After the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin dominated Li Yuanji's wife, why let go of Li Jiancheng's wife?

This question is not complicated, there are two reasons: one is age, the second is hatred, and the third is morality.

Li Shimin in 626 AD launched the Xuanwumen mutiny, then 29 years old, his older brother Li Jiancheng 38 years old, and Li Jiancheng's wife Zheng Guanyin should be around 35 years old, almost has been old, and also gave birth to a number of children, so that the "weather-beaten" woman naturally fewer people want. Since ancient times, the emperor is the most lack of women, even if Deng Guanyin again how the national color, at most, also multiplied by a little bit of chicken under the charm. On the contrary, Li Yuanji, he is five years younger than Li Shimin, his wife Yang's younger than Li Shimin a few years on the self-evident, even if Li Shimin in a number of years before Yang's into the harem, Yang's is only a letter of flowers of the year of the playful woman. Therefore, age is an important reason for Li Shimin to make different choices.

According to records, Li Jiancheng a **** has five men and four women, nine children, and these children are basically the first born, that is, the mother is the crown princess Zheng Guanyin. And just the second day of the Xuanwumen change, Li Shimin executed 10 young nephews, including the elder brother Li Jiancheng's five, the fourth brother Li Yuanji's five. In this way, as the mother of Zheng Guanyin how can forget this blood feud, Li Shimin how can be shy face to his sister-in-law courtesies it. Therefore, too much pain in the earthly world, so Zheng Guanyin eventually converted to Buddhism, is also considered her best home. Yang, on the other hand, happened to have no record of childbearing, and it was possible that Li Yuanji had taken a concubine, and the child who was executed had no direct relationship with herself. Therefore, psychologically speaking, Yang could also accept Li Shimin. If she did not obey Li Shimin, entering the temple as a nun was her only way out. In that case, Yang would not be willing to sink and let her youthful years go down the drain. Therefore, the combination of Li Shimin and Yang may seem undesirable, but it has the key viable factors.

The idea of a mother's wife is inherent in Chinese culture, and Li Shimin's mother, Dou, died in 613 A.D. So Li Shimin accepted Zheng Guanyin as a mother figure, not as a woman of the world who goes back and forth between beds, as a matter of affection. If Li Shimin had forced his sister-in-law to marry him, he would have been morally condemned and ridiculed by the world. On the contrary, Li Shimin's adoption of Yang was already a few years later, for the clouds of the Xuanmen Incident had already cleared, and no one cared too much about the belonging of a female. Even if there were some naysayers, it would not be like a gust of wind that would soon pass. Therefore, whether in the matter of Na Li Jiancheng's wife, or Li Yuanji's wife, Li Shimin had to be morally evasive.

Summary: the existence and occurrence of anything in the world has its reasoning and objective basis, some things can be done in a roundabout way, and some things, even if they change their face, but its inner things will not change. Ordinary people understand the reasoning, do as a generation of ambitious emperor more clear. However, Li Shimin was not exempted in front of beauty, perhaps Yang was too beautiful, otherwise, it was impossible for him to keep thinking about it. In the final analysis, as long as there is an opportunity, most men will tremblingly wander on the edge of beauty.

Zheng Guanyin, the wife of Prince Li Jiancheng, whom Li Shimin treated with great courtesy, lived a long life.

Yang, the wife of Qi Wang Li Yuanji, was taken into the harem by Li Shimin and gave him a son, who died young.

Why did Li Shimin give up Zheng Guanyin and take Yang's wife? This has to do with both his personal feelings and political factors.

Zheng Guanyin was born in the Northern Dynasties, Xingyang Zheng family, Xingyang Zheng family from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, has been a famous northern scholarly family, especially in the Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei and Northern Qi) and the Sui and Tang dynasties, Xingyang Zheng's reputation has reached its peak, and the Boling Cui, Longxi Li, Zhao County Li, Fanyang Lu, Qinghe Cui, and the Taiyuan Wang family, and is known as the "five surnames and seven families". "The Tang Dynasty alone had eleven prime ministers from the Xingyang Zheng family, making it one of the most prominent Zheng families in the world.

Zheng Guanyin was married at the age of 16 to Li Jiancheng, the eldest son of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, who later claimed the throne and established the Tang Dynasty, and Li Jiancheng was made the Crown Prince, and Zheng Guanyin became the Crown Princess, and if nothing else, the future Empress, the Mother of the World.

But the Xuanwumen incident completely changed Zheng Guanyin's fate, not only was her husband Li Jiancheng killed, she and Li Jiancheng's son were also killed, only she and her daughter by Li Shimin net one side, and escaped death.

Although Zheng Guanyin age and Li Shimin equivalent, and looks "Cheng Yun recommended color, the metaphorical day wield Hua, Shu rhyme grace, Shaozhi Wan Yee," is a naturally beautiful woman, but Li Shimin is very respect for it, and did not take for himself, but to let her live in the door of the Changle, to raise Li Jiancheng's minor young orphaned daughters, and has been living until the time of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty died. Tang Gaozong years before he died, aged seventy-eight years.

If Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin is from a famous family, Qi Wangfei Yang is a famous family.

Yang came from the famous Hongnong Huayin Yang family, she was the niece of the granddaughter of Yang Xiong, the king of the Sui Tang Guan, who was a member of the Sui dynasty clan, and a relative and close confidant of the Sui emperor, Yang Jian, and it was because of this family background that she was able to marry Li Yuanji as a consort.

Yang's natural beauty, flowers and moonlight, so that Li Shimin very moved. After the Xuanwumen mutiny, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was executed, and his five sons were decimated, again leaving only Li Yuanji's female family, including Yang, other concubines and daughters.

In the face of Yang's "jade appearance, snow skin, eyes like a picture", Li Shimin did not hesitate to include it in the harem, pampered, Yang later gave birth to a son - Cao Wang Li Ming. After the death of the Empress Changsun, the lack of the center of the Palace, Li Shimin even moved up to the idea of Yang's registration for the Queen, after the strong opposition of Wei Zheng and stop, and Yang's in the early thirties on the early death.

For Yang, the murder of her husband and son was the greatest tragedy of her life, and she was left alone with no one to care for her, so she was able to be included in the emperor's harem and favored by him, which was a blessing in disguise and the best possible outcome.

As for the reason why Li Shimin Yang's own, on the one hand, because of his appreciation of Yang's beauty and love, will be included in the harem is the best way to love and protect Yang's; on the other hand, it is because of Yang's back of the sui dynasty clan power, can enlist them to their own use, to help stabilize the political situation, this two-in-one approach is the best choice.

Why did Li Shimin release Li Jiancheng's wife and take over Li Yuanji's wife at the Xuanwumen Gate?

First, Li Shimin and Li Yuanji's wife Yang Fei in fact have long been looking at the eyes.

Yang Fei in fact, Li Yuanji feelings have long had a crisis. Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng close, Yang Fei expressed opposition. And Li Yuanji thought Yang Fei is a woman's opinion. Moreover, Li Yuanji is a good drinker, and he often has domestic violence after drinking. Yang Fei more disgusted with him.

Second, Li Shimin Na Yang Fei into the harem, very much in Li Shimin's favor, Queen Changsun big, and the original relationship with Yang Fei is not bad, but it is difficult to avoid flirting with Yang Fei a few words, talking about bed things, Yang Fei is also for the blush. This shows that Li Shimin and Yang Fei has long been ambiguous.

Third, why does Li Shimin not possess Li Jiancheng's wife, Zheng Fei? Prince Consort ah! Li Shimin consider reputation, should not have teased this Zheng Fei. And Yang Fei looks beautiful, and Zheng Fei than Li Shimin is still eight or nine years old, people and not Yang Fei beauty, Li Shimin also do not have sibling love complex, so do not want to enter Zheng Fei into the harem.

Another, Li Shimin killed Li Yuanji, Li Jiancheng son, and Yang Fei only gave birth to a daughter, but Zheng Fei for Li Jiancheng son of ah!

So, Li Shimin Na Yang Fei is safer, and Zheng Fei is a time bomb, not good to be included in the harem.

Li Shimin domination of Li Yuanji's wife Yang, is greedy for her beauty? The emperor is a harem of three thousand beauties, should not care about a woman. So Li Shimin's domination of Yang's only one purpose, political needs. Speaking of Yang's have to talk about Li Tang's home, Li Tang capital Chang'an, Guanzhong group is the main force, and Yang's family belongs to Guanzhong power of the absolute leader. However, Li Shimin had the hatred of Yang's husband's murder, and Li Shimin was not assured that she would go back to the Guanzhong Group, so he put her in the harem. And for the Guanzhong group, Yang's into the harem also meets the political needs, the two coincide.

Li Shimin and Yang get along for a long time, the two also have a relationship, Yang is to Li Shimin gave birth to a son, so when the Empress Changsun died of illness, he put forward want to establish Yang was Wei Zheng stop. From here, Li Shimin is still quite good to Yang, or at least should not treat her badly.

For Li Jiancheng's wife Zheng, Li Shimin didn't take her into the harem, but instead kept her under guard in the palace. Why was her experience so different from Yang's?

Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin is the first daughter of the Xingyang Zheng family of Shandong aristocrats, and at that time, Li Yuan let Crown Prince Li Jiancheng marry Zheng Guanyin, the main consideration is still a political marriage. It was also because Li Yuan enlisted the Shandong clans to keep the Guanlong clans in check that the Guanlong clans switched their support to Li Shimin. After Li Shimin came to power, of course, do not dare to offend the Shandong and Guanlong valves, to maintain the status quo is the best choice.

Then again, Li Shimin's throne has been criticized by the world, and if his sister-in-law is included in the harem, the whole society will be in chaos. After all, the Tang Dynasty is still very much focused on etiquette, and this kind of behavior is to be scorned and can no longer convince the public. Everyone will think that Li Shimin is a womanizer, even sister-in-law, sister-in-law all want. There is also Zheng has already passed the two eight cardamom years, for the eyes of Li Shimin, may not really see.

Li Shimin dominated Yang's but spared Zheng's, the main reason is still the need for political interests, rather than most of the speculation that Li Shimin is too colorful. If he had rushed to his death, perhaps the newly established Tang Dynasty might have had daily rebellions.

Li Shimin occupied Li Yuanji wife Yang, why let go of Li Jiancheng wife Zheng is due to a variety of reasons, I think the main division into personal and political factors.

First of all, personal factors: the age gap is obvious. Yang's young and beautiful, Yang's in the Xuanwumen change when about 20 years old, although the history of Yang's appearance is not a clear record, but according to the Tang's "Control Crane Supervision Secret Records" a record, can be inferred from the side. According to the book, Wu Zetian's male favorite Zhang Changzong was known for his handsome appearance, and had the elegance of the year Qi Wangfei Yang's style ("Jade appearance, snow skin, eyes like a painting, its elegance is absolutely similar to the Chao Prick Wangfei"). On the contrary, although Zheng is also a dignified and gorgeous beauty, but at that time should be about 35 years old, this age in the palace, even if it is relatively large, may be eight or nine years older than Li Shimin, a comparison of no advantage to speak of.

Secondly, the psychological acceptance is different. Li Jiancheng a **** have five men and four women, nine children, these children are basically Prince Consort Zheng Guanyin out, see Li Jiancheng and Zheng Guanyin emotional foundation is very good. And in the Xuanwumen change the next day, Li Shimin executed 10 young nephews, which elder brother Li Jiancheng's five, fourth brother Li Yuanji's five. As the mother of Zheng Guanyin how can forget this blood feud, Li Shimin worried about Zheng Guanyin as his pillow retaliation. In contrast, Yang happened to have no record of childbearing, it is possible that Li Yuanji's concubine, the child executed also has no direct relationship with their own. She married Li Yuanji when she was just a princess, and also did not have a son, married to Li Shimin, the stature of all lifted, so psychologically Yang can also accept Li Shimin.

Finally, the political factor: Qi Wangfei was born in Hongnong Yang, Hongnong Yang's origin can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, the earliest is the Western Han Dynasty Prime Minister Yang Chuan, after both the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Western Jin Dynasty, Hongnong Yang's is a prominent family. Sui Dynasty Yang Su, Yang Xuan Gan are from the Hongnong Yang family, after the fall of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, "Li Wu Wei Yang" four marriage to form a political group, the Sui Dynasty lost the world is because the Sui Dynasty was abandoned by the Guanlong Group, the Guanlong Group also elected the Li family to be the emperor. Li Shimin won the throne is relying on the Guanlong group and his uncle Changsun Wuji's generation of northern group support, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen mutiny, Li Shimin on the throne after the political situation is also mixed, not only the old ministers of the Wudu, but also the Shandong group, the Guanlong group, and the five door of the seven hopefuls, so Li Shimin is more afraid to easily move the world of the family, and then took the measure of the pulling together to quickly stabilize their own regimes.

Zheng's back is Xingyang Zheng's, but also the North Dynasty, compared to Li Yuanji's wife Yang's political help Li Shimin too much, but also do not offend as well. At that time, the dynasty was still in turmoil, and everything was about stability. He killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng to obtain the throne is the name is not justified, neither the inclusion of the harem nor Zheng's return to the family to go, conducive to the stability of the political situation. Leave Zheng in the palace to live alone, every day for Li Jiancheng chanting Buddha, is not a good result.

After killing his own brother, Emperor Tang Taizong brought his sister-in-law Yang into the palace to become his own woman. Although she was not given an official name, Yang was greatly favored by Emperor Tang Taizong and gave birth to his youngest son, Li Ming (King Cao Gong). Tang Taizong favored Yang so much that not long after the death of his beloved wife, Empress Changsun, he revealed the idea of installing Yang as his empress. It was only after Wei Zheng, the prime minister, wrote a letter of advice that he abandoned the idea of making Yang the queen.

In 626 AD, Li Shimin orchestrated the Xuanwumen Incident, in which Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed, and then Li Shimin killed their sons, leaving only their daughters and their wives.

Li Yuanji's wife, Qi Wangfei, was saved from death, but also changed her fate, because she became Li Shimin's favorite. In other words, Li Shimin dominated his sister-in-law.

Why does a man want to get a woman, I summarized a few points, first because of her beauty, second because of her money, then talent, and finally family history.

The money can be ignored, and the family history can also be ignored, because Li Shimin has no need to marry Yang's family, Li Shimin is already the son of heaven, and he owns the world's money.

Then Qi Wangfei Yang is only left with talent as well as beauty. So the reason why Li Shimin dominated her is these two points, there is no other reason.

From the fact that Li Shimin wanted to make her the queen, it can be seen that Yang, the consort of Qi Wang, should be extremely good-looking, and also have some talent to attract Li Shimin.

The king's consort of Chaowang was the king's consort of Qi, Yang, because in 642 A.D., Li Shimin posthumously crowned Li Yuanji as the king of Chaowang, and therefore the king's consort of Qi was changed to the king's consort of Chaolu.

After Li Jiancheng was killed in 626 A.D., Zheng Guanyin was widowed until her death in 676 A.D. at the age of 78.

Zheng Guanyin, who was from a prestigious family with generations of officials, married Li Jiancheng at the age of 16 and became the Crown Princess at the age of 20.

But fate wasn't always so kind, until after Li Jiancheng was killed, Zheng Guanyin's life fell apart, and she spent her days in tears and raising her young daughter alone.

Why was Zheng Guanyin not favored by Li Shimin?

I think there is a huge possibility that it was because Zheng Guanyin was not good-looking, so Li Shimin didn't like her and didn't take her as a concubine.

Of course, there is another reason is that Zheng Guanyin keep womanhood, Li Shimin see Zheng Guanyin miss her husband every day, so he did not start.

In the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, including their sons, and only their wives and daughters were spared, and the battle for the throne ended with Li Shimin's victory. Later, Li Shimin also put Li Yuanji's widow Yang in the harem, but spared Li Jiancheng's wife, why is this?

(Zheng Guanyin)

1. Li Shimin liked widows. Li Shimin a *** there are 15 consorts, which Wei Guifei and Wei Zhaorong is a cousin relationship, both and once married.

Wei Guifei was previously married to Li Min, the son of Sui Shangshu, and had a daughter, after the death of Li Min, the beautiful appearance of her into the harem of Li, and later for Li Shimin gave birth to Ji Wang Li Shen.

(Shimin and Yang)

Wei Zhaorong is the cousin of Wei Guifei, who was married to Wang Xuanyin, the crown prince of Zheng, and was included in Li Shimin's harem because of her good looks.

Li Shimin Na Yang into the harem, three of the fifteen consorts were married, so relative to the political reasons, Li Shimin like widows more credible. The king, a bit of personal hobbies is not normal?

2, the second reason is that Yang's young and beautiful, to Wei Guifei and Wei Zhaorong can be seen, three are young and beautiful women.

3. Li Shimin was truly in love with Yang. See:

This is to say that after the death of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin wanted to set up Yang as the Empress, and only because of Wei Zheng's advice did he stop this idea. It is important to realize that Li Shimin cared a lot about what future generations would say about him, because he once interfered with the Tang Dynasty historians compiling the history books.

This is the Qing dynasty scholars questioned the "new and old Tang book" of the relevant aspects of the record, and also said that Li Shimin is also afraid of a bad reputation. According to another source of Tang history, "the residence", Li Yuan rose against the Sui dynasty inside the credit of Li Jiancheng, but "new and old Tang book" only said that Li Shimin credit. In addition, the "new and old book of the Tang Dynasty" said that Li Jiancheng had framed Li Shimin several times, but there is no relevant record in the "residence".

So all this is to say that history is always written by the descendants, and the fact that Li Shimin has tampered with the historical data proves that he cares a lot about his reputation. That being the case, Li Shimin risked being criticized by posterity and also wanted to make Yang the Empress, thus showing that he did have true love for Yang.

This reason is simple and rough, first of all, can become the king's consort appearance is certainly not bad, the first to rule out the problem of ugly; Zheng Guanyin widowed fifty years and died at the age of 76 years old, indicating that she was 26 years old to be a widow, 26-30 years old, this age is not old, completely acceptable, ruled out because it is too old for the sake of

Previously, Li Shimin also killed the brothers' nephews, in accordance with the information stated that the children under the name of Li Jiancheng. The pain of losing a child is more than skin deep, as long as Li Shimin is not a fool, will not be on Zheng Guanyin up what bad thoughts, in case Zheng sometimes blood towards stuffing a scissors under the pillow, Shimin brother will not feel the crotch spine a little bit cold?

Talking about the emperor Li Shimin, I think most people first thought of the change of Xuanwumen instead of the reign of Zheng Guan. The so-called ruthless than the emperor's family, Li Shimin is the second son of Li Yuan, no chance of the throne, said Li Shimin for the throne or not, said Li Shimin for self-preservation, Li Shimin finally launched the Xuanwumen mutiny to get rid of the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and then let Li Yuan Zen throne, do the supreme emperor.

The Xuanwumen mutiny can be said to be a major stain on Li Shimin's life, but after the Xuanwumen mutiny, Li Shimin did a shocking thing, killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's heirs, cut off the roots can be understood, after all, in order to self-preservation and the foundation of the Great Tang Dynasty.

But the face of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's wife when Li Shimin's approach is puzzling, the two ladies should be the kind of beautiful women, but Li Shimin only dominated Li Yuanji's wife Yang, spared Li Jiancheng's wife Zheng, which is why?

Li Yuanji's wife Yang's is the niece of Yang Xiong of the Sui Dynasty royal family, although the Sui Dynasty was replaced by Li Tang, but Yang's has been from a famous family, Li Shimin did not kill Yang's instead of Yang's occupation, mainly to stabilize Hongnong Yang's this famous family. After all, Hongnong Yang's from the North and South Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, is a famous family in the north, in the society at that time is very influential, legend has it that the royal family of the Sui dynasty is also from Hongnong Yang's. The whole family has become the emperor, and the whole family has become the emperor, and the whole family has become the emperor. When someone in the family became the emperor, the whole family was honored. You can imagine how prominent this family was at the time.

Li Shimin did this so that they would think that Li Shimin was only getting rid of people who threatened his throne, and was not indiscriminately killing innocent people. This helped to solidify his throne, and also comforted the world's subjects, so that the nobles of the previous dynasty would not counter-judge Li Shimin.

There is another reason, Li Yuanji's wife Yang gave birth to a daughter, after all, Yang is also one in a million beautiful women, childbearing more can show the maturity of the woman charming. Li Shimin before the King of Qin, often outside the battlefield plus itself is not the eldest son of Li Yuan, is bound to inner insecurity, often such a person generally have a young woman plot, Yang's due to have given birth to a mature and charming can give Li Shimin a certain sense of security. Then again, Li Shimin did not kill Yang and Li Yuanji's flesh and blood, the two hate is not very big, and the Tang Dynasty period does not have some of our current moral constraints.

Later, Li Shimin's Empress Changsun died, if not Wei Zheng blocked, Li Shimin set up Yang as the Queen, Yang and Li Shimin born son for the Prince, enough to prove that Li Shimin favor Yang to the extreme.

Li Jiancheng's wife Zheng needless to say is a great beauty, after all, it is the crown princess, Li Shimin do not want to dominate is impossible, unless Zheng's background so that Li Shimin did not dare to make the move, and Zheng had a son was killed by Li Shimin.

Zheng's back is Xingyang Zheng's, which is also a big family, history can be traced back to the Zhou Xuan Wang divided into the beginning of the state of Zheng, can be said to be quite powerful high family.

And Li Shimin killed Zheng's son, this revenge can be said to be not **** Daitian, if the domination of Zheng's may be a crisis of their own lives, after all, who can rest assured that a woman with their own blood and sweat to do their own pillow it.

We know that Li Shimin has Xianbei blood, his grandmother Dugu's is certainly no doubt that the Xianbei people, his mother Dou's also have Xianbei blood, so Li Shimin half of the blood is Han, half of the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people are open-minded and have a system of "brother marrying sister-in-law", in which the elder brother dies, and the sister-in-law can't be wasted, and needs to marry the younger brother-in-law to continue to take on the task of reproduction.

This system for the Confucian culture is a beast of water, incest, is worse than animals, but in the Xianbei people think it is very normal, the woman should keep reproducing children, this is to ensure that the population reproduction of the effective measures to maximize.

In this way, Li Shimin married Li Yuanji's wife is to respect the Xianbei tradition? But since he married his brother's wife, why didn't he take his brother's wife piece by piece? This is not a good idea.

It's not that simple.

First, Li Yuanji's wife was young and beautiful. Li Yuanji's wife is a famous beauty in the Tang Dynasty, no less than Yang Guifei, and she is also surnamed Yang, it is said that the birth of the skin like snow, eyebrows into the picture.

Li Shimin killed off his brother and brother when he was only 29 years old, when his brother Li Yuanji was 24 years old, his wife Yang's clan was in her early 20's, it is like a flower, gorgeous age, Li Shimin has long been salivating for his brother's daughter-in-law, so after he killed his brother, he took his brother's daughter-in-law.

Li Jiancheng is not the same, Li Jiancheng is 9 years older than Li Shimin, died at the age of 37 years old, his wife Zheng's at least 35 years old, even if the young is a flower, to this age has become a tofu dregs.

Li Shimin would not have married a tofu-dreg woman.

Secondly, Li Yuanji's wife had a distinguished background. Yang came from Hongnong Yang, from the North and South Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, Hongnong Yang has always been a prestigious family, two generations of Sui emperors Sui Wendi, Sui Emperor Yang are Hongnong Yang, although the Sui dynasty fell, but the Yang family is still very prominent.

After Li Shimin killed Li Yuanji, the Yang clan was scared and worried about persecution, at this time, Li Shimin married Li Yuanji's wife Yang in time, which is the same as to tell the Yang clan: you can rest assured that when brother became emperor, your status and treatment will not be lowered, but rather increased.

So, Li Shimin married Li Yuanji's wife, is not just good color, more political considerations.

Tang Gaozu Wude nine years June 4 (that is, July 2, 626 AD), Qin Wang Li Shimin in the capital of the Tang Empire, Chang'an City, Taiji Palace, the north gate "Xuanwumen" near the coup, eliminated his brother, the crown prince Li Jiancheng and his brother Li Yuanji, forcing his father, Li Yuan, to install himself as the crown prince, and succeeded to the throne, known as "Tang Taizong". He was called "Emperor Taizong of Tang" and renamed 'Zhenguan' (贞观).

This is the general process and results of the Xuanwumen mutiny, in fact, we are already familiar with this historical event, even if we do not really understand the history of this part of the people, should have seen a few years ago, the popular drama "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasty", the story is still some understanding. Of course, in terms of real history, this coup is actually quite normal, maybe we see the brother against brother seems not so good, but this is never a rare thing in the royal family.

We know that Li Jiancheng, as the eldest son, after being named the crown prince, basically helped Li Yuan in the palace to deal with political affairs, and relied on a group of civil officials. Li Shimin is not, the Tang Dynasty, the first settlement, the various rebels emerge one after another, Li Shimin resolutely take up the responsibility of stabilizing the internal stability of the Tang Dynasty, many times led the group of generals to go to war. After a long time of conquest, the Tang dynasty has been pacified, but also at this time, Li Shimin's prestige also greatly exceeded the crown prince Li Jiancheng, which will inevitably be subjected to the crown prince's jealousy.