The prince said: "Li Shiyun has more than enough talent, but you have no grace with him, and I am afraid that I will not be able to accept it." I depose him now, and if he does it immediately, until I die, you will use it as a servant later, and let it be at your own mercy; If you wander and look, you should kill the ear. "In May, Wuwu, Li Shiyun, the third product of Tongzhongshumen, was appointed as the governor of Diezhou; The world was edicted, and he did not go home. "Zizhi Tongjian: Tang Ji XV".In 649, Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was gradually exhausted, went to Cuiwei Palace in the summer to escape the summer, and it was in Cuiwei Palace that Li Shimin had a premonition that his time was short, so he began to lay out for the enthronement of the crown prince Li Zhi. After careful consideration, Li Shimin prepared three ministers for Li Zhi, hoping that after he went, they would be able to assist Li Zhi wholeheartedly and escort the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin has always been good at controlling the subordinates, and the three of them have also made different arrangements, "Zizhi Tongjian" records everything in detail, and these three people are Li Tao, the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang, Li Shimin has a deep meaning for their arrangements, such as Li Tao.
Li Tao is a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty, and he has made a lot of achievements in the process of Li Tang pacifying the world, and he is one of the few famous generals with the talent of generals, and he is on the same level as Li Jing in the early Tang Dynasty.
Li Jing is nearly eighty years old, Li Zhi has become the most important famous general, and his status is very high, Li Zhi naturally needs such a famous general, but Li Zhi has always been benevolent and weak, and he has never been on the battlefield, how can such an emperor suppress Li Tao, who has made great achievements?
Li Shimin has been thinking about it for a long time, so he has the above paragraph with Li Zhi, Li Shimin told Li Zhi that he will now send Li Tao to other places as an official, if Li Tao does not hesitate to take office, then Li Zhi can appoint Li Tao as a servant and become the prime minister after he ascends the throne; If Li Tao hesitates, then kill him.
Li Shimin's approach is quite meaningful, his purpose is to make Li Tao loyal to Li Zhi, the emperor, or to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. But loyalty is difficult to say, and it is impossible for Li Shimin to directly summon Li Tao and make him loyal to Li Zhi, which has little effect.
Therefore, Li Shimin directly took action to make Li Tao loyal, and at the critical moment when Li Shimin was seriously ill, Li Tao was released as the governor of Diezhou, which is a big deal, if Li Tao is loyal to the emperor and listens to the emperor, then he will not have any objections to this, and he will go directly to office, if he has objections to this matter, wants to ask about the truth, wants to find out about Li Shimin's physical condition and the future of the Tang Dynasty, etc., then such a military general is not qualified.
In fact, Li Shimin used the matter of release to inform Li Tao to be obedient, listen to himself now, and listen to Li Zhi in the future, and what did Li Tao do? He completely guessed Li Shimin's intentions, and he didn't even return home, so he went directly to his post. Li Shimin and Li Tao, the two monarchs and ministers, without meeting, completed a special situation in this way.
Compared with Li Tao, the arrangement of the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang is much simpler, the two are more in the form of Wenchen, the relationship between the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Shimin is very deep, and he is the person Li Shimin trusts the most.
After Li Tang had an uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the eldest grandson Wuji had been following Li Shimin and was Li Shimin's most loyal follower, and he was also Li Zhi's own uncle, so he would naturally become Li Zhi's strongest help, so Li Shimin said to the eldest grandson Wuji:
"I know now that I will pay the public in the future. The prince is benevolent and filial, known to the public, and good at counseling! ”And the arrangement of Chu Suiliang is even more interesting, he said to Chu Suiliang:
"Mowgli is loyal to me, I have the world, and I have more power. I will die, and I will not let the world be slandered. ”This shows Li Shimin's trust and love for his eldest grandson Wuji. Li Shimin left these three ministers for Li Zhi, which can be described as well-intentioned, but Li Shimin never thought that it was these three people he left behind who laid hidden dangers for the Tang Dynasty in the future, allowing a woman to stand out and establish the Wuzhou regime, this woman, I believe everyone knows, that is, Wu Zetian.
So, how did these three ministers "help" Wu Zetian? In fact, it was their existence that made Wu Zetian change from a talented person of Li Shimin to the queen of Li Zhi, and Wu Zetian, who became the queen, gradually took power later and had the ambition to own the world.
Of course, it is not that these three ministers support Wu Zetian as the queen, but that their approach is cheaper than Wu Zetian. When Li Zhi wanted to abolish Wang Liwu, he was actually not determined, and he was afraid that the ministers would not be willing, so he wanted to convince his uncle and the head of the hundred officials, Sun Wuji, "Zizhi Tongjian" recorded:
It is the eldest grandson of Zhaoyi Xingtai Captain Wuji, drinking very happily, worshiping Wuji's pet Jizi at the banquet, the three of them are all Chaosan doctors, and they still carry ten cars of Jinbao and brocade to give Wuji. Shang calmly said that the queen had no children to be sarcastic, and Wuji said to him, but he did not obey the order, and Shang and Zhaoyi were displeased. Zhaoyi also ordered her mother Yang to be untaboo, and repeatedly prayed, but Mowgli was not allowed. Xu Jingzong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also advised Wuji, and Wuji was fierce.From this passage, we can see that Li Zhi, the emperor, put a very low posture in front of the courtier of the eldest grandson Wuji, and even so, the eldest grandson Wuji refused to even let Li Zhi say his request.
Speaking of which, Li Zhi, the emperor, is really aggrieved, although the eldest grandson Wuji is his own uncle, but he has also reached the level of controlling the government, and his right to speak is obviously higher than Li Zhi's, which makes Li Zhi hate this uncle.
The eldest grandson Wuji represents the power of the Guanlong aristocracy, which has formed a constraint on Li Zhi, which Li Shimin did not expect, when Li Shimin was in power, the eldest grandson Wuji was very low-key, but it was not the case when Li Zhi was the emperor, the benevolent and weak Li Zhi could not suppress this uncle at all, and even let him be at his mercy, how could Li Zhi be willing?
Therefore, under the prodding of Wu Zetian, Li Zhi made up his mind to crack down on the Guanlong group represented by the eldest grandson Wuji, and the more the eldest grandson Wuji and these people opposed the establishment of Wu Zetian as the empress, the more Li Zhi wanted Wu Zetian to be the empress.
When the eldest grandson Wuji summoned the prime ministers at the time, the performance of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Tao, Yu Zhining, and Chu Suiliang was very interesting, first of all, Li Tao said that he was sick and refused to participate in such a fight, and Yu Zhining did not dare to speak, and only the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang were resolutely opposed, Chu Suiliang always remembered Li Shimin's words, and wanted to protect the eldest grandson Wuji, so he asked the eldest grandson Wuji not to speak, and he came forward to prevent Li Zhi from abolishing Wang Liwu.
Chu Suiliang's method is to fight to the death, when it comes to emotion, he"Put the wat on the steps of the temple, untie the scarf and kowtow and bleed".And asked to go home to farm, Chu Suiliang relied on his identity as a minister, "The guilty shall not be punished"., forced Li Zhi to end the meeting in a hurry.
This unpleasant meeting gave Li Zhi a headache, he really didn't know how to persuade these ministers to agree to Liwu Zetian as the queen, and he himself would not back down, when this matter was at an impasse, he suddenly thought of Li Tao, Li Tao's words made Li Zhi suddenly enlightened, so, what did Li Tao say? This sentence is recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian", which is:"Your Majesty's family affairs, why bother asking outsiders! ”
Although it seems that Li Tao has a neutral attitude and thinks that this is Li Zhi's family matter, but if you think about it, you will know that Li Tao is on Li Zhi's side, and he agrees to establish Wu Zetian as the queen.
Soon, the abolition of Wang Liwu became a reality, and Chu Suiliang and the eldest grandson Wuji did not end well, Chu Suiliang was demoted to Tanzhou as the governor, and later changed several places, and died in office a few years later, and the eldest grandson Wuji was framed by Xu Jingzong a few years later, exiled to Qianzhou, and forced to commit suicide, the eldest grandson's family was also raided, and the children and grandchildren of the eldest grandson Wuji were exiled to Lingnan.
It is embarrassing that Sun Wuji, the eldest minister of a generation, ended up like this, but it is not without omen that he can have such an ending, Wu Wang Li Ke said when he was dying:"The eldest grandson Wuji steals authority, harms the good, the clan has a spirit, and the clan will be wiped out soon! ”
Why does Li Ke hate the eldest grandson Wuji so much? Just because during the Yonghui period, the eldest grandson Wuji, for the sake of power, connected with everyone in the Li Tang royal family in the case of Fang Yiai's rebellion, so that the Li Tang royal family lost many high-powered royal family members, such as Li Ke, the king of Wu who was Ren Sikong, Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia who was Ren Taichangqing, and Li Ke's younger brother Li Su, the king of Shu, etc., all of whom were forcibly dragged into the case of Fang Yiai's rebellion.
The eldest grandson Wuji's big move caused a lot of damage to the Li Tang royal family, so Li Ke hated the eldest grandson Wuji so much when he was dying, and it was what the eldest grandson Wuji did that made Li Zhi not get much obstruction from the members of the Li Tang royal family in the process of abolishing Wang Liwu, after all, the people who were known for their prestige had been killed by the eldest grandson Wuji, so Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were reduced by a few points.
The eldest grandson Wuji may have thought of Li Ke's original words before he died, perhaps the eldest grandson Wuji regretted it at the last moment of his life, regretting that he had killed so many people for power, and also planted the seeds of tragedy in his ending.
If we extend the time further, then we will see that Li Shimin's final plan on his deathbed really planted the seeds of disaster for the Tang Dynasty, but it was cheaper for Wu Zetian. Li Shimin can not be said to be shrewd, but what he doesn't know is that these three people can be completely suppressed by himself, and they can add icing on the cake to Li Shimin's cultural and martial arts.
And when the three of them are in the hands of Li Zhi, it is difficult to play a perfect role, at least in the matter of abolishing Wang Liwu, these three people have become Wu Zetian's "help", Li Shimin would never have thought that the three people he carefully left behind were cheaper than Wu Zetian.