Cui Xuanwei
In 701, by which time Empress Wu had taken the throne herself as "emperor" of a new Zhou Dynasty, interrupting Tang Dynasty, Cui Xuanwei was made the deputy minister of civil service affairs (天官侍郎, "Tianguan Shilang"), and he was said to be upright and not susceptible to improper influence by powerful people. Later that year, he was made "Wenchang Zuo Cheng" (文昌左丞), one of the secretaries general of the executive bureau (文昌臺, "Wenchang Tai"). A month later, Wu Zetian summoned him and told him, "Since your office was changed, I heard that the officials often feasted because they could now again be corrupt. I will put you back in your old position." She thus made him deputy minister of civil service again and gave him an award of silk.