In the history of more than 2,000 years of feudal dynasties, there are not many women involved in politics, but the orthodox female emperor is only Wu Zetian, but this is also due to the openness of Sui and Tang society, women's personalities can also be very public, in addition, Wu Zetian is also the oldest emperor, when he founded Wu Zhou was 67 years old.
From the talent of Tang Xuanzong to the empress of Tang Gaozong, and then to the empress dowager of Emperor Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong, and finally ascended the throne as emperor, Wu Zetian's road to becoming emperor is also legendary, during his reign, Wu Zetian was very important to his courtiers who were clean and upright, regardless of their origins, and gave the people the right to recommend themselves.
However, the appointment of cool officials during the reign of Wu Zetian is also very famous, Lai Junchen is a famous cool official in the Wuzhou period, almost throughout the entire Wuzhou period, created all kinds of cruel torture devices, as long as it is a case handed over to him, Zhulian is a common thing, Lijingmen also has a "case of the door", anyone who enters this door, it is difficult to come out alive, no matter how beautiful it is before death, after entering this door, it will be no one and no ghost.
In the first year of the Holy Calendar (698), Wu Zetian secretly took his son Li Xian back to Luoyang, and established him as the crown prince, solving the problem of heirs, but then Wu Zetian took the erzhang brothers as eyes and ears, which complicated the political situation, and if Li Xian did not ascend the throne as emperor for a day, then his throne was hanging.
In 705, the chancellor Zhang Kamzhi and Cui Xuanhui and the ministers Jinghui, Huan Yanfan, Yuan Shuji and others launched a "Shenlong coup", Erzhang was killed, Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate, living in Shangyang Palace in vain, Li Xian was restored, the great feudal heroes, and the group of ministers celebrated, but only the chancellor Yao Chong, wept bitterly.
Some courtiers wondered and asked him why he was crying, was he weeping with joy? Yao Chong replied, "Yesterday's pre-public rebuke of the fierce rebels is the long way of the courtiers, how dare they say meritorious deeds; today they are the ones who weep against the old lord, and they are also the last days of the courtiers." ”
Yao Chong, the son of Yao Yi, the governor of Yao Prefecture, entered the career as emperor Xiaojing (Li Hong) Bang Lang, and after the examination, he wrote a chapter and became a minor official, but was appreciated by Wu Zetian, and Yao Chong became the chancellor in 698, but by 704, Yao Chong, because of his mother's old age, planned to return to his hometown to take care of his mother, so he resigned.
Zhang Kamzhi was able to become the prime minister from Qiu Guan Shilang, or Yao Chong's recommendation.
Wu Zetian had the grace of knowing Yao Chong, and Yao Chong's weeping after Wu Zetian's abdication was also reasonable, indicating that he knew how to be grateful.
However, the matter did not end here, and Li Xian claimed that the empress dowager would still take a hundred officials to visit Wu Zetian every ten days. Once seeing Wu Zetian's extremely haggard face surprised Li Xian, Wu Zetian cried and said, "I took you back from Fangling to Shendu to entrust the world to you, but the five thieves (after the Shenlong coup, Zhang Kamzhi, Jinghui, Huan Yanfan, Yuan Shuji, and Cui Xuanwei were named the King of Hanyang, the King of Pingyang, the King of Fuyang, the King of Nanyang, and the King of Boling) were greedy for merit and shocked me here." ”
After hearing this, Li Xian also felt deep sorrow and knelt down to "thank the death penalty", while Wu Sansi and other Members of the Wu clan still remained in the DPRK to participate in the government, at this time, it had already foreshadowed the end of Zhang Kamzhi, Jinghui, Huan Yanfan, Yuan Shuji, and Cui Xuanwei.
Jinghui also discussed with Zhang Kamzhi to kill Wu Sansi and others, but Zhang Kamzhi did not agree, and later Jinghui was killed, Zhang Kamzhi died of grief in Xinzhou, Cui Xuanwei died of illness in Lingnan, Huan Yanfan and Yuan Shuji were killed by emissaries directed by Li Xian, and within a year, everything changed again, and the people who had celebrated died.
Instead, Yao Chong, served as chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Ruizong of Tang and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and served as a military secretary.