Defense
The sage was unwilling to go against the ancestral system and reduce the favor to the Li family, but he was also afraid of hurting himself and bringing disaster to his descendants. In order to ensure the continuation of the Li family's national fortune, he had to kill the ancestors' descendants for generations.
The late emperor had seven sons, except for the deposed crown prince, Crown Prince Guo. Prince Xin was the brother of Prince Qing from the same mother. Because the king was murdered by Guo, several members of his family were imprisoned in the palace for many years. The king never saw Chang'an, and Chang'an never saw the king again.
Prince Guang was the youngest son of the late emperor. He was in Anyang at the time. According to reports from Chang'an, the ninth emperor's biological mother died suddenly. People in the palace also said that the imperial concubine was beaten to death by Concubine Guo. Prince Guang refused to submit to Concubine Guo and almost starved to death in the palace.
The other three sons were all members of the Guo family's evil clique. The sage killed the three kings, exterminated the three relatives, and exterminated the three clans.
Prince Qing ascended the throne after committing treason and murdering the emperor. Within a hundred days, his foundation was unstable. He slaughtered relatives of the aristocratic families on a large scale, and the political situation was in turmoil.
A sage wants to be a wise ruler, to be kind to his descendants, to establish the world, to serve the people, and to ensure that the Li Dynasty will last for thousands of years, so naturally he would make plans early.
The Lord valued my uncle and rewarded the meritorious officials of Prince Qing's Mansion.
Within a hundred days, the empress issued an imperial decree, awarding him a royal decree, and granting titles to his wife and son to honor his parents.
The father and son of the Mu family, the elder Mu and the younger Mu, were both marquises, the merchant family of Shen became a duke, the daughter married a prince and the son married a princess.
Everyone in Chang'an knew that Yan Qing had once been a disciple of Crown Prince Guo. The remaining members of the Guo family were highly valued by the new dynasty, which showed that the sage was eager to seek talents and valued talents as if they were his life. The sage accepted all the civil and military officials of the crown prince's party who were helpful to civil and military affairs, regardless of past grudges.
The Wang family suffered injustice, so the emperor overturned the old case of the previous emperor and put all the blame on the Guo family. He also sent the crown prince out of the city to welcome them. The emperor wept in front of Old Wang and personally helped him up, returning Prime Minister Wang to his position with no flaws.
The sage delegated power to the royal family members, released the military power to King Guangcheng, and entrusted important tasks to King Jiangdu and King Jiangxia in order to appease and deceive the royal family members.
The sage valued the three aristocratic families, Cui, Yan and Wang, in order to block the eyes and ears of the aristocratic and wealthy families.
Then, the powerful minister Cui Yan killed the princes and grandchildren of the emperor, and the general Wang Chu of the Li family was a wealthy and powerful family who attached himself to the Guo family.
There are many sons of nobles in the army. The sage is afraid that the army will rebel and start another palace coup or military rebellion. He has no choice but to keep the troops in place and use a delaying tactic. The king has been planning this for years when he was drunk and dreaming.
How can we eliminate the evil party without killing them? How can we establish a new dynasty without eliminating them?
Killing your comrades in the army and climbing up on the corpses of your colleagues will bring you infamy for the rest of your life.
The three brothers Cheng, who were from a commoner family, were recommended by General Yan.
Is it fame or status that the saint secretly handed over a knife to give instructions?
The killing order is like a forced march.
The bleeding heads were wrapped in coarse linen. The third son of the Cheng family wanted wealth and glory.
In March, within a hundred days, the head flew off and the body died, and the Cheng family jumped away.
The family bought houses and land, abandoned their ancestral home, military household, and Zhechoufu. Within a season, Cheng Dalang, Cheng Erlang, and Cheng Sanlang became registered residents of Chang'an.
As soon as the sage ascended the throne, he immediately appointed the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace in order to ensure the stability of the country. The court officials and generals did not need to guess the emperor's intentions, and all forces came to plot against the Eastern Palace.
The Lord used the crown prince and his close ministers to lure all civil and military officials.
A big gap appeared in the sky.
Who in the north wouldn’t fight for it? Who in the southern suburbs wouldn’t fight for it?
The Guo family appointed people based on personal connections. Whenever a treacherous official died in the court, an official position would be vacant. There were two million people in Chang'an and twenty million in the whole country.
There is a shortage of people for hard and tiring work, but there is no shortage of people for leisurely and pleasant work.
The Ninth Rank Team was being promoted to the rank of General Zuo Lang of the Eastern Palace, and many people were promoted three levels in a hundred days. There was also a minor official in the government who received the special decree of the saint and the grace of the emperor and was granted the title of Chief Clerk of the Eastern Palace. There was no such precedent in the previous nine dynasties.
The rich and powerful are half dead and half alive, half die silently and half live noisily.
People in the army were scrambling for heads and positions. The wealthy young men who survived had no time to go to Pingkangfang for fun. They were all vying for the position of the prince's personal guard.
The Guo family had been causing trouble for the Li family for half a year, so the sage killed the mediocre Li and kept the brave Li.
The private property of the royal family was added to the national treasury, the saints returned private land to the people, Queen Keats helped the poor, and supported the orphans and the elderly in ten regions.
There are millions of people in Chang'an, a mixed crowd of all kinds.
There are many people who commit murder and arson for the sake of high official salaries, glory and wealth.
In order to avoid unjust and wrong cases, the Dali Temple never rested, the Shaoqing was exhausted to the point of vomiting blood, the Censorate was sleepless, the censors became hoarse, the Ministry of Justice did not sleep, and the chief judge died of exhaustion while working on the case.
Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Highness the Crown Prince, and Your Majesty the Empress have been unable to sleep for a hundred days. They have been suppressing the Li Dynasty and clearing out the Guo family, managing government affairs day and night without a moment's rest.
The dragon's sons and phoenix's grandsons watered the eight rivers of Chang'an with their blood, and also helped the saintly queen to secure her throne.
I naturally have no way of knowing about the Hundred Days of Massacre in Chang'an and the saints dominating the world.
These details were told to me by my uncle who was appointed prime minister and my elder brother who was made king.
The saint killed the Taoist priest and gave the two Taoist temples in Banzhengfang to the Yan family and the Changle Palace respectively. The one closer to the Taiji Palace belonged to the Yan family, and the other secluded place belonged to the Yi Yang County Princess of the Changle Palace.
My uncle did not live in the Yan family in Yongfufang, but in the Taoist temple in Banzhengfang.
That day, my uncle and I climbed up to the Lingbao Tower. He looked at the Taiji Palace, and I looked at the city of Chang'an.
My uncle told me, "Father and son conspired to rebel, regicide and father slaying, who in the world can bear the title of this?"
“If a sage does not behave well as a sage, how can the historian hold the pen?”
"If the Crown Prince is not a virtuous Crown Prince, how can the censors bow their heads?"
"Killing Li Qin and the Li clan, who can bear such a great crime?"
"Even if Guo is evil, she is just a scapegoat for the Li family and their sons, sacrificing herself to save Chang'an..."
My uncle also told me, "This is the Li family's imperial power tactics, the Taiji Palace's way of ruling."
My uncle laughed and mentioned the Li family, but I thought of the Yan family.
So I asked my uncle, "Have there ever been any grudges between Grandpa and Grandpa?"
My uncle stopped laughing and looked at me.
Their father chose Prince Qing, and their uncle chose Prince Xiang. The two brothers were sure that Prince Qing would conquer the world, so their uncle used the excuse of being abandoned by his lord to withdraw and return to Luoyang.
No matter which side wins, the Yan family always has a way out.
Everything my father said and did before he died was premeditated.
The Li family may not be honest, and the Yan family may not be loyal.
How long the two families can last depends on how sincere the king is and how loyal the ministers are.
I said, "This is the way of the Yan family's subjects, this is the art of controlling the ruler in Luoyang City..."
My uncle flicked his whisk and laughed.
He pointed at the people and horses in the streets and alleys of Chang'an and said, "When they come here, they don't want to leave. When they leave, they still want to come back. They wish they could be born here, grow up here, and sleep here forever. Who doesn't love Chang'an? Who doesn't miss Chang'an? Who doesn't want to hold it and dominate Chang'an? You are like me, and I am like them..."
My uncle continued, "Yuwei'er, look, Chang'an is now the Yan family's Chang'an..."
I looked at Chang'an.
Yes, the Yan family that I hated was about to become my Yan family, and the Chang'an that I wanted to escape from had already become the Yan family's Chang'an.
In other words, Chang'an is my Chang'an.
Purple, crimson, green, and azure, white fish enter the boat, plums are green, peaches are red, the sun ascends to heaven, exquisitely carved jade, white snow is hard to blend, people are born and die in the morning, an endless stream, this is the real Chang'an...
Taiji Palace became Prince Qing’s Taiji Palace, and Chang’an City became the Yan family’s Chang’an City.
The Xue family is unwilling to share weal and woe with Chang'an City. Let me ask you, among the 108 districts of Chang'an City and the two yin and yang of Taiji Palace, where is their place?
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