The power of the little wife

When Li Shimin entered Luoyang, a group of people were also sent to Luoyang, this is a group of people who will have accidents, and it is Li Yuan who sent them, their identity is Li Yuan's little wife, and their task is to help Li Yuan choose a little wife in Luoyang (the emperor's treatment is not ordinary).

However, there is one more important thing in their hearts than choosing a little wife for Li Yuan, it can be said that they came here for this matter, choosing a little wife is just an excuse, and when the time comes, you can find a few random people to make do with it, in short, it can't be too beautiful, what if you rob me of my position. At that time, Luoyang was initially decided, Wang Shichong's savings over the years were still in the treasury, and they were all given to Li Tang in vain after a failure, and the commander of the army was Li Shimin, who was the largest in Luoyang, and Li Shimin was the largest in Luoyang, and Li Shimin had to decide how much Wang Shichong's property was reported.

So something like this happened, there are obviously 100,000 taels of gold in the library, Li Shimin said that if he reports 50,000, he has to write 50,000, which person who doesn't have a head dares to ask a sentence and a half, be careful of moving your head, Luoyang was beaten down by Lao Tzu, you shouldn't take something, my dad (Li Yuan) didn't say anything, which onion and garlic do you count?

In this way, Li Shimin quickly became a nouveau riche, but the people who want to become an upstart are not only Li Shimin alone, there are many people, some want to say but dare not say it, and some want to say it and dare to say it, Li Yuan's little wife belongs to the second type.

Becoming a nouveau riche is their real purpose. They knew that King Qin was a great general, and there was no ambiguity in killing the enemy on the battlefield, and they didn't dare to make such a request recklessly, so the big guys made an appointment together to collectively go to King Qin for a day, hoping that Li Shimin would look at Li Yuan's face and not let us come for nothing. The concubines finally mustered up the courage to say what they had always wanted to say, and they waited for Li Shimin's affirmative answer.

However, Li Shimin sued them with actual actions. Don't say it's a dad, even the king of heaven is not easy to do. "No, there is not a penny, the property belongs to the state, and if it wants to enter the treasury, I dare not take it and give it away."

In short, it is two words: "don't give". The concubines left in disgrace, they were very disappointed, Li Yuan had never rejected them like this, but who made the family the king of Qin, the emperor was the most capable. The son with the greatest credit, forget it, who will let him have something to ask for, if this matter is not done, it will not be done, as long as the next thing is done.

This time, the concubines learned smartly, they can't go together, if they are rejected like that, there is really no room for maneuver, and besides, in front of so many people, even if King Qin wants to agree, it is not easy to agree. So they could only go by themselves, so the concubines all thought they were very secret and came to see Li Shimin again, and took the initiative to admit their mistakes, I was wrong last time. It should not be insatiable, it is favored by the emperor, and it also wants gold, silver and jewelry. I'm really damned, pissed off His Majesty.

As soon as Li Shimin heard this, he said. Half of the anger in my heart has disappeared, but I always feel that this person is still in trouble. It's not just as simple as admitting his mistake, so he stared at the concubine with his sharp knife-like eyes. The concubine was furious, lowered her head, and said the purpose of this trip, hoping to find an official position for her brother in Luoyang.

After seeing Li Shimin's eyes just now, the concubine already felt that it seemed to be out of play, and sure enough, the answer Li Shimin gave was still two words: "No". This time, the concubine left with resentment, and when she left, she didn't say hello to Li Shimin.

There are a lot of people who go, and almost everyone comes out like this, so in the hearts of the concubines, they unexpectedly stand on the same front, King Qin is not kind, and when he returns to the palace, he must blow the pillow wind to the emperor, hum, Li Shimin, I remember you, and you will remember me.

Among Li Yuan's concubines, the most favored are Zhang Jieyu and Concubine Yin De. Zhang Jieyu's father took a fancy to a piece of land, Zhang Jieyu and Li Yuan said that Li Yuan ordered this land to be rewarded to Zhang Jieyu's father. But before that, Li Shimin had already given this land to Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, who had made great contributions, by his own order.

couldn't stand Zhang Jieyu's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Li Yuan ordered Li Shentong to transfer the land to Zhang Jieyu's father, Li Shentong is Li Yuan's cousin, at this time, the second pole had a mental attack and did not change, the reason was that King Qin's order was before the emperor's edict.

You must know that at that time, Li Yuan's edict and the decree of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, the decree of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and the decree of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, had the same effect, parallel to the world, which made the relevant organs have a headache, and they didn't know who to listen to.

Everyone is having dinner before you get up. In this way, Li Shentong's words seem to have some truth, but Zhang Jieyu doesn't think so, she thinks that Li Shimin bullied her, and blows the pillow wind to Li Yuan: "The King of Qin took away my father's land and gave it to the King of Huai'an, I'm nothing, doesn't this slap you in the face?" As soon as he heard this, Li Yuan was very angry and furious, and summoned Li Shimin the next day, and scolded him fiercely: "My edict is not as good as your order", and said to Pei Lian: "This person has led troops to fight abroad for many years, and has been badly taught by intellectuals, and he is no longer my former son." ”

Concubine Yin's father is called Yin Arat, relying on his daughter to be deeply favored by Li Yuan, flying and domineering in Chang'an City, proud and arrogant, one day Li Shimin's subordinate Du Ruhui rode a horse in front of Yin Arat's house.

Yin Arat, without saying a word, ordered the family to neatly drag Du Ruhui off the horse, punched and kicked, massaged the chest, the back, the head, and greeted the whole body. Although Du Ruhui is a scholar, his ability to resist blows is still very outstanding, and the whole set of procedures is just a finger quilt

broke one, probably because Li Shimin fought on the battlefield all the year round (not on the battlefield). Yin Arat, fortunately, did not meet Yu Chi Jingde and Cheng Biting Jin, so ten Yin Arats were not enough to be cut. After the fight, Yin Arat's nose pointed to Du Ruhui and said, "Let's see if you dare to pass by my door in the future and not get off the horse." ”

Du Ruhui thought to himself, I'm going, I'm passing by, it's too painful, I'm going to be shaved to death, next time I won't leave here, if I don't go from here this time, it's all the eldest grandson Wuji's kid who lied to me, he said that from here, he can pick up the money, fuck. How can you be rich?

It made a bunch of fools cut it. Hurt...... Du Ruhui left, and Yin Arat suddenly felt very scared. After all, he is the person of the King of Qin, and he is not so lightly offended. What can I do?

In a hurry, Yin Arat decided that only the wicked person would sue first, hehe, in a corner, Yin Arat, secretly smiled evilly, Du Ruhui, don't blame me Yin, who made us have a good head and be talented? At night, Concubine Yin De snuggled in Li Yuan's arms and suddenly said: "King Qin's subordinate Du Ruhui bullied my father. ”

"Oh. There is such a thing. ”…… The next day, Li Shimin was summoned again, he wanted to talk to Li Yuan about Du Ruhui's beating yesterday, but before Li Shimin could speak, Li Yuan didn't care about the image of the emperor. Dizzy, I forgot to distinguish it, let alone Du Ruhui's matter, I can only say yes.

The above is the relationship between Li Shimin and Li Yuan's little wife written in the history books. It looks out of place, Li Shimin doesn't buy their account, and everyone can't talk about it. Either friend or foe, this seems to be the law of politics. So Li Shimin and Li Yuan's little wives became enemies.

The enemy of the enemy is his friend, uphold this principle. Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, who competed for the throne with Li Shimin, curried favor with Zhang Jieyu, Yin Defei and other harem concubines and obtained their help.

Some books also write about Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, Zhang Jieyu, and Yin Defei committing adultery, about this matter, Sima Guang said this, the palace is in the courtyard, we don't know what happened, and it's not easy to guess.

In short, Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and Li Yuan's little wives are very close, blowing pillow wind in Li Yuan's ears every night, saying bad things about Li Shimin, and the form is very unfavorable to Li Shimin. But is this real history?

No, if this was really the case at that time, Li Shimin was completely isolated by Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan's little wives, then Li Shimin would have died before the Xuanwumen Change, in other words, he would have been solved by Li Jiancheng a long time ago, let alone launch the Xuanwumen Incident to become the emperor.

Li Shimin due to the long-term foreign war, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, the main opponents of Li Tang were defeated by him, in the victory, conquering the city at the same time, Li Shimin did not forget to accumulate money, to make himself rich, this is not because of how much Li Shimin loves money, but because he knows that the economy is the power, and politics needs the economy as the foundation.

When competing with Li Jiancheng for the throne, Li Shimin's savings of gold, silver and jewelry came into play, and Li Shimin used the money to constantly bribe the ministers of the court and Li Yuan's little wife, and still gained some support in the court and the harem.

Li Shimin's wife is the later queen of the eldest grandson who played a key role here, the eldest grandson is very good at coming to things, and when he has nothing to do, he will go to the harem to visit the door, of course, it is not in vain, every time he goes, he has to bring some small gifts, and Li Yuan's little wives have a good relationship, and help at critical moments.

The eldest grandson served Li Yuan cautiously, which was very pleasing to Li Yuan, and the relationship with the harem concubines was relatively good, the eldest grandson was often praised by Li Yuan, and Li Yuan thought that this daughter-in-law was much better than those sons. Behind every successful man is a virtuous woman, and Li Shimin is no exception.

What a man takes from his wife directly affects his future career! A good wife is half the success of a career! Now comes another question, why is the real history different from what is written in the history books?

Because someone doesn't want us to see the real history, and wants his own image to be great in the minds of future generations, this person is Li Shimin. This issue will be mentioned in a later article, so I won't say much about it here.

With the efforts of the eldest grandson and money, Li Shimin was not isolated in the harem, but was isolated among the brothers, and there were only three influential people among Li Yuan's sons, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji, the three were the oldest, but in the battle for the throne, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were together, and Li Shimin was isolated. Let's explore a question, why did Li Yuanji choose to join forces with Li Jiancheng instead of Li Shimin?

This starts with Li Yuanji's character, the worst character among the three brothers belongs to this Li Yuanji, when he was born, because of his ugly appearance, his mother (Dou's) didn't like him, and his nurse Chen kindly raised him.

When he grew up, he was cold and suspicious, arrogant and lascivious, liked to dance with knives and guns, and often ordered his concubines and maids to wear armor like men, practice military formations, divide into two factions, fight each other, and many people died because of this.

Once, Li Yuanji was also injured because of this. His nurse Chen kindly stopped him from playing, and Li Yuanji was very angry. Ordered someone to kill Chen Shanyi. Li Yuan led his army into Guanzhong and let Li Yuanji stay in Taiyuan. This boy had no discipline from his father and brother, and he went out hunting every day, and said wildly: "I would rather go without food for three days than hunt for a day."

Seeing that someone else has a beautiful daughter and a young woman, he opens the door at night and sneaks into the house to rape his wife and daughter, and what he does is completely evil. Liu Wu went all the way south on Monday, but he had not yet reached Taiyuan. Li Yuanji saw that things were not good, and escaped from Taiyuan overnight with his concubines.

After that, Li Yuan not only did not punish, but asked Li Yuanji to follow Li Shimin to fight Luoyang, Li Shimin also entrusted Li Yuanji with a heavy responsibility, when he went to the tiger prison to resist Dou Jiande, he did not withdraw the army besieging Luoyang, but let Li Yuanji lead, of course. Li Shimin knew what level this brother was, and left Qu Tutong and other generals to assist Li Yuanji.

At that time, the relationship between Li Shimin and Li Yuanji was still very good, and it can also be said that the relationship between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin was not tense. Later, Li Shimin's credit became greater and greater, and with the ambition to be emperor, Li Jiancheng also felt threatened by Li Shimin. So the two brothers began to fight for the throne.

When the two brothers were cultivating their own forces, Li Yuanji thought about it. Who should I support? Later, he came to the conclusion that whoever is the emperor is not as good as the emperor himself. So he made up his mind to be an emperor in his heart.

But it is unrealistic to let Li Yuan establish himself as the crown prince, even if Li Jiancheng is deposed, and Li Shimin will not be able to take his turn. Support Li Shimin, Li Shimin is too smart and capable, none of the people under him, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Changsun Wuji are easy to deal with, and Li Shimin can only be a second child, don't think about being the boss.

Following Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng is soft-hearted and benevolent, without Li Shimin's head and ability, he would never have dreamed that "the praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches are behind", and after I join forces with my eldest brother to kill the second brother, I will kill the eldest brother again, at that time I will be the emperor, and I am the biggest in the world. Father, eldest brother, second brother, don't you look down on me?

I'm going to show you who's going to win. In Li Jiancheng's group, Li Yuanji was the most radical, and often said indignantly: "I killed him for my eldest brother." At some point, he seems to be more anxious than Li Jiancheng, a typical emperor is not in a hurry, and Li Jiancheng sometimes feels that Li Yuanji is very inexplicable. Li Shimin followed Li Yuan to Li Yuanji's residence to play, Li Yuanji ambushed in the bedroom, about to kill Li Shimin, but was stopped by Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji was very angry and said: "I'm all for you, big brother?" "The devil knows who you're for.

Compared with Li Shimin, who has suffered from blood and tears, Li Jiancheng is still very kind, his heart is very soft, and he can't bear to kill his brother, Li Yuanji is just the opposite, he doesn't play cards according to common sense, he doesn't care about his personal feelings, he does what he wants, there is nothing to scruple about, and this person is the most difficult in history.

At this time, Li Jiancheng still cared about brotherhood, just wanted to win in the battle for the throne, whether to demote Li Shimin to a concubine or imprison him, in short, he didn't want Li Shimin's life, and then one thing made Li Jiancheng sober up and understood that there was only one winner in this battle, and the loser had only one way to die, so in the future confrontation......

In June of the seventh year of Wude (624) of the Yang Wengan incident, an incident occurred that alarmed Li Yuan and implicated a wide range of people, including Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and others. This matter is Yang Wengan's conspiracy against the case. Yang Wengan is Li Jiancheng's person, who served as a guard in the East Palace, and is very trusted by Li Jiancheng and is a confidant.

Later, because of Li Jiancheng's relationship, Yang Wengan became the governor of Gyeongju. Things have to start here, Li Jiancheng felt the threat to the throne from Li Shimin, actively deployed, expanded his power, and reached a secret alliance with many local feudal officials, such as Li Yi, the king of Yanjun (i.e., Luo Yi), the king of Lujiang Li Ying (clan) and others, who advanced and retreated together in politics.

At the same time, Li Jiancheng recruited more than 2,000 warriors from all over the world and more than 2,000 people from Chang'an to form the "Changlin Soldiers" to increase his bargaining chips against Li Shimin, and as Li Jiancheng's henchman, Yang Wengan also secretly sent the warriors he recruited to Chang'an and equipped with the East Palace. This month, Li Yuan went to Renzhi Palace to escape the summer, accompanied by Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, and Li Jiancheng stayed in Chang'an.

Before leaving, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji held a small two-person meeting, but instead of the two discussing the problem, Li Jiancheng directly told Li Yuanji that he wanted Yang Wengan to rebel, hoping that Li Yuanji would cooperate with him and clean up Li Shimin if he had the opportunity in Renzhi Palace, and said: "Success or failure depends on this action." ”

Li Jiancheng ordered Er Zhuhuan and Qiao Gongshan to give the armor to Yang Wengan, but these two people were not very reliable, and when they went halfway, they felt that things were not good, and if they didn't get it right, they would have to lose their heads, so they simply didn't go, and went to Renzhi Palace to sue Li Yuan, and Li Jiancheng instructed Yang Wengan to rebel.

At first, Li Yuan didn't believe it and wanted to kill two people, but at this time, Du Fengju, a native of Ningzhou (near Gyeongju), also reported the matter, and went to the palace to state it in person. Li Yuan was very angry, his face turned green, he wrote an edict with his own hands and summoned Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng knew that the matter had been leaked, and he was very frightened and did not dare to see his father. (To be continued......)