Since the ancient dynasty, most of them ruled the world with filial piety, and the empress dowager, as the mother of the emperor himself, often had a noble status, enjoyed the glory of the world's offerings, and was even more honorable in the harem, but in the history of China, there was an empress dowager who disappeared, in order to find this woman, from her husband all the way to her son, two generations of emperors searched hard, decades of searching for people in the world, but finally gave up without results, her husband, son - Tang Dynasty Emperor, Tang Dezong two generations of emperors finally died with deep regret and regret.
A girl who was returned by the royal family
During the Kaiyuan period, Huzhou Thorn History sent a local beautiful woman Shen Shi to the imperial court according to the usual practice, but where is it so simple to be an imperial concubine? Under the layers of PK of the royal concubines, the Shen clan, who had no background, was finally defeated and did not get elected to the palace, but even if he was not elected, the royal family still sent the girl to another place , the Prince East Palace, and became a palace girl.
A teenage girl, left her parents' family, was sent to the royal family, and later was returned to another strange place, the people she saw were strangers, and the things encountered were all strange things, and the world here was completely different from the Lake State where she grew up, and the strangeness was terrifying.
However, people must learn to adapt, Shen began to learn to carefully deal with the surrounding palace women, learn the etiquette in the palace, in the Tang Dynasty, the luxury and prosperity within the royal family, so that the Shen family who first saw this scene was amazed, and could not help but restrain themselves, here, they can not take a wrong step, because one wrong step, it may be doomed.
Princess Guangping, years of glory like a dream
At this time, although the prince Li Heng was as beautiful as a cloud in the palace, he did not have the mood to relax his chest and attract bees and butterflies, because his own prince deserved to be really worried, and the scene where the three brothers (including the first prince) were ruthlessly killed by the father and emperor directly made him suspicious of the father in front of him, which was the father's business? Is this something that people can do?
In order not to be caught by others, Li Heng not only was cautious above the court, but also behaved carefully in the palace, afraid that there would be spies ambushing him, reporting his misdeeds upwards, in recent years, because he was caught by others, he had divorced twice, and although the wife he married this time was temporarily stable, his personality was relatively strong, so Li Heng did not dare to have the idea of touching others in the house.
However, at the time of a coincidence, he saw this little palace girl in the house, Shen Shi, that calm and careful, so that Li Heng seemed to see himself, through a period of observation, Li Heng could not help but be moved, such a good girl, he can not have, then leave it to the son, let the son have a virtuous internal help is also good.
"Son, do you want a wife?"
"Yes!" Li Yu, the King of Guangping, naturally did not refuse to marry his wife at all.
Therefore, under the mediation of his father, Li Yu, the king of Guangping, had a new princess- Shen Shi, from the palace daughter to the princess, the young Shen clan only took a year to stand out from many palace women, and more fortunately, Shen Soon gave birth to a son for Li Yu - Li Shi, this child became the eldest grandson of the prince, and also became the treasure in the eyes of everyone, and the Shen clan naturally rose and the status was more stable.
King Guangping and the Shen clan guarded this child, the family lived sweetly for fifteen years, they originally thought that the years were quiet, everyone could go on like this, however, the world was unpredictable, a catastrophe that threw the sky, immediately broke the tranquility, the whole Tang Dynasty immediately began to shake, and this turmoil, let everyone be trapped in it, no one was spared, Shen Shi was naturally no exception.
A red-faced, abandoned princess in a troubled world
Yuyang Nai came agitatedly, startling the neon feather song. The Nine-Fold City is full of smoke and dust, and thousands of people ride southwest.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, Fan Yangjiedu caused An Lushan to rebel, and a large number of rebel troops went south, making the situation in the imperial court tense day by day, and at this moment, inside the palace of the Guangping Palace, Li Yu and the princess were still living a peaceful life, because their father still needed to keep a low profile, and his grandson did not dare to talk about state affairs.
When he was a Taiping King for a long time, Li Yu was slack on those dynastic affairs, but the news of the daily chaotic army coming south gradually became a common talk in the palace, and Shen Shi listened to people's discussions and looked at his husband and son who were gradually growing into adults, and his face couldn't help but be worried.
"It will be all right, the army of the imperial court in Longxi has been sent over, and the chaotic army cannot come in the dangerous place of Tongguan." Li Yu comforted Shen Shidao, at least his own imperial grandfather said the same thing.
However, no one could have predicted that the difference would come so suddenly, in the fifteenth year of Tianbao, at dawn, the will came from the imperial palace, all the princes and emperors entered the imperial court to discuss, Li Heng took Li Yu and Li Shi hurriedly into the court, but they got the will that the rebel army was about to enter the city, and the royal family needed to flee immediately, and before they could inform their families, these dragon sons and grandchildren were hurriedly stuffed into a car and horses, and left Chang'an City in a hurry, in the car, Li Yu and Li Shi were speechless, they were both worried about the same woman, Shen Shi.
The rebel army is about to enter the city, and the fate of these women who have been abandoned by the royal family will be, they cannot imagine, nor dare they imagine.
Lost and regained, gained and lost
Li Yu lost his princess, fifteen-year-old Li Shi lost his mother, on top of the shame of the family country, the hearts of the two men added a pain of separation of relatives, wait for us, we must live, we will definitely find you!
What Li Yu did not expect was that the heavens actually gave himself a chance, and this opportunity made him regret it even more in the end.
In 757, Li Yu and the imperial army recaptured Chang'an and Luoyang in one fell swoop, and when he entered the city of Luoyang, he unexpectedly saw a familiar figure inside the court, Shen Shi.
At this time, Shen Shi, dressed in rough clothes, haggard, has long lost his former style, and Li Yu, standing in front of him, looking at his wife's encounter, is even more ashamed and embarrassed, he decided that as soon as the war is over, he will immediately take Shen Shi back, the glory of victory belongs to himself, and should also belong to this woman, no matter what she encounters, she is his own princess.
The military situation was urgent, Li Yu temporarily placed the Shen clan in Luoyang, in his opinion, Luoyang has been restored, the army can not carry women, and this time the imperial court Nine Road army went to clear the remnants of the rebellion, victory is just around the corner, so Luoyang is relatively safe, so he rest assured that the Shen clan settled in Luoyang, want to wait for the world to be peaceful, when returning to the army, take the Shen clan back to Chang'an, but it turns out that he is too careless.
The reorganized An Shi rebels once again gained a firm foothold and counterattacked again, and the Ninth Route Imperial Court army finally collapsed in Yecheng, defeated and retreated, taking advantage of the victory to pursue Shi Siming once again occupied Luoyang, and Li Yu, who got this bad news, was even more mad in his heart, his carelessness this time, let his woman fall into the hands of the rebel army again, once can be spared, the second time, will fate still take care of his wife? Li Yu did not dare to think, he felt that he really did not have the face to see his son Li Shi.
Two generations of emperors searched all their lives and found a bunch of fake empresses
When Luoyang was recaptured again, Li Yu sent people to find the whole of Luoyang to the sky, but there was no news of the princess, no one was born, no corpse was seen, and the melancholy gaze of the eldest son behind him made Li Yu feel deep self-blame, I must find you.
In 763 AD, Li Yu ascended the throne and became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, after he ascended the throne, he quickly made a will, that is, the whole world searched for his wife, the emperor's wife was lost, this matter was encountered for the first time in the world, so the world's prefectures and counties were busy, women of similar age were interrogated, but even so, there was still no news, until Li Yu died, still did not find the Shen family, and the guilty Tang Dynasty Emperor died in his lifetime, did not set up an empress, this empress position, always reserved for the Shen clan, Wait for her to come back.
On his deathbed, he took his son's hand, and Li Yu, who could not speak, was full of regret in his eyes, and finally died.
And then ascended the throne Of Li Shi, more energetic than Lao Tzu, after all, the father still has many concubines, and he only has one mother, this search notice, starting from Emperor Daizong, began to pass on the relay, all day long to find the empress, and at this time, the Shen clan was also called "Empress Ruizhen" by Tang Dezong Li Shizun.
The scale of this search is even larger than before, but also increased the amount of the reward, as long as you can find the empress dowager, ask for money to give money, want officials to give officials, under this temptation, some people began to blush, after all, the emperor and the empress have been separated for so many years, the impression is certainly not so clear, the success rate of fraud is relatively high.
Soon, Li Shi got a surprising news, his mother was found in Luoyang, the location, age, experience are very consistent, and the old palace women who were sent to confirm also agreed that this woman should be the empress, because the old things in the palace were all like a number of family treasures, and when Shen Shi was cutting melons, his left finger was injured, and this old woman's left finger also had old scars, and all kinds of signs showed that the empress dowager had found it.
His mother-in-law found it, Tang Dezong was simply happy, he couldn't wait to go to Luoyang immediately to meet his mother, he lost his mother at an early age, let his mother be displaced outside, suffered for many years, he who was a son, must make good compensation for his mother's grievances, so that he could raise his life, Tang Dezong immediately ordered arrangements, ready to go to Luoyang to meet his mother.
Just when Tang Dezong was on fire, Gao Chengyue, a high-ranking eunuch next to him, was extremely mad in his heart, because this "empress" himself knew, that was his own relative, and in Luoyang City, he knew so much and that his left hand was injured, in addition to the empress, but also his own relative, who was once a palace maid in the Guangping Palace, naturally knew the secrets of the past.
Gao Chengyue secretly scolded the other party Li Lingzhi, while struggling with whether to report it quickly, because in case the matter was revealed, this kind of thing pretending to be the empress dowager of the Nine Clans was going to implicate himself, thinking about it, he privately reminded Tang Dezong that this empress dowager was not necessarily true, looking at Gao Chengyue's attitude, Tang Dezong also doubted, in case it was really fake, he would pick it up himself, then it would be a disgrace.
In order to verify Gao Chengyue's suspicions, Emperor Dezong sent Fan Jingchao, the adopted grandson of Gao Lishi, to Luoyang to check it out again, and as a result, Fan Jingchao looked at it, and the other party was too familiar with himself, but it was his own aunt, and he couldn't help but exclaim: ", aunt, are you really bold, is this empress dowager good to impersonate?" Once it is revealed, how can the holy sin be gained! ”
Who ever thought that this fake empress dowager would not admit that she knew Fan Jingchao, and still insisted that she was the empress dowager Shen Shi, and Fan Jingchao saw that her aunt was still pretending to be stupid in front of herself, this kind of head-off thing, who dared to be vague, so she shouted loudly: "There is a commandment, the high daughter pretends to be the empress, and the order is immediately relieved of The Guilt!" ”
When the other party heard this, he panicked and said busily: "I am strong for others, not my own intention." Fan Jing was super realistic, and immediately returned to Dezong and pleaded guilty on behalf of his aunt.
Tang Dezong finally sighed and forgave the false empress, saying:
"Shunning was deceived by a hundred, but sought the truth." If The High Lady was offended by this, who would dare to report the news of the Empress Dowager to Her majesty again? ”
In order to find his mother, Tang Dezong would rather be deceived than pursue those who deceived himself, and this also led to the fact that later from time to time people came out to impersonate the empress, so that Tang Dezong's dynasty, false empress incidents appeared in an endless stream, but in other ways of thinking, maybe Tang Dezong also indulged in this false news, the feeling of hope of finding his mother, so that the emperor who lost his mother in this teenager always held that illusion, maybe tomorrow, tomorrow can find his mother, I miss my mother too much.
This search project continued until the time when Tang Dezong was dying, the emperor who was looking for his mother spent most of his life looking for his mother, but finally he still regretted it, and in the Tang Xianzong period, so many years have passed, in theory, the possibility of his grandmother being alive is very small, so Tang Xianzong was buried for the Shen clan in the Inner Temple of Suzhang, honored as the empress dowager, and this ended the search that took decades, and finally came to an end.
Shen Shi eventually entered history, and her last trace also disappeared into the mystery.