Wu Zetian (624-705), which is a thunderous name.
Label 1: The only female emperor of China.
Label two: The oldest when he ascended the throne as emperor, he was sixty-seven years old.
Label three: merit is difficult to comment on, only a wordless monument is erected behind him.
Label Four: The emperor who appointed the most prime ministers was said to be as many as seventy-three.
Label five: the top three in life expectancy, second only to the Qianlong Emperor (89 years old) and the Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan (86 years old).
Label six: Sixteen years of reign, the use of thirteen years, and the use of "long live the heavens", "long live the heavens", "long live the heavens" and other four words of the year number, can also be regarded as a maverick.
What kind of life experience the first person in ancient and modern times has, I am afraid that everyone wants to know.
Let's start with the Wu family.
Wu Zetian's father was named Wu Shiyan (武士彟), and his ancestral home was Wenshui (文水, in present-day Lüliang, Shanxi).
According to Wu Zetian, the Wenshui Wu clan was a remote descendant of the Zhou Dynasty royal family Ji clan, whose grandfather Wu Hua had served as the Sui Dynasty's Dongdu County, and whose grandfather Wu Jian was a member of the Northern Zhou Yongchang royal palace, commonly known as a staff member. To put it bluntly, although Wu Zetian became emperor, he did not elevate the status of the martial family.
In the era of door valves, the samurai family can only be regarded as a humble small door family, and it is a family that makes a living from business, although it does not have to worry about livelihood, it is not decent.
Samurai Yan is Wu Hua's fourth son, and he has three unused older brothers.
Wu Hua was a shrewd businessman who could speak the Tao, and basically did not have to worry about the affairs of the family, and when the samurai was young, he spent almost all his time reading, especially the martial arts and strategies, and never forgot it.
After reading the book, become an official, right?
Samurai Was a child of a merchant, and although his social status was not low, in that era, it was really difficult to enter the world. When he was a teenager, samurai had to face the reality that he would either marry and have children and live the rest of his life in peace, or inherit his father's business and become a businessman.
Samurai Yan is not a nibbling old man who sits on the mountain and eats the air, his personality is very independent, when he was young, he often carried the burden of tofu alone, along the village family by house, and over the years, he practiced his business mind. Later, the Sui Emperor started civil engineering projects throughout the country, and The samurai saw the opportunity, so he took advantage of the abundant timber resources of the prefecture to start a government business.
The civil engineering projects of the Sui Dynasty Emperor never stopped, and the business of the samurai was also more and more prosperous, and later he ran directly to Luoyang and started the trading of the imperial court. In Luoyang, the samurai scattered their family wealth and eventually knocked on the doors of many high-ranking officials and nobles, the most important of which was Yang Da, the Sui Dynasty Emperor.
Yang Da is the number two person in charge of the construction project of Dongdu, and with him coming forward, samurai naturally can get a lot of orders. Wu Shiyan was a shrewd and generous businessman, and with money everyone earned together, so many dignitaries and dignitaries were willing to associate with Samurai Yan, such as Yang Xiong, the king of Guan Wang, Niu Hong, and others.
Unfortunately, Wu Shiyan found a lot of power umbrellas in Luoyang, but did not get Yang Su, the general manager of the Dongdu construction project. One of the important reasons is that Yang Su was not only the prime minister of the dynasty, not easy to make friends with, but also a super businessman of the Sui Dynasty. Exactly how many properties Yang Su has under his name has always been a mystery, and it is conceivable that the samurai will get what kind of treatment he will get when he goes to Luoyang to rob other people's business.
According to historical records, Yang Su fabricated a number of crimes for the samurai Yan Luo and wanted to put him to death, thanks to the efforts of Yang Xiong and the powerful Niu Hong, the warrior, who was able to retrieve a small life.
Wu Zetian was well aware of this encounter with her father, and she never forgot about it, and after taking power, she once issued an edict: on the grounds that Yang Su was disloyal as a subject and was responsible for the demise of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Su's descendants were strictly forbidden to serve as capital officials and bodyguards, and the Yang family was completely excluded from the upper echelons of power.
Few people know that this is Wu Zetian who is angry for his father.
After experiencing the great difficulties of life, the samurai returned to his hometown of Hezhou with a gray face, and he thought about it, business is not a long-term solution, or he has to find a new way out. At that time, in order to suppress the gradually out-of-control riot situation, the Sui Emperor adopted the national policy of recruiting Xiao Yong and sweeping the ground into soldiers, and the samurai Thought of joining the army.
Prior to this, Samurai Yan did not have any military experience, but he still relied on money to open the way, and he was forced to enter the management of the army: his first job was the Yingyang Fu team of the imperial court.
This official position was the lowest-ranking officer under the prefectural military system, equivalent to the current platoon leader, with fifty brothers under his command. It seemed a bit fanciful to take these brothers to quell the rebellion, when the people of the Wu family persuaded the samurai to go to Li Mi, the leader of the Wagang army, and overthrow the rule of the Sui Emperor together.
In fact, although Li Mi has some real talent and practical learning, he does not see far enough. The principle of samurai is to prefer lack of excess, although ambitious, but not in a hurry, while running their own small team, while doing the timber business, mixed up is still a good thing.
Is Samurai Yan waiting for Li Yuan?
Wrong, at this time, no one knew that Li Yuan would come to Hedong to become an official.
In the eleventh year of the Sui Dynasty (615), the Sui Emperor made Li Yuan the ambassador of Hedong and asked him to suppress the peasant rebels such as Wu Duan'er and Li Shanfei, and during this time, Li Yuan lived in the home of The Samurai.
What kind of dialogue and interaction the two have had, no one knows.
In the twelfth year of the Sui Dynasty (616), Li Yuan served as the retainer of Taiyuan and became a feudal governor with great military and political power, and his contacts with the samurai began to become frequent. The samurai is the land snake of the merged state, whether it is the official field of the merged state, or the local tyrants and landlords, the samurai can play well. There was also the timber business of the samurai and the money in the family, which really attracted Li Yuan. After leaving the samurai family, Li Yuan left him a position: the marching division armor joined the army, and his main duty was to help Li Yuan purchase and manage weapons and equipment.
Please note that this is not Li Yuan's private post, but the official organization left behind in Taiyuan, so the communication between Li Yuan and The Samurai Yan is still based on the official tone, and as for the matter of the uprising, Li Yuan will never mention it.
However, the samurai was still as good as the treasure, and he was afraid that Li Yuan would change his mind, finish the family affairs as quickly as possible, and then rush to the Taiyuan Left-behind Mansion to take up his post.
Samurai was a merchant by birth, and although he had money, his social status was not high. Li Yuan was born in the Li clan of Longxi, the hereditary Duke of Tang, and the younger cousin of the Sui Emperor, and there was an insurmountable gap between the two. After the samurai became Li Yuan's marching armor, he did not gain Li Yuan's absolute trust.
For a long time, Wu Shiyan could not find a way to get close to Li Yuan, so he had to retreat to the second place and engage in relations with Wang Wei and Gao Junya, the deputy retainers of Taiyuan. Around the thirteenth year of the Sui Dynasty (617), Wang Wei and Gao Junya were still full-time Qin cha of the Sui Emperor, and they could still compete with Li Yuan on the face, including liu Shilong, the large landlord of Jinyang, Wu Shiyan and others, who did not clearly take sides, but maintained on both sides and acted opportunistically.
However, The Samurai Waslet was still very attentive to Li Yuan, repeatedly inviting him to the palace as a guest, and Li Yuan also wanted to borrow the resources of the Samurai, and the relationship between the two progressed rapidly.
It didn't take long for the attitude of the Taiyuan landlord class to change.
In February of the thirteenth year of the Sui Dynasty (617), Ma Yishou killed Liu Wuzhou the Prince of Taishou,rengong,and then became dependent on the Turks and was given the title of Dingyang Khan. Li Yuan took the opportunity to expand the army establishment and started up Li Jiajun, which aroused the strong jealousy of Wang Wei and Gao Junya. In the following period, Wang Wei and Gao Junya secretly contacted the neutral forces, saying that they were nothing more than allegiance to the country and sharing worries for the emperor, and the samurai and others were completely uninterested.
In their view, Li Yuan defeated Wang Wei and Gao Junya in terms of military strength, personal charm, and team cohesion, and Fei Huang Tengda was only in front of him.
Through this recruitment, it has become the climate, and it turns out that samurai and others have also seen the future of their personal development in a vague situation.
Unfortunately, The Samurai Yan never entered Li Yuan's inner circle, and Li Yuan did not want to think of the soldiers, when to start the army, the specific details, what henchmen were, and the Samurai Didn't know anything.
The merit books of others are full of experiences, but the samurai are few.
First credit: Wang Wei and Gao Junya planned to attack the eldest grandson Shunde and Liu Hongji, so they consulted with The Samurai To discuss countermeasures, and the Samurai Said, These two elder brothers are Li Yuan's guests, if you want to arrest them, you are working against Li Yuan, and if you can't eat and go.
Wang Wei and Gao Junya abandoned this plan, and the samurai made some contributions.
Second credit: Tian Deping, who had joined the army, planned to report to Wang Wei about Li Yuan's private recruitment, and Wu Shiyan warned that the two brothers had no power or power, and even if they knew that Li Yuan was recruiting troops, they could only watch.
To put it bluntly, these two credits have no substantive content.
The third credit is a bit of a stretch.
According to historical records, The Samurai Wanted to persuade Li Yuan to raise an army, so he made up a story, saying that he dreamed that Li Yuan was riding a white horse in heaven, holding the sun and the moon in his hands, and also threatened that the immortals had once released words that there was a Tang Guild as the Son of Heaven. Samurai Even pulled out a magical book of warriors, intending to teach Li Yuan the art of war.
Leaders sometimes don't look at how much you've done, but whether your position is consistent with his. The samurai's willingness to sneak around and pat his horse shows that he is sincerely turning to Li Yuan, and this is enough. Samurai May not have thought that his clever move had completely changed the fate of the family.
After Li Yuan captured Chang'an, Wu Shiyan boasted to himself, saying that he had predicted in Taiyuan that Li Yuan would be the son of heaven. However, Li Yuan's answer was also very interesting: "Samurai, you are actually Wang Wei's person." However, you have helped a lot in the matter of the eldest grandson Shunde and Liu Hongji, so I am willing to thank you. When you say such ugly things now, do you want to rely on flattery to ask for merit and reward? ”
Ridicule is ridicule, Li Yuan's reward is real.
In the first year of Wu De (618), Li Yuan ascended the throne as emperor, and specially appointed seventeen "Taiyuan Yuanmou Meritorious Heroes", of which Li Shimin, Liu Wenjing, and Pei Huan were first-class meritorious servants who enjoyed two opportunities to avoid death, and Wu Shiyan and others were second-class meritorious servants and enjoyed a chance to avoid death. Not only that, but the samurai was also a professional counterpart in the management of the state's weapons, honor guards and other armaments and materials.
A businessman who did not fit in, eventually transformed into an official of the imperial court, which is also a very inspirational entrepreneurial story. The success of samurai is due to his forbearance and retreat, keen insight, and arrogance of using children to set up wolves, the most important thing is the dedication to dreams and success.
Wu Zetian has followed the side of his father Wu Shiyan since he was a child, and naturally he can feel the excellent qualities of his father, and in the later court life, many of Wu Zetian's personalities actually continue his father's genes.
Text/Jiugao Han shuo