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Tang Zhongzong Li Xian's most proud thing in this life is: "My grandfather is the emperor, my grandfather is the emperor, my father is the emperor, my mother is the emperor, I am also the emperor", it is reasonable to say that as an emperor, he has grasped the highest power of the country and become the master of the universe, and one sentence can determine the life and death of people, how can it be tragic? How can it be depressed?
This Tang Zhongzong Li Xian could only sigh: he had a good father but a domineering mother! And who is his mother? That is a generation of empresses "Wu Zetian", to know that there is such a domineering mother, not to hold back and not to be miserable is surprising!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > aristocratic origin</h1>
On November 5, 656, the first year of Xianqing (656), Li Xian was born in Chang'an, the third son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang originally thought that he was the third oldest, and at most he could only be crowned a king, and spent his life in peace and stability. As everyone knows, heaven has a special arrangement, and we must arrange for him to enter this place of right and wrong in the palace, so that he can taste the taste of imperial power, and also let him taste the taste of losing imperial power! As the third eldest, in front of him were the eldest brother Of the Emperor, Li Hong, the second brother Li Xian, and the throne would never be close to him when he wanted to come, perhaps at that time he just wanted to be a free prince.
However, as the heir of the emperor, sometimes the heavens would give him a different pie, and after Li Xian's adulthood, he was crowned king of Zhou by Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and finally changed to the king of England, and soon after he was crowned the throne, his eldest brother Li Hong died of illness, and the second brother Li Xian's position was deposed! Who should the prince of the Tang Dynasty appoint? However, when Emperor Gaozong of Tang's heirs were thin and his green and yellow were not received, only Li Xian was more suitable to sit on the position of prince! Li Xian was made crown prince, and the following year Li Xian's eldest son, Li Chongrun, was born and was given the title of "Imperial Grandson" by Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
According to such a procedure, Li Xian's throne is an iron country, Tang Gaozong's throne must be his, and the world of Tang is also his! As everyone knows, huge variables are still waiting for him!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > succession was abolished</h1>
In December of the first year of Hongdao (683), Emperor Gaozong of Tang died of illness, at this time Wu Zetian could no longer be suppressed, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang also left a hand on his deathbed, leaving a will for the crown prince Li Xian to succeed to the throne in front of Lingqian, thus eliminating Wu Zetian from devouring the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan, and Li Xian succeeded to the throne before Emperor Gaozong of Tang's Li Zhiling on the same month.
However, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian did not have the wisdom of his father, let alone the means and domineering spirit of his father, he was very cowardly, without a little imperial majesty, in the face of a strong mother, he could only cower, everything was to repay his mother, everything had to be his mother to make a ruling, this is the 4th emperor of the Tang Dynasty, in my opinion, is just a puppet emperor, his boldness and his means for his mother, like a small tadpole!
However, Li Xian, the offline Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, knew that in order to compete with his mother, he must have his own people, and he must have his own power, so he recruited Empress Wei's father into the palace as a chancellor, hoping to weaken Wu Zetian's power to compete with her through this series of actions!
Unbeknownst to him, he still had a whimsical idea, and after this matter was known to his mother Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian was furious, and the next day he summoned the minister of Wenwu and deposed Li Xian's throne and deposed him as the King of Luling, demoting him to Chang'an. Li Xian, who had just ascended the throne for 55 days, walked out of the power of the Tang Dynasty, from emperor to prince, and then Li Dan, the younger brother of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, became a puppet emperor, that is, Tang Ruizong in history! At this moment, how sad was Tang Zhongzong Li Xian's heart? How painful it really was, perhaps only he knew.
Wu Zetian passed the advice of the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs, ascended to the throne himself, established the Great Zhou Dynasty, and became the first female emperor in history. However, at this time, Wu Zetian wanted to ensure his throne and block the mouth of the people of the world, so he had to take these old people of the Li Tang Dynasty, so these diehards of the Li Tang Dynasty and the imperial clan were killed and degraded by Wu Zetian, which finally led to the opposition of the Li Tang Dynasty's external clan relatives, and resolutely raised the banner of opposing Wu Zetian, but they all took the banner of seizing Jiangshan for Li Xian and returning the throne, but Tang Zhongzong Li Xian did not know this matter, it was really a person in the house who came up from heaven. In the end, these rebellious forces were bulldozed one by one by Wu Zetian, but Li Xian was deposed from the title of King of Luling because of his backing! The disaster of innocence happened on Li Xian's head!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > returned to Beijing twice</h1>
In his later years, Wu Zetian faced his heirs, "wandering" and "hesitating" between his son and nephew, and passed on his throne to his nephew? Or is it passed on to his son? So Wu Zetian consulted the opinion of Di Renjie, a famous minister of the generation, and Di Renjie in turn said to Wu Zetian, if you pass on the throne to your son and return the throne to the Tang Li clan, you can enter the Zong Temple, and you can also enjoy the fireworks of future generations, if you pass the throne to your nephew, you can't enter the Zong Temple of the Martial Family! At this time, Wu Zetian suddenly realized that even if he was still in the Tang Dynasty after his death, without the title of emperor, he was still an empress, he could still enter the ancestral temple of the imperial family, and if he passed the throne to his nephew into the middle temple, it was the ancestor of the martial family!
So Wu Zetian pretended that Emperor Zhongzong of Tang needed to return to Kyoto for treatment, so he secretly sent someone to take Emperor Zhongzong of Tang's family back to Luoyang! In September of the first year of the Holy Calendar (698), Wu Zetian re-established Li Xian as crown prince. Li Xian, who was wandering around, ended his exile life, returned to his former homeland, and regained the position of prince, at this time he learned that this prince's position was not easy to come by, more disciplined, did not dare to be a little sloppy, in order to have a good relationship with his mother, he actually thought of marrying Wu Shi and marrying his daughter to Wu Zetian's nephew! Since then, he has consolidated his position.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > dragon coup</h1>
In his later years, Wu Zetian was ill and lived in the Yingxian Palace, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, two male pets, served around, and outsiders were not allowed to enter, and from then on, wu Zetian's male favorites controlled the government in their later years, and the history of "calamity to the country and the people" and "covering the sky with one hand" could not be approved by the sergeant of the DPRK, so zhang Kamzhi, Cui Xuanhui, Jinghui, Huan Yanfan, Yuan Shuji, etc., saw the opportunity to secretly plot, prepared to get rid of erzhang, and supported Emperor Zhongzong of Tang as emperor.
In the first year of shenlong (705), the 82-year-old Wu Zetian was seriously ill, and in the first month, the prime minister Zhang Kamzhi felt that the time had come, so he explained the reason for the coup with Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, but at this time, Li Xian was extremely frightened, cowered and did not dare to participate, and his cowardly nature was again at work, and finally Zhang Kamzhi let him participate in the coup. Under the leadership of Zhang Kamzhi, the right Yulin general Li Duozuo and the left Wei wei general Xue Sixing, under the leadership of Zhang Kamzhi, suddenly led more than 500 Yulin troops into Xuanwu Gate and killed Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong at the Yingxian Palace, which is historically called the "Divine Dragon Coup".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > re-ascend to the throne</h1>
The elderly and seriously ill Wu Zetian was helpless, and the shilling crown prince supervised the country, and the next day he passed the throne, and the next day, Emperor Zhongzong was restored to the throne as emperor and pardoned the world. After thirty years, Li Xian once again ascended to the throne of the emperor, and his heart should be very emotional, he was deposed as a prince twice, and twice he was the emperor, and the bitterness of which may be known only to him. After Li Xian's restoration, he immediately made Wei Shi empress, and despite the dissuasion of his ministers, he posthumously crowned Wei Hou's father as king, and let Wei Hou participate in the pre-imperial government, but did not trust Zhang Kamzhi and other meritorious people.
And this Empress Wei was as ambitious as Wu Zetian, and also wanted to be a second-generation female emperor, and she had an inexplicable relationship with Wu Sansi, but Li Xian, who was not very high in the IQ, did not care at all, and reused Empress Wei's mother's family, which was undoubtedly "self-immolation". At this time, Empress Wei had formed a powerful political force to influence the government, and Li Xian could do nothing about it, without the domineering spirit of her father and mother, and without their means, she could only look at their strength.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > poisoned</h1>
In June of the fourth year of Jinglong (710), Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian, was poisoned and killed by Empress Wei and Li Shu'er in collusion, at the age of 55. Ended his miserable life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > conclusion</h1>
Twice became the prince, twice ascended to the emperor's throne, from the prince to the prisoner, and from the lower prisoner to the prince to the emperor, his life can be called a legend, refreshing the most in the history of the Tang Dynasty, but he is not the material of the emperor, there is no father and mother's domineering and ability, there is no determination to eradicate the threat force, cowardly instinct makes him sooner or later lose the Jiangshan, and eventually die at the hands of his wife.
Tang Zhongzong's life history books all regretted for him!