Wu Zetian - From Woman to Childhood Existence!

 Wu Zetian(624~705).., 

He was the only female emperor in Chinese history, the concubine of King Taejong Lee Se-min of the Tang Dynasty and Empress Gojong Ichi. 

The castle is Mu, and Hui is called Jo, Muhu, Muchchuk, Geocheonhu, Geocheonje, Geocheonje, Geocheonje, and Geocheonhwang, but it is usually called Wu Zetian. 

However, some argue that the name Wu Zetian represents the empress of King Gojong, and that it is not correct as he changed the national title to Ju and ascended to the emperor himself.

Wu Zetian was born in 624 in Jangan, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, as the second daughter of Musahak, the founding contributor of the party. Her father, who became rich as a timber dealer, continued to support Yi Yeon, the great leader of the party, and served as a government official after the founding of the party. And for that reason, Wu Zetian entered the concubine of Tang Taejong in 637, and when Tang Taejong died, he left the house for a while. 

In 651, he entered the concubine of King Gojong again. 

After that, she gave birth to four sons and two daughters with King Gojong and became Empress in 655. Wu Zetian, who became empress, took power by driving out the existing ministers on behalf of King Gojong, who suffered from headaches, and appointed his people to key positions. And when King Gojong died, Wu Zetian took control of the imperial family in earnest.

Wu Zetian, who took control of the imperial family, takes the harsh treatment of killing his children and grandchildren to maintain his power, and finally changes the country's name to Lord in September 690, and becomes emperor himself. 

He imposed harsh punishment on those who bullied him in the past and engaged in strong fear politics to maintain strong power. However, her fear politics was not worse compared to other emperors and kings, and she was considered bad for being a woman, but during Wu Zetian's reign, people's lives were stable. 

Since she was not from a noble family, she valued her status and ability, not her family, and hired a bureaucrat (because she was also a person who went through various difficulties by heading to the bare ground due to problems of origin), and this trend made the Tang Dynasty a powerful country. 

In addition, he loved literature to open the heyday of Tang Dynasty literature (due to his first love when he was young), greatly contributed to the development of Chinese Buddhism (because King Taejong left home after his death), and greatly supported Tang Dynasty art (so that bureaucrats do nothing useless and show royal stability to the people). 

Unlike many who became emperors through rebellion falling into corruption, she contributed greatly to the strengthening of the Tang Dynasty's national power.

Wu Zetian is 83 years old, and she lies down with old age, and as an opportunity, Jang Gan-ji, who is re-listed, revolts in the court after careful planning. 

Jangganji causes the soldiers to surround the palace, kill the kanshin surrounding Wu Zetian, and assign the throne. Wu Zetian, who has already lost his age and strength, yielded the throne to Lee Hyun, who was proclaimed as a prince, and he is Jungjong.

Although she returned from the Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and ascended to the throne, she was an emperor. But Wu Zetian's will is... 

"Receive the emperor's title and call her Empress Gyeongcheondaeseong," that is, she herself came down from the emperor's seat and returned to the empress's seat. She had the emperor's title because she was afraid of a later conflict. Jeon Mu-hu leaves a will to create a monument that does not engrave a single letter on his tombstone. 

Perhaps it was intended to eliminate the conflict by entrusting the evaluation of oneself to future generations.

 

Wu Zetian is known to have a strong desire for power, excellent head, and bold personality. 

Among the anecdotes related to King Taejong Lee Se-min, King Taejong called Moonbu Baekgwan to the imperial stable and asked. Among the words of King Taejong, there was a word that King Taejong could not tame due to his fierce nature, but is there a way to tame it?

Wu Zetian, who was just a concubine when no one could answer easily, said it in the future.

"You need three things to tame your horse. It's a whip made of iron, a pepper made of iron, and a raincoat.

When King Taejong asked the reason, Wu Zetian replied.

"If you don't listen, hit it with an iron whip, and if it doesn't get tamed, hit it on the head with a steel bar." If you don't listen to me, I have no choice but to kill you as a dagger."

It was a bold and clear answer, so Taejong was wary of her even though he thought she was brilliant when he heard this, but his heart moved by her beauty and gave her the castle. I waited 12 years.~~).

You can guess her personality a little from this story. Such anecdotes from Wu Zetian, with her strong guts, excellent hair, and determination, may have led her to become the emperor of China.

Meanwhile, Wu Zetian is a woman who killed her child for ambition. Sosukbi, who was favored by King Gojong, was framed and killed with Empress Wang, and even the Empress Wang was framed and killed, but the method used to frame Empress Wang is very cruel. When Wu Zetian (then King Gojong's concubine) gave birth to a daughter, Empress Wang often visited and played with Wu Zetian's daughter, who strangled her and pretended not to know her, but only then when King Gojong visited, she made her daughter look dead and eventually killed her.

This eventually leads Wu Zetian to become the empress.

In addition, his eldest son, Lee Hong, became a prince, but when Lee Hong did not listen to him well, he poisoned him because he thought he would not be able to wield power if he became an emperor.

Later, his second son, Lee Hyun (there is a theory that he is the son of his sister), became a prince, but when he felt threatened, he made him a closed bookman and eventually killed him, and his third son became a prince and emperor, but he was abolished by acting against Muhu.

After establishing his youngest son Ethan as Yejong again, he controls the affairs himself.

Later, King Yejong also became the emperor himself.

But why didn't they kill her or abolish her even though it was like this?

We should first look at the influence she had on the Tang Dynasty.

First of all, Wu Zetian dominated the Tang Dynasty for about 50 years from 654 when he was Empress to 705 when he took the throne. When she first became empress, the party's royal court was dominated by the head of the Jangson clan (the outer family of King Taejong of the Tang), and the key posts of the royal court were also filled with his aides, including Wang's family and other contributors. Mujo (Later Muhu), who was in such a disadvantageous position, quietly appoints new figures who will be his forces, takes control of the internal list, and establishes the power and justification to overpower the old forces, including Jang Son weapons. Eventually, Empress Wang purged and made poison on charges of murdering her daughter and protecting the empress with a long-handed weapon. What she focused on the most after taking power like this is to fill the court with her people.

In fact, during her 50 years of reign, numerous talented people were hired regardless of their origin, including Baeyeom, the enemy, Heukchisangji from Baekje, and Seol In-gwi from Dolgwi, and even Seungsang Jangganji, who led her throne, was her favorite talent. 

Eventually, this group clash leads to confusion between the late Wu Zetian year and the early days of King Jungjong, King Yejong, and King Hyeonjong after her death. However, despite such confusion, Wu Zetian's status was only downgraded from emperor to empress, and the fact that she was still their lord remained unchanged. Above all, the act of erasing her as the mother of King Jungjong, King Yejong, and the grandmother of King Hyeonjong was because the imperial lineage was denied. In addition, the talents she selected, the enemy, Jang Gan-ji, and other figures were also well aware of her achievements, so they no longer degrade her. 

Wu Zetian, she's...

First, as a woman, few people have changed the world as much as her.

Second, Mosi changes the emperor and succeeds.

Third, she was the only female emperor in Chinese history.

Fourth, remove vested interests and create new exhibitions and no-fault systems. 

          Through this, I changed the world to a new talent.

Fifth, it allowed the people to live a stable life.

Song Dynasty's past.

 I don't know if there were people waiting, but I'm writing it again because I had to finish it once already. I think Song Tae-jo and Cho Kwang-yoon, who conquered the five great powers, had to cross two walls to strengthen the imperial power. One was that unmanned forces like himself, which continued from the end of the day, staged a coup, and the other was to prevent the emergence of noble families who once threatened the imperial power, although it had already tasted bad. For this method, the head authority of each department is well divided and recovered to the central imperial authority. In addition, the military power is also reduced, and each official is not given outside of the operational power, and all other higher-order issues are left to the gatekeeper. In order to keep this vast bureaucratic system stable, the best way to reduce the trend of society's Sungmu is the past. Songdae's past strives to be much fairer than the previous one. This is a kind of challenge for Hwang Kwon, as the successful candidate can form a bungdang with the person in charge in the past if private politics intervene. In addition, there can be families who are noble. In order to prevent private affection between past officials and examinees from intervening in the past selection system itself, the name of the examinee's answer is given (called calling method), but because it can be recognized in handwriting, it is not enough (called registration law), so the past officer cannot come out of the test site. In addition, a system of looking at the past every three years from the past of Songdae was established. However, the most peculiar thing is that the emperor was directly involved in the final test. Song Tae-jo was not happy to see the successful candidates in the past one year. Do you have any personal affection? Thus, all the examinees were asked to take the exam in front of the emperor. That's how he chose a person who suits his taste. In addition, this method instilled pride in that the final successful candidate himself was chosen by the emperor himself, and for this reason, there is no harm in creating a bungdang by calling him a past officer and a teacher student (called Jwasu Munsaeng). With the introduction of the exhibition, the number of successful applicants has been directly adopted by the emperor, not the successful applicants of the examination organized by a department in the flesh. Thus, the government office is immediately offered without delay. (The final successful candidate is often called Jinsa, but the name is slightly different depending on the rank) According to what I hear, Songdae had a lot of loyalty. (I don't know because I didn't give statistics) There were rejected in the original exhibition. How disappointed must you be to fail the final exam? Thus, there was a person who had a seed, so at that time, he moved to Seoha and introduced Chinese-style government to strengthen his national power to bother Song. Therefore, Song Jo-jeong has not made a dropout in the exhibition since then. This story is somewhat Han Chinese-centered, but the facts occupy and suggest one thing. It's a problem with the elimination. In the past, a limited number of people are selected. Although it was said to have increased quite a bit during King Taejong's reign, the number of successful applicants is still a few elite. In the past, as much as you gain, you can be disappointed when you fall. Since then, some people have changed their minds and challenged them horribly, while others have tried to commit bull's way with the spirit of fortune. Song Jo-jeong begins to find a way to embrace them somehow, and in that way, he introduces a special name.