Preface
Thousands of people pointed out, and died without a problem.
Even if he is the emperor of the Ninety-Five, if everyone thinks that he should die, then it is very likely that he will really die!
For example, Tang Xianzong, who created "Yuanhe Zhongxing", is a typical representative.
Behind the scenes of the violent death of this prime-aged son of heaven, it is the unanimous union of many forces such as the concubine and the prince, the eunuch of Wenchen, etc.!
So, how did Tang Xianzong, a promising king, end up like this and be hostile to everyone?
First, the ambition is proud
Among the emperors of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Tang Xianzong was considered to have quite good political achievements and prestige, he severely purged the three towns of Hebei, and was determined to level the rebellion in Huaixi, and once realized the good situation of Yuan and Zhongxing!
However, it is a pity that this ZTE is just a flash in the pan.
Since the twelfth year of Yuanhe, Tang Xianzong successfully solved the town of Huaixi and made the three towns of Hebei surrender, the emperor felt that his achievements had reached the peak.
Next, Tang Xianzong, who had made some achievements, began to treat himself.
In the thirteenth year of Yuanhe, Tang Xianzong waved his pen and asked the treasury to contribute money, and asked the forbidden army to contribute to build a luxurious palace for himself.
This move sparked unanimous opposition from the military and the ministers of the DPRK and China.
The army was dissatisfied because in the past few years, they first conquered Hebei, and then fought hard in Huaixi, and finally finished the war, just returned to Chang'an, and did not have time to take a breath, but they had to be sent to the construction site, which is really too untreatable for soldiers.
Therefore, Zhang Fengguo, Li Wenyue, and others, the generals of the forbidden army at that time, euphemistically asked the ministers to raise objections to the emperor, and then they were demoted to other places by the emperor.
As for the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee, they clearly saw that although the three towns of Hebei were once again superficially subservient to the central government, in the final analysis, the central government did not really control the population, wealth, land, and army of Hebei, and such a country was quite fragile.
In addition, the feudal town of Ziqing is ready to move, and the war between the imperial court and the feudal town may start at any time, in this case, it is really putting the cart before the horse to use the money in the treasury to repair the palace.
Therefore, many officials represented by Prime Minister Pei Du advised Tang Xianzong.
But Tang Xianzong didn't care at all, he still went his own way, continued to build a large number of buildings, only in the thirteenth year of Yuanhe, in order to build a palace for himself, he used more than 50,000 soldiers and spent more than 2 million pieces of wealth!
As for those disobedient ministers, they were all driven out of the field!
In addition to building a lot of construction and being poor and extravagant, Tang Xianzong, like many emperors, wanted to live forever and stay rich forever, so he began to look for immortals and ask for medicine.
Starting from the thirteenth year of Yuanhe, in order to allow those so-called alchemists to refine elixirs for themselves, Tang Xianzong actually appointed many alchemists as state assassins, the purpose of which was to count on these gods to collect various elixirs on the local area to refine their own elixirs.
In addition to paying attention to the Taoist alchemy and longevity method, Tang Xianzong was also quite enthusiastic about Buddhism and spent a lot of money to welcome the Buddha's bones.
For this matter, Han Yu also wrote an admonition, and was relegated to Chaozhou because of it.
It can be said that in the later years of Tang Xianzong's life, the entire government was really messed up by him, and those civil and military generals, but anyone who did not meet the emperor's wishes would be released.
But then again, similar faint operations were not uncommon in the Tang Dynasty, and it was actually the eunuchs who really wanted Tang Xianzong's life, so what is going on?
2. The eunuch's backstab
Speaking of which, Tang Xianzong is quite good for eunuchs.
Perhaps because he followed his grandfather Tang Dezong in his childhood, he personally experienced the Jingyuan Mutiny and the difficulty of Fengtian.
Therefore, after Tang Xianzong ascended the throne, he trusted the eunuchs quite a lot, and not only continued to retain the tradition of eunuchs, supervising the army, and leading the troops, but also connived at the eunuchs to continue to encroach on the treasury.
Even if he knew that his cronies and eunuchs often misled the country, most of them took it lightly, which made the eunuch power of the Tang Dynasty increase instead of decreasing during the reign of Tang Xianzong.
And then there's trouble.
Since Li Fuguo helped Tang Suzong mutiny and succeed to the throne, the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty have been very keen to invite merit and receive rewards.
No, as a close confidant of Tang Xianzong, the great eunuch Tutu Chengxuan, who controlled half of the Shence Army, also moved his mind, when most of the courtiers supported the eldest son of the Sui King Li You (later renamed Li Heng) as the crown prince.
Tutu Chengguang wanted to burn the cold stove and supported Li Kuan, the king of Li (later renamed Li Yun).
However, it is a pity that his investment failed, and Li Heng successfully became the crown prince and entered the East Palace.
It's troublesome now, for those respected new troops of the imperial court, maybe you have to give some face, but for these house slaves who have enmity with you, the emperor has no scruples about killing them.
So, seeing that Tang Xianzong knocked himself seriously ill because of the pill, not long after, in order to prevent himself from being liquidated by the new monarch, Tutu Chengxuan wanted to launch a mutiny in advance and kill the prince.
What's even worse is that Tang Xianzong, who was seriously ill, didn't know if he was confused, and he also moved his mind to abolish the prince.
As a result, the crown prince, with the support of his mother Guo Guifei, found another group of eunuchs, Wang Shoucheng and Liang Shouqian.
Liang Shouqian is also the great eunuch who controls the military power of the Shence Army, and Wang Shoucheng is responsible for taking care of Tang Xianzong's daily life, as long as he can take down these two people, then it will be much easier to solve Tang Xianzong.
It just so happened that they didn't deal with Tutu Chengxuan either, so when the prince handed over the infection, it was who he killed, and the stick immediately agreed.
In this way, in the first month of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, a conspiracy around Tang Xianzong unfolded.
It is said that Tang Xianzong did it himself, although Tang Xianzong was in the prime of life at this time, but because he had been taking those pills made of heavy metals for a long time, he had already lost his normal mobility.
And his temper also became extremely irritable, and he executed the palace maids and eunuchs around him at every turn.
Especially when he is sleeping, he can't listen to any wind and grass, otherwise someone will fall to the ground!
Therefore, the palace maids and eunuchs who took care of Tang Xianzong had long hated and feared this emperor, which made it quite smooth when their immediate boss Wang Shoucheng was ready to make a move.
In this way, the master of Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty, with the joint support of all forces, died aggrievedly in the hands of his own slaves!
So after Tang Xianzong's death, where will the Tang Dynasty go?
Three, the same
When the news came out from Daming Palace that Tang Xianzong died of pill poisoning, a bloody massacre also quietly unfolded in Chang'an City.
Liang Qian, the eunuch who had already stood on the side of the crown prince Li Heng, sent troops to kill potential threats such as Tutu Chengxuan and Li Yun that night!
Subsequently, on the third day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, Li Heng succeeded to the throne, which was Tang Muzong.
When Tang Muzong first succeeded to the throne, he also had some elegant policies, such as vigorously cleaning up the soil that had given Tang Xianzong the elixir.
Then it was gone, and those who participated in this murder were all paid handsomely after the new monarch ascended the throne, and those who did not dare to speak out in the court anyway had been driven out by the dead emperor.
According to the ancient etiquette system, when a parent dies, a filial son needs to serve three years of mourning.
Although the Son of Heaven does not need to be based on such rituals, he also needs to observe filial piety for a year, and in this year, in order to show his filial piety, the Son of Heaven should wear cloth clothes and eat vegetarian food to show his mourning.
But this Tang Muzong really didn't last long, his father died in the first month, and he couldn't wait to start indulging in vocal music in February.
Compared with Tang Xianzong, who likes to seek immortals and ask for medicine and build palaces, Tang Muzong's hobby is more popular, that is, he likes to listen to operas.
As soon as Tang Muzong ascended the throne, he couldn't wait to recruit artists in Chang'an City.
All of a sudden, the entire palace was filled with the voices of haiyu.
It is said that at most times, there were as many as 10,000 entertainers performing songs and dances for the emperor in the imperial palace, as well as various theatrical programs!
The most unbearable thing is that Tang Muzong is extremely generous with these plays, and the treatment is also quite generous.
In addition to indulging in pleasure, Tang Muzong was really a mess about governing the country, and even made jokes about not knowing the advising officials.
The result was also predictable, in the second year after Tang Muzong succeeded to the throne, the three towns of Hebei rebelled again, and other feudal towns followed suit to threaten the imperial court.
But at this time, Chang'an, after the toss of Tang Xianzong's father and son, had a serious financial deficit, and there were very few civilian generals available.
But that's not all.
I don't know if it was because of his father's genes, or because he was overthinking about hollowing out the body of this young genius, in the third year of Changqing, Tang Muzong also began to look for immortals and ask for medicine.
Then he encountered the same fate as Tang Xianzong, whether those elixirs can make people immortal is not clear, but there is no doubt that they can urge people's lives.
Soon, Tang Muzong, who was not in good health, was also seriously ill in bed because of these pills.
Then in the first month of the fourth year of Changqing, Tang Muzong, who had just sent away his father for only three years, died!
Subsequently, it was the 16-year-old crown prince Li Zhan who ascended the throne and became emperor, that is, Tang Jingzong, who also died at the hands of eunuchs!
epilogue
One of the biggest problems in the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion was the turmoil in the political situation in Chang'an, and there was no emperor who had been in power long enough and strong enough.
This makes those so-called Tang Zhongxing, even if they can achieve some achievements, they are often killed because of the emperor's short life, and eventually become an inconspicuous wave in history.
Tang Xianzong's tragedy is a typical example, as the Son of Heaven, he can't keep his head in the palace. How can he be expected to keep the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty?