Why did Wu Zetian want to build a wordless monument, because whether it was at that time or in later generations, the criticism of Wu Zetian has always been very large, as a generation of empresses, she knows very well in her heart that the gossip in people's hearts can never be forbidden, simply get a wordless monument and be told to go.
There are often people in history, as long as a person is a bad person, then all the bad things are done by this person, and with the passage of time, this situation becomes more and more obvious, looking at historical figures, first ask whether they are good people or bad people, but if they are bad people, the dirty water can be poured far and continuously.
In ancient society, what is more suitable than Wu Zetian, who is the yin and yang of the muji sichen, to be the target of dirty water, so from ancient times to the present, from the official to the folk, all kinds of black materials about Wu Zetian have emerged in an endless stream.
The one who hurt Wu Zetian the most, and the one that can best explain Wu Zetian's cruelty and ruthlessness, or even the devil, is the incident of Li Hong, the crown prince, so whether Li Hong was killed by Wu Zetian in the end.
Mothers are precious to their children
Wu Zetian's life can be described as a roller coaster, and a very important turning point in her life is the birth of Li Hong, which is an important chip for her to compete for the position of empress.
At the same time, the name Li Hong, itself, was also a prophecy of Taoism at that time, that is, taishang Laojun went down this time, and the name that people saw was called Li Hong, which showed that Wu Zetian gave the child this name, which exposed her ambition and unlimited expectations for the future.
Empress Wu Zetian's position is stable, her power is expanding step by step, and the most powerful guarantee is this son, as long as the son is there, she will be a stable empress, and may even be the empress dowager in the future.
Moreover, Li Hong was cultivated as a future successor since he was a child, and although Li Hong only lived for a short period of twenty-four years in his life, he had seven experiences of supervising the country, and it can be seen from here that both Li Zhi and Wu Zetian regard Li Zhi as the future successor of the empire.
Moreover, in order to allow Li Hong to succeed smoothly, the chancellor of the Tang Empire was also a subordinate official of the Prince's Mansion, which was designed to better supervise the country, so that when the prince supervised the country, there would be no conflict with the existing prime minister's team.
Li Zhi's health has always been bad, this design is conducive to the smooth transfer of power in the empire, but unfortunately, Li Zhi is not in good health, and I did not expect that Li Hong's health was even worse.
Once Li Hong was seriously ill again, Li Zhi said affectionately, after you were cured, you immediately passed the throne to you, but I did not expect that this time Li Hong suddenly died, and there were rumors everywhere that It was Wu Zetian who killed Li Hong, and a strong evidence is that there was a contradiction between mother and son regarding the incident of Xiao Shufei's daughter.
The mystery of the marriage of two princesses
Xiao Shufei was a victim of Wu Zetian's harem struggle and one of Wu Zetian's defeated enemies in the early days, she died long ago along with Empress Wang, but Xiao Shufei's two daughters were still alive.
One day, Li Hong, who was in charge of the country, actually walked to the court without any trouble, so he inadvertently saw his two half-sisters, both in their thirties and not yet married.
Li Hong, who had a kind heart, immediately wrote to his mother, hoping to allow the two of them to marry, which could be regarded as anger and rebellion, when Wu Zetian was still very weak, he wasted a lot of energy to move to the two mountains in front of him, Xiao Shufei and Empress Wang.
Wu Zetian was angry, a big stroke of the pen, to marry someone can be, then is not there a doorman, just marry the doorman directly, history has always written a big book on this matter, once to render the contradiction between Li Hong and Wu Zetian.
But this matter is actually not so exaggerated, Wu Zetian, as a mature politician, will not hurt the killer for two people who are completely without threat.
The doorman is not false, but it is not an ordinary doorman, they are the doorman of the palace called Yi Wei, is the emperor's close bodyguard, this is not who wants to be able to be, must be a grandfather or father has been a high official to enter the palace as this Yi Wei, to protect the emperor's safety, that is at least three generations of ancestors, and the future is also good When Li Yuan just entered the career, he was also the emperor's doorman.
Moreover, there is a historical record that these two janitors also served as officials in their ancestors, among which the grandfather of this Princess Yiyang's horse Quanyi was a concubine of the Tang Taizong Qin Dynasty, the Duke of Fenglu, who could marry the descendants of the duke, as the daughter of Concubine Xiao Shufei, who failed in the harem struggle, which was already a very good treatment.
Later, the tombstone of Princess Xuancheng was preserved, and according to the inscription, Princess Xuancheng died in the second year of Tang Xuanzong's kaiyuan (714), at the age of sixty-six, and thus regressed, when Princess Xuancheng was twenty-three years old.
It can be seen that it is not more than thirty and not married, let alone more than forty in the New Book of Tang, these are exaggerated contradictions between Li Hong and Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian does not have so much hatred for Xiao Shufei's descendants, so the contradiction with Li Hong is not particularly prominent.
Luck is important
Success sometimes requires luck, prince Li Hong has been made a prince since he was a child, and he has also had many experiences in supervising the country, so there has always been a small group around Li Hong, who are staunch defenders of the interests of the prince.
If Li Hong really took over, it was indeed very tricky for Wu Zetian, but unfortunately, Li Hong eventually fell ill and died in front of Li Zhi, and many people said that Wu Zetian was poisoned, which was obviously illogical.
Before Wu Zetian, there had been no female emperor, but there were already many examples of women's power holding the highest power, that is, coming to the court as the goddess of the empress, which was the safest and safest way to do it, Wu Zetian really did not need to take such a big risk to poison Li Hong, and it was also very fragrant to be an empress.
Besides, the emperors are not as good as a generation, Wu Zetian can even get Li Zhi to settle, from childhood to watch Li Zhi grow up, she can also get it done, familiar with history Wu Zetian must know that Emperor Wu of Han is a great talent, but he was suppressed by his grandmother for ten years, and when his grandmother died, he took full power.
And the ancient emperor and empress dowager, there are super many people around to serve, the prince also has old ministers around him to escort him, if you want to poison the prince, the risk is too great, in case it is discovered, it is completely more than worth the loss.
In general, it is almost impossible for Wu Zetian to poison Li Hong, Li Hong is alive to succeed to the throne, for Wu Zetian, it is not a bad thing, after all, the time to call the emperor is not ripe, and it turns out that Li Hong is dead, she has other sons, at the beginning or other sons as emperors, the same are the empress, there is really no need to poison Li Hong in advance.
Regarding wu Zetian's poisoning of Li Hong, what are your views, welcome to exchange.