Wu Sansi, son of Wu Yuanqing the Prince of Liangxian, was the brother of Wu Zetian. In December of the first year of Hongdao (683), Wu Zetian came to the court and was promoted to the Xia official Shangshu.
In September of the first year of Tianzhi (690), Wu Zetian took the throne as emperor, conferred the title of King of Liang, and worshipped the Heavenly Official Shangshu. In the first year of Zhengsheng (695), he was transferred to the Spring Official Shangshu and supervised the history of the garden.
In June of the first year of Shengong (697), he was a guest of the Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Sanpin, inspecting the internal history, special jin, and prince. In February of the first year of the Holy Calendar (698), in order to seek the position of crown prince, He repeatedly made people say yu Wu Zetian; "Since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has not had anyone of the opposite sex as an heir." Then the sky hesitates. Di Renjie advised Wu Zetian: "Your Majesty has established the crown prince, then after a thousand years of age, he will eat the Taimiao Temple and inherit the infinite." If he establishes a nephew, he has not heard that his nephew is the son of heaven, and the aunt who stands in the temple also obeys Di Renjie's advice and refuses to think twice as the prince.
He knows a little about literature and history, has a cunning personality, is good at watching the wind and steering, he is the nephew of Wu Zetian, and he is extremely favored. Xue Huaiyi, Zhang Yizhi, and Zhang Changzong were Wu Zetian's inner favorites, free to enter and leave the palace, and Wu Sansi was a slave to them.
Xue Huaiyi rode on a horse, and Wu Sansi gave Zhang Zongchang a poem, claiming that Changzong Cai was the descendant of Prince Jin, and Prince Jin was the prince of King Zhou Ling, and it was said that after death, he became an immortal. In order to be able to serve Zhang Yizhi, he often waited at the door of Yi zhi's house. As a result, he was trusted and rewarded with great rewards.
In his later years, Wu Zetian lived in the deep palace, and he also wanted to compete with Zhang Yizhi, Zhang Changzong and other subordinates in order to gain his power. Wu Sansi penetrated Wu Zetian's thoughts. Please build the Sanyang Palace on Mount Song and the Xingtai Palace on Mount Wanshou. Wu Zetian was fortunate every year. The two battles before and after were very numerous, and the cost was enormous, and the people resented it.
In the first month of the first year of shenlong (705), the chancellor Zhang Dongzhi, the right hand man of Zhongtai, Jinghui, and Huan Yanfan, the young secretary of the punishment, killed Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong.
After Emperor Zhongzong Li Xianjin and Zhang were deposed, Shi Xuejichang, the governor of LuoZhou, said to Zhang Kamzhi and Jinghui: "Although the two evils have been removed, 'Production, Lu (i.e., Lü Shan and Lü Lu of the Han Dynasty) are still there, and if they go to the grass and not take root, they will eventually be reborn. Liu Youqiu, a lieutenant of Chaoyi, also said: "Wu Sansi still exists, and all my generations will die without a burial place." Zhang Kamzhi and others did not have enough understanding of this, saying: "Major events have been decided, and there are many curses, and they cannot be covered." ”’
At that time, Princess Anle, the daughter of Emperor Zhongzong, married Wu Chongxun, the son of Wu Sansi, and Wu Sansi had an affair with Shangguan Wan'er. Shangguan Wan'er is the granddaughter of Shangguan Yi, after Shangguan Yi was executed by Wu Zetian, Shangguan Wan'er did not enter the court, she was smart, clever, understood historical events, was good at writing, very eloquent, deeply loved by Wu Zetian, and often participated in the vote of hundreds of officials. After Emperor Zhongzong ascended the throne, he was used more and more heavily, worshipped as a concubine, and used in the palace. Therefore, after Shangguan Wan'er recommended Wei, Wei Hou was introduced into the palace. They colluded with each other in an attempt to restore the Wu regime.
Wu Sansi entered the palace to discuss politics with Emperor Zhongzong, and he also had an affair with Wei Hou. The number of Cambodians advised Emperor Zhongzong to rebuke Zhu Wu, but instead of listening, Emperor Zhongzong trusted Wu Sansi even more and often obeyed him to his home. Inspector Yushi Cui Jiao secretly wrote to advise. Emperor Zhongzong leaked his secrets and thought twice. So, the party of twice, hate to the bone.
Wu Sansi colluded with the people of the Shangshu Sect of the Bingbu Sect to frame others and suspect upright people. They took five people, including Shi Ran Zuyong, as their eyes and ears, and the people of the time called him "three thoughts and five dogs, three thoughts and more and more reuse, added the same three divisions of the house, and then made him a meritorious person, if he did not commit the great crime of rebellion, he would forgive him for ten deaths."
Jinghui and others took cui wen, a practitioner of the examination, as their eyes and ears, in order to think twice about movement. Cui Wen was a man who saw profit and forgot righteousness, and Emperor Zhongzong thought twice about it and respected Hui yuan, but he told him to think twice about the plot of JingHui and so on. As a result, he was recommended as a Zhongshu Sheren and became a henchman of Wu Sansi, and the palace attendant Yushi Zhengqing was accused of flattering Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, and after the defeat of the second Zhang Shi, he was demoted to Xuanzhou to join the army.
Later, because of his greed, he fled to Luoyang, and saw Wu Sansi saying: "Although the great king has the will of the Son of Heaven, the five of them (referring to Zhang Kamzhi, Jinghui, etc.) all have the power of the general, and they are bold enough to skim people, and it is easy to depose the empress dowager." The king did not go to these five people, and the danger was like a dew. Wu Sansi was very happy after hearing this, and why did he take the strategy of self-security and recommend him as a Zhongshu Sheren. As a result, Zheng Xi became Wu Sansi's assistant. Since then, Wu Sansi and Wei Hou have slandered Zhang Kamzhi and others day and night, saying: "The monopoly of power will not be conducive to social welfare." Zhongzong Shinyuki.
Thinking twice about it, he also planned: "If you make Jinghui and other kings, dismiss his political affairs, the outside will respect the heroes, and the inside will seize the real power" Emperor Zhongzong adopted his opinion. Therefore, Wu Sansi thought twice about restoring Wu Zetian's government, and those who did not attach to wu clan rebuked him. All the power was vested in Wu Sansi.
Tongjiao hated Wu Sansi and Wei Hou's deeds, and every time he spoke to him, he would grit his teeth. The former Yanzhou Sicang Song Zhixun hid in his home, interrogated him, and secretly told Wu Sansi. To think twice is to falsely accuse Wang of marrying a strong man, murdering Him twice, and deposing Wei Hou. As a result, Wang Guojiao and others were beheaded, and Zhang Kamzhi and five others were demoted from the imperial court.
Although Zhang Kamzhi went out of the country, he still hated it twice, and Cui Chao said with three thoughts: "Hui and others who return to the north on another day will eventually be troubled, so it is better to send the envoy to kill it." Therefore, Wu Sansi sent Dali Temple Zhengzhou to kill him. Think twice about killing the five kings and turning power against the opposition. In the second year of shenlong, Li Chongjun, the prince of Wei, was made crown prince, and Wei Hou hated it because he was not born of himself, and Wu Sansi hated it even more.
Princess Anle and Wu Chongxun often bullied him or called him a slave, and asked Emperor Zhongzong to depose him as soon as possible. In July of the first year of Jinglong (707), Li Chongjun preemptively dispatched more than 30,000 Yulin cavalrymen to kill Wu Sansi and Wu Chongxun, yu his family, and kill more than ten of his henchmen. Emperor Zhongzong, Empress Wei, Princess Anle, and Shangguan Wan'er fled to xuanwumen city tower, and then sent troops to ask for it, and Li Chongjun was defeated and killed.
Emperor Ruizong ascended the throne (710) on the grounds that both Wu Sansi and his father were rebellious. The coffin was opened and its grave was razed.