After the Empress Wu swept away a number of hidden dangers through the whistleblowing campaign and achieved a phased victory, she decided to take a step closer to the goal of becoming the emperor, and the Ming Hall must be built as soon as possible, as the place where Wu Zhou ascended the throne and became the emperor!

In the mid-spring season of the fourth year of the vertical arch, the Empress Wu ordered the demolition of the Qianyuan Hall of the Taichu Palace of the Divine Capital, and built the Ming Hall on the original site, and the master Xue Huaiyi, the master of the White Horse Temple, entered the palace to preside over the supervision, and built the Ming Hall. Recruit famous craftsmen from all over the country to gather in Shendu, and tens of thousands of craftsmen are served.

The construction of the Ming Hall is in full swing, and the Empress Wu is in full swing to plan the next step on the road to the throne, planning auspicious clouds from the sky, and building a mysterious atmosphere of monarchy!

Empress Wu and Wu Chengsi, Wu Sansi and other cronies secretly plotted to ask Wu Chengsi to create Fu Rui for the emperor and create a mysterious atmosphere, but it could not be the Fu Rui who saw the dragon and saw the unicorn in the era name.

Wu Chengsi couldn't think of any fresh Fu Rui even if he wanted to break his head, so Empress Wu reminded him: "You go and read the history of Qin Shihuang for thirty-six years!" ”

Wu Chengsi returned to the mansion to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find history books. I found the sixth volume of the "Historical Records" Qin Shi Huang Benji, opened it and took a look, like an enlightenment, my mind suddenly opened,

It turned out that in the 36th year of Qin Shi Huang, three amazing and strange events occurred one after another: the Luminous Confusion Guarding the Heart, the Meteorite Incident and the Shen Bi Incident.

Luminous Confusion Guarding the Heart refers to the astronomical phenomenon of Luminous Mars staying in the heart for a period of time, which is the will of Heaven, due to the time, and cannot be imitated, but the hint Fu Rui should reflect the meaning of divine power granted by God.

In the meteorite incident, a meteor streaked across the night sky, fell down Dongjun, and fell to the ground and became a meteorite, and someone quietly engraved the words "The First Emperor died and the earth was divided" on the meteorite, which caused a sensational effect. This one can be imitated.

The Shen Bi incident prompted the manifestation of the river god, which was pleasing and convincing.

An ingenious picture gradually emerged in his mind, and Wu Chengsi sighed with emotion: "The river is out of the picture, Luo is out of the book, and the phoenix is out of the water!" The Queen Mother's wisdom is vast and boundless, the Queen Mother's inspiration is like a sweet spring, and the Queen Mother is indeed the phoenix chosen by Haotian God! ”

Next, Wu Chengsi carefully selected a white stone shaped like Dapeng, and ordered the craftsman to chisel out the text "Our Lady is coming, Yongchang Emperor" on the white stone!

It is then filled with purple stone powder and drugs such as rosin, so that the white stone has a natural purple vein. Then take a boat at night and quietly sink the Ziwen Baishi in Luoshui to record the location of the sinking water.

A few days later, Wu Chengsi signaled Tang Tongtai, a native of Yongzhou, to go to Luoshui to fish for fish and shrimp. The name Tang Tongtai is most likely a pseudonym of Wu Chenghe's cronies, because just looking at the literal meaning is an extension of the "two saints".

Since Tang Tongtai is Wu Chenghe's cronies, he took a boat to Luoshui to fish and shrimp, so he could naturally capture the piece of Ziwen Baishi by the way. As a result, Ziwen Baishi was salvaged along with the fish and shrimp.

Then Tang Tongtai presented the stone on the table, and said that this piece of purple white stone that resembles Dapeng was fished with a fishing net when fishing for fish and shrimp in Luoshui.

Empress Wu led the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to carefully appreciate this purple white stone, and saw that it looked like a Dapeng, and the two wings on the side vaguely showed the eight purple characters of "Our Lady of the People, Yongchang Emperor", which was integrated with the white stone, like a natural pattern, not like it was handmade.

After the civil and military officials saw this piece of Ruishi, they all figured out the meaning of the martial arts queen in their hearts, and they all discussed it for a while, thinking that this was the image of a hundred birds and a phoenix, indicating that the will of heaven has returned!

When Empress Wu saw that the civil and military officials understood what they meant, she was overjoyed, and named this purple white stone as a "treasure map" on the spot, and promoted Tang Tongtai to a guerrilla general.

Although Empress Wu has already controlled the world, it is not possible to directly declare that she wants to be the emperor, she must use Fu Rui to make her subjects believe that it is not her who wants to be the emperor, but the emperor's life. Now, through Tang Tongtai's dedication to the treasure map, this propaganda effect has been initially achieved.

Next, Empress Wu was ready to get rid of the Li Tang clan, because the Li Tang clan was a hurdle that could never be bypassed on the broad road to becoming the emperor, and long before Xu Jingye raised his army, Empress Wu had already discussed with Wu Chengsi the plan to get rid of the Li Tang clan.

Empress Wu issued an edict stipulating the procedure for pro-worship of Luoshui: it was scheduled to worship Luoshui on December 25 to receive the treasure map given by Luoshen; and then to the southern suburbs to worship the heavens, thank Haotian God; After the worship of the heavens, go to the Ming Hall to accept the congratulations of the ministers.

He ordered the governors of all prefectures, the assassins, the Li Tang clan, and their relatives to gather in the Shendu ten days before Bailuo.

This edict hides a murderous intention, as long as the governors of all states, the assassin history, the Li Tang clan, and the relatives dare to come to worship her, then their life and death are actually in the hands of the Empress Wu!

On May 18, hundreds of civil and military officials signed the form, requesting that the beloved Empress Wu be honored and honored as "Our Lady of God and Emperor". Our Lady God Emperor ordered the craftsmen of the Shaofu Supervisor to make a three-sided jade seal.

On July 1st, the Holy Mother of God issued an edict to amnesty the world, renamed the treasure map as the Heavenly Sacred Map, changed Luoshui to Yongchang Luoshui, sealed Luoshui God as the Holy Marquis, and forbade the people to fish and fish in Luoshui!

The salvage place of the heavenly holy map was named Shengtu Spring, and Yongchang County was set up on the side of the spring. Songshan was changed to Shenyue, and the god of Songshan was named the king of heaven, and the people were forbidden to graze and chop firewood in Songshan.

The Holy Mother Emperor's desire to ascend the throne and claim the throne became more and more obvious, and the Li Tang clan was panicked, wanting to avoid the edge of the sword of the Son of Heaven and could not get it, and was made by the edict of the Holy Mother of God, and must arrive in the divine capital before December 15 and go to the Ming Hall to congratulate.

The Holy Mother and Emperor were pressing forward step by step, and the Li Tang clan was uneasy, and finally the Boyu Rebellion broke out in August and September, but it was quickly quelled by the Holy Mother and Emperor.

Our Lady and Emperor took the opportunity to use the cool officials Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing and others to implicate the Li Tang clan, brutally attacked, and killed the world in a big way, and basically wiped out the Li Tang clan.

The obstacles on the road to the throne have been cleared one by one, and the place of her political sacrifice, Mingtang, has been completed and finished according to the plan under the supervision of her male concubine Xue Shi day and night!

On December 25th, the Holy Mother and Emperor held a grand and grand ceremony to worship Luoshui and receive the Holy Picture from Heaven as planned. On the bank of the Shengtu Spring in Yongchang Luoshui, the tall Bailuo altar was built by Youji in advance!

After the Holy Mother and Emperor got up, he had breakfast, dressed up, rode the phoenix, removed the curtain, revealed his true face, and marched out of the palace to the Bailuo altar.

The lady of the palace who was in charge of the fan and the female officials such as Shang Gong and Shang Yi who were leading in front were all dressed as men, wearing round-necked robes and saro heads, looking handsome and pretty.

Emperor Li Dan and crown prince Li Chengqi entourage, civil and military officials inside and outside, barbarian chiefs, and Zhufan envoys accompanied them, and after arriving at Bailuo Altar, they each stood according to the square team.

On both sides of the road, onlookers lined up to welcome them, and the common people were thrilled to see for the first time the face and figure of the Emperor Mary, the true son of heaven who ruled them, and shouted long live. It turned out that she and the Longmen Grottoes Lushena Buddha sat like they really looked like they!

The cultural relics are very rich, all kinds of strange rare birds, exotic beasts, miscellaneous treasures are displayed in front of the Bailuo altar, the Taichang band plays the "Tang Daxiang Bailuo Movement" according to the marching beat of the team, the nine and the movement are played when the phoenix chariot starts, and the Qinhe movement is played when the dedication is made.

The dancers and dancers lined up in a neat line, stepped on the beat, and danced the send-off dance and the welcome dance.

Our Lady of God and Emperor is dressed in a crown, full of energy, under the guidance of Shang Palace, slowly walk up to the altar of Bailuo, look at Yongchang Luoshui and worship, Shang Yi on behalf of the Holy Marquis to present the holy map of heaven, just like the river Bo to the river map to give Dayu.

Our Lady of God and Emperor respectfully received the Heavenly Sacred Map, held it high above his head, and said in a loud voice: "The mountain is singing and the eagle is singing, showing the auspiciousness of the order; Luo out of the book, the luck of the king of Zhaoxing! ”

The subjects thundered with joy, raised their arms and shouted: "Our Lady is coming, Yongchang Emperor!" Our Lady is coming, Yongchang Emperor! The Holy Mother and Emperor slowly placed the Heavenly Conferral Diagram on the board.

After the Bailuo ceremony, Shang Yi and his attendants moved the Heavenly Sacred Diagram to the Bu Chariot, followed the Phoenix Chariot of the Holy Mother and the Emperor back to the palace, and placed it in the court.

The next day, the Holy Mother and Emperor led the ministers to the Yuanqiu altar in the southern suburbs of the Taichu Palace to worship the heavens and thank Haotian God. Taizhu sent cooked food to offer, Zai Zhu raised fire and burned firewood in the altar, the fire was blazing, the smoke rose, and it reached nine days.

On the 27th, the majestic and splendid Mingtang was completed, which lasted only ten months, and such a speed was the result of the efforts of the whole country to build.

Our Lady of God and Emperor led hundreds of civil and military officials to visit the newly built Ming Hall. I saw that the appearance of the Ming Hall was tall and towering, square and round, the inside was tall and empty, magnificent, and there were ten giant wooden red pillars in the middle, which ran through up and down.

The ground of the palace is paved with gold bricks, flower mats, and placed with black walls, smokers, incense tables, lampstands and other supplies.

Our Lady of God and Emperor was very satisfied, and gave the name of Vientiane Shrine on the spot, and the plaque and couplet hanging on the Vientiane Shrine were written by the calligraphy genius Zhong Shaojing.

Our Lady of God received the congratulations of the ministers at the Vientiane Shrine, and then held a banquet to reward the ministers, and made a groundbreaking decision to allow ordinary people to enter the sacred palace to visit the Vientiane Shrine for nine days.

The great benevolent light of the Buddha of Infinite Light shone on the body of the Holy Mother Divine Emperor, and the Holy Mother Divine Emperor looked along the golden light and saw that the Buddha of Infinite Light was preaching the Dharma in the Pure Land of Western Bliss ten trillion times away, reaching out to all sentient beings in a boundless breadth and achieving immeasurable merits.

Our Lady of God and Emperor was so moved that she ordered Master Xue to build another five-storey heaven 16 meters north of the Ming Hall to store the 250-foot-tall Buddha statue of Amitayus.

He also issued the "Edict on the Etiquette of the Ming Hall", saying: The secret strategy of the Ming Hall to open the world, the operation of the law and the weather, can make disasters not happen, disasters do not happen, and they will worship the three saints on the first day of the first month of the next year, in order to match God, it is advisable to order the ceremonial officials and doctors to set the sacrificial etiquette, and follow the essentials and quickly listen to the music.

In a blink of an eye, on the first day of the first month, the Holy Mother of God and Emperor held a sacrifice ceremony in the Vientiane Shrine, she was dressed in a crown, with a three-foot long waist and a two-inch Zhengui in her hand for the first offering, first sacrificing the Haotian God Seat, then sacrificing Gaozu, Taizong, Gaozong, and then sacrificing the first king of Wei, and finally sacrificing the Wufang Emperor's seat.

After the ceremony, Li Dan offered the sub-sacrifice, and then went on the field to carry out the sacrificial ceremony, and Li Chengqi was the final offering.

After the feast, the Holy Mother and Emperor walked out of the Ming Hall, rode a BMW, patted the horse and rushed to the gate of heaven in the Taichu Palace, and then dismounted to unfold the holy decree of the colorful auspicious cloud brocade, announcing the amnesty of the world and changing the Yuan Yongchang.

Then, the Holy Mother of God Emperor posthumously honored Wei Zhongxiao Wang Wushi as Zhou Zhongxiao Emperor, his mother Taiyuan Princess as Zhou Zhongxiao Empress Dowager, and honored the tomb of Nanxu Village Wushi in Wenshui County, Bingzhou as Zhangde Mausoleum, and the tomb of Hongbin Taiyuan Princess in Fengxian Township, Xianyang County as the Xianyi Mausoleum, and at the same time set up the official of the first house.

When the winter solstice solar term arrived, the Holy Mother and Emperor held a ceremony to worship the heavens in the Vientiane Shrine, announcing the use of the weekly calendar throughout the country, with the month of Jianzi (November of the lunar calendar) where the winter solstice is located as the beginning of the year, which is different from the summer calendar with the month of Jianyin (the first month of the lunar calendar) as the first year.

Change the first year of Yongchang summer calendar November to the first month of the first year of the Zhou calendar, the December of the summer calendar is the month of the Zhou calendar, and the first month of the summer calendar is the first month of the Zhou calendar.

Fengge Shilang Zong Qinke is the nephew of the Holy Mother of God, and Zong Qinke helped do two things on her way to the throne: one is to compile history, and the other is to create characters.

Zong Qinke presided over the compilation of the "Records of the Holy Mother of God and Emperor", which sang praises for her reign, created public opinion, and paved the way for culture.

Under the instruction of the Holy Mother of God, Zong Qinke organized a group of giant Confucian scholars to create a new script of the Great Zhou Kingdom, in order to show the unique cultural new look of the Wu Zhou Dynasty and make people have a new feeling of changing the dynasty.

The Zong Qin Ke team has created a total of 12 new characters, such as 曌, 天, 埊, 日, 月, 星, 君, 臣, Zai, Chu, Nian, and Zheng.

On the eighth day of the first month of the Zhou calendar, the Holy Mother of God and Emperor was in Vientiane Shrine and promulgated the newly created twelve characters in the world, of which the word "曌" was set as his own name. The new word "埊" has mountains, water and soil, which is more pictographic than "earth".

Wu Cao also personally invented the character "圀", which has eight directions in a box, which is more vivid than the word "country", indicating that the Great Zhou Empire she ruled had eight directions.

Wu Cao's reason for creating new characters is that she wants to revive the culture of the Xia and Shang dynasties, and change it to a new script according to the ancient style, that is, to transform the regular script font with reference to the oracle bone inscription, the golden script and the big seal, which can change customs and make the people return to simplicity, so as to bless the Great Zhou Dynasty for a long time.

On the 14th day of February of the Zhou calendar, the Qingming Festival is approaching, the spring is bright, the wind and the sun are beautiful, Wu Cao personally presided over the examination in the Luocheng Hall of the Taichu Palace, interviewed the tributes, and asked the tributes to write out the countermeasures according to the questions.

There were tens of thousands of candidates who went to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, to participate in the general examination and the palace examination, and the examination was completed for several days.

This large-scale examination adopted a vague name system, and the examiner could not see the candidate's name when marking the paper, thus ensuring the fairness and impartiality of the imperial examination and opening up a rising channel for the hard-working scholars!

Wu Cao is sixty-six years old, but she looks no different from twenty years ago, she is still in good spirits, energetic, and energetic!

She can handle all the complicated things inside and outside the palace in an orderly and handy manner, and she is so different because she has been irradiated by the great light of the Buddha of Immeasurable Light and has extraordinary energy!

Next, she arranged for Master Xue to look through Buddhist scriptures to help her find the theoretical basis for a woman to be the emperor.

Master Xue generously received the order, and after returning to the White Horse Temple, he summoned the learned monks to the scripture buildings of the major monasteries to find the scriptures.

A few days later, the master inventors of the Eastern Wei Dynasty Temple and Tiyun Prajna Translation Field found two verses about women becoming emperors in the "Fang and Wait for the Great Cloud Sutra".

After all, there were only two passages of scripture that were too few, so Master Xue re-annotated the "Great Cloud Sutra" with the invention and added explanations, mixing the scriptures and sparseness, and re-typesetting and printing. After more than a month of hard work, the four volumes of the "Great Cloud Sutra" were completed.

The new version of the "Great Cloud Sutra" declares to the outside world: Our Lady God Emperor is the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha, and the purpose of reincarnation is to be the lord of salt floating in the next world, that is, the master of the Southern Ganbu Continent.

Wu Cao was overjoyed after reading the new version of the "Great Cloud Sutra", and immediately ordered the "Great Cloud Sutra" to be promulgated to the world, and ordered the two capitals and various states to build the Great Cloud Temple to treasure the "Great Cloud Sutra".

He also ordained 1,000 monks, sent elders and monks to ascend to the throne to explain, popularized the knowledge of the scriptures of the "Great Cloud Sutra", and gave the invention master the title of county duke, purple robe and silver turtle bag.

The large-scale construction of the Dayun Temple and the wide dissemination and explanation of the "Great Cloud Sutra" throughout the country have put on legal new clothes for women to become emperors, and created a good atmosphere of public opinion for Wu Cao's accession to the throne!

Princess Xiaofeng Taiping has been unhappy since the loss of Langjun Xue Shao the year before last, Dafeng Wucao said to her: "There are many good men in the world, as long as my daughter takes a fancy to whom, I will give him to you to be Langjun!" ”

But Xiaofeng never found the man he liked. Wu Cao was very anxious, took Xiaofeng to participate in various banquet activities, and invited all the men of her martial arts family to attend the meeting, including the unmarried and the married, and invited them all to let Xiaofeng choose.

Wu Youji is the grandson of the samurai Jean and the cousin of Wu Cao, who is calm and kind, unites comrades, is good at having a good relationship with the people around him, looks handsome and chic, and was the general of the right guard at the time, and won the love of Wu Cao.

After Xiaofeng attended the banquet, Wu Cao asked her who she liked in the Wu family, and Xiaofeng didn't want to save A-Niang's face, so she said: "Wu Youji is not bad, but it's a pity that he is already married!" ”

Dafeng laughed and said: "As long as you like him, you don't have to worry about other things, I will find a way to send him to your side and match you as a mandarin duck, haha!" ”

Wu Youji is 27 years old and has already married a wife and had a daughter. But in Wu Cao's eyes, as long as his daughter likes it, all other problems are not a matter, what will Wu Cao do?

One day, Wu Youji's wife took a carriage back to her parents' house to save relatives, and suddenly encountered a group of masked heroes on the way, asking for sky-high money. Unable to give it, the masked hero wounded his servants, killed them, and then leaped away.

The state government sent four famous arrests to inquire about the news, but nothing was found, and the case was closed.

In this way, Wu Youji lost his wife, Princess Taiping was widowed, and the two of them could just form a family again. Wu Cao kept urging, and Wu Youji had to quickly complete the Six Rites procedure, marry Princess Taiping, become the captain of the horse, and be promoted to the general of the right guard.

When the foreplay, foreshadowing and various preparations for ascending the throne and becoming emperor were completed, Wu Cao, the first strong woman in ancient and modern China, finally made up her mind to ascend the throne of the emperor and do a historical event that shocked the ancient and modern times!

The sun sets in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the golden phoenix at the top of the Vientiane Shrine, emitting a dazzling golden light. The wild ducks on the water suddenly startled and flew with the orange-red rainbow.

Wu Cao held the red silk phoenix phoenix plane fan, and climbed to the third floor of the Vientiane Shrine under the entourage of the chamberlain and the palace maid, overlooking the Dingding Gate, Luoshui and Yishui, thinking that the great work was about to be completed, he couldn't help but say: "The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed the Wanzhong Mountain!" ”