In 707 AD, outside the Suzhang Gate of the Chang'an Imperial Palace, there was a sudden killing sound, and Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was awakened, and he put his arms around Wei Hou and trembled. After a while, Shangguan Wan'er ran over to her in disheveled clothes and cried, "Your Majesty help!" The crown prince killed Wu Sansi's father and son and brought troops into the palace to kill the concubines, Empress Wei, and His Majesty! ”
Li Xian suddenly froze, and when Wei Hou and Princess Anle who came later heard that Wu Sansi's father and son had been killed, they all cried and cried for Li Xian to avenge him. It turned out that Wei Hou had already committed adultery with Wu Sansi, and Princess Anle was married to Wu Chongxun, and both of them were inextricably linked to Wu's father and son. Unable to withstand the cries of the two, Li Xian led the crowd to Xuanwu Gate to guard, and at the same time dispatched the right Yulin general Liu Jingren to lead the troops to escort them.
The crown prince mentioned by Shangguan Wan'er was Li Xian's son Li Chongjun, and Li Chongjun, as the crown prince, must inherit the unification in the future, so why did he rebel? This has a lot to do with Empress Wei and Princess Anle's mother and daughter.
In 706, in the second year of Li Xian's reign, Li Chongjun was made crown prince. However, his position as a prince was not stable, because Li Chongjun was not born to Empress Wei, so Li Chongjun became the crown prince and was a thorn in Empress Wei's eye. Princess Anle was also a flying princess, and at the instigation of her husband Wu Chongxun (the son of Wu Sansi), she did not care about the feelings of her brothers and sisters at all, and often insulted Li Chongjun as a slave in person.
Soon after, under the matchmaking of Shangguan Wan'er, Wei Hou and Wu Sansi secretly communicated with each other, and the two fought fiercely, and Li Chongjun was secretly worried about this. Why? Wu Sansi was Wu Zetian's nephew who held great power, and his complicity with Wei Hou and others was a great threat to Li Chongjun.
Sure enough, soon after Princess Anle, at the instigation of Wu Chongxun, often persuaded Emperor Zhongzong of Tang to depose Li Chongjun and make herself the empress dowager. Although Li Xian refused many times, Li Chongjun saw that his position was already in jeopardy, so he planned how to protect himself.
Li Chongjun decided to woo Wei Yuanzhong (魏元忠), the head of the army, and Li Duozuo (李多祚), the general of Zuo Yulin ( 左羽林) the general. Wei Yuanzhong had always been at odds with Wu Sansi, while Li Duozuo was loyal to Li Tang and had a straight personality, and had participated in the Divine Dragon Rebellion to support Li Xian's ascension to the throne. One day, Li Chongjun invited the two to a banquet, at which Li Chongjun pretended to be drunk, saying that Wu Sansi's father and son and Wei Hou were in cahoots with their position as crown prince, and if Wei Hou and Princess Anle finally controlled the government, there would be no second Wu Zetian.
Wei Yuanzhong and Li Duozuo were originally dimwitted with Li Xian, trusting Wu Sansi. The three of them immediately decided to eliminate Wei Hou, Princess Anle, and Wu Sansi's father and son. Thus, in July 707, Li Chongjun, Li Duozuo, Li Qianli and others led more than 300 people of Yulin Wei to launch an attack, and they first rushed into the Wu Sansi Mansion, and wu Sansi's father and son were caught off guard by the people's knife and hacked to death. Li Chongjun then asked Li Qianli to lead troops into Suzhangmen to search for Empress Wei, Princess Anle, and Shangguan Wan'er in the palace.
However, what Li Chongjun did not expect was that Li Qianli's soldiers were unable to control the crucial Xuanwu Gate, and as a result, under the reminder of Shangguan Wan'er, Li Xian asked Liu Jingren to lead his troops to preemptively control the Xuanwu Gate to defend himself, and by the time Li Chongjun and Li Duozuo arrived later, Li Xian was already waiting at the Xuanwu Gate.
Li Chongjun states the reasons for his mutiny below, saying that Wei Hou, Shangguan Wan'er, and Wu Sansi have secretly disturbed the palace, hoping that Li Xian will hand over Wei Hou, Princess Anle, and Shangguan Wan'er. Li Xian, who originally had no opinion, was confused by Wei Hou's mother and daughter when they cried, and Shangguan Wan'er knelt in front of Li Xian and cried bitterly, saying that the prince had the intention to plot against and deliberately slander the concubines.
As the saying goes, "Three women play a play," Li Xian, confused by Wei Hou's words and others, ordered the guards guarding Xuanwu Gate to attack, and Gong Min ordered Yang Sixun to kill Li Duozuo's son-in-law Ye Huli first, and the soldiers who followed Li Duozuo were all frightened. Then Li Xian, at Wei Hou's suggestion, ascended to the top and shouted, "Why do the generals of the Yulin Army, er and other loyal people follow the rebellion?" Er and others will atone for their sins and kill Li Chongjun, Li Duozuo, and so on, and ensure your glory and wealth. ”
The Yulin army that followed Li Chongjun and other rebels originally obeyed Li Duozuo's orders, saying that Emperor Li Xian was held hostage by Wei Hou and Wu Sansi, and that he was following the orders of the crown prince to clean up the side of the emperor and remove the traitors. However, listening to Li Xian's words, it turned out that It was Li Duozuo and others who falsely preached the Holy Will in an attempt to rebel. As a result, the military chaos quickly dissipated, and some non-commissioned officers surrounded Li Duozuo and others and beheaded them in order to make a meritorious counterattack.
Li Chongjun saw that the situation was not good and led his henchmen to flee to Zhongnan Mountain, and was finally killed by the domestic slaves. Because this change occurred in the first year of Jinglong, it was called the change of Jinglong in later generations.
In the early Tang Dynasty, there were several times around the imperial power of the blood palace gate, some successes and some failures, the change of Jinglong is one of the failures, as the leader of the figure Li Chongjun hastily moved without careful planning, and after the army, he did not think of controlling the Xuanwu Gate at the entrance of the imperial palace for the first time, but for personal vendetta to attack and kill Wu Sansi's father and son first, resulting in missing the great opportunity to enter the palace to control Tang Zhongzong. It gave Wei Hou and Princess Anle a chance to breathe, allowing them to enter in front of Li Xian, and then dispatched troops to firmly guard the Xuanwu Gate. As a result, the last soldiers under his command counterattacked and failed.
After this, Wei Hou and Princess Anle became more and more powerful, and both of them wanted to seize the throne like Wu Zetian and conspired to poison Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, but in the end they were defeated by Princess Taiping and Li Longji. After Li Longji's father Li Dan ascended the throne as empress dowager, out of the need to liquidate Empress Wei's mother and daughter, he posthumously restored Li Chongjun's title of crown prince.
