His Royal Highness King Wei no matter what?"
His Royal Highness the King of Wei, now with the joint support of the wealthy clan of Shandong and the Southern Shi clan, is already strong and aggressive (duo) everywhere, while His Royal Highness the Prince, who is only supported by the noble group of Guanlong, is obviously at a disadvantage, and is forced by His Royal Highness the King of Wei to retreat step by step, and is in a difficult situation. If Your Majesty, the biggest supporter who has always supported His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, gives up supporting the Crown Prince and supports His Royal Highness the King of Wei instead, then His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's situation will inevitably be even more difficult and difficult? If Your Majesty does this, will His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be completely driven to a dead end? ”
Tang Emperor Li Shimin sighed deeply, Li Shimin knew in his heart: The Tang prince he chose, Li Chengqian, was too weak, and he had failed to do all the things assigned to him several times, and Li Chengqian did not have enough ability to inherit the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty. I had the intention to hone and hone him more, so that his ability could be improved quickly, but I thought that the crown prince's ability had not been improved, but he secretly blamed himself for being too strict with him, and he had already had the thoughts and actions of giving up on himself.
And his second son-in-law, Li Tai, the king of Wei, originally loved him very much, and felt that Li Tai had excellent conduct and outstanding ability, if the prince Chengqian could not afford the thousands of miles of the Tang Dynasty, he would like to be succeeded by Li Tai, the king of Wei, but who would have thought that since the king of Wei Li Tai got the joint support of the wealthy clan of Shandong and the southern scholar clan, his ability has become more and more outstanding, and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger, but there is a big problem with this character, and the means are becoming more and more inferior, which makes himself and the ministers of the court deeply worried. are afraid that Li Tai, the king of Wei, will become a person like Yang Guang of the former Sui Dynasty, and finally completely bury the Tang Dynasty.
It is out of this concern that it is out of this concern. Many of the imperial relatives and important ministers of the imperial court, who were originally as optimistic about Li Tai, the king of Wei, turned to support the crown prince. The crown prince's ability to inherit is too weak, but after all, he is outstanding in virtue, and Li Tai, the king of Wei, is a very talented and unvirtuous person. If Li Tai, the king of Wei, replaces the crown prince Chengqian, inherits the throne, and inherits the unification in the future, then the harm of Li Tai, the king of Wei, to the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be far greater than that of Li Chengqian, the current prince of the Tang Dynasty, who is too weak and has outstanding virtue.
The comparison between the two is the lesser of the two, so many important ministers know that the crown prince's ability to inherit cadres is too weak, and they want to desperately keep the crown prince's position as the crown prince, and resolutely resist the establishment of Li Tai, the talented and unvirtuous king of Wei, as the crown prince.
Li Shimin also knew in his heart that if Li Tai, the king of Wei, was reappointed as the crown prince. It is really better to choose the prince Chengqian to be the prince, and inherit the unification in the future, as long as the prince Chengqian is virtuous, has the people in his heart, and lacks ability, he can also have the support of good ministers and famous generals. The crown prince Chengqian may not be able to govern the Tang Dynasty because of his lack of talent, but if Li Tai, the king of Wei, inherits the throne, and then inherits the throne. There are no people at all in his heart, there is no court, only himself, and the more capable he is. The more it will damage the Tang Dynasty, the more he will be like the former Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, for the sake of his own selfish desires, and the entire Tang Dynasty will be tossed and collapsed.
Now Li Shimin values and reuses Li Tai. It is just that he hopes that Li Tai, the king of Wei, can become a whetstone, so that he can forge a good knife for the prince Chengqian, so that the prince Chengqian can grow in the grinding. has enough ability to inherit the rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty. But if it is said that Li Tai, the king of Wei, will replace the crown prince Chengqian and become the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and be able to succeed to the throne in the future, Li Shimin is also extremely unwilling in his heart, even if all the officials in the court support it, Li Shimin will not agree. Yang Guang, the former Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was talented and virtuous, and he completely destroyed a former Sui that had entered the prosperous era, making the people unhappy. Li Shimin will never allow such a thing to happen to Datang again, and let Datang repeat the mistakes of the former Sui.
The dissatisfaction with the crown prince Chengqian and Li Tai, the king of Wei, made Li Shimin have to start paying attention to his other sons, but among his many sons, the one with the most outstanding character, the most outstanding ability, and the most similar personality to him is his concubine - Li Ke, the king of Shu.
In the end, the Tang Emperor Li Shimin agreed to Fang Xuanling's advice and did not let Li Tai, the king of Wei, enter the Wude Palace, but after Li Shimin ordered the betrayal of Cen Wenwen's southern scholars, he returned to his fiefdom Shu in frustration, and Li Ke, the king of Shu, who did not ask about the political affairs of the imperial court, was summoned to Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to participate in political affairs.
The Tang Palace, Da'an Palace, the residence of Emperor Li Yuan.
Although Li Yuan was imprisoned here by the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, as a father, Li Yuan did not have a trace of hatred for Li Shimin's behavior. Li Shimin is his son after all, even if there is no Xuanwumen Change, Li Yuan will step down from the throne and pass the throne to his son.
Li Yuan's heart has always been haunted by the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin's heart was ruthless, killing Xiwang Jiancheng and Hailing Wang Yuanji and the sons of Jiancheng and Yuanji, but Li Yuan understood from his heart that it was not Li Shimin's fault alone, it was all the only and supreme chair in the world to make trouble. If it was not Li Shimin who won the Xuanwumen Rebellion, but King Xicheng or Hailing King Yuanji, their approach would be the same as Li Shimin's, and they would definitely wipe out Li Shimin and all of Li Shimin's sons and eradicate the roots.
Back then, Li Yuan had just captured Chang'an, and he was fledgling, so he respected Yang Guang, the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, as the emperor, and supported the grandson of the Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Yu (you), as the emperor, changed the Yuan Yining, and Li Yuan appointed himself as the king of Tang and the prime minister, and led the major affairs of the military state. In the second year of Yining, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was killed by Yu Culture in Jiangdu, and Li Yuan was also fully prepared, and then let Yang Yu take the throne to himself, and established the Tang Dynasty. Once in that position, in order to stabilize their rights, anyone will get rid of the threat as soon as possible, and cut the grass and roots, which is something that no one can stop?
He did it then, so how can he blame the people of the world now and not let him do it? If Jiancheng and Yuanji achieve that position, they will also do the same to the people and the descendants of the people, who can avoid it? (To be continued.) )
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