Talk:Wu Zetian/@comment-175.139.50.165-20180312181514/@comment-30121804-20180315014056

Wu Zetian just got bad name because she was a woman who ruled as a true ruler.

Tell me, is she the only ruthless ruler in long Chinese History? No, there are many other emperors worse than her in term of tyranny. Wu Zetian's tyranny mostly raging within the imperial court, the normal people's live weren't much effected.

A terrible mother? Empress Wang killed Wu's child, and she avenged her child's death with the murderer's blood. It is just a traditional kind of eye-for-eye kind of payback in old China, nothing new of it. It were the historians who denied the fact that a woman lead them for 40 years decided to tarnished her name with such evil accusation.

Wu Zetian's purge of her other relatives? They were just a bunch of traitors who wanted to dethrone her and take the power for themselves. The penalty for such crimes is death, naturally. Wu Zetian just proved that she was a leader with equality, who will apply the law even to those close to her.

Wu Zetian's action when she got old? Like QianLong Emperor, she got beaten by old age and her sense got dulled, hence she favored the corruption. Nothing to new to talk about here. However, it is should be noticed that her eye for talented people was also very good, and she wasn't afraid to kill any ass-licker officer when she still had a good head.

All above just showed how much typical of a Chinese Emperor she should be if she was a male. Killed all the opposite factions within the court, retaliated when her beloved child got kill, farvoring some corruption during her long ruling time. The only difference is that she was a woman, and she has a great charisma skill that allowed her to be the first and only true empress of China.

However, aside from those "bad" things the historians accusing her, it is a fact that can be denied that her dynasty was a good one, where their people live in happiness.