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Li Hongyun zoomed in on the camera, focusing on the situation in Prince Qin's mansion.

At this time, a group of advisers and generals under the King of Qin gathered together and were discussing how to jointly carry out major events tomorrow.

This list is full of stars 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 the danger of being punished by the clan, and they want to jointly elect the King of Qin as the emperor and change the national destiny of the entire Liang Dynasty.

Of course, the King of Qin is not a reckless person. Although rebellion is likely to be a one-shot deal, he still leaves a way out for himself.

While launching the coup, he also properly settled Empress Changsun, himself and other generals' families. Once the matter fails, he can also evacuate Chang'an and go to Luoyang.

Although Chang'an was the power center of the entire Liang Dynasty, Liang Gaozu and the prince were still more powerful here. As for Luoyang, the city that was brought down by the King of Qin himself and that no other forces had been able to intervene in depth, it was more suitable to be the base of the King of Qin.

In fact, due to the intensified conflict between the prince and the King of Qin, Liang Gaozu had already had the idea of ​​entrusting the King of Qin to Luoyang to build another banner of the Son of Heaven.

But this idea was unanimously and resolutely opposed by the prince and King Qin, and finally gave up.

The prince objected because he felt that Chang'an was his home field. Once the king of Qin went to Luoyang, it would be difficult to get rid of the king of Qin in the future; but the king of 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 go.

And once the coup fails, Luoyang will naturally become the best retreat for King Qin.

Just fleeing to Luoyang does not mean safety, that is the beginning of the real rebellion. Although with King Qin's military ability and his famous generals, it would not be too difficult to fight the whole world again, but that would cause terrible damage to the whole country that would be irreparable.

The Central Plains can no longer stand the flames of war sweeping the world again.

What's more, it is morally disadvantageous to directly raise troops to rebel and seize the throne. Therefore, it must be a possibility that King Qin does not want to see.

At this time, King Qin was impassioned, boosting the morale of his capable ministers and generals.

"Everyone followed me to fight in the south and north, and today's matter, you and my monarch and ministers sincerely entrust each other, so I don't need to say more.

"More than half of the world in the Liang Dynasty was brought down by our monarchs and ministers. What merits does the prince have? He is in a high position. Not only does he not want to be grateful, but he has repeatedly alienated the relationship between our monarchs and ministers. If he wants to get rid of it, he will hurry up!

"The reason why we raised our army today is to eradicate traitors and sycophants for the country, so that the world can be settled in one battle!

"Everyone listen to my arrangement, Yuchi Jingde will follow me to the Xuanwu Gate first in the morning..."

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 frowning slightly, vaguely realizing that something seemed wrong.

Judging from the development of the whole story, this scene is not unexpected.

The conflict between the crown prince and King Qin is well known to everyone, and it has intensified to the point of irreconcilability. Although they are brothers, it is normal for King Qin to hate the prince deeply.

But when the matter came to an end, King Qin should have already made up his mind to kill and attack decisively.

Therefore, he made a decision in the shortest possible time, arranged troops and arranged for his subordinates to perform their duties, and completed the change of Xuanwumen, which is a very reasonable development.

If you are a person who has not read the relevant historical materials, you may not feel that there is anything wrong with this content at all.

But Li Hongyun had read the historical data.

According to historical records, before the change of Xuanwu Gate actually happened, there was a scene where "all the bureaucrats tried their best to remonstrate with the King of Qin".

The king of Qin, who has always been decisive in killing and attacking, hesitated and pushed back and forth at such a critical juncture. He was completely lacking in his usual bravery and courage. However, his subordinates were all anxious and tried their best to persuade him, even wishing to show their hearts to the king of Qin.

After tossing and tossing for a long time, King Qin finally made up his mind.

So the question is, which possibility is more likely to be the truth of history?

Li Hongyun's goal is to reproduce the real history as much as possible. Although this section does not seem to have a great impact on the result, it may affect the completion of this event and lead to the failure of customs clearance.

Therefore, Li Hongyun had to carefully consider even a seemingly unimportant detail.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Hongyun turned the time back a little bit, and still let everyone stage the scene of "remonstrating the King of Qin".

He did this, of course, not by copying historical materials, but by in-depth analysis of the situation at that time.

Many people often have two views when interpreting this historical material.

The first is that there is a problem with the historical materials. If the King of Qin was particularly impatient at the time, it obviously did not fit his sage king personality of "valuing brotherhood and being very conflicted and struggling before he was forced to launch the Xuanwu Gate Change".

Therefore, later historians deliberately made up such a plot.

The second is that although King Qin decided to launch the Xuanwu Gate Change, he still has brotherly feelings for the prince in his heart. Although he was decisive on the battlefield, it was against the enemy after all, and at this time his target was his brother and father, so hesitation was also natural.

After all, it is difficult for an upright official to break up housework.

But Li Hongyun felt that neither of these two views should be the truth.

King Qin is a mature statesman who is decisive in killing and attacking. He should be more aware of the current situation than anyone else. Therefore, being influenced by feelings may be an influencing factor, but it is by no means a determining factor.

But this scene should have happened.

Li Hongyun felt that there were two main reasons why King Qin wanted to do this.

The first is that the general environment at the time required him to perform such a performance.

Just like in ancient times, when the prince was placed in Zen, he had to resign repeatedly to show respect for his father. And even if the powerful officials usurp the throne, they have already completed the standard link of adding Jiuxi, and when they are really elected as the emperor, they have to repeatedly refuse.

Like the Taizu of the Qi Dynasty, he made it even more fake, and added a yellow robe. On the surface, it was forced and not his original intention. In fact, everyone knows what happened.

Qin Wang wants to do great things, rather than saying that he lacks wisdom and courage, it is better to say that he needs strong moral support.

Of course, this is only part of the reason.

The more important reason should be a kind of obedience test.

After all, this is treason, not war.

If it's just about fighting, King Qin doesn't need to worry too much about some specific links in the process. To deal with the enemy, he is sure that no matter whether it is his advisers or generals, he will definitely be able to go all out.

But in the process of rebellion, how much subjective initiative these advisers 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 hole that cannot be recovered tomorrow.

And the more hesitant King Qin behaved, the more anxious and crisis-sense his subordinates became.

On the one hand, the loyalty of these people can be tested, and on the other hand, their subjective initiative can be stimulated.

Soon, King Qin's goal was achieved. Not only did he get everyone's strong stance, but he also got the moral support he wanted.

So under the repeated persuasion of everyone, the King of Qin ordered someone to take out a pair of tortoise shells, and prepared to use divination to determine good and bad, so as to draw a successful conclusion to this struggle.

However, at this time, Zhang Gongjin, a bureaucrat, happened to come from outside, and happened to see the turtle shell.

Zhang Gongjin grabbed the tortoise shell and threw it on the ground: "The purpose of divination is to resolve doubts. Now that there is no doubt about the major events, why bother with divination! Could it be that the result of divination is a big murder? Are you going to give up, King Qin?"

Thus, the event was settled.

There is a sentence in "Leadership": The so-called leadership is a moral process in which leaders and followers reach agreement based on shared motivations, values, and goals. In this process, leadership is completed when the leader mobilizes institutional, political, psychological, and other forces to stimulate, attract, and satisfy the motivation of followers.

And King Qin's behavior at this time perfectly confirmed this sentence.

...

Early in the morning on June 4th, the ninth year of Wude.

The quiet city of Chang'an has just woken up from the curfew, and the residents of the city started their daily lives as usual, completely unaware that this is a day full of bloody events that will determine the fate of the future Liang Dynasty for a hundred years.

The prince and King Qi just rode out of the East Palace, passed the Xuanwu Gate, and headed for the Linhu Hall.

In fact, when Zhang Jieyu notified the two, Qi Wang was more inclined to Zhang Jieyu's suggestion, to gather the army to stand by at any time, to wait and see what happened.

But the prince thought that his troops had already assembled and were on standby, and that Chang He, who was in charge of guarding the Xuanwu Gate, was one of his own, plus there were forbidden troops in the palace, King Qin should not dare to launch a coup in the palace.

He still insisted on joining the court, because he still had to pay attention to the development of the situation.

The king of Qin sued Liang Gaozu that he was promiscuous in the harem. If Liang Gaozu called him to confront the court but he didn't go, Liang Gaozu might be more suspicious and make him passive.

Obviously, King Qi is the one who understands King Qin better.

After all, he had personally seen the King of Qin hacking people on the battlefield, so he knew how dangerous this man was. But it is a pity that neither he nor Zhang Jieyu insisted on their views and failed to have enough influence on the prince.

The scenery around Linhu Temple is still beautiful, but compared to the past, it is a little more palpitatingly quiet.

"I'm afraid something has changed!" King Qi first realized that something was wrong.

He and the crown prince hurriedly turned their horses and wanted to slip away, but Qin Wang and Yuchi Jingde who were hiding in the dark had already rushed out.

The big bow that made the Turkic people "view it as a god" has been drawn at this time, and the thick arrow head is like a shining light spot on the string of a crescent moon, and the target of the light spot is 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 his arrows were.

The big arrow, which was shot without fail and pierced through the door, has already played the countdown to the prince's death. While King Qin rushed over on his horse, King Qi was also trying to draw his bow and nock an arrow.

However, the self-proclaimed King Qi, who "would rather go without food for three days than hunt for a day", and who used to enjoy shooting and hunting people in Jinyang, failed to 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 this, the crown prince and King Qi had planned countless times how to kill King Qin, but at the moment when they met in battle, they realized that they had never been ready to confront King Qin head-on on the battlefield.

But the arrow in King Qin's hand had already left the string, and with the whistling sound of piercing through the air, the big arrow shot into the prince's back heart, and then pierced out from the front heart.

Responding to the strings and falling off the horse.

For the prince, his death was sudden and reasonable. He is no different from so many dead souls under King Qin's arrow, and his noble status as prince and elder brother is completely meaningless in front of the big arrow.

But for King Qin, at the moment when he killed his elder brother with his own hands, one of his biggest political enemies was eradicated, but there were also some things that left him forever.

It is said that the King of Qin in his later years once sighed: The year I died was only twenty-six.

Obviously, directly destroying the opponent physically has never been the first choice of King Qin. He has been trying to improve his prestige in various ways, and wants Liang Gaozu to make him the prince.

That way, he wouldn't have to show his determination in this kind of place.

But that possibility eventually disappeared.

The following developments did not require much intervention by Li Hongyun, and basically all developed according to historical records.

King Qi was chased and killed by Yuchi Jingde, and was shot and fell off his horse by Liu Ya in a panic. However, when he entered the grove while fleeing, he happened to run into King Qin who fell to the ground because his horse was frightened.

Therefore, King Qi grabbed the bow from King Qin and wanted to strangle King Qin to death, but Yuchi Jingde followed closely. King Qi hurriedly let go of King Qin and wanted to flee in the direction of Wude Hall, but Yuchi Jingde quickly caught up with him and shot him to death.

At this time, the general of the East Palace had already led more than 2,000 elite soldiers to the Xuanwu Gate, but Zhang Gongjin, who had extraordinary arms, withstood the heavy palace gate by himself and persisted for a long time.

The Imperial Army of the Xuanwu Gate who was determined to stand on King Qin's side also ended. Although the two generals were killed because they were outnumbered, they also withstood the situation.

Seeing that the battle at Xuanwumen was in full swing, and the generals of the Eastern Palace began clamoring to attack the empty Qin Palace, Yuchi Jingde arrived suddenly and threw the heads of the crown prince and King Qi on the ground.

As a result, the morale of the Donggong troops was lost and they fled in all directions.

Yuchi Jingde rushed to Haichi again, and found Liang Gaozu who was boating with his courtiers...

However, seeing this, Li Hongyun suddenly felt something was wrong.

"etc!"

Everything that happened in front of me seemed to be without any problems, and the details were consistent with historical data and common sense.

The details of the Xuanwu Gate Incident are recorded in great detail in the history books. Emperor Taizong of Liang asked the officials to "cut off the floating words and write the facts directly", so even he rushed into the woods because of the frightened horse and was hit by a branch, and was almost used by the King of Qi with a bowstring. The details of the strangulation are also written.

Compared with those unexplained deaths in history, Emperor Liang Taizong had already given these two brothers all respect, and generously wrote his own killing of brothers and brothers 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 aware of it.

Because the historical records are very concise, the information is highly condensed, and the main point of view is focused on King Qin, Prince, Yuchi Jingde, King Qi, etc., everything seems to be very compact, without any omissions.

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 crown 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 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 the northernmost Xuanwu Gate, there are three man-made landscape pools of Beihai, Xihai and Nanhai, and further south is the Linhu Temple.

Apparently, the Linhu Temple got its name because it is adjacent to these three landscape pools.

Going southeast after passing the Linhu Hall is the Ganlu Hall, passing the Ganlu Gate to the south is the Liangyi Hall and the Taiji Hall, and going east and then south from the Ganlu Hall is the goal of King Qi's escape: Wude Hall.

In other words, the battle between the King of Qin and the Crown Prince and King Qi took place in a large area around the Linhu Palace.

And Haichi, in fact, is beside the Linhu Hall, and it is the only way for the prince and King Qi to enter.

It is even possible that when the prince and King Qi entered the palace, they saw cruise ships on the sea pool. It's just that they didn't know that their father and other ministers were on it.

Therefore, based on a comprehensive analysis, the scene at that time should be extremely obvious.

King Qin led dozens of cavalry in full armor and ambushed around the Linhu Hall.

The prince and the king of Qi came to the Linhu Hall through the sea pool, while Liang Gaozu and his ministers were boating on the sea pool at that time.

Moreover, after killing the prince and King Qi, Yuchi Jingde directly went to see Liang Gaozu in armor, holding a spear, and soaked in blood, but there is no record in the historical data that he was stopped by the guards.

So, why didn't the emperor notice when King Qin and the crown prince were fighting?

Even if the Emperor didn't notice when the Xuanwu Gate was just opened and the King of Qin entered, and then these dozens of armored cavalry went to ambush near the Linhu Palace, wouldn't the guards in the palace notice it?

Even if the guards don't stop him, they should report to the emperor, right? After such a big incident, the emperor is still sailing on the boat as if nothing had happened?

Even the shouts when the crown prince and King Qi were killed were earth-shattering, and even the generals of the East Palace led their men to the Xuanwu Gate, but Liang Gaozu still didn't know anything about it.

When Yuchi Jingde went to see the emperor, the whole journey was unimpeded, as if the emperor himself did not have any guards.

A feeling of absurdity emerged in Li Hongyun's mind. He paused the scene in front of him and replayed the whole process from a bird's-eye view.

Liang Gaozu disappeared inexplicably. As an emperor, he didn't do anything, and he didn't even get any news.

This is obviously very unreasonable.

After all, he is still a real emperor at this time, not a puppet who has been emptied. Even if some people in the palace were rebelled by King Qin, there must still be many people in the personal guard who are completely loyal to him.

Li Hongyun instantly realized what Chu Ge meant when he said "the only thing that needs attention in the historical materials is Liang Gaozu".

Obviously, this is the key point that historians dare not write about.