Ep. 7 | Wu Zetian
The China History Podcast
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The Concubine of the Tang Dynasty
Osten was 13 or 14 years old when she became the emperor's concubine. She entered the harem rank of the fifth grade which was also called its hiren. Osten had some kind of relationship that she apparently cultivated with one of the emperor's younger sons named thecer teger. The second tang emperor, her benefactor, died in six forty nine after supposedly drinking some elixir of life that poisoned him. Was declared crown prince in six forty three, cha, or woma nang,. as she was called, now, was the crown prince's stepmother.
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