"Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", this is a saying that the courtiers all know, in ancient times, the king was the most powerful person in the rule of the regime, in front of them, if you are a little careless, say the wrong thing, you may suffer. This is especially true when the monarch listens to the traitors and does not listen to the loyal words. Many people may think that this phenomenon of Datang rarely exists, but in fact, there are unjust cases in this era.
Datang experienced the rule of Zhenguan, Kaiyuan prosperous, but also has the only female emperor in history, Wu Zetian was born in 624, her father is a hero of the Tang Dynasty, and the family is rich and wealthy, from childhood, Wu Zetian has a good family environment, to November 638, Tang Taizong heard that the Wu family has a daughter, talented and perfect, so he took her as his talent, saw the beauty of her birth, and gave her the name "Beautiful Lady". However, soon after, he no longer favored Wu Meiniang, because he listened to the fables of the heroine Wu Shi.
Emperor Taizong died, Wu Meiniang was childless under her knees, and was sent to Ganye Temple to cut her hair as a nun, however, Li Zhi became emperor, he could not let go of Wu Meiniang, in 650, he brought Wu Meiniang back to the palace, such a thing in the imperial court became a system, many old courtiers are not unified. However, Emperor Gaozong also enfeoffed Wu Meiniang as Zhaoyi.
Wu Zetian was originally a smart person, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she worked hard, but as a woman, she was not a vase that could only cry, she acted decisively, and if anyone was unfavorable to her or wanted to deal with her, she would fight back. Later she became empress.
In 660, Emperor Gaozong fell seriously ill, and Wu Zetian began regency, and was known as the "Second Saint", and in 690, he was called emperor and became a generation of female emperors. However, among the many ministers, there was a man named Pei Yan, who was appointed as the minister of gu when he died in high school, that is, after his own death, he hoped that Pei Yan could become an important minister who assisted the new emperor.
However, at that time, Wu Chengsi put forward a very excessive demand, saying that he wanted to establish the Seven Temples of the Wu Clan and posthumously crown the ancestors as kings, and although Pei Yan did not complain too much about Wu Zetian becoming emperor, he also remembered what Emperor Gaozong had said to him, but this person was straight-talking, spoke straight, and was a person who resolutely defended the Li Dynasty.
After hearing this sentence, he immediately took out the Lü clan of that year to talk about things, so that Wu Zetian would not be too partial to his relatives like Lü Hou. This kind of words were heard by Wu Zetian, and her heart was particularly unhappy, not to mention that Wu Zetian was still a woman, although she did not punish Pei Yan this time, she had secretly written down his fault in her heart. Later, Pei Yan once again said something unpleasant to Wu Zetian because of the matter between King Han and King Lu, and let this Wu clan have a bad impression of Pei Yan, Wu Zetian saw that he always spoke against his own meaning, so he decided that he had a disobedient heart.
In 684, the British public wanted to rebel, Pei Yan went to intercede for him again, who knew that Wu Zetian was furious, Pei Yan was imprisoned, many ministers knew that Pei Yan was innocent, loyal, would not rebel, and finally was beheaded. When he raided his family property, he found that there was nothing valuable in his home. The Tang Dynasty novel records that Wu Zetian took out the superstition of Pei Yan's rebellion, and clearly wrote the word "green goose" on it, saying that this was the evidence of his rebellion.
But the ministers wondered, these two words are very ordinary, how can they become evidence of rebellion? Wu Zetian was furious and asked the ministers to take it apart to see what was going on. It turned out that in Wu Zetian's mind, "Qing" was taken apart in December, and "Goose" was dismantled by me. In Wu Zetian's eyes, it was: "In December, I was in the city to be your internal cause", so there was a suspicion of conspiring against the British.
In any case, Pei Yan's rebellion was not good for him, and in 710, when the Li Tang Dynasty was restored, Pei Yan was able to be rehabilitated and posthumously awarded the title of Tai wei, proving that he was indeed a loyal subject, but the companion was like a companion tiger, and what was the reason for the sin? Wu Zetian wanted Pei Yan to die, and Pei Yan had to die.