Princess Anle, named Li Shu'er. In the first year of Guangzhai (684), Emperor Zhongzong of Tang deposed Li Xian, and Empress Wu deposed him to Junzhou, and soon moved to Fangling. In the process of migration, because of the fatigue of the road, empress Wei, who was pregnant early, moved the tire, and gave birth to the next daughter early, which is Princess Anle, and because she was born, Li Xian took off her clothes and wrapped her, so she was named Bao'er, the daughter born to Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian and Empress Wei, and was known as "the first beauty of the Tang Dynasty".
Princess Anle was born when Li Xian was down, and she lived a turbulent and displaced life with Li Xian since she was a child, not knowing the future of life, plus she herself was smart and clever, with sharp teeth, and knew how to please Li Xian and Wei Hou. Therefore, at that time, Li Xian and Wei Hou were very fond of her, and since childhood, she listened to what she wanted, she did whatever she wanted, and gave what she wanted, in short, she was not allowed.
However, because Li Xian and Wei Hou spoiled her without a bottom line, Princess Anle developed a proud, willful, arrogant, and arrogant personality from an early age, which also laid the groundwork for her tragic encounters in the future.
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In the first year of shenlong (705), Zhang Kamzhi, Jinghui, Li Duozuo and others launched a shenlong coup, Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate, and Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne. After Li Xian ascended the throne, the arrogant Princess Anle held on to her father's power, which was the power of the world, and even more wantonly amassed wealth. In order to get more money, she was a large-scale seller of official titles, and the subordinate officials in her mansion at that time were all slaughterhouses who obtained official positions by donating money.
At the same time, with Li Xian's trust, Princess Anle also clearly marked the price of the official position of the state, how much money the county magistrate had, and how much money the assassin shi had, all of which had a clear price, and at that time, as long as the money was enough, whether it was a butcher liquor store or a slave, Princess Anle would arrange an official position for him. Princess Anle used the huge amount of money obtained by selling officials and embezzling bribes to support her extravagant and extravagant life.
So how extravagant was Princess Anle's life at that time? Here we can get a glimpse of how extravagant her life really is from several things.
The first thing, according to the Taiping Guangji, during the reign of Emperor Jinglong of The Tang Dynasty, Princess Anle modeled the Anle Temple in Daoguangfang, Luozhou, based on the Anle Buddha Lu in the palace, with millions of dollars. At the same time, Princess Anle also built a hundred treasure incense burner in the Zhaocheng Temple in Luozhou, which was three feet high and had four doors, each of which was connected by a small bridge, and around the furnace were carved pictures of flowers, plants, birds, heavens, tricks, unicorns, luan phoenixes, white cranes, etc., and at the same time embedded with precious items such as pearls, agate, corals, gems, chakras, and wanyans, and it is said that more than 30,000 gold was spent to build this incense burner.
The reason why Princess Anle spent so much money to build these seemingly useless temples and incense burners was because there was such a thing in the palace. Princess Anle's desire for power is extremely heavy, she does not think all the time to be the next Wu Zetian, although this wish she can not achieve, but it does not prevent her from wanting to have the same life as in the palace, so she wants to have everything in the palace. In this way, just for this purpose, she spent countless people's anointing to build these useless things.
The second thing, one year, Princess Anle once asked Li Xian to give her the Kunming Pond as a private pond, but Li Xian, who rarely refused Princess Anle, refused this time, because Kunming Pond had always been exclusive to the emperor, and successive monarchs had never given it to others. Later, Princess Anle saw that Li Xian did not give her the Kunming Pond, so she simply excavated the Dingkun Pond that stretched for miles by herself. At that time, Dingkun Pond was extremely luxurious, more luxurious than the Emperor's Kunming Pond, where not only huashan mountain was built with stones, but also crisscrossed stone bridges made of stones, and stone springs that swirled around the stream.
At the same time, in order to highlight the luxury of Dingkunchi, Princess Anle also specially cast a treasure furnace engraved with monster god birds and inlaid with countless treasures of brick coral. At that time, in order to chisel this Dingkun pond, the money spent was also countless, which could not be calculated at all, and at the same time, countless people lost their houses and fields, and the losses were also incalculable.
The third thing, Princess Anle once had two bird skirts, both of which are treasures of the world, both of which are woven with bird feathers, and the New Book of Tang Dynasty Five Elements records that the bird skirt is "in the shadow of the day, each is one color, the shape of a hundred birds", that is, from the front view is one color, from the side is another, at the same time in the sun will appear another color, in the shadow there will be another color, and the skirt will also flash a bird pattern.
At that time, in order to help Princess Anle weave these two bird skirts, Tang Zhongzong directly used the national force to send troops to Lingnan to catch birds, "mountain forest strange birds and beasts, search mountains and valleys, sweep the ground" So many birds were extinct.
From the above three things, we can see the luxury of Princess Anle's life. For the sake of two skirts, Tang Zhongzong actually used the army to hunt birds in Lingnan, which was simply a labor and a loss of money. At the same time, in order to satisfy her own desires, Princess Anle spent a lot of money to build temples for herself, private ponds and swamps, and even robbed innocent people of their fields and houses, which was really infuriating.
Of course, Princess Anle, who was so arrogant and arrogant, she was also punished as she deserved. On July 21, the first year of Tang Long (710), Li Longji launched the Tang Long coup and raised troops to enter the palace, and at that time, Princess Anle was freshening up and dressing in the palace, and when she heard that there were rebels entering the palace, she quickly fled, but when she fled to the Right Yanming Gate, she was chased by the forbidden army, and then she was beheaded, at the age of twenty-five, and then Princess Anle was demoted by Li Dan as a "rebellious person".