At the beginning, Emperor Yang of Sui was kidnapped

Chapter 257

When Shi Le was in his forties, he had a son named Shi Hong.

Because he got a son when he was old, he spoiled Shi Hong too much, making Shi Hong just a frail scholar, who never went to the battlefield, and never made an inch of merit.

Instead, it was his nephew Shihu...

He has repeatedly made military exploits, and gradually became his right-hand man, and his power is growing.

After Shi Le proclaimed himself emperor, Shi Le enfeoffed the princes, which caused Shi Hu to be very upset, and said harshly, saying: After the Lord's death, it is not enough to keep the seeds.

as predicted.

Later, after Shi Le died of illness, Shi Hu did it and fulfilled his cruel words.

Shi Le died of illness, and Shi Hu, who had risen due to his military exploits, became the leader of Later Zhao.

Having mastered the military power, he directly surpassed Prince Shi Hong.

And he showed his disobedience, planning to abolish Shi Hong and proclaim himself emperor.

Prince Shi Hong, a frail scholar, took out his seal immediately after learning about it, expressing his willingness to abdicate...

However, Shi Hu replied extremely arrogantly: "Shi Hong is a mediocre talent, he can be discarded, why should he give way?"

In this way, Shi Hong didn't even have the qualifications to abdicate, and was directly abolished...

Immediately afterwards, Shi Hu killed all of Shi Le's sons, relatives, wives and concubines, leaving none behind.

Later, Shi Hu made his eldest son Shi Sui the crown prince.

As a result, the eldest son, Shi Sui, was even more brutal and greedy than Shi Hu, and was extravagantly licentious. He would get drunk every day, and when he saw a minister's family with a beautiful wife and concubine, he would rush to their house and openly pamper him.

All the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty dared not speak out.

Then, because Shi Hu had several sons, and he doted on the other sons, Shi Xi had always wanted to kill his brothers.

Shi Hu soon found out about this matter...

Shi Hu acted decisively, demoted Shi Xi to a commoner, and ordered people to enter Prince Shi Xi's mansion that night, and killed all his wives, concubines, children, and relatives.

A total of more than two hundred people!

Among them, there are naturally many of his own grandsons...

Then, he made his second son Shi Xuan the crown prince.

As a result, Shi Xuan was also tyrannical, and won Shi Hu's true biography. It didn't take long for Shi Hu to think about changing the prince again.

He wanted to make his youngest son Shi Tao the crown prince.

After Shi Xuan learned the news, he conspired to assassinate Shi Tao.

Shi Hu was furious. After finding out the truth, he ordered people to strip off Shi Xuan's clothes, pierced his chin with an iron ring, and tied him behind his back to the iron pillar like an animal.He also ordered people to carry a large wooden trough, pour all the leftover soup and leftovers into the trough, and let Shi Xuan lick it like a pig.

He also ordered his subordinates to beat Shi Xuan with a whip regardless of day or night, until Shi Xuan howled like ghosts and wolves.

Then, he ordered people to pluck Shi Xuan's hair, cut off his tongue, cut off his hands and feet, gouged out his eyes, and cut open his stomach. He hung it to the top of the pillar, set fire on all sides, and burned Shi Xuan alive.

After being burned to death, he was still angry, and asked his subordinates to scatter Shi Xuan's ashes at the crossroads in the capital, so that tens of thousands of people would trample on them.

Not only that, but immediately afterwards, all Shi Xuan's wives, concubines and children were dismembered and thrown into the Zhang River, and ordered to demolish the East Palace and change it into a residence for cattle and sheep.

After so many incidents, Shi Hu is already in his fifties, looking around, he finds that he has few descendants.

They've all been killed by him.

Immediately felt extremely desolate, depressed in his later years, and soon died of illness.

……

In the incense hall of Xianyou Temple.

While talking about this classic case in history, Fa Nan sighed: "This case is a clear example!"

"Father and son are separated, and flesh and blood are killed, which eventually leads to the destruction of the country and the betrayal of relatives!"

After listening to this story, Li Yuan thoughtfully, and sneaked a glance at Li Shimin from time to time.

After Li Shimin listened, his face became a little ugly...

Originally, he still had some good feelings towards Fa Nan, but now, he has lost any good feelings.

Although this story happened in real history, but...

Isn't Shi Le relying on Shihu just like Li Yuan relying on him?

Although there is not a single word about him in this story, he feels that he is being talked about everywhere.

After listening to the story of brothers killing each other, Li Yuan was silent for a long time, and then said to Fa Nan: "Brothers killing each other, since ancient times, human relations have been greatly sympathetic. I roughly know the intention of the Zen master when explaining this story."

"Shi Hu conspired to kill Shi Le's family, so his children were reborn as enemies, so they were cruel and brutal."

Li Yuan sighed and said: "Although there are many children, Shi Hu didn't cultivate virtue in the first half of his life, which led to such evil results!"

Reincarnation of cause and effect, retribution of good and evil, this is the purpose of Xu Mu making it difficult for the Fa to explain this.

Dharma could not hear the words, and immediately clasped his palms together, and said with great joy: "Your Majesty's Buddha nature is extraordinary, and you really have a predestined relationship with my Buddha!"

Li Yuan ignored his flattery, but looked at that line of the poem, a little puzzled, and said, "But what is the meaning of this broken poem by Chan Master?"

This incomplete poem, when Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, when Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp...

Nephew Li Yuan can know what it wants to express.

It probably means that a sage like Duke Zhou is also afraid of gossip, and Wang Mang was also called a sage when he was not usurping the throne...

"Your Majesty, what the poor monk said is... all things, don't look at the appearance."

Fa Nan began to plant the seeds of doubt: "Shi Le ruled the north and was called the god of war, how could he be stupid?"

"However, Shi Hu's disguise was appropriate, and he indeed deceived him. A careless move made Shi Hu grow stronger, and thus killed all of Shi Le's relatives. This change from ancient to modern must be guarded against!"

Fa Nan only mentioned it a little bit, but didn't say anything more.

Instead, he began to explain the karma in this story to the group of monks.

Only Li Yuan was left with his head down, thoughtful.

Speaking of it, Shi Le was not deceived by Shi Hu, but because Shi Hu's ability is too strong...

He couldn't bear to abolish Shihu!

He faintly resembles his second son Li Shimin.

His ability is by no means inferior to that of his eldest son, and he has made a lot of contributions in fighting for him...

But Li Yuan is more optimistic about Li Jiancheng.

After all, he is the successor he focuses on nurturing.

Before Jinyang raised his troops, he gave these two sons two tasks.

Order Li Jiancheng to go to Shandong to recruit Shandong's powerful families, heroes and righteous men.

Order Li Shimin to recruit righteous men and talents in Taiyuan.

He wanted to take this opportunity to see who was better, the boss or the second child...

In fact, the two did the same thing.

When Jinyang raised troops to rebel, Li Shimin advised him many times to raise troops quickly. Li Yuan thought that Li Jiancheng was out, and he had to wait for him to join the army when he came back.

I just want Li Jiancheng to share the merit of raising troops and supporting him.

Finally, after entering Chang'an, he made his eldest son the crown prince.

But knowing a son is like a father, he knows that although Li Shimin treats Li Jiancheng very respectfully every time, but...

Deep down, Li Jiancheng was still unconvinced.

All along, the two have been fighting openly and secretly.

For this matter, he saw it in his eyes, but both of them upheld the etiquette of brothers and did not do anything out of the ordinary, so he kept turning a blind eye.

"Could it be that the story of Zen Master is God reminding me not to make the mistake of stone tiger?"

Li Yuan didn't have the heart to listen to the explanation of the Buddhist scriptures after the difficulty of the Fa.

He began to think about it.

Several sons of Shihu killed each other, which is a tragedy on earth.

In the end, Shi Hu betrayed his relatives and died alone.

"My twelve sons are all benevolent and filial, and none of them has the appearance of tyranny. It is bound to be impossible for such a tragedy of human relations to occur!"

A moment later, as the founding emperor, Li Yuan comforted himself in this way.

After this morning class, Li Yuan took Li Shimin back to the palace.

……

After Li Yuan left, Fa Nan stopped explaining the Buddhist scriptures, went back to the inner room, and met Xu Mu again.

"My lord, after this incident, Li Yuan should have developed some suspicions towards his sons." Fa Nan sighed.

This story, for Li Yuan who has many sons...

It's simply murderous.

It's scary to think about it. If you are not careful, everyone will betray their relatives, and their brothers will kill each other...

Except for a lunatic like Shi Hu, few people can accept it.

Moreover, these are all things that actually happened in history.

It is not a false construction, but it adds authenticity and corroborative force.

Xu Mu nodded and said: "Your lecture is very good, the seeds of doubt have been planted, the next thing to do is to let it take root and germinate."

Fa was puzzled and asked, "Take root and sprout?"

Xu Mu took a deep breath and said, "That's right, whenever Li Yuan comes here in the future, tell Li Yuan the deeds of Maodun Shanyu, King Zhao Wuling, and Liu Yilong."

Fa Nan: "..."

Just thinking about these stories made him feel a little annoyed.

The lord... is really perverted!
This is to kill Li Yuan and his son!

The allusion of Maodun Shanyu Mingdi killing his father is well known...

His father, Manchanyu, wanted to abandon his eldest son several times and make his younger son Shanyu, but after being discovered by Modun Shanyu, he invented a kind of ringing arrow and told his subordinates, wherever my ringing arrow points, You shoot with all your strength...

Once, his father took him hunting.

Mo Dunshan pointed an arrow at Tou Manchanyu, and his followers immediately subconsciously...

Touman Chanyu was shot dead.

Although later, he destroyed Donghu, conquered Loufan and other countries, dominated the grassland, captured the Hetao area, unified the northern grassland for the first time, and established a huge and powerful Xiongnu Empire.

But it cannot obliterate his fault of killing his father.

This has been mentioned in the past dynasties, and Mao Dun Shanyu is a representative of no king and no father.

In addition, the same is true for King Zhao Wuling.

In the later years of King Zhao Wuling, he suddenly announced the abolition of Prince Zhang, and replaced his youngest son He, who later became King Zhao Huiwen.

Just such a incident caused Prince Zhang to be furious, and then launched the famous sand dune coup.

Besieged Zhao Wuling King in the Dune Palace, and waited until the youngest son He Ping put down the rebellion...

Zhao Wuling, the hero of the generation, actually starved to death in the Dune Palace!
This kind of human tragedy has reminded countless emperors of later generations that they must be cautious when setting up a prince!

In the face of power, the so-called kinship is not reliable at all.

One side is the world, and the other side is parents and brothers...

(End of this chapter)