Before Wu Zetian entered the palace, his Yang clan could not help but cry, lamenting that his daughter was suffering from death and wanted to enter the place where the palace was fighting. However, Wu Zetian retorted:
"Is it not a blessing to serve the Son of God? Why cry and cry and be a child? After hearing such a remark, her mother was shocked and thought that Wu Zetian had begun his extraordinary life.
Wu Zetian, Li Shimin, Li Zhi
In the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong rode to Luoyang Palace, and when he heard that Wu Zetian was "tolerant of beauty", he summoned Wu Zetian to the palace. At that time, Tang Taizong was shocked to see Wu Zetian's appearance and gave him the title of "Wu Mei", but this was also all that Wu Zetian and Li Shimin had.
After that, Tang Taizong almost did not favor Wu Zetian, and 11 years later Li Shimin died, Wu Zetian was still the original talented person, and because he did not give birth to a man and a half woman, he was forced to enter the Ganye Temple as a nun.
Twelve years of talented people's life allowed Wu Zetian to see through the life of the court, and the green lantern ancient Buddha of the Ganye Temple for one year also gave Wu Zetian a heart of power. Interestingly, before that, Wu Zetian had a secret affair with Li Zhi, but because Li Shimin was alive, this relationship could only be hidden.
In the first year of Yonghui, a year after Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi happened to meet Wu Zetian when he went to the Ganye Temple to incense Li Shimin. After exchanging heartfelt complaints, Li Zhi included Wu Zetian, who was pregnant, into the palace.
Later, Wu Zetian successfully gave birth to his son Li Hong, and his status rose sharply. She was first given the title of Erpin Zhaoyi, and then she relied on means to remove the biggest stumbling block, Empress Wang. According to historical records, Wu Zetian personally killed his own daughter and framed Empress Wang.
Li Zhi was furious, and then had the intention of "deposing Wang Liwu", and a few years later, Empress Wang was deposed, and Wu Zetian smoothly became the empress of the Tang Dynasty. However, this was not the end of Wu Zetian's ambitions, just a beginning for him.
Wu Zetian, who had stepped up to the empress step by step, was not satisfied, and she began to extend her hand to the court, and Li Zhi was very sure of Wu Zetian's ability, so he let her deal with the affairs of the dynasty, which made Wu Zetian taste the taste of power.
Li Zhi died and Wu Zetian's son ascended the throne, and the power was always in the hands of Wu Zetian. In September of the first year, Wu Zetian simply proclaimed himself emperor and ascended the throne at the age of 67, becoming the first female emperor of the mainland.
Looking back at Wu Zetian's way of ascending the throne, although he is not glorious enough, his political achievements cannot be denied, and politically, he has eliminated the shortcomings of the times, perfected the imperial examination, broken the concept of door valves, and appointed talents in an eclectic manner, so that many cold disciples have a way out.
Economically, she sold lightly and thinly, and developed production; militarily, she resisted foreign invasions and protected border tranquility, and posterity commented that she had a rather virtuous legacy. However, in the later years of her life, Empress Wu Zetian also fell into an embarrassing situation, that is, who to appoint as the crown prince.
According to the ancestral system, Wu Zetian should have made her son Li Xian emperor, but her heart was also inclined to appoint her nephew Wu Sansi as her successor. For the succession to the throne, the people of the Wuzhou Dynasty could not give an answer, after all, speaking without authorization would have to lose their heads.
When the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu did not give himself the most appropriate answer, Wu Zetian thought of a person, he was the most capable courtier in the Wuzhou period, and he could definitely give Wu Zetian an answer, this person was Di Renjie.
Di Renjie and Wu Zetian's love-hate entanglement
In the autumn of 697 AD, seven years had passed since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, and the autumn leaves in Luoyang City were falling and piling up into mountains. Di Renjie worshipped him again, and was valued by Wu Zetian, and the old minister had mixed feelings in his heart, not knowing whether he should hate Empress Wu now.
Prior to this, Di Renjie was punished by Wu Zetian and imprisoned. Now that he could use himself and release it again, he himself did not know whether to forgive Wu Zetian, but for the sake of Jiangshan Sheji, he still chose to compromise.
With the burden of the country on his body, Di Renjie no longer shirked, and he retook up the burden he had been carrying. At that time, although the Wuzhou Dynasty was thriving under the leadership of Wu Zetian, it still harbored crises, especially regime changes.
The old ministers of the government and the opposition did not want to see such a scene, but they did not dare to speak, and after Di Renjie returned to the political core circle of Wu Zetian, he began a drastic reform. He first changed the means by which Wu Zetian imposed a heavy sentence at every turn, which greatly reduced the punishment of the cool official.
Regardless of the previous suspicions, Di Renjie saved the Tang Dynasty with one word
I have to say that Di Renjie was very remarkable, and after several exhortations, he pried Wu Zetian's mouth and changed the political crisis at that time. Immediately, Di Renjie proposed various methods for stabilizing the situation, and Wu Zetian also adopted them one by one.
For a while, Di Renjie was also confused about this change in the empress, after all, the previous Wu Zetian was not so good at talking. In fact, Wu Zetian's suggestion for Di Renjie could be satisfied, on the one hand, because the policy proposed by Di Renjie was really good, and on the other hand, he also asked for him.
As mentioned above, Wu Zetian had previously punished Di Renjie, and in order to make him ignore the previous suspicions, he could only give some sweetness first, and also test whether Di Renjie's patriotism was loyal. After several confirmations, Di Renjie was indeed single-minded in serving the country.
Wu Zetian then entrusted the matter that he could not decide to Di Renjie, that is, the problem of the heir, when he said his choice of Tianzi, Di Renjie first analyzed the dilemma that Wu Zetian was facing, and then thought about it again, and then replied with a sentence.
Di Renjie only said seven words to Wu Zetian: "Nephews are not as good as sons", which means that no matter how close a nephew is, after many years, he will become strange, but no matter how strange his son is, he still has a blood relationship, which is an eternal truth.
Di Renjie's meaning was to make Wu Zetian's son emperor, and his words also made Wu Zetian calm down and firmly choose his son as the crown prince. Later, Wu Zetian pushed Li Xian to the front of the stage and constantly assisted his children so that he could become a qualified emperor.
Later, what happened proved that Wu Zetian's approach was correct, first of all, Li Xian's ability to govern the country, and after he succeeded to the throne, he did not deny his mother's merits and liquidate his mother's past behavior, but also wrote his mother into the history book.
After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the history of the Ming Dynasty was "blackened", which made many people in modern times have a musty view of the history of the Ming Dynasty. In contrast, Wu Zetian, many people believe that she is the female emperor of the ancients, and historians also believe that she has the legacy of Zhenguan.
Such a positive side is inseparable from the shaping of her son Li Xian, it can be said that if Wu Zetian does not choose Li Xian, then whether future generations can know in the history books that Wu Zhou and Wu Zetian are still debatable.
It has to be said that Wu Zetian's adoption of Di Renjie's suggestion was the wisest choice, saving himself and the history of Wu Zhou. What do you think about that?