Taizong talent Wu Zetian, what is Taizong talent?

Although Wu Zetian was recruited into the palace, historical materials show that Li Shimin did not love Wu Zetian very much, and Wu Zetian was a talented person for 12 years without leaving a child.

Wu Zetian was a talented person of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Taizong called him "Mei Niang."

Wu Zetian's mother is Li Yuan's cousin, and she is Li Shimin's cousin.

The two are husband and wife.

In November of the eleventh year of Zhenguan (637), when Wu Zetian was fourteen years old, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, heard that she had beautiful appearance and demeanor, summoned her to the palace, and was named a five-grade talent, and was given the name "Wu Mei", and later generations falsely called Wu Meiniang. But Wu Zetian was not favored by Li Shimin, and he has been a talented person for 12 years, but his status has never been improved. But during Li Shimin's serious illness, Wu Zetian and the crown prince Li Zhi began to establish a relationship.

Wu Zetian is the second daughter of the governor of Jingzhou. At the age of fourteen, he entered the harem and was a talented person of Tang Taizong and was given the name "Wu Mei". Tang Gaozong was named Zhaoyi, and later became the queen, with the honorific title of "Queen of Heaven", and Gaozong was called "Two Saints".

After the death of Gaozong, as the empress dowager of Tang Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong, he was in charge of the dynasty.

In the first year of Tianzhu (690), Wu Zetian established himself as the emperor, changed the name of the country to Zhou, set the capital of Luoyang, called "Shendu", and established Wu Zhou. Before and after Wu Zetian's reign, he wantonly killed the Tang Dynasty clan and raised the "cool official politics". But she is "discerning and decisive", has more power and strategy, and can use people.

It also rewarded agriculture, reformed the rule of officials, and attached importance to the selection of talents, so that talents came out in large numbers. In his later years, he gradually became extravagant and arbitrary, and gradually developed maladministration.

After Wu Zetian was made queen, he expelled the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang and others who opposed her becoming queen from the imperial court. For Wu Zetian, this was an example to the monkey, but these Guanlong groups and their dependents had become a conservative force with vested interests at that time.

Driving them out of the political arena marked the end of the more than century-long rule of the Guanlong clique since the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and also created a good condition for social progress and economic development.

In the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian fell ill, and Prime Minister Zhang Khan Zhi and others launched the "Shenlong Revolution" to support the restoration of Tang Zhongzong and force him to abdicate. After Zhongzong restored the Tang Dynasty, he was given the title of "Zetian Great Sage Emperor".

In November of the same year, Wu Zetian died in Shangyang Palace at the age of eighty-two. Zhongzong complied with his last order, changed his name to "Zetian Great Sage Empress", and was buried in Qianling as the queen. Later, she was called "the Holy Empress of Tianshun".