Chapter 93 Li Longji: Please let my father ascend the throne!
"Man proposes, God disposes."

Zhuge Liang smiled and looked at Liu Bei: "My Lord, do you believe in fate?"

Liu Bei looked doubtful.

The ancients still believed in the so-called destiny.

But those who are truly wise believe in fate, but not completely.

Obviously, Liu Bei, who was able to fight again and again despite repeated failures and pursue his dreams all the way, was a person who believed in fate and yet did not believe in fate at all.

"If there really is such a thing as destiny, how can there be the rise and fall of dynasties?"

"The so-called destiny is nothing more than a means to fool the world."

Liu Bei understood: "Yes, it is a likeness."

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【Historical records show that the emperor became more and more arrogant.】

【Li Longji is becoming more and more arrogant day by day.】

[If you think that Li Longji dared to launch a coup simply because of a few strange phenomena, then you underestimated Li Longji. ]

[This Tanglong coup was actually planned by Li Longji for a long time. ]

[Li Longji was the illegitimate son of Li Dan, the Prince of Xiang, and the third oldest. People called him Sanlang.]

[Li Longji didn't like this name. As mentioned before, he nicknamed himself A Man, Cao Cao Cao A Man. Li Longji regarded Cao Cao as his idol.]

[Li Longji regarded Prime Minister Cao as his idol, but it was definitely not because he liked married women like Prime Minister Cao did.]

[I admire Prime Minister Cao's deeds - using the emperor to control his disobedience! Needless to say, his ambition is great.]

[However, it is not easy for Li Longji to hold his father hostage like Boss Cao... no, to hold the emperor hostage to control his disobedience.]

【why? 】

[Because Li Longji was imprisoned in the palace by his grandmother Wu Zetian for seven years and was seriously out of touch with society, Li Longji had almost no connections.]

[If you want to accomplish great things, how can you do it without people under you? Li Longji needs to quickly build up his own network of contacts. ]

[Li Longji's first target was the elite troops among the elite troops, the imperial guards of the palace.]

[Wanqi was originally called Baiqi. It was built by General Li Shimin himself. It wears tiger-patterned clothes and leopard-patterned saddles. It is Li Shimin's personal guard when he goes out. 】

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In the video.

Well equipped.

The heroic and dashing cavalrymen made famous generals of all dynasties feel fascinated and envious.

Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up when he saw the leopard-print saddle on the horse's back.

I vaguely feel the magical effect of the saddle!

……

[The Hundred Cavalry was expanded during the reign of Wu Zetian and renamed the Thousand Cavalry, becoming part of the Yulin Army. It was renamed the Ten Thousand Cavalry during the reign of Li Xian.]

[The reason why Li Longji chose Wanqi was because the Wanqi soldiers were promoted from the official households, the lowly people and the foreign tribes. They had no foundation, so they were easier to win over. ]

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"Sure enough."

Li Shimin nodded.

He had speculated in this regard when he mentioned earlier that his descendant had won over the Hundred Riders.

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[So Li Longji went to drink with his brothers in Wanqi when he had nothing to do, and soon became friends with them.]

[Two middle-level officers among the 10,000 cavalrymen had the best relationship with Li Longji. One of them was called Chen Xuanli and the other was called Ge Fushun.]

[Forty-five years later, Chen Xuanli forced the beautiful Yang Guifei to death at Mawei Slope.]

[Ge Fushun was even more powerful. He had a nephew, Guo Ziyi, who later put down the An-Shi Rebellion.]

[With the addition of the Wanqi brothers, Li Longji had soldiers in his hands, but Li Longji had no foundation in the court and no support from the ministers. Even if he could lead Wanqi into the palace and kill Empress Wei, it would be useless because no one would support him to be the emperor.]

[This turmoil can be considered an assassination at best, not a coup.]

[So Li Longji thought about it and found his powerful aunt Princess Taiping. Although they both had ambitions, their goals at this stage were the same, which was to cooperate to kill Empress Wei first.]

[In this way, the two reached a conspiracy. Princess Taiping had power and Li Longji had troops. However, the coup still needed one last condition: a just reason.]

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"You can only succeed if you have a legitimate reason to do so!"

Zhu Di nodded secretly.

... [The righteous slogan shouted by Li Longji, the first half of which is that Empress Wei killed the previous emperor and endangered the country, and all the Weis should be killed tonight.]

[Translated, it means that Empress Wei poisoned the late emperor to death. We must avenge the late emperor, kill Empress Wei, and comfort the world.]

[Many scholars find the historical records of the Empress poisoning Li Xian unreliable, and believe that the so-called poisoning of the late emperor was just a political slogan shouted out by Li Longji and others.]

[The second half of the slogan is: Establish a prime minister to bring peace to the world.]

[As mentioned earlier, Prince Xiang is Li Longji’s father, Li Dan.]

[Since the late Emperor Li Xian had thought of passing the throne to his younger brother Li Dan when he was alive, Li Longji said that the throne should have belonged to my father Li Dan, and I am now helping my father to seize the throne.]

【Is it reasonable? 】

Is this fair enough?

【Now that we have enough positive reasons, the coup can begin. 】

[At 9:00 p.m. on June 20, 710 AD, historical records show that a meteor shower suddenly fell from the sky, scattering like snow. Li Longji disguised himself and sneaked into the imperial palace, leading his 10,000 cavalrymen all the way to Xuanwu Gate, the northern gate of the imperial palace.]

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"Xuanwu Gate!"

During the Zhenguan period.

There was a commotion among the ministers.

Li Shimin's old face turned red.

You little bastard, can't you use another door?
We, the Li family, can’t get along with Xuanwu Gate, right?

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【The Xuanwu Gate was stained with blood.】

【The guards at Xuanwu Gate were the Yulin Army. The Wanqi and the Yulin Army were originally one family, so the matter was much easier to handle. Chen Xuanli and Ge Fushun walked straight into the Yulin Army camp and killed the generals that Empress Wei had placed in the Yulin Army when they were not prepared.】

[He shouted a slogan to the soldiers of the Yulin Army: Tonight we should kill all the Wei clans and establish the Prince of Xiang to bring peace to the world! ]

[Whoever dares to disobey, I will exterminate your three clans! ]

[The Xuanwu Gate guards were all experienced people, and said, "Stop talking, we are familiar with coups d'état," and then they decisively joined Li Longji's coup team! ]

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Li Shimin: "..."

That's it?

So easy?

Don't you guys want to show some resistance?
Li Shimin was so angry that he shivered.

But then again.

It seems that I have really set a bad precedent for the Tang Dynasty.

……

[Li Longji led the Yulin Army to attack the palace in one go.]

[Empress Wei was awakened from her dream by the sound of fighting, ran out of the palace with disheveled hair, and ran to the imperial guards camp to seek protection. The rebellious imperial guards chopped off her head with a knife.]

【Empress Wei's dream of becoming an empress ended here.】

[Empress Wei's daughter, the glamorous Princess Anle, and the talented Shangguan Wan'er were also beheaded.]

【The Wei clan was brutally killed.】

[Li Longji seized the throne in his father's name, but his father Li Dan was completely unaware of the coup until it was over.]

[When Li Longji told his father, "Dad, congratulations, you are going to be the emperor."]

【Li Dan was stunned.】

[I never expected that my son, who was obsessed with women and women, would be so brave.]

[Excitedly, he hugged his son Li Longji and burst into tears, saying, "My dear son, it is thanks to you that our Li family has been able to preserve its empire."]

[Later, in the court, Princess Taiping replaced the young emperor who had just ascended the throne a few days ago and announced that she would give up the throne to Prince Li Dan]

【Li Dan said: I won’t do it, whoever wants to do it can do it.】

[Everyone advised him three times, but Li Dan declined three times, refusing to accept.]

[In the end, Li Longji looked at him with a resolute look and said, Dad, you have to do it. Please let me ascend the throne! ]

【have no choice.】

[Li Dan had no choice but to accept his nephew's abdication reluctantly, with difficulty, and with no alternative but to do so.]

(End of this chapter)