History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Empress Eldest Sun was known as the "Empress of the Ages", and she married 15-year-old Li Shimin at the age of 13. With Li Shimin through the most difficult stage of entrepreneurship, he helped Li Shimin ascend to the throne. She likes to read books and does not easily express her opinion on her husband's career, but as long as there is advice, it is often very valuable. Empress Eldest Sun was such a virtuous assistant, who, in addition to caring about her husband's work, was also very considerate of Li Shimin's life. Empress Eldest Sun often visited women to enrich her husband's harem.
In the second year of Zhenguan, Empress Eldest Sun found a beautiful woman, and the book described this woman as "beautiful and beautiful, and beyond her reach at that time". The woman was the daughter of Jeong In-ki and was about 16 years old. Empress Eldest Sun asked Emperor Taizong of Tang to make this woman a concubine and include her in the harem. When Tang Taizong saw it, he crowned this woman as one of the nine concubines, Chonghua, and issued an edict of formal sealing.
Before the envoys who had gone to the edict could leave, one person stood up against it, and he was Wei Zheng. Wei Zheng was originally a man under Li Mi, and after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he worked under the crown prince Li Jiancheng at that time. When Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were vying for the throne, Wei Zheng had suggested that Li Jiancheng kill Li Shimin first. When Li Shimin seized the throne, he discarded his previous suspicions and reused Wei Zheng, who could be said to have lived up to Li Shimin's credibility politically and put forward many good suggestions.
In the impression of many people, Wei Zheng is the representative of Zhizhi, and even Li Shimin is afraid of him. Once a bird died in Li Shimin's arms because of this, this bird is really wronged. This time, Wei Zheng was going to stand up again.
Wei Zheng said that this woman must not be included in the harem, and I heard that this woman had already promised to give Lu Shuang, and being an emperor could not take people's love! The emperor is the parent of the world, and if he does this, I am afraid that it will damage the holy virtue!
Tang Taizong was shocked, is this really fake? Let the messenger of cefeng pause his departure. At this time, several more ministers stood up, they were Fang Xuanling, Wen Yanbo, Wang Jue, and Wei Ting. They said that there was no evidence that this woman was promised to Lu Shuang, and that the ceremony had already begun, and the emperor had said everything, so how could it be said that it was suspended?
That Lu Shuang also wrote to Tang Taizong at this time to explain that he and the woman were not engaged at all.
At this moment, Li Shimin was a little confused. He asked Wei Zheng what was going on, if the ministers were trying to pat themselves on the ass, then why did Lu Shuang also say that there was no engagement?
Wei Zheng said that Lu Shuang was afraid that the emperor would tolerate him on the surface, but behind his back, he would wear small shoes for him, so Lu Shuang had to take the initiative to say that he was not engaged.
After Tang Taizong listened, he canceled the marriage and let Zheng Renji, a beautiful daughter, marry Lu Shuang. People at that time were very praised for Tang Taizong's actions. Fifteen years later, Emperor Taizong married Lu Shuang and the daughter born to the woman to Li Shen, who was Tang Taizong's son.