If Datang has a Forbes rich list, then Princess Taiping must be the richest woman.
In ancient times, the income of princes and ministers mainly consisted of two parts, one was the salary for working for the imperial court, called Qi; the other was that if there was a title, there would be a corresponding fief, called Food Yi, and the grain produced was called Lu. The two become "Feng Lu".
(Princess Taiping stills)
Princess Taiping did not have to work part-time, and although she had no salary, she had an astonishing amount of food. PrincessEs of the Tang Dynasty generally had three hundred to three hundred and fifty households. And Wu Zetian loved her little daughter and was very eccentric, and Princess Taiping's food was as many as 1,200 households. After that, he kept looking for a head to seal his daughter, and gradually increased it to three thousand households, top ten princesses.
Shenlong coup d'état, Wu Zetian abdicated, and Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian ascended the throne. In recognition of his sister's merits, Li Xianjia made her the Princess taiping of Zhenguo and had 5,000 households. Coupled with her husband Ding Wang Wuyou and his sons' food, Princess Taiping's family was truly rich and invincible.
Here's a look at the water mill:
The capital of the Tang Dynasty was Chang'an, but Wu Zetian stayed in Luoyang and made it the capital of the gods. In the second year of Shenlong (706), Li Xian moved the capital back to Chang'an. Princes and nobles bought houses in Chang'an and settled new homes.
At this time, Princess Taiping actually filed a complaint against the officials of a small temple in Chang'an City. The reason was that Princess Taiping said that a water mill next to the temple belonged to her family. The monks have worked hard to lay down grain and grind it into noodles by water for decades, and Princess Taiping has just moved from Luoyang, so how did the water mill become hers? This is also too deceptive!
Besides, even if it was Princess Taiping's, she was so rich, why couldn't she carry forward her style and reward this little water to the poor monk, because such a small matter would be a lawsuit, wouldn't it be shameful!
This matter itself is puzzling, but what is even more bizarre is that Princess Taiping is so powerful that this lawsuit was actually lost! It's a shame.
Was Princess Taiping actually such a ruthless princess who regarded wealth as her destiny, was stingy and clumsy, and unreasonable?
The answer is no. Princess Taiping, like her mother, was a scheming politician. Let's first look at the historical background of this incident:
(Lee Hsien stills)
The politics of Emperor Zhongzong's dynasty was very confused, and Li Xian came to power through the Shenlong coup, although during the coup d'état he was afraid of his mother and refused to go to the palace, but in the end he went anyway, and the facts had been formed.
The fall of Wu Zhou and the rise of Li Tang Zhongxing were said to be a good thing of great significance to Li Xian, and he should vigorously belittle Wu Zetian to show off his wisdom; he should vigorously support Li Tang's forces and cut off the wu kings to consolidate Li Tang's rule.
However, everything is the opposite. Li Xian forbade everyone to say the word "Zhongxing"; he desperately raised the status of Wu Zetian and erased the merits of the Shenlong coup. He also vigorously promoted the kings of the Wu clan, headed by Wu Sansi.
Li Xian's level was limited, he felt that he was weak, and he was eager to strengthen his ruling team, but there was no good way, one was to ignore the lessons of Wu Zetian's usurpation of Tang and let Wei Hou bow to the government, and the other was to win over the wu kings who were facing destruction, so that they could be grateful to themselves.
He also targeted Zhang Kamzhi and five other coup heroes, fearing that they would be highly successful and threaten the imperial power. Elevating Wu Zetian and launching a coup d'état became wishful thinking and superfluous.
(Li Dan stills)
In order to deal with the five ministers, Li Xian thought of a high move, Ming ascended and secretly surrendered, and made the five kings, but deprived them of their power, and it was easy to deal with without power in his hands. Li Xian completed these changes in just half a year after the Shenlong coup.
However, in addition to the five ministers, two others also threatened Li Xian's imperial power, and their power was much greater than that of the five ministers. That was his younger brother Li Dan the Prince of An Guoxiang and his younger sister Princess Taiping of Zhenguo.
Seeing the fierce operation of the third brother Li Xian, Li Dan was very knowledgeable, and resigned his official position as a lieutenant and the title of imperial brother early, leaving a no official and a light body, studying piano, chess, calligraphy and painting behind closed doors, and becoming a prince of peace, in order to protect himself.
The skilled Princess Taiping, on the other hand, used a lawsuit with a poor monk, such a self-insulting means, to eliminate her brother's vigilance, a trick called "Taoguang Yang Obscurity".
Yes, this lawsuit was secretly greeted by Princess Taiping and deliberately lost. Because the official in charge of this case was not stupid, in the identity of Taiping, even if he borrowed his courage, he did not dare to judge Princess Taiping to lose. The rumor soon spread throughout Chang'an and into Li Xian's ears, and the purpose of Taiping was achieved.
Taiping can do this for two purposes:
First, to convince the emperor that he was a man of greed for money and had no political ambitions. Just like Xiao He insulted himself in those years, Liu Bang thought that Lord Xiao had become a bully who bullied men and women and seized the people's land, in order to achieve the purpose of self-preservation.
Second, how much ability the emperor thinks he has, and the energy in the political circles is far less than the legend, and he can't even figure out a water mill thing.
Such a person who is greedy for money and has no ability can set off a big wave!
Through this incident, it shows that Princess Taiping's superb wrists and strategies have definitely obtained the true biography of her mother, and she is worthy of being an excellent female politician.
Text: Bearfish laughs to themselves
Shallow and ignorant, just right in the Fang family.
References: Zizhi Tongjian, New Book of Tang, Old Book of Tang, etc.