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Running Head: FACTORS WHICH CAUSED EMPRESS WU’S REPUTATIONS TO BE EXTREME 1

Title: FACTORS WHICH CAUSED EMPRESS WU’S REPUTATIONS TO BE EXTREME

Linxi Wang

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For the purposes of ensuring that Empress Wu rules in the best way possible, she used different factors which ensured that her reputation was made to be extreme. Some of the factors she used were: intelligence and the ability to listen to the views of the people. However, Empress Wu ensured that she made an effective use of the secret police for the purposes of ensuring that she spied on the people in the country.

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This played significant roles in ensuring that she realized what the people in the country wanted. As a result of the spy done by the secret police in the country, she becomes among the most successful leaders in the country hence ensuring that the needs of the people in the country were addressed in the best way possible.

The secret police would provide her with the spied information hence ensuring that she carried out her roles as per the expected. This made it easy for her to rule according to her reputation therefore making it easy for the country to achieve its goals and objectives in the stipulated time.

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On the other hand, Empress Wu become the first successful female leader in her country as a result of the secret police which enabled her to determine the different gaps in the country which needed to be addressed for the country to be run as per the expected.

The police plays important roles in ensuring that the she led the people in the best way possible therefore achieving the goals and the objectives of the country. Before she carried out an activity for the members of the public, she would first spy the people and hence acquire enough information of what is required by the people. This enabled her to implement different projects which made the lives of the people easier.

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As a woman, she managed to maintain her power through the use of the secret police that ensured that she acquired enough information on what she should do for the purposes of meeting the needs of the majority of the people in the country. Empress Wu’s ability to acquire quality information played important roles in ensuring that she ruled in an effective manner. The secret police would ensure that she has enough information and hence ensuring that she implemented different projects in an effective manner. This ensured that she ruled according to her extreme reputations.

Doran, R. (2019). Royal Wet Nurses in Seventh-and Early Eighth-Century China: Historiographical Evaluation and Narrative Construction. Nan Nü, 20(2), 198-224.

Again, her intelligence made it easy for her to establish a new dynasty which was made to benefit majority of the members of the public. The Zhou Dynasty was purposely formed so as to bring about positive impacts hence enabling them to live as per the expected. On the other hand, Empress Wu’s became successful due to the different projects she implemented for the purposes of ensuring that the goals and the objectives of the country were achieved in the stipulated time.

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Moreover, Empress Wu’s intelligence made it easy for her to introduce different projects to the people. The projects she brought to the members of the public played important roles in enabling her to become one of the most effective leaders in her country. However, the manner in which she implemented the projects enabled the members of the public to benefit in an effective manner. Again, her extreme reputations brought about controversy in the country therefore ensuring that the country was run in a different manner.

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On the other hand, her extreme reputations led to the fall of the Zhou Dynasty. However, Empress Wu’s extreme reputations led to the death of the dynasty’s ruler hence making it hard for the dynasty to be ruled in the best way possible. When the leader of the Zhou Dynasty was killed, it became hard for Empress Wu to rule as per the expected and therefore different activities were carried out opposite to the expectations of majority of the people in the country.

The change of Tang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty played important roles in enabling Empress Wu to rule the country in an effective manner therefore achieving the set goals and objectives of the country. The change of dynasties by Empress Wu enabled her to implement different projects as per the expected therefore ensuring that the country is run in the best way possible. Again she appointed leader who ensured that her reputations were upheld.

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Finally, Empress Wu listened to the views of the members of the public and hence ended up promoting Buddhism. For her to rule accordingly, she used the selected Buddhist scriptures which played important roles in ensuring that she created visual representations to the members of the public. The Buddhist selected by Empress Wu made it easy for her to justify her rule hence achieving the goals and the objectives of the country.

However, this helped in ensuring that the needs of the people in the country were addressed in the best way possible. Her extremely good reputations made her successful in the manner in which she ruled the country even though she encountered different challenges which brought about failure of the operations she carried out.