In ancient China, each dynasty and each generation passed on the throne according to the tradition of "passing on the father to the son, the family to the world". It is reasonable to say that the throne is passed to the son, which is natural. But Wu Zetian is not an ordinary emperor, she is the only female emperor in Chinese history, originally planned to pass the throne to her nephew, but why did she pass the throne to her son? What's going on here?
After Wu Zetian ascended the throne as empress dowager. It has subverted the li tang world, and changed the name of the country to Great Zhou. Although he has super political talent. But the issue of passing the throne bothered her for a long time. Since ancient times, imperial power has been passed on in one family and one surname, the sons have the same family but different surnames, and the nephews have the same surname but different families.
Supposedly, the son was born to himself, more than his nephew, but if the throne was passed to the son, his Wuzhou Dynasty would end. My own efforts were in vain. Because the son is the bloodline of the Li family, it will certainly not continue the Wuzhou Dynasty, but will restore the Li Tang Dynasty.
Both Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi wanted to be princes, and many times they persuaded Wu Zetian: "Since ancient times, tianzi has not made anyone with a different surname from himself as a prince. ＂
Wu Zetian was also pondering that if he wanted to defend the world of the Wu family, he would have to pass the throne to his nephew surnamed Wu. Therefore, Wu Zetian wanted to make his nephew Wu Sansi the crown prince.
At the court meeting, Wu Zetian informed the courtiers of his desire to make Wu Sansi the crown prince, and at the same time consulted the ministers.
Who knew that the ministers unanimously opposed Li Wu and asked Li Xian, the king of Li Luling, to be crown prince, and Wu Zetian was furious and whisked away.
Later, he mentioned liwu sansi as a prince many times, and each time there was a lot of opposition, which made Wu Zetian very unhappy, so he had to shelve the matter of Liwu sansi as a prince.
Once, Wu Zetian summoned the prime minister Di Renjie alone and told him that he had two dreams, and the dreams were not very good, and asked Di Renjie to interpret the dreams for her.
She told Di Renjie about her first dream: "Dreaming that I play chess but I can't win." ＂
Di Renjie said, "Your Majesty is not victorious in chess because there is no son, this is a warning from heaven that the prince is the foundation of the world, and as soon as he moves, the world will be dangerous." ＂
After listening, Wu Zetian was suspicious, and she knew very well in her heart that Di Renjie's heart was toward Li Tangjiangshan, to see what else he had to say.
Then he told Di Renjie a second dream: "Dreaming of a large parrot, two wings are broken."
Di Renjie said, "Wu is Your Majesty's surname, the two wings refer to His Majesty's two sons, and Your Majesty now only has Li Xian, the King of Luling, and Li Dan, the King of Xiang, left." As long as you raise two sons, the two wings can vibrate.
Di Renjie finished his dream and then said, "Emperor Xian entrusted the two princes to His Majesty, but His Majesty wants to cede the world to outsiders?" Moreover, the relationship between mother and son is closer than that between aunt and nephew, and His Majesty has made his own son a prince, and he will be worthy of the Temple after a long life. Since ancient times, only sons have been heard of to worship their parents, and never heard of nephews offering to their aunts.
Wu Zetian was very unhappy after hearing this. He said: "This is a family affair that the elders of the country should not interfere with. ＂
Di Renjie was not angry, and then said to Wu Zetian: "The king of the four seas is his home, and the affairs of the world are the family affairs of His Majesty." His Majesty is the head, and his subordinates are limbs, like a whole, and the subjects are the prime minister, how can they not be ignored?
For the sake of face, although Wu Zetian did not immediately adopt Di Renjie's advice, he already approved of what he said in his heart. Think that if a nephew inherits the throne, he will only worship his own parents, how can he worship her aunt? I couldn't help but start to reconsider the heir to the throne.
Soon, Wu Zetian sent emissaries to Fangzhou to secretly welcome Li Xian back to Luoyang. He then summons Di Renjie, but does not allow Li to show his face and lets him hide behind the tent. Wu Zetian deliberately talked about the establishment of the crown prince, and Di Renjie was earnest in his words, asking Li Xian, the prince of Lifangling, to be the crown prince. At this time, Wu Zetian summoned Li Xian, smiled and said to Di Renjie, "Return the crown prince to you." Di Renjie hurriedly prostrated his head to Thankne.
Li Xian was finally made crown prince, and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu was overjoyed.
Di Renjie was indeed clever, and he did not resign according to the general rhetoric to persuade the emperor. Instead, it began to interpret the dream, and persuaded her from the interests of the emperor himself.