The Shenlong coup was a major change in the history of the Tang Dynasty, which brought a generation of empresses Wu Zetian down from the altar, the Tang Dynasty of the Li dynasty had been restored, and the Tang Dynasty had turned a new page, and the chief planner of all this was an old minister in his eighties, whose name was Zhang Kamzhi.
Zhang Kamzhi can be called a prodigy, when he was young, he won the jinshi, but after he went to the career, he has been an official in the county, and he has worked for most of his life, during which he does not show the mountains and dew, he has a skill and a passion for serving the country, but he has no opportunity to show it. The opportunity was left to those who were prepared, and in 689 AD, the Tang Dynasty held a national civil service recruitment examination. Zhang Kamzhi, who is more than seventy years old, resolutely registered for the exam.
Everyone else laughed at him, Zhang Kamzhi said, Yan Que An Zhi Hong Hu Zhi Ya. As soon as the results of the exam came out, everyone was stunned, and Zhang Kamzhi ranked first among a thousand candidates.
In this way, Zhang Kamzhi was promoted to Zhongshu Sheren, which was equivalent to the emperor's secretary, whose duty was to draft edicts, etc., and was promoted from nine pin officials to zheng si pin officials.
However, within a few years, Zhang Kamzhi encountered another twist and turn in his career, only because of a word of advice: at that time, the Turks took the initiative to make peace with the Tang Dynasty, and Wu Zetian also planned to let his nephew Wu Yanxiu marry a Turkic princess, and as a result, Zhang Kamzhi, who was ignorant of current affairs, said 11 words: It is not in accordance with the rules for Shangguo to marry a foreign woman. Wu Zetian was furious, and under a paper order, he demoted Zhang Kamzhi to Jingzhou Ganchangshi. In the blink of an eye, several years have passed, and Zhang Kamzhi is already an octogenarian. Everyone else is celebrating their old age, but Zhang Kamzhi has ushered in the second spring.
This time, Di Renjie, the minister of the DPRK and China, became his Bole. At that time, when Di Renjie was selecting a successor, he strongly recommended him to Wu Zetian as the candidate for prime minister. With di renjie's push and the help of Yao Chong, another cattle man in the middle of the court, Wu Zetian finally broke the revolution and used Zhang Kamzhi, who was made the most Fengge Waiter and became the chief prime minister. However, Wu Zetian would not have expected that what awaited her would be revenge.
At that time, Wu Zetian was already in his old age, and at this time, Wu Zetian was wavering around for his son and nephew to succeed him. Later, under the persuasion of Di Renjie and others, Wu Zetian's own son Li Xian was made crown prince, but the power in his hands refused to hand over, and Li Xian still did not show the mountains and water. Wu Zetian did not relinquish his power and still dominated the world, and Wu Sansi, the representative figure of the wu family's children, was unwilling and expected to counterattack; Wu Zetian's male favorites Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi also controlled the government and acted arbitrarily. In the face of the critical moment of data's life and death, one person stepped forward and lit up his sword. After discussing with his former ministers Cui Xuanwei and Huan Yanfan, Zhang Kamzhi decided to launch a coup d'état on the twenty-second day of the first month, and after everything was ready to stop, he asked Li Duozuo and Wang Tongjiao to invite Li Xian to participate together. Wang Tongjiao was anxious, and directly took Li Xian out of the horse and "escorted" him to Xuanwu Gate. Zhang Kamzhi led five hundred Lin troops, cut off the bolt of the palace door, rushed into the palace, and happened to meet Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi in the corridor, and Zhang Kamzhi did not say a word and cut off the head of Wu Zetian's male favorite "Er Zhang". He unceremoniously broke into Wu Zetian's bedchamber, and Wu Zetian sat up in shock and shouted, "Who is making trouble?" Zhang Kamzhi said unhurriedly, "Erzhang wants to rebel, and I have cut off their heads on the orders of the Eastern Palace." We led the soldiers in the palace to suppress the rebellion, disturbed you, and the sin deserved death. Wu Zetian was so angry that he couldn't speak, so he asked Li Xian, "But you instructed this?" Since the second sheet has already been punished, you can go back. ”
Huan Yanfan, who was beside him, was afraid that Li Xian was "afraid", so he stepped forward and said to Wu Zetian: "How can the prince return to the Eastern Palace?" People in the world have been thinking about the Li family for a long time, and it is time for you to pass the throne to the prince, so that you can conform to the people's hearts! Wu Zetian knew that the general trend had gone, and had to lay down his proud head. On the third day of the "Shenlong Coup", Wu Zetian issued an edict officially passed on to the crown prince Li Xian. After Li Xian's restoration, he rewarded Zhang Kamzhi, Huan Yanfan, Jinghui, Cui Xuanwei, and Yuan Shuji for their support: Zhang Kamzhi was made the King of Hanyang, Huan Yanfan was the King of Fuyang, Jinghui was the King of Pingyang, Cui Xuanwei was the King of Boling, and Yuan Shuji was the King of Nanyang, and he was known as the "Five Kings" at the time. After the success of the "revolution", Zhang Kamzhi made a low-level and fatal mistake: he did not heed Xue Jichang's advice and killed the Wu clan. The Wu clique, which had lost power, was not grateful for Zhang Kamzhi's benevolence, but wanted to overthrow the Wuwang clique. Another group that looked at the Five Kings unfavorably was Wei Hou. Because Wei Hou did not abandon Li Xian when he was down, he was obedient to her after being reinstated. Because of Wu Zetian, the ambitious Empress Wei wanted to enjoy the same power position as Wu Zetian. It was also because of Wu Zetian that the Five Kings strongly opposed Wei Hou's rise to power, so the liang of the two groups was formed.
The two major groups, quietly joined forces, and the new elites and the Wu Group, which had already been dormant, suddenly erupted into a powerful destructive force, which the Five Kings Group did not expect, and the Five Kings Group was caught off guard. Only one year after the Shenlong coup, all five kings fell, and the end was extremely miserable. As the executor of the Shenlong coup, Zhang Kamzhi was belittled and eventually died of grief. And the whole result was not long after the coup d'état was launched, he himself was framed by Wu Sansi and deposed by Li Xian.
It is worth mentioning that the fate of the "good old man" Li Xian was even more tragic, not only by Empress Wei wearing a green hat, but also by Wei Hou and his own daughter.