An epitaph was found in Shaanxi, revealing Wu Zetian's animal journey 1320 years ago: the history books did not deceive people
As we all know, in the long history of our country for 5,000 years, there are countless historical truths that people are struggling to pursue, especially the death of a celebrity in history, which is often relatively unusual, but such a secret history is difficult to record, and we want to say that this matter today is that Wu Zetian poisoned his own son, and this matter is recorded in Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian", but it is impossible to check in the "Old Book of Tang", so is it true in the end?
For Wu Zetian, she sat all the way to the emperor's throne from the position of a deposed concubine, so we can see that Wu Zetian's super high political means and extraordinary ability to govern, so we can actually know Wu Zetian's super power control desire, Wu Zetian has a total of 4 sons and 2 daughters, but 2 sons and 1 daughter died directly at the hands of Wu Zetian, and the reason why Wu Zetian did this is to desire power.
In order to be able to overthrow Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Guifei, who were powerful in the harem at that time, Wu Zetian unscrupulously suffocated his daughter who had just been born for a short time, and married Empress Wang and others, which directly led to Li Zhi deposing Empress Wang and establishing Wu Zetian as empress, and Wu Zetian used the death of his daughter in exchange for the opportunity to rise from a small Zhaoyi to the empress.
After Wu Zetian became empress, her eldest son Li Hong naturally became the crown prince, Li Hong was generous and benevolent, and his ability to govern the country was also very outstanding, and at this time, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi had to transfer part of his power to Wu Zetian because of his perennial illness, in fact, Li Zhi did not expect that Wu Zetian's desire for power had been so great that he actually went to the point of robbing his son of the throne later.
At this time, Li Hong was deeply liked by Li Zhi, but there was one thing that angered Wu Zetian, once Li Hong supervised the country, and found that there were two of his sisters in the Zi'a Palace who had been imprisoned, they were both the daughters of Xiao Guifei, but Wu Zetian had not allowed them to go out, and now they were more than 30 years old, and Li Hong could not bear it and released the two.
And this in Wu Zetian's view, a provocation for her, and with the aggravation of Tang Gaozong's illness, Li Zhi began to weaken Wu Zetian's power and began to transfer it to the crown prince Li Hong, which became one of the most important reasons why Wu Zetian killed Li Hong, in 675 AD, the 24-year-old Li Hong suddenly died violently.
As for Li Hong's death, there has always been a great controversy in history, and during the Tang Dynasty, there have been many speculations that Wu Zetian poisoned Li Hong, but in Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian", it is also speculated that Wu Zetian poisoned Li Hong, but there has been no direct evidence.
Until 1995, an epitaph about Li Hong's death was unearthed in Shaanxi, which is the epitaph of Yan Zhuang, and this Yan Zhuang has always served as the most important prince family order among the prince's subordinates before his death, which means that this person is Li Hong's confidant, and Yan Zhuang died only 5 months after Li Hong's death, which also shows that Li Hong's death is abnormal.
This epitaph records that Li Hong's death affected Yan Zhuang, so many scholars now believe that it was Wu Zetian who poisoned his own son.