Li Zhi and The old man's woman got together, and the courtier was surprised?
Not at all. Before Li Shimin's death, everyone had already seen the beginning.
At that time, the relationship between men and women was really chaotic, the royal family and nobles were particularly strange, like Li Zhi, talking to Wu Zetian about love already belonged to the type of warm and jade, and did not cause everyone's discomfort. However, Li Zhi wanted her to return to the palace as a concubine, and it was a bright and upright canon, which was a bit excessive.
If nothing else, marrying a wife during the filial piety period of the old father is a great filial piety!
Facts have proved that Li Zhi was not ready to take Wu Zetian back to the palace. For the next period of time, Li Zhi could only sneak to the Ganye Temple to relieve the pain of acacia. The future of the beautiful woman is actually not clear.
However, a person with a good fate, you can never stop her from moving forward.
Just when Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were secretly meeting, Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei competed for favors in the palace, and the eldest grandson Wuji waited next to him to help shout, and finally sent a wonderful assist to Wu Zetian's return to the palace.
Empress Wang, a native of Qi County (祁县, in present-day Jinzhong, Shanxi), was born of the Taiyuan Wang clan.
From the beginning of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Taiyuan Wang clan and the Zhao Junli clan, the Qinghe Cui clan and other families belonged to the noble door valve nobles of the Northern Dynasty, and although the Taiyuan Wang clan did not have a central member, the family's brand influence was not bad at all.
According to historical records, wang's temperament is outstanding, gentle and virtuous, and she is a rare good woman. In that year, after Li Yuan's sister Married Princess Tong'an to the Taiyuan Royal Family, she happened to meet the gentle and generous Wang clan, so she recommended her to Li Shimin, hoping to match the Wang clan to the children of the royal family.
With a big wave of his hand, Li Shimin will make Li Zhi the King of Jin a wife.
Political marriage is not uncommon in the rich and noble, as the son of the emperor, from birth there are indicators of marriage, Li Zhi can only helplessly laugh! In fact, the conditions of the Wang clan are very superior, and Li Zhi is indeed a match made in heaven, but Li Zhi has a natural resistance to his father's arrangement, and he is not willing to get too close to the Wang clan.
What's more, Li Zhi is a freedom-seeking person in his bones and likes to enjoy the feeling of happiness and stimulation, so he hopes that his wife can also be lively and cute. However, Wang's education from an early age was to be a qualified lady.
Therefore, Li Zhi empathized with each other and came together with Xiao Shufei.
Xiao Shufei's origin is not simple, and behind her stands the Lanling Xiao family (which originated in Lanling County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, and later moved south to the Jiangnan region). After the fall of Later Liang, the Xiao family became a rich and prestigious family occupying Jiangnan, and there were many celebrities, such as Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty and the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Yu, the representative figure of the Xiao family.
In terms of political status and door valve background, the Lanling Xiao clan is slightly stronger than the Taiyuan Wang clan.
Xiao Shufei has a lively temperament and especially likes to be spoiled, and Li Zhi can always gain a sense of conquest from men when he is with her. As for the Wang clan, they can only be used to respect each other as guests. However, the Wang clan still has the confidence, she is the crown princess hand-picked by Li Shimin, as long as she gives birth to a prince or princess, Li Zhi does not dare to do anything with her.
Unfortunately, Empress Wang miscalculated, and Li Zhi did not like her, not only for personality reasons, but also for her father's resistance. After many years of marriage, the Wang clan has not been able to have children, but the palace people Liu, Zheng and Yang have given birth to three sons for Li Zhi. Not spoiling the right wife and spoiling the palace women, Li Zhi's rebellion is also enough.
What is even more amazing is that the three palace ladies all gave birth to princes, but after Li Zhi became emperor, he never gave them a seal, which shows that Li Zhi did not have too deep feelings for them. This can also prove from the side that Li Zhi may really want to make some noise and express his resistance to his father.
In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan (648), Consort Xiao also gave birth to a boy named Li Sujie.
Until this time, the Wang clan began to be unable to sit still. The children born of the palace women, without the support of the door valve nobles behind them, can never be the prince, but Xiao Shufei is different, the mother's family is strong and strong, and Li Zhi loves it, and Li Sujie is the first candidate for the prince.
In the first month of the first year of Yonghui (650), Li Zhifeng was made empress of zhenggong, and Xiao was crowned as a concubine of Zheng Yipin. According to the ranking of the four concubines of "Gui, Shu, Virtue and Xian", Xiao Shufei ranked second among the four concubines.
In February of the first year of Yonghui (650), Li Zhi issued an edict and made li Sujie the prince of Yong and the pastor of Yongzhou.
Yongzhou, which governs the capital Chang'an and the surrounding areas.
Yongzhou Mu, above the history of Yongzhou, was in charge of local military and political power.
The Yong King has gone beyond the meaning of the prince's reward. The person who can be the Yong King is either the future prince or the prince with outstanding merits, and Li Sujie is more like the former. To put it bluntly, Li Zhi wanted to support Li Sujie to ascend to the throne, which also made the childless Empress Wang under her knees tremble with fear.
Throughout the ages, the struggle in the harem will not be very pure, and behind it is more of a game of interests between families. Think about it, behind Empress Wang is the Taiyuan Wang clan, to the greatest extent, it is said that it is the nobles of the Northern Dynasty, and behind Xiao Shufei is the nobles of the Southern Dynasty, how can these two forces live in peace and love each other?
If Xiao Shufei's son became emperor, the power of the Southern Dynasty would rise up with a high probability, which was not in line with the interests of the Northern Dynasty forces. Therefore, in the harem, Empress Wang's uncle Liu Yi was the first to be anxious, and the Northern Dynasty nobles represented by the eldest son Wuji waved the flag and shouted at the side, giving limited support.
Empress Wang was taught not to struggle in the harem, but how to be a model wife. In the face of Xiao Shufei's threat, she seemed helpless and had to ask her uncle Liu Yi for help.
The advice given by Liu Yi is also very reliable: the eldest son Li Zhong is not born of the palace people Liu Shi, they are humble in status, and they will never have a day to turn over. Passing Li Zhong to the name of Empress Wang, he worries that great things will not be accomplished!
Subsequently, Liu Yi found the eldest grandson Wuji and said his thoughts without reservation.
The eldest grandson said: No problem at all!
Li Zhong's transfer process is simple. Moreover, the mission assigned to him by the Northern Dynasty forces was also very simple: to act as a pawn of the Northern Dynasty forces, to sit on the throne of the prince at the right time, and to continue to be their puppets.
Such a simple political trick, Will Li Zhi see through it?
Objectively speaking, Li Zhi is a loyal person, but he is not a stupid person, let alone a person who is obedient. You want Li Zhong to be the upper rank, and Shuo first promised you, but let Shuo wait to see this "eldest son", there is no way!
As for Empress Wang, she was supposed to stand with Li Zhi, but because of the dispute for favors, she colluded with the powerful ministers of the foreign dynasty to force Li Zhi to do things he did not like, and the end can be imagined!
Empress Wang, eldest grandson Wuji, Liu Yi, and others did not realize at all that in the matter of competing for favors, it was actually Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong who could really determine the life and death and future of all people. On the surface, Empress Wang's family has a spokesperson for interests, and the position is stable, but Li Zhi holds a veto in his hand.
After this incident, Empress Wang's cold bench sat more and more solidly, and Xiao Shufei became the person who benefited the most. After that, Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei framed each other in the harem, causing a chicken and a dog to jump.
Li Zhi said: You continue to make trouble, and you have gone to find a beautiful woman!
Text/Jiugao Han shuo