Chapter 450 Xuanzong Youth Limited Edition

Lu Su's comment of "kind father and filial son" made everyone in the hall laugh.

Zhang Fei pinched his collar subconsciously, thinking that although Li Shimin was the emperor, his hobby was still a little too strange.

But he was not idle at all:

"When the emperor of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he had to report to his ancestors in the ancestral temple, meet with the ministers in the palace, and announce it to the world."

"It was simple for the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to ascend the throne. He just needed to fight at Xuanwu Gate."

After commenting seriously, Zhang Fei nodded and said:

"I like it very much."

Kong Ming slightly side-eyed and sighed in his heart. No wonder the vassal states in the later Tang Dynasty were in trouble.

Li Longji raised the sword twice at Xuanwu Gate, once to kill Empress Wei and her daughter, and second to suppress Princess Taiping's fight for the imperial power.

It seems that Li Longji is very skilled and tenacious, but a warrior like Yide can see it clearly from his intuition:

Whoever gets the imperial guards will be the emperor.

So what if you can place prime ministers at will? All will be destroyed in one blow.

The reason why the Song Dynasty continued the Han and Tang dynasties was probably because they saw the chaos of the Tang vassal states, so they overcorrected and caused the civil and military to be alienated and cause hidden disasters.

However, these are just guesses. Seeing Yide sighing there, Kong Ming joked:

"If according to the later sayings of 'time travel', Yide traveled through time and became a descendant of the Li family, maybe he could really compete for supremacy at Xuanwu Gate."

Everyone imagined an eight-foot-tall man leaping on his horse at Xuanwu Gate and shouting, I am Li Yide of Longxi, who dares to fight? !

Well, the picture is too beautiful.

Zhang Fei really thought about it seriously:

"If Li Shimin is allowed to be the eldest brother's son, I can be the emperor's grandson."

"But I can't do anything to force my father, and I won't cry while sucking milk. No, no, I can't do it."

"I still want to be the vanguard of my brother's tent to fight the bandits, and I can drink with my second brother in my spare time. This is called freedom and happiness."

Seeing Zhang Fei's serious face with undisguised disgust, everyone laughed at once.

[The Xiantian coup ended with Li Longji's victory, and Xuanzong's power as an emperor was complete.

It was also at this point that, with the death of Princess Taiping, the shadow left by the female emperor Wu Zetian could be completely eliminated.

When Princess Taiping was young, she dressed as a man to please Li Zhi. She was allowed by Emperor Gaozong to choose her own son-in-law, and finally married Xue Shao, which was considered a happy marriage.

We have said before that Princess Taiping was very obedient at this time, and she was devoted to her husband and children, but she could not stand her mother Wu Zetian.

The dissatisfaction with the Xue family mentioned above, and the nitpicking and belittling of the family background of the two wives of Xue 𫖮, the eldest son of the Xue family, was just one of them.

Do you remember Xue Huaiyi who set fire to the Mingtang in anger after falling out of favor?

In fact, Xue Huaiyi's real name was Feng Xiaobao. After Li Zhi's death, he became Wu Zetian's first male favorite by chance and was favored by Ah Wu.

Feng Xiaobao's family background was humble. In order to elevate the status of his lover, Ah Wu played a trick. Through the relationship of his daughter Princess Taiping, he directly changed Feng Xiaobao's surname to Xue, and joined the family with Princess Taiping's husband Xue Shaotong, and ordered Xue Shao and Princess Taiping to call Feng Xiaobao uncle.

Thus, the peddler Feng Xiaobao transformed into Xue Huaiyi, whose name was written in the Xue family tree.

This was nothing short of a great shame and humiliation for Xue Yu, the eldest son of the Xue family and the son of a Tang princess.

Therefore, it was not surprising that Xue Yu joined Li Zhen and Li Chong's "rebellion" with an unusually determined attitude.

Xue Shao was executed by Wu Zetian out of "good intentions" so that it would be convenient for her daughter to remarry the Wu family, which she supported, to maintain her wealth and glory.

It was also after this time when her mother used power to play with her that Princess Taiping's life had a great turn.

Not only did she learn from her mother to raise a concubine privately, she even picked out the most beautiful one among them and presented it to her mother.

She was no longer ignorant of worldly affairs, but took the initiative to participate in Wu Zetian's court decision-making and was fully trained.

In 705, the Shenlong coup ended the Wu Zhou regime, and Luoyang was downgraded from the capital to the secondary capital, and the court center was moved back to Chang'an.

When leaving Luoyang, the winner of the coup, Princess Taiping, did not have much nostalgia. She just ordered the tomb of her ex-husband Xue Shao to be moved to Chang'an. At this time, Xue Shao had been dead for more than 16 years.

Princess Taiping followed Wu Zetian's old path and gradually gathered power until she ran into Li Longji, who was more sophisticated, and ended up with her family broken up.

Some people think that Princess Taiping's final failure was still trapped by the inherent shortcomings of female rulers, but in fact, looking at her sudden change in life, it was more like a tragedy that was sacrificed to power by her mother Wu Zetian herself.

Princess Taiping's failure was Li Longji's best achievement. In order to show his ambition, he changed the "Xiantian" era name to "Kaiyuan" after the coup.

And Xuanzong also did what he said, selecting talents, developing production, restricting Buddhism, trying to recruit soldiers, revitalizing the imperial examination, promoting civil governance, setting up the Juxian Garden, and restoring the territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

In the 28th year of Kaiyuan, the Tang Dynasty worked hard to govern the country, and with the help of Emperor Xuanzong, it created the second unprecedented prosperous era after the reign of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing.

Wang Wei witnessed the spectacular court meeting of the Kaiyuan heyday with his own eyes, and wrote:

The nine-day gates of the palace were opened, and people from all over the world bowed to the emperor.

When Du Fu was displaced later, he thought of the prosperity of Kaiyuan in his dreams, and he also recalled it after waking up:

I remember the heyday of Kaiyuan, even small towns still had tens of thousands of households. The rice was fat and the corn was white, and the public and private granaries were full.

How many prosperous eras were there in ancient China in the true sense?

This is still a controversial topic in today's history circles. The second, third, and even the five prosperous ages all have their own opinions. As for the ten prosperous ages that caused a lot of trouble, just look at it and laugh, I can only say that it was prosperous.

Regardless of the standard, Kaiyuan is known as the prosperous age. From this perspective, although Li Longji has the blessing of being at the forefront, his ability is definitely among the top in history, and it is difficult to criticize.

Of course, the above praise is limited to the Xuanzong Youth Limited Edition.

In addition, Zhang Yizhi's brother, who was killed immediately during the Shenlong Coup, was reinstated by Xuanzong during the Tianbao period.

You have to ask why...because Zhang Yizhi has a good nephew named Yang Guozhong. 】

Power, tragedy.

Two simple words struck Li Shimin's heart, leaving him silent.

The Xuanwu Sect was ridiculed several times by later generations. In the final analysis, it was because of the word power, which he had long been indifferent to.

After all, as later generations lamented, he had an equal world, so why couldn't he dominate the world? And even if he stood ready to be killed, could others create the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty?

What made him silent was Wu Zetian's attitude towards his own daughter, which reminded him of his past teachings to Li Chengqian.

To be fair, from Wu Zetian's perspective, all her actions toward Princess Taiping were out of love.

From another perspective, suppressing the Xue family may not be to enhance the daughter's right to speak in the Xue family. Later, before Wu Zhou usurped the Tang Dynasty, he asked his daughter to marry Wu instead of Xue. The profit and loss considered were also very clear.

But what if we look at it from the perspective of Princess Taiping? It is true that she was ravaged by her mother's power time and time again. A good wife lost her husband, and her infant son lost his father. This is also true.

So in the end, this once well-behaved daughter forced the birth mother into the palace as Princess Li Tang...

Thinking about Li Chengqian's later crazy actions and even his final rebellion, Li Shimin was a little stunned for a while.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty fell silent, while his ministers began to chirp and sigh with emotion.

"This Kaiyuan period was not only a prosperous time for the people, but also a prosperous time for poetic talents."

Wei Zheng shook his beard and smiled from the bottom of his heart for the first time since entering the Manna Hall today.

After all, for Wei Zheng, who adheres to the Confucian theory of kingship, such an atmosphere of all nations worshiping his country can be described as an ideal prosperous age.

Even if he could only see half a claw from the light curtain and the poem, it was enough to make him excited.

Du Ruhui smacked his lips in a very graceless manner:

"Tsk, a small town can hide thousands of families, and the rice is dripping with fat and the corn is white. If the world is like this, then what can't be done?"

Fang Xuanling snickered and understood.

Last year, Li Jing was awarded the title of Minister of the Ministry of War for capturing Jie Li. The original Minister of the Ministry of War, Du Ruhui, was transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and inspected the school's subordinates.

As the saying goes, you don't know how valuable firewood and rice are when you are not a family member. After taking charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Du Ruhui became even busier. He supervised the taxation of farmers and urged the transfer of grain and grass for the army. He often lamented to him that no matter how much grain and grass he had, it was not enough for the military.

Now looking at the Kaiyuan grain storage, I am extremely envious.

However, seeing his old friend lose his grace, Fang Xuanling comforted him:

"Last year, the Yizhou Navy was ordered by His Majesty to send envoys to Jiaozhou to collect rice from Champaign."

"It's hard to see white corn, but the rice is dripping with fat. We can look forward to it."

Although the attack on Yizhou by this newly established naval division was not very smooth, there should be no difficulty in getting to Jiaozhou. After all, they just need a rice seed.

Du Ruhui felt a little yearning after hearing this.

Seeing how much later generations admired the ocean, Du Ruhui also felt a little yearned for it. He wondered when he would be able to board a ship, cut through the wind and waves, and patrol the waters of the Tang Dynasty?