The emperors of successive dynasties, whether they were saints or faints, had an incomparable attachment to imperial power. In order to consolidate their imperial power before they die, they can kill heroes and destroy villains, and after death, in order to leave a good country for their heirs, they often have to get rid of some people.
Surprisingly, sometimes even the mother of the new emperor had to be removed together, for example, Emperor Wu of Han once got rid of his favorite concubine Lady Hook Yi.
At that time, Emperor Wu of Han was already an old man who was about to enter the earth, and Liu Fuling, the emperor of Han Zhao, was only eight years old. In order to prevent the tragedy of the child being small and the mother seizing power strongly, Emperor Wu of Han could only stab his mother,Concubine Hook Yi to death.
Then some people have to ask, since there is a precedent, why didn't Emperor Gaozong of Tang stab the increasingly powerful Wu Zetian to death before he was about to die?
In fact, if you think about it carefully, li zhi does not get rid of Wu Zetian for some subjective and objective reasons.
First of all, subjectively Li Zhi did not expect that Wu Zetian would subvert his Tang Dynasty. At that time, although Wu Zetian held a lot of great power in the dynasty, there was no situation of "children and young mothers being strong" in the pre-Han Wudi period, and several of Li Zhi's sons were already adults, and even his grandchildren had them.
Moreover, at the bottom of his heart, Li Zhi did not firmly believe that Wu Zetian was going to seize the throne, and by the time he was about to die, Wu Zetian was not young. Li Zhi was 55 years old at that time, and Wu Zetian was a few years older than him, and he was immediately an old lady with a broken candle.
A nearly 60-year-old flower armoured old woman, who would have thought that she would still have such a big obsession with power? The world can't imagine it, and Neither can Li Zhi.
Moreover, the crown prince Li Xian was also the son of Wu Zetian's relatives, even if she wanted to covet power for a few more years, as the empress dowager, she was in power for a period of time, and everyone felt that there was nothing.
Therefore, Li Zhi did not deal with Wu Zetian, and subjectively did not really pay attention to it, so he could not talk about emulating Emperor Wu of Han.
Objectively speaking, even if Li Zhi had the heart to eliminate Wu Zetian, he actually did not have the strength to actually implement it. Although he was the emperor, in his later years, he was frail and sickly, and many of the dynastic affairs were handled by Wu Zetian, but in fact he had been suspended for a long time.
When he used Wu Zetian's strength to contend with the important ministers of the DPRK, he was already in a weak position. And Wu Zetian, who went deep into the court step by step, grew stronger and stronger, not only enveloping a group of her own people, but also dealing with the people who would hinder her.
By the time Li Zhi wanted to do something, he and Wu Zetian were no longer in the same heavyweight, and there was nothing they could do about it. So much so that later he didn't have the energy to resist.
Coupled with the fact that his own prince could not be of much use, Li Zhi still had a trace of reliance on Wu Zetian's luck in his heart, so dealing with Wu Zetian's affairs would not be done.