Throughout the 5,000-year history of China, in that era of male superiority and female inferiority, a woman boldly ascended to the imperial throne. After overthrowing the tang dynasty's rule, changing the name of the country to Wuzhou, and emperor Deng's reign for nearly fifty years, why he "returned the government to the Tang" is worth exploring. She is Wu Zetian, and her life can be described as legendary. At the age of 14, she was included in the palace by Emperor Taizong because of her beauty, and was named a talented person, and Emperor Taizong also gave her the name Mei, and the name Wu Meiniang seems to be more well known in later generations. Wu Zetian worked hard for most of his life and chose to "return the government to Tang", why didn't he pass the throne to his daughter?
At that time, Wu Meiniang was in Shaohua, and Emperor Taizong was old, and Wu Meiniang could be said to be alone in the air. This is a lonely young and beautiful woman, and at this time she meets Li Zhi, who was still the prince at the time. The encounter between the two under the peach blossom tree has been deeply rooted since then. By the time taizu died, the 24-year-old Wu Zetian was forced to cut his hair as a nun, and later because of the harem dispute, the young but out-of-favor Empress Wang seized the mind of Li Zhi, who was already Emperor Gaozong, and incorporated Wu Zetian into the harem, in order to attack Xiao Shufei, who was in the limelight at that time, but did not expect that this was just a dispute between sandpipers and clams, and the fisherman won. In just a few years, Wu Zetian rose to the throne of the Tang Dynasty by relying on The Favor of Emperor Gaozong and the death of the Little Princess, and it is not known whether the death of the Little Princess was a conspiracy or an accident.
Wu Zetian was a woman with great means and brains, and after becoming empress, in just three or four years, it can be said that she fabricated charges and removed a large wave of opposing courtiers from official positions, or degraded or killed, and removed obstacles. By this time, Wu Zetian's position had been stabilized, but Emperor Gaozong was guilty of head disease, and over time he could not handle the government affairs of the court, and Emperor Gaozong trusted Wu Zetian very much, so he disregarded the etiquette of women not coming to the court, and let Wu Zetian handle political affairs, and over time, Wu Zetian's ambitions were exposed and he could see the power of the world, at this time, Emperor Gaozong's body had gradually deteriorated and gradually became a "puppet".
After Emperor Gaozong's death, Wu Zetian's son, Crown Prince Hong, supervised the state. Wu Zetian was not very satisfied with Li Hong, Li Hong was to some extent unsuitable to be a monarch, and later when Li Hong died, everyone thought that it was Wu Zetian's poisonous plan, which could not be verified. Later, Emperor Wu Zetian, on the basis of the Zhenguan Kaiyuan Shengshi, founded a prosperous world. After many years in power, Wu Zetian also felt that the limit was coming, and he also thought about it in terms of li chu, and after he was old, Wu Zetian should be more sympathetic to the living beings, and she understood that if the succession was not appropriate, her descendants and nephews and close courtiers would kill each other, and it was inevitable that the lives would be ruined. Wu Zetian had also thought of passing on the throne to her daughter Taiping, but she knew that this meant changing dynasties, after all, the princess had married out and had a surname with someone else, and she still couldn't get rid of such a bondage.
And her nephew was not a climate, and he had the power to argue, and was subject to feudal etiquette, which had to be abandoned. In this way, only the son of the own can be passed on. In this way, she ended the prosperous era of Wuzhou that she had single-handedly created, and returned to Li Tang.