Wu Zetian (624 – December 16, 705), self-named Wu Shu, was a native of Wenshui (present-day Wenshui, Shanxi). The only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history (reigned 690-705), and one of the oldest (67 years old) and longest-lived emperors (82 years old), was called "Lü Wu" along with Empress Lü of the Han Dynasty. At the age of fourteen, he entered the harem, became a talented person of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and was given the title Wumei. Emperor Gaozong of Tang was given the title of Zhaoyi, later empress, honorific as the Queen of Heaven, and was called the Second Saint together with Emperor Gaozong. After the death of Emperor Gaozong, he was crowned as the empress dowager of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang and Emperor Ruizong of Tang. In the first year of Tianfu, Wu Zetian established himself as emperor, changed the name of the country to Zhou, fixed the capital Luoyang, called the capital of God, and established Wuzhou.
Samurai Tian
Wu Zetian "was the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history and an outstanding statesman in the feudal era." Wu Zetian ruled the Li and Tang dynasties for nearly half a century. During her reign, she was discerning and judgmental", multi-powerful, and able to employ people. He also rewarded the peasants, reformed the rule of officials, and attached importance to the selection of talents, so that the talents were numerous. For example, Di Renjie, Lou Shide, Yao Chong, Song Jing, Zhang Xiangzhi, Su Liangsi and other ministers, because Wu Zetian gradually became extravagant and arbitrary in his later years, gradually developed bad government. Her life has been praised and degraded. Perhaps the most derogatory of her is that she once had several male favorites, which became a scandal for her through the ages and a topic of upside down among literati.
Di Renjie
According to the data, Wu Zetian had a daughter, who was smart and cute, and Emperor Gaozong loved her very much, and Empress Wang herself did not give birth and liked this child very much. One day, Empress Wang came to visit Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian pretended to chat with the queen affectionately, and saw the opportunity to let the palace maid bring the little princess, and the queen Wang happily teased the child to play, and waited for the child to fall asleep before getting up and leaving. As soon as the empress left, the palace maid said that the emperor was coming, and Wu Zetian had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in his heart, so he ruthlessly strangled his own daughter in her infancy and said, "It's a pity that you were born in an imperial family." For the sake of your mother's future, you had to die. "Then cover the quilt. Emperor Gaozong came in to find his daughter violently dead and asked who had come, and Wu Zetian cried and said that only Empress Wang had come. Emperor Gaozong looked up to the sky and sighed sadly: "It was the empress who killed my daughter!" So he issued an edict to abolish Empress Wang and establish Wu Zetian as empress. Not long after, at the instigation of Wu Zetian, Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei were killed. After becoming empress, Wu Zetian promoted his four brothers. Unexpectedly, the four brothers did not agree with her approach, but blamed Wu Zetian for messing up the imperial government. Wu Zetian was furious, so he sent them to the frontier and forced two of his brothers to commit suicide on the way, and the other two were also poisoned.
Wu Zetian
It can be seen from this incident that Wu Zetian is a ruthless, calculating, extremely perverted, inhuman in order to become an empress, regardless of family affection, desperate, even her own flesh and blood can be used as a sacrifice in exchange for her own future, she is a crazy woman who satisfies her selfish desires, seems crazy but is very sober.
The people who were most favored in Wu Zetian's life were mainly Xue Huaiyi, Shen Nanyi, Zhang Yizhi, Zhang Changzong, etc., and there were probably countless others who had no name or only had a one-sided relationship. The first to serve Wu Zetian was a street vendor selling plaster, and later because he accidentally injured people in a fight on the street, he absconded to Luoyang and became a monk in the White Horse Temple.
After Emperor Taizong of Tang's death, Wu Zetian was sent to Kanye Temple to become a nun. At that time, the White Horse Temple and the Kanye Temple were only separated by a wall, and the two temples drank the same well water, Wu Zetian and Xue Huaiyi met on the well platform, and the tall, strong and powerful Xue Huaiyi helped Wu Zetian make water, and also sent it to the gate of the nunnery, so the two met.
Emperor Gaozong of Tang
Later, after Wu Zetian became emperor, he made Xue Huaiyi the host of the White Horse Temple, laying the foundation for their future tryst. At the beginning, the two of them were also secretly cheating, and later Wu Zetian did not cover up and let Xue Huaiyi enter and exit the harem casually, serving Wu Zetian anytime and anywhere, no one in the palace dared to speak, who dared to speak indiscriminately, Wu Zetian would kill intent, Xue Huaiyi was also favored by Wu Zetian, no one dared to care, Xue Huaiyi was also a lewd harem to satisfy his selfish desires. With his extraordinary cleverness, Xue Huaiyi was very cherished by Wu Zetian, made the Duke of Liang, and also served as the general manager for many times, commanding the army and expeditions against the Turks.
Xue Huaiyi
Soon, the handsome imperial physician Shen Nanyi became Wu Zetian's new favorite, and Xue Huaiyi, out of jealousy, set fire to the Vientiane Divine Palace, becoming increasingly arrogant, causing Wu Zetian's disgust and assassinating him. Shen Nanying, who is more than half a hundred years old, is gentle, but physically and mentally weak, unable to practice it personally, and unable to meet Wu Zetian's various needs. More than half a hundred years old, she fell into loneliness and boredom again, moody, and short-tempered.
Shen Nanying
At this time, someone recommended Zhang Yizhi's brother to sleep, these two beautiful young men of about twenty years old, smart and clever, with a lotus face, and a good bed, so that she was spiritually satisfied, fully satisfied Wu Zetian's requirements, very happy, left them in their harem dressed as women, every day for their own enjoyment, to reward the two of them with official positions, since then the two Zhang followed Wu Zetian every morning, and when he finished listening to the government, he accompanied him in the harem. Erzhang was pampered and arrogant, not only in the adulterous post-official, but also interfered in the imperial government, Zhang Shuzhi and others instigated a "palace coup" and killed Erzhang, and Wu Zetian was also "invited" to step down from the imperial throne on his sick bed, giving way to Emperor Zhongzong.
Zhang brothers
When we analyze Wu Zetian's male pet problem, we can talk about it from two aspects: one is from the natural needs of her being a "person" and a "woman"; The other is that she is a politician, a queen's perspective. As a woman, she needs a man to satisfy her, when Wu Zetian entered the palace at the age of fourteen, he was given the name "Mei" by Emperor Taizong of Tang, a thousand coquettish, budding to be released, the beginning of her emotions, longing for the favor of the emperor, Emperor Taizong He asked women only virtuous, docile, considerate, and delicate, and Wu Zetian's beauty and talent naturally did not get the appreciation of the emperor. Therefore, after the death of Emperor Taizong, he was assigned to Kanye Temple as a nun.
Emperor Gaozong Li was lustful, amorous, weak and sick, and missed her. Therefore, Wu Zetian entered the palace for the second time and became Emperor Gaozong's "Zhaoyi". At this time, Wu Zetian was sometimes emotional, sometimes angry, provoking Emperor Gaozong to be overwhelmed, and he didn't know how to be good. In just over a year, she went from a nun to Zhaoyi, a concubine, and an empress. At this time, it was difficult for Emperor Gaozong to get close to other women, and many concubines in the palace lost their obligation to accompany them and became purely female officials.
Wu Zetian
As an empress, a politician, Wu Zetian raised male favorites in order to show the empress's authority. Wu Zetian was over seventy years old when she served, even if she maintained her health and took aphrodisiacs, she was also a woman of an ancient age, no matter how beautiful she was, could she still be worth eighteen or nineteen years old? She is showing off to everyone: when a woman ascends the throne, she should also have a male pet to serve. She exercised the same rights as male emperors in all spheres, so she was to emulate male emperors in matters of "sexuality."
Although successive kings have a harem of 3,000 beauties for their lustful pleasure, especially Wu Zetian's grandson Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, it is said that there are as many as 40,000 concubines but still not satisfied, and actually made his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan a noble concubine, this old infatuation is talked about by posterity, and has become an immortal love tragedy for eternity.
Everyone said, Wu Ze's naïve affair is still showing his status and power?