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Chapter 1591 Li Zhi and the Wu Family’s Love
The first disgusting thing Wu Zetian did was actually related to her competition for favor with Queen Wang. She gave her sister to Li Zhi, and then the two sisters became beautiful.

What do you think? This is such an interesting thing, but many people don’t know about it at all, right?
As mentioned before, Wu Meiniang was unable to serve Li Zhi most of the time due to frequent childbirth in the early period, so Li Zhi's favorite concubine was still Concubine Xiao Shufei. Even if Wu Meiniang and Queen Wang reached a political alliance, it was useless.

In order to defeat Concubine Xiao Shufei, make Li Zhi fall in love with her completely and become the queen, Wu Zetian did an unimaginable thing, which was to bring her sister Wu Shun into the palace to serve Li Zhi together with herself.

Why do people say that Wu Shun was brought in by Wu Meiniang on purpose?
Because Wu Shun had married someone else at an early age and gave birth to a son and a daughter, Helan Minzhi and Helan. At that time, Wu Shun's husband Helan Yueshi was the chief official in Mingzhou, so naturally they lived in Mingzhou.

As a result, Wu Meiniang wrote a letter to call them back, and then arranged for Wu Shun to enter the palace. Within a few days, the news that Li Zhi favored Wu Shun spread. The whole process was smooth and there was no extra time in between. If it was not specially arranged, no one would believe it.

According to historical records, Wu Shun was actually more charming than Wu Meiniang, and she was only in her early thirties when she entered the palace, which is the age when a woman can be seduced no matter how hard she tries. So the scumbag Li Zhi couldn't control his lower body and had sex with Wu Shun the moment he saw her.

It is worth mentioning that Li Zhi never gave Wu Shun any status, but only conferred her the title of Lady of Korea. This was an imperial decree to confer a title on the official's wife and had nothing to do with the harem.

Therefore, Wu Shun could not enter the palace legitimately, and it was even more impossible for her to have her own palace in the palace. Every time she entered the palace, she could only do so under the pretext of visiting her sister, Wu Meiniang, and she lived in her sister's palace.

Any relationship between Li Zhi and Wu Shun could not be hidden from Wu Meiniang, not to mention that this relationship lasted for more than ten years until Wu Shun's death.

Well, it can be imagined that in order to win favor, Wu Meiniang would not only not obstruct her sister, but the two sisters would also join forces to serve Li Zhi so well that he would completely give up Xiao Shufei and devote himself wholeheartedly to Wu Meiniang and her sister.

Then, Li Zhi used the excuse that Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao were practicing witchcraft together to depose Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao and made Wu Meiniang the queen.

Of course, the most important reason why Li Zhi did this was to seize power.

After all, the power of the entire court at that time was basically in the hands of his uncle Changsun Wuji. Li Zhi used the means of deposing the queen to cultivate a large number of his own trusted officials in the court, and then used Wu Meiniang to kill Changsun Wuji.

This was the fundamental reason why he deposed the queen, but why it was Wu Meiniang who came to the throne instead of Concubine Xiao Shufei? It should be the great credit of this pair of sisters.

If we say that what Wu Meiniang did was simply to win favor and was just shameless, but not cruel enough to be inhuman, then the next thing she did was to die of drunkenness, which is comparable to the way a human pig dies in history.

This was still related to the two unlucky women, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao. After being deposed, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao were initially imprisoned in the cold palace. But Li Zhi, the big pig's hoof, was so hot-headed that he deposed Concubine Xiao because of the two sisters' kindness.

Later, she always thought of Concubine Xiao Shufei's good points, so she often went to the cold palace to have relationships with her. In order to rise again, Concubine Xiao Shufei pulled Queen Wang in, wanting to learn the advanced experience of the Wu Meiniang sisters. Therefore, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei were about to be re-enthroned at one point.

Wu Meiniang could not accept that these two opponents were resurrected after all the hard work, so while Li Zhi was out on business, Wu Meiniang directly ordered people to beat Xiao Shufei and Queen Wang with 100 sticks, but the two did not die. As a result, the mad Wu Meiniang continued to have people chop off Xiao Shufei and Queen Wang's hands and feet, and then sealed them in a wine jar, and finally they were soaked to death in the wine jar. Because their hands and feet were completely broken, the bones could directly contact the wine, so this was called death by drunkenness, which was no less than Lu Zhi's method of turning people into pigs.

This was the second totally unacceptable and cruel thing that Wu Meiniang did... It is understandable that Wu Meiniang killed her two competitors in order to eradicate the roots of the problem, but such brutal means were completely unnecessary. From this point of view, Wu Meiniang was no longer worthy of being a human being.

And the third thing followed closely.

Li Zhi was only going out temporarily and would be back in the palace in a few days. After returning to the palace, he naturally learned how Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao died. It is said that Li Zhi was so frightened that he became in poor health and developed a chronic illness, which prevented him from living a long life.

But actually?
Li Zhi would definitely go and find trouble with Wu Meiniang first, questioning why this woman was so cruel as to kill Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao without his permission.

If Wu Meiniang explained that she was the queen and those two were just deposed women and that she had every right to order them to be killed, then Li Zhi would probably want to kill Wu Meiniang.

But Wu Meiniang was so smart. She knew very well what kind of person Li Zhi was, so she found her sister Wu Shun and asked her to do something that once again made everyone feel horrifying and shameless.

That was to let Wu Shun bring her own daughter, Helan, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, into the palace, and have her visit her aunt the queen and uncle the emperor every day.

She looks exactly like the sisters Wu Shun and Wu Mei, or even better. At the same time, after the young Helan entered the palace, she spent every day with her mother and aunt when she came to visit her uncle. It is easy to imagine how maneuverable Li Zhi, the uncle, is.

Sisters + mother and daughter, wow, this is the most popular amateur novel in Wenxin Pavilion.

So Li Zhi was conquered without any surprise, and then completely forgot about Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao. After all, he couldn't really blame Wu Meiniang, because then the twin sisters + mother and daughter would be gone, right?
It's not worth losing so much for two deaths.

So, relying on her sisters and nieces, Wu Meiniang completely secured her position as queen until Li Zhi's death.

All TV dramas and movies like to brag about how sincere, beautiful, and unforgettable the love between Wu Meiniang and Li Zhi is.

But no TV series or movie has ever told us that this is not the love between Wu Meiniang and Li Zhi, but the love between the third daughter of the Wu family and Li Zhi... Well... there is definitely love, but the affection is not so certain.

(End of this chapter)