The Tang Dynasty was one of the most prosperous dynasties in ancient China, when the material was extremely rich, ahead of other countries in the world, and many Westerners would come to me for the Pilgrimage. Especially now Japan and Korea are all vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, and the national strength at that time was very strong, but after the reign of Zhenguan reached its peak, the Tang Dynasty gradually declined, which was also because of Wu Zetian's struggle for power.
Tang Gaozong Li Zhi did not hesitate to bear the insult to marry his father's woman, and it was precisely because of this that the mythical story of Wu Zetian was created, Li Zhi had many sons, but they were all controlled by Wu Zetian, and more seriously, Li Zhi's grandson Li Yixun, as a royal descendant, was actually reduced to a slave and wandered in Lingnan for more than forty years, which was given by Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian's ability to return to the palace from Ganye Temple was partly her own efforts in it, and on the other hand, Li Zhi's liking. During Li Shimin's reign, Li Zhi was attracted to this woman by his father, but because of the ethics of Gang Chang, Li Zhi still controlled his emotions. However, after Li Shimin left, Li Zhi succeeded him as the first person in the world to do whatever he wanted.
Li Zhi already had four children when she ascended the throne, of which Empress Wang had not yet given birth to her own child, and her position in the palace was threatened, so Empress Wang tried her best to give birth to her own son. However, at that time, Concubine Xiao Shufei was very favored, and Empress Wang felt a great crisis, and the two sides fought in the harem.
Among the four children at this time, only Xiao Shufei's son had an advantage, because his mother's status was very high, while the mothers of the remaining three sons were all from humble origins and had no competitiveness, including Li Zhi's third son, Li Shangjin, the King of Ze. In order to achieve a situation of checks and balances, Empress Wang did not let Xiao Shufei's family dominate, so she took pains to push her eldest son to the position of crown prince.
Although the eldest son's mother concubine had a low status and no family power, this was not the queen's own child. Empress Wang was still not at ease, afraid of being taken advantage of by Xiao Shufei's son, so she tried to find a way to take Wu Zetian back to the palace to let her compete with Xiao Shufei for favors, and then control Wu Zetian, at that time Li Zhizheng was suffering from no way to take Wu Zetian back to the palace.
It just so happened that Empress Wang helped Li Zhi solve the problem and also did as she wished, which made the three parties very happy, but they did not expect that taking Wu Zetian back to the palace changed the history of the Tang Dynasty. Later, Empress Wang gradually realized that her biggest opponent was Wu Zetian, and began to join forces with Xiao Shufei to resist Wu Zetian, but the final winner was Still Wu Zetian.
People who stood in the opposing camp of Wu Zetian became thorns in the eyes of Wu Zetian, except for Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei, who was Li Shangjin's mother, Yang Shi, so Wu Zetian was very disgusted with Li Shangjin after he ascended the throne.
Li Yixun was the eighth son of Li Zhi's third son, Li Shangjin, so Li Zhi was his grandfather, and Wu Zetian, as empress dowager, was also his grandmother. The enmity between Li Shangjin and Wu Zetian affected Li Shangjin's descendants, causing Li Yixun to spend a miserable life.
After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian's ambitions also became more and more ambitious, and Wu Zetian and Li Zhi had a total of four sons, and Li Zhong was later appointed crown prince. After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian killed Li Zhong fiercely in order to take power. At this time, Wu Zetian already had the idea of being called emperor, and the descendants of the Li clan could not stay, and Wu Zetian wanted to let the children of the Wu surname inherit the throne.
After Wu Zetian came to power, she began to secretly plot to exclude dissidents and suppress her villains. During this period, there were many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, all of which were caused by Wu Zetian in order to clear the obstacles of the Li clan. Many of Lee's descendants are in danger as a result. Among them, the King of Yue could not bear that Li Tangjiangshan was robbed by Wu Zetian, so he organized a usurpation.
The Yue King's preparations for this rebellion were not sufficient, and the kings of various regions did not give absolute support, and soon ended in failure. At this time, the people of the Li clan were all frightened and did not dare to have a direct conflict with Wu Zetian, but Li Shangjin did not see his danger from it, but fought with Wu Zetian head-on.
Originally, Wu Zetian had a grudge against Yang Shi and Li Shangjin, and in this way he was able to repay the hatred in his heart. Li Shangjin and Li Sujie launched another coup d'état, but it still ended in failure, and Li Shangjin also hoped that Wu Zetian would give him a hard time and release his sons.
After the Li Shangjin incident was exposed, it was natural to affect his family, Li Shangjin had many sons, among which the concubines who had the opportunity to inherit the title were all executed by Wu Zetian, and several of them were sent by Wu Zetian to Lingnan, including Li Yixun, who escaped during the exile, afraid of being hunted down and killed, so he became an ordinary person in anonymity.
In order not to be discovered, Li Yixun ran to a large household as a slave to cover his identity, so he was reduced to living as a slave. Later, Wu Zetian lost power and Li Shangjin was rehabilitated, at this time Li Shangjin had only one descendant alive, that is, Li Yixun, and Li Yixun returned to Beijing to accept the knighthood and became the King of Size.
But not long after, he was reported that he was not Li Shangjin's son, and Li Yixun had no one to prove it for him, so he was assigned to Lingnan again, and unfortunately became a slave, so he lived a slave life for more than forty years. Later, because of the help of Princess Yuzhen, Li Yixun returned to Kyoto and took back his own title, and he no longer had to be a slave.
Li Yixun was able to choose the most humble identity to hide himself in a time of crisis, and he was worthy of being a person who could bend and stretch. Being exiled twice before and after and being able to persist until the day of returning to the palace is indeed an extraordinary talent.
As Li Zhi's own grandson, he actually fell to Lingnan and became a slave for more than forty years, which was unimaginable to other descendants of the Imperial Family. Because they have been dressed since they were young, few people can suffer like this. As Li Zhi's grandson, he has never been served by others in his life, but he has served others for a long time.
Fortunately, Li Yixun is a person who loves life, he was not defeated by his own situation, and bravely survived. Only the day when his father was rehabilitated, he also returned to the capital to get back everything that belonged to him. Li Yixun's life and legend, it is indeed remarkable that he can finally get a good ending.