If you ask which woman in history is particularly vicious and vicious, the answer is the Han Dynasty Empress Lu Pheasant and the female emperor Wu Zetian, if you have to distinguish between the two, then Wu Zetian is obviously "better".
Wu Zetian's ruthlessness and viciousness are not only manifested in the fact that she tortured and killed her harem rivals with cruel means, but also never tolerated Huairen towards her former political enemies.
What's even more terrifying is that she does not hesitate to kill her own children because she is afraid that her position is unstable.
Wu Zetian is known to do whatever it takes to protect herself and ascend to the throne, and although she hoped that the Wu family could inherit the national heritage in her later years, she very obviously felt that the current situation and the courtiers were reluctant to continue to have the surname "Wu" in the world.
In the summer of 704 AD, Wu Zetian, who was seriously ill, was encountered"Shenlong Coup".and repented, and finally chose to pass on to Li Xian, which can be regarded as returning the throne to the Li Tang royal family.
When the empress abdicated, all the ministers were happy, but only Changshi Yao Chong hung his head and cried.
A year later, everyone found that Yao Chong was the most witty, because all the courtiers who didn't cry when Wu Zetian abdicated died unexpectedly, and the fate of several of them was particularly tragic, only Yao Chong lived well to the day when he was old.
As the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian's ascending history can be described as bizarre, changeable, difficult and tortuous.
At the age of 14, Wu Zetian, who was born in an aristocratic bureaucratic family, was selected to enter the palace and became a talented person of Tang Taizong.
Probably because there are too many beauties in the harem, Wu Zetian has never been able to get the emperor's summons, perhaps in order to express himself, Wu Zetian boldly said a more arrogant and ruthless idea in the process of training horses and appreciating horses in the palace.
However, this "smug" ideological revelation not only did not win the attention of Taizong, but also made itTaizong believed that this woman had a fierce temperament and was determined not to be close to her
When the seriously ill Taizong was about to die, the young Wu Zetian began to secretly worry about his future, so he seized the time to find an opportunity to turn the tables against the wind.
Soon, Wu Zetian set his sights on the prince Li Zhi, who came to serve the sick, and the young young Li Zhi had an ambiguous relationship with Wu Zetian.
After Taizong's funeral, Wu Zetian, who was originally ordered by the first emperor to enter the Ganye Temple and become a nun, finally got the opportunity to return to the palace with the joint efforts of Li Zhi and Empress Wang.
Empress Wang originally wanted to use Wu Zetian to defeat the "rival in love" Xiao Shufei, but Wu Zetian took the opportunity to use his charm to successfully monopolize Emperor Li Zhi's mind
Wu Zetian first defeated Concubine Xiao Shu, and then did not hesitate to strangle his newborn daughter to death in order to bring down Queen Wang, and successfully blamed Queen Wang for the death of his daughter.
In order to completely eliminate the hidden dangers of the harem,Wu Zetian ordered the people to cut off the limbs of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, soaked the remains of the two in a vat filled with wine, and let them slowly die in pain, which shows the cruelty of Wu Zetian's methods of mutilating his opponents
Wu Zetian, who got rid of the harem's rival, sat firmly on his seat in this wayIn the 5th year of entering the palace, she ascended to the throne of the Tang Dynasty.
During this period, although Tang Gaozong Li Zhi made great contributions, in fact, Li Zhi also took a fancy to Wu Zetian's decisive and ruthless character to support him so strongly.
Through Wu Zetian's operation, Li Zhi not only successfully regained power from the hands of the noble ministers, but also took advantage of headaches and laziness from time to time, and ordered Wu Zetian to review the chapters and handle political affairs on his behalf.
After handling government affairs for Tang Gaozong for many years, Wu Zetian first opened the situation of "two saints in the court".
Later, he gradually attracted a group of his own forces in the DPRK and China, and replaced Tang Gaozong Li Zhi as the country's supreme leader.
And after completely eliminating dissidents in the court, Wu Zetian, who was in full power, basically turned Tang Gaozong into a cowardly and incompetent political puppet.
In his later years, Tang Gaozong intended that Li Hong, the crown prince born to him and Wu Zetian, would inherit the throne of Jiangshan in the future, but Li Hong always disagreed with Wu Zetian in his opinions on governing the country when he participated in the court discussions, and even went against it.
Wu Zetian, who had already been full of control, gradually began to be unable to tolerate this biological emperor's son, and in books such as "New Tang Dynasty Book" and "Tang Huiyao", Wu Zetian did not hesitate to poison his son Li Hong in order to continue to dominate power
After Li Hong's death, Li Xian, the second son of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian, was put on the throne of the crown prince. Li Xian's existence is still a potential rival for Wu Zetian.
In order to depose Li Xian, Wu Zetian sent people to search the stables of the East Palace, and "searched out a hundred pairs of armor" from the stables, and then took this opportunity to expose Li Xian's intention to rebel
In 684 AD, Li Xian, who had been deposed and exiled to Bazhou, committed suicide in despair.
Before his death, Li Xian also wrote a 30-character poem to accuse his mother Wu Zetian of cruel killing and abuse of her own children
Looking through the history of the Tang Dynasty, it can be seen that Wu Zetian did not hesitate to sacrifice family affection and humanity in order to protect his vital interests and hold the supreme power for a long timeused decisive and ruthless means to deduce what it means to "have no mother and son under the imperial power, and no grace in front of interests".
In 690 AD, Wu Zetian, who decided to no longer hide his ambitions, ascended the throne at the age of 66 and became emperor, changed the name of the country to "Zhou", and proclaimed himself the founding monarch of Wu Zhou, with the capital in Luoyang.
In the years that followed, Wu Zetian reigned for a total of 14 years and 128 days, and the orthodox female emperor openly held the real power of the country for the first time in history, and was the only empress in Chinese history to be widely recognized.
In 705 AD, Prime Minister Cui Xuanwei and the courtiers Zhang Khan Zhi, Jinghui, Yuan Shu, Huan Yanfan and others took advantage of Wu Zetian's illness to launch in the palace"Shenlong Coup".
On the same day, the five ministers brought the forbidden army into the palace to kill Wu Zetian's inseparable male favorites Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, and surrounded Wu Zetian's dormitory, forcing Wu Zetian to abdicate and return to power.
After such a fuss as the "Shenlong Coup", Wu Zetian once again shook his previous decision - it turned out that the ambitious Wu Zetian actually planned to pass on the throne and the country to the descendants of the Wu family after a hundred years.
However, looking at it this way, not only the Li Tang royal family still has a lot of nostalgia for their "Ji Si Chen", but also the courtiers are also yearning for the restoration of Li Tang's world.
Thinking of this, Wu Zetian handed over the state affairs to Li Xian on behalf of him the next dayOn the third day after the "Shenlong Coup", Wu Zetian, who had figured everything out, simply announced his abdication and passed the throne to Li Xian, which was regarded as returning the government to the Li Tang royal family.
A "Shenlong Coup" completely ended Wu Zetian's political career, returned the imperial power and throne to the Li Tang royal family, and restored history to the era ruled by men.
After the successful coup d'état, Li Xian, in order to thank the five ministers for their great contributions, promoted them to the title of prime minister together.
Although these five ministers with both talent and virtue have always been loyal and pragmatic and diligent, Li Xian's imperial heart should not be underestimated, and he was afraid that these five capable ministers would manipulate the power of the court, so he gradually began to draw another dimension of political wrestling.
ordered Empress Wei to participate in politics and promote her henchmen to serve as important members of the imperial court. Among the henchmen he promoted, there was even Wu Zetian's own nephew Wu Sansi.
On the day Wu Zetian announced his abdication, all the courtiers were full of joy in their hearts and congratulated each other.
However in the heap of courtiers,Only Changshi Yao Chong cried bitterly on the spot.
In front of everyone, Yao Chong cried and said: I am thinking about having a fight with the Empress Wu, and now that the separation is imminent, I really can't hide my sadness.
Yao Chong's behavior of "standing out from the crowd" was undoubtedly contrary to the political atmosphere at that timeAfter Li Xian became the emperor, he sent Yao Chong to Bozhou and ordered him to serve as the assassin of Bozhou.
The rest of the courtiers "understood" this, because in their opinion, Yao Chong's public crying that day was really not smart enough.
However, what happened later in the imperial court became more and more "unusual": Li Xian's henchman Wu Sansi was not only a minister, but also Li Xian's father-in-law.
When Tang Zhongzong Li Xianchu ascended the throne, he ordered Empress Wei to help him manage the country and discuss politics, and arranged for Wu Sansi, Princess An Le and other henchmen to control the political situation in the court.
And Wu Sansi is Wu Zetian's own nephew, and he has long held a grudge against the five ministers who launched the "Shenlong Coup".
One year later, the five ministers who staged a coup d'état to force the empress to abdicate were first ostracized by Wu Sansi, and then one by one were charged with different crimes, basically either committing suicide or being convicted and killed, and the end was very miserable
In addition to the five ministers who led the "Shenlong Coup", many of the courtiers who participated in the coup were also implicated to varying degrees, and only Yao Chong was not harmed in any way, and it was only at this time that people discovered Yao Chong's cleverness.
Historians later believed that Yao Chong's crying was not as simple as the natural expression of feelings, and he knew itThe henchmen of the Wu clan still exist, and they will hardly be exterminated by the emperor in the future. It is difficult to guarantee that one day the ** of the Wu family will gain power, and if the time comes, if you retaliate against the courtiers who launched the coup d'état, it will be a bloody storm
So, Yao Chong, who was very astuteWu Zetian, who openly abdicated, cried a lotEveryone could see that Yao Chong really had some loyalty and affection for Wu Zetian.
Later, Yao Chong was reactivated by Tang Ruizong and returned to the imperial court as a senior official.
During the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Yao Chong still won the trust of the emperor and became one of the four famous ministers of the Tang DynastyAfter getting old, he returned to his hometown and got a good ending.
Throughout history, the political situation of the entire Tang Dynasty can actually be described as "ups and downs".In the fluctuating and treacherous political arena of people's hearts, only those who are smart and clever and meticulous like Yao Chong can completely protect themselves.
It seems that in ancient times, a qualified courtier not only had to be virtuous, affectionate and righteous, but also had to be able to judge the situation in the chaos, sometimes to move dangerously, and sometimes to follow the trend
With a prudent and responsible attitude, we can complete the journey of each person's life well, and perhaps, some people who are successful and proud can also display their ideals and ambitions by the way.
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