People often say that it is easy to share hardships and hardships, and it is difficult to be rich and noble, this phenomenon is not uncommon, from the emperor to the general, down to ordinary couples, friends abound. Today we want to talk about such a case, the protagonist and his husband suffered for 14 years, and then counterattacked into the empress, becoming an absolute human being, but she forgot her original intention, and even killed her husband to seize power and wanted to become the second wu Zetian, and was killed by Li Longji, she was Li Xian's Empress Wei.
Empress Wei was a native of Jingzhao Wannian (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi), and her grandfather, Wei Hongbiao, was an army commander of the Cao Dynasty during the Zhenguan period. When Li Xian was in the Eastern Palace, Wei Shi was elected as a concubine, and when Li Xian first sat on the throne, Wei Shi was made empress. More than two months later, Li Xian was deposed by Wu Zetian as the King of Luling and placed under house arrest in Junzhou (present-day Danjiangkou, Hubei Province) and Fangzhou (present-day FangXian, Hubei Province) for fourteen years. During this period, Li Xian was worried that his mother Wu Zetian would kill him, and he wanted to commit suicide many times, but Wei Shi's mentality was very calm, and she advised Li Xian: "In this life, the changes in misfortune are very impermanent, anyway, sooner or later is a death, what are you so anxious to do!" Li Xian thought about it too, felt a lot more comfortable in his heart, and promised Webster: "If I can see the light of day again in the future, you can do whatever you want, and I will not limit you." ”
Many years later, the Shenlong Revolution broke out, and Li Xian once again ascended to the throne to kill Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi, Wu Sansi was of course very afraid, he thought about it, and finally interceded with Empress Wei through Shangguan Wan'er, and Empress Wei instigated Li Xian to kill Fang Jinghui and others. Wu Sansi relied on Empress Wei not only to kill his opponent, but also to keep his own Wusha hat, Wu Sansi of course thanked Dade, in order to curry favor with Empress Wei, it was also a thank you, Wu Sansi instigated the courtiers to go to the book Zong Li Xian, and gave Empress Wei Wei the title of Empress Shuntian, with the letter, Empress Wei also began to create a momentum for herself, worship her ancestors, and posthumously present her deceased father Wei Xuanzhen to the king of Luo County. Jia Xuan, the president of the Control Yuan, had some opinions and suggested to the emperor, "Has Your Majesty forgotten the example of the first dynasty and the later wu? The consequences of this are terrible. If the empress could resolutely refuse this matter, so that everyone in the world knew that the queen concubine was more modest and courteous, this would be a good thing. Zhongzong was not happy after hearing this and did not issue any suggestions.
Li Xian's crown prince Li Chongjun was not born to Empress Wei, and Empress Wei was naturally prejudiced, plus Princess Anle and her husband Wu Chongxun (Wu Sansi's son), often insulted and teased Li Chongjun, often calling Li Chongjun a slave, and Princess Anle also wanted Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian to depose the crown prince Li Chongjun and make herself the imperial wife, Li Chongjun was very indignant. In the early summer of July 707, Li Chongjun could not bear it, and conspired with Wei Yuanzhong, the general of bingbu Shangshu, to order the general Li Qianli of Zuo Jinwu, li Duozuo of Zuo Yulin, the general of Right Yulin, Li Sichong, Li Chengquan, and others to mobilize Yulin soldiers and more than 300 people on thousands of horses to launch a Coup d'état in Jinglong, killing Empress Wei's close associates Wu Sansi and Wu Chongxun's father and son, Li Chongjun prepared to enter the palace to kill Empress Wei, but when he was blocked at Xuanwu Gate, the soldiers collectively defected, and Li Chongjun's troops fled to HuXian in defeat, and were later killed by his cronies. After Li Chongjun's death, Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian ordered people to cut off the crown prince's head above the court hall and dedicate it to the Taimiao Temple, and to sacrifice the coffins of Wu Sansi and Wu Chongxun with Li Chongjun's first rank.
Later, in the harem, it was falsely rumored that five-colored clouds rose on Empress Wei's suitcase, and Li Xian asked people to draw pictures to show to the hundred officials of the imperial court, which was a good omen. Taishi Jia Ye Zhizhong presented twelve pieces of "Sangtiao Song", claiming that Empress Wei was Shuncheng Providence, saying: "When Han Gaozu was emperor, the world sang the song of "Tao Li"; during the time of Emperor Taizong, everyone sang the song of "Qin Wang Broken Array", Gaozong sang the song of "Tangtang", after the death of Tianhou (Wu Zetian), sang the song of "Wu Mei Niang", and His Majesty ascended the throne to sing "Ying Wang Shizhou", Empress Wei is now under the order of heaven and should sing "Sang Tiao Wei" to publicize the character and behavior of the concubines to specialize in silkworm mulberry and enshrine the Zong Temple. After hearing this, Li Xian was very happy to give Jia Ye Zhizhong the first seat, seven hundred pieces of colored silk. Too often Shaoqing Zheng Yan gave it a soundtrack. Zong Chuke also hinted that Zhao Yanxi had evolved the Sang Tiao into ninety-eight paragraphs, and Emperor Zhongzong Li Xianxi promoted Zhao Yanxi as a counselor.
Slowly, Empress Wei and Princess Anle, Princess Changning, and others took control of the imperial government, and wantonly sold official titles and accepted bribes, and they divided their official positions into different levels for trading, whether you were a scoundrel, a rogue, a slave, or a maid, as long as you had money and paid bribes to her, you could get the official position appointed by Li Xian's handwritten edict, because this appointment letter was obliquely sealed and delivered to Zhongshu Province, so such officials were also called "obliquely sealed officials".
In the end, Empress Wei felt that her husband was really in the way, and simply became emperor herself, and in June 710 (the fourth year of Jinglong), she and her daughter Princess Anle killed her husband Li Xian with poison cakes. After killing Li Xian, Empress Wei committed a heinous crime, and without mourning, she quickly mobilized heavy troops to guard Chang'an in case of an accident. At the same time, he also ordered the general Xue Sijian and others to lead 500 soldiers to Junzhou to prevent Li Chongfu, the king of Junzhou' assassination. He also planned to get rid of Li Dan and Princess Taiping.
However, this news was learned in advance by Li Dan's son Li Longji the Prince of Linzi and Princess Taiping, who immediately launched the Tang Long Rebellion, eliminating Empress Wei's family and her henchmen, and beheading Empress Wei and Princess Anle, who was thrushing. The consequences of this coup were: Li Chongmao, who had reigned for less than a month, abdicated, Li Dan was restored to Tang Ruizong, Li Longji was made crown prince, and Empress Wei was posthumously demoted to a shuren by Li Dan and buried under the regulations of a great official.