Fang Xuanling was a famous prime minister in the early Tang Dynasty, and together with Du Ruhui, he was called "Fang Mou Du Xuan", which made great contributions to Li Tang's pacification of the world and the emergence of Zhenguan's rule, but Fang Xuanling's son was not very worry-free, Fang Xuanling was still able to press it when he was alive, everyone lived in harmony, and as soon as Fang Xuanling died, it was not like that, especially Princess Gaoyang was involved.
In 652, Princess Gaoyang wanted to compete with Fang Xuanling's eldest son Fang Yizhi for the inheritance of the Fang family, and then she was led out of the Fang Xuanling plot case.
This case was a major event in the Yonghui period, because this rebellion case was expanded by the eldest grandson Wuji, and many Li Tang clans were forcibly implicated, such as Li Ke, the king of Wu, and Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, who were all implicated for no reason.
The incident took place in the winter of 652, and in the spring of the following year, that is, in the spring of 653, Li Zhi put an end to the incident"Zhao bereaved love, Wan Che, Ling Wu were all beheaded, Yuan Jing, Ke, Gaoyang, Baling princesses and committed suicide. ”Many more were exiled.
Wu King Li Ke was actually forcibly implicated by the eldest grandson Wuji, he is the core figure of the Li Tang clan, if the eldest grandson Wuji wants to completely tilt the power of the government and the opposition in the Li Zhi dynasty, then, Li Ke and other Li Tang clans must be his stumbling blocks, so there is this huge implication, Li Ke and others were killed, Li Daozong and others were exiled, and the Li Tang clan lost most of it.
In the first half of 653, Chang'an City, although there was no war, was full of blood, and in the second half of 653, there was also a real war in Zhejiang, and it was an uprising led by a woman, which was also rare in history, and even said that it had never happened.
This woman is Chen Shuozhen, also known as Chen Shuozhen, she was born in Muzhou, lost her father at an early age, and later established a church in her hometown by chance, and there are many local congregants, perhaps because of the floods and other disasters in Zhejiang in those years, or maybe the people in some parts of Zhejiang live in a more difficult situation, so when Chen Shuozhen raised her arms, there were many people who responded to her, not believing in the imperial court but believing in this woman.
In 653, Chen Shuozhen began to call herself Emperor Wenjia, which was the first female emperor recorded in historical records, of course, because the scope of her uprising was relatively small, and the impact was not great, she was quickly pacified, so later generations did not widely recognize this female emperor, but only believed that she was the first woman in history to claim to be the emperor, 37 years earlier than Wu Zetian.
Chen Shuozhen proclaimed himself Emperor Wenjia and established a ** system similar to Li Tang, and the most powerful cadre around her was Zhang Shuyin, Chen Shuozhen's brother-in-law. The two of them should have developed a power in the local area for a long time, but after the real uprising, it was not very good.
Initially, Zhang Shuyin captured Tonglu, and Chen Shuozhen also captured Muzhou and other places, but when they attacked Shezhou, it was not smooth, and finally had to give up. Before the imperial court could deal with it, they could still capture some cities, but when Li Zhi ordered the rebellion, their shortcomings were also revealed, and in terms of fighting, they were obviously not the opponents of the Tang army.
However, Chen Shuozhen was very influential at the time, so that"The folk falsely say that there is really a god, and those who commit their soldiers will be destroyed, and the soldiers will be feared. ”This caused quite a stir in the Tang army, and many people were cowardly before fighting. Fortunately, at that time, Cui Yixuan, the secretary of the Wuzhou assassin Shi Cui Yixuan, joined the army, and Cui Xuanji stood up and said:"The army is smooth, but it is still unsuccessful, and it is with delusion, it can last long! ”
This largely eliminated the timidity of the Tang army, and he was later appointed as the vanguard to lead the state soldiers to fight against Chen Shuozhen's subordinates, while Cui Yixuan, as a assassin, refused to accept the shield of the guards to protect himself during the war, all in order to maximize the morale of the Tang army.
In the course of the battle between Cui Yixuan and Chen Shuozhen, Chen Shuozhen's subordinates were defeated and retreated, with thousands of dead and wounded, and there was an army of Yangzhou Assassin Shi Fang Renyu to quell the rebellion, Chen Shuozhen and Zhang Shuyin were soon captured, and their subordinates also died and surrendered, but after a month, the uprising led by Chen Shuozhen was quelled.
Chen Shuozhen, who proclaimed himself emperor, and her brother-in-law Zhang Shuyin were beheaded for public display, and the vigorous uprising came to an end. Speaking of which, the uprising led by Chen Shuozhen is actually not a big uprising in the entire Tang Dynasty and even in the entire ancient history, and the impact caused is really average, but Chen Shuozhen, as a woman, dared to claim that the emperor led the uprising against the Tang Dynasty, which should be unique in history.
It's a pity that Chen Shuozhen has the ambition to be the emperor, but her ability is limited, she can only lead an uprising somewhere, and it was quickly extinguished, but she can't shake the Tang Dynasty in the slightest.
However, although Chen Shuozhen did not do it, there is a woman who did, she is Wu Zetian, when Chen Shuozhen led the uprising in Zhejiang, Wu Zetian had just become Li Zhi's concubine, and he had not yet gained the upper hand in the palace fight with the queen, let alone become the queen.
But later Wu Zetian still planned step by step, first became the queen of the Tang Dynasty, then became the queen of heaven, and then after the death of Li Zhi, he became the emperor of the dynasty, and then ascended the throne as the emperor in 690, established the Wu Zhou regime, and became the female emperor who could not be bypassed in history.