"My descendants are not allowed to kill any of the descendants of the Min family."
On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month in the first year of the Pingliuli calendar, Tang Jun, the founding monarch of the Tang Dynasty, swore to heaven and decreed that Min Zhanzhong, the first head of the Min family, be the Duke of Anguo, with a household of three thousand households. Min's favor was unparalleled.
On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month in the ninety-third year of the Dingyuan calendar, Hengzong died and Prince Tang Ting came to the throne. The Queen Mother Chen took charge of the government. She was a pro-villain and a virtuous minister from far away. The head of the Min family, Min Tuo, denounced Chen angrily at court. Chen was so angry that she ordered him to march around the city with a crime sign on his head for a month.
Min Tuo couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide at the east city gate. Thousands of members of the Min family were in mourning. The crown prince, Min Chan, sent a hundred thousand Qin Wang troops to the capital and defeated the Eastern army and the city. Later, the Chen family asked for three assassins from Weiyang Palace to assassinate Min Chan before the battle, and then the soldiers stopped.
From then on, all the princes deceived the young emperor and started a rebellion. The world was divided into six parts, and the Min family was the most important. ——"The Chronicles of Tang Ting in the History of the Tang Dynasty"