For thousands of years, women have played a delicate role, unlike men, who do not have a so-called "canonical history", but invisibly connect history.

Politically, it is difficult for them to have their own voice, but they are drawn into the whirlpool of politics.

Once a woman gets a chance to perform on a man's stage, in order to protect herself, she becomes more cruel than a man, pursues power, and also leaves a lasting notoriety.

Because the ancient idea of male superiority and inferiority of women is deep-rooted, I always feel that if women are in power, it is inverted, and there will be no distinction between the old and the young.

In ancient times, Dongtu was still a patriarchal society, and women's natural physiology limited their possibility of entering politics and power.

Pregnant in October, the birth of women is destined to have a period of weakness, and they will be away from the political center for a few months, and it is unthinkable to be away from the political center for a few months when the power struggle is turbulent and changing rapidly, and even because of the birth of their own weakness, which is unthinkable.

You can imagine what it would be like if an emperor was sick and couldn't handle the government for several months, the country might be in turmoil, and the prince probably had different intentions.

Therefore, those empresses who ascended to the throne of power after the death of their husbands, after taking control of power, only those who did not give birth succeeded.

Even now that the country has released the second child, it is necessary to consider the impact of women having children on work and employment, and this is still the case for ordinary jobs, let alone in power.

The natural physiological structure of women and men is different, which also makes for a great difference in the way they look at things.

To put it bluntly, men use rational thinking to look at problems, while women use emotional thinking to see problems, which leads to the fact that in many things, women's way of dealing with them is often not rational enough, because women are usually emotional.

In this respect, women in ancient times are almost identical to their female counterparts today.

The long-term unfair treatment of women cannot be explained only by the annihilation of women's rights and subjective consciousness, and its deeper impact comes from the feudal ethical concepts that have bound our minds since ancient times.

In addition, because Confucianism is the ideological cornerstone of the feudal society in Eastern Turkey, the traditional women's education has always been aimed at implementing the ethical concept of Confucian patriarchy, and "the right position" has become the theoretical basis for regulating men and women.

Why did women in power in history kill ministers and even relatives of the emperor on a large scale?

The reason for this is that the patriarchal society devalues women, which causes the female rulers to face stronger opposition and resistance than men, which causes the female rulers to have the means and hard-hearted heart to surpass the male emperor, otherwise once a threat is spared, it will definitely pose a very big threat to their rule.

All of this is beyond Gaozong's control, because of his physical condition, he has always needed to rely on Empress Wu to take care of the government for a long time.

Therefore, in front of Li Zhi today, he revealed a sad sigh for his powerlessness.

Not only with his poetry creation achievements, but also through the selection of talents, poetry and other literary activities to advocate and transfer a generation of literary style, become the symbol and leader of the Zhongzong literary circle. For Gaozong in this state, Li Yi didn't know how to persuade him for a while, so he could only inject a wisp of true yuan to suppress the violent psychological fluctuations in his heart.

Fortunately, Princess Taiping returned in time, and the delicate character of the woman's family immediately noticed her father's low mood, and hurriedly stepped forward to report Empress Wu's reply to the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum.

"Mother agreed with Aya's decision, and summoned Shangguan Wan'er to draw up an edict on the spot!"

Princess Taiping's words quickly calmed Gaozong a lot, especially when he saw the concerned gaze in his daughter's eyes, his mood suddenly improved a lot.

Shangguan Wan'er is one of the celebrities around Empress Wu, and one of them is naturally Princess Taiping.

Shangguan Wan'er has been in charge of the palace for many years, and is called the Neisheren, who generally refers to the ancient cultural pioneers, scholars, and people who can classify and explain the difficult synonyms and various famous things in the ancient scriptures and legends one by one.

That is to say, it refers to the important words and books that are still difficult for ordinary people to read and understand, and those who have the ability to annotate the book.

"The ancient untrained scriptures, which run through a hundred schools, and no one is pedantic" is the most typical depiction of the Neishe people, which shows what kind of talent Shangguan Wan'er has at a young age.

She influenced a generation of literary style with a female stream, and her talented poetry did not let men with her eyebrows, not only with her poetry creation achievements, but also through the selection of talents, poetry and other literary activities advocated and transferred a generation of literary style, and later became the symbol and leader of the literary world in the Zhongzong period.

Even if she is not yet enough to enjoy a reputation in the future, Gaozong also knows the name of this talented woman who is close at hand: "Shangguan Wan'er? This woman is talented, virtuous and helpful, and has become famous at a young age, and your mother has always looked back at her. ”

Taiping also replied affirmatively: "The ancients had a female history to remember the merits, and there were female scholars to decide the matter, Wan'er was both beautiful in the two dynasties, well-versed in the history of the scriptures, studied the writing, was talented and glamorous, and the pen was comfortable, and there was quite a style of famous people!" ”

Because she has always grown up by the side of Empress Wu, she has known Shangguan Wan'er of the same age since she was a child.

And the origin of Gaozong's impression of him is because his grandfather Shangguan Yi drafted an edict for him to abolish Wu Zetian, and was killed by Empress Wu because of this, and Shangguan Wan'er was just born at that time.

Then Taiping talked about the huge topographic map brought by Li Xian, and specifically pointed out that the martial queen's expression was quite pleasant, partly because of Li Xian's deliberate please, and partly because of the various kinds of exploration that the luxurious topographic map brought her.

Wu Zetian can get the favor of two generations of emperors, naturally has its own literature and history, quite a poetic aspect, its imitation of Wang Xi's book written by the "Vertical Arch Collection" a total of 100 volumes, not only describes how she from a talented girl to Zhaoyi, then to the queen, and finally became the emperor's process, is a diary of her court life, but also has her experience in governing the country.

When Wu Zetian was dying, he asked Li Xian to use her "Vertical Arch Collection" as a funeral object and bury it in the Qianling Tomb with her.

But it is a pity that she personally wrote a hundred volumes of "Vertical Arch Collection" and ten volumes of "Golden Wheel Collection" and was buried in the Qianling Tomb with her, including most of Shangguan Wan'er's handwriting, which only appeared in the records of later historical records, and no one had witnessed it with his own eyes.

However, at that time, the literary courtiers Zhou Maosi and Fan Lubing participated in the compilation, and part of the content of the 100-volume "Vertical Arch Collection" was also circulated in the world.

After Wu Zetian's death, he was buried in Qianling with Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and Qianling adopted the construction method of "because the mountain is the mausoleum", and the mausoleum area imitated the Beijing division Chang'an City system.

In addition to the main tomb, there are 17 small burial tombs in Qianling, where other royal family members and heroes are buried, which is the most well-preserved one of the main tombs in the 18 tombs of the Tang Dynasty, and the only one in the Tang Tombs that has not been stolen.

There is no doubt that there must be a lot of precious calligraphy and paintings, books preserved in the tomb, open the Qianling, maybe Wu Zetian's "Vertical Arch Collection" can see the light of day, the portrait of the Empress Wu, Shangguan Wan'er's handwriting, the same will invite the stone to break the earth!

Li Zhi had the opportunity to see his true face, and in fact, he was indeed full of curiosity about the legendary Wu Zetian himself, a famous book in history that has never been seen in the world.

Feeling that the question was this, Gaozong was also very interested, and inquired in detail about Empress Wu's views on the topographic map, coupled with some of Li Xian's previous tasting words, which made Li Zhi very surprised by the profound treasure appreciation of the two generations of this family.

Seeing Gaozong's repetition of the excellent state of mood, Li Zhi did not dare to talk to him about deep political affairs anymore, so he raised his own questions from time to time regarding the poems of Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er.

Whether it is Gaozong or Taiping, in addition to his identity, he also has a very high attainment in poetry and writing, and some of Li Zhi's topics can be regarded as in line with the common interests and hobbies of the two, and sure enough, the conversation atmosphere has been relaxed and comfortable.

Among the few poems left by Shangguan Wan'er in later generations, most of the works were collected by Wu Zetian as a unique piece, and Wu Zetian regretted that his literary talent was a well-known thing in the world, so it was recognized by later generations that most of Shangguan Wan'er's handwriting was hidden in the Qianling.

Until Li Xian returned, the three of them were still talking happily, and today's Li Xian was praised by Gaozong and Empress Wu, and he was also happy in his heart.

Under the deliberate encouragement of someone with a heart, Gaozong spent a rare happy dinner in recent years, and Li Zhi and the three of them stayed by his side until Gaozong's face was tired.

Li Zhi left the palace alone, while Taiping and her brother stayed in Gaozong's palace for a long time.

When he returned to the palace of Zhongyi, his expression quickly fell silent, and when the ladies asked, he expressed his unspeakable pity and regret for Gaozong, which caused the ladies to sigh and sigh.

Fortunately, there is an extra Xiao Wenqi at home, she is everyone's pistachio, so when the mood calms down a little, Li Zhi once again gathers the people around him and enters the secret realm of Chaoyuan.

Recently, it has become a common practice to return to the secret realm to cultivate or rest in a suitable environment at night, and it is even more important that the old ancestor must stay with Wen Qi for a period of time every day.

In the face of the old man's few preferences, Li Zhi and his wife do not deprive her of fun.

On the second day, after a busy morning in the store, in the afternoon, Li Zhi found an excuse to go out of the city and come to the secret residence with Shangguan Wan'er.

Li Zhi's arrival yesterday was not a secret, Shangguan Wan'er naturally thought of coming here as soon as possible to meet Ailang.

When the two met, they first had a deep situation, and then they communicated.

Talking about most of Shangguan Wan'er's poems that I thought of yesterday, just as Li Zhi guessed, they were really collected by Wu Zetian.

At present, Mei'er replaces Shangguan Wan'er's appearance in the palace most of the time, including the work of the Empress Wu during the day.

Therefore, Wan'er's real body had the opportunity to come on a date with Li Zhi, and was asked by Li Zhi worriedly whether the stand-in Mei'er would provoke or even anger the Empress Wu because of her temperament. Shangguan Wan'er smiled:

"Sister Mei'er will be all-round if she can replace me, even including my personal personality characteristics, habits, habits, and hobbies, because she has survived in my breath and blood all these years, and turning into a clone is also a perfect copy!"

"So when she appears for you, she won't reveal the slightest trace of the fox demon?" Li Zhi was still worried.

Shangguan Wan'er replied in the affirmative:

"Brother Zhengwen, you still don't understand the meaning of demon cultivation being beaten down by the Heavenly Tribulation and re-cultivating in the world! Sister Mei'er's wild fox demonic nature is not simply tempered in the human world, but needs to go through earthly lewd sacrifices to cleanse the soul of the demonic demon beast. She was instructed by the calamity of the Heavenly Tribulation to seek a condensation process of the final cleansing ceremony, so when she temporarily replaced me, she did not allow my own inherent spirit and even soul imprint to be erased. In other words, when she appeared on my behalf, it was a real me, including literary style, respect and inferiority, way of dealing with the world, etc., as for the way of lewd sacrifice to wash away the demonic spirit, it was the demon beast temperament revealed after dark, and the current relationship between her and the prince Li Xian belonged to her own part of the demonic nature! ”