Chapter 105: The Tang Dynasty Princess Marries into the World

  If it weren't for the system not allowing Ya Ge to directly eliminate or destroy that female servant before the story began, he would have definitely chosen to do so. With the system prompt that the maid is the heroine's grandmother, can't Ya Ge investigate the heroine's mother?

  Unfortunately, based on so-called global stability, the system strictly forbids Ya Ge from doing so.

  "If I don't remind you, and as a result the heroine can't be born, causing this world to collapse, and then your mission fails, won't you blame me again?"

  The system's interpretation of the Book of Songs is unbelievable. There are also cases where the so-called protagonists of other worlds have died at his hands. Does that mean that without these protagonists, these worlds would not be sustained and would collapse? In his view, this was just the system's bad taste, and all its arrangements now were just to increase the difficulty of his tasks!

  No matter what the reality is, he can only wait with his eyes open for Li Shimin to become the second Qianlong. This feeling is like being forced by the system all along, helpless. Even if his heart is as uncomfortable as a cat's claw, he can only let it develop.

  Not long after, Li Shimin returned to Chang'an in triumph from Luoyang. Soon after his return, rumors that Li Yuan had promised to make Li Shimin crown prince grew stronger, and even common people in small towns knew about them. In the face of these rumors, the indecisive Li Yuan chose to create Li Shimin the title of Heavenly Strategies Supreme General, implicitly affirming the legitimacy of the Heavenly Strategies Mansion that Li Shimin had established at Luoyang without his approval.

  Li Yuan was dissatisfied with Li Shimin's attitude, which could be seen from his attitude towards Yage. In the past, he would still chat with Yage for a few sentences when she came to pay her respects, but now it was just a superficial courtesy.

  Facing this situation, Ye Ge couldn't say anything either. One was the father of his body and the other was the grandfather of his body. What he could do was to act cute and try to make Li Yuan's attitude towards Li Shimin a little more gentle.

  The contradictions between father and son are unsolvable, which is determined by the personalities of both.

  Li Yuan wanted to be a kind father, so he didn't want to give up any of his sons. Li Jiancheng was his eldest son, and he especially valued him, so he thought it was only natural to pass on the throne to this son. But Li Shimin happened to be an ambitious and talented person, and most of the military achievements that founded the Tang Dynasty were attributed to him, plus the group of Tian Strategist Mansion generals under his command...

  The occurrence of the Xuanwu Gate Incident was truly irreversible.

  Yage's diligence and hard work were seen by Li Shimin, and Lu Deming and Kong Yingda's praise for Yage was even clearer. Li Shimin only felt that Li Chengqian was worthy of being his and Guanyin's son, with a young age but having a good demeanor, being intelligent and understanding the importance of hard work, and having such an heir made him very satisfied.

  At the same time, Li Shimin's feelings for Queen Qin, Longsun, deepened. When he was busy with military affairs, Guanyin not only managed the Qin Wangfu well but also educated their children well. She was indeed his indispensable virtuous helper.

  Yahiko sensed Li Shimin's attitude and was secretly satisfied with the achievement of his initial goal. While he was brushing up on Li Shimin's favorability, he also didn't forget to care about his own siblings, Li Tai and Li Lijun. Yahiko had many younger siblings this time, but he wasn't a saintly father, so except for the children of Empress Changsun, he wouldn't pay much attention to the children born by Li Shimin's other women. As the queen of Qin, as the legitimate mother of those children, she had to divide her heart among them, but Yahiko didn't need to do so.

  Yahiko could feel it, and Chang Sun's attitude towards him was very satisfactory.

  It's also true that, even if it was due to her education, Empress Changsun didn't have any jealousy towards Emperor Taizong's other women, but in the end, there would still be some awkwardness in her heart. In Ya Ge's view, the reason why Empress Changsun was so virtuous and magnanimous was because she simply didn't love Emperor Taizong.

  As a man who has conquered countless women, Yage can see clearly what emotions are in Changsun's eyes towards Li Shimin. There is kinship, reverence, tolerance, and fondness, but not love. Changsun guards her heart very well, she is an intelligent woman, knowing what Li Shimin wants, wholeheartedly doing her best to be the woman he needs most behind his back.

  By doing so, she not only gained Li Shimin's favor but also his respect. Even though women of the time were not yet bound by the Confucianism of later generations, their status was still inferior to that of men.

  Because this is a patriarchal society.

  Zhangsun's ability to become a virtuous empress is inseparable from her wisdom. In history, there have been many queens who were trampled down due to their tolerance, but she was able to gain fame and stabilize her position like a rock! Yajiao also admires this point very much.

  Only foolish women will deal with women, clever women will put their thoughts on men.

  It is clear that Changsun had grasped the essence of this sentence, it was precisely because Li Shimin doted on her so much that the women in the Qin Wang Fu did not dare to do anything to her.

  Li Shimin was not a man who attached great importance to feminine charm. The women he married were all women who helped his career. Wei Gui, who followed him back from Luoyang this time, was also the case during the Zhenguan period. Wei Gui came from the Jingzhao Wei family, and the Jingzhao Wei family was one of the prominent aristocratic families of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin's willingness to marry Wei Gui, who had already been married and had a daughter, was solely for the purpose of winning over the influential families.

  In addition to the Yin and Yan families in the Qin Palace, even Yang Shi, a princess of Emperor Yang of Sui who entered the Qin Palace in the first year of Wude (618 AD), was welcomed into the palace by Li Shimin for various purposes. Even Longsun Shi was chosen as his proper wife after careful consideration.

  The final victory of Zhangsun in both the Qin Wang Fu and the imperial palace is enough to illustrate her success.

  However, historically she was a qualified empress, a qualified wife, but not a qualified mother. Because her energy was more focused on Li Shimin and his harem, so naturally she also neglected the education of her several children.

  Her children are not unfilial to her, but they don't have much brotherly and sisterly affection for each other. What Yage wants to do is change all this. In the imperial family, there aren't no brothers who are friendly with each other, it's just a matter of what's more important in people's hearts.

  He didn't believe that he had been instilling things in these younger siblings since childhood, but to no avail. In so many years of raising so many children, Yage really hadn't raised any disobedient or ungrateful ones!

  Yahiko crossed over again as a baby, but slightly better this time was that he came just before his first birthday, although still unable to walk, at least he could use some language to express his own will and wouldn't wet the bed! And soon after he arrived, Li Tai, who was one year younger than him, was born.

  Although Ye Ge hadn't fully grasped the data of this world at that time, he had already begun to subconsciously adjust/teach Li Tai. Later on, he only came to realize that this should also be due to the reason of the cultivator's spiritual awareness, which would choose the most beneficial method for oneself in the subconscious.

  Yasha hasn't mastered his spiritual awareness yet, so he made mistakes in the previous task world.

  Later, when Yage was two years old and Princess Chang Le's Li Lijin was born, he finally understood why Empress Zhangsun had died young. Apart from her own suffering from asthma, it was also because she gave birth too frequently. Modern medicine has long confirmed that the ideal interval between childbirth for women is more than 18 months, but Empress Zhangsun obviously became pregnant again soon after giving birth.

  Yahiko believes that the Longsun family is not unaware of the disadvantages of frequent childbirth, after all, she was married to Li Shimin as a wife at the age of 13, but did not start giving birth until she was 18. She should have some understanding of medical skills, unfortunately, reality forced her to make such a choice.

  In the first year of Wude, Li Shimin was enfeoffed as a prince, and in the same year, he married the second daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui. Based on this, Changsun-shi could only choose to become pregnant. Fortunately, she succeeded too. Look at Li Ke, who was born in the same year as Li Chengqian, with only a difference of a few months.

  Now that she has given birth, Empress Changsun naturally cannot avoid having more children. With many children, her position in the imperial court will be even more stable. Compared to the power brought by Princess Nanyang, the younger sister of Emperor Yang of Sui, the power behind Empress Changsun is really incomparable.

  Zhangsun's family was not without means, but she could no longer use them. Think about it, in the past few years, Li Shimin's backyard had no children born, until after she became pregnant did others follow suit and become pregnant one after another. If there wasn't something fishy going on, Yage wouldn't believe it!

  She gave birth to several children in a row, which hurt the foundation of the Longsun family. After having two sons and one daughter, she began to pay attention to contraception. It wasn't until the first year of the Zhenguan era when Li Shimin ascended to the throne and appointed eight-year-old Li Chengqian as crown prince that she became pregnant again. This empress was indeed clever and calculated many things well, but her most impressive aspect lay in her vision not being limited to the palace. She also provided great assistance to Li Shimin in political matters, without arousing his slightest suspicion!

  Yahiko thinks that he must learn from his mother, she is the best model for him to imitate, although there are some subtle differences, but her help to him is indeed very great.

  Time passed quickly, and when Li Tai became a brother-controlling and sister-controlling, Li Lijun also became a elegant and talented county master. Finally, in June of the 9th year of Wude, it arrived.

  June 4th, Yago truly changed history for the first time.

  Historically, during the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the Longsun family was taken to the Xuanwu Gate by Li Shimin to avoid danger, while Li Chengqian was left in the Qinwang Palace. The eight-year-old him may not have understood what had happened, but overnight, all his older brothers who were close in age and had played together in the palace disappeared, and people around him did not allow him to mention those names again. Especially on that morning when the incident occurred, as Li Shimin's successor, he was abandoned by his parents in the Qinwang Palace, helplessly listening to the sounds of fighting outside, what kind of thoughts would Li Chengqian have had?

  In that era, men should have valued their children more than their wives, but Li Shimin brought along Changsun and not their son. Perhaps it can be said that this was Li Shimin's way of protecting his children, after all the Xuanwu Gate was not very safe, the Qin Wang Fu was the safest.

  But actually?

  For the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Shimin arranged all the forces he could mobilize there. The generals and soldiers of the Tiangong Mansion, his elite troops, were left behind in the Qinwang Mansion, only a few guards remained.

  If the Xuanwu Gate incident fails, Li Shimin can still rely on these trusted subordinates to escape, but what about those wives and children he left behind? Does he believe that after doing such a rebellious thing, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng will not take action against his descendants? Or does Li Shimin have absolute confidence that he will definitely not fail?!