In the long history of our country, there have been nearly 500 emperors, in the eyes of the ancient people, the emperor is a heavenly person, should enjoy everything in this world. But only the emperor himself knew how much pain and helplessness there was, and while he was in power, there were countless pairs of eyes behind him watching him. If you are in good governance, but once there is any mistake, the problem left behind is serious.
There is one such emperor in history, who ascended the throne twice in his life, and was imprisoned by his mother who seized imperial power, and later regained the throne and was poisoned and persecuted by the joint poisoning and persecution of his dearest wife and daughter.
He was Emperor Li Xian during the Tang Dynasty and the third son of Wu Zetian, and speaking of this Li Xian, his personality from an early age was very cowardly, which was completely opposite to the ambition and decisiveness of his birth mother Wu Zetian. At that time, Li Zhi was proclaimed emperor, because he had a special love for Wu Zetian, so he specially took Wu Zetian, who was still a nun at the time, back to the imperial palace and made him Zhaoyi, and then Wu Zetian became an empress by relying on his own step-by-step efforts. But what Wu Zetian wanted was not just the empress's throne, but the entire Tang Dynasty.
Later, Wu Zetian first used a ruse to frame Li Xian, and then was killed by Li Zhi. In this way, Li Xian naturally became the crown prince, and after Li Zhi's death, Li Xian successfully ascended the throne. But all this was actually in the hands of Wu Zetian, who knew that his son Li Xian had a weak personality and was very well controlled. Although li xian was ostensibly called emperor, in fact, the military power and the royal power had already fallen into the hands of Wu Zetian.
Sure enough, on the 55th day of Li Xian's ascension to the throne, Wu Zetian abolished him and placed him under house arrest in Junzhou, where he subsequently made Li Dan emperor. But Li Dan was also a puppet emperor through and through. While imprisoned in Junzhou, Li Xian gave birth to his daughter Li Shu'er with his wife Wei Shi in prison.
Later, when Wu Zetian was about to die, he knew that this piece of the country would always belong to the Li family, so he took the initiative to return the throne to Li Xian. However, this matter had just calmed down, and another matter had arisen, and Li Xian's wife Wei Hou had always admired Wu Zetian very much, and was also very eager for imperial power. So he joined forces with his arrogant daughter Li Shu'er to poison his husband Li Xian to death.
When we look back on Li Xian's life, we can say that it is very tragic, because the matter of imperial power was first imprisoned by his mother, and finally died of his closest wife and daughter.