In 690 AD, which was the turning point of the Tang Dynasty, a woman named Wu Zetian ascended the throne as emperor in this year, and changed the Tang Ton to Great Zhou. This caused a huge shock in history, because the only female emperor in history appeared, so the powerful traditional forces, those male politicians who were not willing to lose, were frantically fighting back against Wu Zetian.
Unfortunately, the vigorous Xu Jingye rebellion failed, and Wu Zetian suppressed all opposition with bloody killings, and then used superb political means to make the Tang Dynasty achieve better development. It can be said that Wu Zetian used his personality charm and ability to suppress all the people in the Wuzhou Dynasty.
However, unfortunately, Wu Zetian still could not fight the historical tradition, in 705 AD, the lonely Wu Zetian became seriously ill, and she was also emptied in this year, and the empress fell on the altar, and it did not take long before she died of depression. However, what is strange is that before Wu Zetian died, she erected a stele in front of her tomb, but there was not a single text on this stele. This incident has become a mystery for eternity, and countless people cannot see through the truth. However, the chairman's words have dispelled the fog of history for us, so why is this?
When we turn the hour hand back to the first year of the Shenlong, this year, Wu Zetian was seriously ill, and the Great Zhou Dynasty came to a historical turning point. At this critical time, the five careerists were in a hurry, and after a short consultation, they did not hesitate to rush into the palace and kidnap the emperor.
The speed of these people was too fast, so fast that Wu Zetian's reserve force martial family personnel did not react at all, and even the most loyal dog-legged brothers Were brutally killed. In this way, the palace coup was almost bloodless, Wu Zetian retired from the position of emperor, and Tang Zhongzong, the crown prince, successfully ascended the throne.
In fact, by this moment, Wu Zetian's history had ended, because she was forced to drive out of the Jixian Palace and then move to Shangyang Palace. Although everyone honored her as the Zetian Great Saint Emperor, in fact, everyone knew that Wu Zetian did not have many days, so everyone held her high and silently counted the days waiting for her to die.
I have to say that at this moment, Wu Zetian is very sad, she has a feeling that the elephant was humiliated by ants before she died, if she was still in power, who would dare to confront these ants? But no matter how angry she was, she had no choice but to wait for death with her eyes closed.
Sure enough, in November of that year, Wu Zetian died depressed. However, Wu Zetian had a lot of feelings before his death, perhaps thinking of his love with Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong in the past, or he may also think of the farce of training horses for Tang Taizong, and even think of the glory when he ascended the throne and became emperor. It seemed that Wu Zetian had a lot to say, but it seemed that she had nothing to say, so she erected a stele before she died, and there was no word left on the inscription.
Wu Zetian is dead, but the story of Wu Zetian is still circulating, countless people are discussing the story of this empress, and countless people want to summarize this empress. But there is no doubt that deciphering the code of Wu Zetian's wordless monument is the best way to summarize Wu Zetian's life.
So the question is, why did Wu Zetian leave a wordless monument? What did the female emperor who made history want to express?
Since the Wuzhou Dynasty, many literati have been speculating. Some people think that this is Wu Zetian's silent protest, because she defeated so many strong enemies in the past, and was defeated by a small role like Zhang Kamzhi, Wu Zetian was angry, but she felt humiliated by the ants, so she was silent to express her pride for the ants.
There are also literati who believe that Wu Zetian is invincible in the world, but all her success is stepping on the corpses of her relatives to ascend to the throne. At that time, she became empress through the death of her daughter, and after that, she took power through the death of Li Zhi. Immediately after, she forced her son to die and ascended the throne as emperor. It can be said that Wu Zetian really did want power, not affection, and the people around her were almost killed by her. Perhaps when she was dying, she regretted that she did not have a relative around her, and regretted that she was too cruel to her relatives. Therefore, the wordless inscription represents his repentance and represents her inability to face posterity.
But to tell the truth, from the historical records, Wu Zetian is a woman who has been strong all her life, and in her eyes, gentleness and fear are simply not her exclusive.
Therefore, Wu Zetian never bowed her head, and her performance tended to be more inclined to the first conjecture. However, judging from Wu Zetian's performance in his later years, she removed her imperial title and was willing to be buried with Li Zhi as an empress, which seems to tend to the second possibility. Therefore, Wu Zetian's wordless monument did not seem to be very good
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These two conjectures are close together, so that no one in those years was able to see through the secret of the Wordless Tablet.
However, as history evolved, another great man came out, and this man was the chairman. The Chairman reads history, and
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Participating in the evolution of history, his vision is more unique than everyone else,and because of her identity, perhaps she can better understand Wu Zetian's later years.
In the chairman's view, Wu Zetian created many miracles in those years, but it is true that when she was young, she was too radical, so when she was old, she was actually reflecting on her life and behavior. However, Wu Zetian's personality is too tough, so, between merit and fault, she does not make self-evaluation, so she is willing to leave it to posterity to write.
Moreover, the chairman took this to mention a very important topic, Wu Zetian is actually more interesting than other feudal emperors, because she knows that it is not herself who writes history and evaluates life, but posterity. In the same way, no one can claim to be a great man, only the eyes of the masses of the people are shining, and only by gaining the approval and support of the masses of the people can they be qualified to become such people.
I have to say that the chairman's views are very incisive, and they really break through the historical mystery of Wu Zetian. It is obvious that Wu Zetian is a proud person, but it can be seen that Wu Zetian is already reflecting on himself in his later years. Therefore, Wu Zetian should not be able to compromise, but she also knows that she is young and wrong, so she leaves all this to us to comment.
So the question is, what evaluation should Wu Zetian deserve? Personally, I thought that I should be worthy of the evaluation of a great emperor, for no other reason than others, as the chairman said, everything needs to be based on the masses of the people, and the target of Wu Zetian's attack was the nobility, and the evidence she made was to favor the people. Since the people had developed and the Tang Empire had ushered in a new turning point, why couldn't Wu Zetian be called a saint?