What is ridiculous is that in the canonized edict, Li Zhi was ashamed to admit that Wu Zetian was indeed the daughter of his father Li Shimin, and his father gave it to his son because he admired her. What he meant was that Wu Zetian married him successively to the father and son of the Li family, which was arranged by Li Shimin before his death. Using dead people to cover up adultery is also a great invention of Li Zhi.

The nun became the queen, the original partner and the concubine entered the cold palace, and the former queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were imprisoned in the harem. Li Zhi, a lover, had a difficult old relationship with the two, and the thief was not dead, so he secretly went to visit the two.

When he saw that the cell was impermeable on all sides, and only holes were dug in the wall to transport food, he was very unbearable in his heart, and whispered: "Queen, concubine, are you there?" The queen replied in a trembling voice, "We are both sinners, and how can you call us that?" If you still remember the old days, call this place 'Huixinyuan'. Li Zhi replied: "Don't worry, I have my own arrangements." ”

Wu Zetian received a small report, the sea of vinegar churned in anger, and immediately sent people to kill the generals, each of them beat two people with a hundred military sticks, and then cut off their hands and feet, and immersed them in the wine vat. Wu Zetian squeezed out a cruel sentence from his small teeth: "Let these two old women get drunk to the bones!" A few days later, both of them were killed, and Wu Zetian was still angry and ordered their heads to be cut off.

The former noble queen and concubine have both become headless ghosts. When Li Zhi heard about it, he didn't dare to deflate at all. O failed woman, your name is the weak! O successful woman, your name is cruel!

After the two died, they often wore their heads and shed blood in their dreams to settle accounts with Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian was a thief with a weak heart, and he was overwhelmed, so he simply went to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to live permanently. I dare not return to Chang'an for the rest of my life. This made Li Zhi, a man with a kang head, suffer, and had to deign to trek. I went to see my wife.

The power is on the sidelines

In the process of Wu Zetian's struggle for the queen's throne, a "post-party" was gradually formed. Its core characters are Li Yifu, a Chinese scholar who hides a knife in his smile, and Xu Jingzong, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites. Soon after Wu Zetian became the queen, he instructed these minions to fabricate charges, framed the chief lieutenant Sun Wuji for rebellion, and forced him to death.

Prior to this, Chu Suiliang, who was belittled for opposing the change of queen, also died of grief. Li Mingzhe protected his life, and was silent. At this point, the veterans and important ministers of Li Shimin's era all withdrew from the center of power. Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong and others were gradually promoted to become prime ministers, and the power of the "post-party" increased dramatically.

However, from the sixth year of Yonghui (655) to October of the establishment of Wu Zetian to the fifth year of Xianqing (660) in September. Li Zhi still holds the power alone. However, from October of the fifth year of Xianqing (660), Li Zhi's power gradually shifted to Wu Zetian, from "Zhentianzi" to "Emperor Er". There are two main reasons for this: one is health, and the other is personality.

In October of the fifth year of Xianqing (660), Li Zhi began to fall ill, and his symptoms were dizziness and dizziness, and his eyes were blurred when he was strict. Can't see clearly. The name of this disease is unknown, and the pathology is unclear. Although it was diagnosed and treated by a famous doctor at the time, it did not improve. National events cannot be stagnant. Li Zhi had no choice but to do so. I had to find a "gunman" to handle state affairs on my behalf.

The best candidate for the emperor's "gunner" should be the crown prince. The crown prince is the prince of the country, and sooner or later he will become the son of heaven. "The world is ours. It's yours too, but it's yours in the end. "The emperor often taught the princes so earnestly.

At this time, Li Zhi, who was only thirty-four years old, already had two crown princes. The first crown prince was Li Zhong. The biological mother is Liu. After Wu Zetian became the queen, Li Zhong was demoted to the king of Liang. Wu Zetian's four-year-old eldest son, Li Hong, was made the crown prince. At the moment, he is only nine years old and has no qualifications to be a "gunman".

If you can't do it for your sons, can you do it for your brothers? Li Zhi has fourteen brothers, and he is the ninth. At that time, his two siblings, Li Chengqian and Li Tai, competed for the position of crown prince, but they were both reprimanded and died of illness.

Li Zhi really couldn't feel at ease with the other surviving half-brothers, because like him, they were all descendants of the previous emperor's bloodline and qualified to be emperors, even if they themselves had no ambitions, they had to guard against people with ulterior motives making a fuss about them. In all dynasties, the emperor was most worried about his brothers. Based on this, it was impossible for Li Zhi to find the gunman from among the brothers.

The son is useless, the brother can't believe it, let alone the ministers with foreign surnames, so he has to trust his wife. The wife is someone else's good, but it is better to give power and wealth to your own wife. This is the choice of the emperors of the past dynasties under special circumstances, and it is also the same disease. Li Zhi, of course, is no exception. Wu Zetian became her husband's "gunman" in this way, going out for her husband and acting for state affairs.

This girl is not trivial, and the women do not let the eyebrows be shaved, as if they were born to be in power. She is smart by nature, and she is good at reading, she can understand a little, draw inferences from one example, and handle state affairs in an orderly manner.

Li Zhi was satisfied and admired, and had the feeling of "I am not as good as it", so he simply handed over the emperor's special red pen to Wu Zetian, and he was happy to be idle, hiding in the deep palace and cultivating himself with several beauties, and carrying it for treatment.

Wu Zetian did not give in, took the opportunity to "female", sat on the royal couch in a big way, and his power gradually increased, and the pomegranate skirt was full of mosquito coils and smelly people.

And so it went on for another four years. In the past four years, Wu Zetian still respected her husband very much at the beginning, asked for instructions on everything, and reported everything. The two of them regarded state affairs as a family affair, sang with their husbands and wives on the kang, and governed a large country like cooking small fresh, and the Tang Dynasty gradually entered a better situation.

However, after a long time, the true face of Wu Zetian's strong woman was revealed. How can power be shared with others if it is sympathetic! There are no two masters, the two of them are dirty, Wu Zetian is eager to monopolize power, and slowly does not take her husband in his eyes, he is arbitrary in everything, and he doesn't even say hello. Li Zhi wanted to make a difference, but he was often restricted, and he had a lot of evil spirit in his heart, and he was disgusted with this Hedong lion, and he wanted to be a "lion" hero vigorously.

In November of the first year of Lin De (664), there was a Taoist who often went in and out of the palace, and he was very close to Wu Zetian, sneaky, and suspicious. The eunuch in the palace reported to Li Zhi, saying that this Taoist performed witchcraft in the palace, secretly made trouble, cursed the emperor, and wanted the emperor to die early.

Li Zhi was furious: This is worth it, and it got on Lao Tzu's head! He suspected that Wu Zetian was the mastermind behind the scenes, so he asked the Xitai squire to go to Shangguanyi and secretly discuss countermeasures. Shangguan Yi turned out to be a person next to the abolished prince Li Zhong, and she was also a strange woman who dared to act. said: "The queen is rampant and domineering, and people and gods are angry. The whole country hates it, please abolish her! ”

Li Zhi has always been a hero in front of women. clenched his fists, smashed into the desk, and shouted, "That's it!" Shangguan Yi did not slack off, and immediately drafted an edict to depose the empress.

Wu Zetian had already laid his eyes and ears beside his husband, and when he got the news, he rushed over violently. She stood cross-legged and looked at Li Zhi with a look. In front of this descending tigress, Li Zhi was short of breath and his hands shook his legs. was incoherent, and he didn't dare to read the edict prepared in front of him, so he stammered and muttered: "I didn't mean this, it was all Shangguanyi's idea." ”

A few days later, Shangguan Yi and her son were executed, Liu Xiangdao, the right minister who was related to her, was demoted, and a large number of implicated officials were exiled. Wu Zetian's cronies and sworn friends have been promoted one after another, and they celebrated each other, and the power of the party spread all over the court.

From now on. Every time Li Zhi went to court, Wu Zetian was behind him to listen to the government, no matter how big or small, she made a decision. The power of the world. All returned to the empress, and the emperor became an ornament. Both inside and outside the court respectfully called the two of them "two saints", but in fact there was only one saint. It is Wu Zetian. The "governance" of Li Zhi is governed by the "governance" of "governing the country". changed to the "cure" of "cure", and Li Zhi was really incurable.

This farce of deposing the queen. Hurried end. Li Zhi failed to fight the tiger, but was injured by the tiger, which was determined by his character. In addition to lovesickness and dizziness, this person is also infected with "strict wife" and "hypochondriasis".

Li Zhi is weak by nature, his father Li Shisheng had already noticed it before his death, he once said to his eldest grandson Wuji worriedly: "You persuaded me to make Li Zhi the crown prince, but he is too cowardly, I am afraid that he will not be able to keep the country, what should I do?" Li Ke, the king of Wu, is heroic and decisive, very much like me, I plan to make him the crown prince, what do you think? ”

The eldest grandson Wuji's selfish distractions were quite heavy, and he was worried that after Li Keli became the crown prince, he would lose his status as his maternal uncle, and resolutely objected, Li Shimin gave up, and Li Zhi kept the position of the prince. At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji, whose bones are not cold, if he knows it underground, he will beat his chest and stun his feet, looking for death and life.

During the nineteen years from December of the first year of Lin De (664) to his death in December of the first year of Hongdao (683), Li Zhi, as the "child emperor", his physical condition deteriorated, his spiritual world was repeatedly hit, and he was physically and mentally exhausted.

His condition is getting worse and worse, his headache is splitting, his eyes are almost blind, he is tired of the red tape of "listening" to the government, receiving foreign guests, and sacrificing to the ancestors of heaven and earth, he is tired of the red tape, powerless, and miserable, he consults with the ministers, and intends to let Wu Zetian "know the national government", that is, Wu Zetian will be the "acting emperor", and he will not have to be escorted by Wu Zetian to the court every time.

Hao Chujun, a Chinese scholar, objected, saying: "The Son of Heaven is outside, and the queen is inside, it is the ancestors' rules, and it is justified. At that time, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi once ordered that even if the emperor was young, the empress dowager was not allowed to interfere in politics in the court, which was to prevent trouble. Why should His Majesty pass on the world of Gaozu and Taizong to his wife instead of passing it on to his children and grandchildren! ”

The ministers responded one after another, but Li Zhi couldn't resist everyone, so he had to support his sick body and continue to pretend to be a clay fetus statue in the court, letting Wu Zetian point his fingers and give orders.

Physical illnesses can be cured, but psychological trauma cannot be healed, Li Zhi suffered one mental blow after another, and his lover and two sons died one after another, making him mentally depressed and disheartened.

The upper half of Li Zhi's body is painful, but the lower half is extremely ageless, and he often steals chickens and dogs behind Wu Zetian's back, and laughs at Wu Zetian's sister and niece without paying attention.

Wu Zetian has three sisters, the younger sister died early, and the eldest sister had a son and a daughter, unfortunately widowed early. After Wu Zetian's career, his sister brought her daughter into the palace, and the mother and daughter both became Li Zhi's lovers, the brother-in-law and the sister-in-law squeezed their eyebrows, and the uncle-in-law hooked up with his niece. The Wu family was named the Korean lady, and the young Helan family was named the Wei lady.

Mrs. Han died soon after, Li Zhi sighed, cherished her daughter very much, and wanted to integrate her into the palace and be a long-term "husband and wife", but because he was afraid of Wu Zetian, he did not dare to act. Wu Zetian couldn't get used to seeing her husband flirting with her niece, and she was worried that her niece was young and beautiful, so she robbed her husband, and she wanted to get rid of her quickly.

Wu Zetian is a femme fatale, with a fiery murderous intention, not only killing her rivals, but also the people of the Li family's royal family, and she will not let go of the children of the Wu family of her mother's family.

Wu Zetian's father had two wives, the eldest wife Xiangli, and gave birth to two brothers, Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang; The little wife Yang gave birth to Wu Zetian's sisters. After his father's death, Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang brothers were extremely rude to their stepmother Yang. By the way, he also bullied Sister Wu Zetian.

After Wu Zetian became the queen, the two brothers also became quite officials. But they are not grateful to their sister, but they consider themselves to be the children of heroes. And rightfully so. Wu Zetian gritted his teeth with hatred, demoted them out of the capital, and went to other places to assassinate the history, Wu Yuanqing was so frightened that he died in office, and Wu Yuanshuang was later found by Wu Zetian and exiled to death.

Wu Zetian also has two uncles and brothers, one is called Wu Weiliang and the other is Wu Huaiyuan, both of whom are assassins. These two were with Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang brothers. Disrespectful to the Wu sisters, Wu Zetian has always wanted revenge.

In the second year of Qianfeng (667), Li Zhi returned to Beijing from Mount Tai Feng Chan, and the brothers Weiliang and Huaiyuan followed Hu Jia, Wu Zetian saw the two, his eyes rolled, and he wanted the two to pay tribute to the emperor for food. The two didn't know what to do, and they tried their best. Collect delicacies from the mountains and seas and send them to the palace. Wu Zetian did not slack off, secretly poisoned the food, and then sent it to the residence of his niece Mrs. Wei Guo. Invite her to taste it.

The young Mrs. Wei couldn't help but have a gluttony in her stomach, and she ate a lot of food, and died within a few hours. The red face turned into dry bones. Li Zhi received the news of his lover's death and was devastated by grief. A thorough investigation was ordered. Wu Zetian killed his relatives in righteousness and sent his two uncles and brothers to the guillotine. and changed his surname to the Vi family, I don't know who is more poisonous. Even so, Wu Zetian was still not addicted, and grabbed their sister-in-law Shanshi into the palace and beat her fiercely with thorny thorns until her flesh was rotten and she died.

Four years later, Li Zhi saw Helan Minzhi, the brother of Mrs. Wei Guo, and suddenly remembered his lover who died tragically, and cried with tears: "That morning, I went up to the court to see her very well, but I can't do it after retreating, how can it be so fast?" Helan Minzhi knew the details, and at this moment, he thought that his sister was poisoned by this, but he couldn't take revenge, so he cried loudly. When Wu Zetian heard this, he muttered in his heart: "This kid doubts me." "Secretly murderous again.

Helan Minzhi is a handsome guy, with a romantic nature, and was favored by his maternal grandmother, that is, Wu Zetian's mother-in-law, Yang, and hooked up with him, Wu Zetian hated it so much that he almost gritted his teeth. He Lanmin didn't control his lower body later, and raped the crown prince, who is the fiancée of Wu Zetian's eldest son Li Hong. This time Wu Zetian grabbed the handle and exiled him, using the reins of the horse to twist the wire halfway. Wu Zetian's poor sister, both children were killed by their sister!

The death of the lover is only a short-term pain for Li Zhi, because the lover is the product of empathy; lost a lover, just to hunt for a more glamorous stunner. As time passed, Li Zhi gradually forgot about his niece and lover, Mrs. Wei.

In Li Zhi's life, what made him suffer the most was the tragic experience of his three biological sons. The tragedy of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man was repeated again and again in him.

Li Zhi's eldest son was named Li Zhong, and he was born to the palace man Liu. Liu's status among the concubines is very low, and they can't raise themselves when they have children, and the mother and son are close to the end of the world. Li Zhi's first empress, Wang, had never given birth, and his uncle, Liu Zheng, a scholar in the middle school, was very worried about the future of his niece. He persuaded Empress Wang to persuade Li Zhi to appoint Li Zhong as the crown prince, hoping that Li Zhong would be grateful to Empress Wang in the future and take out insurance for Empress Wang's future.

The queen Wang's pillow wind and the thunderous side drums of Liu Zheng and others have received miraculous results. In July of the third year of Yonghui (652), Li Zhong became the crown prince.

Unfortunately, three years later, Empress Wang was sent to the cold palace, and Wu Zetian became the mother of the country. The big tree against which Li Zhong was leaning fell to the ground with a bang, and his good days as a monkey were over. In the first month of the first year of Xianqing (656), Li Zhong was demoted to the king of Liang, and Li Hong, the eldest son of Wu Zetian, was made the crown prince.

After Li Zhong was demoted, he was uneasy and always suspected that someone was trying to harm him, and often wore women's clothes to guard against assassins; He also divined the good fortune and evil many times, and asked God to ask the ghosts for peace. The wall fell and everyone pushed it, and a villain denounced him. In June of the fifth year of Xianqing (660), Li Zhong was thrown to the end, demoted to a concubine, and exiled to Qianzhou, a barbaric land.

In the first year of Lin De (664), Shangguan Yi, the squire of Xitai, drafted an edict for Li Zhi in an attempt to depose Wu Zetian. The East Window incident occurred, and Shangguan Yi was arrested. Wu Zetian believed that Shangguan Yi was serving the former crown prince Li Zhong in the East Palace, and this move must have been instigated by Li Zhong, so he made people falsely accuse him of rebellion. Li Zhi had no choice but to throw away his pawn to protect the handsome, beheaded Shangguanyi, and killed Li Zhong.

In fact, Li Zhong's abolition can be said to be undisturbed in Li Zhi's heart. Because Li Zhi has no relationship with Li Zhong's biological mother Liu, Li Zhong is a by-product of his temporary sex. When Li Zhong was made the crown prince, Li Zhi had just been the emperor for three years, and the state affairs were heavy, and he was a novice, so he naturally had no time to educate his son, let alone cultivate feelings. The two of them, named father and son, are actually fellow travelers.

When deposing Li Zhong as the crown prince, Li Zhi raised his hands and even raised his feet to express his approval, because Wu Zetian was her most beloved woman at this time. Appointing the son of the most beloved woman as the crown prince is the best filial piety for the most beloved woman, and the greatest favor for the most beloved woman.

However, Li Zhong's death made Li Zhi feel deeply guilty, because Li Zhong did not participate in the conspiracy to depose Wu Zetian, and this matter was handled by Shangguan Yi in accordance with Li Zhi's intentions. Wu Zetian couldn't think about her husband's emperor, and instead poured her anger on the son born to her husband's other woman.

"Although I don't kill Beren, Beren will die by me", Li Zhi was deeply touched by this sentence. For his son who became his scapegoat, Li Zhi felt sympathy and pity in his heart. (To be continued......)