Do you know how vicious Li Hou’er is? It’s okay if you don’t know, the history encyclopedia editor will tell you.
As the old saying goes, a wasp’s tail needle is the most poisonous to a woman’s heart. This sentence is absolutely correct when it comes to Li Wan’er! At that time, Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne of her son Li Xian and demoted his entire family to Fang County, Hubei Province. The journey was bumpy, and Li Xian’s wife, Wei Shi, had a fetal movement and gave birth to a daughter prematurely. The conditions in the mountains were simple, so Li Xian wrapped his daughter in his own clothes and named her Li Hou’er.
When she grew up to the age of twelve or thirteen, Li Wan’er was very beautiful. The “New Book of Tang” praised her: her radiance moved the world! Perhaps as compensation for her childhood, Li Xian and his wife always responded to their daughter’s requests, which developed Li Hou’er’s proud, willful, and domineering personality and laid the groundwork for her tragedy later on. After Li Xian was reinstated, Li Hou’er became even more arrogant and built palaces, bought and sold officials, and allowed servants to forcibly seize civilians as servants. Yuan Congyi, the censor, arrested those wicked servants, but Li Xian, who loved his daughter dearly, ordered their release one by one. Yuan Cong couldn’t help but feel angry: How can Your Majesty govern the world if you treat the law as such a child’s play? Li Xian, however, did not take it seriously.
Seeing his father doting on him so much, Li Hou’er went even further. She wrote a decree asking Li Xian to appoint her as the Empress Dowager, and she actually wanted to learn to be Empress Wu Zetian! Li Wanger covered the contents of the imperial edict and acted coquettishly, asking Li Xian to stamp it. Fortunately, Tang Zhongzong did not get home confused and refused his daughter’s request. This is a great deal. Li Hou’er, who had an inflated desire for power, joined forces with his mother Empress Wei and Princess Taiping to poison Li Xian, and appointed 9-year-old Li Chongmao as the emperor, taking control of the court. Later, they had internal strife, and Princess Taiping joined forces with Li Longji to overthrow the Wei family. Li Hou’er was killed and dismembered.
Li Xian gave her the title of ‘Princess Anle’, symbolizing that she will be safe and happy for a lifetime. But I didn’t expect that unrestrained indulgence would harm both my daughter and myself. Because he supported his daughter, under the instigation of her husband Wu Chengsi, Li Hou’er bullied Crown Prince Li Chongjun and made things difficult for him, even calling him a “slave”. However, Li Chongjun dared not speak out in anger. Throughout Li Hou’er’s life, she was not worried about wealth and status but was spoiled. Her parents’ infinite indulgence in her created her tragedy.
