Mention Wu Zetian is not unfamiliar to everyone, right? She is the only empress in the history of our country, and Wu Zetian's life is full of legends.
For example, she was an angry little daughter-in-law, who became a concubine of Tang Taizong Li Shimin at the age of 16, and Li Shimin married his son Li Zhi after his death.
After surviving the death of Li Zhi, Wu Zetian finally became a mother-in-law, and the daughter-in-law who had been boiling for many years became a mother-in-law, and this was fulfilled in her.
Wu Zetian has a strong desire for power, is a political specialty, and she does not hesitate to kill for power.
However, she also has a loving heart, such as she loves her daughter Princess Taiping, she loves her little lover Zhang Brothers, and even in order to please the Zhang Brothers, she killed her granddaughter in disregard of her affection, and Wu Zetian's inhuman behavior is shocking!
In this article, we will talk about why Wu Zetian killed his granddaughter.
Wu Zetian
In the historical and political arena, there are indeed several strong women, such as Cixi, Xiaozhuang and some empresses, but these are not called female emperors, and the only orthodox empress in history is Wu Zetian.
After the death of her second husband, Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Wu Zetian deposed her two sons, and at the age of 67, abolished the Tang Dynasty and established the Wuzhou Tianxia, with the capital luoyang, calling herself "Emperor Of the Golden Wheel of the Ci Dynasty".
Wu Zetian became a female empress, in the governance of the country is still good, such as the reuse of able subjects, Di Renjie is the biggest beneficiary, because Di Renjie's judgment of the case is honest and selfless, it is inevitable to offend the magnates and be framed and put on death row, it is Wu Zetian who discerns the grievances and saves Di Renjie's life, and then Wu Zetian reuses Di Renjie.
The Wu Zhou Dynasty was a key era between the reign of Shang chengzhen guan and the kaiyuan dynasty of the lower qi, between the Qing Zheng Jingming.
However, when the government was firmly controlled by the empress, she committed a mistake that ancient women should not have committed, that is, lust, and she established the harem "Control Crane Mansion" like a male emperor, that is, widely placed male pets.
Wu Zetian's first male favorite was named Xue Huaiyi, who was originally a bastard selling dog skin plaster in Luoyang City, whose real name was Feng Xiaobao.
Feng Xiaobao
By chance, Wu Zetian's daughter Princess Taiping met Feng Xiaobao on the street, and she heard that Feng Xiaobao had special skills, so she secretly took Feng Xiaobao into the palace to pay tribute to her mother.
The empress was very satisfied with the attempt, and in order to conceal the minister of culture and martial arts, Wu Zetian let Feng Xiaobao enter the White Horse Temple as a monk, and also let Feng Xiaobao and her son-in-law, that is, Princess Taiping's husband Xue Shao climb relatives, and Feng Xiaobao changed his name to Xue Huaiyi.
After that, Wu Zetian often pulled sheepskin with Xue Huaiyi in the name of doing things.
Later, Wu Zetian favored the imperial physician Shen Nanxuan, which caused Xue Huaiyi's dissatisfaction, and after a jealous attack, Xue Huaiyi set fire to the Luoyang White Horse Temple and mingtang with the favor of the empress, which was the place where Wu Zetian sacrificed to heaven, and burned the Ming hall directly in contact with Wu Zetian. At the behest of her mother, Princess Taiping sent Jinyiwei to do away with Xue Huaiyi.
Not long after, Princess Taiping sent a small white face to her mother, this person's name was Zhang Yizhi.
Zhang Yizhi was born beautiful as a flower, gentle and considerate and understanding, coupled with proficiency in music and rough pen and ink. Zhang Yizhi is a perfect and beautiful man in the eyes of Wu Zetian, and his special skills exceed the previous two.
Later, Zhang Yizhi also recommended his brother Zhang Changzong to Wu Zetian, and Zhang Changzong also had the advantages of his younger brother, so that the two brothers controlled Wu Zetian in life.
Princess Taiping
Later, many ministers wanted to see the empress, and they had to bribe the two brothers to do so.
Because Wu Zetian obeyed the Zhang brothers, the Zhang brothers became the object of sought after, envied, and bribed by the powerful courtiers.
The Zhang brothers were only four officials in the DPRK but their power was in power, and the government was made into a miasma by the brothers, which aroused the vigilance of some upright ministers, who feared that the Zhang brothers would plot against them in the future.
Due to the large number of eyes and ears of the Zhang brothers, coupled with the support of the empress behind them, the ministers did not dare to act rashly, and the rat trap could not make a mistake for themselves to fall to the ground.
Honest ministers, such as Prime Minister Zhang Kamzhi and Di Renjie, dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they had to wait for the time to be ripe to eliminate Erzhang.
How clever is Wu Zetian! She had already read the thoughts of the ministers: "Don't you people just wait until I'm old and can't move, and then kill my careful liver!" ”
In order to prevent trouble, Wu Zetian asked his sons Li Xian, Li Dan, and nephew Wu Sansi to sign a covenant with Erzhang: "Swear not to be negative, and to share the wealth and nobility." Then he made an alliance of blood and engraved the oath on the iron coupon. Speaking of true Wu Zetian for the little lover is also enough to fight.
With these bottoms, the brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were even more soaring in the middle of the dynasty.
The ministers dared to be angry at the Zhang brothers' misdeeds.
Zhang Yizhi
At this time, Princess Yongtai could not buy the accounts of the two brothers, Princess Yongtai was the granddaughter of Wu Zetian, the daughter of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian, and the princess thought to herself: Is Grandma old and confused? Why is it so indulgent to cover up the Zhang brothers? No, I have to teach these two brothers a lesson, and I have to learn the strength of my aunt Princess Taiping.
She thought that grandma would not do anything to herself, Princess Yongtai did not expect that erzhang was dedicated to the empress by her aunt, and finding erzhang's fault was equivalent to finding her aunt's problem.
This is where Princess Yongtai is insensitive to politics. She found the Zhang brothers a scolding and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Where did the Zhang brothers suffer from such anger? At night, he cried and cried to Wu Zetian, saying that he had been scolded by your granddaughter for no reason, that he had no face, and that he was going to crash into a pillar to die.
Wu Zetian saw that the little lover was crying with tears, and his heart was sad, and he angrily ordered the execution of his granddaughter and grandson and granddaughter-in-law, so Wu Zetian executed his granddaughter's family without missing his family and breathed a sigh of relief for the Zhang brothers.
At that time, Princess Yongtai's father, Li Xian, did not dare to speak out, and watched his daughter's family being destroyed by his mother, what else could Li Xian do except shed tears?
Sometimes an old woman is crazy for her own selfish desires, and it is unbelievable that she says that the next generation is relatives, Princess Yongtai is her granddaughter, how can Wu Zetian get his hands on it?
There is a way that many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves. At the end of 704 AD, Wu Zetian fell ill, at this time the Zhang brothers panicked and tried in vain to jump the wall.
Princess Yongtai
In the first month of the following year, after careful planning, the five kings, including the chancellor Zhang Kamzhi, the left Yulin general Huan Yanfan, the right Yulin general Jinghui, and the right Taizhong Cheng Yuan Shu, launched a Shenlong coup and killed the Zhang brothers in one fell swoop.
On the twenty-fifth day of the first month of the first year of the Shenlong Dynasty, Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian was restored to the throne, and Wu Zetian, who had been an empress for 15 years, was carried out of the palace, and Wu Zetian's dream of being an empress ended.
Text/Reading Spring and Autumn by Candle