The reason why Ye Shi always made a fuss about Wu Zetian was mainly because the ancient feudal society was not accustomed to her behavior of marrying two people successively, she obviously married Li Shimin first, and then married Li Shimin's son, in the eyes of the ancients, this was against human morality, so many people in Ye Shi fabricated all kinds of black materials related to Wu Zetian, and the purpose was to smear Wu Zetian.
However, it is an indisputable fact that Wu Zetian married Li Shimin's father and son in history, Li Shimin and Li Zhi were both fathers and sons of Wu Zetian, today we do not talk about the wild history of Wu Zetian, we say that Li Shimin and Li Zhi father and son who are better for Wu Zetian?
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, Wu Zetian did not enter the palace through the draft, but was summoned to the palace by Tang Taizong because of his fame, in other words, the combination of Wu Zetian and Li Shimin had no political interests, and Li Shimin liked her simply because of her beauty.
After becoming a concubine, Wu Zetian was not as favored as everyone expected, and in the history of The Tang Dynasty, she hardly had any ink and ink, and she only did one more famous thing during Li Shimin's period, that is, training horses for Li Shimin. Li Shimin had a horse with a very stubborn personality, even if Li Shimin couldn't do anything with it, he couldn't conquer this horse, and as a result, Wu Zetian, who was a talented man at that time, came up with an idea, using a whip and a stick, a dagger, and these simple things to tame this horse, Li Shimin just felt that Wu Zetian was not simple, but did not show much interest in Wu Zetian, it can be seen that Wu Zetian in Li Shimin's period can only be said to be a concubine who is not simple, but also does not attract much attention. So what kind of role is Wu Zetian in the mind of Li Shimin's son Li Zhi?
Many TV dramas say that Li Zhi and Wu Zetian had hooked up when Li Shimin was seriously ill, and Wu Zetian was pregnant from the Ganye Temple and returned to the harem again, but the historical records do not record so, Li Zhi often needed to learn government affairs from Li Shimin when he was the crown prince, and over time he met with Wu Zetian several times and became interested in this beautiful and indispensable woman.
Later, Li Shimin died and Wu Zetian was driven to live at the Ganye Temple, at this time Li Zhi's empress dowager asked Li Zhi to help Wu Zetian, and Li Zhi was of course overjoyed and accepted Wu Zetian under the empress's smooth water. Many people may find it strange, isn't Empress Wang worried that Wu Zetian will threaten her position?
In fact, at that time, Empress Wang was really not worried, first of all, Li Zhi's devotion to Wu Zetian had become a foregone conclusion, sooner or later Li Zhi would take Wu Zetian into the palace, Empress Wang's move would not only enable Li Zhi to realize his wishes, but also make Li Zhi grateful for his generosity. Secondly, Empress Wang may have chosen to help Wu Zetian in order to attack Xiao Shufei, after all, before Wu Zetian, Xiao Shufei was subordinate to Empress Wang, and compared to Wu Zetian, Xiao Shufei's threat to her was imminent.
In any case, we can be sure that compared to Li Shimin, Li Zhi really likes Wu Zetian, otherwise he would not have made her empress.