When we look at the relationship between Li Zhi and Wu Zetian through historical clues, it is not difficult to find that it was Li Zhi who built Wu Zetian into a big figure at the helm of the world step by step.
Before Tang Taizong Li Shimin's hospital bed, after Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, who were crown princes, had a spark of love, the talent Wu Zetian was destined to be closely linked to the fate of the Tang Dynasty.
After Li Shimin's death, according to the rules of the time, Wu Zetian was sent to the Ganye Temple to cut his hair as a nun. In the Ganye Temple, where green lanterns and yellow scrolls and bells ring on the heart, martial talents teach the scriptures during the day and surpass the undead of Tang Taizong Li Shimin. And at night, her longing for Emperor Li Zhi spread like a tide. I recalled the bits and pieces of getting along with Prince Li Zhi in front of Li Shimin's hospital bed. Wu Zetian "looked at Zhu Chengbi", concentrating on his thoughts, often not guarding the house, and his eyes were in a trance. For a long time, it has been "fragmented and haggard", people have lost weight, their faces are yellow, and their hearts are tired.
It was hard to spend a long and painful twelve-year talent career, just and Li Zhi burned the budding flower of love, has not yet bloomed beautifully, it has encountered frost and snow slashing. Wu Zetian couldn't help but be sad and mournful, and the tears were raining down.
She always believed that Li Zhi loved her. She only had to endure and wait. A year at Ganye Temple was a long time, and she really didn't know how she survived. A year is a short time, and on the anniversary of Li Shimin, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi came to the Ganye Temple and met with her.
We can fully say that during this year, Li Zhi, as an emperor, has been worried about the martial talents, and he can't let go of the woman he loves.
Thinking about the king day and night, Li Zhi stood in front of him at this moment. Happiness came so suddenly, the martial arts people were already in tears. "I don't believe it better than tears, open the box to check the pomegranate skirt," the voice choked, the words poured out, Li Zhi's heart was already soft.
He had already made up his mind to take the martial talents into the palace. Soon, she entered the palace for the second time and became the Zhaoyi of Emperor Gaozong LiZhi.
Let me first briefly talk about what kind of character Zhaoyi is. As the emperor's concubine, the role of Zhaoyi appeared in the era of Liu Yi, the Yuan Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Yuan's concubines Fu Jieyu and Feng Jieyu were deeply liked by Liu Yi, and both of these beautiful women bore him crown princes (Fu Jieyu was born Liu Kang the King of Tao, and Feng Jieyu was born liu Xing, the King of Zhongshan), in order to highlight the preference for these two concubines, Emperor Yuan of Han set up the position of "Zhaoyi", and named Fu Jieyu and Feng Jieyu as Zhaoyi, second only to the empress, and was the highest-ranking concubine. Time passed, and the system of the emperor's harem underwent new changes. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, the rules in the emperor's harem were more stringent. Later, he was the chief steward of the harem, and generally had to take care of the big affairs of the harem for the emperor, and he had to manage many concubines. Below her, there are concubines who enjoy the treatment of Zhengyipin, including concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, etc.; further down, there are concubines who enjoy the treatment of Zheng'erpin, including Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, etc.; and so on, behind them there are Nine Concubines who enjoy different levels of treatment; Nine Beauties; Nine Talents; Twenty-Seven Treasures; Twenty-Seven Imperial Daughters; Twenty-Seven Women, and so on.
From the five pin talents in the harem of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of Tang Dynasty, leaving the palace and entering the palace again, Wu Zetian suddenly became the second pin Zhaoyi in the harem of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi.
Wu Zetian's position has grown by leaps and bounds, and all this is of course the result of Li Zhi's own planning, all of which stems from Li Zhi's trust in her.
It's far from over. At that time, Li Zhi's harem was in turmoil.
Empress Wang could not give birth to a son and a half daughter, which made Li Zhi's heart very unhappy. Concubine Xiao Shufei was once deeply liked by the emperor, and her stomach was also very contentious, giving Birth to Li Zhi a son and two daughters, which had the momentum of forcing the palace to ascend to the throne. However, she was invincible and domineering, competing with Empress Wang for the wind and jealousy, being aggressive, making it difficult to make friends, and forcing the emperor to make her son the crown prince, which made Li Zhi very upset.
Li Zhi wanted to find a way to get rid of these two unsatisfactory women. In fact, at this time, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi did not intend to depose Empress Wang, but he wanted to elevate Wu Zhaoyi's status to that of a noble concubine, a concubine, a concubine, and a concubine, below the empress.
He planned to enhance Wu Zhaoyi's status and voice as soon as possible, so that she would be in a favorable position in the harem.
What to do?
He revolutionized the harem. If you are not afraid of not being able to do it, you are afraid of not thinking. It is not that the ancients have long regarded the emperor as the boss of the world, called "Chen". This "Chen" word, it originally referred to the residence, but this residence is not worthy of ordinary people, it is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven Polaris. The Heavenly Emperor Is the Emperor of the North Pole, the honor of a country, he shines in Kyushu, is admired by all, surrounded by stars, and shines for thousands of years.
Since he was "Chen", he named Wu Zhaoyi "Chen Concubine." Li Zhi quickly added a concubine in front of the four concubines, Concubine Chen.
Under the careful planning of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, Wu Zetian went from Wu Zhaoyi to Concubine Wu Chen, and she was only one step away from the position of empress.