The life of Empress Wu Zetian can be called "legendary", and there have always been legends about Wu Zetian in history, but during the Wu Zetian period, many zhengshi were mainly praised. Although there is a possibility that the history books will whitewash the Taiping, the epitaph will never lie, and the epitaph unearthed in Shaanxi exposes Wu Zetian's bestiality.
The beauty of the city caused both father and son to bend over
After Wu Zetian was born, the Wu family began to focus on cultivating her, hoping that she could be a mother to the world, and she did not live up to the cultivation of her family, and the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting were all incomprehensible, and the strategy was even more important, with the help of the Wu family.
The news of the talented daughter of the martial family was learned by Tang Taizong, and then she was summoned to the palace, with continuous grace and the name "Wu Mei", and Tang Taizong's satisfaction was overflowing. After Li Zhi saw the daughter of the wu family, he also fell in love with it at first sight, and Wu Mei was like a fish in the palace, but the good times were not long, and after the death of Tang Taizong, Wu Mei had no choice but to cut her hair and become a nun, and went to the Ganye Temple to guard the spirit of Tang Taizong.
This is naturally difficult for the ambitious Wu Mei to accept, she set her sights on the new emperor Li Zhi, with the beauty of the city, and the help of the empress, Wu Mei returned to the palace again, serving Li Zhi, able to serve two generations of emperors, and her beauty means can be seen.
In order to win the Middle Palace, he killed his daughter fiercely
After Wu Mei returned to the palace from the Temple, she had no position, and could only live in the partial hall of Empress Wang, and the ambitious Wu Mei was naturally not willing to do so, and Wu Mei superficially bowed to Empress Wang and was willing to be a tool for Empress Wang's favor. Privately, they want to take their place.
After the birth of the eldest daughter, Wu Mei calculated to take advantage of the time difference. He killed his eldest daughter, married Empress Wang, and later used his feelings with Li Zhi to ascend to the throne.
When Li Zhi was in power, he had a weak personality, loved to enjoy, did not care about the government and politics, and the correction of the fold was extremely painful for Li Zhi, and after Wu Mei saw it, he expressed his willingness to share the worries for Li Zhi, Li Zhi was overjoyed, and allowed Wu Mei to correct the unimportant folds, and with the development of time, Li Zhi gradually delegated power.
Wu Zetian's power gradually increased, and Wu Zetian thought that he could always have supreme power. However, as Prince Li Hong grew up, all this changed.
Li Hong died, and Wu Zetian ascended the throne
Although Li Zhi was reluctant to pay attention to the government, Li Zhi was also unwilling to hand over the Li family to Empress Wu, and although Empress Wu was superior in ability, Wu Zetian was not surnamed Li.
In addition, the ability of his son Li Hong is also very outstanding, and he is fully qualified to be the lord of the world. Just when the ministers thought that the world was about to return to its original owner and that they were going to serve the True Dragon Heavenly Son, an accident occurred.
Li Hong died without warning, and many people at the time suspected that Empress Wu had killed her son.
In his later years, Li Zhi basically ignored the government and politics, although Li Hong was born long ago, but he still had a certain immaturity in handling political affairs. Therefore, political affairs have always been handled by Wu Zetian on behalf of Li Hong, as Li Hong grew up. Li Zhi began to weaken Wu Zetian's power, wanting to return power to the descendants of the Li family, and Wu Zetian, who had tasted power, could not bear to give power to others.
And Li Hong is kind-hearted, and he is very distressed after seeing the two sisters being lived by you. Release Princess Xiao's daughter. Concubine Xiao Shufei was an enemy of Wu Zetian, and it was Wu Zetian who imprisoned the two princesses, and Li Hong later asked for her to be released. This is undoubtedly a rebellion against Wu Zetian.
This also became the fuse for the rupture of the mother-son relationship, and in the later period, the mother and son duo were fiercely tense, and there were great differences between the two of them in handling political affairs, and gradually Wu Zetian regarded his son as a political enemy, "After the heavens, the prince played the request, and the number of wishes was lost to the queen of heaven." This sentence comes from the Zizhi Tongjian.
From this, it can be seen that the relationship between Wu Zetian and Li Hong has been contradictory since very early on, and Li Qin, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, also recorded this incident in the history books: "The heavens and the rear of the map are lined up, and the emperor kills filial piety, and Liyong WangXian is the crown prince." ”
Of course, the history books may have a certain subjective color, why Li Hong died in the end, so that many people are confused, some people think that even if Li Hong becomes the emperor, Wu Zetian is still the empress dowager, there is no need to kill his son. However, some people think that the child is a tool for Wu Zetian, which can be discarded, of course, the truth has always been confusing.
The truth was revealed, and Wu Zetian's animal nature was revealed to the world
It was not until the 90s of the last century that people revealed the truth of the facts, when an ancient tomb was found in Shaanxi, when archaeologists surveyed it, they found that this ancient tomb was the tomb of Yan Zhuang, the family order of Li Hong's house, and it was recorded that the time of death of Yan Zhuang and Li Hong was very close, only about 5 months before and after the two, and more importantly, in the tomb of Yan Zhuang, archaeologists found an epitaph, "It is not easy to be ignorant, Fu Shou is deceived." The accumulation of crusts invaded Russia, entangled in the ant bed and ruined; the floating light was exhausted, and it passed away with the crane version. ”
The translation of this sentence is that after Li Hong's death, most of the people around him have passed away, and the ant-bed and the crane version refer to surrounding a certain person. And Yan Zhuang was the prince's family order. Nature surrounds the prince. Although the death of the prince caused misfortune, if the prince died normally. The family order cannot be killed, the ancient staff can choose the lord again, and more importantly, even if they want to kill him for the prince's burial, they will not wait for such a long time, around the burial of the prince, the people who accompany the burial have been determined, but the interval between Yan Zhuang and Li Hong is about 5 months.
Moreover, being able to leave such an epitaph shows that it is not a normal death at all, which also confirms the statement in the history books that Li Hong was most likely killed by his mother, and Li Hong suddenly died without illness, which had to make people think more about whether they were killed.
However, Li Hongzhai was kind and had few political enemies at that time. And even if Li Hong really has political enemies, his mother handles the affairs of the dynasty on behalf of him, has supreme power, and his mother is good at cunning and strategy, it is still a relatively simple thing to protect his son Li Hong.
Therefore, after Li Hong's death, everyone turned their attention to Wu Zetian, but suffered from his supreme power and no evidence. This has always been speculation. However, after Yan Zhuang's epitaph appeared, people realized that Li Hong's death was indeed related to Wu Zetian. What the history books record is the truth of the matter.
As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children. However, Wu Zetian did not hesitate to kill his own son for his own benefit, and his behavior was chilling. After Wu Zetian killed his own son, he also ascended the throne as he wished, becoming the female emperor of the ancient world.
I wonder if Wu Zetian, who was in his twilight years, regretted the fact that he did not hesitate to kill his own child for the sake of power?