The man who said this was a priest, and his name was Angata. This Angata is not ordinary, he is a monk that Yang Guang trusts very much. One morning in the tenth year of the Great Cause (614 AD), he gave a recital to the emperor, saying that there is a popular proverb now, and the content of the proverb is "Li should be the son of heaven".

This is terrible, the imperial court blew up at that time. So who is the surname Li that this talisman should be? The emperor ordered the investigation of those surnamed Li.

First of all, let's check from the Guanlong aristocratic group and the powerful surname Li in the imperial court. One is Li Bi in the Eight Pillars Kingdom, his great-grandson Li Mi, who followed Yang Xuangan's rebellion and has fled to the rivers and lakes. The other is Li Yuan, the grandson of Li Hu, the Duke of Tang in the Eight Pillars Kingdom, who is currently stationed in Honghua County (present-day Qingyang, Gansu).

There is also Li Yuan, one of the twelve generals, whose grandson is called Li Min, who is currently by his side, and is equivalent to the Minister of Construction (who will be a supervisor).

Li Mi didn't say anything, this kid is wanted, and one day he will be arrested and killed. Li Yuan, this kid seems to be quite honest, diligent and diligent in his work, I heard that his cousin is not bad, he is quite low-key, but he has to be careful. At this time, the investigation of Li Min was in full swing and began to >

Under the rule of the authoritarian government model, which is dominated by the rule of man, the spy government often appears as a derivative, which can be used as a weapon to promote reform and social progress on the one hand, but at the same time, it is also extremely blind and bloodthirsty. Cruel and bloody! This Li Min is not ordinary in Dasui. He was the grandnephew of Li Mu, the Duke of Shen at that time. Speaking of this Shen Guogong Li Mu, that's a bit of a head.

At that time, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian usurped Zhou Lisui and provoked Wei Chijiong and other three commanders to raise troops, thanks to the veteran minister Li Mu to support Comrade Yang, which quickly passed the crisis. The Li Mu family is in the great cause of building Sui, which is a great contribution.

Because of such immortal achievements, the old Li family is quite a cow in Dasui. Li Muguan worshiped the emperor and worshiped the nameless, his children and grandchildren, regardless of the infant baby, all the officials worshiped the same ceremony, in a family, there were more than 100 people above the fifth grade, and suddenly became the most prominent family in the Great Sui.

A lot of things happened after that, let me tell you slowly. First of all, Li Mu's son has a man named Li Hun, who is the same as his name, and he is clear.

After his father's death, his head came to life, and he coveted his father's title, and successively used conspiracies to frame and get rid of his own brothers and nephews who stood in his way before he seized the title of Duke of Shenguo.

Why do you say that this person's surname is Li, why is he not surnamed Animal, and the single name is good. This bastard first resorted to killing people with a knife, instigating his nephew Li Shanheng to kill his own nephew Li Yun, who had already attacked the lord, and then took advantage of the contradiction between Li Yun and another cousin Li Quyun to directly frame Li Quyun's death. After this conspiracy, the court came to investigate, and Li Hun was not afraid, he generously and directly made a perjury as an elder.

This is good, this Li Quyun is so confused and unjustly killed. Then this bastard co-opted and lobbied the powerful minister Yu Wenshu (Li Hun married Yu Wenshu's sister), and made a promise, saying that if I get the title of Daddy Shenguo, I will repay you how to repay you, and promised that the two of them will get half of the Daddy title of food.

This Yuwen Shu was originally a villain and a money fan, so he immediately agreed and immediately reached a strategic alliance. Then he began to fool Comrade Yang Guang, taking advantage of his favorable position in front of Yang Guang to blow the wind all day long, saying how good and virtuous this Li Hun is, and saying that the establishment of an heir is nothing more than two principles, one is to establish a long, and the other is to establish a virtuous.

Although Li Mu gave birth to a lot of sons, but all the sons except Li Hun are all waste, although this Li Hun is not the eldest son and eldest grandson (Li Mu's eldest son died early, and the eldest grandson Li Yun has been killed by Li Hun), but he is virtuous, he is loyal to the emperor and the empire, if such a person does not stand, then who do you appoint? After a hard flicker, Shen Guogong's hat really arrived quickly. But Li Hun is not only a bastard, but also has no credibility.

promised Yu Wenshu that he was confused, and he spent all day drinking, but he didn't fulfill the spoils he promised to Yu Wenshu at the beginning. Then Yuwen Shu didn't do it.

Co-authored you, Li Hun treated me like a monkey. Zeng Guofan's famous officialdom saying: Don't offend the villain if you offend anyone. Especially the little guy with a bit of energy.

It just so happens that Yuwen Shu is a combination of both. Dig a pit for Li Hun, that's not a matter of effort!

Yuwen Shu was sleepy, he wanted to sleep, and Anjiatuo immediately brought him a big pillow. This pillow is the proverb "Li should be the Son of Heaven".

Yu Wenshu smiled, and smiled quite brightly. A vicious situation immediately took shape in my mind. First of all, he immediately reported to the emperor, saying that Li Hun's whereabouts during this time were strange, and I was related to him, and I found that he had changed a lot during this time, running to his nephew Li Min and Li Shanheng's house all day long, muttering day and night, he must be engaged in some conspiracy.

Moreover, Li Hun's surname is in line with the proverb said by the warlock. "Emperor, this Li Hun is not an idle person, his relatives are all in the court, but he has a heavy military position and high power, it is not appropriate for him to do this, His Majesty Xià For the foundation of thousands of generations, he can't help but guard against it." Saying this, this heat is grasped, so Yang Guang can not be frightened? Here we also have to explain this Li Min, what is his origin. That's a big deal.

This Li Min is Li Yuan's grandson, and Li Yuan and Li Mu are brothers, which means that this Li Min calls this Li Mu uncle and grandfather. Li Min also has one point, his father died heroically in the battle with the Turks in the Sui Dynasty, which means that he is not only the grandson of a meritorious hero but also the son of a martyr.

In recognition of the outstanding contributions made by Li Xian, Li Mu, and Li Yuan brothers to the empire, the empire also awarded the Li family with Danshu iron coupons. It can be noted: "Although there are a hundred deaths, I will not ask in the end." ”

That's the equivalent of a dead-free card. And that's not all! This Li Min also has an identity, that is, the wife he married, that is amazing, it is Yang Guang's niece, the grandson of Emperor Wen of the Great Sui, and the baby daughter of Princess Yang Lihua of the Great Sui Leping of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Yuwen Yun and Emperor Wen of the Great Sui Dynasty Yang Jian. How's that, Li Min is very good, right? Then Li Min should call Uncle Li Huntang, follow his wife to call Uncle Yang Guang, and call Grandpa Yang Jian. Right? So how did Yang Guang treat Li Min?

That's not to say, quite trusting and dependent. For example, in the ninth year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang's second eastward expedition to Goguryeo allowed Yang Xuangan to go to Liyang to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, but as a result, this secretary of the Ministry of Rites actually rebelled, and the second eastward expedition returned in vain, and Yang Guang hastily withdrew to Chang'an.

In the second year, the paranoid emperor Comrade Yang Guang still wanted to go east, and of course it was also very important to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. He didn't worry about who to choose, who to choose, and in the end, he chose to choose, and the person who chose was Li Min. In fact, it is not the first time that Li Min has entered Yang Guang's eyes.

Once, when the emperor met Li Min, he suddenly said to Li Min that he should change his name. The second monk was confused, Li Min felt very strange, what's wrong? My name isn't taboo, is it? There really is. It turned out that Li Min's nickname was "Hong'er", and when Yang Guang called his nephew and son-in-law Li Min, he suddenly remembered that his father, Emperor Wen, Yang Jian, had told him about a dream he had.

& Dad he (Yang Jian) had a dream one night that a flood flooded Daxing City (Sui Chang'an City). Yang Guang, who was all soldiers, suddenly felt very nervous and unlucky, afraid that the name with Hong would take away the old Yang family. It would be easy to understand if you asked your nephew and son-in-law to change their name. Does this mean that the emperor does not trust Li Min and thinks that Li Min is suspected of rebellion? Not really.

If Yang Guang really doubted Li Min, he clicked directly, what did he say. asked him to change his name to show him a way out, which just shows that Yang Guang trusts this nephew and son-in-law very much. Give him the opportunity to change his name, which means that Yang Guang has pulled him into the revolutionary ranks, showing that we are a family, a gang. Li Min wore a golden helmet and iron armor, plus a golden bell hood iron cloth shirt.

It's like turning in the Dan furnace of Taishang Laojun for 7749 days, and he has cultivated the incorruptible body of King Kong. It should be said that Yuwenshu's bureau can't do it. Should Mr. Yuwen retreat in the face of difficulties and sigh at Wangminxing? Not really.

As a celebrity around Yang Guang, he knows the emperor too well. Compared with the ancestors' rivers and mountains, the gods and horses are all floating clouds. Even if my brother and dad get in my way, I still take it.

As soon as Yu Wenshu's recital went up, Yang Guang was immediately extremely sober. Standing on the outside, I always feel that the person concerned is so confused and stupid, and how can Yang Guang, such a wise and extremely smart person, become a devil and a fool in the eyes of outsiders? Or as the saying goes, "The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear>."

As a reviewer and critic of history, it is normal to have a sense of "hindsight" in a situation of detachment from the outside.

Think Yang Guang is stupid and brutal. But as a party, he didn't feel that he was in that position and era, but felt that he was right, and what he did was completely for the sake of the social plan and the common people. Like a person who has been brainwashed and joined a cult, the person who enters feels that he is extremely noble, but the outsider thinks that this person is stupid and even cruel and tyrannical.

This is the characteristic of human nature. Angels and demons are just one step away, even a thought. Just when the emperor asked Li Min to change his name, there was a contradiction between Li Hun and Yu Wenshu that was at a white-hot juncture. The show will open soon, and the actors will appear soon.

What's the cost? Take it first. The family of Li Hun and Li Min was thrown into prison. Let's go to trial. At the beginning, it was the imperial historian Pei Yun who tried the case, this Pei Yun is a standard minister, this guy is a bull, and I will talk in the vernacular later.

Comrade Pei's specialty is that he is good at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, and is good at saying that what is not there is something, and what is small is big, in a word, he can do things according to the emperor's wishes, and he is one of the "five nobles" that the emperor relies on the most. But the problem is that Li Min and his party did not participate in the rebellion, and there is no evidence, so no valuable evidence was obtained after trial.

Report truthfully to Yang Guang. At this time, Yang Guang was full of grass and trees, and his nerves were extremely allergic. Yang Xuangan, the powerful man of the official worship department, can rebel, and I treat him well. It seems that the throne of the emperor is really too attractive. There are really people who are willing to exchange their lives. Li Min's family is too powerful, and it is in response to the proverb "Li should be the son of heaven".

He'd rather believe it than believe it. It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one slip through the net. In his heart, he had already sentenced the Li Min family to death. Since Pei Yun can't come out of the trial, let's change people. It seems that the emperor really understands the law, and the law is used perfectly. Death will also be tried. Who will succeed Pei Yunxian? As far as Yu Wenshu is concerned, he still understands the facts of the case.

Yu Wenshu did not directly interrogate Li Min and others, but first pulled out a beautiful woman from the prison. This person is Li Min's wife, Yang Guang's niece Yuwen Eying. First there was a wave of intimidation.

The gist is that your husband Li Min has fallen, and the crime is rebellion! That belongs to the great rebellion, will the emperor let go of the old Li family? Although you are the emperor's niece, you can't escape from this kind of thing. Yuwen Eying originally grew up in the deep palace, but she had never seen this posture.

Crash directly first. Kneel down and beg Lord Yuwen to show him a way to live. Yu Wenshu said unhurriedly: "There is a way to live, see if you can walk." "What else can Yuwen Eying do, listen to Lord Yuwen." cut off the old Li family and report them for rebellion".

Specifically, the emperor asked Li Min to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, and he saw that the world was in chaos, and felt that "the Li family should be the son of heaven" just shows that his family should respond to this proverb. Therefore, during this time, he conspired with the family members of Li Hun and his army to take power, and prepared to connect them during the period of supervising the transportation of grain and grass, and raided the emperor's imperial camp during the emperor's eastern expedition to Goguryeo, and took it in one fell swoop.

Then, with the prestige of the old Li family in the world, it is not a matter of raising hands to order the world. How could Yuwen Eying, a female streamer, remember this, so she simply asked Yuwen to write it for her directly, and signed and drew it herself. got the testimony and Yu Wenshu played it overnight.

Yang Guang received the fold, and tears immediately fell. He took Yu Wenshu's hand and said: "My sect has leaned a few times, and Lai Qin's father-in-law (Yu Wenshu's second son, Yu Wenshi and Princess Nanyang, the daughter of Yang Guang), got the whole ear. "It means that thanks to your father-in-law, otherwise our old Yang family's Jiangshan Sheji would have been destroyed in the hands of my Yang Guang.

I trust Yang Xuangan so much, I entrust me with a heavy responsibility, and he will betray me if I give high-ranking officials Houlu. My nephew and son-in-law, Comrade Li Min, also trusted and pampered him so much, and also raised a banner to rebel against me. It seems that people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and they really know people and faces, but they don't know their hearts.

In this way, Li Min and Li Hun were directly convicted of treason, and the ancestors' Danshu iron coupons could not save them, and Yang Guang ordered to investigate to the end and never tolerate it! Okay, that's what I want from Yuwen.

As a result, the Li Mu family, who had made great contributions to Emperor Wen of Sui and Yang Jian's capture of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was completely finished. Li Hun, the tall, mighty, handsome and dashing son of the bastard, personally gave Yang Jian a big iron at the behest of his father Li Mu when Yang Jian usurped Zhou Jiansui at the most difficult time, which meant that the old Li family resolutely followed the Yang family's team and helped Emperor Wen iron Comrade Li Hun of Jiangshan Sheji.

Just for a greedy word, to completely finish such a noble family. "No one does loss-making business, and the business that loses its head is a squeeze on the head." This is true. and this nephew Li Min, who became rich with the help of a woman and fell off the horse with the help of a woman, and his family was also wiped out.

He gave others the opportunity to dig a hole and bury a family. How sad! Thirty-two members of the immediate family of Li Min and Li Hun were sentenced to death, and more than 200 of the remaining distant relatives were exiled to the evil places in Lingnan.

It's not over yet, but is someone still particularly concerned about the final ending of Princess Eying, who is especially able to cooperate with Lord Yuwen? Is it really like Yuwenshu promised to let her go? No, leaving a living mouth is a hidden danger after all.

In less than two months, a cup of poisoned wine became Yuwen Eying's last drink. For his own selfish interests, Yuwenshu's original intention was just to take revenge on Li Hun, but he accidentally made the first unjust case of the Great Sui. This year was the tenth year of the Great Cause, > 61 A.D

But in the heart of Emperor Yang Guang, although the cracked rebellion cases are getting bigger and bigger, the number of people killed and the ranks of powerful and high-ranking officials killed are also increasing layer by layer. But it didn't give him the security he was hoping for. On the contrary, he felt more and more uneasy. Who else can the world trust?

It seems that no one can believe it. In the eyes of the emperor, everyone was suspicious, and everyone coveted the throne. Unconsciously, he took the initiative to go to the opposite side of everyone in the world. Outside of this inning, he unconsciously walked into a larger inning. It's just that he won't know who directed this play until he dies. The Buddha talks about cause and effect, and about reincarnation. I don't understand.

I just want to say that, as an emperor, it seems that he can wield the supreme scepter in his hand to influence the fate and even the life of anyone.

But he seems to be being led away in the dark and into a bigger game, but he doesn't know it.

He would never have imagined directing this play. It's the law of history! You can't see it, you can't touch it. Although Yang Guang was a failure as a generation of kings, what he left behind was a deep awe of the laws of history.

To see this kind of lesson, Yang Guang used his own life and the ashes of the country to prove once again: in the face of the law, no matter how much power they have, they will eventually bow their arrogant heads.

This rule is: there must be rules for everything you play, even if you are the king of heaven, you don't play cards according to the rules, and you still finish playing. His latecomers are also the best summed up by his cousin Li Shimin; "Jun, water also; People, boats also. Water can carry a boat, or it can capsize a boat."

Half a century after the fall of the Great Sui, the later emperors of the Tang Dynasty abided by this rule of the game, and with a sense of reverence for this law, they were able to govern the empire to flourish and stand proudly in the east of the world.