Li Zhi and Wu Zetian When they saw it, they pressed Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang expressed that this path would not work. But they also discovered the subtle attitude of another life-career Li Ji. As long as they discuss the meeting of the deposed queen, Li Ji took sick leave, which actually represents Li Ji's subtle attitude towards this matter. But the two were not sure, so they sent their confidant secrets to Li Jie's house to find out. Li Jie's answer was also very standard, "This is the family matter of His Majesty the Emperor. What do we outsiders do?"
With the public support of Li Jie among the three giants, Changsun Wuji was embarrassed to publicly object. The matter of deposing the queen was finalized. On October 13, 655 AD, Li Zhi finally issued an edict: on the charge of "conspiracy to poison", the queen of and the concubine Xiao Shufei were deposed as commoners and imprisoned in a villa. Their parents, brothers, etc. were also removed from office and exiled to Lingnan. Seven days later, Li Zhi issued another edict to make Wu Zetian the queen; at the same time, he demoted the most powerful prime minister Chu Suiliang. On the first day of November, a ceremony was held to enthrone Wu Zetian as the queen. This year, Li Zhi was 27 years old and Wu Zetian was 31 years old.
In the next few years, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian began to cultivate small officials in civil servants such as Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong . In 659 AD, they began to compete with old-school civil officials such as Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining, Han Yuan, Lai Ji and others. After ten years, Li Zhi, the young emperor, successfully settled the throne, and smoothly and successfully eliminated his father's old ministers and everyone in the royal family who threatened him, and successfully completed the transfer of power of the emperor and the ministers.
The process of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian completing the transfer of power was a textbook-style power struggle in ancient monarchs. One dynasty emperor and another dynasty ministers were historical laws. Except for technical bureaucrats (including soldiers), they always had to be replaced. This process can be said to be violent. The means include killing, house arrest, redemption, etc., but there is a principle that the negatives caused by the normal operation of the country should be as small as possible during the replacement process. Many monarchs handled too much in this process, resulting in shocks in the government and even destruction of the country. Li Zhi and Wu Zetian showed great patience and spent ten years to cultivate bureaucrats in their own system. After they matured, they slowly completed the replacement. When they deposed Changsun Wuji and others, they were naturally and infinitely silky, causing almost no shock. I have to admire their means, patience and character. When others imitate Wu Zetian's actions, they only learned her actions but did not learn the reality, and the effects were very different, such as her daughter-in-law Wei.
The end of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu was very miserable. After they were deposed, they were locked in a dilapidated courtyard. Wu Zetian was a career-oriented strong woman. All her thoughts were devoted to work, and she couldn't help but ignore Li Zhi. The lonely Li Zhi often went to see Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao. After all, Concubine Xiao and Concubine Li Zhi had a very beautiful memory. Li Zhi saw that the courtyard was very cramped and closed very tightly, with only a small window for delivering food connected to the outside of the courtyard. Thinking of the past friendship, Li Zhi couldn't help but feel pity, "Queen, Concubine Shu , are you okay?" Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao couldn't help but cry out in sorrow when they heard her husband's caring words. Empress Wang said, "Your Majesty, we have no name anymore, so don't call Queen and Concubine Shu anymore. If you care about the past love, just change the name of this yard Huixinyuan. Let us see the light of day again, and we will be satisfied." Li Zhi agreed in full.
Wu Zetian was furious when she heard this. She wanted to let them go. She might be turned over at any time. So she knocked the bad news from Queen Wang, Xiao Shufei to a hundred pieces, and the bones were broken. Then Wu Zetian invented a new torture method very creatively. He cut off Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei and soaked them in two big wine jars. Wu Zetian also gave this punishment a name "Bone Drunk". Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were tortured by inhumane times but did not die for several days. Wu Zetian also lost her patience, so she asked someone to strangle Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu to death. Queen Wang died calmly before her death, "I knew for a long time that the failure of the battle with you would be a death sooner or later." Concubine Xiao was furious: "A Wu was charming and cunning, which led to me falling to this point! I hope that in the next life, I will turn into a cat, and A Wu will become a mouse, and I will pinch her throat for generations!" So Wu Zetian ordered that cats be not allowed in the palace. Later, Wu Zetian dreamed many times that Concubine Xiao Shu and Queen Wang came out to work, bleeding with her hair as if she was tragic when she died. So Wu Zetian moved from Tai Chi Palace to Penglai Palace (i.e. Daming Palace ). Soon he dreamed of them again. Since then, he has lived in Luoyang and will not return to Chang'an for the rest of his life. When Li Zhi found out, only the incomplete bodies of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were left. Everything was too late, so he agreed that the Wang clan and Xiao clan were all exiled to Lingnan and the Wang clan's surname was changed to "python" and the Xiao clan's surname was "Xiao".
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