The life of Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, can be described in four words, that is, "mixed praise and blame".
He reigned for a total of forty-five years and lived to be seventy-eight years old. He was the longest-reigning emperor in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
Some people say that if Li Longji could live twenty years shorter, he would definitely be called the emperor of the ages!
After Li Longji came back from Wanchao Exchange Space, his mood was very complicated.
The more the later emperors learned about his later years, the more incredible he became.
In order to verify the authenticity of what they said, Li Longji made some preparations and planned to use that "life simulation" opportunity.
Lying on the soft bed, Li Longji crushed the rune stone, and then a colorful light flashed before his eyes, and then he fainted.
When Li Longji regained consciousness, he found that he seemed to be having an unusually lucid dream, and at this moment it was a scene where a mother was about to give birth.
"Wow wow wow!!!"
Soon, the mother gave birth to a baby boy. Li Longji, who watched the dream from God's perspective, immediately realized, "I was born!"
Yes, Li Longji was born.
Li Longji only had time to glance at the baby, and the scene quickly turned to the toddler.
He was the third son of Tang Ruizong Li Dan, so others also called him Li Sanlang.
The picture stayed briefly, then changed continuously, arriving at the time when he was five years old.
When the little Li Longji in the picture was five years old, Li Longji, who was observing all this from outside the picture, saw his grandmother Wu Zetian with his own eyes, pulled his father Li Dan from the throne, and became the emperor himself.
Seeing this, Li Longji couldn't help but recall that time, although it was full of crises, but every time he thought about it, his blood flowed.
The moment Li Longji was lost in thought, the dream-like scene had already arrived when he was eight years old.
When he was eight years old, Li Longji's mother, Concubine Dou De, was falsely accused that he used witchcraft to curse Wu Zetian. So within one day, Concubine Dou De disappeared in the air and was never found again.
It was precisely the mutual persecution between these relatives that the Li Longji in the picture planted the seeds of pursuing power at a young age.
When Li Longji was twenty years old, he saw the scene where Zhang Jianzhi pulled his grandmother Wu Zetian from the throne and supported his uncle Zhongzong Li Xian to succeed to the throne.
Zhongzong was a fatuous ruler. After he succeeded to the throne, political power gradually fell into the hands of Queen Wei and his daughter Princess Anle!
And Queen Wei was an ambitious woman, and she intended to imitate Wu Zetian and become the next generation of empress.
Not long after, Li Xian was poisoned by Empress Wei, and the harem was in crisis. Li Longji teamed up with Princess Taiping to cut off Empress Wei, and supported his father, Tang Ruizong Li Dan, to succeed to the throne, and Li Longji himself became the prime minister.
Although this was not the peak moment of Li Longji's power in his life, it was the moment when he brought his intelligence, strategy, courage and other qualities into full play.
Li Longji himself is often proud of this past event.
After Li Dan regained the throne, Li Longji was not the first heir to the throne because he was not the eldest son.
However, due to Li Longji's unusual achievements, the eldest son Li Chengqi resolutely resigned from the position of crown prince. Coupled with the persuasion of a group of meritorious officials, Li Dan finally made Li Longji the crown prince.
"When the country is safe, the heirs will grow first; when the country is in danger, merit will be done first." Li Longji unknowingly repeated the words Li Chengqi said in the scene when he refused to be crowned prince.
After a long time, Li Longji sighed and said: "Brother, the emperor has learned a lesson!"
Two years later, perhaps out of humility or fear, Tang Ruizong Li Dan directly gave up the throne to Li Longji.
But when Li Longji became the crown prince, he discovered that the aunt who had allied with him to destroy Queen Wei - Princess Taiping, had become another evil dragon!
The civil and military ministers of the DPRK paid most of it!
Even when Li Longji thinks about this kind of power today, he still feels quite intimidated.
Li Longji gradually became dissatisfied with the situation in which his aunt Princess Taiping controlled the government. He secretly regarded his former ally as a thorn in his side and wanted to take power back into his own hands.
Princess Taiping also gradually realized that the prince was threatening and uncontrollable towards her, and she always wanted to find an opportunity to "oust" him from the position of prince and appoint someone under her control as the prince. This pair of aunt and nephew had already reached the stage of fire and water.
Intolerable situation!
In order to get rid of the prince Li Longji, Princess Taiping took great pains.
She first fanned the flames in front of her brother Li Dan, because Li Longji was not the eldest son, and wanted him to abolish Li Longji's crown prince position and install a new crown prince who was weak and easy to control.
However, this plan was strongly opposed by Prime Minister Song Jing and ultimately failed.
Later, Princess Taiping ordered people to monitor Li Longji's every move at all times and spread unfavorable remarks about Li Longji everywhere, hoping to depose him from the throne.
In the end, she even resorted to despicable means like poisoning in an attempt to kill Li Longji.
Fortunately, all this was successfully resolved by Li Longji.
"I was able to survive in such a dangerous environment."
Looking at the scenes in the picture, the thrilling battles of wits and courage, Li Longji once again felt the "pain" he experienced back then.
But thinking about the old self mentioned in the video, Li Longji suddenly felt that it was even more unreal.
in the screen,
Emperor Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty Li Dan saw his son and his sister fighting to the death. He had nothing to do but get anxious.
In the end, it seems that in order to eliminate the basis of the fight between the two, Li Dan simply abdicated the throne to the prince Li Longji, and became a leisurely emperor himself.
It was originally thought that after Li Longji succeeded to the throne, the fight between him and Princess Taiping would slowly subside.
But Li Longji was not one to retaliate with kindness. After he ascended the throne, he recalled what Princess Taiping had done to him, so he followed the advice of the ministers around him and determined to get rid of her.
One year after Li Longji succeeded to the throne, he took a preemptive strike and had Princess Taiping killed for "rebellion", thus completely ending the red makeup era.
The most ruthless emperor's family!
Princess Taiping and Li Longji could have been a pair of aunts and nephews who loved each other, but because of the word "power", they ended up fighting each other to the death.
But there is no right or wrong here, because if Princess Taiping wins the power struggle in the end, Li Longji will probably not be able to escape death, right?
Later, Li Longji changed the Yuan Dynasty to Kaiyuan, which meant opening a new era.
History books comment on this era that "the Zhenguan style revived once again", which shows the importance of the prosperous Kaiyuan era in the eyes of future generations.
In the early days of his succession, Li Longji was concerned about the country and the people, and worked hard to govern.
He is close to virtuous ministers and far away from villains. He is surrounded by virtuous people like Yao Chong and Song Jing.
With their assistance, Li Longji created the second heyday of the Tang Dynasty - the Kaiyuan era, which was also the pinnacle moment of Chinese history, and there are poems to prove it.
"Recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, the small town still had thousands of families.
The rice is dripping with fat, the corn is white, and both the public and private warehouses are abundant.
There are no wolves on the roads of Kyushu, and there is no good luck in traveling a long way."
