Xuanzong, who was angry, was full of scenes of palace coups since the founding of the Tang Dynasty at this time, especially thinking of several of them that he had personally planned, and he shuddered.

The day of the unjust death of the "Sanshu people" was April 23, the 25th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty. It was only five months before Zhang Jiuling's resignation and only 15 days before the "coup".

This news made the whole country immersed in grief, and people not only cursed Concubine Wu Hui's insidiousness, but also resented Xuanzong's ruthless father.

Xuanzong also heard the discussion of the world to some extent, he was an emperor who was an autocratic emperor, and he didn't have much affection for his son, but he regretted his rash decision to execute the "three people" and put himself on the charge of "killing his son" from then on. But in any case, the crown prince is vacant, and it must be re-established.

Of course, Concubine Wu Hui hopes to strike while the iron is hot and let her son Li Mao ascend to the crown prince. Everything went smoothly as she expected. Just when she was about to fulfill her wish, a strange thing happened: the palace where she lived was haunted, and the more troublesome it became, the more fierce it became, and many people in the palace witnessed it with their own eyes. What's even more mysterious is that all the wizards said in unison, "The three people are terrible ghosts."

Although Concubine Wu Hui's surname is Wu, her murderous aura is still not as strong as her grandmother Wu Zetian, and she was greatly stimulated by the haunting, and she soon fell ill under the weakness and timidity. This disease is also surprisingly sick, and it turns out to be a medicine stone without a soul. In desperation, she had to beg for sacrifices, hoping to dispel the anger of the unjust souls. Of course, her own life is still the most important, and the unfortunate thing is the substitute she is looking for: the executioner who was ordered to execute the "three people".

The "dedicated" executioner was soon shot and sacrificed, and the coffin of the "Three Shuren" was buried again in accordance with the etiquette of the prince and the kings. Concubine Wu Hui, who thought that she could exchange her life for this, did not expect that the ghosts in the palace were getting more and more fierce, not only the ghosts were full of shadows, but also the ghosts cried so badly that all the people couldn't sleep peacefully, and they were in fear all night. I'm afraid that not only will the ghosts of the "three people" not be dispersed, but the ghost of the executioner will be added.

Under such a commotion, Concubine Wu Hui was too busy to take care of herself, what kind of son did she talk about? Within a month's work, she was terminally ill.

On the seventh day of the twelfth month of the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan (737 AD), the forty-year-old Concubine Wu Hui passed away in fright. Only seven months and 14 days have passed since the unjust death of the "three people".

After Concubine Wu Hui's death, there were no more ghosts in the palace, and it was as quiet as if nothing had happened.

I can't help but say that Xuanzong is quite partial to Concubine Wu Hui. Although he knew more or less about Concubine Wu Hui's misfortune due to the haunting incident, he was still extremely sad about her death.

He issued such an edict: "If there is a model and no favor, it will not be only in the court, so it is applied to the sub-government, and it can be prosperous, and it is a general canon." Therefore, Concubine Hui's Wu family, young and tactful, long and wise, the line of ritual scriptures, words should be history. Inherit the beauty of the relatives, ascend to the rank of the back court, noble but not ashamed, humble and benevolent. Bow to the Tao, and arrest it, the four virtues have both, and the six palaces consult the rules. The law is in oneself, and the capital is admired; Bow down to thrift and take the lead in making people thrifty. There is a strange table, it will be added to the right position, the front and back are fixed, the resignation is not accepted, the dying to the death, the deep mourning, so that the celebration of the jade clothes is not as good as before the death; The glory of the elephant costume is increased behind him. It can be given to the queen of chastity, and it is advisable to make the priest choose a day to ordain. ”

Concubine Wu Hui was buried in the mausoleum with the name and honor of "Queen Zhenshun".

Xuanzong faced such a woman who slandered and killed three sons, and she was still full of words such as "chastity" and "shun", which had to make people sigh: The unjust souls are too demanding, and they forgot to find the real damned.

Judging from various records, Li Longji can almost be regarded as a generalist, except for his own work in politics, his attainments in singing, dancing, literature and art can be regarded as rare. According to common sense, people with developed artistic cells should also be more delicate and affectionate. However, the strange thing is that Li Longji has a deep affection for his brothers and sisters, and a long love for women and children, but he is cold to his son. This is probably due to the occupational disease of the emperor's work, and he sees his son as a potential threat to his own life.

Concubine Wu Hui died, and her death was a severe blow to Shouwang Li Mao, who was about to ascend the throne of the crown prince. Although the duck has been cooked and served, but I haven't really been able to get it in my hand, who knows if I will reach out my other hand halfway and take the duck first? It is not only King Shou who is so worried, but also Princess Xianyi and Li Linfu. Of course, they are still very sure in their hearts: Concubine Wu Hui got the title of "queen" behind her. This may not only represent Xuanzong's heart for her, but also represent that King Shou has truly become the son of the lord of the Six Palaces, and with such an identity, it can lay the foundation for him to ascend to the crown prince...... In this way, they felt that they had taken a reassuring pill, and they were full of joy and only waited for the news of the canonization of the crown prince.

However, the strange thing is that after Xuanzong posthumously sealed Concubine Wu Hui, he had no idea how to arrange her son's future.

If Concubine Wu Hui is alive, he is very likely to pass on the crown prince to Li Mao under the urging of his beloved woman, but that is just to please Concubine Wu Hui. If you really want to talk about the relationship between father and son, I'm afraid that it is no different from the feeling of other sons, or even worse - Li Mao has been by the side of Uncle Li Xian for more than ten years since she was born, and she has always called her uncle and aunt her father and mother, until she grows up and returns to the palace to re-acquaint herself with her biological parents. Concubine Wu Hui experienced the pain of childbirth as a mother and instinctively doted on her son; But Xuanzong, the biological father...... It's hard to say.

There is also the problem of Shouwang Li Mao himself - among his many brothers, he really has no special strengths. He is ranked eighteen, and among the more than ten brothers, there are not only those who are outstanding in riding and archery martial arts, but also those who are famous for their talents, and those who are elegant and popular, and the only thing that Li Mao seems to surpass everyone in his life is that he can practice complicated court etiquette clearly when he was a child. He should be a gifted and intelligent child, but his adoptive parents did not dare to discipline him too much, and his own mother spoiled him indecently, so that when he grew up, he had no talents worth mentioning. In the process of competing for the crown prince, his mother, sister and brother-in-law played a role, but he didn't help at all, which is enough to show that his skills are limited.

Let's talk about the talent and skin - among the sons of Xuanzong, although there is Yongwang Li Luan who has a fork in his development and squints, most of them are born with a talent. Shouwang Li Mao's appearance should still be good, and he can be regarded as beautiful, but he doesn't seem to have reached the level of "picturesque" like his two siblings who died young, and he is just good at winning among the brothers.

In addition, Li Mao's body has the blood of the Wu family, which is a problem that Xuanzong had to consider when he established the prince: Concubine Wu Hui's slander of the "three concubines" has already aroused the anger of the heavens, if she makes her son the crown prince, how will the courtiers react? The emperor's love for licking calves has never reached the point of offending everyone for the sake of a son, and further worsening his reputation for "killing his son". What's more important is that he is still an emperor after all, and he has appointed a crown prince who is not outstanding in all aspects and is criticized, will there be great changes in the Tang Dynasty in the future?

Although he already had a vague idea in his heart, Xuanzong still had some lingering feelings for Concubine Wu Hui after all, so he was still hesitating. In his annoyance, he asked the closest eunuch, Gao Lishi, for advice. Gao Lishi replied without hesitation: "The young and the old are orderly, and of course the reserve should be done according to the old rules." ”

These words were in line with Xuanzong's intentions, and he made up his mind.

Maybe it was a little unwilling, or maybe it was out of order to appease Concubine Wu Hui's children, one day at the end of May, Xuanzong personally came to Princess Xianyi's mansion to visit his daughter and son-in-law.

Princess Xianyi and his wife were overjoyed by their father's visit, and they couldn't help but secretly wonder if their father was going to appoint his brother as the crown prince. This, of course, also made the courtiers secretly anxious.

Ten days later, on June Gengzi Day, people really heard the edict of Xuanzong to appoint an heir. However, to the relief of the courtiers, and to the feeling of Princess Xianyi and Shouwang Li Mao, it was like five thunders: the new prince is the third ranked Zhong Wang Yu!

On the second day of the seventh month, the ceremony of the new crown prince was solemnly held, and the amnesty was granted to the world.

In the midst of the drums, Concubine Wu Hui's lifelong dream came to naught. All the hard work and hard work is just to make a wedding dress for others.

The fact that the crown prince's position is next to him makes Li Mao, the king of longevity, feel like he is in a panic all the time, feeling like falling from the nine heavens to the eighteen layers of hell. However, he didn't expect that the more embarrassing thing was still to come.

When Concubine Wu Hui was alive, although Xuanzong often talked to me with other palace concubines, but after Concubine Wu Hui died, he was still depressed, and when he looked at it, he felt that there was no one in the harem who could compare with Concubine Wu Hui in terms of appearance and talent. This is simply unbearable for the amorous seed Li Longji.

Of course, Xuanzong's mind couldn't escape the eyes of the people around him. Soon a sycophant came to provide news, saying that Yang Yuhuan, the daughter of Yang Xuanyan, was a crown and was better than Concubine Wu Hui, but it was just ...... She is now Princess Shou.

When Xuanzong heard that there were more beautiful women in the world than Concubine Wu Hui, his heart was itchy, he must want to see and understand, and it was nothing for his father-in-law to see his daughter-in-law, so he immediately decided to summon Princess Shou.

It is difficult to say when Yang Yuhuan, the princess of Shou, was "summoned" by Xuanzong, but before the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, things had already happened. Because from the beginning of the first month of this year, Xuanzong frequently went in and out of the Lishan Hot Spring Palace, and in October, a holy oracle was issued in the Hot Spring Palace: Princess Shou Yang Shidu is a female Taoist priest, and her name is too true.

According to the oracle, the twenty-two-year-old princess Shou was ordained to pray for the blessing of her grandmother, Dou, who had no bones left. But how could Princess Shou, who was in the prime of life, be willing to give up the joy of husband and wife and become a monk? And how did it appear in the hot spring palace? What's even more strange is that the royal women of the Tang Dynasty have their own independent Taoist temples, why is Princess Shou's "Yuzhen Temple" but the former "Taizhen Palace" in the palace? This qiē question, the oracle did not say a word.

In short, at the beginning of the twenty-ninth year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan officially stepped into the palace, and at this time she was no longer Princess Shou, but a female Taoist priest with the legal name "Taizhen". Of course, in fact, she has become one of Xuanzong's harem fans.

Yang Yuhuan soon stood out among the tens of thousands of beauties in Xuanzong's harem.

The Tang Dynasty harem owned by Xuanzong is really as beautiful as a cloud, and Concubine Wu Hui can become a leader among them, which is definitely not something that can be done just by looking at her skin. If you just talk about her faces, she can't compare to the little girls when she gave birth seven times and was forty years old when she died. She must have something else that is beyond the ordinary. It's just that it's hard to find any more records of this today.

But the reason why Yang Yuhuan stands out from the crowd is easy to find: she is not only beautiful, but also talented, singing and dancing, and astute.

When Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, there was also a young favorite concubine in Xuanzong's harem, named Jiang Caiping. It is said that she is a native of Putian, Fujian, born in a scholarly family, and her father is a doctor. She was introduced to the harem by Colliers. Jiang Caiping was born in the south, and did not see plum blossoms with her own eyes until she entered the palace, and immediately fell for them. Xuanzong therefore called her "Concubine Mei". Like Yang Yuhuan, Concubine Mei is also a talented and beautiful woman, she once made eight essays: "Xiao Lan", "Pear Garden", "Plum Blossom", "Phoenix Flute", "Glass", "Scissors", "Qi Window"; When dancing the Thrilling Dance, it can make the house shine even more. The proud Xuanzong boasted to his brothers that she was "Mei Jing".

However, the good times did not last long, Yang Yuhuan not only looked but also talented and stylish, far better than Jiang Caiping, and her appearance made Jiang Caiping's life take a sharp turn.

Of course, this qiē can't hide from the eyes of others. And Shouwang Li Mao is even more self-aware. He doesn't necessarily have a deep affection for Yang Yuhuan, because he has many concubines like all princes, and during the five years he and Yang Yuhuan lived together, the concubines also gave birth to two sons. But no matter what, she is Princess Shou after all, and it is related to his face. Li Mao, the longevity king who lost his mother and the crown prince, has now lost his princess again, and he is suffering in the strange eyes of everyone.

Following Yang Yuhuan's entry into the palace at the beginning of the year, in the winter of the same year (the twenty-ninth year of Kaiyuan), the adoptive father of Shouwang Li Mao, the king of Great Berning, Li Xian, died.

Li Xian has a supreme position in the clan: it was he who took the initiative to give up the position of crown prince to his third brother Li Longji, making him Emperor Xuanzong. Li Mao was already extremely disappointed in his biological father, and only his adoptive father could give him some love and care, so the death of his adoptive father was a great blow to him, and he really felt the pain of losing his father. The resentment towards his biological father can be hidden, but the grief for the loss of his adoptive father cannot be concealed, and Li Mao simply asked Xuanzong to mourn for his adoptive father in order to repay his nurturing kindness. Xuanzong agreed without any objections. (To be continued.) )