In 869, a princess who had been married died, and the princess's father, Tang Yizong Li, was furious, executed all the imperial doctors involved in the rescue, and threw more than 300 of his relatives into the prison, although Tang Yizong's move shocked the courtiers, but everyone was not particularly incomprehensible, because Tang Yizong, in addition to himself, loved only this princess Tongchang who died of illness. When Princess Tongchang was alive, Tang Yizong's favor for him was not only greater than his other children, but also added the princesses of the nearly three hundred years before and after the Tang Dynasty, and no one could make his father and emperor love him so much.
Before Princess Tongchang got married, she was dressed in the palace and needless to say, according to the "Duyang Miscellaneous Compilation", Tang Yizong in order to let her eat more, let the chef develop a lot of exquisite dishes, one of the dishes, the main ingredient of the ingredient is the magpie tongue, a dish down, the amount of magpie can be imagined, and the magpie is not a chicken and duck, when used to prepare in advance, it can be described as a luxury. As for the drinks, one of them is called rose dew, which is made of frost dew that condenses in the morning of the roses of the day.
As for the clothes, the silk satin of Ayala has been unable to meet Tang Yizong's favor for her, in the summer she wears a fur coat made of white hair under the armpits of the fox, ventilation and heat dissipation do not attract mosquitoes; in winter, she wears a brocade coat woven of fire silk, which is not only light and thin, but also very warm; wears a pearl coat at night, and there is no need to play lanterns when going out; if you go out during the day, it must be a golden car and silver driving, which must be at least inlaid with seven treasures such as jade and amber, and the body is not only shockproof, it is said that it also brings its own incense, when going out, the smell of the wind and electricity is sprayed out.
When Princess Tongchang got married, the gold and silver jewelry that Tang Yizong married was basically according to the inventory in the palace, and as many as there were in it, how much was given to Princess Tongchang to marry, which was also mentioned in the Old Book of Tang and the Zizhi Tongjian, which was actually very rare. Because in the late Tang Dynasty, even the empress concubines of the emperors were difficult to leave a few words of private life in the history, and very few could enjoy the treatment of Princess Tongchang. After the death of Princess Tongchang, Tang Yizong's performance was unique.
He not only personally wrote elegy for his daughter (at that time, it was a habit to write elegy for the deceased, but the elders personally went to battle were estimated to be few, and the emperor's words were only Tang Yizong), but also let hundreds of officials fill in the elegy, and when sending the funeral, the gold and silver jewelry that accompanied the funeral were countless, according to the records, the cart that pulled the treasure stretched for dozens of miles, and Tang Yizong not only cried bitterly during the funeral, but also let a court musician named Li Keji compile a "Sigh Hundred Years" for his daughter after the funeral of Princess Tongchang, the number of people used and the clothing were excellent , all belonged to the leaders of the time.
Princess Tongchang was not the only seedling of Tang Yizong, she was only one of Tang Yizong's dozen children, so why did Tang Yizong favor his daughter so much?
If we want to explain why Tang Yizong was so fond of Princess Tongchang, we must first dial back the gears of history, where? More than a hundred years before Princess Tongchang was born, the reigning emperor at that time was Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong, that is, Yang Guifei's good man and the grandfather of Liyuan opera. Li Longgene had the cause of the rebellion of the prince in the former dynasty (Li Shimin), and he also had his own experience of "Xuanwumen" seizing the palace, so he was not at ease with his own prince, so he came up with a small trick.
Before choosing an heir, Li Longjian built a group of villas called the "Ten Kings' House" to keep his crown princes and grandchildren captive, in case they had private contacts with foreign ministers and formed an offensive and defensive alliance. Later, the sons became a family, and then had grandchildren, and Li Longji built the "Hundred Grandsons' Courtyard" next to the "Ten Kings' Residence", and built his royal nursery office bigger and bigger. After Li Longji, the emperors who were in charge of the family also implemented this cruel and inhumane policy according to the cat and the tiger. If the dragon son and phoenix grandson in the villa want to have contact with the outside world, they can only rely on the eunuchs who guard, which also lays the groundwork for the eunuch dictatorship in the late Tang Dynasty.
When Tang Yizong's father, Tang Xuanzong Li Chen, reigned, Tang Yizong was also imprisoned in this royal nursery. Although Tang Yizong was the eldest son of Tang Xuanzong, Tang Xuanzong did not like him, so he did not make him crown prince, but intended to make his fourth son his heir. Originally, Tang Yizong had no hope, because Tang Xuanzong was a clear lord who kept Tang in good order when he was in office, and even the eunuch clique failed to empty him (in the late Tang Dynasty, most of the eunuchs in power had the final say).
However, Tang Xuanzong had a small problem, which was also considered to be family inheritance, that is, he liked to take drugs (like to eat all kinds of Dan medicine, not given by doctors, but refined by Taoists with heavy metals), so in his old age, he was a bit unable to keep an eye on it, and the eunuch group once again had room for operation. In order to be able to become the next person to be the next person to speak, Tang Yizong had to ask for help from the eunuch group, but the eunuch was not a good person who accumulated virtue and good deeds, and would not help him for no reason, and at this time, Tang Yizong wanted money and no money, and he had no power, so he could only think of a way from his in-laws.
He promised his daughter to Wei Baoheng in the Jingzhao Wei family, Jingzhao Weishi is the head of the Guanzhong giants, the family is big, and the forces behind it are intertwined. With this relationship, the eunuchs were naturally willing to pull him along, so after Tang Xuanzong's death, the eunuchs made Tang Yizong crown prince and subsequently helped him to the throne. So on the surface, Tang Yizong was favoring Princess Tongchang, but in fact he was showing favor to the Wei family.
Therefore, in some wild histories, it is also mentioned that the reason why Tang Yizong loved Princess Tongchang was because Princess Tongchang did not speak after she was born, and she did not open her mouth until the car that picked up Tang Yizong to ascend the throne came, so Tang Yizong regarded her as a lucky star, so he was very kind to her. Finally, the camel said a little more about Tang Yizong and Princess Tongchang, first, Princess Tongchang had too many treasures to accompany her, so that after the Huangchao Rebellion, her tomb was stolen, and second, recent experts have verified that Tang Yizong was not Tang Xuanzong's own son, but a descendant of Li Rong, the son of Tang Suzong.