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In 690, 32-year-old Xue Huaiyi was summoned by 72-year-old Wu Zetian to the palace to sleep, and Xue Huaiyi was so happy that he trotted all the way to the appointment. Wu Zetian saw that he didn't enter the hall, and said with a smile: "Long time no see, come in and talk." As soon as Xue Huaiyi arrived in the hall, a group of women suddenly rushed out to surround him. Wu Zetian's face changed: "Beat to death with a stick, and leave no room alive."
Wu Zetian
Xue Huaiyi is Wu Zetian's first face, what is "face"?
In the "Etymology", it is explained: "The face is the beauty of appearance; First, the beauty of hair. "The face is a beautiful man, and at that time he was a male concubine and a male pet.
And Xue Huaiyi was personally tried by Princess Qianjin and dedicated to Wu Zetian.
If you want to speculate on the holy will, the princess of the daughter can be said to be the best. Princess Qianjin was originally the daughter of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, Li Zhi's aunt, and Wu Zetian was still more than ten years older than Wu Zetian in terms of age, and Wu Zetian had to call her aunt.
However, after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, in order to eradicate dissidents, he liquidated the people of the Li Tang clan at every turn. In order to protect her life, Princess Qianjin had the cheekiness to ask Wu Zetian to recognize her as her goddaughter. Under the soft grinding and hard bubbles, I didn't expect Wu Zetian to agree.
Since then, with her godmother, Princess Qianjin was able to live a peaceful life in that precarious day.
No, she got a new male pet Feng Xiaobao, and after trying it out in person, she felt like a treasure, but when she was older, she couldn't bear it, so she thought about quickly honoring her godmother Wu Zetian, so as to exchange for some shelter.
Feng Xiaobao was later Xue Huaiyi, who was born as a merchant in the market, but he was handsome and powerful.
Xue Huaiyi's original name was Feng Xiaobao
After being favored, Wu Zetian personally gave him the name, the purpose of which was to allow him to join forces with Xue Shao, the husband of Princess Taiping, so as to elevate his identity.
After a few days of getting along, Xue Huaiyi made Wu Zetian very satisfied. But he was a man after all, and it was inconvenient to enter and leave the court. But the solution was thought of by someone, and Wu Zetian immediately asked him to be an abbot in the White Horse Temple, so that he could be summoned into the palace by doing things.
If you like someone, you can't wait to give him all the benefits, and Wu Zetian is no exception.
She asked Xue Huaiyi to organize the compilation of the "Great Cloud Sutra", in fact, so that he could be rewarded and promoted for his merits.
Xue Huaiyi's brain is active, and he seized this opportunity to build momentum for Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne, which really gave Wu Zetian a certain prestige among the people. Emperor Wu was very satisfied, so he handed over the important task of building the Ming Hall to him, expecting him to bring more surprises.
At that time, Xue Huaiyi was no longer what he used to be, and when he saw that many officials had come to scold him, he felt even more arrogant.
When he was the most favored, even Wu Zetian's closest relatives, Wu Chenghei and Wu Sansi, who were in power and the opposition, had to come to lead the horse for him, which shows how favored he was at that time.
Look how spoiled I am
Princess Taiping's husband Xue Shao even recognized Xue Huaiyi as his uncle and treated him with fatherly courtesy, hoping that he could say a few kind words in front of Wu Zetian.
At this time, Xue Huaiyi's vanity was greatly satisfied, he never thought that one day he would have this glory, but how could he let people who knew know it?
The so-called one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven, why not share the blessings together?
Xue Huaiyi was born in the market and is well-known in Luoyang. So he gathered his old acquaintances and asked them to shave their heads and become monks of the White Horse Temple.
This group of people knew that they could eat and drink spicy food with Xue Huaiyi, and they were even more obedient to him, and Xue Huaiyi, who had a helper, was even more arrogant, as long as he saw that anyone was not pleasing to the eye, he would let the brothers serve with sticks.
Every time Xue Huaiyi entered the palace, he wore a gorgeous robe, rode a high-headed horse and swaggered through the city, followed by a group of entourage, as if others did not know his identity.
His style has aroused a lot of criticism in the DPRK, especially Prime Minister Su Liangsi has the biggest opinion on him: What qualifications does a plaything have to show off his might?
Once, Su Liangsi met Xue Huaiyi on the way to the court, and saw that Xue Huaiyi ignored him, so he was angry: he didn't even pay attention to his true appearance, let you taste the power of his true appearance!
So he asked his entourage to catch Xue Huaiyi, beat him, and rewarded him with more than a dozen slaps, so that he knew the end of arrogance.
Xue Huaiyi has always been a bully to bully others, where has he ever been so angry?
He found Wu Zetian and wept bitterly: "Su Liangsi, this old horseman, he bullied me and broke people's faces, what face will he have to see the Queen Mother in the future? The Queen Mother wants to make decisions for the villain!"
Although Wu Zetian felt sorry for Xue Huaiyi, when he thought that Su Liangsi was an important minister of the imperial court, moving him would inevitably cause criticism, so he persuaded him: "In the future, you will enter and exit from the north gate, and the south gate is where the courtiers pass, so don't go to join in the fun." Although Xue Huaiyi was angry, he could only endure it.
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian knew that the ministers had a lot of opinions on Xue Huaiyi, and it was not easy to promote him, but if he didn't promote him, he was afraid of chilling his heart, so he looked for an opportunity to promote him.
In 694, Wu Zetian appointed Xue Huaiyi as an auxiliary general and asked him to lead his troops to attack the Turks. In order to ensure the success of the mission, he not only sent 18 generals to follow, but also asked Prime Minister Su Wei and Li Zhaode to be sent by him.
I have to say that Xue Huaiyi was so lucky, before he could meet the Turks, the Turks withdrew on their own, and Xue Huaiyi returned victorious.
On the way back, because he couldn't lead the troops, he had an argument with Li Zhaode, and Li Zhaode was whipped a few times. is as tough as Li Zhaode, but he can only stop fighting, and he doesn't dare to care, who made him a big celebrity, and he can't afford to offend.
Xue Huaiyi was even more fearless, and he confidently reached out to Wu Zetian to ask for money by doing the uncovered meeting.
Give as much as you want
Every time the merit money was distributed, it was ten cars, and the people robbed it for it, and finally trampled people to death. He was originally worried about Wu Zetian's punishment, but he didn't expect Wu Zetian to not pursue it, so he was relieved.
Unexpectedly, Yushi Feng Siqiao took the opportunity to count his crimes to Wu Zetian. Xue Huaiyi was furious when he learned about it, everyone else is a turtle with a shrunken head, what can you do when you come out? In order to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, he led his subordinates to stop Feng Siqiao halfway, and almost beat Feng Siqiao to death, which was relieved.
But his approach did not frighten Yushi Zhou Ju, who complained to Wu Zetian again about Xue Huaiyi. To tell the truth, Xue Huaiyi was still jealous at first, but unexpectedly, Wu Zetian did not attack him, and he still had the intention of defending, but just let Zhou Ju try it himself.
Xue Huaiyi swaggered in front of Zhou Ju, only said a few words, and swaggered away, meaning: Zhou Ju, if you have the ability, come and arrest me?
Zhou Ju, who was ignored like this, was willing to let him go, and he continued to complain to Wu Zetian. Unexpectedly, Wu Zetian asked Zhou Ju not to pursue it anymore on the grounds that Xue Huaiyi was crazy. Now Xue Huaiyi can see that Wu Zetian is reluctant to let him be hurt, so what are you afraid of?
Zhou Ju saw that he couldn't defeat Xue Huaiyi, so he found an excuse to exile all his subordinates, even if he couldn't defeat you, he would make you lose your arm, see how you are cross!
Xue Huaiyi saw that the forces that were not easy to gather were gone, how could he be willing to give up, since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust, and accompany me to the end.
So he found an opportunity to blow the pillow wind beside Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian really believed Xue Huaiyi's nonsense, and Zhou Ju, who received the false accusation, was finally imprisoned and died.
Later, Xue Huaiyi felt that there were too many restrictions in the palace, so he simply did not enter the palace, and he did not even come to summon Emperor Wu.
Wu Zetian summoned him and didn't go
However, just when Xue Huaiyi was proud of the spring breeze, a thunderbolt suddenly fell on a sunny day: Wu Zetian had a new love-imperial doctor Shen Nanxuan.
Although Shen Nanxuan is nearly forty years old, he is a doctor and knows how to massage, and he is very satisfied with Wu Zetian's service, so he asked Shen Nanxuan to make up for the shortcomings.
Shen Nanlian
Xue Huaiyi was so angry, Wu Zetian hadn't summoned him for a long time, even if he took the initiative to ask to see him, Wu Zetian asked Shangguan Wan'er to send him away.
He felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and he also felt flustered, he didn't believe that Wu Zetian forgot about him, could it be that everything before was fake?
His head was hot, and he drilled the tip of the horns, since you don't see me, then I will force you to come to see me, so he set fire to the Ming Hall that he personally supervised.
Mingtang is a symbol of Wu Zetian's identity, which has cost a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and enjoys a good reputation among the people under Xue Huaiyi's momentum.
Xue Huaiyi never expected to stab the hornet's nest this time, and his actions made Wu Zetian angry and killed.
Wu Zetian called Princess Taiping to discuss how to get rid of Xue Huaiyi in the safest situation. Soon, the mother and daughter discussed a countermeasure.
That night, Xue Huaiyi received an edict from Emperor Wu to summon him, he thought that Emperor Wu had a change of heart, so he washed himself fragrantly, trotted to see Emperor Wu, and thought, this trick really worked, otherwise I don't know when I will be able to meet Your Majesty.
Xue Huaiyi
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the Yaoguang Palace, he was surrounded by a group of strong women, several strong women knocked him to the ground, and then greeted him like a raindrop.
Wu Zetian saw the old feelings, sent his body back to the White Horse Temple, and burned him with the gift of Buddhism and built a tower for burial.
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian may have been true love for Xue Huaiyi at first, infinitely gracious and tolerant of him, and Xue Huaiyi did give Wu Zetian some comfort in his lonely heart for many years, so he cherished it extraordinarily, but this also gave Xue Huaiyi the illusion of eating Wu Zetian.
He was pampered and arrogant, reckless, did not know how to stop in time, and repeatedly challenged Wu Zetian's bottom line.
As the king of a country, how could Wu Zetian tolerate a male pet humiliating him so much, so he killed him.
is still the same sentence, if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, Xue Huaiyi is "playing with fire and self-immolation" in the real sense!