Emperor Taizong of Tang (599–649), second son of Emperor Gaozu of Tang and Empress Dou, second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was an outstanding politician, strategist, military strategist, and poet in Chinese history. At the end of Sui, Li Shimin rebelled against Sui with his father Li Yuan, and later Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, was crowned King of Qin, and served as Shang Shuling. He successively led his troops to pacify warlords such as Xue Rengao, Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong, and made great achievements in the establishment and unification of the Tang Dynasty. On July 2, 626 (the fourth day of the first month of June in the ninth year of Wu De), Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, killing his brother Li Jiancheng, the fourth brother Li Yuanji the Prince of Qi, and the two sons, and was made crown prince. After Li Shimin became emperor, he actively listened to the opinions of his subjects, ruled the world with civility, humbly accepted advice, practiced strict economy, advised the peasants, and persuaded the people to recuperate and recuperate, and the country was peaceful and peaceful, creating the famous rule of Zhenguan in Chinese history.
Portrait of Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong of Tang
Because of Li Shimin's legendary life, his various legends have emerged in an endless stream. Among them, the rumor that Li Shimin killed his fourth brother and robbed his beautiful wife has been circulated to this day, so is this matter really true? Today, @Dasheng Lady Rong Indium sister will come to talk to you.
Li Shimin's fourth brother was named Li Yuanji (李元吉), (603-626), whose real name was Li Jie (李劼), nicknamed Sanhu (三胡), and Li Shimin was a compatriot of the same mother, both of whom were born to Empress Mu of the Dou clan. Li Yuanji is brave and brave, guessing the luxury of the dove. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he was appointed as the governor of the prefecture and made the king of Qi. In the second year of Wu De (619), when Liu Wuzhou invaded and annexed the prefecture, he fled back to Chang'an. He participated in the Eastern Crusades of Wang Shichong and pacified Liu Heimin, and made many military achievements, successively serving as a shangzhu guo, Situ and Shizhong, and a general of the Left Wei. It can be said that Li Yuanji is a brave and good warrior, and is a rare brave general.
Li Yuanji's wife, Yang Shi, is said to be named "JueMei", and was originally a dancer in chang'an Jiaofang. Yang's face is like a hibiscus, the posture is flowing, the temperament is soft, and the poetry is good, and the ice and snow are smart. Yang's fame in Chang'an at that time attracted countless brothers to chase and fall, and Li Yuanji was one of them. Yang Shi saw Li Yuanji's extraordinary origin and family lineage, so he redeemed himself and married him. After marriage, the Yang family had a son and a daughter.
Portrait of Li Yuanji, King of Qi
Li Yuan was proclaimed empress dowager, and his eldest son Li Jiancheng was made crown prince. Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng had a deep affection and were loyal supporters of the prince. And Li Shimin, the king of Qin, was superior to Li Jiancheng in terms of various abilities, and he had no choice but to be the second son, and he had no connection with being crowned prince. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin often led troops to conquests abroad, and rarely had time to stay in Chang'an, so his relationship with Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji became increasingly indifferent. Whenever Li Shimin took advantage of the short gap in the war to return to the capital to meet his father, Crown Prince Jiancheng and Qi Wang Yuanji, based on a compensatory psychology, often invited him to eat, drink and have fun together, which was a consolation to him. After all, it is the brother's hospitality, and it is rare to see each other once, and Li Shimin, who has no time for the joy of sound and color, cannot bear to brush away a piece of his brother's kindness, so he often gladly invites him to go. It was on such occasions that Li Shimin met Yang Shi, the princess of the King of Qi.
Among the princesses and noblewomen of the Tang Dynasty at that time, the beauty of Princess Yang of Qi was the most outstanding. Li Shimin was naturally deeply attracted to such a beautiful woman who could sing and dance. Soon after, because Li Yuanji was drunk and lustful, which caused yang to be extremely dissatisfied, the couple had an awkward quarrel. As the second sister-in-law, Li Shimin's wife, The Eldest Sun Clan, out of kindness, took yang to the palace to comfort and persuade. Li Shimin also took the opportunity to talk to Yang and comfort Yang from the perspective of a man. As they came and went, the relationship between Li Shimin and the Yang clan became closer and closer.
Because of his countless achievements, Li Shimin moved Li Yuan's idea of changing the crown prince, which caused the jealousy of the crown prince Li Jiancheng. He and Li Yuanji repeatedly plotted to get rid of Li Shimin and secretly poisoned him. Li Shimin became aware of it, and at the instigation and instigation of his courtiers around him, launched the "Xuanwumen Rebellion" in the ninth year of WuDe (626). The crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Qi king Li Yuanji were murdered in a coup d'état, and Li Yuanji was only 23 years old at the time. In order to prevent revenge from ending, Li Yuan was forced to endure the pain and order to kill Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's sons, cutting off the root cause of revenge in exchange for the stability of the kingdom. Princess Yang of Qi was only 22 years old at this time, and she witnessed the tragic death of her husband and one of her sons and daughters under the knife of her relatives, and she couldn't help but be devastated.
Li Shimin film and television drama image (played by Lin Junxian)
Three days after the xuanwumen rebellion, Li Yuan made Li Shimin the Prince of Qin crown prince and supervised all state affairs. Li Shimin's concubine, Changsun Shi, was made crown princess, and she made friends with the Yang clan on weekdays, and when she saw that the Yang clan was now in ruins and had no relatives, she was very pitiful, and she was very sympathetic to her in her heart, so she was recruited into the palace. Perhaps Li Shimin once said something to the Changsun clan that he had a good feeling for the Yang clan, so the Changsun clan felt that since the Yang clan was now alone and had nowhere to go, it was better to stay and serve Li Shimin together. Considering that he was alone in Chang'an, yang was indeed in a difficult situation, and did not want to become a nun according to the old practice, so he reluctantly accepted the proposal of the eldest grandson and became the princess's concubine.
Although Yang Shi had had an ambiguous relationship with Li Shimin and accepted the fact that he was his concubine, because she had witnessed Li Yuanji being shot to death by Li Shimin, and then thought that one of her sons and daughters had also been killed, her heart could no longer have a good feeling for him as before. Li Shimin liked Yang Very much, tried every means to please her and co-opt her, and he only felt heartache and pity for Yang's later cold treatment of him, and did not mind it.
Later, Li Yuanchan took the throne, Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, and established the Changsun clan as empress and the Yang clan as a concubine. Li Shimin, who is the son of the Tang Dynasty, did not hesitate to break his principle of governing the country with diligence and thrift, carefully searched for the world's rare treasures, and continuously rewarded her, and the Yang clan was only perfunctory. In the tenth year of Zhenguan, Yang gave birth to a son, named Li Ming (later King Cao), and was made a noble concubine. Li Shimin built a luxurious palace for their mother and son, and as soon as he had time, he was tired of it and had fun with Yang's mother and son. Empress Dowager Xianshu's gentle empress dowager came forward to dissuade Li Shimin from relenting slightly, and Li Shimin, who was confused by the Yang clan, listened to this for a while, and in a fit of rage, even prepared to depose Empress Eldest Sun and crown prince Li Chengqian. Fortunately, Wei Zheng and several other courtiers strongly opposed it, and the matter was not resolved. Li Shimin later reflected on this matter, feeling that he was a bit excessive, empress dowager had been with him since he was a teenager, as his wife Xianliang Shude, she also spoke so for her own sake, so she sincerely apologized to the empress, and the relationship between the husband and wife returned to the beginning.
Empress Eldest Sun film and television drama image (played by Tong Ailing)
Princess Yang tempted Li Shimin and wanted to get some posthumous titles for her ex-husband Li Yuanji. Unexpectedly, Li Shimin agreed and posthumously named Li Yuanji the "King of Bohai County", and then entered the "King of Chao", with the nickname "剌". Not only that, he also gave Li Yuanji the heir of Yang and li ming, the king of Cao whom he had born, as his son. In addition to Li Shimin's remembrance of his own brother, this move also shows his love for the Yang family.
Although the Changsun clan was almost deposed by Li Shimin because of the favor of the Yang clan, the relationship between the Yang clan and the Empress Changsun was still good. Yang Shi confessed to Empress Changsun that he had no idea of taking her and replacing her, and did not covet the empress's position. And her own son was also passed on to her ex-husband, cutting off the possibility of succeeding to the throne and becoming emperor in the future, so she would not be able to live with the empress dowager. Empress Eldest Sun had always been virtuous, and naturally understood the reasoning, not only did not blame the Yang family, but later treated her better than before.
In June of the 10th year of Zhenguan (July 636), Empress Changsun died at the Lizheng Palace, and Emperor Taizong posthumously honored her as "Empress Wende". After the death of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin saw that the harem was unmanaged, and once moved the idea of establishing the Yang clan as the queen. Wei Zhengjinyan believed that after all, Yang Shi had once been the emperor's younger daughter-in-law, and her identity was embarrassing, and she really could not be a mother to the world. Li Shimin only stopped thinking.
Yang Fei film and television drama image (played by Zhou Haimei)
In the biographies of the concubines in the old and new Book of Tang, there is no detailed record of Yang's deeds, but in the biography of her son Li Ming, the King of Cao, she is mentioned a few words. This article is based on the "Biography of Cao Wang Minglie". According to the New Book of Tang, Li Ming, the King of Cao, was later killed by magistrates, and his mother Yang had fallen out of favor. The final outcome of the Yang clan is not clearly recorded, and according to historians, it is likely that after Li Shimin's death, he became a nun according to the Tang dynasty.
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