For agricultural production, then Heaven also attaches great importance to it. She said: "The foundation of the founding of the country must be agriculture", "Agriculture leads to cultivation, cultivation leads to more millet, and more millet leads to wealth". She stipulates that local officials who can "reclaim land and have surplus grain at home" can be promoted; "The government is too harsh and the household registration is shifting." "Those that are light will be degraded and even replaced at inappropriate times." In this way, during her reign, agriculture and handicrafts have been greatly developed. The population is increasing. According to the statistics at that time, the number of households in Yonghui was 3.8 million, and it gradually increased to 6150,000 when he died in the first year of Shenlong, almost doubling. Only in this way can we explain the development of agricultural economy in this period.
During Japan's administration, it made great efforts to resist foreign invasion, safeguard border peace and improve relations with neighboring countries. The invasion and harassment of Tubo nobles were resolutely resisted and countered by heaven. Longevity for two years (692), she sent general Wang Xiaojie to defeat Tubo, recapture four towns in Anxi, and move the capital to Anxi and Qiuci. Later, the northern court was established in Tingzhou, which consolidated the northwest frontier defense and opened the once-interrupted "Silk Road" to Central Asia. During her several years in power, she adhered to the policy of land reclamation by border troops. During the fiscal year, Lou Deyi, governor of Chafeng Prefecture, "plowed a million crops, and no soldier was spared." In the first year of Dazu (70 1 year), Guo was appointed as the governor of Liangzhou, and insisted on farming the fields for five years. "The rations can last for decades." Wu's large-scale long-term reclamation. It has a positive effect on the development of border areas, reducing people's traffic burden and consolidating border defense.
Of course, during Wu Zhao's nearly half-century in power, there were also many mistakes. She used cruel officials and rewarded informers. Let many corrupt officials run amok for a while. They extorted confessions by torture, killed innocent people and framed others, which caused many civilian military commanders to suffer injustice. Although it played a role in consolidating the regime of Wu Zhou, the contradictions within the ruling group intensified, and everyone feared for himself, which would inevitably affect the governance of the country and the development of production. She let go of the election of officials and sharpened the bureaucratic group. Enlargement and bureaucratic expansion will inevitably increase the burden on the people. In his later years, he was overjoyed and lived in luxury, consuming a lot of money and labor. This has affected and delayed the development of productive forces to varying degrees. However, these mistakes and faults are, after all, tributaries of Wu Zetian's political career. As the only female emperor in the history of China, she was able to overcome all difficulties. During the half century's rule, she formed a strong centralization, social stability and economic development, inherited the "rule of Zhenguan", created a "prosperous era of Kaiyuan", eliminated the disadvantages of the times, developed production, improved the imperial examination, broke the concept of the door, appointed talents in an eclectic way, followed the historical trend and made drastic reforms. Every achievement of Wu Zetian is accompanied by contradictions. As Mr. Linda said, "Every ray of sunshine casts a shadow." In the more than 1000 years after Wu Zetian's death, people's evaluation of her has changed repeatedly. For example, the evaluation of her in the early Tang Dynasty was more positive; Since the revival of Confucianism in the middle Tang Dynasty and the ideological dominance of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty in China, the evaluation of Wu Zetian has been declining since the Southern Song Dynasty. Wang Fuzhi, a famous thinker in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, commented on Wu Zetian: "Ghosts and gods are hard to tolerate, and subjects are resentful"; In modern times, due to the rise of feminist movement, people gave Wu Zetian the color of women's liberation.
In 705, Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi took advantage of Wu Zetian's old age and critical illness, supported the restoration of Zhongzong, and respected Wu Shi as the "Great Sage Emperor". In the winter of the same year, Wu Shi died at the age of 82, and his will said, "Play the emperor and call him the Great Sage Queen." Li Bai listed Wu Zetian as one of the "Seven Saints" in the Tang Dynasty.
According to Mr. Lin Yutang's The True Story of Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian conspired to kill 93 people in his life (not including his implicated relatives). Among them, there are 23 of her own relatives, 34 of the Tang imperial clan and 36 of the court ministers (not including her lackeys). How many of them are damned and how many are unjust cases; How many were really harmed by Wu Zetian and how many were framed by others? This account has to be left to historians to work out slowly. Meng Man said that Wu Zetian was the Tang Dynasty, and there are some records.