In the Zhenguan Hall of Ziwei Palace, the emperor seemed to have a smile on his face, and his hand slowly drooped. The queen of heaven and the crown prince Li Zhe and the king of Yu Li Dan knelt in front of the palace and wept bitterly.

The children and mothers are weak, and the soldiers are suspicious, which is the source of coups d'état in previous dynasties.

But the situation at that time was different, the two sons were in their twenties, not alone, and the queen of heaven had been an assistant to the government for a long time, and the political team was strong, and she had already controlled the left and right sixteen guards and the Yulin army, so there was no worry about a coup d'état.

But the queen of heaven is still crying and sorrowful, why is this? It can only be said that the queen of heaven's love for the emperor is sincere and deep, and how can she not choke up with sadness when she suddenly loses this supporter and dependant on the road of life?

Take off your robe, change into a slashing robe, tie a skein around your waist, wear a sallow on your feet, and hold a bamboo cane. First of all, the emperor of sorrow traveled to the crown and fell from the sword to the depths of the year; Later, he mourned the difficulty of controlling the government, and cried three times a day, and the tears made the Xiangfei bamboo stained with brown patches, and the hatred was entangled in the valley forest where Emperor Yao was located.

The grief and hatred have not yet dissipated, and the internal and external trivial matters need to be dealt with urgently, first of all, the arrangement of the funeral.

Hundreds of civil and military officials, internal and external women, eunuchs and palace maids must change into decaying clothes, insert oak pipes, wrap up tho cloths, and tie their waists tightly to live a hard life.

The chiefs, envoys, and interpreters of the Siyi also went to the Qianyuan Hall to mourn, and some would cut off their hair, cut off their faces and ears, and shed blood on the ground to mourn.

During the mourning period, singing and dancing, banquets, games, and weddings are all stopped, and bathing is not allowed for three months, and husbands and wives are not allowed to have sex together. The three-year mourning clothes adopt the legacy system of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and the clothes are released after 27 days of wearing and slashing clothes, but they still have to abide by the funeral system for 27 months, and they cannot forget to mourn.

But less than three days after the mourning of the crown prince Li Zheju, he wanted to declare the edict and become addicted to the emperor. The Wei family is also ready to move.

On December 7, Pei Yan played: "The prince has not ascended the throne, he should not be announced, there are important matters that need to be punished quickly, and I hope that the queen of heaven will order it to be implemented in the middle book and under the door." "The queen of heaven is ready to play.

Is this Pei Yan a confidant and die-hard fan of the diva?

Actually, no, he was appointed by the emperor on his deathbed to take care of his life, and he was a defender of the feudal etiquette system, and he did not belong to the Tianhou faction or the prince's faction, but a third-party executive officer.

His role is as dangerous as the eldest grandson Wuji, it is a high-risk profession, according to the development trend, either he is so strong that he overheads the mother and son, or he succumbs to a certain side, otherwise it is difficult to gain a foothold.

On the 11th, Emperor Daxing was reincarnated in the Western Bliss for seven days, and the coffin was buried in the west steps of the Qianyuan Palace.

Emperor Li Zhe can finally proclaim his edict, but he is still wearing mourning clothes and living in a side room, wanting to mourn for the first emperor. State affairs are still under the care of the Queen Mother, so the Empress Wu is in charge of the system and takes charge of government affairs.

At night, Empress Wu meditated behind closed doors in the mountain temple. Here is adjacent to Jiuzhou Pond in the north, and Yaoguang Hall faces each other across the water, and the environment is quiet. There is a gold and bronze Buddha statue in the main hall, and there is an eleven-faced Guanyin in the side hall, which is made by Mr. Guo Xingzhen of Dongyue.

When it is difficult to solve difficult problems, Empress Wu often comes here to kneel down and worship the Buddha and Guanyin, light the nine pillars of incense, insert them in the incense burner in front of the statue, and then pray silently, asking the Buddha and Guanyin to open their wisdom, give immeasurable light and immeasurable wisdom, and illuminate themselves with the light of great mercy, so that they can solve all problems!

Does this work? Judging from the methods of Empress Wu, it is indeed effective, because all the problems have indeed been solved by her, and it is difficult to do without the irradiation and opening of the Great Mercy Light.

Considering that the Li Tang clan is respected and does not necessarily obey himself, he must be encircled to prevent changes, on the 17th, Empress Wu added the title of Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, as the captain, the king of Huo, Li Yuanliang, as the Situ, the king of Shu, Li Yuankui, the king of Lu, as the prince and the teacher, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, as the prince and the prince, and Li Shen, the king of Ji, as the prince and the prince.

appeased the Li Tang clan, and then appeased the courtiers, on the 21st, with Liu Renliang as the left servant of Shangshu, Pei Yan as the Zhongshu Order, and Liu Qixian as the servant. and with the Yellow Gate Squire Wei Xuantong, the Yellow Gate Squire Guo Zhiju, the Military Department Shangshu Cen Changqian and the three products under the Zhongshu Gate.

According to the previous system, the prime ministers discussed state affairs in the hall of the province under the door, which was called the political affairs hall, which was equivalent to the prime minister's office and was a place to assist the emperor in governing the country.

In the past, Prime Minister Sun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Wei Zheng all knew that they were in charge of affairs, and they all discussed matters in the political hall. After Pei Yan served as the Zhongshu Order, he moved the political affairs hall to the Zhongshu Provincial Hall, and Liu Qixian did not object.

On the 29th, he sent Wang Guo, the general of Zuo Weiwei, the general of Linghu Zhitong, the general of Zuo Jinwu, Yang Xuanjian, and the general of Guo Qizong, who was the general of Qianniu, to the four major governors of Bingzhou, Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou respectively, and knew each other with the government to guard the town.

Empress Wu's governing thinking is from the inside out, from the central to the local, and the context is very clear, indicating that after years of experience, she has been able to control the world.

And the new emperor Li Zhe is still struggling with how to build his own political team, he still walks like a baby in governing the country, and once the Empress Wu lets go, he will plop down and fall.

After the Empress Wu straightened out the government, she still decided to let go, learn from the longest-lived queen Wang Zhengjun in history, and let Li Zhe play freely, because Li Zhi's "Liwu Zhaoyi as the Queen's Edict" said: If you are the same as the political monarch, you can be established as the queen.

On the first day of the first lunar month, Li Zhe announced that he would change the heir of the Yuan Dynasty, grant amnesty to the world, set up the crown princess Wei Xiang'er as the queen, and promoted Wei Xuanzhen, who was the secretary of Puzhou to join the army, as the assassin of Yuzhou.

Li Zhe's first time as an emperor was to mechanically imitate the story of Li Zhi's reuse of Ah Wu and reuse Ah Wei, but he didn't know that Ah Wu was a rare heroine among women, and Ah Wei was just a political novice, and the entire Wei family had no experience in governing the country and outstanding talents, so it could not be relied on.

Empress Wu meditated in the harem, wrote an 8,000-word "Shu Shengji" text, sang praises for her husband Li Zhi, and handed it to Li Zhe to copy in regular script after writing, and then sent it to the craftsman to engrave the stele.

Many words in the "Shu Shengji" are still vaguely visible, which says: When Empress Wende was pregnant and was about to give birth to Li Zhi, there was a spectacle of the green dragon climbing on the bed. Li Zhi is young, if the gold is colorful, and the jade is bright. After ascending the throne, Liu Tai resigned, and Ji Nusha Fu camped; The punishment is not angry but threatening, and it is not believed; If the strategist is like rain, the fierce general is like a cloud, competing for the ability of nine attacks .......

Empress Wu also summoned Dr. Taichang to draw up the "Emperor Gaozong's Deliberations", and praised Li Zhi.

Ah Wei was made the queen, the Wei family was on the rise, everyone danced, and people surnamed Wei from the same clan also came to congratulate him. Among the courtiers, there was a man named Wei Hongmin, who served as a regular attendant of the left scattered cavalry, and was of the same generation as Wei Hongbiao, the grandfather of Empress Wei, and also came to give gifts and relatives, and Empress Wei was very happy.

On the 10th day of the first month, Li Zhe promoted Wei Hongmin to the post of Taifu Qing and the third rank of Tongzhongshu.

Empress Wu's eyes and ears are numerous, densely spread inside and outside the court, and the new emperor's reuse of his relatives Wei family is in the eyes of Empress Wu, but he is silent, and he watches the after-effects.

Wei Xuanzhen wore a crimson official uniform and was proud and showed off for many days. But once when I attended a banquet, I suddenly saw my distant relative Wei Hongbiao wearing a purple official uniform and a goldfish bag, more majestic than himself, and couldn't help but feel a little lost.

Empress Wei knew about it and reported it to Li Zhe, who planned to arrange a third-grade official for his father-in-law.

The nurse Lu Xiangying also came to ask Li Zhe to give her son Ma Luanque an official, Ma Luanque often accompanied Li Zhe to hunt and play, Li Zhe of course agreed, but it was just a matter of the big and small officials, and finally decided to award the fifth rank official.

The five-rank official is not small, at that time, the champion in the imperial examination can generally only be awarded from the six-rank official, as for the champion immediately recruited as a good thing in history!

The only champion horse in history is Zheng Hao during the Tang Xuanzong period, Zheng Hao was the champion in the second year of Tang Wuzong's Huichang, and he was recruited as a concubine until Xuanzong ascended the throne, and he was very reluctant.

Okay, let's get back to business, and say that in the Qianyuan Palace, Li Zhe wanted to promote his father-in-law Wei Xuanzhen to serve in the middle of the house, and at the same time awarded Ma Luanque, the son of the nurse, the five-grade official, and ordered the province to draft an edict.

Zhongshu ordered Pei Yan to compare the new master Li Zhe with the old master Li Zhiyi, and always looked down on Li Zhe, thinking that every order issued by the new master was illegal and unreasonable, and he was exposing his cronyism to the world. The stark contrast between the old and new masters' governance before and after strongly stimulated Pei Xianggong.

So Pei Xianggong said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this is illegal. Wei Xuanzhen was only recently promoted from Puzhou to the history of Yuzhou's assassination, which is already an exceptional promotion!

He has not been in the position of assassin for a month, and he is going to be in the middle of worship. Not to mention his qualifications and experience, his ability and knowledge are not enough to exercise the right to refute, not to mention the correction of the courtiers' chapters and the review of the edict of the Chinese book! I ask Your Majesty to let Wei Xuanzhen experience more time and then improve.

Also, His Majesty's nurse's son was directly promoted to a fifth-grade official without experiencing scientific research and military training, what does this make the majority of poor students think?

Some people have been in the Jinshi for ten years, and they have worked hard to contribute their lives to the court and cannot be promoted to the fifth rank official, and His Majesty promoted him to the fifth rank just because of nepotism, and the minister thinks it is unfair. Your Majesty is like the sun and the moon, admired by the subjects, and you should uphold the highest justice, how can you show the world with selfishness? ”

Li Zhe was speechless for a while, but thinking that he was the Ninth Five-Year Honor, if he returned empty-handed, he would inevitably be ridiculed by the Wei family, and even his subordinates would look down on him.

So he argued: "I just want to promote two people out of the ordinary, but Xianggong is a lot long-winded!" These two people are kind to me, and I am the lord of the world, so why can't I be promoted exceptionally? ”

Pei Yan said: "The state has national laws, and the family has family rules. His Majesty is not only the lord of the world, but also the lord of all families, and should take the lead in abiding by the law. If Your Majesty takes the lead in acting willfully, then who will obey the law among the people of the world? ”

Pei Yan's words were well-founded and impeccable, Li Zhe heard that his head was big, he didn't know how to take it, he was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, and thought to himself: I'll go and meet someone who can't chat, and I will talk to death in minutes, what should I do?

You must go back, otherwise where will you put your face in the future? I must find a powerful sentence, I want to hold the whole scene! You have the right to stand up to me, and I have the strength to make you regret it.

Thinking of this, Li Zhe suddenly became angry and said: "It's okay for me to hand over the whole world to Wei Xuanzhen, will I still spare a servant?" ”

When Pei Yan heard this, he was completely overturned, and he was there at the time, thinking: From reading the Three Tombs and Five Classics to the Bamboo Book Chronicle, and then to the Sui Book and Tang History, all dynasties and dynasties have searched for intestines and stomachs and can't find such a sentence! The person who said this was either kicked in the head by a donkey, or caught in the door frame, and I was also drunk!

Li Zhe saw Pei Yan in a daze, thinking that what he said had played a role, and was secretly proud, waiting for a moment before asking, "What about Pei Xiang's public opinion?" ”

Pei Yan came over and said, "The right is so capricious, and the minister doesn't know how to feel it!" Li Zhe said: "I hope that Pei Xianggong will consider my opinion carefully!" That's it for today! ”

After retiring from the court, Pei Yan repeatedly weighed what the emperor said, and always felt that the sentence should not come from the emperor's mouth.

Thinking of this, Pei Yan went to ask to see Empress Wu and reported Li Zhe's remarks to Empress Wu.

Empress Wu immediately summoned Zuo Shi Fan Lubing, checked the emperor's speech record that day, and said in shock: "He wants to give the world to Wei Xuanzhen, where will he put his eyes?" ”

Pei Yan said: "Please ask the Queen Mother to be the master, exhort Your Majesty, and let him give up his ridiculous ideas." ”

Empress Wu said: "I can't persuade it, I know my son." Since the emperor said such a thing, it proves that he has lost his qualification to be an emperor. Pei Xianggong, for the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to let the youngest son who is squinting to replace him! ”

Pei Yan thought nervously for a moment, and felt that such a master was indeed unlucky, and he couldn't wait, so he could only replace it. Pei Yan said: "The Empress Dowager is wise, but the matter of abolishing the establishment is very important, and it needs to be carefully planned. ”

Empress Wu said: "There are no outsiders here, let's discuss a foolproof plan together." The two conspired to abolish the plan and mobilize their respective cronies and generals.

In the early morning of February 6, Empress Wu summoned hundreds of officials in the Qianyuan Hall and set up a purple curtain behind the throne. Li Zhe still ascended the throne as usual, ready to accept the worship of civil and military officials.

Suddenly, seeing Pei Yan and Liu Yizhi, the squire of Zhongshu, leading the team in front, and the Yulin generals Cheng Wuting and Zhang Qianqiao led the troops to follow, and the fish went to the palace, Li Zhe stood up from the throne in surprise.

Liu Yizhi unfolded the holy decree of colorful auspicious clouds and brocade, and read out the decree of the Queen Mother, which mainly meant that the emperor Li Zhe was abolished as the king of Luling, and then explained a lot of antecedents and consequences, and rhetoric. After the reading was completed, please ask Kong Neishou and Chen Zhong to help Li Zhe go down to the palace.

Li Zhe witnessed this situation, as if in a dream, and kept saying: "There must be a conspiracy, there must be a conspiracy!" "He sat on the throne and couldn't get up.

Seeing that the Queen Mother was staring, they didn't care about the etiquette of the monarch and the ministers, so they clamped Li Zhe's arms from the left and right sides, lifted them up together, and set Li Zhe up like an eagle catching a chicken, and then walked down the hall.

Li Zhe's neck turned red, turned his head to look behind the throne, and shouted to Empress Wu: "What is my crime? Empress Wu said loudly: "You want to hand over the world to Wei Xuanzhen, and you still say that there is no crime?" Li Zhe put his head down.

According to the plan, Li Zhe, the king of Luling, was taken to the Luoyang Palace to be imprisoned, and Wei Xuanzhen's family was also surrounded by the Yulin army, ready to be punished.

The next day, Li Dan, the king of Liyu, was the emperor, Liu Liyao, the princess of Liyu, was the queen, and Li Chengqi, the king of Yongping County, was the crown prince. Amnesty for the world, change the civilization, give civil and military attachés a first rank of five grades or more, and two awards of nine grades or more.

After the Empress Wu experienced this coup d'état, she did not dare to retreat into the background anymore, and personally decided on the general government, and the dynasty called the system, so that Li Dan lived in another palace and was not allowed to interfere in state affairs.

Because once you let go, the world will not have the surname Li or Wu, but the surname Wei or something else! Rather than this, it is better to personally grasp the power and let the world be surnamed Wu!

Li Dan was twenty-two years old at the time, humble and filial piety, good at official script and cursive script, loved to read text exegesis, did not like palace battles, but knew how to advance and retreat, interests and losses and gains and losses, relying on a "let" word to protect the whole family. So after he became the emperor, he called himself "Yu" and let the Queen Mother call him "I"!

On the 8th, Li Chongzhao, the grandson of the deposed emperor, was a concubine and exiled Wei Xuanzhen's family to Qinzhou for resettlement.

Liu Renliang, the crown prince's concubine, was known about the affairs left behind in Xijing, but Liu Renliang replied, excused himself with aging and illness, and told the story of Lu Lu and Lu Chan.

After reading the reply, Empress Wu personally wrote a letter of "Yu Liu Ren's Seal Book", covered it with a jade seal, and sent his secretary Wu Chengsi to take it to comfort him, so that Liu Renliang could stay in Chang'an with peace of mind.

This important letter said: Emperor Li Dan is in mourning, and he is dying and acting as a pro-government. Gong said in the letter that Empress Lu was contemptuous of his descendants, and Lu was a disaster to the Han Dynasty. The metaphor is profound, and the shame is consoled. The integrity of public loyalty is unswerving, and the wind of strength and straightness is rare in ancient and modern times. When you first hear this, can you not be confused? Thinking quietly is for the turtle mirror. The state of the public first towards the old virtues, far and wide. I am willing to save Kuang as my heart, and I will ask for it in my twilight years.

On the 9th, Empress Wu ordered Zuo Jinwu general Qiu Shenxun to go to Bazhou to inspect and abolish the residence of the crown prince Li Xian, in case someone used Li Xian's banner or instigated him to rebel. Qiu Shenqi understood and left.

He also appointed Shangshu Wei of the Ministry of Officials to be the envoy of the mountain mausoleum and went to Qianxian County to supervise the construction of the Qianling Mausoleum. Sanbu Langzhong took out 100 pieces of ice from the ice well and used it to freeze the body of Emperor Daiyuki to ensure that it did not decay.

On the twelfth, the Empress Wu set up a purple tent in the magnificent Wucheng Hall to see the court, and Li Dan led the civil and military officials to be the Empress Wu's honorific title. A few days later, in the Linxuan of the Wucheng Palace, he sent the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Wu Chenghei to canonize the emperor.

Qiu Shenyun led the light cavalry to gallop day and night, and on the 22nd, he hurried to Bazhou, imprisoned Li Xian in the Bazhou Mansion, and forced him to commit suicide.

On the 25th, Tai Changqing and Shi Wang Dezhen, the head of the Yuwang Mansion, were the servants; Zhongshu Shilang, inspecting the school Yuwangfu Sima Liu Yizhi with the three products under the Chinese book.

Li Zhe wanted to arrange Wei Xuanzhen to serve but couldn't, why did the Queen Mother arrange Wang Dezhen to serve in the middle of the service?

The reason why Wei Xuanzhen can't be a servant Pei Yan has already made it clear, and Wang Dezhen was the prime minister three years ago, and his current position is Taichangqing is the third grade, at the same level as the servant, in charge of the affairs of the state and the country, the suburbs, and the society.

On March 16, the news of Li Xian's suicide reached Luoyang, and Empress Wu mourned at Xianfumen, degraded Qiu Shenqi as the assassin of Diezhou, and posthumously named Li Xian as the king of Yong.

Diezhou Thorn Shiqiu Shenqi soon reinstated himself to the post of General Zuo Jinwu. Concubine Fang, Zhang Liangdi and the third son of the concubine, and the county lord of Changxin were welcomed into the palace for support.

On 15 May, the imperial court held a memorial ceremony for Emperor Daxing in the Qianyuan Hall of Luoyang Palace, and read out the "Book of Mourning for Emperor Gaozong" written by Empress Wu himself to express his sorrow.

Then Li Dan escorted the coffin of Emperor Daxing back to Chang'an, and Empress Wu stayed in Luoyang. On August 11, Li Dan buried the coffin of Emperor Daxing in the Qianling Tomb of Liangshan, sealed the underground palace with molten iron, and engraved the sacred monument to stand outside the tower in the west of the Zhuque Gate in the Qianling Tomb.