The video connects all worlds, and the top ten emperors are edited at the beginning

"Li Yuan is an overrated king of success. Without Li Shimin, Li Yuan's reputation would be similar to that of Wang Shichong. Li Yuan would be nailed to the pillar of shame just for the matter of ceding the land and moving the capital."

"It can be said that the prosperous Tang Dynasty has little to do with Li Yuan's sincerity. Li Yuan is just a leader of the separatist forces, and Li Yuan's contribution to the founding of the country does not account for a large proportion. Li Shimin mainly relies on it."

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che saw this, he commented aloud.

Chapter 82 Tang Gaozu Li Yuan

It took nine years from when the Li family raised troops to when Li Shimin ascended the throne.

On the surface, the Xuanwumen Incident was a struggle for the throne, but in fact it was a power struggle between Li Shimin and Li Yuan.

From this perspective, the biggest difference between Li Yuan and Xiang Yu, Liu Bei, and Fu Jian is that he lost to his son.

Therefore, Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the country, was a nameless emperor. Throughout the dynasties, each dynasty respected Taizu's law of respecting Taizu, but the actual founder of the Tang Dynasty was Taizong Li Shimin.

Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was also admired. Not only did the Tang Dynasty believe that Emperor Taizong Li Shimin would calm the world and save the people, but even the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties also recognized Li Shimin as the actual founding king of the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at history, Li Yuan was the only one who was forced to abdicate as the founding emperor of the unified dynasty.

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"I didn't expect that No. 4 of the top ten outstanding emperors would actually be the father?"

"However, Father, as the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he is indeed qualified to be among the top ten emperors."

When Tang Taizong Li Shimin saw the emperor in the video, he was taken aback for a moment, then nodded in agreement and said.

"It's finally time for me to take stock."

"I already knew that I would be able to rank among the top ten emperors for such feats as destroying the Sui Dynasty, unifying China, and establishing the Tang Dynasty."

"But what happened next? I was forced to step down before I had been the emperor for a few years? In order to fight for power and profit, the sons actually killed each other, and even killed themselves?"

After Tang Gaozu Li Yuan watched the video, before he had time to be happy, he fell into deep thought.

"It seems that I was wrong. I originally wanted Shimin to assist the crown prince, but Shimin's ability is outstanding, how could he be willing to be subordinated to others? He is a born emperor."

"Forget it, in order to avoid this kind of fratricide between brothers in the future, I will announce that Shimin will become the heir apparent."

Finally, Li Yuan shook his head, he sighed and said.

At this time, the image in the video flashed again.

Chen Feng's deep voice sounded slowly.

Li Yuan and Yang Guang are indeed cousins.

As for why Li Yuan took over the throne of the Yang family, maybe it was because he didn't want the throne to fall into the hands of the Yuwen family?

In fact, the reason was only because Emperor Sui Yang suspected that Li Yuan had the intention of treason.

Li Yuan is a noble from Guanlong.

His grandfather Li Hu was one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms in the Western Wei Dynasty, and was posthumously named Tang Guogong in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Li Yuan's father, Li Bing, became the governor of Anzhou and the general of Zhu Guo after he became the prince.

His mother Dugu is the daughter of Duguxin, one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms of the Western Wei Dynasty, along with Queen Dugu, Emperor Ming of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Queen Dugu, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

Li Yuan is the eldest son of Li Bing. During the Sui Dynasty, he succeeded Tang Guogong and served successively as governor, county guard, and Wei Shaoqing.

Counting three generations from Li Yuan's father, he has been a great nobleman in the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui dynasties.

After Emperor Sui Yang succeeded to the throne, Emperor Sui Yang always suspected that someone wanted to take his throne away. Of course, Li Yuan was also one of Emperor Sui Yang's many suspicions.

However, Li Yuan couldn't stand being suspected, so he decided to raise troops against the Sui Dynasty, and has been secretly preparing for the rebellion.

At that time, Li Yuan asked his eldest son Li Jiancheng to go to Hedong to "secretly make friends with heroes", and his second son Li Shimin "secretly recruited powerful friends" in Jinyang.

In May of 617 A.D., Li Yuan killed Wang Wei and Gao Junya, who were sent by Emperor Sui Yang to monitor him, and sent Liu Wenjing to surrender to Turkic Shibi Khan, gaining the support of Turkic.

Later, he formally raised troops against the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan, and led an army of 3 to go south to Guanzhong.

During the subsequent march, Li Yuan wiped out the Sui general Song Laosheng's tribe in Huoyi, and defeated the Sui Dongdong guard Qu Tutong.

After that, they crossed the Yellow River, entered Guanzhong westward, and captured Tongguan and Yongfeng warehouse in Huayin.

He opened warehouses to help the hungry, recruited landlords in Guanzhong, and wooed heroes from all over the world.

Li Yuan's relatives, such as his father and brother Li Shentong, his daughter Princess Pingyang, and his son-in-law Duan Lun, also gathered anti-Sui forces, and the army quickly grew to more than 20 people.

In November of the same year, Li Yuan led his army to break through Chang'an, and established Sui Dynasty king Yang You as the puppet emperor.

This is Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty in history. Emperor Yang of Sui, who respected Jiangdu from a distance, changed Yuan Yining to the Supreme Emperor, and Li Yuan himself became the prime minister and was named the king of Tang.

In March of the following year, Emperor Sui Yang was killed by Yu Wenhuaji in Jiangdu.

Before the body of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had cooled completely, Li Yuan swiftly deposed Yang You, proclaimed himself Emperor Jianguo, the country was named Tang, and the second year of Yining was changed to the first year of Wude, and the capital was Chang'an.

In fact, Li Yuan had always been suspicious of the throne under Emperor Sui Yang's ass, but it was just that Emperor Sui Yang's suspicion gave him a good excuse.

Objectively speaking, Li Yuan is an outstanding but neglected founding emperor in Chinese history.

Looking back on his life, when he was young, he lived under the high-handed policies of his seventh uncle and little cousin.

The most tragic thing is that for more than ten years, Li Yuan did not dare to marry a wife and have children. What a harsh living environment.

Fortunately, such an environment just created Li Yuan's character of forbearance.

During the stay in Taiyuan, the whole country was in chaos, and heroes from all over the country rebelled one after another.

Look at Li Yuan again, taking advantage of the opportunity to help the imperial court suppress bandits, he recruited soldiers and heroes wantonly, and used legitimate means to strengthen his power.

Not only that, Li Yuan also sent Li Jiancheng to bribe the landlord class in Hedong in advance to pave the way for the next uprising.

When the imperial court was unable to put down the rebellion, Li Yuan raised his arms and shouted: Occupy Chang'an, depose Sui Yang Emperor, and support the acting king Yang You to ascend the throne.

The image of the "loyal minister" is so clear that no one can find fault with it.

On the way to the south, Li Yuan changed the image of the bandits and hooligans of the uprising army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, ordered that no crime be committed against the common people, and took out countless blank official certificates, and took Hedong at the lowest cost.

Facing the aggressiveness of the Turkic people, Li Yuan on the one hand used force to deter and on the other hand guided by interests. His grasp of the Turkic people's mind and the application of diplomatic wisdom can be regarded as a textbook-level case in the history of diplomacy.

After taking Chang'an, Li Yuan was not in a hurry to forge ahead in Guanzhong, but set his sights on Xue Ju and Li Gao in the northwest, and Liu Wuzhou in the north and other forces.

Such a view of the overall situation is definitely not something that a fatuous emperor can possess.

If Li Shimin is an invincible general, Li Yuan is a strategist who strategizes.