What is the ending of Wu Zetian's four male pets?
From the death of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi in December 683 to the Shenlong coup d'état in 705, Wu Zetian reigned for 21 years as a widowed empress or emperor.
In these 21 years, Wu Zetian, as the most powerful person in the empire and a woman, has attracted much attention in her words and deeds, especially her private life.
After all, she is one of the most unique women in history, and becoming an empress as a young girl in such a powerful dynasty as the Tang Dynasty shows how outstanding she is.
After such a woman ascends the throne, will she build a harem like other emperors?
Although she was a woman, she was also an empress, so it was possible that she built a harem.
However, Li Zhi's status from empress, empress dowager to empress Gaozong of Tang forced her to respect the late Li Zhi, which severely limited Wu Zetian's desire to establish a harem with dignity.
But we can't have a harem, but we can have pets, just like the Empress Dowager Qin Xuan, the first in history to be called the Empress Dowager, didn't her son King Qin Zhaoxiang also have some pets after he ascended the throne? She also had two sons with King Yiquan. Of course, Wu Zetian may also have raised male pets.
The history books do not record how many male suitors Wu Zetian had, but there are four mentioned in the history books: Xue Huaiyi, Shen Nanxuan, Zhang Yizhi, and Zhang Changzong.
It is said that Xue Huaiyi is Wu Zetian's first male favorite. By the way, Xue Huaiyi's real name is Feng Xiaobao, and he was originally a shopkeeper in Luoyang.
This handsome and handsome man somehow got along with a maid in the palace of Princess Qianjin, who found him on a trip to the palace.
Princess Qianjin was shocked and angry at first, because it was really disgraceful, but when she saw Feng Xiaobao, her mind immediately became active.
Princess Qianjin has been thinking about her predicament, she is Li Yuan's daughter, Wu Zetian also calls her aunt, but Wu Zetian has always been ruthless to the Li Tang royal family, and Princess Qianjin lives tremblingly.
Princess Qianjin suddenly thought that meeting Feng Xiaobo might be a turning point, so she left Feng Xiaobo in the manor and went into the palace to meet Wu Zetian by herself.
In the meantime, not long after Li Zhi died of illness, Wu Zetian was busy with the propaganda system, and he was lonely, and the princess asked Wu Zetian to send someone to relieve him of his boredom, Wu Zetian quickly understood what he meant, and agreed, and soon Feng Xiaobao followed Princess Qianjin into the palace.
Wu Zetian was very satisfied with Feng Xiaobao and decided to keep him, but after all, she was the widowed queen of the Tang Dynasty, and people like Feng Xiaobao could not enter the palace at will.
Therefore, Wu Zetian let Feng Xiaobao become a hairy Feng Xiaobao monk for a while, so that he could enter and leave the palace. In order to improve Feng Xiaobao's status, Wu Zetian also called him Xue Huaiyi, so that Princess Taiping and Xue Shaoji's father and his gang were on an equal footing.
Under Wu Zetian's packaging, the street vendor became Xue Shi, who could freely enter and leave the palace.
Xue Huaiyi did a lot of unlawful things because of Wu Zetian's favor, but she also did a lot of unlawful things because of Wu Zetian's struggle for the throne.
For example, he supervised the construction of Mingtang and the Son of Heaven, for example, he found out the "Great Cloud Sutra" from the Buddhist scriptures and translated it into the easy-to-understand "Great Cloud Sutra", which created a theoretical basis and ideology for Wu Zetian's female body to ascend the throne, and he also led troops to fight.
After Wu Zetian ascended the throne, Xue Huaiyi naturally became an honor** and was appointed as the general Zuo Weiwei, and the official was the third rank.
Of course, she did more and more wrong things, which made Wu Zetian very dissatisfied, plus Wu Zetian had a male favorite, especially the imperial doctor Shen Nanxuan Wu Zetian liked it very much, and he was not so concerned about Xue Huaiyi.
Xue Huaiyi knew that they all belonged to Wu Zetian, of course she couldn't lose this attachment, so she tried all kinds of ways to please Wu Zetian, but with little success, she could only hold a grudge in her heart, so in the first month of 695, Xue Huaiyi set fire to Mingtang.
When Wu Zetian found out, he was very angry, but in order to protect his reputation, he still hid Xue Huaiyi; However, he lost patience with Xue Huaiyi, and within a few days, he instructed Princess Taiping to find a strong servant and arrest Xue Huaiyi to the palace and kill him.
Soon, Princess Taiping perfectly completed the task given to her by her mother, killed Xue Huaiyi, and sent his body to the White Horse Temple.
After Xue Huaiyi's death, what will happen to Shen Nanxuan?
In fact, there are very few historical records about Shen Nanxuan, few words, neither explaining when Shen Nanxuan was favored by Wu Zetian, nor mentioning Shen Nanxuan's ending.
However, Xu Changling of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "The Biography of Ruyijun":"After a long time of not being able to restrain his desires, his bone marrow was exhausted and he died"。
It is possible that he died of overwork, but this is a fictional story, and it is up to you to judge whether it is credible or not.
Now let's take a look at Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi's brothers. In 697, Zhang Changzong was presented to Wu Zetian by Princess Taiping, who was in his prime, tall with red lips and white teeth, a festive face, and versatile.
Such a young man, Wu Zetian liked it at first sight, the so-called one person got the Tao chicken dog **, Zhang Changzong and his younger brother Zhang Yizhi told Wu Zetian that Zhang Yizhi's ability surpassed that of the other party, and he was good at refining medicine, Wu Zetian naturally liked it.
From then on, the two brothers were able to serve Wu Zetian together, Wu Zetian gave them official positions, people and houses, and after the death of the two brothers, Wu Zetian also appointed their father as Xiangzhou Assassin Shi and mother as a widowed lady.
The door of the Zhang family was soon opened, and within a few days, the names of the Zhang brothers spread in the capital.
Later, Wu Zetian set up the Crane Prison Mansion, Zhang Yizhi became the Crane Supervisor, Zhang Changzong's official position is also very high, they have always been Wu Zetian's most trusted people, so many people seek benefits through these brothers.
Later, the crown prince Li Xian and Xiangwang Li Dan actually asked Wu Zetian to seal Zhang Changzong as the king, it seems that the strength of the brothers, to what extent, Wu Zetian of course still has some awareness, not the king.
Despite this, he appointed Zhang Changzong as the Duke of Ye Guo and Zhang Yizhi as the Duke of Hengguo, and granted them the appropriate titles.
When they came to power, it was inevitable that the two brothers would do the same.
The Zhang family did a lot of illegal things, but Wu Zetian's unconditional tolerance for the Zhang family brothers, no matter what they and their families did, made them forget about this big event.
A lot of ** because the two brothers suffered losses, so they hated them to the core, Wu Zetian's grandson Li Chongrun and granddaughter Princess Yongtai, as well as Emperor Wu Yanji's forehead, ran to a group of horses, ran to a group of horses, gathered together, in order to condemn the Yongtai brothers and Emperor Wu Yanji's forehead, they ran to the horses, gathered together to condemn the Yongtai brothers, and Wu Zetian knew that the three of them were directly executed.
Even her own descendants are not as good as the Zhang brothers, which shows Wu Zetian's love for them.
In Wu Zetian's later years, especially during his serious illness, he did not see the minister, and only let the Zhang brothers see Wu Zetian, and his feelings and tolerance increased instead of decreasing.
Therefore, the communication between Wu Zetian and the ministers could only rely on the two Zhang brothers, and the situation quickly became tense.
The Zhang brothers wanted to be more calculating in Wu Zetian's last days, while the court ** was worried that the Zhang brothers would do something unfavorable to the Tang Dynasty because they couldn't see Wu Zetian.
So, in the first month of 705, the five people led by Zhang Hanzhi united with Li Xian, Li Dan, Princess Taiping and others to organize the Shenlong coup d'état, get rid of the Zhang brothers, and of course, after their deaths, they forced Wu Zetian, who was recuperating in the Juxian Palace, to abdicate.
Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate and moved to Sanyang Palace. Ten months later, Wu Zetian died at the age of 82 in the Xianju Hall of Sanyang Palace.