Speaking of a generation of empresses, we will all think of Wu Zetian, because what is taught in the history textbook is that the only female emperor in our country is Wu Zetian, which is nothing wrong according to the history, but there are actually other empresses in history, mainly because they did not seize the world and were not counted among the emperors, one of them is Chen Shuozhen, and it is said that Chen Shuozhen is still the righteous sister of Wu Zetian, who was called emperor 37 years earlier than Wu Zetian.
Speaking of Chen Shuo's real life is also very tragic, she was born in a very ordinary peasant family in Zhejiang, and as a result, when she was very young, her parents died because of the plague, leaving only her and her sister who was less than one year old to look at her, fortunately, with the help of kind neighbors, Chen Shuozhen's sisters were able to grow up, and this unfortunate shadow of childhood also shrouded her life.
In fact, the society at that time was in the stage of flourishing in the Tang Dynasty, and it was supposed to be a society in which all the people sang and danced and all the people rejoiced, but evil wanted to see the shadows under the lights, even if they could not see it, they also existed, no matter when, the incidents of corrupt officials and corrupt officials oppressing the people would not be broken, and it was precisely because of these corrupt thieves who perverted the law that they created many rebellious heroes, which is that officials forced the people to rebel.
Chen Shuo's real road of rebellion began with a major flood, at that time, due to the continuous torrential rains in Zhejiang, encountered a major flood seen in a hundred years, Chen Shuozhen's home also suffered a disaster, it is reasonable to say that after the natural disaster and man-made disaster, the imperial court should send officials to pacify the disaster relief, but the local officials not only did not open the warehouse to relieve the disaster, even the usual taxes were not reduced, the people could not even eat, how to pay taxes? These officials also looted the people's fat and people's ointment at different times.
Although Chen Shuozhen was a woman, she was arrogant and had the world in mind, secretly opened a rich family granary to relieve disasters, quite a chivalrous style of robbing the rich and saving the poor, and then Chen Shuozhen was arrested, but through this incident, she was loved by the local people.
Chen Shuozhen, who was locked up in the big prison, did not do anything else, seriously thought about life, and analyzed the situation, and came to the conclusion that overthrowing tyranny and returning the people to peace was the king's way, saying that she would do it, and when she was released from prison, she began to start a rebellion plan.
In ancient times, it was necessary to start with religion to win people's hearts, chen Shuozhen appeared in front of people in the form of a Taoist gu, and claimed that he had met Taishang Laojun in the deep mountains, and had obtained his true transmission, and now came to save the people from water and fire, first, the disaster was full of disasters at that time, and second, the local corrupt officials were rampant, and the people were convinced of her words.
Soon, Chen Shuozhen gathered tens of thousands of congregations in less than a year, and she served as the leader of the sect, known as the Red HeavenLy Virgin.
In 653 AD, the imperial court came again to urge the payment of taxes, Chen Shuozhen felt that the time was ripe, so he openly resisted the tax rebellion, the official government saw that there were many people, so they had to temporarily avoid the front, the popular combat effectiveness after religious brainwashing was very amazing, look at the history of the White Lotus Sect, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Boxer Rebellion, etc. You can know that Chen Shuozhen's rebel army occupied several surrounding counties in a short period of time, and openly claimed the emperor, calling himself Emperor Wenjia, and sealing hundreds of officials.
However, this kind of thing is not chen shuo's real exclusive, the veteran general Cui Yixuan who came to destroy her is also a master, just a meteorite fell into Chen Shuozhen's military camp, Cui Yixuan immediately created public opinion, saying that this represents Chen Shuozhen's star falling, and the gas number has been exhausted.
The Tang army was indeed demoralized, and defeated Chen Shuozhen with a single blow, chen Shuozhen was outnumbered and eventually captured, according to the history of ye, after Chen Shuozhen was captured, he was tortured in shame and was finally sentenced to death by beheading.
It is said that Chen Shuozhen also wrote a letter to Wu Zhaoyi, who was in the palace, but Wu Zetian ignored it, and before leaving, Chen Shuozhen was still blaming yimei for being unjust, and 37 years later, her righteous sister completed what she did not do, ascended the throne as emperor, and left her name for eternity.