Great Tang: With Three Days Left, I Empty the Crown Prince's Treasury

In the ninth year of Wude, only three days remained until the Xuanwu Gate Incident!

Lu Ping'an, a senior military quartermaster under Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, looked at the armory packed with weapons, gold, and silver, and fell into deep thought.

Advising the crown prince? Certain death!

Defending the Eastern Palace? He'd be buried along with its occupants!

To stay alive, Lu Ping'an made a decision that went against his ancestors' teachings: loot the looters!

On the eve of the coup, he emptied the crown prince's secret treasury, seized the Eastern Palace Guards' weapons, and knocked on the door of the Prince of Qin's residence in the middle of the night.

"Your Highness, Prince of Qin, I've seized all the crown prince's weapons, taken all his money, and even bribed the guards at Xuanwu Gate into a stupor."

Li Shimin was dumbfounded. "Aren't you one of the crown prince's men?"

Lu Ping'an declared righteously, "A wise bird chooses the right tree to nest in! If you still refuse to raise an army, I'll take all this money overseas and become a pirate!"

After ascending the throne, Li Shimin wanted to appoint him chancellor. Lu Ping'an waved his hands again and again. "Being an official is too exhausting. I only want to be an ordinary man with a fortune, a beloved wife, and beautiful concubines!"

Thus, the Tang Dynasty lost a great chancellor and gained a god of wealth whose riches rivaled the nation and whose fleet ruled the four seas!