Who is more powerful, Empress Dowager Cixi or Wu Zetian?

I feel that Wu Zetian is more powerful, after all, Wu Zetian is the emperor of the Eight Classics, and the Empress Dowager Cixi has a certain amount of power, but also has certain limitations, so I feel that Wu Zetian is more powerful.

In contrast, Wu Zetian is more powerful, because Wu Zetian is the emperor after all, and the Empress Dowager Cixi can only listen to the government

I think Wu Zetian should be more powerful, after all, Wu Zetian has already become the emperor directly, and the Empress Dowager Cixi has not become the emperor.

There is no way for the Empress Dowager Cixi to compare with Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian's power is the greatest, he is justifiably a female emperor, and he is also the only female emperor recognized by historians.

Wu Zetian is even more powerful.

In terms of historical contributions, Wu Zetian was the only female emperor in Chinese history, and during her reign, she was politically clear, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and had extensive foreign exchanges. The Empress Dowager Cixi exercised the power of the emperor as the empress dowager, made the Guangxu Emperor a puppet, controlled the political situation in China in the late Qing Dynasty for decades, compensated foreign powers for many times, and embezzled naval funds to build the Summer Palace for her 60th birthday, resulting in the defeat of China in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. In fact, he was the biggest sinner of the Chinese nation in the late Qing Dynasty.

In terms of the legitimacy of power, Wu Zetian is the real emperor, and the Empress Dowager Cixi is stealing the power of Emperor Guangxu to exercise it on her behalf, not the emperor.

Wu Zetian is an outstanding politician with the ability to control the current situation and engage in politics. All of them have a relatively positive impact on history. The second Cixi, also as a woman, had a relatively negative impact on the course of history.

Wu Zetian was a real female emperor in history, and Wu Zetian did do a lot of things that were beneficial to the people at that time, on the other hand, Cixi She just listened to the government, I think if there was no Cixi, it would be impossible for the Eight-Nation Alliance to enter China.

Wu Zetian is the emperor, the official emperor who has officially ascended the throne, he has the right to be famous, Cixi is not the emperor, but the queen mother who is in power behind the scenes.

Wu Zetian (624 - 705) is the only real female emperor in the ancient history of our country, who was named Zhaoyi during the Tang Gaozong period, and was later named empress. At the age of fourteen, he was a talented person of Tang Taizong, and was given the name "Wu Mei", and then became the queen, and Gaozong was called the "two saints". In the first year of Tianzhu (690), he established himself as the emperor and established Wuzhou; In 705, he died in Shangyang Palace, Zhongzong obeyed his last order, changed his name to "Zetian Great Holy Empress", and was buried in Qianling as a queen, and later became "Zetianshun Holy Empress". Wu Zetian went from a small talented person to the queen mother and then to the emperor, it can be seen that her IQ and strategy are extraordinary, and Wu Zetian has many means.

Cixi (November 29, 1835 - November 15, 1908) entered the palace by draft, and relied on his own strategy in the harem to reach the peak step by step. When Emperor Xianfeng died, Cixi, together with the Empress Dowager Ci'an and Prince Gong Yixin, launched the Xinyou coup, forming a pattern of "two palaces hanging curtains, and princes discussing politics". In 1884, Cixi launched the "Jiashen Yishu" to depose Prince Gong and began to take sole power; In 1898, a coup d'état was launched; In 1900, the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty was implemented.

On November 15, 1908, Cixi died in the Yiluan Palace, and was nicknamed "Xiaoqin Cixi Duanyou Kang Yi Zhaoyu Zhuang Chengshou Gongqin Xian Chongxi with Tianxing Shengxian Empress", referred to as "Empress Xiaoqin Xian". Cixi's life was also a very mythical Empress Dowager who went to listen to the government and defeated movements such as the Wuxu Reform, and was also a very capable person.

Wu Zetian and Cixi are both very capable people, if you have to compare, I think Wu Zetian is better, after all, she is the only female emperor.

Compared with Wu Zetian and Cixi, Wu Zetian created the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, while Cixi ruined the entire country, and the two are not comparable at all. Cixi can be poor and extravagant all over the country for her birthday banquet, and Wu Zetian's enlightenment cannot be compared.

I don't think these two are ordinary women, if you want to say who is more ruthless between Wu Zetian and Cixi, then I think it's Wu Zetian, after all, she even killed her own children in order to get on the throne, and they all said that tigers don't eat children, let alone people.

I think the Empress Dowager Cixi is even more ruthless. Although Wu Zetian did whatever it took to ascend the throne and killed the child, Cixi was really ruthless, and it was very powerful to cut off children and grandchildren, and Cixi was for himself, and he had no ability to interfere with the government.

In my opinion, in fact, Wu Zetian's methods are a little more ruthless, she can sacrifice a lot of things, including other people's lives, in order to get the rights she wants. However, Cixi really only pursues enjoyment, and only shows a bad attitude towards things.

I think Wu Zetian is more ruthless, she can kill her sons one by one, or she can turn her husband's country into her own, and he uses more cool officials in history, and he rules the country more powerfully, which shows that he is a ruthless master.

Wu Zetian, Cixi is still very protective of her son, when the Qing Dynasty fell, she still thought that she could let their mother and son go, but Wu Zetian didn't care about anything, basically everything she could kill was clean, otherwise she wouldn't be the only female emperor in China.

I think it's Wu Zetian, she dared to set up a wordless monument "I have killed countless people in my life, and I have also lived countless people, and my merits are not commented on by future generations", and later generations did not have too many bad comments on this deviant and ruthless female emperor, but had respect. And Cixi only understands power and strategy, does not know how to govern the country, only greedy for pleasure, has no responsibility, and does not care about human feelings.

Her main purpose is to be in power, and the rest is only auxiliary.

Similarities:

1. Women (there is no doubt about that).

2. Beautiful (the aesthetics of the time).

3. High political IQ (the main manifestation is the ability to tilt the power of the government and the opposition).

4. Another point of life is to have a good look.

Differences: 1. Calling the emperor: Wu Zetian blatantly became the empress, and Cixi hung the curtain to listen to the government, and that's all;

2. Ruling foundation: Wu Zetian continued the political rule of Tang Taizong, with tough political means, and the country was indeed strong politically, while Cixi did not achieve common prosperity with the country, and blindly forbearance and concession in the face of Western powers in the later period;

3. Reform the system: Wu Zetian can be said to be actively reforming, changing his course and forging ahead, while Cixi sabotaged the law and cracked down on the reform forces.