How did Li Xian, prince of Zhang Huai in the Tang Dynasty in Demos, die? Suicide or homicide?

Prince Li Huai, named Mingyun, is the second son of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian.

On April 25th, 675, Prince Li Hong died suddenly. On June 5th, 20-year-old Li Xian was appointed Crown Prince.

In May of four years in Yifeng, Li Xian made friends with Zhao Daosheng, a domestic slave, and paid him handsomely. Wei Chengqing, a Zhengzhou native who was then the secretary of the conference, wrote to persuade them. On the third day of May, the admonition doctor Ming Chongyan was assassinated. Ming Chongyang will visit fortune-teller and hate witchcraft. People often say privately, "Prince Li Xian can't inherit the throne, and King Li Zhe looks like Emperor Taizong". Because these words were not conducive to the Prince, Wu Zetian suspected that Li Xian had killed Ming Chongzhen. Xue and Pei Yan were ordered to interrogate together, and hundreds of pieces of black armor were found in the East Palace stable, which became the material evidence of the rebellion. Zhao Daosheng confessed that Li Xian ordered him to kill Chongming. On August 22nd, Li Xian was abolished as Shu Ren and sent to Chang 'an for imprisonment. In the second year of Chun, he was demoted to Bazhou. On February 27th, the first year of civilization, Li Xian finally became a resident of Bazhou, and the spring and autumn period was 3 1. On April 22nd of the first year of the vertical arch, Wu Zetian ordered Li Xian to be named King Yong.

As for the cause of his death, the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty said that "General Qiu of Sargingo was ordered to patrol the fairy house in Bazhou to prevent danger. God shut himself in another room and forced him to commit suicide ",New Tang Book.

In fact, even if the so-called Li Xian rebellion was framed, it was handled by Tang Gaozong. Wu Zetian doesn't love her son. It is unreasonable to directly blame Wu Zetian for Li Xianzhi's death.

The password of Li Xianzhi's death was hidden in the time when "Feng Yi resettled Bazhou".

According to "Old Tang Book, New Tang Book and Zi Zhi Tong Jian", in November of the first year of Yao Kai, Gui Mao "migrated from Xi 'an, Shu Ren to Bazhou"; According to the Biography of Prince Huai in Chapter 36 of the Old Tang Dynasty and the Preface to the Tomb of King Huai of Tang Dynasty, Li Xian "moved to Bazhou to settle down" in Yongchun for two years. It should be said that the record of "two years of Yongchun" in the epitaph is credible, but it lacks the month. The Chronicle of the Old Emperor Taizong's Emperor Gaozong is wrong in year, and November Guimao is not wrong. Therefore, the specific time for Li Xian to "move to Bazhou" is November 14th in Yongchun. On June 5438+065438+ 10 this year, Tang Gaozong's life entered the countdown, and he had to arrange his own funeral. It goes without saying that it is necessary to move Li Xian to Bazhou. The reason is that Emperor Gaozong must clear the way and eliminate the threat for Prince Li Xian before his funeral. Who is the threat? It goes without saying that Prince Li Xian, who was once under house arrest in Chang 'an, is famous. However, the palm of your hand is full of meat. How could the emperor have the heart to kill his son Li Xian! What should I do? Inner love contains a dying old man's deep love for his son. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decided to exile Li Xian to Bazhou. After that, the emperor's letters quickly spread to Chang 'an. After receiving the imperial edict, Li Xian was ready to set out, and then crossed the rugged Qinling Mountains to marry and have children in Bazhou. This process takes about three months. At this point, we compare the time of Li Xian's death "February 27th of the first year of civilization" with the imperial edict of Emperor Gaozong "November 14th of the second year of Yongchun", with only three months and thirteen days in between. This shows that Li Xian died in Bazhong within ten or eight days at most. Why is this happening? First of all, Li Xian is weak; Second, he can't stand humiliation and fatigue; Third, he felt sad at the news of his father's death; Fourth, I am disappointed with the future. When several factors combined, Li Xian died.

In the past 20 years, Tang Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong sealed Li Xian twice and buried Ganling.

There are two inscriptions in the Preface to the Epitaph of Emperor Yong of Tang Dynasty. One says "I stayed in another pavilion in Bazhou" and the other says "I finally lived in Bazhou House", without mentioning "killing people". From this, we can draw the conclusion that Li Xian died in this house after he arrived in Bazhou.

At that time, Cao Cao did not choose Cao Zhi as his successor. According to the author Chen Shou's evaluation of Cao Zhi's "willfulness, self-encouragement and alcoholism" in the epitaph of Huai Wang and qinghe princess in the Tang Dynasty, isn't Li Xian the same? Your parents love you enough, but you can't get on the wall, so no one can save you.

: "In the first year of civilization, the day is coming. General Qiu of Sargingo is going to Bazhou to inspect schools and noble houses in case of foreign invasion. God shut himself in another room and forced him to commit suicide. He is thirty-two years old. " The message given by this passage is that Wu Zetian did not explain or imply that Qiu wanted him to kill people, but forced suicide was purely Qiu's own decision. If Wu Zetian overtly or covertly forces Qiu to death, the usual practice is to kill him. He died before Qiu returned to Luoyang, but he returned to Luoyang unharmed, so this problem does not exist. In fact, it is also problematic to say that Qiu committed suicide by force. How dare QiuJi force the emperor and Tianhou's son to commit suicide? Besides, in the second year, Qiu was convicted of treason. When he moved the body back to Ganling for burial, if Qiu really did it, the epitaph could name Qiu, but it didn't. So this doesn't exist either. The fact should be that Qiu probably knew he was dead before he left Luoyang, and he handled the affairs on behalf of the court.

Li Xian failed to seize the historical opportunity, went his own way, was caught and framed, and lost the position of the prince. When I was in exile in Bazhou, I completely lost hope of life.

My heart is broken and my life is withered. This should be the basic clue of Li Xianzhi's death.