Chapter 174: Both Civil and Military The Emperor of Men is Born

Yan Liyan didn't know that Liyan Villa had become a very important place.

Liyan Villa was originally just one of the many estates of the Yan family, because Yan Liyan was not born to Yan Bi's original match, and his biological mother had passed away, and his status was very embarrassing, so Yan Bi placed Yan Liyan in Liyan Villa.

Unexpectedly, Xuanyuan Jingtian, the Lord of Creation, personally sat in Liyan Villa, Yan Liyan grew up safely, and with the knowledge of several lifetimes, through intentional or unintentional arrangements, Liyan Villa was built into the focus of attention of the lords of the gods.

True Immortals achieved Da Luo Jin Immortal in Liyan Villa, Wenqu Xing received enlightenment here, and Tota Heavenly King apprenticed here, even if the Buddha's heart was stolen, it was inextricably linked with Liyan Villa.

In fact, the Buddha's heart is in Yan Liyan's body, which is one of Yan Liyan's biggest secrets, and it is also Yan Liyan's most distressing thing.

Yan Liyan didn't dare to think about it, because as soon as he thought about it, the Buddhas of the Buddha Kingdom would sense it.

Yan Liyan didn't dare to sacrifice the heart of the fire god, so he couldn't fight with people.

Yan Liyan could only hide in Liyan Villa, concentrating on construction, business, and winemaking.

On the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, martial arts, the Li family annex.

The martial arts clouds suddenly changed, the world's spirits gathered in Sidi, and the colorful auspicious clouds rose in the whole territory of Xianyang for a long time and never dissipated.

The Taoist who guarded the boundary said, "I don't know where the divine is in the world, but there is a faint killing atmosphere, as if a rich and noble person has come to the world."

"Not good", Mr. Hao's Xuanyuan Jingtian immediately flew away and went straight to Xianyang martial arts.

Leaving the Boundary Keeper and the others stunned.

"The demons and monsters in this world are alarmed, and I am afraid they will rush there. It is even more magical than when Liyan was born, but fortunately, Xuanyuan Ancestor found out in time. The Boundary Keeper muttered to himself, as if he was saying it to Yan Liyan and the others.

Yan Liyan was thinking, which immortal nether realm or human emperor should have descended.

Yan Liyan's guess was right, it was the emperor who came into the world.

Xuanyuan Jingtian hurried to the Li family annex.

When Xuanyuan Jingtian arrived, the wife of the Li family, Dou, was in labor.

Xuanyuan Jingtian did not show up, and directly cast a spell to arrange a golden light array above the sky, and the colorful auspicious clouds immediately hid their tracks.

When the child was born, the house was full of golden light, but because Xuanyuan Jingtian cast a spell, the people outside didn't know the immediate situation, and Xuanyuan Jingtian also helped the midwife and servants clear their memories afterwards, so they didn't remember the magical things that happened that day.

After the child was born, Xuanyuan Jingtian immediately came to the door and said to Li Yuan, "Your son may not be able to support him, and he needs to change his birthday."

Li Yuan had heard of Xuanyuan Jingtian's name for a long time, and he had seen him above the court, so he was convinced of Xuanyuan Jingtian's words.

So, Li Yuan changed Li Shimin's birthday to the 23rd day of the first month of the 19th year of Kaihuang (599 AD), and asked Xuanyuan Jingtian to name him.

Xuanyuan Jingtian began to refuse, not wanting to accept this task, but he couldn't stand Li Yuan's enthusiasm, so he agreed, and named him Li Shimin, which is the meaning of helping the world and the people.

Li Shimin is the emperor of the people, the later Tang Taizong Li Shimin, the ancestral home of Longxi Chengji, is the second son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan and Empress Dou, the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, an outstanding politician, strategist, military strategist, and poet.

Li Yuan was very satisfied, and invited Xuanyuan Jingtian to dinner.

Xuanyuan Jingtian did not refuse, but stayed in the Li Family Annex for three days.

In the past three days, Xuanyuan Jingtian baptized Li Shimin, saved his golden body, eliminated disasters and misfortunes, and set up a golden light array in the Li Annex, and eliminated the memories of several subordinates and midwives in time.

In his childhood, Li Shimin was smart and decisive, uninhibited, received Confucian education, learned martial arts, was good at riding and archery, and practiced Xuanyuan Jingtian's "Xuanyuan Xuntian True Scripture". Because of the relationship between the brothers and sisters, Li Jing came to Li Shimin and went all out to assist Li Shimin.

In 613 A.D. (the ninth year of Emperor Yang of Sui), Li Shimin married Gao Shilian's niece Changsun as his wife. In 615 A.D. (the eleventh year of the Great Cause), Li Shimin joined Yun Dingxing's army and went to Yanmen Pass to rescue Emperor Yang of Sui, who was besieged by the Turks.

In 616 A.D. (the twelfth year of the Great Cause), his father Li Yuan was appointed as the guard of Jinyang, and Li Shimin followed him to Taiyuan and accompanied his father on many expeditions to quell various rebellions in present-day Shanxi Province and resist the invasion of the Turks.

In 617 A.D. (the first year of Yining), Li Shimin instigated his father Li Yuan to raise troops against the Sui and raised troops for Jinyang. Li Yuan named Li Shimin as the prince of Dunhuang County and the governor of the right leading army, commanded the right three armies, raised troops to attack Chang'an, and destroyed the Sui. Li Shimin's official worship of Doctor Guanglu and the domestic history of the Tang Dynasty, the migration of the Duke of Qin, and the food of 10,000 households.

In 617 A.D. (the first year of Yining) in the twelfth lunar month, Li Shimin was the right marshal, migrated to Zhao Guogong, led 100,000 troops to attack Chang'an, the eastern capital of the Sui Dynasty, and did not return without restraint, set up three ambushes in the tomb of the three kings, and defeated the Sui general Duan Da. In 618 A.D. (the first year of Wude) in the fifth lunar month, Li Yuan deposed Yang Yu, called the emperor, changed the name of the country to Tang, and named Li Shimin as Shang Shuling, the general of Youyiwei, and entered the king of Qin.

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the territory was limited to the area of Guanzhong and Hedong, and did not yet completely rule the whole country. Since 618 A.D. (the first year of Wude), Li Shimin personally participated in four major battles.

First, the Battle of Shallow Water Plains pacified Xue Rengao (Xue Ju's son) in Longxi and eliminated the threat from the West in the Tang Dynasty.

Second, defeat Song Jingang and Liu Wuzhou, recover the lost territories of Merge and Fen, and consolidate the northern part of the Tang Dynasty.

Third, in the Battle of Tiger Prison, the two major separatist forces in the Central Plains were annihilated in one fell swoop: Wang Shichong of Henan and Dou Jiande of Hebei, so that the Tang Dynasty gained the right to rule North China.

Fourth, it severely damaged Dou Jiande's remaining Liu Heimin and Shandong's Xu Yuanlang.

Since then, Li Shimin's prestige has grown, especially when the class returned to Beijing after the Battle of Tiger Prison, he was ceremoniously welcomed by the soldiers and civilians of Chang'an. In 621 A.D. (the fourth year of Wude) in the tenth lunar month, he was named the general of Tiance, led Situ and Shaanxi Dongdao Daxing Taishang Shuling, and was placed on the prince, and the number of food towns increased to 30,000. Li Yuan also issued an edict to authorize the Tiance Mansion to purchase its own official property, so Li Shimin opened a literary museum, recruited scholars from all over the world to enter the museum for consultation consultants, and the literature museum was combined with the Qin Wangfu to form a small government agency.

Taiyuan raised troops was Li Shimin's strategy, Li Yuan had promised him to make him the crown prince after the matter was completed, but after Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng was appointed as the crown prince. After the world was pacified, Li Shimin's fame became more and more famous, and Li Jiancheng immediately united with Li Yuanji to squeeze out Li Shimin. Li Yuan's indecisiveness also caused the government and Chinese decrees to conflict with each other, which accelerated the military confrontation between the princes.

The eldest brother, the crown prince Li Jiancheng, knew that Li Shimin would not yield to be a minister, and Li Shimin also thought that he had laid the foundation for the founding of the Tang Dynasty, so he and Li Jiancheng and his fourth brother Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, were increasingly suspicious, and the ministers of the two factions fell into each other's favor. Li Jiancheng once poisoned and murdered Li Shimin. Among them, Prime Minister Pei Lian, strategists Wang Qi, Wei Zheng, and Xue Wanche, the general of the East Palace Guard, followed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.

Qin strategists Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling, and generals Qin Shubao, Wei Chi Jingde, Duan Zhixuan, Hou Junji, Wang Junkuo and others followed Li Shimin. Prime Minister Chen Shuda, courtier Sun Wuji and others secretly supported Li Shimin. The rest of the generals, Xu Shixian, and the minister Yu Wenshi and others remained neutral. Li Jing knew that Li Shimin would succeed, so he also pretended to remain neutral.

In 626 A.D. (the ninth year of Wude), the Turks invaded the Tang border, and Li Jiancheng suggested to Li Yuan that Li Yuanji should be the commander to go to the Turks. Wang Hui, who held the position of the official in charge of timekeeping in the prince's East Palace, had been bribed by Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and became Li Shimin's eyeliner in the East Palace, and he quietly told Li Shimin: "Li Jiancheng wants to use this to control the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin, and is ready to set up an ambush in Kunming Pool to kill the King of Qin." So Li Shimin decided to strike first.

On July 2, 626 A.D. (the fourth Gengshen day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Wude), Li Shimin shot and killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi Li Yuanji near the Xuanwu Gate of the imperial capital Chang'an City, which is known as the "Xuanwu Gate Change" in history. Afterwards, Li Shimin killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's sons and removed them from the clan. Three days later (on July 5, 626 AD), Li Shimin was made the crown prince and issued an edict saying: "From now on, all military affairs, no matter how big or small, will appoint the crown prince to execute, and then report to the emperor."

On September 4, 626 A.D. (the ninth day of the eighth month of the ninth year of Wude), Li Yuan abdicated and became the emperor, and Zen was located in Li Shimin. Li Shimin ascended the throne as emperor and changed his view to Zhenguan the following year.

Xuanyuan Jingtian has been teaching Li Shimin in secret.

Xuanyuan Jingtian taught Li Shimin the way of the emperor. Knowing people and being good at appointing people, employing people on the basis of merit, regardless of background, recruited Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui in the early stage, and appointed the eldest grandson Wuji, Yang Shidao, Chu Suiliang, etc., all of whom are loyal and honest people; Others, such as Li Tao and Li Jing, are also a generation of famous generals. In addition, Li Shimin also disregarded his previous suspicions, and reused Wei Zheng and Wang Gui of the old department, and demoted generals Wei Chi Gong and Qin Qiong, etc., and was full of talents. He also ordered Gao Shilian, Linghu Dedi and others to rebuild the "Clan Chronicles", focusing on morality, speech, and meritorious service, and replacing the world with meritorious heroes; Through the imperial examination, talented scholars of the Shu nationality were recruited, and the imperial examination was used to replace the family. As a result, the opportunities for children from poor families to enter the ranks have greatly increased, bringing a new atmosphere to the political arena. In addition, he accepted Feng Deyi's proposal and ordered the clan to serve as an official to get rid of his bad habit of enjoying wealth and wealth.

Xuanyuan Jingtian taught Li Shimin to listen to the opinions of others, and the stones of other mountains can attack jade.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he tried his best to ask for advice, he expanded the power of the counselors, and encouraged his ministers to criticize his decision-making and style. Among them, Wei Zhengting admonished more than 200 times, and directly stated the emperor's mistakes in the court, and many times in the early dynasty, Li Shimin was embarrassed and unable to step down. Another example is Wang Gui, Ma Zhou, Sun Fujia, and Chu Suiliang are all well-known for their exhortations. In his later years, Li Shimin was not as generous as he was in the early days because the country was rich and the people were strong, and he occasionally regretted killing ministers by mistake, but he generally still restrained and maintained the demeanor of accepting words.

It's just that Xuanyuan Jingtian is taught through dreams in order to hide people's eyes and ears.

Of course, that's another story.