In his later years, Wu Zetian was often troubled by not knowing who to pass the throne to, so Di Renjie told the empress a truth that even the old ladies in the countryside understood, and finally Made Wu Zetian make up his mind to take Li Xian back to Chang'an and restore him as crown prince.
The Zizhi Tongjian records Di Renjie's original words, he said: "Is the aunt and nephew related to mother and son? His Majesty lizi, after a thousand years of age, with food taimiao, inherit infinity; nephew, then unheard of the nephew for the son of heaven and the temple also. ”
The gist is to ask Wu Zetian, is it the aunt and nephew who are closer or the mother and son who are closer?
If you make your son Li Xian the crown prince, after a hundred years, you can still receive his incense in the Temple; but if you make your nephew Wu Sansi the prince, I have never heard of a nephew who sacrifices his aunt every year.
Such a simple truth, will Wu Zetian, the first empress of ancient and modern times, not understand? The answer, of course, is no. Then, why did Wu Zetian borrow Di Renjie's mouth and bring back his son Li Xian?
This involves a deeper level of imperial power.
During the Western Han Dynasty, the Lü clan was slaughtered by the Liu clan and the Gongchen clique after Lü Hou's death. Wu Zetian was worried that history would repeat itself in his mother's family, so from time to time he revealed the idea of Li Wu thinking twice as a prince.
But if wu thinks twice, how should his children be treated? The palms of his hands and the backs of his hands were all meat, and after several trade-offs, Wu Zetian chose his own son, Li Xian.
However, she did not rush to take people back, because if so, I was afraid that it would encourage the arrogance of the Li family and let Li Xian, Li Dan and others liquidate the Wu clan.
After all kinds of considerations, this led to the words of Di Renjie at the beginning.
After Li Xian returned to the palace, Wu Zetian continued to pave the way for the Wu family—she first asked Li Xian, the young people of the Wu clan to marry, and then asked Li Xian, Princess Taiping, Wu Youji, and others to swear to heaven, "Li Wu must not kill each other", and asked people to write down this matter and hide it in the history museum.
To maintain the Li-Wu alliance, it is not reliable to rely only on marriage and vows. Wu Zetian, who was proficient in power and strategy, had anticipated this early, so he came up with a strange trick - to widely collect male pets.
It was at this time that the two brothers Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi entered the palace and served around Wu Zetian from then on. The two young talents are both complete, one left and one right ring on both sides, which also makes Wu Zetian's later life no longer lonely and boring.
Whenever Wu Zetian feasted and drank, the Zhang brothers accompanied the attendants, or tried to have fun, or slandered the Gonghou Qingxiang to make Bo Wu Zetian happy, in a harmonious way.
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, Wu Zetian also renamed the residence of the Zhang brothers to FengchenFu, and the two were made dukes, giving them many gold and silver jewels, while also transferring power to the two little by little.
In this way, after Wu Zetian's operation, the power in the hands of the Zhang brothers gradually expanded, and even the power that originally belonged to the Li and Wu clans was seized, and the literati were widely recruited, and almost a new political group was established.
In this regard, Li Wu's two families were naturally dissatisfied, and Li Wu's sons and daughters also joined forces with Wu Yanji, the king of Wei, to oppose Erzhang's dictatorship, but before the matter was accomplished, erzhang was first sued in front of Wu Zetian.
Surprisingly, Wu Zetian did not blame Erzhang, but instead ordered the murder of his own granddaughter and grandson.
The so-called tiger poison does not eat children, but Wu Zetian, as a politician, obviously has greater ambitions and deeper calculations.
In 705, Zhang Kamzhi and others launched the Shenlong Revolution, killing Erzhang with the help of Li Wu's family and driving Wu Zetian out of power.
The supreme power is like the smoke of the past, and it will dissipate. But if you want to ask, did Wu Zetian regret it at the moment when he was forced to abdicate? I guess the answer is no, because that's exactly the result she wanted.
After Wu Zetian's death, Li Xian not only did not kill Wu Sansi and other descendants of the Wu clan, but instead entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. The two cliques of Li Wu still shared power, and the Wu clan was not swept away like the Lü clan.
Li Wu united and survived—this is where Wu Zetian's cleverness lies, and she used the Zhang brothers to create a common enemy for Li Wu's two hostile forces.
The so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend, so why should the contradictions between Li wu and Wu not be resolved, and why should Li Wu unite and not succeed?
I have to say that Wu Zetian's human rights plot is really high, and he is really the first female emperor in the ages.
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