Wu Zetian, at the age of 13, entered the palace and became the talent of the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong, who became the empress of his son and the third emperor Gaozong after his death, and eventually became the only female emperor, creating his own dynasty, the Wuzhou Dynasty.
As a woman, born in an anonymous family, she can start her own dynasty in male-dominated politics, how did she do it?
"Zetianwu Hou" is based on a detailed interpretation of historical materials, and at the same time uses storytelling and novel-style techniques to interpret Wu Zetian's brilliant life.
The author is Hosei Kigazawa (Japanese), Doctor of Literature. He is currently a representative of the Institute of East Asian History and Culture and a researcher at the Toyo Bunko.
The book describes Wu Zetian's magnificent life, and at the same time, under the domination of her ambition, she fought against the old forces and entrenched Confucian concepts with firm faith and wisdom, and defeated them one by one.
In these trajectories, we can see that she has achieved the following 3 points: firm goals and opportunities, good at learning, and good at using people.
First, firm goals, and constantly seize opportunities
Wu Zetian entered the palace as a 13-year-old flower girl, and she looked forward to taking the palace as a turning point to get rid of the bullying of the sinister half-brothers, and even one day to avenge the snow hate.
She had the dream of "I will never lose, no matter what, I will survive in the palace and open up my own world..." she opened her first step on the stage of history.
After living in the palace for thirteen years, Emperor Taizong fell seriously ill, and she faced the dilemma that her dream would end before it was realized, so she captured the crown prince and successfully captured him.
After she re-enters the palace, her goal is to become an empress, she faces a huge obstacle, she grasps the weakness of her opponent through the intelligence network, and uses the strength to successfully become an empress to achieve the goal.
Her path to political growth is to constantly set goals and firmly implement the path of seizing opportunities.
Second, be good at learning
Wu Zetian's great political success, in addition to her natural qualifications, is also inseparable from her serious study, as well as spending more than ten years around Taizong, and learning the political skills of the great emperor Taizong, and cultivating his own understanding of politics and the vision of people.
Every day, all kinds of files were sent in, and she was able to give instructions properly and accurately, and the wisdom and thick literary and historical education revealed from the subtleties stunned the people around her, and Gaozong could only stand by.
Wu Zetian was a particularly learner, and she became the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history by constantly accumulating experience, constantly fighting, and finally succeeding in counterattacking.
Third, be good at employing people
After Wu Zetian entered the palace for the second time, in the struggle with Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao, she was good at using people and cultivated the intelligence network of female officials, who reported every move of Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao to Empress Wu one by one, and finally Empress Wu could successfully overthrow Empress Wang and become a righteous empress.
She is committed to promoting and reusing as many people as possible who understand and act on her intentions. In the process of taking over real power after Wu, various talents under her command have exerted their talents. In particular, people of insight who have rich political qualifications and can balance the forces of all sides have been used as prime ministers, such as the representative figure Di Renjie.
Di Renjie survived in the wu zetian era with honesty and tenacious character. He not only helped Wuhou solve the problem of northern Turkic and Khitan invasion, but also solved the problem of returning li tang. He also recruited highly qualified talents, such as Zhang Kamzhi and Yao Chong, who were the core figures who ended the post-Wu era.
Wu Zetian's ability to reach the peak of the political stage is inseparable from her valuing talent, cherishing talent, and reusing talent, and relying on the talents of the people to govern is the success of Wu Zetian.
Takego is a woman, but as a woman with unheard of ambitions and unexpected realizations, it can be said that she has lived both male and female lives at one time.