In the eyes of many modern people, Li Ming was born to Emperor Taizong and his sister-in-law Fei Yang, and his life experience is quite legendary. So many TV dramas and online articles like to make up a story, saying that Emperor Taizong launched the Xuanwu Gate Revolution for his sister-in-law Yang Fei, and then made him a concubine after he ascended the throne. But this fabrication is obviously inconsistent with history.
First of all, Yang did not belong to the harem of Emperor Taizong from beginning to end, and her title always changed with that of her husband Li Yuanji. After the change of Xuanwu Gate, Li Yuanji was abolished by Emperor Taizong, and Yang immediately lost the title of princess and became a princess. Li Yuanji was made king of Hailing County, and Yang was Princess Hailing. Li Yuanji changed the title to the king of the nest, and Yang became the princess of the nest.
Secondly, comprehensive historical records and epitaphs of Li's wife, Zheng Guanyin, Yang Sheniang, and the daughter of Li Yuanji, show that after Li and Li Yuanji were punished, the East Palace was occupied by the prince, while the Qi State in Li Yuanji was awarded to the hero. Professor Li and Li Yuanji's wife and daughter can be said to be cornered. In addition, these women, as the families of criminals, can only be strictly guarded in the palace, which is essentially confinement.
Such a life under house arrest is naturally not easy, so the epitaph of the noble princess implicitly reads: "Sincerity lies in expectations" and "walking in dangerous places". Unexpectedly, Li Yuanji's wives and concubines can only be squeezed into the same palace. The east of Guimenmen in Changle Gate where Princess Zheng Guanyin lives is the southernmost tip of Miyagi. When he went out, he was heavily guarded, and the noble was not chased as a monarch until he was nineteen years old. All this just shows that the living environment of Yang Hougong is difficult in the confinement palace.
Furthermore, although Yang was favored by Emperor Taizong in the later period of Zhenguan, and even wanted to be a queen for a time, the fact is that Emperor Taizong never gave Yang a formal harem title from beginning to end. If Yang is really "the emperor's favorite concubine" in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, I think even if Emperor Taizong can't give her the title of queen, she can definitely afford an ordinary concubine. After all, the ancients paid the most attention to birthright, and the so-called name was irregular. No matter what level of harem concubines Yang Can got, it's better than always bearing the name of adultery.
Besides, in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, the position of the fourth concubine in the harem was vacant. Because of Li You's rebellion, Yin, the biological mother, was abolished, and Yan Xianfei was promoted to a virtuous princess, and the position of a virtuous princess was just empty. According to Cao Ming, the son of Yang, who was sealed in Zhenguan for twenty-one years, this "old son" of Emperor Taizong should have been born about eighteen years ago. However, Emperor Taizong would rather give a virtuous princess to A Zheng, who has no children and no pets, than take the opportunity to fill the position of the Fourth Princess with a son and a pet. Judging from this situation, it is really hard to see how this young man is "spoiled".
What's more, if Yang really has a pet and wants to be a queen, then both Yang and Liming should have some special treatment. For example, Tang Gaozu's son korean king Li Yuanjia and his biological mother Yuwen Zhaoyi are both favored by Tang Gaozu, so Li Yuanjia is the most favored son born after Tang Gaozu ascended the throne. Another example is Wu Huifei. Although she failed to be queen for various reasons, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty specially set up a title of "Hui Fei" for her, and "the palace gift was listed as the queen", while Wu Huifei's eldest son Li Yi and his second son Li Minye were loved by their mothers and won the incomparable favor of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Princess Taihua also treated her with maternal love, far exceeding other sisters.
Similarly, if Yang Guifei is really so favored, then in the eyes of Emperor Taizong, her son Li Ming should also love me, my family and my mother. However, throughout the history books, Emperor Taizong did not give Li Ming any special treatment except recognizing his son's legal status.
As for the concubines of Yang and her husband, Li Yuanji, it was not until the eighteenth year of Zhenguan that they were made county magistrates and married at the age of nineteen. If Yang really won the favor of Emperor Taizong, her own son and his raised concubine would never be treated like this.
When opposing Tang Taizong's suggestion on Yang's behavior, he once compared Yang to Chen Sheng. What is Chen Yuan's personality?
Chen Biyuan was the daughter of Qin Mugong during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. She served Duke Huai of Jin and Jin Wengong was his concubine, which was obviously not something worth advocating in ancient times, so the ancients clearly defined Chen Bi as a "slutty little man".
Wei Zhi was brave enough to say that the woman he loved was just a lewd and despicable person in front of the emperor, but what was even more surprising was that Emperor Taizong was not angry with Wei Zhi's statement at all, but acquiesced. On the other hand, Emperor Taizong's beloved son Wang lied to Emperor Taizong that the minister didn't respect him for false accusations. Emperor Taizong flew into a rage and called his ministers to scold him, which made Fang tremble with fear. This diametrically opposite attitude has shown how sincere the love for Yang is-after all, if he really loves Yang, why doesn't he get angry when he hears the minister say that Yang is just a dissolute and despicable person?
Look at Yang's only son, Li Ming. According to the practice during the Zhenguan period in Tang Dynasty, the prince was crowned king at the age of three, so judging from the coronation of Li Ming in the 21st year of Zhenguan, Li Ming should have been born around the 18th year of Zhenguan.
Although some people think that Li Ming belongs to the category of being born very early but crowned king very late, in this respect, not to mention that all the princes of Emperor Taizong will not be over seven years old at the latest, we can know that it is impossible just by looking at the time when Li Ming became a vassal.
According to the records in the Book of Old Tang Dynasty and the imperial edicts in Quantang Wen, it can be seen that Li Ming's vassal was after September of the fourth year of Xianqing. If Li Ming was born very early, he would be twenty or thirty years old by the fourth year of Qing Dynasty, but Tang Gaozong could not keep such an old prince in Chang 'an. After all, only those princes who were lucky enough to stay in Chang 'an in the early Tang Dynasty were favored by the emperor, such as Lee Tae and Li Zhi of Emperor Taizong and Li Dan of Tang Gaozong.
Tang Gaozong and Li Ming have no deep brotherhood. Li Minghe Li Yun was also a prince who committed suicide because he was framed by local officials, but Tang Gaozong was quite different in handling this matter. Tang Gaozong ordered all officials who persecuted Liu Yun to be put to death, and then buried Liu Yun and Zhaoling together. However, for the officials who forced Li Ming to death, Tang Gaozong only removed him from his post and said nothing about Zhaoling's burial. Therefore, there is no reason for Tang Gaozong to keep an unpopular old prince who is nearly 30 years old and not let him be a vassal.
Conversely, if Li Ming was born in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, he was sixteen when he was proclaimed a vassal for four years, which is consistent with the age of other vassals in the early Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it can be seen from the comprehensive historical records that Li Ming was born shortly, which was the eighteenth year of Zhenguan.
In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong made Li Ming the king of Cao. In this regard, some people claim that Li Ming was crowned king this year because the bird's nest princess Yang passed away. Emperor Taizong felt deeply guilty about Yang's death, and finally recognized Li Ming as his son out of guilt. The evidence is that the epitaph of Li Yuanji's daughter Guiren County records such a sentence: "Zhenguan is twenty-one years old, Ding You, and there is an imperial edict in Chinese, called the funeral of the inner government."
The so-called "worry about death" is the funeral of parents. In some people's eyes, "there is an imperial edict, which is called mourning internal affairs." The emperor personally wrote the imperial edict and mourned for the imperial palace, which is not the treatment that ordinary people can enjoy. Only Li Yuanji's wife, Yang, can enjoy it, so it must be Yang who died in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, not the biological mother of the noble monarch-is that true?
Of course not.
A careful review of historical materials shows that there are only two places in the Tang Dynasty that can be called the Inner House, one is the Inner House Bureau, and the other is the Shaofu Supervisor (Long Zeng was renamed the Inner House Supervisor). But no matter which inner dynasty, its duty has nothing to do with managing the funeral of the harem, but to collect property and take charge of all kinds of skilled places. However, the inner government does not provide funeral services for women with low status, because the inner government has never been an organization responsible for funeral services.
As for the word "Zhao Zhong", it is easier to understand. The epitaph of the Tang Dynasty has always had the habit of whitewashing the life of the tomb owner, even to the point where black and white are reversed and made out of nothing. The most typical example is Pei Zhongjiang, whose epitaph reads: "Emperor Taizong's civil and military sages know people wisely and take special care of the three daughters of Shangji Wang, the owner of Dongguang County", openly claiming that Emperor Taizong personally betrothed the owner of Dongguang County to himself. Unfortunately, his wife, Princess Dongguang, was born in Yonghui for three years. At that time, it had been three years since the death of Emperor Taizong. Unless Emperor Taizong has the ability to come back from the dead, it is impossible to make this engagement.
Another example is Wei's. His father and son are both prime ministers. It is clearly recorded in the history books that his second wife, Wang Wan, was very strict with her stepson, Wei Chengqing, and was prone to corporal punishment. Therefore, in Wang Wan's epitaph, this typical stepmother who obviously treats her parents differently from her stepson is described as a loving mother who takes her stepson as her own: "The former master Cheng Qing was punished at the age of eight and raised by her wife at the age of ten." It is often said that the children born are Li and Shu, and so on: laity women have little knowledge, ex-wife's sons are often hated, and filial piety has become strange, and they are all human. This is my deep warning, and my generation knows it. "
Therefore, the sentence "I have the imperial edict of China", which is regarded as a standard by some people, is not as heavy as some people think, and the real meaning of this sentence is just that the royal family will bury her according to the usual etiquette after her death. So who is "Ding Mouyou" in your epitaph?
The answer is simple, that is, Guiren Princess's biological mother, Ji.
You should know that the nobles have never been jealous of their first mother, Yang, and even expressed their respect for the first mother many times, thanking her for raising herself. On the contrary, he was embarrassed to stay with his birth mother, but he just passed by with the word "some girl": "Take Yao's death as a priority, and take care of the young. A certain age gave birth to my relatives, from the mouth pavilion. "
Therefore, if the first mother Yang died, the epitaph of the noble person can completely say "the mourning of Ding Fei", instead of using the word "one" vaguely. It can be seen that in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, it is the birth mother of the noble monarch, and one of the "Ding Mouyou" corresponds to a certain Ji. In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, Li Ming was granted the title of Wang Cao, but it was just that Emperor Taizong followed the rules. Why did Emperor Taizong pursue Li Ming out of guilt? This bloody melodramatic plot is only the imagination of modern people.
Li Ming sealed the Queen Cao, was adopted by Emperor Taizong, and gave Li Yuanji, the king of Nesting, as his heir. Li Ming's great-grandson also recorded the fact that his ancestors were adopted in the epitaph: "Taizong is the father and the emperor is the younger brother ... so he was surnamed Cao and was the ancestor."
Perhaps it is because I didn't have many opportunities to get along with my father since I was a child. Li Ming admired Tang Taizong very much, studied calligraphy hard, and tried to imitate the flying white style that Tang Taizong was good at.
It's just that although Li Ming works in calligraphy, his conduct is worrying and he often can't abide by the statutes. Kong Zhen, a long history, often remonstrated for this. Li Ming said impatiently, "I am the younger brother of the son of heaven today, and I can still lose my status as a prince!" " Kong Zhen replied: "Kindness cannot be relied on. Your majesty, if you don't obey the orders of the state, I'm afraid it will be difficult to maintain today's brilliant position. Can't you see the lesson of Huainan Chang? " Li is very dissatisfied with it. And his men who invaded the people were arrested by Kong Zhen and killed with a stick.
During the Yonglong period, Li Ming befriended Li Xian, the prince of Zhang Huai, and was demoted as the king of Lingling County after being abolished as Shu Ren in Li Xian. Only then did he realize: "I regret that I didn't listen to Kong Zhen, and I will end up like this today!" Later, Xie You, the former governor of Qianzhou, forced Li Ming to commit suicide. When Tang Gaozong found out, he removed all the officials in Ganzhou. In the first year of Jing Yun, Tang Ruizong buried Li Ming in Zhaoling.
As for Li's biological mother, Princess Yang, because it was not until Emperor Taizong gave her a formal harem title that she lived all her life, waiting for the same fate as Li's wife Zheng Guanyin and Yang Guifei's mother, that is, lifelong confinement until she swallowed her last breath.