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Chapter 666 Purgatory
Chapter 666 Purgatory
What happened to Han Yuan cast a shadow over Li Shimin's heart.
The children of the aristocratic family always think of the aristocratic family in their hearts.
That's the case for Han Yuan, but what about the others?
After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he began to use the children of poor families.
But since the Jin Dynasty, the aristocratic family's monopoly on knowledge has become more prosperous than before.
Most of the officials in the Tang Dynasty now came from aristocratic families, and even Li Shimin's confidantes were mostly from aristocratic families.
Not to mention Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Changsun Wuji.
Take military generals as an example, Hou Junji was born in the Hou family of Shanggu, and his grandfather served as the governor in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Even Cheng Yaojin, who seems to be a big boss, is from an aristocratic family.
It is said in the Romance that Yuchi Gong was born as a blacksmith. In fact, Yu Chi Gong was born in a family of military generals. His great-grandfather Yu Chi Benzhen was the champion general of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Yuyang Maogong, who was a posthumous governor of Youzhou. Doctor Zijin Guanglu, governor of Jizhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty; his father, Yuchijia, was a general of Yitong in the Sui Dynasty. He was a gift to the governor of Youzhou and Duke Changning.
Poor culture and rich martial arts, this is not just talk.
Compared with the Four Books and Five Classics, those books on the art of war are even rarer.
However, martial arts training has very high food requirements, and ordinary people cannot afford it at all.
If there is not enough nutrition, let alone practicing martial arts, it is estimated that everyone will spend a lot of time training.
Han Yuan can take refuge in the Cui family for the sake of the family, so will his confidant ministers also choose to support the family for the sake of the family?
Li Shimin is confident that he can suppress the family when he is there, but what about the emperor behind?
In fact, Li Shimin's worries were a bit superfluous. Li Zhi was actually the most successful in dealing with the aristocratic family in the Tang Dynasty.
You read that right, it is Li Zhi.
As we all know, after Wu Zetian came to power, she did not show any mercy to the five surnames and Qiwang, and she was ruthless in killing them.
But in the final analysis, Wu Zetian was able to kill family members so recklessly, and Li Zhi had a lot of credit for it.
Historically, Li Zhi's abolition of Wang Liwu has been criticized and praised.
The reason why Li Zhi abolished Wang Liwu, apart from his love for Wu Zetian, may not have been the idea of putting bait and making those officials stand in line.
After Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, the family power headed by Changsun Wuji occupied a high position, and Li Zhi was actually almost a puppet.
The queen does not mean that she can be abolished, at least there must be a convincing reason.
The reason why Li Zhi abolished the queen was that the queen had no children.
In fact, this reason is somewhat untenable. Queen Wang did have no children, but at that time, Queen Wang adopted Li Zhi's eldest son, Li Zhong, into her name.
Under the planning of the queen's uncle Liu Shi, Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan, Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining and others successively asked Li Zhi to make Li Zhong the prince.
Li Zhi couldn't bear the pressure and canonized Li Zhong as the prince.
This also made Li Zhi deeply feel the threat from Changsun Wuji and others.
But at that time, the ministers who dared to oppose Changsun Wuji and others were pushed away long ago.
The rest of the people also began to protect themselves wisely.
Li Zhi could only throw out the bait to abolish the queen.
Representatives of the aristocratic family such as Changsun Wuji naturally would not agree.
And those officials who were suppressed by Changsun Wuji and others finally saw the opportunity to bring down Changsun Wuji and others, so naturally they would not let it go, and jumped out to support Li Zhi.
Whether or not to abolish the queen at this time represents who of the two parties can win.
In the sixth year of Yonghui (655), Li Yifu, a member of Zhongshushe, first supported "abolishing the king and establishing martial arts", and was rewarded by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian. Support Empress Wu Zetian.
With the support of Li Ji, another Tuogu minister, the unfavorable situation between Li Zhi and Wu Zetian on the issue of abolishing the empress was reversed. Li Zhi finally issued an edict: on the charge of "conspiracy to poison" the king The queen and concubine Xiao Shu were deposed as common people and imprisoned in other courtyards.Their parents, brothers, etc. were also dismissed from office and exiled to Lingnan.
In April of the fourth year of Xianqing (659), Wu Zetian and Li Zhi reached a consensus: Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining, Han Yuan, Laiji and others were removed from their posts and dismissed from the capital.So far, Li Zhi has basically realized the centralization of the monarchy.
The vacated positions will naturally be filled by those who support Li Zhi.
And although these people won the victory, they also offended the aristocratic family, and it was destined that they would not be able to get together with the aristocratic family.
On the contrary, in order not to be retaliated by the family, they have to suppress the family.
In this way, the power of the aristocratic family in the court was greatly weakened. After Li Zhi died, Wu Zetian wanted to be emperor himself, and the aristocratic family jumped out to stop him again.
Wu Zetian is so angry, you stopped me when I was a queen, and now I want to be an emperor, you come to stop me again.
With Wu Zetian's character, he would naturally not show mercy, and directly raised the butcher's knife like an aristocratic family.
But the aristocratic family's strength has been greatly weakened after the abolition of the empress, so it is naturally powerless to resist.
It can be said that Wu Zetian was able to become the emperor, which also has a lot of credit.
Li Shimin didn't know the history of the future, nor did he know that his son and Wu Zetian, who he didn't know whether he was his wife or daughter-in-law, had ruined the family, so he was still troubled by the affairs of the family.
However, if Li Shimin knew that Wu Zetian dared to usurp his Li family's country, he would probably kill Wu Zetian now.
Back to the topic, Li Shimin thought for a long time, but came up with a solution.
That is to enfeoff the kings.
The enfeoffment mentioned here is not just a title and fiefdom, but a real enfeoffment.
The entrusted prince directly controls the military and political power on the fief, which is equivalent to a country within a country.
As long as it is passed on for several generations, the prince will be the largest family in the area, which can greatly weaken the influence of the family in the area.
However, these are just Li Shimin's preliminary ideas, and how to implement them needs to be carefully considered.
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After three days of preparation, the Western Turks launched an attack on Xue Yantuo again.
Although Lin Xuan did not send troops to participate, he brought Cheng Chumo and others to a hillside a few miles away from the battlefield.
The ancient war was very cruel and full of blood types, especially the battle of all cavalry.
As long as he fell off his horse, no matter how seriously injured he was, he would be trampled into meat paste by the cavalry on both sides.
Although Lin Xuan participated in the Battle of Gaochang, he had never actually been on the battlefield. He had never seen such a purgatory scene, so his face turned pale, and even the hand holding the binoculars trembled slightly.
After a long time, Lin Xuan put down the binoculars, looked at Cheng Chumo and the others beside him, and found that their faces were also pale, and said, "I think next year the grass will be much more luxuriant."
I don't know how many people buried their bones in this battle.
The grasslands have the same tradition of sky burials as the Tibetans, and naturally they will not collect corpses after the war.
They were all turned into meat paste and mixed together, even if you wanted to collect them, you couldn't tell them apart.
"General, although Xue Yantuo is not much different from the Western Turks in terms of numbers, but in terms of momentum, he is much weaker. It will not be long before he will be defeated." Although Xue Rengui saw such a blood type scene for the first time , but he often went hunting in the mountains in order to eat, which is much better than Lin Xuan and others.
(End of this chapter)