When it comes to the Tang Dynasty's generation of Wu Emperor "Wu Zetian", almost everyone knows that she was the first female emperor in Chinese history, and her life was full of legends. What Xiaobian wants to talk about today is also an outstanding woman, she is a female palace who is highly valued by Wu Zetian, a controversial woman, a woman with many titles, she is Shangguan Wan'er, who has the name of "Lady Of the Towel".
Speaking of Shangguan Wan'er, we must first talk about her grandfather, Shangguan Yi.
Shangguan Yi became a monk in his early years, and later became a jinshi, often drafting edicts for the emperor and creating the Shangguan style of poetry that was "wrong and charming". Later, because Emperor Gaozong of Tang drafted the edict of the abolition, he offended Wu Zetian, was framed for rebellion, and was imprisoned and executed.
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er, who had just been born, was spared death as a female dependent with her mother for the daughter of a criminal courtier, and became an official slave.
However, although she fell to this point, Shangguan Wan'er's mother did not give up the education of her daughter, Shangguan Wan'er was familiar with poetry books, not only could recite poems, but also knew the officials and was unusually intelligent.
When Shangguan Wan'er was 14 years old, she was appreciated by Empress Wu for a poem "Color Book Complaint", and ordered that Shangguan Wan'er be relieved of her status as a slave and enter the palace to take charge of the edict. Since then, Shangguan Wan'er, who has followed Wu Zetian's side, has gradually gained Wu Zetian's trust.
Li Bingbing version of Shangguan Wan'er
After following Wu Zetian for a long time, she naturally came into contact with Wu Zetian's sons, and her first boyfriend was Wu Zetian's second crown prince, Li Xian.
Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xian
Shangguan Wan'er also invested in real feelings for Li Xian, after all, it was her first love, and she really wanted to help Li Xian sit on the throne and live a down-to-earth life in the future.
However, in the midst of the treacherous court, Li Xian, as the crown prince, was doomed to be unstable, because he was jealous of Wu Zetian, so he was later demoted to a commoner, and committed suicide a few years later. Even the edict to depose the crown prince was drafted by Shangguan Wan'er.
Wu Zetian's daughter Princess Taiping presented a male favorite, Zhang Changzong, to Wu Zetian. Zhang Changzong's beauty is unparalleled in the world, and he is deeply favored by Wu Zetian.
One was a male favorite, the other was a female official who followed the empress day and night, the two must have inevitable contact, the time Wu Zetian was already more than 70 years old, and Zhang Changzong and Shangguan Wan'er inevitably hooked up.
After Wu Zetian learned of their adultery, he was furious, put Shangguan Wan'er in prison, and ordered her to be appeased, that is, to engrave Shangguan Wan'er on her face, although she acted absurdly, she was indeed a talented person, and she had served around Wu Zetian for so long, and Wu Zetian was more or less inseparable from her.
So not long after, Shangguan Wan'er was re-picked up from the prison by Wu Zetian and reused again.
It was also because Shangguan Wan'er was appeased at this time, so in order to cover the scars on her face, she painted a plum blossom on her forehead to cover the scars.
Shangguan Wan'er because of her beautiful appearance, there are plum blossom embellishments between the foreheads even more set off her beautiful appearance, so this time made the noble girls compete to imitate, for a while, "red plum makeup" actually prevailed.
Wu Zetian also asked Shangguan Wan'er to handle the Hundred Divisions, participate in government affairs, grow in power, military and state strategy, and the power to kill, mostly depending on Shangguan Wan'er.
In 705, Zhang Kamzhi and other ministers who supported Li Tangzong launched the Shenlong Coup, and Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate. After the Shenlong coup, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang restored Li Xian, and ordered Shangguan Wan'er to take charge of drafting the edict, which was deeply trusted, and worshipped her as Zhaorong, and included her in the harem.
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, who had just ascended the throne, lacked experience and was very dependent on Shangguan Wan'er, and he rehabilitated her grandfather Shangguan Yi and posthumously honored her.
Emotionally, Tang Zhongzong did not really love Shangguan Wan'er, and he was also very afraid of his empress. In this situation, Shangguan Wan'er and Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi thought about it again, and the emperor also turned a blind eye.
Li Xian was a strict wife, so at first empress Wei was in charge of everything in the court, and in such a situation, Shangguan Wan'er began to read wu Zetian's old things in Empress Wei's ear every day, intending to let Empress Wei follow The path of Wu Zetian. Later, in order to win over power, Shangguan Wan'er introduced her lover Wu Sansi to Empress Wei.
Therefore, between Shangguan Wan'er, Empress Wei, Li Xian, and Wu Sansi, there was a scene of dog blood, and Wu Sansi, as the lover of two people in power, helped Li Xian handle state affairs, and Li Xian was still happy to call him a brother and brother.
Because Shangguan Wan'er held the power of life and death, they secretly promoted the Wu clan in the middle of the dynasty and suppressed the Li family royal family.
Unexpectedly, things were uncertain, and Li Xian suddenly died violently.
After the death of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, in order to maintain the balance of all parties, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping proposed to make Li Chongmao crown prince, Li Dan auxiliary, and Wei Shi as the regent of the empress dowager.
Who knew that Li Longji launched the Tang Long Rebellion with a single blow, led an army to break through the city gates, eliminated Empress Wei's henchmen, and supported his father Li Dan on the throne.
Shangguan Wan'er was naturally also thoroughly killed by Li Longji.
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