Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Seeing the three words Xuanwumen again, Li Shimin expressed his emotional stability.

But when it is speculated that the person behind the dragon is probably Li Dan, and Li Dan and Li Xian who ascended the throne are still brothers, plus it is known that Li Dan's son Li Longji later became Xuanzong.

Li Shimin said that his mood was unstable.

Empress Changsun could clearly feel that there was a thin layer of sweat on her husband's hands. Although his face still looked calm, he was probably not at peace in his heart.

But it was difficult to say anything about this matter, so she could only gently pat the back of her husband's hand to express comfort.

Fang and Du copied it carefully. Finally, Du Ruhui looked at the wet ink carefully and said:

"Instead of saying that Di Renjie is planning to reach the sky, it is better to say that he is on the side of the general trend."

Fang Xuanling agreed while copying in an orderly manner:

"Allowing these two to exercise imperial power on behalf of others can already be seen as a sign of their decline."

"I am seriously ill again. If I want to stabilize the situation in the court, I need to choose between Li Tang's legacy and Wu's honor."

There is no need to say more about the final situation. At least it seems that the hatred between the old lady and the Wu family has become even greater.

Du Ruhui felt a little sympathetic when he thought about it:

"This Wu family has been teased by Wu Zhao using the emperor's heir as bait for nearly twenty years. It is inevitable that he will become resentful."

However, after saying this, Du Ruhui shook his head. In order to please the empress, the Wu family did everything they could to please her. They built Tianshu and built a heavenly palace, wasting the treasury and causing turmoil in the country. Such an end could only be said to be deserved.

Fang Xuanling chose to look forward. After the transcription came to an end, he began to study the ink and said leisurely:

"The Shenlong Coup ended the Wuzhou Rebellion."

"Of course, I'm afraid there will be repercussions."

It was difficult to see through the specific situation through the fragmentary words behind the light screen, but Fang Xuanling had this feeling based on instinct:

Big trouble is still to come.

[As for the details of Shenlong's coup, "Old Book of Tang" also provides two completely different accounts.

It is recorded in Wu Zetian's Annals that it was Li Xian who personally commanded the Yulin Army to enter the ban and kill two national traitors. To put it simply, Li Xian was in charge.

Li Xian's chronicle records that Zhang Jianzhi and other ministers made decisions and persuaded the imperial army. After the thieves were executed, Li Xian returned to power, and Li Xian became an accomplice.

The two statements are completely different, but if you add other historical data, you can piece together a general situation.

Zhang Jianzhi and other five ministers in charge were all crowned kings for official duties after the coup. Therefore, the Shenlong Coup was also known as the Five Kings Change. However, these five people all ended quickly in history. They were collectively deposed by Li Xian. After the Shenlong Coup, The coup was followed by a clean death.

Zhang Jianzhi was sentenced to exile in Longzhou (now Luoding, Guangdong) at the age of 82, and died of sorrow and anger.

Cui Xuan was exiled to Guzhou (now Li County, Sichuan) and died of illness on the way.

The remaining three people, Yuan Shuji, Jinghui, and Huan Yanfan, were exiled to Huanzhou (now Qingyang, Gansu), Qiongzhou (now Hainan), and Guizhou respectively. Later, they were overtaken by the cruel official Zhou Lizhen, who used gold poison, dragged him, and Ling Chi waited for the law to kill him.

Because of his meritorious service in the massacre, Zhou Lizhen was appointed as the Censor Zhongcheng after returning to Beijing and became the second-in-command of the Censor's Office.

Generally speaking, Zhou Lizhen would be classified as Wu Sansi's minion, and Wu Sansi would also be blamed for demoting and killing the five kings. But in fact, Wu Sansi was the one who wore the same pants as Li Xian.

After the Shenlong coup was successful, the first thing Li Tang did when he regained the title of his country was how to deal with the Wu family. At that time, both the court and the central government discussed that the Wu family must be deposed, and Wu Sansi, the man who almost became the prince of Wu Zhou, must die.

It was Zhang Jianzhi who took action to save Wu Sansi's life at that time, and his reason was very simple.

Why not kill Wu Sansi? "If you want to make the superiors kill themselves, they will use the power of the emperor to show off."

Why aren't you afraid of Wu Sansi? "(The Wu family's) situation is over, I know what to do!"

It can be deduced from Zhang Jianzhi's reasons that if Li Xian was the mastermind of the Shenlong coup, there would be no need to kill people to establish authority.

It is a pity that Li Xian has always been unconventional in his life.

Zhang Jianzhi wanted Li Xian to invite Wu Sansi to the execution ground, but Li Xian invited Wu Sansi to the bridal chamber.

Zhang Jianzhi wanted Li Xian to kill Wu Sansi to establish his power, but Wu Sansi gained power in Li Xian's harem.

Even later, when Li Xian encountered the intimacy between Wu Sansi and the queen, he not only did not get angry, but also "accompanied the queen".

Another person who met a tragic end was Li Xian's son-in-law Wang Tongjiao, who was the one who carried his father-in-law on horseback during the coup.

After the Shenlong coup, this staunch man was extremely angry when faced with Wu Sansi's promiscuous harem, and conspired with his friend Zhang Chanzhi to find an opportunity to kill Wu Sansi.

It's a pity that Song Zhiwen, who was staying at Wang Tongjiao's house, heard about this and reported it secretly.

Li Xian can understand clearly. After all, Wang Tongjiao is just a son-in-law, and Wu Sansi is my comrade!

Wang Tongjiao wanted to punish Wu Sansi, but was convicted and executed by his father-in-law for treason.

Among them, Song Zhiwen has a better theory. This informant had already smoothed his official career by flattering the two brothers during the anniversary of Wu.

After the Shenlong coup, he was exiled to Longzhou after being found guilty, but life here was too hard. However, within a year, Song Zhiwen quietly escaped and came back. Before entering Luoyang City, he even wrote a famous sentence:

I feel even more timid when I'm close to my hometown and don't dare to ask anyone.

After escaping back to Luoyang, Song Zhiwen was taken in by Wang Tongjiao through his friend Zhang Chanzhi, and after learning about the plan to kill Wu Sansi, he "accurately" seized this opportunity to rise to prominence.

Wang Tongjiao was executed for his rebellion.

Song Zhiwen reported meritoriously, and was exempted from any culpability. Honglu was given the post of chief bookkeeper. 】

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Zhang Fei frowned and opened his mouth, feeling that this world was extremely strange.

"What does it mean to travel with an adult?"

Zhang Fei said he didn't understand but was greatly shocked. Thousands of thoughts flew through his mind in an instant, but in the end, all he was left with was deep confusion.

Naturally, no one can answer this question. It was outrageous to hear that Cao Pi let his wife go out to entertain guests and allowed his ministers to look at him with their eyes, but in the end, there was still a strong one?

Kong Ming vaguely felt that later generations might study it, and it might also be a piece of knowledge... Forget it, Kong Ming quickly gave up the idea. He felt that the idea was too nonsense, and that he could not understand it and did not want to understand it. .

In the end, I could only manage to say:

"Maybe it has something to do with the experience before becoming emperor."

After finishing the review, he quickly changed the topic, looked at the record at the back and sighed:

"What a loyal person who serves the country, what a flattering poetic talent."

Fazheng agreed the most. After all, he was the only one among the group who had experienced the process of returning home in glory.

When I was in Hanzhong, I had imagined a hundred times how I would return to my hometown, but when I actually returned to Fufeng, I was not as excited as when I had imagined it in Hanzhong.

"You are even more timid when you are close to home... That's exactly what you said, but it's a pity that this person is begging for wealth and status."

For a moment, Fazheng regretted hearing this verse.

After many cooperations in Yangping and Hanzhong, Pang Tong and Fazheng were very familiar with each other. At this time, he smiled and said:

"Why should filial piety and uprightness be regarded as dirty? It can be seen from this that virtue and talent may not be both."

Fazheng could only smile bitterly, waved his hands to show that he was tired, and continued to work hard.

There are so many things that Chang'an needs to be busy with now. He thinks that he can't understand all the records clearly like Wolongfengxiao, so he can only work elsewhere.

For example, at this time, Fazheng was transcribing what Guangmu said, and at the same time he was placing the new Chang'an draft drafted by Kong Ming, intending to study it thoroughly.

Pang Tong smiled and continued to tell Lu Su in detail other stories about the Tang Dynasty.

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"It's so timid to be so close to home."

Li Shimin tasted it carefully and had to admit that this person was indeed quite talented, but...

"It's not necessarily a matter of cowardice that you dare not ask the person, or maybe you're afraid of being punished for absconding and being remarried, right?"

Facing His Majesty's ruthless exposure, Yuchi Jingde was very applauded:

"Your Majesty is right, there is a coward in love, I'm afraid it's a coward in the imperial army."

Wei Zheng also sighed together, but in the end he still couldn't let go of what he had said in front of him. He shook his head and sighed:

"Why not kill Wu and think twice?"

He couldn't agree more with what Zhang Jianzhi said. The Wu family was in doom. As long as it was not brought into the court, it would be defeated. The emperor could also kill its chief evildoers to establish its power. After all, the Wu family had been suppressed by the empress herself, and there were no party members in the court. Killing the Wu family It can be said that everyone expected it.

Unexpectedly, the emperor became a member of the Wu family, and what he did...

Wei Zheng said that I didn’t even notice.

The others were silent, and Fang and Du looked at each other.

Li Xianming had just ascended the throne, but they felt that they could vaguely see the shadow of Xuanzong in his later years.

Sure enough, as later generations said, Li Tang was still in chaos.

But it was also because of this that Du Ruhui reminded himself again in his heart.

Although the imperial examination is good, it is by no means an eternal method; although the imperial examination is old, it is by no means without merit.

In the future, when selecting materials from the Tang Dynasty, we should take the best of both worlds. It is necessary to test their talents through the imperial examinations, and perhaps some of them under the old system to test their morals.

He is not expected to be a great sage in the village, but at least he must not have bad moral character.

Otherwise, even if Song Zhiwen and his ilk were astonishingly talented, introducing them into the official career would be nothing more than a moth in the end, causing widespread harm.

[Looking back at "Old Book of Tang", in fact, the real driving force behind the Shenlong coup has become obvious.

Before the coup, Li Dan and Princess Taiping had already reached a strong alliance:

Li Dan's two daughters were married to the Xue Shao tribe, and Princess Taiping's youngest daughter was married to the Doulu family, which was the clan of Li Dan's noble concubine Doulu.

After the Mingtang oath, with Wu Zetian's intervention, the Li family and the Wu family began a large-scale marriage.

However, during this wave of marriages, Li Dan always watched with cold eyes. His sons, daughters, and himself never had a marriage with the Wu family from beginning to end.

Likewise, the Five Dragon Kings also have a less obvious connection with Li Dan.

Yuan Shuji was the Sima of the Prime Minister's Palace; Zhang Jianzhi was able to take the post when Wu Zetian was seriously ill because of the recommendation of Yao Chong, the Chief of the Prime Minister's Palace.

And after the matter was settled, Zhang Jianzhi went out of his way to inform Yao Chong that "the matter has been helped."

Even these things can be pushed back. One year before the coup, Li Tang's prime minister Zhu Jingze was demoted. Before leaving Chang'an, he confided to Liu Youqiu, the then prime minister:

"The Prime Minister must be prepared to receive orders on time, and he must fulfill his duties."

This is also why Li Xian participated in the Shenlong Coup despite all his reluctance, because his brothers and prime ministers had already taken the initiative to rush forward. 】

I'm almost healed of influenza A, but now I'm starting to cough like crazy, which is outrageous...

I even woke up with a cough at five in the morning. I took medicine and everything but it didn't help much and I had to wait.

Grandpas and gentlemen, please take care of your health. It's too difficult. All I can say is.