On this issue, many people speculate that Li Zhi was raised by Emperor Taizong himself when he was a child, and he lived in a loving father and strict mother's living environment. As an eternal monarch who ruled the world, Emperor Taizong naturally had strict standards for his son. Therefore, Li Zhi, who deeply feels the lack of fatherly love, will inevitably seek more maternal love from her eldest grandson to make up for her inner deficiency.
After the death of his eldest grandson, Li Zhi transferred this Oedipus complex to Wu Mei, the closest imperial secretary around Taizong. Therefore, the emperor's feelings for Wu Zetian are not just simple love between men and women. It is biased to say that the emperor who is widely circulated among the people loves Wu Zetian's beauty and dares to take his father's daughter as the queen.
In the early days of his accession to the throne, the Queen Wang and the Emperor were intrigued with each other for the sake of the emperor's favor and the establishment of the national treasury, and the Emperor was very angry. At this moment, he happened to meet the once identical Wu Zetian in Kanye Temple, and was immediately attracted by Wu Zetian's gentleness, affection and understanding.
Wu Zetian not only gave Gao Zong great spiritual comfort, but also had a profound mind, great personality charm and political skills. After being helped back to the palace by the queen, she won the hearts of the palace, quickly removed the obstacles that prevented her from monopolizing power in the harem, and actively assisted the Emperor Gaozong to launch a political struggle with the old ministers of the previous dynasties, gradually cleaning up the consorts above the imperial power represented by Sun Chang Wuji and Chu Suiliang, helping Li Zhi get rid of the shackles of courtiers and continue the prosperity of Zhenguan rule.
Therefore, in this sense, Li Zhi's love for Wu Zetian lies in her dependence on Wu Shi in politics. She did something for him that she always wanted to do but dared not do.
Does Wu Zetian love Li Zhi?
Without Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi, a generation of empress Wu Zetian might just be a nun who often went to Kanye Temple with a green light to read Buddha at the beginning, and never had a chance to show her ambition on the political stage exclusive to men since ancient times. Therefore, she secretly thought that Wu Zetian loved Li Zhi.
Of course she loves him, just because he met her when she was young, and there is no speculation about the innocent feelings of the two young people; Just because he was an emperor and there were many beautiful women in the harem, he still did not forget his old love and took her back to the palace from Ganye Temple. Just because he deposed the queen for her, changed her into a palace and allowed her to participate in state affairs; Just because he named her son Chu Jun, he was bent on passing on the most important throne to their children? Wu Zetian loves Li Zhi for many reasons. However, if one day she doesn't love him, there is only one reason: she wants to get rid of the bondage of this man, sit alone and make great achievements in government affairs on her own.
As early as when Wang Guigui was the queen, Wu Zetian deceived her lover with a bitter plan to kill the princess, and then successfully got rid of the queen and these two stumbling blocks, and successfully ascended the throne of the emperor. Therefore, in fact, a long time ago, Wu Zetian's love for Emperor Gaozong was accompanied by political factors, not so pure.
In the late period of Li Zhi, Wu Shi, the queen he "promoted", was both respectful and afraid. Men's love for women itself has a major premise of "gentleness, meekness and easy control". In other words, once a man is afraid of his woman, it is difficult to talk about loving her. Wu Zetian, who is in the environment of emperor's struggle, must be the same in her heart.
Sadly, the once loving couple became strange partners in their later years. However, Wu Zetian is a woman with political ambitions and a strong woman with lofty aspirations. How can she just walk around in the small circle of love between men and women?