In 690 AD, Wu Zetian thought that the conditions for the audience were ripe. First, she created public opinion through the mouth of Faming, a Buddhist monk: "Wuhou was reincarnated as Maitreya Buddha, and the contemporary Tang Dynasty was the son of heaven."

Then he directed the matter, and 60 thousand subjects, led by him, wrote to Jin, please change the country name. At this point, naturally, the marquis of Wu came to Dabao in the sound of "long live" of "respecting heaven" and "obeying public opinion", and realized his long-cherished wish, changing the Tang Dynasty to "Zhou" and calling himself "the Holy Spirit Emperor". This year, she is 67 years old.

In the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian was seriously ill, and Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi launched the "Shenlong Revolution" to support the restoration of Tang Zhongzong and forced him to abdicate.

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Wu Zetian showed amazing political strategies and means in her political career more than 30 years before she proclaimed herself emperor. Over the past ten years, she has fully demonstrated her outstanding political talent and statesmanship in employing people, handling affairs and governing the country.

After Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor, she paid more attention to the selection and use of talents. It is believed that "nine domains are wide, and one person can become a wing." Anything that can "secure the country" and "define the frontier" will be used according to her family background and qualifications.

In order to recruit talents, Wu Zetian developed and improved the imperial examination system since the Sui Dynasty, liberalized the recruitment of talents, allowed self-help officials, tried officials, and set up foreign officials. In addition, the start of court examination and martial arts system has created favorable conditions for more and more talents to be discovered and collected.

For example, Guo Ziyi, a famous soldier in the mid-Tang Dynasty, just "joined the army at leisure". In this way, in the era of Wu Zetian's administration, there were always a group of capable ministers and generals who were "literate as a man" and "fighting with martial arts" and worked for Wu Zetian, effectively safeguarding the regime of Wu Zhou.

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