Preface
As one of the four beauties of ancient China, the emotional story between Yang Guifei and Tang Xuanzong has been a hot spot for people to carry out literary and artistic creation since ancient times.
However, this poignant love actually originated from a forbidden love - Yang Yuhuan was actually his daughter-in-law before marrying Tang Xuanzong! The husband is Tang Xuanzong's eighteenth son, Shouwang Li Mao.
Tang Xuanzong is a cruel father, people say that tiger poison does not eat children, but Li Longji can "kill three sons in one day", so in the face of his father's love for his wife, Li Mao had to reluctantly cut his love and let his beloved wife out in order to save his life, and watched his wife become his mother-in-law.
In this way, Li Mao is equivalent to being cuckolded by his father, so after Yang Yuhuan married Tang Xuanzong, what kind of ending did Li Mao have?
1. Husband and wife love
Before Yang Yuhuan, Tang Xuanzong actually had a very favored concubine, she was Concubine Wu Hui, to what extent did Tang Xuanzong love Concubine Wu Hui? The etiquette she can enjoy is even comparable to that of the queen.
And Concubine Wu Hui also gave birth to four sons and three daughters for Tang Xuanzong in the favor, although the first two sons unfortunately died, but the third son Li Mao survived smoothly and became a son that Tang Xuanzong liked very much.
Li Mao has been very smart since he was a child, and he is the son of Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine, so even if he is a concubine, his status among many princes is one of the best, and he was named King Shou.
In the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Concubine Wu Hui, ushered in a big wedding, as the younger brother of a mother's compatriots, Li Mao was naturally very happy to help her sister organize the wedding, so she came to Luoyang.
Coincidentally, as a woman from the eunuch's house and a beautiful woman in Luoyang, Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend the wedding of Princess Xianyi, so he met Li Mao in this way.
Li Mao just reached the age of marrying a wife, and after seeing Yang Yuhuan, he couldn't walk for a while, he didn't understand why his father loved his mother for decades, but at this moment he understood.
The young Li Mao fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight, and Yang Yuhuan also had a very good impression of this elegant and courteous prince, but as the daughter of an official eunuch, she could not help but offer to marry anyone.
So Li Mao took the initiative to mention to Concubine Wu Hui the idea of marrying Yang Yuhuan as his wife, for fear that his father would not agree, so he wanted his mother to dredge up in his father's ear.
Concubine Wu Hui was very happy after knowing that her son belonged, and after investigating Yang Yuhuan, she was very satisfied with her family background and appearance, so she mentioned the marriage to Tang Xuanzong.
After the marriage of his beloved son, who was approved by his concubine, what did Tang Xuanzong not want? So he immediately agreed to the marriage, and only a few months later, Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan completed the marriage, and the two officially became husband and wife.
Second, focus on Yang Yuhuan
After marriage, Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan are quite happy and affectionate, the husband and wife are of the same age, and they are still talented and beautiful, such a marriage is simply envious of others, but unfortunately, such happiness did not last long.
Two years after Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan married, that is, in the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, Concubine Wu Hui wanted to make Li Mao the crown prince, so under her slander, Tang Xuanzong abolished the prince and two other sons.
This move undoubtedly made other princes, including Li Mao, quite afraid, for fear that disaster would befall him one day, and the subsequent death of Concubine Wu Hui made Li Mao sit on the edge of her seat while grieving.
The woman he loved the most died, which made Tang Xuanzong very sad, and he didn't even think about it, he was depressed all day long, and he didn't even want to take care of government affairs, even if the beauties in the harem were like clouds, they didn't make him happy.
At that time, it was the time when the faction that supported King Shou Li Mao and the faction that supported the third prince Li Heng was-for-tat, perhaps in order to eradicate the threat of Li Mao, someone hit his mind on Yang Yuhuan, the princess of Shou.
So Tang Xuanzong, who was depressed, heard someone praise him for how beautiful and talented Princess Shou was, just a pity to be Princess Shou, she should enter the palace as a mother.
I have to say that the person who made this suggestion was simply murderous, and everyone knew that King Shou and the princess had the idea of inducing Li Longji to beat his daughter-in-law.
In this way, not only can the couple be broken up and Li Mao will be hit hard, but secondly, if Yang Yuhuan becomes the imperial concubine, then Tang Xuanzong will definitely not let Li Mao be the prince, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
But Li Longji really listened to this, he didn't think this daughter-in-law was so unusual before, and he thought that she was a very good match with her son, but after Concubine Wu Hui died, it changed.
When Li Longji saw Yang Yuhuan again, he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, this woman grabbed her heart like a fairy, and it was too wasteful for her son, so she completely ignored the relationship between father and son and the constraints of ethics, and decided to take Yang Yuhuan for herself.
But after all, Li Longji is both an emperor and a father, and it is not good to directly do such a shocking thing as robbing his daughter-in-law, so he deceives himself and detours.
He first broke up Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan, and ordered Yang Yuhuan to become a monk in the name of praying for the blessing of the late Empress Dowager Dou, so that Yang Yuhuan had to cut off the fate of the dust and return to singleness.
3. Life and death
The husband and wife were separated, which made Li Mao grief-stricken, but the king's order could not be violated, so he could only watch his beloved wife become his father's meal.
After Yang Yuhuan became a Taoist aunt for a few years, Tang Xuanzong made the decision to remarry Li Mao to a princess with a noble family, which was not only to clear the way for him to completely possess Yang Yuhuan, but also to feel a little guilty.
In short, after Li Mao married the princess, Tang Xuanzong did not hesitate at all, and immediately took Yang Yuhuan into the palace, and then canonized her as a concubine.
At that time, Tang Xuanzong did not have a queen, so although Yang Yuhuan was not crowned, the favor and treatment she actually received showed that she was already the uncrowned king of the harem.
There is no record of Li Mao's experience during this period, but it is clear that he must have been more uncomfortable than being roasted on a fire, not only failed in the fight for the crown prince, but also lost his beloved wife, and in such a humiliating way.
People didn't dare to mock the emperor openly, so the ridicule was borne by Li Mao, a loser, alone, and his heart must have been very tormented.
With Tang Xuanzong's favor Yang Guifei, government affairs became more and more deserted, and the originally prosperous Tang Dynasty soon ushered in a decline, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong decided to go to Shu for refuge, and Li Mao also went with him.
But even in a crisis, Tang Xuanzong still did not give up taking Yang Yuhuan with him, which made the accompanying cronies very dissatisfied, so Chen Xuanli mutinied in Maweipo and forced Tang Xuanzong to kill Yang Yuhuan.
Tang Xuanzong was still selfish after all, he chose to give up Yang Yuhuan, so this peerless beauty died in Maweipo, and Li Mao, who accompanied him, must have also witnessed this grief execution.
After Yang Yuhuan's death, the mutiny was also quelled, and Li Mao was ordered to appease the soldiers, I don't know what kind of mood he was in to deal with this mess?
epilogue
Li Mao's life seems to be only about Yang Yuhuan's experience has been recorded, and after Yang Yuhuan's death, Li Mao can not find any traces in the history books.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the crown prince Li Heng was proclaimed emperor and made Tang Xuanzong the emperor, and Li Mao, although he once competed for the crown prince, survived until the Tang Dynasty Emperor died, ending his bumpy life.