Forcing Ly Hien to commit suicide and removing Ly Triet were the political steps for ambitious woman Vo Tac Thien.
Forcing Prince Ly Hien to commit suicide
Shortly after Prince Ly Hoang’s death, Prince Ly Hien was replaced. In the eyes of Vo Tac Thien, Ly Hien is a very talented son of literature and martial arts, much appreciated by his mother. After being established as Crown Prince, he again did a very significant thing, which was the organization of officials, and annotated the book “The Late Han Letter”.
According to historical researchers, behind Ly Hien’s annotation of the book “The Hau Han Thu” hid some very important political ideas. In it listed the women involved in the history of the Han Dynasty, referring to the history at that time Lu Hau used torture with Thich Lady. It easily brings to mind Vo Tac Thien’s cruel treatment of the Queen Queen and Tieu Thuc Phi. In particular, the book repeatedly recalled the story of women who did not interfere with the court. These are all things that make Vo Tac Thien unhappy.
One event that made Vo Tac Thien see a thorn in his eyes was when Cao Tong’s health was too low to handle the main court, the emperor intended to cede the throne to Vo Tac Thien. Giving power to Vo Tac Thien and giving the throne to the crown prince are two completely different things. It may hide the idea that Cao Tong still doesn’t really want to leave the throne. When the incident was announced, a force behind the prince rose up to protest.
Faced with such a situation, Vo Tac Thien manually wrote two letters to the Crown Prince. One image is “Righteous Thieu Duong” which means, you are the Prince, you have to stand in your right position. Another image is “Death Story” meaning you must be a filial child. This gesture by Vo Tac Thien is actually intended to warn the Prince Prince if he intends to become king. The two letters of Vo Tac Thien are a weapon to fight against his son, Prince Ly Hien.
According to China.com.cn, Ly Hien was inexperienced in politics, under the intimidation of Vo Tac Thien, he started to show abnormal expressions. He became lethargic, drowning in a day-to-day intensity.
According to historical records, at that time Ly Hien loved a man named Trieu Dao Sinh very much, rewarding him with a lot of money. Of course, Vo Tac Thien did not ignore this detail. On the one hand, he reported to Cao Tong Street, on the other hand forced Trieu Dao Sinh to admit that the prince had a conspiracy to act as treason, the Prince’s East Palace was hiding many weapons.
In 680, after doing an investigation, Ly Hien was demoted to civilian life for treason, imprisoned in a prison, his political career came to a complete end. But Vo Tac Thien has not let go yet. She also brought all the armor found in the prince’s palace to burn outside the Duong Lake Citadel to disguise the prince’s betrayal against the world.
Finally, Vo Tac Thien sent General Khau Than Tich to the place where Ly Hien was being held, forcing Ly Hien to commit suicide.
Trung Tong Ly Triet depot
On the second day after Ly Hien’s dismissal, Vo Tac Thien’s third son, Ly Hien, was crowned prince, renamed Ly Triet. After becoming Crown Prince, Ly Triet was just giddy with pleasure, not as devoted to government as Ly Hien. Until the incident happened, Cao Tong died in Lac Duong.
For Vo Tac Thien, Cao Tong’s death was a great opportunity to win the throne, but it still arranged for the Crown Prince to succeed Cao Tong’s death according to the letter he left. In fact, she knew that she held the victory in her hand because in the written letter: “The prince who succeeds in the face of immortality, when he has no person at court, he will listen to Thien Hau”.
When Cao Tong passed away, the new emperor was busy with the funeral for 27 days as prescribed, unable to manage the main court. Meanwhile, Vo Tac Thien will replace the Emperor in charge of the country.
At the same time, Vo Tac Thien had to find a way to make everything right so that the transfer of power into his hands went as smoothly as possible. First, she promoted the promotion to relatives of Ly Duong Tong. At the same time, she began to strengthen the army, promoting her trusted people in the royal army.
More importantly, she moved the program from the premier of Xiamen to the provincial lieutenant general to facilitate the exercise of power. Everything is in the arrangement of Vo Tac Thien, she calculated very carefully.
After 27 days of funeral for Cao Tong, Duong Trung Tong officially established the court. But Ly Triet’s flamboyant personality immediately raised a lot of issues. In order to please the Empress, Ly Triet repeatedly asked Prime Minister Bui Dam to negotiate to elevate the sub-music manager, the last time was to ask Bui Dam to discuss to bring the minor music to the Prime minister.
However, Bui Dam refused to accept, shouting at Trung Tong. Trung Tong was very angry and said, “What’s your status but disagree, I want to give Vi Huyen (the emperor’s music) the whole world has nothing to do with your house”.
It sounds like a joke when you’re angry, but the angel’s words are not a joke. Bui Huyen immediately seized the opportunity and handed the situation over to Vo Tac Thien. Using this as an excuse, the year of Tu Thanh, Vo Tac Thien invited the dynasty’s martial arts officials to Can Nguyen Palace, proclaimed the impeachment of Trung Tong Ly Triet, preparing her fourth child, Ly Dan, to become Emperor Duong Due. Cardboard.
Emperor’s throne
Duong Due Tong was a very obedient son, seeing the tragedy of his brothers, he took the initiative to ask his mother to replace him at court. And he retreated back like a puppet emperor, a real name unknown. But not everyone like Duue Tong just wants to save their life.
After Vo Tac Thien held all the power in his hand, inside the mandarins and the royal family liked to stir up waves of fierce protests, even rebellions arose.
In particular, in 684, the “Yangzhou start-up” event seemed to protest against Vo Tac Thien to directly take power. It was the biggest rebellion since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, but it was quickly quelled by Vo Tac Thien.
However, this rebellion greatly affected the judicial situation as it involved Prime Minister Bui Dam. Bui Dam was also the person who opposed Vo Tac Thien succeeding the emperor, so he took part in the mutiny.
After the rebellion was quelled for about 20 days, the Bui Dam was brought down in Duong Lake. Immediately after killing Bui Dam, at the scene, Vo Tac Thien instructed the army and said, “Among you, if you are a Mandarin, who is more harmful than Bui Dam, your position is more certain than Bui Dam? ” No one dares to speak.
From there, during the dynasty, no one could threaten the imposing power of Vo Tac Thien. This means that Vo Tac Thien won the emperor’s competition with the princes and mandarins during the reign, thus becoming the only emperor in the history of China.
