After the death of Emperor Li Zhi, during his serious illness for two years, Wu Mei, the queen of heaven who had already held all the power in her hands, officially stepped into the front from behind the scenes, showing her fierce fangs, making frequent moves, excluding dissidents, promoting cronies, and the entire court almost became her hall of words. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The crown prince Li Jie, who succeeded to the throne, is like a marionette, at her mercy, and has no right to speak in the affairs of the country, just nod and use the seal.

After four years like this, Li Jie couldn't bear it anymore, gathered his cronies, contacted loyal people, plotted a coup d'état, and eradicated the demon woman...... A few days later, Li Jie was deposed as a concubine, relegated to Yazhou, and was taken away by a glass of poisoned wine halfway.

After getting rid of Li Jie, in order to better control the court, Wu Mei, the queen of heaven, helped her youngest son Li Xian to power and continued to act as a puppet.

Li Xian's personality is somewhat similar to his father Li Zhi, but he is more timid and cowardly, sometimes glared at by Wu Mei's dissatisfied eyes, he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy...... The mud can't hold up the wall, so that countless people feel hopeless.

Wu Mei was very satisfied with the performance of this qualified puppet, and her steps were more radical, not to mention the purge of a large number of dissidents, and also gathered a large number of royal literati to build hype, so that folk children sang the nursery rhyme of "The universe moves, the sun and the moon change, yin and yang change, and the heroine comes out", brainwashing the ignorant people at the lower levels.

In addition, in order to be more justifiable, Wu Mei also ordered people to carry out a series of god-making campaigns to deify herself.

For example, the legend of "degrading the peony" was witnessed by millions of people in the imperial capital, and her popularity rose to an unprecedented peak.

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This legend occurred in a winter, the legend is that in the winter of this year, the Holy Goddess Emperor took his concubines and palace maids, went to the upper garden to drink and enjoy the snow, at this time the heavy snow just stopped, only to see the rockery, pavilion, small bridge, all the scenery of the promenade, all put on a white plain wrap, all kinds of flowers and trees said that the branches and leaves withered, but after the snow dressed, like silver branches and jade flowers, it looks particularly beautiful.

Suddenly, the female emperor found that in the white snowdrift, there was a little burning and jumping fire, and when she looked closely, it turned out to be red plums in full bloom, and the female emperor was really very happy!

At this time, a concubine said: "Your Majesty, no matter how good the plum blossom is, after all, it is a single flower, if you can make a holy decree and let this garden bloom with a hundred flowers, wouldn't it be more satisfying?"

Another concubine shook her head and said, "Now in the cold winter and cold months, the plum blossoms are blooming at the right time. If you let the flowers bloom, you need to wait until next spring. ”

The female emperor laughed and said: "It is not surprising that the flowers bloom in spring, and the flowers are blooming in the snow, which is in line with my heart!"

After that, taking advantage of the wine, the female emperor ordered the palace maid to bring the four treasures of the study, and immediately held the frost in her hand, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote a five-character poem on the white silk:

The Ming Dynasty traveled to the garden, and quickly reported the spring

The flowers bloom overnight, don't wait for the wind to blow.

After writing, she asked the palace maid to take it to the upper garden and burn it, and informed the flower god to know.

After receiving this edict from the female emperor, the flower fairies were frightened, and the fairies quickly gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

The Peach Blossom Fairy was the least daring, and shrunk and said: "The female emperor is vicious, she can do anything, we don't dare to disobey!"

A few little flower fairies also timidly echoed and said, "Yes, let's prepare early and open it in advance!"

Only the peony fairy disagreed with their opinions, and said a little angrily: "The empress is too domineering, you are in charge of the affairs of the world, and now you are in charge of us again, these hundred flowers are blooming, each has its own season, the world is open, and the four seasons follow, how can you be allowed to go against the sky?" Sisters, we can't follow!"

When the flower fairy heard the peony fairy say this, they felt very reasonable, but when they thought of the female emperor's domineering, they all hesitated.

The Peach Blossom Fairy begged the Peony Fairy and said: "Good sister, you listen to me, let's obey, the empress kills people like stepping on an ant to death, not to mention our delicate flower bodies?"

Many fairies also said: "Sister, open it this time, otherwise it will be a big disaster!"

The peony fairy said stubbornly: "You can't do anything against your heart once, as long as we are hard-willed, see if she can endure me?"

At this time, the drum has been beaten four watches, the sky is about to brighten, and the flower fairies have made up their minds to see the peony fairy, so they have to disperse in a hurry and bloom their own flowers.

On the second day, the empress woke up, got dressed, sat in front of the mirror and asked the maid to dress her up, when the palace maid pushed the door and entered, and happily reported: "Long live, all the flowers in the upper garden are blooming!"

The empress was overjoyed when she heard this, hurriedly walked out of the palace, came to the upper garden, raised her eyes, the peach blossoms, plum blossoms, magnolias, begonias, hibiscus, and lilacs in the garden were all in full bloom, a cluster of clusters, gorgeous and colorful, competing for beauty, swaying with the wind, graceful and colorful, charming and moving, the morning glow of winter reflected the flowers, and the white snow lined with green leaves.

At this time, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty came one after another, watching the rarity, the empress faced the Zhongqing, carried away, strode towards the upper garden, and suddenly found that in the flower garden, only the peony was bare and bald, one did not let go, a wave of anger rose from the oil, and scolded: "Bold peony! Dare to be so presumptuous, resist the decree, set fire to it, and leave no one behind!"

Then the empress issued another decree to demote Peony out of the imperial capital and exiled to Luoyang Mountain, because the empress had been to Pishan, and she knew that this place was intertwined with ravines, remote and desolate, so that Peony was now suffering from loneliness and suffering, in order to relieve the hatred in her heart!

Who knows, as soon as the peony enters the new soil, it will take root again, and in the spring of the next year, the mountains will be full of green. The people of Bishan liked peonies very early, and they transplanted and planted them in every household, and later the people in the city heard about it and came to transplant them. The peony fairy is very happy to see that Luoyang people love peonies so much. People who appreciate peonies, help the old and bring the young, the morning and dusk are continuous, the sea of people and flowers, the grand occasion is extraordinary.

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In fact, this legend of "degrading peonies" is from Zhou Ming's handwriting.

It is not difficult to make a hundred flowers bloom in winter, build a few glass greenhouses, use charcoal fire to heat, so that the climate is suitable, not to mention a hundred flowers, thousands of flowers can bloom.

Therefore, after secretly transplanting the flowers cultivated in the greenhouse to the upper garden overnight, there was a scene that made the civil and military officials stunned, and the people of the imperial capital bowed their heads when they saw it...... This is a legend that is happening in front of you, and people who don't understand science in this era can only explain it with gods and ghosts, or wonder if they are hallucinating.

But the scene of the flowers in full bloom in front of him is so real, and the peony flowers are indeed not blooming, and the legendary "Holy Goddess Emperor" who can even be derogated by the peony fairy, in addition to sitting with the queen Wu Mei, who else dares to come to this pot?

is not just a big deal like "degrading peonies", in the past few years, Zhou Ming has also helped the diva Wu Mei and came up with hundreds of tricks, most of which have been adopted by Wu Mei, and the effect is wonderful.

Even, together with Shangguan Yu'er, he presided over a royal examination with all women, and selected a hundred female officials for Wu Mei at once, including many talents, several good-looking female scholars, with extremely high IQ and EQ, sometimes even Zhou Ming felt that they were scheming and terrible, and their talents were no less than Shangguan Yu'er.

And Wu Mei was also very satisfied with Zhou Ming's "performance", and even gave those beautiful female officials to Zhou Ming as concubines, and even Shangguan Yu'er beside her has quietly given birth to a son and a daughter for him in recent years, and used her beauty to win him over and use up his talents.

But Zhou Ming didn't want to do much for Wu Mei, he just wanted to escape from the imperial capital, and every moment, he wanted to return to his hometown in Qingzhou.

On the one hand, it was the queen Wu Mei who was ruthless and ruthless, and killed many loyal ministers and good generals, such as Cheng Wuting, Xue Gang, Gao Xianzhi, Pei Yuanshao and other generals stationed in the frontier, who were killed or degraded by her, resulting in a fault line among high-level outstanding generals, and the army was in chaos.

On the other hand, Wu Mei, the queen of heaven, nepotism and loyalty, not only put a group of mediocre talents in a key position, but also vigorously cultivated relatives, and the Wu clan was the king, such as Wu Sansi, who was extremely unpleasant to the eye and wanted to kill him many times, was named the king of Liang by Wu Mei, not to mention, but also made him a secretary of the military department, in charge of millions of soldiers and horses in the Great Zhou, it was like child's play.

Similarly, for Zhou Ming, Wu Sansi also hated it to the core, and whenever he gave advice in front of Wu Mei, he often competed with him, and coveted the beauty of Shangguan Yuer and several female officials, and sent assassins to assassinate Zhou Ming many times, wanting to take these women over, and they were all dangerously avoided by Zhou Ming.

Until one day, in the back garden of the Forbidden Garden, Zhou Ming saw Wu Sansi tearing Shangguan Yu'er's dress, wanting to fil her in the pavilion, and immediately became furious, rushed up and smashed several of his ribs with two punches, and then stomped down with one kick, crushing his male roots, if he hadn't been pulled by the two masters around him, he might have beaten Wu Sansi to death.

At this time, the contradiction between Zhou Ming and the Wu family can be said to have completely intensified, to the extent that Wu Mei cannot alleviate it, unless one party's body completely disappears from this world, it is possible to restore tranquility.

Wu Mei is very contradictory, her nephew Wu Sansi can't kill her, Tian Zihua is still of great use to her, she can't kill for the time being, she can only isolate the two parties, don't let the two sides meet, and prepare to wait for her to board the treasure and then solve these problems.

Some people may ask, since he wants to leave like this, why doesn't Zhou Ming run, with his one enemy and one hundred forces, it shouldn't be difficult to escape from the imperial capital, right?

He really can't go, because Zhou Ming is by his side, following five masters at any time, these martial arts masters that Wu Mei doesn't know from there, all of them have extraordinary martial arts, iron arms and copper bodies, and they don't feel like human beings, Zhou Ming can barely tie against the last one, if he faces more than two, there is basically no hope of winning.

These five martial arts masters, following closely, monitoring day and night, even going to the toilet and waiting outside at night, launched attacks many times, and tried to escape from these five masters, but they all failed.

Zhou Ming even wondered: These five martial arts masters are not bugs released by the system, the purpose is to prevent him from passing the customs comfortably.

Fortunately, a few days ago, the clan soldiers sent two pistols that could be fired continuously, each pistol, with a bullet capacity of ten rounds, a total of twenty bullets, as long as he grasped the right time, in a short period of time, hit four of the five masters, he was more than eighty percent sure that he would escape from the cage of the imperial capital.

"Mr. Zihua, the queen of heaven announces your visit. ”

A eunuch came over and summoned Zhou Ming into the palace.