Recently, archaeologists excavated the Tang Dynasty Zhengpingfang site in Luoyang, Henan.
This site is roughly rectangular, 533.6 meters long from north to south and 464.6 meters wide from east to west. According to historical records, Zhengpingfang was one of the most important areas in Luoyang during the Tang Dynasty. The entire Zhengpingfang was divided into only three areas, namely Confucius Temple, Guozijian and Taiping Princess Mansion. And from the excavations of archaeologists, we have also confirmed these records.
However, in the excavation results of archaeologists, we found an interesting thing.
The entire Zhengpingfang is indeed divided into three parts, but the division is not evenly distributed. The Confucian Temple and Guozijian both occupy a part of the east. And the west half is completely owned by the princess mansion! According to archaeologists, the total area of this Princess Taiping Mansion is close to 135,000 square meters!
What is the concept of a 135,000 square meter mansion?
Take an example: now Beijing’s Prince Gong’s Mansion , that is, the house of the great corrupt official and Shen in the Qing Dynasty, the total existing area is 6.112 hectares , which is 61120 square meters. The famous Prince Gong's Mansion is less than half the size of this mansion. The Forbidden City in Beijing occupies a total area of 720,000 square meters. This mansion of the Princess Taiping is close to one-fifth the size of the Forbidden City!
The current average house price in Luoyang is about 10,500 yuan per square meter. In other words, if converted to today's market price, the land cost of Princess Taiping is at least 1.4 billion yuan. In the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang was the capital of the Tang Dynasty. So if you have to calculate strictly, the unit price of this luxury house is analogous to today's housing prices in Dongcheng District, Beijing. If so, this mansion is estimated to start at more than 15 billion yuan.
The most important thing is,According to historical records, this mansion in Luoyang is only one of the many mansions of Princess Taiping. Outside Luoyang, Princess Taiping had many other mansions, as well as more land and fiefs. If these fields are all added up, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to impact the position of the richest man.
How can a princess have such a terrifying wealth? Live in such a big mansion? More importantly, this mansion of Princess Taiping is still in the same area as the Imperial College and the Temple of Confucius. A princess's mansion can actually be equivalent to the area of the Confucius Temple and the Imperial College combined, which is a bit shocking.
However, if you are a friend of Tang Dynasty history, you will feel that this is a matter of course.
Because this Princess Taiping is too legendary. Her life spanned from the entire Li Zhi era to Li Longji era, decades of history of the Tang Dynasty. She used to be Wu Zetian 's favorite little daughter, and she also secretly launched a mutiny and elected her elder brother to the throne. It was even Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's greatest enemy, and even nearly abolished Tang Xuanzong.
If we carefully review the life of Princess Taiping, it is not difficult to find: With the legendary life of this princess, even if this mansion is several times larger, it was a matter of course at the time.
In 665 AD, Princess Taiping was born in Luoyang. The year Princess Taiping was born also happened to be an extremely important year in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
This year, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi felt that he had managed the country pretty well, so he went to Taishan Fengchan . Li Zhi thus became the fourth emperor of Taishan in history (the first three are Qin Shihuang , Han Wudi , Hanguangwudi ),Moreover, during the process of conferring Zen with him, Li Zhi also made a pioneering choice to let Empress Wu Zetian accompany him to confer Zen with him.
This ceremony of enshrining Zen not only marked the Tang Dynasty's gradual prosperity and the culmination of its territory, but also marked the beginning of Wu Zetian's full participation in government as a queen.
In such a special year, Princess Taiping was born.
This year, Li Zhi was 38 years old and Wu Zetian was 42 years old.
Before Princess Taiping was born, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian had conceived five children, four boys and one girl. Among them, the four boys survived smoothly, and in the following decades, these people will become the protagonists in the Tang Dynasty Game of Thrones. But the girl, the sister of Princess Taiping, died early.
At that time, Wu Zetian was in a critical period of Gongdou. After giving birth to this girl, it happened that Li Zhi's former queen Wang came to visit. After king queen left, the girl died somehow. Later generations speculated that it was possible that the queen killed the baby girl, or it was possible that Wu Zetian personally killed his own daughter in order to put the blame on the queen.
Anyway, this daughter died anyway.
So in this way, Princess Taiping became the only daughter of Wu Zetian. In addition, after that, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian no longer had any children, and Princess Taiping became their youngest child.
Because of these special reasons, Princess Taiping has been very much loved since the day she was born. But at the same time, it is precisely because she inherited the love of her parents that many of the grievances of her parents' generation have also been inherited to her. From the perspective of later historical development, these grievances have also become the root cause of the destruction of Princess Taiping's life.
Under the love of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping’s childhood can be said to be a carefree and extremely happy life. In terms of material life, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian are doing their best to satisfy their daughter.Even those sons are far less paid than Princess Taiping.
But at the same time, because of the grievances of the previous generation, from then on, many things that ordinary people can't understand began to happen one after another around Princess Taiping.
First of all, when Princess Taiping was five or six years old, once, Princess Taiping went to play at her grandma's house. During this period, Princess Taiping’s cousin took the opportunity to rape the close maid next to Princess Taiping, and even plot against Princess Taiping herself. However, because Wu Zetian was very comprehensive in protecting his daughter, he did not succeed in the end.
A dignified princess, she was almost tricked by her cousin, and she was still in her childhood. This matter is incomprehensible today. But in fact, behind this matter, there are actually many complicated reasons hidden. And to some extent, it is also a continuation of the grievances of the previous generation.
This cousin who wants to plot against Princess Taiping is named He Lan Minzhi, the son of Sister Wu Zetian's family. The grievances of the previous generation of the Wu family are more complicated. To put it simply, Wu Zetian was very unfortunate at a young age. Her father died when she was very young. After that, she was driven out of the house with her mother and sister and returned to Luoyang to live. After that, my sister married and gave birth to a man and a woman, and the man was Helan Minzhi. And Wu Zetian married into the palace, became a talented person of Li Shimin , and then began her struggle history.
After the era of Li Zhi, Wu Zetian was again adopted as a concubine by Li Zhi and became Li Zhi's favorite concubine. During the fierce battle in the palace, Wu Zetian allowed his sister to enter the palace as the only person who could speak. However, Wu Zetian's sister Wushun took the opportunity to hook up with Li Zhi. In order to fight for favor, he even took his daughter into the palace and served Li Zhi together.
Sister's betrayal is naturally unbearable for Wu Zetian. Later, Wu Zetian became a queen, and after he was in power, he began to clean up martial arts . The two older brothers who bullied her in the past were demoted to the frontier as officials by her, and finally died in the frontier. And her sister Wushun ,And the niece who entered the palace to fight for favor was also killed by Wu Zetian by various means.
After cleaning up many of the Wu family's peers, Wu Zetian kept his nephew, the son of the eldest sister Wushun, He Lan Minzhi. The reason why Wu Zetian left his nephew was because He Lan Minzhi was very talented and Wu Zetian wanted him to inherit the Wu family. But because of the various problems before, Helan Minzhi naturally could no longer follow Wu Zetian's will, but instead wanted to retaliate against Wu Zetian.
So later, He Lan Minzhi did two appalling things one after another, in order to take revenge on Wu Zetian. One of the incidents was that He Lan Minzhi raped Wu Zetian's unattended daughter-in-law, who was also the quasi-princely concubine of Prince Li Hong. Another thing is that Helan Minzhi wanted to plot against Wu Zetian's youngest daughter, Princess Taiping, but was finally stopped by Princess Taiping's personal maid, so that maid would be raped in the end.
After this incident, Wu Zetian suddenly became furious, and directly exiled He Lan Min from the frontiers, and on the way to exile, he strangled He Lan Min with a horse halter.
When this happened, Princess Taiping was only five or six years old, and she didn't even understand these things. And under the protection of Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping had no way of knowing the inside story. But this incident was only the beginning for Princess Taiping.
In the decades since, Princess Taiping's life has been plagued by grievances from the previous generation. Throughout his life, he could not escape from this vortex.
After the rape incident, Wu Zetian's protection of Princess Taiping became more stringent, so after that, Princess Taiping did not encounter similar incidents again. But a few years later, another thing happened, which changed the fate of Princess Taiping again and also changed the fate of the entire Tang Dynasty.
This year, the eldest brother of Princess Taiping, Wu Zetian's eldest son, the then prince Li Hong, died of illness.
Li Hong is the eldest son of Wu Zetian and Li Zhi. Later historians believe that if Li Hong can survive,Perhaps most things will not happen later. But unfortunately, Li Hong died, and died young. After Li Hong died, his second child Li Xian successfully took the position and became the new prince.
However, the situation of the second child, Li Xian, is a bit special.
According to wild history, Li Xian was not Wu Zetian's biological son, but Wu Zetian's sister Wu Shun, who had an affair with Li Zhi. Because it was an affair and a bad name, he could only adopt it to Wu Zetian. Of course, this matter has always been unofficial rumors, and the truth is probably only the person involved knows.
However, when Lee Hyun grew up, he unexpectedly learned about this matter and firmly believed that it was true. So later, for his own status, Li Xian began to fight for power with Wu Zetian, who was a queen. Sons and mothers are fighting for power. This kind of thing is rare in the entire Chinese history. But because of the complicated circumstances of the Tang Dynasty, this matter seemed natural at the time.
So, the Princess Taiping, who was in the years of cardamom, saw her second brother, vying for power with her mother. From then on, a seed of power was planted in the heart of the young Princess Taiping.
Of course, for Princess Taiping at this time, this matter did not affect her much, at most, the family atmosphere was not very good.
Two more years later, as Princess Taiping gradually came of age, Princess Taiping's marriage began to be gradually put on the agenda. When Princess Taiping had just grown up, Tubo sent someone to propose marriage, named her by name and proposed that she wanted to marry Princess Taiping. Out of caring for his daughter, Wu Zetian did not agree to this incident. Instead, he built a Taoist temple and let Princess Taiping become a monk, using this as an excuse to reject Tubo.
For this reason, Princess Taiping’s marriage was delayed for another two years, and she was forced to stay with Wu Zetian for two more years. In the past two years, the struggle between Wu Zetian and Prince Li Xian also reached the most intense moment. In 680 AD, Wu Zetian directly reported that Li Xian had rebelled. Later, the official in charge of the review,Indeed, hundreds of armors were found in the East Palace, which confirmed the evidence of Li Xian's rebellion. But later historians generally believe that this is Wu Zetian framed Li Xian.
Regardless of the truth, in short, in the past two years, Princess Taiping witnessed her mother and reported her brother's rebellion. Princess Taiping at this time is no longer a little girl who doesn't understand anything. The occurrence of these things made her deeply realize how cruel the royal power struggle is.
And these experiences later became the greatest misfortune in her life.
One year after the rebellion ended, in 681 AD, Princess Taiping was 16 years old. According to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, when a woman reaches the age of 16, she is already the age to marry, otherwise she will be laughed at. So in this year, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi personally called the shots and married Princess Taiping to his nephew Xue Shao.
Xue Shao's mother Chengyang Princess is the sister of Li Zhi's father and mother. In other words, Princess Taiping was married to her cousin. This matter is definitely not allowed today, and it is considered a marriage of close relatives. But in the Tang Dynasty, this matter was reasonable and legal.
After marrying Xue Shao, Princess Taiping spent the happiest period in her life. Leaving the palace and staying away from those power struggles, the most important thing is that Xue Shao and Princess Taiping have a good relationship, and the two are in agreement. So after the two got married, their lives were very happy.
But what nobody thought was that even though she was married, Princess Taiping still could not get rid of the grudges of the previous generation.
In fact, Li Zhi married Princess Taiping to his nephew because of his own political considerations. Because at that time Li Zhi's physical condition was already very poor. Since the second son Li Xian was abolished, the third son Li Xian was quickly established as the prince. But with the lessons learned from the previous second child, after the third child Li Xian became the prince, he did not dare to fight for power with his mother Wu Zetian, and could only be his honest prince.
In this way, Wu Zetian's full power in the DPRK became a foregone conclusion. The most important thing is that Wu Zetian’s body,Far better than Li Zhi. In the foreseeable future, Li Zhi will definitely die first, and then Wu Zetian will take power as the Queen Mother. Therefore, Li Zhi married his most beloved youngest daughter to his nephew, which did not mean to protect the Li family.
But Li Zhi would never have thought that his decision would become the source of many tragedies later on.
At the end of 683 AD, Li Zhi passed away. This year, Princess Taiping was only 19 years old. After Li Zhi passed away, as expected, Wu Zetian began to take full power. But what happened next surpassed everyone's expectations.
After the death of Li Zhi, the third son, Li Xian, as the crown prince, successfully ascended the throne. Li Xian After ascending to the throne, as the emperor, he naturally had to compete with his mother for power. However, just after Li Xian expressed this intention, Wu Zetian decisively launched a coup, abolished Li Xian, exiled Li Xian directly to Hubei, and then changed the fourth Li Dan to become his own puppet. Emperor.
When she was 20 years old, Princess Taiping witnessed her own mother. For the sake of power, she abolished her third elder brother and made her fourth emperor.
At the same time, as Wu Zetian began to take power, Wu Zetian's desire for power began to expand, and finally had the idea of seizing the throne. After that, Wu Zetian began to ingest power frantically, and began to clean up the Li family clan.
As a result, Princess Taiping also began to be affected.
Four years later, in 688 AD, because Wu Zetian had fully controlled the supreme power, the remaining Li family princes began to plan to rebel, but in the end they failed. During this period, the eldest brother of Princess Taiping's husband was also involved in this storm. Finally, Wu Zetian ordered that Princess Taiping’s husband Xue Shao be blamed for one hundred, and then starved to death in prison.
When this incident happened, Princess Taiping had just given birth, and she was also the only son of Xue Shao. It hadn't passed a hundred days. This incident completely changed Princess Taiping.The intrigue that has been experienced since childhood, coupled with the Xue Shao incident, has completely blackened Princess Taiping.
Since then, Princess Taiping began to become like Wu Zetian, desperate for power.
After the Xue Shao incident, in order to make up for his daughter, Wu Zetian deliberately broke the convention and increased the number of households of Princess Taiping to 1,200 households. What is the concept of one thousand and two hundred households? For example, after the Xuanwumen Incident ended, Li Shimin made the hero. , Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, who planned the Xuanwumen Incident, as well as Li Shimin’s closest supporter, Changsun Wuji, plus who saved Li Shimin’s life, Yuchigong, were four of them. First class reward. But they only got 1,300 households.
Princess Taiping has been sealed to one thousand two hundred households at this time.
However, no amount of rewards can make up for the trauma of Princess Taiping. Since then, Princess Taiping has been completely blackened, from an innocent girl to a devil who is crazily thirsting for power.
This year, Princess Taiping is 24 years old.
After Xue Shao was killed, Wu Zetian planned to find a husband and wife for Princess Taiping. Of course, when Wu Zetian chose a son-in-law, he must have his own political considerations. So in the end, Wu Zetian picked his cousin Wu Youcum. Because among the younger generation of the martial arts family, Wu Youji is considered to be a relatively outstanding one. At that time, Wu Zetian also wanted Wu Youji to inherit the martial arts family.
However, Wu Youji was already married at the time, and it is logically impossible for this marriage to succeed. But this matter is really nothing in Wu Zetian's eyes. After that, Wu Zetian directly made an order to kill Wu Youji's wife, and then ordered Princess Taiping to marry Wu Youji.
said that the twisted melon is not sweet,With this method of forcibly binding two people together, it is naturally impossible for them to have any happiness in their married life.
In addition, two months after the wedding of Princess Taiping, Wu Zetian finally tore off all the masks and directly grabbed the throne of the fourth oldest Li Dan, and became a queen by herself.
26-year-old Princess Taiping married someone she didn't love, and witnessed her own mother and robbed her fourth brother of the throne.
After entering the era of Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping became more and more favored. Because of the previous events, among all Wu Zetian's children, only Princess Taiping remained with the empress. Of the four sons, two died, one was exiled in Hubei and the other was under house arrest in the palace. Only Princess Taiping can accompany Wu Zetian normally as a daughter at this time. Therefore, after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, he loved Princess Taiping more and more, and tried his best to satisfy her daughter's material needs.
But at the same time, Wu Zetian was also guarding Princess Taiping.
As a mother, Wu Zetian can naturally detect those changes in Princess Taiping. Wu Zetian knew very well that his daughter was actually the same person as himself, who was very hungry for power. Therefore, throughout the Wu Zetian era, Wu Zetian would often ask Princess Taiping about government affairs, but it was strictly forbidden to spread the matter, and Princess Taiping formed a party in the court, not to mention Princess Taiping has any real power.
Faced with Wu Zetian's defense, Princess Taiping is also very careful, knowing her mother's wishes. Therefore, during the entire Wu Zetian era, Princess Taiping carefully intervened in the court and made courtiers secretly. On the other hand, in order to reassure Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping also began to build mansions and decorate the mansions, using her material desires as a disguise, so that her mother was sufficiently assured of herself.
The mansion that we discovered in Luoyang today was gradually built under these circumstances.
It is precisely because Princess Taiping tried to conceal her desire for power, Wu Zetian tried to make up for the debt to her daughter.After more than ten years of construction, the princess mansion has naturally become the foremost behemoth in Luoyang City.
Throughout the era of Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping has not done much because of Wu Zetian's suppression, and has always been in a hidden stage. In the past ten years, Princess Taiping had not done much politically, but she gradually made friends with more officials and laid the groundwork for many things in the future.
In addition, in the past ten years, because of all the previous misfortunes, Princess Taiping has also become more and more indulgent in her private life and began to raise male pets. What is even more exaggerated is that in order to please her mother, Princess Taiping also introduced Wu Zetian to the male favorites. This is the famous Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers in the Wu Zetian era.
As Wu Zetian ascended the throne for a long time, Wu Zetian gradually got older. In the last few years of Wu Zetian's life, Wu Zetian became more and more in favor of the Zhang family brothers, and even let the Zhang family brothers begin to control the court. In this way, Princess Taiping and the Zhang family brothers gradually became opposites.
In 705 AD, Wu Zetian's health was getting worse and worse, and he had to stay in Yingxian Palace to recuperate. After that, the Zhang family brothers used Wu Zetian to recuperate and prohibited courtiers from participating in the affairs of the court and completely controlled the power. At the same time, a group of ministers headed by the prime minister Zhang Cambodiazhi began a secret connection, preparing to plot a reactionary coup, get rid of the two brothers, and force Wu Zetian to abdicate and return the government to Li Xian.
After learning of this, Princess Taiping, who had been hiding for many years, finally showed her fangs for the first time.
In 705 AD, on the 22nd of the first lunar month, a group of ministers headed by Prime Minister Zhang Kamzhi suddenly led troops into the palace and killed the Zhang brothers. Later history called the dragon coup . In this coup, Princess Taiping also did her best to mobilize all her contacts, and made a huge contribution to the courtiers in slaying the Zhang brothers.
In addition,In the Shenlong coup, Princess Taiping also played a vital role.
This role is to persuade Wu Zetian to return to politics.
According to historical records, after the Shenlong coup, the ministers controlled the entire palace. Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi and others entered the palace, met with Wu Zetian, and made a request for Wu Zetian to return to power. But after that, Wu Zetian's attitude was uncertain, and he simply refused to make a conclusion.
There is no doubt that if Wu Zetian does not personally promise to return to power at this time, even if the coup is successful, there will definitely be wars in the later Tang Dynasty, and even a complete division.
At this critical time, Princess Taiping appeared.
After that, the ministers temporarily withdrew, and Princess Taiping persuaded Wu Zetian. According to historical records, Princess Taiping and Wu Zetian had a secret conversation for an hour. No one knows what exactly the mother and daughter were talking about at that time. We only know that after Princess Taiping came out, Wu Zetian agreed to return to politics.
alone is the contribution of this persuasion, it is already extremely huge.
If it wasn't Princess Taiping, it is still unknown whether Wu Zetian would let go of the cause and return to the Li family in this way.
After the Shenlong coup, Wu Zetian officially abdicated, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian ascended the throne for the second time. After Lee Hsien ascended the throne, Princess Taiping was directly named Princess Taiping of Zhenguo because of the coup d'etat, and the emperor was directly named to five thousand households!
It was from this time that Princess Taiping began to gradually move from behind the scenes to the front, began to formally intervene in the Tang Dynasty, and gradually became the most powerful woman in this country.
This year, Princess Taiping is 41 years old. At the end of the same year, Wu Zetian died.
After the beginning of the Li Xian era, Princess Taiping has completely walked to the front of the stage, began to formally intervene in the affairs of the government, and befriended courtiers in an open manner. But soon, Princess Taiping discovered that a new enemy began to appear.
This enemy is Li Xian's Queen Webster.
about Webster’s story,The same is a long story. To put it simply, because of the complicated experience of the previous decades, the Queen Wei also had a strong desire for power after experiencing hardships, and even wanted to become the second Wu Zetian and become a female emperor again. .
When two strong women appear in the same era at the same time and have a desire for the highest power at the same time, this era is really exciting.
After that, Queen Wei first used her force, first uniting the remaining forces of the martial arts to clean up several heroes of the Shenlong coup. Under Wei's operation, the several major heroes of the Shenlong coup, without exception, all died tragically in the end. After that, Queen Wei made a private effort to encourage the prince to initiate a coup. In the end, the prince launched his army in the name of slaying Wei Clerk. He first killed and Wu Sansi , but after he led his troops into the palace, he found that Wei Clerk had already prepared, and in the end he could only be defeated and killed.
This coup was called Jinglong coup in later history.
After this series of operations, Webster has the power to dominate. In the entire court, the only one who could contend with Queen Wei was Princess Taiping and Li Dan, who was also the emperor before. After the Jinglong coup, Queen Wei commanded his men to implicate the previous prince’s treason case to Princess Taiping and Li Dan and drag them into the water. However, Li Xian still had brotherhood and did not follow Wei's suggestions. Princess Taiping escaped a catastrophe, but after that, the contradiction between the two sides was completely intensified.
In 710 AD, Wei Wei, who had already obtained an absolute advantage in the court, finally did not want to wait any longer. In June of this year, Empress Wei poisoned Li Xian to death, and then made Li Xian's youngest son Li Chongmao as the emperor, and he was in charge of power alone as the empress dowager.
At this time, everyone can tell that as long as Wei Wei continues to grow and become the second Wu Zetian, it is only a matter of time. As a political enemy Princess Taiping, once Wei Wei fully grasps power, she can only die.
So,At this time, Princess Taiping finally decided to issue a fatal blow.
In 710 AD, on July 21st, Princess Taiping joined her nephew, Li Dan’s third son, Li Longji, to stage a coup again and imprisoned and killed Webster. After that, Princess Taiping and Li Longji abolished Li Chongmao and at the same time supported Li Dan as emperor. This coup d'etat is called the Tang Long coup in later history.
After Tang Long's coup, as the Webster Group was cleared, Princess Taiping's power finally reached its peak. After Li Dan was reset, Princess Taiping's title was increased again, reaching the level of ten thousand households directly! In ancient times, no matter it was in any dynasty, Wanhu Fengyi had very far-reaching significance. Back then, during the Han Dynasty, Weiqing and Huo Qubing made such great contributions, and in the end it was Wan Huhou. In any era, the enclave of thousands of households means the apex of power. One step further, you can only usurp directly.
In addition to fencing the town, after the Tang Long coup, Princess Taiping also began to madly intervene in the court. Although in the previous coup, Princess Taiping and Li Longji jointly carried out. But Li Longji is young after all, and has fewer party members in North Korea. Even if you want to install it, no one can use it. Therefore, in the few years after the Tang Long coup ended, Princess Taiping's power began to grow stronger and stronger, and gradually reached an unimaginable point.
Princess Taiping at her peak was already a standing emperor in the court. Half of the hundreds of civil and military officials in the court were elected by Princess Taiping. Of the seven prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty, five of them came from Princess Taiping.
With the gradual expansion of power, Princess Taiping is no longer satisfied.
Become the most powerful princess in history? She has already done this. What about afterwards? The only goal is to become the emperor.
Because she wanted to continue to expand her power, since then, Princess Taiping began to gradually oppose Li Longji. Although a few years ago, the two aunts and nephews joined forces to stage a coup. But now, the two sides have become political enemies. Only to defeat Li Longji,Only Princess Taiping can be in full power, completely master all power, and become the next queen!
Faced with the attack of his aunt Princess Taiping, Li Longji was naturally unwilling to fail. Thus, a battle between the two aunts and nephews began. In the following years, Princess Taiping has been seeking to abolish Li Longji and let Li Dan be replaced by a cowardly prince to meet her expectations. As the emperor, Li Dan is naturally not stupid, knowing the thoughts of Princess Taiping. But Li Dan has always hoped that he can maintain a balance between the two sides and avoid bloodshed between the two aunts and nephews.
However, a few years later, as the struggle between the two sides became more intense, Li Dan knew that he could no longer maintain this balance.
At this moment, Li Dan came up with a new method, which is to directly give Li Longji the position of Zen and let Li Longji be the emperor first. In Li Dan's view, as long as Li Longji became the emperor, Princess Taiping might be able to give up her ideas. All problems will go away.
In 712 AD, Li Dan officially retreated to the throne in August and gave up the throne to Li Longji. However, Li Dan did not expect that his concession, instead of solving the problem, completely intensified the contradiction.
For Princess Taiping, once Li Longji has been on the throne for a long time, she has no chance at all. Therefore, if you want to realize your expectations, you can only launch a coup immediately. For Li Longji, the existence of Princess Taiping has seriously threatened his status. Since he is now the emperor, he must first act first.
In July 713 AD, when Princess Taiping's coup plan was ready to reach the final stage, Li Longji suddenly took the lead and launched the coup first, killing the gang of Princess Taiping. After the coup, Princess Taiping decisively fled to the Buddhist temple where Li Dan was retreating, hoping that Li Dan could protect herself. However, after that, even if Li Dan interceded as the emperor, Li Longji still refused to agree.
Finally, Li Longji ordered that Princess Taiping died at home.
In this way, the most powerful princess of the Tang Dynasty was in the home of Changan ,Ended his life, at the age of 49.
After the death of Princess Taiping, Li Longji checked her family property and found that the princess mansion was piled up like a mountain. All kinds of treasures can be compared with the royal treasury, or even worse. As for Princess Taiping's mansion in Luoyang, it can only be regarded as one of her many mansions. Compared with all the property of Princess Taiping, it can only be regarded as a very small part.
Looking back on the life of Princess Taiping, it is not difficult to find: The life of Princess Taiping was actually destroyed by power. If she were not born in the royal family, Princess Taiping might not have had those encounters at all. My husband will not be beaten to death by my own mother. Such a Princess Taiping may be happier.
The mansion in Luoyang City, although its scale is magnificent, the mansion itself can only represent a sad past . The so-called luxury houses, the so-called power, are actually nothing. If Princess Taiping could choose herself, she would probably choose that she had never been born in the royal family, had no power and status, but had a husband who loved her deeply and a happy family.
So, what is the meaning of the so-called mansion? No matter how big the house is, it is just a place to live. Thousands of years later, it is destined to only become a site for archaeological excavations by later generations. In contrast, a close lover, a warm family, a loving parents... these are far more valuable than the so-called luxury houses.
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