Shangguan Wan'er stills
When I was a child watching the TV series "Supreme Red Face", there was a particularly profound scene: Wu Zetian raided Shangguan Yi's home, when his granddaughter Shangguan Wan'er was still a little girl, she cried and said to Wu Zetian: "You are a bad person, I will seek revenge on you when I grow up." ”
Although the TV series has a lot of drama, it is different from the real history. But this scene was always very clear in my mind, so that when I learned that this little girl was the "red man" next to Wu Zetian in the future, I still wondered: my grandfather was killed by Wu Zetian, why did Shangguan Wan'er not remember revenge at all, but instead worked for her?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er's love-hate relationship</h1>
Shangguan Yi was framed and killed by Wu Zetian. In the first year of LinDe, Wu Zetian was still an empress, and she led the Taoist priests to perform the art of victory in the palace, and was denounced by the eunuchs.
The art of victory is explicitly forbidden in the palace. Emperor Gaozong of Tang, li zhi, had long been dissatisfied because he had been suppressed by Wu Zetian, and was thinking of using a suitable reason to depose her empress. After this incident occurred, Li Zhi asked Shangguan Yi to discuss the matter, and Shangguan Yi said bluntly: "The empress is tyrannical, and Hai Nei is disappointed, and should be deposed to conform to the people's hearts." ”
Li Zhi was in the middle of his heart, so he ordered Shangguan Yi to draft an edict to abolish the empress. Wu Zetian soon got the news, she came to explain to Tang Gaozong, the sincere and poor Wu Zetian made Li Zhi feel unbearable, but he was afraid that Wu Zetian would resent himself because of this, so she said: "These are all taught to me by Shangguan Yi." ”
At this point, Shangguan Yi had become a thorn in Wu Zetian's eyes.
Wu Zetian stills
It didn't take long for Wu Zetian to start his own path of "revenge". She hinted at her confidant Xu Jingzong and charged Shangguan Yi with plotting rebellion against Li Zhong, the deposed crown prince. Soon after, Shangguan Yi and his son Shangguan Tingzhi and others were executed, and the family property was confiscated, almost equivalent to being exterminated.
When Shangguan Yi was killed, Shangguan Wan'er was still a baby girl lying in her swaddling. At this time, she followed her mother Zheng Shi and was filled into the court as a female dependent of the family of the criminal courtier and became a maid in the palace.
If shangguan wan'er's talent and talent were discovered and reused by Wu Zetian, perhaps she would have been just a little maid in the court for the rest of her life. Throughout his life, he was unknown, and his youth and youth were buried in the vast palace walls, not to mention avenging the family and rehabilitating his grandfather.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Shangguan Wan'er is talented, and Wu Zetian is very sorry for talent</h1>
Shangguan Wan'er was familiar with poetry and books in the court environment day after day, and slowly grew up. She was only 14 years old, and she was already able to become a wise official and recite poetry, and her reputation gradually spread to Wu Zetian's ears.
In the second year of Yi Feng, Wu Zetian heard of her name, summoned Wan Er specifically, and tested her. Shangguan Wan'er performed very well, the text did not add points, and wrote an article with smooth writing and gorgeous words in a moment, which made Wu Zetian very surprised after reading it. She was immediately relieved of her status as a slave, given the title of "talented person", and put her in charge of the palace commandments.
However, In Shangguan Wan'er's heart, she still has a grudge against Wu Zetian —she wants revenge. She tried to assassinate Wu Zetian, but failed, and also rebelled against Wu Zetian's will, which made Wu Zetian very angry. Several times Wu Zetian wanted to execute her, but in the end he did not make up his mind, because she was indeed a rare talent.
Even if Shangguan Wan'er scolded her like this——
Denouncing the second woman, the wu clan beautiful woman.
The Tang Dynasty is so magnificent.
Crow Si Chen, Xiao Woe.
Wronged soul Miyu, new home Cangcang,
The Spring Palace is chaotic and fishy.
The sky is angry and the blood is raining.
Cry my artifact, cry me the emperor.
Cry my siblings, cry my father.
The big number is close, destroying Wuxing Tang.
The words were full of misunderstandings and prejudices, but Wu Zetian's first reaction was not anger and anger, but to see Shangguan Wan'er's talent and writing. She felt that such a talent, if it could be used by me, would be the most cost-effective.
She should have been sentenced to death, but in the end she was only sentenced to "appeasement", that is, the punishment of engraving words on her face. But Shangguan Wan'er was very clever, she painted a plum blossom where her face was inscribed, and then led the trend, and court women followed her "plum blossom makeup".
Since Wu Zetian became emperor, Shangguan Wan'er has been her close female official, responsible for drafting various edicts and decrees, and later became more and more powerful, and even called the "female prime minister" at that time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Wu Zetian's employment strategy</h1>
There is no doubt that Wu Zetian is a very outstanding politician. During her reign, the wisdom of employing people she displayed was also worth mentioning.
Regarding the framing and killing of Shangguan Yi, it was indeed Wu Zetian's "rational loss" that came first. And Shangguan Wan'er is shangguan yi's granddaughter, if Shangguan Wan'er's vengeful heart is always foolish, and she wants to find a suitable opportunity to harm herself, it is also invincible.
But Wu Zetian was not afraid at all, and she showed that she was very "big-hearted". Eat when you should eat, sleep when you should sleep, and reuse when you should reuse it, because she has enough confidence to think that she can influence Shangguan Wan'er.
This is also a clever employment strategy, but this employment strategy needs a strong heart to support.
Indeed, later Wu Zetian may have really succeeded in influencing Shangguan Wan'er, and she saw all kinds of misunderstandings and doubts that Wu Zetian suffered as a female emperor, and also saw Wu Zetian's ambition and magnanimity, and was willing to help her with her own strength. In the author's opinion, this is more like the "like-mindedness" of two excellent women, using their own strength to create a broad world.
Shangguan Wan'er's talent has also been proved, and in the many years that Wu Zetian ascended the throne, Shangguan Wan'er was like her right hand and left arm, providing her with a lot of help in handling government affairs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 Shangguan Wan'er's "wisdom"</h1>
Shangguan Wan'er may not not want revenge, but between revenge and her own future development, she needs to choose.
On the one hand, if you take revenge and assassinate Wu Zetian successfully, then you will definitely be unable to escape death, and the end will be miserable; not to mention that a weak woman, even if she uses a plan to assassinate Wu Zetian, may not be successful.
On the other hand, Wu Zetian treated himself very well. Give full trust, give enough power and status, and reuse without doubt to allow your talents to be used. If an emperor were to be replaced, he would not necessarily have the power and treatment he has now.
What's more, my grandfather was framed and died unjustly, which has long been circulated in the folk: "After Emperor Gaozong's abolition, he did not dare to be a scapegoat." "Maybe just wait for the right time, and one day you can rehabilitate your grandfather."
Even if you can't rehabilitate your grandfather, you can't gamble on your own low-hanging fruit. Shangguan Wan'er is definitely not an emotional little girl, and the display of her political talents is also doomed to be short-sighted and determined not to be her style of acting.
"The time keeper is Junjie." This sentence may be most appropriate to explain why Shangguan Wan'er not only did not remember revenge, but instead fought for Wu Zetian's life.
Author: Our team has a falling moon
References: He Yuanmao's "Empress Wu Zetian's Employment Strategy", Zhang Xinqiu's "Empress Wu and Wan'er"