According to the Old Book of Tang, when Li Zhi was crown prince, he and his little mother Wu Zetian had a true affection that surpassed mother and son, and then Li Zhi reunited with Wu Zetian after Li Shimin's anniversary festival, and another helper of Wu Zetian's smooth entry into the palace was Li Zhi's original empress Wang.
So why did Empress Wang help her husband "find Xiao San"?
The reason given in the history books is because she herself has not added Ding to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi and Xiao Shufei fought fiercely, so Empress Wang wanted to pull Wu Zetian into the palace as a "little third", in fact, there are some reasons that the history books do not explicitly say, that is, people not only hooked Li Zhi's soul, but also added a small child to Li Zhi (Xu Wang Li Sujie).
Xiao Shufei was born in 648 AD, gave birth to a daughter in 649, people can win the battle against the queen with a shy stomach all day long, you say that Xiao Shufei is just based on her appearance, who believes!
Some people may ask, when Empress Wang pulled Wu Zetian into the palace, she was not afraid of rejecting the tiger at the front door and attracting wolves at the back door?
The answer is naturally yes, because people have "three self-confidences".
First, behind my queen wang is the Taiyuan Wang clan, if you Wu Zetian is from a large clan like Xiao Shufei from the Lanling Xiao clan, then I will not only not take you to play, but also take advantage of your illness to kill you, but although your father is from the Dragon Minister, but your family has long been down, so I have confidence.
Second, my queen is the lord of the harem, and you are the great benefactor of your Wu Zetian, if you dare to "devour the lord", then I have a hundred ways to make your children die early, or even die violently, so I have self-confidence.
Third, my queen is the Ming media is married, you Wu Zetian is "unrequited love", you can be a dew husband and wife must burn high incense, what you take against Xiqi, so I have confidence.
However, Empress Wang still underestimated Wu Zetian.
After Wu Zetian entered the palace, he first alienated Li Zhi from Concubine Xiao Shufei, and then successfully killed Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei, and eventually not only became the lord of the six palaces, but also became the only female emperor in China who was certified.
So why did Wu Zetian get Li Zhi's extraordinary favor?
There are two reasons for this:
First: physiological needs.
Wu Zetian was able to go to the bed of the father and son emperors, even if her posture could not suppress Qunfang, it was also very tasteful of the old Li family, her descendant Wu Huifei, who was once the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, after the death of Wu Huifei, Li Longji was once loveless. reputedly. The reason why Li Longji snatched his daughter-in-law is because Yang Yuhuan looks like Wu Huifei, so it can be seen that the old Li family and the old martial family are aesthetically compatible.
In addition to the appearance value, there is a small detail.
Li Zhi's mother, Empress Eldest Sun, died at the age of 9, and Li Shimin, the king who was busy during the day and at night, was obviously unlikely to give Xiao Li Zhi much fatherly love, so Li Zhi also lacked the love of his elders from the perspective of psychological learning. The appearance of Wu Zetian filled part of the gap for him, after all, who found a wife for the emperor, and was not embarrassed to find him an "old woman" who was four years older.
Second, political needs.
Because the foundation of Sima Shi's establishment of the Jin Dynasty was not solid, coupled with the self-internal friction of the Sima clan, the result was that the northern tribes invaded the south. In the course of the chaotic war between the north and the south, a number of Hao clans who started with martial arts emerged in the Guanlong area.
This group, known as the "Guanlong Gate Valve" by later generations, established the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang Dynasties. Although these dynasties changed the helmsman every time, their superstructure has never changed, and they have retained some of the political characteristics of the northern tribes.
For example, whoever has the biggest fist, we will listen to whomever we want, and respect him as the speaker, but if he can't fight, or if someone thinks that his fist is harder, then the person who speaks is not unable to be "re-elected", and the speaker is not like the emperor of the Central Plains, what you say the minister generally has to endure, but everyone is very democratic, allowing each person to express his own opinions.
However, when these people were ministers, they hoped that the emperor would be democratic, but when they became emperors, they hoped that like the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty, everything was up to me, my son was a fool, and you could not have other ideas (Sima Zheng: there should be applause here), in a word, feng shui took turns, and the emperor could not be changed.
In order to achieve the throne of his own family to circulate in his own home, from the Sui Dynasty onwards, the emperors wanted to introduce the shi clique to restrain Guan Long's military merit group by setting up the imperial examination, but it has not been really successful (although Li Shimin bragged that the world's talents were all swept away by him, but as soon as he checked the number of people who entered the imperial family, he revealed the stuffing. ）。
After Li Shimin hung up, Li Zhi inherited his father's legacy and has been promoting this century-old plan. At that time, the warrior clan lacked an entrance, and most of the foreign ministers were from the GuanLong lineage, so Li Zhi only had to cultivate foreign relatives. Although Wu Zetian was also a side branch of the Guanlong clan, her family had declined, so Li Zhi lifted her up, which would not only not arouse the strong resentment of the Guanlong clan (after all, he was also his own), but also achieve his own goals.
Therefore, some people believe that Li Zhi also has political considerations for supporting Wu Zetian, so is there any other possibility besides these two points?
And also.
According to books such as the Zizhi Tongjian, before Li Zhi became crown prince, the most powerful talents were first, benevolence, and filial piety, so Li Shimin thought that he should be ... He would be a good boy, a good brother, a good minister, but he would not be a good emperor, so Li Shimin did not think of letting him be his successor at first.
Later, after Li Zhi became the crown prince, he was also famous for his "filial piety". He had personally taken drugs for Li Shimin, and he was able to do this thing, either a great adultery or a great good, and judging from Li Zhi's later performance, he should belong to true filial piety.
So this filial piety child, you said that he would go to his "little mother" when his father had not yet died, and when his father died, he would also take Wu Zetian, who according to the regulations can only green lantern ancient Buddha, into the harem, is it possible?
But Li Zhi still did this, then there is another possibility, that is, in his and Wu Zetian's affairs, he is actually very ignorant, and the person who really holds the initiative is actually Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian's father was once a meritorious warrior of Li Yuan's generation, and when Wu Zetian died, Wu Zetian was already 12 years old, which means that Wu Zetian had a good family in his early years, and she was also a person who had eaten and seen. After the death of The Samurai, Wu Zetian fell into the middle of the road, and she lived a life under the fence. In the process, her cousin has no respect for Wu Zetian's mother, so will they be good to Wu Zetian?
We can imagine that a former Miss Qianjin suddenly became a drag oil bottle that was not even as good as a small family jasper, what kind of changes would occur in her heart, she came from a big family, and she suffered setbacks when she was a teenager, you guess her ability to observe the color and behave in the world, the man she met the most frequently when she entered the palace was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and you guess what changes would occur in her heart after she lived a life of gold and jade food again...
A woman with family knowledge, life experience, and upward ambitions, when she knows the fate of her possible exile, you guess whether she will give in to fate, if she does not want to give in, she will grasp a life-saving straw, Li Zhi, a little brother with soft ears and great power in the future, will not become a straw in the hands of Wu Zetian.
After the Second Saint came to the dynasty, Li Zhi wanted to take down Wu Zetian, the bad sister, but when Wu Zetian stood in front of him, he flinched and took out Shangguan Yi as a shield for himself, you guess he gave in because of love, or habitually "kneeled".
When we have given the answers to these questions, the third possibility will come into being.