What did the wisest and foolish of Wu Zetian s sons do to get a good death in the end?

He had no intention of competing for the throne and was very cowardly and incompetent, so he died a good death.

Because he has always kept a low profile to hide his true strength.

Because he knows that only by pretending to be crazy and stupid can he survive to the end, so he is very low-key.

I feel that in the end, I can only rely on pretending to be crazy and stupid to achieve the last stability.

Wu Zetian had four sons, of which the eldest son Li Hong died suddenly in 675, the second son Li Xian was forced to commit suicide in 684, the third son Li Xian was killed by his wife and daughter in 710, and the fourth son Li Dan died of illness in 716.

Li Hong was born in 653, and because Wu Zetian was favored, even his son was quite popular with Gaozong. Two years after his birth, Li Hong was named acting king. After 656 years of reign, he was canonized as the crown prince.

Li Hong has a benevolent and filial temperament, and is kind and sympathetic to his brothers and sisters and the common people. In addition, Li Hong also participated in the compilation of "Yaoshan Yucai". At that time, the hundred officials of the court, as well as Gaozong and Wu Zetian, were very optimistic about Li Hong, but they never thought that Li Hong, who was already in weak health, suddenly died of illness in 675.

For this reason, Gaozong, who was grieved, also posthumously crowned Li Hong as emperor for the first time in history, that is, to honor the emperor. <>

After Li Hong's death, Li Xian, who had been originally named King Lu, was made crown prince shortly after. Li Xian is also very virtuous and intelligent, so Gaozong is also very fond of him. But on the other hand, Wu Zetian doesn't have much affection for this second son, and she is even suspicious of Li Xian.

In 679, Ming Chongyan, who was very favored by Wu Zetian, was suddenly killed, and Wu Zetian suspected that Li Xian had done it. Based on this suspicion, Wu Zetian sent someone to expose Li Xian's treason in the second year, and demanded that Gaozong kill his relatives in righteousness. Under these circumstances, Li Xian was first deposed, and then forced to commit suicide by Wu Zetian in 684.

The reason that prompted Wu Zetian to send people to harm Li Xian was the change of the throne of the Tang Dynasty. In 684, Li Xian, the third son of Wu Zetian, ascended the throne due to the death of Gaozong. Li Xian had been named King of Zhou and King of England successively, and was further promoted to crown prince due to the deposition of Li Xian.

After he ascended the throne, he insisted on making an exception to promote his father-in-law Wei Xuanzhen to the middle of the service, which caused Wu Zetian's dissatisfaction, and was then deposed. After being deposed for more than ten years, Li Xian was re-established as the crown prince in 698. In 704, the "Shenlong Coup" broke out, and Li Xian ascended the throne ahead of schedule.

Li Dan, like Li Xian, was once emperor twice. Li Dan first became emperor in 684, and the opportunity was when Li Xian was deposed. After ascending the throne this time, Li Dan has been letting Wu Zetian listen to the government, and in 690, he directly gave up the throne to Wu Zetian.

Li Dan's second reign as emperor was in 710, and the opportunity was the occurrence of the Tanglong coup. After Li Xian's death, his queen Wei was powerful in the court, and the court was in chaos. Soon after, Li Dan's son Li Longji staged a coup d'état with Princess Taiping, and Empress Wei and her henchmen were killed.

After Lisen, Li Dan was once again proclaimed emperor. In 716, Li Dan died of illness.

They all ended miserably, because Wu Zetian wanted to be the emperor herself, so she was very cruel to her sons.

Some people became emperors, some became princes, some died, and the endings of her children were good and bad.

Li Hong, the fifth son of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty, and his mother was Wu Zetian. In 655, he was named acting king; In 656, the original crown prince Li Zhong was deposed and Li Hong was appointed crown prince.

Li Hong, Tang Gaozong, and Empress Wu died violently when they went to Hebi Palace together, and most people thought that Empress Wu poisoned him, but there is a saying that he died early because he was already sick and weak. Tang Gaozong was so grieved that he called him "filial piety to the emperor and his return".

Li Xianzi Mingyun, the sixth son of Tang Gaozong and the second son of Wu Zetian. Li Xian was elegant when he was young, and he often read a book and never forgot it, and he was very intelligent, so he was deeply loved by Gaozong.

This is because everything Wu Zetian does is to stabilize his regime. So he will get rid of some people who are not conducive to his political situation, and these two sons with average IQ are no threat to themselves, so they stay.

It's because she thinks that leaving these two sons with average IQ can be unnoticeable, and these two sons will live very well in the future, so she will do this.

The eldest son Li Hong died of illness, the second son Li Xian finally committed suicide, the third son Li Xian was later killed by his wife and daughter, and the fourth son Li Dan became the emperor.

Their endings were very bad, and their final endings were very tragic. Especially since the eldest son died at a very young age.

The eldest son, Li Hong, was originally the crown prince, but died at a young age. The second son, Li Xian, was later elected as the crown prince, but due to his great ambition and opposition to Wu Zetian, Empress Wu Zetian was deposed and died in the fief. The third son, Li Xian, was relatively cowardly, became the emperor and was deposed, became the crown prince in the late Wu Zetian period, and finally became the emperor again.

The fourth son, Li Dan, also served as an emperor, but he always wanted to abdicate and finally let Wu Zetian become emperor.