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In the long river of our ancient history, during the An Lushan Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the situation was extremely chaotic, and it was also the most chaotic moment of the entire dynasty. At that time, the emperor gave up Chang’an and prepared to flee to other places. Although it is considered an escape, the status of the royal family is ultimately different from that of ordinary people. Even if it is an escape, the royal family must prepare for a long time and handle many details properly. Although it is an escape, we cannot mistreat the royal children and the emperor. However, with a large number of royal children and accompanying personnel, there will always be some unnoticed aspects that inevitably leave some people behind. A woman went missing during that time period and was not found until later. This woman is not an ordinary woman, she is Empress Shen of the Tang Dynasty.
This Empress Shen was originally just a small concubine, but in the Kaiyuan era, she was selected to enter the Eastern Palace. Shen is a very beautiful woman. In addition, she was also relatively gentle and virtuous, so she was very popular with Li Yu, the Prince of Guangping at that time, and successfully gave birth to a child. This child was the first child of the Prince of Guangping, still a boy, so Shen’s status in Li Yu’s eyes was even higher. But soon in that war, Chang’an was captured and Li Longji hurriedly fled. At that time, Shen was unable to escape and was captured and imprisoned by the rebels. In the following time, Li Yu still found her in Yeting. Coincidentally, at that time, Li Yu had already been appointed as the crown prince, but she was not given any status at that time and was left in Luoyang. Later, Luoyang was also captured, and Shen fled. No one knows where she fled to. Later, after the war was quelled, Li Yu successfully ascended to the throne and also appointed Shen’s son as the crown prince. At that time, they began to search for Shen’s whereabouts, but despite mobilizing many people, there was still no news.
After Li Yu passed away, Li Shi, the son of this city, became the emperor, and the title of the Shen family was added as the empress dowager. Although Li Yu had been searching for Shen for more than ten years without any results, Li Shi never gave up and continued to search for her mother. Many helpless things happened during this process. Some people even wanted to impersonate the Empress Dowager, although some looked very similar, they were eventually exposed and sent to prison. He longed to find his mother soon, to make up for all the hardships her had endured over the years, and to fulfill his filial piety, but in the end, God did not give him a chance. At the time of his death, he was still unable to find his mother.
After the death of Emperor Dezong Li Shi, his eldest son inherited his throne and continued to send people to search for the Shen family. As soon as there was news, he quickly sent people to investigate, also to fulfill his father’s filial piety. Unfortunately, he passed away seven months after inheriting the throne, and someone else succeeded him while continuing to search for the Shen family. Just looking like this, I have been searching continuously for 42 years. Unfortunately, we were unable to find it in the end. There are rumors in the countryside that this woman may have been tired of the royal life and had been hiding from people looking for her. In the end, she found a relatively peaceful and peaceful place to live the life she wanted. There are also rumors that she died on the way long ago, otherwise she wouldn’t have searched for 42 years without any news or results. Although this woman did not have anything particularly memorable, she was searched for by four emperors and spent 42 years, which can be considered a legendary life.
