"Isn't this just an emerald wrench?" I glanced at Lu Hang, this guy is now chiluo naked discriminating against my IQ.

"You're taking a closer look." As he spoke, Lu Hang handed the wrench to my hand, his expression slightly solemn. I also felt strange when I saw Lu Hang's dead appearance, a jade wrench would not be like this, so at this time, I also looked carefully at the wrench that was cold to accept Si.

Looking left and right at the light, I didn't find anything special except that this was a better jadeite, but to say that the special thing is that this jadeite wrench is exceptionally cold, much cooler than the jadeite I saw before.

"Is there anything strange about that? ......Before I could finish my sentence, my eyes suddenly swept to the inner wall of the wrench, and my eyes were instantly attracted.

"Wu Zhou...... Wu Zhou...... Wu Zhou ......, "It turns out that there are two words on the inner wall, and I read it several times in a row, and I feel numb in my brain, and I feel that my heartbeat suddenly accelerates."

You have to know what the word "Wu Zhou" means, this Wu Zhou is talking about the famous generation of empress Wu Zetian. And this jade wrench finger is actually engraved with the year name of 'Wu Zhou', which shows that this is something that has an absolute relationship with Wu Zetian.

"Where did this come from?" I hurriedly asked, because the appearance of this thing is definitely an earth-shattering event, Wu Zetian's tomb has been a secret for thousands of years, not that it can't be found, but no one has been able to steal it.

"This was sold to me by an antique dealer with a Shaanxi accent some time ago, and he was very anxious and scared at that time. Who knew that after buying it, every night we would start haunting. "Lu Hang's simple story has been repeated.

"Do you know what this is, this is Wu Zetian's wrench." Listening to Lu Hang, I was very happy, although the wrench itself is very valuable, but with the words Wu Zhou on it, it is a priceless treasure, as for the haunting thing that Lu Hang said, I didn't listen too much.

Because seeing this wrench means that someone has stolen the Qianling Tomb, that is, Wu Zetian's tomb, which is what I am interested in.

This Wu Zetian is not an ordinary person, his name is Wu Cao, his ancestral home is Wenshui County, Bingzhou (now the east of Wenshui County, Shanxi), born in Chang'an (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), the only female emperor in Chinese history who is universally recognized and well-known.

The second daughter of the Tang Dynasty meritorious warrior Tong, her mother Yang. At the age of fourteen, he entered the harem as a talented person of Tang Taizong, Tang Taizong gave the name "Wu Mei", Tang Gaozong was Zhaoyi at the beginning, and then he was the queen, and the honorific title was the queen of heaven, and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was called the two saints.

In November of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong heard that the young Wu family was talented, so he included her in the palace, named her a five-grade talent, and gave the name "Wu Mei", and later generations falsely called Wu Mei Niang. Before entering the palace, Wu said goodbye to his widowed mother Yang, saying: "Serving the Holy Son of Heaven, how can you know that it is not a blessing, why do you still cry and cry and be a child? ”

Regarding the life in the palace, the Wu family in his later years once recalled the horse taming for Taizong. At that time, Taizong had a famous horse and lion skull, and he was fat and incompetent. Wu waited on the side and said to Taizong: "If a concubine can make it, she must have three things, one iron whip, two iron stalks, and three daggers. If he refuses to accept the blow of the iron whip, he will be struck with a dagger, and if he refuses, his throat will be cut off with a dagger. 'Taizong Zhuangwu's ambition.

In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, the crown prince Li Chengqian was deposed, and Li Zhi, the king of Jin, was made the crown prince. After that, while serving Taizong, Wucai and Li Zhi met and fell in love.

In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong died, and the martial arts people entered the Ganye Temple to cut their hair as nuns according to the example of the Tang harem. In May of the first year of Yonghui, when Tang Gaozong entered the Ganye Temple on the anniversary of Taizong's death, he met with Wu again, and the two recognized each other and told each other about their feelings of longing after parting. At this time, Queen Wang, who had no children and fell out of favor, saw it in her eyes, so she took the initiative to ask Gaozong to include the Wu family in the palace, in an attempt to hit her rival Xiao Shufei. Tang Gaozong had already had this intention and immediately agreed. In May of the second year of Yonghui, Tang Gaozong's filial piety clothes were full, and the Wu family entered the palace again, and the Wu family was pregnant before entering the palace, and gave birth to a son Li Hong after entering the palace. In May of the following year, he was worshiped as the second grade Zhaoyi.

In June of the sixth year of Yonghui, someone in the harem released rumors that were unfavorable to Queen Wang, legend: Queen Wang and her mother Liu found a wizard, and they wanted to use the art of disgust to curse Wu Zhaoyi and die. But after this unfavorable rumor reached the emperor's ears without evidence, under the anger of Tang Gaozong, he listened to it and drove his mother Liu out of the palace, and also wanted to promote Wu Zhaoyi from Zhaoyi to Concubine Chen (there was no title of Concubine Chen among the four ladies of the harem of the Tang Dynasty, and the original quota of the four ladies was full, and Tang Gaozong created the title of Concubine Chen for the sake of the Wu family), due to the opposition of Prime Minister Han Ying and Lai Ji, it could not be done in the end. Soon, after Li Yifu and others, who were members of the Zhongshu House, learned that Gaozong wanted to abolish the empress and establish Wu Zhaoyi, Xu Jingzong, Cui Yixuan, Yuan Gongyu and other ministers also successively sent a request to Tang Gaozong to request the establishment of Wu Zhaoyi. Tang Gaozong saw that there were many people who supported it, and the idea of abolishing it sprouted again.

And Wu Zetian is scheming, ruthless, and involved in literature and history. At the age of 30, she gave birth to her eldest daughter, according to the "Zizhi Tongjian": Wu Zetian's eldest daughter was born only one month later, after Queen Wang came to see her daughter, she strangled her daughter to death with her own hands, and blamed Queen Wang, Gaozong beat the queen into the cold palace in a fit of anger, and was later killed by Wu Zetian secretly. The original words in the book are "sent to Japan". At that time, the old ministers of the imperial court headed by the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang were powerful, and the power of Tang Gaozong was greatly restricted. Tang Gaozong attempted to reinvigorate the imperial power by "abolishing Wang Liwu" and attacking the power of the old ministers. As a result, Wu Zetian began to become a "comrade-in-arms" on Gaozong's zhengzhi. They rewarded the first five-grade official Li Yifu who clearly supported the "abolition of Wang Liwu", and many middle-level officials saw that it was profitable to support the "abolition of Wang Liwu" and turned to support Liwu Zetian, forming a "pro-martial faction", breaking the original monolithic situation, and later Li Tao (that is, Xu Shixian, the word Maogong, Tang Gaozu gave the surname Li) among the meritorious veterans said a sentence "Your Majesty's family affairs, why ask outsiders" touched Gaozong's heart, so that Gaozong and Wu Zetian on the issue of abolishing the queen The unfavorable situation was reversed at once, It can be said that the peaks and loops turn, and the willows and flowers are bright.

So in the sixth year of Yonghui, Gaozong established Wu as the queen, and Wu Zetian then made a series of actions: brutally tortured and killed Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu; made his son Li Hong the crown prince; Giving advice to Gaozong, he adopted the strategy of first making it easy and then making it difficult, and successively deposed Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan, and Lai Ji, and finally got rid of the eldest grandson Wuji. At this point, Gaozong basically realized the centralization of monarchical power. The "Abolition of Wang Liwu" incident dealt a heavy blow to the Guanlong aristocracy, and the situation of the sluggish imperial power since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was changed, which had a very great impact on Chinese history.

This book was first published in Reading Rim