Tang Dynasty: Beyond Time and Space, My Best Friend, Princess Jinyang!

"I've really learned a lot!" Li Shimin looked at the oranges and didn't expect that there were such sweet ones.

Li Lizhi told Li Shimin everything that happened in the morning.

Li Shimin and Empress Changsun felt the same way.

She felt that this was a preference for the little princess.

Li Lizhi and others had this feeling.

Seeing the two little princesses running away to play.

"Is this God's favor to Sizi?" Li Shimin murmured to himself.

"Maybe!" Empress Changsun hoped so.

The little princesses have been very happy recently.

The little princess also felt that her second sister liked her bunny shoes, so she took one off and gave it to Princess Chengyang.

These are slippers, which can be worn by both little princesses.

One for each of the two little princesses.

Seeing this scene, Empress Changsun and Li Shimin couldn't help laughing.

Empress Changsun and Li Shimin didn't object to this.

They felt that this was good, the two sisters didn't fight or compete, lived in harmony, and each got half of the good things.

"These two little girls." Li Shimin shook his head helplessly.

Empress Changsun picked up the teacup, "Your Majesty, drink tea."

"Well, good." Li Shimin took the teacup, "If there is really any favor from God, I hope that God can favor the queen and let you no longer be tortured by illness."

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Empress Changsun was deeply touched.

"Your Majesty, birth, aging, sickness and death are inevitable, there is no need to do this." Empress Changsun smiled, "I am satisfied that I can meet your majesty, marry you, and now I am the mother of the world."

"Empress..." Li Shimin's eyes turned red and his voice choked.

Li Shimin was a man of temperament and cried at every turn.

"Your Majesty, I feel that this life is worth it, and there is no regret. Birth, aging, sickness and death are all predetermined, so don't worry too much."

Empress Changsun felt that Li Shimin had always loved her, and it had never changed since they got married.

Empress Changsun looked at Li Lizhi and the two little princesses not far away. The only regret was that the children were still young.

Li Chengqian, Li Tai and Li Lizhi were slightly older, while Li Zhi, Princess Chengyang and Princess Jinyang were still young.

If she really left, Empress Changsun would be very worried about the children.

According to normal historical development, Princess Jinyang did not know for a long time after Empress Changsun's death.

When Empress Changsun died, Princess Jinyang was still very young, and she did not understand why her mother died because she was young.

Although she was accompanied by her father and brother day and night, over time, the little princess gradually felt that her life was different.

Although her father Li Shimin loved her, he could not replace her mother's love. As she grew up, the little princess realized that her mother had left forever and began to miss her mother.

Li Shimin would take Princess Jinyang with him when he went out on tours. Every time he passed by the places where Empress Changsun had visited during her lifetime, he would tell the little princess, and the little princess would always cry when she heard it.

Empress Changsun now feels that her health is getting worse and worse, and the imperial physicians are helpless against her illness.

What Empress Changsun is worried about is her young children.

"I don't allow you to say such things. You should be good to me. Sizi and the others are still young. If something happens to you, what will happen to Sizi and the others? What do you want me to do?"

Li Lizhi, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but wipe away her tears when she heard this.

Li Lizhi also felt that her mother's health was getting worse and worse.

Especially in winter, she would get sick easily, and even if she didn't get sick, she would be very weak.

Every time Empress Changsun got sick, Li Lizhi saw the expression of the imperial physicians.

Empress Changsun's illness was very difficult.

"Your Majesty, the children are here!" Empress Changsun was very moved when she saw Li Shimin crying.

Li Shimin was an emotional person.

Li Lizhi could feel it, and Li Shimin could naturally feel it too, that Empress Changsun's health was getting worse and worse.

Li Shimin was afraid that Empress Changsun would suddenly be gone.

"Your Majesty, you are the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Your crying will undermine your dignity as an emperor."

But at this moment, Li Shimin is no longer the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but just a husband who hopes his wife will recover.

Li Shimin shook his head and cried sadly, "I don't care!"

Li Shimin didn't dare to think about how lonely he would be if Empress Changsun was gone.

Even though there were many beauties in the harem, no one could compare with Empress Changsun.

Empress Changsun and Li Shimin experienced many things together. They were a couple in adversity.

During the Wude period, before the Xuanwu Gate incident, the contradiction between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng intensified, and Empress Changsun did not give up on mending the gap.

However, in the face of the injustice and blows suffered by her husband and his subordinates, Empress Changsun became more and more aware of the urgency of getting out of the predicament.

At this time, Empress Changsun did not retreat, and stood behind Li Shimin without hesitation, together with her brother Changsun Wuji and other Qin Wangfu officials such as Fang Xuanling, gave Li Shimin unreserved support.

Empress Changsun loved reading books and illustrated books, and she never put down her books even when she was dressing up.

She was still like this after becoming the empress.

She often held books with Li Shimin, talked about the past and the present, and calmly expressed her unique insights, which was of great benefit to Li Shimin and the government.

Li Shimin always loved Empress Changsun.

Empress Changsun took fullness as a warning and persuaded her brother to give up the throne. With Li Shimin's permission, Changsun Wuji was able to retreat from the position of prime minister with an idle position and high salary.

Empress Changsun also used her influence on Li Shimin to comfort the virtuous people in the court and correct Li Shimin's mistakes.

On the one hand, Empress Changsun appreciated and protected Wei Zheng's loyal ministers who dared to speak out, and on the other hand, she constantly reminded Li Shimin to be benevolent.

With her unique female strength, she played a unique role in the male-dominated feudal society, assisted Li Shimin, and created a favorable political situation in the early Tang Dynasty.

The emperor was wise, the queen was virtuous, the ministers were upright, the civil and military affairs were meritorious, the spring breeze was harmonious, and the people were kind and tolerant.

The early Tang Dynasty ushered in the ideal state of Zhenguan governance that made later generations dream.

Li Shimin did not believe in Buddhism. In order to pray for Empress Changsun, he issued an edict to repair 392 famous ancient temples in the world.

Li Shimin and Empress Changsun had been together since they were young, and they had been together for more than ten years. Even at the critical moment of life and death in the last years of Wude, they did not abandon each other.

Because she appreciated her husband's sincerity for her, Empress Changsun tied poison around her waist, ready to "not live alone if there is anything to hide."

There was no need to swear to express their love. Many times of life and death in dangers enhanced the deep affection between Li Shimin and Empress Changsun in the years of knowing and staying together.

No matter how the identities of the couple changed, they remained faithful.

When Li Shimin was faced with the posthumous works of Empress Changsun, he was in great grief and said to his courtiers, "Don't I know that the death of the Empress is destiny and I have to give up my love? But I can't help but feel sad when I think of losing my virtuous wife and good assistant." The deep love between Li Shimin and Empress Changsun was already obvious.

When Empress Changsun was buried, Li Shimin "personally attended the funeral and mourned for her deeply", and even wrote an inscription for her in person.

After Empress Changsun was buried in Zhaoling Mausoleum, Li Shimin could not stop missing her. In order to relieve the pain of missing her, he built a pavilion in the palace and looked at his wife's tomb all day long, and asked ministers to accompany him to mourn.

Although Li Shimin's behavior of remembering his wife in this way violated the tradition of etiquette, it was a true expression of the emperor's true feelings.

In that era when filial piety was the first priority and "husbands did not offer sacrifices to their wives", it was natural that Li Shimin was ridiculed and mocked for missing his wife so ostentatiously.

As a feudal emperor, Li Shimin was not unaware of this etiquette, but he still built a layered pavilion to look at Zhaoling Mausoleum, and even dragged his ministers to remember her.

It can only be that he was too deeply in love and couldn't control his feelings.

Although the layered pavilion was later demolished, Li Shimin's longing for his beloved wife did not stop because of this. Instead, it became more and more turbulent and difficult to control. So much so that in a reply to the imperial edict, he openly confided to the ministers that after his wife died, he was in a trance, forgot to eat, and could not sleep at night.