Days are everlasting

In the 15th year of Kaiyuan, the emperor ordered the kings to take the posts of Jiedu envoys from various places, but did not let them take office. The ten kings are just the titles of the first few princes who moved in. They were so favored as Li Yuan, and they only asked to leave the palace after a half-year delay—even the crown prince did not live in the East Palace, but with his own princes Although the place where the prince lives is not called the king's house but another courtyard, everyone knows that it is the real place where the prince lives.

Since the crown prince grew up day by day, I don't know whether it's because the wind blows too much on Concubine Wu Hui's pillow or the emperor is afraid of him, and the holy favor is getting worse day by day.

Prince Li Hong was very wronged.

I think he can surpass his eldest brother and be established as the prince. His mother and concubine were also favored by the emperor for a while, and I naturally had a period of time when he was favored by the emperor. It is a pity that his mother and concubine were squeezed out by Concubine Wu Hui. Although he himself was crowned prince , but has been living in fear.

People who knew Li Hong's future certainly didn't like him. Although he tried very hard to keep his position as the crown prince, he couldn't stand someone who deliberately made trouble for him, and the emperor didn't like the crown prince even more.

If it is said that in the early years, there was still a tender relationship between the emperor and the prince, but now the emperor who tends to have fun and is more prepared for the next generation has not diminished but increased, and his attitude towards the prince is even worse.

The residence of the emperor before he ascended the throne was the so-called Qiandi other palace. The emperor used it as a foundation to build Xingqing Palace. He no longer took Daming Palace and Taiji Palace as the political center, but dealt with state affairs in Xingqing Palace.

Although it is normal for people to miss their former residences, the Tang Dynasty already had two palace cities, Daming Palace and Taiji Palace, and the emperor built Xingqing Palace with great fanfare. It is different to show your diligence and frugality to your ministers.

In the 14th year of Kaiyuan, Concubine Li Zhao, who was named one of the three concubines under the queen, passed away. Although her honor and favor were not as good as before, she was once the emperor's favorite concubine after all. He could provide some help to his son, but after his death, the prince's help in the harem was completely lost.

Compared with Prince Li Hong, as the eldest son of Concubine Wu Hui, Xia Wang Li Yuan can be said to be proud of his spring breeze, and his Aye has already booked his princess.

You know, the prince was only able to marry the princess in the 13th year of Kaiyuan, and Li Yuan is only 12 years old now, and there are still three years before Yuanfu, let alone marrying a concubine.

Starting to consider candidates for the princess for him so early, it can only be said that the emperor really loves his son.

Some of the princes of the Gaozu and Taizong dynasties married the daughters of the aristocratic families with a long history—for example, the later Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, his concubine, the Queen of the Yuan Dynasty, was born in Taiyuan, one of the five surnames and seven Wang. Wang——It’s different. As time goes on, the princes are more likely to marry their aunts and cousins. There are still princes who marry with the family of the family, but the number is very small. It depends on who they marry. Which one is expensive?

Li Yuan's concubine was chosen by Li Longji himself, and many noble daughters were drawn in it, including the five surnames of Cui Lu, Li Zheng, and Wei, Pei, Liu, and Xue, the four most prominent four in Guanzhong. gentry.

In the Guanzhong area, there are Guanlong military aristocrats like the Changsun family who started their careers by relying on military exploits, but there are also gentry families with a long history like the five surnames and Qiwang, but the family rank may be inferior or they are inferior in other aspects. The five surnames and seven watch these families compete in the ring. In addition to emphasizing their own sense of existence, the Li Tang royal family also supported several families within the Guanzhong area, among which the Wei, Pei, Liu, and Xue families were the most important.

The emperor of the old Li family originally pretended to be a branch of the Li family in Longxi, just like the Yang family emperor of the previous dynasty emphasized that he was from the Hongnong Yang family. In fact, those families were all clear in their hearts.

The Li family in Longxi did not recognize Li Tang's royal family's clinging status. Taizong Li Shimin once wanted to do it for his beloved son Li Chengqian - at that time, this poor baby was not a deposed prince, but a happy child with father's love, mother's love, and mother-in-law. Prince—hiring a noble girl from a noble family to be the princess, but she said coldly and noblely that she would not play with you.

Li Shimin: Oh, then I won't play with you guys either.

Since then, the Li Tang royal family has actually stood at the front line of attacking the gentry, but after all, the gentry has a lot of political resources, and after so many years, many people actually admire the demeanor of the gentry, so Li Shimin can only choose to unite the gentry. Part of the strategy of attacking a small number of people targeted the five surnames and seven families, and introduced a series of policies including prohibiting marriages between these families. Unfortunately, the more Li Tang officials suppressed, the more people's reputation and The more important the status.

Of course, Li Shimin's means at that time still played a big role. Didn't you see that the newly established prince Li Zhi, his first wife was born in the Wang family of Taiyuan?

However, the wrestling between the royal family and the gentry has not stopped. To this day, in the list of concubines that Li Longji proposed to Li Yuan, in addition to the heirs or granddaughters and great-granddaughters of some princesses and concubines from the previous dynasty, there are also many powerful people. With the existence of the gentry, Li Shimin and others will still face black faces.

The gentry are willing to marry their daughters to the royal family, so that the royal family's blood can be mixed with the gene of the gentry, but few gentry are willing to marry the princess.

Although there is a reason why most of Li Tang's princesses are tough, but the bottom line is that they don't want to see the royal family's hand reaching into their family.

Except for Emperor Ruizong Li Dan who was drawn to Li Yuan's side just after his funeral, the other emperors had stayed in the underworld and learned about the tragic future of the Li Tang Dynasty. Some things should happen in the future, and they too understand.

Among the emperors of the later generations of the Tang Dynasty, there was one whose temple name was Wenzong. When he was in power, he asked the prime minister Zheng Tan for marriage, hoping to marry Zheng Xiang's granddaughter to the crown prince as the crown prince. Logically speaking, this matter is It was a matter of honor and favor, but Zheng Xiang rejected the emperor with great personality, and instead married his granddaughter to a ninth-rank official of the Cui family who also came from the five surname Qiwang.

This incident aroused Emperor Wenzong's great emotion: My family has been the emperor for 200 years, so I can't take care of Cui and Luye?

When Emperor Wenzong was in power, Datang had already gone downhill for a long time, but he was still proud of his family's brilliance. Those noble families were not pleasing to the eye, and the former emperors floating beside Li Yuan, except Zhongzong Li Xianhe Except for Ruizong Li Dan who was a bit soft-tempered, the other four were not to be trifled with.

People who think that Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi is very soft, and only Wu Zetian and his husband have an impression of him, you can think about it, Li Zhi is the only one whose son took away his father's concubine and finally made her the queen, and although Li Zhi's image is portrayed very well, but the power of his uncle Changsun Wuji was killed by him personally supporting the Wu family, so he is definitely not a simple little white flower.

Surrounded by the four late emperors who were not to be trifled with and the two late emperors who were soft-tempered but also displeased with those pretentious high-ranking gentry, although Li Yuan was young, he still expressed his attitude Of course, the middle family background on that piece of paper is already a very high family background.

Li Yuan's future concubine was born in Jingzhao Webster, and belonged to one of the four famous families of Wei, Pei, Liu and Xue.

There is a slang in Beijing, which says "Weidu in the south of the city, go to Tianchiwu", which expresses the prosperity of Weidu's family.

The concubine Li Yuan chose was born in Jingzhao Wei's Yun Gongfang. She was the twelfth in the family and was called the Twelve Niang. She was closely related to Wei Anshi, the Duke of Xun who died in the second year of Kaiyuan, but it only depends on the current situation. In other words, the current situation of their lineage is obviously not very good, that is to say, the princess Li Yuan chose has a qualified background, but there is not much power to support him.

Li Yuan made this choice after careful consideration. The Guanzhong area, the Guanlong nobles and powerful families are definitely not weak. If he wants to show his favor to the family, he must choose a good direction. For the local snakes in the Guanzhong area, the answer is self-evident.

In the 18th year of Kaiyuan, Li Yuanyuan served.

For Li Yuan, Yuanfu is both important and unimportant. In fact, Li Longji is too strict with his heirs. Even though the princes are growing up slowly, they all show their talents in various aspects Li Longji still has no plans to let them enter the court to participate in politics. The area of ​​Shiwangzhai is not so much a living area for the princes, but a prison for them to imprison them.

It was this year that Xi, Khitan and others invaded the northeast border of the Tang Dynasty.

Because the loyal king Li Jun leads Shuofang Jiedushi, so in name, he needs to share the worries for the king.

But in these places where the Jiedu envoys are led by the kings, the Jiedu deputy envoys are the real people in power, and the kings just have nice names.

Therefore, no one was surprised when the Son of Heaven issued the decree of "taking Zhong Wang Jun as the Marshal of Hebei Province, Xin'an Wang Yi as the Deputy Marshal, Li Chaoyin, Jingzhao Yin, Pei Yixian and other eight generals to attack Khitan and other soldiers".

Although nominally the prince of Zhongwang Li Jun is leading the army, in fact, the real commander-in-chief is Li Yi, the king of Xin'an County, a famous general in the clan—this is the grandson of King Wu Li Ke. There is no longer a gap - King Zhong is just assigned to share the credit.

However, this default configuration was destroyed by a memorandum from Li Yuan, the king of Xia who will be taking Yuanfu.

Li Yuan secretly reported to the emperor and asked to go out with the army.

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