Wu Zetian abdicated, hundreds of officials celebrated, only one person wept bitterly, a year later to know, the celebration is dead
As the only female emperor in ancient Chinese history, Wu Zetian's life is full of legends, but on her way to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, it is not difficult to imagine a huge resistance, as for Wu Zetian's later years, it is also downfall. She no longer had the vigor of the first time she ascended the throne, but favored the Zhang Changzong brothers, abandoned political affairs, and her control over the imperial court also declined rapidly, resulting in changes in people's hearts. Later, even the Wu family began to be dissatisfied with Wu Zetian's use of Erzhang, so in 705, after confidential consultation, the chancellor Zhang Kamzhi and others immediately launched a coup d'état, killing Erzhang and others, forcing the 81-year-old Wu Zetian to cede the throne to the crown prince Li Xian, later Emperor Zhongzong of Tang.
This coup was very successful, Erzhang was destroyed, and the elderly Wu Zetian, under the persecution of the courtiers, finally relinquished his power, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, Wu Zetian passed the emperor's throne to the crown prince Li Xian, then moved to Shangyang Palace, died 12 months later, and the Tang Dynasty regained the national name, and Li Tang was able to control the power again. From the hundred officials to the flag clothes, they have all changed into the way they were in the past.
The day of Emperor Wu's abdication is also very memorable, and many ministers and even clans who suffered from the suppression of the martial family and Wu Zetian's henchmen in the past celebrated wildly.
In the main hall, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian, was even more rewarded for the merits of several ministers who launched the coup d'état, among which the first Zhang Kamzhi was named the King of Hanyang, Jinghui was named the King of Pingyang, Huan Yanfan was named the King of Fuyang, Yuan Shuji was named the King of Nanyang, and Cui Xuanwei was named the King of Boling, so history also called the Shenlong coup d'état the Five Kings Coup, as for other opponents of Wu Zetian, many officials were reinstated or even promoted, and the capital was full of joyful atmosphere.
However, at the banquet, there was only one minister who seemed out of place and wept incessantly, and Zhang Kamzhi looked back and saw that it was none other than Yao Chong, who had long been the prime minister during Wu Zetian's time and was now the chief of the Lingwu Dao March. During the Shenlong coup, he was also the mainstay of the overthrow of Wu Zetian.
Zhang Kamzhi looked at it, angry and funny, he stepped forward, and the two immediately had such a conversation, Zhang Kamzhi said: "Is today a day of crying?" I'm afraid you're going to be in trouble soon. However, Yao Chong replied: "I have served the Emperor Zetian for a long time, and now I suddenly resigned, and I can't help but be full of sorrow and indignation, I killed and rebelled in order to serve the country, and remembering the old lord is also the obligation of people and subjects" (The matter is long, at first this resignation is against the law, the emotion is heartfelt, not forbearance.) Yesterday's pre-public rebuke of the fierce rebel is the common way of the courtiers, how dare they say their deeds; now he who violates the sorrows of the old Lord, and the last day of the courtiers, is really willing to be guilty of this. ）。 After Zhang Kamzhi heard these remarks, it was not easy to say anything more.
"Old Book of Tang, Yao Chongchuan": Then Tian moved to Shangyang Palace, Emperor Zhongzong led hundreds of officials to live in the house, the princes were already rejoicing in the celebration, and Yuan Zhidu sobbed.
I have to say that Yao Chong, like Cai Yong, who cried dong Zhuo at the end of the Han Dynasty, also reflected the quality of his own Zhi'en Tu Bao. However, the minister, who was still celebrating in the capital at this time, never thought of the next ending. A year later, everyone celebrating is dead
As a result of supporting Wang Shang's ascension to the throne, Zhang Kam Zhi and other ministers became more and more proud, often regarded themselves as the pillars of the state, arrogant and forced people, resulting in Tang Zhongzong gradually alienating from them, precisely because of the peaceful transfer of power, but wu Sansi and other wu family members, as well as Wei Hou, who had an ill-intentioned heart, seized the power of the DPRK and China, "doing things at home and opposing the government of the country", and then Zhang Kam Zhi and many other coup ministers were slandered by Wu Sansi and Wei Hou, degraded officials, exiled, resulting in Zhang Kam Zhi's death in anger in Xinzhou. Jinghui died at the hands of the samurai assassins, and Huan and Yuan were killed by emissaries sent by Li Xian. Others were equally subjected to this outcome.
Although Yao Chong, who was also sent to Bozhou as an assassin, was not persecuted by the Wu family, did this cry of his play some reason in the palace? No one knows.