History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
I have to say that the ancient emperor's family seems to have unlimited scenery on the surface, but in fact, it is full of bloody rain, in order to be able to sit on the supreme dragon chair, not to mention a layer of blood relations, that is, between fathers and sons, brothers, still fighting for your life and death, such examples abound.
For example, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, who can be said to be one of the most wise and divine emperors in ancient Chinese history, but also through the "xuanwumen change", killed his brother Li Jiancheng to become the emperor, although the process is somewhat disgraceful, but in the end, Li Shimin with his own talent roughly created the rule of Zhenguan, laying a very solid foundation for the future development and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
However, no one ever imagined that forty-one years after Li Shimin's death, a generation of empresses Wu Zetian came out of nowhere, deposed Tang Ruizong Li Dan and established herself as emperor, becoming the only recognized orthodox female emperor in Chinese history, and because of Wu Zetian's success, other women in the Tang dynasty royal family saw hope.
Among these women are Tang Zhongzong Li Xian's wife Wei Shi, presumably everyone knows that Li Xian's father is Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and he is also the third son of Wu Zetian, and his process of becoming emperor can be described as a series of twists and turns, once from the prince was deposed by Wu Zetian as the king of Luling, to Junzhou, Fangzhou and other places, but in the end, Fuda still became the fourth emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
In the days when he was demoted to the King of Luling, Li Xian was once depressed, and it was precisely because of Wei Shi's inseparable companionship and patient enlightenment to him that he spent that period of trepidation, and therefore, Li Xian was extremely grateful to Wei Shi and made a wish to her, if one day he could see the light of day again, he would never fail her.
When Li Xianshi became emperor, he immediately fulfilled his promise and made Wei Shi empress, but what he did not expect was that the original sympathetic wife would eventually become an ambitious woman, and what he did not expect was that in order to become the next Wu Zetian, Empress Wei actually joined forces with her daughter Li Shu'er to poison him, which was really regrettable.
When Empress Wei poisoned Li Xian, she soon made Li Xian's fourth son, Li Chongmao the Prince of Wen, emperor, and she was regent as empress dowager, intending to emulate Wu Zetian and become the second female emperor, and Empress Wei's actions naturally caused dissatisfaction among other members of the Tang royal family, including a young talent of the Tang dynasty.
Who is this talent? He was the future famous Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji, but although his father was the former Tang Ruizong Li Dan, his grandmother was Wu Zetian, and his great-grandfather was Tang Taizong Li Shimin, at this moment, in the entire Tang Dynasty royal family, Li Longji did not have much influence, and his strength was far inferior to that of Empress Wei.
However, in order not to let the Li Tang Dynasty fall into the hands of others again, the young and vigorous Li Longji still planned to take a desperate risk and smash the conspiracy of Empress Wei to become emperor, although the process was thrilling, and finally Li Longji finally destroyed Empress Wei's power with the help of his aunt Princess Taiping and his own efforts, so that the Li Tang Dynasty was back on the right track.
After Empress Wei's faction was completely eliminated, Li Longji supported his father Li Dan to become emperor again, and he became the crown prince because of his merits, but at this time, the mutation was regenerated, and the aunt Princess Taiping, who had fought alongside Li Longji, had made great contributions to herself, coupled with Li Dan's weakness and incompetence, her ambitions began to swell, and she also wanted to learn from her mother Wu Zetian to become an empress of a generation.
I have to say that the women of the Li Tang family really do not have a fuel-saving lamp, just eliminated Empress Wei, Princess Taiping came out again, for Princess Taiping who wanted to become the empress, Li Longji, as the crown prince, became her biggest competitor, so the relationship between the two people began to be the same, especially after Li Dan gave way to Li Longji, it pushed the contradiction between the two to the peak.
However, Princess Taiping still underestimated Li Longji's decisive decision to kill, and the forces around her were preemptively eradicated by Li Longji, and after giving the death of princess Taiping, who had been in power for a while, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji finally grasped all the power that the emperor deserved, and after that, under his vigorous rule, the Tang Dynasty entered a very prosperous world - the Kaiyuan prosperous world.
It was only with the passage of time that Tang Xuanzong, who had been full of vigor, seemed to have changed as a person, and began to neglect the government and favor the traitors Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and others, which was not to mention, due to excessive favor with Yang Guifei and the wrong reuse of An Lushan, which eventually led to the eight-year-long Anshi Rebellion, while laying the groundwork for the decline of the Tang Dynasty, he also personally destroyed the prosperous world he had created.