lcionline Chapter 802: Family Love in Heaven
Chapter 802: Family Love in Heaven
Wu Zetian had lost her mind.
The result she wanted, that the Li and Wu families would survive together, was directly destroyed.
Among the nephews outside, apart from Wu Sansi who was clearly rebelling, the only one left was Wu Chengye, the mad dog of the Wu family.
It can be said that basically all the people in her Wu family were wiped out at once.
Li Xian felt more relieved when he saw that Wu Zetian seemed to be on the verge of death.
The oppression of many years was gone in an instant, and he laughed heartily, his laughter full of sadness.
Li Bin and Li Jiao, who were standing by, also had expressions of revenge. Li Bin waved behind him, and Gao Sheji hurried forward and threw a bloody head on the ground.
The head had a look of astonishment on its face. It was General Qiu Shenji, who had never expected to be stabbed in the back by his own people before his death.
"Your Majesty, you killed Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen in the past. Today, we offer you the head of the vicious dog Qiu Shenji. From now on, the three treacherous villains you used to target my Li clan are all dead!"
"I, the heir of the Li family, will no longer worry about dying in my sleep one day!"
Wu Zetian was already in tears, sadness spreading from her heart to every part of her body, and her emotions were fluctuating violently.
She collapsed and yelled, "Li Xian!"
"Are you going to force me to death?"
Li Xian pulled out the long sword from Li Bin's waist and shouted:
"Are you still trying to throw all the dirty water on me, the one who was forced to start a rebellion?"
"Do you want to follow Emperor Taizong's example of how he treated the deposed Crown Prince Li Chengqian?"
"In the past, Emperor Taizong went too far, allowing his subordinates to insult Crown Prince Li Chengqian day and night without reason. He even openly allowed Prince Wei Li Tai to live in Wude Hall, forcing the deposed Crown Prince Li Chengqian to rebel and eventually die of depression!"
"The sun and the moon can bear witness to this, heaven and earth can declare it!"
"Right is always right, and wrong is always wrong!"
Li Xian looked at Wu Zetian angrily, holding a long sword, and walked step by step towards the altar more than ten meters away.
Many officials thought that Li Xian wanted to assassinate the emperor and spontaneously blocked the way under the Danchi.
If Li Xian raised an army, there was still a chance of redemption, but if he killed the emperor, the crime of matricide would nail Li Xian to the pillar of shame in history.
Among these ministers were Di Renjie and Zhang Jianzhi.
They all believed in Li Xian's reasons for starting the rebellion, but they could never allow Li Xian to kill his mother.
Especially Xu Xi, the director of the Imperial Observatory, he stood in front of the ministers with his arms open, looking ready to die.
Li Xian didn't even look at these people, and spoke with overwhelming anger:
"Emperor Taizong forced the Crown Prince to death! He imprisoned his biological father! He murdered his brothers! He even took his brother's wife! He didn't know the difference between elders and juniors! He didn't distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children! After committing such a monstrous crime, he went to the ancestral tablets and cried over the rat!"
Di Renjie and Zhang Jianzhi were stunned.
Did they hear it correctly?
The deposed Crown Prince Li Xian was telling all the civil and military officials in the court about the crimes of his grandfather, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin!
Isn't the grandson afraid of being struck by lightning when he says this about his grandfather?
Moreover, the idea passed down by our ancestors is that if the monarch wants his subjects to die, the subjects must die. Li Xian's words showed that he did not take Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi seriously.
"The sky is falling!"
Tears welled up in Di Renjie's eyes. He pushed Xu Xi in front of him away and cried bitterly to Li Xian.
"Your Highness!!"
"As a descendant, commenting on your elders in this way is not the behavior of a gentleman or a descendant!"
"If what you said today gets out, how will you cope with it?!"
"What's more, Emperor Taizong had made great achievements during his lifetime. Although there were some blemishes, aren't his achievements enough to cover up these blemishes?"
Di Renjie regarded Emperor Taizong as his greatest idol, so how could he allow others to insult his idol like this?
Even if Li Xian is a descendant of Emperor Taizong, and even if everything Li Xian said is true, he cannot tell everyone openly in a place like this!
Don’t you see that the historian and the recorder have already picked up their pens and started writing!
What happened today is destined to be recorded in history books!
Three thousand years from now!
What Li Xian said today will be well known to anyone who has read history books!
However, since Li Xian dared to do this, he naturally no longer cared about his reputation before and after his death!
He held the sword and stood proudly!
"Master Di!"
"Look at me, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, from the perspective of the world!"
"And I, Li Xian, am looking at Emperor Taizong from the perspective of a member of the Li family and the son of His Majesty!"
"Back then, King Li Tai of Wei rebelled!"
"After the defeat, Emperor Taizong was filled with sorrow. He entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple and told his ancestors about the mistakes of the deposed Crown Prince Li Chengqian and Prince of Wei Li Tai!"
"At this time, has he ever admitted his own mistakes?"
"If he had no other bias, partiality, or credulity, then he might have shown some partiality after Uncle Li Chengqian contracted a leg disease!"
"With my uncle's ability, even if he studies for another ten years, our Tang Dynasty will not perish in the fifth generation!"
With just one word, Li Xian put in front of them something that no one was willing to admit!
Datang!
Died in five generations!
The country lasted 72 years!
The ministers who were once loyal to Li Tang could no longer hold back. They knelt on the ground and cried loudly, their voices were desolate.
This is something they would never admit even if they die: the Tang Dynasty lasted for 72 years!
But Li Xian, whom they originally regarded as their hope, directly pulled off the fig leaf and revealed the bloody facts before their eyes!
However, Li Xian still had no intention of letting go of all the civil and military officials in the court, as well as his mother who had already been extremely sad on the dragon bed.
"You can only see the achievements of Emperor Taizong, but what we saw was Emperor Taizong in the Taimiao, putting all the blame on Uncle and the King of Wei!"
"They were both born into a royal family, yet they became two puppets that Emperor Taizong shirked responsibility for!"
"There is no family affection in heaven, and everyone on earth knows it!"
"And now?"
"The Emperor is trying to kill me and Li Dan's entire family at the same time just to keep her own secret!"
"This is really like repeating what happened to Emperor Taizong all over again!"
"His Majesty!"
He roared at the top of his lungs.
"You want to be the second Emperor Taizong!"
"But I, Li Xian, will never be another Uncle Li Chengqian!"
"I will definitely not become another Uncle Li Jiancheng, let alone another Uncle Yang Yongbiao!"
The three deposed princes seemed to be right in front of me!
Li Xian once again used his provocative words to explain the bloodier reality.
From the beginning of the Sui Dynasty to the present day, no emperor has been succeeded by a crown prince.
Emperor Taizong appointed the crown prince himself. This kind of crown prince should not be told to outsiders!
Li Cunxi didn't know when he supported Di Renjie and helped him wipe away the tears that were flowing wildly. He felt bad inside.
After listening for so long, he also knew that Li Xian was pushing Wu Zetian into a desperate situation.
To this end, he even did not hesitate to bring up Emperor Taizong, Emperor Gaozong, as well as Li Chengqian, Li Jiancheng and Yang Yong.
Ruining Emperor Taizong's reputation and comparing Wu Zetian with Emperor Taizong was intended to bring out the final and most important sentence!
"Brother Emperor..."