He Lan Minzhi (642~671), resident in Luoyang, Henan, .
He is young and handsome, suave, and he is the first beautiful man of Chang'an City, and the nephew of the generation queen Wu Zetian. His father is the Korean father Helan Anshi of the Tang Dynasty, and his mother is Wu Zetian's sister and the Korean wife Wushun. .
In 666 AD, Wu Zetian established He Lanmin as the heir of his father warrior Yu . The official position was promoted from Fengyu Zuo Shuzi to Prince Guest, Lantai Taishi of the school was inspected, the secretary supervisor Hongwenguan Bachelor, and Shaozhou governor. From then on, Wu Minzhi went straight up and became a man of the moment.
However, He Lan Minzhi only lived to be 29 years old, so Wu Zetian was charged with several crimes and died in exile.
"Books of the New and Old Tang Dynasty" did not give He Lanmin a biography, only mentioned him in the relevant chronicles and biographies. "Old Tang Book · Biography of Foreign Relatives · Wu Chengsi" lists He Lan Minzhi's five crimes:
One, "Minzhi is young and beautiful, and he looks at Mrs. Rongguo (Wu Zetian's mother Yang, Minzhi's grandmother), If the pets are more stupid, the sky is quite unpleasant";
two, "Mrs. Rongguo died, and the sky came out of the big Ruijin, so that Minzhi made Buddha statues to chase blessings, and Minzhi used it for self-concealment";
three, "Siwei Shaoqing Yang Sijian has a special color, Gaozong and Zetian chose to be the prince princess, they have a fixed day, and they are sensitive and forced and licentious";
4.绖, wearing auspicious clothes, playing prostitute music";
Five, "Princess Taiping is still a young girl, and she goes to and from the home of Rongguo, and the palace attends her, and tastes that she is forced by Minzhi."
The above five crimes led to He Lan Minzhi's death in Shaozhou. Speaking of history books, Wu Zetian was selfless in law enforcement, and her nephew He Lanmin deserved it. Over the past thousand years, the conclusion has been made.
However,Some scholars discovered new historical data when sorting out the steles of the Tang Dynasty.
The epitaph of Helanmin unearthed in Xianyang, titled "The Preface to the Epitaph of the Dudu Helan of the Tang Dynasty". This epitaph draws a completely different conclusion from the history books on He Lanminzhi's death.
According to historical books, "Mrs. Yu Rongguo", this is He Lan Minzhi's first crime. In other words, He Lanmin’s offender and his maternal grandmother Yang had committed adultery,
, but according to the "Inscription and Preface to the Inscription of the Supreme Xiao Ming Gao Empress" engraved in 702 AD, Wu Zetian’s mother, Yang, wrote “”. Xianheng collapsed on August 2 of the first year of the first year.
According to the "Preface to the Epitaph of the Ancient Helan Dudu of the Tang Dynasty", He Lanmin’s "" Mansion was not approved, but I thanked him in the young year, so he could enjoy the official title of Shaozhou on August 6, the second year, and the 20th spring and autumn. There are nine".
According to the above two steles, it can be known that the Yang family died a year earlier than his grandson He Lanmin. When Yang died, He Lanmin was 28 years old.
Inferred from this, He Lanmin was born. At that time, the Yang family was sixty-four years old. When Helan Minzhi reached the age of weak crown (in ancient times, a man was 20 years old and used to call a man a weak crown). Yang was already 82 years old.
The adultery of a young and handsome family boy and his 82-year-old grandmother is really incredible. Some people say that this is slander against the Yang family. I think this is not so much a crime against Yang. He Lan Minzhi’s slander is more of a framing of Helan Minzhi.
Another major crime of Helan Minzhi is that he privately used the cost of making Buddha statues.
This crime, "New and Old Tang "Book" is not very different.
" Old Tang Book" said "the sky will come out of the big brocade", emphasizing the nature of public funds. " New Tang Book" said: Rong Guo died, Later, the precious coins were used to build the Buddha’s blessings, and Min Zhi concealed it for his own use.”
In this way, he became the private use of his nephew He Lanmin's aunt Wu Zetian's money. How could it constitute such a big crime? Sima Guang seems to have seen the mystery,This charge is omitted in " Zizhi Tongjian ".
In order to achieve the political goal of replacing the Li Tang dynasty and establishing " Wu Zhou ", Wu Zetian tested He Lan Minzhi's political attitude from the question of building Buddha statues. It is possible that Helan Minzhi was against Wu Zetian as the emperor and offended Wu Zetian. Therefore, Wu Zetian charged Helan Minzhi on the cost of making Buddha statues.
He Lan Minzhi’s other counts cannot be specifically demonstrated due to insufficient materials.
It is worth noting that out of the five counts, three are related to Wu Zetian's mother and Rongguo's wife Yang. But how could Yang's grandmother have an improper adultery relationship with the young grandson? How could Wu Zetian let such scandals appear in public opinion such as history books? This fact is incredible.
So, what is the real cause of Wu Zetian's murder of the foreign nephew He Lanmin?
First, He Lan Minzhi represents the ideological and political faction opposed to Wu Zetian. He Lan Minzhi did not approve of a woman being a female emperor, which greatly offended Wu Zetian.
Second, He Lanmin and Tang Gaozong Tang Gaozong Li Zhi accompanied him day and night and became a cron of Tang Gaozong. How could Wu Zetian tolerate people like him with Tang Gaozong for a long time?
Third, it is He Lan Minzhi's sister, Mrs. Wei Guo, who often visits the palace and is favored by Tang Gaozong. After Wu Zetian knew about this, he secretly poisoned her to death. Helan Minzhi suspected that Wu Zetian was murdered. This is also one of the reasons why He Lanmin died after being guilty.
Conclusion:
The death of He Lanmin is nothing but the result of the internal struggle for power among the ancient rulers. Records in historical books often require us to use our brains to think about the ins and outs, and not to be blinded by superficial phenomena.
This may be the conclusion of this article.
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