Unfortunately, the so-called miserable life of Li Longji in his later years does not actually exist. The material standards and living conditions he enjoyed in his later years were still according to his former imperial standards. Even, even the power in his hand has never been completely lost in the true sense.
As for what we still want to see, for example, Li Longji died after she really loved Yang Guifei because of her lust for power. She not only lost her love forever, but also regretted it in her later years, and similar things did not happen. Because, for Li Longji, Yang Guifei is just a woman who satisfies his lust, and there is not so much love in it.
In fact, power is what Li Longji values most. He has no mercy on anyone or anything that threatens his power, even his own son. In this sense, Yang Guifei's death or immortality will not have much influence on Li Longji's later life, because people like him will never lack beautiful women.
At the beginning, during the Ma Wei mutiny, Li Longji didn't want to sentence Yang Guifei to death. On the one hand, he felt that his administration had nothing to do with Yang Guifei, and she had no reason to be killed. On the other hand, it is also more important. If he kills Yang Guifei under the pressure of everyone, his Majesty will be gone, which will have a great influence on his power.
However, under the pressure of people, Li Longji can only order Yang Guifei to be sentenced to death. Because of this, Li Longji's power began to be challenged, but at this time he did not lose power. He is still the only emperor in the Tang Dynasty. However, soon, Prince Hengli directly indicated that he didn't want to go to the south with the emperor. He chose to go north alone and came to Lingwu, a military town where the Northwest Army was stationed.
From a high-sounding point of view, Prince Hengli's behavior is because Hengli can't bear to see the territory fall, so he wants to recover the lost land in the north. However, from the perspective of power game, this is the prince's rebellion. As a result, Li Longji's power was formally separated, but at this time, Li Longji was still the emperor and held the supreme power in the Tang Dynasty.
Unfortunately, after Hengli arrived in Lingwu, he openly proclaimed himself emperor with the support of the Northwest Army. In this way, Li Longji is faced with two choices. One is not to recognize the legitimacy of the crown prince, so that the Tang empire will be formally divided into two. Hengli will occupy the northwest, Li Longji will be divided into Sichuan and Sichuan, and other places will start to form teams. This result is obviously beneficial to the Anshi Rebellion.
In this context, Li Longji finally showed the mind and pattern that a great politician should have. He sent someone to send the imperial edict to Hengli, and publicly acknowledged the legitimacy of the throne of Hengli. Li Longji also sent a message to Hengli. In short, our father and son are United, and their profits are broken. Subsequently, Li Longji was renamed the Emperor's Father, and the Tang Empire began to fight back against the Anshi Rebellion.
During this period, I have been sitting in Shuzhong. Although Hengli became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Sichuan and Sichuan were controlled by Li Longji. As a result, the emperor Hengli was actually only the emperor in the northwest, while the Tai Shang Emperor Li Longji was actually the emperor in Sichuan and Sichuan. At that time, Li Longji, a local tyrant, lived a chic life.
Later, after the Anshi Rebellion, Hengli felt that it was not a problem for Li Longji to divide Sichuan and Sichuan, so he sent someone to invite Li Longji back. In short, you should hurry back to Chang 'an so that I can give you the throne. Hengli, Li Longji naturally won't believe it, so he directly rejected Hengli. Anyway, you're kidding.
Subsequently, at the suggestion of his subordinates, Hengli said that he would take Li Longji back to enjoy his old age and reunite his father and son. Li Longji thought twice before returning to Chang 'an. At this point, it was just one year since he gave Yang a death order.
After Li Longji returned to Chang 'an, he repeatedly wanted to rebury Yang Guifei. On the surface, this is because Li Longji feels guilty, but in fact, he wants to change his conviction by reburying Yang Guifei. If this can be implemented, naturally Yang Guifei should be rehabilitated, then Yang, and then it's his turn, and then he can continue to return to politics.
In this case, the eunuch Li was instructed to stand up against it, and secretly ordered the eunuch to move the body of the imperial concubine to other places without giving any chance. After this experience, Li Longji also knew that it was difficult for him to return to politics, so he simply moved to Xingqing Palace. From then on, he stopped asking about politics. All day, he only drank and had fun with Gao Lishi, Chen, Princess, his own sister, and the old ladies-in-waiting and disciples in the pear garden, which was quite enjoyable.
Three years later, Hengli wanted to move out of the Qing Palace so as to better monitor it, so he secretly instructed the eunuch Li to carry it out, so Li directly led the troops to drive him out of the Qing Palace and let him move to the west to live.
At the same time, Gao Lishi, Chen, Princess and others were expelled from the palace by various excuses, and finally they became alone, but they soon picked out 100 beautiful women from the harem to give them as company, which was a compensation for him. Two years later, Li Longji died at the age of 78.