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Chapter 48 Empress Wu Zetian (big chapter)

[The third one is the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu is one of the famous feudal emperors in the history of our country.

After he ascended the throne as emperor, he paid attention to people's livelihood and rested with the people. During his reign, he vigorously developed agricultural production and reduced the tax burden on the people. In the years when the harvest was not good, he often opened warehouses to release grain to relieve the people.

In terms of military affairs, he has considerable insights into the management of troops and attaches great importance to military discipline.

Moreover, he himself is also a genius with both literary and military skills. He is proficient in the art of war in the military. He can defeat more with less, come up with clever plans, take advantage of opportunities, and defeat the enemy.

Therefore, Emperor Guang of Han Dynasty Liu Xiu was a benevolent emperor and a military strategist.

In 57 AD, Liu Xiu's car set off from Luoyang to Qufu, Shandong Province, and then from Qufu to Fenggao, Mount Tai. Liu Xiu came to Mount Tai to enshrine himself, and he was accompanied by many noble officials. While fasting at the foot of the mountain, they made preparations for the enshrinement.

Before Liu Xiu went to Mount Tai, he first sent masons to carve stones on Mount Tai, and then climbed the mountain. Liu Xiu rode in his car, and all the ministers followed him. After noon, Liu Xiu went to the top of Mount Tai. In the afternoon, after all the ministers had climbed to the top of Mount Tai, the ceremony of consecration was held. Then it started.

In addition, Liu Xiu also focused on emphasizing his achievements in governing the country and bringing peace to the world. At the end of the ceremony, the ministers and their entourage shouted long live the mountains, and the mountains and valleys responded, which was very spectacular. 】

[The fourth is Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. Judging from the historical development of the Gaozong period, Li Zhi's achievements did not lag behind the emperors of other dynasties.

After ascending the throne as emperor, he cared about the sufferings of the people, took the initiative to ask ministers about the people's livelihood, and encouraged ministers to actively offer advice and suggestions to improve people's livelihood and well-being.

Li Zhi, as always, cared about the sufferings of the people, actively adopted the ministers' suggestions, reduced the burden on the people, made them live a relaxed and happy life, and contributed to the construction of the law.

During the period of Emperor Gaozong, the two great enemies of the East and West, the Western Turks and Goguryeo, were also suppressed, and the arrogance of Japan was suppressed. Emperor Emperor Gaozong completed the dream that Emperor Taizong had not realized.

Based on these achievements alone, Li Zhi is qualified to go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen.

However, he was concerned about his father, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin. After all, in terms of merit, his father did not go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen. He was afraid that if he did, the world would talk about him behind his back.

But his wife Wu Zetian saw through his thoughts, and Wu Zetian herself wanted to go. So with Wu Zetian's encouragement and the ministers' advice, Li Zhicai accepted the minister's suggestion and consecrated Zen in Mount Tai.

In the second year of Linde, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty took his wife Wu Zetian to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. The scene was extremely grand, with envoys and ministers from foreign vassals accompanying them.

Wu Zetian also pioneered the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven for women, achieving her political goals and paving the way for her future accession to the throne. 】

"Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, the most perfect emperor"

"The fortune of the Eastern Han Dynasty basically lies with Liu Xiu. The entire Eastern Han Dynasty probably only remembers Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty."

"Liu Xiu has been going smoothly all his life, so he really has no sense of existence. He only remembers the matter of summoning meteorites by turning on the power."

"Liu Xiu is so perfect that even historians can't find an excuse to complain"

"Liu Xiu is the son of the plane"

"Li Zhi is one of the top ten Chinese emperors, but in front of him is his father who reached the peak of his martial arts and martial arts, and behind him is the only orthodox female emperor in history."

"Gaozong was really miserable. There was Li Shimin before him and Wu Zetian after him, but he himself was not famous."

"If it weren't for Li Zhi's poor health, Wu Zetian would have nothing to do with her."

"Li Zhi only lost because of his short life, Wu Zetian was trained by him"

"It's a pity that Li Shimin didn't go to Zen"

"Indeed, it is Taishan's loss that Li Shimin did not receive Zen status"

"Taizong of the Tang Dynasty: It's all Wei Zheng's bad guy who won't let me go!" 》

"It's a pity that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty did not go after being remonstrated"

"In fact, Wei Zheng only remonstrated once, and he agreed the next two times, but something happened and he failed to do it."

"The main reason is that Li Shimin doesn't take Feng Chan seriously, so it doesn't matter whether he goes or not. Li Shimin's value does not need to be proven by Feng Chan."

"If Li Er is granted Zen status, not many emperors will be qualified to do so. Wu You will unify the world and attack the Turks from the north, and Wen You will rule Zhenguan."

"The one who can be tied with Qin Huang and Han Wu is definitely Li Shimin. To a certain extent, Li Shimin is the most balanced and has no shortcomings. Qin Shihuang's external achievements are obvious to all, but he is cruel to the people at home. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty doubled his external territory, used excessive troops, and emptied his wealth internally. Li Shimin did a relatively better job. Don't talk about killing his brothers. It has nothing to do with me and other common people. He didn't harm the common people. What's the big stain? 》

Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Xiu: Is it wrong for me to be too perfect? Also, I am really not a son of the plane, and the meteorite was not summoned by me. No matter how many times you ask me to tell you, I am tired.

At this moment, Liu Xiu was very hurt. Because his life was so smooth and perfect, he had no sense of existence in history. He didn't know who to talk to for explanation.

It's not his fault that it's too perfect. He doesn't want to do anything about it.

Talking about this makes me depressed.

He governed the world in an orderly manner, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the ministers lived in harmony, and the subjects of the world unanimously supported him.

Logically speaking, he is better than most emperors in Chinese history, and he should have a significant mark in history.

But as a result, because he was too perfect, he had no sense of existence in future generations.

What's even more outrageous is that later generations only remember the meteorites falling from the sky when he was fighting, and even said that they were summoned by him.

He sighed deeply and didn't want to say anything more. People in the future may misunderstand him, and he didn't want to explain anything more.

Datang.

Li Shimin: Tang Gaozong Li Zhi? How could it be Li Zhi?

At this moment, Li Shimin completely ignored the fact that later generations would compare his achievements with those of Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han. Instead, he was completely immersed in the terrible fact that Li Zhi became the next emperor.

The moment he saw Li Zhi becoming emperor, he had completely lost his mind.

With a look of horror on his face, he thought of a terrible guess.

The current prince is Li Chengqian, and the prince is the successor of the next emperor.

But now it was Li Zhi who took over, which gave him a terrible idea.

Could it be that Li Zhi imitated him and killed his brother to rise to power?

When he thought of this possibility, his whole body went cold, as if he had fallen into an abyss.

When he rebelled against the Xuanwu Gate and ascended the throne by killing his brother and brother, this was an eternal pain in his heart.

But now when he thought that his youngest son Li Zhi might imitate him, he felt extremely sad and his whole body was twitching.

He couldn't believe the result, and he didn't want to believe that his son had followed the same path as him.

He kept convincing himself in his mind that something must have happened to Prince Li Chengqian, which caused him to pass the throne to Li Zhi.

Only by thinking this way did he feel better. He didn't want the tragedy of killing his brother and ascending to power to happen to his son.

But even if he thinks this way, he still can't completely give up the terrible idea of ​​Li Zhi killing his brother and taking power.

Because he discovered something, he also had a prince Li Tai whom he loved very much.

Even if Prince Li Chengqian burps unexpectedly, he will most likely pass the throne to Li Tai.

But now it is Li Zhi who has ascended to the throne. What about Prince Li Tai?

Did Li Tai also burp in an accident?

He himself didn't believe such a coincidence, how could it be possible that his two sons had burped in a row!

The only explanation is...

A bad idea came into his mind. He couldn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe that extremely terrible idea.

If the younger son Li Zhi followed his example and killed two brothers in a row, he might go crazy.

Because this is the last thing he wants to face. He doesn't want the sins he committed back then to be repaid on him many years later.

Seeing the painful expression on His Majesty's face, Queen Changsun immediately guessed what His Majesty was thinking.

So Empress Changsun quickly took Li Shimin's hands, held them tightly, and comforted him in a soft voice.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to think blindly. There must be some accident here. I believe that a young slave would not do something like that."

Empress Changsun spoke firmly. She did not believe that her three biological sons would kill each other.

As for why Zhinu ascended the throne, she guessed that there must have been some changes that led His Majesty to pass the throne to Zhinu.

With the Queen's comfort, Li Shimin's panic slowly calmed down.

It was just his subconscious fear of retribution that would fall on him that caused him to lose his composure. Now that he had calmed down and thought about it over and over, he also discovered that it was impossible for a child slave to kill his brother and ascend to the throne.

If Zhinu really killed his brother, it would be impossible for him to pass the throne to Zhinu.

And there is a more important point, even if Zhinu wants to imitate his Xuanwu Sect changes, he is not the Supreme Emperor who was forced to abdicate.

As for why Zhinu ascended the throne, he had the same idea as the queen. There must have been some changes that forced him to pass the throne to Zhinu.

Thinking of this, his mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

As long as his son doesn't follow his old path, everything will be fine.

Just as his mood gradually relaxed, the next moment, his expression changed drastically, and his eyes widened with disbelief.

Because he saw a message on the sky that horrified him.

Li Zhi’s wife Wu Zetian!
  As soon as the name Wu Zetian came out, he felt like he was struck by lightning.

He has not forgotten that people in the past have said that Wu Zetian was the empress of the Tang Dynasty.

Although he had known that there was a female emperor in the Tang Dynasty before, he was only dissatisfied with the uselessness of the descendants of Li Tang, who actually usurped the throne by a woman. There was nothing special about the rest.

First, because the Tang Dynasty lasted for nearly three hundred years, he didn't know which period of the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian was from, so even if he wanted to interfere, there was nothing he could do!
  Second, Wu Zetian finally returned power to the Tang Dynasty, and the world returned to the hands of the descendants of Li Tang, so it was inconvenient for him to say anything more.

But the reason why he was so angry now was that he found out that Wu Zetian was actually Zhinu's wife.

In other words, Wu Zetian lived in the same period as him.

It was equivalent to Wu Zetian usurping Li Tang's kingdom under his nose, which made him angry.

He only had one idea at the moment, and that was to find Wu Zetian to avoid future troubles and prevent history from repeating the same mistakes.

He was not willing to let a woman usurp the kingdom he had fought so hard for, even if he returned power to the Tang Dynasty in the end.

But there was a problem that stumped him: how to find Wu Zetian.

Since Wu Zetian is Zhinu's wife, it means that the two are about the same age.

Zhinu is only a few years old now, which means Wu Zetian is still just a little girl among the people.

Trying to find Wu Zetian among the common people with just this clue is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The name Wu Zetian is not the original name at first glance.

Zetian means to govern the world with heaven as the law.

Not to mention women, not even men dared to take the name Zetian.

So he guessed that after the woman surnamed Wu returned the country of Tang Dynasty to Li Tang, the descendants of Li Tang gave the woman surnamed Wu the name Zetian.

So for now, there is only one clue, a little girl named Wu.

Although the surname Wu is rare, there are still many people with the surname Wu in the world.

Based on this alone, trying to find Wu Zetian is probably a fool's errand.

But if he didn't find Wu Zetian in the future, he would have trouble sleeping and eating at the thought of Li Tang's kingdom being usurped by Wu Zetian.

"Your Majesty, this is easy to handle. Just tell the young slave not to get close to the woman named Wu when he grows up."

Seeing His Majesty's frowning face, Empress Changsun suddenly had an idea and came up with a good idea.

When Li Shimin heard this, he thought it made sense.

"Mr. Guanyin, if you still have a way, then I will decree that women named Wu are not allowed to approach the child slaves... No, it is not safe enough. From now on, women surnamed Wu are not allowed to enter Chang'an City."

After giving the decree, he felt relaxed and finally let go of the big stone in his heart.

When Wu Zetian's identity was revealed, not to mention Tang Taizong Li Shimin, even Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was equally shocked.

He never expected that his beloved Queen Wu Meiniang would usurp Li Tang's kingdom after his death and become the only empress in Chinese history.

When he saw later generations saying that there was a female emperor Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, he suddenly felt bad.

After all, the word "武" was so eye-catching that it was difficult for him not to pay attention.

At that time, he was speculating whether the empress Wu Zetian would be his queen Wu Meiniang.

Although he doubted it, he didn't want to believe it and subconsciously didn't think about it.

But now, the facts were right in front of him, and he couldn't help but not believe it.

At this moment, he was extremely confused and didn't know how to deal with this matter.

No matter how much he doted on Mei Niang, he would not be indifferent to Mei Niang's ascension to the throne in the future.

Should Mei Niang be put under house arrest to prevent her from continuing to interfere in politics?
  He pondered for a while and then shook his head.

Emotionally, he loves Mei Niang deeply and cannot put Mei Niang under house arrest.

In reality, Mei Niang is indeed very good at handling government affairs and is his most capable helper. He cannot do anything that would break his own arm.

And the most important thing was that he gave up the idea of ​​putting Mei Niang under house arrest.

According to later generations, he was in poor health later and died prematurely, so he slowly handed over power to Mei Niang.

Through this, he could already guess the scene at that time.

In the later years of his reign, he himself was plagued by illness and his life was short-lived.

So Mei Niang was asked to handle the government affairs, and power was slowly handed over to Mei Niang.

After all, judging from the current situation, his sons are too mediocre and are far from the opponents of the Guanlong clan in the court.

It is estimated that it was based on such considerations that he handed over the power to Mei Niang.

Because only Meiniang has the ability to suppress the Guanlong clan, so that the Guanlong clan will not further threaten the imperial power.

According to his thoughts before his death, after his death, his son would succeed to the throne, and Mei Niang would serve as the empress dowager and listen to the affairs of the court, help the emperor handle the affairs of the court, and then slowly return power to the emperor.

But now it seems that the development of things has deviated from the planned direction.

Mei Niang usurped the throne from her son and ascended the throne herself as emperor.

He would never have imagined that his mother would seize the throne from her son.

But now that he knows what will happen after his death, he only needs to make some arrangements to prevent Mei Niang from becoming emperor in the future.

He has already made a decision in his heart, and he will do whatever he wants in the future, and his attitude towards Mei Niang will not change.

He just needs to make arrangements before his death and not give power to Mei Niang.

However, another problem arises. With the mediocre qualifications of his sons, even if he hands over the power to his sons before his death, they probably won't be able to take over the important positions in the court.

It seems that he needs to speed up the progress, strive to solve the threat of Guanlong clan before his death, and hand over a intact Tang Dynasty to his son.

After making arrangements in his mind, his tense nerves finally relaxed, and the expression on his face gradually relaxed.

Wu Meiniang, who had been secretly observing from the side, saw that the expression on His Majesty's face gradually relaxed, and her anxious heart finally relaxed.

She had been on tenterhooks just now, fearing that His Majesty would want to punish her regardless of past feelings.

Now seeing His Majesty's face, she knew that she had escaped this disaster.

She couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She had just learned that she would be the empress of the Tang Dynasty in the future, which almost scared her to death.

Not to mention His Majesty, even she couldn't believe that she actually ascended the throne and proclaimed herself emperor.

She didn't know what happened later that led her to have such a bold idea, but now she had no idea of ​​usurping Li Tang's kingdom.

However, after learning that she would ascend the throne and proclaim herself emperor and become the only queen in Chinese history, a bold idea came to her mind.

yes! Who stipulates that women cannot be emperors?
  As soon as this idea came up, it was like a seed took root and sprouted in my heart, and I couldn't get rid of it.

She glanced at His Majesty secretly and felt relieved when she saw that His Majesty had no reaction.

(End of this chapter)