When it comes to female emperors in ancient times, many people may first think of Wu Zetian, in fact, in the same period as Wu Zetian, there was also a name emperor, thirty-seven years earlier than Wu Zetian. However, the endings of the two are not the same, one is famous in history, and the other is tortured for 3 days and died. Just as the so-called "king is defeated", everyone only knows Wu Zetian, and does not know that there are other people. Today, I will talk to you about this woman full of color- Chen Shuozhen.
Chen Shuozhen, born in 620 AD, was a native of Zitongyuan Tianzhuang, Pheasant Mountain, Muzhou. She had both lost her parents since childhood, and she and her sister were dependent on each other, and later she was adopted by a neighbor and arranged to work in a eunuch's house for a long time, and when she was young, Chen Shuozhen had a short marriage, but because of the early death of her husband, Chen Shuo became a lonely and bitter person.
The blow of life not only did not make Chen Shuozhen sink, but on the contrary, he could better appreciate the difficulty of ordinary people's lives. Once there was a great drought in Muzhou, and more hungry people starved to death on the side of the road than there was food in the fields. So Chen Shuozhen disregarded the danger to his life and secretly opened the official granary to help the people, and as a result, he was arrested, but fortunately, the people thanked him for his kindness and rescued Chen Shuozhen.
After Chen Shuozhen was released from prison, he took refuge in the mountains for a period of time. She used the Gokusan and Manichaeanism to develop the Pope, spreading the news that she had met Taishang Laojun in the mountains and was accepted as a disciple. She is a Nine Heavenly Divine Daughter and has mastered the art of emperorship in the Rokkaku region.
It sounded ridiculous, but at that time, the people in many places had not read any books, and they were very happy about the art of ghosts and gods, and Chen Shuo's words were undoubtedly very impressive. However, soon someone reported to the government that Chen Shuozhen was a demon who deceived the public, but fortunately, the villagers raised funds and opened the joints, which once again allowed Chen Shuozhen to get out of prison safely.
Chen Shuozhen realized that this would probably have no effect, and that in order to save the people from "water and fire", they would have to be proclaimed emperor as soon as possible in order to gather more people under their command.
So in early October of the fourth year of Yonghui (653), Chen Shuo truly declared an uprising and openly confronted the government. She imitated the official position of the Tang Dynasty and established a political power. A relative of the people themselves named Zhang Shuyin was probably equivalent to the position of prime minister. Chen Shuozhen himself was only called "Emperor Jia", becoming the first woman in Chinese history to be called emperor.
Chen Shuozhen claimed that the emperor was not a family, and quickly gathered thousands of rebels under her command. After the capture of Yu Qian, the people of muzhou rose up in response to the rebel army and grew to tens of thousands, and the government and the opposition were shaken.
However, it is a pity that although Chen Shuozhen's men gathered tens of thousands of people, they were all civilians who had not undergone military training. Soon Cui Yixuan, who was the assassin of Wuzhou, sent an army to attack Chen Shuozhen, curbing the momentum of further development.
Coincidentally, one night when the two armies were fighting, suddenly a meteor fell in Chen Shuozhen's camp, and Cui Yixuan took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, chen Shuozhen's army was defeated, and more than 10,000 people, including Chen Shuozhen, were captured.
After Chen Shuozhen was captured, he was still unwilling to give in. The Tang army decided to parade Chen Shuozhen to the streets to deter latecomers who wanted to rebel. They stripped Chen Shuozhen of all of his clothes and used a sharp knife to cut the flesh of Chen Shuozhen's body, torturing him for three days, and finally Chen Shuozhen died in extreme pain.