(Daming Palace)
In the history of the wind, the Daming Palace under the sunset is solemn.
Tang Xuanzong Li Chen's expression was solemn, holding in his hand a folded letter played by The Emperor, the general content of the fold was to persuade the emperor to establish the crown prince early, to extend the state, and the king of Yun, Li Yi, held a heavy virtuous virtue and could be made a prince.
Li Chen sighed, his body deteriorated, and in recent days he had actually begun to vomit blood.
He deeply understood that he was afraid that his life would soon be over, and the matter of establishing a prince really could not be postponed any longer.
However, he did not like the son of Li Yi the Prince of Yun, in large part because Li Yi was older than other princes.
Everyone wants to give the future of the empire to the vibrant young people, not the middle-aged people who are already a little old.
The emperor's favorite son was Li Zi the Prince of Chu.
However, Li Zi was not the eldest son of a concubine, nor was he the most capable of the princes, and if he was hastily made crown prince, he would definitely attract criticism from the government and the public.
Therefore, until the death of the emperor, the position of the crown prince was still unresolved.
When the emperor returned to heaven, he actually issued a secret order to his privy councillor (secretary) Wang Guichang, who told Wang Guichang that after I died, I hope that you will organize the government and opposition forces to support Li Zi as emperor.
Wang Guichang knelt under the dragon bed, and while shedding tears, he prostrated his head, indicating that he would not live up to the grace of the king and the mission.
After explaining his wishes, Li Chen stood up and died.
According to the development of the plot, loyal subjects like Wang Guichang must honestly practice the explanation of the previous emperor and support Li Zi as emperor, then the future history of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the throne, have nothing to do with Li Yi.
But history always unexpectedly changes its direction.
It is not a simple matter to want to directly support Li Zi to ascend the throne, because the general of the Ming Palace Divine Strategy Army, Wang Zhong, is a person of Li Yi, the King of Yun, and if Li Zi is allowed to ascend the throne in a hurry, the Divine Strategy Army will definitely mutiny in the palace, and when the sword and light sword shadow and force force force force on the palace, the situation will not be controlled by itself.
Therefore, Wang Guichang himself compiled a holy decree of the former emperor, demoting Wang Zhongzhong from Chang'an and demoting him from a general of the Shence Army to a Jianjun in Huainan.
He wanted to eliminate these potential dangers that could affect Li Zi's ascension to the throne, at least to drive them out of Chang'an City.
Unexpectedly, Wang Zhongzhong was not deceived.
He knew the temperament of the former emperor Li Chen very well.
The emperor was fair, strict, and gentle with his subordinates, and would never suddenly demote himself before his death.
What is even more crucial is that there are thousands of officials and subordinate officials in Chang'an City, and the emperor has never seen himself at all, so how can he deliberately write a holy will to himself?
Conspiracy, there must be a conspiracy in it.
Therefore, Wang Zhongzhong not only did not take over the transfer, but also took the soldiers and horses straight to the palace, and when he arrived at the sleeping hall, he found that it was indeed Wang Guichang, a bad old man, who was tricking the ghosts, and made a correction to fool himself.
He immediately took over the armed defense of Daming Palace and took control of Wang Guichang.
But at the same time, Wang Zhongzhong fell into a state of confusion.
The edict that allowed him to be transferred was false, but the edict that made Li Zi emperor was real.
If Li Zi becomes emperor and the party is different, the first person to deal with himself is not himself?
He thought about it and came up with a method, which was very simple and very direct, that is, to repeat the same technique and write a correction himself.
(Portrait of Tang Yizong Li Yizong)
He revised the edict (order) of the former emperor and made Li Yi emperor instead. (i.e. Tang Yizong)
A good move is another day, and the dove occupies the magpie's nest.
However, this incident happened extremely secretly, and Wang Guichang, who knew the truth of the matter, and other cadres had already been wiped out.
Therefore, in a strict sense, Li Yi is actually a transposed son.
This throne is not justified to him.
But Li Yi was still very happy to ascend the throne.
Because in the whole thing, it is basically Wang Zhongzhong working hard, Li Yi is equivalent to "people sitting at home, the throne comes up from heaven."
After ascending the throne, the first thing was to change the era name, the new emperor changed the era name to "Xiantong", and the reason why it was changed to this name was because his father Li Chen once wrote a poem with a sentence "Haiyue Feast Xiantong", and it was precisely because he wanted to remember his father that he used such an era name.
In Li Yi's mouth, the ministers often heard him talking about his father, but the emperor's behavior since he ascended the throne did not have the slightest shadow of his father.
Although the emperor also actively went to the court every day and actively handled major state affairs, he basically did it for example, and as long as he went to the court, the emperor immediately held a party in the palace.
A small party on three days, a big party on five days.
(Tang Dynasty court banquet)
When holding a party, he also has to bring a group of atmosphere groups (musicians, lingren), his atmosphere group is huge, there are almost five hundred people, if the emperor is born in the contemporary, the proper little prince of the nightclub, every night does not consume ten bottles of eight bottles of spa A, will not give up.
After the party in the palace, the emperor will go out on a tour.
The emperor's travel procession was very large, and perhaps Li Yi was a lonely person, so every time he went out, the imperial relatives and nobles who accompanied him, the people under the beard, and the servants who guarded the guards, ranging from as little as thirty or fifty thousand to hundreds of thousands.
This thirty-fifty thousand, hundreds of thousands, is not a river of words, but a real number.
He really once led a hundred thousand people on a tour.
So many people, just food, clothing, shelter and transportation, is a huge expense.
The counselors routinely advised the emperor to be frugal and frugal, but the emperor did not listen.
No one can disturb his good mood of wanton play.
In order to make him work a little less and play a little more, Tang Yizong Li Yi also came to a wave of magical operations.
He promoted Bai Minzhong, a former courtier, to the rank of chancellor, responsible for leading hundreds of officials and participating in major state affairs.
The emperor made personnel adjustments, which is understandable, but this personnel adjustment made by Li Yi has another profound meaning.
Bai Min was over sixty years old in middle age, accidentally fell when he went to the dynasty, his waist was twisted, his ass was also injured, he could not go to the dynasty normally, he had resigned many times, and wanted to return to his hometown, but Li Yi was not allowed.
An old man with an injury, why did the emperor not let the others retire?
(Image of Toshinaka Shiro)
Because Bai Minzhong was sick, Li Yi was pregnant.
Bai Minzhong was sick and could not go to the court. Bai Minzhong could not go to the court, so there would be no one to discuss state affairs with himself, and no one would hand himself a fold every day, and he was just happy.
He longed for the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu to be sick, so he didn't even need the Dynasty.
In addition to Bai Minzhong, Li Yi also appointed a lot of ministers, and in detail, there were 21.
These ministers have their own characteristics, some faint and incompetent, some stealing and slippery, some reckless and willful, and some sinister and cunning, but there is no one who is smart and capable.
We have to admire Li Yi's ability to employ people, the benevolent people in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there are still many able people who want to serve the country, and Li Yi actually did not pick a single one.
However, from another point of view, perhaps this is an inevitability, Li Yi cannot choose those who are smart and capable to be the prime minister, because once he chooses such a person to be the prime minister, such a person is bound to pull himself to work together, which is definitely not the life that the emperor wants.
The ministers soon became aware of the emperor's sneaking and slipping, they were disappointed by the emperor's extremely irresponsible behavior, and soon someone expressed their dissatisfaction with the emperor, and this person was the counselor Wang Pu. Wang Pu told the emperor that Bai Minzhong, the chancellor, had been lying in bed for more than four months, and in the past four months, the emperor had basically gone to the court every day, passively and slackened off, and had not fulfilled the obligations that an emperor should fulfill.
The system of advisors has existed since ancient times, and the meaning of their existence is to criticize the emperor, as strong as Tang Taizong, and there will also be advisors like Wei Zheng who follow him all day long and count him down.
Whether it is a faint or a tyrannical king, it is rare to do anything to the comrades of the counselor, because if the emperor cleans up the counselor, then he will be fiercely recorded in the history books, and no one will dare to give an opinion to the emperor after that.
Being criticized is not terrible, being isolated is terrible.
But Tang Yizong didn't care about that, and the little nine-nine in his heart was seen through by the chancellor, and he was so angry that he actually demoted Wang Pu out of Chang'an and assigned him to another place to do county orders.
The life that Li Yi wanted was free and casual, but being an emperor was a very rational and a matter of great responsibility.
Throughout the dynasties and dynasties of the emperors, especially the emperors, philistine lords, they seem to have the same characteristics, that is, their values are problematic, in their concept, when the emperor is to enjoy, indulge, play, but in fact, not, when the emperor is a kind of "equal investment" (equivalent to opening a company), how much you pay, how much you can enjoy, if you only enjoy, do not pay, then the company will sooner or later go bankrupt.
Of course, when we analyze a historical figure, we can't always say that even a bastard can be praised partially, and Tang Yizong also has something worthy of praise, that is, his attitude toward Chinese religion is still very good.
His elder tang wuzong once launched a vigorous campaign to extinguish Buddhism.
Let the monks be laid off, no longer be monks, smash Buddha statues, demolish temples, Tang Dynasty monks mentioned Tang Wuzong, there is no one who does not shiver.
When it was Li Yi's turn to become emperor, his attitude took a one hundred and eighty degree turn, because Li Yi had been a devout Buddhist since he was a child.
He asked the monks who had lost their jobs to start chanting again, rebuild the solemn temples on the ruins of the past, and the city of Chang'an began to ring the twilight drum and morning bell again.
Buddhism began to recover slowly, Li Yi ordered a large number of printing Buddhist scriptures, and the large number of Printing of Buddhist scriptures directly stimulated the printing industry at that time, during that period, even emerged the earliest printed materials in the history of the world (one), that is, the "Diamond Sutra" printed during the Xiantong period, but it is very regrettable that this book is now hidden in London, England, and the Chinese people have no chance to see it.
(The Diamond Sutra in the British Museum)
In July of the fourteenth year of Xiantong, the history books recorded that Tang Yizong was "sick and gradual", which meant that the emperor's illness had become more and more serious, and as for what kind of illness it was, it was probably a sharp deterioration in physical condition caused by overwork.
Of course, his "accumulation" is not because of hard work, but because of the irregular entertainment life of many years.
Have fun and be happy, always have fun at the crematorium.
Feasting, hunting, and playing finally dragged down the emperor's body, and soon after, Li Yi died of illness in the Xianning Hall of daming palace at the age of 41.
The emperor is dead, but the road of the Tang Empire will continue to go down.
During the reign of Emperor Yizong, not many good things were done, and bad things were done in a basket.
Hedonism, extravagance and corruption, arbitrary employment, and serious mistakes in military and national development strategies led to serious rebellions in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Annan and other places, and the tang empire began to become precarious.
He patted his ass and returned to heaven, but the people were as old as ever, living in the depths of the water.
The ferocious chaotic world is coming, and what kind of end will the Tang Empire, an old man on crutches, go to?