EMPRESS WU ZETIAN (feminine rage series)︱History
By Sofia R
Wu zetian was born in February 17, 624 AD and died in December 16, 705 AD she was a exalted empress while being ruthlessly undefeated in her prime years as emperor. However, her power fell down with a coup d’etat by her followers go against her rule.
Wu Zetian started her life by being selected to be a concubine at 14 to Emperor Taizong. However, she then started an affair with the Emperors most valued son as heir. In which when he then became Emperor Gaozang. This benefited Wu Zetian by giving her a raise in status from concubine into Empress Consort. Fortunately, she later then was given the opportunity of being the Empress. It was rumored that Wu Zetian reason for becoming the Empress was that she assassinated her own offspring before accusing the former Empress to snatch her place.
At her time as Empress, Wu Zetian was seen as quite manipulatively controlling figure. In which intimidated her husband into rethinking who had the held actual power. Unfortunately the Emperor passed away before he could say his last word. Out of panic, Wu Zetian disposed her sons from being heir to throne as of being afraid of her power being taken away. Not much later, she declared herself Empress Regnant.
She increased her sovereignty by expanding Tang’s dynasty territories to conquer servers, regions which she succeeded in. For instance, she conquered regions in new lands such as , Korea and Central Asia. Source: study.com
She reformed Bureaucracy by selecting her finest soldiers based on their intelligence,talent, skill to emphasize meritocracy which would be one of the reasons she avoided mutiny for a long period of her rule Source: Asianstudies.org
She has also assisted in helping in the economic development but when it came to reduction of taxes, construction irrigation and mostly Agriculture after all to benefit the country and her followers. Which has contributed on how China is developed today. Asianstudies.org