: For the Han and Tang dynasties, later generations generally used "strongness" to evaluate it. This is based on the positioning of martial arts and economic levels, but for the private lives of their rulers, there has always been a saying among the people that "stinking the Han, dirty the Tang, messing with the Song Dynasty, and mourning the Ming Dynasty". In the 63rd chapter of " Dream of Red Mansions ", Jia Rong smiled and said: "From ancient times to the present, even Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty , people even say that the Tang Dynasty is dirty, not to mention our family. Who has no romantic affairs, don't ask me to tell me." It seems that this statement has a long history.
In other words, in the eyes of the people, things that violate ethics and debauchery are common in the royal families of the Han and Tang dynasties, and are dirty and dirty, despicable.
Most emperors of the Han Dynasty had the advantage of Longyang, such as Emperor Wen of Han and Deng Tong , Emperor Ai of Han and Dong Xian , Emperor Cheng of Han and Zhang Fang , Emperor Wu of Han and Han Yan , Emperor Hui of Han and Hongru. These emperors were both men and women, not only fell in love with the same sex, but also had a lot of wives and concubines in the harem. In addition, Emperor Jing of Han appointed Wang Zhi, a woman who had married and had children as the queen; Emperor Cheng of Han summoned Zhao Feiyan, a wandering daughter abandoned by her parents, into the harem to favor and became the queen.
The Tang Dynasty royal family is common among the royal family. The father and the son and the son and the princess keep the male favorites. For example, Tang Taizong occupy his sister-in-law, Tang Gaozong married his father's woman, Wu Zetian became the leader and favored male lovers, Tang Xuanzong took his daughter-in-law for himself, etc.
(Yang Guifei played by Fan Bingbing in "The Woman of Dynasty")
In such a messy human relationship in the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, there is also a man who later generations called "better than beasts". This person is Wu Zetian's nephew Helan Minzhi . This young and beautiful noble son was strangled to death by his aunt Wu Zetian when he was only 29 years old. Why did Wu Zetian take such a ruthless move on his nephew? What despicable evil things did he do? Why was he called a monster that was worse than beasts by later generations?
(Helan Minzhi played by Jiao Enjun in "Sun and Moon")
In fact, Wu Zetian has a process of turning from love to hate against Helan Minzhi. To clarify the relationship between the two, we have to start with Wu Zetian's father samurai .
Wu Zetian's father, Wu Shiqiu, became rich during the Sui Dynasty 2 years and supported Li Yuan, Jinyang's uprising garrison. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he was granted the title of Duke Ying, and after his death, he was posthumously named Duke Zhou. The wife he married first was Xiangli, who gave birth to two sons, namely Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang . After Xiangli's death, the warrior married Yang's daughter Yang as his second wife and gave birth to three daughters, namely Wushun , Wu Zetian, and Wu.
After the death of the warrior, Wu Ze genius was only 11 years old. The two brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang are very bad to their stepmother Yang, and often humiliates their three sisters.
(The young Wu Zetian played by Fan Bingbing in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang")
Wu Zetian was made the queen, so she began to take revenge, demoted her eldest brother Wu Yuanqing to death as the governor of Longzhou, and exiled her second brother Wu Yuanshuang to Zhenzhou to death.
Wu Zetian is cruel to two half-brothers, but he cares about his two sisters who are the same father and mother.
Wu Zetian's elder sister Wu Shun married Xianbei Helan Yueshi in her early years and gave birth to a son Helan Minzhi and daughter Helan. Helan Yueshi died early, and Wu Zetian felt sorry for his sister and his family, so he took them to Chang'an to live. Wu Zetian became the queen, and Wu Shun and his daughter Helan were free to enter and exit the harem. The mother and daughter were seen by Emperor Gaozong of Tang and were favored in the harem. Wu Shun was named the wife of Korean , and his daughter Helan was named the wife of Wei State.
Wu Shun's son Helan Minzhi is young and handsome and talented. " Zizhi Tongjian " calls "Minzhi is beautiful" , and " Old Tang Book " calls "young and beautiful" , and is a first-class handsome guy. Helan Minzhi not only has outstanding appearance, but also has extremely high talent and has compiled the book "The Spring and Autumn Period of Thirty Kingdoms".Wu Zetian loved this nephew very much and appointed him as the Grand Historian of Lantai and the General Attendant of Zuo Sanqi, and asked him to change his surname to Wu, and inherit his grandfather's title of Duke of Zhou, the Duke of Wu, and become a descendant of the Wu family.
(Helan Minzhi played by Jiao Enjun in "Sun and Moon")
With Helan Minzhi's family background and status, he could have enjoyed wealth and achieved higher achievements and made great achievements, but he did not defend his family business and respect, but instead "carried about love and frivolousness", he was rebellious, arrogant and arrogant, and did a series of perverted and ridiculous things.
One of the , Helan Minzhi actually raped the prospective crown princess.
The daughter of Wei Shaoqing Yang Sijian was beautiful and was attracted by Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian and was chosen as the concubine of Prince Li Hong . The wedding date was approaching, and Helan Minzhi forced her to rape her. ("Siwei Shaoqing Yang Sijian's daughter, she has a different color. The emperor and the emperor chose to be the crown princess. The sun was dumb, and he was forced to lust him." ) Later, he had to change the daughter of Pei Judao as the crown princess.
The second is , Helan Minzhi actually bullies Wu Zetian's daughter Prince Taiping .
Princess Taiping is Wu Zetian's daughter and Helan Minzhi's cousin. When she was a child, she often went to her grandmother Yang's house, and Helan Minzhi was deeply favored by her grandmother and often lived here. The palace maids brought by Princess Taiping were often misled by Helan Minzhi. I am afraid that even Princess Taiping, who is a young child, could not escape her clutches. ("At that time, Princess Taiping was still young, and she went to and from the Rong country's house. The palace servants served him, and she was forced by others by others." ) This left an indelible trauma on Princess Taiping.
and , Helan Minzhi actually had an inappropriate behavior with his grandmother Yang.
Helan Minzhi and Wu Zetian's mother, his grandmother, Mrs. Rongguo, had something wrong. At that time, Wu Zetian's mother, Yang, was already in her 80s, while Helan Minzhi was only in her 20s. (" Minzhi's Shaoxiu was happy, and was arrogant in Rongguo . ") Helan Minzhi relied on the favor of Yang, did whatever he wanted, and was arrogant and unrestrained. Such inconsistencies make people lose all their views and are difficult to understand.
The fourth , Helan Minzhi had fun during the mourning period of his grandmother Yang's family.
After the death of my grandmother Yang, the mourning period had not passed, so Helan Minzhi changed into mourning clothes and invited prostitutes to play and enjoy themselves. (" And in the Rong national robbery, privately release the weak and impoverished, wear auspicious clothes, and play prostitutes' music.") This kind of unfilial and licentious behavior made Wu Zetian unbearable.
5, Helan Minzhi actually used the money he used to create a statue of his grandmother Yang.
The grandmother Yang passed away. Wu Zetian took out a sum of money and asked Helan Minzhi to build a large Buddha statue to pray for Yang. Unexpectedly, Helan Minzhi concealed the silk for Buddhist rituals and embezzled her personal pockets. ( "The country of Rong died, and later released precious coins to build a Buddha's house to bring blessings. Minzhi hid himself for his own use." ) Wu Zetian was extremely respectful of Buddhism, and Helan Minzhi not only embezzled public funds, but also disrespectful to the Buddha statues, which made Wu Zetian extremely dissatisfied. If all kinds of evil deeds above
are true, then Helan Minzhi is simply inferior to animals and is a perverted mental illness. Why did he become such a distorted and perverted person?
Helan Minzhi became like this, because of his personality, he was arrogant and acted recklessly; the other was that he deliberately resisted Wu Zetian and opposed Wu Zetian. This is also because Wu Zetian did it too cruelly.
Wu Zetian's sister Wu Shun and niece Helan were favored by Emperor Gaozong of Tang. At the beginning, Wu Zetian was happy to see her success, and her own sisters were favored and could work together to consolidate their power. However, as Wu Zetian's power ambitions grew, Wu Shun and his daughter became stumbling blocks to their rise. After Taishan Fengshan returned, she decided to get rid of the young and beautiful Helan family, so she sent someone to poison Helan Minzhi's sister Helan family to death.
(Helan played by Ma Sichun in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang")
"New Book of Tang" records:
South Korea is in ban on entry and exit, and a woman, the emperor favors her. Han died and was granted the title of Lady of Wei. He wanted to prepare for the position of concubine, but it was difficult to decide later. Later, he was very jealous and would be sealed with Mount Tai. Wei Liang and Huaiyun gathered with Yue Mu, and returned to the capital. Later, they poisoned the Wei Kingdom and blamed Wei Liang and others for killing them. They called him "vibun", and were worshipped by Han Zimin.
After her daughter died, Wu Shun was also disheartened and passed away soon. Wu Zetian poisoned her niece to death and blamed her two cousins Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun. Later, they were executed without trial, and their wife and daughter were confiscated into the palace as slaves. Why did Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun be executed? Because when Wu Zetian was young, the two brothers did not respect Wu Zetian's mother Yang enough.
The sister was poisoned to death by Wu Zetian, and her mother died later, which made Helan Minzhi suspicious of his aunt Wu Zetian. So the seeds of hatred in my heart were planted. Driven by hatred, Helan Minzhi became more and more rebellious. He gradually became distorted and made a series of extreme actions, which was to avenge Wu Zetian.
After her sister's death, Helan Minzhi entered the palace to pay condolences. When Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi When he saw him, he cried sadly: "I saw that she was fine in front of the court in the morning, but I didn't expect that she would die after retreating from the court. Why was it so sudden?" After hearing this, Helan Minzhi burst into tears and did not answer Emperor Gaozong of Tang. Because he knew exactly who did it.
This made Wu Zetian, who was ulterior motives, suspicious. She originally planned to use this talented nephew to help her. Now that she has reached this point and has become enemies, she must not keep him anymore. It was just that she could not take action on her mother Yang's face for a while.
670, Wu Zetian's mother Yang passed away. In 671, Wu Zetian attacked his nephew Helan Minzhi. She first demoted Helan Minzhi to Lingnan and was appointed as the governor of Shaozhou. During Helanmin's exile, a Chang'an envoy chased him and strangled him to death with a horse's reins. He was only 29 years old when he died.
"Zizhi Tongjian Tang Ji Eighteen" records: At the beginning of the year, Wu Yuanqing and others died, the queen reported that his sister Helan Minzhi was the heir of Shi Yu, inherited the title of Zhou Gong , changed his surname to Wu, and was promoted to Hongwenguan bachelor and Zuo Sanqi Changshi. When the wife of Wei State died, the emperor saw Minzhi and cried sadly, "I look at the court without any damage. I have to retreat to the court and will not be saved. Why is this in a hurry?" Minzhi cried wrongly. Later, he heard this and said, "This child doubts me!" He then hated him. Min is beautiful and popular with the princess of Taiyuan; when she is in trouble, she is relieved of her despair, and she is prostitute. The daughter of the Wei Shaoqing Yang Sijian was very beautiful. The emperor and the emperor chose to be the crown princess. It was so dumb that he was forced to lust him. Later, he expressed his sins before and after, so please expel him. In June, Bingzi, he ordered Leizhou to restore his original surname. When he arrived in Shaozhou, he was hanged with a horse's reins. The court men sat and traveled with Minzhi, and there were many people who were wandering south of Lingnan.
Helan Minzhi did not choose to compromise and serve him, but instead tried to make trouble for Wu Zetian. He defiled the pre-selected Crown Princess Yang, acted in deviantly from his grandmother Yang, and acted insulting to the young Princess Taiping. These behaviors trampled the royal dignity under his feet and challenged Wu Zetian's bottom line again and again. With Wu Zetian's ruthlessness, he would definitely not let him go.
Wu Zetian not only exiled Helan Minzhi, but also restored his original surname, deprived him of the Wu family he inherited, and refused to be the descendant of the Wu family. This was not at ease. On the way to exile, he sent someone to catch up and strangle him to death with the reins of the horse, and exiled all his friends with Helan Minzhi.
Regarding the reasons for killing Helan Minzhi, the crimes listed by Wu Zetian are all about his lifestyle. It seems that Helan Minzhi caused a murderous disaster because of his misbehavior. This is also recorded in historical books.
"Old Book of Tang" records:
Minzhi was young and beautiful, and was arrogant to the wife of Rongguo. He relied on his favor and many sins, so Tian was quite unhappy with him. Xianheng The second year of the second year, when the wife of Rong Kingdom died, the sky came out of the great auspicious brocade, and ordered Minzhi to create Buddha statues to pursue blessings, and Minzhi used it himself. In addition, Yang Sijian, the daughter of the Wei Shaoqing, was very different. Emperor Gaozong and Zetian chose to be the crown princess, and they had a certain day. They were quick and forced to lust. And in the national robbery, the private robbery was released, the auspicious clothes were played, and the prostitutes were played. At that time, Princess Taiping was still young and went to Rongguo's house. The palace servants served him, and he was forced by Jing. The incident happened in the Russian state, and the robbery was escorted to Leizhou. When he arrived in Shaozhou, he hanged himself to death with a horse's reins.
Helan Minzhi lived to be exiled to death only at the age of 29. No biography was written for him in the new and old Tang books, and his deeds were only mentioned in other people's records and biography.Helan Minzhi was exiled and executed, but these crimes were just these crimes:
1. "Minzhi was young and beautiful, and was arrogant to the wife of Rongguo. He relied on his favor and many sins, so Tian was quite displeased";
2. "Seiwei Shaoqing Yang Sijian's daughter was of different temperament. Emperor Gaozong and Zetian chose to be the crown princess. The day after he was established, Minzhi forced him to be lustful";
3. " Lady Rongguo , Zetian came out of the inner great auspicious brocade, and ordered Minzhi to create Buddha elephants and pursue blessings, and Minzhi used it secretly";
4. "When he served in Rongguo, he privately released his declining power, put on auspicious clothes, and played prostitutes and music";
5. "At that time, Princess Taiping was still young, and went to the house of Rongguo, and the palace servants led him, and he was forced by Minzhi."
(Helan Minzhi played by Jiao Enjun in "The Sun and Moon")
According to historical records, Helan Minzhi's death deserves his own fault, and he is responsible for his own fault. He is inferior to beasts and disorderly, and Wu Zetian is selfless in law enforcement. It has been concluded for thousands of years. People often give Helan Minzhi contempt, believing that he is a psychologically distorted pervert. However, is the truth of history really the case? Is Helan Minzhi really a murderous disaster due to misconduct?
In 1964, when a scholar was sorting out the Tang Dynasty stele, he unearthed the tombstone of Helan Min in Zhouling Township, Xianyang City. The title was "Preface to the Tombstone of the Ancient Helan Governor of the Tang Dynasty". It was engraved in . The third year of Jinglong (709) of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang Dynasty, without the author's name. The epitaph gives a completely different conclusion to Helan Minzhi's death in the epitaph. Based on the content of the epitaph, we can see some clues about Helan Minzhi's death.
The preface to the epitaph uses many historical allusions, the words are gorgeous and difficult to understand. Maybe it is because I dare not say anything about Wu Zetian's actions. But between the lines, Helan Minzhi was called for justice, providing valuable clues about Helan Minzhi's death, and later generations had a new understanding of Helan Minzhi's deeds and the real cause of death.
The epitaph does not record the crimes listed by Wu Zetian, but instead praises Helanmin very much. "The bell is bright and the demeanor is outstanding. The jade forest is jade trees, and the phoenix is not mixed with the dust. The phoenix is like a phoenix, but the phoenix is like a phoenix." "The steep learning mountain is like a mountain in Ce Mansion, and the clouds are thousands of searches; the swath of the Hanyuan is like a scholar in the Confucian society is like a thousand feet away." It can be said that it uses all the praises.
epitaph says he: "The heart is like a mirror, and the brocade of beads is a sensation. It is not innocent to be guilty, but life will be long-lasting." also has the words "rehanging the sun and the moon" by Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, and given official burials, which strongly shows that Helan Minzhi was wronged and innocent.
The epitaph contains: "Therefore, the times change, the beautiful wind is destroyed. The flowers are flowing, and the fragrance changes rapidly." words can be regarded as a vague defense for Helan Min.
"So beautiful wind destroys" , from " Destiny on Destiny" by Li Kang : "Loyalty and integrity are steadfast in the Lord, independence is defeated by the common people, and reason is true. Therefore, when trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them; when piled on the shore, the flow will rush them; when walking higher than others, the people will criticize them." uses this to show that Helanmin has outstanding talent and noble character, which causes trouble and is destroyed by trouble.
"Qi Fei is walking with you" , from "Book of Songs·Xiao Ya·Xian Bo": "The lush and flakes are made of shell brocade." Qiu Fei is a mixed text and color together, and shell brocade is a brocade woven into shell-shaped patterns. In ancient times, it was used to describe people who used slander to frame others and used slander to slander others.
" fencing and " comes from "Zuo Zhuan·The Fourth Year of Duke Xi": "One fencing and twitching, and it still smells ten years." fencing is a vanilla, a metaphor for a noble person; twitching is a stinky grass, a metaphor for a stinky person. Incense is easy to disperse but odor is difficult to remove, good people are easy to be harmed, and evil people are difficult to eliminate. What I want to express between the lines is: Under Wu Zetian's rule, loyal and noble people are framed, evil people are rampant, right and wrong, good and evil are inverted.
(Wu Zetian played by Fan Bingbing in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang")
From the comprehensive analysis of history books, documents, and Helan Minzhi's epitaph, we can roughly see the real reason why Wu Zetian executed Helan Minzhi.
First, Helan Minzhi and Wu Zetian are opposing political factions.
In the face of power struggle, if you are not your own, you will often end up miserably. The most fundamental reason for Helan Minzhi's death is that he did not stand in Wu Zetian's team.
(I) Testing Helan Minzhi's political stance by making Buddha statues
Both the old and new books of Tang Dynasty recorded that after the death of Wu Zetian's mother Yang, Wu Zetian paid money to ask Helan Minzhi to make Buddha statues for Yang to pray for blessings, and Helan Minzhi embezzled the money and used it for personal use. Sima Guang seems to see the mystery, and it is omitted and not written in "Zizhi Tongjian".
In fact, Helan Minzhi's crime was on the surface because of "money" but in essence because of "Buddha". It is an economic problem on the surface, but it is a political problem on the surface.
In order to replace Li Tang as emperor, Wu Zetian implemented her Wu Zhou strategy and found the theoretical basis for women to be emperors from the Buddhist "Dayun Sutra". Therefore, Buddhism is sacred and supreme for Wu Zetian, and she also placed the status of Buddhism above other sects. With Buddhist theory, replacing , Li Tang, 's rule will have legitimacy and ideological basis.
Wu Zetian's mission of creating a Buddha statue for Helan Minzhi, who is willing to be loyal, is to test his thoughts and political attitudes. Helan Minzhi was unwilling to do it at all, so he committed the unreasonable act of embezzlement. With Helan Minzhi's family background and status, it was impossible for him to take this little money into consideration. The reason he did this was because he deliberately did not want to do it.
Wu Zetian used Helan Minzhi's economic problems as evidence of crime, so she avoided the excuse of getting rid of dissidents due to political issues. This method is very clever.
The creation of Buddha statues not only showed Helan Minzhi's political attitude, but also the political attitudes of other scholars who were always with Helan Minzhi. While Helan Min's exile, "the court soldiers were sitting in the friendship with Min's exile, and there were many people traveling south of Lingnan." All the court soldiers who were friends with him were exiled.
Obviously, this is not just a personal economic problem of Helan Minzhi, but a political event, which fully demonstrates that the many bachelors represented by Helan Minzhi posed a great threat to the preparations for the Wu Zhou revolution. Wu Zetian can only get rid of people who are not from his own faction and who do not support him.
(II) Helan Minzhi's epitaph shows that he is unwilling to be with Wu Zetian
Helan Minzhi's epitaph says that he:
"The bronze rituals are not enough to argue with the latitude of the bronze ritual; the Qu Pavilion talks about the scriptures, and the Gong once had the ability to write it. Ge Hong 0,000 volumes, swallowed as if it was in the heart; Hui Shi five chariots, treating them as if they were in the palm."
The historical allusions used mentioned Zhang Heng, Xun Xu , Ge Hong, and Hui Shi, which were full of profound intentions. They are all masters of the famous classics and criminal principles in history.
In terms of political attitude, Zhang Heng once urged Emperor Shun of Han Liu Bao "don't let the eight robbers of punishment, and the emperor cannot help the emperor." When Xun Xu was appointed as the Secretary of the Western Jin Dynasty, he strongly advised and blocked the plan of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan wanted to abolish the prince's wife. The ideological system and political attitudes of these masters of Confucianism had a profound impact on Helan Minzhi's political stance, which was precisely the biggest obstacle for Wu Zetian to replace power from the emperor to himself.
Helan Minzhi, who stands in the opposing faction of Wu Zetian, cannot escape the fate of being eliminated even if he is his nephew.
The second is to kill Helan Minzhi to weaken the power of Li Tang
Due to political stance, Helan Minzhi had a good relationship with the Li Tang royal family and was unwilling to stand on Wu Zetian's side. In Wu Zetian's eyes, Helan Minzhi encouraged the Li Tang power and was not good for him and had to find a way to get rid of it.
(I) Helan Minzhi and Li Xian Fucking good
Li Xian is Wu Zetian's second son, but his life experience has always been controversial. Li Xian's date of birth is too close to his sister, Princess Anding , and he was born on the way to worship Zhaoling by Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian. Therefore, some palace ladies privately discussed that Li Xian was not Wu Zetian's biological child, but was born to the Korean wife Wu Shun. If this is true, then Li Xian and Helan Minzhi are brothers of the same mother.
Helan Minzhi and Li Xian have a good personal relationship, but the relationship between Li Xian and Wu Zetian has never been incompatible. In 675, Crown Prince Li Hong suddenly died, Li Xian was made the new crown prince, and the mother-son relationship became worse. In 680, Wu Zetian deposed Li Xian as a commoner on the charge of treason and exiled to Bazhou. In 684, Wu Zetian sent a cruel official Qiu Shenji to force Li Xian to commit suicide.
In 670, Wu Zetian killed Helan Minzhi in order to gradually weaken Li Xian's growing power.
(II) Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi trusts Helan Minzhi
Helan Minzhi is extremely talented and knowledgeable. He and Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi are with him day and night and become the confidant of Emperor Gaozong of Tang. Helan Minzhi's epitaph said that he and Emperor Gaozong of Tang said: "Sitting as a teacher and friend, and being in the heart of the heart, the golden palace is different from his kindness and honor, and the jade palm is different from his gift." Wu Zetian would not tolerate Helan Minzhi being with Emperor Gaozong of Tang for a long time, which is a great threat to his rise to power.
Third, Wu Zetian poisoned Helan Minzhi's sister to death, and the two became enemies.
Helan Minzhi's sister often goes in and out of the ban. Because of her beauty, she was seen by Emperor Gaozong of Tang, loved and was named the wife of Wei. Seeing that this niece competed for favor with him and threatened his status, Wu Zetian sent someone to secretly poison him with poison and blamed him for killing Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun, two nephews who killed Wu Shizhen.
Helan Minzhi heard Emperor Gaozong of Tang tell his sister about his death and cried endlessly. When Wu Zetian heard this, she said, "This kid doubts me!" She began to feel extremely disgusted with Helan Minzhi. ("Then he heard it and said, 'This child doubted me!' Therefore, he hated him.") This is the most direct reason for the execution of Helan Minzhi.
or above should be the real reason why Wu Zetian killed his nephew Helan Minzhi. As for the forced erotic princesses and palace maids listed in the history books, as well as the "Lady of the Kingdom of Yurong", they are just frame-up words.
Helan Minzhi and his grandmother Rong Guo’s wife Yang made a crime completely intent on infringing on him and were not trustworthy at all.
"王" means that the upward trend of anger is, and one of the extended meanings refers to adultery with the mother. That is to say, Wu Zetian pointed out that Helan Minzhi was guilty of adultery with his grandmother Yang.
When Helan Minzhi was born, Yang was already 64 years old. By the time Helan Minzhi reached the age of 18, Yang was already a 82-year-old old man. A young and beautiful child from a noble family made a deviant move with his grandmother. This is incredible and basically impossible. Yang's favor of Helan Minzhi may be just because the elderly prefer their own grandchildren.
The crimes mentioned by Helan Min about He Lanzhi were nothing more than misconduct and problems with his life style. Even if these are facts, this is just a family scandal, a personal style problem. He will not die and will not be a public reason for his death.
Helan Minzhi's death was just a small episode in the many tragedies of the internal power struggle of ancient rulers. Helan Minzhi did not stand on Wu Zetian's side and serve him, but instead made friends with the Li Tang royal family. Wu Zetian borrowed other charges to get rid of this stumbling block. Helan Minzhi's tragedy warns future generations that when they do not have enough strength to safeguard their position, it is wise to choose to stay away from right and wrong and protect themselves.
