Princess Anding's first murder case
When Wu Zetian returned to the palace from the Induction Temple again, she was just an ordinary imperial concubine in Tang Gaozong. She has neither the status of king and queen who rules the sixth house, nor a favorite capital. If she wants to get along in the huge harem, she has to be the boss and the queen. In fact, the emperor's women are all sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. At this point, Wu Zetian has no way to go. But the queen was born in a famous family and was deeply rooted in North Korea. It is more difficult to bring her down through normal channels than to bring down Mount Fuji.
So for that grand goal, she must take risks. This adventurous character is the tradition of their old martial artist. Her father, the samurai, was originally a gentle and polite elder and was very cautious. He once resigned from his job in the industrial and commercial sector because he was worried that he was not popular enough. However, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he risked his family's ruin, gave all his wealth and family life to Tang Yuan and his son, and devoted himself to a dangerous political speculation. As the saying goes, if you add wings to a tiger, you will grow old with your son. Wu Zetian is not worse than her father in this respect. She soon found an opportunity.
From the end of four years to the beginning of five years, Wu Zetian gave birth to her first daughter, Princess Yongding. According to the records in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty and History as a Mirror, Princess Yongding loves to laugh and is very likable, including being with the queen. After the queen teased the little princess and left, Wu Zetian quietly strangled her own daughter, and then casually greeted the emperor. After learning of her daughter's death, she flew into a rage and learned that only the Queen Wang had visited the little princess. Without thinking, he decided that the queen was the murderer. Although there was no evidence, the queen Wang could not explain it, and finally it went away. However, after this incident, the impression of Queen Wang in her heart plummeted, and the relationship between husband and wife showed great cracks.
Xiao Shufei's second murder
After shaking the queen's position, Wu Zetian went all the way forward with the spirit of beating Reservoir Dogs and started the second murder. In 655 AD, under the strong pillow wind of Wu Zetian's twelve products, the status of the Queen and Princess Xiao was finally abolished and relegated to the palace, ranking last in the harem. In addition, in order to vent her anger, she changed Wang's name to python's and Xiao's name to owl's, and branded these two insulting words deeply on them. However, it didn't take long for Tang Gaozong Li Zhi to visit the place where they were imprisoned because he missed them, only to find a small hole for transporting food. When no one could see, he shouted, "Where are the queen and Shu Fei?" The queen cried and replied, "I'm waiting. Offended, abandoned as a bridesmaid. How can she get a more respectable name and be called the queen? " It's just that I proposed to Emperor Gaozong to turn this hell into a "home of the soul". The whole palace eyeliner quickly told Wu Zetian about it. She decisively waved the butcher's knife and ordered Wang and Xiao to hold one hundred sticks each, cut off their hands and feet and soak them in wine, calling them "bone drunk." A few days later, Wang was tortured to death at the age of 28. From then on, Wu Zetian completely cleared all the obstacles in the harem and realized the upgrade from the youngest wife to the oldest wife.
After defeating the enemy in the palace, Wu Zetian operated on the enemy outside the palace. In the process of abolishing Wang Li and Wu Zetian, the elders and ministers represented by Wuji and Chu Suiliang voted against it, while another group of middle and lower courtiers represented by Xu and Li Yifu voted in favour. However, Sun Chang Wuji was not only Tang Gaozong's uncle, but also an important minister during Emperor Taizong's reign. As an official in A Qiu, he holds military power, so his opinions have great influence on Tang Gaozong's decision-making. Wu Zetian once fantasized about Sun Chang's infinite support, but the prince's maternal uncle was born with an idol, and they were incompatible. In desperation, Wu Zetian had to give up the idea of winning the support and etiquette of her elders and was determined to let these old people die. The third murder quietly appeared.
The third murder case in Wuji, Sun Chang
Based on the idea that the enemy of Wu Zetian's enemy is a friend, she wooed a group of ministers who were dissatisfied with Wuji, such as Xu, Li Yifu, Cui and Yuan, and asked them to speak for themselves, create public opinion and compete with the elders. After all, young people have strength and a loud voice. Six years later, despite the protests of ministers, Tang Gaozong finally made Empress Wu Zetian. After that, Chu Suiliang was exiled to the wild, and only Sun Chang Wuji was spared, because he was the emperor's uncle. In the fourth year of Qing Dynasty, Xu was ordered by Wu Zetian to try his best to deal with cases such as Prince Sima and the cronies of Wei DuDu, falsely accusing him of colluding with loyal officials, trying to turn his power to mowgli and wait for an opportunity to rebel.
First I was surprised and disbelieved, then I was sad and suspicious, and I ordered Xu to check it again. So, in the face of Xu's edict,
Originally, Wu Zetian only wanted to be a queen. After a series of storms, she not only won the crown of the queen, but also gained the political resources to control the court, thus taking the first step in politics. Since then, Wu Zetian first put a chair behind Tang Gaozong, and then moved the chair to his right, realizing the equality between men and women in front of ministers.
The fourth murder of Mrs Wei.
It was in 666 AD, and Wu Zetian, who had eliminated foreign enemies, began to clean her backyard, so a new murder case began to be staged. At the beginning, after Wu Zetian got rid of the queen and the queen, she brought her sister closer to the palace just to control her husband and keep other women away from him. Gaozong was very happy, but the consequences were very serious. He not only named his sister a Korean wife, but also had sex with her. I am glad that the Korean lady's life span was short and she died in a few years. However, my mother is a hero and my daughter is not a bear. After her death, her daughter inherited her mother's unfinished legacy, conquered it and won the title of Mrs. Wei. Wu Zetian in the Mood for Love and Mrs. Wei in the Mood for Love. Over time, the balance of Tang Gaozong's love tends to the latter, and she intends to give her a formal birthright to be a concubine. Wu Zetian obviously felt uneasy. Youth is capital. The first step for a niece is to take a concubine, and the second step may be the queen. How can this go on? So she resolutely opposed the emperor giving Mrs. Wei an office. Among them, it is recorded: "If you want to take Wei as your internal duty, it is evil to be undecided." As a human being,
At this time, it was easy for Wu Zetian, who had been in politics for many years, to kill a person artistically. She took advantage of two half-brothers to deliver meals, secretly poisoned them and tricked Mrs. Wei into eating them. When Mrs. Wei heard that it was sent by her family, she ate it defenseless and bled to death.
By the time of the fourth murder, Wu Zetian was basically fighting for survival. After accumulating enough political capital, 1969, Wu Zetian decided to make a list of her ambitions as an emperor. But to his surprise, this time his enemy was her son.
The fifth murder of Li Hong
In 656 AD, the former Prince Jong Li was abolished, and Tang Gaozong changed Li Hong, the eldest son of Wu Zetian, to the Crown Prince. Li Hong is deeply loved by his father. After becoming a prince, he was courteous and courteous, and the court expected him to become a wise monarch. When Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian went to Luoyang, the eastern capital, Li Hong stayed behind to take charge of safety supervision. At that time, there was a drought and there was a famine in Guanzhong, so Li Hong inspected the soldiers' meals and found that some people were eating elm bark and feathers, so he ordered Jialing Temple to send them rice privately. In August of the fourth year of Xianheng, the emperor was seriously ill and ordered Li Hong to practice before he succeeded to the throne. The emperor often said, "Never mind the East Palace." All this shows that the emperor has the intention to submit to the prince for his own physical reasons.
Once such a capable and beloved son acceded to the throne, Wu Zetian is bound to sit on the bench. What she can't stand is that Li Hong has fought with her many times. For example, in the second year of Xianheng, Li Hong found his two half-sisters Yiyang and Princess Xuancheng, and Xiao Shufei's two daughters were claustrophobic in the palace, but they got married. Li Hong was moved by sympathy and asked his father to allow them to get married. Wu Zetian was very angry and immediately betrothed the two princesses to the guards. Another thing is that the prince failed to choose his wife. It turns out that the princess's primary election is the daughter of Siwei Yang Shaoqing Sijian, with a noble family background and a good family background.
However, when the wedding date was fixed, the girl was forced to commit adultery by Wu Zetian's nephew and Korean wife Helanmin, and her marriage was destroyed by violence. This caused discord between Li Hong and his family. Li Hong, Wu Jia and Wu Zetian certainly won't let it go. She started her fifth murder on the way to the empire. In 675 AD, Li Hong died suddenly on her way to the Union Palace with her parents. At that time, many people thought that Wu Hou had poisoned him. The emperor was very sad, so he was called "Zundi" and was buried in Gong Ling, where he held a funeral and the emperor gave him a gift.
The sixth murder in Li Xian.
After Li Hongzhang's death, his younger brother Li Xian succeeded to the throne. I have read Purple Tongzhi Sword, Shangshu and Li Ji since I was a child in Li Xian. Never forget anything. He was once named King Yong, and Emperor Gao liked Li Xian very much. Li Xian is smart, studious and decisive, and enjoys a certain reputation among scholars. He organized a group of famous Confucian scholars to annotate The Analects. Although praised by his father, it also aroused his mother's suspicion, because the Book of the Later Han Dynasty contains historical events in which the later Han regime fell into the hands of the queen and consorts, which is suspected of mocking current politics. Two years later, the emperor changed Yuan to a hanging furnace, and Wu Zetian visited Luoyang, the eastern capital, and ordered Li Xian to supervise the country. During his supervision of China, Li Xian handled things wisely and was very popular with North Korean ministers.
The more capable the son is, the more difficult it will be to control in the future, and the greater the threat to his manor. This is unacceptable to Wu Zetian. Coupled with the repeated provocations of the minion Ming Chongzhen, Wu Zetian gradually sprouted the idea of abolishing Li Xian. She wrote many books to exhort her son, and two books to Li Xian, The History of the Later Han Dynasty and The Political Model of Shaoyang, to learn the way of loyalty and filial piety. She also "wrote several books to be responsible". This book implies a condemnation. Li Xian was born smart. Of course, he saw the secret, so the contradiction between mother and child became more and more serious. Ming Chongxi was killed by robbers on the road. Wu Zetian suspected that Li Xian was the mastermind of the robbery, but it was fruitless for several months.
Disappointed with her mother's behavior, Li Xian gave up on herself. He began to flirt with women and indulge himself. Wu Zetian summoned Luoyang and sent Xue, Pei Yan and Gao to search the East Palace. Three people found hundreds of pieces of soap armour in the East Palace, which induced Zhao Daosheng to report the prince and forced Li Xian to murder Chongming Yan. Then Wu Zetian put forward the word "putting righteousness above family loyalty" and planned to kill Li Xian. Qin Shihuang begged his son to abolish Li Xian as Shu Ren, lived in seclusion in a room, and soon moved to Bazhou, 2300 miles from the capital.
However, Li Xian, who was unable to make a comeback, did not reassure Wu Zetian, because he once wrote a biography of the dutiful son: "You plant melons under the yellow stage, and ripe melons give birth to leaves. Pick a good melon, and then the melon will be born. Three picks are ok, and four picks bring vines back. " This poem is similar to Cao Zhi's seven-step poem, suggesting that the mother is cruel to her own flesh and blood, and it is widely spread in the local area. Maybe she is used to killing sand, or Li Xian's ability and influence are too threatening. Wu Zetian decided to kill for the sixth time and eradicate all threats that dare to provoke. So she sent Qiu to Bazhou to commit suicide. He also dismissed Qiu as a secretariat. After a while, things gradually subsided and Qiu was called General. Only then did the court know that Wu Zetian had killed Li Xian.
At this point, after decades of "success for me, failure for me" policy, Wu Zetian finally mastered all the capital needed to change the dynasty, and it was only a matter of time before a female emperor appeared.