Helan Minzhi, a high-ranking official of the Tang Dynasty and the nephew of Empress Wu Zetian, how absurd is he? Next, the History Encyclopedia editor will bring you relevant introductions, hoping to be helpful to everyone.
The relationship in Wu Zetian’s family was quite chaotic, and her husband Tang Gaozong did not even spare Wu Zetian’s sister and niece, but ultimately gave up because of his wife’s influence.
Apart from her husband, Wu Zetian’s nephew Helan Minzhi was even more absurd, and the reason behind it was due to the long-standing grievances of Wu Zetian’s family.
Wu Zetian was born to Yang, the second wife of her father, a warrior named Yu ē. After her father’s death, her first wife’s sons Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were very impolite to Yang’s mother and daughter and tried to bully them.
Later, Empress Wu Zetian was selected to enter the palace and, after years of trials and tribulations, finally ascended to the throne as empress. She honored her mother as the Lady of Rongguo and her elder sister as the Lady of Korea, while her half brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang did not receive any rewards.
Yang held a grudge against the Wu brothers and advised Wu Zetian to release them, which showed the Empress’s concession. Wu Zetian was also dissatisfied with her two brothers, so she followed her mother’s plan and sent Wu Yuanqing to Longzhou and Wu Yuanshuang to Haozhou. Later, Wu Yuanqing was exiled for picking faults and died in the office. Wu Yuanshuang was also killed due to his niece Helan’s involvement in the incident.
In this way, the lineage of the warrior Yu ē was cut off, so Wu Zetian brought in Helan Minzhi, the son of her elder sister, the Korean wife, and changed her surname to Wu as the heir to the Wu family.
Helan Minzhi was originally a popular figure with considerable beauty. After becoming the heir of the Wu family, he became even more arrogant and promiscuous, and soon got into a relationship with his grandmother, Lady Rongguo.
After hearing about this, Wu Zetian was quite angry, but after all, her family’s shortcomings should not be exposed, and she did not want the descendants of Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang to inherit, so she had to endure it.
Madame Rongguo is getting old, so naturally she cannot grow old with her grandson and has already ascended to the sky. Wu Zetian allocated many treasures from the treasury to handle her mother’s funeral, but Helan Minzhi did not care about her old relationship with her grandmother and stuffed all the treasures into her own pocket, only putting ordinary objects as sacrificial offerings. Not only that, during the funeral, he also watched singing and dancing, ate alcohol and meat, and did not feel sad at all.
The heir chosen by Wu Zetian herself could only break her teeth and swallow it in her stomach. Unexpectedly, Wu Zetian’s forbearance was rewarded by He Lanminzhi’s even more unrestrained behavior.
The daughter of Yang Sijian, a young official of the Imperial Guard, was selected as the consort of Crown Prince Li Hong. As the wedding date was approaching, she was inexplicably discovered by He Lanmin that the prospective Crown Princess had extraordinary appearance. Therefore, she planned to deceive her future younger siblings outside and “force her to be private”.
Not only that, Princess Taiping traveled to other countries to participate in funeral arrangements, and any of her ladies with some beauty were not spared from the harm of Helan Min.
With a combination of anger and frustration, Wu Zetian could no longer tolerate the actions of He Lanminzhi. Therefore, she issued a decree exposing his crimes, changed his surname back to Helan, and exiled him to Leizhou.
Accustomed to the glory and wealth, the young master of Helan couldn’t bear the turmoil and hanged himself on the way to Leizhou.
With the death of the legendary figure He Lanmin, the position of heir to the Wu family became vacant again. Wu Zetian had no choice but to forgive her two brothers, as blood is thicker than water.
Wu Chengsi, the son of Wu Yuanshuang, and Wu Sansi, the son of Wu Yuanqing, returned to Chang’an and began their lives of serving Wu Zetian without regard for past grievances.
