Counting these dynasties in the long river of China's long history, each one has unique characteristics, whether it is in different historical periods of different cultural heritage, or different dynasties of different personalities of the rulers, so that each historical period has its own historical characteristics in it, it can be said that it is very commemorative. And the vast majority of small partners, especially female friends, should be the most interested in the Tang Dynasty, especially during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi, because in this period there was a female Haojie who was remembered in the annals of history, and her name was Wu Zetian. That's right, it was the first female emperor in the history of our country, wu Zetian, the empress of the generation who changed the name of the country to Zhou.
To talk about the character of Wu Zetian, it is quite unusual, everyone should also know that in that historical period, it was basically the world of men, after all, the society at that time was still a standard patriarchal society, so it can be said that there will be such a result that is not simple. And Wu Zetian's road to the throne is also full of blood and violence on the road to the throne, to talk about this woman, it can be described with a fierce hand, she was in power, that is, from the time when she was still in charge of the government for Tang Gaozong Li Zhi as a martial queen, she had already begun her killing journey, he not only set out to slaughter some important courtiers, even some founding heroes, as long as the elders of the three dynasties violated the interests of Wu Zetian, the same can not run, If you do this, everyone feels that it can't show how fierce Wu Zetian is, then the next thing that Xiaobian wants to tell you will definitely make everyone really realize what is called being fierce, everyone should have heard of such a sentence, that is, the so-called "tiger poison does not eat children", but Wu Zetian is a more fierce than the tiger, because she even does not let go of her own flesh and bones, I don't know if everyone remembers, The crown prince Li Hong, who had had an affair with his half-sister, was executed by Wu Zetian himself, so if you think about it, it is such a person who can even abandon her own flesh and bones, what else can she not be bothered about?
However, Xiao Bian found a problem, Wu Zetian from the time when he was still a martial queen, to the process of slowly moving towards a generation of empresses, slaughtered a lot of Founding Ministers and the Three Dynasties Elders of the Li family forces, but there was no one who moved, this person was the famous Cheng Yaojin. And Cheng Yaojin was also an out-and-out Elder of the Three Dynasties, and like those important courtiers who were executed by Wu Zetian, he was also a loyal guardian of the Tang Dynasty, so what exactly caused Wu Zetian to let him go and did not extend his claws to him. In fact, there are two main aspects to the answer to this question, and then Xiaobian will talk about these two aspects for everyone.
First of all, because Cheng Yaojin was a three-dynasty elder, but unlike other three-dynasty elders, Cheng biting jin was not the feeling of being a high-ranking court official, on the contrary, he was a very close to the people, in our current words, he was a court official with a somewhat thick mass base, so Wu Zetian easily did not want to move him, after all, if she angered the people, then her position as a ruler would also be threatened to a certain extent.
Another reason is that Cheng Biting Jin himself, in fact, although Cheng Biting Jin seems to be a person with a big grin, but contrary to his personality, in fact, his mind is very meticulous. He knew that if he made a slight mistake in judgment, then it was very likely to cause the anger of the Empress Wu, which might bring himself a certain killing disaster, so he would often choose to pretend to be stupid, and when all the people were thinking about the problem of taking sides, Cheng Yaojin chose to be like an old good man, not to take the initiative to participate in these things, just wanted to be a guardian of the Tang Dynasty. With these two points, Cheng Yaojin can be said to be the best one among these founding ministers of the Three Dynasties.
And these points not only let us experience the delicate mind under the big grinning appearance of Cheng Yaojin, but at the same time, we can also more clearly appreciate what wu Zetian can sacrifice and abandon step by step to that point, and let us understand what kind of painstaking efforts and efforts are needed to achieve a great cause.