In 690, Wu Zetian, who had previously served as Emperor Zhongzong of Tang and Emperor Ruizong of Tang, realized the system of dynastic title and held great power, and finally changed Tang to Zhou and ascended the throne as emperor.
At this time, it had been 52 years since she first entered the palace. After assuming the throne of the emperor, as the only female emperor in the history of our country, she used her wisdom and strategy in a male-dominated society to appoint Di Renjie, Lou Shide, Wei Yuanzhong, Zhang Kamzhi, Yao Chong, Song Jing and other famous ministers to rule the world, which also made the domestic politics harmonious and economic development quite a legacy of chastity.
As the most relied on fulcrum on her road to success, Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi played a crucial role in Wu Zetian's life. Li Shimin, who made himself a harem man from the daughter of a minister, was able to approach the center of power; While Li Zhi allowed himself to hold great power, and finally achieved the feat of an empress who had never been seen before or since for thousands of years.
However, between these two men, as Li Shimin's concubine, Wu Zetian did not come out of anything for twelve years; but here li Shimin's son Li Zhi, after taking him back from the Ganye Temple to the palace, the two turned the phoenix upside down, and within a year Wu Zetian was already pregnant with a dragon heir, and in the decades of favor, he gave birth to four sons and two daughters. Why?
Wu Zetian was born in the Shangjia family, his father Wu Shiyan was promoted because he supported Li Yuan and Li Shimin for his military merits, and at the age of 15, Li Shimin, who had been sitting on the throne for eleven years, heard that Wu Shi, the daughter of Wu Shi, was both talented and beautiful, so he recruited him into the harem and was named a talented person - ranked wupin.
According to the reason, as long as Wu Zetian stayed for a long time, he was fortunate to be blessed by the emperor, and Fei Huang Tengda was just around the corner. But in the next incident, it was revealed that although she had wisdom at this time, she was still mentally unfulfilled. And this is the matter of the lion.
When she first entered the palace, Wu Zetian once advised her mother that it was a blessing to serve the Son of Heaven, not to let her mother cry and cry, and that this could be used as a plan to advance, so she also tried her best to show herself in the hope of getting promoted.
The lion was the beloved horse of Li Shimin of Tang Taizong, but this horse was fierce and untamed; and everyone had no choice but to do anything, and the martial people suggested that I could subdue it, but needed three items—an iron whip, an iron rafter, and a dagger. If the lion is not satisfied, it is first whipped with an iron whip; then the iron rafter hits the head; and finally if it is still disobedient, its throat is cut with a dagger.
As soon as this strategy came out, Li Shimin "Taizong Zhuang Wu Clan Zhi". But at this time, Li Shimin's heart was already sketching out the heart of this talented person, as an emperor who was accustomed to seeing blood, how could he not know the truth that people's hearts were difficult to defend, and how could Li Shimin like such a woman who would do whatever it took to achieve her goals?
Since then, Li Shimin has naturally had little luck. After Li Shimin's death, according to the Tang Dynasty harem regulations, because there were no heirs, Wu Zetian was also sent to the Ganye Temple to become a nun.
And if Li Zhi can be affectionate and stop the courtesy, presumably Wu Zetian will only be silent for a lifetime, and there will be nothing in the history books. But Li Zhi, who is precisely the party, is already the emperor. As for Wu Zetian, Li Zhi was even more mindful.
Therefore, a year after Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi came to Ganye Temple to worship. Under the reunion after a long absence, the two naturally talked very happily and promoted a long talk. And just when Li Zhi was still proposing the idea of how to take Wu Zetian into the palace, Empress Wang, as an empress, proposed to take Wu Cai back to the palace in order to be able to blackmail the increasingly favored Concubine Xiao Shu. And Li Zhi naturally couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then he took the martial talents back to the palace.
After taking the Wucai people back to the palace, Li Zhi, who was originally favored by Concubine Xiao Shu, concentrated all his favor on the Wucai people alone. And Wu Zetian also benefited from this, not only giving birth to a dragon heir, the mother relying on her son, step by step to promote, and Empress Wang, Concubine Xiao Shufei, and even Li Zhi also became a stepping stone for Wu Zetian in the face of harem struggles and power struggles. In the end, she also achieved her own legend.