|| Born in the sea and bright moon
In 2013, Shaanxi Airport New City.
In a cemetery five kilometers north of the city, a group of people held their breath to clean up the floating soil on the tombstone, and before long, six desolate handwritings came into view, and everyone was shocked.
Those six words are not "the death of those who trespass on the cemetery", but the usual sentence: "Thirteen years old is a talented person." ”
This is a group of archaeologists, they excavated the tomb more than a thousand years ago, the owner of the tomb is called "Scarf Prime Minister" Shangguan Wan'er.
As the senior secretary of Empress Wu Zetian, Shangguan Wan'er's popularity was not low, and after being a criminal courtier, Shangguan Wan'er was deeply appreciated by Wu Zetian and Tang Zhongzong for her outstanding talent, and twice monopolized her power to participate in government affairs, and was eventually killed by Li Longji, the king of Linzi, which attracted endless sympathy from later generations.
With the excavation of the inscription in shangguan wan'er's tomb, a little-known history has also emerged in front of the eyes of the world.
01
In 677 AD, the appearance of a girl made Wu Zetian look like a man.
Since becoming empress, no one has been able to challenge the authority of her Tang Dynasty heroine, and those women who may compete for favors have all been purged, even if they are the queen's close relatives.
However, now this girl named Shangguan Wan'er was secretly named a talented person by her husband Li Zhi, and this year she was only 13 years old, a year younger than Wu Zetian, who served the former emperor as a talented person.
13 years ago, after Emperor Gaozong of Tang was dissatisfied with Empress Wu Zetian's monopoly and secretly ordered the chancellor Shangguan Yi to draft an edict to be abolished, he did not expect to face the empress's cross-examination, and Tang Gaozong immediately confessed, claiming that he had no knowledge of all this, all of which was Shangguan Yi's personal behavior.
The enraged Wu Zetian immediately counterattacked, and ordered that Shangguan Yi's father and son be executed, and Shangguan Yi's granddaughter Shangguan Wan'er was in infancy at the time, so she survived and was sent to the palace as a slave together with her mother Zheng.
"When was this lady named a talented man?" Isn't it an opportunity to take revenge? Thinking of this, Wu Zetian couldn't help but shiver.
She decided to summon Shangguan Wan'er first to see what was so special about this lowly slave.
When the paviliond Shangguan Wan'er appeared in front of her, Wu Zetian immediately fell: although she grew up at the bottom, she smiled and became a person, and the interview pass was a high score.
In the next written test, Shangguan Wan'er's performance was even more amazing, taking over the proposition composition and waving it, and the literary style was as natural as heaven.
If such a talent does some more sewing and washing work, will it not be a violent thing? Wu Zetian couldn't help but feel sorry for him, and immediately ordered that Shangguan Wan'er be relieved of her status as a slave and put her in charge of the palace's edicts.
The arduous experience of childhood made Shangguan Wan'er's mind more mature than that of her peers: after a sinner like her, if she wanted to counterattack, she could only get rid of the shackles of the bottom first, and now was a perfect opportunity.
As for the revenge of killing the father, it is actually meaningless, because in the face of the supreme imperial power, life and death are nothing more than a word.
Wu Hou's words can destroy the Shangguan family, and it can also restore the family's former glory with one sentence.
02
In 690, Wu Zetian was proclaimed emperor and changed his name to Yuan Dazhou.
Shangguan Wan'er, who was deeply appreciated, made her way to the top of the clouds and became wu Zetian's inner sheren.
At first, this was a position responsible for drafting edicts, and as the empress grew old and faltered, the government and the people's livelihood were also inseparable from the participation of Shangguan Wan'er, and she also became the second person in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
When Wu Zetian ascended the throne, she was already over the age of Hua Jia, and with the passage of time, she became moody, even if Shangguan Wan'er deliberately greeted her, she could not avoid falling for the crime of disobeying the holy will.
Once, the enraged Wu Zetian prepared to execute Shangguan Wan'er, but wencai, who pitied her, should be sentenced to the punishment of face decay.
The tattooing of the motif on the face of the prisoner is a highly insulting punishment, especially for a woman like Shangguan Wan'er, who is in her prime and in a high position, which is tantamount to social death.
Shangguan Wan'er had the power to turn decay into magic, she slightly modified the pattern on her forehead and turned it into a red plum blossom, and the original beautiful facial features became more delicate and moving, and even Wu Zetian couldn't help but admire it after looking at it.
In this way, Shangguan Wan'er, who is well versed in the rules of the power game, wanders in the political blade, and if it were not for the coup d'état fifteen years later, she might have ended up in the harem.
In 705, when Wu Zetian's life was in danger, five old ministers led by Zhang Kamzhi launched a coup d'état to support the deposed Li Xian's ascension to the throne and force Wu Zetian to abdicate.
A generation of empresses retired from the scene, known in history as the "Shenlong Coup".
Li Xian, who had returned to the imperial court, admired Shangguan Wan'er's talent, and not only let her continue to be responsible for drafting the edict, but also included her in the harem, and made her Erpin Zhaorong, and her mother Zheng Shijia was made Lady Peiguo.
Shangguan Yi's father and son, who were convicted of words at that time, were also rehabilitated and posthumously given a nickname to show praise, and no one expected that the infant girl in the swaddling would make this dying family prosper again.
03
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er was nearly forty years old, but in Li Xian's eyes, she was still a little cute sister of intellectual literature and art.
As the ruler of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xian was dimwitted and mediocre, but as a tianzi licking dog, Li Xian's performance was impeccable.
Shangguan Wan'er loved poetry, so Li Xian set up the Zhaowen Pavilion, gathered the world's masters who were proficient in poetry, and under the auspices of Shangguan Wan'er, gave poetry and singing, and rewarded the officials with excellent performance.
Shangguan Wan'er loved to collect books, so Li Xian issued an edict to smoke all her 10,000 volumes of books with precious spices, and hundreds of years later, these books were scattered among the people and still fragrant.
In order to facilitate Shangguan Wan'er to hold literary and art salons, Li Xian also ordered people to wear ponds and build rocks and extremely carved ornaments in Shangguan Wan'er's residence, which attracted many courtiers to linger among them, including young talents who wanted to climb Shangguan Wan'er, as well as fallen officials who were impeached, and ambitious ambitions with sinister intentions.
Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi (武三思), in his early years, fooled his aunt into making himself crown prince, and if it were not for the advice of The Prime Minister Di Renjie, he would have almost succeeded.
Seeing Li Xian's virtue now, the little flame in his heart rose again: As long as the water is muddy, do I still have no chance?
Therefore, he united with Empress Wei shi and Princess Anle to get rid of the five heroes who launched the Shenlong coup, and installed all his own people in important posts.
In such an unscrupulous exclusion of dissidents, Crown Prince Li Chongjun could not bear it.
In 707, Li Chongjun led a three-hundred-feather Lin army to kill Wu Sansi and his cohorts, and then attacked Xuanwu Gate all the way, preparing to kill Princess Wei shi and Princess Anle who were hiding in the palace.
Just at this moment, a person suddenly appeared on the city tower, Li Xian.
Dancing with a knife and a gun in front of Tianzi is a major crime to destroy the door, and these Yu Lin jun are not stupid: "You are still a family behind closed doors, we want to take the lives of the whole clan to play with you?" For a while, the birds and beasts scattered, and Li Chongjun was also killed in the rebel army.
After Wu Sansi's death, the strength of Wei's party declined greatly, and Wei Shi, who had no female protagonist's life but had a female protagonist's disease, also planned to emulate his mother-in-law's addiction to becoming emperor.
After some planning, Wei Shi poisoned Li Xian, made another son Li Chongmao a puppet emperor, and took control of the guards of the north and south of the capital and important positions in the imperial court, and at the same time began to have henchmen write to Wei Hou and emulate Wu Zetian as emperor.
In Shangguan Wan'er's view, Wei Shi was simply dizzy.
The living Li Xian is her best shelter, and now there are also the Imperial Princess Taiping Fair, the Xiang King Li Dan and the Linzi King Li Longji and other Li family royal families outside the court, her wave of brainless operations, is not sending people's heads?
04
Shangguan Wan'er once again made the right choice and resolutely defected to Li Longji's party.
On the eighteenth day after Li Xian's death, Li Longji led an army into XuanwuMen, and he claimed that Wei Shi's crime of poisoning and killing the former emperor should be punished, and a large number of Yulin troops transformed into the leading party on the spot, and the unsuspecting Wei Shi was killed, and all the henchmen were also beheaded, known in history as the "Tang Long Coup".
Shangguan Wan'er, who heard about this, did not panic, she freshened up and dressed up, ordered the palace women to line up neatly, and went out of the palace with candles to greet Li Longji and his party, and met Liu Youqiu, a general of the Yulin Army.
Shangguan Wan'er did not collude with Wei Shi, and had just joined Li Longji's camp, how should she be dealt with in this situation now?
After hearing Liu Youqiu's request for instructions, Li Longji squeezed a word from between his teeth expressionlessly: "Kill! ”
In the end, a generation of talented women died at the age of 47.
Many years later, Li Longji, who ascended the throne as emperor, was grateful for Shangguan Wan'er's talent, and not only restored her identity as Zhaorong, but also collected her works and compiled them into twenty volumes of the "Shangguan Zhaorong Collection", which enabled posterity to glimpse her literary talent.
With such fanfare rehabilitating Zhaoxue, why did Li Longji insist on killing her in the first place?
The answer is only two words: politics.
According to the records of the excavated inscriptions, when Shangguan Wan'er was 13 years old, she was crowned as the talent of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and at the age of 42, she was crowned as the Zhaorong of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, and successively married two generations of emperors, which is very similar to Wu Zetian.
Who can guarantee that she will not become the second wu zetian?
What's more, Shangguan Wan'er's political ability is quite outstanding, and she has a large wave of literati fans, and this influence is enough to influence the situation in the court, even if it does not reach the height of Wu Zetian, it is also a political force that can shake the Li Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, in order to be stable, she must die!
As one of the four talented women in ancient times, Shangguan Wan'er's life was lonely, growing up in loneliness, being strong in forbearance, struggling in the vortex of power until she was ruthlessly swallowed.
Tracing back to its roots, she lived in an era of imperial power, and the beauty and talent she possessed were only appendages of power, and once she was wrapped up in the carriage of imperial power, she was doomed to a doomed fate.
Because all the roads leading to imperial power are covered with swords and light sword shadows, as well as endless bloody rain and wind.
. END.
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