How did Wu Zetian become emperor step by step?

In October (660) of the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Xianqing, Li Zhifeng had a seizure and was dizzy, so she could not handle state affairs, so she asked Wu Zetian to handle state affairs. But it also caused the rift between Wu Zetian and Li Zhi, and caused Wu Zetian to be almost abolished.

In the first month of the first year of Longshuo (66 1), Wu Zetian asked all women in the world not to perform Nuo You (referring to artists who perform burlesque), and Li Zhi adopted it and wrote a letter. In April, Li Zhi wanted to sign Goguryeo himself, but he gave up after the advice of Wu Zetian and his ministers.

In the first year of Linde (664), Li Zhi asked Prime Minister Shangguan Yi to draft a letter to abolish Wu Zetian. Before the ink was dry, Wu Zetian discovered it in time, and it was both hard and soft, so it had to end in failure. So, Wu Zetian suggested to Li Zhi that they should go to court together in the near future and listen to politics. Together, it is "double saints." Since then, Wu Zetian's political experience and influence have further increased.

Because of Li Zhi's strong national strength, Wu Zetian actively fled to Li Zhi to worship Mount Tai. When offering sacrifices to the god of heaven, the emperor deserves it first, and when offering sacrifices to the emperor, the queen mother deserves it. At the time of Zen, the emperor offered it first, and the minister offered it with a gift. But amenorrhea, after all, is none of the queen mother's business, so she added that amenorrhea is an instrument for sacrificing the country, which is shared by the queen mother and shows the virtue of staying behind. It is very inappropriate for a priest to make an offering, because there is a difference between men and women. We can't let the foreign ministers die. So, let her as a sacrifice to honor her mother-in-law, Li Zhi agreed. Later, in the third year of Linde (666), on the first day of the first month, she and Li Zhi made a meditation on Mount Tai as offerings, and also knighted the officials to make them grateful to her.

After two years of dry sealing (667), Li Zhi, due to a long illness, ordered Prince Li Hong to supervise the country. In February of the first year of Guangzhai (684), Wei, the father to be appointed, was appointed as the lieutenant. Pei remonstrated and said angrily, "Even if I give the world to Wei, why not?" Do you still care about a waiter? "Wu Zetian used this as an excuse to depose Luling Wang, move the capital, and change Li Dan's four sons and Yu Wang to be emperor. Wu Zetian claimed to be a court official and taught herself to be a court official.

In September of the same year,, joined hands with Tang and Du to help and help King Luling, sent troops to Yangzhou to fight against Wu, and gathered 100,000 people in more than ten days. Wuhou immediately took the left general Li Xiaoyi as the general leader of Yangzhou Road and led 300,000 troops to conquer. 1 1 month, Xu Jingye defeated and committed suicide. ?

In March of the second year of the vertical arch (686), Wu Zetian ordered the manufacture of a small copper box and placed it in front of Luoyang Miyagi, ready to accept the respect of the liegeman. At the same time, open the door to informers and stipulate that anyone can tell them. The state should provide all informers with chariots, horses and food. Even the farmer Qiao Min and Wu Zetian have seen it in person. If the content is in line with the wishes, it can be promoted without exception. If the accusation is not established, there will be no guilt.

At the same time, Wu Zetian successively appointed a large number of cruel officials such as Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and Hou Sizhi to take charge of the prison system. If the defendants are put into this prison and cruel officials use all kinds of torture for interrogation, there is no doubt that they can get out of prison alive. In this way, with the trend of more and more informers, more and more people are tortured to death by cruel officials.

So a terrible political atmosphere was formed inside and outside the imperial court, so that ministers had to say goodbye to their families every time they went to court and lived in fear all day. In order to reward informers, Wu Zetian made an exception and awarded an official to informers. That year, he killed twelve royal families, including Li Ying, king of Nan 'an, and flogged two sons of the late Prince Li Xian. All the royal families in the Tang Dynasty were killed, and the young and weak survivors were exiled to Lingnan.

Wu Zetian tried to seize Li Tang and destroy the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty, which aroused the anxiety of the kings. They want to fight each other. * * * Before the Ming Dynasty, Langlang Li Chong, the secretariat of Bozhou and the evil king, went to Bozhou (now northeast of Liaocheng, Shandong Province) in August in 688. The secretariat of Yuzhou and Li Zhen, the king of Yue, set out to fight against Li Chong in Yuzhou (now Runan, Henan).

Wu Zetian sent Qiu and Wei to attack him. Li Chong rose up and was defeated on the 7th. In September, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, committed suicide after his defeat. Wu Zetian tried her best to get rid of the kings named Li, so that Zhou Xing and others were interrogated, forcing Li Lingkui, Lu Wang, Li Chuan and Dongguan Princess Li Rong to commit suicide, and their cronies were also killed. In the same year, Wu Zetian ordered Xue Huaiyi to lead more than 10,000 people to destroy the Yuan Temple and build the Ming Hall. It took nearly a year for Tang Ming to be completed, with a height of 294 feet and a width of 300 feet.

* * * Three floors, with a dome on the top and a posture in Kowloon. There is an iron phoenix on the mountain, ten feet high. Decorated with gold, it is called "Vientiane shrine". After the completion of Tang Ming, Xue Huaiyi was ordered to cast a colossus, whose little finger could hold dozens of people. In northern Tang Ming, a five-story paradise was built to receive the colossus. The cost of building a palace has reached trillions, and the government's finances have dried up. Wu Chengsi, Wu Zetian's nephew, ordered a white stone to be carved as a text: "The Virgin is a human being and Yongchang is the emperor." Known as the discovery of Luoshui, it was dedicated to Wu Zetian, who was overjoyed and called this stone a "treasure map". Later, Wu Zetian added the title of "The Virgin Jade Emperor". ?

In the first year of God's will (690), Wu Zetian announced that she would change the Tang Dynasty to Zhou Dynasty, establish herself as emperor, make Luoyang her capital and establish the Wu Zhou Dynasty.

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In the first month of the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian was seriously ill in bed, and only Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong served as attendants. Prime Ministers Zhang Jian, Cui Xuanyong and Shangshu Jinghui, Huan, Yuan, etc. He made friends with the imperial army, commanded Li Duozuo, and pretended to be two rebels. So he launched a mutiny, led more than 500 imperial soldiers, rushed into the palace, killed two, and immediately surrounded Wu Zetian's bedroom, demanding that Wu Zetian abdicate.

Wu Zetian was forced to give up the throne and Prince Li Xian, and then moved to Shangyang Palace (east of Luoyang Forbidden Garden). Li Shangxian and Wu Zetian were honored as the "Emperor of Heaven" and the Wu and Zhou Dynasties ended. When the Tang Dynasty was restored in February, officials, flags, costumes and figures were all restored to the old system, and God was also called the East Capital. ?

On February 26th, the first year of Shenlong (65438+70516)1,Wu Zetian died at the Xianju Temple in Shangyang Palace at the age of 82. The testamentary edict omitted the title of the emperor, calling it "Great Sage Queen", and pardoned the Queen Wang and the relatives of Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan and Liu Yuan. In May of the second year of Shenlong (706), he was buried with Emperor Gaozong in Ganling. ?

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Zetian