In the feudal period, the emperor can be said to be the absolute peak of power, and in order to ascend to the throne, the drama of father and son cannibalism and brotherhood has also been staged continuously for thousands of years, in order to become an emperor, everything is used to the extreme, and today the emperor is more in order to achieve the ultimate cause, stunned is to pretend to be crazy and sell stupid for 36 years, relying on the ability to pretend to be crazy and sell stupid, escaped a power struggle, and finally won the ceremony.
This emperor is Tang Xuanzong Li Chen, Li Chen is the thirteenth son of Tang Xianzong, according to the order of ranking and the performance of the princes at that time Li Chen is not the best candidate for the emperor, so when Tang Xianzong died, Tang Muzong succeeded to the throne, in history, many of the first things after the emperor became an emperor is to eliminate people who are threatened by their own thrones, even if this person is his own brother, it will not be an exception, so when Tang Muzong succeeded to the throne as emperor, several other princes who were eligible to compete for the throne were targeted one by one. Life is not good.
However, Emperor Muzong of Tang died of illness within a few years, and Tang Muzong's son Tang Wuzong succeeded to the throne, and after this Tang Wuzong succeeded to the throne, he indulged in the art of immortality, single-mindedly pursuing the way of immortality, listening to all kinds of jianghu Daoist people eating all kinds of elixirs, and finally died violently.
The unexpected death of Tang Wuzong disrupted the order of succession of the emperor, because the death was too early, Tang Wuzong had no heirs, nor did he have a successor, which made the emperor vacant, and at that time, the eunuchs were in power, and the best choice for this group of eunuchs in order to consolidate their position was to recommend a convenient controller to ascend to the throne, and At this time, Li Chen, who had been pretending to be crazy and stupid, finally ushered in the opportunity.
At that time, the great eunuch Ma Yuanzhen, who was in a high position of power, in order to consolidate his position, he used the power in his hands to push the emperor Li Chen, who had always been considered stupid in the eyes of the world, to the throne, thinking that he could be like Cao Cao in that year, he could blackmail the son of heaven to order the princes, but he did not expect that after Li Chen became emperor, he changed his previous foolish appearance and successively introduced a variety of reforms, so that the eunuchs and grand eunuchs at that time, Ma Yuanzhen, knew that they were deceived, but it was too late.
After Li Chen became emperor, he arrested all the ministers who had interests with the eunuchs and in the same camp, seized and raided the family, regained the power of the government in his own hands, and personally weakened the eunuchs' power in all aspects, and put Chen Zhengzhu, who died in the change of Ganlu, and Li Xun, a hundred officials and officials, in order to consolidate people's hearts and win the people's will.
After consolidating chaogang, Li Chen began to rectify military discipline, and during Li Chen's reign, he successively defeated Tubo, stabilized Northern Saibei and Annan, and recovered Hehuang, making indelible contributions to the consolidation of Tang territory in the later period.
Although Li Chen had made many great achievements during his reign, but he could not escape the nostalgia for imperial power and the pursuit of the art of immortality, in his later years Li Chen also began to be obsessed with various immortal arts, and finally at the age of 50, he accidentally ate the poisonous elixir and died, Li Chen reigned for a short time, but his life was full of legends, and after he became emperor by pretending to be stupid, his painting style suddenly changed and rectified the imperial program, which can be described as the depth of the city government.
During his reign, he was also more diligent in government and loved the people, so the evaluation of Li Chen as an emperor in later generations was also relatively high, so that when the Tang Dynasty finally fell, there were many people in the people who missed this emperor, which was the legendary life of Tang Xuanzong Li Chen.
