In fact, there are not only 1 female emperor in Chinese history, wu Zetian, but also 3 other women, namely the Northern Wei Yuan Girl (Empress Dowager Hu's puppet, swaddling baby girl), the Wenjia Emperor Chen Shuozhen, and the Western Liao "Chengtian Emperor" Yelü Pusu. Of course, the achievements of these three people cannot be compared with Wu Zetian, so some historians do not recognize that they have the status of emperor.
But women who can claim the title of emperor in feudal society will not be weak enough, such as Chen Shuozhen, the Wenjia Emperor today. Many scholars believe that she was the first female emperor of China, who not only preceded Wu Zetian as emperor 37 years earlier, but even inspired Wu Zetian to establish the Wuzhou Dynasty Tang Dynasty, so that Wu Zetian realized that women can also "open up the world", although wu Zetian was still a Zhaoyi when she called the emperor.
Chen Shuozhen's hometown must be very familiar to everyone, that is, the hometown of Fang La, the leader of the rebel army in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty: Qingxi County, Muzhou, Zhejiang. Chen Shuozhen not only inspired Wu Zetian, but also inspired Fang La, but at the beginning she was not a big person, she was just a little girl in the countryside, when she was very young, her parents gave up and left only a sister to live with her, and her life was very bitter.
It wasn't until Chen Shuozhen grew up that he began to work as a maid for a large family, and his sister also found a neighbor to adopt, that life was slightly better. However, the good times did not last long, a major flood broke out in Qingxi, the imperial court did not open the warehouse in time to provide relief, but the taxes that should be collected were not much, and the people were hungry and miserable. Chen Shuo really couldn't bear to see the situation, and secretly took the grain of the master's family to everyone to eat.
After the master found out, Chen Shuozhen was beaten hard, and the villagers rushed into the master's house to rescue her, and she immediately fled to the mountains to live in seclusion to heal her wounds. During the healing period, Chen Shuozhen had the idea of uprising, and she decided to make up a myth for herself, using the power of religion to develop the power of believers, so as to seek great things in the future. She externally claimed that she was a lady of the Xuan Dynasty, and she had been taught immortality by the Taishang Laojun herself.
Chen Shuozhen's relatives also supported her idea, so Chen Shuozhen's influence grew and his followers grew. Unexpectedly, someone reported it to the government, and the local officials arrested Chen Shuozhen because she had deceived the public. Many people who had been saved by Chen Shuozhen saved a sum of silver to rescue her, and after chen Shuozhen was released from prison, Chen Shuozhen decided to start an incident as soon as possible, so in the late autumn of 633 AD, she announced an uprising in her hometown.
Because Chen Shuozhen had done a lot of preparation in advance, so there were many people who responded to her, and in a short period of time, the number of rebels reached several thousand, and under Chen Shuozhen's propaganda that "I have the protection of the gods, and those who are enemies of me are all destroyed", the morale of the rebels was high, and they quickly captured the capital of Muzhou and the counties to which they belonged. A few thousand gradually grew into tens of thousands, but over time, the combat effectiveness of the rebels declined.
Ordinary people who rushed forward with fierce force were inferior to well-trained officers and soldiers, Chen Shuozhen had a general named Tong Wenbao who encountered obstacles when attacking Wuzhou, Chen Shuozhen heard that he was leading soldiers and horses to support, and as a result, many Wuzhou soldiers at that time were afraid of Chen Shuozhen's propaganda and did not dare to go to war, until a Sikong named Cui Xuanzhi joined the army and stood up, saying that Chen Shuozhen was not afraid and was willing to lead the troops.
Wuzhou stabbed Shi Daxi and immediately asked Cui Xuanzhi to fight back. The two armies were deadlocked, but unexpectedly a meteorite suddenly fell from the sky at Chen Shuozhen's military camp. Cui Xuanbi used his human way to treat his body, vigorously publicizing that Chen Shuo really "dropped the star" and she would undoubtedly die. In the end, Chen Shuozhen was indeed defeated, and the uprising, which lasted only one or two months, came to an end. However, as a weak woman, she dared to call herself emperor in feudal society, and this courage was also very rare.