The four most beautiful women of the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wei, Princess Anle (Li Shu'er), Shangguan Wan'er, and Yang Guifei. Their deaths were all related to a man, the original King of Linzi and later Emperor Xuanzong, Li Longji. Therefore, some people have identified it as the culprit in the death of the "Four Beauty", and it was Li Longji who violently destroyed the heavenly creatures and deliberately killed the four beautiful objects.
In fact, the above views are biased, only see the superficial phenomena, and do not deeply correct the substance. Just like a person who has never planted a crop, it is a reason to feel sorry when he sees the weeds in the field being hoeed. Because he didn't understand which crops and weeds were harmful and which was beneficial. Therefore, the deaths of the four women are not innocent.
Empress Wei
The main body of the incident began with Empress Wei. Empress Wei was the wife of Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian, and she was made empress after Li Xian was put on the throne by Wu Zetian. Emperor Zhongzong was only a political prop for Wu Zetian, so he was also doomed to his tragic fate. Soon, Wu Zetian suspected that Emperor Zhongzong was in the way, and demoted him to Fangshan outside the capital, while Wei Shi accompanied her husband to spend the most painful years.
At that time, Li Xianhuo was trembling and trembling, and every day he feared that he would be executed by his mother's order. And Webster is a strong woman, she believes that there will be a day when the pole will come. Therefore, the pessimistic Li Xian did not cry in the arms of optimistic Merriam-Webster. After the Shenlong coup, Li Xian was welcomed back to the capital and reinstated, and the person who conveyed the news at that time was Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi.
At that time, Li Xian and Wu Sansi were inseparable from each other for the position of "Crown Prince", so when Wu Sansi appeared in front of him, Li Xian mistakenly thought that his limit had arrived, and his frightened soul flew away. In fact, Wu Sansi came to seduce Li Xian, and Wei Shi, who did not know the truth, also knelt in front of Wu Sansi on the spot to intercede for Li Xian. And it was this unexpected encounter that Merriam-Webster fell in love with the more "manly" Wu Sansi.
Shangguan Wan'er
However, although Li Xian was reinstated, the actual power rarely fell into the hands of Webster, who was not willing to be lonely. Because of his admiration for his mother-in-law Wu Zetian, Wei Shi wanted to become a woman with the same ambitions and unlimited scenery as Wu Zetian, so that Emperor Zhongzong became the famous "Nest Bag" emperor. Emperor Zhongzong was puppetd by his mother Wu Zetian in the first half of his life, and in the second half of his life, he was toyed with by his wife Wei Shi. Soon, after being brokered by Shangguan Wan'er, Wei Shi and Wu Sansi had an affair, while the cowardly Li Xian could only turn a blind eye.
Originally, Shangguan Wan'er had an affair with Wu Sansi, and Shangguan Wan'er was Li Xian's concubine, but the two women who belonged to Li Xian successively threw themselves into the arms of another man. The reasons for this are nothing more than two points: first, to solve physical desires, because Li Xian is not good; second, to realize political desires, because Li Xian is redundant. Therefore, Wei Shi, Wu Sansi, and Shangguan Wan'er soon formed a political alliance called the "Wei Wu Clique".
Princess Anle
Of course, the members are playing their own wishful thinking among themselves. Wei Shi wanted to become an empress, and he was deliberate, sleepy and forgot to eat, and his dreams were all the shadows of the empress; Shangguan Wan'er wanted to seek political support, because her ancestors were destroyed by Wu Zetian, and she could only be a "wall head grass"; Wu Sansi wanted to fight for herself, because the fall of Wu Zetian also meant the decline of the wu family. Therefore, it seems that three people with different interests can be skillfully united, and the way to achieve their ultimate goal is to get rid of Li Xian, who is "nominal and unreal".
However, it is not only his wife Wei Shi who remembers Li Xian's throne, but also his daughter Princess Anle. Princess Anle took a different path, wanting her father to make her "Imperial Princess", and when Li Xian died, she would take the throne in a good name. Even if Li Xian was confused, he was not ridiculous to the extreme, so Princess Anle joined the mother's camp after hitting the wall. Of course, her ultimate goal has not changed, she needs to borrow strength to fight.
Lee Long-ki
Who can balance the Wei Wu clique? Of course, only the Li Tang Sect Group. The representative figures of the clan group are Li Longji, the king of Linzi, and Princess Taiping. Compared with the Wei Wu Group, the strength of the Li Tang Sect Was naturally superior, but they had been hidden. They need to give the Wuwei Group a chance to perform, first make them crazy, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop. Therefore, after Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian was poisoned, Li Longji decisively intervened, and the Weiwu clique was destroyed in one fell swoop. The three most beautiful women perished.
However, Yang Guifei's death was somewhat unjust and not worth it. Because she was not involved in the political struggle, but was indirectly involved in it. Therefore, the political struggle is very cruel, like a cold-blooded machine, it will not recognize the appearance of those involved, even if the moon is shy, as long as they become the losing party, they will be hanged, which is the root cause of their death.
Yang
In short, in other words, it was not Li Longji who killed the four women, but they themselves struggled, wandering in the vortex or edge of death, but they were not lucky enough to escape. Tang Dynasty beauties are not only beautiful, but also confident, they always want to emerge in the world of men, dominate, and such avant-garde ideas in the ancient patriarchal society are doomed to be unimpeded. Therefore, their deaths can also be regarded as martyrdom for ideals.