Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[It was also at this point that all the inconsistencies in the seemingly ordinary Shenlong coup were explained.

Li Xian had been sent to Fangzhou for more than ten years before he was recalled by Wu Zetian to establish an heir.

Returning to Luoyang City, where he had been away for fifteen years, talking about party members was a luxury. In fact, the only thing Li Xian could rely on was his mother who supported him in becoming emperor.

Therefore, he was extremely obedient to Wu Zetian, followed his mother's orders to kill his son, and entered into large-scale marriages with the Wu family. Seeing that his mother was seriously ill and dying soon, he quickly obtained the throne.

But at this moment, the younger brother suddenly brought someone over to ask for a coup. The son-in-law was even persuaded to side with the younger brother and put him on the horse.

Li Xian rode on a horse and witnessed with his own eyes his younger brother and his younger sister taking control of the palace, forcing his mother back, and then pressing him on the throne.

From this perspective, the five ministers may not be the heroes of the coup, but can be regarded as accomplices; Wu Sansi may not be the enemy, but can be allies with a solid marriage relationship.

The fifteen-year window period of being assigned to Fangzhou left Li Xian without any close followers. After he ascended the throne, he did what all insecure emperors would do:

"Among the divine dragons, there are more than 3,000 eunuchs, and more than 1,000 foreign officials with rank seven or above."

This was also the first time in the entire history of the Tang Dynasty that a eunuch entered the court. Later, whether he befriended Wu Sansi or delegated power to Queen Wei, it was basically because Li Xian wanted to increase his political chips.

Li Dan was completely different. From 684 when Wu Zetian deposed Li Xian and established Li Dan as emperor, to 690 when Li Dan was forced by the situation to ask his mother to proclaim himself emperor and be given the surname Wu, and then to 699 when he regained the title of Prime Minister and participated in the Mingtang Alliance Oath, Liuwei Dihuang Pill The husband has been living in the center of the storm from beginning to end. Even though he changed his surname and was humiliated, he refused to marry Wu Zhou from beginning to end. This is why he was favored by the veterans of Li and Tang Dynasties.

A coup occurred in the first month of 705, and Wu Zetian moved to Shangyang Palace in February. Later, Li Xian went to visit according to etiquette, and what he saw was his mother who was even more haggard.

Before Wu Zetian died, she also showed her viciousness as a politician, crying to Li Xian:

I worked so hard to bring you back from Fangling just to hand over the world to you, but five thieves who were greedy for power harmed me like this!

This sentence can be called a standard example of "who is a friend and who is an enemy".

"I" rescued you from Fangling and brought you back to the world. What is it but a friend? The "five thieves" talk about the country's righteousness and are greedy for fame. What are they other than enemies?

With his mother miserable in front of him, and the ministers outside the palace being aggressive, looking at the roof of Shangyang Palace, there were not many choices left for Li Xian. The Wu family, who was supposed to sacrifice flags to the newborn Li Tang, had successfully extended their lives.

Li Dan, who has struggled with his mother all his life, probably never expected that his mother would finally trick him.

But if you think about it seriously, the Shenlong coup was too peaceful and not worthy of Wu Zhou's turbulent fifteen years.

There is a saying among gringos that cruel pleasures will eventually come to a cruel end.

The aftermath of Wu Zhou is far from over. 】

"Chaos has become apparent."

Li Shimin watched all this in silence, and finally made a sudden judgment.

The others nodded in agreement.

Although they are not as clear as the younger generation about what is going to happen next, they have already clearly seen one thing:

The emperor has lost his dignity.

No, Wei Zheng shook his head sadly, it was more than that. Listening to the ridicule of Wu Sansi and the empress in later generations, this matter has almost become known to everyone.

If the emperor loses his majesty and fails to do anything according to his orders, then the country will be ruined.

At this time, Wei Zheng had to admit from the bottom of his heart that even if the Wu Zhou Dynasty was in chaos and wasting national power, there would still be this empress on top who was pressing down on all sides.

Now that the upper hand is out of control and the authority has fallen from the side, the younger generation will surely look around. Can Li Xian... survive? Wei Zheng expressed doubts.

What position did Wu Sansi seek when he was in Wu Zhou?

Before you delegated power to the Queen, did you ever think about why the Queen interfered in political affairs?

Are you completely ignorant of past mistakes?

The relative favored two of them at once, and even pulled out the eunuchs again. Was it because they thought the mess was not big enough?

Wei Zheng was too lazy to care.

As for whether the emperor and Wu Sansi were like-minded, Wei Zheng first said that it was insulting to gentlemen, and secondly, he said that he did not understand at all.

After sighing at the chaos that was already visible to the naked eye, Li Shimin looked back at the female emperor's last words and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows:

"If these words...are not modified by later historians, then this mother and son are extremely heartless."

The first thing Li Shimin could think of was that this sentence had a profound meaning. He kept silent about the past events of the death of Li Chongrun, the defense against the East Palace, and even the past events of Wu Zhouqian seizing the throne.

With a single word, the mother and son, who were supposed to be strangers to each other, turned into loving mothers who shared a common bond, and even pushed the five ministers to the opposite side.

The eighty-year-old veteran minister Qing Jun is greedy for power, so the eighty-two-year-old empress who controls the government is not greedy for power?

When I think about it, I feel ironic. After all, it is impossible for Wu Zetian to not know who her son can rely on.

It was clear that the entire Wu Zhou Dynasty was taking advantage of the Wu family, but in the end, he used one sentence to pull the Wu family back from the gate of hell.

After thinking about it, Li Shimin could only say that even though he was also on the throne, he still couldn't guess what the empress was thinking, especially a female emperor who was about to die.

Li Shimin was not too surprised when Li Dan was revealed after peeling off his cocoon. After all, his previous feelings when watching the Shenlong coup were just as the younger generation said. It seemed natural, but the details were all unconventional.

"This gringo proverb is quite interesting. It is written in parallel prose and gives a sense of rhythm and rhythm when reading it."

Du Ruhui read it twice with great interest.

Changsun Wuji had dealt with Hu Shang many times. Hearing this, he smiled and said:

"Keming's sigh is mostly due to the translator."

"And now there are also proverbs among the people in Chang'an, which have the same meaning."

Du Ruhui nodded and thought that was probably the case, and then asked, "What's the explanation?"

Changsun Wuji looked at the picture on the light screen, the aging empress and the emperor with a lost look on his face, and said quietly:

"If evil is not accumulated, it will not be enough to destroy the body."

Even through the simple words of the younger generation, he could faintly notice it.

Although the title of the Tang Dynasty was restored, the wind of Zhenguan could not be restored, and the undercurrent in the court became more intense.

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"First compete with your biological mother for the throne, and then compete with your brothers and sisters for the throne."

Now that things have happened, Zhang Fei has also vaguely figured out what the Liuwei Dihuang Pill that later generations ridiculed means.

Although it is rare that both father and brother are emperors, there are some, but it is probably the only one in history where the mother is also an emperor.

Moreover, Princess Taiping had been explicitly told by her descendants in advance that she would die because of rebellion and seizing the throne, which meant that only one or two of the people we talked about at this time might survive in the end. Zhang Yide couldn't help but sigh:

"Hey, the Li Tang family is in good order in the Yin Division."