The underrated emperor ----- Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi, was young and intelligent, generous and benevolent. When his mother died when he was nine years old, he was touched by Tang Taizong because of his sadness and longing, and he has been particularly pampered ever since. continue

The underrated emperor ----- Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong

Li Zhi is young and intelligent, generous and benevolent. When his mother died when he was nine years old, he was touched by Tang Taizong because of his sadness and longing, and he has been particularly pampered ever since.

At the beginning of the succession, he put down the rebellion of Fang Yi'ai and Princess Gaoyang, and eliminated the forces that threatened the throne. He held the power in his own hands, cultivated his own power, was no longer subject to human constraints, and grasped the real discourse power of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, during this period, he did not stop the pace of Tang Taizong's expansion of territory, pacified the desert north, captured Pyongyang and destroyed Goguryeo, and also broke the Western Turks.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty reached the largest territory during the tang Dynasty: from the Korean Peninsula in the east, to the Aral Sea in the west, to Lake Baikal in the north, and to the Hengshan Mountains in Vietnam in the south.

In addition, Emperor Gaozong of Tang also had jurisdiction over the five Central Asian states and Afghanistan, with 22 governorates under his jurisdiction. Su Dingfang set the Tianshan Mountains with three arrows, led his troops directly to the Mediterranean Sea, and set up the Anxi Capital Protectorate, which was called "Huang Yu" by the Europeans at that time.

The task that the old father Tang Taizong Li Shimin did not complete, and his son Tang Gaozong all helped him achieve it. The prestige of the Tang Dynasty outside the country reached its peak during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.