It should be said that Di Renjie "calculated" Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian finally handed over power, which was already a helpless move and had to be done.
Di Renjie is not only an outstanding detective and an upright judge, but also an excellent politician. He is proficient in history and criminal law, and he is handsome and upright. Be an official, love the people like children, and not be afraid of power; If you are a minister, you will be loyal and mature. Be honest, friendly and upright; Be alert and resourceful when doing things. Few politicians combine so many advantages as he does. As Mr. Lin Yutang said: "His calmness, his patience, his wisdom and his vision are not weaker than Wuhou. He is the nemesis of Wuhou. "
The emperor mainly did two things, "calculating" Wu Zetian: one was to make the Li family a prince, and the other was to let as many people as possible who could be entrusted with the funeral enter the state affairs and hold important positions.
The first thing was accomplished with the joint efforts of him and people of insight in North Korea. These people include Li Zhaode, Wang, Wang Jishan, Ji Chuan (phonology), and even two brothers of Wu Zetian. In the first year of the holy calendar (March 698 AD), Wu Zetian returned to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, with Li Xian, the king of Luling (that is, the abandoned middle Sect), hid in the palace, and then summoned Di Renjie. Once again, the emperor talked nonsense, but Wu Zetian interrupted him, called him out from behind the curtain, and kindly said to the emperor, I'll give it to you now! He also said to Li Xian: Thank the old man quickly, because the old man asked you to reset.
The second thing that Di Renjie did was beautiful. Wu Zetian asked him to recommend wizards, and he immediately recommended Zhang Jianzhi. He said: Your Majesty wants to write a good article, and Li Qiao and Su Weidao, two current prime ministers, can do it. If literary talents are required to lead ministers and military talents to command the three armed forces, only Zhang Jianzhi is needed. A few days later, Wu Zetian asked the emperor to recommend sages. Di Renjie said, I have recommended Zhang Jianzhi. Wu Zetian said, I made him the Sima of Luozhou (commander of Kyoto garrison). Di Renjie said that when Sima can't do his best. Wu Zetian nodded and appointed Zhang Jianzhi as Prime Minister. In addition, Yao Chong, Cui Xuan Prison, Jing Hui, Huan and others also held important positions under his recommendation. ?
These two actions of Di Renjie had a far-reaching impact on the later political situation. Now that it has been arranged, he can close his eyes with a smile. He knew that when the time came, Zhang Jianzhi and others would launch a palace coup to restore the Tang Dynasty. As Mr. Lin Yutang said, Detective Di Renjie has sorted out the clues to solve the case and arranged the ending of the story. As for catching criminals and so on, he doesn't have to do it himself. ?
Wu Zetian has now fallen into the trap of Di Renjie, but she has no choice.
In fact, Wu Zetian's biggest headache is the problem of establishing warehousing. She has two sons and three nephews. The son is surnamed Li and the nephew is surnamed Wu. Supposedly, there are many choices, but they are not suitable for anyone. Setting up a son as an heir is equivalent to returning Jiangshan to her husband Li Zhi; Setting up a nephew is tantamount to giving Jiangshan to her most annoying brother Wu or Wu. Not only was he found guilty, but he also changed his surname, not Wu, but Fu. Can Jiangshan send them? ! But if you don't give it back to your husband or your brother, who can you give it to? ?
Di Renjie understood the Queen's distress. He gently hinted at the unique female emperor for thousands of years: whether your "revolutionary" achievements can be consolidated is now ignored. What needs to be considered is a very "realistic" question, that is, whether your old people will provide food or burn incense in a hundred years. He said: please think about it, who is closer, the aunt or the mother and son? If your majesty makes his son an heir, he can still enjoy the ancestral temple and offer endless sacrifices as his mother. If the nephew is the heir, I have never heard of any emperor who will build a temple for his aunt. Li Zhaode has said this before, but what Di Renjie said seems to be more cordial and practical. Wu Zetian can't help but temporarily abandon her "revolutionary ideal" and think from another angle: should she be the mother of the next emperor or the aunt of the next emperor? ?
The answer seems clear: being a mother is certainly better. Whether it is Wu Chengsi or Wu Sansi, if they become emperors, they will only build temples for Wu Shuangyuan or Wu Yuanqing, not for Wu Zetian. That's it. They're nothing. Nothing? Wu Zetian doesn't want to have nothing, and she doesn't want to be a hungry ghost behind her. No sacrifice, no care. ?
Wu Zetian found that she really met an enemy. This enemy is traditional culture, or cultural tradition. Wu Zetian resolutely behaved like a man as a daughter, which in itself is an anti-traditional thing. Anyone who opposes tradition will be opposed by tradition. Wu Zetian acted as a traditional rebel, and now she has to submit to tradition and become a traditional loser.
In fact, Wu Zetian was in a dilemma from the beginning. Because what she wants to do is unprecedented, there is neither ready-made experience to learn from nor strong power to support. In this isolated situation, she can only use traditional power to fight against tradition, including appointing officials like Di Renjie, and using imperial power and state machinery. However, the more she uses tradition, the farther away from her goal. Without tradition, she will accomplish nothing. She wants to move on and carry out her "revolution" to the end, only to find that she has reached a dead end and can't walk any further. ?
We don't know whether Wu Zetian finally figured this out. We only know that she officially handed over power on the 24th day of the first month of the first year of Shenlong (AD 705), and handed over the country she had managed for decades to a loser. Of course, this change is a bit reluctant. Two days ago, while she was seriously ill in bed, a group of courtiers who had mastered both political power and military power led a group of courtiers to surround the Yingxian Palace where Wu Zetian lived and cut off the heads of two "beautiful as lotus flowers" without hesitation. Flatterer Yang Zaisi (nicknamed "Two-legged Fox") praised the Zhang brothers and said: People say Liu Lang (people). Mr. Lu Xun's poem "Sparse lotus is like six lang" is derived from this. Hold her head down and force her to hand over power. The leader is Cui Xuan, the minister appointed by Wu Zetian; Kill two, Li Zhan, son of Li Yifu. In addition, there are more than 500 people who are closest to each other. Their leader is Zhang Jian, the prime minister of Di Renjie, who is called "the leader of Ke Wen and the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces". Behind Zhang Jianzhi, her precious son Li Xian stood trembling.
On 1 1 26th of this year, on a cold winter day, Wu Zetian died alone under luxurious and lonely house arrest. ?