The "lucky" concubine was selected according to the standard of "five blessings".

To tell the truth, among the selected concubines, there are not many who are really lucky women.

Common sense tells us that the Tang Dynasty was a relatively vigorous era of women's rights in China's feudal dynasties. But what is somewhat embarrassing is that among the concubines of the Tang Dynasty, there is basically no suitable character to be selected. Most of the lengths of life do not end well, and the basic ones who get a good end are early deaths.

As for the queen of heaven Wu Zetian, I personally only think that her life is really not very comfortable - for the sake of "career", she almost cut off all family and human nature, but at the end of her life, she had to admit that she had no successor to the "Great Zhou" she created, and she still had to break the file. It's equivalent to both ends of the ......

Forget it, there's nothing to say.

You can't jump the whole Tang Dynasty!

Let's talk about two acquaintances, they may be the most typical and well-known representatives of the concubines of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Xuanzong Li Longji is the grandson of Wu Zetian, the only empress in Chinese history. His long imperial career experienced the "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era" and the "Anshi Rebellion", and the prosperous Tang Dynasty flourished and declined on him.

Li Longji had a romantic life and many concubines, and the most famous ones were Concubine Wu Hui and Concubine Yang Guifei. Concubine Wu Hui accompanied (and can even be said to end) his entire "Kaiyuan Dynasty", while Yang Guifei accompanied him throughout the Tianbao period, and finally indirectly contributed to the "Anshi Rebellion" and became the funeral object of this troubled era.

The common characteristic of Concubine Wu Hui and Concubine Yang Guifei is, of course, that they have successively assumed the position of Xuanzong's favorite woman - and judging from what happened, this man is somewhat obsessed with them. But the biggest reason that binds them together is not the man, but the personal relationship between the two women

Relationship: They were originally a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. I also know them very well, so let's talk about them together.

Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's father was Tang Ruizong Li Dan, who was born in the first year of the vertical arch (685 AD), when Li Dan had just become a puppet emperor under the arrangement of his mother Wu Zetian.

In September of the year when Li Longji was five years old (689 AD), Wu Zetian was annoyed by even the puppet son, so he simply abolished Li Dan and became the emperor of "Zhou". Li Dan was already obedient to the old lady, and he didn't dare to mention any opinions, let alone cause trouble.

But if he doesn't cause trouble, it doesn't mean that things won't trouble him. Soon, Wu Zetian's maidservant group fell in love with this "prince" and wanted to hook up. Where did Li Dan dare to touch her side, and carefully said that he couldn't "climb" high. Tuan'er was furious that he was rejected, and hit it off with Wu Chenghei, who had long wanted to plot the crown prince, and under his guidance and his own "play", he complained to Wu Zetian, saying that Li Dan's wife Concubine Liu and Concubine De Dou had bad intentions and dared to cast a spell to curse Wu Zetian.

On the second day of the first month of the second year of longevity (693 AD), the Dou clan of the Liu family, who was in the dark, went to the Jiayu Palace to meet Wu Zetian to celebrate the New Year.

Who knew that as soon as they left, the attendants guarding outside the palace never saw them return again. Li Dan wanted to find the whereabouts of his wife and concubine, but Wu Zetian didn't even let him enter the palace gate, but just sent a message to him to find it elsewhere. - The second concubine Liu Dou mysteriously disappeared without a trace, until Li Dan re-ascended the throne as emperor and ordered their missing palace to be dug three feet into the ground, and failed to find a single hair of them.

Li Dan knew that his wife and concubine were more than lucky, and in order not to give his mother a chance to continue to attack, he did not allow his left and right and the children of Liu Dou's second concubine to show the slightest sadness and resentment.

Concubine Dou De is Li Longji's biological mother. Li Longji was just eight years old this year. Empress Liu, who disappeared at the same time, is the biological mother of her eldest brother Li Xian, who is fifteen years old.

After going through twists and turns in the crisis of life and death, Li Longji grew up to 27 years old, and under the push of his eldest brother, he ascended to the throne of the Tang Emperor.

After ascending to the throne, Li Longji made the courtiers obsessed with his grandmother Wu Zetian's clansman, Concubine Wu Hui.

Concubine Wu Hui is the grandniece of Wu Zetian and the daughter of Wu Youzhi, the king of Heng'an, about eight years younger than Li Longji, not only is she a cousin of Li Longji, she is naturally beautiful, and she has been in the palace since she was a child, and she is familiar with the harem competition. Li Longji was soon overwhelmed by her, and his wives and concubines before he became emperor, such as Empress Wang, Concubine Zhao Li, Huangfu Deyi, Liu Cairen, etc., were all left behind. This not only made these former favorite concubines jealous, but even the children born to them were resentful of Concubine Wu Hui.

Judging from the frequency of Concubine Wu Hui's childbirth, Xuanzong did have true feelings for her: she gave birth to four boys, three girls and seven children in a row, and she was the one who gave the most children among Xuanzong's concubines.

However, the frequent births brought Concubine Wu Hui not joy, but successive blows and sorrows.

Her first child was named "One". The name represents Li Longji's immense joy – he feels that this is the best and well-deserved number one darling of all his children. However, this beautiful boy died when he was a baby, and even if Li Longji was full of love, he could only posthumously crown him as the "King of Summer Mourning". Since Li Yi's parents were living in Luoyang, the eastern capital, at the time of his death, he was buried in Dongcen, Longmen, so that his parents could see his grave when they missed him.

Soon, Concubine Wu Hui gave birth to a son Li Min who was "beautiful and beautiful". This child, like his brother, died in swaddling clothes before he could grow into a peerless beautiful man. What Li Longji, who had no choice but to do, could only posthumously crown him as the "King of Mourning".

Subsequently, Concubine Wu Hui gave birth again, this time a beautiful baby girl was born - but the result was the same, she soon died, and chased the "fairy princess".

The frequent death of children made Li Longji and Concubine Wu Hui unbearable. Especially Concubine Wu Hui, she began to suspect that there were many concubines in the harem who hated her, and she faintly felt that her children were all strangled by unknown black hands. This kind of thinking is not only her, but Li Longji is also full of doubts.

Soon, Concubine Wu Hui gave birth for the fourth time and gave birth to another boy, named Li Mao. In order to keep the child away from danger, Li Longji asked his eldest brother Li Xian, King of Ning, to take the child out of the palace and raise it in King Ning's mansion, where Princess Yuan personally breastfed and announced that he was the son of King Ning and Concubine Ning.

After spending so much effort, Li Mao finally grew up safely. And Concubine Wu Hui, who has learned her lesson since then, finally understands how to keep her children - and then her son Sheng Wang Li Qi, daughters Princess Xianyi, and Princess Taihua have all grown up one after another.

After experiencing the pain of losing her son three times, Concubine Wu Hui loves the rest of her biological children like her life, as long as it is something in the world and the imperial power can do, she will spare no effort to fight for them; For them, she is willing to do anything and do everything.

- However, Concubine Wu Hui's love for her son still hit a nail in her youngest daughter, Princess Taihua.

It is said that although this princess Taihua is a piece of meat that fell from Concubine Wu Hui's body, she has hated her biological mother since she was a child. When she was a baby, she would cry because Concubine Wu Hui tried to approach and caress her, and it was even worse when she was a little older and could speak, as long as she saw a shadow of Concubine Wu Hui, she would be angry and scold. Concubine Wu Hui was really puzzled by what her little daughter had done, and she was very troubled.

However, Li Longji and Concubine Wu Hui didn't know that the people in the palace were carrying them behind their backs, and they were all rumoring a strange thing.

When Princess Taihua was about three or five years old, she suddenly asked her attendants for a string of prayer beads. The people on the left and right are very strange: in all the things of the princess, there has never been a rosary! She's a little child, and who would play with her rosaries! Finally one day things took a sharp turn: the nurse held the little princess and happened to pass by the abandoned palace where Queen Gaozong lived, and Princess Taihua did not relentlessly force the palace people to enter the abandoned palace that was unpopulated, and insisted on it: "My rosary is on the northeast corner of the treasure tent in the palace." The frightened palace people had to venture in, but who knew that they really found a string of rosaries in the direction pointed out by the little princess.

Since then, the world has said that Princess Taihua is actually the reincarnation of Queen Gaozong, she was killed by Wu Zetian in her previous life, so she hates all the people surnamed Wu in this life. It's just that since the emperor's family gave the queen such a miserable experience, why did she come to this place again? Why did you become Concubine Wu Hui's daughter?

Of course, no one should dare to sue Xuanzong and Concubine Wu Hui for such a statement. Concubine Wu Hui was just hurting her brain, and she wasn't so frightened that she was not frightened.

Among the four children who grew up in Concubine Wu Hui, the first to complete the marriage was Princess Xianyi.

Princess Xianyi's marriage belongs to the type of intimacy. And this kinship is longer than a piece of cloth: the only daughter born to Empress Wei, the wife of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, was Princess Changning, who married twice, and her first husband was Yang Shenjiao, a royal descendant of the Sui Dynasty. Princess Changning and Yang Shen gave birth to a son, Yang Hui, and Princess Xianyi is going to marry this Yang Hui. - Of course, the kinship doesn't end here, and it will continue to come.

Among the royal descendants of the Sui Dynasty, the most direct is Yang Shenjiao, but it does not mean that there are no others in the Yang family. This includes Yang Xuanyan, the Sihu of Shuzhou. Yang Xuanyan died young, and his daughter Yang Yuhuan was adopted by his younger brother, Cao Yang Xuanhuan, a scholar from Henan Province. The place of work of Shicao, Henan Prefecture, is naturally in the Chang'an area of Luoyang, and the beauty of Shu Yang Yuhuan grew up in Luoyang. Yang Yuhuan is lively by nature, can sing and dance, and his reputation gradually spreads throughout the capital.

Of course, this alone is not enough for Yang Yuhuan to get among the top nobles, because Yang Xuanhuan's official is still a little too small. However, Princess Xianyi married Yang Huan, and the new concubine and Yang Xuanqian were distant relatives of the same clan, which created enough opportunities for Yang Yuhuan.

As one of the relatives of the Yang family, Yang Yuhuan participated in the wedding of Princess Xianyi. Around this wedding, her "beautiful crown" beauty left a deep impression on Princess Xianyi, her mother Concubine Wu Hui, and her younger brother Shouwang Li Mao.

Although Yang Yuhuan has fallen into the middle of the family, she is a descendant of the Yang family after all, not to mention that her beauty is enough for her resume.

Princess Xianyi was married in July of the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan (735 AD). Only five months later, an edict arrived at the door of Yang Xuanji's house.

On December 24, the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan, seventeen-year-old Yang Yuhuan became the "Princess of Shou". Since then, she has walked into the center of the Tang Dynasty's elite circle.

Concubine Wu Hui, who accepted the bow, was in her prime at this time, but at the age of thirty-eight, she would never have thought of what kind of future she and the rich daughter-in-law in front of her would have.

At this time, Concubine Wu Hui, of course, would not think about her daughter-in-law, because all her energy was focused on more important things: changing the crown prince and making herself the queen.

Xuanzong's wife was the Wang family from the scholar family. Wang is the daughter of Wang Renjiao, the governor of Guoyi in Ganquan Prefecture, and married Li Longji as early as his teens. Wang's family is not noble, and it is not the same as Concubine Wu. However, she played a considerable role in the life-and-death game between Li Longji and Princess Taiping, and her twin brother Wang Shouyi directly participated in the incident of killing Taiping and eradicating the Wu clan's forces.

However, after Wang became the queen as she wished, she faced the challenge of many beauties in the harem. Concubine Wu is of course the most prominent one. In addition, although the Wang family adopted Yang Guifei's son Li Heng, she never had children herself. What's even more strange is the order in which Li Longji canonized the crown prince: Concubine Liu Hua gave birth to the eldest son Li Cong, Concubine Zhao Li gave birth to the second son Li Ying, and Li Heng, who was adopted by the queen, was the third son - the strange thing is that when Xuanzong established the prince, he neither set up the eldest son nor the queen's adopted son, but set up a second son. Later, the eighth son of the emperor born to Concubine Wu actually gave the name of "Heiyi". Although the child died young, such an obviously eccentric expression could not help but become a deep worry for the queen and queen. She not only hopes to keep her husband, but also hopes to keep herself and her family rich and prosperous for a long time.

As her status became higher and higher, Concubine Wu gradually did not take the queen in her eyes, and the snobbish palace eunuchs in the harem often showed contempt for the queen and queen. Queen Wang was so angry that she inevitably complained to Xuanzong, accusing Concubine Wu and the people around her. However, at this time, Xuanzong was no longer the king of Linzi County, and Wang's loss not only did not get her husband's sympathy, but made Xuanzong more and more tired of her, and even started the idea of "abolishing the queen". Wang also guessed her husband's thoughts, she was very afraid, and her desire to have a son became more and more urgent. She wishfully believes that her husband has been partial to Concubine Zhao Li and Concubine Wu Hui, the reason is because the son they gave birth to is smart and handsome, and she hopes that she can also give birth to a son who pleases her husband to consolidate the queen's position - poor Wang, she doesn't know, if a man doesn't even love a living woman, how can he love the piece of meat in her womb!

However, no matter how Queen Wang tried to keep Li Longji in her bedroom, she was never able to get pregnant, and she was really anxious and angry when she saw Concubine Wu Hui giving birth to children one after another. Gradually, not only did she hate Concubine Wu Hui, but even Li Longji became the object of her hatred. (To be continued.) )