Throughout the ages, countless people have fought for the emperor's throne, and many emperors and princes have issued the feeling that they will not be born in the imperial family in the next life.
Because all the family affection in front of the throne is so weak, in history, it is not uncommon to kill fathers and brothers, the loser falls to the ground, of course, he can't speak, and the victor is also heart palpitations, dead to prevent others from giving him such a show.
The general struggle for the concubine may be enough to suffer one blow, but Li Xian, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, is a very strange and very pitiful person, who has ascended the throne twice in his life, but he has suffered continuous blows for three generations.
His family was prominent, his mother and father were emperors, and his brother was also an emperor, and it was this strange identity that led him to experience a rare attack in history, a blow from his mother, if it were not for the fact that his brother and sister had already died before, plus Wu Zetian's position was already stable, It was also possible that Li Xian would have been killed.
And Li Xian's tragic situation is that when he became emperor twice, he was all involuntarily, suppressed by his mother, suppressed by his wife, then rebelled by his son, and finally poisoned by his daughter.
Li Xian was born in the first year of Xianqing, that is, in 656 AD, and Li Xian, who had just learned things, felt happy, was crowned king from an early age, and enjoyed a luxurious life and glory like the royal descendants of other eras.
But as time went on, some began to become strange, Li Xian's father Li Zhi was getting weaker and weaker, and he saw that the problem of succession was about to be put on the agenda, and in the ancient times of paying attention to origin, Li Xian originally had no chance of winning.
However, Li Hong, who had always been regarded as the successor, was about to take over, and suddenly died violently, and the government and the public were rumored to be Wu Zetian's doing, and his second brother Li Xian succeeded to the throne, but he did not expect that soon rumors that he was not Wu Zetian's own child were rumored, not to mention that this Li Xian was also deposed.
Two brothers have had accidents one after another, the third oldest Li Xian naturally became the prince, Li Xian, who has not been educated by the successor since childhood, is obviously not very comfortable with the new identity and position, and when he is a prince at this time, it is obviously going to the throne that is about to arrive.
The emperor had no experience to learn, but Wu Zetian did not intend to give him this time, and after only a few months of being emperor, Li Xian was deposed, he was demoted to the title of King of Luling, and his whole family moved to Fangzhou, and Li Shu'er, who later set off a huge wave, was born on the way to Fangzhou, and this walk was 14 years.
In these 14 years, Li Xian watched his mother step by step to the peak of power, Li Tang royal family was killed one by one, he himself was also very nervous, even if one day the imperial court came to personally want his own life.
Li Xian originally thought that his life was like this, who knew that one day the imperial court really came secretly, to take him to Luoyang, return to Wu Zetian's side, and become the crown prince of the empire.
Li Xian, who was completely involuntary, had no idea what the end of the crown prince this time was, in short, he was very nervous, and he was also afraid of Wu Zetian.
Once, Li Xian's son-in-law and several young people complained together and said a few bad things about the empress, and as a result, they were denounced, and Wu Zetian immediately called Li Xian over and scolded him, asking him to discipline his son and son-in-law well.
As a result, this Li Xian's psychology is called a fear, completely unaware of what this discipline means, and the perennial precariousness has made Li Xian's nerves overly sensitive, and as a result, when he returned home, he forced his son and son-in-law to commit suicide.
In order to survive to this point, Li Xian, the crown prince, was really walking on thin ice, and his fate always seemed to joke with him, and soon the involuntary things came again.
In the first year of shenlong, the five ministers led by Zhang Kamzhi launched a coup d'état, and Li Xian, who had been hesitating, was finally pushed to the forefront, fortunately, this time the empress was already dying of old age, and Li Xian was able to ascend the throne for the second time.
Without the love from his mother, at least Li Xian still had his wife and children, but soon he found that he was ridiculously wrong, and he still wanted any affection, and the royal family had no affection.
Even if there is no family affection, Li Xian, who has suffered enough, has become an emperor and only wants to rest, enjoy, dance or something, but none of his relatives let him worry about it.
His own son suddenly launched a coup d'état and killed Wu Sansi, but fortunately he stabilized the situation with the help of the forbidden army, and the impulsive Li Chongjun also paid the price with his life.
His empress Dowager Wei was even more of a headache for Li Xian, as a woman, she actually wanted to follow the old path of Wu Zetian, and she also wanted to be called emperor, so she hung up the curtain to do things like going to the government and going to the court at the same time, so that the Tang Empire had not been able to get rid of the nightmare of Muji Sichen.
There is also his inattentive daughter Anle Princess Li Shu'er, it seems to be to compensate for the suffering she had suffered before, this Anle Princess after Li Xian became emperor, is a more and more luxurious corruption, and Li Xian is also to compensate for her daughter, basically everything is agreed, in order to sell the official Lord, Li Xian even covered a lot of appointments for her daughter, Li Shu'er took this blank appointment certificate, selling officials everywhere to collect money.
At the critical time, Li Shu'er's ambitions also began to expand, and he suddenly asked to make himself the imperial wife, and like his mother, his ambitions were also obvious.
It may be that Wu Zetian's magic power is too great, so that Wei Hou and Li Shu'er both believe that it is okay for women to become emperors, so they conspired to poison Li Xian, and poor Li Xian eventually died at the hands of his closest relatives.
However, Wei Hou obviously underestimated the difficulty of becoming an empress, and was soon killed by the Tang Long coup launched by Li Longji, and The Tang Dynasty restored Lang Lang Qiankun from then on, and the phenomenon of Mu Ji Si Chen was completely ended.
Throughout Li Xian's life, everywhere is involuntary, by the mother, by the wife, by the daughter of the life, and finally died after the relatives, the emperor did this, he can also be regarded as the only one.