After realizing this key detail, Li Hongyun re-examined the entire operation and realized that he had omitted a key link that was not recorded in history books.
That is, what on earth was Liang Gaozu doing?
Li Hongyun's thoughts quickly reversed and went back to the very beginning, the night when the Prince of Qin's Mansion conspired.
In the process of formulating plans, the imperial guards are a force that cannot be ignored.
Judging from common sense, if you set your sights on the imperial guards and Liang Gaozu, it would definitely be tantamount to treason, and it is best not to do so.
The main goal of King Qin at this time was to kill the prince and King Qi. In this way, he would be the only heir to the throne, and the prince's position would be in his pocket.
Then the purpose should be achieved...
?
Obviously not.
If we only planned actions against the Crown Prince and King Qi, there would be many uncontrollable factors in the whole process.
For example, if the ambush fails, the prince or the King of Qi escapes, and the imperial guards in the palace come to suppress it, what should we do? Should we directly start a fight with the imperial guards in the palace?
You must know that at that time, the prince's generals were still attacking Xuanwu Gate and almost couldn't defend it. If it was attacked from two sides, the consequences would be disastrous.
By then, Liang Gaozu might have legitimately sided with the crown prince and King Qi.
Even if the ambush was successful and both the prince and King Qi died, what if Liang Gaozu did not agree to pass the throne?
What if Liang Gaozu was so angry that he asked the imperial army to kill the King of Qin and all the generals of the King of Qin's palace in the name of rebellion, and then made his younger son the prince and continued to be the emperor himself?
Judging from the aftermath, Liang Gaozu seemed unwilling to lose his second son again, so after learning about the death of the prince and King Qi, he had no choice but to accept the result.
But the records in history books may be the result of beautification.
No emperor in this world would be willing to give up the power in his hands and be raised up to be an emperor far away from power and doing nothing every day.
What's more, when everyone in the Qin Palace made plans, they couldn't predict the future and predict that Liang Gaozu would accept the result so easily.
The Xuanwumen Incident was a rebellion, a serious crime that could destroy the nine clans if they were not careful.
So, when they formulate the plan, will they leave such a huge loophole to execute it at the risk of annihilating the nine tribes?
Thinking of this, the entire scene in the field of vision quickly flashed back to the night of the conspiracy in the Qin Palace.
During the planning, King Qin placed his fingers heavily on the location of Linhu Palace.
"This is a perfect place to ambush the prince and the king of Qi.
"However, this is already the hinterland of the palace, and there are many imperial troops guarding and patrolling.
"We are going to ambush dozens of cavalry here, and it is impossible for the imperial army not to see it. The number of the imperial army is not a concern, but if they go to notify the father, or if they shout loudly to alert the prince and the king of Qi, they will make our
The plan fell short.
"If the prince and King Qi escape, our situation will be in danger when the generals of the prince's palace come with Changlin soldiers and cooperate with the imperial army inside and outside."
King Qin looked around at everyone, and it was obvious that these battle-hardened generals and strategists all knew this very well.
But what to do?
Only the King of Qin is qualified to make a decision on this matter. It is a serious crime for anyone else to even give advice.
After a moment of silence, King Qin made up his mind.
"After our people entered the palace, they first sent a team of troops to the palace to control all the father and ministers.
"Any Imperial Guard who dares to stop...
"Kill without mercy!"
Seeing this, Li Hongyun finally let out a sigh of relief.
It’s right, it’s right!
If you don't control Liang Gaozu, but just ambush the prince and the king of Qi, it will be a serious military adventure and put everyone's wealth and life on some uncertain factors.
The King of Qin and his generals fought so many tough battles, so they would understand this truth.
But if you control Liang Gaozu first, and then ambush the crown prince and King Qi, then no matter what the outcome is, the overall situation will be under your control.
This is no longer an adventure, but a performance.
A performance for Liang Gaozu.
If he had not done these things, it would be difficult to predict Liang Gaozu's behavior when he was furious.
What if he didn't give up because of this, didn't accept the reality, and instead desperately mobilized all the forbidden troops to surround and kill the King of Qin?
But according to this plan, if Liang Gaozu is allowed to go boating in the sea pool and the ministers accompany him, then in the process, he will gradually accept the reality, and the persuasion of the ministers around him can quickly calm down his emotions.
In this way, when he saw the heads of the prince and King Qi, the emotion in his heart was no longer anger, but fear.
Because after this period of thinking, he will be very clear about the consequences of not meditating, and his reason will gradually overwhelm his emotions, forcing him to make the only choice.
The fog was lifted instantly, and everything in front of me became clear.
But at this time, the screen got stuck.
Time in Prince Qin's palace seemed to freeze for an instant, and no one made any further movements.
"Huh? Stuck?
"...Could it be that you are asking me to identify the person who will carry out this plan?"
Li Hongyun was stunned for a moment and then quickly realized that he still had one of the most critical issues that he had not yet solved.
Who will perform this most important task, no, it should be the second most important task?
The first important task should be to cooperate with the King of Qin to personally ambush the Prince and the King of Qi to ensure that these two people must die. Otherwise, even if Liang Gaozu is controlled and the Changlin soldiers from the Prince's residence arrive, the situation will still be difficult to predict.
Controlling Liang Gaozu was the second most important task.
The difficulty of this task was actually lower than ambushing the Crown Prince and the King of Qi. After all, the Crown Prince and the King of Qi were vigilant and had many private soldiers. On the contrary, Liang Gaozu never thought that his son would dare to target him, and he was negligent.
Be prepared.
Moreover, most of the manpower in the Qin Palace was mainly used to kill the Forbidden Army and control Liang Gaozu.
When Yuchi Jingde pursued the crown prince and the King of Qi, he only brought dozens of cavalry with him. Where were the rest of the men? Li Hongyun had always been a little confused before, but now it is completely confirmed.
So, who specifically performed this task?
A character that he had ignored before suddenly flashed in Li Hongyun's mind.
"Hou Junji!"
When the King of Qin summed up the credit for the Xuanwu Gate Revolution afterwards, Yuchi Jingde was ranked first, and there is no doubt about it.
Whether it was encouraging the King of Qin to make up his mind in advance, or personally leading the cavalry to rescue the King of Qin on the day of the incident, shooting the King of Qi, throwing the heads of the prince and the King of Qi at Xuanwu Gate to make the people of the Prince's Mansion disperse, and finally going to Liang in person.
Being forced into the palace in front of Emperor Gaozu made his presence felt in the whole incident.
But the person ranked second is Hou Junji.
There is no historical record of what Hou Junji did specifically during the Xuanwumen Incident. It is just said that he was the core figure of the entire operation and contributed many suggestions.
But the question is, how exactly do you "give a lot of advice"? Moreover, Hou Junji is a military general, and he has given a lot of advice to be ranked second. What do real advisers such as Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui think?
As a military commander, you gave a lot of advice, but did not arrange any particularly important tasks in the final actual actions?
None of this makes sense.
Although Hou Junji later participated in the prince's rebellion during the reign of Liang Taizong, which caused his reputation in history to be not very good, Liang Taizong was a relatively tolerant man. Even for ministers he did not like, the achievements that should be recorded were limited.
Still remembered them all.
So, there is only one explanation for Hou Junji's second contribution in the Xuanwumen Incident, but there are no clearly recorded deeds.
What he did during the Xuanwu Gate Incident cannot be remembered at all.
The moment Li Hongyun came up with his idea, the scene in front of him started to move again.
"Hou Junji!
"You lead five hundred warriors and invite your father and ministers... to take a boat trip on the sea pond."
King Qin looked at Hou Junji, who responded excitedly: "Yes! Your Majesty!"
Time came again to the day of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, but this time the scene Li Hongyun saw was very different from before.
Chang He, who was responsible for guarding the Xuanwu Gate, opened the city gate, and King Qin's troops entered in a mighty manner.
When King Qin and Yuchi Jingde began to ambush near Linhu Palace, Hou Junji led the main troops into the palace in a mighty manner.
All the Imperial Guards who dared to stop him were killed along the way, ensuring that there was nothing unusual in the vast area from Xuanwu Gate to Linhu Palace except for silence.
Then, he went directly to the palace, found Liang Gaozu who was discussing matters with the ministers, and "invited" them all to row a boat on the sea pond.
After that, Hou Junji led his people to guard here until Yuchi Jingde came after killing the prince and the king of Qi.
Historical records record that when Yuchi Jingde, covered in blood, wearing armor and holding a spear, saw Liang Gaozu, "Gaozu was shocked" and asked: "Who is causing trouble today? What is Aiqing doing here?"
Yuchi Jingde replied: "The prince and the king of Qi led troops to cause trouble, and the king of Qin and his ministers raised troops to kill them. The king of Qin was worried about alarming his majesty, so he sent his ministers to serve as guards."
But at this time, it was unreasonable for Liang Gaozu to be "shocked" because he should have been shocked before.
So Liang Gaozu asked the people around him what should be done.
At this time, there were many ministers who went boating with Liang Gaozu. Among them, Yu Wenshiji and Yan Shigu were party to the King of Qin. Feng Lun, Dou Dan and Feng Deyi were two-faced people who made bets between the King of Qin and the prince. Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda
He used to speak to the King of Qin to excuse himself.
Among the people present at this time, the only one who really did not deal with the King of Qin and was absolutely loyal to Liang Gaozu was Pei Ji.
When Liang Gaozu asked this question, Pei Ji's face was paler than him.
Because when Jinyang raised an army, Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, King Qin and Liang Gaozu were the four conspirators who raised the army. After Liang Gaozu became emperor, Pei Ji and Liu Wenjing were both prime ministers.
It's just that Pei Ji firmly supported Liang Gaozu, while Liu Wenjing firmly supported the King of Qin.
However, Pei Ji and Liang Gaozu brazenly killed Liu Wenjing. This incident was enough to be hated by the King of Qin for a lifetime.
At this time, if Liang Gaozu did not agree to hand over power, there was only a half chance that Pei Ji would die, but Pei Ji was 100% sure to die.
Driven by a strong desire to survive, Pei Ji naturally could only agree.
Therefore, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda proposed that Liang Gaozu hand over power, Feng Lun and Dou Dan said that it should have been like this, Yu Wenshiji said that His Majesty should have established the King of Qin as the prince long ago, and Yan Shigu said that I have already polished my ink.
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Everyone present unanimously agreed to ask Liang Gaozu to hand over power to the King of Qin.
And Liang Gaozu could only say nonchalantly, this proposal is very good, I have actually wanted to hand over the power to the King of Qin for a long time.
Obviously, Liang Gaozu was probably thinking at this time that if he didn't agree, it might not be the King of Qin who came, but a glass of wine or a rope.
Thus, the entire Xuanwu Gate Incident ended like this.
The subsequent episode was when the King of Qin came to see Liang Gaozu and cried, and then Liang Gaozu issued two edicts in one day, namely "Edict to establish the King of Qin as the crown prince" and "Edict of Shen Yao to order the crown prince to decide the affairs of the common people". General
All major national affairs were handed over to the King of Qin.
After that, King Qin did three things.
The first thing was to reward the meritorious officials. Except for a few former ministers of Liang Gaozu who symbolically elevated their positions and evacuated their real power, the entire court was replaced with a group of civil servants and generals from the Qin Palace. Thus, the court structure of the Zhenguan reign was initially formed.
The second thing is to eliminate the roots and kill all the descendants of the prince and King Qi.
The third thing is to appease the world. After treating Wei Zheng with great courtesy, let him go to various places to recruit the remaining forces of the prince to surrender, so as to restore stability to the country in a short period of time.
Of course, there is no doubt about rewarding the heroes and appeasing the world, but eradicating the roots and killing all ten of his nephews seemed too cruel and left a lot of infamy in later generations.
But if you think about it from the perspective of King Qin, it is very necessary to do this.
This was not only for King Qin's own consideration, but also for the consideration of these heroes who launched the Xuanwu Gate Revolution with him.
The King of Qin is now at the height of his power, but who can guarantee what will happen in the future?
After Liang Taizong died, if some people wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, then the descendants of the prince and King Qi would be the best tools.
What's more, if these people are not killed, many of the prince's and King Qi's old subordinates will not give up, making it difficult to win them over. After all, this is a huge hidden danger.
The most important issue is that Yuchi Jingde, Hou Junji and other groups of Xuanwumen heroes needed the King of Qin to kill these people.
In the future, the descendants of King Qin will still be emperors, so even if something happens, they may not be able to blame them. But once the emperor and his ministers, Yuchi Jingde, Hou Junji and others held high positions in this dynasty, but their descendants
It may not be possible to keep this family fortune.
Once the power declines and the descendants of the prince and King Qi want to take revenge, it is very likely that they will kill all their descendants through some conspiracy and tricks.
After all, the descendants of the crown prince and King Qi are still members of the royal family. If they want to find a way to kill Yuchi Jingde, it will be easy for the descendants of Cheng Zhijie and others.
Therefore, the King of Qin bears these infamy not only for his own consideration, but also for the consideration of his subordinates.
This was not the only time that King Qin took the blame for his subordinates.
For example, historical data records that the King of Qin shot down the Crown Prince, but when he was fighting with the King of Qi, Yuchi Jingde rushed to the scene. So what did Yuchi Jingde do before? It was most likely to kill the Crown Prince.
Throughout the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the heroes under King Qin did their best to help King Qin. When later generations talk about the Xuanwu Gate Incident, King Qin decisively shouldered all the blame, and no meritorious officials were harmed because of the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
Implicate or leave an infamy for "bewitching the King of Qin".
Perhaps it was just like the King of Qin who personally stood behind his soldiers on the battlefield.
With such a leader who is willing to shoulder all the infamy, is able to take responsibility, and does not pass the blame, it is no wonder that all the hero groups have unshakable loyalty to the King of Qin.
As everything settled, a line of words appeared in front of Li Hongyun.
[Current event completion: 74%]
[You can experience this link repeatedly to unlock more details and further improve the degree of completion. 】
[After confirmation, you will enter the next link. 】
"I worked so hard, but I only got 74% completion?"
Li Hongyun was a little surprised.
Obviously, there are still a lot of details waiting for him to dig out in the entire Xuanwumen incident.
This time "Dark Sand" does not directly reveal the whole truth to players, but allows players to continuously explore and dig on their own.
"Forcibly extending the life of the game, right?"
Li Hongyun even had a premonition that this aspect of the Xuanwu Gate Change in "Ansha" would be frantically studied by countless players, testing different options, and even players would discuss it over and over again because of many details.
But he didn't plan to waste time on this link anymore.
If the completion rate is over 70%, even if it passes, he is ready to enter the next stage.
In the field of vision, the third layer of black energy was also broken open, revealing the fourth layer of black energy.
Li Hongyun couldn't help but be curious: "What is the fourth level of black energy? Is it to destroy the Turks? Or to conquer Goguryeo?"
In fact, in Li Hongyun's view, the most dangerous and difficult thing in King Qin's life was the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
Other battles, whether it was the capture of two kings in one battle at Hulao Pass, or the single-handed retreat of the Turks at Wulongban and Weishui, or sending Li Jing to destroy the Turks and personally conquering Goguryeo, were far less dangerous than the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
The personal expedition to Goguryeo was the last war in Liang Taizong's later years. Although he failed to destroy Goguryeo in one battle, he achieved the greatest results with minimal losses, which was considered a great victory.
It's just that among the many wars in which troops were sent to destroy the country at every turn, the record of personally conquering Goguryeo was not so impressive.
For Liang Taizong, these battles were grand enough in scale and brilliant enough in their results, but they were far less testing for him than the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Liang Taizong worked hard to establish the rule of Zhenguan. Not only did his national strength recover quickly, but his foreign wars were also carried out without any delay. Each time, he achieved the greatest results with the smallest effort.
It is also a coup. Some emperors were complacent and acted arbitrarily after the coup was successful, while some emperors used it to spur themselves on after the coup was successful and did not dare to slack off for a moment.
Perhaps this is the biggest gap.
Li Hongyun lightly touched the fourth layer of black energy, but what surprised him was that he did not start a war to destroy the Turks or conquer Goguryeo.
Instead, a familiar figure appeared in his field of vision.
King of Qi.
However, King Qi was obviously still very young at this time, only sixteen or seventeen years old.
Judging from the time, King Qi should be in Jinyang at this time, which was the time when Liang Gaozu just launched his army.
Liang Gaozu took the prince and King Qin to Chang'an to do important things, while the youngest King Qi stayed in Jinyang.
It's just that in real history, the King of Qi was very unsatisfied. He hunted every day in Jinyang and went to the streets to shoot and hunt people for fun, so that he lost the hearts of the people.
When Liu Wuzhou attacked, King Qi fled back to Chang'an in embarrassment, directly losing the crucial Hedong base camp.
In Li Hongyun's field of vision, a line of prompts appeared.
"Play as the King of Qi and win the Xuanwu Gate Revolution."
Li Hongyun's mouth grew slightly and he was speechless for a moment.
"ah?"
At this time, "Ansha" seems to be saying: You have already seen King Qin's attack on Hulao Pass, the retreat of the Turks, and the bloody Xuanwu Gate. You already know the details of King Qin very well.
