The Tang Dynasty was a very great era, but also a colorful era, especially the emergence of the unique female emperor Wu Zetian in Chinese history, which added a lot of mystery to this majestic dynasty.
It is precisely because of the unique female emperor that many of the things that come with it are unique in China's long history of thousands of years.
For example, the famous royal tragedy, since ancient times, has always been brothers, father and son killing each other, never seen mother and son kill each other, so that people women are weaker, more loving children, but in the era of Wu Zetian, there was finally a unique mother-son killing, and its tragic degree is no less than the previous father-son cannibalism.
Wu Zetian had four sons and two daughters, and the little princess who was still in her infancy was killed by Wu Zetian and then framed for Empress Wang, which became an important step for her to ascend to the throne of the empress, and it was also a fundamental turning point in her fate.
The eldest son, Li Hong, wu Zetian, who was an empress in the early days, also had high hopes for him, and made him a prince, hoping to continue the tradition of motherhood and son, and the education and cultivation of Li Hong was in accordance with the standards of future emperors.
In particular, the name Li Hong itself has far-reaching significance, because there was a strong Taoist ideology at that time, and the Li Tang Dynasty also recognized Lao Tzu as an ancestor, and at that time the legend of Lao Tzu xia fan has always been prevalent, and the pseudonym of Lao Zi xia fan is called Li Hong, which shows that Wu Zetian, as the mother, has spared no effort in the expectations and cultivation of Li Hong.
However, with the expansion of Wu Zetian's power, the more excellent Li Hong grows, the more it will become a stumbling block on his road to power, especially Li Zhi's body has not been able to do it, and there is such a son with outstanding ability, Wu Zetian's future can be imagined.
So when Li Zhi decided to give the throne to Li Hong, he did not expect that Wu Zetian finally decided to kill the killer, Li Hong suddenly died violently, and his excellent son became his enemy, and there was no family affection in the face of power.
Wu Zetian's pain is that there are too many sons, a Li Hong has died, and Li Xian, this Li Xian is not a fuel-saving lamp, he also sees his mother's ambition, so he opposes Wu Zetian everywhere.
Wu Zetian's blow to Li Xian was the most deadly, there was a precedent for Li Hong in front of him, it seemed that Wu Zetian would not be surprised at what he did, at that time, in the face of Li Xian, Wu Zetian came to a trick and felt more, directly secretly spread rumors that Li Xian was not the son of Wu Zetian, but the son of Wu Zetian's sister.
And from the fact that this Li Xian is really the son of Wu Zetian's sister, at that time Wu Zetian was competing for favors in the harem, so this Li Zhi hooked up with Wu Zetian's sister as soon as he came and went, and this kind of thing Wu Zetian could only break his teeth and swallow in his stomach.
Unexpectedly, his sister was actually pregnant, at that time, Wu Zetian's sister had no name, so this child could only be counted under Wu Zetian's name, at that time, in order to compete for power, multiple sons were actually a kind of chip, not equivalent to the chip of the year, but finally became a burden.
After all, this kind of thing can only be said in private, and Wu Zetian simply deposed Li Xian as a commoner and reviled him to the locality, and eventually died in the locality.
Many times, death may not be the most tragic, the most tragic is to endure pain and torture for a long time, Wu Zetian also has two sons, one is Li Xian, the other is Li Dan.
Li Xian was also reviled to the locality early, which may be a good thing for him, after all, far away from Chang'an, it is far away from Wu Zetian's supervisors and the land of right and wrong, and the most tragic is this Li Dan.
After Wu Zetian ascended the throne and became emperor, he established the Seven Temples of the Wu Family and gave his ancestors the title of emperor, but Wu Zetian did not completely negate Li Tang, but still reserved three temples for Li Tang.
Then he made his son Li Dan the title of an imperial heir, which was a helpless title, he was not a prince, because at that time Wu Zetian had not yet thought about the problem of succession, but he was not an ordinary prince, and the name of this imperial heir made Li Dan become the envy of the Tianwu family in the day, this identity could be killed at any moment, threats from others, countless pairs of eyes stared at Li Dan, this kind of day is too torturous.
Unexpectedly, even so, Li Dan still had peach blossom luck, and a little palace girl named Wei Tuan'er fell in love with Li Dan, and may also want to make a future for herself, just like Wu Zetian did back then.
The result was that Li Dan, who was originally a bird of fright, dared to engage in these things, so he rejected this palace girl, did not expect that this Wei Tuan'er was not a fuel-saving lamp, and sprinkled his qi on Li Dan's wife, taking advantage of the opportunity to approach Wu Zetian, falsely accusing Concubine Liu (Li Chengqi's birth mother) and Concubine Dou (Li Longji's birth mother) to engage in the art of suppressing victory in the palace.
This thing has always been a magic weapon for the court to frame others, that is, to make a little person stab you and other sorcery, and finally these two concubines went out one day and never came back.
Li Dan didn't dare to ask anything, he didn't dare to say anything, he knew that all this was done by Wu Zetian, but as a son, as an imperial heir, as Li Tang's bloodline, he could only cry silently, just looking at his children, knowing that they would never have a mother again.
Later, after Li Dan became emperor, he ordered that he dig three feet into the ground to find them, but in the end nothing was found, and only Wu Zetian's confidants knew the inside story, and this secret would never be answered with the death of some people.
In the face of power, family affection is fragile, and the reason why I feel that my mother is more benevolent than my father may be because my mother has no chance to be emperor, and the magic of the throne is huge, and no one can resist, whether it is a man or a woman.