The recent fire of "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" has brought the history of the Tang Dynasty to the fire, and Zongheng has also been interpreting this drama, and by the way, many character relationships in the Middle and Tang Dynasties have been interpreted.
"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" sets the story in the three years of Tang Xuanzong's reign of Tianbao, only more than ten years after the Anshi Rebellion, which can be seen as the last elegy of the prosperous world, not so much "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" is an ancient anti-terrorism suspense drama, but rather a political power struggle in the Tang Dynasty.
In his later years, the sage Tang Xuanzong Li Longji could be regarded as an emperor with a funny head, and after the kaiyuan dynasty, he thought that he was very satisfied with his rule, so in the twenty-ninth year of the new century, he changed his name to Tianbao and wanted to enjoy the heavenly age, when Li Longji was exactly sixty years old, which can be said to be not very useful.
According to the reason, if the emperor is tired of the government, he can take the rule of inaction and gradually abdicate and give way to Xian, but Li Longji is not a person who is very reassured about his son, and he even thinks that the only person who threatens his throne can come from his son.
Li Longji's sensitivity is actually unreasonable, after all, Li Longji's path to the throne can be described as holding a blade of knife from Penglai all the way to the South Heavenly Gate, seven days and seven nights without closing his eyes, and being able to finally win in such a complex political environment of the Tang Dynasty and gain a firm foothold is not a good stubble.
As the saying goes, fighting with heaven, fighting with the earth, and fighting with people is endlessly enjoyable, and Li Longji's political struggle is the main mission of his life.
Li Longji had two princes in the dynasty, originally the position of prince was not Li Heng's, but Li Ying's, Li Ying's title of prince was not a big deal, but in the Kaiyuan year, he brought Jia into the palace, which was characterized by Li Longji as an intention to rebel, and after abolition, he gave him death.
As for why these three princes brought Jia into the palace, the New Book of Tang and the Old Book of Tang are not clear, one theory is that Li Longji's favorite concubine Wu Huifei designed a frame-up, and in any case, the final result was that Li Longji killed his three own sons in one day.
This kind of fierceness of heart, looking at the entire history of the feudal dynasty emperors, is a very difficult thing to exist, Emperor Wu of Han once forced the crown prince Liu Zhao to rebel, after Liu Zhao's death, Emperor Wu of Han also reflected a little; Tang Taizong's crown prince Li Chengqian rebelled, Li Shimin personally interceded to exonerate the capital crime; only Li Longji was the most bullish, and before he was sure whether Li Ying was a rebel, he gave him death.
Therefore, Li Longji was a person who did not trust his son, and li Longji trusted eunuchs, military generals, and ministers more than his sons.
The prince of the Tang Dynasty was difficult to be, and Li Longji's prince was even more difficult.
Although Li Heng's position as prince was picked up, it was not good, and he would lose his head if he didn't do it well, and he knew this very well. During his tenure as crown prince, Li Heng was cautious and walked on thin ice, afraid that he would be worried about his life because of some mistakes.
However, the courtiers did not intend to let him go, and Li Linfu, who had no merit in favoring Li Hengli, wanted to get rid of Li Heng and carried out political persecution for this, resulting in Li Heng almost becoming insane at a young age.
Li Linfu was not easily overthrown, and Yang Guozhong, who replaced Li Linfu, still looked at Li Heng unfavorably and suppressed him many times, thanks to the fact that Li Longji was older and Yang Yuhuan did not give birth to a son and a half daughter at that time, if he really had a son, I estimated that Li Heng's end was worse than That of Zhao Si and his father. (Someone always asked me how tragic Zhao Si's father's death was, Zhao Si's father flipped back on the roof and landed on the ground, how miserable you said)
In the political struggle of dog blood, Li Heng gradually became stronger in his heart, and after the Anshi Rebellion, he really played a big game and planned the Ma Songpo Mutiny, although the people and ministers who opposed the crown prince Li Heng were all killed, Yang Guozhong was also among them, after Yang Guozhong's death, the general Chen Xuanli forced the palace Li Longji to kill Yang Yuhuan on behalf of the soldiers, and Li Longji had to do so.
After the Ma Songpo Mutiny, Li Heng and Li Longji parted ways, Li Longji ran to Sichuan, and Li Heng rushed to Lingwu to gain military power, immediately ascended the throne as emperor, and honored Li Longji as emperor.
If strictly investigated, Li Heng ascended the throne without authorization, which is equivalent to a coup d'état, but at that time, Li Longji's general trend had gone, and he had become a complete loner, so he did not have the heart to fight with Li Heng, and he also adopted an attitude of acquiescence after the fact that Li Heng ascended the throne.
What is more interesting is that Li Heng almost died in front of the Taishang Emperor Li Longji, it can be said that it was also due to Li Longji, in the complex struggle environment, Li Heng's physical condition deteriorated is also understandable, after all, the tang Dynasty prince himself is not good, Li Heng encountered such a pit son's father.