Queen Wang was born in a noble family in Bingzhou (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Grandfather used to be a three-pin official, and his father was also a secretariat and a four-pin official. He was virtuous, smart and handsome since he was a child. Emperor Taizong's aunt, Princess Tong, married the Wangs. Seeing that the girl of the Wangs is beautiful and smart, she recommended it to her nephew. At the suggestion of his aunt, Emperor Taizong married his son Li Zhi. When Li Zhi was a prince, Wang was a crown princess. The relationship between husband and wife is very good, but Wang has never been able to have children, which makes Li Zhi very uneasy and sorry. So Li Zhi drifted away from Wang and fell in love with Xiao Liangdi. Li Zhi proclaimed himself emperor, and after a grand ceremony of accession to the throne, Princess Yuan was established as the queen by convention. Although the queen is the first in the six hospitals, she still gets little love from her husband. Xiao Liangdi was promoted to a higher level and was appointed as Shu Fei. Tang Gaozong still loves her deeply. This made the queen very unhappy and jealous, and she always wanted to take away her husband's contribution to Xiao Fei. Soon, the opportunity finally came.
May 26th, the first year of Yonghui (650), was the anniversary of the death of Emperor Taizong. Queen Wang came to Ganye Temple with her husband, palace princess and minister of civil and military affairs to propose a toast to her late father-in-law. My father-in-law's defense before his death is naturally among the ranks. After the ceremony, Queen Wang saw a beautiful young woman walking towards her husband and pouring out her feelings of parting. Tears welled up in her eyes, and her sobs touched the audience, aroused Tang Gaozong's infinite love and made him cry. Looking at this scene with deep old feelings, a trick emerged in the queen's heart.
This young woman who made Tang Gaozong emotional was the later famous Wu Zetian. She is from Wenshui, Bing (now East of Wenshui County, Shanxi Province). Wu Shihuo, his father, made a fortune in the timber business in his early years and got to know Li Yuan who stayed in Taiyuan at that time. When Ethan rose up against the Sui Dynasty, he was appointed as the general of the marching house and went to Chang 'an with the army. After Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, as one of the founding heroes, he was appointed minister of the Ministry of Industry, with the third rank and the third title. At that time, society attached great importance to gate valves. Because Wu Shihuo is a businessman, he is still discriminated against by the upper class, even though he is a third-rate official.
Wu Zetian's mother, Yang, was born in a noble family. Her father was an imperial clan of the Sui Dynasty and once served as prime minister. Is a combination with Yang, or personally protect the media. Because of this special reason, Wu Zetian was able to mingle with the upper class since she was a child. But at that time, because of the level of a person's family, it was based on his father's family background. So she is often despised by people. This formed her unique personality. She longs for supreme power, and she wants to change her family status.
In the tenth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign (636), his eldest grandson died. The next year, Emperor Taizong heard that Wu Zetian was beautiful, so he called her into the palace, made her a gifted scholar, and named her "Wu Mei". Wu Zetian was only fourteen years old this year. Mother Yang heard that her daughter was elected to the palace, knowing that this meant the separation of mother and daughter, and she wept bitterly. But Wu Zetian thinks this is a great opportunity to make a name for himself. Instead, she kindly comforted her mother and said, "It is a good blessing for me to accompany the son of heaven. Why does my mother cry! "
From fourteen to twenty-six, Wu Zetian has been accompanying Emperor Taizong, who is twenty-four years older than himself, in the harem. These twelve years of youth have quietly passed away in the palace. Emperor Taizong liked her very much and often took her with him. However, it is just to treat her as a flesh-and-blood plaything for her own enjoyment. Wu Zetian wants to change her destiny through the owner of the highest power.
In the twelfth year of the harem, Wu Zetian has always been a talented person with four qualities. This is a far cry from her pursuit. However, in his later years, Emperor Taizong was sickly and it seemed impossible to rely on him. Unwilling to be lonely, Wu Zetian turned her attention to the next generation of Li Tang Dynasty. Prince Li Zhi came to visit the sick. She hooked up with the future emperor with her own color. In this way, two young people of similar age but different generations have an unspeakable feeling for each other. However, in that era of extreme moral decay, they can only secretly love or cheat in their hearts, and there is no other way to go. After the death of Emperor Taizong, all unmarried concubines were sent to Ganye Temple as nuns. Of course, Wu Zetian is no exception. She was forced to shave her hair to accompany the ancient Buddha statue in Deng Qing.
Now, when we meet unexpectedly, Tang Gaozong can't help but feel dejected when she sees that this beautiful woman who once made her emotional has no hair and a sad face. Wu Zetian thought of her ill-fated, but even more tragic. This scene, the queen Wang saw in her eyes and was happy in her heart. After returning to the palace, she secretly sent someone to tell Wu Zetian to keep her hair and persuaded her husband to bring Wu Zetian into the palace. The purpose of her doing this is to let Wu Zetian enter the palace and take away Xiao Fei's special favor, so as to relieve her hatred of Xiao Fei.
Queen Wang's idea is exactly what Tang Gaozong wants. Soon, Wu Zetian returned to the palace, and was named Zhao Yi by Tang Gaozong (a second-class official). Their long-cherished wish finally came true. Wu Zetian is very clever and skilled. When she first returned to the palace, she was very humble to the queen and soon gained her trust. Queen Wang often praised Wu Zetian's talent and character in front of Tang Gaozong. The queen's wish soon came true, and Tang Gaozong no longer loved Phillips. However, Tang Gaozong doted on Wu Zetian. The two were inseparable soon. Queen Wang never dreamed that her tragic fate came step by step from this time.
Tang Gaozong's love for the Queen and Xiao Fei was taken away by Wu Zetian.
Thus, the love struggle of love triangle began.
Three people scrambled to show themselves in front of Tang Gaozong, trying to blame others for their mistakes. However, Queen Wang and Xiao Shufei looked pale and powerless in front of the clever and witty Wu Zetian.
When Wu Zetian saw the Queen, she was down-to-earth and seldom talked with the attendants around her. Her uncle's secretariat ordered Liu Shi not to bow and scrape to the palace concubines when he went in and out of the palace. Therefore, she went to pick up the indecent photos of the queen and Liu's attendants, made friends with imperial secretaries, and often gave them the rewards she received in order to win their support and protection. In this way, those who benefited from the palace became the eyes and ears of Wu Zetian, Xiao Shufei and Tang Gaozong. Therefore, Wu Zetian knows everything about Wang and He.
Seeing that her niece fell out of favor, Liu was worried that she would lose her status as a queen, so she asked the Queen Wang to give birth to a boy and a concubine as her son, named him, and persuaded him to become a prince. Although Tang Gaozong did what the Queen wanted, she still loved Wu Zetian. In order to test Tang Gaozong, Liu Shi offered to resign as secretary of the Secretariat. Who knows, Tang Gaozong is not polite, pull him out of Zhongshu Province, and let him go to Shangshutai as an official department minister. In this way, the queen was hit for the first time.
The cunning Wu Zetian saw that Tang Gaozong just doted on herself and didn't mean to replace the queen. Therefore, she has a vicious trick in her heart to blame the king and queen. This year, Wu Zetian gave birth to a daughter. Queen Wang came to visit her out of courtesy and went to the crib to tease the girl. Who knows the queen just left, but Wu Zetian secretly strangled her own daughter, then tucked herself in as usual, and casually left the crib, talking and laughing with the ladies-in-waiting. After Tang Gaozong returned to the palace, she smiled and spoiled, showing her husband his lovely daughter. Tang Gaozong lifted the quilt with excited fatherly love and was shocked to see his lovely daughter die there. Wu Zetian howled. Tang Gaozong urged his entourage, saying that only the queen had been to the back room and seen the baby, and no one else had. Tang Gaozong was furious, thinking that the queen had lost her virginity because of jealousy and killed her daughter. Wu Zetian took the opportunity to embellish and speak ill of many queens. As it is difficult for the queen to understand this matter, it is useless to deny it. Since then, Tang Gaozong has had the idea of abolishing the Queen.
Wu Zetian finally got the chance to be queen. At that time, she knew very well that it was not a trivial matter to abolish the queen. It is possible to gain the support of the elders and the recognition of the elders of the Li clan. So she suggested that Tang Gaozong consult with her uncle Sun Chang Wuji.
In order to win over Sun Chang Wuji, Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian personally came to intercede, named three sons of Sun Chang Wuji as doctors, and sent ten carts of gold, silver and jewelry. However, Sun Chang Wuji said nothing at all. Wu Zetian has repeatedly asked her mother Yang to personally go to Wuji's home to pay tribute to intercede. Sun Chang promise also don't promise. Wu Zetian also invited Xu, a minister of the Ministry of Rites, to visit the house many times to persuade Wuji to fulfill this matter, but Wuji reprimanded him face to face.
Because the uncle who was the prime minister didn't agree to make Wu Zetian queen, Tang Gaozong had to forget about it for a while, and crowned Li Hong and Li Xian, two babbling children born to Wu Zetian, as kings respectively.
In order to attack the queen again, Wu Zetian reported that the queen and her mother Liu * * * were swearing and won. Tang Gaozong listened to Wu Zetian's slanderers, ordered the Liu family not to enter the palace, and demoted Liu to the secretariat of Chazhou.
In the sixth year of Yonghui (655), Sun Chang Wuji wrote a letter asking Tang Gaozong to demote Li Yifu, the official of Chinese calligraphy, as Bizhou Sima. Before the letter was sent, Li Yifu got the news and quickly asked his colleague Wang Dejian. Is Xu's nephew, and Li Yifu has been in collusion with Xu for a long time, so it is natural to help. He told Li Yifu that the emperor wanted to make Wu Queen, but he was afraid that the minister would not agree. If you can boldly write a strategy and propose that Wu be the queen and give the emperor a chance to express his opinions, then you will certainly turn disaster into pleasure. Li Yifu was overjoyed and decided to act immediately. I happened to be working the night shift in Zhongshu, so I went to replace him, took the opportunity to knock on the cabinet, and suggested abolishing the queen and changing Wu to be the queen. Tang Gaozong was very happy after his appearance. He immediately asked him to go for an interview, gave him a bucket of jewelry, and approved that he would not be demoted again. He was reinstated and continued to be a calligrapher in China. Wu Zetian was naturally overjoyed and secretly sent someone to thank her.
A stone stirs up a thousand waves. A piece of paper by Li Yifu caused an uproar in the ruling and opposition circles. The elders and ministers of the Wang clique waged a fierce struggle with the new politicians in Wu Pai. In order to frighten the opposition, Wu Zetian instigated Tang Gaozong to adopt a high-handed policy: first, Pei Xingjian was demoted from Chang 'an, and then Sun Chang Wuji, Li Ji, Yu Zhining, Chu Suiliang and others were summoned to express their opinions on abolition.
Li Ji, a crafty old scoundrel, knew it was difficult, so she called in sick. Wu Ji and other three people crustily skin of head entered the meeting place and said bluntly, "The queen of the king has no children, but Wu has children. I want to make Wu queen. What do you think? "
As the minister in charge of life, Chu Suiliang objected to it in person, saying, "The queen was born in a noble family, and the first emperor married your majesty. Besides, there's nothing wrong with the queen. How can it be abolished? "
Tang Gaozong regarded each other as lovers and sent them away.
The next day in court, Tang Gaozong mentioned the abolition of the Queen. Chu Suiliang said, "Even if your majesty wants to change the queen, he will choose a noble family; Wu Shi was born in poverty, how can he match it? In addition, as we all know, Wu was once the concubine of the late emperor. Now it is enough to put her in the palace and let her become Zhao Yi, which is valued by many people. Your majesty will make her queen. What will people say after ten thousand generations? "
This angered Tang Gaozong. He waved angrily and asked Chu Suiliang to step down.
Wu Zetian heard it behind the scenes and was even more furious. She was most afraid of being told that he had been the concubine of Emperor Taizong, so she hated Chu Suiliang. She shouted from behind the curtain, "Don't kill the dog quickly!" "
Sun Chang Wuji stepped forward to rescue Chu Suiliang.
A few days later, Tang Gaozong asked Li Ji again. Smooth Li Ji said a noncommittal sentence: "Abolish the queen, this is your majesty's family affairs, why ask outsiders?" This reminded Tang Gaozong, also let him see the flaw. It turned out that the elders and ministers were not monolithic, and Sikongli, who was in charge of military power, supported Wu as the queen. So he made up his mind to abolish the queen.
Good at observing time-varying and flattering, Xu was ordered by Wu Zetian to make propaganda for her. Xu spread it publicly in Zhongshu Province, saying, "The poor middle peasants who cultivate land want to exchange ten tons of wheat for their wives, not to mention the richest emperor in the world!" Wu Zetian wanted to improve herself by making such officials in China, and observed the reaction of courtiers. Courtiers all know that the intention of abolishing legislation is not only the wish of Wu Zetian, but also the idea of the emperor; Pei Xingjian and Chu Suiliang have both been demoted, so why bother asking for it? Therefore, most people dare not disagree. In this way, the time is ripe to abolish the queen.
On October 23, the sixth year of Yonghui (655), the book abolished the king and became the queen. Seven days later, Wu Zetian was made queen. On the first day of November, Si Zhao made him a knight, and all the officials from the civil and military departments went to Suyimen to congratulate him, calling the Chitose Queen three times. Women living at home and abroad enter the court. Hundreds of officials and married women appeared in front of the queen in history, and since then. In the first month of the following year, Prince Jong Li was abolished and named Liang Wang. Li Hong, the eldest son of Wu Zetian, was made a prince.
After Wu Zetian was made queen, she ascended to heaven step by step, which also means that the bitter fate of the jealous queen and Xiao Shufei with her suddenly slipped into the bottomless abyss. After the king and queen were abolished, they were imprisoned in the secret room of the harem. The secret room is surrounded by high walls, with no doors or windows. Only a small hole was opened in a small door to communicate with the food container. There are also people sent by Wu Zetian to watch the door. Trapped inside, they can't see the sun and the moon day and night, so they can only talk to each other all day in Lacrimosa.
One day, Tang Gaozong thought of the abandoned queen and Xiao Shufei, who had forgotten her love, and wanted to see her. In prison, Tang Gaozong came to the secret room. Seeing that the entrance guard was tight and only a small hole entered the diet, Tang Gaozong couldn't help but grieve for it. He stepped forward and said loudly, "Empress and Liangdi, are you all right? Are you safe now? " Queen Wang and Xiao Shufei heard the voice of the emperor, just outside the door. They were overjoyed and sobbed and said, "Your Majesty is fond of remembering the past and bringing my concubine back from the dead and seeing the sun and the moon again. This is a place to return to her heart. " Tang Gaozong was very sad, his eyes were dim, and he vowed: "I will deal with it!"
Wu Zetian immediately got a report from her confidant. When she left, she immediately sent someone to give the queen and each one hundred pounds and beat them to pieces. Then, they were ordered to cut off their hands and feet and put them in jars. Wu Zetian said bitterly, "Get Er Gui drunk!"
A few days later, two people in the wine jar were still alive, and Wu Zetian forced Tang Gaozong to give him a dead letter. The executioner was ordered to come to the cell and read the letter. The queen choked and said, "Your Majesty, for thousands of years, you will repay your kindness and die!" " It's Xiao Shufei's turn. After receiving the imperial edict, she vowed: "Wu's sycophantic behavior is over!" I want to be a cat and let Wu be a mouse. I should choke him in return! "
Wu Zetian had to quote Xiao Shufei's spell and ordered the harem not to have any more cats. For quite some time, Wu Zetian often dreamed of two people, long hair fluttering and bloody death. Wu Zetian hated it and asked Wu Zetian to kill evil. Soon, he moved to Penglai Palace, but he still often dreamed of them. Later, Wu Zetian simply moved to Luoyang and never returned to Chang 'an. In order to express her hatred for the two men, Wu Zetian ordered the king to be changed to python's and Xiao to Xiao's. Tang Zhongzong resumed his real name only after he acceded to the throne.