(Chang'an City: Daming Palace)
In the thirteenth year of Yuan He, news came from the Daming Palace in Chang'an City.
Because of the long-term use of Dan medicine, Tang Xianzong Li Chun's health deteriorated and was not optimistic.
Therefore, the emperor soon made his eldest son Li Ningli crown prince.
Li Ning is the eldest son of a concubine, with a respected status and excellent moral character, and when he is the prince, no one has anything to say.
The emperor was satisfied, and the minister of culture and military affairs had no opinion.
But very unluckily, Li Ning's health has not been very good, and he has been working in the position of prince for less than two years, and he can't afford to get sick and receive a bento.
The crown prince died, and Manchu Wenwu had a lot of ideas.
Because everyone has a lot in mind, the old emperor's body is not as good as a day, and who can become the prince at this time is basically the heir of the empire.
The ministers may have a high-profile candidate in their hearts, but what they say does not count, and it is the eunuch friends who really speak and count.
At this time, the eunuch friends colluded with the army of the clan town outside, and controlled the forbidden army of the court inside, and the power was very large, not to mention the ministers, even the emperor, they did not pay attention to it.
The eunuch clique was divided over the establishment of a new heir.
Some eunuchs wanted Li Yun the Prince of Li to be crown prince, because Li Yun was the second son of Tang Xianzong, and according to the patriarchal succession system of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yun was the best candidate for the crown prince.
But another part of the eunuchs wanted to make Li Heng the Prince of Jian'an the crown prince, because Li Heng had a good backstage and a good mother.
Li Heng's mother, Consort Guo, was the granddaughter of the famous Tang Dynasty general Guo Ziyi.
Guo Ziyi is very familiar to everyone, before and after the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ge can be said to have rebuilt the Tang Empire.
Leaning back against a big tree is good for cooling, because with this relationship, Li Heng has gained a lot of support in the government and the public.
Li Yun's mother, who was also partial to the king, may have been just a lonely and nameless palace girl, which was not recorded at all in the history books.
Therefore, compared between the two people, Li Heng obviously has an advantage over Li Yun.
Of course, the old emperor also understood what was going on, and he did not want to cause turmoil in the government and the public because of the establishment of the throne, so he quickly made Li Hengli, who had obvious advantages, the new crown prince.
His process of becoming a prince was far less arduous and tortuous than that of previous princes, escorted by the huge Guo family, and supported by a large number of eunuchs, being a prince was as simple as eating a home-cooked meal for him.
(Crown Prince Li Heng was later Emperor Muzong of Tang)
If a person gets something with particular ease, he probably won't cherish it.
The position of prince at his fingertips has left a great hidden danger for Li Heng's future life years.
In the fourteenth year of Yuan He, a Taoist monk named Liu Bi came to Chang'an City, and it was said that the Dao was very advanced and refining Dan.
When Tang Xianzong Li Chun, a lover of Dan medicine, heard this, he immediately became interested and summoned Liu Bi into the palace to offer Dan.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bi was just a swindler, and the Elixir offered to the emperor was a fake and shoddy Sanwu product, which not only failed to pass the ISO9001 quality management system, but also had very serious side effects.
The emperor finished eating, vomited up and down, and died within two days.
Li Heng became the new master of the Tang Empire, known in history as "Tang Muzong".
The word "Mu" is not a good title, basically reserved for tyrants and emperors, and Tang Muzong is no exception.
He was only 26 years old when he ascended the throne, which is when people are in their prime and have unlimited energy.
For the emperor who ascended the throne in his prime, it was a good time to show his great talents in politics.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin was in his twenties when he ascended the throne, and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was also in his twenties when he ascended the throne.
Li Heng, like their two predecessors, was young, heroic and energetic.
If he is willing, he will certainly be able to do something, and he will certainly be able to leave a name in history.
He did leave his name in history, but in a different way.
The first thing Li Heng did when he became emperor was not to govern the country, but to go out hunting with a group of relatives.
At this time, it was the season when the Tang Empire was in ruins and waiting to be revived, the local armed forces and the forces of the feudal towns were vaguely rebellious, the ministers in the court were arguing endlessly over trivial matters, the eunuchs wantonly gained power, the fields were barren, and the people's lives were poor.
The situation is grim, but not complicated.
As long as the emperor is diligent and hardworking, the four seas are at peace, and the universe is just around the corner.
However, our Tang Muzong Li Heng adhered to the concept of "when the emperor is cool for a while, and always when the emperor is cool", from the ascension to the throne to the death, basically not a good thing has been done.
After Li Heng became emperor, he had a very big hobby, that is, to set up a feast and invite guests to dinner.
A small feast for three days, a big feast for five days.
This is not a metaphor, but real data.
The courtiers of the Tang Dynasty almost did not eat at home, and every day they were invited by the emperor to run to the palace.
One or two meals can still be endured, and every day they go to the banquet, and it is estimated that these ministers will also have to eat and vomit.
The people of Pingtou eat a meal, but a few large coins, but the emperor eats no more than others, pays attention to pomp and pageantry, so a meal is almost a year's income and expenditure of an ordinary Tang Dynasty people's family.
(Tang Dynasty: Banquet)
Squandering on food is enough, Li Heng is still an architect.
Building a large number of civil engineering, building palaces, and liking to renovate the old city, Chang'an City has let him go over and over again inside and outside.
The emperor wants to build a house, to build a palace, but just the lips touch, and the holy hand is finished with one finger.
But he did not know that because of his preference, he would consume a lot of national strength, manpower and economic resources.
He was intoxicated by the false bustle and prosperity, and could not extricate himself, not understanding that the Tang Empire was on the verge of collapse at this moment.
Through the above behavior, it is not difficult for us to conclude that Li Heng was really a not very good emperor, and he can even be said to be the first emperor who behaved more badly since the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
One day, on a whim, Li Heng suddenly issued an edict:
"Temporarily go to Huaqing Palace on the day of the coming, and return it immediately at sunset."
Huaqing Palace is Huaqing Pond, bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song", describing Yang Guifei as "spring cold bath Huaqing pond", referring to this place.
The meaning of this sentence is that I want to go to Huaqingchi to play, and I will come back in the evening.
The emperor wants to go out to relax, which is understandable, but the problem is that Huaqingchi is in Lintong, Xi'an, and there is still a distance from the Tang Dynasty Imperial Palace Daming Palace, and the emperor will toss a lot of time this time.
If the four seas are peaceful and the world is fine, the problem of short-distance tourism is not very big.
However, the day before Li Heng decided to go to Huaqingchi for a visit, news came from the northwestern frontier that ethnic minorities had raised troops to attack, and Rong Dihao had invaded with tens of thousands of people, and the Shen ce army stationed on the frontier was only 4,000 people, and the war was tight and the situation was tense.
The emperor had no heart and no lungs, but the courtiers had more hearts than he did.
At that time, the imperial master Li Dai and the chang attendant Cui Yuanluo knelt in front of the emperor to see him, which meant that the country was in danger, the frontier was in emergency, you couldn't always think about playing, you had to stay and preside over the overall situation.
Li Heng said, Huaqingchi I have to go, no one said it is not good.
Play, in the heart of this young emperor has always been the first.
The people of the world, the people of Li, have never been placed in Li Heng's heart.
As for the emperor's behavior of playing all day and not doing the right thing, the courtiers felt that it was not okay, and they must go into the counsel and speak out and advise the emperor.
So Zheng Qin, the counselor, made several concerts and advised the emperor not to play around, because if there was any urgent military situation, the military and political affairs had to be handled, and it would be difficult to find you. Moreover, you hold banquets and party every day, and you reward some of the best people at every turn, and the silver money you reward out is all the blood and sweat money of the people.
The words on the fold are strips of punching the face, and the words are heartfelt.
(Tang Dynasty courtiers in film and television dramas)
According to past experience, you have educated the emperor in this way, especially if the emperor is still a dimwitted monarch, and as soon as the emperor is angry, it is very likely that you will be cleaned up.
But when Li Heng saw these folds, he did not jump like thunder, but felt very novel.
Because no one has given him such a fold for many years.
At that time, the ministers under Li Heng's rule were either flattering traitors or incompetent people who dared to speak and tell the truth.
So the emperor actually had a sense of freshness.
He felt that Zheng Qin was a very interesting official, so he rewarded Zheng Qin with a lot of property, and patted his chest to ensure that he would definitely change his past mistakes in the future and be a diligent emperor.
Zheng Qin, the counselor, was very happy, and he thought that his advice had played a role, and he changed the emperor himself.
But what he didn't know was that Li Heng was a very heartless and lungless person.
After taking a chest shoot today, I will guarantee that I will finish eating tomorrow.
Perhaps Li Heng knows everything, but he is not interested in major national affairs and ignores national security.
Eating, drinking, and entertaining courtiers is a symbol of the peace of the world for him.
Going out hunting and going out on a parade is his way of showing the prestige of the Tang Empire.
But that's just self-deception, whitewashing of peace.
You can't wake up a man who pretends to be asleep, and you can't wake up an emperor who pretends to be asleep.
But if a person always pretends to sleep, or always lies in bed, it is inevitable that there will be physical problems.
Soon after, Li Heng suffered a stroke.
The so-called stroke, which may not have been a stroke in ancient times, was mostly a vicious disease that the internal medical officer could not diagnose or treat, but no matter what, the happy life of 857 for many years had seriously dragged down Li Heng's body, and he could no longer play as wantonly as before.
It was time for the emperor to rest.
Lying in bed recuperating, Li Heng still did not stop.
It is reasonable to say that you have also tossed, played, enjoyed, and reached the time to think about the pain and look back on your life.
(Alchemy for Medicine)
But Li Heng did not study well.
He contracted the same problem as his father, Tang Xianzong Li Chun, and refined Dan for medicine.
These generations of Tang emperors seem to have an infinite desire for life and for life.
But they may not mean much to Datang.
It is nothing more than letting the national strength decline and then decline again.
One of the truths they don't understand is that if a person, especially as an emperor, can't be benevolent and love the people, and it is beneficial to the country, then eternal life is meaningless.
Isn't it the saddest thing to have been empty years?
In 824, at the age of 29, Emperor Muzong of Tang died in his palace.
With his reluctance to the world of flowers and flowers, with his recollection of the years like water flowing, he completely left the human world.
And what kind of future will Datang behind him usher in?