<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shimin" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Li Shimin">Li Shimin</a>, the future <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emperor Taizong of Tang">Emperor Taizong of Tang</a>, ambushes and kills his rival brothers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Yuanji" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Li Yuanji">Li Yuanji</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Jiancheng" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Li Jiancheng">Li Jiancheng</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanwu_Gate_Incident" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Xuanwu Gate Incident">Xuanwu Gate Incident</a>.<sup about="#mwt24" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_2#cite_note-2" id="mwJA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt21" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFChen2010">Chen, Jack Wei (2010). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5wlDivOQGakC" id="mwBgY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBgc">The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty</i></a>. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. pp.<span id="mwBgg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>23–25. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBgk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBgo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780674056084" id="mwBgs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780674056084"><bdi id="mwBgw">9780674056084</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt21" class="Z3988" id="mwBg0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Poetics+of+Sovereignty%3A+On+Emperor+Taizong+of+the+Tang+Dynasty&amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C+Mass.&amp;rft.pages=23-25&amp;rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2010&amp;rft.isbn=9780674056084&amp;rft.aulast=Chen&amp;rft.aufirst=Jack+Wei&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5wlDivOQGakC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+2"></span></span>