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Chapter 1600 The Daughter-in-law Inherits the Mother-in-law's Throne
[There will be another chapter later, I am working hard on the code]

In the end, Emperor Jiajing came up with a genius idea, which was to change the temple name of his own ancestor, Zhu Di, who happily gave himself the temple name of Emperor Taizong of Ming Dynasty and expected himself to be as famous as Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty and did not try to snatch the throne from his relatives.

It was changed from Emperor Taizong of Ming to Emperor Chengzu of Ming.

In this way, Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty was the same as Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty. Because of the title of ancestor, he could always enjoy the sacrifices in the Taimiao.

Moreover, because he was promoted from the patriarch to the ancestor, his temple name was upgraded, and people in the world could not say that Emperor Jiajing had wronged Zhu Di.

Once Zhu Di passed away, the already full spirit tablet naturally became vacant. Emperor Jiajing could then naturally place his father's throne in the Taimiao, which was perfect.

I just don’t know how Zhu Di himself would react after learning about such changes, and whether he would be able to show a bright smile on his face.

To get back to the point, Wu Zetian actually encountered the same problem as Zhu Yuanzhang, which was that she could not find all the names of her ancestors.

This is normal. After all, Wu Zetian's ancestors lived in the era of the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China. At that time, the entire world was filled with refugees. Many people had forgotten where their families originated from, let alone keeping their own family tree.

It is a very natural thing that you cannot find all your ancestors.

In addition, Wu Zetian was also stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang because she found the ancestors of her five generations, namely, Emperor Cheng Wu Keji, Emperor Zhangjing Wu Juchang, Emperor Hunyuan Zhao'an Wu Jian, Emperor Liji Wenmu Wu Hua, and Emperor Wu Shigui of Wushang Xiaominggao.

Well, if all these ancestors knew about this, they would definitely be very happy, because they became emperors without doing anything.

It is worth mentioning that when Wu Zetian was planning to establish the ancestral temple, a minister who was either trying to curry favor with the emperor or to disgust Wu Zetian wrote to the emperor, saying that since Your Majesty is the first female emperor in history, the ancestors worshipped in the ancestral temple should not be your paternal ancestors, but your maternal ancestors, and then all of them should be canonized as female emperors, which is in line with Your Majesty's foundation.

When Wu Zetian first saw this memorial, she thought it made sense because she had not been loved by her father since she was born and had suffered humiliation in his family. She grew up with her mother and depended on her for everything. There was no psychological pressure at all for her to ask him to enthrone her maternal ancestor as emperor.

But when Wu Zetian really began to prepare the list of titles, she was horrified to find that, apart from knowing her mother's name and family background, she didn't even know who her grandmother was or which family she came from.

At the same time, even if I searched through the family tree, I couldn't find the identities of my grandmother and others.

Because in ancient times, family inheritance was always through the patrilineal line. Although women could be included in the family tree, they were included in the family tree of her husband's family, and were recorded as Mrs. xx, surnamed xx.

This resulted in the situation that when Wu Zetian searched the Wu family tree, she could only find records about her mother, Yang, but she had no idea where this Yang came from.

Of course, when Wu Zetian's mother was still alive, she must have told Wu Zetian which family she came from. But when Wu Zetian looked through the Yang family tree, she could only find records of the xx family. But it was impossible to find out which family this xx family came from, because her mother couldn't even remember which family her grandmother came from.

Moreover, Wu Zetian soon found that these searches were meaningless, because her surname was Wu, not Yang, and her mother also took her father's surname, not her grandmother's surname, and this grandmother must have another surname. It was impossible to place seven people with different surnames in the ancestral temple of her family, which would obviously become the biggest joke in the world, so Wu Zetian acquiesced to the ancestors of her father's line entering the ancestral temple.

Wu Zetian tried her best to find the names and origins of the five generations of ancestors of the Wu family, and conferred titles on them respectively, but she could not find any names above them, and she could not make them up randomly. So Wu Zetian suddenly had an idea and remembered that her family tree recorded that her family name came from Ji Wu.

And this Ji Wu was a very extraordinary person. He was one of the 99 sons of King Wen of Zhou, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, a founding prince of the State of Ying, and a genuine old aristocrat.

In addition, King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou were from Zhou, and their own dynasty was also Zhou. This was destined by heaven that she would revive the Great Zhou, so Wu Zetian simply canonized Ji Wu and Ji Wu's son as emperors, and wrote them all into the ancestral temple, finally completing the seven tablets in the seven temples of the Son of Heaven.

If the ancestral temple of Wu Zhou is there, then naturally there can no longer be any ancestral temple of Li Tang in the capital. After all, there is only one emperor in the world, and there is only one emperor's ancestral temple. There is no two masters in the world!

Therefore, the original seven temples of the Li Tang family, which respectively worshipped Li Yuan's four ancestors, as well as the ancestral temples of Li Yuan himself, Li Shimin himself, and Li Zhi himself, were moved directly out of the capital Luoyang and returned to Chang'an by Wu Zetian's order.

In addition, even if they returned to Chang'an, it was no longer a ancestral temple, but only the Li family's family temple. At the same time, the temple names and posthumous titles of Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi were all cancelled. They were only granted the title of Duke, and enjoyed the sacrifices of the Li family as the Duke of Tang..., just like before Li Yuan became emperor, he sacrificed to his own ancestors as the Duke of Tang.

This is like coming back to life directly.

You know, this treatment is really excessive, because even if the emperor of the previous dynasty is overthrown, after ascending the throne, the emperor's status as emperor of the previous dynasty will not be cancelled. At the same time, the spirits of these emperors will be invited into the Temple of Emperors of All Dynasties, and they will enjoy sacrifices together with the emperors of all previous dynasties.

Because this represents the legitimacy and rationality of the origin of his throne. He obtained the throne by accepting the abdication of the previous dynasty. He is a legitimate emperor, not a traitor who rebelled.

However, after Wu Zhou replaced Li Tang, the throne of the three generations of Li Tang was not recognized by later generations, and they could not enjoy the sacrifices that emperors of previous dynasties should have. They were directly pushed into the stinking ditch.

The reason for this situation was not that Wu Zetian was so heartless and ruthless, but because the origin of her throne was too embarrassing.

If she acknowledged the emperor of the Li Tang royal family, it would mean that she acknowledged that her throne came from her husband and that she inherited her husband's throne as a wife... This was completely unimaginable in an era with an entire system and rules for succession to the throne.

After all, the patriarchal system can explain how people from other families can reasonably accept abdication and inherit the Mandate of Heaven of the dynasty they destroyed, but it has never explained how a wife should inherit the Mandate of Heaven from her husband.

In addition, if her throne comes from her husband, then after her death, if her son succeeds to the throne, can her son naturally pass the throne to his daughter-in-law?

Just like his mother inherited her husband's throne.

(End of this chapter)