Wu Zetian was surrounded by controversy throughout her life, especially in her later years when a group of male favorites slowly entered her life. Shortly after the death of Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian had her first male favorite, Feng Xiaobao. Later, this chief male favorite offended Wu Zetian and was secretly killed. After Feng Xiaobao's death, brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong rose rapidly and became Wu Zetian's new favorites. At that time, Wu Zetian had entered her twilight years. She was suffering from illness and could not go to court for a long time. Her control over the government affairs declined. She regarded the two brothers as her eyes and ears. The two brothers gradually became involved in the government affairs, framed the prime minister Wei Yuanzhong, and not only had grudges with the court ministers , which also reversed the situation of Wu Zetian's return to Li Tang and the passing of the crown prince, which complicated the political situation and made the relationship between Wu Zetian's mother and son, and the relationship between the emperor and his ministers more tense than ever.
In order to allow the Zhang brothers to follow the news, Wu Zetian also ordered the establishment of the Konghe Mansion, and named Zhang Yizhi the Controller of Crane and Zhang Changzong as the Secretary Supervisor. In fact, this so-called Konghe Mansion was Wu Zetian's "harem". After the establishment of Konghe Mansion, the daily activities here were nothing more than drinking, feasting, and gambling. It seems that Wu Zetian wants to turn this Konghe Mansion into a fairy cave. This building surrounds the splendid Yaoguang Hall with carved beams and painted buildings, where Wu Zetian lived a life of arrogance and extravagance almost every day. Behind the Konghe Mansion is the mile-long Imperial Garden. There is a rectangular pond in the garden with two small islands, surrounded by flowers, trees, and beautifully carved archways and corridors. Later, a myth was fabricated, saying that Zhang Changzong was the ancient immortal prince Qiao in his previous life. In order to realize this Taoist fairy dream in the human world, Zhang Changzong wore a crane cloak, a Huayang scarf, and a cave flute in his hand, and walked around the garden astride the wooden crane. This made Wu Zetian who was watching on the side very happy.
In fact, most of the people in Konghe Mansion are young "transvestites". It is the young "transvestites" who make up Wu Zetian's "harem beauties" and satisfy Wu Zetian's wishes and desires. However, due to the widespread obscenity in Konghe Mansion, everyone in the government and the public looked sideways. It is said that at that time, a young man surnamed Wei gave a memorial to the court, openly claiming that because of the beauty of his private parts, he was qualified to enter the Konghe Mansion to serve as a worshipper. Zhu Jing, the minister of the DPRK, heard such dirty words and became furious. Feeling that as a minister, he had to speak up, he wrote to Wu Zetian: "I thought that your majesty could entertain himself even if he had the Zhang brothers. How could your majesty think that the two ministers are not enough and you must choose a beautiful young man? People in the whole court were already talking about it. I heard that Wei Houxiang showed off his extraordinary energy and openly asked to be appointed as a guard, and there was also..." After Wu Zetian read the memorial, he said to Zhu Jingze: "I love you for your hard work for the country, but I highly commend you. I don't know about this!"
Ever since Zhu Jingze and Empress Wu went to this meeting, Empress Wu has noticed that the ugly news of Konghe Mansion has been leaked. She felt that the name of Konghe Mansion should be changed, so she simply changed it to "Fengchen Mansion". But half of her time between banquets and banquets was spent in bed. At this time, due to Wu Zetian's old age, most of the court affairs were handled by the Zhang brothers. The two men were in power, and even Wu Zetian's nephews Wu Chengsi, Wu Sansi and others were vying to support them. . In the inner palace, Wu Zetian had sex with the Zhang brothers wantonly, which aroused the excitement of Shangguan Wan'er, Wu Zetian's personal secretary. Shangguan Wan'er was born voluptuous, beautiful and light. In addition, she was born with intelligence, and her memory could be remembered. She had extraordinary literary talent and could write thousands of words, especially her calligraphy, which imitated hairpin flowers. Most of the imperial edicts issued by Wu Zetian were written by Shangguan Wan'er. Wu Zetian relied on Shangguan Wan'er as a confidant, and even did not avoid Shangguan Wan'er when having sex on the bed with brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong.