In his later years, Tang Xianzong Li Chun's health deteriorated due to taking Dan medicine. At his behest, the trusted eunuch Tutu Chengcui (Tutu Chengcui), took charge of the forbidden army and prepared to get rid of the crown prince Li Heng and his birth mother Guo Guifei and install the emperor's second son Li Yun on the throne.
Guo Guifei was originally Li Chun's Eastern Palace Crown Princess, the daughter of his aunt Princess Shengping, and her grandfather was the optimus pillar of Li Tang's royal family's reconstruction of mountains and rivers: Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang County.
Because of Tang Xianzong's jealousy of her, as a concubine but not an empress, she was treated coldly for fifteen years. At this moment, she was not willing to wait and die, and with the support of the eunuchs Wang Shouqian and Wang Shoucheng, she made a desperate bet to kill Tutu Chengcui and Li Yun, announcing that Tang Xianzong was dead, and supporting Li Heng to take the throne for Tang Muzong. Guo Guifei was honored as empress dowager.
Tang Muzong only served as emperor for 4 years before he died. Empress Guo refused to allow her to take over the imperial court, saying that she would not follow Wu Zetian's visit, and although the crown prince was young, a good minister of the foreign dynasty could assist the government as the prime minister, so she was quite respected by the government and the public. "I imitate the Wu clan evil?" Although the present prince is young, he can still choose to be supplemented by heavy virtue, so why should I do foreign affairs?"
After that, her three grandsons Tang Jingzong, Tang Wenzong, and Tang Wuzong successively succeeded to the throne, and Guo Shi also served as empress dowager for 22 years. The four dynasties are honored and unparalleled. Tang Wenzong and Tang Wuzong not only had filial piety, but also asked her for political affairs many times.
However, after the death of Emperor Wuzong of Tang, the eunuch clique launched a coup d'état again, and installed his uncle, The thirteenth son of Li Chun of Tang Xianzong, the Prince of Guang, Li Chen, on the throne for Tang Xuanzong.
Tang Xuanzong's biological mother, Zheng Shi, was previously only a maid of Empress Guo, and was now revered as Empress Zheng, and the two sides had an old grudge. Li Chen even regarded himself as the legitimate heir of Tang Xianzong, and ruled the old case of Tang Xianzong's murder 26 years ago, and at the same time became more and more rude to Empress Guo.
Two years later, Empress Guo ascended the Qinzheng Building and wanted to jump off the building to commit suicide, and publicly confirmed Tang Xuanzong's crime of "not filial piety to the mother", and was stopped by the left and right attendants. Tang Xuanzong was furious when he heard the news, and that night, Empress Guo died in her own palace, apparently secretly killed by Tang Xuanzong.
Empress Guo's courtesy name was Empress Yi'an. However, Tang Xuanzong refused to bury her with Tang Xianzong and refused to sacrifice her god to Tang Xianzong's temple, and the Taichang official Wang Yuxiang asked for this, and was reprimanded by Tang Xuanzong's chancellor and demoted to a county order.
Tang Xuanzong even planned to make Tang Muzong Li Heng and his three sons, Tang Jingzong, Tang Wenzong, and Tang Wuzong, all of whom were led by Empress Guo to kill Tang Xianzong's "Yuanhe Rebel Party", completely denying the legitimacy of their throne and never sacrificing Tang Muzong's Guangling tomb from then on. It was only to deny the four generations of former emperors who had reigned for 26 years at the same time, and the courtiers involved were too widespread and the resistance was too great, so they had to give up.
11 years later, Tang Xuanzong was also poisoned by taking Dan medicine and was paralyzed in bed for more than a month, he originally wanted to make Li Zi the fourth son of the emperor, li zi, the prince of The Emperor, the prince of Tang, and the eunuch clique launched a coup again, and supported the ascension of Li Yizong, the king of Yun, to the throne, for Tang Yizong. Tang Xuanzong died on the same day.
The actual life of Emperor Yizong of Tang Yizong Li Yi was very strange, and when he ascended the throne, the hundred officials of the foreign court did not even know that His Highness the Prince of Yun was actually the eldest son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and he was confused by showing an "inscription" that was difficult to distinguish between true and false.
[The five kings of Hou kui, Zhao, etc. lived in the inner courtyard, while Yun was alone in the cabinet.] and the throne, for Yizong. The outside is quite suspicious that the emperor is not long. The inscription is issued to show the foreign court, which is the solution. 】
Li Rong, the son of Emperor Suzong of Tang, was created the Prince of Yun, and before his death, he had no children, and he chose a clan to inherit to him and crowned him as the King of Yun. His heir was Li Yi (李漼), who was elected to the throne by the eunuch Wang Zongshi (王宗實) in a coup d'état.
Tang Yizong was hesitant to have fun and had no intention of ruling the country, and because of this, he did not care about the grievances between Tang Muzong and Tang Xuanzong, and under the leadership of Wang Weili, who was a ceremonial official in the dynasty, he finally issued an edict and buried the coffin of his grandmother Empress Yi'an Guo shi for many years and buried it in Tang Xianzong's Jingling Tomb. He also sacrificed Empress Guo's divine plaque to the main hall of Tang Xianzong's temple, while the ranking of his own nominal grandmother, Empress Zheng, Tang Xuanzong's mother, was only placed in the side hall.
During his lifetime, Tang Xuanzong painstakingly and lonely, made himself a "filial son to avenge his father", tried his best to negate the lineage of Muzong, Jingzong, Wenzong, and Wuzong, belittled such a virtuous minister as Li Deyu, and talked nonsense about how Tang Wuzong had previously feared him and murdered him, just out of the selfish desire to pretend to be the orthodox heir of Emperor Xianzong.
Although Tang Muzong and Tang Jingzong were emperors, Tang Wuzong suppressed Buddhism, pacified Zelu, swept away hui, and reused the political achievements and martial arts of Li Deyu's Qingming politics, far better than Tang Xuanzong's self-aggrandizing and exaggerated people. For example, Zhang Yichao's efforts to recover Hexi were a political achievement sent to Tang Xuanzong, but in fact, what was the matter with him?
Tang Wuzong and Li Deyu, who had already tacitly agreed with the monarchs, were almost about to completely eliminate the eunuch clique and restore The Politics of the Qing Dynasty. The last chance for the late Tang Dynasty to truly revive was buried in the hands of Li Chen, who colluded with eunuchs to usurp the throne and did his best to oppose the government of Huichang!
He colluded with the eunuch clique to usurp the throne, but he also died in the coup d'état of the eunuch clique, and all kinds of deeds in his lifetime, in a vain attempt to make his own lineage take the throne and become orthodox, was nothing more than a void after all!
Tang Xianzong and Empress Guo, a couple who looked like they were separated from each other and had killed each other for half their lives, had thus reached the same destination.
The Tang Dynasty, which experienced Xianzong's "Yuanhe Zhongxing", Muzong's "Changqing Selling Soldiers", Emperor Wenzong's "Change of Ganlu", Emperor Wuzong's "Huichang Zhongxing", and Xuanzong's "Rule of Great Zhong", also came to an end...
And the Li Tang imperial family this husband is not husband, wife is not wife, father is not father, son is not son, the king is not a king, the subject is not a subject, lasted for more than twenty years of cannibalism, many emperors died, but also let the eunuch group in many palace coups, seize the opportunity to seize power, but also for the future generations of monarchs.