The younger daughter has always been the most favored, loved by the father, and the brother is no exception.
In the history of the Tang Dynasty, the princess who was buried by Emperor Gaozong of Tang with the "empress ceremony" was only the Princess of Xincheng, who was the last daughter born to Empress Changsun before she died, and the significance of her existence was of great significance to Li Shimin and several of Li Shimin's concubines.
Princess Xincheng was born in the eighth year of Zhenguan, and after giving birth to her, empress eldest grandson began to be in poor health, and two years later, empress dowager sun died, leaving her little daughter who did not have a deep memory of her mother.
Empress Changsun collapsed, for Li Shimin and his children and empress dowager, the change was great, Li Chengqian began to become inferior and dark, Li Tai could no longer restrain his ambitions, Li Zhi became more cowardly because of his mother's departure, anyway, his brothers and sisters were all worried and sad, princess Xincheng was just a small child, unable to perceive.
Perhaps out of guilt for his wife, Li Shimin decided to take princess Xincheng with him and raise her personally.
She was personally raised with Princess Xincheng, and her brother Li Zhi, who was six years older than her, the brothers and sisters, because the age gap was not large, so the relationship was really very good.
In the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the Princess of Xincheng was not the Princess of Xincheng, but the "Lord of Hengshan County".
Because the concept of rulers since the Sui and Tang dynasties has rejected the location of "mountains and rivers" as a fiefdom, the title of "Hengshan" is somewhat unconventional, but Li Shimin gave the title of "Hengshan" to the younger daughter, the purpose is also to borrow the luck of this "famous mountain and river" to increase her luck, as the name suggests, is to hope that the younger daughter will live a long life and live a happy life.
After sealing the lord of Hengshan County, the following year, Li Shimin began to arrange his daughter's lifelong events.
For the lifelong event of princess Xincheng, I have to say that Li Shimin is somewhat "helpless".
In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong's "mirror" Wei Zheng was in danger, and on the occasion of his death, Wei Zheng was in tears in front of Li Shimin, but he was speechless, Li Shimin understood Wei Zheng's meaning, so he promised Wei Zheng to give his most precious little daughter Xu to Wei Zheng's son Wei Shuyu, to ensure that the Wei family would have no worries about food and clothing in the future.
With this promise, Wei Zheng put his mind at ease and died.
But from the beginning of the marriage, the princess of The New City began a sad fate.
Shortly after Wei Zheng's death, Li Chengqian's intention to plot rebellion was exposed, because Wei Zheng was Li Chengqian's teacher, and Li Shimin, angered, found the trouble with Wei Zheng, who had died, tore down the tombstone written to Wei Zheng, and annulled the marriage contract between Wei Shuyu and Princess Xincheng, and the young Princess Xincheng suffered unhappiness from political factors for the first time.
This is not the end, Li Shimin may be afraid that he can not live a long life, for the marriage of the younger daughter, he still insists on the arrangement, seeing that the Wei family is unreliable, Li Shimin found the family of the eldest grandson empress, he promised the younger daughter to the cousin of the eldest grandson, according to the generation, that is, the uncle of the princess of Xincheng.
Although the political marriage seems cruel, it is indeed the best second half of the life of the princess of Xincheng.
Twenty-three years after Zhenguan, when Princess Xincheng was about to get married, Li Shimin could not see this scene, Li Shimin died in this year, and the wedding of Princess Xincheng was postponed because of Li Shimin's death.
But fortunately, the newly enthroned emperor was the brother of Princess Xincheng, and he was also the best temperamental Li Zhi, and Li Zhi also loved his sister.
After three years of filial piety for Li Shimin, Princess Xincheng was officially married, and before marriage, Emperor Gaozong of Tang remarried the title of "Food Yi" for his sister, who was the princess of Xincheng County, and princess Xincheng also married the eldest grandson in this capacity.
After marriage, Princess Xincheng lived quite well, but this beautiful life, in the political environment at that time, was destined not to last long, because in the near future, the "little mother" of Princess Xincheng and wu Zetian, who was also the "sister-in-law" of Princess Xincheng, would carry out a cruel blow to the eldest grandson's family.
When Emperor Gaozong of Tang ascended the throne, he was "checked and balanced" by his uncle Changsun Wujie, and over time, Tang Gaozong wanted to empty The Elder Sun Wujie, so he pushed out his concubine "Wu Meiniang" to "compete" for the position of empress with his empress dowager at that time, and this matter evolved into a political struggle in the court.
The people, led by Changsun Wuji, resolutely opposed the "abolition of Wang Liwu", but this war without smoke of gunfire finally declared Tang Gaozong successful because of Li Ji's unconditional support for Tang Gaozong, and Wu Zetian was successfully made empress.
But Emperor Gaozong of Tang did not expect that he let Wu Zetian be the political spokesman, but let Wu Zetian erode his power step by step, Wu Zetian launched a cruel blow to the ministers who had once opposed her, the eldest son Wuji was exiled to death, and the eldest grandson's family was also affected, naturally, the eldest grandson was also unlucky.
This was a very cruel fact for Tang Taizong's daughter.
Unsurprisingly, the eldest grandson who occupies an important position has also been removed, and there is some meaning of Tang Gaozong or wu Zetian's meaning, outsiders do not know, only that the princess of Xincheng pleaded bitterly and fruitlessly, and finally became a "widow", for this encounter of his sister, Tang Gaozong is very guilty.
In order to make up for his sister, Tang Gaozong thought of many ways, but in the end, he still came up with a way to "marry again".
At that time, the Guanzhong hope clan "Wei Shi", Wei Shi had a man named "Wei Zhengjue", Tang Gaozong wanted to broker the marriage between Princess Xincheng and Wei Zhengju, plus Wu Zetian was strongly dominant on the other side, this matter became.
It looked cruel, obviously Tang Gaozong knew that his sister's widowhood was a very difficult thing to accept, why did he force her to marry another man so cruelly?
This is actually related to the concept of the times at that time, in the eyes of the world, remarriage is not a problem, but has been a widow, or even lonely old age, that is terrible, if it is really like that, then the princess of the new city will not even be able to write her life after death.
Under two inappropriate circumstances, Tang Gaozong chose the most suitable method, or let princess Xincheng and Wei Zhengju marry, and Princess Xincheng was unable to refuse, and could only comply with her brother's arrangement.
It was also from this marriage that Tang Gaozong was full of guilt for his sister, and he directly promoted Wei Zhengzheng's official position to Sanpin in order to make his sister look like she was married to a decent person.
But in this marriage, princess Xincheng lived like a walking dead, Tang Gaozong often called his brother-in-law to ask questions, asked him and Princess Xincheng how life was, Wei Zhengju said that the two were still respectful as guests, but in Wei Zhengju's appendix, it was rumored that this eldest princess was "disrespectful" to the behavior of princess Xincheng.
The so-called "disrespect" refers to Wei Zhengzheng's disrespectful attitude towards princess Xincheng.
In the second year after marriage, Princess Xincheng fell ill, and Tang Gaozong learned that his sister's body was difficult to heal, so he built a large number of Buddhist temples in order to pray for his sister's blessing, but unfortunately, Tang Gaozong's efforts did not have much effect in the end, and Princess Xincheng still died under the "cold violence" of resentment and rumors.
The departure of his sister made Tang Gaozong angry, because Tang Gaozong knew that he was sorry for Princess Xincheng, so regarding his sister's death, Tang Gaozong turned his self-blame into anger and venting to others, the first to bear the brunt of it, that is, the eldest princess Ma Wei Zhengju, Tang Gaozong asked the three divisions to torture Wei Zhengju, and asked Wei Zhengzheng to truthfully explain how to treat the princess poorly.
Wei Zhengju was also innocent, about these rumors, he had no way to clarify them one by one, and now that his wife was dead, he was also indefensible, and Tang Gaozong was even more ruthless, directly ordering Wei Zhengjue to be executed, which was equivalent to letting Wei Zhengju be buried for the princess of Xincheng.
Tang Gaozong finally decided to let his sister accompany Zhaoling and arrange her burial with the courtesy of empress, after calming down, Tang Gaozong knew that he had overheated Wei Zhengzheng, so he compensated the Wei family, but Tang Gaozong destroyed all the faces of the characters in the "maid murals" in the tomb of princess Xincheng.
The reason for this is to show Tang Gaozong's blame for these maids, and he believes that the death of Princess Xincheng at such a young age is directly related to the lack of careful care of these maids.
In general, all these acts are Tang Gaozong's "unilateral" atonement, and this atonement also includes the part of Tang Gaozong who replaced his father Li Shimin, and he can only make up for the lack of guilt he has for his sister in this most powerful way.