Not so, in the ancient feudal society, although it was rare for a woman to be the emperor, it was not enough to be famous for a hundred years, and it was still necessary to rely on merit to speak, and Wu Zetian obviously did this.
During Li Shimin's reign, he was wise and martial in the early stage, but in the later period, after a series of blows, it was inevitable that he would embark on a mediocre path.
First of all, the eldest grandson queen died at the age of 33, and the distressed couple was the most affectionate, Li Shimin was deeply hit, without her restraint, Wei Zheng had also died, and the morning bell and dusk drum no longer existed.
The traitorous villain took advantage of the rise of the situation, and actively admonished Li Shimin to accept the harem, 14-year-old Wu Zetian entered the palace at this time to become a talented person, and was given the name "Mei Niang", for a time, Li Shimin's harem was full of flowers, Yingge and Yan danced, and the government was gradually abandoned, this year, Li Shimin was 39 years old.
Gentle Township is the hero's mound, the beauty waist is a murder knife, the former wise male lord is becoming depressed, the government is chaotic, the five surnames and seven wang forces began to make waves, his sons are not fuel-efficient lamps, Li Tai, the king of Wei, is active, and under the instigation of the rebels, he accelerated the pace of fighting for the crown.
The son is smart, Li Shimin naturally likes it, but the fault is that this liking is not hidden, and he does not take into account the thoughts of the prince Li Chengqian.
Seeing that Li Tai was deeply favored by Li Shimin, Li Chengqian's nerves were tense instantly, he was born lame, and had a habit of breaking sleeves, his writing was not as good as Li Tai, the king of Wei, and his martial arts were not as good as Li Ke, the king of Qi.
Li Shimin's attitude towards Li Tai provoked Li Chengqian's sensitive nerves, and he finally went astray.
For the sake of the throne, he did not hesitate to use the power of the crown prince to secretly let the Turks enter the pass, burning, killing and looting all the way, and slaughtering countless people in the border passes. After Li Shimin's attention attracted the border pass, he suddenly launched a mutiny, and the general Hou Junji rebelled.
This is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Li Shimin, he has cultivated a good son wholeheartedly, the prince of the empire, and even his name is named after the Chengqian Hall of the Imperial Palace, which can be described as high hopes, but he did not expect that in the end, he actually aimed the knife at his old father and mutilated his own people.
This made Li Shimin feel an unprecedented failure, and he empathized with Li Yuan's original heart, and his mood suddenly aged dozens of years.
After Li Chengqian's rebellion failed, he should have been executed according to the law, but the tiger poison did not eat the child, and Li Shimin finally resisted the pressure of his ministers and exiled him to Qianzhou.
For the first time, he disregarded the laws of the country because of selfishness, and only wanted to selectively forget about it, and he was drunk and dreamed of death.
At this time, Goguryeo committed a border, and Li Shimin ignored the opposition of his courtiers and went on a personal expedition at the age of 47.
At the beginning, the Tang army was like a bamboo, and the victory was one after another, Li Shimin was not carried away by the victory, he still used the previous tactics to fight steadily, but the war dragged on from spring to winter, and the terrain in Liaodong was steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the supply of grain and grass became extremely difficult.
Look at Liaodong City again, the city is high and deep, like a giant beast across the world, helpless for a while, the soldiers' clothes are thin, it is difficult to resist the severe cold, it is not suitable to fight for a long time, and they can only have no choice but to retreat.
Li Shimin's heart was full of bitterness, the former undefeated emperor, after all, it was inevitable that the hero would be in the twilight, and he would ruin his reputation.
After this incident, under the backlog of multiple blows, Li Shimin was already overwhelmed, and he just wanted to hide in the gentle countryside and ignore the monstrous floods in the court.
The aristocratic power of the family, which has not been completely eliminated in a lifetime, has taken the opportunity to swell, and once again the power of the government and the opposition has been suppressed, suppressing dissidents, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, the people are not able to make a living, and the people have changed their children and eaten countless people.
At the same time, news came from Qianzhou that Li Chengqian died of illness, and Li Shimin's white-haired man sent a black-haired man, who was completely depressed, ignored the government and politics, and died of drunken dreams all day long.
The loyal and righteous ministers could not bear the defeat of the country that had worked hard all their lives, and took the initiative to advise, but at this time, the old and suspicious Li Shimin could not listen to the advice at all, and under the provocation of the traitorous ministers, they were pressed on the cold bench, and Li Ji, Wei Chi Jingde and others were demoted, squeezed out, and went to other places to serve as officials.
Since then, there are no more influential loyal ministers in the court, and the entire court has become a paradise for the family, and their power has been unstoppable.
In order to better control the government, they also told Li Shimin that the Chang'an palace was hot and humid, unsuitable for living, and another palace should be built as the king's residence.
Li Shimin, who was bent on enjoyment, was already suffering from paranoia of being killed, and became suspicious, feeling that everyone wanted to harm himself and just wanted to stay away from these ministers, and he immediately agreed to this proposal.
As a result, on Zhongnan Mountain, a large number of palaces rose from the ground, and the famous Cuiwei Palace and Yuhua Palace became Li Shimin's flower world, wasting countless people's fat and people's ointment, and accelerating the pace of the people's death.
In order to show the heroism of a man and forget his troubles, he did not hesitate to knock medicine, and in the process, he gradually had the idea of immortality.
Those scammers who made a living from alchemy ushered in spring, and in the name of alchemy, countless amounts of money entered their pockets, only for Li Shimin to refine a life-boosting pill full of heavy metals.
I think that at the beginning, Li Shimin sneered at the emperor's pursuit of immortality, and once ridiculed Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "Life and death are reincarnation common sense, how can manpower force it"?
But now, he has not only lived the most hated appearance, but even surpassed it. The charlatan warlock could not meet the demand, and he also took imported pills.
The Tianzhu monk who followed Chen Xuance offered the "magic medicine", claiming that it could prolong life and live forever.
Li Shimin couldn't wait to enjoy it, and a "divine pill" ate himself to death, at the age of 51, leaving a mess of the Tang Dynasty that was stormy and rampant to Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.
Li Zhi's health is not good, he can make do in the early days, in this time period, he can still bear it by relying on his youth, with the assistance of Wu Zetian, the two of them listened to the government together, collectively known as the "two saints", and worked together to suppress the rampant momentum of the family, and appointed Li Shimin to leave behind in the foreign good generals to eliminate the Western Turks, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty reached its peak.
In middle age, Li Zhi's physical function declined, he was riddled with diseases, and he often needed to recuperate in bed.
Li Zhi died of illness at the age of 55, and in the next few years, the 67-year-old Wu Zetian deposed Li Xian and Li Dan, ascended the throne and became emperor, and changed the country name to Zhou.
However, at this time, after years of chaos in the change of government and government, there has long been no glory of all countries coming to the dynasty during the Li Shimin period, and the family has become a behemoth. Natural disasters are frequent, people are displaced, people are displaced, thieves are rampant, and the country is in ruins.
The burden of all this was on the elderly Wu Zetian, a woman, who did not flinch and chose to face the difficulties.
First of all, he cooperated with the famous physiognomist Li Chunfeng to release the news, saying that Chang'an's dragon spirit had been lost, and God asked for the guilt, which led to disasters and famines.
At that time, superstition was prevalent, and the people believed it to be true.
Wu Zetian took the opportunity to move the capital to Luoyang, stabilized the panicked people's minds, and sent generals to garrison troops to defend the Turks, adopting the tactics of fighting and talking at the same time, and promoting trade relations between the two sides on the premise of not letting the Turks take advantage. Stabilized the security of the border region.
A large amount of domestic silk and porcelain were exchanged for Turkic cattle and sheep to solve the domestic famine, develop production, open up wasteland for farming, and quickly restore national strength.
When everything stabilized, Wu Zetian showed his butcher's knife to those rampant families who had endured for a long time, suppressing and slaughtering them in various ways, so that most of the huge families were extinct, and the few who survived were already on the verge of collapse, and the domestic situation was a new world.
In the short 15 years of Wu Zetian's reign, he swept away all the hidden dangers left by Li Shimin in the later period, allowing the Tang Dynasty to restore its national strength and chase the prosperous period of Zhenguan's rule, laying a solid foundation for the arrival of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji in the prosperous era of Kaiyuan.
Her exploits, not to mention those incompetent monarchs, are not much inferior even compared with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.