Tang Zhongzong had a difficult fate in his life, and he was twice in power, and he was eventually poisoned by his favorite daughter Princess Anle and Empress Weishi.
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, li xian, born in 656 and died in 710, was the seventh son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and the third son of Wu Zetian. In February 684, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, who had been on the throne for only 36 days, was deposed by Wu Zetian and demoted to Fangzhou. On the way to the degraded Fangzhou, Tang Zhongzong's daughter Princess Anle was born, and Li Xian took off his clothes to wrap the baby, so the nickname was Wrapped.
Princess Anle is known as the "first beauty of the Tang Dynasty", when Li Shu'er was more than ten years old, she was intelligent in posture and beautiful in appearance, and Emperor Zhongzong and Wei Shi were very fond of her, listening to her desires since childhood, and no one was allowed, so Princess Anle developed an arrogant and willful temper from an early age. In 699, Emperor Zhongzong was restored to the capital by Wu Zetian and was reappointed crown prince. Princess Anle returned to the capital with her father after 14 years in Fangzhou. Back in the palace, Wu Zetian saw Li Shu'er and also admired her extravagant wisdom, so she was named Princess Anle.
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In 705, Li Xian took the throne, and he was particularly fond of Princess Anle, which can be said to be held in his hand for fear of falling, and contained in his mouth for fear of melting. But Princess Anle did things without scruples, misbehaving, poor and extravagant, and did not observe the way of women at all.
He also wanted to emulate Wu Zetian as an empress and let Tang Zhongzong make her an "imperial concubine", and his desire for power was particularly strong. Her life is very luxurious, in order to build a large number of civil engineering projects, she seized the houses of the people.
Princess Anle hoped that Wei Hou would be the empress dowager herself, so the mother and daughter joined forces to plan to poison Emperor Zhongzong. Merriam-Webster made the cake himself and put the poison into the filling. When the cake had been steamed, he heard that Emperor Zhongzong was consulting the chapter in the Dragon Hall, so he asked the palace maid to bring the cake to Emperor Zhongzong.
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Zhongzong loved the cake the most, reached out and ate it, ate eight or nine in a row, and said that the cake tasted very good, but after a moment, he had a big pain in his abdomen, fidgeting, and fell on the bed. After the internal attendant reported to Wei, Wei Hou slowly entered the temple and pretended to be surprised. Zhongzong could no longer speak, and with his fingers, he extended for several more moments, his body could not move, his eyes rolled over, and he went to another world.
Emperor Mingsizong Zhu Youjian was the sixteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The fifth son of Emperor Mingguangzong, the half-brother of Emperor Mingxi, his mother was lady Liu. He was canonized as King of Letters in 1622. He reigned from 1627 to 1644 under the era name Chongzhen.
After taking the throne, he vigorously eradicated the castration party, was diligent in government affairs, was frugal and simple, and committed six crimes against himself, was a young and promising emperor, during his reign the peasant revolt was rampant, and the Qing Dynasty outside Guanwai was powerful, and was already in a situation where internal and external troubles intersected. On March 17, 1777, Li Zicheng besieged the capital.
On the evening of the eighteenth day, Zhu Youjian and his personal eunuch Wang Cheng'en climbed the coal mountain, looked at the sky-high beacons outside the city and around the Zhangyi Gate, but sighed and wandered, and after returning to the palace, they wrote an edict and ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to lead the troops and assist the crown prince Zhu Cixiu.
He also ordered Empress Zhou, Yuan Guifei, and 3 sons to enter the palace, briefly instructed the sons to say a few words, and ordered the eunuchs to send them to the homes of foreign relatives to hide. He cried again and said to Empress Zhou, "You are the mother of the country and deserve to be martyred." Empress Zhou also cried and said, "Concubines have followed you for 18 years, and Your Majesty has not heard a word from concubines, so that there is today." Now that His Majesty has ordered his concubines to die, how dare a concubine not die?" After saying that, he hanged himself and died.
Zhu Youjian turned to Concubine Yuan guifei and said, "You should also go with the empress!" Yuan Guifei cried goodbye and hanged herself. Zhu Youjian summoned the 15-year-old Princess Changping and said with tears, "Why did you come to the Emperor's house?" After saying that, she covered her face with her left sleeve, pulled out a knife with her right hand and slashed her left arm, then cut her right shoulder, and she passed out.
Zhu Youjian also hacked several concubines to death, and ordered the left and right to urge Empress Yi'an Zhang to commit suicide, and Empress Yi'an Zhang paid several prayers to Zhu Youjian in the curtain and hanged herself. In the early morning of the nineteenth, When Li Zicheng's rebel army entered the city of Beijing from the Zhangyi Gate, Zhu Youjian bit his finger and wrote a blood letter to Li Zicheng, saying that he had today, but he was mistaken by his subordinates. When you are dead, you have no face to go to the ground to see your ancestors, only to take off your crown, cover your face with your hair, and let you divide the body, but don't hurt the people.
He hid the blood book in his clothes, climbed the coal mountain, and hanged himself in the Shouhuang Pavilion, where he died at the age of 35 and reigned for 17 years. Wang Cheng'en was also hanged from the opposite tree, and after the fall of the Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng entered the city, he carried his body to Donghua Gate, found the blood book on his body, and buried it in Changping Prefecture. Local civilians buried him in the tomb of Tian Guifei, and after the Qing army entered the pass, they buried him in the Thirteen Tombs siling tomb, with the title of Emperor Huaizong and later emperor Zhuang Lie. The Southern Ming dynasty honored him as Emperor Sizonglie, and later changed his title to Emperor Yizong, also known as Emperor Chongzhen.