What is the fate of Wu Zetian?

Wu Zetian was born in Chang 'an (now Xi City, Shaanxi Province) in the spring of Wude's sixth year (AD 623) or Wude's seventh year (AD 624), and was named Wu Zhao.

The girl Wu Zhao became a famous beauty. When the wind reached the palace, the lecherous Emperor Taizong immediately wrote a letter (zhào) and called her into the palace.

The emperor asked her to serve in the bedroom (qǐn), and she was fascinated by her involuntarily. She was affectionately called "Mei Niang" and named "Wit".

Wits have a low status among the emperors' concubines. They are usually in charge of accommodation, music and other affairs in the harem; When the emperor and queen go out, talents should also accompany them. Sometimes, they followed the emperor (Nimi

However, Wu Cairen was undoubtedly left out in the cold, and the emperor seemed to have forgotten her long ago. She entered the palace from the age of fourteen to the age of twenty-six, and has been hanging out among ordinary imperial secretaries. She has been a talented person for twelve years, and there is no hope of promotion.

Emperor Taizong had fourteen sons and twenty-one daughters. Among them, the eldest son of the emperor, Li Chenggan, the fourth son, Lee Tae, and the ninth son, Li Zhi, as well as Princess Changle, Princess jinyang princess, and Princess Xincheng, are all siblings born to her eldest grandson.

After a long time, among the officials who served Emperor Taizong, Wu Cairen attracted the attention of the prince.

Li Zhi is eighteen years old this year.

The docile Crown Prince was so different from his old Yin Zhi father that Wu Cairen was moved by Li Zhi. She soon made the young man fall in love with Zhu.

In the twentieth year of Zhenguan (AD 646), Emperor Taizong was constantly suffering from diseases. Gangrene, stomach trouble, cold and wind disease made him just get out of the hospital bed and lie down again soon. Coincidentally, the emperor's endless illness created many opportunities for communication between the prince and Wu Cairen.

Just as the prince and Wu Cairen secretly paid attention to each other's gestures and looked around, disaster fell from the sky and Wu Cairen was in trouble.

After the summer, Emperor Taizong moved to Cuiwei Palace on the top of Mount Li for the summer. Accompanied by the Prince, Sun Chang Wuji, Chu Suiliang and Imperial Secretary Wu Cairen.

Emperor Taizong's dysentery became more and more serious. The prince stayed with his father for several days and nights, serving medicinal food with pots and water. He is in such a hurry that he can't eat or sleep.

The intimate contact between the prince and Wu Cairen took place in such a place.

On May 26th, the 23rd year of Zhenguan (AD 649), Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, died of diarrhea in Cuiwei Palace, which was here for the summer.

Soon, the concubines of the first emperor Ji (J: and), who had no children in the harem, were sent to Ganye Temple, where they became nuns.

Ganye Temple, also known as Anye Temple or Lingbao Temple, is a little-known ordinary temple in the Tang Dynasty. After Li Shimin's death, all officials in the harem who were favored by the first emperor and had no children will leave the palace and become nuns. They knock wooden fish in the Buddhist temple every day, praying for the dead emperor's well-being in the underworld (zhǐ, stop, happiness).

As soon as Wu Zhao stepped into the threshold of Ganye Temple, the first thing he did was to get a haircut.

Shaving is a Buddhist term, which refers to shaving the hair of a person who is going to become a monk, and becoming a monk is Nepal.

Life in the temple is monotonous. The most important thing in a day is kneeling on the futon: a round mat made of cattail and wheat straw. On the table, there is a wooden fish knocking at the hand. Wooden fish: a percussion instrument, made of wood and hollow. , holding a scroll to chant Buddhist scripture. Sometimes I have to do some chores, including rough work such as chopping wood and carrying water, which is also done by nuns themselves.

In addition, there is an important compulsory course: meditation.

Meditation is meditation, a practice method of Buddhism. In this way, monks and nuns are trained to get rid of all distractions, so that their hearts can reach the realm of ethereal selflessness in absolute peace.

Wu Shi soon got bored: he lost interest in certain activities and refused to continue. On this day, I recited "Yellow Axis and Yellow Axis: Classics and Lonely Life with Blue Lights at Night". She spent almost all her meditation time recalling the past and having an affair with the prince.

In a blink of an eye, on the anniversary of the first emperor's death, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi went to Ganye Temple to burn incense.

Tang Gaozong chose a buddhist nun to burn incense, which really makes people feel that he deliberately arranged to meet Wu Shi. Because he can't forget that a group of old imperial secretaries were sent to Ganye Temple as nuns a year ago.

No one would have thought that the noble people in the temple are the saints today. Of course, Li Zhi, as an emperor, could not disturb this small temple. He doesn't know those people who wear the same clothes: black clothes. Among the monks who shaved their heads, which one is Wu Cairen? After a year, Li Zhi was worried that she had not recognized her.

Li Zhi couldn't name Wu Shi's method number, and old ni, who was in charge, didn't know her common name. "How can I ask her about Wu Shi?" Li Zhi thought for a moment, pretending to casually ask, last year, the palace sent a group of rich people, are all here to practice?

Old, a listen to Li Zhi's question, has been clear about his origin. She invited the distinguished guests to the living room: the room where the guests were received in the temple. Sit down for a while and walk in front to guide yourself. At this time, a little nun has served her instructions and went to the palace to find someone to wait on the guest room.

The person she is looking for is Wu Shi.

Wu Shi didn't expect Emperor Gaozong to fall from the sky and sit in the living room. At first glance, she was happy and sad, and suddenly she burst into tears.

Li Zhi couldn't help crying when he saw a face without hair and clothes.

Li Zhi is gone. Wu believes that she will see him again.

Back to the palace, Li Zhi was depressed and looked very unhappy. When the queen saw this scene, she was very suspicious. She called the emperor's personal official (Juan) and asked what had happened. The eunuch described the scene that happened in Ganye Temple to the queen in this way, which was vivid. Described it again.

Xiao Shufei, who has been spoiled and indulged these days, is very angry. Because there's nothing she can do. There's nothing she can do.

Thought of here, the queen suddenly had a plan and came up with a way to deal with Xiao Shufei. Take Wu Zhao back to the palace.

The Queen Wang played a trump card of defeat-Wu Shi entered the palace.

After Wu Shi entered the palace, he temporarily stayed with the queen to serve her. The queen treated her well, giving her many clothes, hair ornaments and rouge, and instead of ordering her to do this and that, she often dressed her carefully and took her out to become sisters.

Naive king and queen, in the heart very proud, she secretly thought, that Xiao Shufei is a loser.

The queen kept saying good things about Wu Shi in front of the emperor. This, of course, is exactly what the emperor wanted-Li Zhi's eagerness to promote Wu Meiniang as soon as possible is also justified: justified and reasonable. This land is dedicated to her.

Sure enough, within a few days, Wu Shi was named Zhao Yi, ranking first among the nine concubines (pín), second only to the four concubines, and almost equal to Xiao Shufei.

The necessity, not only Xiao Shufei, even the queen herself, couldn't help but be surprised.

What surprised them even more was that Wu was pregnant!

Soon, the emperor's fifth son and Wu's eldest son were born.

Although the Queen Wang helped her adopted son to the storage place, her fall from grace could not be avoided. To make matters worse, Wu ignored her modesty and respect and even began to ignore her!

Just like that, no matter how rude Wu is, the Queen Mother can't do anything about her. The emperor defended her everywhere, and no one could say that she was not.

The queen realized that she had done a very stupid thing.

After careful consideration, Queen Wang decided to visit Xiao Shufei. So, the two men let bygones be bygones and conspired against Wu.

Now that Wu Shi has been brought into the palace by the queen, it is not so easy to exclude her.

There is hardly a day in the palace when there is no right and wrong. Especially in the harem, there are women all over the world, and often nothing can cause trouble, even the pots and pans in the house have ears.

The queen's every move is in Wu's hands.

Wu Xiaoer has reported to her the whereabouts of the queen in time. She guessed the queen's intentions, but on the surface, she kept a straight face.

What Wu is eager to do now is to find a way to realize the glory of her family. As for the Queen and Xiao Shufei, she knew that they couldn't afford any big waves at the moment, so she ignored them for the time being and let them make trouble.

Since the birth of the Fifth Prince Li Hongzhang, Xiao Shufei has been actively approaching the emperor. She restrained her small temper and eased the deadlock with the emperor. Just then, Wu's wife was pregnant again, and it was inconvenient to serve the bedroom, so the emperor began to live in her bedroom again.

Wu Zhaoyi doesn't seem to object to the emperor going to Shu Fei. However, every time Emperor Gaozong left her, she always acted scared, as if disaster was coming, and she would never see the emperor of the Ming Dynasty again.

The emperor didn't understand where Wu's anxiety came from, and he didn't know what the danger was. Stay and leave. She is like this, which really makes the soft-hearted emperor unable to let her go. Whether to stay or not, she kindly urged him to see Shu Fei.

Finally, the emperor had to comfort her and said that he would come to see her early tomorrow morning. Then, mercilessly, left.

It's really strange to say. The emperor rarely came to his bedroom, but when he arrived here, he either met the queen or listened to endless criticism of Wu-saying that she was ungrateful: forgetting others' kindness to herself and doing things that were sorry for others. It is said that she doesn't know how to be superior or inferior; What is particularly intolerable is that she didn't even look at the queen and contradicted her for no reason.

The emperor sat patiently, listening to Shu Fei list Wu's left and right sins. He said nothing, and his doubts grew bigger and bigger.

The emperor was convinced that Wu was assassinated.

Therefore, no matter what the queen and the emperor say, they just don't listen-not only don't listen, but blame them for being unfair!

The Queen Wang and two people have been busy in vain. Instead of pulling (bān) to Wu, I got a rebuff first. And Wu, in front of them, is even more swaggering.

Tang Gaozong's eighth child was born, a lovely little princess like her mother. The emperor's face lit up as soon as he saw her. Queen Wang also came to see the little princess. Wu Zetian took advantage of this opportunity to kill her daughter and design a harm to the queen. The emperor also believed it.

When the queen heard that the emperor suspected that she was the murderer, she was surprised, anxious, anxious and afraid.

The emperor Li Zhi, since the loss of the little princess, one thing he wants to do is to abolish the queen.

Qiu Wuji can influence the situation in North Korea. In case of major events, his opinions often play a decisive role.

For example, in such an important event as Hou Fei, Emperor Gaozong still dared not make his own decisions without his approval.

A year later, Wu gave the last fatal blow to the queen.

This time, it was because of the successful case. Tired of victory is a kind of witchcraft of ancient alchemists. They cursed by cursing: at first it meant praying for ghosts and gods to bring harm to people they hated, but now it means cursing. The way to kill.

One theory is that Wu falsely accused the Queen Wang and her mother Liu of inviting wizards into the palace and practicing witchcraft. Another way of saying it is that the queen felt uneasy after she fell out of favor. Her mother hired a wizard to cast spells on her, and she was found and reported.

It is believed that Wang, as the owner of the harem, actually took the lead in creating such a foul-smelling smoke in the palace: describing the noise and chaos of the environment or the darkness of society. The witchcraft of dark magic shows how immoral her daily behavior is. The old school, on the other hand, insisted that the Queen was not at fault and could not be abolished. She murdered the little princess and tried to curse the death of Wu Zhaoyi. Isn't this all wet?

The emperor thought angrily, aren't you all against abolition? Ok, I'll keep her for you first; But I want to seal Wu and give Wu the status of queen.

The emperor's idea was to give one of the four first-class concubines a new name-Chen Fei.

The title of "Chen Fei" means equal to the emperor.

Some people support Wu because she is optimistic about her future. Li Yifu is in the official residence of Mr. Scheeren in Zhongshu. The official in charge of drafting imperial edicts in the central government of the Tang Dynasty was the official in charge of writing imperial edicts.

Li Yifu was born in poverty and had little influence in the DPRK. He can only do something with his knowledge. Usually people are very friendly, and they laugh at everything they say first, but they are cruel behind their backs, which makes people hard to prevent. Therefore, people say that he hides the knife in the smile, and therefore he is nicknamed "Li Mao".

Li Yifu found Wang Dejian, who had a good personal relationship with him, and asked him if he could help to find a way.

This is Xu's nephew. A while ago, in order to speak for Wu, his uncle was scolded by Wuji, and the evil spirit has not disappeared since then. So, Wang Dejian wanted to push Li Yifu to the front line against Sun Chang's promise, and he advised Li Yifu:

"Holy want wu to do the queen, I'm afraid it will cause opposition from the prime minister ministers, so it is still hesitant. If Ge Lao can go to the table and ask the saints to make Wu the queen, then he will be rich and expensive. "

On this day, it was Wang Dejian's turn to work the night shift in Zhongshu Province. He asked Li Yifu to be on duty instead of him. Taking this opportunity, he served the table overnight and asked Wu to be the queen.

The emperor was reading the memorial in the imperial study when he heard someone knocking at the pavilion late at night, thinking that something had happened. After receiving the above table, it turned out that the courtiers asked for a queen.

It's really unique to publicly support Emperor Hou Yi's above-mentioned list like this. It said that it was the will of the people to abolish the queen and establish Wu instead. The saints should obey the will of the people and make a decision early. Sincere words, every word said to Li Zhi's heart.

Emperor Gaozong was overjoyed after reading the complete text. Immediately summoned Li Yifu into the temple to negotiate.

Li Yifu won the emperor's four questions, and Wu quietly sent officials to his house and sent a thank-you gift.

Soon, Li Yifu was promoted to assistant minister of Zhongshu, and he was on the fourth grade.

Assistant Minister Zhongshu, a powerful figure in Zhongshu Province, a confidential department in Tang Dynasty, was closely related to the emperor.

Li Yifu's promotion has brought unexpected hope to Sun Chang's infinite opposition and a group of snobs who are used to watching the wind. They began to turn to Wu.

Soon, the imperial edict was promulgated. On the sixth day after this, that is, in October and September of the sixth year of Yonghui (AD 655), Tang Gaozong issued a new imperial edict-

Make Zhao Yi Wu Shi the queen.

Next, there should be a grand conferring ceremony-not only for the new queen's justification, but more importantly, this is Wu's first public appearance in front of the world.

She finally stepped on all the women in the world. With the winner's smile, she sat on the throne of the queen in the traditional ceremony.

At the end of the ceremony, Wu Hou did something new. She boarded the Yimen Pagoda in Su (Yi) and received greetings from officials from civil and military departments, chiefs of Si Yi and foreign envoys.

Wuhou celebrated his victory in an unprecedented way, and took this opportunity to show his extraordinary charm (mèi) on and off the court.