Changed Tang to Zhou, changed Yuan to emperor, and was the only empress legend for thousands of years
Brief introduction
Wu Zetian was a wenshui man from ancient and prefecture. His father, Wu Shiyan (武士彟), was originally a timber merchant and switched to Congrong at the end of the Sui Dynasty. When it came time for the herd to chase the deer, the samurai was still a small eagle Yang fu under the prefectural military system. When the world was in chaos and depression, he saw a light of hope to get rid of the status quo.
When Li Yuan rebelled, he did not hesitate to follow Li Yuan in the southern expedition to the northern war and helped the Li family to lay the foundation of the world. He was promoted all the way to shangshu of the Ministry of Works and was given the title of Duke of Guo.
Although Wu Zetian has a prominent family lineage, she was not happy as a teenager, because her father died when she was 9 years old. Losing the care of the father, tasting the taste of no father's love, and at the same time experiencing the taste of loss, the feeling is indescribable. Wu Zetian's independent and strong personality was formed during this time.
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Wu Zetian entered the palace
At the age of 40, Li Shimin of Tang Taizong happened to hear that Wu Zetian, the daughter of the Yingguo Warrior Yan, was intelligent and watery, so he ordered that the 14-year-old be recruited into the palace. She was given the name Wu Mei, so later people called her Wu Mei Niang.
She was talented and intelligent, and even liked by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and it didn't take long for her to be made a talented person.
Choose to send Ganye Temple as a nun
However, the comfortable days are always so short. It comes and goes quickly. At that time, Emperor Taizong of Tang died Li Shiminxian, and according to the old system, she and some palace ladies were selected to be nuns at Ganye Temple. At this juncture, Wu Zetian only had loss in his heart, like a spring dream, and when he woke up, he was empty!
Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi
Enter the palace again
However, everything has variables, and the successor emperor is her lover - it turns out that When Emperor Gaozong of Tang was crown prince, he had an affair with her, and he had a constant affection, and the unclear Qingqing and I had the matter of her growing her hair and going to the palace to serve and sleep. It didn't take long for it to be officially sealed as Zhaoyi again. After these changes, Wu Zetian understood that he could no longer let others decide his fate, otherwise the end would be very tragic! Only by dominating your own life is it reliable.
At present, although it is sealed as Zhaoyi, it is the result of its own charm and pleasing To emperor Gaozong, if the face decays and youth is no more, everything will die with time. She knows that it is necessary to fight hard for what she wants, and to get everything she wants, it is the right thing to fight for power first.
Compete for the queen's seat
In order to seize the power of the empress, she began to frame Empress Wang in disguise, and in September 655, Emperor Gaozong of Tang followed Wu Zetian's wishes and ignored the opposition of his courtiers and eldest grandson, deposed Empress Wang and made her empress.
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Establish a network of cronies, eliminate dissidents, and seize power to listen to the government
After ascending to the throne, Wu Zetian quickly woven his own network of cronies and built his own power group. She took advantage of the contradiction between the monarch and the courtiers, and within a few years, she had caused the government and the public to be frightened, not only killing the eldest son Wujie, but also deposing some of the important ministers who opposed her. There is a way that those who follow us prosper, and those who oppose us perish. Supporting her Wu Zetian's all-encompassing use, Among them Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong was the most loyal, jumping up and down to become the prime minister.
If a woman is strong, a man becomes weak, and then there is no claim, no confidence and rigidity, and from then on, it will not be able to harden. Even the Ninth Five-Year Supreme Emperor was the same, and the reason why Wu Zetian made Emperor Li Zhi lose his claims. Therefore, Wu Zetian listened to the government with Emperor Gaozong through the curtain, and the courtiers called them "Two Saints", so they had the title of Emperor and Queen of Heaven.
Over time, Emperor Gaozong, who was much constrained, could not stand Wu Zetian's restraint, so he secretly thought of deposing her, so he secretly found the minister Shangguan Yi and authorized him to draft an edict after abolishing Wu. Although he acted carefully, he still did not escape the surveillance of Wu Zetian, and after Wu Zetian learned the news, he directly met with Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Li Zhi to find him a theory.
Because he was afraid of Empress Wu, Emperor Li Zhi pushed everything to Shangguan Yi, arguing that he had listened to Shangguan Yi's idea and was not his own intention. Wu Zetian knew that his heart was clear, but he did not say anything broken, but only took the opportunity to kill the henchmen who killed Guan Yi and other henchmen who looked at him unfavorably. After that, Wu Zetian single-handedly covered the sky, and she alone had the final say in state affairs.
Poison Prince Li Hong
Wu Zetian's behavior had already threatened the imperial power of the Li family, and since he could not help her, Emperor Gaozong of Tang thought that he would simply pass the throne to the crown prince Li Hong. Crown Prince Li Hong was the eldest son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian had no objection, and it was not expected that Wu Zetian would poison Li Hong with poisonous wine.
After the crown prince's death, he made his second son Li Xian the crown prince, and somehow Li Xian did not have the intention of ShunWu Zetian, and he was deposed as a commoner within a few days of being the crown prince. With the appointment of the third son Li Xian as the crown prince, these seven and eight lanes, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was confused, sullen and angry, so depressed and difficult to dispel became a disease.
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Empress Wu came to power
After the death of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, as empress, she made her son Li Xian a nominal emperor, known as Emperor Zhongzong of Tang. Wu Zetian, who monopolizes power, is not satisfied with the power that is unjustified, and she wants to make a big move and become an emperor herself to change the existing rules and order of the patriarchal society.
After that, Wu Zetian gained power, and the wu family grew in power, and Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian reused the people of the Wei family at this node. How could she tolerate the mischievous people in the power network entering the core, and with one heart, she abolished Tang Zhongzong. Another fourth son, Li Dan, was made emperor, and was known as Emperor Ruizong of Tang. After Li Dan ascended to the throne, he did not have the right to govern, and everything in the DPRK and China was still controlled by her as always.
Test the crowd and investigate public opinion
After careful preparation, Wu Zetian began to test the group of subjects, trying to verify how much his support rate was. By the way, taking stock of the results of years of painstaking management, she knew that there were many courtiers who were secretly towards her. Confidants are all over the country and the public. However, there are also many ministers who look at her unfavorably, and it is not an easy task to subvert the Li family's world and change the court. One day at the imperial meeting, Wu Zetian deliberately said in front of the emperor's ministers: "It is necessary to be an emperor in response to the Mandate of Heaven and to obey the will of the people." But this is far from enough, and it is only possible to live in a person with both talents and moral characters. Although my son is the current emperor, he is not a lord of both talent and virtue, and he is not worthy of the throne, so he may mislead the country and the people. "To whom should this throne belong?" As important courtiers, you should be worried about the country, and it doesn't matter what you think.
Wu Zetian tempted his subjects
After saying that, he looked around at the courtiers and saw that no one echoed him, and his heart was very annoyed. The person who has become a big thing must be able to endure the temperament, she understands this reason, so she suppresses her heart and pretends to be very easy-going, adding: If there is a good suggestion, just say it. The courtiers knew the empress's thoughts, and no one dared to answer, so they all pretended to be confused. Letting a woman become emperor has never happened in ancient times, and even Wu Zetian's cronies and ministers who support her do not dare to go along with it casually, because this matter is too big. But looking at Wu Zetian's expectant eyes, the courtiers were really a little afraid. Despite the trepidation, the ministers still had some urine, standing silently in place, without moving to echo it. However, after a short silence, several ministers seemed to have discussed it, and they said in unison: The Tang Dynasty has been passed down from generation to generation by the descendants of the Li family! Wu Zetian was expectantly waiting for her words, and she thought that the time was not ripe, so she had to put this matter on hold for the time being.
Xu Jingye started an incident
How could li tang's former ministers and clan heroes tolerate the dictatorship of the Wu clan. After some time, the chancellor of the court actually asked Wu Zetian to completely hand over the administrative power to the emperor. Xu Jingye, Tang Zhiqi, Luo Binwang, and other former ministers of the DPRK and China also took the opportunity to cause trouble and create a rebellion. On the grounds that she was plotting to usurp the throne, he came to kill her, the empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty.
Xu Jingye's appeal is really not to be underestimated, and it is strange and frightening to be able to gather more than 100,000 people and horses in a short period of time. I didn't expect so much movement, but Wu Zetian was very calm, making Manchu Wenwu confused, I really didn't know what would happen to her.
Quell the chaos and eradicate dissidents
"The reason why people's hearts are not convinced is that people's hearts are in the tang, and finding ways to change their cognition is what needs to be urgently solved now." It turned out that Wu Zetian regarded these things as small fights and did not pay attention to them. There is a sequence of things, and the accounting after the autumn is not necessarily a trivial matter. Therefore, when the time is ripe, she will be ruthless in cutting the mess quickly.
Sorting out the affairs of the imperial court and capturing the pulse of the people's hearts towards Tang, everything has an eyebrow, and the heart has a fixed heart. Then he sent 300,000 troops to suppress Xu Jingye and killed his henchmen.
The name is not right, the words are not smooth, and the power is unstable
After stabilizing the situation, Wu Zetian planned a trick to use the Mandate of Heaven to justify his name, and secretly instructed his nephew Wu Chengsi to find a craftsman to carve a stone stele, with the words "Our Lady of The Prophet, Yongchang Emperor", painted red and old, and then threw it into Luoshui. Then he sent people to fish out of the water and did enough propaganda, saying that this stone stele was a gift from heaven to be a virgin of the dynasty, and publicized it to the extreme, so that the people of the world knew everything, and when they had enough, they dedicated the stone stele to the imperial court. Wu Zetian ordered the change of Luoshui to YongchangShui and held a grand ceremony for receiving Luoshui. Let people think that wu Zetian became emperor is the destiny of heaven.
Wu Zetian changed the title of Emperor to the image of the emperor
Changed Tang to Zhou, and changed Yuan to Emperor
In July of the first year of the Tianzhi Dynasty (690 AD), her cronies Fa Ming, Huaiyi monks and no less than 10 other people presented the "Great Cloud Sutra", which contains the female protagonist text, Chen Fu Ming, and wrote that Wu Zetian was the nether realm of Maitreya, to become the lord of the world. In order to create a theory to justify the name, the cronies supported propaganda before and after, and successfully fooled hundreds of officials, royal relatives, people, Siyi chieftains, Shamen, and Taoist monks tens of thousands of people sang and changed Tang to Zhou. Therefore, Wu Zetian announced on September 9 of the same year that he would change his title to Emperor and be honored as the Emperor of the Holy Spirit. After Mingzheng Yanshun took charge of the government, she inherited the rule of Zhenguan and the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, and during her reign, the empress gave the people a humanistic environment to live and work in peace and contentment. However, she reused the cool officials to junchen and so on, creating many unjust cases, which caused some people to ruthlessly degrade her, and in general, the society under empress Wu Zetian was quite harmonious. The stars shift the past like smoke, and the merits and demerits can only be commented on by people.
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