In the Wu Zhou Dynasty, there was also a famous minister, Zhang Kamzhi, the leader of the Shenlong coup. He launched the Shenlong Rebellion, forced Wu Zetian to abdicate, and supported Li Xian to ascend to the throne. This feat of his on the occasion of the eightieth was called by Du Ming as the Hand-held Shechen and Shanghui Zhongzong. So what kind of fate will Zhang Kamzhi, a hero who has made meritorious contributions to Datang, usher in? Zhang Kam Zhi, like Di Renjie, is a person who has become a late bloomer. It was not until the first year of Yongchang that he was recruited to be the inspector of imperial history, when Zhang Kamzhi was 64 years old. Later, after many years of promotion, he was promoted to Fengge Sheren, that is, Zhongshu Sheren.
In the first year of the Long Live Tongtian Dynasty, the Turkic Moshi Khan took advantage of the Khitan and other anti-Tang dynasties to request that his daughter and Wu Zetian's son and relatives and return to the Turks surrender to the household as a condition to express his service for Tang. Wu Zetian was in the midst of external and internal troubles, and intended to marry the daughter of the Khan with his nephew Wu Yanxiu. Zhang Kamzhi believed that no Tianzi had ever married a foreign woman, which was an insult to the dynasty, so he expressed strong opposition. Zhang Kamzhi, who had angered Wu Zetian, was expelled from the imperial court and sent to the posts of local Renhe, Shu Erzhou Assassin History, and Jingzhou Governor History. On the recommendation of Di Renjie and Yao Chong, Zhang Kamzhi re-entered the dynasty and became the prime minister.
When Zhang Kam zhi was in the picture, the political structure of the imperial court at that time was like this. In his later years, Wu Zetian did not have the energy to manage affairs, so Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong interfered in the government. The Zhang brothers provoked the mother-son relationship between the crown prince Li Xian and his mother Wu Zetian, and also wantonly framed the important courtiers who were not dependent on them, resulting in tension between Wu Zetian and the courtiers. The Erzhang brothers intended to promote their younger brother Zhang Changqi to the post of Governor of Yong Prefecture, but the chancellor Wei Yuanzhong objected to Zhang Changqi's lack of ability, which offended the Zhang brothers thoroughly. Therefore, the Zhang brothers framed Wei Yuanzhong and Si Licheng Gao Jian to secretly claim that the emperor was old and should take sides with the crown prince.
The Zhang brothers also pulled Zhang to testify. The Zhang brothers' move is two birds with one stone. It should be known that the chancellor Wei Yuanzhong was still the crown prince Zuo Shuzi, and was an official who assisted the crown prince. Once the Zhang brothers' framing of Wei Yuanzhong and Gao Jian was confirmed, they removed the nail in their eyes and dealt a blow to the crown prince Li Xian and Princess Taiping. Who knows, the witness Zhang said that his position was not firm enough, and he changed his mind on the spot. Therefore, the angry and corrupt Zhang brothers identified Wei Yuanzhong, Gao Jian, and Zhang Shu as conspiring against each other.
In order to preserve the face of the Zhang brothers, Wu Zetian was exiled to Gao Shu and Wei Yuanzhong was demoted to the rank of lieutenant of Gaoyao County. Later, Wu Zetian became seriously ill. Wu Zetian almost cut off contact with the outside world, only the two brothers served, and everyone else refused to visit. Wu Zetian was seriously ill and cut off contact with the outside world, which made the courtiers loyal to Li Tang and Li Tang's clan uneasy. Although Wu Zetian had previously made Li Xian crown prince, at this time Wu Zetian was controlled by the Erzhang brothers, and perhaps the Erzhang brothers would make some moths. Besides, if the two Zhang brothers joined forces with the Wu brothers again, the situation would be even more unimaginable. Therefore, Zhang Kamzhi, Li Dan, Princess Taiping, and some other ministers launched a mutiny, killing the two Zhang brothers and making Wu Zetian abdicate. On the twenty-second day of the first month of the first year of the Divine Dragon, the mutiny began. After the rebels rushed into the palace, they first killed the Zhang brothers. Huan Yanfan asked Wu Zetian to give way to Li Xian. Wu Zetian saw that the general trend had gone, and had to agree.
In this coup, Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi's brothers obeyed the curse, and their three younger brothers were also killed. His cronies were also arrested by Li Dan and Yuan Shuji, and the power of the Zhang brothers was completely eradicated. However, there are also regrets left in this change of government, that is, Zhang Kamzhi and others did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, eliminate evil, and eradicate Wu Sansi and other martial forces. After killing the Zhang brothers, Xue Jichang, the governor of Luoyang, reminded Jinghui to take the opportunity to eliminate Wu Sansi in order to eliminate the troubles. Jinghui also mentioned this matter to Zhang Kamzhi, but Zhang Kamzhi thought it would be better to leave the matter of eradicating Wu Sansi to the emperor Li Xian, so that Li Xian could establish the imperial prestige by means of a hoe. Xue Jichang sighed after hearing this, and he didn't know where he would die in the future. Xue Jichang's words became a slur precisely because he did not take the opportunity to kill Wu Sansi, laying hidden dangers for the tragic death of the five heroes of the future coup.
On the third day of the coup, Li Xian ascended the throne again after a gap of twenty-two years. The courtiers who participated in the coup, including Zhang Kamzhi, Cui Xuanwei, Yuan Shuji, Jinghui, and Huan Yanfan, were all promoted to the rank of Duke of The County. Li Dan the Prince of Xiang and Princess Taiping were also crowned as King An Xiang and Princess Taiping of Zhenguo, respectively. These courtiers and clans were all heroes of the coup, and they were all powerful at this time. At this time, in order to strengthen the imperial power, strengthen his own strength, and balance these heroes, Emperor Zhongzong Began to reuse Wu Sansi and others. In order to win over Wu Sansi, Li Xian also personally visited wufu, turned a blind eye to the good deeds of Wei Hou and Wu Sansi, and also married his daughter Princess Anle to Wu Chongxun, the son of Wu Sansi. The most ironic thing is that Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian opened his eyes and insisted that Wu Sansi was also a hero of the Shenlong coup, and gave him the Danshu Iron Coupon, that is, the death coupon. Wu Sansi became Li Xian's red man, and his power in the dynasty rose rapidly.
The re-emergence of Wu Sansi aroused the high vigilance of Zhang Kamzhi and other five ministers. Zhang Kam Zhi and the other five ministers clashed with Wu Sansi several times, and Wu Sansi counted rumors in front of Li Xian, accusing Zhang Kam Zhi and others of being powerful ministers. At wu sansi's suggestion, Zhang Kamzhi and five other ministers were promoted from county dukes to kings, but they were removed from the post of chancellor. The five ministers lost their real positions and became unarmed. Zhang Kamzhi and others were stripped of their real power, and after the ming ascended and secretly descended, Wu Sansi still did not give up in order to prevent the five ministers from making a comeback. Zhang Kam zhi and others were successively expelled from the capital and sent to the local area to serve as assassins, of which Zhang Kam Zhi came to Xiangzhou to serve as an assassin. In the second year of the Divine Dragon, Emperor Zhongzong's son-in-law Wang Tongjiao resented Wu Sansi's dictatorship and intended to get rid of Wu Sansi. So Zhang Kamzhi and others were sent to Wang Jue and exiled to remote Lingnan.
Zhang Kamzhi was now eighty-two years old, and he and the sixty-seven-year-old Cui Xuanwei could not withstand the hardships of the road, and died of grief on the way to exile. This also happened to escape the poisonous hands of the Imperial Master sent by Wu Sansi later. Jinghui, Huan Yanfan, and Yuan Shuji died tragically. Jinghui was executed by Ling Chi. Huan Yanfan was repeatedly dragged on the bamboo mallet, separated from his flesh and bones without dying, and was beaten to death by a random stick. Yuan Shuji was forced to drink wild kudzu juice, the poisonous pain was unbearable, the nails were all worn out when they scratched the ground, and they could not die after being tortured, and then they were beaten to death. In the Shenlong coup, Zhang Kamzhi and others did not take the opportunity to eradicate wu sansi and other martial forces, resulting in the rise of the lost wu sansi and Wei Hou in collusion, attacking Zhang Kamzhi and other five heroes, and eventually leading to the tragic death of the five heroes.