Wu Zetian is the only female emperor in China's history, which is very rare in China's more than 2,000 years of emperor history. So, as a woman, how did she overcome and submit to a group of men and finally sit on the emperor's throne? In addition to fate and personality, the most important thing is to rely on her amazing wisdom and be good at improvisation. For example, the story we tell today: the prime minister wrote the word "green goose" and was exterminated by Wu Hou, and everyone was puzzled, Wu Zetian: take the word apart and read it.
Wu Zetian's fate was more tortuous, she was born into an aristocratic family in 624, but by the time she was a child, her father had died. She and her mother lived in the homes of relatives, were humiliated and persecuted by relatives, and later heard that she had become empress, and her relatives were directly frightened to death- and from this we also knew how tragic what had happened to her. Not long after marrying Li Shimin, Li Shimin died again. At this time, Wu Zetian's dream was to find a man who could be relied on:
"Look at Zhu Chengbisi, haggard and fragmented for Yi Jun."
In disbelief, Bi Lai burst into tears and opened the box to check the pomegranate skirt. ”
From Wu Zetian's "Ruyi Niang", what we see is not an empress who controls the courtiers, but a young girl with a spring in huaichun. It was also at about this time that Wu Zetian began to "transfer". Because in his early years in the palace, he had a story of "playing in the water" with Li Zhi, and Li Zhi was very uncomfortable with his eldest wife, so Li Zhi came to the Ganye Temple where Wu Zetian was ordained. The Li Tang family has lived outside sai for a long time, and some of the styles have been "huized", so the observance of etiquette is not very strict.
Soon after, Wu Zetian was finally carried back to the palace by his own Ruyi Langjun, and from then on, she began her soaring. In the TV series, she is portrayed as a "strong woman", but she is not exactly like this in history, at least not until Li Zhi died. For such a helpless woman as her, is the most powerful weapon to "use force" on the emperor? Of course not, her most powerful weapon is tears and wisdom.
She is not as willful as other noble women, which can make Li Zhi feel a kind of tenderness of a small family jasper; at the same time, she also helps Li Zhi come up with ideas to deal with the chancellor, and when something goes wrong, she carries the black cauldron herself (this is how the reputation of the demon queen comes), so Li Zhi likes her very much. After Li Zhi's death, she bowed to the government and truly grasped the power of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, her characteristics as a woman with a strong desire for power were exposed. At the beginning, she managed her son Li Xian to death, and Li Xian, unable to do the right thing, spent all his thoughts on his wife Empress Wei. In fact, Li Xian has another meaning: to train his own wife to deal with his father's wife. After all, Li Zhi was a hand-in-hand teacher of how to use his wife against the powerful ministers—now the empress dowager was much more powerful than the powerful ministers. So he said in private:
"It's okay to give Jiangshan to Wei Xuanzhen"
When Pei Yan heard this, he felt very frightened: if he didn't hear it, Li Xian would regard him as his "confidant", but then he would offend the empress; on the contrary, he would offend the emperor. After some thought, he still decided to offend the emperor- because the empress dowager had more power than the emperor. He reported the matter to Wu Zetian, who then ordered the deposing of Emperor Li Xian, and the empress dowager had more power in her hands.
Pei Yan was nervous again, after all, he was the one who had come from Li Zhi's hand, and he knew how powerful Wu Zetian's means were. If Wu Zetian were in full power now, or even become a female emperor, would they still have a good life as ministers? So he decided to join forces with a group of elder ministers to deal with Wu Zetian. In fact, at that time, many ministers were already very dissatisfied with this empress dowager who was obedient to the government--they wanted to replace the rulers of the Tang Dynasty.
So they planned to assassinate Wu Zetian when she was out, but Wu Zetian was also a clever person, and knew that someone had harmed her, so he would occasionally change the time and place of his routine outing, and the assassination operation ended without success. So Pei Yan decided to launch a second assassination operation, so he wrote a letter to his accomplices. There are only 2 words on the letter: Green Goose. Unexpectedly, Wu Zetian was engaged in secret agent politics, and this letter was seen by her, so she ordered someone to arrest the prime minister Pei Yan and kill him and exterminate the clan.
Qunchen wondered: What can the "green goose" explain? What crime did the Prime Minister commit? Wu Zetian sneered and said, "Take apart the word "green goose" and look at it." The word "green" is "December", "goose" has the traditional character "鵝", and when it is taken apart, it is "I am self-contained". The combination of the two words is: In December, I personally took the lead. That is, the prime minister was going to launch a rebellion in December, so Wu Zetian wanted to kill him and exterminate the clan.
To say that the letter of the prime minister has been written secretly enough, but the random should become Wu Zetian immediately guessed the zai chancellor's rebellious mind, and from this point we can also see how amazing Wu Zetian's "quick wisdom" is. It is precisely because of her "quick wit" that she can avoid many troubles and sit firmly on the emperor's throne.