Chapter 315 The Really Hidden Things in the Historical Documents
Li Hongyun zoomed in and focused on the situation inside Prince Qin's palace.
At this time, all the advisers and generals under the King of Qin gathered together and were discussing how to jointly carry out important events tomorrow.
This list can be described as a bright star in this era: Yuchi Jingde, Hou Junji, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Cheng Zhijie, Qin Shubao...
Each of them is the top talent of this era. At this time, they are willing to risk being executed by their clan to jointly elect the King of Qin as the emperor and change the national destiny of the entire Liang Dynasty.
Of course, King Qin was not a reckless person. Although rebellion was most likely a one-shot deal, he still left himself a way out.
While launching the coup, he also properly arranged the family records of Queen Changsun, himself and other generals. If things failed, he could also evacuate Chang'an and go to Luoyang.
Although Chang'an was the center of power of the entire Liang Dynasty, Liang Gaozu and the prince were still more powerful here. And Luoyang, a city that was conquered by the King of Qin himself and that no other forces could deeply intervene in, was more suitable.
The base of King Qin.
In fact, as the conflict between the crown prince and the King of Qin continued to intensify, Liang Gaozu had already had the idea of conferring the King of Qin to Luoyang to build another emperor's banner.
However, this idea was firmly opposed by the prince and the king of Qin, and was finally abandoned.
The prince objected because he felt that Chang'an was his home court. Once King Qin went to Luoyang, it would be difficult to get rid of King Qin in the future. King Qin felt that Luoyang was far away from the center of power. Once he left, the prince's position would be more stable.
So he can't leave.
Once the coup failed, Luoyang naturally became the best escape route for King Qin.
Just escaping to Luoyang does not mean safety, that is the beginning of the real rebellion. Although it would not be too difficult to conquer the whole world again with the military talent of King Qin and his wise ministers and generals, it would be detrimental to the entire country.
Causing terrible harm that is difficult to heal.
The Central Plains could no longer withstand the flames of war sweeping across the world again.
What's more, it would be morally wrong to directly raise an army to rebel and seize the throne. Therefore, it must be a possibility that the King of Qin does not want to see.
At this time, the King of Qin was in full swing, boosting the morale of his capable ministers and generals.
"You will follow me in my expedition to the north and south. You and I, my king and my ministers, sincerely trust each other in what will happen today, so I don't need to say anything more.
"More than half of the Liang Dynasty was conquered by our monarchs and ministers. What merits does the prince have? Yet he occupies a high position. Not only does he not want to be grateful, but he also repeatedly alienates the relationship between my monarch and his ministers and wants to get rid of him!"
"The reason why we are raising troops today is to eliminate traitors and traitors for the country and determine the world in one battle!
"Everyone, please listen to my arrangements. Early tomorrow morning, Yuchi Jingde will go with me to Xuanwu Gate first..."
After boosting morale, King Qin began to assign tasks to these people.
During this period, Yuchi Jingde, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others also put forward their own opinions and continuously optimized the entire plan.
However, seeing this, Li Hongyun couldn't help but frown slightly, vaguely realizing that something seemed wrong.
If you look at the development of the entire story, this scene is not too abrupt.
The conflict between the Crown Prince and the King of Qin is well known to everyone and has intensified to the point of being irreconcilable. Although they are brothers, it is normal for the King of Qin to hate the Crown Prince deeply.
When the matter came to an end, King Qin should have already made up his mind with his decisive killing.
Therefore, he made a decision in the shortest time, arranged his troops in formation, arranged for his subordinates to perform their respective duties, and completed the Xuanwu Gate change. This was a very reasonable development.
If you are a person who has not read relevant historical materials, you may not think there is anything wrong with this content at all.
But Li Hongyun has read historical materials.
Historical records record that before the Xuanwumen Incident actually took place, there was a scene in which "all the government officials tried to admonish the King of Qin".
The King of Qin, who had always been decisive in killing, was hesitant and hesitant at such a critical juncture. He was not as brave and courageous as usual. His subordinates were all anxious and tried their best to persuade him. They even wanted to show their hearts to the King of Qin.
After struggling like this for a long time, King Qin finally made up his mind.
So the question is, which possibility is more likely to be the historical truth?
Li Hongyun's goal is to reproduce the true history as much as possible. Although this section does not seem to have much impact on the outcome, it may affect the completion of the event and lead to failure to pass the level.
Therefore, even if it is a seemingly unimportant detail, Li Hongyun has to consider it carefully.
After thinking for a long time, Li Hongyun turned back time slightly and let everyone perform the drama of "admonishing the King of Qin".
He did this, of course, not by copying historical data, but by making an in-depth analysis based on the situation at that time.
When many people interpret this historical material, they often have two views.
The first is that there is a problem with the historical data. If King Qin was particularly impatient at that time, it obviously does not fit the character of a holy king who "valued brotherly feelings and was very conflicted and struggling in his heart before he had no choice but to launch the Xuanwu Gate Incident."
Therefore, later historians deliberately made up such a plot.
The second type is that although King Qin decided to launch the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he did still have brotherly feelings for the prince in his heart. Although he was decisive in killing on the battlefield, it was against the enemy after all, and at this time his spearhead was
It is natural for one's own brother and father to hesitate.
After all, it is difficult for an upright official to interrupt household affairs.
Li Hongyun feels that both of these views are probably not the truth.
The King of Qin was a mature politician, decisive in killing, and should know the situation at this time better than anyone else. Therefore, although being swayed by emotions may be an influencing factor, it is by no means the decisive factor.
But this scene should have really happened.
Li Hongyun felt that there were two main reasons why King Qin did this.
The first is that the general environment at the time required him to perform such a performance.
Just like in ancient times, when a prince was enthroned, he had to decline it repeatedly to show respect for his father. Even if a powerful official usurped the throne, he had already completed the standard process of adding nine tins. When he was actually elected as the emperor,
I have to refuse again and again.
Like Taizu of the Qi Dynasty, he did it more fakely and wore a yellow robe. On the surface, he said that it was all forced and not his original intention. In fact, everyone knows what happened.
If King Qin wants to do great things, it is not so much that he lacks wisdom and courage, but that he needs strong moral support.
Of course, this is only part of the reason.
The more important reason should be a compliance test.
After all, this is rebellion, not war.
If it was just a war, then King Qin actually didn't have to worry too much about some specific aspects of the process. To deal with the enemy, he was sure that both his advisers and generals would be able to go all out.
But in the process of rebellion, how much subjective initiative these counselors and generals can exert directly determines success or failure.
If any one of them is not urgent but full of hesitation, it may become a huge irreparable hole tomorrow.
The more hesitant King Qin showed, the more eager his subordinates became and the stronger their sense of crisis became.
On the one hand, it can test the loyalty of these people, on the other hand, it can also stimulate their subjective initiative.
Soon, King Qin's goal was achieved. Not only did he get everyone's strong stance, he also got the moral support he wanted.
So after everyone's persuasion, the King of Qin ordered people to take out a tortoise shell and prepare to use divination to determine good or bad luck, so as to bring a successful end to this struggle.
However, at this time, Zhang Gongjin, a government official, happened to come from outside and happened to see the turtle shell.
Zhang Gongjin violently grabbed the tortoise shell and smashed it to the ground: "The purpose of divination is to establish doubts. Now that there is no doubt about the big event, why bother to divination! Could it be that the result of divination is very bad, King Qin, do you want to give up?"
So, the big deal was decided.
There is a sentence in "Leadership Theory": The so-called leadership is a moral process in which leaders and followers reach agreement based on shared motives, values and purposes. In this process, leaders use institutions, politics, psychology and other
Leadership is complete when it empowers, inspires, engages and satisfies the motivations of followers.
The behavior of King Qin at this time perfectly confirmed this sentence.
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Early morning on June 4, the ninth year of Takeori.
The quiet city of Chang'an had just woken up from the curfew. The residents in the city started their daily lives as usual, completely unaware that this was a day full of bloodshed and bloodshed that would determine the fate of the Liang Dynasty for a hundred years.
The prince and King Qi then rode out of the East Palace, passed the Xuanwu Gate, and headed to Linhu Palace.
In fact, when Zhang Jieyu informed the two of them, the King of Qi was more inclined to Zhang Jieyu's suggestion, gathering troops to be on standby at any time, ignoring the situation and waiting to see what would happen.
However, the prince believed that his troops had been assembled and on standby, and Chang He, who was responsible for guarding the Xuanwu Gate, was one of his own. In addition, there were forbidden troops in the palace, so the King of Qin should not dare to launch a coup in the palace.
He still insisted on entering the DPRK because he still wanted to pay attention to the development of the situation.
The King of Qin complained to Liang Gaozu that he had committed adultery in his harem. If Liang Gaozu summoned him to the court for a confrontation and he did not go, Liang Gaozu might become more suspicious and make him passive.
Obviously, King Qi is the one who understands King Qin better.
After all, he had witnessed King Qin beheading people on the battlefield and knew how dangerous this man was. But it was a pity that neither he nor Zhang Jieyu insisted on their opinions and failed to have enough influence on the prince.
The scenery around Linhu Palace is still beautiful, but compared to the past, it is a little more heart-warming and quiet.
"I'm afraid something has changed!" King Qi first realized that something was wrong.
He and the prince quickly turned their horses' heads and tried to escape, but King Qin and Yuchi Jingde who were hiding in the dark had already rushed out.
The big bow that the Turks "looked upon as a god" had been drawn open at this time, and the thick arrow tip was like a shining light spot on the crescent string, and the target of the light spot was the prince.
This scene should have left deep fear in King Qi's eyes.
Because he had seen King Qin on the battlefield and knew how deadly King Qin's arrows were.
The arrow was fired without any miss, and the big arrow that punched through the door had already sounded the countdown to the prince's death. While the King of Qin rushed over on his horse, the King of Qi was also trying to draw an arrow with his bow.
However, the King of Qi, who claimed that "it would be better to go without food for three days than to go without hunting for one day" and who once enjoyed shooting and hunting people in Jinyang, failed to fully draw the bow in his hand three times in a row.
The three arrows all fell to the ground ten feet away from King Qin.
King Qi lowered his head in disbelief and found that his hands were trembling slightly.
Before that, the Crown Prince and the King of Qi had planned countless times on how to kill the King of Qin, but at the moment when they actually met in battle, they discovered that they had never been prepared to face the King of Qin head-on on the battlefield.
But the arrow in King Qin's hand had already left the string, and with the sound of whistling through the air, the big arrow shot into the prince's back heart and out from the front heart.
Fall on the horse's back.
For the prince, his death was sudden and very reasonable. He was the same as so many dead souls killed by King Qin's arrow. There was no difference between him and his noble status as prince and brother in front of the arrow. His noble status as prince and brother had no meaning at all.
But for King Qin, when he killed his brother with his own hands, one of his biggest political enemies was eliminated, but something also left him forever.
It is said that the King of Qin in his later years once lamented: I will only be twenty-six when I die.
Obviously, directly annihilating the opponent physically was not King Qin's first choice. He had been trying to use various methods to enhance his prestige and wanted Liang Gaozu to make him the prince instead.
That way he wouldn't have to show his determination in a place like this.
But that possibility eventually disappeared.
The subsequent progress did not require much intervention by Li Hongyun, and basically all developed according to historical records.
The King of Qi was chased by Yuchi Jingde. In the panic, he was chased away and shot by his horse, but when he fled into the woods, he happened to bump into the King of Qin who fell to the ground because his horse was frightened.
So, the King of Qi grabbed the bow from the King of Qin and wanted to strangle the King of Qin, but Yuchi Jingde followed closely. The King of Qi quickly let go of the King of Qin and wanted to escape towards the Wude Palace, but Yuchi Jingde quickly caught up with him.
Shoot him to death.
At this time, the general of the East Palace had led more than 2,000 elite troops to attack the Xuanwu Gate. However, Zhang Gongjin, who had extraordinary arm strength, held up the heavy palace gate alone and held on for a long time.
The Xuanwu Gate Guards who were determined to side with the King of Qin also came to an end. Although two generals were killed because they were outnumbered, they withstood the situation.
Seeing that the battle at Xuanwu Gate was raging, and the generals of the East Palace began to clamor to attack the empty Prince Qin's palace, Yuchi Jingde suddenly arrived and threw the heads of the crown prince and Prince Qi on the ground.
As a result, the troops in the East Palace lost all morale and fled in all directions.
Yuchi Jingde rushed to Haichi again and found Liang Gaozu who was boating with his ministers...
However, seeing this, Li Hongyun suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"etc!"
Everything that happened before my eyes seemed to have no problems. The details were consistent with historical data and common sense.
The details of the Xuanwumen Incident are recorded in historical records in great detail. Liang Taizong asked his ministers to "cut off the rhetoric and write down the facts directly", so he even rushed into the woods and was knocked down by a branch because his horse was frightened, and he was almost knocked down by the King of Qi with a bowstring.
The details of the strangulation were also written down.
Compared with those mysterious deaths in history, Liang Taizong had given these two brothers full respect and generously wrote his brother-killing incident in the history books.
But Li Hongyun still felt that something was missing.
If you look at it from historical data, you may not be able to detect it.
Because the historical records are very concise and the information is highly condensed. The main perspective focuses on the King of Qin, the Crown Prince, Yuchi Jingde, King of Qi and others. Everything seems to be very compact and nothing is missing.
But when the specific scene appeared in front of Li Hongyun, this strange feeling gradually became stronger.
It can be clearly seen from the picture that the people on King Qin's side are all wearing armor, but neither the prince nor King Qi is wearing armor.
Because of their status, they can wear swords or bows and arrows when entering the palace, but they cannot wear armor.
Wearing armor is tantamount to openly committing rebellion.
Therefore, the prepared King of Qin wore armor, while the unprepared Prince and King of Qi did not wear armor.
Looking down from a high altitude, you can clearly see the structure of the entire palace.
After entering from the Xuanwu Gate in the north, there are three man-made landscape pools: Beihai, Xihai, and Nanhai, and further south is the Lakeside Hall.
Obviously, Linhu Palace got its name because of its proximity to these three landscape pools.
After passing the Linhu Palace and walking to the southeast, you will find the Ganlu Palace. To the south, past the Ganlu Gate, you will find the Liangyi Palace and the Taiji Palace. From the Ganlu Palace to the east and then south, you will find the King of Qi's escape destination: the Wude Palace.
In other words, the battle between the King of Qin, the Prince, and the King of Qi took place in a large area around the Linhu Palace.
As for Haichi, it is actually right next to Linhu Palace and is the only way for the prince and King Qi to enter.
It is even possible that the Crown Prince and King Qi saw the cruise ship on the pool when they entered the palace. However, they did not know that their father and a group of ministers were on it.
Therefore, after comprehensive analysis, the scene at that time should be extremely obvious.
King Qin led dozens of fully armored cavalry to ambush around Linhu Palace.
The prince and King Qi passed by the sea pool and came to Linhu Palace. At that time, Liang Gaozu and his ministers were boating on the sea pool.
Moreover, after killing the prince and the king of Qi, Yuchi Jingde directly went to see Liang Gaozu, covered in blood and armor, holding a spear, but there is no record of him being stopped by guards in the historical data.
So, why didn't the emperor notice when King Qin and the prince were fighting?
Even if the Xuanwu Gate was first opened and King Qin entered, the emperor did not notice it. After that, dozens of armored cavalry came to ambush near the Lake Palace in a majestic manner. Could it be that no guards in the palace noticed it?
Even if the guards didn't stop him, they should still report it to the emperor, right? After such a big incident, the emperor was still taking a cruise as if nothing had happened?
Even the shouts when the prince and King Qi were killed were so shocking that even the generals of the East Palace led their men to the Xuanwu Gate, but Liang Gaozu still knew nothing about it.
When Yuchi Jingde went to see the emperor, the journey was smooth, as if the emperor himself had no guards.
A sense of absurdity emerged in Li Hongyun's mind. He paused the scene in front of him and replayed the entire process from a bird's-eye view.
Liang Gaozu disappeared inexplicably. As an emperor, he did nothing and did not even receive any news.
This is obviously very unreasonable.
After all, he was still the emperor with real power at this time, not a puppet. Even if some people in the palace were instigated by King Qin to rebel, there must be many people in the bodyguard who were completely loyal to him.
Li Hongyun instantly realized what Chu Ge meant when he said "the only thing that needs attention in the historical data is Liang Gaozu".
Obviously, this is the key point that even historians dare not write about.
