Li Jiancheng

Li Jiancheng

Li Jiancheng (589 ~ 626), a native of Chengji in Longxi, was named Pishan. The founding Prince of the Tang Dynasty, the eldest son of Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty.

Before Jinyang started, he went to Hedong to recruit soldiers. He led the army to conquer Xihe, Huoyi, Tongguan and Chang'an. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, CE Li was the crown prince to assist in handling political affairs. He defended against the invasion of Turks for many times, killed Liu heikai and calmed Shandong. The Xuanwumen incident happened on June 4, 626, when Li Shimin was 38 years old. His five sons were killed together.

In the second year of Zhenguan (628), he was granted the title of King Xi. Zhenguan 16 years (642 years), posthumous title for hidden.

Life of the characters

Taiyuan to fight

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In 617, Li Yuan was appointed to stay in Taiyuan. When Li Jiancheng and his family lived in Hedong, Li Yuan ordered Li Jiancheng to make secret friends with talented people in Hedong.

In February of the same year, Liu Wu, the commander of Mayi school, rebelled against the city and claimed to be the son of heaven. In March, he broke down the building and entered the Fenyuan palace. On the one hand, Li Yuan recruited soldiers in the name of begging for thieves; on the other hand, he sent a secret envoy to Hedong to urge Li Jiancheng to come to Taiyuan.

In order to get rid of the worry of fighting for the world, Li Yuan secretly married Turks. Turks asked Li Yuan to stand on his own, otherwise he would not support Li Yuan. Li Shimin, Liu Wenjing, Pei Ji and others repeatedly admonished, but Li Yuan still insisted. In June, Li Jiancheng arrived in Taiyuan, and Li Yuan was very happy. Pei Ji and others followed Li Jiancheng to see Li Yuan, and urged Li Yuan to follow Yiyin and Huoguang's example, abolish Yang Guang, emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and support Yang Fu, the king of the Sui Dynasty. They sent troops to summon counties and counties, and changed the flag to express their position to Turks. He is famous for his teacher, and makes China and foreign countries return home. Li Yuan thinks that it's a bit deceiving, but he hasn't failed Yang Jian, the former Emperor. At present, there is no better way. Li Yuan decided to send messengers to tell Turks that he would send thousands of horses and promised to send troops.

Li Yuan appeased him in Taiyuan, while the general of Xihe showed his loyalty to the Sui court many times, blocking Li Yuan's way to take Chang'an from the West. So Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Shimin brothers to lead the army to capture him, except that he only took three days of military provisions on the way.

Seeing that the volunteers had not been trained, Li Jiancheng worried that they would not be able to fight, so he set up a military law to clean up the three armed forces. On the march into Xihe River, Li Jiancheng shared the joys and sorrows with his soldiers. People must pay for the fruits and vegetables planted by the roadside, and share the food, wine and water with the soldiers. When the army marched to the bottom of Xihe City, Li Jiancheng went to tell him what he had come for. People from the city came to vote. Only gaoderu, the county magistrate, refused to surrender. Li Jiancheng led the army to attack gaoderu. Zhu Zhijin, the county magistrate, introduced Li Jiancheng's troops from the city and beheaded him alive. All the other Xihe people were pardoned. It took Li Jiancheng only nine days to level the Xihe River. After the class teacher, Li Yuan was very happy and said, "if you use troops in this way, you can go all over the world." Li Jiancheng was appointed Duke of Longxi and governor of the left leading army.

West to Guanzhong

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In July of 617, Li Jiancheng followed Li Yuan into Guanzhong. It rained heavily in the garrison of jiahubao. In August, after the rain stopped, Li Yuan began to fight in Huoyi at the suggestion of Li Jiancheng. Li Yuan worried that song Laosheng, the general of Huoyi, would not fight. Li Jiancheng thinks that although song Laosheng can pacify the bandits before, he was born in a humble family, brave and resourceless, and can lure him to fight. So Li Yuan sent hundreds of cavalry to the east of Huoyi City, camped five or six miles away from the city, waiting for the infantry. Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin each led only a few dozen cavalry to Huoyi city for inspection. Li Yuan divided his subordinates into more than ten teams to patrol from the southeast to the southwest of the city. He made it seem that he wanted to camp and attack the city, and let Yin Kaishan lead the rear army to March. Song Laosheng saw that there were not many soldiers and horses planning to camp in the city, and Li YuanHou's army had not come yet, so he divided 30000 people into two and killed them from the east gate and another team from the south gate. Li Yuan worried that song Laosheng would not be far away from the city. He asked Li Jiancheng to lead the left army and Li Shimin to lead the right army to cut off song Laosheng's way back to the city. Li Yuan led the army to pretend to retreat. Song Laosheng saw Li Yuan's withdrawal and thought that Li Yuan was afraid. He led the army forward and lined up a mile away from the city. Yin Kaishan led the front infantry troops in formation, and the rear troops came one after another. Before the battle, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin led their troops to attack the East and South gates of Huoyi. Li Yuan spread a rumor that song Laosheng had been beheaded. After hearing this, song Laosheng's troops abandoned the battle and ran around. The city gate is blocked by Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin. Song Laosheng can't go back to the city. The people in the city put down the rope and want to pull song Laosheng up. Lu Junge, the army leader, takes the opportunity to kill song Laosheng. (according to the old books of Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan was defeated by song Laosheng in this battle, and Li Jiancheng fell off his horse. All the credit goes to Li Shimin.)

In September, Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng to lead tens of thousands of troops, such as Sima Liu Wenjing, Wang Changxie, Jiang Baoyi, and baocong, to defend Tongguan and yongfengcang, so as to prevent Qu Toutong from being pursued by the troops stationed in Hedong, and comfort envoy Dou GUI and others. When Qu Tuitong heard that Li Yuan was going west to enter the pass, he appointed yingyanglang general Yao Junsu, a member of Tangyin, to guard Puban on behalf of Hedong. Qu Toutong personally led tens of thousands of soldiers to Chang'an, and was blocked by Sima Liu Wenjing. Liu Gang, a general of the Sui Dynasty, guarded Tongguan and stationed troops in the southern city of Duwei. Qu wanted to go to Tongguan to get close to Liu Gang. Wang Changxie of the unified army led the troops to attack and kill Liu Gang, and occupied the southern city of Duwei. Qu had to retreat to the northern city of Duwei. Li Yuan said happily after receiving the war report: "Qu Toutong can't move forward to the west, but there is no way to retreat to the East. We have to wait and see the change of the war situation in Chang'an before we can take the next step. We don't have to worry about him any more." So he ordered Li Jiancheng to select elite soldiers from the garrison of yongfengcang and go to Changle palace through Xinfeng.

In October, Li Yuan led his army to hegemony, joined forces with Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, and reached more than 200000 troops. After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin led their troops around Chang'an city. Li Yuan and other scholars supported Yang Fu as the emperor, respected Yang Guang as the supreme emperor, and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Yining. Yang Fu made Liyuan the king of Tang Dynasty, and Li Jiancheng the son of the emperor of Tang Dynasty.

In the second year of Yining (618), Li Jiancheng was appointed general of Fujun and marshal of Dongtan. He led Li Shimin and other 100000 troops to donglue to seize Luoyang. In April, Li Jiancheng returned to Chang'an, and Yang Fu, Emperor Gong of Sui Dynasty, made Li Jiancheng a minister.

Pacify Shandong

In the first year of Wude (618), Yu wenhuaji killed Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, in Jiangdu. Not long after that, Yang Fu, Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty, abdicated Li Yuan. After Li Yuan became emperor, Li Jiancheng became the crown prince.

In the second year of Wude (619), Zhu Shanhai, a bamboo robber, made trouble and called himself the Duke of protecting the countryside. Li Jiancheng led sang Xianhe to calm him down. In April, an Xinggui, a native of Liangzhou, captured Li Gui, the king of Liangzhou, and led the people to surrender to the Tang Dynasty with Hexi counties. Li Jiancheng was ordered to meet him in Yuanzhou.

In the third year of Wude (620), Liu Wuzhou was defeated and fled to Turk. In July, Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin to take charge of Wang Shichong and Li Jiancheng to guard Puzhou against Turk.

In the fourth year of Wude (621), Liu Jicheng, commander-in-chief of Jihu, led tens of thousands of people to make trouble in the border areas, and Li Jiancheng led the army to fight for it. Li Jiancheng led his army to meet Liu Jiancheng's army in Wanzhou. Li Jiancheng fought with Liu Jiancheng and defeated him. He beheaded more than 100 soldiers and captured more than 1000 people. Li Jiancheng released dozens of chieftains of gejihu and asked them to return to the tribe to surrender to other chieftains. Liu Jiancheng and other chieftains came to surrender after learning about it. Li Jiancheng saw that there were too many soldiers in these tribes and was afraid that they would make trouble again in the future, so he prepared to kill them all. The news leaked out and Liu Jiancheng fled to liangshidu. Li Jiancheng executed more than 6000 soldiers from Jihu.

In 622, Liu heikai was defeated by Li Shimin and fled to Turk. In June, Liu heikai led the Turkic army to make trouble in Shandong. Li Shimin suggested that Li Shizheng should go to see him. Li Jiancheng obeys Wei Zheng's advice and asks to enlist Liu heikai. So Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to lead the army. In December, Li Jiancheng won a great victory in Weizhou, captured Liu heikai and pacified Shandong.

In the sixth year of Wude (623), in July, Turkic Jieli invaded Shuozhou. Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to garrison Shuozhou for defense. In September, the Turks withdrew, and Li Jiancheng returned to Korea as his teacher.

In the eighth year of Wude (625), the Turks invaded Dingzhou in April. Li Yuan ordered Li Jiancheng to garrison Youzhou, and Li Shimin garrisoned Youzhou for defense.

Xuanwu coup

Li Shimin, the king of Qin, was not convinced to make Li Jiancheng the crown prince because he had been fighting abroad for a long time, and he tried his best to replace him. In June of the seventh year of Wude, the palace of King Qin created the Yang Wengan incident, which made people falsely accuse the crown prince of colluding with the Bian Jiang for rebellion. At last, Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty exiled Wang Yu, Wei Ting and Du Yan, the aide of the palace of Qin Dynasty.

Since then, there has been constant friction between the palace and the east palace. In the ninth year of Wude (626), Li Jiancheng was afraid of the power of the Qin palace. He suggested that Li Yuan expel Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui from the Qin palace. Most of the civil and military officials in the palace of King Qin were removed from office, and only a few people were left in the palace, such as changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, Yuchi Gong and Zhang Gongjin. They were so worried that they urged Li Shimin to take action as soon as possible to kill Li Jiancheng and force Li Yuan to abdicate.

In the early morning of June 4, Li Shimin led Qin Qiong, Yu chigong, Cheng Zhijie, Hou Junji and others to set up an ambush at Xuanwu Gate. Prince Li Jiancheng and Qi King Li Yuanji were called into the palace and walked to Linhu hall. Feeling that something was wrong, they turned around and prepared to return to the east palace. Li

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