Emperor Gaozong of Tang was the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and during his reign, he pioneered the rule of Yonghui and destroyed the Western Turks, Baekje, and Goguryeo, making the area of the Tang Dynasty at that time reach its peak.
However, a confusing thing happened: why did Li Zhi bury his sister with the empress ceremony? To ask why, there is only a five-word reply: it is really disgraceful!
Li Zhi's sister is He Xuren
Li Zhi's sister was known as Princess Xincheng, and she was the younger daughter of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Empress Li Shimin and Empress Changsun, but since ancient times, she had been "red-faced and short-lived", and Princess Xincheng was only thirty years old when she died, and even her name was not left.
After the death of Princess Xincheng, his brother Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong was very sad and held a solemn funeral for her, and ordered that she be buried with the ceremony of empress.
Although the identity of the emperor's sister is indeed noble and not false, but the world knows that the empress is the only wife of the emperor, is it not against heavenly reason? So, what exactly caused Li Zhi to use the Empress Li to bury his sister? Today, more than 1,000 years later, archaeologists have found a very disgraceful cause in the tomb paintings, and at the same time profoundly discovered the secrets of the Li Tang royal family.
The early life of Princess New Town
Princess Xincheng has been favored by her father and brother since she was a child, but as such a proud daughter of heaven, even if she has endless glory and wealth, she still has to endure the troubles caused by the long-term intrigue between the various factions of the royal family, and the Princess of Xincheng has had a rough love affair and is constantly torturing her.
In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, in order to appease the critically ill wei zheng, Li Shimin ordered that princess Xu of Xincheng betrothed to his son Wei Shuyu, but after this, Hou Junji rebelled, and the most important point was that this Hou Junji was recommended by Wei Zheng, which made the suspicious Tang Taizong suspect that Wei Zheng and Hou Junji colluded with each other in order to usurp the throne, so he simply canceled the marriage contract he had previously made with his son.
After a few years, this day happened to be the birthday of the eldest grandson empress, so Li Shimin planned to choose a good family affair for his daughter, so he took a fancy to the eldest grandson. In this way, the best of both worlds, not only fulfilled his wish to marry his daughter, but also gave the eldest grandson family a great deal of face, hoping that the two families can continue to be friendly after they are married.
But Li Shimin died before his daughter got married, and later when Li Zhi ascended the throne, he also pampered her, and after the three-year filial piety period for his father expired, he held a grand wedding for his sister and promoted her to princess of Xincheng, giving her a lot of rewards.
The two lived happily after marriage, but the eldest grandson family soon lost in the political struggle, was framed by others, was deposed and exiled, because the princess of Xincheng could not bear such suffering and humiliation, and finally chose to hang herself.
After Gongsun Yi's death, Xincheng remarried again
Under the crazy suppression of Li Zhi, the entire Gongsun family no longer existed, but also indirectly killed her brother-in-law, the Princess of Xincheng who learned the news was extremely sad, but she herself had no way, she was the daughter of the royal family, and after thinking about it again, she began to have no washing to express her resentment about this matter.
Li Zhi also felt the helplessness of the extinction of the eldest son family, and felt deeply guilty about the death of his brother-in-law, in order to compensate for his sister, Li Zhi planned to choose another husband for her, he fell in love with Wei Zhengju in Jingzhao, and at the same time directly promoted Wei Zhengju to zhengsanpin official.
Princess Xincheng's second marriage disaster
However, Princess Xincheng's second marriage life was not happy, or she could not forget Gongsun Interpretation, so she soon suffered from lovesickness, and her body became emaciated and soon became bedridden. After Li Zhi heard about this, he went to the temple every day to pray for the blessing of princess Xincheng, but two months later, she still unfortunately died.
Later, Li Zhi was even more remorseful in his heart, and ordered that he be buried with the empress ceremony, and because Wei Zhengjue did not fulfill his duty as a husband, Li Zhi ordered him to be executed and exiled along with his clan. In addition, the maids who had served the princess of Xincheng were also reprimanded, blaming them for not taking good care of the princess.
This is really a disgraceful history, Li Zhi blamed the death of his sister Princess Xincheng on Wei Zhengji and the maids, but is the truth really so?
The murderer who really killed princess Xincheng was Li Zhi, and his practice was nothing more than self-deception and seeking a psychological comfort for himself, if he did not want to consolidate the imperial power and took the opportunity to suppress the eldest grandson family, how could Gongsun Yi die? The most ruthless imperial family, the life of the Princess of Xincheng forever stays at the touching thirty years old.