The early summer of Chang'an is the best season of the year, although it does not have the surprise of "the grass color is close but there is nothing", nor the gorgeousness of "the flowers gradually become charming", but there is another rich charm of the imperial capital full of smoke and willows. The whole of Chang'an is shrouded in a sea of green, green represents hope, it can make people forget the troubles of reality, and immerse themselves in joy. What's more, the once dying Tang Empire, under the leadership of Li Chun, the Son of Heaven, is gradually regaining its vitality and vitality, and "Yuanhe Zhongxing" seems to be just around the corner. As a result, people's faces are mostly filled with happy smiles.

However, the crown prince Li You couldn't be happy, not only couldn't he be happy, but he even lived a little like a year. In fact, since sitting on the throne of the crown prince, after a short period of joy, there is an endless lingering fear. Because, although Li You is cowardly, although he is not smart, he is not stupid, he has already smelled a smell from his father's attitude towards him, an ominous smell, his crown prince throne is not secure, and it can even be said to be precarious.

The father doesn't like him, Li You knows it very well in his heart; He is not the eldest son, and there are two elder brothers above, Li Ning, King of Deng, and Li Kuan, King Li, Li You also understands this. But Li You has always been very confident in his ascension to that throne, not because of ignorance, nor because of self-confidence, but because he has a good mother. The first general of Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty, the granddaughter of Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, the pearl of the princess of the Tang Dynasty, the original wife of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, such a prominent background, coupled with her graceful and luxurious temperament and polite words and deeds, in the eyes of Li You and the princess of the Manchu Dynasty, the concubine Guo is enough to be a mother in the world, and she is really the best choice for the queen. Once the mother enters the middle palace, the son is valued by the mother, and Li You will naturally surpass his two royal brothers as a son-in-law, and become the heir to the throne naturally. In fact, since the day his father ascended the throne, Li You has been looking forward to the good news that his mother will enter the Middle Palace. But the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and the naïve Li You would not have thought that Li Chun would not want to be a queen at all. 's mother couldn't be a mother in the world for a long time, and Li You's identity as a sister-in-law fell short, which made Li You's empty heart begin to grow grass. In the long and anxious waiting, Li You still had hope, because even if his mother was not the queen, in terms of birth and status, she was far above the mother of the two imperial brothers, Li Ning, King of Deng, and Li Kuan, King of Li, and she still had great hope.

In the waiting of hope and fear, Li You waited for the news of his father's canonization of the crown prince, unfortunately, this prince was not him, but his elder brother, the emperor's eldest son Li Ning. Li Chun found a reason that even the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could not object, "establish a grandson to be a long-term son", since there is no son-in-law, then establish a first-born son, which is justified and irrefutable. It was only at this time that Li You suddenly realized that his father did not establish a queen in order not to make himself the prince of the empire! Mother, my son is sorry for you, it is my son's cowardice and incompetence that have affected you!

In the early summer of the fourth year of Yuanhe, King Li You stood on the stone base in front of the door in a daze, silently watching his brother move out of the sixteen houses and into the East Palace, which should have belonged to him. Sui Yang branches attacked the feudal city, and Suzong had no official position. The king has no concubine and no son-in-law, and the yang is high and the yin is full of disasters. How can he decide to follow the flow of the people, and the woman sends her husband and the man to be the official. ”

Could it be that he was destined to be locked up in this cold sixteen mansions for the rest of his life and become a high-ranking prisoner? Just like those uncles and brothers of his own, they have the title of vassal king, but they have no official position all their lives, they can't do anything, they can't do anything, and they repeat that monotonous and boring life day after day, until they die? Li You has spent sixteen years of such pale days, and he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life like this. Therefore, he is not reconciled, but what can he do if he is not reconciled? Li You sighed heavily, glanced blankly at the high walls of the surrounding fortifications, and finally fixed his gaze on the Daming Palace in the distance. Daming Palace, I used to think that the Daming Palace was close at hand, but today it seems that it is so far away!

Once, the prince of the Tang Empire was so generous and heroic, and how majestic and heroic! At the end of the Sui Dynasty, when heroes were everywhere, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, swept the world with a thunderous momentum. Xue Rengao in Xiliang, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang in the north, Wang Shichong in Luoyang, Dou Jiande in Hebei, these once stormy heroes, one after another drowned under the iron hooves of the six horses of Zhaoling, they were either tied up, or led to be killed, and became a splendid Li Huajiangshan, how domineering the King of Qin was at that time! In the Xuanwu Gate where the morning light was slightly exposed, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, bent his bow and arrows, and a cold light flashed through the gloomy and cold sky of the Xuanwu Gate, inserting into the heart of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, but also shooting out an innocent "Zhenguan Zhizhi".

In the spring of March, the spring light by the pond in Kunming is beautiful, the young Li Longji rode his horse and galloped wildly, and no one went straight to the banquet of the noble children, looking forward to Zixiong's shouting: "Great-grandfather Tianzi, ancestor Tianzi, father and king, I, Linzi King Li Longji." "How chic and wild it was. At that time, Chang'an was treacherous, and every trace of air was mixed with conspiracy and crisis, the cowardly and incompetent Son of Heaven Li Xian, the arrogant Empress Wei and her arrogant and ignorant daughter Princess Anle, the precarious prince Li Chongjun, the ambitious Princess Taiping, and the prime minister Li Dan who was content with the status quo.

In the midst of the crisis, the young Li Longji carefully restrained the style of the king who gave up his own, and frequently haunted the streets and alleys of Chang'an, putting on a chic posture that was indisputable with the world, but secretly befriended many heroes and heroes, including many of the most elite generals in the Xuanwu Sect's Ten Thousand Cavalry Battalion. Quietly possessing his own private armament, the young Li Longji showed the maturity and steadiness of a politician, and he did not take action immediately, but chose to wait and see. In the end, he waited for a piece of news: his uncle, today's son, Tang Zhongzong Li Xian died, died from his wife and daughter! Empress Wei conspired with her daughter Princess Anle to end the lives of her husband and father with a dose of powder, and they naively thought that as long as the emperor died, the world would belong to them. It's a pity that they were wrong, very wrong, because they also have two terrible opponents, Princess Taiping and Li Longji, the king of Linzi. My aunt and nephew teamed up to direct a coup d'état, and the location of the coup was still Xuanwumen, and the cold blade cut off Webster's head, slashed through Princess Anle's beautiful throat, and sent them to Huangquan. I wonder if they will feel ashamed to see their husbands and fathers in the cold underworld?

Li Dan, the indisputable prime minister of the world, was pushed onto the dragon chair by his son, and his eldest son Li Chengqi wisely gave up the seat of the East Palace, and Li Longji, the king of Linzi, became the crown prince Li Longji. Now, in front of the young Li Longji, there is only one opponent left, his aunt, the eldest princess of the peace. In order to compete for the supreme throne, the former allies, the aunt and nephew of the in-laws, began to fight to the death. In this thrilling political game, the eldest princess of the peace used her mouth, and she lobbied everywhere under the pretext of "establishing a successor to be long", preparing to launch an attack on the court and abolish the heroic prince; And the crown prince Li Longji chose the most direct and effective method, killing! The power of the eldest princess of Taiping was uprooted, and she had to flee into the Buddhist temple of Zhongnan Mountain in embarrassment. Three days later, the disheartened Princess Taiping returned to Chang'an. Now, she only has one wish left, that is, to be able to live peacefully in the Daming Palace, where she was born and grew up, just like her title. However, she is too naïve, she doesn't know, or doesn't want to believe, that the loser of the political struggle has always had only one ending, and that is death, just like her other nephew, the crown prince Li Chongjun at the time. Therefore, the family affection did not exchange for the mercy of her nephew, and the three-foot white silk ended her life of ups and downs.

Conspiracies are what conspirators love the most, but at the same time they are most afraid of conspiracy. Li Shimin, who set a precedent of conspiracy to seize the throne, did not want his descendants to be entangled with the gloomy Xuanwumen forever, so he deposed the prince Li Chengqian and the second son Li Tai, who used the conspiracy, and finally handed over the world to his youngest son Li Zhi, who had no conspiracy. But what he didn't expect was that the cowardly Li Zhi eventually turned out to be another conspirator, a great female conspirator, her name was Wu Zetian.

Because he could freely enter and exit Chang'an, Li Longji was able to make friends with a large number of high-rollers, and finally succeeded in ascending to the throne with the help of this force, but Li Longji, who was on the Ninth Five-Year Plan, did not want the next Li Longji to appear among his descendants. So, he carved out a vacant lot, built a large villa, and put his ten sons in it. After that, six princes enjoyed the treatment of princes and moved into this big villa, so this big villa has a new name, Sixteen Mansions.

The life of the Sixteen Houses is comfortable, but it is also marginalized, and more importantly, the princes who live in the Sixteen Houses have lost the most precious thing of human beings, which is freedom. In front of the Xuanwu Gate, the bow and arrow, the sword shadow and sword light in the Daming Palace, the Kunming Pond rode a horse and galloped, the banquet was shocked, the Chang'an City was free to enter and exit, the court was widely formed,......, the former glory of the Tang Dynasty prince has become a yellow flower. Now they can only live in the sixteen houses separated by a wall from the Daming Palace, although they are close at hand, but they are far away from the end of the world. As Tianhuang nobles, they can't be officials, they can't participate in politics, they can't make friends with courtiers, they can't even take concubines freely, they can't marry daughters freely, except for brocade clothes and food, their situation is not essentially different from those white-headed palace maids who are locked up in Shangyang Palace. There is only one way to change this status quo of "the king has no concubine and no son-in-law", and that is to become the prince of the empire, or, directly, become the supreme ruler of the empire!

Now, Li You's dream of being the crown prince has been shattered, does he still have a chance to get out of the suffocating sixteen mansions and become the prince of the empire?