What unforgivable thing did Xue Huaiyi, Wu Zetian's favorite monk, do to her?

In Wu Zetian's life, Xue Huaiyi was not as important as Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong and Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong, but in Wu Zetian's later years, Xue Huaiyi also occupied an important position. Xue Huaiyi was the first face of Wu Zetian in her later years. At the same time, Xue Huaiyi took advantage of Wu Zetian's favor and stepped onto the political stage of Wu Zhou Dynasty. Although he didn't have much influence on the politics under the rule of Wu Zetian, he didn't get enough attention from the academic circles. Throughout the political ecological environment centered on Wu Zetian, Xue Huaiyi's influence is really minimal.

As an important public opinion force and political helper before and after Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor, Xue Huaiyi was an indispensable and important helper for Wu Zetian to seize and consolidate political power. Xue Huaiyi's role in Wu Zetian is far better than his role in the eyes of civil and military ministers at the same time. We can vividly compare Xue Huaiyi to the private regime of Wu Zetian. But even so, Xue Huaiyi's ending was tragic. At present, the academic public opinion about the real cause of death of Xue Huaiyi has not stopped.

But in my opinion, Xue Huaiyi should have been assassinated by Wu Zetian after the stability of the Wu Zhou regime. The reason why this history didn't go down in history is probably that Wu Zetian deliberately concealed it, just as Li Shimin deliberately concealed the real process of the change of Xuanwu Gate. As for why Wu Zetian pointed the knife at his favorite monk? I think the reason is simple. Wu Zetian can kill her children cruelly. What is a monk with a foreign surname?

Let's not discuss the real cause of Xue Huaiyi's death today. Since the personal relationship between Xue Huaiyi and Wu Zetian has been widely circulated among the people, we will focus on the relationship between these two people today. After being favored by Wu Zetian, Xue Huaiyi gradually became presumptuous. Judging from the external actions, he didn't know he was a nobody at all, and even dared to contradict the court officials in public. In his Xue Huaiyi's eyes,

Xue Huaiyi, formerly known as Feng Xiaobao, is a veritable fake monk, only wearing a monk's cassock, but it was specially approved by Wu Zetian, in order to block the ears of the imperial palace and facilitate Xue Huaiyi to enter and leave the harem at will. Xue Huaiyi and Wu Zetian got to know each other because the daughter princess volunteered to be Wu Zetian's daughter to save her life, but on the other hand, she was still actively building good relations with Wu Zetian.

Because of this, Xue Huaiyi was lucky enough to be taken a fancy to by her daughter princess, who saw him handsome and handsome, and considering Wu Zetian, who lived alone in the palace all day in her later years, she borrowed a courage and dedicated Xue Huaiyi to Wu Zetian. Have to say, the daughter princess's move is completely fighting with her own life. It is natural for Wu Zetian to be happy, but if Xue Huaiyi, the Miss Toy Boy, is in the middle of Wu Zetian's heart, Wu Zetian is not interested in the political gift given by her daughter princess, then her daughter princess will certainly be prostrate.

In fact, Wu Zetian successfully summoned Xue Huaiyi, and when she saw Xue Huaiyi's good looks, Wu Zetian secretly rejoiced, so she found a reason to put him in the harem, in order not to let other people in the palace notice her and Xue Huaiyi, and also to facilitate Xue Huaiyi's access to the harem. Therefore, at the suggestion of Wu Zetian, Xue Huaiyi became a monk and lived safely with Wu Zetian for a long time.

Wu Zetian was partial to Xue Huaiyi, just like Zhao Ji and Ai, the mothers of Qin Shihuang thousands of years ago. What business do they do? You can make up your mind, you know. In 685 AD, at the suggestion of Xue Huaiyi, Wu Zetian agreed to allocate funds to build the White Horse Temple in the west of Luoyang. This White Horse Temple was built in simple English for Xue Huaiyi. Because Wu Zetian advocated Buddhism during the period, Xue Huaiyi personally proposed that Wu Zetian did not hesitate to order the construction of the White Horse Temple and let Xue Huaiyi preside over the White Horse Temple.

Is there such a sentence in Buddhism? Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda? People who believe in Buddhism want mercy, so Wu Zetian gave it to Xue Huaiyi? Huaiyi? The word "two" is actually the same. But? Have mercy? These four words can't be used on Xue Huaiyi, because Xue Huaiyi is a real fake monk. He used the mountain of Wu Zetian to assemble a group of fake monks in the White Horse Temple Garden. He has nothing to do all day, except to find trouble with those civil and military officials, and he leads the gangsters in the temple to dominate one side and dominate the other. Wu Zetian was not confused at that time, so it can be seen that Xue Huaiyi was really presumptuous to the extreme, and there was still no convergence.

In the process of helping Wu Zetian to take the upper position, Xue Huaiyi laid a solid theoretical foundation for her upper position. He led a group of fake monks to find a Buddhist classic named Dayun Sutra from the vast number of Buddhist scriptures. Since there are so many Buddhist classics, why did Xue Huaiyi only take this one? The reason is very simple, because in this Buddhist classic, the story of women ruling the country and finally becoming Buddhas is recorded. Wu Zetian was already plotting to usurp the throne and seize power.

In order to create a good public opinion atmosphere for Wu Zetian's usurpation of power, Xue Huaiyi led his monks to translate this Buddhist classic in plain language, so as to make the world support the view that Wu Zetian is an orthodox royal family. In the patriarchal society at that time, Confucianism was dominant, but it was unique in the early Tang Dynasty, because what did the government pursue during the Sui and Tang Dynasties? Integration of three religions, parallel of three religions? Ideological system. Although Confucianism had a profound ideological foundation at that time, Xue Huaiyi's efforts more or less provided Wu Zetian with a weapon of public opinion against Confucianism.

The intimate relationship between Wu Zetian and Xue Huaiyi began after Wu Zetian became emperor, because at this time no one dared to touch the ground on Wu Zetian's head, and no one dared to point at Wu Zetian's back. However, due to the prolonged time spent together and perhaps Xue Huaiyi's arrogance, he began to get tired of serving Wu Zetian in Wei Zicheng. Instead, I live in the White Horse Temple all day and ride a big horse on the streets of Beijing all day.

Wu Zetian's love for Xue Huaiyi must be reflected in all aspects, because even the most important military power in the past dynasties, Wu Zetian once appointed him, and even during the Turkey War, Marshal Xue Huaiyi actually beat Prime Minister Li Zhaode as the chief of staff. What scandal is Xue Huaiyi's behavior? But at that time, without the will of Wu Zetian, who dared to lay a finger on Xue Huaiyi! In the Tang Dynasty, there were many officials who dared to remonstrate. In the face of Xue Huaiyi's arrogance, the upright officials left over from the previous power did not write to Wu Zetian to impeach Xue Huaiyi. However, due to the deliberate protection of Wu Zetian, Xue Huaiyi not only failed to restrain himself, but took severe revenge on the officials who impeached him privately.

With the constant impeachment of Xue Huaiyi by court officials, Wu Zetian gradually realized the seriousness of the problem, and Xue Huaiyi was not familiar with her, so she began to take a cold attitude towards Xue Huaiyi. Over time, Xue Huaiyi noticed the change of Wu Zetian's attitude towards him. In order to win back the love of Wu Zetian, Xue Huaiyi tried to please Wu Zetian at all costs. But as it turns out, Wu Zetian had a very deep antipathy to Xue Huaiyi, which made Xue Huaiyi feel very uncomfortable. His hot face was actually stuck on Wu Zetian's cold ass.

I don't know little Xue Huaiyi, but one night, he set Tang Ming on fire. This is why many scholars in later generations think that Xue Huaiyi's real cause of death was his own fire. On the night when the fire destroyed Tang Ming, it happened that the northwest wind was blowing hard. With the help of the wind, the whole Tang Ming soon became a sea of fire. The fire burned until dawn, the heaven was reduced to ashes, and the hall was not spared.

On February 4th, 694 AD, only half a month after Heaven and Tang Ming were burned to ashes, the news that Xue Huaiyi was killed came. But who killed Xue Huaiyi? The relevant historical books left over from the Tang Dynasty are inconclusive, and later scholars have not determined a fixed answer after discussion. However, according to the above analysis, Xue Huaiyi's death was really caused by his own recklessness! Wu Zetian, who was born smart, would never tolerate the existence of such a nobody as Xue Huaiyi.

In addition, Xue Huaiyi did master too many secrets of Wu Zetian. He helped Wu Zetian plot to usurp the throne and did evil in the name of Wu Zetian in front of the court and officials. This kind of person is really not allowed!