Empress Wu Zetian's rise to power began with a calculated manipulation of imperial succession: after Emperor Taizong's death, she seduced his son (the new emperor) before the funeral concluded, and when palace rules mandated she spend her life in a Buddhist monastery, she was smuggled back into the palace as his concubine, positioning herself to eliminate Empress Wang as her primary obstacle to becoming empress.
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In 655 a concubine named Wu strangled her own newborn daughter. Then she screamed for the guards. When they arrived she was cradling the body and pointing at Empress Wang who just left the room. The emperor believed her. Wu had been planning this for months. She entered the palace at 14 as a low-ranking concubine to Emperor Taizong. When he died palace rules said she'd spend the rest of her life in a Buddhist monastery. She was 25. Most women accepted their fate.
Wu seduced the dead emperor's son before the funeral was even over. Within a year the new emperor smuggled her back into the palace as his concubine. Now she just needed to remove one obstacle, the empress.
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