In the history of China, there was a woman who had a very great influence on China, and these three people were Lü Yan, Wu Zetian and Cixi, although only Wu Zetian was called emperor, but in fact, all three of them were the actual control of power at that time. However, the strange thing is that although Lü Yan and Wu Zetian were equally vicious, they ultimately promoted the development of the country, and why did Cixi do the same to interfere in politics, which eventually led to the demise of the country?
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First of all, let's talk about Lü Yan, after Liu Bang's death, Liu Ying inherited the throne, but the actual power is in the hands of Lü Yan, Liu Ying has been a puppet for a year, and then there is Liu Gong Liu Hong is actually the same situation, so the actual emperor is Lü Yan, but for this matter, many people are critical, and few people really analyze the form at that time. First of all, the Han Dynasty has just been established, the Western Han Dynasty is a country established by war, the people who participated in the war are the elders of the Han Dynasty, although Liu Bang has always wanted to get rid of them in 8 years, but these people are not easy to deal with, and the country is not stable for 8 years, and they still need to contribute.
After that, Liu Ying was only 16 years old, a group of old fritters no one would be willing to listen to a child's words, so in this case, Lü Yan's ascension to the throne is an inevitable situation, she can shock these old fritters, and it is when she is in power that the Han Dynasty has a good era, first of all, the political situation is stable, secondly, the soldiers are still recuperating, the servitude is reduced, and also advocate frugality, and abolish torture, and the most important point is that the matter of peace with Mo Dun alone, this matter avoided the Han Dynasty from falling into war again. It gave the Han Dynasty plenty of time to develop.
In the era of Wu Zetian, he did not have to conquer the world, but supported Li Zhi behind the scenes, and the political situation at that time Li Zhi actually had no way to solve it by one person, and Wu Zetian undoubtedly became his powerful and back shield. And I have to say that Wu Zetian does have a very strong talent for rectification, plus Li Zhi's own personality is still relatively soft, which also provides her with the opportunity to ascend to the position. During the Wu Zetian period, he cracked down on warlords, promoted the imperial examination, and enabled the sons of the Han Dynasty to become officials, and at the same time rectified the government and appointed talents to stabilize the political situation of the country. And Wu Zetian period is more attention to the common people this group, for the people, who to be the emperor is the same, their own life is the best, so the court cold disciples support, the people gained support, Wu Zetian naturally became a good empress.
However, in comparison, the Cixi era was actually a relatively unlucky time, the late Qing Dynasty had obviously declined, Cixi began to participate in politics at the time of Xianfeng, and at this time he exercised his political ability. However, the environment during the Qing Dynasty is catching up with the great changes in the world, all of them have been reshuffled, and countries similar to the Qing Dynasty have begun to expand overseas, but the Qing Dynasty is still closed to the country, which makes many aspects of the world plummet.
Therefore, compared with the stability of the needs of the Western Han Dynasty and the prosperity of Wu Zetian's Great Zhou, Cixi is a more chaotic era, if placed in the early Qing Dynasty, Cixi's political means may really work, but her times have changed, but she is still imitating the ancient means, not changing according to the times, directly reducing her political literacy and talent, you are not capable, and you are more sighing, the Qing Dynasty is still downhill, so she has become one of the main reasons for the demise of the country.