When Li Lu was busy with the westward expedition, on the side of Chang'an, Li Xiaojiu's widow, Ms.
Wu Xu was no longer satisfied with being a queen mother who tempered and listened to politics, being the queen mother was not Wu Xu's ultimate goal, her purpose was to be a female emperor, she wanted to surpass Wu Meiniang, who was a slaughterer in Broken Leaves, Wu Meiniang was just a prime minister, and she wanted to sit on the throne of the emperor above 10,000 people.But in a feudal dynasty like the Tang Dynasty, there are many obstacles to the traditional power of women being emperors, and it is not easy to talk about it!
Wu Xu is an extremely smart woman, she is good at learning, in the newspapers she got from England, she came into contact with far more advanced political ideas than the Tang Dynasty, she knew from the newspapers that in order to establish a new dynasty and obtain legal rule, there must be two major supports, one is the will of heaven, and the other is the will of the people.The ruler must be "the destiny of heaven and the will of the people" in order to establish the foundation of the ruling regime.After Li Xiaojiu's death, Wu Xu deposed Li, put Li Dan under house arrest, suppressed the rebellion in Yangzhou, killed Pei Yan, and almost wiped out the Li Tang royal family in Jin'er, clearing all obstacles for her to become emperor.But it is an unprecedented thing for a woman to be the emperor, being the emperor has always been a man's business, and a woman being the emperor is difficult for the civil and military ministers and the people to accept?
In order to prove that it was the will of heaven for Wu Xu to claim the emperor, he began to create a series of auspicious rui.For example, a mound of soil gushed out of the flat land in Wannian County, and Wu Xu said that this is auspicious, and the flat land is longshanbao, that is, the nobles came out to dominate the world.One of the ministers stood up and said, "Here and there is auspiciousness, and there is a calamity, and a mound of earth rises from the ground, like a tumor growing on a man's body."
After hearing this, Wu Xu thought about it, it seems that what the British newspaper said is good, in the Central Plains of China, Confucianism for thousands of years is deeply rooted in people's consciousness and cannot be adopted.So what is used as a tool of public opinion?
Datang has three major theoretical systems, one is Confucianism, the second is Taoism, and the third is Buddhism.Confucianism is the superiority of men and the inferiority of women.There is a saying that "the hen crows, the family is unfortunate, the woman governs, and the country is destroyed", and he is a woman, and it seems that Confucianism is not good for him.Can Taoism support women to govern?
Taoism is not good, the ancestor of Taoism is Taishang Laojun, Lao Tzu, and Li Ming'er, the ancestor of the Li Tang royal family, and uses the ancestors of other people to change the lives of other people's descendants, so there is this reason?
Taoism is not good, see how about Buddhism?
Speaking of Buddhism, Wu Xu has a deep relationship with them, she was a nun in Ganye Temple when she was young, and later she accepted Feng Jinshu as a face.Who is Feng Jinshu?
is Wu Xu's first male pet, a monk who can please people.Wu Xu in order to find the basis for a woman to become emperor from Buddhism; After accepting the task, Feng Jinshu organized a group of senior monks to form a Buddhist theory seminar to study whether there was any article in the Buddhist scriptures that recorded that a woman could rule the world; As a result, I really found the "Great Cloud Sutra".The "Great Cloud Sutra" tells the story of a "Pure Light Heavenly Maiden": The Pure Light Heavenly Maiden once heard the "Great Nirvana Sutra" from the same-sex lamp Buddha, and later when the Buddha was alive, she was born into the world as an ordinary womb, and heard the profound meaning of Buddhism again.Although she was a woman, she later became a king, obtained a territory under the command of the Wheel King, became at ease, received the five precepts, became a Upoyi, and educated the men, women, and children in the urban and rural areas to which she belonged to receive the five precepts, guarded the Dharma, destroyed all kinds of evil views and dissentencies in the outer ways, and became a bodhisattva, transforming sentient beings and then ascending to heaven to become a Buddha.The Great Cloud Sutra also says that the Pure Light Heavenly Maiden was originally the wife of a king; Transformed into a pure light goddess, then transformed into a bodhisattva, and finally ascended to heaven to become a Buddha.This story is just in line with Wu Xu.In order to let the common people understand the "Great Cloud Sutra", Wu Xu instructed Feng Jinshu to organize a group of monks to make a commentary on the "Great Cloud Sutra".This commentary is called "The Great Cloud Sutra"."
The Great Cloud Sutra" not only explains the "Great Cloud Sutra" in an easy-to-understand way, but also falsifies the original story.It is implied that Wu Xu is not only the incarnation of the Pure Light Heavenly Maiden, but also the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha.Maitreya Buddha incarnated as a woman to become emperor.Wu Xu was very satisfied with the "Great Cloud Classics" compiled by Feng Jinshu and others, and decided to print and distribute the "Great Cloud Classics" to the ministers of Wen and Wu and the common people to read.On the other hand, each state was ordered to establish a "Great Cloud Temple", and each "Great Cloud Temple" was equipped with a copy of "Great Cloud Sutra" and "Great Cloud Sutra", and then the eminent monks and great virtues from all over the country preached the "Great Cloud Sutra" at the same time, so that every ordinary person knew that Wu Xu was instructed by the Buddha to be the emperor.After the transformation of Buddhism, the public opinion of the heroine's accession to the throne has been pushed to a climax.As for the Great Britain in the west, destroying the Buddha or something, Wu Xu doesn't care, anyway, over there are broken leaves, Chang'an has long been out of control, besides, the Great Britain believes in the Tao, the Tang Dynasty, oh, no, it is the new dynasty that he is about to establish to worship the Buddha, and the two sides do not interfere with each other, why not?
In this way, the problem of providence was solved, and the next thing was the will of the people.How did Wu Xu create the hearts of the people?
She practiced four catches.The first is to break the stereotypes and customs of Wenwu officials and promote them to the rank of knight, which is supported by the officials.Second, it is necessary to "rest the troops" to reduce the war and lighten the peasants' burdens.The people of the capital were exempted from forced labor.The third is to formulate a whistle-blowing system.Encourage the public to report to the emperor, such as suing an official for privately theorizing the queen, resisting the imperial court, forming a party and rebelling.It is forbidden for any local official to retaliate against whistleblowers.The fourth is to build momentum and petition, and use petition activities to build momentum among the people.Under the instigation of someone with a heart, a seven-grade sesame official named Fu Youyi came to Luoyang with a group of hometown fathers and villagers to go up in front of Wu Xu's palace, asking Wu Xu to comply with the will of heaven and the people, become the emperor, change the current emperor Li Dan to Wu Dan, and inherit Wu Xu's career in the future.Wu Xu saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart, but he couldn't think about it, it seemed too urgent, and he had to give in three ways and then accept it.Wu Xu thought to himself that he couldn't accept the petition immediately, but he couldn't dampen their extreme accumulation, so he decided to move Fu Youyi, the leader of the petition, from the seventh-rank official to the fifth-grade official at once.In this way, everyone understands that petitioning can be promoted.Not long after, the second round of petitions came, and last time it was the old family of the Li Tang Dynasty in Kanto, there were only a hundred people; This time, it was the people of Luoyang, as well as monks, Taoist priests, and Fanren Huke, more than 12,000 people, who ran to the palace to petition and ask Wu Xu to be the emperor.Wu Xu still didn't accept it.The next day, the number of petitioners increased by tens of thousands, in addition to ordinary people, monks, Taoist priests, and Fanren Hurong, there were also a large number of officials.The petitioners thought that there were too many people to understand, so they agreed to send a representative to talk to Wu Xu.The representative of the dialogue said: "His Majesty is the master of the Mandate of Heaven, and people take His Majesty as their mother.
The great character of the person is also the surname.Your Majesty should not be heavenly, disobedient to others, the way of exaltation and humility, without any constitution, what should the ministers look up to?
I would like to take the liberty of dying. ”Then another person said: "Now, Your Majesty, you are neither natural nor disobedient, you are just blindly humble yourself, where have you put us?"
”The petitioners outside shouted vigorously, accept the petition, accept the petition!
Just as the petitioners were shouting, suddenly a bird flew over, and immediately someone shouted: Look, the phoenix is coming, and then another flock of birds is flying over, and the crowd is shouting, look!
Hundreds of birds towards the phoenix, the square in front of the palace boiled all of a sudden, below is 10,000 people cheering, the head is a hundred birds towards the phoenix, this kind of heaven and man induction, the phenomenon of the unity of heaven and man is really rare.At this time, Li Dan saw that he was out of play, and he also came out to ask his mother to be the emperor.Asked to demote himself to the position of imperial heir.He also asked to change his surname to Wu.Wu Xu looked at it, let it three times, and then accept it, this ceremony has been completed step by step, and it should be accepted.She said, "The more you are, the more God has given it."
Wu Xu set out to choose an auspicious day for the emperor and prepared to ascend the throne.Election and selection, and finally decided to ascend the throne in Luoyang Mingtang on the ninth day of September.Why did Wu Xu choose the Double Ninth Festival to ascend the throne, Wu Xu thought, men are yang, women are yin, and the choice of Chongyang is to make up for his lack of yang as a female ruler.When Wu Xu became the emperor, he immediately changed Tang to Zhou, and why he changed Tang to Zhou was because Wu Xu claimed to be a descendant of the Zhou Dynasty.The ruler of the Zhou Dynasty was surnamed Ji, and the surname Wu came from the state of Wu established by Zhong Yong, the second son of King Tai of Zhou, and was the Ji family of Zheng'er Bajing.On the fourth day of Wu Xu's accession to the throne, she ordered the construction of the Wu Clan Temple in Luoyang, and posthumously honored her ancestors as emperors.Crowned several of her nephews kings.Some of her cousins and aunts were made princesses.exempted the people surnamed Wu from paying taxes and destroyed the Li family's temple.Only the tablets of Tang Gaozu, Taizong, and Tang Gaozong were retained, and a temple called Xiangde Temple was built for them.Why did Wu Xu change the Tang Dynasty to Zhou, the reason is very simple: first, Xia, Shang, Zhou, the Zhou Dynasty is the longest, more than 800 years, Wu Xu hopes that the Wu Zhou Dynasty he established can be like the Zhou Dynasty, for a long time.The second is that the Zhou Dynasty is the dynasty most recognized by Confucianism, and Wu Xu lacks the recognition of Confucianism the most, which is called what is lacking and what is made up.Not long after Wu Xu sat on the throne of the empress, Li Lu, who was far away in Constantinople, received the news that Wu Xu was called emperor, and he smiled slightly, "This Wu Xu is really ruthless and spicy enough, but you may not know that with me, a traveler, you want to be your empress seat, and you don't even have a ....... door."