"Only by virtue of masculinity can we be yin and yin." Use the four seas to drive a hundred breakthroughs. The ancient world has changed greatly, and the universe is fierce. Abuse for a while, the name of the name is endless", this is the image of Wu Zetian in the eyes of the ancients, affirming her ability, denying her practice, after all, in the male power of the feudal society, Wu Zetian can be said to be a sudden rise, the status of women has also been significantly improved, and even many harem women have joined the struggle for the throne, Empress Wei, Princess Taiping, etc., for a time became the world of women's rights.
Because of this, Wu Zetian was despised by later pen officials, believing that it was a shame for women to become emperors. Later generations of people do not approve of Wu Zetian's behavior, then Wu Zetian will inevitably face great pressure during his reign, but everything is in her planning. When Di Renjie first advised Wu Zetian to abstain from sex, after Wu Zetian showed him two things, he was dumbfounded. What did Wu Zetian show Di Renjie?
Exhaustively weigh the empress dowager
Wu Zetian's father provided a large amount of financial support when Li Yuan raised an army in Jinyang, for which he had the merit of fulong, Li Yuan was proclaimed empress, Wu Zetian's father was named the Duke of Yingguo, and the Wu family changed from a Shangjia family to an official eunuch family. After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he heard that Wu Zetian "Rong Zhimei" summoned her to the palace and made her a talented person, but Wu Cairen was not much welcomed by Li Shimin and has been snubbed.
The young women all had a fluttering spring heart, and soon after, Wu Zetian was convenient for the crown prince Li Zhi to be happy with each other, but he could not get on the table. After Li Zhi became emperor, he had forgotten Wu Zetian, who was forced out of the house, and Wu Zetian wrote a love poem without dying: "Look at Zhu Chengbisi, haggard and fragmented as a memory of jun." In disbelief, Bi Lai burst into tears and opened the box to check the pomegranate skirt. It touched Li Zhi's sentimental heart, so he took her into the palace and was crowned Zhaoyi despite the objections of the courtiers.
After Wu Zetian entered the palace, he began to take steps for the camp, used all his heart and soul, won the favor of Li Zhi everywhere, and finally let Li Zhi "abolish Wang Liwu", and Wu Zetian became the lord of the harem. However, at this time, she was no longer willing to settle down in the harem, and gradually walked into the court, and the phenomenon of "two holy pilgrimages" appeared in history. After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian found various excuses to see that his son was not pleasing to the eye, and at this time, Wu Zetian was in power, so the Tang Dynasty had an embarrassing situation of the empress dowager.
Reuse the cool officials to establish the Zhou Dynasty
When enjoying the sweetness of power, no one is willing to give up, Wu Zetian in order to ensure that he has power, began to reuse cool officials, suppress all bad voices, Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen is her loyal cronies, they use all kinds of torture interrogation, almost no one who goes in can come out alive, so that "everyone in the court is in danger, and they dare not speak to each other", every time they go to the court, it is like going to the execution ground, and it is impossible to say which time is that there is no return.
With such a cool official, they all saw Wu Zetian's fierceness, but at the same time, Wu Zetian would also win people's hearts, "More than nine products inside and outside the system and the people, Xian Ling lifted himself up." "That is, everyone has the opportunity to become an official, they can introduce themselves, as long as you have the ability to provide you with space for development, Wu Zetian invisibly strengthened his own power."
After that, Wu Zetian began to plot to seize Li Tang Sheji and liquidate the kings of the Li clan, but all those who disobeyed were killed. Next, she took advantage of the superstitions of the people to hype up that she was "maitreya Buddha incarnated as a mortal and should be the master of the world", coupled with the admiration of some people in the court, Wu Zetian sat on the throne "justifiably", established the Zhou Dynasty, and became the only female emperor in Chinese history.
Raising male pets is a disaster for the court
Wu Zetian began to raise male pets during the empress dowager's reign, and Xue Huaiyi was the male pet provided by Princess Qianjin to please her, which was also the first male pet of Wu Zetian. In order to allow Xue Huaiyi to be able to enter and leave the harem, let Xue Huaiyi become a monk, Mingli entered the palace to pray for blessings, secretly was Wu Zetian's male favorite, and Wu Zetian was also favored by him for a while, and let him do something wrong, so that Xue Huaiyi did not put the prime minister Su Liangsi in his eyes, and the courtiers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, for fear of causing trouble.
After that, Wu Zetian had other male favorites, Xue Huaiyi became jealous, and in one breath, he burned heaven, and the Ming Hall that Wu Zetian had worked so hard to build was reduced to ashes together with heaven. Xue Huaiyi was so mad, and Wu Zetian's other male favorites were not inferior at all, And Wu Zetian was very fond of Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers, who were like empresses and noble concubines in the harem, serving Wu Zetian while doing evil.
In the later period, the court was completely under the domain of the Zhang brothers, and the two of them monopolized the power of the imperial government as a disaster for the court, and even the people of the Wu clan rushed to the door, courted the knot, and personally led the horses and whips for them, which showed that the two brothers were in a high position of power. There was a lot of complaint in the court, and there was a lot of slander against the Zhang brothers, but Wu Zetian let it go and let the two brothers turn the clouds and rain.
Deliberate balances of power
Di Renjie couldn't look at it at this time, so he advised Wu Zetian to quit color, at this time Wu Zetian was already seventy or eighty years old, thinking that she didn't need to lose the world because of raising a male pet, and Wu Zetian didn't say a word, took down the hairpin of the hair, a black hair poured down like a waterfall, and then opened his mouth to show Di Renjie a mouth full of neat teeth. Wu Zetian showed Di Renjie's hair and teeth and said: How do you see my body?
Hair and teeth are one of the most obvious features of body aging, when there is insufficient qi and blood, even young bodies will appear white hair and teeth loss, while Wu Zetian is a long black and beautiful hair, full of neat teeth, not at all like an old man of seventy or eighty years old, indicating that Wu Zetian's physical health is very good, Di Renjie is dumb because of this. Wu Zetian's next words shocked Di Renjie even more.
Wu Zetian said bluntly that she knew that the male pet was a disaster for the court, and the reason why she did not care about the Zhang brothers was to divert the attention of the court to the male pet. It should be known that after Wu Zetian became emperor, he killed many members of the Li clan, even his own son was silent about her, and one member of the Wu family had the ascension of the chicken and dog to heaven, and even more in the fish and meat township, which was not conducive to her posthumous affairs.
Therefore, Wu Zetian allowed the male favor to be a misfortune for the court, and even knew that the two Zhang brothers had ill intentions, and did not care much, that is, he wanted to wait for his own death, and the Zhang brothers attracted hatred and got the forgiveness of the Li family, and at the same time spared the lives of the descendants of the Wu family. After Listening to Wu Zetian's analysis of the situation, Di Renjie did not squeak, and finally silently turned around and left the palace.
And the development of the situation is also as Wu Zetian expected, after Wu Zetian's death, the Zhang brothers became the object of everyone's crusade, and were directly beheaded in the palace, "The prince went to xuanwu gate, cut through the gate, and then the sky was in the Jixian Hall of the Yingxian Palace, and the beheading of Yizhi and Changzong was under the corridor." Wu Zetian deliberately plotted to bring misfortune to the east, and finally achieved the purpose of checking and balancing power.
brief summary
Wu Zetian, as a small woman in feudal society, can finally become the head of a country, which shows the cleverness of her means, she is not only well versed in the art of emperors, but also has quite insights in the balance of power, so she can also ascend the throne when she is more than sixty years old, it can be said that Wu Zetian is not an ordinary emperor, but also an excellent politician.
In the patriarchal society, Wu Zetian is the representative of "rebellion", coupled with her reuse of cool officials, mutilation of the Li Tang royal family, leaving a lot of infamy, and the prosperity left during her reign is ignored, without her laid a good foundation, there would be no Kaiyuan prosperous era in the Tang Xuanzong period.
References: Zizhi Tongjian, Old Book of Tang
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