Li Shimin really thought so in his heart. He naturally couldn't let a person with the blood of the former royal family inherit the throne of the Tang Dynasty, even if he was his own child.
But I don't know why, when Li Shimin saw Li Ke, he couldn't help but love from his heart. Can't help but want to stretch out his finger to tease Li Ke.
Li Shimin, who was silent and joyful, didn't notice at all, there was something abnormal on Changsun Wuji's face.
"His Royal Highness, if nothing happens, the minister will retire first." Changsun Wuji said suddenly.
Li Shimin was taken aback, and then waved his hand, "Go, go." At the same time, he secretly said in his heart that this auxiliary machine is so boring, I was happy, and he was about to leave.
Changsun Wuji did not change his face, and slowly withdrew.
When I walked out the door, there was already a cloud of sadness on his face.
Changsun Wuji walked back home without saying a word, and wrote a letter.
His sister, the Long Sun, had already given birth to a male child for Li Shimin in advance, and he was deeply loved by Li Shimin.
But Changsun Wuji's heart could not be calm. He did not expect that in just a few months, two other concubines would give birth to two males for Li Shimin.
Changsun Wuji has a vicious eye. He firmly believes that it won't take long for Li Shimin to defeat his two elder brothers and ascend to the throne. At that time, his sister will be the eldest-grand queen, and the son of the eldest-grand queen will be his own nephew.
He must ensure that his nephew is made the prince and will inherit the throne in the future, not someone else. This is one of the reasons why he is now helping Li Shimin so much.
He wasn't worried about Li Shimin's second son, Li Kuan. Li Kuan's mother was not born noble. The eldest son, Li Chengqian, was not only born the earliest, but also born to his own sister's eldest grandson. Therefore, Li Kuan's threat to Li Chengqian was minimal.
But Changsun Wuji had to care about the newly born Li Ke, because Concubine Yang was the daughter of Emperor Sui Yang, and her child had the blood of the royal family of the two dynasties. Such a noble bloodline, I am afraid that the Queen of the Grand Sun would not be able to match it.
But this is not the point, the point is,
Changsun Wuji is a good wizard. He once asked a wizard to predict that if Li Shimin ascended the throne, then the son of Concubine Yang might threaten the succession of the son of Empress Changsun.
Changsun Wuji couldn't let this happen. He had to make sure that it was his nephew ascended to the throne.
Changsun Wuji stopped writing and broke the letter.
The letter is simple: Concubine Yang gave birth to a male baby, you must be careful, and I will help.
The letter was written to the grandson who is training in her natal family, who is also the sister of the grandson Wuji.
The emissary sent the letter to the palace, and Changsun Wuji stood in front of the mansion gate with a gloomy expression.
"Li Ke... I can't keep you..."
Same day.
A declining family is about to usher in a small life.
The Xuanyin clan, a branch of Taoism, has guarded the tombs for all dynasties since the Qin Dynasty.
Sui extinguished Tang Xing. In 619, Li Yuan, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was still alive, and there was no royal tomb in the Tang Dynasty.
The Sui Mausoleum could not be guarded, and the Tang Dynasty had no mausoleum to guard. For a while, the Xuanyin clan went idle.
Fortunately, Li Yuan was quite forgiving to this clan and placed hundreds of people in the clan in a small village. After he named himself a hundred years later, he asked the Xuanyin clan to guard the mausoleum for himself.
On this day, in the house of the patriarch of the village, people came and went, rushing to each other.
Suddenly, there was a thunder in the sky, and thunder on the ground was shocking. Everyone looked up and saw that there were a few thunder dragons flashing on the clear sky.
Just as everyone was attracted by thunder, suddenly another voice came from the room.
"Wow!"
Clear and moving, it is the cry of a child.
"Give birth! Gave birth!" A steady woman walked out of the house, holding a child in her arms, with a smile on her face, "Old Hu, your family has a wife, she is a boy!"
Everyone congratulated.
The man called Lao Hu looked excited, stretched out his hand, and took the child tremblingly.
Looking back and forth on the child's face, he said excitedly: "Child, child..."
There was another old man standing beside him. The old man was very energetic and had very different eyes. He looked at the sky and muttered: "When this child was born, he was shocked by thunder on weekdays, accompanied by dragons faintly, extraordinary, extraordinary... "
Just as the old man sighed silently, Lao Hu suddenly shouted: "Dad, look at it!"
The old man was taken aback, and quickly turned his head to look, only to see Old Hu Zheng holding the child's hand excitedly.
"This?"
Suddenly, the group of people, including the old man, were stunned, and their eyes were full of disbelief.
I saw that the baby's hand was actually blue, shining brightly.
"dad?"
"This child, name it Hu Tian."
"Yes!"
Later, there is an internal policy record of the Xuanyin clan: In the second year of Wude, the palm of the Xuanling reappeared in the Xuanyin clan. Everyone is happy...
In 626 AD, seven years after Li Ke and Hu Tian were born.
Li Shimin initiated the Xuanwumen change. In Xuanwumen, he designed and killed his eldest brother, Prince Li Jiancheng, and his fourth brother, Qi Wang Li Yuanji, and was appointed by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan as the new crown prince and inherited the emperor. No. Zhenguan.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne for twelve days, and the Changsun was established as the Queen of Changsun.
Changsun Wuji listened, and he let out a sigh of relief.
In October of the same year, the emperor left due to his abdication and discussed the construction of the tomb with the Xuanyin clan.
In the following month, Hu Licheng, the patriarch of the Xuanyin clan, began to determine Fengshui and gossip about the construction of the royal tomb, and planned to build the royal tomb.
In December, Hu Licheng and his seven-year-old son Hu Tian were invited to the palace to thank him.
On the way back to the mansion, seven-year-old Hu Tian saw a figure in the pool in the imperial garden, so he jumped out of the pool and picked up a child of the same age.
The person who was rescued was Li Ke.
The two children looked at each other, and when they met for the first time, they didn't speak, just giggled.
The following year.
Li Shimin appointed Li Chengqian, the son of the eldest queen, as the prince. The eldest son Wuji became more and more peaceful, working hard and not complaining, making suggestions for Li Shimin and governing the country.
In the same year, the eight-year-old Hu Tian was appointed by the eight-year-old Li Ke to enter the palace as an accompanying schoolboy.
Under the guidance of their teacher Quan Wanji, the two of them studied Wu Songwen. Both of them are talented and intelligent, and they have similar likes, talk about everything, and have close feelings. Although the two are called courtiers, they are actually like brothers.
Li Ke once said frankly that he had never thought of being a king and would like to be a confidant of Hu Tian and die without regret.
Unknowingly it was another nine years.
In 635 AD, the great ancestor Li Yuan died of illness, named Emperor Taiwu, and the temple named Gao Zu.
Li Shimin built a mausoleum for him and was buried in October.
In response to the long-cherished wish of the emperor, the patriarch of the Xuanyin clan should go to Xianling today to guard the mausoleum for the emperor.
Hu Tian, who was seventeen years old, officially became the patriarch of the Xuanyin clan on this day. Whether it was the death of the emperor or the family ancestors, Hu Tian had no choice but to go.
Li Ke heard the news and bid farewell to Hu Tian with tears outside Chang'an City.
After Hu Tian left, Li Ke was seriously ill. Later, under the treatment of medical medicine, he gradually improved, but he no longer had the spirit of the past.
The following year, Li Ke appointed King Wu and delegated to Tanzhou Governor (now Changsha, Hunan).
In the next year, he was delegated to the governor of Anzhou (now Anlu, Hubei).
Later, there were several transfers, all of which were far away from the place where Xianling was located, and they had been unable to meet Hu Tian.
It was not until the first year of Yonghui (650 years) that Li Ke was worshipped by Sikong and became the governor of Liangzhou and was able to return to southern Shaanxi.
In a blink of an eye, fifteen years have passed.
Li Ke is not only good at riding and shooting, and is well versed in literature and history, but also "has a high reputation and is oriented by his fate."
But such a talented person with a high reputation has been depressed for the past fifteen years and cannot tell anyone. Li Ke once said that the world doesn't care about abandoning me, hating me, hating me, liking me, loving me... It is better to talk to me than Hu Tian.
It can be seen that in Li Ke's mind, Hu Tian, who accompanied him in reciting poems when he was young, and sat on the roof at night to chat all night, is the person who understands himself best.
After arriving in southern Shaanxi, Li Ke once brought wine to meet Hu Tian.
When the two met, they were stupefied at first, but couldn't take a step for a long time, then they hugged and cried, crying loudly.
At the first meeting, Li Ke told Hu Tian of all the unsatisfactory experiences over the years.
The father deliberately passed the position of prince to him, and Changsun Wuji knew that he would be targeted everywhere in the future. But he didn't want to inherit the throne at all, even if he had made a clear statement with Changsun Wuji, but he still didn't believe it and kept making trouble for himself.
Before, because his father took good care of him, Changsun Wuji didn't dare to do anything to him. However, his father died a year ago and his younger brother Li Zhi came to the throne. Zhang Sun Wuji has more and more power in his hands. He can only keep his father's teachings in mind at all times.
Li Ke hated, hated the identity of the royal family, and caused too much trouble to himself.
Hu Tian heard that he was silent. Everyone has their own difficulties. As the guard of the royal tomb, he and his tribe guarded the tomb.
For fifteen years, only the endless night and desperate souls were accompanied by ghosts and thieves with unpredictable hearts.
But Hu Tian knew that this was his mission and he had to undertake it, so he was not so repulsive. Moreover, he feels very lucky to have a confidant like Li Ke, so he cherishes this friend Li Ke from the heart.
Although Li Ke is now the king of Wu, Hu Tian is just a guard of the royal tomb. But the two were still as before, and they didn't mind their identities, and they talked very happily.
The first time they met, the two were drunk and heartily. Early the next morning, Li Ke reluctantly returned home because of his official duties. This difference was another six months.
Soon after, Hu Tian received a letter from Li Ke and learned that Li Ke was going to transfer for another period of time, and it might be a long time before he saw him.
Although Hu Tian regretted in his heart, he was also happy for Li Ke. At least he can use his talents and do a lot of things that he can't do. And what I have to do is to guard this piece of Xian Mausoleum.
At the age of thirty, Hu Tian didn't have so much restlessness in his heart. He just wanted to obey his father's teachings, practice Xuanyin Jue, and guard the mausoleum.
Hu Tian and Li Ke wrote more and more frequently, but due to various reasons, the two had not seen each other for more than two years.
Li Ke's last letter to Hu Tian said that he would return to southern Shaanxi three days later, and that he would bring good wine to Hu Tianyi and get drunk. And to tell Hu Tian, his biggest wish in his life! If this wish is fulfilled, it will be called death without regret.
Hu Tian laughed dumbfounded after reading the letter, preparing to meet in three days.
But who knows that three days later, what is waiting for is an imperial decree,
"King Wu Li Ke, who conspired to rebel with the beloved stables and others, has now been sentenced to death. We are now investigating the close correspondence between the guards of the king's tomb and the patriarch of the Xuanyin clan, Hu Tian, and Li Ke. They were both captured and awaiting interrogation." (End of this chapter)