Wu Zetian was the only female emperor in Chinese history, and her fate was full of ups and downs, dangers, and eventually she was able to sit on the empress's throne, which was the result of a variety of factors.
Among them, Wu Zetian's husband Li Zhi played a very important role in it, if there was no Li Zhi, Wu Zetian would probably have spent a lifetime with the Qinglan Scrolls after Li Shimin's death.
But in the end, Li Zhi still did not forget his old feelings and took Wu Zetian back from the Ganye Temple, many people said that Li Zhi was very weak, but from the beginning of his relationship with Wu Zetian, Li Zhi was by no means an honest child.
Wu Zetian was an old man who had been in the palace for more than ten years at that time, and under such circumstances, Li Zhi dared to go with Wu Zetian's eyebrows and finally break through the ethical shackles.
Returning to the palace from Ganye Temple can be said to be a turning point in Wu Zetian's fate, since then Wu Zetian has opened her way to promotion, and we are now standing at the back of history, and many people feel that Wu Zetian has always been a deliberate person who wants to be an emperor.
But in fact, Wu Zetian dared to start, it was impossible to think in this regard, or even to be an empress, it was very difficult, and between Wu Zetian and Li Zhi in the early days, it could be said that it was a model couple.
The two people are not only affectionately loving, but also in the career Wu Zetian is still a great helper of Li Zhi, you said that this has become the emperor, how can you still need help in your career.
Although he was an emperor, Li Zhi, the emperor, was not happy at first, because his father left himself a large number of aristocratic ministers, and the aristocratic clique headed by the eldest grandson Chu Suiliang firmly controlled the government, making Li Zhi almost a puppet.
And Wu Zetian and Li Zhi, it was in the struggle with these ministers that they gradually became close comrades-in-arms and spent a period of honeymoon, at this time Wu Zetian was like Li Zhi's right and left arm, very important.
The establishment of the Tang Dynasty relied on the Guanlong clique, and Li Zhi's succession was completely dependent on the operation of his uncle Changsun Wujie, because according to the conventional situation, Li Zhi could not succeed to the throne.
When the eldest grandson Wuji supported Li Zhi as the crown prince, after the fact, Li Shimin excitedly said to Li Zhi, you have to thank your uncle well, without the eldest son Wuji, there would be no Li Zhi's throne.
And it just so happens that Changsun Wuji is also the representative of the Guanlong Clique, such a figure, at the time of Li Zhichao's wealth, and this is not the first time that Changsun Wuji has done so.
When Li Shimin ascended the throne, the change of Xuanwumen, the eldest son Wuji was also a core member, fully supported, in Li Shimin's time, the eldest son Wuji was already the first person in the DPRK, and now Li Shimin has entrusted Li Zhi to the eldest son Wujie, this kind of power can be imagined.
Since the ancient ascension will fall heavily, and the eldest son Wuji is also a person who does not know how to converge, once at a banquet, he compared himself to Yang Su of the Sui Dynasty, thinking that his wealth was the same as Yang Su.
Eldest Sun Wuji used the ironic statement even more proudly, he had one thing that was inferior to Yang Su, that is, he was young when he reached these riches, and Yang Su was already old when he had these.
People who are extremely rich and noble generally think about how to maintain their wealth, which is the same as the emperor's desire to live forever is a truth, in order to be able to maintain this state for a long time, the eldest grandson of the long-sleeved good dancer has done another thing he is good at, and he is a prince.
The greatest merit of ancient courtiers is the merit of support, many people will have the opportunity to be a very popular subject just by virtue of the merit of support, and the eldest son Wuji decided to do this to the end and decided to support the prince again.
However, at this time, Li Zhi was only 26 years old, and he had been on the throne for three years, and there was no indication that there was something wrong with his health, in this case, would the Crown Prince emperor agree.
In fact, Li Zhi couldn't agree to it, because the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu was surprisingly consistent, and they all wanted to be crown princes, and when they told Li Zhi, the reason was definitely not for their own wealth.
The reasons are all lofty and grandiose, the kind that Li Zhi, as an emperor, can't refute even if he wants to, and he himself finally feels lonely and helpless.
The feeling of being suspended by manchu Wenwu made him realize for the first time that the position of emperor was not so easy to sit in, fortunately, at this time Wu Zetian stood by Li Zhi's side and fought with him, little by little, to overthrow the noble ministers and regain power.
Wu Zetian is a man of great talent, the so-called great is the person who can see the essence of things and grasp the key to the problem, and the eldest son relies on the strength of the nobility, and if he wants to regain power, he must use the people to add a check and balance.
So Wu Zetian promoted a person named Li Yifu, who was from a humble background, but was still quite clever, but because he had no background, he had always been depressed.
In the incident of Establishing Wu Zetian as empress, this Li Yifu keenly captured the information and decisively threw himself into the camp of supporting Wu Zetian, and afterwards Wu Zetian became a confidant, and Li Yifu eventually took the position of official and prime minister.
Wu Zetian was not aimed at Changsun Wuji alone, he wanted to slowly understand the aristocratic forces in the dynasty, so he promoted a group of people out of the box and let them participate in the decision-making of the imperial court in the name of compiling books.
Because they entered from the north gate of the imperial palace, they were also called north gate scholars, and if there was no systematic promotion of the Shu clan like Wu Zetian, according to the momentum of the eldest son Wuji, the Tang Dynasty would probably return to the kind of door valve politics of the Jin Dynasty.
In the end, both Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang were defeated, and through repeated suppressions, the power of the Tang Dynasty's aristocratic clique in the dynasty had weakened a lot, and Wu Zetian and Li Zhi joined hands to create an era that belonged to them.
Later, because Li Zhi's health was not good, their family should have inherited high blood pressure and other diseases, so Li Zhi could only give part of the power to approve the recital to the person he trusted the most, Wu Zetian.
In the early struggle against these ministers, Wu Zetian won the first-hand law of political struggle, and with the momentum of Wu Zetian in the first part, he was already blocked by fierce people, and eventually became the only female emperor in Chinese history.