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I know a story of Empress Wu, who was an ambitious woman in the ancient Chinese history. Wu Chao was born in 625, the daughter of a Chinese general. Attracted by her beauty, Emperor Tang Taizong chose her to be his concubine when she was only thirteen years old. After his death in 649, she became concubine to the next emperor, Kao Tsung, and bore him four sons and a daughter. Wu Chao was extremely jealous of the empress and greatly desirous of power. It is said that she strangled her own daughter and then accused the empress, who was childless, of the crime. The emperor chose to accept Wu Chao’s story, deposed the empress, and chose Wu Chao as his new empress. Wu Chao was obsessed with power. After her husband’s death in 683, she sent one son

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