Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1445
The news of Li Yuan's death spread in Chang'an City.

After all, he is the founding king of the Tang Dynasty, and his prestige in the hearts of the people is still very high.

After the news spread, many people in Chang'an City couldn't help crying.

Every household hangs white sails.

And because Li Shimin reduced or exempted taxes, the common people also blamed those vassal kings for Li Yuan's death.

He felt that these vassal kings must have rebelled and rebelled, which led to Li Yuan's death.

The common people talked a lot, but in Li Yuan's former bedroom, there was a lot of mourning and crying.

In the past few years, Li Yuan has nothing to do in his palace, but he just loves and trusts his concubines. Although his concubines have given him many children in the past few years, there are still many concubines who have not given birth to children. female.

According to Li Shimin's regulations, those who have no children must be buried with them.

These women are very painful. Serving Li Yuan in the palace is already enough to make them uncomfortable, but now they are still buried with them?
It's better to die than to live. They want to live, even if they don't have freedom in the palace.

Crying, they can't do anything but cry now.

There were also some concubines who tried to escape, but were arrested before leaving the palace.

After being caught, he was beaten severely, and life was worse than death.

The fate of these concubines was miserable.

In Concubine Yang's bedroom, Li Ke was drinking tea with his mother.

The tea is the best Biluochun.

Li Ke didn't like this, so he drank tea like a cow. Concubine Yang saw him like this, and said, "I want to drink this Biluochun slowly, so you drink it like this."

Li Ke was not stubborn either, he just said: "Mother Concubine, so many concubines of the Supreme Emperor will be buried, should I unite with some people and request the abolition of human sacrifice?"

Hearing this, Concubine Yang twitched the corner of her mouth slightly, and said: "It's good that you want to show your father a kindness, but in this matter, it's not right. Your father wants to show kindness now. Showing filial piety, although it is inhumane to die for the Supreme Emperor, it is extremely filial, if you stop it at this time, it will make him even more unhappy."

The emperor is the most ruthless, to kill or not to kill, it only depends on whether it is beneficial and beneficial to him.

If Li Shimin is kind, he is also kind, but the key point is that kindness can bring him a good reputation,

It is impossible for him to be kind to those enemies when he needs to be ruthless.

This is the emperor.

Therefore, Concubine Yang is very clear about what can and cannot be done, and she knows that Li Shimin is not really kind.

Kindness is done and shown to the people of the world.

Looking at the whole of China, how many truly benevolent kings are there?
Li Ke dismissed the idea after hearing Concubine Yang's words.

But just when Li Ke dismissed this idea, in the East Palace, Li Chengqian wrote a memorial eloquently.

He will submit this memorial to the court tomorrow morning.
-
It was freezing cold.

The weather in Chang'an is getting colder and colder.

In the early court, above the main hall, all the officials shrank their necks.

Li Chengqian stood up and said: "Father, my son has a book to play."

Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian and asked, "What is the crown prince going to do?"

"Father, the Emperor Taishang passed away. My son thinks that it is not humane to bury concubines. They are all fresh lives. They are not as good as funeral objects, terracotta warriors and horses. Please be merciful."

Li Chengqian submitted his own memorial. In the memorial, he wrote more, including how the burial hurts the sky, inhumane and so on. There are examples to illustrate that the dynasty did not implement the rule of using human beings for burial. Having won the love and affection of the people, etc., whoever employs someone to be buried, and how bad it is, is scolded in the history books and so on.

It's really eloquent and more than a thousand words.

After Li Shimin saw so much, he was not angry, but continued to watch patiently. Seeing this, Li Chengqian thought there was something to be done, so he continued to talk.

"Father is kind, you should do benevolent and righteous things, if you can save people from dying, it will be of great benefit to my Tang Dynasty..."

Li Chengqian muttered, and some of the officials in the court also agreed, after all, they also felt that it was inappropriate for people to die.

"My lord, the prince's words are justified. If people die, it is too heavenly. Let's replace it with other things."

"That's right, Your Majesty, what the crown prince said is right, I, Tang Dynasty, should act in a benevolent manner."

"........."

Baiguan also said, and Li Chengqian also said, Li Shimin finally read Li Chengqian's memorial. After reading it, he felt that what Li Chengqian said in the memorial was correct.

Human sacrifice is too bad, and he doesn't want to do it either.

However, Li Chengqian thought there was nothing wrong with being kind, but he didn't include Li Shimin's filial piety. So, how could he violate filial piety for the sake of kindness?
This son of mine is too kind and lacks a little scheming.

Li Shimin thought to himself, then waved his hand to stop everyone.

The whole hall fell silent, and a sneer appeared on the corner of Li Ke's mouth. He didn't expect Li Chengqian to do such a thing. Wasn't he annoyed by his father?

"Before the Supreme Emperor was alive, he liked those concubines the most. It is not wrong to let them be buried with them. Except for those concubines, others don't need to be buried with them."

Originally, in addition to some concubines, Li Shimin also chose some palace ladies for Li Yuan, but now, he only let the concubines be buried with him, omitting those palace ladies, this is already his bottom line.

Li Chengqian wanted to say more, but Li Shimin didn't give him a chance, waved his hand, and retreated.

After retiring from the court, Li Chengqian was called to the imperial study by Li Shimin.

"Father knows that you are kind-hearted, but this time, father can't spare those concubines. If you want to abolish human sacrifice, wait until you ascend the throne."

The words were a bit cold, but they entered Li Chengqian's heart, and Li Chengqian showed some panic.

Seeing that Li Chengqian didn't say much, Li Shimin didn't say anything else. He called Li Chengqian today just to remind Li Chengqian that there are some things that can be done, and some things that cannot be done.

Today, he has given Li Chengqian a lot of face by exempting those court ladies from being sacrificed. Moreover, he has given Li Chengqian some reputation for benevolence and righteousness, but Li Chengqian can't go too far, even depriving him of his filial piety.

If there had been no war, no changes in the Xuanwu Gate, no murder of brother to force father, Li Shimin could have completely abolished human martyrdom, but with these, he could not.

This is his helplessness.

"Okay, let's go back."

Li Chengqian didn't say much, and could only retreat in a hurry. A few days later, Li Yuan was buried, and all the concubines were buried with him. The scene was wailing, Li Chengqian couldn't bear to watch more, deep in his heart, he suddenly became more tenacious.

Some unspeakable firm beliefs.

(End of this chapter)