vrcanaries Chapter 58 Yang Yuhuan
Chapter 58 Yang Yuhuan
The 23rd year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty
Li Heng has been staying close to Yang Yuhuan these past few days, fearing that she might leave him if he's not careful.
However, before Li Heng knew how to protect Yu Huan, Consort Wu Hui had already met with misfortune.
It turns out that he wasn't the only one who possessed the small screen. Even though he felt that his mother shouldn't have framed the three princes, as her child, he had no right to resent her.
On the other side, Li Longji's eyes were cold and menacing, his teeth clenched, and a flash of furious glint appeared in his eyes, as if foreshadowing an impending storm.
Very well, even I, the emperor, was completely fooled by a woman, actually believing her lies, which caused the death of three of my children!
Isn't my favor towards her enough? Isn't all her current wealth and glory given to her by me? Isn't all of this enough to satisfy her ambition?
Since that's the case, I think she should just give up being Consort Hui!
That vicious woman will never have a chance to rise above her circumstances!
.......
Lin Ke's voice continued on the screen.
"Consort Wu Hui thus exited the stage of history, but Li Linfu was still in the court. He recommended Prince Shou to Emperor Xuanzong as the crown prince. This was not because he was so loyal to Consort Wu Hui, but because he wanted to gain merit for supporting the emperor."
"As expected, Li Longji would not agree. First of all, he took action against Li Ying because he was suspected of forming cliques and posing a threat to him. Moreover, the eldest son should be the heir, and it would not be Li Heng, who was the eighteenth in line, to be chosen as the crown prince. Therefore, Li Longji appointed Li Heng, who was ranked after the deposed crown prince Li Ying, as the crown prince."
"At this point, Consort Hui's wishes were dashed. After all her efforts, she hadn't achieved anything, and she herself had passed away."
"But Li Linfu was not willing to give up and tried many ways to frame Li Heng. It was not easy to be the crown prince these days. Li Heng's crown princess, Liang Ti, and trusted ministers all suffered."
Li Heng: My Tragic First Half of Life
"Li Longji had no intention of deposing or installing the crown prince, as long as the crown prince had not committed any major offenses."
"However, Li Heng, the crown prince, did not have a very happy life. He was even forced by Li Longji to divorce his crown princess, which was quite shocking in the entire Tang Dynasty."
Emperor Li Heng of the Tang Dynasty: ……..
"Before the main character, Yang Yuhuan, enters the scene, let's go back to the twenty-third year of the Kaiyuan era. In that year, Consort Wu Hui was selecting a princess for Li Chang, who had reached the required age."
"Because the Wu family and the Hongnong Yang family often intermarried, Consort Hui also preferred to choose a woman from the Hongnong Yang family. As everyone knows, the final choice was Yang Yuhuan."
"Yang Yuhuan's father was a minor official of the seventh or eighth rank in Shu (Sichuan), but he died very early. When she was ten years old, her uncle took her to Luoyang to raise her."
"By the time she turned sixteen, she had become a beautiful young woman skilled in music and dance. I think that in addition to her family background in the Hongnong Yang clan, Yang Yuhuan herself was also quite good when Consort Wu Hui chose her."
"Historical records do not document the married life of Prince Shou, Li Heng, and Yang Guifei. However, many of Li Heng's ancestors were skilled in music, so even if he didn't inherit any particular talent, he must have possessed some ability."
"Yang Yuhuan was also good at this, and the two of them should have had common ground after marriage, so their relationship was likely to be good."
"I won't go into details about what happened in the next few years, but mainly, after Consort Wu Hui's death, Li Heng lost his mother's protection, and was more or less affected."
"More importantly, the Prince of Ning and his wife, who had raised him, also passed away one after another, leaving him all alone. At that time, the only close person by his side was probably Yang Yuhuan."
A second-generation scion of a prominent family in the Song Dynasty (lighting a cigarette with a weary expression): My father has become my stepfather!
A peasant boy from the Ming Dynasty: Hey upstairs, tell me your story!
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"First of all, Li Heng was definitely a favored prince during Consort Wu Hui's lifetime, so Li Longji most likely met Yang Yuhuan, or was captivated by her beauty at that time, but did not take any action then."
"Based on the timeline, Li Longji only realized he had fallen for Yang Yuhuan after he had resolved the matter of establishing a crown prince following the death of Consort Hui and suddenly discovered that no one in the harem could compare to her."
"So in the 28th year of the Kaiyuan era, the year that Princess Ning died, Li Longji took action. His first step was to remove Yang Yuhuan's title of Princess Shou. In October of that year, in order to pray for Empress Dowager Dou, Yang Yuhuan 'voluntarily' became a nun."
"This operation also reminds me of another pair. Emperor Gaozong of Tang did the same thing. Wu Zetian, as a concubine of the second emperor, became a nun at Ganye Temple after Emperor Taizong's death. However, she was soon recalled to the palace and was initially given the title of Zhaoyi by Emperor Gaozong."
"However, the title of 'Cairen' can also refer to female officials, so even without that connotation, Wu Zetian was merely an unfavored concubine in the harem of the Second Empress."
"In his decree of investiture, Emperor Gaozong of Tang said that Lady Wu was the one who was bestowed upon him by the late emperor. Although this may seem like he was trying to fool everyone, at least Emperor Gaozong clearly told the world that the Lady Wu he took in was from the time of Emperor Taizong."
"Li Longji, on the other hand, was taking his son's wife as a concubine. He had no legitimate reason, so he could only remove Yang Yuhuan's status as the Princess of Shou."
"Furthermore, the title of Princess Shou was conferred by Yang Yuhuan as the eldest daughter of her uncle, while the title of Consort Yang was posthumously conferred by her biological parents and elder sister as their daughter."
"This is Li Longji telling the world that the former Princess Shou has become a nun and is no longer in this world!"
A spoiled young master from the Song Dynasty: Perhaps this is a tradition of the Li Tang royal family!
Li Erfeng of the Tang Dynasty (vomiting blood): What the hell is this tradition!
A scion of a prominent family in the Ming Dynasty: What a blatant act of self-deception!
Emperor Li Heng of the Tang Dynasty: ...
Li Heng of the Tang Dynasty (wiping away a tear of sympathy): You're the most pitiful one!
"After Yang Yuhuan became a nun, she lived in a Taoist temple within the Forbidden City, and her Taoist name was Taizhen."
"Then, in July of the fourth year of the Tianbao era, Li Longji specially selected another princess for Li Heng. She was the daughter of Wei Zhaoxun. Immediately afterward, he couldn't wait to confer the title of Consort on Yang Yuhuan the following month."
"That year, Li Longji was 60 years old, and Yang Yuhuan was 26 years old."
The people in the palace were dumbfounded. This was not only a blatant attempt to cover something up, but she was old enough to be her father! How shameless!