In the five-thousand-year history of our country, the most powerful person in a dynasty is the emperor. In the traditional concept of people, the emperor is generally male. And it is precisely for this reason that in ancient times, men have always been inferior to women, and women have no status.
However, in ancient times, there was a female emperor, and he was Wu Zetian, the female emperor of the ancients. During the reign of Wu Zetian, the prime minister was ordered to go to war because he wrote the words "Green Goose". The Wen and Wu officials did not understand very much, and Wu Zetian said to take the words apart and look at them, so what happened in this?
Step by step to become a queen
This matter also began when Wu Zetian entered the palace, because Wu Zetian was a woman, so he could not enter the palace as an official. She has two older brothers who are already in the official residence, and she is not yet a mother, which has led to the oppression of her own house.
From this time on, Wu Zetian had the idea of gaining power. After her father suddenly fell seriously ill and died, she and her mother could not live at home, so Wu Zetian's mother sent her to the palace.
Because Wu Zetian was still quite beautiful, her mother thought that if she entered the palace and was favored by the emperor, the fate of the family could be changed. Soon after Wu Zetian entered the palace, he won the favor of Li Shimin.
But the good times were not long, Li Shimin was only three minutes hot for Wu Zetian, and after the freshness passed, Wu Zetian was left out in the cold. As a concubine, if you are not favored by the emperor, you will eat and drink well in this life, and then wait for death to come.
But Wu Zetian did not do so, because Li Shimin died violently within a few years. As Li Shimin's son Li Zhi became emperor, Li Zhi liked Wu Zetian from the day he entered the palace.
Although Li Zhi is the son of Li Shimin, the two are about the same age. Li Zhi thought of a way to make Wu Zetian his wife. At this time, Wu Zetian knew that her opportunity had come, as long as she leveled Li Zhi, then she could walk in peace.
Wu Zetian relied on his own wisdom and wisdom to help Li Zhi govern the country, and achieved very good results. When Li Zhi saw that Wu Zetian was not only beautiful, but also particularly talented, he let her manage the affairs of the dynasty.
Li Zhi was not in good health, a little older, and the whole person was instantly weak and sickly. In order to govern the world, Li Zhi let Wu Zetian decide many things alone, and Wu Zetian did everything very methodically, helping Li Zhi to make the country's governance orderly.
Li Zhi died after a few years of illness due to his physical weakness. Before Li Zhi's death, he made Wu Zetian empress, and made himself and Wu Zetian's child, Li Xianli, crown prince.
Wu Zetian was proclaimed emperor
When Li Zhi fell ill, he was reluctant to let the major affairs of the state fall on Wu Zetian's body. A person he trusted very much, and also his mentor, Pei Yan was promoted to the position of Erpin Grand Official of the Imperial Court, and asked him to assist Wu Zetian in governing the country.
It can be said that the small things are basically, Pei Yan has the final say, and in the choice of major things, Wu Zetian also needs Pei Yan to discuss it, and Li Zhi can decide after looking at it. As for Wu Zetian's talent, Pei Yan was very impressed.
Pei Yan couldn't imagine that a woman could have such talent, and she was particularly decisive in the choice of major matters, never indecisive. And doing things will take into account the overall situation, never lose big because of small.
After Li Xian was born, Li Zhi let Pei Yan become the tutor of his son Li Xian, and Li Zhi's idea was to let Pei Yan continue to assist Li Xian in the future. Therefore, before Li Zhi died, Pei Yan was made a minister of life.
How much power does Pei Yan have as a minister of life, it can be said that he is above ten thousand people under one person, and he receives the orders of the former emperor, and sometimes he can not be angry with Li Xian, which is the imperial power charter of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er.
However, Pei Yan did not abuse his power and single-mindedly guarded the Jiangshan for the Li family. After Li Xian succeeded to the throne, Pei Yan did many things himself to help Li Xian govern the imperial program. But what Pei Yan did not expect was that Li Xian was a Dou who could not be helped.
Li Xianzhong is difficult to distinguish, and many things are not distinguished. You must know that the emperor cannot make mistakes, because he decides on the major affairs of the country, and if he does not pay attention, it is the lives of many people who pay the bills.
Pei Yan felt that since Li Xian was incompetent, it was better to govern the country with Wu Zetian as before. Therefore, Pei Yan bypassed Li Xian and ruled with Wu Zetian, but what Pei Yan did not expect was that he was raising tigers.
A few years later, Wu Zetian told Pei Yan that Li Zhi had made Li Xian emperor, nothing more than to let him manage the country well. But now Li Xian was obviously not a Ming Emperor, and Wu Zetian wanted to depose Li Xian and establish Li Dan as emperor.
Pei Yan felt that Li Dan was also a good candidate, since they were all Li Zhi's sons, it didn't matter who became emperor, he only needed to assist with his heart. However, Wu Zetian did not let Li Dan become emperor in the end, but accepted the state with thunderous momentum, established himself as emperor, and founded the Zhou Dynasty.
Zhongchen desperately guarded the Li family
After Wu Zetian became emperor, Pei Yan looked confused. It wasn't to make Li Dan emperor, how could she have become emperor herself? Pei Yan calmed down and observed for several days and found that Wu Zetian had already privately closed the hearts of many ministers.
And for those disobedient ministers, Wu Zetian was also deciding on major state affairs at that time anyway, so he secretly eliminated these people. Without the obstruction of these people, Wu Zetian could naturally become emperor.
Pei Yan was loyal to Li Zhi, and he did not allow the Li family's Jiangshan to be taken away by others in this way, and Wu Zetian just provided himself with an opportunity. The first thing Wu Zetian did after he ascended to the throne was to continue to eliminate those who supported the Li family.
At this time, a prince of the frontier learned of the news. Because of his outstanding military achievements, Li Zhi gave him his sister Xu, and he was also Li Xian's brother-in-law. The Li family has always guarded the peace of the party, but Wu Zetian has obviously deceived people too much.
So this prince decided to raise an army against Wu Zetian. However, they are weak and have a small chance of success. Thinking of Pei Yan, who was also loyal, he ordered someone to write a secret letter and sent a flying pigeon letter to Pei Yan.
After Pei Yan received the letter, his heart was overjoyed. He was worried about how to overthrow Wu Zetian, and there was a prince who wanted to cooperate with himself. After Pei Yan knew about Wang Ye's general plan, he wrote a secret letter to pass it back.
However, Pei Yan did not expect that he had Wu Zetian's eyeliner by his side. As soon as his carrier pigeon was released, he was intercepted, and then the superstition was sent to Wu Zetian's hands. Wu Zetian was holding a meeting for the courtiers, so he asked the eunuch to come out directly.
The eunuch read only two words, and that was "green wagtail." While everyone was still pondering, Wu Zetian was furious and ordered people to go to Pei Yan's house and pull him to the front of the palace to be beheaded. At this point, the courtiers did not understand that Wu Zetian wanted to kill Pei Yan.
Wu Zetian just said lightly, taking the two apart to see. Through splitting, the courtiers found that the "Qing" characters were separated into three words: "ten, two, and month", and the words "鵝" were separated by "I, Self, and".
The meaning of these words is that Pei Yan said that he would make an internal response for the rebels around December and eliminate Wu Zetian in one fell swoop. No wonder Wu Zetian was so angry, and it could be seen from this incident that Wu Zetian was particularly clever.