The royal family is ruthless. For Empress Wu Zetian, Liuzi is actually a tool for her to hold power.

Wu Zetian was a wise man since she was a child. In other words, she is a very scheming person.

She 14 years old (638) entered the harem, and was named a "gifted scholar" by Emperor Taizong, and was named "Wu Mei". There is a TV series called Wu Meiniang, in which Fan Bingbing was mainly shot in Wuxi Meiyuan, so Wu Zetian was originally the woman of Emperor Taizong.

Wu Mei and Emperor Taizong did not have a son and a half.

In 649 AD, when Emperor Taizong was seriously ill, Wu Mei served at the bedside, which shows that she was still very popular with Emperor Taizong at that time. However, at the bedside, Wu Meiniang, who was uneasy in the room, had a secret conversation with Li Zhi, the son of the Prince.

This year, Wu Meiniang was 25 years old. There were 65,438+0,000% older women in the Tang Dynasty.

So I sometimes think that if Wu Mei didn't catch Gao Fushuai Li Zhi, she would be remembered like thousands of other concubines of Emperor Taizong.

Wu Mei is not worried about becoming a leftover woman. She was burdened with incest. 65 1 At the age of 27, she was accepted by Emperor Gaozong as a crotch object and was named Zhao Yi for the first time. She worked hard until she became the queen of the harem and was given the green light and honored as the queen of heaven. At that time, she and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi were called two saints.

This is the first woman in the history of China. But she is not satisfied with this: she wants to be a queen.

In ancient China, it was not easy for a woman to be a queen, and the road ahead was bound to be full of ups and downs.

However, Wu Zetian is not afraid, she will kill the gods in case of ghosts, remove the concubines and former queens in the harem, and train her to have a heart of stone.

The married life of Wu Zetian and Emperor Li Zhi, to tell the truth, should be happy. The evidence is that they had six children together:

Four sons and two daughters.

As a mother, Wu Zetian naturally loves children, but when children become her obstacles, this affection will be cut off in cold blood.

Therefore, being born in the emperor's family and being the children of Wu Zetian doomed their tragic life.

1. Princess Anding, the eldest daughter of Wu Zetian, died young.

It is said that Princess Anding was strangled by Wu Zetian when she was still in her infancy, in order to frame the king and queen at that time.

Moreover, Wu Zetian succeeded, and Li Zhi was furious, giving the queen the death penalty, and Wu Zetian was the queen.

So the little princess became Wu Zetian's first tool.

2. The second daughter is a famous princess Taiping in history. She is the most important role of Wu Zetian's harem party and has made countless contributions to Wu Zetian's road to the emperor.

According to historical records, many of Wu Zetian's dirty work was done by Taiping, such as asking Taiping to find Toy Boy, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers for her.

It can be said that Princess Taiping used this tool very smoothly.

Li Hong, the eldest son, was poisoned by Wu Zetian.

Why did you hurt Li Hong? Because at that time, Li Hong had been made a prince by Li Zhili, and Li Hong was very capable.

Most importantly, Li Hong didn't listen to Wu Zetian. It is said that he listened to rumors that he was not born in Wu Zetian, so he got involved with the opposition.

Wu Zetian can't control him naturally.

However, in order to win the hearts of the people, Wu Zetian made an exception and posthumously awarded Prince Li Hong as emperor. Posthumous title's "filial piety" was buried in the Tang Gongling with the etiquette of the Emperor.

4. The second son Li Xian was forced to die after Wu Zetian came to power.

Li Xian is the best of Wu Zetian's four sons. He was both civil and military, but he didn't learn from the murder of his eldest brother Li Hong.

Because of the traditional Confucian thought that women are not allowed to participate in politics, many ministers of the DPRK began to gather around Prince Li Xian, which Wu Zetian could not tolerate.

So the mother and son turned against each other, and Wu Zetian took the case of "Ming Chongxi" as the first move and forcibly abolished Li Xian. After Tang Gaozong's death, he was sentenced to death in Bazhou (now Baxian, Sichuan).

The third son, Li Xian, is Tang Zhongzong, who was founded and abolished, abolished and re-established. He became emperor twice in his life, but his fate was worse than that of Huanglian.

On the surface, it is to let Webster be queen and let Webster's father Wei be a servant. In fact, Li Xian wanted to get rid of the control of Wu Zetian and set up his own team.

6. The fourth son, named Li Dan, was a Tang Ruizong founded and abolished by Wu Zetian. He was also an emperor twice in his life.

The reason why it was abolished was directly for Wu Zetian's own upper chess move, and she was a transitional figure.

Tang Ruizong Li Dan is a clever man. When he became emperor, he knew his mission, so he wrote to Zen and gave the throne to his mother Wu Zetian.

In 690 AD, Wu Zetian officially proclaimed himself emperor and changed the Tang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty. Li Dan asked to change his surname to Wu, from the emperor to the crown prince.

Not only did she kill women and children, but in 693 AD, Wu Zetian also killed Liu and De Fei, the concubine of Crown Prince Li Dan (of whom De Fei was the biological mother), and Li Dan was framed and almost died.

In 70 1 year, Li Xian's eldest son, Li Chongrun, and his sister and brother-in-law were discussing Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi in private and were killed by Wu Zetian.

The imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty was killed by Wu Zetian, and it is no longer a climate.

Therefore, power will make people lose their minds from ancient times to now, and those who reach the peak of power, whose hands are not covered with dripping blood?

But if you mix it up, you have to pay it back.

In 705, Tang Dynasty ministers Cui Xuanyong, Zhang Jian, Jing Hui, Huan Heyuan staged a "Dragon Coup" and killed his brothers. Princess Taiping also tried to cooperate with the coup, forcing Wu Zetian and five ministers to return to her brother Li Xian and restore the reputation of the Tang Dynasty.

After Wu Zetian abdicated, she moved to Shangyang Palace. In the same year, 65438+February 65438+June, Wu Zetian died at the Xianju Temple in Shangyang Palace at the age of 82.

But when she died, Wu Zetian played a good game of chess.

Before she died, she left a testamentary edict, omitted the title of emperor, and changed "Zetian Shengdi" to "Zetian Shengdi", which meant to return her identity to the position of daughter-in-law ruled by the Li family.

Wu Zetian once again achieved her goal: in May of the following year, Li Xian ordered Wu Zetian and Gaozong to be buried together in Ganling, thus realizing Wu Zetian's last wish to return to the mausoleum after her death.

In Wu Zetian's life, her six children were actually the tools for her to reach the peak of power.