Li Tai felt that the most threatening person to him at that time was Li Zhi, and Li Zhi had been friends with Li Yuanchang before, so Li Tai used this matter to threaten Li Zhi, hinting that he should not compete with him for the throne.
Li Zhi turned around and told Li Shimin about it. Li Shimin was furious when he learned about it. Li Tai dared to threaten Li Zhi when he was not dead. So how could he let Li Zhi go when Li Tai succeeded to the throne after his death?
This also made Li Shimin completely give up the idea of establishing Li Tai as the heir apparent.
In order to make Li Tai completely stop thinking about the throne, Li Shimin deposed Li Tai from the throne.
Li Shimin said sadly in the edict: "King Li Tai of Wei is my very beloved son. I really love this son. This son was very smart when he was young and loved literature very much. My love for him is
So unusual... However, I cannot let future generations think that the throne can be obtained through planning, so I demoted Wei King Li Tai to the title of King of Donglai County."
Li Zhi was able to inherit the throne because of the fight between Li Chengqian and Li Tai, but it would be completely wrong to say that it was a pie in the sky that fell on his head.
The most ruthless emperor's family.
The meaning expressed in Bai Juyi's poem is that the royal family is the most ruthless.
But taking this poem alone, it can also be understood as saying that the emperor's family cannot have too much family affection.
Ordinary people can give more to their children when their families are separated, but emperors cannot.
There is only one throne, and if you give too much to the other sons, it will only make them think about things they shouldn't have.
This is what Empress Changsun is worried about.
"Father, are you satisfied with your son's answer?" Li Zhi asked, sitting in Li Shimin's arms and looking up at Li Shimin.
"Haha." Li Shimin laughed, looked at Empress Changsun and said, "Guanyin, look at the pheasant slave, he's already asking for rewards from me."
Empress Changsun smiled unnaturally. She didn't want Li Zhi to be too smart, but she wanted Li Zhi to be mediocre.
As a prince, Li Zhi already had no worries about food and clothing. She just hoped that Li Zhi could be an idle prince and live a safe life.
But she couldn't tell Li Shimin these things, she could only hide them in her heart.
Li Shimin didn't notice Empress Changsun's expression, pinched Li Zhi's little face, and said with a smile: "I wonder what reward you want, slave Pheasant?"
"The corn my father sent me was very delicious, but there was too little. I would like to ask my father to reward me with some corn," Li Zhi said.
"Corn?" Li Shimin's face looked a little unnatural.
The corn was obtained from Lin Xuan. If you want to get the corn now, you have to ask someone to break it.
He gave Lin Xuan a stick for breaking the corn, but if he asked someone to break the corn, and Lin Xuan found out, where would the emperor's majesty be?
"Pheasant slave, do you know how many people in the world still don't have enough to eat? Corn has a high yield, and if it is promoted, people in the world will not starve. Therefore, it is reserved as seeds and cannot be eaten. Do you understand?" Li Shimin
said.
"Oh." Li Zhi responded with some disappointment.
Although Li Zhi was smart, he was still young after all. He didn't know that the people were suffering. He only knew that Li Shimin promised him but failed to fulfill his promise.
Li Shimin felt quite ashamed when he saw Li Zhi's expression. He only blamed him for agreeing too readily just now.
"Ahem." Li Shimin coughed twice, covering up the embarrassment in his heart, and said: "I remembered that I still have some things to deal with, so I will go and do some work first, and I won't come over tonight."
"I respectfully send you off to Your Majesty."
"My son, I respectfully send you off to my father."
Li Shimin left the Li Zheng Hall under the respectful escort of Empress Changsun and Li Zhi.
After leaving the palace, Li Shimin thought for a while and simply went to Jiyue Palace where Concubine Wei lived.
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Jiyue Palace
Concubine Wei is questioning Li Shen on his homework.
Li Shen was born in the second year of Zhenguan, the same age as Li Zhi, and was named King Shen in the fifth year of Zhenguan.
Normally, children born to concubines cannot be taken care of by themselves.
Many concubines who were pregnant with princes were only given a cursory glance after they gave birth to princes. Even the midwives would not let the concubines see their children, so they were taken away and handed over to wet nurses to feed them until the princes grew up and became sensible.
Mother and son can only meet each other. This is also true of most princes in movies and TV dramas who have a very good relationship with their wet nurses. For example, the last emperor Puyi did not forget to take his wet nurse with him after moving out of the Forbidden City.
The purpose of this is because after the concubine gave birth to the prince, due to maternal reasons, the concubine could not serve the emperor to the best of her ability.
More importantly, the emperor was worried that his concubines would lead his prince to "evil", because no concubine wanted his son to become the emperor. In order to avoid the concubine appearing to seduce the prince and instill bad ideas, deceive the prince, and prevent future cholera cases,
This resulted in the current situation where the concubine was separated from her own prince.
Li Shimin did not have strict requirements on this point, so the princes were all cared for by their biological mothers.
After Li Shen finished reciting a section of the Analects that she studied today, Concubine Wei nodded with satisfaction and said, "Shen'er, the most important thing in learning is perseverance and not slacking off, do you understand?"
Concubine Wei came from Chang'an's Wei family. The Wei and Du families were the largest aristocratic family in Chang'an, and they could be said to be from a famous family.
In fact, when Concubine Wei married Li Shimin, she had already been married once.
Her first husband was Li Min, the son of the Li family from Bohai, a general of the Sui Dynasty and the Minister of Household Affairs Li Zixiong, for whom Concubine Wei gave birth to a daughter.
Later, Li Zixiong followed Yang Xuangan and rebelled. After the defeat, Li Zixiong was killed. Concubine Wei, as a family member of a criminal official, was implicated.
After Li Yuan came to the throne, he announced a general amnesty, and Concubine Wei was pardoned and returned to her famous family.
After Li Shimin captured Luoyang, in order to attack Guanzhong, he gathered many famous families. In order to reassure the Guanzhong clan, he married Wei Guifei and Wei Guifei's cousin, the former Wang Shichong's daughter-in-law Wei Nizi.
After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, his cousin became the imperial concubine and his cousin Zhaorong.
Concubine Wei was named a concubine not just because Li Shimin wanted to win over the Wei family.
Concubine Wei was beautiful in appearance, well-mannered, well-mannered in her advances and retreats, and excellent in character and appearance; she was especially good at writing articles.
Even though Concubine Wei is 'remarried', Li Shimin still loves her very much.
Concubine Wei attached great importance to Li Shen's studies, not only because her Wei family was a scholarly family, but also because she wanted Li Shen to be favored by Li Shimin, so that she could be granted a richer fiefdom when the fiefdom was changed in the future.
As for the throne, Concubine Wei had never thought about it.
Li Shen is the tenth son of Li Shimin, so even if it were his turn, it would not be his turn.
In addition, her origin determined that Li Shen could not become the prince.
Although no one dared to discuss her remarriage, this would become a stain on Li Shen if he wanted to compete for the throne.
Moreover, Queen Changsun's position was stable, and Changsun Wuji was trusted by Li Shimin, so Li Shen had no chance at all.
Precisely because she could see it clearly, she didn't think about it at all.
"My son understands," Li Shen said.
"Okay, let's go have some fun." Concubine Wei said with a smile.
"Thank you, concubine."
Just as Li Shen was about to go out after the ceremony, a palace maid hurriedly walked in and said: "Empress Qi, the officials around your majesty have come to inform you that your majesty is coming to Jiyue Palace."