Chapter 184: Wu Zetian 2
Wu Zetian was originally the concubine of Tang Taizong, and when Gaozong was still the crown prince, he fell in love with her when he saw Wu Zetian from his father. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Later, Taizong died, and Wu Zetian went to Ganye Temple with other concubines to cut his hair and become a nun. After Gaozong ascended the throne, he went to Ganye Temple to worship his father on Taizong's death day, and his old love with Wu Zetian was renewed, and the two cried relatively.
At that time, Gaozong's queen Wang was competing with Shufei Xiao's favor, and the queen had no son, so Gaozong moved to Shufei. After Empress Wang knew that Gaozong and Wu Zetian were crying in Ganye Temple, she quietly let Wu Zetian grow her hair and persuaded Gaozong to include Wu Zetian in the harem.
Empress Wang's intention was very obvious, that is, to use Wu Zetian to weaken Gaozong's favor for Concubine Xiao Shu, but she never thought that she had done a stupid thing to lure a wolf into the house, which brought ruin to both her and Concubine Xiao Shu.
When Wu Zetian just returned to the palace, he was flattering and meticulous in everything. Because of this, the queen repeatedly praised Wu Zetian in front of Gaozong, which was right in Gaozong's heart, so she quickly worshiped Wu Zetian as Zhaoyi and favored her, and left the queen and Concubine Xiao Shufei aside.
This panicked Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, so the two joined forces to attack Wu Zetian. But Gaozong was already listening to Wu Zetian at this time, and he didn't take the words of the queen and Concubine Xiao Shu seriously at all, plus Queen Wang was not good at encircling the people around Gaozong, and Wu Zetian happened to be dedicated to bribing these people, so Wu Zetian knew everything about the movements of the queen and Concubine Shu.
Although Gaozong snubbed the queen, the status of the queen is still there, and Gaozong has no intention of deposing the queen, and Wu Zetian will certainly not stop there. But it is not easy to take the position of the queen, unless the queen is made to commit a great crime by extremely special means. Wu Zetian is worthy of being a resourceful and ruthless woman, she had a plan and set a rare trap to entrust the enemy.
Wu Ze was born with a daughter, whom Gaozong loved and the queen also liked. On this day, the queen went to Zhaoyi Palace to play with the little girl for a while, and when the queen left, Wu Zetian quietly entered the house, put his heart sideways, and even strangled his daughter to death with his own hands, covered it with a quilt, and then went to the imperial garden to welcome Gaozong.
As soon as he returned to the house, Wu Zetian smiled and lifted the cover to let Gaozong look at his daughter, but found that his daughter had died in bed; The palace maids all said that only the queen had come, so Gaozong was furious and believed that the queen had killed the little princess. Wu Zetian took the opportunity to cry to death and cry alive, and the queen's mistakes were not, which made Gaozong have the idea of deposing the queen and establishing Wu Zetian as the queen.
Fortunately, the elder grandson Wuji, the minister of Gu Ming and Gaozong's uncle, opposed it, so that the queen was not deposed for the time being. A wave of unsettled, wave after wave, Wu Zetian will never give up until he reaches his goal, and is determined to put the queen to death.
She sent someone to sneak into the corner of the East Palace and bury a straw man, on which Gaozong's birthday was written, and then asked someone to tell Gaozong, saying that the queen was chanting a spell day and night to curse Gaozong to death with witchcraft. Gaozong sent people to the East Palace to search, and sure enough, a straw man was found in the corner of the wall, and the evidence was conclusive. So Gaozong ignored the strong opposition of the eldest grandson Wuji and other ministers, and resolutely deposed the queen, and at the same time demoted Concubine Xiao Shu to a concubine, and established Wu Zetian as the queen.
Wu Zetian's goal was finally achieved, but she still did not give up, when she learned that Gaozong had gone to see them in the place where Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were imprisoned, Wu Zetian was furious, and ordered people to beat each of them with a hundred sticks, cut off their hands and feet, and then put them in a wine urn. And said hatefully, let these two sluts even get drunk, within a few days, both of them died like this, Wu Zetian still didn't understand the hatred, and beheaded them again.
Wu Zetian is really vicious enough, in order to achieve his goal, he will do whatever it takes, at all costs, and even bet on his own daughter to make a gamble. Her entrusting the enemy is simply framed.
However, moral judgment aside, framing is also a means of fighting against the enemy, and the purpose is precisely to entrust the enemy with the enemy, so as to completely defeat the enemy. Moreover, in the real life-and-death struggle, there is really no benevolence, righteousness and morality to talk about, defeating the opponent is the only goal, the winner is the king, and the loser is the villain, there are too many such ironclad proofs in history.
I have to admit that Wu Zetian is a first-class strategist in Chinese history, but as a woman and a mother, the price paid by Wu Zetian himself is big enough, and ordinary women will never be able to do it. Because of this, she became the queen, and she became the only empress in Chinese history who had no one before and no one since. Perhaps because of this, she vented her resentment and anger at a huge price on Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, who forced her to pay this price, so that she took revenge that exterminated humanity, which is outrageous.
For a woman who was once fortunate by the former emperor Tang Taizong Li Shimin, she was able to be admitted to the palace by the new emperor Li Zhi again, not because her charm was very much loved by the emperor, but because of the situation of the concubines in the palace competing for favor at that time.
Although Empress Wang is beautiful, she is thin and slender, which does not have any advantage in the Tang Dynasty, which is beautiful in plumpness, and the charming and talented Concubine Xiao Shu has long since stopped taking her in her eyes by relying on the emperor's favor. In the face of the increasingly severe situation, the queen pinned her hopes on Wu Zetian, who lived in the temple, and personally integrated her into the palace as her own sharp blade to deal with Concubine Xiao Shu.
Of course, at that time, she was not called Wu Zetian, but was called Mei Niang. When she first entered the palace, Mei Niang was indeed docile and cute, and she liked the people in the palace everywhere, but gradually the situation changed, Mei Niang gave birth to Li Hong and Li Xian two princes in a row, from the small Zhaoyi Qingyun to the new force in the palace, which made the queen panic greatly, began to regret the beginning, and conspired with Concubine Xiao Shu to deal with Mei Niang.
Later, the tragedy of Mei Niang's newborn little princess Ruyi died violently, which made the emperor very sad. Then someone from the palace reported that the queen had come to visit before, and her behavior was panicked and secretive. Since then, all kinds of rumors that are unfavorable to the queen have spread, so the queen began to panic all day long, fearing that she would be investigated and punished.
Wu Meiniang was bitter about her daughter's death, and after gradually clearing out the hostile forces in the court, she began to point the finger at the women in the palace. First of all, the queen was deposed for practicing witchcraft in the palace, and then she was demoted to a concubine together with Concubine Xiao Shu, accused of trying to poison Wu Zhaoyi with wine.
They were imprisoned in a dark chamber with only a small hole exposed, cut off from the outside world. Later, Tang Gaozong went to see them once with his old feelings, and when he saw the two women in such a miserable situation, he was moved with compassion, and in order to comfort them, he said something to let the two go out in the future, and the news quickly spread to Mei Niang's ears.
So the two of them were then beaten with a hundred rods by Wu Meiniang, cut off their hands and feet, and threw them into the wine urn. Mei Niang once made people rumored: "I am here to meet the wishes of the two of you, so that you can taste the taste of crispy bones and soft muscles." ”
In the face of a desperate situation, the queen seemed very relieved, saying that she could finally let go of the palace battle and die quietly. And Concubine Xiao Shufei was still scolding: "Ah Wu goblin, even so, I will be a cat in the future, Ah Wu will be a mouse, and I will bite her throat for the rest of my life." ”
After soaking in an urn for several days, the two women finally died tragically. Concubine Shu's last words reached Wu Zetian's ears, which inevitably made her feel guilty in her heart and her heart was shocked, so Wu Zetian ordered that no cats should be kept in the palace, and the legend that Wu Zetian was afraid of cats also spread among the people.
Wu Zhaoyi was canonized as the queen, three days later abolished the crown prince Li Zhong, Wu Zetian's son Li Hong as the prince, returned to the palace from the Ganye Temple for four years, climbed Zhaoyi, the queen, and established the prince at a god-like speed, and has reached the peak of the glory of the harem woman, and the queen of Wu has to participate in state and family affairs.
She swept the aristocratic group represented by the chief prime minister, Sun Wuji, out of the imperial court, and completely cleaned up those who should be killed, degraded, and exiled, and took back the emperor's real power, and returned to Shanxi, her hometown after many years of absence with the emperor's husband, reformed the imperial court gate valve system, and hired people exceptionally, and adopted the method of imperial examination election recommendation to collect excellent human resources. Once turned the tide to calm down the turmoil after the abolition, executed the famous poet when the prime minister of the dynasty Shangguanyi, went to Mount Tai to seal the Zen sacrifice to the world, hung the curtain to listen to the two saints of the government, outstanding political achievements, the country and the people, Queen Wu was in high spirits, there was an accident at home.
Empress Wu Li Zhi and his family returned to their hometown and province, the little girl who left home at the age of fourteen is now the queen of Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu returned to his hometown, named the old lady, and named the widow's sister Wu Shun as Mrs. Korea, regardless of the previous suspicions, promoted the four brothers who had bullied their mothers, from low-level officials to local officials and officials of the central department, it stands to reason that everyone should be happy.
Empress Wu's sister Mrs. Han and her daughter Xiao Helan often go to the palace to play, Mrs. Han is in her early forties and the charm of the still exists, quite girlish, at this time the Empress Wu is busy dealing with the government, and her husband is less close, Li Zhi is a romantic person, the harem woman is afraid of the Empress Wu and dare not get close to him, Li Zhi is empty, a big aunt fell from the sky, the widow met the amorous man like dry firewood, quickly heated up and broke through the defense line.
Empress Wu is absolutely well-informed, and she has no attitude in the face of her sister and her husband getting together. One day in the silence, Mrs. Han died suddenly, and before she died, she was terrified, had a high fever, and kept shouting: "Someone wants to kill me!"
Who was going to kill her? Mrs. Han went to her brother-in-law's bed, what did that sister Empress Wu do? When her sister underestimated her sister and Mrs. Han died, in the same year, Li Zhi found an opportunity to abolish Empress Wu, which was related to his grief for the violent death of his sister-in-law's lover.
Mrs. Han died, Li Zhi named her teenage daughter Xiao Helan as Mrs. Wei Guo, a little compensation, Xiao He heard the gossip, and her aunt killed her mother. Xiaohe's revenge plan for his mother was to do everything possible to get close to her uncle, and with her young and beautiful appearance, she could outperform her aunt Empress Wu, who was in her forties, and she strongly asked her uncle Li Zhi to make her a concubine, Li Zhi knew that Empress Wu was powerful and did not dare to say it.
The uncle-in-law and niece are very happy to share the bed every day, and the Empress Wu has no attitude, if they are wise, they should stop and save face for each other, two years later, Li Zhi and Xiaohe still continue to moisturize, and the Empress Wu took action.
Gaozong Li Zhiwu returned to Beijing after Taishan sealed Zen, and Wu Huailiang, Wu Huaiyun, the two cousins of Wu Huailiang and Wu Huaiyun, also returned to Beijing together after going to Taishan. Empress Wu held a banquet at the old lady Yang's mansion to gather with her family, and notified Mrs. Wei of Xiao Helan and her two elder brothers to be present, and the two elder brothers also brought local specialties aquatic products and fruits.
Empress Wu said that the white fish brought by his brother was delicious and made a few wine, and when the fish was cooked, Empress Wu personally brought a few and put them in front of Xiao Helan and said: "Your mother is gone, your aunt loves you the most, you can taste this fish first today." ”
Xiao Helan had a few mouthfuls of fish and bled to death. The two brothers were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and trembled, because it was the fish they brought, and the Empress Wu immediately took the case: "Do you want to poison the saint?"
Immediately asked Gaozong to give an order to take down these two traitors. Overnight surprise interrogation, the brothers recruited: "Because I was demoted and held a grudge, I wanted to poison Li Zhi and Empress Wu, so that Xiao Helan ate it by mistake." "The next day the brothers were killed.
No one believes this result, the two brothers will never take risks to poison, it is true that they are beaten into tricks, they also have a sister-in-law, Shan's is alive, she used to speak disrespectfully to Mrs. Yang back then, and this time she did not spare it, and was ordered to enter the palace as a slave, and was beaten to death a few days later.
Empress Wu planned to remove the three relatives, the elder sister, the two cousins and sisters-in-law, five lives successively, Wu Zetian was too vicious, these relatives did wrong things, at best, it was a moral problem, and they were all killed in disguise, Wu Zetian was vicious and had no compassion, otherwise she would not have taken the position of emperor. Brother Wu was not grateful for bullying the weak because of snobbery, and was killed.
The most sighing is Mrs. Han, her fatal mistake is not self-esteem, how can she be ambiguous with her own brother-in-law? If you don't get along with relatives to be a lover, no woman can tolerate it, even if it is the queen of Wu's own sister, she will never give her husband to use, if Mrs. Han doesn't want to be widowed, in the open era of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian can find the most satisfactory second marriage for his sister, and what is even more sad is that his mistake is to buy one get one free and take his daughter.
The daughter is young and immature, and avenging her mother is to be an uncle-in-law Li Zhi's lover route, the sadness of the two mothers, who value their beauty too much, think that they can hook up with the emperor with this capital, and they don't see through the viciousness and cruelty of their sister and aunt, and they value Li Zhi's status as the emperor too much, Li Zhi is the emperor, he is a man first, and men like the new and hate the old is a potential character, maybe they like you passionately for a while, and they want to make some name in the emperor It is wishful thinking, because her wife is the ruthless Wu Zetian.