Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Three The Morning of the Chicken
"Class..." Li Tai was stunned. He originally wanted to turn Li You into a joke when he said something just now. Whatever he supported him with all his strength was that Li You was acting there.
So Li Tai directly asked Li You for his most valuable things, but he really didn't believe that Li You would really give Dunhuafang to himself. After all, that was everything from Li You. Giving Dunhuafang to him means that Li You would lose everything.
But Li Tai was out of sight this time, and Li You directly presented all his hands. Of course, Li You did not give it to Li Tai directly, but played a word, saying that he wanted to give it to Li Shimin, because Li You was very worried that if he gave it to Li Tai himself, this guy would really have it.
But to Li Shimin, Li You knew that he would never want it. Moreover, Li You said so resolutely that he would withdraw from Chang'an and had his own support. During this period, Changsun Wuji told Li You and Li Zhi a lot about Li Shimin.
Changsun Wuji told Li You and Li Zhi that in fact, Li Shimin has been fine in the past few years, but in recent years, as he grows older, Li Shimin has become more and more worried about the Xuanwu Sect incident.
Although the Tang Dynasty is now peaceful and prosperous, and all nations come to worship, and Li Shimin is still regarded as the Khan of Heaven, the history of his killing of his brother and forcing his father is a stain that he cannot erase in his life.
Moreover, in the 16th year of Zhenguan, Prince Li Chengqian was trying to fight for the position of crown prince because his third brother Li Tai wanted to fight for the position of crown prince. Li Chengqian was assassinated by him. The failure of the case was always engraved in Li Shimin's heart. What is this called... This is called good and evil will be rewarded, and those who kill people will always kill them.
Li Shimin was cruelly killing his brother and forcing his father to abdicate. When his son, who had high hopes, wanted to follow his example, but the sharp blade pointed at him at this time.
He hoped that his son, who had been defending himself in front of ministers, would kill each other and even murder himself! What is this? This may be retribution.
Li Chengqian's rebellion made Li Shimin, who had gained power in the Tang Dynasty through the Xuanwu Gate Incident, finally encountered the situation he didn't want to face in his life. He finally realized the feeling of his father Li Yuan's helplessness when he saw his sons fighting each other.
Since ancient times, any prince who dares to rebel has been killed. Referring to the fact that Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, whose prince was falsely accused of rebellion, he sent a large army to suppress the rebellion. In the end, Liu Bingyi was left alone in the whole family.
It is conceivable that the royal family has no affection since ancient times, but when Emperor Taizong of Tang faced the reality of his son's rebellion, he still couldn't bear to hurt his beloved eldest son, and finally thought that he could give his eldest son a way out. It was a pity that Li Chengqian committed suicide by himself in the end.
Li Chengqian's death has made Li Shimin reflect on recently. Li Shimin felt extremely guilty about the incident of launching the Xuanwu Gate Incident in the past. He thought that when he first seized the throne from his father, he thought that Li Yuan had just helped his elder brother Li Jiancheng, and had always had a very bad attitude towards Li Yuan. After ascending the throne and becoming emperor, he was unwilling to let him live in the palace and forced him to go to the mansion outside.
It was not until later that Li Yuan often praised himself for his imperial talents and his contributions to governing the country that his father and son's relationship eased and his interactions were quite close.
His attitude towards his elder brother and third brothers has always been very bad. As soon as he ascended the throne, he changed Li Jiancheng's title from the crown prince to King Xi (prince level) and changed his third brother Li Yuanji's title from King Qin to King Qi (county level) to Prince Hailing (county level), and gave two evil posthumous posthumous titles: "yin" and "sharp".
The meaning of the word Xi means: It is difficult to change its nature and is exaggerated. The meaning of the word La is stubborn and ungrateful. It can be seen that his sarcastic mockery of the elder brother and the third brother, and giving such a posthumous title to the ancients can be said to be like a humiliation of the whip corpse from the cemetery after death.
But since Li Chengqian committed suicide, Li Shimin may finally understand his father's difficulties.
Moreover, his father and brother had been dead for a long time. Faced with this situation, Li Shimin also felt guilty. According to Changsun Wuji's disclosure, Li Shimin was ready to restore the princely level of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and wanted to adopt the child for the two.
These changes actually show that Li Shimin began to value family affection. Li Tai recently threatened Li Zhi, which aroused Li Shimin's great dissatisfaction. After this dissatisfaction, he was more worried, worried about Li Zhi's safety and the fight between brothers.
Li Shimin didn't want to see the fight between brothers again, he didn't want it very much. It was precisely because of this that Li Shimin would not let Li You leave Chang'an. Li Shimin wanted to train Li You into a sword, a sword that protects Li Zhi, and a sword that has the ability to stop brothers from slaughtering each other.
This is Li You's reliance. He believed that Li Shimin would not let him leave Chang'an, so he was so calm.
Seeing Li You saying he wanted to hand over Dunhuafang, Li Shimin did not express his opinion. Instead, Li Zhi on the side was a little excited: "Fourth brother...you are too much...!"
After Li Tai was surprised, he looked at Li Zhi with a slight angrily: "Zhiru...What do you mean? You just said to your fifth brother and will always support me. Now I'm too much to say that I'm going to be. I have to think about whether what you said just now is true or false."
"Fourth Brother... I support you from the bottom of my heart. We are brothers, but... Isn't it too much for you to leave the foundation of the fifth brother at once?
I don’t know what you are worried about, whether you are worried about Brother Wu or me.
Just like you have always been so worried about your elder brother."
"Shut up... It's not your turn to Lao Jiu to say what you know..." Li Tai looked at Li Zhi and shouted bluntly.
"Enough... Get out, get out of here... No one wants to take Li You's things. His things are his and have nothing to do with any of you..." After saying that, Li Shimin drove Li You, Li Tai and Li Zhi out of the Ganlu Palace angrily.
Li You, Li Tai, and Li Zhi immediately escaped from the Ganlu Palace as fast as possible. Looking at the three people leaving, Li Shimin also sighed heavily. He was very scared at this moment, and he didn't know what he was afraid of, but he was just afraid.
At this time, Xu Hui walked over gently and silently helped Li Shimin put on a cloak. After feeling Xu Hui, Li Shimin gently caught Xu Hui's hand and said, "Hui'er, what should I do... I just lost my eldest son, and now I am very scared that I will lose my youngest son. Qingque and Zhinu are targeting me.
Do I want to announce the prince’s ownership in advance?”
Xu Hui didn't say anything but just accompanied Li Shimin silently, which made Li Shimin smile slightly, because the former Empress Changsun was the same. Everyone knows that a man who respects his wife has something to do at home and always asks for his wife's opinions.
For example, I wanted to buy a car last year, so I went to several stores to check the car, and the car was almost done. I discussed with my wife, but my wife didn’t agree to buy a car, and then she didn’t buy a car.
Li Shimin is also a man, and he respects his wife Empress Changsun very much. Li Shimin is like an ordinary man, and he likes to ask his wife for advice if he has something.
When Li Shimin encountered difficulties, he always liked to ask Empress Changsun: "Wife, how should I deal with this matter? Wife, how do you think that minister is capable of? Can he promote him? Wife, I think this minister is not authentic in his work. I want to punish him. Do you think there is any problem?" (This documentary comes from the Old Book of Tang: "Taizong treated him more and treated him with great courtesy, and often discussed the rewards and punishments with the latter.")
Li Shimin likes to ask his wife what to do, but Empress Changsun lets her husband ask her, but she just refuses to answer. Li Shimin always asks, Empress Changsun had to say to Li Shimin: "The morning of a hen is only the family's demands. How dare I hear about political affairs as a woman?"
Pin, idiom, means female. Hen means hen. In ancient times, domestic chickens were one of the six animals, and wild chickens were birds, which had nothing to do with some unspeakable profession. It is a matter of modern Chinese to associate chickens with those unspeakable professions.
Why did Empress Changsun compare herself to a hen? This story is based on the "Biographies of Women", which is related to King Zhou of Shang and Daji. Daji is not too bad in the records of "Shangshu" and "Records of the Grand Historian".
The Book of Documents only records that "King Zhou only uses his wife's words", and does not name the name and say that it is Daji to blow the wind beside the pillow.
"Records of the Grand Historian" only records that "King Zhou loves Daji, and Daji's words follow." During the Western Han Dynasty, the Liu Bang family produced a historian Liu Xiang. Liu Xiang wrote a book called "Biography of Women" and put the bad things that King Zhou did in "Records of the Grand Historian" on Daji's head. Now that I got better, Daji's reputation was completely terrifying.
In ancient times, the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, which was an iron rule. Empress Changsun quoted the allusion from "Biographies of Women" and compared herself to a "heen", which was to show Li Shimin that she did not want to be Daji.
He also advised his husband Li Shimin not to go astray and not to repeat the mistakes of King Zhou's obsession with the wind on his pillow and the country's destruction. Empress Changsun was able to quote the classics as soon as she opened her mouth, which showed that she was a talented woman with a poetic and literary spirit.
Li Shimin asked Empress Changsun for politics. It was originally a good opportunity for Empress Changsun to seize power. Empress Changsun did not say a word, which showed that she was a good queen who knew how to give up power. Li Shimin was able to possess such a good queen who valued both talent and morality, which really made God bless the Tang Dynasty!
At this time, Xu Hui was like Empress Changsun, without saying a word, which made Li Shimin like Xu Hui even more. Unlike a talented man in the palace, he knew that he was smart and liked to guess the emperor's thoughts.
Li Shimin actually hates this kind of person the most, so this kind of person will never be promoted in the hands of Li Shimin. However, some people like this kind of person, and these two people are going to meet today. I wonder if the two will suck together like magnets during this meeting.
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Chapter completed!