The first emperor of the Tang Dynasty to be killed was Li Xian, the son of Wu Zetian. He had originally ascended the throne as emperor after the death of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, but in just 55 days he was deposed by his mother Wu Zetian and exiled to other places. It was not until Wu Zetian's later years that his conscience found out that he was picked up and returned to be the crown prince. After the Shenlong coup, he ascended the throne as emperor, but he eventually died at the hands of his most trusted wife, Wei Hou, who poisoned Emperor Zhongzong of Tang in order to become emperor.
The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty to be killed was Li Chun of Tang Xianzong.
Li Chun was the eldest son of Tang Shunzong, and Tang Shunzong Li Shu did not reign for a long time, because he hated eunuchs and reused Wang Shuwen and others to change the law, which annoyed a number of eunuchs and forced him to give the throne to the crown prince Li Chun, claiming to be the emperor.
It can be said that Li Chun's smooth ascension to the throne was due to the merits of eunuchs, but he was also a hard-working emperor, and he did not want to be only a puppet of eunuchs, so he carried out a series of reforms, known in history as "Yuan and Zhongxing".
However, in the later period of his reign, Tang Xianzong Li Chun changed, and began to superstitiously believe that alchemists sought immortality and obeyed Jindan, especially his temperament became irritable and irritable, and he often reprimanded or killed eunuchs.
In his later years, Tang Xianzong met a son, that is, Crown Prince Zhili.
The mother of the eldest son, Li Ning, was a miyajin Kishi, and the mother of the second son, Li Yun, did not leave a name. Mu Zong was the third oldest, but he had a strong mother, that is, the granddaughter of Guo Ziyi, the father of Shang.
Tang Xianzong was unsure for a moment, so he dragged on for a long time without making up his mind. However, with the development of time, the eldest son Li Ning is also 17 years old, and he likes to read, and his demeanor is quite in line with etiquette, which is deeply loved by Xianzong.
So he finally withstood the pressure and chose his eldest son, Li Ning, as his successor. But Li Ning had only been a prince for two years and actually fell ill and died. After Li Ning's death, Tang Xianzong had to choose again for the election of an heir.
However, at that time, the government and the public unanimously demanded the appointment of the third elder, which was obviously Guo's incitement behind. However, the second elder also had supporters, especially the eunuch Tutu Chengcui, who was in charge of the Divine Strategy Army, but in desperation, Tang Xianzong still established the third elder.
However, he has always been dissatisfied with the new prince, and he is also greatly dissatisfied with the Guo family. Especially a year after the subsequent appointment of the crown prince, Manchu Wenwu actually asked to make Guo Shi empress, which made Tang Xianzong even more angry.
The Guo clan co-opted their own forces inside and outside the government and the opposition, formed a wide range of henchmen, and competed with Tutu Chengcui and others. Tutu Chengcui had been working hard to make Tang Xianzong change to crown prince, and after that, Tang Xianzong's health deteriorated because of his long-term use of Dan medicine, and seeing that the struggle for power and profit between the two sides had become white-hot, the Guo clique actually came to a trick to draw salaries and directly killed Tang Xianzong.
In this way, the crown prince successfully took over, and Tutu Chengcui and the emperor's second son, Li Yun, were sent to Huangquan Road together.
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