Wu Zetian, as we all know, she is the only empress in China's feudal history to be recognized by orthodox history, she was originally Li Shimin's concubine, after entering the palace, she was named a talent, but she was not favored, 12 years as a day of talent made her no day, until Li Shimin's death, she and the future heir Li Zhi secretly had a relationship. When Li Zhi's filial piety period passed, she returned to the palace for the second time, and she was also quite angry, and it did not take long to give birth to a daughter, but the princess was not yet 1 year old, and Wu Zetian killed the female concubine to marry the empress? Its truth subverts cognition.
During the Tang Dynasty, the queen concubines did not have to be buried, but except for special circumstances, concubines who did not have children had to spend the rest of their lives in the temple. After Tang Taizong's death, Wu Zetian was unable to escape, and she and a group of concubines went to Ganye Temple to become nuns. In 650, in order to pay tribute to the former emperor, Li Zhi went to the Ganye Temple to enter the incense and say goodbye to Wu Zetian, and the longing in the eyes of the two was overflowing with words. Their appearance was seen by the Empress Wang, who was falling out of favor, and in order to deal with the love enemy, she offered to put Wu Zetian into the harem, and Li Zhi immediately agreed.
In this way, in the second year, Wu Zetian returned to the palace smoothly, it is worth mentioning that when she returned to the palace, she was pregnant, and soon after returning to the palace, she gave birth to her eldest son, whether she was favored or her mother, she quickly defeated the love enemy Xiao Shufei. I have to say that the empress succeeded, and Wu Zetian successfully helped her drive away her fierce enemy Xiao Shufei, but she must not have expected that her future posthumous position would also be taken by her. The empress was still unpopular, and Wu Zetian was even more beautiful, and in 654, Wu Zetian became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter, Princess Anding.
This is their first daughter, but the princess is very unfortunate, born in the same year died, whether it is the history of the main history or the wild history, or folklore, or literary works, the death of this princess is inextricably linked to Wu Zetian, and even most of them definitely say: Wu Zetian killed the daughter.
The New Book of Tang records that Zhaoyi gave birth to a daughter, and then he took care of it, and then he went, and Zhaoyi killed his child; the Zizhi Tongjian records that Zhaoyi gave birth to a daughter and was subtly strangled. That is to say, when she gave birth to a daughter, everyone liked it very much, and one day, the Zhonggong Wang clan came to visit, teased the little princess, and then left. When Li Zhi came to see his beloved daughter again, the princess who was still swaddling had long since lost signs of life, at this time Wu Zetian cried loudly, Li Zhi inquired about the situation of the next person, and the next person returned to the empress and just left. Li Zhi was furious and said that the empress killed my daughter, and Wu Zetian poured fuel on the fire and said the empress's other sins, and Li Zhi had the heart to abolish the queen.
Judging from the records or Wu Zetian's style, she killed her own daughter, so what is the truth? Another point can be explained that Wu Zetian and Li Zhi gave this daughter the nickname "Si", and Si mainly expressed "thinking and repenting" in ancient times, so Wu Zetian was not thinking of his daughter, but repenting, and it can also be seen from here that she was more likely to kill her daughter and ascend to the throne. And although the empress is not good at palace scheming, it is impossible to blatantly strangle the princess and then leave, as a middle palace, she will not be so stupid.
After the wang clan was deposed, Wu Zetian became empress, and then he gradually went from the Second Saint Linchao to the Empress Dowager Linchao, and then became the emperor, and her life reached its peak.
The matter of the princess is controversial, because in the Old Book of Tang, only the princess's death is mentioned, and the reason is not recorded, but whether It is Wu Zetian who personally married the empress, or whether the empress really hurt the killer, the result is beneficial to her. Coupled with the fact that she wanted to take the throne, she suppressed her own son, or forced herself to commit suicide, which added up to cause her to be criticized, although all this was very common in the royal family, but it had to be said that as a mother, it was really subversive to be able to do so, but we also have to admit that Wu Zetian did have quite meritorious achievements and left his name in history.