At the end of 666, the powerful empress Wu Zetian took a four-pronged approach and went straight to the residence of her mother Lady Rongguo, but ran into her twenty-four-year-old nephew Wu Minzhi holding her eighty-eight-year-old grandmother, Lady Rongguo, on her lap... Wu Zetianqiang endured anger and pretended not to see anything and turned away.
Twenty-four-year-old grandsons and eighty-eight-year-old grandmothers, which in any case feel inconceivable, are said to be recorded in the Old Book of Tang and must not be changed. The initiator of all this was Wu Zetian, the aunt of Lady Rongguo's daughter Wu Minzhi.
Wu Minzhi's real name was Helan Minzhi, the son of Wu Zetian's sister Wu Shun, the lady of Korea, and a younger sister, Helan Minyue, who was given the title of Lady of Wei for having an affair with her uncle Emperor Gaozong of Tang. Helan Minzhi was succeeded by Wu Zetian to his mother's family, and as the grandson of The Samurai Yan inherited the title and changed his surname to Wu Minzhi.
Samurai Originally had sons and grandchildren, and even when Helan Minzhi entered the samurai family, he even had a heavy grandson, and later the more famous Wu Sansi Wu Chengsi was his grandson. However, his sons Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were not wu Zetian's half-brothers, and they were quite mean to Yang and Wu Zetian sisters in their early years.
After Wu Zetian came to power, in order to avenge the humiliation he and his mother had suffered, he tried his best to kill his half-brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang. In order to disgust their descendants, the grandson of the elder sister,Helan Minzhi succeeded him as his father,took the title, while the sons of the elder brother were all exiled.
HeLanmin's talent and ability are superior. Good looks are because of strong genes, as the nephew of Wu Zetian, who is loved by Li Zhi, his mother Wu Shun and his sister Helan Minyue are also coveted by Li Zhi, and there is no doubt about the genes of high appearance. Zizhi Tongjian describes its beauty, and the Old Book of Tang is beautiful.
In terms of ability, Long Shuo was only twenty years old when Helan Minzhi was already the middle protector of Zuo Chunfang, the prince of Sipin, and was very much appreciated by Emperor Gaozong. At this time, the crown prince was Li Hong, who was both the eldest son of Wu Zetian and her favorite son. In May of the same year, Helan Toshiyuki was promoted to Zuo Shilang (左侍郎) and a bachelor of Hongbunkan (弘bun館).
However, it was this nephew of wu Zetian's mother who was very important, who, after five years of succession to his maternal grandfather, was suddenly exiled by his aunt Empress Wu Zetian to the Leizhou Peninsula at the southernmost tip of the mainland, and died inexplicably during the exile.
Many years after Helan Minzhi's death, Wu Zetian talked about the reasons for the demeaning and killing of Helan Minzhi. Judging from the ten major crimes of Helan Minzhi announced by Wu Zetian, the main problems are life style issues and economic problems, of course, if these problems are true, then He LanMin's crimes deserve to die unjustly.
The first of these crimes was an affair with his elderly grandmother, Lady Rongguo, which has been mentioned before.
The second thing was to rape the princess-to-be. Li Zhi chose Yang Sijian's daughter Yang Shi as a concubine for the crown prince Li Hong, and HeLan Minzhi robbed yang before the wedding date. The third was embezzlement of Wu Zetian's public funds for his mother to build a Statue of Buddha. These three crimes are at the top of the list, followed by some life style issues.
None of these questions were like Wu Zetian's reasons for executing his nephews, whom he had cultivated with his own hands, especially his elderly grandmother, which looked like a crime imposed by someone. Moreover, Wu Zetian found that Helan Min's style was problematic in the first year of Qianfeng, and his execution was indeed five years later.
Then why did Wu Zetian not kill Helan Minzhi sooner or later, and why did he suddenly kill him without warning after years of painstaking cultivation? What's more, Wu Zetian herself actually does not attach great importance to the issue of style, and in her eyes, as long as she has the ability, greed for money and lust is not a big problem.
There is a more reliable theory, that is, because Helan Minzhi's mother Wu Shun and sister Helan Minyue both died at the hands of Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian was worried that Helan Minzhi would avenge his mother and sister, so he decided to remove the time bomb first. This argument is actually untenable when considered carefully.
There are many reasons to support this claim. It is an indisputable fact that both Wu Shun and Helan Minyue had been favored by Li Zhi. But Wu Zetian was very nervous about all this, she was not nervous about Li Zhiduo's women, she was just nervous that her power would be threatened, especially her young and beautiful niece.
Wu Zetian forced Wu Shun to take Helan Minyue out of the palace, and Wu Shun, in order to protect his daughter, hoped to exchange his death for his sister's pity for Helan Minyue, so he hanged himself. Later, Wu Zetian poisoned Helan Minyue with a strategy of killing three birds with one stone and blamed Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun, removing Helan Minyue, the biggest threat to the harem.
In order to compensate his sister's family, Wu Zetian immediately incorporated Helan Minzhi into the imperial palace after Helan Minyue's death. However, when Helan Minzhi entered the palace to see his aunt, something happened that made Wu Zetian begin to feel disgusted with Helan Minzhi.
Wu Zetian explained Helan Minzhi's death to Helan Minyue, saying: "When I went to the upper court, Minyue was still fine, but when I retreated from the dynasty, I could not be rescued!" How could he die so hastily at such a young age! Helan Minzhi neither retorted nor echoed, but just cried and did not make a sound.
Wu Zetian believed that Helan Minzhi suspected that his mother and sister had been killed by her, so he feared that Helan Minzhi would avenge his mother and sister, so he killed this potential avenger five years later. This is also clearly untenable.
From some clues, it can be seen that the reason that really forced Wu Zetian to suddenly attack Helan Minzhi, who has always attached great importance to him, was that Helan Minzhi was involved in the dispute over the crown prince. Because the crown prince Li Hong had tuberculosis and his body had always been very weak, Li Xian, the second son of Wu Zetian, was very vocal.
What is fatal is that Helan Minzhi, as a subordinate official of the Eastern Palace, is closer to Li Xian, and what is even more fatal is that there are even rumors that Li Xian was not born to Wu Zetian at all, but to Helan Minzhi's mother Wu Shun. Looking at it in this way, Helan Minzhi was suddenly degraded by Wu Zetian and executed halfway.
In short, Helan Minzhi's private life is indeed absurd, and being executed is really deserved. But what could make Wu Zetian suddenly execute Helan Minzhi was not just because of the chaos of his private life. Rather, it was because Helan Minzhi's move to touch Wu Zetian's core interests was discovered by Wu Zetian.
Even if HeLan Minzhi's pure heart and widowhood were not close to women, once he was involved in Wu Zetian's core interests, even if he passively became a tool for others to get involved in interests, he could not escape the end of being killed. #历史 #
