As the folk saying goes, "There are no parents in the world." But in real life, many people may disagree with this statement. Turning over history, those parents who pit their children are really not few, and when China's history is in the thirteenth year of Qing Yongzheng and the Qianlong Emperor is about to show his hands, Li's Joseon Si Mourning Shizi (also known as Zhuang Xianshizi) was born.
His name was Li Huan, and his life was a complete tragedy. Li Yu's father, Yingzu, belonged to a very powerful figure, And Yingzu reigned for 52 years, which was the longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch of the Li Dynasty, and to some extent comparable to the Qianlong Emperor of China, who was praised by the history books as a "holy king".
Li Yu's mother was Ying Concubine Li, who first gave birth to 5 daughters to Yingzu before giving birth to Li Yu, her first son and Yingzu's second son. However, Li Huan's half-brother XiaoZhang Shizi had died long ago, and although Yingzu had reigned for a long time, his sons were pitifully few, just two, Li Huan was the only surviving son of Yingzu, and Yingzu had particularly high expectations of him.
It is reasonable to say that as the father's "only seedling", Li Huan should have been pampered, but Yingzu himself was powerful, and he also hoped that his son would be as powerful as himself, so Li Huan was crowned as the prince of the world in 1 year of birth, and then Yingzu has always demanded him with the strict standards of the heir, not allowing him to make a mistake, Li Huan's childhood has no happiness to speak of, only endless homework, endless training.
Therefore, Li Yu grew up under the high-pressure education of his father, and Yingzu hoped that he would be perfect in every way, but this was very unrealistic. Li Huan has been imprisoned for a long time, only to the book, for a long time, he and his father have conflicts, mental problems, suffering from severe depression and anxiety, he described this feeling as "boring to the point of madness."
Originally, Li Huan also had a half-sister who was 8 years older than him, Heping Weng Lord, who was Yingzu's favorite daughter, and Yingzu even said that this daughter was his "confidant". The peace lord is well aware of the contradiction between her brother and father, and she is particularly concerned about this poor brother, often reconciling the relationship between her brother and father.
Unfortunately, when Li Huan was 13 years old, his sister Ping Weng died in childbirth, and without a mediator, the relationship between Yingzu and him became more tense. When he went to see his mother, he heard that Yingzu had come, and he was so frightened that he immediately jumped out of the window and fled, which showed how much he was afraid of his father in his heart.
Not only that, Li Huan also tried to jump into the well to commit suicide in a mental trance, but because he was too fat, he was stuck in the wellhead and was finally rescued. Yingzu did not feel that there was anything wrong with his education, he thought that this was all Li Huan's own indisputable anger, such a son with abnormal behavior, how could he be the heir of the dynasty?
When Li Huan was 27 years old, Yingzu decided to get rid of this son, he deposed Li Huan as a commoner, forced him to commit suicide, and the reason why he did not deal with it according to the standards of sinners and directly gave poison was because it would implicate Li Huan's wife and children. Li Huan asked his mother Ying Concubine Li for help, but in fact, it was his mother who suggested to Yingzu to do so (another theory is that Ying Concubine Li only acquiesced).
If Li Huan did anything in the future, it might implicate Concubine Li herself, as well as her grandchildren and mother-in-law. In this way, Li Yu, whose father did not love his mother, went to a desperate end, and was ordered by his father Yingzu to be locked in a cupboard, locked up for a full 8 days, during which he could not eat a mouthful of food, and finally starved to death.
Fourteen years after Li Huan's death, Yingzu also died, and Li Yu's son Li Qi (historically known as Zhengzu) took the throne, Li Qi was a very accomplished monarch, and was named the last saint of the Li Dynasty, and during his reign the Li Dynasty was unprecedentedly prosperous. At the age of 11, Li Qi witnessed the tragedy of his father Li Huan, and he attached great importance to his father's admiration activities all his life, but no matter how he admired him, he could not get back his father's life.