Everyone knows "Sheng Tang", but the Tang Dynasty palace suddenly changed, more wonderful than any dynasty, Wu Zetian seized the power of his son Li Xian, saying that the empress dowager was exterminated against the Li clan that threatened her power, and Li Xian launched a coup to regain power when Wu Zetian was about to enter the earth, and the backer behind it was Princess Taiping and others.
At that time, the imperial palace was full of dangers, women and men fought with each other, we first covered the matter of Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne and abdication, in 690, Wu Zetian called the emperor, changed the name of the country to "Zhou", opened up the precedent of women to call the emperor, it is reasonable to say that "Tang" is over, and most of the descendants of the Li clan were dealt with by Wu Zetian.
But Wu Zetian did another surprising thing, that is, to restore his son Li Xian as the crown prince, returned to the "Tang", in the first month of 705, the 82-year-old Wu Zetian was seriously ill, Li Xian did another "peculiar" thing, that is, to launch the Shenlong coup, Wu Zetian passed the throne to Li Xian, Li Xian was called emperor, tang Zhongzong, in February the restoration of the name "Tang", Li Weishi as empress.
Then Li Xian also did something that made the ministers anxious, breaking Empress Ge Liwei's father as king, Empress Wei was also able to intervene in the government, Empress Wei had great ambitions, and had long been dissatisfied with the cautious Li Xian, she married her daughter Princess Anle to the son of Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi to increase her power, and had an ambiguous relationship with Wu Sansi.
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was poisoned by Empress Wei and Princess Anle after 5 years of being emperor in name only, and then Emperor Zhongzong's young son Li Chongmao took the throne without any power, and Empress Wei wanted to replace Li Chongmao when the time was ripe, and Princess Anle was quite an imperial consort.
However, how could Princess Taiping let Empress Wei's mother and daughter get their wish, they also had the same ambitions, but the strength of one person was not enough to pull Empress Wei down, at this time Princess Taiping's nephew Li Longji was crowned king, and he had connections, and was a very good ally, especially they all planned to support Li Xian's half-brother after the coup, that is, Li Longji's father Li Dan as emperor.
Princess Taiping and Li Longji immediately hit it off, launched the Tang Long coup, killed Empress Wei, Princess Anle and others, Li Dan called the emperor, for Tang Ruizong, in 712, Tang Ruizong Zen throne to the crown prince Li Longji, Li Longji ascended the throne, the first time to get rid of the former ally Princess Taiping, why is this? The real reason is surprising.
The reason is that Princess Taiping's power is growing day by day, she was once Wu Zetian's favorite daughter, carrying the shadow of Wu Zetian, during Li Dan's reign, she played Li Dan many times, on the grounds that Li Longji was not the eldest son of Li Longji, deposed Li Longji's crown prince, and as a result, Li Dan directly ceded Zen to her son Li Longji, and Princess Taiping already knew in her heart that she could not solve Li Longji and planned to launch a coup d'état to seize the throne, but Li Longji found out first and gave him to death at home.