To be honest, Li Chengqian has always believed in Li Shimin's vision of people.
When choosing friends, he can choose loyal people like Changsun Wuji and Cheng Yaojin.
When it comes to choosing a wife, he can choose a good man like Empress Changsun.
When choosing his daughter-in-law, he can also choose women like Lu Wanjie and Su Qingling who are very consistent with Li Chengqian's personality.
But regarding Xu Jingzong, Li Chengqian was really puzzled.
Why did Li Shimin introduce him to the Tang Dynasty?
In Li Chengqian's opinion, this man was definitely a cancer among cancers.
It can be called the first treacherous minister in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
First, let’s talk about this man’s history.
Xu Jingzong was a native of Jiangnan. His father Xu Shanxin was a minister of the Sui Dynasty. The Xu family was also quite influential in Jiangnan and was highly valued by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.
Later, when Yu Wenhua launched a coup to kill Emperor Sui Yang, Xu Shanxin still complained about Emperor Sui Yang and refused to submit to Yu Wenji, so he was killed by Yu Wenji.
From now on, it can no longer be seen that Xu Shanxin's iron bones are unshakable.
But his son didn't follow him at all.
Although Yu Wenhuaji killed his father, this guy still chose to pray to his enemy for his life in order to survive.
After expressing his loyalty, he successfully saved his life.
Later, when Yu Wenhua's power declined, this guy took the opportunity to defect to Wagang Li Mi and take up the job of recording history.
Later, Li Mi was defeated by Wang Shichong, and he surrendered to Tang Dynasty with Li Mi.
Li Shimin heard his story from somewhere, so he took him under his command and listed him as one of the eighteen bachelors.
Later, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he was given an important task: compiling history books.
Perhaps Xu Jingzong was somewhat talented, but he was not a qualified historian.
When he wrote history, he often mixed it with personal emotions.
Not to mention other people, it was just because Feng Deyi poked his pain point of begging for mercy to survive.
Xu Jingzong wrote Feng Deyi as something worse than a pig or a dog, which shows the character of this man.
Moreover, in the process of compiling history, he not only judged people according to their own likes and dislikes, but also often exaggerated the life experiences of some people.
Back then, his daughter married Qian Jiulong, a slave of Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty. In order to improve Qian Jiulong's status in history books, Xu Jingzong openly falsely reported his achievements to Qian Jiulong.
Moreover, Qian Jiulong, Changsun Shunde and other Lingyan Pavilion heroes were also listed side by side.
If someone hadn't corrected this later, I'm afraid it would have caused a lot of trouble for later generations of historians.
If fixing the black spots in the history books is nothing to Xu Jingzong.
So making a fool of yourself in public is Xu Jingzong's best skill.
When Empress Changsun died and all the officials were in mourning, they openly made fun of Ouyang Xun's appearance during the mourning occasion.
This is purely looking for a fight.
Li Shimin waved his hand on the spot and directly demoted him to Sima of the Hongzhou Governor's Office.
And besides these seemingly silly things, this guy also really likes money.
Even when marrying off a daughter, the daughter is married based on whose family gives the larger betrothal gift.
In addition to corruption, Xu Jingzong is also particularly lustful and corrupt.
"Dishehua acted arrogantly and went so far as to build a connected building and let prostitutes ride on top of it, drinking and playing music to entertain themselves."
This sentence is a comment about him.
And those are not the things that really make Li Chengqian hate him.
After all, it is human nature to be greedy for money and lustful.
But Te Niang's guy is still indifferent to right from wrong sometimes.
For example, Li Zhi encountered opposition from ministers on the issue of establishing Wu Zetian.
Xu Jingzong secretly tried to figure out Tang Gaozong's intentions, and said privately: "I have received ten stalks of wheat from the field house, and I still want to replace my old wife. The emperor is rich all over the world, and he has a queen. Is that impossible?"
It was precisely because of Xu Jingzong's suggestions that Li Zhi became more determined to appoint Wu Zetian and abolish Queen Wang.
After Queen Wang was deposed, the character of Xu Jingzong became apparent.
While requesting that all the titles of Empress Wang's family be removed, they also requested that Empress Wang's heir, Crown Prince Li Zhong, be deposed and Wu Zetian's son Li Hong be appointed as acting king.
Because of Xu Jingzong's suggestion, Li Zhi directly made him a guest of the prince.
Although Xu Jingzong received strong support from Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian.
However, it offended the Guanlong noble group headed by Changsun Wuji and other courtiers.
Later, in order to eliminate these potential opponents that may hinder his future.
Xu Jingzong secretly conspired with Wu Zetian and falsely accused Han Yuan, Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Shangguanyi and other officials of treason.
If the king of the Tang Dynasty was Wu Zetian, then this guy was the most loyal husky around Wu Zetian.
How could such a person not be disliked by Li Chengqian?
It can be said that without this guy's operation, there would be no such humiliating history of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Therefore, the sooner this person is eliminated, the better.
Li Chengqian faced Cheng Huailiang and said, "Tell me, how can we directly get rid of Xu Jingzong?"
"Get rid of it?"
Cheng Huailiang looked at Li Chengqian in surprise and lowered his voice: "Your Highness, did I hear you correctly? Are you going to get rid of Xu Jingzong?"
"Of course."
Li Chengqian narrowed his eyes and said, "To be honest with you, I have been unhappy with this person for a long time."
"He didn't fall into my hands before, and maybe I really didn't think of him, but now that he has fallen into our hands this time, why not punish him severely?"
"Even if I don't kill him, I still have to do it so that he will never recover."
There will never be a day of recovery?
His Highness must be too cruel.
Cheng Huailiang grinned secretly.
He only thought it was because Li Chengqian was unhappy with Xu Ang, so he went to punish Xu Jingzong.
But how did he know that the reason why Li Chengqian wanted to get rid of this person was because he did not want the history of the Tang Dynasty to repeat the same mistakes.
In other words, they did not want the history of the Central Plains dynasty to fall into a situation of being oppressed and humiliated by the nomads in the north, just like the later generations.
After thinking for a long time, Li Chengqian slowly raised the corners of his mouth: "It seems that this time, we really need to plan carefully."
Just when Cheng Huailiang wanted to say something.
Changsun Chong and Li Lizhi are back.
Li Lizhi ran very fast, carrying two candied haws, and ran up to Li Chengqian.
She handed the candied haws to Li Chengqian and said, "Hey, I'll give you one."
Seeing the candied haws, Li Chengqian chuckled, took it and took a bite of it, saying, "Well, it's really delicious."
Li Lizhi shook her head very proudly: "I knew that my eldest brother likes to eat it, so I bought it here specially."
"My sister is still nice to me."
Li Chengqian rubbed Li Lizhi's little head, then looked up at Changsun Chong and glanced at him.
Changsun Chong replied to Li Chengqian with a very helpless expression.
Obviously, this guy failed to please again.
I have to say that Li Lizhi was indeed greatly influenced by Li Chengqian in this life.
So much so that her relationship with Changsun Chong was not as good as it was in her previous life.
Li Chengqian was also very helpless about this.
…
Wait until Li Lizhi is sent back to the palace.
Li Chengqian suddenly rolled his eyes, turned to Changsun Chong and said earnestly: "Brother, it's not that I don't want to help you, the main reason is that your charm is really limited."
"But it doesn't matter. My father will definitely grant you a marriage by then, so just wait patiently."
Hearing this, Changsun Chong felt like crying.
After all, there is still a big gap between true love and non-true love...
