Wu Zetian is the first empress in Chinese history, but she is also the only empress, his political acumen is obvious to all, but many people are also very strange, in history, there are not a few women who can have such rights as her, but why is she the only one who can become an empress, and others have not achieved wu Zetian's step? In history, so many empresses who bowed to the government, how come none of them stood up to become female emperors.
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Wu Zetian is the first person, but also the strongest of all the women in power, in history, the curtain to listen to the government and the female emperor is actually very different, they are responsible for the things are completely different, those who look very powerful curtain listeners, in fact, do not have the ability to become an empress, although the two seem to be in power, but in fact this is the difference in ideology. Wu Zetian subverted the ancient social and political system cognition, and her position has always been relatively stable after more than ten years of reign.
In fact, the curtain is only the unification of imperial power and pro-power, and the reason why the empress dowager has power is that the little emperor in front of him, no matter how powerful he is, he is only a foreign relative. After all, the emperor was still a baby, and the empress dowager could quickly arrange her relatives in the court during this time; second, the empress dowager took advantage of the emperor's relatives, and did things more justly, compared to the eunuchs around the emperor, they could compete for more support in front of the courtiers. But Wu Zetian was different, his son could become emperor because she was an emperor, and he could have more rights in the court because she was an emperor.
So why didn't she ever appear as an empress again? Because Wu Zetian, the empress, has limitations. She has been an emperor for more than ten years, what has not been able to solve is her own heir problem, Wu Zetian on the one hand is her own son, these people are all surnamed Li, at this time she is also older, can not promote children, and on the other hand is a more far-fetched relationship with him martial family, although they are nephews, but she has never been able to treat them as their own sons.
It is precisely because she has been undecided for a long time that the coup d'état has driven her off the political stage, and this incident has become a problem for all women in power later, which is a dead end that the empresses must face in their later years. Wu Zetian wants his family to fall to his son to take the throne, after his abdication must be a rebellion, if he let his nephews take over, then it is a change of dynasty in the actual sense, Wu Zetian himself will become the remnant of the previous dynasty, the daughter's succession to the throne is only to let this painful problem be critical to the problem of the next generation, there is no fundamental solution to this matter, it is precisely because the courtiers saw this problem, this is the outbreak of the Shenlong coup.
Since the descendants of the Li family will succeed to the throne sooner or later, why not surrender early and then overthrow Wu Zetian's rule as soon as possible? If you want female emperors to appear, you need to change the entire society into a matrilineal clan, this kind of thing is not something that Wu Zetian can solve, so unless The female Zetian has been continuing this situation and simply changing dynasties, it is possible to continue to have female emperors, otherwise she is only a specific historical stage that appeared during the Tang Dynasty.