More than 1300 years ago, "Li Mao" experienced a period of the most tragic days, his mother died, and his wife who had been in love with him for 5 years was abducted by his own father, and even the princely throne that was about to arrive was also in vain. So what is the final outcome of "Li Mao"?
Originally named Li Qing, Li Mao was the eighteenth son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, and his mother was Concubine Wu Huifei, the niece of Wu Zetian, and the daughter of Wu Youzhi the Prince of Heng'an. In fact, Li Mao's name is Li Mao, and the structure of "瑁" and "琩" is similar, which should be a mistake by later generations.
Regarding the name "Li Mao", some people in the Song Dynasty suspected that it was not his real name. Ouyang Xiushi gave corrections, and in his work "JiGulu Baowei", he quoted the names of the kings attached to the "Tang Qunchen Asked to Establish the Tao Te Ching Tai Song Answer" in the 25th year of the Yuan Dynasty, and the names of the Shou Kings in the Wuhui Concubine Monument were all "琩"
In recent years, the epitaph of Li Yingxuan, the daughter of King Shou of Yangcheng County, has been unearthed (Tuoben Magazine "New Epitaph of Chang'an"), which further confirms this view. Zhiwen wrote for The Emperor ShouguoZi Siye Shangzhu Guo Guo Zhang: "Xuanzong Concubine WuShi, Shengshou Wangxuan", which can be judged that the correct name of King Shou is Li Zhen.
Li Zhen is a mess of people
In early 713, Li Qing's (Li Zhen)'s mother, Concubine Wu Huifei, began to gain the favor of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang in the harem, and the scenery was infinite. From the first year of the new century to about the fourth year of the new century, a daughter and two sons were born in a row, princess Shangxian, Li Yi, the king of Xia Mourning, and Li Min, the king of Huaiwei, and unfortunately none of these children survived.
Later, Li Qing was born, and Emperor Xuanzong and Concubine Wu Huifei feared that their son would die again, so they fostered Li Qing in the home of Li Xian, the eldest son of Emperor Ruizong of Tang. Tang Xuanzong's elder brother Li Xian, the princess of Li Xian, the Prince of Ning, took good care of Li Qing, personally nursed and patiently educated, and regarded him as if he were his own. Li Qing became more and more intelligent and became a boutique among dolls. At the age of seven, he made his first appearance to meet Li Xuan, the sixteenth brother yong wang who was about 3 years older than himself, and his etiquette and conversation were extraordinary, which won the praise of Tang Xuanzong. Li Qing was fostered in the Palace of King Ning until he was ten years old, and was not crowned king, known as Eighteen Lang.
According to the history books, Li Qing lived in NingDi from birth to the age of ten. Until March of the thirteenth year of the New Century (725), he was crowned king of Shou and began to enter the palace. (It is estimated that Li Qingxu was ten years old in March of the thirteenth year of the new century, and he was between the ages of eight and nine.) ）
In this year, Concubine Wu Hui was both happy to come to the door, and she gave birth to a son Li Qi for Tang Xuanzong. During Li Qing's foster care, she also gave birth to a daughter, Princess Xianyi, and later a daughter, Princess Taihua, all of whom grew up.
Concubine Wu Hui, who had many children, had a rock-solid position in the palace, and her status was basically equivalent to that of an empress. She did not blow the pillow wind at Xuanzong, and her children were favored, and in the fifteenth year of the new century (727), Xuanzong asked Li Qingyao to lead the governor of Yizhou and the ambassador of Jiannan Jiedu.
In the twenty-third year (735), Li Qingjia opened the fu Yi tongsan division and changed his name to Li Zhen.
In December of that year, Li Zhen married the girl he loved. At the repeated request of his mother, Concubine Wu, Emperor Xuanzong agreed to marry Yang Yuhuan, one of the four great beauties of ancient China, and issued an edict appointing Yang Yuhuan as princess of Shou, when Tang Xuanzong had not seen Yang Yuhuan.
Yang Yuhuan came from a family of officials, and her grandfather Yang Wang, the Shangzhu State of the Sui Dynasty and the official Shangshu, was killed by Li Shimin; her father Yang Xuanyan, who had served as a Shuzhou Sihu; and her third uncle Yang Xuanxuan, who was once the Tucao of Henan Province. Yang Yuhuan died of his father around the age of 10 and was raised by his third uncle Yang Xuanxuan in Luoyang.
Yang Yuhuan is good at singing and dancing and playing pipa, and is about 2 years younger than Li Zhen. After marriage, Li Zhen and Yang Yuhuan were in love with each other and respected each other as guests. Both have been raised by others, so they have more topics and tacit understanding.
However, with a series of changes in the palace, the two people who have been with them for 5 years are like strangers.
Concubine Wu's greatest wish was to push her son Li Zhen to the crown prince. However, at that time, there was already a crown prince, and he was Li Ying, the son of Zhao Lifei. Zhao Lifei was favored when Tang Xuanzong was the crown prince, but was unexpectedly taken by Concubine Wu Huifei, who was killed halfway, and she died at the age of 34.
Wu Huifei, Together with Li Linfu and Yang Huan of the Horse, designed a trap to lure the crown prince Li Ying, who had lost his mother, so that Li Ying, Li Yao the Prince of E, and Li Ju the Prince of Guang were deposed on the same day for treason, and committed suicide by sitting on their sins, and the three of them died with injustice, and Wu Huifei cleared the way for her son.
No one expected that after this incident, Wu Huifei had a night of nightmares, and soon fell ill and died at the age of 38.
After The death of Concubine Wu, although Tang Xuanzong was sad for a while and posthumously named her empress, her funeral ceremony did not make all the princes and empresses serve her according to the empress's standards, Tang Xuanzong only followed the funeral specifications of concubines and let her own children wear linen and filial piety for her.
After The death of Concubine Wu Hui, the harem was three thousand, Tang Xuanzong's "emperorless" was sullen all day, someone said to him that Yang Yuhuan was "upright in posture, it is advisable to fill the court", Tang Xuanzong saw Yang Guifei and immediately became addicted, he fell in love with his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan at a glance, and after a series of operations, he included her in the palace.
"Twenty-four years after the beginning of the new century, Wu Huifei Was a Concubine, and hou Tingwu was not the emperor's will. Or the concubine posture is heavenly, it is advisable to fill the court, so it is called in the internal prohibition. New Book of Tang, vol. 76
What happened to Li Zhen's ending?
When his wife was taken by his father, Li Zhen was sad and sad. Staying in the ShouWang Mansion, from time to time, he would hear the news coming from the palace, Xuanzong and Yang Guifei's you and me, talking about wine, singing and dancing, "a red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee coming", Yang Guifei "three thousand pets in one". "Hua Qingsheng sang and was drunk, and the noble concubine smiled at the wine." And at this time, li xuan was sad and what could he do? Who let his love enemy not only the emperor but also his own father! Li Xuan had words of suffering, but he had no power to resist, and only secretly hated that he was born in the imperial family.
After Wu Huifei's death, Li Linfu and others actively supported Li Xuan as crown prince, but they were all rejected by Tang Xuanzong, and the reason was naturally known to Li Xuan. Emperor Xuanzong eventually granted Gao Lishi's recommendation that the third son of the emperor, Li Jie (李亨, born to Empress Yuanxian of the Yang clan, and the mother of Yang and Wu Zetian, who was of the same clan) as crown prince.
In the twenty-ninth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty (741), Li Xian, the king of Ning who raised Li Xuan, died, and the death of his adoptive father made Li Zhen's various sadness no longer be suppressed, and he wept bitterly.
In 745, in order to comfort him, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang found him another daughter-in-law, and made Wei Zhaoxun's third daughter Princess Shou and Yang Yuhuan a noble concubine. After Emperor Xuanzong deposed Empress Wang and then did not establish a throne, the favored Yang Guifei was equivalent to an empress.
Li Zhen was a wise man, he took into account the overall situation, did not dwell on this matter, did not offend Tang Xuanzong, he and Wei Shi respected and loved each other, children in groups, had 5 sons, 3 of whom were crowned kings, Li Xuan's life was not bad.
"The three sons of the king, The King of Yan Deyang County, The County of Jiyang, the County of Guangyang, the Duke of Xue, and the Prince of Jie Guozi." New Book of Tang, Vol. 82
The five sons are:
Li Yan (李僾), King of Deyang(德阳王; Li Ling (李伓), King of Jiyang (李伓), King of Guangyang (廣阳王); Li Ling (李伉), Duke of Xue (薛国公), Li Jie (李杰), Guozi (国子) offered wine.
Daughter:
The twenty-second daughter Li Yingxuan, the lord of Yangcheng County, married Shi Qiuyun, the head of the Imperial Palace, and the sixth daughter, the lord of Qingyuan County (born to Concubine Wei or born to Yang Yuhuan?). Doubtful)
In the first year of Zhide (756), during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the ruling class fought for power and profit, and the An Shi Rebellion led by An Lushan and Shi Siming broke out, and the Tang Dynasty suffered a catastrophe. Tang Xuanzong abandoned the city and fled, and he did not forget to take his beloved Yang Guifei all the way to Shudi, and let Li Zhen walk with them. The palace was destroyed, "the palace was burned, ten did not exist one, a hundred Cao was abandoned, and there was no rafters."
On the way, the soldiers of the entourage, hungry and tired, could not bear the anger in their hearts, and caused a mutiny in Ma Songpo, and the angry soldiers shot and killed the chancellor Yang Guozhong, and also killed the imperial master Wei Fangjin, and shouted and begged Xuanzong to execute Yang Guifei. They believed that Yang Guifei seduced the emperor to indulge in female sex and ignore the government, and it was Yang Guifei who made Tang Xuanzong a villain yuanxian, which led to the Anshi rebellion, and the anger of the people was so angry that Tang Xuanzong had to give Yang Guifei death. In order to stabilize the soldiers who were further rioting, Emperor Xuanzong ordered Li Zhen to soothe the soldiers' emotions.
In addition, Emperor Xuanzong ordered the crown prince Li Heng to stay behind to resist the enemy, and Li Heng declared himself emperor and became Emperor Suzong of Tang, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang became Emperor Taishang.
In the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty (775), Li Xuan died and was posthumously awarded the title of Taifu, about 59 years old, and died.
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