The practice of Zuo amnesty began with Liu Bang, and later became customized, and the practice of Zuo amnesty is the most traditional amnesty since the amnesty system, indicating that "its pardon the world, and the people are more beginning".'From now on, the new emperor will be responsible for everything in the future, and the merits and demerits in the future, the prosperity or decline of the country are the role of the new emperor.
In addition to an enthronement ceremony, the enthronement ceremony can make the bureaucracy, Jingshi and its nearby residents aware of the event, but the amnesty is to announce the fact that the new emperor has ascended the throne to the subjects of the whole country, and the new emperor will "change with the people" and lead his people into a new period. The new emperor's accession to the throne is a thing worthy of celebration by the whole country, usually some big celebrations will also be amnesty to celebrate with the people, and the new emperor ascends the throne, there must be some more or less unstable factors inside and outside the court, amnesty represents the new emperor's favor to his subjects, can win the hearts of the people.
In December of the first year of Gaozong Hongdao, "Gaozong collapsed, and the crown prince was the emperor, and those who were indecisive about the major affairs of the military state were also taken by the queen of heaven." Jiazi, the crown prince is the emperor, and the queen is the queen mother, and the dynasty is called the system. Amnesty. "This amnesty is a typical practice of the Zuo amnesty in history, which is intended to announce the new emperor's accession to the throne and the beginning of the change with the people. For those who have been pardoned, amnesty is a favor given to them by the new emperor, in order to promote the benevolence of the new emperor and win the hearts of the people.
There will be many provisions closely related to the lives of ordinary people in the amnesty text, the most common is to give a few days of compensation, or exempt some areas from taxes, relief for widows and loneliness, relief for disaster areas, selection of talents, etc., for **, amnesty will also give them the opportunity to advance. After so many years, the amnesty has become more and more like an extension of the enthronement ceremony, after all, the amnesty is the prerogative of the emperor alone, and the first order issued by the emperor on the throne is to grant amnesty to the world, which is also to promote the power of the emperor.
In the first year of the Emperor of the Middle Sect"On the afternoon of February, the emperor was abolished as the king of Luling, secluded in another place, and still changed his name to Zhe. Ji Wei, set up Yu Wang Wheel as the emperor, and ordered to live in another hall. Amnesty for the world and change civilization. The Empress Dowager is still in power. This amnesty is also a practice of the Zuo amnesty, but judging from the background of this amnesty and even the subsequent changes in the political pattern, this amnesty is more like an amnesty for the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian is still in the court.
This amnesty had a great impact on the political landscape at the time, and it also became the fuse for a series of events in the future. There is nothing wrong with practicing Zuo's amnesty, but this time the emperor's enthronement and even the amnesty were directed by the empress dowager, and it was made by Wu Zetian in order to maintain his power, and King Yu was easier to control than his brother, in fact, he was just Wu Zetian's puppet like his brother, and he was her tool to control power.
The amnesty is to announce that the new emperor of the world will ascend the throne, and the people will be renewed, for Wu Zetian, this amnesty exposed her ambitions, soon after the new emperor ascended the throne, the queen mother abolished the emperor designated by the emperor, and set up a new emperor, she let the world see her control over the court, and also made people feel the instability of the court. Wu Zetian abolished the emperor he didn't like and set up a new emperor, but the significance of this move was by no means simply that Wu Zetian was dissatisfied with Zhongzong so he established Ruizong, which allowed her to see the reaction of the government and the opposition, and even the people, and it was also a test to test everyone's patience with her actions, and it turned out that even if she deposed Emperor Wei, it would not have a great impact on the political situation, Wu Zetian's ambition chilled people loyal to the Li Tang royal family, and she abolished the emperor appointed by Gaozong without any good reason, and the power was so great that many old ministers who were loyal to the Li Tang royal family were worried。
Wu Zetian was a maid during the Tang Dynasty, and she could often hear Taizong and some ministers discussing political affairs, which laid the foundation for her to be active in the court in the future. As early as the Gaozong Dynasty, Wu Zetian had already shown her unwillingness to be a queen who led the harem, she helped Gaozong deal with political affairs, suppressed some old ministers who opposed her loyalty to Li Tang, and was active in the court. Gaozong died of illness, and there was in the edict that "those who are indecisive in military affairs will be punished by the queen of heaven", it is precisely because Wu Zetian has rich experience and experience in politics, so after Gaozong's death, no matter what kind of changes in the court, it has no great impact on political affairs, and the lives of the people are still the same, in the people, as long as it does not affect the lives of ordinary people, the people generally do not care who sits in that position.
In the court, while Wu Zetian suppressed a group of old ministers, he was also supporting his own forces, which became the basis for Wu Zetian's later usurpation of power. Zhongzong is simply a puppet to Wu Zetian, as long as Wu Zetian is there, the power is still in her hands. Soon after Zhongzong Li Xian succeeded to the throne, Wu Zetian abolished Zhongzong and established Ruizong, which seemed to be unscrupulous and arrogant, and seemed to be hinting that since he could depose an emperor, he could also depose another emperor by himself, and those loyal ministers who were loyal to the Li Tang Dynasty would no longer stand idly by, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack, and they were likely to take risks.
This amnesty was not so much to announce the accession of Ruizong to the throne as to deter the Li Tang royal family and their followers, and soon after, Xu Jingye raised troops in Yangzhou, which played a catalytic role, and Wu Zetian used this amnesty to let people see the power of the underground monarch behind the curtain. If Wu Zetian wants to be the emperor herself, then she must eradicate the Li Tang royal family and sweep away those "loyal ministers" who threaten her, and first she must find out those who oppose her, and then give them a suitable "hat", and finally she can catch them all.
She abolished the emperor for no reason, her ambition was obvious, and those who opposed her definitely did not sit idly by, although there is no direct evidence to prove that this directly led to Xu Jingye's Yangzhou rebellion, but this matter is by no means unrelated to that rebellion. Xu Jingye rebelled in Yangzhou, Wu Zetian mobilized the army in a short period of time, and completely quelled the rebellion in less than three months, I have to say that Wu Zetian has been prepared for the rebellion for a long time.
In the first year of Wu Zetian's reign, "on the ninth day of September, the Tang Dynasty was ordered to change the name of the country to Zhou." Change the yuan to heaven, amnesty the world", Wu Zetian has made a lot of preparations for the arrival of this day, her ambition to call the emperor has long been known to passers-by, and it is only a matter of time or form to call the emperor, now, she does not have to hide in the background, hang the curtain and listen to the government, and finally can sit on the dragon chair like all emperors to accept the minister's bowing and the king of the world. This amnesty is an amnesty for Wu Zetian to complete the revolution, and the amnesty is also one of the few very detailed and complete texts left by Wu Zetian period', also summarized the dynasties can not last long, and the reason why they want to revolution, Wu Zetian revolutionized under the banner of the Zhou ceremony, so he also proposed that "it is to Fuli Gaoyang and Zhou, and all of them are based on the month of Jianzi".", so the new dynasty is positive in the month of Jianzi. "He is committed to his work, and he has returned to all his friends, and his leader has been ambushed, and his branch party has not happened, and he is not allowed to say anything more from the original. ”'In fact, since Xu Jingye's rebellion, Wu Zetian has introduced cool officials, and all those who are good friends with Xu Jingye or even have any relationship have been exhausted, and the reason why Wu Zetian mentioned this in the pardon is just to win the reputation of leniency and win the support of more people for himself.
The amnesty also mentions in detail the selection of talents, the relief of the people, Wu Zetian's name changed to Zhen, the reward for **, and even publicized the text of Wu Zetian's new invention. This amnesty announced to her subjects that it had now reached the era of a generation of empresses, that the Li Tang Dynasty had passed away, that the world was no longer surnamed Li, but surnamed Wu, and that her father was posthumously honored as Emperor Xiaoming, and that the Wu Temple was erected, and that the "Surname Record" was repaired, so as to change her image in people's minds.
Wu Zetian's amnesty is a typical practice of the Zuo amnesty, and this amnesty is absolutely unprecedented, Wu Zetian became the only woman in Chinese history to finally ascend the throne, become a generation of empresses, this amnesty truly and completely enlightened her as a generation of empress era, it is because Wu Zetian is different, unique, Wu Zetian's biggest feature of amnesty is the female identity of the protagonist of the amnesty, after the official accession to the throne, Wu Zetian's amnesty after no longer hiding behind the scenes as a director, she began to become the protagonist of every amnesty openly。