Chapter 136: The Eldest Sun in the History Books (Part II)

In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Li Chengqian was deposed, and Taizong began to want to establish Li Tai, and the minister thought that the king of Jin should be placed first, otherwise it would be difficult to preserve. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Li Shimin cried after hearing this and said, "I can't", so he found the minister to make a plan for Li Zhi. After Li Zhi became the crown prince, Taizong's favor for him did not diminish at all, even if Li Zhi had already taken a concubine and had a child, he did not want to stay away from his beloved son. As a result, the minister wrote many times asking Taizong to let the prince return to the East Palace, not to always stay by his side and spoil him too much, but with little success. During the Liao expedition, because Li Zhi was worried about the front-line war, Taizong created a flying watch for him, because Li Zhi was worried that Taizong would not take care of his body in the war, so Taizong no longer took the lead. Once Li Zhi did not reply for a long time, Taizong was very excited after finally receiving the letter, and wrote back, "Remembering the slave wants to die," Shaoqing suddenly got the handwriting, and the worry was relieved for a while. It shows the depth of the beloved son.

Taizong and Empress Changsun have four other daughters, the eldest daughter, Princess Li Lizhi of Changle. Beautiful and intelligent, Taizong and Empress Changsun "loved", and when she got married, the dowry was exceeded. Princess Changle also assisted the eldest grandson Wuji and others to persuade Taizong to dispel the idea of dividing the heroes. Princess Changle died of illness, and Taizong was very sad and buried her very close to the Yuan Palace. And break the system of the prince, concubine and princess only set up one stone gate, and set up three stone gates, which is the only example of the burial tomb that has been excavated in Zhaoling.

Princess Chengyang was born to the eldest grandson queen, and Taizong also loved her very much, and married her to Du Ruhui's sister-in-law Du He, because of Princess Shang, Du He had to be crowned the prince of the county. Later, he was given death for participating in Li Chengqian's conspiracy against him. Taizong once again pointed out the marriage for her, due to the previous marriage was not smooth, Taizong specially appointed people to divinate the marriage, and wanted to make an exception for the marriage system of the auspicious ceremony at dusk and change the auspicious ceremony to the daytime, in order to have a good relationship with his daughter.

Princess Li Mingda of Jinyang is the daughter of Tang Taizong, and after the death of Empress Changsun, Taizong "raised him personally". Princess Jinyang, who was only five years old, began to miss her mother. Tang Taizong would take Princess Jinyang with him when he went out on a tour, and every time he passed by the place where his wife had traveled before her death, he would tell his daughter that the filial Princess Jinyang couldn't control her sadness and cried bitterly. Princess Jinyang and Li Zhi have a close relationship. Before Li Zhi went to court, Princess Jinyang cried and was reluctant to let her brother leave. Tang Taizong also burst into tears when he saw this scene. Princess Jinyang often pleaded for the minister when Taizong was angry, and the Jinyang Palace often copied her father's flying white body, and over time there was Taizong's style when writing. The words of Taizong and Princess Jinyang were shown to the minister, and everyone could not distinguish them. However, Princess Jinyang died before she could get married, Taizong was very sad, she couldn't eat for a month, she was emaciated, and the ministers saw this and admonished one after another, but Tang Taizong sighed to the courtiers who came to exhort: "I actually understand the truths you said." I also know that people can't be resurrected after death, and no amount of grief can help, but I don't know why, I just can't control this sadness. In the end, Taizong ordered to use the capital of Tang Mu, the princess of Jinyang, to build a Buddhist temple next to the princess's tomb to give her daughter who died early a blessing.

The princess of Xincheng, the princess of Hengshan at the beginning, broke the rule that famous mountains and rivers are not allowed to be titles. The princess's epitaph records that after her canonization, she was "Tang Mu Zengfu", and it can be seen that Princess Xincheng and her sister Princess Jinyang have a real seal at a young age. Princess Xincheng first married Wei Shuyu, the son of Wei Zheng, and later the marriage contract was dissolved due to an affair, and Taizong announced on his wife's birthday that he would marry his daughter to the queen's nephew. In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, Taizong felt that his limit was approaching, and he was worried about delaying his daughter's marriage, so he began to marry Princess Xincheng.

In addition to giving birth to children, Empress Changsun also adopted her concubine, Princess Yuzhang. Because he was adopted by Empress Changsun, Taizong's feelings for Princess Yuzhang were also very different. After the death of Princess Yuzhang, Taizong was very sad and wore plain clothes for a long time, so that the ministers were frightened and wrote to advise the emperor to restrain his grief.

Tang Taizong has many doting deeds for the children born to the eldest grandson queen, and the ancients said that "the mother loves the son and the son embraces" Taizong's love for the children of the eldest grandson queen did not change at all even after the death of the eldest grandson queen, but was more dependent, pitiful and thinking of the mother. A man will always love the children he loves, even if the emperor is no exception.

When Empress Changsun went to the funeral, Li Shimin "came to the night in person, and pursued the righteousness far-reaching", and personally wrote an inscription for Empress Changsun. After that, Taizong did something unprecedented. He thought that it was not enough to serve the queen in the mausoleum of the dormitory, so he ordered people to build a mansion on the plank road outside the Yuan Palace, so that the palace people lived in it and served the queen like a living person. In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong was buried in the Yuan Palace, and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi hoped to continue to keep the plank road, but was stopped by the minister, on the grounds that, according to the old practice, "there is only the method of sleeping in the palace and worshipping, and there is no ritual of guarding the mausoleum." It can be seen that this way of repairing a house outside the dormitory and mausoleum to support the deceased is the first of Li Shimin. In Li Shimin's heart, Empress Changsun is always alive.

The first queen with an independent nickname was Empress Wei Zifu of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (posthumously sealed during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty), but the first one from the husband or husband to add another word for the original name was from the Empress Yin Lihua of Emperor Guangwu (the son of Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Ming Dynasty was posthumously sealed), but until Tang Gaozu's wife Dou, all the queens only had a single name instead of a reply, but the historian combined their nickname with the emperor's name in order to make it easier to distinguish. For example, when Tang Gaozu ascended the throne, he posthumously called Queen Dou "Queen Mu", and after Tang Gaozu died, he closed his nickname as "Queen Taimu". And Empress Changsun was directly reinstated by Tang Taizong after her death, "Wende."

According to the Spring and Autumn Rites, the single word is positive, and the double word is not right, in the view of the ancients, only when the single word is not enough to exhaust the good character of the deceased, will the reply be used. Therefore, repetition is extremely rare, and before the death of Empress Changsun in the tenth year of Zhenguan, only Liu Gan, a martyr who was loyal to the monarch's death, was given a repetition "loyal and strong" by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and no one else had a repetition.

And the two nicknames of Empress Changsun "Wende" are both beautiful words, especially the word "Wen". The Tang people believe that "Wen" is the best nickname, "there is no beauty for beauty", even in the United States, there is no nickname that can be more beautiful than Wen. It can be seen that in the mind of Tang Taizong, only the single word "virtue" is not enough to show the beauty of his wife, and only with the most respected name of "Wen" in the Tang Dynasty can he show the virtue of the eldest grandson queen.

After the eldest grandson queen was buried in Zhaoling, Taizong couldn't stop missing her, in order to alleviate the pain of memory, he built a layer in the palace, looked at his wife's mausoleum all day long, and let the minister accompany him to mourn. Once Taizong asked Wei Zheng to accompany him, and pointed to the direction of Zhaoling and asked Wei Zheng if he saw it clearly, Wei Zheng pretended not to see it, Taizong was suddenly anxious, and asked, "Why didn't you see it, it was Zhaoling!" Wei Zheng replied when he heard this, "I thought His Majesty was looking at Xianling, but it turned out to be Zhaoling!" After hearing this, Taizong understood that Wei Zheng was reminding himself not to forget his father only about missing his deceased wife. So he cried and ordered the floor to be removed. Although Taizong's behavior of remembering his wife in this way is against the tradition of etiquette and religion, it is the true feelings of a son of heaven.

In that era when filial piety was the first and "husbands do not sacrifice their wives", it was natural for Li Shimin to be ridiculed and ridiculed for thinking about his wife so publicly. As a feudal emperor, Taizong will not be ignorant of this etiquette, but he still does not shy away from building a layer, looking at Zhaoling, and even pulling the ministers to miss it. can only be too affectionate, and it is difficult for oneself. Although the layer view was dismantled, Li Shimin's longing for his beloved wife did not stop because of this, but became more and more turbulent and uncontrollable, so that in a reply edict, he openly confided in the minister that after being widowed, he was in a trance, forgot to eat, and went to bed in the middle of the night.

In the tenth year of Zhenguan, because of the mourning of the death of his wife, Tang Taizong visited Daolin, became a monk, and prayed for the eldest grandson queen.

In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, the eldest grandson empress and the ancestors (Li Er, the emperor of Hongnongfu, Li Xi, the prince of Xuanjian, Li Tianci, the king of Yi, Li Hu, the emperor of Taizujing, Li Yu, the emperor of Shizuyuan, and Li Yuan, the emperor of Gaozu Dawu) enjoyed the music of the seven temples of the Son of Heaven, and the seven temples sang songs, and each room played separately. Empress Wende's temple music, playing the dance of "Guangda".

In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Taizong ordered the high monk Daoxuan to make offerings for the eldest grandson queen, and this scripture still exists.

In the same year, Li Tai, the second son of Empress Changsun, built a large number of buildings in Luoyang and dug Buddhist caves in Longmen Mountain to pursue blessings for his mother. When the Buddha statue was about to be completed, in October Tang Taizong personally went to Longmen to inspect, and after seeing that everything was satisfactory to him, he ordered the Chinese scholar Lang Cen to write the text, and the living room Chu Suiliang wrote, and engraved the vow "Three Niche Records" on the stone tablet. This is the famous "Yique Buddha Shrine Tablet", standing in November of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, it is the largest cliff inscription in the shape of Longmen Grottoes. The inscription describes that after the death of his mother, Li Tai missed his mother's kindness, so he passed by to build a Buddha statue in Longmen. It is undeniable that Li Tai's statue this time does have the intention of pleasing his father and competing with his eldest brother Li Chengqian, but in addition, there is no need to doubt his mother's grace. At this time, Empress Changsun had passed away for more than five years, and Li Tai threw out his mother to please his father, which shows that in Li Shimin's heart, he has not forgotten his wife, which shows that he is in a long mood.

In the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, Taizong ordered people to build a primitive statue of Tianzun for the eldest grandson queen in the Taiping Temple, "two true sandwich servants, the wonder of the incense garden, and the ritual of writing empty songs". Use this to chase blessings for your beloved wife.

Li Zhi has always known that his father misses his mother deeply, and he often recalls his mother's love during her lifetime. So with the support of Tang Taizong, a magnificent temple was built, named Da Ci'en Temple, to commemorate his mother. The scale of the Great Ci'en Temple is very large, with a total of more than a dozen courtyards, 1897 houses, Yunge Zen Temple, heavy buildings and complex halls, which are very luxurious. Tang Xuanzang called it "a magnificent wheel, and it is now and in ancient times". The Temple of Great Mercy and Grace was completed, and Taizong and the crown prince held a grand entrance ceremony. At that time, "its Jincai Xuan threshold, fish and dragon play, where more than 1,500 times, more than 300 things covered by the tent" and the scriptures, like, relics and so on from the Hongfu Temple, the monks in the capital hold the incense, praise followed, the civil and military officials will be accompanied by the guard department, "the dazzling sun floats in the air, the shock of the capital city" along the road hundreds of millions of people. In addition, Xuanzang was specially appointed as the host. After Gaozong ascended the throne, Xuanzang believed that the Great Mercy and Grace Temple was built by the emperor for his mother's pursuit of grace, and this matter should be erected to spread the monument to future generations. The stele is about to reach the temple, Master Xuanzang "is ashamed of the holy mercy, and does not dare to wait for the empty send, but leads the benevolent disciples and the monks and nuns in the capital, and the camps are covered, the treasure tent, and the flags, and they go to the Fanglin Gate to welcome." At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the incense of the Great Ci'en Temple was prosperous, and it was a famous place of Buddhist science in Chang'an City, where countless literati and writers left footprints. It still stands today, a thousand years later.

In the same year, Tang Taizong ordered Su Fangshi to create the "Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law" for the eldest grandson Empress to pursue blessings.

In the thirteen years from the death of Empress Changsun to the death of Tang Taizong, the pursuit of blessings to Empress Changsun has never stopped. Although he is in the center of imperial power, Li Shimin remembers his wife, and Li Zhi's feelings of gratitude to his mother are no different from ordinary people. After Gaozong ascended the throne, he continued to pursue blessings for his mother, and established a holy temple in Chongrenfang in the third year of Longshuo.

The last words of the eldest grandson queen asked for a thin burial, hoping that there would be no tomb and that the mountain would be the mausoleum. Taizong, who has always loved his wife, not only obeyed, but also issued an edict to use it as an ancestral system to pass on to future generations. Since then, it has created a precedent for the Tang Dynasty to use mountains as mausoleums. Later, Taizong ordered Yan Lide to build the Zhaoling Tomb. In the year of the death of Empress Changsun, Taizong began to imagine the future burial with his wife, and decided to sleep with his beloved wife in the future. First, in November of the tenth year, the statue of six horses was carved in Zhaoling. Later, in February of the 11th year, the funeral edict was issued. And began to bury the heroes in Zhaoling one after another. In fact, before the death of Empress Changsun, she lived in the same dormitory with Taizong, and because of this, when Chai Shaodan changed, he was able to help the sick. In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, Taizong was buried in Zhaoling, and the eldest grandson queen, who had been waiting in the Yuan Palace for thirteen years, finally reunited with her husband again. As the saying goes, "the way of the husband and wife, the same point of righteousness". Empress Changsun and Taizong lived and died in the same cave, living up to the righteousness of husband and wife, and the couple had a deep affection.

Listening to Hua Wushuang finish telling his life in that life, the eldest grandson couldn't help sighing and said: "Everything is in sight, and it seems that things are wrong! My Li Lang is still not the Li Lang of the past! I am not the same person I was then!"

The Red Buddha Girl pointed to the book in Hua Wu's hands and asked, "What the hell is that college entrance examination history review material in your hand? What is written on it? Why do I feel so strange!"

Hua Wushuang said: "This is the flower in my heart in the future era, from that time brought back from that world to bring back the book of heaven!

The eldest grandson asked, "What else will happen after that, will we really be a female emperor in the future?"

Hua Wushuang said: "Yes, she is your second daughter-in-law, the empress of Li Zhi, and the later female emperor, Wu Zetian!"

The eldest grandson said, "Okay! Let's hear what happened later!"