In 2017, there was a court drama that was still quite popular, called "Glory of the Tang Dynasty". It tells the story of Shen Zhu' bumpy experience in the Anshi Rebellion, the concubine of the then crown prince Li Yu. I thought it was also a script written by a screenwriter with a big brain, but after looking at history, I found that most of the plots are also historical facts. Li Yu, the eighth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, as Li Longji's favorite grandson, during the Anshi Rebellion, Li Yu was appointed as the Grand Marshal of the Terracotta Army, and contributed a lot to quelling the rebellion. Li Yu's mother died young, and he lost his maternal love since he was a child, which caused a weak side in his heart, which was manifested in the handling of political affairs, he had a kindness beyond ordinary people, and in his feelings, he was amorous and single-minded.
1. The missing queen is the love of her life
Li Yu may have been the only emperor in history to have lost his empress. Li Yu's empress Shen Shi (the prototype of Shen Pearl in television), was born into a famous family and had been an official for generations. In the twenty-second year of the New Century (734), Shen Married Li Yu, who was still the King of Guangping at the time, and became the Princess of Guangping.
Li Yu and Shen Shi had a very good relationship, and they lived together very lovingly for sixteen years, but the Anshi Rebellion that broke out next broke all the beauty.
When Li Longji fled in a hurry, a considerable number of imperial clan relatives were abandoned in Chang'an because they were too short to gather, and there was the Shen clan here. After the rebels attacked Chang'an, Shen was taken captive by the rebels to the Yeting Palace in Luoyang as a slave. It was not until more than a year later, when the Tang army recaptured Chang'an, that Li Yu found Shen again.
After the two reunited, they felt a lot of emotions, but it was too late to tell their love, Li Yu hurriedly placed shen in the Luoyang Palace, turned around and threw himself into the counterinsurgency battlefield. What he never expected was that the rebels would attack Luoyang again, and although Li Yu soon regained Luoyang, this time, the Shen clan was missing.
Li Yu sent people to look around, but he returned empty-handed again and again, and whenever he thought of Shen Shi, who did not know where he had wandered at this time, Li Yu would cry in despair. For Datang, he has fulfilled his responsibilities, but for his wife, he is obviously ashamed of her.
Although the search for Shen was fruitless, Li Yu never gave up. After all, to live to see people, to die to see corpses, without finding corpses, there is still a possibility of survival, so Li Yu has always had a glimmer of hope in his heart. After becoming emperor, Li Yu continued to send people to search and inquire. However, the miracle did not appear in the end, until Li Yu's death, Shen Still had no news, as if he had disappeared from the world.
The emperors after Li Yu, Emperor Dezong, Emperor Shunzong, and Emperor Xianzong, still insisted on searching, but decades passed, but there was still no result. Shen's disappearance has finally become an open case.
2. The beloved noble concubine died suddenly
Speaking of Li Yu, Li Yu, who had been unsuccessful in his search for a long time, slowly accepted the reality, and in February of the third year of the calendar (768), he was canonized as a noble concubine, this Dugu clan was the same as the Shen clan, born into a famous family, Wen Wanxianshu, more or less can see the shadow of the Shen clan from her, perhaps it is because of this that she got Li Yu's love. Some people asked, why didn't you just become a queen if you liked it so much? That was because in Li Yu's heart, the position of empress was reserved only for Shen. This is something that no one can replace.
With Li Yu of the Dugu clan, life slowly has some vitality. The Dugu clan also gave birth to a prince and a princess for Li Yu. This princess was very clever and deeply loved by Li Yu. But unfortunately, the little princess died of illness not long after. Affected by this blow, the Dugu clan also fell seriously ill, and a year later he also gave up.
Everything came too suddenly, for Li Yu, who had just come out of the shadow of the Shen clan and whose life had just begun to improve, could hardly withstand this series of heavy blows, Li Yu, who was in extreme grief, was a little irrational, and he ordered that the body of the Dugu clan be placed in the inner temple and not allowed to be buried for three years. In the past three years, he had visited the Dugu Clan in the inner temple almost every day, looking at his lover in the coffin, Li Yu, whose liver and intestines were severed, and crying like tearing his heart and lungs.
The unknown end of the Shen clan and the sudden death of the Dugu clan were fatal to Li Yu, and after a year of burial, Li Yu, who had been trapped in a long period of melancholy, also died of illness.
Obviously, a considerable part of Li Yu's emotional tragedy was caused by the Anshi Rebellion, and the impact of this war on the imperial family was still quite large. At that time, Shen Shi, who was a crown princess, was captured one after another, suffered a lot, and finally disappeared in the war. The royal family is still like this, not to mention the people of the ants! How many people have been displaced by this war, bleeding to death? Poor people in the world! However, the feudal rulers could not learn from the lessons of the former car, so that in the following Song Dynasty, such tragedies once again appeared.