In 1912, Empress Longyu promulgated the "Abdication Edict" in the name of the Empress Dowager, and the feudal dynasty that lasted for more than two thousand years in China also came to an end, in which the status of women was very low since Qin Shi Huang unified the world.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also "deposed a hundred families and respected Confucianism alone", and the vigorous development of Confucianism made women strictly abide by the "three from four virtues", but in the feudal dynasty of more than 2,000 years, there was a female emperor, presumably everyone knows very well that she is Wu Zetian.
The Tang Dynasty was an era of relatively civilized folk customs, and the "rule of Zhenguan" laid down by Li Shimin brought the Tang Dynasty into its heyday, and the status of women also improved in this era.
Wu Zetian was born in 624, is the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty Wu Shi Yan, he was "Yuan Conggong Gong" plus official into the staff department Shangshu, Huangmen Shilang, Sentence Liu Shangshu, Zhenguan years is even titled the Duke of Yingguo, Wu Zetian can also be said to have a prominent family lineage, after the famous door.
In the eleventh year of Zhenguan (638), Tang Taizong heard that Wu Zetian's talent was perfect, so he recruited her into the palace, made her a Wupincai, and gave her the title of "Wu Mei", but Wu Zetian was scheming and ambitious, and Tang Taizong treated him coldly, until Zhenguan Twenty-third (649) Li Shimin died of illness and Tang Gaozong succeeded to the throne.
After Wu Zetian gained favor, she began to get involved in politics, and her means were better than Tang Gaozong's, and Tang Gaozong also wanted to use the "abolition of Wang Liwu" to attack the eldest son Wujie and revitalize the imperial power, but Wu Zetian was more ambitious than he thought, and the ministers of the DPRK and China formed a "pro-wu faction".
In the fifth year of Xianqing (660), Emperor Gaozong suffered from a windy disease and could not handle major state affairs, so he let Wu Zetian act as the government, and Wu Zetian took the opportunity to remove one person after another who dared to stop her, but the "Li faction" who was dissatisfied with Wu Zetian was also plotting to regain power.
When the chancellor Pei Yan was the mainstay of support for the crown prince Li Xian, after Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian deposed Li Xian as the king of Luling, and Wu Zetian wanted to get rid of Li Shi's clan, so he asked the chancellor for advice, Pei Yan strongly opposed, which made Wu Zetian very dissatisfied, in 684 AD, Xu Jingye raised an army in Yangzhou against Wu Zetian.
Pei Yan said that Wu Zetian would return power to Li Xian, who knew that Wu Zetian insisted that Pei Yan had the intention of plotting rebellion, although although "the king wants the subject to die, the subject has to die", but many important ministers in the dprk are opposed to her, and if they want to kill Pei Yan, they must give evidence, so Wu Zetian took out a secret letter.
There were only two words in the letter, "Green Goose", and the ministers of the DPRK and China did not understand, so Wu Zetian asked them to take the words apart, and it turned out that these two words were really hidden and mysterious, and the word "Qing" was "December" separately, and "goose" meant "I am self-contained". The so-called green goose, when taken apart, does not mean "December, I am self-contained"?
This letter is to say that Pei Yan will rebel in December, in response to Xu Jingye, Wu Zetian of course can not tolerate, after going to prison, Pei Yan sighed: "The prime minister is in prison, there is no longer physiology."