As a child of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Li Zhi, he should be a relative of the emperor and the state who is "either rich or noble", and should enjoy countless glory and wealth! However, as the children of a generation of empress wu Zetian, all the glory and wealth will disappear, accompanied by countless consternations and endless suspicions, and even fears for life! Perhaps at this time, Wu Zetian's children thought that their mother was not the empress, but a mother who lovingly loved her children!
However, imagination is imagination, and reality makes them have to accept it. And our protagonist today, Tang Ruizong Li Dan, spent the first half of his life in such a frightening and frightening day! The two successions to the throne had different circumstances, and the world of the Tang Dynasty was finally handed over to him.
Emperor Ruizong of Tang was the eighth son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the fourth son of Wu Zetian, and the half-brother of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang. As the fourth child of Wu Zetian and Tang Gaozong, there are three brothers in front of him, although he has no connection with the throne of the Nine-Five Emperor, at least it is the treatment of the prince, and his life will also be a carefree prince, so as to spend his life in "glory and wealth"!
However, heaven did not arrange it in this way, although he would live the life of a prisoner in the royal family, although he was "out of reach" with the nine-five-year-old, but this throne belonged to him after all, but it was only after a lot of setbacks. But this process of frustration is spent in endless fear.
In the first year of the reign of Emperor Sisheng (684), Wu Zetian deposed Emperor Li Xian as the King of Luling, replaced Li Dan with Emperor, and ruled on all political affairs. At this time, the young Tang Ruizong Li Dan saw his own brother, succeeding to the throne in front of The Spirit of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and was deposed as emperor by his powerful mother, demoted to the king of Luling, and expelled from the imperial city of Luoyang! In the face of such a strong mother, Tang Ruizong Li Dan was also very worried in his heart, maybe one day he would re-walk the path of his brother Li Xian!
His fears were unreasonable, because his mother had already been buried in Qianling with Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi, and what was left behind was a generation of Wu Emperor Wu Zetian, and the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan would definitely be monopolized by her!
In 684, Emperor Ruizong of Tang ascended to the throne of the "Ninth Five-Year Dignity" with the support of his courtiers. When he was bowing down to the courtiers, his mother Wu Zetian was always standing in front of him. It wasn't until Wu Zetian became emperor that he knew that he was a puppet emperor, and he had no rights to the state over sheji himself, just a prop used by his mother to hide his ears and ears, and he would one day step down from the seat of the Nine-Five-Year-Old.
In the fourth year of the arch (688), Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Chengsi presented Wu Zetian with a white stone engraved with the words "Our Lady of The Prophet, The Emperor of Yongchang", claiming to have been found in Luoshui. In the Tang Dynasty, which was superstitious in metaphysics, this was the warning of heaven and the will of heaven, thus opening the curtain of Wu Zetian's title of emperor.
In the first year of tianzhi (690), the qunchen Shangqu asked Wu Zetian to ascend the throne as emperor, and thereafter the clans, relatives, and even monks, nuns, and Taoists of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Tang Ruizong Li Dan also felt a hint of breath, if he did not learn from them and persuaded them, then his end would be the same as his brother Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, so he was forced to go to the table and asked his mother to be called emperor, and asked his mother to be his own wu surname!
In September of the same year, Wu Zetian officially ascended the throne as emperor, and his honorific title: "Emperor Shengwu" changed his name to "Great Zhou". Historically known as the "Wuzhou Dynasty", at this time Tang Ruizong Li Dan was demoted to the title of imperial heir, given the surname: Wu Shi, moved to the Eastern Palace, all ceremonies were carried out according to the specifications of the crown prince!
At this time, Tang Ruizong Li Dan seemed to feel that he had put a lot of relief in his heart, and he also felt a little relaxed, at least he was no longer a puppet emperor, and he was no longer afraid! However, his imagination is so far away from reality, since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, he, the crown prince, has been imprisoned in the Eastern Palace, and has never taken a half step in 7 years, as an imperial prince, he should have supreme power, but in the eyes of his mother, he is a competitor to imperial power, so he has become a victim of imperial power. Originally thought that this would be the end, and it would not invite the disaster of killing, but unfortunately, the imperial power was what many people dreamed of! And how many people want to take it for themselves.
In the second year of Tianzhi, Wu Zetian's nephew King Wu of Wei began to manipulate the four ends and the novel Light Dust, abolished Li Dan's position as crown prince, expelled him from Beijing, and established himself as the crown prince, but under the pure protection, Wu Chengsi's plan failed, but he often said bad things about Li Dan in Wu Zetian's ear, trying to use Wu Zetian to kill Li Dan, but under the protection of the Qunchen, under the care of Wu Zetian and a trace of maternal love, Li Dan finally escaped the end of death! In the end, he was demoted to Xiangzhou by his mother!
In the first year of shenlong (705), the chancellor Zhang Kamzhi, Cui Xuanwei and others launched a shenlong coup d'état, killing Wu Zetian's favorite sons Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, forcing Wu Zetian to sit in Li Xian, and Wu Zetian was under pressure, and finally agreed to make Li Xian crown prince and ordered the crown prince to handle state affairs.
The following year, Wu Zetian died of illness, and Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ascended the throne, historically known as Emperor Zhongzong of Tang. At this time, Tang Neizong Li Shi, who was far away from Xiangzhou as the king, was very happy in his heart, because the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan was finally returned to the Li Tang Dynasty, and he was also very fortunate and happy that his brother Tang Zhongzong's ideal could once again ascend to the throne and once again control the world of Tang!
In June of the fourth year of Jinglong (710), Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was poisoned by Empress Wei and Princess Anle. Empress Wei made Li Chongmao the Prince of Wen emperor, changed her name to Tang Long, and became the regent of the imperial court as empress dowager. Going around and around, it seems to be back to the original point, this scene is so "déjà vu", the real Zetian Emperor has just been sent to Qianling, and the dramatic scene is once again staged in the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty, and this Wei Hou also seems to want to become the second "Wu Zetian".
On June 20, 2014, Li Longji, concealing his father Tang Ruizong Li Dan, conspired with Princess Taiping in the Tang Palace, and with the assistance of Ge Fushun, Li Xianjian, and other forbidden generals, under the banner of "Emperor Xuanwei to restore the society, and Li Xiang to establish the king to an world", he staged a mutiny, killing Empress Wei, Princess Anle, and their henchmen, and then Tang Xuanzong Li Longji welcomed his father Tang Ruizong Li Dan into the palace and ascended the throne as emperor.
Ascending the throne again, once again ascending to the throne of the Nine-Five-Year Emperor, Tang Ruizong Li Dan was full of emotions, and he was able to ascend to this throne, all by his son Tang Xuanzong Li Longji! If it weren't for the fact that his son had the audacity to launch a coup d'état in secret, it is estimated that he would not have dared to imagine that he would launch a "Tanglong coup"!
The second time to ascend the throne is really their own, and the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan really belongs to themselves. The power of the Tang Dynasty really belongs to itself. It was precisely because his son Tang Xuanzong had great merits, so Tang Ruizong Li Dan was very distressed, and he wanted to base himself on Li Longji as the crown prince, but his eldest son Li Chengqi, according to the ancestral family law, was the legal candidate who should be made crown prince.
However, to the great satisfaction of Tang Ruizong Li Dan, Li Chengqi, the eldest son of Tang Ruizong, voluntarily resigned from the position of crown prince on the grounds that "national security is the first to be long," and the country is in danger before merit." Finally, under the persuasion of the ministers, Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong smoothly became the crown prince and became the future successor of the Tang Dynasty.
After Tang Ruizong Li Dan succeeded to the throne, he thanked Princess Taiping for her contribution to the Tang Long coup, and allowed him to meddle in the affairs of some countries. However, Li Longji, the Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who was made crown prince, gradually grew in power. However, Li Longji was 10 points averse to Princess Taiping's interference in the country's government. Therefore, the struggle between Princess Taiping and Crown Prince Li Longji gradually unfolded.
However, Princess Taiping was favored by her younger brother Emperor Ruizong of Tang. Gradually meddling in the country's military power made Li Longji 10 points dissatisfied. At this time, Emperor Ruizong of Tang could no longer control Princess Taiping, and for fear of endangering the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, he gradually placed his throne in Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
In July of the second year of The First Heaven (713), in order to regain the power of the emperor, Li Longji preemptively launched the "First HeavenLy Coup" to eliminate Princess Taiping's henchmen, and then killed Princess Taiping and regained all the rights that should have belonged to him. In this way, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji truly became the master of the Tang Empire.
In June of the fourth year of the new century (716), Li Dan, the ill-fated Emperor Ruizong of Tang, died of illness at the Baifu Temple at the age of fifty-five. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, led hundreds of officials to be buried in Qiaoling, with the temple number Ruizong, and posthumously honored Emperor Shengzhen.
Tang Ruizong Li Dan, who ascended the throne twice in his lifetime, had different meanings, although he was a generation of emperors, under the prestige of his mother Wu Zetian, he could only be placed under house arrest in the Eastern Palace, and he was worried about his life at any time. Fortunately, with the care of heaven, he escaped from his mother's clutches and went to Xiangzhou to become an idle prince.
Fortunately, his son Tang Xuanzong Li Longji secretly launched the Tang Long coup and regained his long-lost throne, and the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan once again returned to his hands, which was also an infinite sigh, and he used to be slaughtered by others, and now he has ascended to the world, and he has returned to his first starting point.
One of the things that Tang Ruizong felt he had done most correctly in his life was to give the throne to his son Li Longji, so that the Tang Dynasty could create glory again, create the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era" that followed Tang Taizong Li Shimin's "Rule of Zhenguan", make the Tang Empire strong again, and once again create the grand situation of "Eight Directions coming to the Dynasty", and he was also worthy of his ancestors and the expectations of his father Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.
I think Tang Ruizong Li Dan was lucky, with the favor of heaven, he ascended to the throne twice, and he also walked away with a smile at the moment of his death.