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	Emperor Taizong of Tang China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Emperor Taizong of Tang China (January 23, 599–July 10, 649), born Li Shimin (李世民), was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China from 626 to 649.
		Leading the troops with his elder brother Li Jiancheng, the rebel army took the capital Chang'an in September 617, thereafter putting a puppet emperor on the throne before Li Yuan himself proclaimed the establishment of a new dynasty, the Tang, in 618.
		Li Jiancheng recommended Li Yuanji to defend against this attack and used it as an excuse to summon many of Taizong's subordinates and soldiers out of his control.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Li_Shimin (1116 words)

	Chinese history:Tang Dynasty-A Recollection of the Splendor of the Tang Dynasty
		Li Shimin was also highly appreciative of this wisdom gained from past experience, but the "Zhenguan Governance" of his creation was imbued with an excellence that set it apart from previous governments.
		The most important difference in Li Shimin's approach was that he did not regard the emperor as the "son of God," believing that the stability of an imperial rule was dependant upon the support of the masses.
		Li Shimin thereupon promulgated a decree whereby children sold could be redeemed by gold and silk issued by the imperial government, and returned to their parents.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/tang/recollection.htm (2319 words)

	Tang Gaozu
		Li Shimin, the second and also the most capable among all of Li Yuan's sons, had his own plans as he was sure that Sui would not last long.
		Li Shimin thought that there was something in what he suggested and persuaded his father to do so.
		Li Shimin, the second son, was granted the title Prince of Qin.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22869.htm (665 words)

	Tang Dynasty
		Li Yu The chaos caused by war was being recuperated in the era of Dai Zong.
		For getting on the throne, Li Shimin, the second son of Li Yuan(first emporer of Tang), ambushed his two brothers --- Li Jiancheng, who was the legal crown prince, and Li Yuanji in front of the gate named Xuanwu of palace, and killed them.
		Although Li Shimin got the throne by force, he is still one of the most intelligent emporers in Chinese history.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Union/7050/tang.html (972 words)

	li shimin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Emperor Tang Taizong of China (598 - May 26, 649), born Li Shimin (李世民), was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China from 627 to 649.
		Taizong was born in Wugong (武功, today in Shaanxi) to Li Yuan and Dou-shi (竇氏), and was one-quater Xianbei (by his grandmother).
		Prince Chu, Li Kuan (楚王寬): son of one from the harem
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Li_Shimin.html (500 words)

	Tang Taizong
		Li Shimin, the most capable among all of Li Yuan's sons, had his own plans as he was sure that Sui would not last long.
		Li Shimin, who, at the age of sixteen, already showed his outstanding military ability, persuaded his father to borrow military power from a formal enemy country of the Sui Dynasty -- the Hun.
		As a result, Li Yuan was then compelled to abdicate in favor of Li Shimin, and the latter ascended the throne as Emperor Taizong, whose reign was called Zhen Guan.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22874.htm (1060 words)

	E. East Asia, to 1527. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Li Yuan (566–635) to combat the Turks, while he retired to the south, where he was murdered (618).
		Li Shimin had pushed his father to depose Yangdi of the Sui and seize the throne.
		Li Shimin ambushed and eliminated his two elder brothers, had himself named crown prince, and two years later compelled his father to step down.
	www.bartleby.com /67/367.html (672 words)

	All Empires - The Tang Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, Li Shimin got wind of a plot against him by his elder brothers(or so he said), including Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, and he pre-empted them by assasinating them at the Xuanwu Gate of the palace in Chang'an in 626 AD.
		Li Yuan was then compelled to abdicate in favour of his Li Shimin, and the latter ascended the throne as Emperor Taizong.
		Li Yuan, Tang Gaozu, was forced to abdicate in favour of Li Shimin.
	www.allempires.com /empires/tang/tang1.htm (1541 words)

	Foreign Affairs - The Emperor Has No Clothes: Mao's Doctor Reveals the Naked Truth - John E. Wills, Jr.
		Li is in general not judgmental about the endless parade of young women in Mao's bed, citing the Daoist practice of using sex for longevity.
		Li testifies that Mao, citing the tradition of using distant foreigners against those close at hand, had begun to talk about improving relations with the United States as early as 1969, at the height of the tensions with the Soviet Union.
		In their imperial lives lies another strand of the Chinese heritage: the moral glamour of the selfless, earnest minister, hoping to be given power to do what he knew was right, always ready to remonstrate fearlessly when the emperor was straying from the path of Confucian righteousness.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19941101fareviewessay5157/john-e-wills-jr/the-emperor-has-no-clothes-mao-s-doctor-reveals-the-naked-truth.html?mode=print (1839 words)

	Untitled Document
		The dispute was between Prince Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin (Tang Taizong).
		Li Jiancheng was the eldest, the second son was Li Shimin, the third son had died a long time ago, and the fourth son was called Li Yuanji.
		Since Li Shimin was a very wise and brave person, he became the most important leader of the army of Tang.
	www.cyberport.uqam.ca /english/countries/china/HistWinter2001TangR.htm (928 words)

	Tang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Li Yuan, in 617, captured Chang'an from the Sui emperor and in the following year he took the throne as Gaozu, the first emperor of the Tang dynasty.
		He abdicated in favor of his son, Li Shimin, who, at the age of 26, became the emperor Taizong arguably one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history.
		Li Longji, emperor Xuanzong (712-756) was the longest reigning ruler in Tang history.
	www.phoenixndragon.com /Tang-text.htm (582 words)

	China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Tang dynasty
		Li Shimin contracted malaria and the military command was entrusted to Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan.
		Li Shimin led 200 cavalrymen in close pursuit and encircled Xue's headquarters at Zheshu (northeast of today's Jingchuan County, Gansu Province).
		Li Shimin shouted loudly, "I am Li Shimin, the prince of Qin." No sooner were the words said that he killed the patrol leader with an arrow.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t771.html (3388 words)

	Chinese history:Tang Dynasty-Women of the Tang Dynasty
		Li Shimin and other capable emperors adopted a series of guidelines and policies that could enrich the country and benefit the people, thus laying firm foundations for the later prosperity of the Tang Dynasty as embodied by the Zhenguan Governance and the Splendor of Kaiyuan.
		Empress Zhangsun was the wife of Emperor Taizong (Li Shimin).
		At the time of Li Shimin's rivalry for the throne with his royal brothers, Zhangsun repeatedly cleared Li Shimin before Emperor Gaozu of the misdeeds with which he had been falsely framed.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/tang/women.htm (2625 words)

	Welcome to Goverment Online Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After ascending the throne, Li Shimin appointed Shinan the Scholar of the Imperial Library in charge of imperial writings together with Fang Xuanling, and later named appointed Shinan to be officer in charge of literary works.
		Emperor Li Shimin was very sad at Shinan's death, and cried, saying 'Yu Shinan is loyal to me as I am to myself, correcting and reminding me every day; he is really a noted official of our time and a moral model of human being.
		Emperor Li Shimin once said that Yu Shinan had five absolute merits: The first is good morality; the second is uprightness and loyalty; the third is erudition; the fourth is verse talent; and the fifth is skillful calligraphy.
	nbgov.nbcom.net /en/page03-03.html (4035 words)

	Tang Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Li Yuan's wife was the sister of Sui Dynasty's Empress Dugu.
		Li Yuan was said to have rebelled against Sui Dynasty after he slept with Sui Emperor Yangdi's concubines in Jinyang Palace as a result of Li Shimin's plot in intoxicating his father for offending Sui Dynasty.
		Li Shimin [aka Li Shih-min], being merely 16 years old at the time of rebellion against Sui, was credited as the real initiator and founder of the Tang state and the mastermind of rebellion against the Sui.
	www.uglychinese.org /tang.htm (6657 words)

	phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - Re: The best war is no war
		The Li family from Shaanxi is one such example of this Han-Turkic nobility that dominated the Northwest, but it was Li Shimin, son of Li Yuan the Duke of Tang who reunified all of China and reestablished Han ascendancy.
		An ambitious Li Shimin persuaded the persuaced his father to stage a military coup against the Sui in 617.
		Li Shimin's success can be attributed to his genius in employing different methods of defence and attack encompassing political, diplomatic, strategic, economic and military dimensions, and because he grasped the principle of maintaining his own forces intact by relying on a system of alliances, he managed to defeat any of his adversaries.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=3&i=119783&t=119710 (513 words)

	The Li Bloodline
		The Li surname has a long history which goes back to a specific person named Emperor Zhuanzu who was the first Li and lived before 2000 B.C. This is according to the Xing Zuan, the chinese dictionary of surnames.
		Li Yuan was the founder of the Tang Dynasty which lasted from 618 to 906 A.D. His son who ruled after him was Li Shimin.
		Li Ta-chao was the head of the communist party in Northern China during the fighting with the Nationalists.
	www.thewatcherfiles.com /bloodlines/li.htm (6690 words)

	WELCOME TO THE TANG DYNASTY XI`AN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After his ascension, with the help of his second son, Li Shimin, Li Yuan drew Li Mi and Du Fuwei into his service, suppressed Dou Jiande, wiped out the landlords' independent regimes in various places and, in 623 unified the whole of China.
		As an outstanding statesman and military strategist, Li Shimin was exceptional among all the Chinese emperors.
		Li Shimin was anxious to enlist talented people into his service.
	www.xiantangdynasty.com /doce/6the-1-2.htm (413 words)

	Tang Dynasty: Tang TaiZong
		His ambitious son, Li Shimin persuaded the duke to stage a military coup against the Sui in 617.
		When Emperor Yang was assassinated in 618 by an aide, Li Yuan deposed the puppet prince and declared himself emperor, thus establishing the new Tang Dynasty.
		Li Shimin continued to lead the army in a campaign to secure the whole of the empire for his father and finally overcame all rebels, creating a united China in 628.
	www.warriortours.com /intro/history/tang/taizong.htm (1515 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Anything for Power: The Real Story of China's Jiang Zemin - Prologue
		While Yuanba died young, Jiancheng, Shimin, and Yuanji grew to adulthood and were granted the titles of, respectively, King of Ying, King of Qin, and King of Qi.
		But Shimin, a true prince, peerless in merit, almost single-handedly outsmarted and muscled the Li family’s enemies to establish the Tang Dynasty; his feats, winning the praise of Gaozu, evoked jealousy and resentment on the part of Jiancheng and Yuanji.
		Shimin, unsuspecting and broad-minded as he was, took the invitation to be an attempt by his brothers to atone for their misconduct.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-7-5/30080.html (1278 words)

	Monk Soldier [Archive] - Chinese-forums.com
		Li Yuan was not enthusiastic about Buddhism, but he did not ban it either.
		Li Shimin was much more into Buddhism and permitted its growth during Zhenguan.
		After all she was sent to a Buddhist monastery after Li Shimin's death, and even had an affair with a monk at the monastery.
	www.chinese-forums.com /archive/index.php/t-4956.html (641 words)

	Highlights of Chinese Culture and History
		Li Yuan, also known as Duke of Tang, a Sui general commanding the garrison at Taiyuan, staged a military revolt against the reign of Sui and in A.D. finally proclaimed himself emperor, designating his reign as "Tang." He then conferred the title of Crown Prince on his eldest son Li Jiancheng.
		The second son Li Shimin became the Prince of Qin, and his youngest son Li Yuanjie, the Prince of Qi.
		Regarding Shimin as a substantial threat to his own position, the Crown Prince Jiancheng allied himself with the Prince of Qi in an attempt to get rid of Li Shimin by every means conceivable, thus sharply intensifying the contradictions between them.
	www.chinatown-online.com /cultureeye/highlights/one.htm (1061 words)

	China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Famous pioneer generals of Tang
		Li Jing (李靖), later conferred as Duke of Wei (卫国公).
		He only joined the military after the Li ShiMin became emperor and invaded Korea, but was instrumental in pacifying the ethnic minorities.
		Li YuanBa (李元霸), third son of Li Yuan (李渊) the founding emperor of Tang.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t1848.html (807 words)

	Battle of Hulao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Battle of Hulao (May 28, 621), located just east of Luoyang, was a decisive victory for Li Shimin, through which he was able to subdue two warlords, Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong.
		Li Shimin led a siege on the city of Luoyang, held of the self-declared emperor Wang Shichong, who solicited help from Dou Jiande from the east.
		Li Shimin's army avoided conflict until the troops of Dou Jiande were exhausted and then led a cavalry charge, effectively capturing Dou Jiande.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Battle-of-Hulao.htm (215 words)

	621 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		May 28 - Battle of Hulao, Li Shimin defeats numerically superior army of Dou Jiande.
		Dou Jiande, warlord and opponent of Li Yuan
		Wang Shichong, warlord and opponent of Li Yuan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/621 (106 words)

	Emperor Tang Taizong - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
		Li Shimin was one of my favourite emperor.
		There are numerous occasions in which Li Shimin shows his ability to rule and lead.
		Li Shimin rewarded those that say constructive advices, and thus his officials performed their duties and sycophancy is reduced.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=352 (2361 words)

	Chinese History - Tang Dynasty event history (www.chinaknowledge.org)
		Only one year later Li Shimin charged a plot against the crown prince, killed his brothers and forced his own father to resume the throne.
		General Li Jing defeated the Tuyuhun empire in 635 and incorporated it into the Tang empire, but in 663 the Qaidam Basin (modern Qinghai province) became part of the Tibetian empire of Tubo.
		In the struggle for power, Li Maozhen and the eunuchs abducted the emperor, but their clique was defeated in 903 by Zhu Quanzhong who brought back the emperor, executed the eunuchs and transferred the capital to Luoyang, Chang'an was burnt down.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Tang/tang-event.html (4445 words)

	AboutChina-Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The men whose loyalty to both Li Yuan and Li Shimin had helped establish the Tang Dynasty were subjected to her cruelty.
		Members of the Li royal family and their relatives were likewise eliminated.
		In the year 705 there was a palace coup and Wu was forced to resign in favour of her son.
	www.toureasy.net /html/aboutchina/WhoSwho/EMPEROR.htm (7177 words)

	Emperor Taizong of Tang China - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Emperor Taizong of Tang China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		# Prince Chu, Li Kuan (楚王寬): son of one from the harem
		# Prince Ji, Li Shen (紀王慎): son of Secondary Consort Wei
		# Prince Zhao, Li Fu (趙王福): son of Consort Yang II # Prince Cao, Li Ming (曹王明): son of Consort Yang-shi
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Emperor-Taizong-of-Tang-China.html (1183 words)

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