Wu Zetian is the only recognized female emperor in Chinese history. When he entered the palace, because of his outstanding talent and intelligence, he was interviewed by Li Shimin in and ranked fourth among palace concubines and was known as Wu Meiniang in .
Among the ancient women, there were many people who could do chess and calligraphy, but there were particularly few women who were both proficient in literature and martial arts.
Wu Zetian was good at using a dagger when she was young. Seeing that the soldiers could not do anything to a black horse, she took out the dagger and walked towards the horse. At the beginning of
, the fierce horse raised its head and kicked it, which was extremely irritating. Many strong men with high martial arts skills did not dare to approach him. Wu Zetian was calm and calm, relaxed his jade arms, and a dagger with a cold light shook in front of Liema's eyes. No matter how the Liema moved and changed, it could never escape the sharp sharp blade of the dagger.
In fact, animals are like humans, protecting their eyes is the first instinct. On the contrary, if someone's eyeball is facing a sharp knife at any time, the fear will be cold and cold.
The smart Wu Zetian is a master of psychology. She accurately utilized Liema's fear of eye threats, and moved with her, stabbed her high and low, so that the sharp edge of the dagger was half an inch away from Liema's eyeball until the fearful Liema paid the power of the beautiful girl under the whip. Finally, Liema lowered her high head and was tamed by a little woman to be extremely well-behaved.
Empress Wu Zetian took power as the Empress Dowager until the emperor abdicated, and she was in power for a total of fifty years (the Empress Dowager thirty-fifth year and the Emperor thirty-fifth year).
Her main political achievements are roughly four:
1) Promote reform, break the gates, Long (now Shaanxi and Gansu areas) the regional control of the land population by the gentry and wealthy families, and use middle and lower-level small landlords to participate in the governance of the regime.
2) Refer to the powerful common people. It is equivalent to finding masters among young people in small towns nowadays. More equal in the imperial examinations and recruit various talents who are capable of solving practical problems. Yao Chong , famous minister Di Renjie , Zhang Jianzhi , and later Yao Lai and Song Kai were all selected or reused by her.
3) Wu Zetian attaches importance to agriculture. He used the increase or decrease of household registration and whether every family had surplus grain as the basis for assessment of local officials, so that a large number of local officials who truly do practical things for the people could be reused, and officials who were scattered in life stood aside. The number of households in Tang Taizong was 3.8 million. By the end of Wu Zetian's rule, the number of households had increased to 6.15 million.
4) She insisted on fighting foreign invasions, improved trade relations with neighboring countries after the border tranquility, and especially opened up the " Silk Road " that was long-term interrupted due to war. He made great contributions to the prosperity of merchants in later generations.
Historians often ridiculed Wu Zetian for raising a young man. She never knew that a powerful woman with imperial power also had the desire and loneliness of ordinary women. If you have the conditions, why can't you use the opposite sex to relieve physical and mental pressure?
