Interesting answer: Because Empress Lu did everything perfectly, Wu Zetian didn't do things perfectly. This also confirms the saying: stay a line in life, and see each other in the future.
Empress Lü came to power
If we talk about this matter from the beginning, it is estimated that we have to start with Liu Bang becoming the emperor and Li Shimin becoming the emperor, but let's take a look at how Empress Lu and Wu Zetian are in power.
Empress Lu's reign is more sad, and the sorrow lies in the death of her son.
Okay, along this topic, let's talk about it briefly first: Liu Bang has many beautiful daughters-in-law, and among many beautiful daughters-in-law, he likes one person, not Lu Pheasant but Mrs. Qi.
Later, through his many schemes, Lü Pheasant finally let Liu Bang canonize his son as the future emperor, and Lü Hou became the future empress dowager.
But as soon as his son became emperor, he died crisply.
You must know that if the emperor dies, it is necessary to make an order for an emperor, but the Han Dynasty went another way, and Lu Pheasant took the stage.
Lu Zhi took advantage of his son's death and cried in the court, but this cry was a bit strange, because he just opened his mouth but did not shed a single tear.
Then Lu Pheasant said: Because my son is dead, what if someone in the world makes trouble again?
Immediately afterwards, the courtiers of the court, half-coerced and half-compromised, handed over all their military power to Empress Lü, and Empress Lü took power from then on.
Some things before Empress Lu's death
Lu Pheasant got the supreme military power, you must know that in the feudal dynasty, as long as you have the absolute sense of military power, you can control eighty percent of the world.
And Lu Pheasant has now basically mastered the Han world, and at this time, she kicked all the generals and all the people who held power aside, and pulled her brothers and sisters up.
In other words, there are two forces in the imperial court, the first force is Lu Pheasant's family, and the second force is not Lu Pheasant's family.
So in such a state of absolutely no integration, Empress Lu and Empress Lu's family became more and more arrogant, and no one in the world dared to care about what they said and did.
Until the day Empress Lu died, he called Lu Chan and Lu Lu over. Needless to say, after Empress Lü's death, these two men inherited Empress Lü's military power.
But I didn't expect that the rice bucket was a rice bucket after all, and Empress Lu did so much foreshadowing for them, but in the end, they were still fucked by others.
From the moment when Empress Lu did not grasp the military power, the entire Lu family no longer had any advantage, because Empress Lu offended a lot of high-ranking officials and many powerful people when she was in power, and slowly a new round of revenge began, and Empress Lu's family was also implicated.
Wu Zetian is in power
Wu Zetian's power can be summed up in one sentence: that is, the husband can't do it, the son can't do it, so he can only roll up his sleeves by himself.
At the very beginning of Wu Zetian's reign, she killed more people than Empress Lü, and what she did was even more excessive than what Empress Lü did.
If we look at it according to such a vertical and horizontal comparison, after Wu Zetian's death, the entire family and clan related to Wu Zetian will all be wiped out.
But no, this involves some things that Wu Zetian did in the later period after he took power.
What did Wu Zetian do?
First of all, the person Wu Zetian ordained was his son Li Xian.
Li Xian called Wu Zetianniang, and Wu Zetian's family was also related to Li Xian and had a blood relationship. What's even worse is that when Wu Zetian was cultivating Li Xian since he was a child, he kept telling him: You have to be a kind person.
Although Li Xian slowly became a prince from a child at the beginning, and then became an emperor, he was treated a lot of unfairly, and sometimes his life was even in danger, but Li Xian was a kind person after all.
And Li Xian has a blood relationship with Wu Zetian, and he has a blood relationship with Wu Zetian's family, blood is dissolved in water, how to do it?
In addition, Wu Zetian had already realized when she was young: after her death, I was afraid that the entire Wu family and the Li family would have a fight, so he called all the people in charge of the next generation of the Wu family and the Li family, and forced them to swear more than once: they must be good partners for generations.
In other words, the contradiction between Wu Zetian and the Li family is very big, and there are many conflicts. However, the relationship between Wu Zetian's descendants and Li Xian's side is not in conflict, and there is no particularly big relationship of interest.
One last little easter egg
Okay, let's talk about the last point, Li Xian has a very powerful enemy after he succeeds to the throne, and this person is Li Dan.
And because Li Xian only became the emperor, his position is not high and his power is not heavy, and the courtiers will not listen to him, so at this time, Li Xian must win over the other side of the force to be a reasonable foil.
At this time, the people of the martial arts family ascended to the court in a grand manner, and enjoyed the high-ranking officials in a grand manner.
It continued until the late stage of the Anshi Rebellion, because there was a major reshuffle in the entire imperial court, and the Li family's voice in the court was not as great as before.