Chapter 439 A Complete Family

[It is only at this point that the various inconsistencies in the seemingly ordinary Shenlong coup are explained.

Before Li Xian was recalled by Wu Zetian to be the heir, he had been exiled to Fangzhou for more than ten years.

Returning to Luoyang City after fifteen years away, it was a luxury to talk about party members. In fact, the only person Li Xian could rely on was his mother who supported him to be the emperor.

Therefore, he was extremely obedient to Wu Zetian, and according to his mother's order, he sentenced his son to death, married into the Wu family on a large scale, and saw that his mother was seriously ill and dying, and the throne was soon in his hands.

But at this time, his younger brother suddenly brought people to the coup, and the son-in-law was even persuaded to stand on the side of his younger brother and put him on the horse.

Li Xian rode on the horse and witnessed his younger brother and sister controlling the palace, forcing his mother to retreat, and then pressing him on the throne.

From this perspective, the five ministers may not be the heroes of the coup, but can be regarded as accomplices; and Wu Sansi may not be an enemy, but an ally with a stable marriage relationship.

The 15-year window of being exiled to Fangzhou resulted in Li Xian having no trusted forces. After ascending the throne, he did what all insecure emperors would do:

"During the Shenlong period, there were more than 3,000 eunuchs, and more than 1,000 of them were granted the title of seventh-rank or above."

This was also the first time in the history of the Tang Dynasty that eunuchs entered the court. Later, whether it was befriending Wu Sansi or giving up power to Empress Wei, it was fundamentally because Li Xian wanted to increase his political bargaining chips.

Li Dan was completely different. From 684, when Wu Zetian abolished Li Xian and established Li Dan as emperor, to 690, when Li Dan was forced by the situation to ask his mother to become emperor and be granted the surname Wu, to 699, when he was re-ennobled as the Prince of Xiang and participated in the Mingtang oath, Mr. Liuwei Dihuangwan has always lived in the center of the storm. Even though he was humiliated by changing his surname, he refused to marry Wu Zhou from beginning to end, which is why he was favored by Li Tang's old ministers.

In the first month of 705, a coup took place. In February, Wu Zetian moved to Shangyang Palace. Later, Li Xian went to visit her according to etiquette, and saw his mother who was even more haggard.

Before her death, Wu Zetian also showed her viciousness as a politician, crying to Li Xian:

I took great pains to bring you back from Fangling just to hand over the world to you, but five thieves were greedy for merit and harmed me to this point!

This sentence can be regarded as a standard example of "who is a friend and who is an enemy".

"I" rescued you from Fangling and gave you the world. If I am not a friend, what else can I do? "Five thieves" are greedy for merit and fame with the righteousness of the country. If they are not enemies, what else can they do?

The mother in front of him was miserable, and the ministers outside the palace were aggressive. Looking at the roof of Shangyang Palace, Li Xian had few choices. The Wu family, which was supposed to sacrifice to the new Li Tang, successfully extended its life.

Li Dan, who had been fighting with his mother all his life, probably didn't expect that he would be tricked by his mother in the end.

But seriously thinking about it, the Shenlong coup was too peaceful, and it was not worthy of the fifteen years of ups and downs of Wu Zhou.

There is a saying among foreigners that brutal joy will eventually usher in a brutal end.

The aftermath of Wu Zhou is far from over. 】

"The chaos is already apparent."

Li Shimin watched all this in silence, and finally suddenly jumped out a judgment.

The others nodded in agreement.

Although they were not as well-informed as their juniors about what was going to happen next, they had already seen one thing clearly:

The emperor had lost his dignity.

No, Wei Zheng shook his head in grief, it was more than that. Listening to the ridicule of Wu Sansi and the queen in later generations, this matter was almost known to everyone.

The emperor damaged his dignity, and the emperor's orders did not come out of one place, then the country would not be a country.

At this time, Wei Zheng had to admit from the bottom of his heart that even if Wu Zhou was chaotic and the national strength was wasted, there was still this female emperor above to suppress the four directions.

Now that the emperor has lost his control and power has fallen into the hands of others, the scoundrels will surely look around. Can Li Xian... survive? Wei Zheng expressed doubts.

What position did Wu Sansi want in the Wu Zhou period?

Before you gave the queen power, did you ever think about why the empress interfered in government affairs?

Are you completely ignoring the lessons of the past?

The relatives of the emperor directly favored two at a time, and even pulled out the eunuchs again. Do you think the chaos is not big enough or what?

Wei Zheng was too lazy to care.

As for the emperor and Wu Sansi being of the same kind, Wei Zheng first said that it was insulting, and secondly that he did not understand it at all.

After sighing over the chaos that was visible to the naked eye, Li Shimin looked back at the last words of the empress and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows:

"These words... if they were not embellished by later historians, then this mother and son were extremely ruthless."

The first thing Li Shimin could think of was that this sentence was indeed meaningful. He kept silent about the old matter of Li Chongrun's death, did not talk about the defense against the Eastern Palace, and even did not talk about the old matter of Wu Zhou's seizure of the throne from her son.

With just one sentence, the mother and son who were supposed to be enemies became a loving mother who was grateful to her and pushed the five ministers to the opposite side.

The eighty-year-old minister cleared the court and was greedy for merit, so the eighty-two-year-old empress controlling the government was not greedy for power?

It was ironic to think about it for a moment, after all, it was impossible for Wu Zetian not to know who her son could rely on.

It was clear that the entire Wu Zhou Dynasty was using the Wu family, but in the end, she pulled the Wu family back from the gates of hell with one sentence.

After thinking it over, Li Shimin could only say that even though he was also on the throne, he still couldn't guess what this empress was thinking, especially a female emperor who was about to die.

Li Shimin was not too surprised by the revelation of Li Dan after the truth was revealed. After all, his feelings when he watched the Shenlong coup were the same as what the younger generation said. It seemed reasonable, but the details were all unconventional.

"This foreign proverb is interesting. It is written in parallel prose and reads with a sense of rhythm."

Du Ruhui read it twice with great interest.

Changsun Wuji had dealt with Hu merchants many times, and laughed when he heard it:

"What Keming sighed about is probably the work of the translator."

"Nowadays, there are proverbs among the people of Chang'an, and their meaning is the same."

Du Ruhui nodded and thought it was probably the case, and then asked: "Why?"

Changsun Wuji looked at the picture on the screen, the aging empress and the absent-minded emperor, and said faintly:

"Evil does not accumulate, it is not enough to destroy the body."

Even through the simple words of the younger generation, he could vaguely sense it.

Although the name of the Tang Dynasty was restored, the style of Zhenguan was difficult to restore, and the undercurrents in the court were even more intense.

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"First fight for the throne with your biological mother, then fight for the throne with your brothers and sisters."

At this point, Zhang Fei also vaguely figured out what the Liuwei Dihuang Pills, which were ridiculed by later generations, meant.

Although it is rare for both father and brother to be emperors, there are some, but it is probably the only one in history that the mother is also an emperor.

In addition, the descendants had previously stated that Princess Taiping died because of rebellion and seizing the throne, which means that only one or two of the people they are talking about at this time may survive in the end. Zhang Yide couldn't help but sigh:

"Hey, the Li Tang family is all together in the underworld."