Wu Zetian was notoriously brutal in Chinese history, and in order to consolidate her power, she did not hesitate to assassinate her flesh and blood relatives to death. Such a blood-thickened kinship was still so, not to mention those ministers who were attacked by Wu Zetian.
Almost all the officials of the dynasty were affected, including a prime minister named Pei Yan. He and Wu Zetian once stood on the united front in terms of interests, and then parted ways for many reasons, and Pei Yan ended up with a tragic death.
The context of his death is interesting, when the word "Green Goose" was written in a letter, and then he was punished by Wu Zetian's death penalty. At first glance, these two words look very simple, as if there are no excessive words.
The Wen and Wu officials could not understand it until Wu Zetian dispelled their doubts: You take the words apart and read them! So what do these two words mean? How did Wu Zetian and Pei Yan disagree? Next, let's delve into the story of two people.
Wu Zetian was at the pinnacle
Wu Zetian's ability to enter the palace as a concubine is definitely related to her outstanding beauty. My father's generation did help the royal family to make many contributions, but it did not allow Li Shimin to use it so much, so he was in a state of high or low. It did not take long for Wu Zetian to enter the palace and gain the favor of the emperor, but the relationship between the two did not deepen further, but suddenly stopped.
At this time, Li Shimin was quite old, and after lying in bed for a period of time, Wu Zetian and Li Zhi had an ambiguous relationship. Two people are about the same age and have a lot of common language, so it makes sense to be able to walk together.
Li Shimin died, li zhi became a new generation of emperors, he disregarded the opposition of the people to bring Wu Zetian back to the palace, and the two of them also jointly conceived several children. In order to show his love for Wu Zetian, Li Zhi made her son the crown prince, who would need to inherit the royal throne in the future.
At that time, Pei Yan was also quietly rising, and unlike some family ministers, Pei Yan was able to have such achievements and his efforts, and was a veritable genius. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Pei Yan gradually rose to the position of prime minister, with extremely high power above ten thousand people under one person.
Later, When Li Xian ascended to the throne, the many things he did during his reign made the ministers very unpleasant, and it was obvious that he was an emperor who had not experienced major events, and his ambition was insufficient and his ability was not enough. The most infuriating thing was Li Xian's words of using the throne as a threat, which made Pei Yan feel helpless, and finally decided to hand over the choice to Wu Zetian.
Obviously, Wu Zetian needed to climb up through the ladder given by Pei Yan, and she immediately supported Li Dan to the throne and became another monarch. Pei Yan originally thought that if there could be a more obedient emperor, he did not expect that these actions of his would actually speed up Wu Zetian's sharp weapon to strengthen his power.
Pei Yanwu Zetian parted ways
Wu Zetian's power grew higher and higher, and she became the top person of the Tang Dynasty, and the things she did behind her back gradually attracted the attention of the ministers, including Pei Yan, who was the prime minister. The differences between the two people in political opinions are getting bigger and bigger, and sometimes Pei Yan regrets that he should not support Wu Zetian, one wrong step at a time, and finally caused this situation.
Gradually, Wu Zetian became murderous towards Pei Yan, because his position as prime minister was so powerful that he could not easily move his hands, so he acted privately, waiting for the day when he would seize his handle.
After realizing Wu Zetian's actions, Pei Yan began his next move. At that time, Luo Binwang and others were secretly persuading him to join the camp in order to strengthen the ranks of the opposition to Wu Zetian's rule. In fact, Pei Yan originally did not have such a thought, although he had to be pressured by Wu Zetian every day, but the position of prime minister was too important to retreat easily.
It can be said that if Wu Zetian did not have the heart to kill him, Pei Yan would definitely not join the camp of Luo Binwang. After the "rebellion", Pei Yan became a veritable internal response, and the most important job was to transmit intelligence and accumulate it to deal a fatal blow to Wu Zetian.
In order for this plan to proceed smoothly, Pei Yan tried to write a letter to send out. However, before the envelope could be successfully delivered out of the palace, it was intercepted by Wu Zetian halfway through, and his situation was difficult.
It turned out that Wu Zetian had already set his sights on Pei Yan, and after she got this letter, she opened it and read it carefully, and there was only the word "green goose". On the surface, these are just ordinary two words, and there is no special meaning. Unfortunately, Pei Yan's opponent Wu Zetian is also a master of playing words, and she can see at a glance that this is just a word game!
Pei Yan was killed for the word green goose
When he said he was done, Wu Zetian immediately sent someone to capture Pei Yan and immediately asked for a beheading. This incident caused quite a stir, especially the ministers in the court who watched Wu Zetian's color all day long, and they were even more panicked.
Over time, it is inevitable that some witty remarks will be produced, which have already caused a lot of impact on Wu Zetian. In order to alleviate the confusion of the situation, she decided to stand up and analyze the content to the ministers: you will know the meaning of these two words by taking these two words apart.
The two words of green goose are "ten", "two", "month", "I", "self", "and", which means that when I naturally meet in December, and after merging with Luo Binwang and his people inside and outside, I can overthrow The rule of Wu Zetian!
Seeing this, the civil and military officials finally closed their gossip, Pei Yan was buried in his own brilliant life, and indeed he could not complain about others. Of course, this so-called word game came from Wu Zetian's mouth, and it was already well known that she wanted to kill Pei Yan. No one can guarantee whether she will take this opportunity to make up a nonsense and put Pei Yan to death.
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But the final result was that Pei Yan could not withstand the imperial power, and the power in Wu Zetian's hands was too strong, and it was almost nonsense to try to take the imperial power from him. And Pei Yan's death also gave many ministers in the DPRK a wake-up call, and opposing Wu Zetian was equivalent to opposing death!
So far, Wu Zetian has stabilized her position in the Tang Dynasty, and no one can shake her power anymore, which can be regarded as the height of an empress. As for Pei Yan, if he hadn't written the word Green Goose, would the ending of his life have been completely different? In fact, a good ending is not very realistic, after all, he offended Wu Zetian and was doomed to die a long time ago.
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