After Wu Zetian deposed Emperor Zhongzong of Tang and Li Dan of Tang Ruizong, he ascended the throne as emperor and established the Wu Dynasty. The emperor was elected, but the successor had always been a very troubled problem in Wu Zetian's heart. Who will be the prince? In fact, Wu Zetian had always hoped that the people of his own martial family would take over, and for a long time, I was afraid that the old martial family would think the same way.
But if you want to pass the throne to the Wu family, then it can only be her own nephew, her son is the closest to her, but the family name is Li. However, as Di Renjie analyzed for her, the relationship between mother and son is closer than that of aunt and nephew at any time, and if the throne is passed to the nephew, it has never been heard since ancient times that an aunt will be enshrined in the Temple. It can be said that it was Di Renjie's analysis that made her instantly understand the truth.
Originally, during the ascension of Wu Zetian to the throne, the descendants of the surname Li were obviously opposed, which is obvious. After all, it was the Jiangshan founded by the old Li family, and it was impossible to give it to Wu Zetian so easily, so they had been opposing it, but how could they not be strong, the emperor was the son of the family, and he was not very angry, and seeing Wu Zetian was as timid and afraid as a mouse seeing a cat.
The Wu family took advantage of this opportunity to suppress the descendants of the Li surname, and gradually gained reuse. In fact, don't talk about Wu Zetian, at that time, many people thought that Wu Zetian would pass it on to his nephew.
But in fact, most people are opposed, especially the Korean and Chinese courtiers. It is one thing to know that supporting Wu Zetian to be called emperor is another, and it is another thing to let Wu Zetian pass it on to his nephew.
At that time, many people in the DPRK did not oppose Wu Zetian much, in fact, it was useless to oppose, but they were all supportive of Tang Laochen, that is to say, they were all waiting for Wu Zetian to restore the Li Tang artifact after his death.
As a result, in the later period, although Wu Zetian became more and more confused, he decided to choose his son as his successor at the suggestion of Qunchen.
Besides, the old martial family did not have a suitable candidate to succeed him, and although Wu Sansi said that the art of power was very powerful, he would only fight with each other, and it was not possible to govern the country at all.
Wu Zetian could not blindly pass it on to the Wu family, and when the time came, he would still have to bury the world.
Another point is that Wu Zetian also did this to save the Wu family, think of lü hou in that year, after her death, the Lu war broke out, and the Lü family was almost killed.
Therefore, in order to save his family, Wu Zetian could only do this. She then took back the degraded Li Xian and re-established herself as crown prince.