As for how Wu Zetian became the emperor justifiably, according to legend, there is such a story.

It is said that in July of the following year, the monk Faming and others wrote four volumes of the "Great Cloud Sutra", saying that the Empress Wu was the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha and should be the master of the world, and the Empress Wu ordered the promulgation of the world. Ordered the two capitals and prefectures to each place a Dayun Temple, Tibetan "Dayun Sutra", ordered the monks to explain, and enhance the status of Buddhism above Taoism. In September of the same year, the imperial Shi Fu Youyi led 900 people in Guanzhong to the table, please change the country name to Zhou, and give the emperor the surname Wu. So more than 60,000 officials, imperial relatives, common people, Siyi chiefs, shamen, and Taoist priests also asked to change the country name. Wu Houzhun was invited, changed Tang to Zhou, and changed Yuan Tianzhu. Empress Wu was called the Holy Spirit Emperor, with Ruizong as the emperor's heir, given the surname Wu, and the crown prince as the emperor's grandson. The seven temples of the Wu clan were in the divine capital, and the king of Zhou Wen was posthumously honored: the ancestor Emperor Wen. Liwu Chenghei is the king of Wei, Wu Sansi is the king of Liang, and the rest of the Wu family is the king and the eldest princess.

And today, the Henan Museum has a collection of Wucong Golden Slips, the only emperor of China. On the seventh day of July in the first year of Jiushi, the Wu family came to Songshan to pray for blessings, and condemned the court eunuch Hu Chao to throw himself into the gods in order to eliminate the sin and eliminate the disaster.

In September of the same year, the Wu clan sent Wang Xiaojie, the general of the Right Eagle Yangwei, as the general of the Wuwei Army, and led the troops to the Western Regions to conquer Tibet with the general of the Wuwei Army. In October, the Tang army won a great victory, and the four towns of Anxi, including Khotan, Shule, Qiuzi, and Xiaye, still placed the capital of Anxi in Qiuxi, and sent troops to defend it.

After three years of longevity, Wu Sansi led the leaders of the four Yi to cast the Tianshu with copper and iron, and stood outside the end gate to praise the merits of the martial queen. Empress Wu personally inscribed: "The Great Zhou Dynasty Wanguo Song De Tianshu". Tianshu casting lasted eight months, its shape is like a pillar, one hundred and five feet high, twelve feet in diameter, eight sides, five feet on each side, under the iron mountain, one hundred and seventy feet in circumference, with copper for the dragon, the unicorn surrounds; On the top is the diameter of the Tengyun Chenglu plate, and the four dragons on the plate stand upright and hold the fire beads, one zhang high. The worker Mao Boro made a model, Wu Sansi was the text, and the names of the hundred officials and the leaders of the four Yi were engraved on it. With two million catties of copper and iron, "please gather hundreds of billions of dollars, buy copper and iron can not be enough, and give folk agricultural tools enough." ”

In May of the first year of Long Live Tongtian, the Khitan leaders Li Quanzhong and Sun Wanrong led their troops to revolt, captured Yingzhou, and killed the governor Zhao Wenhui. The Wu clan sent generals Cao Renjie, Zhang Xuanyu, Li Duozuo and others to lead troops to conscript. Due to the mistaken ambush of the Tibetan soldiers, the whole army was annihilated. Then, the Wu clan sent Wu Youyi, Wang Xiaojie and others to lead troops to fight, but they were all defeated. In April of the first year of Shengong, Wu Zetian sent Wu Yizong, Lou Shide, and Sha Zha Zhongyi to lead 200,000 troops to crusade against the Khitan. In June, Sun Wanrong was defeated and killed, and the remnants of the Khitan surrendered to the Turks.

In the first year of Shengong, Wu Yizong made Wu Yizong interrogate Liu Sili for rebellion, Wu Weizong said that as long as Liu Sili pointed out which courtiers had plotted rebellion, he would be exempted from the death penalty, so Liu Sili falsely accused the prime minister Li Yuanyuan, Sun Yuanheng and other 36 "famous people in the sea", all of whom were exterminated, and more than 1,000 people were close to the old and sat on the rookie. At the time, people thought that Wu Yizong's brutality was second only to Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen.

In that year, Lai Junchen wanted to sue the kings of the Wu clan and Princess Taiping (Zhongzong's sister, Wu Zetian's only biological daughter who grew up Chengren), and wanted to accuse the emperor's heir (Tang Ruizong) and the king of Luling (Tang Zhongzong) of conspiring against the northern and southern ya, and planned to catch them all. The kings of the Wu clan and Princess Taiping were very frightened, and jointly exposed his crimes, and were sentenced to death in prison. The enemy fights for his flesh, and in a short time it will be eaten up. Lai Junchen is cunning and greedy, trapping innocents, weaving rebellions, and killing people is incalculable. "The bribes are like mountains, and the souls are blocked", the Empress Wu also knew the resentment of the world, and ordered him to count his crimes and confiscate his family property.

In the first year of the holy calendar, Wu Chenghei and Wu Sansi sought to be the crown prince, and several times they said to the Empress Wu: "Since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has not taken a different surname as his heir. Empress Wu hesitated, Di Renjie said to Empress Wu: "Aunt and nephew or mother and son, which one is closer?" (Wu Chenghei and Wu Sansi are the nephews of Empress Wu, and the sons of Zhongzong and Ruizong are Empress Wu) Your Majesty is a son, and after a thousand years of life, worship your ancestors in the Taimiao; The nephew has not heard of the nephew as the Son of Heaven and worships the aunt in the Taimiao". He also persuaded Empress Wu to recall the king of Luling (Zhongzong). The Empress Wu is not the heir of Wu Cheng and Wu Sansi. It is to call the king of Luling to return to the eastern capital, the imperial heir (Ruizong) asked Xun to be located in the king of Luling, and the queen of Wu set up the king of Luling as the crown prince, ordered to be the marshal, and Di Renjie was the deputy marshal to lead the troops to attack the Turks. Empress Wu believes in Di Renjie, and often calls him "the old man" without calling him by his name. Di Renjie is good at admonishing, and every time the Empress Wu succumbs, he obeys. Renjie died, and the Empress Wu cried: "The court is empty!" Chang sighed: "Heaven robs my country, the old man is too early!" ”

Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers were young and beautiful, and they entered the military service. The two of them often wear gorgeous clothes. Wu Chengsi, Wu Sansi and others all vied to chase after them, and even whipped and led horses for them.

Zhongzong's eldest son, King Shao Li Chongrun (Zhongzong was named King Shao when he was the prince for the second time) and his sister Yongtai County Lord and County Lord's son-in-law Wu Yanji secretly discussed Zhang Yi's brother "How can he enter the palace at will", Yi Zhi complained to Empress Wu, and Empress Wu Li Chongrun, Yongtai County Lord, and Wu Yanji were all given death.

Wu Zetian's granddaughter Princess Yongtai was executed because she and her husband Wu Yanji and her imperial brother, Li Chongrun, who was then King Shao, discussed the first Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers. In the first month of the first year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian was sick and bedridden, and only the favored ministers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong served on the side. Prime Minister Zhang Khan Zhi, Cui Xuanwei and ministers Jing Hui, Huan Yanfan, Yuan Shuji, etc., befriended Li Duozuo, the commander of the forbidden army, and pretended to be Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers rebelled, so they launched a mutiny, led more than 500 forbidden troops, rushed into the palace, killed the two Zhang brothers, and then surrounded Wu Zetian's palace and asked Wu to abdicate, known as the "Shenlong Revolution" in history.

The Wu clan was forced to cede the throne to the emperor and the crown prince Li Xian, who was for Tang Zhongzong. Zhongzong Shangzun was called "Emperor Zetian Great Sage", the end of the Wuzhou Dynasty, the restoration of the Tang Dynasty, the hundred officials, flags, clothing colors, writing, etc. were all restored to the old system, and the Shendu was restored as the eastern capital.

On the 26th day of the 11th lunar month of the first year of Shenlong, Wu died of illness in Shangyang Palace at the age of 82. The relics went to the emperor's name, called "the great saint queen of Zetian". In May of the second year of Shenlong, he was buried in Qianling with Gaozong, leaving no word tablet.

The wordless stele is located in Wu Zetian and Gaozong and buried in Qianling (now Qianxian County, Shaanxi), and the whole cemetery is modeled after Chang'an City in Tang Jing. There are two tablets in front of the tomb, one is Gaozong's tombstone, with Wu Zetian's inscription: the other is Wu Zetian's wordless tombstone.

Wu Zhou, which Wu Zetian founded in his lifetime, is only a few decades old, but as the first and only empress in Chinese history, it is enough to see Wu Zetian's talent and strategy.

I couldn't help but love the wrench in my hand, and I became more interested in the origin of this wrench, because I felt that the advent of this wrench was definitely not so simple.

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