Empress Wang was both The Wife of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and a Young Lady. Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji grew from an obscure little prince to a majestic and heroic generation of emperors, and Empress Wang accompanied him all the time.
(Stills of Xuanzong and Empress Wang)
Empress Wang was born in the partial branch of the Taiyuan Wang clan, and her father Wang Renjiao was a Jinzhou sibing at the time, a military attaché of the Eight Pins, and although the official position was low, the Hat of the Taiyuan Wang Clan was very large. Such a birth is very prominent for the average eunuch family, but for the royal family, the royal family is obviously high. Li Longji's father, Li Dan, the imperial heir at the time, lowered the threshold to marry a Wang girl, but also from their unfortunate experience.
When Li Longji was born, Li Dan was still the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Tianzhi (690), when Li Longji was six years old, his father Li Dan was forced to cede the throne to his grandmother Wu Zetian. Since then, the family has been imprisoned in the deep palace.
In the second year of his long life, Li Longji was nine years old, and his mother Concubine Dou and Concubine Liu went to see their mother-in-law Wu Zetian together, but they never returned, and they did not see anyone dead or dead. Li Danqiang endured the grief in his heart, remained silent, and asked the children not to cry in front of outsiders, and the family did not dare to leak a trace of dissatisfaction with the empress. Li Longji was also demoted from the King of Chu to the King of Linzi, although they were all kings, but the former was a prince, the latter was the king of the county, and the difference between Yunni and Mud.
At this moment, perhaps worried that Li Longji was overly sad, or perhaps he wanted to cover up the sad atmosphere in the family through happy events, Li Dan married a nine-year-old Li Longji to a Wang girl of his age.
(Li Dan stills)
Being able to climb high into the royal family, Wang Renjiao was naturally full of joy, but it was a blessing or a curse for the eight- or nine-year-old Wang girl! She may only know that her life will be completely handed over to this boy of similar age, and she has no choice but to be good to him. For Li Longji, there is no right to choose whether to accept this playmate, only to try to play harmoniously with her during the long years of seclusion.
The two are also considered to be young plum bamboo horses, but they have a little more feelings of suffering and sharing. Most of the concubines who were later concubines of Emperor Xuanzong knew Li Longji were all multi-talented princes and majestic and heroic emperors, and those who had seen him imitative, frustrated and sad were only The Empress Wang was alone. Therefore, Li Longji and Empress Wang are not only wives who share hardships and hardships, but also two small and unsuspecting hair wives.
In the post-Wu Zetian era, the political situation was full of twists and turns, and a group of ambitious women wanted to follow Wu Zetian's path to the top of the world. After Wei Hou poisoned Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian, he approached the throne step by step, and Li Shijiangshan once again faced a crisis. Twenty-six-year-old Li Longji could not sit still, and he and his aunt Princess Taiping prepared to kill Wei Hou. To be on the safe side, he did not tell his father Li Dan of the plan, but he told Empress Wang without reservation.
(Xuanzong stills)
According to the Old Book of Tang, Empress Wang "conspired in favor of the great cause." She also chose to support Li Longji unreservedly. In August of the first year of the first year of the first year, Li Dan passed the throne to Li Longji, and Li Longji did not dislike the origin of the Wang clan and immediately made her empress.
Although Li Longji became emperor, the real power was still in the hands of his father, and the biggest opponent, Princess Taiping, was still powerful and powerful, and it was a critical moment. This time, not only did Empress Wang give advice, but also mobilized her brother Wang Shouyi to participate in it. This brother was really powerful, and in the first-day coup, Wang Shouyi led three hundred forbidden troops to the front.
After Li Longji sat firmly on the throne, although Empress Wang's education level was not high, compared with the ambitious empresses of Wu Zetian and Wei Hou, she was also virtuous, and her popularity was quite good, and the people in the harem respected her. It seems that everything is developing in a good direction, so what exactly made Xuanzong ruthlessly abolish her?
The reason is simple, Xuanzong has a new love. This little girl's surname is Wu, yes, she is a descendant of Wu Zetian. She was the cousin of Wu Zetian and the daughter of Wu Youzhi the Prince of Huan'an. Due to the early death of Wu Youzhi, the Wu clan grew up in the palace from an early age, received a good education, and came out with gentle and virtuous, elegant manners, and proficiency in music and dance, which fascinated Xuanzong fans. Compared with such a little girl, the queen, who is more than thirty years old, is the wife of a real chaff.
(Wu Huifei stills)
In fact, the harem has never lacked beauty, before the Wu family, there were also Zhao Lifei, Liu Huafei, Emperor Fu Deyi, all of them are both talented and beautiful, and Empress Wang and them can coexist peacefully. Why did the Wu clan make trouble as soon as they came?
Because this woman was too charming, just like the Wu Meiniang of that year, she was both intelligent and ambitious, and grabbed the emperor's heart and body to death, which not only made Xuanzong leave the entire harem behind, but also gave birth to three children in a row. This made the queen feel a huge crisis.
The problems encountered by the queen of the king will be encountered by all the queens, and the harem has always been like this, the queen is old and fading, and the new people are stubble after stubble. When Emperor Gaozong deposed Wang Liwu that year, the chancellor Xu Jingzong spread public opinion among the court, saying: "Tian Sheweng collected a few more stones of grain, and still changed his wife." After the heavenly son stands one! "In fact, the change of heavenly son for queen is really not so simple."
The Son of Heaven, admired by all the people, morality should be perfect, if the queen has no great fault, how can it be easily abolished! As long as Empress Wang grasps the moral high ground and does not see the same as the little girl, she will naturally sit firmly in the position of empress. However, she loved Xuanzong too much. She has passed and stood, and she even competed with a little girl for favors, is this not an egg touching a stone! Moreover, she also chose a very stupid method, speaking out against Xuanzong.
The history books record that Empress Wang took his father Wang Renjiao to change his clothes, made a bowl of soup cakes for Xuanzong, and celebrated Xuanzong's birthday to count Xuanzong's ungratefulness. Although this matter is a bit distorted, but similar words, Empress Wang must have said a lot.
I would like to ask, who can stand the fact that an emperor who has achieved fame can stand that his wife always shakes his own troubles and makes a big fuss about it! Where is the face of the Son of Heaven? As a result, Xuanzong gradually became disgusted with her and had plans to abolish her.
Compared with the Wu clan, the Empress Wang, who was born in the gate, still lacked the heart of the palace fight, was upset, lost her coolness, and destroyed herself in an irrational way.
There are two general theories about the abolition of the empress dowager: one is childlessness, and the other is the art of victory. In fact, these two points were that Xuanzong hated Empress Wang and wanted to abolish her arguments.
Before Wu entered the palace, Empress Wang adopted Yang Liangyuan's son Li Heng, later Emperor Suzong. In Emperor Xuanzong's edict abolishing Empress Wang, there is no mention of childlessness. The main reason is the "heart of no general", that is to say, the queen has the heart of rebellion.
This is related to Empress Wang's brother Wang Shouyi, who saw that her sister had been unloved for many years and had no biological children, and was very anxious, so he asked a monk named Ming Wu to pray for his sister, and this monk estimated that his brain had entered the water, and in the blessing speech he wrote: Pei this has a son, when ruze is the queen of heaven.
This is a big problem, the key is like what is the Queen of Heaven? Usurper Tang self-reliance like her? Or do you hope to gain the favor of Emperor Xuanzong again after giving birth to a child, just like Wu Zetian at the Ganye Temple, and get the favor of Emperor Gaozong?
A woman who is nearly forty years old, wearing the spell of an enlightened monk, bent on asking for a son and winning the emperor's favor again, will suddenly have the idea of usurping the throne as an empress? However, Xuanzong clearly believed in the former. Because to abolish the Empress, this is a perfect excuse.
In July of the twelfth year of the new century, Empress Wang was deposed as a Shuren and died three months later. The Zizhi Tongjian records: "After the abolition of the Wang clan, the harem thought about it endlessly, and the upper also regretted it." Why Xuanzong regretted it, probably thinking of the hardships and sorrows of his childhood, he was sad for a moment. The queen, on the other hand, gave her life for her own will.
Text: Bearfish laughs to themselves
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References: New Book of Tang, Old Book of Tang, Zizhi Tongjian.