Li Shimin's famous saying:
Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it.
Open the door to speak out and open the door to speaking out.
Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; using ancient times as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; using people as a mirror, you can understand gains and losses.
The king regards the world as his home, why should things be in the mausoleum? It is his own. Now, because Jiuwei Mountain is a mausoleum, it does not hide gold, jade, people, horses, or utensils. It only uses earthen and wood-shaped tools. The common people like to steal and have no worries.
The foundation of peace lies in winning people.
Food is the foundation of man and nature, and agriculture is the foundation.
Officials are more about getting people than having too many people.
Li Shimin (January 28, 598, January 23, 599 - July 10, 649), Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (reigned from 626 to 649), was born in a martial arts family. Guan Guan (now Shaanxi Wugong) was the second son of Tang Emperor Li Yuan and Queen Dou. He was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty and an outstanding statesman, strategist, military strategist and poet.
Li Shimin joined the army as a boy and went to Yanmen Pass to rescue Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin served as Shangshu Ling and General Youwuhou. He was named the Duke of Qin and later the King of Qin. He led his troops to put down warlords such as Xue Rengao, Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong. During the establishment and unification process of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongli made great military exploits.
On the fourth day of the sixth lunar month in the ninth year of Wude (July 2, 626), Li Shimin launched the "Xuanwumen Incident" and killed his elder brother, Prince Li Jiancheng, his fourth brother, King of Qi Li Yuanji, and two other princes. The son was established as the prince. Soon after the Tang Emperor Li Yuan abdicated, Li Shimin ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Zhenguan. ?
During his reign, Li Shimin actively listened to the opinions of his ministers, governed the world internally with civility, accepted advice with an open mind, practiced strict economy, and encouraged farmers to teach farming, so that the people could rest and live in peace, and the country and the people were in peace, which created a new chapter in Chinese history. The famous Zhenguan rule. Expanding territory, conquering Eastern Turks and Xueyantuo, conquering Gaochang, Qiuci, and Tuyuhun, inflicting heavy losses on Goguryeo, and establishing the four towns of Anxi. All ethnic groups lived in harmony, and were respectfully called "Tian Khan" by the people of all ethnic groups, setting the foundation for the later Tang Dynasty. More than a hundred years of prosperity have laid an important foundation.
On the fourth day of May in the twenty-third year of Zhenguan (July 10, 649), Li Shimin died of illness in Hanfeng Hall at the age of fifty-two. In the twenty-third year of his reign, the temple name Taizong was buried in Zhaoling.