Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chen Shuozhen rebelled and claimed that Empress Wu Zetian became a nun

In October of the fourth year of Yonghui (AD 653), another turmoil caused a sensation in the entire Tang Dynasty. Chen Shuozhen, female, from Zitongyuan Village, Chishan, Muzhou (now Zitong Town, Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province), had a hard life. She married her husband in her teens, but her husband died young, so she took care of her younger sister. She couldn't eat enough or wear clothes. warm.Chen Shuozhen has a strong personality. To her, suffering is just a herb that sharpens her character. Although it is difficult to swallow, it is good after all.After her younger sister grew up, Chen Shuozhen sent her out and went to work for a rich family by herself.But the life of the rich is not easy, because the local government is always urging taxes.Once the officials have other goals, the rest will be indifferent, even the life and death of the people.

Chen Shuozhen believes that the government is born to bully people. Like many rebels, she believes that only by overthrowing the brutal rule of the Tang Dynasty can this situation be changed.People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang can all unite because everyone is suffering.Officials in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have long been numb to the point where they only approve documents and carry out expropriation every day. They have no confidence in others, but they are still very confident in the patience of the people.So they continued to eat and drink, and made vows with each other, and those who starved to death along the way were not their concern.

Angry?Resist, there is still a way to survive! The flood that overwhelmed the faint officials came. Chun'an County has a vast water area. Qiandao Lake in the county has a water surface of nearly 600 square kilometers, where all rivers converge.This year, mountain torrents and rivers broke out together, mixed together, and swept across several counties with gravel and trees.The originally clear water of the lake also became angry, and the torrential flood drowned countless people indiscriminately.Li Shimin once stipulated that where there is a disaster, taxes can be exempted for one year. If the disaster is serious, it is necessary to open a warehouse for relief.But it has changed now. Local officials said that they will never add chaos to the central government.Besides, opening a warehouse to release money is not the same as borrowing food from outside. If you open a warehouse to feed the hungry people, will they have the ability to pay it back?Isn't that equivalent to feeding the dog?

Therefore, if it is necessary to conceal the report, it will be concealed, and the tax will not be missed. Take it, take those people whose homes have been destroyed, and let them perish in silence! The people were so angry that the fuse had already been lit, and there was only a loud bang. The dazed Chen Shuozhen was in a hurry. She knew that she couldn't win the government, so she led the villagers to seize the rich family's granary (the rich businessman is so pitiful).The slaves led the villagers to rob the food, and the wealthy household was furious. They ordered Chen Shuozhen to be arrested and beaten to death.The folks were grateful for Chen Shuozhen, and they didn't want to see their benefactor die, so they made a noise and rushed in, broke down the gate of the rich family, and rescued Chen Shuozhen.

Since then, Chen Shuozhen has become a wanted criminal. Chen Shuozhen went to the mountain to be a Taoist nun for a period of time. When she returned to people's sight again, at the age of thirty, she had already become a god.She began to recruit believers, and soon tens of thousands of horses were gathered.One is that Chen Shuozhen is very attractive, and the other is that the common people have been forced to do so.When all the troops arrived, Chen Shuozhen and his brother-in-law Zhang Shuyin set up troops in Muzhou, calling themselves Emperor Wenjia.Muzhou was terrified and the situation was critical. The officials were finally willing to report their difficulties to the imperial court and asked the imperial court to send troops to suppress it.

Chen Shuozhen was very powerful. They first led thousands of people to capture Tonglu (Tonglu, Zhejiang), and then divided their troops into two groups. Shezhou (She County, Anhui).The massive uprising army quickly taught the cruel and innocent people the lessons they deserved. However, at this time, the command of the peasant army had problems. on the way. Chen Shuozhen cleverly bypassed Fang Renyu and led four thousand soldiers to Wuzhou (Jinhua, Zhejiang). Cui Yixuan, governor of Wuzhou, is very interested in Chen Shuozhen. He has long heard that Chen Shuozhen is a god, and anyone who opposes her will be exterminated.But the soldiers didn't think it was so fun. Everyone thought that she was a god. They heard that she practiced in the mountains and became a fairy.Isn't such a strange woman a fairy?The two armies confronted each other, and Cui Xuanji, Sigong of Tang Dynasty joined the army, comforted Cui Yixuan and said: "Few serious soldiers can succeed, let alone a little demon!"

"Oh? Are you not afraid?" "Don't be afraid!" The two armies continued to confront each other. During this period, a miracle happened and things changed drastically. Tang Bing, who was originally afraid of Xiangu, began to be motivated.God's will tricks people, a meteor landed, and a huge meteor dragged the tail of Mars and smashed into Chen Shuozhen's barracks.Cui Yixuan and Cui Xuanji were overjoyed when they saw this, and took the opportunity to build up public opinion: "You all saw it, isn't Chen Shuozhen a god? Why is there still a thief star falling, is the god going to die?"

At this time, a warlock with a magical calculation appeared, pretended to calculate, and pointed to Chen Shuozhen's barracks in shock: "She was originally a fairy, God asked her to save the suffering, and did not let her rebel! Now God is angry, take it back!" Fate, beat her back to her original form!" Oh...it turns out that the Great Immortal also has her original form, so what changed?Therefore, everyone rejoiced and clamored to enter the enemy camp. The purpose was not to win, but to see what changed in Chen Shuozhen. The battle started, and Cui Yixuan was watching from the front. Many soldiers set up shields for him to block the flying arrows of the rebel army.In the melee, the strength of both sides was equal.Suddenly, Cui Yixuan ordered the shields to be removed from the left and right, and he stood on a high place to direct, and the arrow flew past him.The governor was not afraid of danger, and this scene inspired the determination of the soldiers to fight bloody battles. The crowd became angry, and they killed Chen Shuozhen's army and fled, beheading thousands of levels.

The above two paragraphs illustrate two problems: First, Cui Yixuan is a good leader; Second, Chen Shuozhen is not dead yet. Chen Shuozhen still has a chance, because along the way, there are countless good opportunities to turn back and fight. But running, Chen Shuozhen didn't want to run away.Of his tens of thousands of troops, 10,000 were killed, and now they ran back to their hometown, and another 10,000 surrendered, and even more fled, and those left behind couldn't run. In November of the fourth year of Yonghui (AD 653), Fang Renyu, the governor of Yangzhou, joined forces with Cui Yixuan to block the way of Chen Shuozhen and Zhang Shuyin.The two armies fought, and within a day, Chen Shuozhen and Zhang Shuyin were killed by Tang soldiers, and the uprising ended in failure.Chen Shuozhen's uprising was an uprising of the common people against injustice, and Chen Shuozhen was the first female emperor not recognized by the government and the people, and her courage was commendable.But she didn't form a formal system at all, not to mention how far she was from Li Yuan and Li Shimin, and she was far behind Dou Jiande and Liu Heita.

However, this did not prevent the peasant uprising from shaking the court in the slightest. So, let's take a look, at this moment, student Li Zhi is... Li Zhi expressed his reluctance to accept interviews for the time being. He was soaking in the hot springs (scrubbing) in Lishan.However, some content can be simply passed on. Cui Yixuan was worshiped as a royal doctor because of his good performance, and the rest will not be discussed.Chen Shuozhen's heroic sacrifice was not concluded by the court. She made many people understand that once the officials who deceived the top and the bottom are in the middle, the people will suffer the most.Li Zhi has a lot of things to take care of, and now he has a headache for his two women.

Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu are at odds with each other, slandering each other every day, which annoys Li Zhi thoroughly.Generally speaking, Queen Wang is Li Zhi's wife, and Concubine Xiao Shu is Li Zhi's concubine. The contradiction between the two must be concentrated in one situation: the status of the main wife is high, and the status of the concubine is low; the main wife is not favored. , The concubine is making a fuss. Concubine Xiao Shu is not Li Zhi's affair, she is a regular concubine, who makes Li Zhi very happy because of her aggressive and loving demeanor.And Queen Wang is a cold beauty of noble origin, she does not take the initiative to do things. Although she has a warm side, Li Zhi doesn't love her at all.Two women compete for favor in front of a man. Although the man is good at Tai Chi, they are not satisfied. They always want Li Zhi to say who he loves more. All the same, all the same, don't love so much, just love a little bit. Your majesty replied like this, and the concubine was not satisfied. (Wang Queen Version) Your Majesty talks so much nonsense, what I ask you is who do you love more! (Xiao Shufei version) Then let me put it this way, I am very busy, and others whisper sweetly and secretly, so I only take a peek at you. Your Majesty... (Wang and Queen's version, with a shy face, covering her face and drifting away) Cut, hum! (Concubine Xiao Shu's version, casts a contemptuous and ambiguous glance at Li Zhi, then hugs Li Zhi coquettishly) Well, before the following story officially begins, we need to learn about the emperor's daughter-in-law of the Tang Dynasty for empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu for easy understanding. There is only one queen, second only to the emperor; Zhengyipin is the wife, including: Concubine Gui, Concubine Shu, Concubine De, Concubine Xian; The second rank is nine concubines, including: Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, and Chongyuan; The third rank is Jieyu, the fourth rank is beauties, and the fifth rank is talented people. There are nine people in each of these three ranks. Together, they are collectively called the twenty-seventh woman; The sixth rank is Baolin, the seventh rank is Yu Nu, and the eighth rank is Cai Nu. There are 27 people in each of these three ranks, collectively called eighty-one royal wives. In other words, no matter whether you want so much or not, according to the rules, the emperor's official daughter-in-law should have 122 people.Moreover, who is the king with, check the rules and regulations, there are also regulations.How to arrange these more than one hundred people?You can look up at the starry sky to see if there is a moon, and you will know who should be favored now.It's like this, from the first day to the fifteenth, and then from the sixteenth to the thirty, according to the change of the moon, from the wife to the color girl, and then from the color girl to the wife, one by one is favored by the emperor.Today we always say "it's your turn", but in fact, it should belong to the three vulgar words, and it should be banned, and it should not be allowed to live in the world. In the competition for favor between the empress and the concubine, no one else can rank high, but history loves to joke so much.Now, it's Wu Zetian's turn to appear. Then the sky, then the sky!Hey, that little nun... Hey, it's just you, that little nun with a big face! Damn, why are you calling Zetian and yelling at me, are you sick? Isn't your name Wu Zetian? Your name is Wu Zetian!Your whole family Wu Zetian! Okay, okay, I won't quarrel with you, I will bite whoever I see... I kill you! In the chills. Later I understood that it was all the fault of the dog-blooded TV series. The name Wu Zetian had never been called by Wu Zetian himself, and no one called her that when he was alive.Also, thanks to Chen Shuozhen, because she has two credits: First, she transferred Cui Yixuan to the center; Second, she set an example that women can also be emperors.