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The city of Chang'an in front of him was running again, and in Li Hongyun's field of vision, new historical materials appeared again.

"After six years of Wude, Gao Zu had the heart to abolish the establishment, and the King of Qin was not tolerated by his brothers, and feared that he would not be rewarded for his meritorious deeds.

"The prince is lenient and benevolent. He pleaded with Gaozu many times and pardoned the king of Qin. But the king of Qi devoted himself to protecting the position of the prince and persuaded the prince to kill the king of Qin many times, but the prince refused.

"Although Gaozu had the intention of abolishing the establishment, then Gong Zhang Jieyu and Concubine Yin De frequently praised the benevolence of the prince, which made Taizu waver.

"The king of Qin was envoys to falsely accuse the prince of treason, and Gaozu was furious at first, but after the prince pleaded guilty, Gaozu came to his senses, and his suspicion of King Qin became more and more serious.

"The king of Qin supported the bandits, and he often bribed the Turks with wealth to make them retreat. His power grew day by day. However, the soldiers of the king of Qin's government were more impressed by the benevolence of the prince, and they all joined in. The king of Qin took the risk and launched the Xuanwumen change."

It is also a mixture of true and false historical data, which needs to be carefully screened by players.

With previous experience, Li Hongyun knew that each of these choices might have an impact on the subsequent game process, so he began to consider word by word.

After six years of Wude, Gao Zu had the heart to abolish the establishment, and the King of Qin was not tolerated by his brothers, fearing that he would not be rewarded for his meritorious deeds.

This sentence does not seem to be a big problem on the surface, it is directly the original text in the historical materials.

But the problem is that this sentence was written in "Zhenguan Political Leaders" with King Qin as the main perspective.

There is no problem with the time of the first sentence "after six years of Wude", and there is no problem with the latter sentence "King Qin is not tolerated by his brothers, and he is afraid that he will not be rewarded for his meritorious deeds".

According to the time point at this time, the king of Qin had already captured the two kings in one battle, and there was no way to seal them. However, the Turks repeatedly violated the frontier, and it was basically the king of Qin who came out to pacify them.

His military exploits had indeed reached its peak, and even the emperor Liang Gaozu couldn't hold back.

However, there is a problem with the sentence "Gaozu had the heart to abolish and establish".

If you consider it according to the general thinking mode, it should be quite normal if Liang Gaozu had the intention to abolish the establishment at this time.

After all, in the process of pacifying the world, King Qin made too much contribution. In contrast, the crown prince is only sitting in the rear, even if he has the credit for guaranteeing logistics, this credit has to be shared with Liang Taizu.

The abilities shown by the two in this troubled world are not at the same level at all.

If the world is peaceful and the political situation is stable, then there is no doubt that the feudal dynasty should establish the eldest son instead of the talented.

After all, in the peaceful and prosperous age, it is difficult for the princes to show their talents.

But at this time, the world is in troubled times. Although the Liang Dynasty has basically pacified the Central Plains, there are still various powerful enemies waiting outside.

Turks, Goguryeo, Tuyuhun, and Tubo are all giants stretching across the vast border of the Liang Dynasty, and none of them are good stubble.

Let the prince take over the throne, can he move these forces?

I'm afraid it's impossible.

Therefore, from Liang Gaozu's point of view, it might be a better choice to make a virtuous and capable son the prince in troubled times.

There seems to be nothing wrong with this sentence.

However, after Li Hongyun had a relatively full understanding of the character traits of these key figures, he believed that the credibility of this sentence was not high.

This may be a whitewash for King Qin from the perspective of King Qin.

Even if Liang Gaozu had the intention of abolishing Li by accident, and maybe even gave some unspoken hints to the King of Qin at certain critical moments, he definitely never really had the intention of abolishing Li.

To put it bluntly, Liang Gaozu still used King Qin as a useful tool.

Where there is a rebellion, let the king of Qin go to suppress the rebellion; if the Turks invade, let the king of Qin go to guard the border.

But it is absolutely impossible to say that the crown prince was given to King Qin because of this.

The reason why Liang Gaozu considered this way, Li Hongyun speculated, there are three main motives.

First, the inheritance of the ancient feudal society has always established the eldest son as the prince, which makes sense. However, the former dynasty collapsed in just over ten years because of the abolition of the elders and the establishment of the younger ones. This is obviously a huge lesson for the past.

Second, the prince has not committed any major faults so far, so there is not enough reason to abolish him. What's more, Liang Gaozu obviously had a preference for the prince. In terms of personal feelings, he liked the prince far more than King Qin.

Just like he previously reprimanded the King of Qin for being "leaded by scholars, he is no longer the Erlang of the past", it is precisely because he has been staying in the capital and did not go to the front line, and the King of Qin has been fighting on the front line. Obvious differences of opinion.

In comparison, the obedient and sensible prince is more likable.

Third, Liang Gaozu was not very old, and his body was still strong, so he never planned to abdicate so early.

If the king of Qin is established as the prince, then the prince's power is too strong, and it will never be a good thing for the emperor.

Therefore, Liang Gaozu at most hinted that King Qin might be made a prince when he used King Qin as a tool man, but he never really considered this matter.

And this historical record is that the king of Qin or the people under the king of Qin just added more legitimacy to the king of Qin's ascension to the throne.

Immediately followed by the following sentence: "The prince is lenient and benevolent. He pleaded with Gaozu many times and pardoned the king of Qin. Only the king of Qi devoted himself to protecting the position of the prince, and repeatedly persuaded the prince to kill the king of Qin by force, but the prince refused."

There is obviously a problem with this one too.

The obvious problem is that the prince was lenient and begged Liang Gaozu to pardon King Qin's crimes.

Not to mention that the king of Qin had no guilt at all, even if he was forced to say guilt, it was nothing more than distributing the treasures in the treasury to the soldiers after conquering Luoyang, but not to Zhang Jieyu and Concubine Yin De. This so-called guilt is simply a frame-up.

More importantly, it is impossible for the prince to ask Gaozu to pardon King Qin, he will only fan the flames.

In fact, during the whole process of the change of Xuanwu Gate, the prince was trying his best to keep his position as the prince as much as possible.

This appeal seems simple, and many people will mistakenly think that the prince is completely in a state of passive defense. But obviously, this is impossible.

Because the prince has realized that King Qin is too powerful and poses a serious threat to his position as prince, so from his point of view, as long as he still wants to secure the position of prince and insist on succeeding normally after Liang Gaozu's death, he You have to do everything possible to suppress King Qin.

If he is really lenient and pleads for the King of Qin, then he might as well go a step further and voluntarily give up the position of prince, so that there will be no plot of the Xuanwu Gate change.

He really only wanted to keep the crown prince, but under the circumstances at that time, keeping the crown prince meant that he had to kill King Qin.

As long as King Qin is still alive, even if he does not have any official position, he will still be a huge threat to him; on the contrary, once the position of prince is abolished, then he will no longer pose any threat to King Qin.

This comparison of advantages and disadvantages is not due to the background and status of the two parties, but only because of the huge gap in hard power between the two parties.

This is a more obvious problem, but there is a less obvious problem lurking in the shadows.

That's the role King Qi played in the process.

"The king of Qi is dedicated to protecting the position of the prince, and has repeatedly persuaded the prince to kill the king of Qin first, but the prince refuses."

In fact, there is nothing wrong with the latter sentence. In the alliance between the prince and King Qi, King Qi is indeed the more active one, and he has indeed persuaded the prince many times to kill King Qin.

The prince's refusal may be because he feels that the success rate is not high, or because of other reasons, but it is not a big problem to talk about the result regardless of the motivation.

The pitfall of this sentence is actually in the previous sentence.

"The king of Qi is dedicated to protecting the position of the crown prince."

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with this sentence, because King Qi helped the prince to deal with King Qin. But the problem is that King Qi's ultimate goal is not to keep the prince, but to seek his own position.

Because King Qi is the one who knows King Qin best among the father and son.

Since the establishment of the Liang Dynasty, Liang Gaozu and the prince have always been in the rear. The prince has the experience of leading troops to fight a few times, but he either fights a battle that must be won to pick peaches, or he fights very badly.

Therefore, the prince and Liang Gaozu didn't know much about wars.

Especially Liang Gaozu, he looked at the victory report from the front, and saw how victorious his second son was, so he naturally felt that fighting a war seemed to be a very simple matter.

Once the King of Qin did not achieve any decisive victory in the war against the Turks, and the Turks continued to violate the border, Liang Gaozu would naturally feel that the King of Qin was suspected of supporting the bandits.

In other words, it can also be considered that Liang Gaozu and the prince had no intuitive understanding of how terrifying King Qin was on the battlefield.

They showed a kind of ambivalence that not only underestimated the huge role of King Qin on the battlefield, but also worried about the huge power that King Qin had gained on the battlefield.

But King Qi is different.

Liang Taizu asked King Qi to follow King Qin to send troops many times out of various considerations. In the process, King Qi had seen King Qin capture both kings in the battle of Hulaoguan, and Wu Longban single-handedly drive off the Turkic people.

These godly operations that King Qi could not even imagine, King Qin played out more than once, and all of them succeeded.

Therefore, after King Qi united with the prince, he actively hoped that the prince would physically destroy King Qin as soon as possible.

Because he knew that once things were delayed and King Qin was allowed to do it first, or if things were revealed and King Qin went to the local area to raise troops to rebel, the combined forces of the emperor, prince and King Qi would not be enough for King Qin to fight.

As for King Qi's purpose?

Obviously, it is also for the throne.

On the surface, there are three big mountains in front of him, the emperor, the prince, and the king of Qin. No matter how you look at it, it is not his turn to be the prince.

But before the Liang Dynasty, there was a long period of troubled times. At that time, changing the emperor was like changing dishes, and it was very common for father and son to fight each other and brothers to turn against each other.

It is not uncommon for a third party to profit after a fierce battle between the two forces.

Therefore, for King Qi, helping the prince to kill King Qin was only his first step. As for how to get rid of the crown prince and obtain the crown prince himself, this should not be in his plan for the time being, and he can only take one step at a time.

In the most ideal situation, the crown prince and the king of Qin fought and killed the king of Qin, and the generals of Tiance Mansion rebelled in order to protect themselves and killed the crown prince. Wouldn't he be able to benefit from it?

Although this possibility is very low, it does exist, and there is no loss for him to try.

Anyway, King Qin is the most powerful now, so it will be good for him to get rid of King Qin first.

"Although Gaozu had the intention of abolishing the establishment, then Gong Zhang Jieyu and Concubine Yin De frequently praised the benevolence of the prince, which made Taizu waver.

"The king of Qin was envoys to falsely accuse the prince of treason, and Gaozu was furious at first, but after the prince pleaded guilty, Gaozu came to his senses, and his suspicion of King Qin became more and more serious.

"The king of Qin supported the bandits, and he often bribed the Turks with wealth to make them retreat. His power grew day by day. However, the soldiers of the king of Qin's government were more impressed by the benevolence of the prince, and they all joined in. The king of Qin took the risk and launched the Xuanwumen change."

The latter paragraph is easier to distinguish. In fact, Gao Zu did not have the intention of abolishing Li.

It should not be realistic for the King of Qin to ask Bianjiang to falsely accuse the prince of treason, because at that time the prince and Bianjiang did commit treason together, not Bianjiang simply framing. In terms of making a game, these generals who supported the prince put their lives on the line in order to help King Qin make a game, which is too exaggerated.

No matter how hard King Qin was, it was impossible for him to have such a terrifying brainwashing ability.

As for the latter, the king of Qin bribed the Turks to make them retreat, and the generals of the Qin Palace were grateful for the benevolence of the prince and joined them, etc., and so on, it is even more worthless to refute.

Qin Wang launched the Xuanwu Gate Change at a critical juncture, not because the generals in the Qin Palace were alienated, but because the prince and the emperor had already tried to cut off his wings. The generals in the Qin Palace did not take the initiative to serve the prince, but were replaced The high-level forces were directly dismantled.

Li Hongyun once again adjusted the content of this historical record according to his own understanding.

After the adjustment was completed, the light spots in the entire Chang'an City flowed again.

Li Hongyun noticed that a huge network centered on the imperial palace and spread to the core area of ​​the entire Chang'an City.

Spots of light constantly flowed between Prince Qin's Mansion, Prince Qi's Mansion, and the Prince's Mansion, and these spots of light also came to the mansions of many heroes and nobles in the city.

There are also some points of light flowing towards the harem.

Obviously, with the intensification of the previous series of conflicts, the conflict between the two forces has gradually intensified at this time.

Both sides are trying every means to win over the other's manpower and expand their own wings.

In Prince Qi's mansion, an obviously eye-catching spot of light came to Yuchi Jingde's mansion.

"General, you and the king of Qi fought together in the south and north. Now the world is in peace, and there are still Turks in the north. The general needs to continue to serve the country. The gold and silver are given to the general, and there is also a letter written by the prince. Become a commoner friend."

The person in charge of delivering the letter was obviously a confidant of the prince, and when he presented the prince's secret letter, he also showed a whole cart full of gold and silver treasures in front of Yuchi Jingde.

The prince is willing to form a "commoner acquaintance" with a general, which can be said to be quite low.

However, Yuchi Jingde personally wrote a letter to reply to the prince, and at the same time returned the cartload of gold and silver as they were.

"King Qin has the grace to save the general, and the general will swear to follow King Qin for the rest of his life!"

At this time, several memory fragments of Yuchi Jingde also appeared in Li Hongyun's mind.

In the second year of Wude, Yuchi Jingde was still under Song Jingang's command and defeated the Liang army in Xia County. King Yong'an, Shangshu Dugu Huai'en, Tang Jian and several generals were all captured alive by Yuchi Jingde.

However, he met the King of Qin in Meiliangchuan and was beaten only to escape.

Obviously both are Liang Jun, but the former is vulnerable, while the latter descends like a god, which left a very deep impression on Yuchi Jingde.

In the third year of Wude, Yuchi Jingde surrendered to King Qin. In July, when the King of Qin attacked Wang Shichong, many old generals who surrendered defected one after another. The generals of the Liang Dynasty believed that Yuchi Jingde was brave and difficult to control, and believed that he would also defect, so they took him into the army.

However, King Qin immediately released him, took him by his side, and rewarded him with gold, silver and jewels.

During the Battle of Hulao Pass, Yuchi Jingde charged into the battle with the King of Qin, and saw the heroic young man uttering the famous saying: I hold a bow and arrow, and the king follows each other with a lance. What can I do!

Apparently, Yuchi Jingde not only had the trust of life and death for King Qin, but also admired him from the bottom of his heart.

It is obviously overthinking to use gold, silver and jewelry to instigate such a person.

Afterwards, the crown prince and King Qi continued to instigate many generals under King Qin, and the methods were exactly the same as Yuchi Jingde's instigating against Yuchi Jingde.

However, this courting has almost never worked.

From the perspective of these generals, they have almost no reason to change their doors.

In terms of personal relationship, they followed the king of Qin from birth to death to fight the world. After making military achievements, the king of Qin never stingy with rewards, and even most of the generals among them were rescued by the king of Qin on the battlefield.

In several battles, the King of Qin had the experience of jumping into the enemy's line to rescue his own generals, or simply cutting off his rear.

What are Prince Edward and King Qi?

The prince has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and has never been on the battlefield; King Qi has been on the battlefield, but it is obviously soy sauce.

In the concept of this group of generals, strength is the most important thing, and such two people are obviously not enough to convince them sincerely.

In terms of justice, they belong to the King of Qin, and betraying the King of Qin is for disloyalty and injustice.

In terms of the general situation, King Qin has a lot of talents under his command. Although he is not yet a prince at this time, he is obviously in an advantage in all aspects. If he persists, he may still be a minister of the dragon.

Just for a cart full of treasures, you betrayed the King of Qin?

These warriors are just straightforward, but not stupid. Who is the stupidest fierce man who survived the bloody battle and escaped death?

After assisting King Qin to take over the world, wouldn't there be all kinds of treasures and goods?

On the contrary, if he took refuge in the crown prince, even if he succeeded in killing the king of Qin, he would always be labeled as a second or fifth boy. Now that the prince is employing people, he naturally shows the attitude of a virtuous and corporal, but what if the prince is eliminated and the prince is stabilized?

At that time, there will be more and closer people around the prince who have been with him for a long time, and he will also win over the elders left by Liang Gaozu from the previous dynasty.

On the contrary, those who were plotted against the crown prince by King Qin felt a lot easier.

King Qin is not a fool, he is a politician with superb skills, and it is impossible for him to ignore any disturbance.

The "Old Liang Book" said that the King of Qin launched the Xuanwumen Change out of helplessness, but Li Hongyun did not believe this.

Because if the "forced by helplessness" thing is true, it would be too insulting to King Qin's political skills.

Under such a tense political situation, the crown prince is constantly trying to poach the wall from King Qin's mansion, so it is naturally impossible for King Qin to do nothing.

He also used a lot of treasures and goods to instigate the prince's subordinates, and his progress was obviously much smoother than that of the prince.

Except for Wei Zheng and the few who were still following the prince wholeheartedly at this stage, many people were double-faced.

Obviously, these people could see that King Qin's military achievements were too high and his prestige was too high. Not to mention the prince, even Emperor Liang Gaozu couldn't hold him down.

Although he is not yet a prince and cannot directly turn his back on him, he certainly cannot offend a potential stock like King Qin who is very promising to become a prince.

Their support for the prince is not as firm as those generals' support for King Qin. Because the prince has no unbreakable interest relationship with them, let alone the friendship of having been knifed together on the battlefield.

In this way, Li Hongyun watched countless light spots coming and going in Chang'an City, and the forces supporting King Qin were still growing.