When Li Chen didn't become emperor, he was called the "retarded prince" who played dumb all day. Although emotion is invisible, in fact, my heart is like a mirror. This pretentious indifference gave him a camouflage color, so that he would not leave the royal family prematurely. However, he was persecuted and hunted down, so he had to flee from the imperial capital and become a monk. After too many tests of life and death, Li Chen finally became a dark horse emperor who never wanted to break through, which made Li Chen feel the impermanence and hardship of life. Therefore, Li Chen attaches great importance to the education and management of children. He asked his daughters to be thrifty and set an example, and never allowed these second-generation emperors, second-generation officials and rich second-generation people to "compete for father's love" and "cheat father's love" and discredit father's love as the king of a country.
His mother, Zheng, came from humble origins and was the concubine of a rebel general. She served Guo Guifei in the harem. Thanks to Tang Xianzong's luck, I got pregnant and gave birth to him, so I always looked down on the royal family. Although he is both a prince and a royal middleman, he doesn't have much capital as a father, so he has developed a good character of frugality and simplicity. After he acceded to the throne, he was diligent in governing the country and was not good at women. He stayed in the palace several times, so that he became stingy. He made it himself. He asked his daughter.
Li Chen's eldest daughter, Princess Wanshou, was born to the Queen Chao. Said: "Princess Wanshou, the daughter of Xuanzong, has a special liking." He specially invited a teacher to teach the princess manners and morality. When the princess reached the age of marriage, Li Chen personally chose a good husband for her. Xu He wanted to select the best people from the cremation and be admitted to Jinshi. In the selection process, he took a fancy to He Lang, the grandson of the champion and prime minister at that time. His knowledge and portal are appropriate. Marrying Princess Wanshou is a sensational event for the ruling party and the opposition party. According to the custom of the court, a luxury car decorated with silver ornaments at the time of marriage is a luxurious horse. However, Emperor Xuanzong kept a low profile and asked his daughter to use bronze chariots and horses commonly used by ministers. From Mercedes-Benz BMW to Toyota Honda, the performance suddenly declined. It is conceivable that Princess Wanshou was wronged at that time. Just as Princess Wanshou condescended to become expensive and complained that the best father in the world would not give her face, Xuanzong spoke. He solemnly warned his daughter: although you are my daughter, no matter where you go, don't pay attention to "fighting for dad" like the second generation of officials. Marry a chicken and follow a dog. When you arrive at your in-laws' house, you must strictly observe women's morality. You can't treat and despise your husband's family like the emperor's daughter. Dare to "fight for dad" and put on airs to bully others and "frame dad". I won't let you go easily. Zheng Hao became the only scholar in history.
After the marriage of Princess Wanshou, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was always worried that the princess was not educated enough in the palace and it was against women's morality to let her go to her husband's house. So every time the princess returned to the palace to meet her, Xuanzong would tell her: "Without her husband's family, there would be no current affairs." It is required that the husband's family should not be despised as royalty and national interests, and should not interfere in government affairs. He also said: "The disasters of Princess Taiping and Princess Anle are inevitable!" That's not enough. Xuanzong specially wrote an imperial edict to the princess: "If you violate my commandments, you will not get peace and happiness. Take good care of it! " Once, I heard that Xu's younger brother was seriously ill, so I immediately sent a eunuch to visit him. When the eunuch came back, Xuanzong specifically asked where the princess was. The eunuch replied that the princess was watching a play in Ji 'an. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was furious and said with emotion, "I sometimes blame the literati for not wanting to marry the princess, which is a pity, because everyone still cares about my face. Now I finally understand this truth. " So I asked the eunuch around me to call the princess at once. First of all, let the princess get off the station under the stairs and be left out for a long time. Then, reprimanded her face to face: "My brother-in-law is ill and she was taken to the theatre by my sister-in-law. What is this? " If this gets out, people will not only say that you are unreasonable, but also say that your father didn't educate you well! Tang Xuanzong enthusiastically said to the princess: "The country has national laws and the family has family rules." In court, you are a princess; In the Zheng family, you are a daughter-in-law, and you must abide by women's morality. "After Princess Wanshou was punished, she couldn't help but deeply blame herself. She quickly prepared many gifts and went back to Fuzheng to visit her brother-in-law.
Princess Yongfu, the second daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, should also get married. It is difficult to find a good husband, so Li Chen had to propose openly. I found Hao, whose friend is also a scholar. Yu Cong's father was also born in an imperial examination family. Because of his temperament, he is honest and upright, does not attach himself to powerful people, and is only a small official without power. Yu Jia's four brothers are all scholars, and only Chinese scholars are qualified to be officials. If he wants to be an official, he must wait for a vacancy. Therefore, I am worried about Cong. He said, "Although you are very talented, you are unruly and informal. Moreover, he is not good at improvisation and will not use his power to form a party for personal gain. Like you, I'm afraid I can't wait for a promotion all my life. Now my father-in-law is openly recruiting. This is your chance. " Yu Cong thought it was reasonable and applied it. Li Chen was immediately engaged to Yu Cong in Princess Yongfu. One day, Princess Yongfu accompanied the emperor's father to dinner. During the dinner, Princess Yongfu lost his temper in front of her father for a trifle and broke all the chopsticks at once. Li Chen was taken aback at first, then flew into a rage and said, "How dare you play princess temper in front of your father? How can you marry such a scholar-official? Aren't you in the pit? " Then a decree was issued to take Yu Cong's four daughters, Princess Guangde, as his concubine. The history books don't record whether poor Princess Yongfu finally got married. As the saying goes, "the emperor's daughter is not worried about marriage." When the emperor's daughter arrives at Chen Li, she should worry about getting married.
Fortunately, Princess Guangde has a noble character. In Guan Cong, she respects her husband from top to bottom. Like other daughters-in-law, she ranks old and young, never shows her special status, and there is no trace of "fighting for her father", which is praised by the world. Li Chen, the first father in the world, was very satisfied with Princess Guangde's marriage, but her husband and wife ended in tragedy. According to "East View Record", in the first year of Zhonghe, Huang Chao attacked Chang 'an and Tang Xizong escaped. Yu Cong was a left servant at that time, so he couldn't follow because of illness. After entering the city, Huang Chao claimed to be Emperor Daqi and forced Yu Cong to be the prime minister. In the name of illness, Yu Cong said, "I'm going to die." If you get married in the Tang Dynasty and don't get married, you are willing to die. "Huang Chao see plexus refused to surrender, and killed him. Princess Guangde saw her husband killed with her own eyes and cried and said, "I
Why was Emperor Xuanzong so strict with the princess? This is because many princesses in the Tang Dynasty failed to cultivate female virtues, which caused a bad social impact. Therefore, aristocratic children are reluctant to marry the princess. Among the numerous princesses in the Tang Dynasty, there were many princesses who were misbehaving, arrogant, immoral and vicious, which made them notorious and hated, which was rare in the dynasties of the past dynasties. Among these princesses, Princess Taiping and Princess Anle are the most notorious. They are arrogant and extravagant, corrupt and degenerate, indulge in hegemony, sell officials and titles, interfere in government affairs, and even plot to learn from Wu Zetian's coup, which leads to their notoriety. In view of this, Li Chen, who devoted himself to revitalizing the Tang Dynasty, took peace and happiness as a typical example to discipline his daughter, so as to change the bad views of the gentry on the princess. In order to make the gentry willing to marry the royal family, he had to take strict discipline on the princess. When he got married, he was as strict as ordinary women, and he must never "fight for his father" for his own specialty. Therefore, it seems unreasonable to treat the second princess. Everything Xuanzong did was to strengthen the influence of the royal family. He married a senior official and a big family, thus consolidating the rule of the Li and Tang dynasties.
After all, it is wise for Li Chen to educate her daughter and be strict with herself. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty set an example for ministers and people, greatly improved the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty at that time, and had a great influence on later generations.