Chang'an is about sixty miles away, there is a very spectacular mausoleum, here is called Xianling, the owner of the burial is Li Shimin's father, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan.

Offering the mausoleum sits in the north and faces south, imitates the original mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu and is built, the scale of the whole mausoleum is very large, the sealed soil is covered with bucket shape, it looks like a soil mountain, the whole mausoleum is rectangular, the rammed earth is the wall all around, the wall on all sides each opens a door, there are two stone tigers guarding in front of each door, there are special mausoleum guards outside the cemetery, usually no one is allowed to approach at all.

But today's mausoleum keepers were suddenly all transferred, all around were guarded by a special force, and in the afternoon, the south gate was also opened, and then a young man wearing an ordinary cyan robe pushed a wheelchair in, although it was already the beginning of summer, but the old man in the wheelchair was still covered with a thin blanket, the thin hands on his lap trembled slightly, and the old eyes were also full of crystal tears.

Li Su also discovered the strangeness of his father Li Shimin, in fact, when they were just close to the tomb, Li Shimin began to become very excited, the expression on his face changed, sometimes sad, sometimes guilty, a variety of feelings intertwined, which shows Li Shimin's violent psychological activities.

Li Shimin knew that his time was running out, so he wanted to end a few unfulfilled wishes in his heart in this limited time, among which the marriage of his son-in-law was being prepared, and the remaining few things were relatively secret, such as quietly coming to the mausoleum to worship, and even for secrecy, in addition to him and Li Su, the people arranged around him were either his shadow guards, or Li Su's four guards, these people would not leak today's events until they died.

In fact, when it comes to offering tombs. Li Shimin comes to worship almost every year, but this time he didn't mainly come to worship his father Li Yuan. It's someone else.

Li Su pushed Li Shimin's wheelchair and slowly walked along the bluestone road. It was only when he walked to Li Yuan's mausoleum that Li Shimin sighed, and the tears in his eyes flowed down his cheeks.

"Liulang, put the incense candles on your grandfather, then kowtow a few times, wait outside the mausoleum, and come back in an hour!" Li Shimin didn't wipe the tears on his face, and directly commanded in a hoarse voice.

"The retainers obey!" I saw Li Su open the box he was holding in his hand and take out incense and candles and other things from it. It was placed in front of Li Yuan's mausoleum, and there were a few fruits and a pot of wine, and finally Li Yu stepped forward to kowtow to his grandfather, whom he had never met, according to etiquette, and then returned to the outside of the cemetery to wait.

Although the main purpose of this visit was not to worship Li Yuan, as a son, since he came to the Mausoleum, he naturally wanted to worship his father, and Li Shimin had many places where he couldn't live with his father before. In addition, his life is short, so he also has a lot of words in his heart that he wants to talk to his father.

Li Yuan didn't have any impression of Li Yuan, the grandfather of the whole family, because the other party died just a year before he crossed over. History for Li Yuan, the Tang Gaozu. The evaluation has always been not very high, and the most criticized place is to let the two sons Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin compete for the throne. In addition, Li Yuan is also very lustful, especially after ascending the throne and becoming emperor. There are more women in the harem than Li Su's grandfather Yang Guang.

However, as Li Yuan slowly integrated into this era, his understanding of Li Yuan was no longer limited to the history books of later generations. This made him quickly discover that in fact, Li Yuan was not as incompetent as later generations evaluated, there is an obvious evidence, as the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he can stand out among the many heroes at the end of the Sui Dynasty, how can he be an incompetent person?

Speaking of Li Yuan, he is actually a person who is both civil and military, when he first started the army, he was able to take advantage of the situation, and set the military idea of taking Guanzhong first and then drawing the world, and it is precisely with this correct strategic thinking that the Tang Dynasty swept the world almost with an invincible momentum in a very short period of time, and conquered the entire Central Plains in a few years.

However, compared with his military actions, Li Yuan's greatest contribution is actually political, it is his decision to make all aspects of the Tang Dynasty follow the Sui system, and also promulgated the Juntian system, as well as the abolition of a large number of miscellaneous taxes in the former Sui Dynasty, laying a solid foundation for the future prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

It's a pity that although Li Yuan is a good emperor, but he is not a good father, for Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, the two equally excellent sons, not only did he not play a role in the adjustment of his father, but also because of the indiscriminate wishes, so that the two brothers were like fire and water, and finally broke out in the 'Xuanwumen Change', which made him lose his two sons at once, and even he himself was forced to abdicate, and at the same time he was also burdened with a name of incompetence.

Li Su was thinking about Li Yuan's life outside, an hour passed quickly, and when he pushed open the gate of the cemetery and walked in, he found that Li Shimin was still sitting in a wheelchair, with a pair of dry hands covering his wrinkled face, like an ordinary old man, crying silently there.

This is also the first time that Li Su has seen his father lose his temper like this, and he can't help but guess what Li Shimin will say to his father Li Yuan's tomb before? At the same time, his footsteps couldn't help but stop, standing more than a dozen steps away from Li Shimin, not knowing if he should step forward?

After a long while, Li Shimin noticed Li Su's arrival, so he turned around and wiped the tears on his face, then took a long breath to calm his excitement, and then said to Li Su: "Liulang, you come and help me up, I want to kowtow to my father and mother." ”

"Yes!" Li Su hurriedly walked over and answered. Not only is Li Yuan buried in the mausoleum, but Li Shimin's early mourning mother, Empress Dou, has also been moved here to be buried with Li Yuan, as for what Li Shimin said in front of his parents' mausoleum just now? Why did he burst into tears? I'm afraid that only Li Shimin himself knows this.

Li Shimin's sick body was weak, and when Li Su held his arm, he felt that Li Shimin's body was very light, and his hand seemed to be grasping a handful of bones, and then he thought of the high-spirited Tang Emperor at the beginning, which made Li Su feel sour.

With the support of Li Su, Li Shimin struggled to get up from the wheelchair, and then slowly moved to the grave of his parents, kneeling down slowly, and then let Li Su let go of himself, his thin hands on the ground, and then bent down with difficulty, and kowtowed to his parents very solemnly. Li Su naturally didn't dare to stand, and he also knelt behind Li Shimin, kowtowing respectfully to his grandfather and grandmother.

After Li Shimin straightened up, he personally picked up the wine jug in front of him, and after filling it with three glasses of wine, Li Shimin spoke again: "Father, this is your favorite Yicheng Jiuyu, originally my son wanted to buy it for you in person, but unfortunately now his body is weak, and he really can't go, so he had to let Liulang send someone to transport some back from Yicheng, and his son tasted it himself, or the old taste of the year, you will definitely like it!" ”

Li Shimin said, picked up three glasses of wine and sprinkled it in front of Li Yuan's mausoleum, and then he poured three more glasses, but this time he drank it all by himself, Li Su was worried about his body, and wanted to open his mouth to dissuade him, but he opened his mouth several times, but he still didn't say it, and finally just sighed silently.

Li Shimin was also very restrained, after drinking three glasses of wine, he never drank again, but began to slowly sprinkle the wine in front of Li Yuan's mausoleum, when the last drop of wine fell, Li Shimin suddenly let out a sigh, and then said in a very low voice: "Father, I'm sorry!" ”

Li Su behind him heard Li Shimin's last words, but his whole body was shocked, and at the same time, he glanced at his father in front of him with complicated eyes, although Li Shimin only said five words, but it contained a huge amount of information.

First of all, since Li Shimin came in, he has been calling Li Yuan his father, that is to say, he has always faced Li Yuan's mausoleum as a son before, but in the last sentence, Li Shimin suddenly changed his words to 'father emperor', although it is just a title, but it means that Li Shimin's role has changed, at this time he is no longer just Li Yuan's son, but also the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin apologized to Li Yuan as an emperor, and the meaning of this is very intriguing. Li Su's first thought was that after the change in Xuanwumen, Li Yuan was forced to abdicate, although Li Yuan lived for another nine years after that, and gave birth to a bunch of princes and princesses, but as an emperor was forced to abdicate by his son, as long as you think about it with a little brain, you can understand how aggrieved Li Yuan will be?

In addition, in the Xuanwumen Change, among Li Yuan's only three remaining sons-in-law, two more died due to cannibalism, and Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were both very favored by Li Yuan, so we can see how sad Li Yuan would be in his heart. Li Shimin has to bear the most direct responsibility.

As the saying goes, people are dying and their words are good, Li Shimin chose to come to Xianling before he died, and then said sorry to Li Yuan in person, which shows that the changes in Xuanwumen back then also left an indelible scar in Li Shimin's heart.

Thinking of this, Li Su couldn't help but sigh, as a son, he was naturally not qualified to comment on who was right and who was wrong. However, Li Su knew that if time went back and let Li Shimin choose again, he would definitely do it without hesitation, this is the cruelty of imperial power, and the greater the imperial power, the more cruel the competition for the throne will be, which is also one of the reasons why Li Su has always wanted to weaken the imperial power.

After Li Shimin said he was sorry, he motioned for Li Su to help himself up. When he sat back in his wheelchair again, Li Shimin stretched out his hand and pointed to the northeast of Xianling, where the burial area of Xianling was located, where Li Shenfu, the king of Xiangyi, Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, and other royal families, as well as some important ministers, were all buried here after their deaths.

In addition, in the burial area, there are two very important people buried, and they are also the people Li Shimin wants to worship the most during this trip. (To be continued......)