Wu Zetian was the first and only empress in Chinese history, but before she became emperor, she had already created a peculiar role in Chinese history, the head of the face. The head of the face, commonly known as the male pet, is a man who is specially designed to serve and meet the special needs of Wu Zetian, who was still the empress at the time, and such people are often large in stature and look masculine or beautiful. The first famous head in history was Xue Huaiyi, who had served as a general of Zuo Weiwei and the Duke of Liang, twice went out to attack the Turks, and was later beaten to death with sticks. Such a reversed life can be described as a spectacle of eternity, which is breathtaking.
Villains make their way
Speaking of this Xue Huaiyi, whose real name is Feng Xiaobao, his origin experience can be described as very peculiar, and the Gao Li in the later Song Dynasty "Water Margin" is quite similar. However, Gao Li is because he plays a good ball, while Feng Xiaobao is purely because he is masculine and handsome.
Feng Xiaobao was originally a small gangster on the streets of Luoyang, who made a living by boxing and selling dog skin plasters on the street, but he did not expect to be taken in by a maid from the Qianjin Princess Mansion who passed by, and this bold maid actually secretly took him into the Princess Mansion and rained with him every day.
However, paper can not keep the fire after all, in the feudal society, such ugly things will be discovered sooner or later, but when Princess Qianjin kicked open the door and caught the two in bed, a miracle occurred, this Feng Xiaobao's posture actually made the princess unable to extricate herself, directly taking it into her own, and Feng Xiaobao's life at this moment went a step further, from the maid's adulterer to the princess's love. Fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, the people's customs were open, and such absurd things could happen so naturally.
Originally, this Feng Xiaobao had already turned over from a street gangster to the princess's bedside, but what he didn't expect was that greater glory and wealth were still waiting for him. The princess is also estimated to be a filial granddaughter, thinking of her grandmother, the current empress dowager has been alone in the empty room since the death of the former emperor, such a playful thing is not as good as giving to the empress, but also to please the empress.
Therefore, in the spirit of filial piety to the empress, Princess Qianjin brought Feng Xiaobao into the Luoyang Imperial Palace and directly presented it to the empress dowager Wu Zetian. If there is a change of dynasty, such as the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that this Thousand Golden Princess will be scolded to the point of bloodshed, and Feng Xiaobao will also be beaten to death, but in the Tang Dynasty, it has always been more chaotic in this regard, and although Wu Zetian is already a person in his sixties, it may be because of genetic reasons, Wu Zetian's mother Yang Shi was still in her 90s with her grandson He Lanmin's incestuous affairs, and Wu Hou's natural demand for that aspect was only a lot more.
He became a monk and made a makeover
After Wu Zetian got Feng Xiaobao, it was as if he was rejuvenated, and people were much younger, but as the empress dowager, and the actual ruler of the Tang Empire, it was a bit humiliating to raise a male pet in the harem, so Wu Zetian packaged Feng Xiaobao, let him recognize Princess Taiping's horse Xue Shao as an uncle, and changed his name to Xue Huaiyi, so that he obtained a noble origin, at the same time, shaved his head, disguised himself as a monk, and also renovated the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, so that this false monk could be the host.
In this way, Feng Xiaobao became Xue Huaiyi, and at the same time became the abbot of the White Horse Temple, and could justifiably enter the palace to preach the scriptures for the Wuhou, just like the style of a national teacher. Xue Huaiyi also entangled a bunch of small hooligans, and after shaving his head, he followed him forward and backward, and came to Luoyang City to ride a high-headed horse and roar around, and even those ministers and princes who were in the middle of the court at that time saw him, they all had to crawl and call him "Xue Shi", if anyone did not respect him, he would fight with the authority of the Empress Wu, and once beat an imperial envoy who had impeached him almost out of breath on the way to work.
Whimsical and meritorious
Xue Huaiyi became a heavenly nobody, bullying everywhere, but one day he finally encountered a hard stubble, that is, Su Liangsi, the current prime minister. The matter is actually very simple, that is, the two teams of people and horses met at the palace gate, and everyone did not give in to each other, and the Tang Dynasty's prime minister has always been in a respected position, even the emperor has to give three points, which will put a small male pet in the eyes, so Su Liangsi ordered people to catch Xue Huaiyi and gave him dozens of slaps on the spot. And when Xue Huaiyi ran to Empress Wu to cry, Empress Wu only slightly appeased him and told him not to go to the South Gate in the future, which was where the imperial court ministers walked.
At this moment, it is estimated that Xue Huaiyi recognized his own status, and at the same time, he also had the idea of making some great contributions to the Wuhou to prove himself.
It is also strange to say that this Xue Huaiyi false monk said that he would do it, first painstakingly studied, and made a copy of the Great Cloud Sutra, and argued that Wuhou was the reincarnation of Maitreya, and God sent her to collect the already weakened Li Tang royal family. Of course, Empress Wu gladly smiled, this assertion can not only allow her to justifiably replace Li Tangjiangshan, but also seal the mouths of the people of the world, and Empress Wu has since presented herself as the reincarnation of Maitreya, and it is said that the largest Buddha in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang was built on her. As for Xue Huaiyi, Wu Zetian immediately made him a duke.
Mogao Caves Big Buddha Statue
Later, the Turks made two attacks, and Xue Huaiyi led his army to fight against the Turks as a great general, but this guy had good luck, the first time he did not encounter the main Turkic force and marched into Shan Yutai, and the second time he retreated before going out to attack the Turks, and Wu Zetian recorded the credit of both times under his name and named him the Great General of right Wei Wei.
However, Xue Huaiyi's greatest credit was to build the Vientiane Shrine for Wu Zetian, according to historical records, this palace is 294 feet high, that is, nearly 90 meters, which is twice the height of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, and at the top there is a sculpture of 9 golden dragons holding phoenixes, and on its north side, there is a Buddhist hall, enshrined with a giant Buddha statue, facing the famous hall of the Vientiane Shrine. The giant Buddha statue in the movie "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" is from this. It was after the completion of these two magnificent buildings that Wu Zetian changed the title of emperor, and Xue Huaiyi was made the Duke of Liang.
Falling out of favor, he went mad and burned down the shrine
After Wu Zetian ascended the throne, he quickly snubbed Xue Huaiyi, naturally because there was another new huan, and this new huan was a royal doctor. In order to save the heart of the already Wu Emperor, Xue Huaiyi used a variety of ways, including making a soaring Buddha pretending to be Xiangrui on the Shangyuan Festival, and using ox blood to impersonate his own blood to draw a two-hundred-foot-tall Buddha hanging at the head of the city, which was how novel and novel it was, no less than today's advertising screens of the entire city under some old fat bags to take turns playing the goddess's propaganda film.
However, to Xue Huaiyi's disappointment, he was helpless how to toss, and he could never win back Emperor Wu's heart, so a vicious plan ignited in his heart. Perhaps only a fire could arouse Emperor Wu's change of heart, and the burning of Emperor Wu's two most beloved palaces was Xue Huaiyi's crazy act, and the palace he built with his own hands was destroyed by his own hands. The fire in Luoyang City illuminated the entire night sky, and it was also the largest flame Wu Zetian had ever seen in his lifetime.
Xue Huaiyi set the fire
Rebuild the shrine, the end of the male pet
Wu Zetian's mind could not be guessed by anyone, and when the candidates for the reconstruction of the Shrine were announced, everyone was shocked, and Xue Huaiyi was still in charge.
As for Xue Huaiyi, of course, he thought that his own fire had burned away the dark clouds above his head, and it seemed that as long as the shrine was rebuilt, the empress would change her mind and return to the former empress.
Unfortunately, illiterate people are illiterate, and after burning down two landmark buildings of the Wu Emperor's Great Zhou Dynasty, they still fantasized about regaining favor. Shortly after the completion of the new shrine, Xue Huaiyi was ordered to enter the palace, and he waited for only a stick halfway through the process of rekindling his old love with Emperor Wu.
After Xue Huaiyi died under the sticks, the body was burned, and the ashes were stirred in the dirt and buried under a stupa at the White Horse Temple.
From Feng Xiaobao to Xue Huaiyi, and then to the white horse temple, the time is just ten years, and the legend of the first side of the world, the male pet, has also come to an end.
Thousands of years later, when the shrine and the Great Buddha have disappeared, who else will remember such a man who went mad for favors and set fires for selfish desires?