The prisoner of the Tang Dynasty left a poem, which revealed a secret of Wu Zetian
On May 26th of the 23rd year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin, a male master of the first generation, was seriously ill and died in the Hanfeng Hall of Cuiwei Palace, at the age of 52. On his deathbed, Li Shimin appointed ministers Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang as assistant ministers. He called Crown Prince Li Zhi and Crown Princess Wang to the bedside, and said to Changsun Wuji and Chu Suifu Yuliang, "I entrust this lovely wife to your family" and asked them to take care of the Li Zhi couple with all their loyalty and wisdom.
This Wang is the queen of Tang Gaozong in the future. Queen Wang was born in Taiyuan Wang, a wealthy family at that time, and her family was an official for generations. Queen Wang is not only beautiful and moving, but also gentle and virtuous. She is a typical wife and mother-oriented woman. Originally, her life seemed to have a bright future, but she had a bad time and met another woman, Wu Zetian, which turned her life around.
Wu Zetian is a woman, but she has ambition and courage that ordinary men can't match. At that time, her status was just a general zhaoyi, and she was not even qualified to sit down when she met the queen. However, Wu Zetian has a power desire that ordinary people can't reach. The position of the queen of the king's sixth house has become her first goal.
After some fierce intrigue, the docile queen and the fiery Xiao Shufei were defeated by her, and Wu Zetian became the queen of the Tang Dynasty as she wished. Wu Zetian became a queen, and since then, she has been officially sidelined in the imperial power system of the Tang Dynasty, and she has the qualification and opportunity to intervene in state affairs, which is one step closer to her ultimate goal of dominating the world.
However, on Wu Zetian's road to becoming emperor, the biggest obstacle is not the Queen Wang, but the sons of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. Because according to the practice of imperial power transfer, Li Zhi will choose one of his princes as the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty after a hundred years. In this way, Wu Zetian can only be a queen mother who listens to politics, which is obviously far from satisfying Wu Zetian's ambition.
her goal is not only to hold the imperial power in her arms, but also to be a female emperor in a justified and upright manner. In order to get to this point, Li Zhi's princes became an obstacle that she had to remove. Li Zhi * * * has eight sons, four of whom are Wu Zetian's own. The other four, Crown Prince Jong Li, the second son Li Xiao, the third son Li Shangjin and the fourth son Li Sujie, were born to other concubines.
among several princes who were not born to Wu Zetian, the second son of the emperor, Li Xiao, died young and escaped a bullet. Jong Li, the Crown Prince, was deposed by Tang Gaozong by Wu Zetian in the year of Xianqingyuan and sent to Guizhou. In 664, he was given death for treason. In 69, Wu Zetian instructed Wu Chengsi, a confidant, to falsely accuse Li Shangjin, the third son of the Emperor, and Li Sujie, the fourth son of the Emperor, of rebellion. As a result, Li Sujie was granted death and Li Shangjin committed suicide.
The temptation of imperial power made Wu Zetian fall into a state of madness, and even spared her own flesh and blood. Her own sons have also become a thorn in her side, and she will try to get rid of them quickly. Li Hong, the son of Wu Zetian, was established as the Crown Prince in the year of Emperor Qingyuan. In April of last year, Li Hong was poisoned by Wu Zetian in Luoyang while accompanying his parents on an inspection trip. He was only 23 years old.
In the second year of Shang Yuan, Li Xian, the second son of Wu Zetian, was appointed as the Crown Prince. Li Xian was smart and alert, and immediately realized that the crisis was coming, and he was on edge from then on. The coming will always come. In the fourth year of Yifeng, Li Xian was deposed by Wu Zetian for rebellion, and in the second year of Yongchun, he was sent to the lonely Bazhou. According to Wu Zetian's usual trick, prisoners are often assassinated by various means after arriving in exile.
Li Xian, who became a prisoner, knew that his death was near, and wrote a sad and touching poem "Melon Ci in Huangtai": "When a melon is planted in Huangtai, the ripe fruit leaves. Pick the melon to make it good, then pick it to make it thin. Three picks are still acceptable, and four picks hold the vines. " This poem has only 3 words. It uses metaphorical brushwork to insinuate that Wu Zetian did not hesitate to kill her own flesh and blood for imperial power, thus obliterating human nature, exposing her cruel and tyrannical inner world and permanently recording Wu Zetian's trip to kill her parents and children for imperial power.
Shortly after Li Xian arrived in Bazhou, she was forced to commit suicide by Wu Zetian's confidant Qiu. This poem was widely circulated at that time. Perhaps Wu Zetian also saw it and was touched, and stopped killing her own flesh and blood.
In the first year of Guangzhai, Li Xian, the third son of Wu Zetian, was sent to Fangzhou after being emperor for a few days, and Li Dan, the fourth son, was deposed after being emperor for a few days, but they were all able to save their lives in the end. Under the cover of the aura of ancient imperial power, there are many shocking sins and darkness hidden.