What do you think of Emperor Gaozong li zhi of Tang?
Cowardly, as an emperor, it seems that nothing will happen, and when encountering problems, Wu Zetian always comes forward to solve them, and as a result, in the end, even Li Tangjiangshan was snatched away by this woman.
So whether from the perspective of a man or from the perspective of an emperor, Li Zhi was a cowardly and incompetent emperor.
Since he was so unbearable, and he was still ranked ninth, how could this emperor's position let him do it?
Besides, is Li Zhi really unbearable and cowardly? How many people saw the wisdom behind him?
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01. Thanks to the mother
From a historical point of view, Li Zhi was able to become emperor thanks to the contradictions between his mother and two brothers.
Through the analysis of history, we will find that Li Shimin was able to successfully complete the "change of Xuanwu Gate", and the empress dowager was the greatest.
At that time, the Changsun clan often entered the palace, and the relationship with the empress and concubines was very good, so before the incident, the Changsun clan easily obtained the guard situation of the capital at that time by inquiring.
After calculation, it was found that only Xuanwu Gate was the best place to ambush, so Li Shimin set up an ambush here.
Before leaving, she encouraged the soldiers as the eldest grandson, hoping that everyone could work together to help the King of Qin tide over the difficulties.
It can be said that when Li Shimin was assassinated one after another and his life was at the lowest point, it was the empress dowager who silently helped him.
For this reason, Li Shimin loved the empress dowager all his life, and his feelings were as deep as Jin Jian.com.
In this context, Li Shimin loves Wu and Wu, loves the three concubines born to the empress, and no matter what they do wrong, they will find a way to settle it.
Even if the crown prince and the king of Wei quarreled, killed each other, or even plotted rebellion by the prince, Li Shimin did not severely punish him, and at most he only abolished Li Qian's position as crown prince and replaced li zhi.
Therefore, we see that no matter how it is changed, the prince can only be among the sons of the eldest grandson empress. Then Li Zhi can become emperor, it seems that his luck is too good.
In fact, this is only the surface, Li Zhi stained his mother's light is not false, but we may wish to go deep into it and see how Li Shimin in the history books viewed and evaluated Li Zhi.
02. Thanks to the fight of the brothers
The Zizhi Tongjian records that in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, because of the dispute between the crown prince and the prince of Wei, Li Shimin recalled the "change of Xuanwu Gate" in the past, so he was quite sad, and even wanted to commit suicide in front of the ministers.
But after waking up, I saw Li Zhi next to me, and suddenly felt that Li Zhi's gentle character and the quality of benevolence and filial piety were very good to be a shoucheng king.
Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, there has been a lot of noise in the imperial family, and there is a real need for a softer emperor.
So Li Shimin pointed at Li Zhi and said:
"Li Zhi has a gentle personality, suitable to be a shoucheng king, and the position of prince will be passed to him."
However, Li Shimin has been secretly investigating to see if Li Zhi can live up to this big responsibility.
A year later, Li Shimin went on a crusade against Goguryeo and came back with a large poisonous sore on his body.
As we all know, poisonous sores were a serious disease in ancient times, and if they could not be treated in time, they would soon be life-threatening.
Li Zhi saw that he did not say a word, pounced on his father's body and began to use his mouth to take drugs and pus.
Li Shimin was not only moved, but also put down the big stone in his heart and completely regarded Li Zhi as a prince.
So we summarize that there are three major reasons why Li Zhi can become emperor. One is because of his mother, and the other is that the two older brothers are fighting too hard.
The most important third point is that Li Shimin looks at Li Zhi's personality.
So does Li Zhi's gentle personality mean that he is a cowardly and incompetent person?
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The answer is definitely no.
As long as you study the history of the early Tang Dynasty a little carefully, you will find that Li Zhi's gentle personality is mostly pretended, he is actually a person with a high IQ, quite a scheming heart, and high political struggle skills, and everything is developing in the direction of his favor.
Before deliberately pretending to be weak, not participating in the seizure of concubines, and giving his father drugs and pus, etc., I will not say anything, here are a few examples after he became emperor.
The first is to purge competitors.
Don't look at Li Zhi has become emperor, in fact, his sixth brother Li Yuanjing and third brother Li Ke have the ability to take away his throne.
So he used the hand of his uncle and eldest grandson Wujie to unjustly accuse these two brothers to death.
Second, purge the heroes.
When his uncle helped him clean up his opponents, he immediately borrowed Wu Zetian's hand to clean up all the founding ministers, including his uncle, and his descendants.
Imagine if he was really a gentle person, not to mention relying heavily on these old ministers, at least he would be kind. Why did these people not have a good end after coming to power?
This is because Li Zhi is well aware that if these powerful ministers are not eliminated, they are likely to become the gate valve forces that cannot be destroyed, and the country will be in danger at that time.
Third, take over military power.
At the same time as cleaning the door valve, Li Zhi was not idle in the work of recovering military power, and successively found some reasons to kill Xue Wanche and many other veteran generals, exiled.
At this stage, Li Zhi can be said to be in his hands for military and political power.
However, at this time, the problem of the Longxi clan had not yet been solved, so Li Zhi then came with two more moves.
Fourth, some small households have been promoted in a big way.
Doing so would allow the large number of Han men to have a wider upward passage to counter the Longxi clan.
Fifth, resolutely abolish the queen.
Abolish the previous empress and instead support Wu Zetian, whose family is weaker. The result of this is to directly solve the problem of foreign relatives and powerful subjects.
So we see that this pile is one by one, and all things are developing in his favor.
So do you still think That Li Zhi is a cowardly person?
In fact, he is careful and cautious, likes to command behind his back, and let others charge for him, so that his light is covered by others.
However, the only wrong move he took was that he did not expect that Wu Zetian's ambitions were too great, and he actually became a female emperor, not only the Li clan was purged, but also his previous efforts were also broken.
Of course, this is an afterthought.
Reference: Old Book of Tang