In ancient times, our country experienced more than ten dynasties, and some very powerful monarchs emerged in these dynasties, but there were also some kings who were nothing. The most important thing that happened in the palace was the struggle for power, and some people didn't even want their lives in order to become emperors, but in the end they didn't get anything.
He is Li Chen, is Tang Xianzong's thirteen sons, although he is the crown prince, but since he was a child he has not had the treatment of a prince, even his mother only has a palace daughter, the reason why he was able to be born is completely an accident, Li Chen was born after the life is very difficult, there is no big tree behind him, no one to play with him, so he can only be silent and taciturn since he was a child, so many people subconsciously think that he is a fool, even Tang Xianzong does not care about him.
The emperor's mother is only a small palace girl, or a small palace girl who serves people, because once the former emperor drank too much on the wrong person, then she was pregnant with this emperor, so in the harem, so the prince in the harem, he is the most humble and the most despised, and in the harem, anyone can bully him, even eunuchs, palace women bully him, so Li Chen does not provoke others to play with himself in the room every day, never communicate with others, and after a long time, others think that there is a problem with Li Chen's brain. I think it's a "fool".
And the emperor has many children, not worse than this child. One more is not more, one less is not much. Tang Xuanzong also knew that the emperor did not care, and he slowly hid himself. Even became a little autistic. However, the ancient people did not know about autism, but they knew that Tang Xuanzong originally did not like to talk, and the older he grew up, the more he did not speak. Later, his mouth was no longer open. People who don't know think Tang Xuanzong is dumb! Later, someone concluded that Tang Xuanzong was stupid.
Even the palace eunuchs did not take Tang Xuanzong to heart. Together, they went to bully Tang Xuanzong, and Tang Xuanzong never fought back. One day there was a gathering in the palace, and a group of princes and grandchildren were chanting poems against each other. Only Tang Xuanzong sat alone at a distance. Someone said, "You look at Tang Xuanzong like a dumb, and if any of you can make Tang Xuanzong speak, I will reward you with some gold and silver jewelry." When everyone rushed up, Tang Xuanzong did not speak the same way.
Later, once, when Tang Wenzhong was holding a banquet, everyone was drinking and composing poetry, which was very lively, but only Li Pillow was sitting there alone in the corner, and he did not speak to anyone, and Tang Wenzhong also joked with everyone that if anyone could make the emperor open his mouth to say a word, there would be a heavy reward. As soon as everyone heard that there was a heavy reward, they immediately surrounded Li Pillow and began to find ways to please him, but no matter what the crowd did, Li Pillow did not change his face, and finally everyone could only give up. In 864, Emperor Wuzong of Tang was critically ill, but before that he did not make a prince, and all the princes at that time were very young, so there was no suitable candidate.
In 864, Emperor Wuzong of Tang died, but before his death he did not appoint a candidate for crown prince, and at this time some powerful ministers and eunuchs in the palace were looking for the next heir. According to the previous law, the more cowardly people are, the easier it is to be controlled, so at this time Li Chen became the object of contention of all eunuchs. Under such circumstances, Li Chen was embraced by the eunuchs on the throne, and a fool actually became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The eunuchs had thought that they could get everything they wanted with this emperor, but when the fool came to power, the first order announced made them all confused.
Li Chen demanded the removal of all eunuchs, especially Li Deyu, who had a lot of power at the time; in this way, he swept out some eunuchs with high positions in a very short time; this was a result that the eunuchs did not expect at all. It turned out that Li Chen's previous stupidity was all fake, and he used his cowardly decoration to cover up his great ambitions. After becoming emperor, he showed his true side and pulled the Tang Dynasty back from its demise, which is really remarkable.