Zheng Hanyin, now the empress dowager, the subjects call her Emperor Zheng, standing on the Suzaku Gate in a robe, looking down on the entire city, Chang'an City is located in the south of the Longshou Plain, after years of renovation, the city wall is high and wide, the square market is neat, the carriages, horses and pedestrians seem to be small dots, flowing along the straight streets, like a game of chess between heaven and earth, depending on what kind of emperor you are, the genius of the sky, but just like those black dots, it is just a chess piece on the chessboard. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info The winter solstice festival has just ended, every time she returns to the palace from Mingtang after the sacrifice, she has to come up and stand for a while, only from this angle can she feel the magnificent bearing of Chang'an City.

"It's been more than 30 years, the first emperor didn't go back to the palace directly after the first sacrifice, and pulled us up to this Suzaku Gate, Ling Xi was so tall, he had to let me hold him halfway, that is, he saw me take Ling Hua from the nurse's hand, but Ling Hua was still in swaddling clothes, that girl, the most arrogant, and now these two girls are also grandmothers." Han Yin sighed.

There was a woman standing beside her, although she was a woman, she was dressed in a man-style Congsanpin official uniform, and she smiled and said, "The eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom and the eldest princess of the Liang Kingdom are both blessed people. She knew why Emperor Zheng didn't mention the five sons she gave birth to, the eldest son Li Yin died after only three years as the emperor, the second son of Qi King Li Lingchen had a strange temperament, he had to go to sea in his early years, and there was no news when he went, and he finally came back after twenty years, but he brought back a vassal woman who had to be established as a princess, and now he was nested in the vassal country, and he didn't even participate in the court's invitation, the third son Li Linghui, the king of Wei, and the fourth son, Li Lingyang, the king of Han, saw that his nephew was young and weak when he ascended the throne, and he coveted the throne and was imprisoned in the fief, and the king of Han committed suicide and had no heirs. had to succeed one from the heirs of the fifth son, Li Lingnan, the king of Qin. The king of Qin has many heirs, and he has more than 30 sons and more than 20 daughters, because he is a young son, he has been pampered since he was a child, and he was indulged in wine, and he hollowed out his body in his forties, and died with a whimper. After all, only the two daughters born to Emperor Zheng had the best lives.

As the woman spoke, she made a look, and the palace maids and attendants on both sides retreated, only the two monarchs and ministers were on the city wall, and the woman suddenly knelt down and said to Emperor Zheng: "Your Majesty, there have been more than forty persuasions to enter the secret fold." ”

"Xiao'er, didn't I say that? Don't talk about it again. "The Xiao'er in Emperor Zheng's mouth, called Du Xiao, is this woman, she is Emperor Zheng's most relied on confidant, the current Governor of the Taiping School Palace, the official position is from the third grade, she has followed Zheng Hanyin since she was young, watched her ascend to the queen's throne, assisted her in ruling the world, and now she is gray-haired.

Du Xiao didn't get up, and continued: "The emperor is unrighteous and unfilial, as long as His Majesty is willing to take this step, all the ministers in the world will respond to every call." ”

Emperor Zheng looked at the heaven and earth in the distance and sighed: "Xiao'er, isn't it enough?" The voice was desolate and tired.

"Your Majesty......"

Emperor Zheng continued: "Isn't it enough, what is such a thing as power, you and I have been in this power field for more than 30 years, don't you understand?" I take a step further here, I must take a step back there, where I can retreat, there are only female students and female officials left, today I take this step, after I die, they will definitely cut off this road. ”

"But, to be honest, what's the use of them, getting together to intrigue is more powerful than the women in the palace, really let them do things, but there are few who can use them." Du Xiao hated and said, Originally, Emperor Zheng created the Taiping Academy Palace and female officials, just to let the women of the world have a way to enter the body, who knows that the women's school has been open for all these years, there are talents, but there are more troubles, she really can't understand why Zheng Hanyin gave up the low-hanging throne for these women: "That is the supreme position in the world, if Your Majesty gets that position, it is something that has never been done in the past......"

Zheng Hanyin smiled, she is a traverser, from the later generations to this era, when she came, this world has been transformed by a person who crossed into the son of Yang Guang, the Sui Dynasty continued, but the glorious Tang Dynasty did not come, she crossed the princess, but was killed because of political struggles, and was reborn as an orphan girl of a family and Li Yuan's descendant Li Zhan jointly created the Tang Dynasty, counting that she has been struggling in the world of power for nearly a hundred years, and at this point, she also understands that the former Emperor Tianwu recorded in the history books, why she almost never returned to Chang'an after becoming emperor, it's not that she doesn't want to go back, but that's the price, and everything has a price.

She said leisurely: "Xiao'er, have you ever thought about why we are so difficult, just because we are women, from ancient times to the present, the books are written 'women are weak' and 'Hen Si Chen', I want to leave this road for them, only female officials are not enough, they are too conspicuous, I will inevitably become the target of attack after my death, but women's learning is different, women's learning is a nursery, can breed talents, as long as women's learning is there, as long as the Taiping School Palace stays, one day, there will eventually grow towering trees." ”

"Your Majesty......" Du Xiao looked at Zheng Hanyin and cried bitterly...... I don't know if she cried for the throne that was one step away, or for the hardships she endured as a woman.