When Li Chen didn't become emperor, he was nicknamed "the retarded prince" and played dumb all day. Although emotions are invisible, actually my heart is like a mirror. This cold appearance painted him with a layer of camouflage and protection, so that he would not go out prematurely in the turbulent royal relationship. Nevertheless, he was persecuted and had to flee from the imperial city and become a monk and hide. After experiencing too many cruel and life-and-death tests, Li Chen finally became emperor as a dark horse that broke through the tight encirclement, which made Li Chen feel the impermanence and difficulty of life. Therefore, Li Chen pays special attention to the education and management of children. He asked his daughters to be diligent and take the lead in setting an example, and never allowed these second-generation emperors, second-generation officials and rich second generations to "compete for their fathers" and "cheat their fathers" and discredit their fathers as kings of a country.
Born in humble origins, his mother Zheng entered the harem as a concubine of a traitor and served as a servant girl for Guo Guifei. I was conceived by Tang Xianzong and gave birth to him, so I have been looked down upon by my royal relatives. Although he is both a prince and a royal middleman, he doesn't have much capital for his father, so he has developed a good character of frugality and simplicity. He acceded to the throne as a logistics political country, and he is not good at women. He spent a lot of money in the palace, which has reached the point of being stingy. He did it himself and asked his daughters to do the same.
Li Chen's eldest daughter, Princess Wanshou, was born to the Queen Chao. "The Story of the East View" said: "The daughter of Xuanzong, Princess Wanshou, loves the only one." He specially asked the teacher to teach the princess manners and morals. When the princess reached the age of marriage, Li Chen personally chose a good husband for her. The person Xu He wanted to recruit had better come from the gentry and passed the Jinshi exam. When selecting books, he took a fancy to Lang, the proofreading book of Zheng Zhisun, the champion and prime minister of the period. His knowledge and portal are suitable. The marriage of Princess Wanshou is a sensational event in the ruling and opposition circles. According to the custom of the court, luxury cars and horses decorated with silver berths should be used when getting married, but Tang Xuanzong kept a low profile and asked his daughter to use bronze chariots and horses used by general ministers. The grade suddenly dropped from Mercedes-Benz BMW to Toyota Honda. You can imagine the grievances in the hearts of Princess Wanshou at that time. Just as Princess Wanshou was condescending and complaining that her father, who was the best in the world, didn't give her face, Xuanzong spoke. He warned his daughter with a serious face: Although you are my daughter, don't pay attention to "fighting for dad" wherever you go, like those officials of the second generation. If you want to marry a chicken and follow a dog, you must strictly abide by women's etiquette when you get to your husband's house. Never treat your husband's family as the emperor's daughter. If you dare to put on airs and bully others, I will not spare you. Therefore, Zheng Hao became the only champion in history.
After Princess Wanshou got married, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty always worried that the princess would be ill-bred in the palace and would violate women's morality when she arrived at her husband's family. So every time the princess went back to the palace to see her, Xuanzong would tell her, "No husband's family, no current affairs." That is to say, we should not despise our husband's family as royalty, nor should we interfere in state affairs. He also said: "The disasters of Princess Taiping and Princess Anle must be stopped!" That's not enough. Xuanzong specially wrote an imperial edict to the princess: "If you violate my precepts, there will be a disaster of peace and happiness. You encourage 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 the princess where she was at this time. The eunuch replied that the princess was watching a play at Jean Temple. Tang Xuanzong was furious and sighed deeply: "I sometimes blame the scholar-officials for not wanting to marry the princess, which is understandable, because everyone still cares about my face, and now I finally understand this truth." So I asked the eunuch around me to call the princess at once. First, let the princess get off the station at the foot of the steps, left her in the cold for a long time, and then reprimanded her face to face: "Brother-in-law is sick, but where is the truth of sister-in-law?" If this gets out, people will not only say that you are unreasonable, but I am also afraid that your father didn't educate you well! "When the princess saw her father so angry, her calf twitched. She knelt down in fear and begged for mercy. She said that she would turn over a new leaf from now on and be a virtuous and filial daughter-in-law good sister-in-law, so as to maintain the good reputation of the first father in the world. Tang Xuanzong said to the princess earnestly, "There are national laws and family rules. In the imperial court, you are a princess chitose. In the Zheng family, if you are a daughter-in-law, you should be a woman. " After discipline, Princess Wanshou couldn't help but deeply blame herself. She quickly prepared many gifts and then returned to Fuzheng to visit her brother-in-law.
Princess Yongfu, the second daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, should get married, and her husband is hard to find, so Li Chen had to propose publicly. Ma Xu Zheng Hao found his friend Yu Yan, who is also a scholar. Yu Cong's father was also born in the Imperial Examination. Because of his honest and clean temperament, he didn't climb to the top of the rich and powerful, but just became a small official with no power and no power. The four brothers in the family are all scholars, and the scholars in middle school have only obtained the qualification of being an official. If they want to be officials, they have to wait until the quota is full. Therefore, Zheng Hao is very worried about Yu Yan. He said, "Although you are talented, you are bold and unconstrained. I'm not good at speaking on the spot, and I won't abuse power for personal gain. Like you, I'm afraid it's hard to wait for a promotion all your life. Now my emperor's father-in-law is openly recruiting, which is your chance. " Yu Cong thought it was reasonable and applied it. Li Chen immediately engaged Princess Yongfu and Yu Cong. One day, Princess Yongfu and the Emperor's Father had dinner together. During the dinner, Princess Yongfu lost her princess temper in front of her father for a trivial matter 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 the princess in front of your father? How can you marry such a scholar-official? Aren't you lying? " Immediately ordered the fourth daughter Princess Guangde to marry Cong. The history books don't record whether poor Princess Yongfu finally got married. As the saying goes, "The emperor's daughter doesn't worry about getting married". When Li Chen comes, the emperor's daughter will also worry about getting married.
Fortunately, Princess Guangde is virtuous and virtuous. She has great respect for her husband Yu Cong's family. Whenever there is a crown, marriage or funeral in the family, she, like other daughters-in-law, queues up in the order of generations, never showing her special status, and there is no trace of "fighting for her father", which is very 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 unfortunately. According to the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, when Huang Chao attacked Chang 'an in the first year of Zhonghe (AD 88 1 year), Tang Xizong fled, while Yu Cong was a left servant and could not 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 words of illness, Yu Cong said, "I am very ill and will die soon." If you marry the Tang family, you will die willingly if you don't get burned. "Huang Chao saw Cong refused to submit, so he killed him. Princess Guangde saw her husband killed with her own eyes and cried, "My concubine, Li's daughter, is not alone. She wants to die with her. "Huang Chao forbid. The princess hanged herself when she came home. Princess Guangde, who is righteous and upright, did not disgrace her father.
Why did Emperor Xuanzong of Tang discipline the princess so severely? It is precisely because many princesses in the Tang Dynasty did not cultivate women's virtue, which caused very bad social influence, so the children of the gentry were unwilling to marry princesses. Among the numerous princesses in the Tang Dynasty, many were misbehaving, arrogant and unreasonable, unruly and fierce, and even princesses were notorious and hated by people, which was rare in all previous dynasties. Among these princesses, Princess Taiping and Princess Anle are the most notorious. They are extravagant and corrupt, greedy and indulgent, overbearing, selling officials and titles, interfering in state affairs, and even plotting to learn from Wu Zetian's coup. As a result, they were discredited and notorious. In view of this, Li Chen, who was bent on reviving the Tang Dynasty, took Tai Ping and An Le as a negative 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 strictly discipline the princess, and when he got married, he also asked to strictly observe women's morality like ordinary women, and he must never "fight for dad" for specialization. In this way, it seems unreasonable to treat the second princess. Everything that Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty painstakingly managed was to strengthen the influence of the royal family by marrying important officials and aristocratic families, thus consolidating the declining 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 the ministers and ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty, greatly improved the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and had a great influence on later emperors.