Li Hongyun looked at the light spot representing King Qin, left the Prince Qin's Mansion, and entered the Tai Chi Hall.
For King Qin, tonight was obviously the most dangerous night in his life.
The first dilemma he had to solve was the celestial event "Taibai Jingtian".
Sure enough, as soon as Liang Gaozu saw the King of Qin, he immediately asked him angrily: "Taishi ordered a letter, Taibai saw Qin divided, and the King of Qin should rule the world. What does it mean!"
King Qin immediately knelt on the ground and said: "My father clearly knows this, but my son really doesn't know! My son and I have always been loyal to my father, how can I have the intention to conquer the world!"
However, such rhetoric obviously did not satisfy Liang Gaozu.
King Qin obviously had no choice but to play the emotional card, hoping to impress Liang Gaozu.
Li Hongyun, who was watching from the third perspective, couldn't help but frown slightly.
Obviously, the behavior of King Qin here was also buried in the game "Dark Sand".
If Li Hongyun sat idly by and ignored the matter, the father and son would argue and argue with each other to no avail, and Liang Gaozu's suspicion of King Qin would only become more serious.
Even an edict will be issued soon to take a series of measures to weaken and attack the King of Qin, and the King of Qin will no longer have any good reason to resist.
And there is the most important point: if King Qin continues to be passive like this, Liang Gaozu will not call the prince and King Qi to the palace tomorrow, and then the Xuanwumen incident in history will not happen at all.
The premise of the Xuanwumen Incident was that the King of Qin first led his men to ambush the Prince and King Qi at Xuanwumen.
But if the prince and King Qi did not come to Xuanwu Gate unprepared, but guarded the East Palace fully armed, then the success rate of King Qin's action would be very low.
Because at this time, the prince had far more troops than the Prince of Qin's palace, both openly and legally, and privately recruiting troops.
No matter how good the King of Qin is in fighting, it will be difficult to quickly determine the winner when he is outnumbered.
What's more, once the two sides fight, Liang Gaozu will immediately send the imperial army to suppress it. When the time comes, will Liang Gaozu help the prince or the king of Qin? That is a clear matter.
Therefore, if a player who does not know much about this matter hesitates for a moment and lets King Qin go back like this, the whole situation may completely collapse.
Thinking of this, Li Hongyun did not hesitate and immediately manipulated the King of Qin to give the answer given by the King of Qin in history, which was also the only standard answer to this matter.
"To inform my father, I have something important to report!"
The King of Qin did not immediately respond directly to Liang Gaozu's question: "When Taibai sees the division of Qin, the King of Qin should rule the world." Instead, he changed the topic.
Liang Gaozu couldn't help but his face darkened and his brows furrowed deeply.
He could feel that King Qin was interrupting and was unwilling to answer his question directly, but wanted to hear what King Qin had to say.
"explain!"
King Qin knelt on the ground and said in a firm and decisive tone: "I would like to inform my father that the prince is having an affair with the harem!"
Liang Gaozu was stunned for a moment, and then he got angry: "That's nonsense! You framed the prince, and you dared to frame the imperial concubine. How much life do you have! Do you really think that since you are my son, I won't punish you?"
King Qin’s tone was still firm: “Replying to my father, I am definitely not making false accusations, I have evidence!
"On the tenth day of last month, my father went out on inspection, and the prince entered Concubine Yin De's palace and left after half a day.
"Also in March of this year, and even until the fifth year of Wude, the prince frequently visited the palaces of Concubines Yin De and Zhang Jieyu every one or two months. If the father didn't believe it, he secretly summoned the maids of the two concubines to ask questions.
Ask around and you’ll find out!”
Liang Gaozu's expression suddenly froze on his face and he was stunned.
King Qin spoke in succession for a long time, and his tone was firm and conclusive.
Liang Gaozu carefully recalled several of these times and found that he was indeed not in the palace. Moreover, the prince did go in and out of the harem to meet Zhang Jieyu and Concubine Yin De.
But before, Liang Gaozu never cared about it and thought it was a normal meeting between the prince and these concubines to greet them.
But now King Qin listed all the time points one by one, and with such a determined tone, Liang Gaozu himself was stunned.
Li Hongyun, who was watching on the sidelines, couldn't help but secretly sigh, this is indeed the standard answer for King Qin to deal with at the moment.
Liang Gaozu summoned the King of Qin to question him, apparently seeking trouble through celestial phenomena.
Although it is true that "Taibai saw the division of Qin", and the inference that "the King of Qin should rule the world" is also very consistent with the theory of the interaction between heaven and man, things like celestial phenomena still depend on how people interpret them.
If the Taibai Venus happened to fall on Qi at that time, and "the king of Qi should rule the world" was fulfilled, Liang Gaozu's reaction would not be so extreme.
Even Taishi Ling would not report it like this at all.
It's hard to say whether Taishi Ling was prompted by the prince or purely out of professionalism.
But in terms of results, the Bai Jingtian incident handed the Prince Group a sharp knife.
Liang Gaozu was already very suspicious of the King of Qin, and coupled with the Taibai Jingtian incident, he was already at a loss.
No matter how King Qin defends himself, it is impossible to change the facts of Taibai Jingtian.
Therefore, in this trap created by Liang Gaozu, it was meaningless no matter how hard King Qin struggled.
So the King of Qin jumped out of this trap, changed the topic, and attacked the prince's promiscuous harem.
Some historical materials do record that "the prince evaporated after Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei", but Li Hongyun judged based on common sense that the authenticity of this matter was not high.
Because there is really no reason for the prince and these two noble concubines to get together.
The prince has so many lovely wives and concubines, there is absolutely no need to seduce his father's women. This kind of behavior can no longer be described as playing with fire, it is completely seeking death.
It is impossible not to leak it at all, but once it is leaked, it may be more serious than rebellion.
Liang Gaozu could tolerate his rebellion, but he might not be able to tolerate him touching his most beloved concubine.
Therefore, the remarks made by King Qin are mostly false accusations.
But false accusation is the only method available at this time.
Several memory fragments of King Qin appeared in Li Hongyun's vision.
It's not that the King of Qin didn't have other dirty information about the prince. For example, the prince secretly recruited more than 2,000 evil men from Chang'an to form his own private army, named Changlin Soldiers. He also contacted the general guarding Youzhou and asked him to select 300 soldiers.
Riding to Chang'an.
The prince has his own legal armed forces. Whether he forms a private army or secretly befriends his side generals, these are very taboo behaviors and can even be regarded as treason.
However, after this incident was exposed, Liang Gaozu just called the prince and scolded him.
In the seventh year of Wude, the prince made big news. Liang Gaozu went to Renzhi Palace to escape the summer, and the prince stayed in Chang'an. As a result, the prince actually sent someone to send armor to Yang Wenqian, who was stationed in Qingzhou.
In ancient times, concealing armor privately was a serious crime, almost equivalent to treason.
Yang Wenqian had previously served as a guard in the East Palace and was directly involved in the formation of the Prince's private army, Chang Lin Bing. Sending armor to Yang Wenqian was undoubtedly an attempt to work together on something important.
As a result, the matter was leaked, and Liang Gaozu angrily summoned the prince to question him. The prince was frightened and didn't know what to do, and his subordinates even persuaded him to just go against it.
But the prince thought about Liang Gaozu, especially the King of Qin, who was eyeing the enemy and winning every battle, and felt that rebellion would be a dead end, so he went to plead guilty.
Liang Gaozu was so angry that he scolded him and even gave him only wheat rice that night. But even so, Liang Gaozu did not do anything to the prince in the end.
On the contrary, Yang Wenqian really raised an army to rebel in Qingyang, and then the King of Qin led his troops there before they started fighting. As soon as Yang Wengqian's followers heard that the King of Qin was coming, they gave him a hammer and dispersed in a hurry.
Yang Wenqian was killed by his subordinates and was reported to the leader Chang An.
However, even so, the position of the prince is still as stable as Mount Tai, without any wavering.
There are historical records that before the King of Qin went to conquer Yang Wenqian, Liang Gaozu once told him that after the peace was settled, he would make him the crown prince and depose the crown prince as the king of Shu.
But regardless of whether this piece of historical information is true or false, Liang Gaozu obviously did not fulfill it in the end.
This incident of the prince's rebellion seems to be full of doubts. There are two biggest doubts: first, the prince's rebellion was a bit too childish, and the confidentiality work was too poor, so he was exposed so easily; second, Yang Wenqian was
Where did you find the courage to rebel?
Therefore, some people believe that this Yang Wenqian was probably an undercover agent installed by the King of Qin, just to create such a rebellion and naturally dethrone the crown prince.
But upon closer inspection, you will find that this statement is even more impossible.
It is true that the prince conspired to rebel, otherwise he would not have gone to Liang Gaozu to plead guilty. If he had not had the intention to rebel, a simple frame-up would not have achieved such an effect.
And Yang Wenqian was indeed from the East Palace and helped the prince form the Changlin Army.
If Yang Wenqian rebels, he will definitely die, and he must know this in his heart.
And judging from the fact that he conspired with the prince to rebel, it was obvious that he was very valued by the prince.
So here comes the question, if he really belongs to the King of Qin, then he would rather not have the trust of the prince, rather than the glory and wealth he has already obtained, but would rebel and frame the prince, and use his own life or even the life of his entire family to pave the way for the King of Qin?
This makes no sense, unless King Qin mastered the brainwashing technique.
Moreover, no matter who instigated it, it was indeed the prince who instigated the matter of sending armor to Yang Wenqian. Even if he was instigated by others, it was obvious that he wanted to do something big.
Therefore, this rebellion seems stupid. The most likely reason is that the prince and Yang Wenqian are just that stupid. After all, in history, there are not only stupid rebellions, but many.
In short, after these several incidents, King Qin had no choice but to discover a fact.
That means that no matter how the prince tries to commit suicide, he will be safe and sound.
In this case, if he wanted to threaten the prince and find something that really hurt Liang Gaozu, he could only "evaporate in the palace".
Although the King of Qin did not have much conclusive evidence, he successfully aroused Liang Gaozu's suspicion.
Because the relationship between the prince and these two noble concubines is indeed too close.
The King of Qin has his own base, which is the military meritorious group. From the soldiers to the generals, everyone has no doubts about him. But the prince cannot poach these people, so he can only consider other directions.
And these concubines in the harem are indeed important for the prince to make friends with.
The King of Qin had been away at war all year round, so he was not familiar with these concubines, and had been offended by the Luoyang Treasury incident before. The prince often walked around, presented treasures, and often let Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defi blow pillows at Liang Gaozu's side.
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Therefore, it is true that the prince often visited the palace of the two noble concubines. In addition, the two noble concubines also kept saying good things about the prince in Liang Gaozu's ears. This made Liang Gaozu also suspicious and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this matter.
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Of course, it is impossible to convict him for this, after all, the King of Qin did not produce any really strong evidence.
This matter still has to wait until the prince and the concubine explain themselves to each other before the truth can come to light.
Therefore, relying on "Taibai meets Qin" and "the prince is having fornication with the harem", the prince and the King of Qin ended up in a draw in this incident.
Seeing that there would be no results, Liang Gaozu decided to let King Qin go back first. Early tomorrow morning, he would summon the prince and King Qi to confront King Qin together.
When the time comes, whether the prince has had an affair with the harem, and what happened when Taibai saw Qin Fen, they will all be resolved in the court.
With this counterattack, King Qin not only bought himself an extra night, but also gained the opportunity to intercept the prince and King Qi at the Xuanwu Gate at the same time.
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After King Qin returned to his mansion, countless light spots immediately became busy.
Li Hongyun saw many discussions about the Xuanwu Gate Change, which basically focused on the details of the Xuanwu Gate Change.
But in fact, the real coup process is often simple and straightforward.
After all, very complex conspiracies and conspiracies often exist in literary and artistic works, while conspiracies and conspiracies in reality are simple and direct.
Because conspiracies always require people to execute them, the more complex the plot, the higher the requirements for execution, and anyone in it may have problems.
Therefore, the key to a conspiracy is simplicity, directness, and efficiency, and in order to ensure this, efforts must be made in daily preparations.
Judging from the dense light spots in the Qin Palace, the preparations of the King of Qin are obviously much better than those of the Prince.
Of course, this does not mean that the prince was unprepared, or that the prince was at a disadvantage during the coup. In fact, the prince was the advantaged party.
The military strength of him and the King of Qi was overwhelming to the King of Qin.
The prince's private soldiers numbered more than 2,000, and they were named Changlin soldiers. In addition, the King of Qi should also have private soldiers. There is no historical record of how many, but there is a record that he "hid many warriors who were on the run and gave them generous gifts to make them
"Use". According to common sense, there should be at least several hundred people.
The King of Qin also had his own private soldiers, but their number was about seven to eight hundred.
Yuchi Jingde once said, "More than 800 warriors raised by King Su are now in the palace." This can be used as supporting evidence.
Eight hundred versus three thousand is obviously an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.
More importantly, the imperial army guarding the entire palace was still theoretically taking orders from Liang Gaozu.
If all these forbidden troops are included, then the gap in military strength between the two sides will be even greater.
Moreover, King Qin's goal was not just to use these 800 people to kill the prince and King Qi.
It is not difficult to kill the prince by ambush, but King Qin also has another important goal, which is to control Liang Gaozu.
Otherwise, if the prince and King of Qi were killed but failed to seize power from Liang Gaozu, the subsequent problems would be even more troublesome.
Therefore, the King of Qin actually only used a dozen or so men to ambush the Crown Prince and the King of Qi. The remaining men had to complete the task of controlling Liang Gaozu, intercepting the Imperial Army and the Crown Prince, and allowing the King of Qi to support the army.
Calculated in this way, King Qin's manpower was even more stretched.
But judging from the results, the process by which King Qin completed the Xuanwu Gate Change was as delicate as a surgical operation, without any accidents at all, and was even a little too simple.
This is obviously because King Qin's bargaining chip is not only on these 800 people, but he has already completed all the more important things in advance.
Li Hongyun saw countless light spots patrolling back and forth in the palace. Those were the imperial troops responsible for guarding the palace.
And when you observe them at close range, you can often see fragments of their memories popping up.
These memory fragments, almost without exception, are all about the heroic appearance of King Qin they saw when they followed King Qin to fight.
It is no longer just the obedience and trust of soldiers to their generals, but more like the admiration of ordinary people to gods.
When the civil war was basically calmed down, Liang Gaozu disbanded the imperial troops in Guanzhong.
Thirty thousand people were carefully selected from among the soldiers to form the Imperial Palace's Forbidden Army, which was responsible for guarding the safety of the entire palace. They also gave them the fertile fields next to Baiqu north of the Weishui River, and named them the "Yuan Cong Forbidden Army."
The selection of the Imperial Guards in past dynasties was the most stringent, and they were basically all sons of good families with innocent backgrounds or orphans of soldiers who died in battle.
There is no big problem with Liang Taizu's behavior. Basically, these soldiers in Guanzhong have made great contributions in the process of Liang Dynasty's conquering the world, and their ability and loyalty are full. It should be unreasonable to let them serve as the imperial army to guard the palace.
What big problem will there be?
But the only question Liang Gaozu didn't expect was: were they more loyal to the emperor or to the King of Qin?
According to historical records, as early as two years ago, in the seventh year of Wude, King Qin had already begun to win over these forbidden troops.
But the effect of this kind of wooing is actually not certain.
It was impossible for him to openly ask these forbidden troops: The king is going to rebel. Do you support me or the emperor? It is even less possible to reveal the specific details.
The gold and silver treasures were sent out, and the words were brought, but to what extent these forbidden troops could help him could only be known on the day of the incident.
Among the Forbidden Army, King Qin also focused on developing his own manpower.
There are fourteen guards in the imperial city. Among them, the King of Qin is the general of the twelve guards, which means he nominally leads the twelve guards such as the left and right guards, the left and right Xiao guards, the left and right Wuhou, the left and right tuns, and the left and right leaders.
But the problem is that although these twelve guards are nominally obedient to the King of Qin, the King of Qin cannot rely on them to launch a coup. This is because many of the twelve guards are more obedient to the emperor.
During a coup, the only people you can rely on are absolutely loyal private soldiers, that is, the eight hundred people.
As for the twelve guards, it is very likely that they will be unable to command on the day of the coup.
Moreover, it is difficult to bribe the people of the Twelve Guards, because they have to take turns, and the King of Qin himself is not sure when the coup will begin. If you bribe them all, there will be too many targets, and it will be very easy for the news to leak out.
Therefore, King Qin targeted the two guards he had no control over in name, namely the left and right prison guards.
The gatekeeper of the left prison is responsible for entering, while the guard of the right prison is responsible for exiting. When entering and exiting, one must check the door, whether there is permission to enter and leave the palace, and what to do when entering the palace. All these need to be carefully checked, otherwise the person will not be released.
In particular, Chang He's "Jian'er Changshang" has always been responsible for guarding the Xuanwu Gate.
Therefore, buying off Chang He is the most critical node for the Xuanwu Sect to succeed.
The reason why King Qin chose Xuanwu Gate to launch a coup was because except for some very important celebrations and festivals, the south gate of the palace was not open. If you want to enter the palace, you have to go through Xuanwu Gate in the north.
So since Chang He is so important, hasn't the prince ever thought of suborning him?
Of course I have thought about it, and in name, Chang He is still a close confidant of the prince and deeply trusted.
Therefore, the prince also thought that he was sure of victory. With Chang He, the Dinghai Needle, at the Xuanwu Gate, if anything happened, he would definitely inform him, so he could rest easy.
But in fact, Chang He had been on the expedition with the King of Qin as early as the second year of Wude. In the seventh year of Wude, he led the Xuanwumen and bribed the imperial army. He had always been a double agent who only obeyed the King of Qin.
As a result, the King of Qin had actually completely defeated the prince in Changhe and the Forbidden Army, but the prince still knew nothing about it.
That night, the palace of Prince Qin was brightly lit.
Although arrangements have been made in advance, it is still a very difficult task to gather all the people who support you overnight, formulate a complete and thorough plan, and ensure that no one leaks the secret.
In the previous struggle, the prince and the king of Qi were not idle either.
Although they were unsuccessful in falsely accusing Yuchi Jingde and the generals under the King of Qin and were fished out by the King of Qin, they also continued to slander and asked Liang Gaozu to dismantle the configuration of the Qin King's palace.
For example, counselors such as Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui have been transferred out of the Qin Palace by Liang Gaozu.
Executing the Xuanwumen Incident requires a complete and careful plan, taking into account all trends and situations. This is rebellion, not a child's play. If there is a problem in any link, these people will probably die.
Therefore, the King of Qin had asked Yuchi Jingde to invite Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others in advance.
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui disagreed for the first time, saying that His Majesty's decree prohibits us from serving the King of Qin anymore, and we cannot accept the King's teachings, otherwise we will definitely be convicted and die.
So the King of Qin was furious and asked Yuchi Jingde to go forward with his sword. So Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui put on Taoist clothes and entered the Prince of Qin's palace.
These people began to intensively prepare for tomorrow's action in Prince Qin's Mansion.
On the other hand, looking at the side of the Crown Prince and King Qi, it was a completely different scene.
The entire Prince's Mansion has actually been infiltrated by the King of Qin like a sieve. For example, Wang Hao, the leader of the East Palace, has been bribed by the King of Qin. Previously, the Prince and the King of Qi wanted to assassinate the King of Qin in Kunming Pool, and it was he who came to inform the King of Qin.
While alert, he also quickly started planning.
The night before the Xuanwumen Incident, the prince and King Qi were still not alert at all.
They got the news from sources they trusted and believed that King Qin would not lead troops into the city tomorrow, so they did not take too many precautions.
Zhang Jieyu even hurriedly came to the East Palace, called King Qi, and told the prince and King Qi that King Qin had sued them in front of Liang Gaozu today, and asked them to pretend to be sick tomorrow and not enter the palace, and to rectify the army to prevent unexpected events.
But the prince and King Qi didn't believe it.
Looking back in hindsight, the prince and King Qi lost the most precious opportunity to change history, but based on the analysis of the situation at the time, it was reasonable for them to make such a decision.
Because Zhang Jieyu was just guessing without any convincing evidence.
What's more, the prince and the king of Qi did not only have information through Zhang Jieyu, they also had many other channels to get information.
The information they got from these channels made them think that King Qin did not dare to take action in the palace, so they made such a decision.
Obviously, this is not just a coincidence, but a huge gap between the intelligence systems and popular support of both sides.
On one side is the countless light spots of Prince Qin's palace shining like stars, and on the other side is the darkness of the Prince's Palace. The victory or defeat of both sides is actually determined at this moment.
