This piece of paper was folded in half. Just as Jiang Shuo was about to unfold it, Dugu Xiang held down his hand and glanced at Duan Jianwei next to him. Duan Jianwei said in a sensible way: "I'll go up and see Master." His grave." Jiang Shuo pushed away Dugu Xiang's hand and said, "Duan Lang is different from his master. He is not a bad person." He then pulled Duan Jian and Wei said, "Duan Lang, you don't have to leave, we will walk here together. It doesn't hurt to take a look together." Duan Jianwei gently broke away from Jiang Shuo's hand and said: "Young Master Jiang, one is left by the old leader Jianghu, and the other seems to be related to the Tang royal family, Duan Firstly, he is not a member of the Jianghu, and secondly, he is not a member of the Tang Dynasty, so it is really inconvenient for him to hear about it." After saying this, without waiting for Jiang Shuo to try to persuade him to stay, he put down the iron ladder and walked out of the cave.
Jiang Shuo couldn't force Duan Jianwei to watch it together, so he and Xiang'er could only review the papers one by one. The person who wrote the first note did not leave his name, but claimed to be the leader of the Jianghu Alliance. However, the pattern on the back of the eight-inch ancient mirror was stamped on the note, which was obviously left by the leader of the Jianghu Alliance.
The three of them were shocked after reading what was written on the paper. The note says that on the fourth day of June in the ninth year of Wude, Li Shimin launched a mutiny at Xuanwumen and killed the prince Jiancheng and his younger brother Yuanji.
This originally had nothing to do with the temple dispute and the Jianghu Alliance, but involving another person made the leader of the Jianghu Alliance very angry.
The great ancestor Li Yuan had a nephew named Li Yuan. The great ancestor appointed him as the minister of the Ministry of punishment to appease Shannan. Soon he was appointed as the general manager of Xinzhou and was granted the title of King of Lujiang. Li Yuan himself had no ability, but he liked to make friends with heroes in the world. It was when he was in Shannan that he was with the times. Ren Jianghu, leader of the alliance, made good friends and became irreversible friends.
With the great help of the Jianghu Alliance, Li Yuan managed Shannan Road in an orderly manner, and was later promoted to Shannan Road Xingtai Youpuse several times.
In the ninth year of Wude, Li Yuan served as the governor of Youzhou, the king of Lujiang. This time he used the same method to make friends with the masters, but this time he trusted the wrong person.
The great ancestor Li Yuan also knew that Li Yuan was incompetent, so he sent General Youwuwei and Peng Guogong Wang Junkuo to help him guard Youzhou. Wang Junkuo was born in the green forest and was originally a bandit in the Taihang Mountains. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he first surrendered to Wagang and then surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Although he was quite capable of leading troops in battles, Li Yuan relied heavily on him and married him.
Unexpectedly, Wang Junkuo avenged his kindness. After the Xuanwumen Incident, Wang Junkuo wanted to make a contribution in front of Li Shimin, so he spread rumors that Prince Jiancheng had secretly colluded with Li Yuan. The imperial court sent Cui Dunli, a general secretary, to Youzhou to summon Yuan to the court. Wang Junkuo persuaded Li If Yuan enters the court and will die, it is better to raise an army and rebel.
Li Yuan detained Cui Dunli and recruited troops. Unexpectedly, Wang Junkuo had already led more than a thousand soldiers into the city to capture him. Only then did Li Yuan realize that he had been deceived by Wang Junkuo. He angrily rebuked Wang Junkuo to his face. Wang Junkuo was afraid that he would tell the truth after entering the court. , He simply did not do anything and hanged Li Yuan to death.
The imperial court recognized Junkuo's meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion, and appointed Wang Junkuo as the general leading the left army and the governor of Youzhou. Upon hearing this, the leader of the Jianghu Alliance was furious. In the first year of Zhenguan, Wang Junkuo entered the court. However, before he arrived in the capital, he was intercepted and killed by a group of masters from the Jianghu Alliance on the Weinan Road. This was regarded as revenge for the king of Lujiang, Li Yuan.
Seeing this, Jiang Shuo said: "The official history books say that Wang Junkuo's death was because he was arrogant and violated the law when he was the governor of Youzhou. He was afraid that the court would be blamed and would feel uneasy, so he killed the post officials in Weinan and prepared to defect to the Turks. , was killed by barbarians on the way. After Wang Junkuo's death, his rebellion was exposed, he was demoted to a commoner, and his fiefdom was also removed. However, the leader of the Jianghu Alliance said that it was he who presented the evidence that Wang Junkuo framed Li Yuan to Taizong Li Shimin, and Emperor Taizong was there. After Wang Junkuo died, all his rewards were taken away from him." But Dugu Xiang urged: "Read on, what is said next..." The note was folded several times, and it seemed to be a long story. Jiang Shuo turned it over and read it. Next.
The leader of the Jianghu Alliance continued to write that Li Yuan was only forty-one when he died. Although he was framed by villains, it was still true that he rebelled. He was reported to the capital, and the imperial court ordered Li Yuan to be deposed as a commoner and to eliminate his heirs. Clan affiliation.
Li Yuan had a pretty concubine whom he married when he was in Shannan. Wang Junkuo slandered her and said that Li Yuan had snatched her from Jiangnan and dedicated her to Taizong Li Shimin. Li Shimin actually included her in the harem.
Jiang Shuo shook his head and sighed: "It is said that when Taizong came to the throne, he issued an edict saying that there were so many maids in the palace that they had lived in seclusion in the palace for many years. I praised his virtues, but I didn’t expect that he would take other people’s concubines..." Dugu Xiang said: "What’s this? I heard that Emperor Taizong likes to change history the most. Who knows what has been passed down? Which ones are true and which ones are false." Jiang Shuo continued reading. After learning about this, the leader of the Jianghu Alliance secretly took the woman out of the palace. However, the Central Plains had no place for the woman in the vast country, so he decided to take her to the Western Regions. Get away from the world.
At that time, the Western Regions were not completely in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. Many criminals or former ministers who were unwilling to surrender to the Tang Dynasty went to other countries in the Western Regions. Generally speaking, the Tang Dynasty would not go to expeditions to capture these people. Central Plains.
But when the leader of the Jianghu Alliance took the woman out of Chang'an, he took the private goods with him. After Taizong Li Shimin came to the throne, he issued multiple edicts to pardon Jiancheng and Yuanji's party members, and also entrusted many of the officials of the second prince's palace with important tasks. However, he showed no mercy to the second prince's heirs and sent Jiancheng's five sons to the throne. All of them, young and old, were killed and their royal family members were expelled.
However, in fact, Li Jiancheng also had a posthumous son. Some of the beautiful concubines in the East Palace were also brought into the palace. One of them was pregnant with Jiancheng's son. She was already full-term at the time and could only cover it up with her wide robe and long sleeves. Without being discovered, a baby boy was born in July and August, but he could no longer keep him in the palace. When the leader of the Jianghu Alliance sneaked into the palace, the baby had just been born, and the concubine of the East Palace begged him to take the baby out of the palace. .
The leaders of the Jianghu Alliance were dissatisfied with Li Shimin's behavior of taking in his brother's concubine and decided to take the child away. When the concubine of the East Palace was pregnant, she would give her a jade ultimatum as a letter. The leader of the Jianghu Alliance cut the jade ultimatum into two pieces with one knife. One half was hidden in this box, and the other half was passed down from generation to generation by Jiancheng's descendants... Read this, Jiang Shuo picked up the jade plaque again and said, "So this is the token of Jiancheng's heirs. The jade plaque was engraved with Li Jiancheng's small characters 'Bishamon', but we misunderstood it as 'Bishamon'." Dugu Xiang said: "This is consistent with the story told by Li Yong and Li Shijun back then. It seems that the theory of Jiancheng's heirs in the Western Regions is not groundless. The jade plaque that Li Ke showed to the King of Persia was probably the other half of the jade plaque with the word 'Pi' engraved on it. The ultimatum is given." At this point, the content written on the first piece of paper ends here.
Jiang Shuo unfolded the second piece of paper, and the signature was still
The handwriting of "Leader of the Jianghu Alliance" was completely different from the first one. Jiang Shuo smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that the leaders of the Jianghu Alliance in the past generations did not like to write their own names." What was written on this piece of paper was that the previous leader will be the heir. After being brought to the Western Regions, seeing that Taizong had managed the country to prosperity and ushered in the prosperous Zhenguan era, he decided to seal up the secret of Jiancheng Heir forever and never reveal it to others.
The time of the current alliance leader was when Empress Wu was in power, and the Li and Tang royal families were slaughtered. People at that time were worried that Wu would replace Li Tang. After receiving the information, he went to the Western Regions alone to find Li Jiancheng's heirs.
But he spent too much time, from the first year of Tiaolu to the fourth year of Chang'an for twenty-five years. By the time he brought the child back to the Central Plains, the Wu family had already returned power to Li Tang, and he and his companion, King Ninia of Persia, After discussing with the master, he decided to keep the news sealed, and Jiancheng's descendants did not know his true life experience.
The leader of the Jianghu Alliance hid the Golden Chamber here. This cave is connected to the earth's veins, but it is on a vein that comes out of Xieyi. The hall below used to be the secret gathering place of the Jianghu Alliance, but it has long been no longer used to prevent anyone from following it. Sneaking into the hall, the then leader of the Jianghu Alliance hid the stolen salt of light in the fire cauldron as a trap, while the real treasure was hidden in this secret room.
This secret room of the grotto was dug by senior masters. There is a separate road to enter through the earth's veins, but the road is like a maze. Only the clay master knows the way to enter the cave, and the way to open the golden chamber is only known to the leader of the Jianghu Alliance. Therefore, only the leader of the Jianghu Alliance knows the way. The descendants of the two of them worked together to get here. The one who can read this text must be either the new leader of the Jianghu Alliance or the Nestorian Dharma King.
Finally, I added that there is a passage in the hall below. Going up the passage, there is a secret room blocked by a huge stone mechanism. This is the place where the past alliance leaders have retreated and practiced. If the internal strength is not at its peak, it will never be possible to come out on your own. Be very careful.
Only then did the two notice that there was another entrance to the cave, which must be the entrance connected to the underground maze of veins.
Dugu Xiang sighed: "No wonder these entrances are set up so strangely, it turns out that we are all going in the wrong direction." Jiang Shuo said curiously: "According to what is written on this note and the story told by Li Shijun, write a second note The leader of the Jianghu Alliance is Li Ke? This is too unbelievable..." The handwriting style of the white rattan paper at the back is very different. Each page is neatly written in small regular script. It is estimated that it is an official history book. Some of the pages in the album are completely different from what is stated in the official history.
For example, official history says that Li Yuan was unwilling to raise troops in Taiyuan, and Li Shimin tried his best to persuade him to do so.
"Jinyang raises troops", there is even more
In the list of "Taiyuan Yuanmou's Seventeen Heroes", Li Shimin is the first to be named. But what was written on a piece of white rattan paper was: When Li Yuan stayed in Taiyuan, he ordered Li Jiancheng to recruit capable people and strangers in Hedong for his own use. The world was in chaos, but Li Yuan refused to rebel against the Sui Dynasty. Although Li Shimin persuaded him, he did not waver. Li Yuan’s thoughts.
Until Li Jiancheng brought Pei Ji and others back to Taiyuan to meet Li Yuan, and persuaded Li Yuan to follow the example of Yi Yin and Huo Guang in deposing Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, support Yang You as the acting king, and send troops to appeal to the counties.
Another example is that official history says that Li Shimin led his army to capture Daxing City, the capital of the Sui Dynasty, and then fought in all directions, becoming the first contributor to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.
But other white rattan papers say that Li Jiancheng led his elite troops to capture the city of Daxing, and made the most meritorious service when marching westward to Guanzhong. When Li Shimin was the internal historian and was granted the title of Duke of Qin, Li Jiancheng was already the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and was granted the title of General of the Fu Army and Marshal of the Eastern Campaign. .
As a result, the most famous Li Shimin was a minister, so there was no such thing as a minister in the Tang Dynasty. It was also written on the white cane paper.
"It was built as a ministerial order". Official history says that Li Yuan was favored by his family members and had been absurd for thousands of years. Jiancheng was narrow-minded and intolerant of others, so Li Shimin had no choice but to initiate the Xuanwumen Revolution.
However, there is no such record on the white cane paper. Instead, there are many records of Li Yuan's virtuous administration and his capable ability. Although such records are only fragments, they are numerous and varied. Jiang Shuo read through them roughly, put down the white paper and said: "It seems that these are all true records that were taken out and hidden back then." Dugu Xiang said: " Why change something like this? I think it is far away from the ninth year of Wude." Jiang Shuo said: "If the world saw the original appearance of these history, they would not think that the death of Jiancheng and the accession of Emperor Taizong were so natural. On the contrary, they will feel that Emperor Taizong’s throne was unfair, and if he wastes no time in promoting the established heirs... No wonder Pei Min and Pi Luoge both said that these are things that can subvert the Tang Dynasty."
