Chen Shuozhen, in some books, writes Chen Shuozhen, the female leader of the peasant rebel army in eastern Zhejiang in the Tang Dynasty. A native of Zitongyuan Tianzhuangli, Pheasant Mountain, Muzhou (now Zitong Town, Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province), he lost his husband at an early age. During the Yonghui period of Tang Gaozong, the peasants in Zhejiang were unbearable for the greed and coercion of the officials, Chen Shuozhen and his brother-in-law Zhang Shuyin organized a peasant uprising in the Liujia Forty-eight Party of the Covered Boat Mountain in Qingxi County, Muzhou (now the main peak of the Baiji Mountain Range, the main peak of the Boat-holding Jianyunxin Temple), proclaimed himself Emperor Wenjia, and took Zhang Shuyin as a servant. Immediately sent Shuyin to lead the crowd to attack Tonglu (now Tonglu West, Zhejiang) at night, and led 2,000 troops to conquer Muzhou, Yuqian (now Lin'anxi), and attacked Shezhou (now Shexian, Anhui); He led Tong Wenbao to attack Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) with 4,000 troops, which was blocked by the official army. When the Tang Dynasty ordered Yangzhou Assassin Shi Fang Renyu to send troops to attack the south, Wuzhou Assassin Shi Cui Yixuan and others led troops to the north, the righteous army encountered Cui Yixuan's troops in Xia Huaishu (now northeast of Tonglu), and the rout, thousands of people were killed, retreated to the Muzhou border, and 10,000 people surrendered one after another. In November, Fang and Cui joined forces, and the rebel army was finally defeated due to being outnumbered, and Chen Shuozhen and others were captured and killed. Chen Shuozhen's parents died when he was a child, and he and a younger sister depended on each other. The sisters stayed up until their sister was adopted by their neighbors, and Chen Shuozhen went to a village eunuch to help, so that they could have a full meal. Cheonggye Mountain is high and deep, the rivers are crisscrossed, and the products are very rich, which is why the imperial court also collects a lot of taxes here, and the local people are very burdened.

One year, there was a flood in Qingxi that had not been seen in a century, and the imperial court not only did not open a warehouse to provide grain, but also collected various taxes, which caused the people to have no livelihood, sell their children and daughters, and be displaced and starved. Chen Shuozhen saw the suffering of the villagers, thinking that he had also been helped by the villagers, so regardless of his own safety, secretly opened the granary of the owner to relieve the victims, but was found by the owner, tied up, beaten all over the body, dead and alive, the villagers saw in the eyes, anxious in their hearts, that night, many villagers personally organized, rushed into the firewood room where Chen Shuozhen was detained, rescued him, in order to escape the search and arrest of the officers and soldiers, Chen Shuozhen fled into the ship-covered mountain (the main peak of the ship-holding tip) at the junction of the three counties. Here is surrounded by iron walls, also known as Tiewei Mountain, there are ten natural gates, the legend is the place where Chen Shuo really became an immortal, and now there is the folk belief of the fairy girl Niang (Shimen nine is not closed, only out of the immortals do not go out of the official). Chen Shuozhen hid in the mountains, pretending to be a Taoist aunt to recuperate his body.

During the period of recuperation, Chen Shuozhen felt that only by overthrowing the imperial court could everyone live a good life. Chen Shuozhen decided to use Taoism (Ge Soozong) and secret religion (Manichaeism, which was infiltrating the south at the time) to develop followers as a force for future uprisings. She first spread some news, saying that she met Taishang Laojun in the deep mountains, and was accepted as a disciple, founded the Fire Phoenix Society, said that she was the Nine Heavens Xuannu descended to earth, known as the Holy Mother of the Red Sky, and mastered the imperial art of the Liujia region - Qimen Dunjia, and showed everyone the various spells she had learned, because the villagers hoped that she would be able to benefit the people more after she became an immortal, and believed in Chen Shuozhen's statement that "ascending to the Immortal Mountain and receiving the immortal law" (the legend of "The Goddess Saves the Boat"). After a while, she announced that she had received the oracle of Taishang Laojun and was about to become a feather immortal (now there is a ruin: fossil immortal). But at this time, someone told the government that Chen Shuo's true ascension to heaven was false, and the plot was true. So the government sent people to search, arrested Chen Shuozhen, and reported the case to the boss on charges such as bewitching the public and plotting misdeeds. After experiencing this turmoil, Chen Shuozhen felt that the government had noticed his actions, and if he didn't revolt as soon as possible, he might not have a chance in the future. Chen Shuozhen had a relative named Zhang Shuyin, who actively supported Chen Shuozhen's uprising plan and did a lot of propaganda and organization work. Zhang Shuyin publicized that Chen Shuozhen had returned to Qingxi from the sky, and her magic power was boundless and unpredictable, and she could summon gods and generals to serve ghosts. This saying is spread ten, ten is spread to hundreds, and the more it spreads, the more mysterious it is, the people within a radius of hundreds of miles all bow to Chen Shuozhen, and every word of Chen Shuozhen is a fairy sound, which is enough to make believers go to the soup and fight without giving up. Seeing that the number of believers was almost the same, in early October of the fourth year of Yonghui, Chen Shuo really announced an uprising and confronted the government. She modeled on the official system of the Tang Dynasty and established a regime, appointing Zhang Shuyin as a servant to take charge of various affairs, and she herself was called "Emperor Wenjia". In Chinese history, countless women participated in the peasant uprising, but there were very few women who were leaders, and Chen Shuozhen was the only woman who was the leader and also known as the emperor.

After Chen Shuozhen launched an uprising, it was widely supported by the local people, Qingxi Tong Wenbao first led the people to respond, in a short period of time, the righteous army developed to several thousand people, in order to strengthen the strength, Chen Shuozhen and Zhang Shuyin's soldiers were divided into two roads, Zhang Shuyin led the troops to capture Tonglu, Chen Shuozhen himself led an army of 2,000 to capture Muzhou and Yuqian (now southeast of Changhua, Zhejiang). The people of Muzhou responded en masse, and the rebel army soon grew to tens of thousands. Chen Shuozhen was able to capture the capital of Muzhou and its counties with only 2,000 men, and suddenly the government and the opposition were shaken, in order to exterminate the rebel army, the imperial court imposed a blockade on the uprising area, strictly controlled the population flow into the rebel army, and all personnel who entered the Muzhou area were interrogated, even the monks were not spared. In order to open up the situation and develop his strength, Chen Shuozhen took advantage of the victory to attack Anhui and attacked Shezhou (now Shexian County, Anhui Province). However, due to the tight defense and stubborn resistance of the Shezhou garrison, although Chen Shuozhen had tens of thousands of people, most of them were ordinary people who had no military training, and there were no siege equipment, so Shezhou could not be attacked for a long time. As a last resort, Chen Shuozhen withdrew from Shezhou, changed the original method of concentrating forces to attack, formulated a separate attack, and adopted the principle of combining mobile warfare with attack warfare to attack the enemy and expand his sphere of influence. The Tang government sent the governor of Yangzhou, Shi Fang Renyu, to send troops to conscript. Under this policy, Chen Shuo ordered Tong Wenbao to command 4,000 troops to cover the attack on Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang Province). After Tong Wenbao led his troops into Wuzhou, he encountered the official army and turned into a strong attack. At this time, it was Cui Yixuan who served as the assassin of Wuzhou, who had experienced a hundred battles and was quite resourceful. Cui Yixuan heard the alarm in the city, and immediately summoned the civil and military generals, ready to send troops to resist, but the officials were afraid of the prestige of the righteous army, and said: "Chen Shuo really has a divine guard, and those who dare to confront his soldiers will all be killed and destroyed, or they should avoid it." The vast majority of people are reluctant to go. At this time, a Sikong named Cui Xuanji joined the army and said: "The army that is in line with the will of the people is fashionable and cannot succeed, Chen Shuozhen is just a woman with a bit of magic, and he must not last long." When Cui Yixuan heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Cui Xuanji to be the vanguard officer, and he himself led the soldiers to follow up.

Chen Shuozhen heard that Tong Wenbao was blocked in Wuzhou, and led the main force to Wuzhou to support, and the rebel army participating in the war reached tens of thousands. Although the rebels had an advantage in numbers, the uprising had only been a month, the soldiers were untrained, and their combat effectiveness was limited. The two armies were in a stalemate in Wuzhou, and in order to break the deadlock and change the unfavorable conditions such as guest battles and unfamiliar enemy conditions, Chen Shuozhen constantly sent spies to spy on the enemy, and once the spies captured by Tang soldiers alone amounted to dozens of people. And Cui Yixuan was not idle here, and sent a request for help to the Quartet.

Just when the two armies were at a stalemate, one night, a meteorite suddenly fell into Chen Shuozhen's camp. Cui Yixuan immediately created public opinion, saying that this is Chen Shuo's real star fall, and Chen Shuo will definitely die. The army commanded by Cui Yixuan was suddenly greatly boosted, while the morale of Chen Shuozhen's side was greatly reduced. In Xiahuai, the two armies fought a great battle. The Tang army used a big shield to protect the assassin Shi Cui Yixuan, and Cui Yixuan said: "The assassin Shi dodges arrows, who else fights to the death!" "Ordered to remove the shield. The Tang soldiers were motivated, and Chen Shuozhen's army was defeated and hundreds of people were beheaded. The Tang army allowed Chen's army to surrender, and when the pursuit entered the territory of Muzhou, the surrender reached 10,000.

At the end of November of the fourth year of Yonghui, the reinforcements of Yangzhou Governor Shi Fang Renyu arrived in Wuzhou and attacked the rebels with Cui Yixuan. The battle was quite tragic, and most of the tens of thousands of rebels who participated in the battle were killed in the end, except for more than 10,000 who were captured. "Emperor Wenjia" Chen Shuozhen and his servant Zhang Shuyin were captured in the battle, and finally died heroically. Cui Yixuan was appointed by the Tang government as the imperial historian for his merits. Chen Shuozhen is the first woman in Chinese history to claim to be the emperor, her military raising incident is not large, although it was suppressed in the end, but because of her groundbreaking female emperor, the modern historian Jian Bozan called her "China's first female emperor". The local people refused to believe that Chen Shuo was really dead, and they made up a legend that when the rebel army was finally besieged on a mountain, Chen Shuozhen immediately went to the top of the mountain, and looking back around, there was not much left of the rebel army. She swung her twin swords, ready to rush down the hill again. Fang Renyu and Cui Yixuan commanded the soldiers to fire thousands of arrows together, and the arrows on the mountain suddenly rained down, Chen Shuozhen danced his double swords, and only saw two clouds of white light from a distance, protecting his whole body. But the arrows of the officers and soldiers took turns shooting towards the two clusters of white light, and in the end, Chen Shuozhen was hit by several arrows in his chest and abdomen, and the two clusters of white light gradually converged. Just when the officers and soldiers rushed up and wanted to catch Chen Shuozhen, suddenly a colorful cloud floated in the sky, and a huge phoenix landed on the mountain, scaring off the officers and soldiers, and then carrying Chen Shuozhen into the air. Therefore, the mountain is now called "Luofeng Mountain"

The beautiful legend conveys the people's sympathy and nostalgia for the rebels. Legend has it that Chen Shuozhen and Wu Zetian, who later became the emperor of Wu Zhou, still have a relationship and resentment. It was one day in March of the first year of Tang Gaozong Yonghui. The sky is high and cool, spring and Jingming, a group of gentlemen in Chang'an City, Kyoto, came to the scenic spot of 15 miles west of the city. When the group saw a beautiful little nun in the temple, they salivated and stepped forward to tease. The cry of the little nun was heard by the Huijue nun in the temple, and when she saw that this group of people wanted to be rude to the little nun, she couldn't help but "evil starts from the heart, and hatred is born to the side of the guts", and shouted: "Bold fanatics, Buddha head pure land, Hugh is rude!" The stick came out with the sound, a horseback squatting crotch style, and the firewood stick in his hand swept towards the class, and with a "whoosh" sound, he knocked down more than a dozen, and the rest were stunned and at a loss. Hui Jue reprimanded sharply: "The blue sky and the white sun, Lang Lang Qiankun, do this ugly act, pigs and dogs are not as good, next time you dare to commit it again, my aunt and grandmother will never spare it, don't get out of here!" "This class of pigtails is like a pardon, and they are hugging their heads and running away. This rescued little nun turned out to be Wu Zetian, a martial artist who had been fortunate by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and she obeyed Taizong's last order and came to this royal nunnery in the first month of the first year of Yonghui to cut her hair and become a nun. Huijue's nun is Chen Shuozhen, who was only fifteen years old during the Tang Zhenguan period, and she was taught by a stranger and learned the art of war and martial arts. When he was nineteen years old, he was wanted by the government for rescuing a fellow villager who had killed a rich dog. So she disguised herself as a man and took refuge with her uncle, who ran a timber shop in Yangzhou. Chen Shuo was really hungry and sleepy, suffered a lot of hardships, walked to Yangzhou, and inquired, only to learn that his uncle's timber shop had been forcibly occupied by the prefect's wife and brother, and his uncle had gone north with his family three years ago to make a living in Chang'an City, Kyoto. A month later, after many inquiries, he found this relative who had run a school in his hometown, was kind and charitable, and had been absent for many years. The uncle saw that his niece was handsome and tall, a man's appearance, and eloquent and eloquent, and excellent martial arts, he was overjoyed, and advocated that Chen Shuozhen go incognito, go to the Royal Nunnery Ganye Temple to lead the practice under the cover, and actively carry out the preparations for the peasant uprising. Wu Zetian is not only naturally beautiful, but also erudite; Chen Shuo's martial arts are superb and full of a sense of justice; The two are like-minded. After Wu Zetian was bullied and rescued, the two became more intimate, and they were called sisters behind their backs.

This winter, Wu Zetian's bald head has grown shawl green silk. One day, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi sent the chief of Ouchi to Ganye Temple to summon Wu Zetian as Zhaoyi and welcome her back to the palace. On the eve of their departure, the two sisters had a long conversation all night long, talking about agriculture from Buddhism to the future of the country to personal ambitions. At the beginning of the morning, the car that greeted Zhaoyi came to the Ganye Temple, and before boarding, the sisters told them to say goodbye. Chen Shuozhen whispered to Wu Zetian: "Two years later, there will be a war in the southeast, that is, my sister will do it, and I hope that my sister will not be disloyal to my sister and give sponsorship." Wu Zetian pondered slightly, bowed his head slightly, and his sister said goodbye with tears.

Later, two uninvited guests came to Ganye Temple, one was Zhang Shuyin, who was later worshiped by Chen Shuozhen as a servant, and the other was Tong Yibao, who was later named a general, and they reported in detail to Chen Shuozhen about the preparations for the uprising in the past three years, and thought that the time was ripe, and asked Chen Shuozhen to immediately go south and lead the uprising. Chen Shuozhen let the two of them set off first, and she made arrangements for the inside work of the capital by herself, so that she could rush to the grange before the Spring Festival.

Chen Shuozhen led tens of thousands of people to hold an uprising in the grange. Just when Chen Shuozhen was making every effort to resist the joint attack of Yangzhou Assassin Shi Fang Renyu and Huzhou (Jinhua) Assassin Shi Cui Yixuan, Zeng sent a letter to Wu Zhaoyi through the "guanxi" lurking in the capital. However, Wu Zetian, who "has great ambitions and other plans", ignored it. Later, the uprising failed, and Chen Shuozhen blamed Wu Zetian for "righteous sister" before being sentenced in Muzhou.