The Tang Dynasty was the pinnacle of feudal society, achieving high economic and cultural achievements, and its influence still exists today. However, in the eyes of many history buffs, the Tang Dynasty, like the Han Dynasty, the reputation of this dynasty is not very good. Not only modern people think so, but even the ancients think so, so in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Rong will say the phrase "dirty Tang stinky man".
What is a "dirty stinker"? People who don't know much about the history of these two dynasties may wonder. In fact, the reason why the ancients described the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty in this way is because the emperors of these two dynasties are more chaotic in their emotional lives, such as the Tang Dynasty imperial family regards ethics as nothing, and the Han Dynasty emperor prefers male style, which is despised by the ancients. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, under the influence of Cheng Zhu Lixue, the feudal etiquette in this period was more stringent, and the scandals in the Han and Tang dynasties caused people to resent it even more, so there was a saying of "dirty Tang stinky han".
Especially during the Tang Dynasty, perhaps because the Tang Dynasty imperial family had Hu ancestry, the emperors of this period had a very low sense of restraint on ethics and morality, such as Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong. As we all know, Li Zhi's second empress Wu Zetian was once a concubine of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Li Shimin, but she was taken into the harem by Li Zhi after Li Shimin's death. For the ancients who strictly adhered to the etiquette, Li Zhi's behavior was absolutely very out of line, but because he was the emperor, he would not be subject to substantive criticism.
This open atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty royal family also had a profound impact on the people, so the Tang Dynasty became the most open dynasty in history. If Li Zhi's act of marrying Wu Zetian is very out of line, then Li Longji's act of taking a fancy to his daughter-in-law and snatching Yang Yuhuan from his son Li Mao is simply a crime. He thought that In the name of Empress Dou's blessing, he sent Yang Yuhuan to the Taoist Temple, and later disregarded Li Mao's feelings, forcibly included Yang Yuhuan in the palace, and even forced the great poet Li Bai to write poems to praise the love between the two people, which can be said to be shameless.
Is there really love between Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan? Not necessarily, I'm afraid. After Li Longji snatched Yang Yuhuan, he really loved Yang Yuhuan abnormally, and in order to smile at Concubine Fraternity, he even ordered people to transport lychees thousands of miles away. At that time, many literati and inkers, such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi and others, also made a lot of poems and songs to praise the love between the two. However, when the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out, Yang Yuhuan was pushed out by Li Longji as a scapegoat, and finally died in Ma Songpo.
If you look at Yang Yuhuan's ending, there is no love between her and Li Longji to speak of, and some are just the cruelty of the royal power struggle. If Li Longji really loved Yang Yuhuan, he could choose to die with her instead of killing her to stabilize the hearts of the army. Moreover, after Yang Yuhuan's death, Li Longji, who had already become the Emperor of Taishang, became a person who had been infatuated for thousands of years because of a song of "Long Hate Song", while Yang Yuhuan was saddled with the ancient infamy of red face and disaster. Such an ending, no matter how you look at it, has nothing to do with the word love.
The so-called "love" between Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan is actually a tragedy. So, as another victim of this tragedy, what happened to Li Longji's son Li Mao, the Prince of Shou?
Li Mao, the King of Shou, was li longji's eighteenth son, and his mother, Concubine Wuhui, was Li Longji's favorite concubine, and her status in the palace was equivalent to that of an empress. The reason why Yang Yuhuan married Li Mao at the beginning was also because of Concubine Wu Huifei, who asked Li Longji to appoint Yang Yuhuan as Princess Shou. Moreover, at that time, Li Longji had not seen Yang Yuhuan, otherwise there would have been no such many things later, and Li Mao, the king of Shou, would not have suffered the hatred of taking his wife.
Yang Yuhuan has been smart and clever since childhood, good at rhythm and dance, and after marrying the young and handsome and talented Li Mao, the two lived a very happy life. However, because of the death of Concubine Wu Huifei, Li Longji suffered a huge blow emotionally, and he was sullen and depressed all day, so some palace people came up with a bad idea, saying to him that Yang Yuhuan, the concubine of Li Mao of Shouwang, "has a good posture and is suitable for filling the court." After Li Longji summoned Yang Yuhuan to the palace, he was really shocked at first sight, so he tried to put Yang Yuhuan into the palace.
Li Longji wanted to crown Yang Yuhuan as a noble concubine, but Yang Yuhuan had already been crowned princess of Shou by him, even if he could snatch Yang Yuhuan hard, what should his son Li Mao do? Therefore, before that, he had to find a princess for Li Mao, the king of Shou. In this way, under the arrangement of Li Longji, Yang Yuhuan was crowned as a noble concubine, and the daughter of the chancellor Wei Zhaoxun became princess Shou.
The world often says that creation makes man. In this whole process, Li Mao, the King of Shou, could neither refuse nor speak out against it, but could only passively accept all this. When he woke up, the person next to his pillow had been replaced by a stranger, but he could only bear it silently. Later, when the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out, he fled with Tang Xuanzong to Shu County, and then saw his ex-wife Yang Yuhuan xiang disappear in Ma Songpo.
In this "eternal love" between Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, in fact, Li Mao, the king of Shou, is the one who is most seriously injured. After Yang Yuhuan was snatched away by Li Longji, Li Mao could only rely on the new princess Wei Shi for his life. Fortunately, Heaven was still fair to him, and he and his wife lived a low-key and happy life, and the two had five sons and three daughters, three of whom were crowned kings. As the saying goes, Saion is not blessed to lose his horse.