Chapter 58 Chapter 58: The Legendary Life of Li Yu, the Amorous Son of Heaven

"Beating the Golden Branch" is a festive play well known to women and children, suitable for all ages. It is often staged during festivals, weddings and birthdays, and many operas have this repertoire, such as Jin Opera, Pingju Opera, Henan Opera, Lv Opera, Yue Opera, Hebei Opera, etc. Clapper... "Hitting the Golden Branch" tells such a story: the Tang king married his daughter, Princess Shengping, to Guo Ai, the third son of Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, as his wife in recognition of the Guo family's outstanding contributions.It was Fenyang King's sixtieth birthday, and his sons and sons-in-law went to pay homage to him one after another, but Princess Shengping didn't go, which aroused public discussion. Guo Nuan went back to the palace angrily, and beat the princess.The princess cried to her father, queen mother, and insisted that the king of Tang should punish Guo Yan.Guo Ziyi tied his son to the palace to plead guilty. Under the persuasion of the mother of the country who understands justice, the king of Tang not only did not condemn Guo Ai, the son-in-law, but rewarded him greatly.The mother of the country then persuaded the son-in-law to blame the daughter, and the young couple eliminated the previous gap and reconciled as before.

While enjoying the play, we can't help but ask, which emperor is the Tang king in the play? When it comes to Tang Wang, we will think of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, the most familiar generation, and take it for granted that the yellow robe and jade belt, long beard, magnanimous, amiable and amiable Tang Wang in "Da Jin Zhi" is him, then Is it right?the answer is negative.This Tang king is actually Tang Dynasty Zong Li Yu, that is, the amorous young king Li Yu in the once popular "Legend of Pearls". Tang Daizong Li Yu is the grandson of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji (Tang Xuanzong is the great-grandson of Tang Taizong), the eighth emperor of the Tang Dynasty (except Wu Zetian), and also the first emperor after the "Anshi Rebellion".Was he as passionate as in the TV series when he was young?After becoming the emperor, is he as broad-minded as in the play?What kind of person is he?Is he a good emperor?We might as well take these questions into account to have a look at the legendary life of Tang Dynasty Zong Li Yu.

Mu Xiu Yu Lin On December 23rd in the 14th year of Kaiyuan (726), Tang Emperor Li Yu was born in the other hall of Shangyang Palace in Luoyang, the eastern capital. At that time, Tang Minghuang was taking a hot spring bath in Ruzhou.The forty-two-year-old Emperor of the Tang Dynasty returned to the Eastern Capital Palace immediately after hearing that he had a grandson, and visited him in person on the third day after his grandson was born. Emperor Ming saw that his eldest grandson was lively and lovely, and he went to visit him almost every day. Once, Tang Xuanzong blurted out when he was overjoyed: "This son is more blessed than his father."After Daizong was born, he was named Chu, which means goodness and kindness.At the age of fifteen, Li Heng was favored by his father Emperor Xuanzong because he was the first to have a son among his brothers and contemporaries, and he changed the situation that he was often treated coldly in the past.

Li Chu's teenage years coincided with the prosperity of the Great Tang Kaiyuan, enjoying the incomparably affluent life of aristocratic children, and receiving systematic cultural and knowledge education.He is young and eager to learn, especially "Ritual" and "Yi", benevolent, filial, gentle and courteous, and must be polite in his actions. He was deeply loved by his grandfather Tang Xuanzong and was made the emperor's grandson.Li Heng was valued by his father as his son, and was highly valued by Xuanzong. In the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan, he was registered as the prince after the prince Li Ying was killed.

On August 21st in the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan (740), Li Chu was fifteen years old and was named the king of Guangping. He began to enter his youth. At this time, the Tang Empire was undergoing a huge historical change. Inside the society, the old system was destroyed, such as the land equalization system.The government military system collapsed; the social crisis deepened day by day, and new things were still in the process of being vaguely conceived.When Xuanzong opened Yuan and Tianbao, Li Linfu was in chaos for 19 years, followed by Yang Guozhong's dictatorship. Both of them focused on shaking the crown prince. Although Li Chu's biological father, Li Heng, was the crown prince, there were many dangers around him.As Li Chu gradually matured, he heard and witnessed the intrigues of the upper echelons of the court and the bloody storms on the political stage, and he knew that the status of the eldest son of the prince and the grandson of the emperor was enviable. Whether he is favored by his grandfather or treated coldly.Li Chu obtained the sympathy and protection of loyal ministers and good generals from his father's "benevolence, filial piety and tranquility".Earn the trust of your grandfather.He learned from the experience of consolidating the status of the crown prince. He can contemplate when things happen, he is broad and deep, broad and decisive, and his joy and fear are not visible. Therefore, he is loved by his grandfather Tang Xuanzong.

The incomparable love between Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yu (now called Li Chu) and Shen Zhenzhu began at this time.Shen Zhenzhu is a native of Wuxing, Zhejiang (now Deqing, Zhejiang). She was born in a family. In the last years of Emperor Xuanzong's Kaiyuan period, she was selected into the East Palace (historically, the East Palace was the Taiwo Palace, which had nothing to do with the empress) as a court lady.The crown prince Li Heng bestowed the Shen family on Li Chu, the king of Guangping.Shen's beauty is like a flower, and she is virtuous and pure, so she is deeply loved. In the first year of Tianbao (742), she gave birth to her eldest son Li Shi.

Resigned in danger In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), Anlu Mountain, favored by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, rebelled against Tang Dynasty, and the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out.In the second year, the Anlushan rebels invaded Chang'an. Xuanzong fled with Yang Guifei and the princes and grandsons in a hurry. Li Heng, Li Chu, and Li Shi were naturally among them. A large group of relatives of the emperor were left behind before they could escape, and they were captured by the rebels, who plundered from Chang'an, the western capital, to Luoyang, the eastern capital, among them was the Shen family.

Later, Tang Xuanzong took refuge in Sichuan, and Li Chu followed his father, Crown Prince Li Heng, to Lingwu (now Lingwu City, Ningxia).Li Heng proclaimed himself emperor in Lingwu (historically known as Tang Suzong), changed his reign title to Zhide, and named Li Chu the Grand Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses.In the second year of Zhide (757), Li Chu and Guo Ziyi led the Tang army to conquer Chang'an and Luoyang successively with the help of Huihe.Soon, Suzong returned to Chang'an, and Li Chu was granted the title of king of Chu, and later he was crowned king of Cheng. In the first year of Qianyuan (758), he was established as the prince and changed his name to Li Yu.In April of the first year of Baoying (762), Suzong was critically ill. Empress Zhang wanted to make the king of Yue emperor.Li Fuguo then supported Li Yu to ascend the throne and changed Yuan Baoying.

In the second year of Zhide (757), when Li Chu regained Luoyang, the eastern capital, he found the Shen family who had been imprisoned for more than a year in the Yeting Palace.The husband and wife have mixed feelings of sorrow and joy.However, due to the tense war at that time, Li Chu, who was in a hurry, did not have time to send his wife back to Chang'an, so he went on the Northern Expedition again.Soon, Shi Siming committed Luoyang again.When Tang Jun defeated Shi Siming's son Shi Chaoyi again and regained Luoyang, Shen Zhenzhu had disappeared.Daizong was in great distress, and sent a large number of people to search, but there was no news. This time, the separation really became "ten years of life and death".

In the first month of the second year of Baoying (763), Shi Chaoyi hanged himself and died, and the "Anshi Rebellion" ended. Comeback After Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, the great eunuchs Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen, who supported meritorious service, became more domineering and posed a threat to Daizong's rule. .Daizong took advantage of the conflict between Li Cheng and Li Fuguo to get rid of Li Fuguo, and then deposed Cheng Yuanzhen and another authoritarian eunuch Yu Chaoen, stabilizing the situation of the central government. After the "Anshi Rebellion" ended, the Emperor Tang Dynasty felt that he had achieved great success. He naively thought that the world would be peaceful and the country would be safe and peaceful. In that year, the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Guangde, the world was amnesty, and the relatives of Anshi's old tribe would not be held accountable. In this way, An Shijiu will be transformed into the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty, which will cause hidden dangers for the future separatism of the feudal towns.

The increasingly powerful Tubo took advantage of the fire to loot, and took advantage of the "Anshi Rebellion" to occupy Hexi and Longyou (now Gansu and Qinghai) and invade Guanzhong.In the winter of the first year of Guangde (763), Tubo captured (now Zhouzhi, Shaanxi), Daizong left for Shanzhou (now west of Sanmenxia, ​​Henan), and Tubo entered Chang'an.At this time, Guo Ziyi was stationed in Xianyang (now northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi) in the name of Deputy Marshal of Guanzhong Bingma, with only a few hundred soldiers under his command.Guo knew that Chang'an had fallen, so he went to Shangzhou (now Shang County, Shaanxi) to recruit stragglers, and sent generals to advance to Chang'an, forcing Tubo to withdraw.The Tang army regained Chang'an, and Daizong returned to the capital. Afterwards, the general Pugu Huai'en rebelled, and year after year he led troops from Huihe, Tubo, Dangxiang and other tribes to threaten Guanzhong, and the capital repeatedly imposed martial law.Daizong once wanted to conquer in person, and Lai Guoziyi said to make peace with Huihe, forcing Tubo to retreat. During Tang Dynasty's reign, Emperor Daizong successively appointed Fifth Qi, Liu Yan and others to rectify finances, reform water transportation, and increase salt profits, which prepared the conditions for the tax system reform during Tang Dezong's reign. In May of the fourteenth year of Dali (779), Emperor Zong of the Tang Dynasty collapsed in the inner hall of Zichen in Chang'an Palace.He is fifty-four years old and has been on the throne for seventeen years.In October of that year, he was buried in Yuanling Mausoleum in Fuping County, Jingzhao.During Tang Dynasty's reign, there were three reign titles: one was Guangde, the other was Yongtai, and the third was Dali. In his life, Emperor Daizong not only competed for victory in the political arena, suppressed rebellion in the turmoil, made great achievements in fighting the battlefield, eliminated eunuchs who were domineering, cut off powerful officials who were domineering in the government, consolidated the throne, sought governance after chaos, sinned against himself and calmed the people, and made great achievements in the economy. In terms of education, there have also been many reforms, which have achieved considerable results. Passionate emperor Tang Daizong is known among the emperors of the Tang Dynasty as the passionate emperor, and he is a somewhat romantic historical figure.His passion is manifested in various aspects, which can be said to be multi-level and multi-directional. Tang Dynasty Zong was famous for his generosity, benevolence and filial piety. He showed filial piety to his grandfather, father, uncle, etc. who had the kindness of nurturing, and he would miss them forever after death. After Li Yu came to the throne, in the second year of Guangde (764), Li Shi, the eldest son, was made the crown prince, and at the same time he issued an edict to find the prince's biological mother, Shen.Emperor Daizong of Tang Dynasty had been in power for 17 years, and he had searched for his lost wife for 17 years, but he never found her whereabouts.The amorous Li Yu never believed that Mrs. Shen was dead, and even when he was dying, he looked forward to the day when the husband and wife would be reunited, but in the end he was disappointed.Except for respecting Shen Shi as the empress, he never had any other empress in his life, and the seat in the middle palace will always be reserved for Shen Zhenzhu. Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty was very close to his brothers, especially with his half-brother Jianning Wang Li Tan.Li Tan was slandered to death by Empress Zhang and eunuch Li Fuguo at a young age, so Li Yu often missed the third brother who grew up together. The title is Emperor Chengtian. Tang Daizong was also very tolerant to his courtiers, so there was the above-mentioned "Da Jin Zhi".This play is based on historical facts: Guo Yan, the son of Guo Ziyi, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty who contributed to the suppression of the "Anshi Rebellion", married Princess Shengping, the daughter of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty.Once, the young couple had a quarrel, and Guo Yan hit the emperor's golden branches and jade leaves in a rage, and said in a hurry: "Are you relying on your father to be the emperor? My father is still unwilling to be the emperor?" Hearing this rebellious sentence At the same time, the princess cried and went back to the palace to complain.Hearing this, Daizong persuaded his daughter: "It's true that his father doesn't like to be an emperor, otherwise, the world would still be named Li!" Facing the Guo family's father and son who had pleaded guilty, Daizong comforted: "Why bother about trivial matters in the boudoir? , Boss is deaf, so forget about it." Guo Ziyi thanked the emperor for his kindness, and beat her son severely after returning home. Throughout Chinese history, it is rare to see such a gentle and honest emperor like Li Yu, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, although his literary and martial arts and historical contributions are not very outstanding, future generations are still willing to praise him in novels , Singing him in the drama, it can be said that the word "love" has made the immortal legendary life of Tang Dynasty Zong Li Yu.