Li Zhi is the ninth son of Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong and the eldest grandson of the Prince. After the continuous rebellion of Emperor Taizong, he was disheartened, so he made Li Zhi, who was kind-hearted, the Prince, and later Tang Gaozong. Perhaps few people know that Tang Gaozong is an elegant son of heaven and loves poetry and calligraphy, especially calligraphy. During his thirty-four years as emperor, calligraphy was probably his greatest hobby.
When Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi were young, they were weak and lacked the courage to make decisions. Therefore, it is difficult to make achievements in national affairs, which leads to Sun Chang Wuji and other ministers holding state affairs, relying on the old to sell the old, and playing politics for a long time. This phenomenon continued until Wu Zetian became a queen and assisted the emperor in power.
Li Zhi's Life Experience
Li Zhi, a veritable Confucian son of heaven, studied under his father, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, and achieved great accomplishments in poetry and calligraphy. Although later generations generally commented on his weak personality and limited ruling ability, Li Tang's prosperity in the post-Jiangshan Zhenguan era mainly depended on the wise and courageous Wu Zetian, but no one can deny Tang Gaozong's achievements in literature.
At the beginning of Li Zhi's accession to the throne, due to the long-term intrigue between the queen and the emperor for the favor, Li Zhi, who was disheartened, turned her feelings to Wu Zetian, the gifted scholar of the first emperor of Ganye Temple, and often expressed her affection for her poems, complaining about the suffering of lovesickness.
After Wu Zetian returned to the palace, she quickly wiped out the two most difficult opponents in the harem, Wang Huanghe, and became the mother of a country in the Tang Dynasty on camera. With the help of the marquis of Wu, Emperor Gaozong finally had the courage to confront the powerful ministers who had been in power for a long time, and gradually disintegrated the consorts represented by Sun Chang Wuji and Chu Suiliang. At this point, he finally rearranged the mountains and rivers left by the former emperor.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Zhi