People have always had a muqiang mentality, to say that this strong person from ancient times to the present, many people blurt out that it is the only empress wu Zetian in ancient Chinese history, so the comments and portrayals of Wu Zetian in later generations are also very many.
Whether it is the written history of the wild or the film and television quotation portrayal after the development of science and technology literature and art today, the world wants to dig into some history about this great woman from a comprehensive perspective.
In fact, the comments of later generations on Wu Zetian are indeed mixed, but the reason why the strength and greatness mentioned at the beginning of this article are mainly based on his historical contributions and talents in terms of the overall situation, after all, in the ancient centralized society where men were in power.
The appearance of Wu Zetian is indeed of extraordinary significance.
Wu Zetian's road to power
According to relevant historical records, Wu Zetian's ancestral home was Wenshui Prefecture, which is present-day Wenshui County, Shanxi. She was born in a family of eunuchs, and her father paid great attention to her education and cultivation from an early age, and she herself was indeed very astute and studious, and she had reached the point of proficiency in eighteen martial arts by about the age of thirteen or fourteen.
The Wu clan, who had cultivated into a talent, entered the deep palace that made her strive for a lifetime during the eleventh year of Zhenguan. Wu Zetian was indeed a beautiful woman, which was also documented, otherwise she would not have been elected to the palace at a young age, and Tang Taizong also gave her the title of Wu Mei.
At first, Wu Zetian's outstanding appearance coupled with the extraordinary talent and wisdom of ordinary women really made Li Shimin deeply immersed, but Li Shimin was a person who could listen to and persuade very well.
Because at that time, some anecdotal rumors about Wu Zetian had already reached Emperor Taizong's ears, and many ministers had also advised Wu Cairen against him.
In addition, tang Taizong gradually discovered that Wu Meiniang was not only brilliant, she was far different from other concubines' strategies and boldness, and her means of handling things were also extremely fierce calculations, so the later Li Shimin almost gave up this martial talent who attacked the heart.
Therefore, during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Wu Zetian was always just a martial artist who stood still. However, the crown prince at that time, Li Zhi, found this beautiful person chosen by his father, and he was really hooked by her delicacy, so the two also had many contacts in private.
Twenty-three years after Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang died, and Li Tang ushered in the occasion of a change of generation. But according to the royal ancestral system,
Any of the former imperial concubines who did not have children had to go to the Ganye Temple to eat and pray to the Buddha for the rest of their lives.
Due to the long-term estrangement of Wu Zetian by Li Shimin, he naturally failed to give birth to a dragon heir for the imperial family. So he was shaved and thrown into the temple.
But at this time, she still had the last chance to turn over, that is, Li Zhi's gentle affection for her. Wu Meiniang, who had been with the green lantern and yellow scroll all day, no longer wanted to sit still in this place far away from the world, so she tried to send a letter to Li Zhi.
After receiving Wu Meiniang's letter expressing his thoughts, Li Zhi could not hold back his own foolish heart, and despite the objections of other old ministers, insisted on going to the Ganye Temple to visit Wu Shi.
And it was also in this Ganye Temple that the feelings of the two people who had been separated for a long time were rapidly heated up, and finally Li Zhi took them back to the palace.
At this time, Wu Meiniang was no longer in the same situation as being snubbed by Li Shimin in the past, and Li Zhi's thoughts were all spent on her, so she decided to grasp this exclusive favor and take the opportunity to exert her strength.
Clear the barriers
The relationship between Wu Zetian and Li Zhi has been stable and beautiful for many years after that, and Li Zhi is willing to listen to her opinions in many aspects.
In this way, the status and power in the hands of Wu Zetian also rose day by day.
In addition, in the feudal dynasty, there was a saying that the mother relied on the son to be noble, and Wu Zetian gave birth to a son and daughter for Li Zhi before and after, which made Li Zhi more immersed in the beautiful love between the two of them.
After rising in power, Wu Zetian also began to find ways to remove the obstacles around her that hindered her development, the first of which was Li Zhi's then empress dowager and his favorite concubine Xiao Shufei.
The two of them were very unsophisticated with Wu Zetian in their daily lives, so they launched a decisive battle with them in the deep palace.
In the end, Wu Zetian of course defeated his opponent perfectly, and thus smoothly ascended to the position of empress. However, some of the old courtiers in the court had always been very dissatisfied with Empress Wu's ascension to the throne, and always bluntly pointed out to Li Zhi that wu was not.
If it weren't for Li Zhi's wholehearted love for her, I'm afraid he would have been beaten into the cold palace by the words and two words of these old ministers. Therefore, she began to think of resisting changsun Wujie in a legal way, and eliminated all the loyal and righteous ministers left by the former emperor, headed by Changsun Wujie, thus deepening the rule of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
In order to develop her own resources and power, she even tried her best to persuade Emperor Gaozong of Tang to make the son of the two of them crown princes, so that her position as empress was also more secure.
Later, as Li Zhi's health deteriorated, he simply entrusted the administration of the dprk to his trusted Empress Wu Zetian for control.
At this point, Wu Zetian became the real power of the Li Tang Dynasty. Nominally helping her husband take care of government affairs, in fact, he has already begun to seize the opportunity to develop his own power and resources. He began to wave his sleeves at the courtiers who raised objections to her.
The fierceness of the means has indeed weakened the gossip above the court a lot.
He ascended the throne as emperor
After Emperor Gaozong of Tang's death, the crown prince Li Xian successfully ascended the throne, but Wu Zetian never really delegated power, and everything above the imperial program was in the hands of Wu Zetian, and Li Xian himself was cowardly by nature and did not dare to disobey Wu Zetian at all.
Soon after, Li Xian was dragged from the throne by his mother and replaced by Li Dan, and after several tosses, Wu Zetian finally chose to call himself emperor and change the name of the country to Zhou.
In fact, among the actions of Wu Zetian herself after ascending the throne, the biggest controversy caused by her developing male pets in the harem.
The Zhang brothers were the ones that Wu Zetian liked very much at that time, and it could be said that they were like exclusive pets.
The Zhang brothers also ran amok in the harem because of this grace, and once they actually clashed head-on with Wu Zetian's grandson Li Chongrun. But what he didn't expect was that after hearing the news, Emperor Wu actually severely punished his own grandson.
Such a move caused a lot of discussion in the imperial court, and Di Renjie really couldn't bear to look at it at this time, so he bluntly pointed out to Wu Zetian the troublesome behavior of the Zhang brothers, and even proposed to directly get rid of him and the Zhang brothers in one fell swoop.
Wu Zetian heard this, and spread her hair out, she pointed it out to Di Renjie, who was more than half a hundred years old, she actually had a few new black hairs, and she opened her mouth to identify a healthy and tender new tooth to Di Renjie.
Di Renjie didn't say anything for a while, and he never mentioned the eradication of the Zhang family after that.
Di Renjie understood the intention of Wu Zetian to leave the Zhang clan and the two of them, as a prince of a country who worked day and night on state affairs.
Being able to please Emperor Wu because of his two Zhang clans and make a person who is more than an old man have new black hair and new teeth is really her wisdom.
As the king of a country, you can get this method to balance the entire imperial court, and Di Renjie also deeply admires it and will not say more.