In Xu Ke's film, Liu Jialing played a very classic image of Wu Zetian, she not only performed the atmosphere of Wu Zetian, but also performed the fierceness of Wu Zetian. In particular, this sentence in the play:
Those who become great things, their closest relatives can be killed.
"It also deduces the horror and ruthlessness of the court."
Although this is the performance of film and television works, in fact, in the real historical records, Wu Zetian may be more vicious than film and television works, and she is truly a close relative. In order to protect his rights, Wu Zetian even dared to attack his most beloved son, and the crown prince Li Hong was one of the tragedies.
However, there has been a great controversy in the historical circles about this paragraph, because in the Old Book of Tang, it is recorded that the prince died of illness, while the New Book of Tang and the Zizhi Tongjian believe that the prince was killed by Wu Zetian. So was the historical Wu Zetian so vicious? An epitaph unearthed in Shaanxi revealed the answer.
1. The Prince of Renxiao
According to historical records, Li Hong's birth moment was very critical. At that time, Wu Zetian was still working as a nun at The Ganye Temple, but she had already had an affair with Emperor Gaozong of Tang. But after all, the two have identity and distance restrictions, so the two can only sneak in the dark, Wu Zetian wants to go home, the road is still far away.
But at this critical time,
Li Hong was born, this news can move Li Zhi badly, as a husband and father's sense of responsibility, so that he finally chose to take Wu Zetian back to the palace, because of this, Wu Zetian had a later life.
Objectively speaking, Li Hong is the most beloved son of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, because he is not only the most beautiful crystallization of the two, but he has also become an important key to Wu Zetian's power. Therefore, Wu Zetian liked this son very much, and Li Zhi also had high hopes for him.
And
From Li Hong's name, we can see everyone's love for him, because this name is the embodiment of the Taishang Laojun in the Tang Dynasty legend, so in everyone's mind, this prince will rule the world in the future, and he is a natural saint who leads the world.
It is really under the attention of this love,
In just 4 years, Li Hong became the prince.
Moreover, Wu Zetian's status also rose in a straight line.
However, it is worth mentioning that although this prince is still very young, he is still a child of Wu Zetian. But he did not become a villain in that terrible family environment, but on the contrary, he became a benevolent and filial man. As recorded in the history books, The Crown Prince Li Hong was not only intelligent and brave, but also very benevolent and filial. Compared to his mother, he was simply a different kind.
However, it is precisely because of his otherness that he is doomed to not be able to die well.
2. The Death of Li Hong
According to historical records, because Li Hong was very benevolent, he and Many of Wu Zetian's policies were contrary, so the two began to have some conflicts.
First of all, the first conflict between the two is
National policy conflicts.
Wu Zetian advocated a terrible political system and bloodily suppressed the opposition. However, Li Hong believed that the monarchy should rule the country mainly with benevolence and filial piety, so he advocated resolving contradictions and not focusing on bloody politics.
This made many officials and people support Li Hong, which was very unfavorable to Wu Zetian politically.
Not only that, in terms of attitude towards the descendants of political enemies, Wu Zetian is also diametrically opposed to the prince
。 For example, when Wu Zetian imprisoned Xiao Shufei's two daughters, they would never see the light of day.
And Li Hong, who was soft-hearted, pleaded with Wu Zetian in order to help his two sisters, which caused Wu Zetian to be angry, and the mother and son turned their faces on the spot.
And it is worth mentioning that with the increase of age, the prince has the ability to control the government of the dynasty, and has a high status in the minds of the ministers.
As a result, more and more people proposed that they hoped that the crown prince would supervise the country, rather than Wu Zetian, the empress, to run the government.
It was because of this incident that Wu Zetian was stimulated, and the more she looked at her son, the more she was uncomfortable, and even had some other ideas.
After a series of historical struggles that we do not know
Finally, in 675 AD, the young crown prince Li Hong actually died suddenly.
According to the Old Book of Tang, the crown prince Li Hong died of illness and had no relationship with Wu Zetian. However, according to the Zizhi Tongjian and the Old Book of Tang, it was Wu Zetian who ordered the prince to be poisoned with wine, which forced the prince to commit suicide.
As a result, there was a dispute about the historical image of Wu Zetian, and those who admired Wu Zetian believed that she was a very good politician, not yet to the point of madness, because the tiger poison did not eat children.
But according to the old Book of Tang, Wu Zetian was a crazy politician who really made his closest relatives killable. So which view is true? What is the historical truth?
3. Archaeological answers
The answer is ultimately here
In 1995
Revealed, at that time in the Shaanxi region found an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty,
The owner of this tomb is named Yan Zhuang, and his tomb hides the answer of the legend.
So the question is, who is this person named Yan Zhuang? According to historical records, this person is indeed unknown in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
But his status was special because he was an aide to the Eastern Palace who served the crown prince.
Although he himself did not leave any documentary records, his epitaph clearly recorded two strange words,
The original text is as follows: "The accumulation of the russian invasion, the entanglement of the ant bed and the disaster; the floating light is exhausted, and it is gone with the crane version." ”
It means that because the prince died, the owner of the tomb became worried and sick, and eventually went with the prince.
Originally, there was nothing wrong with translating it, but the strange thing is that according to the time of death on the tomb, the time of death of the staff member was less than a year after the prince.
That's all there is to it. If the prince died normally, then although as a member of the prince's staff, he may feel very sorry, and may sigh every day, but he will never die of illness in less than a year. This is debatable.
It really happens that less than a year will happen to die of worry, and only like Wu Zixu, who has a white head in fear and pain and sadness, will he get worse and worse and fall into death. But Wu Zixu only had such a miracle under the expression of strong emotions, did this Eastern Palace staff member have the necessity of sharp emotional fluctuations?
Therefore, some scholars have deduced from this that
It is very likely that the death of the prince was an unnatural death.
Therefore, the fact that the crown prince was poisoned and killed by Wu Zetian may be true, and this Eastern Palace staff member also knows the details.
Witnessing the death of the most promising prince in the future, this long-term attendant of the Eastern Palace was also miserable in grief and anger, and eventually died in long-term pain.
Therefore, the difficult problems that scholars argue endlessly should be regarded as being answered. Wu Zetian really did it, and those who became big things could kill their closest relatives, as long as it was for her rights, she dared to kill anyone.
This was an absolutely cold politics, and because of this, she was able to run the Great Zhou Dynasty as a woman and become the first empress of the ages. However, this result is still a bit regrettable, after all, she is no longer a qualified mother.
epilogue
In Xu Ke's film, the words spoken by Wu Zetian are simply a true portrayal of her life, she is a terrible existence that is extremely rational.
And it is worth mentioning that Xu Ke's film also mentioned that there is a question, Wu Zetian took the treasure of the former emperor and asked whether the death of the former emperor was related to Wu Zetian in the end, that period of Wu Zetian is also secretive, and bluntly said that the history books record that the former emperor died of liver disease.
Therefore, combined with history and unearthed evidence, we have to guess whether the death of Tang Gaozong will also be related to Wu Zetian. If this is the case, then Wu Zetian is really too powerful, for the sake of power, she gave up everything, in terms of the ruthlessness of the ruler, she estimated that she had surpassed Liu Bang and others.
But for the comments of this character. Our descendants are not easy to define, after all, she is a successful person, and she is a woman in all difficulties, in all difficulties, perhaps this is the price he paid, but it is really unacceptable to modern people.
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