Let's say that in October of the fifth year of Xianqing, Li Zhi fell ill in Luoyang because of dizziness and heavy head.

In order to cure Li Zhi's illness, Empress Wu used a lot of brains, and mobilized Shang Yao Fengyu, the imperial doctor, the masseuse, the curse and forbidden master, as well as the great doctor, the doctor, the acupuncturist, and the main medicine to see and treat Li Zhi, but there was still not much improvement.

How to cure the emperor's illness became the number one major matter for the people in the harem, and the Empress Wu announced: Whoever can offer the magic method and immortal prescription to make the saint's illness improve, will be rewarded heavily!

Xiaolan, the new palace maid, recommended to the Empress Wu that Guo Xingzhen, a Taoist priest of Chang'an Xihuaguan, was strong, saying that he had a secret recipe to cure the saint's illness. Empress Wu summoned Guo Xingzhen and asked him how to heal him.

Guo Xingzhen said: "With the respect of the Son of Heaven, ordinary medicinal stones are difficult to be effective, and it is necessary to go to Dongyue Taishan to stand up for stone inscriptions, so as to attract the attention of Haotian God, in order to get the blessing of God!" ”

When Empress Wu heard this, she immediately became interested and said, "Sir's words are very much in line with my wishes, but how to erect a stone monument?" Please also ask the gentleman to draw a sketch and write a construction plan to submit. ”

The next day, Guo Xingzhen reported the construction plan and sketch, and Empress Wu discussed with him the issue of building a stone statue and erecting a stone stele, revised and improved the sketch, and then drew a blueprint, and then reported the plan to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi regarded himself as a descendant of Li Dan, the old monarch of Taishang, and thought that he was a descendant of the immortals, and he respected Taoism.

Empress Wu gave Guo Xingzhen the name of Mr. Dongyue, and asked him to lead Chen Lanmao, Du Zhigu, and Ma Zhizhi, disciples of the Quanzhen Sect of Xihuaguan, to Mount Tai for the emperor and queen, and by the way drew a topographic map of Mount Tai.

Why do you want to make a topographic map of Mount Tai? Because the wonderful encounters and contacts between Empress Wu and Li Zhi are related to Mount Tai Feng Zen, the two have formed an indissoluble bond with Feng Chan, so Empress Wu wants to master the terrain of Mount Tai and lay the foundation for the future Mount Tai Feng Zen. Of course, this future goal, Guo Xing really doesn't know.

After receiving the order of the Empress Wu, Mr. Guo Xingzhen of Dongyue was very excited, and regarded himself as an envoy, and changed into a new set of clothes before departure, wearing a black crown, wearing 32 blue and brown and yellow curtains.

The government prepared carriages and rich coils for the Taoist priests' journeys, as well as props for the road.

It was time to set off, with the master's carriage in front and the disciples following closely behind. At that time, it was spring, the fairy flowers and spiritual grass along the road, you can pick them at will, the birds are clear apes, the morning and dusk are ringing, and the mood of the masters and apprentices is very happy.

When he got out of the car and walked to play, Mr. Dongyue patted his eldest disciple Chen Lanmao on the shoulder and said, "You have contributed a lot to the fact that the Quanzhen Sect can have such a scenery as it is today!" Chen Lanmao replied: "Where, where, this is all the credit of the master's careful cultivation!" ”

Mr. Dongyue said with a smile: "Thanks to your daughter Xiaolan for her strong recommendation at a critical moment, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, how could there be such a happy journey today!" ”

Mr. Dongyue handed over the task of drawing a topographic map of Mount Tai to Chen Lanmao, who said happily: "The disciple remembers that the master used to say that the leader trusts a person, starting from being alone, and letting him be in charge of a project alone, as a project manager, is to trust him!" ”

Mr. Dongyue touched his beard, nodded, lifted the dust in his hand, and got into the carriage to continue moving.

The Taoist priest and his entourage came to the Queen Mother Pond at the southern foot of Mount Tai, stopped the carriage, got off the car and walked into the Daiyue Temple in the west of the Queen Mother Pond to rest. Surrounded by mountains and rivers here, the scenery is beautiful, and the county magistrate of Bo County has received a notice from his superiors to summon the local stonemasons to wait.

In the early morning of the next day, Mr. Dongyue instructed the stonemasons to start construction, preparing to build a statue of Lao Tzu in the north corner of Daiyue Temple, and set up two stones in the courtyard of Laojun Hall as a mandarin duck monument, and engraved the statue of Daiyue Temple.

The stonemasons and workers were busy digging, transporting, and grinding stones according to the requirements of the drawings. Mr. Dongyue led his disciples to perform for the emperor and empress for seven days.

First of all, a grand ceremony was held in Daiyue Temple, and then the dragon soil was buried in the ground to tell the local official Zhongyuan. The dragon slip is made of a golden dragon, a jade bi, and a gold slip tied together with green silk, and the golden slip is engraved with the text of praying for the emperor Li Zhi, praying for peace, avoiding disasters, and removing crimes.

After the ceremony of throwing the dragon and the soil slip is held, it is necessary to go to the top of Mount Tai to hold the ceremony of throwing the dragon mountain slip and report it to the heavenly official Shangyuan. Then next to the deep pool below, the ceremony of throwing the dragon water was held, and the water official Xia Yuan was reported.

During various ceremonies, the local prefectural ordinance of course serves a meal and accompanies the hospitality. Mr. Dongyue while eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas, while showing off, said: "We Xihua view of the mountain is 8,000 zhang high, 800 miles around, Sagacui Wei, looking at Penglai from afar, a waterfall, a hundred zhang hanging stream, the middle of the sky is open, the long stream is in the south, it is really an immortal blessed town, a true spiritual realm!" ”

The county commander was envious, and Mr. Dongyue said: "It's not bragging, even the emperor and queen who live in the deep palace have heard of my name of Xihuaguan, so they summoned me to the palace to face the saint and personally entrusted me with important tasks." Now that my hands and eyes are open to the sky, what can I do to heaven! ”

The county order prepared some silver taels, and secretly gave them to Mr. Dongyue after the banquet was over, asking him to say a few good words for himself in front of the emperor and queen when he returned. Mr. Dongyue looked at the silver two, his eyes lit up, and he agreed.

After the completion of the work of the Taishan Standing Stone Monument, Mr. Dongyue and his entourage returned to Luoyang with honors. Chen Lanmao handed over the topographic map of Mount Tai to Empress Wu, who was very satisfied and gave them many rewards to their apprentices.

It's strange to say that after the stone statue of Mount Tai was erected, Li Zhi's illness really improved. The emperor personally met Mr. Dongyue in the side hall, praised him, and asked him to treat the crown prince Li Hong, continue to make merits by throwing dragons, and search for mountains and medicines.

It turned out that the emperor's illness had improved, and the crown prince Li Hong's lung disease had flared up again. Li Hong's lung disease originated from Gong Dou, when he was a child, he drank well water, ate vegetables and fruits washed with well water, and accidentally got poisoned, and the parasite entered the lungs, forming tuberculosis that could not be cured with traditional Chinese medicine.

Li Zhi hopes that the psychic real person who enters the Yuan Wei can reverse his fate, create miracles, and cure all kinds of incurable diseases! Because he had heard of the deeds of the Taoist priest Wang Yuanzhi of Maoshan Mountain, he knew all kinds of illusions, such as: make the hair white, and then restore it; Pour water into a wine glass and turn it into wine, and cut wood into a plate to turn it into a piece of meat.

Mr. Dongyue patted his chest and said that he promised to complete the task and began to prepare immediately after stepping down. A few days later, he led his disciples to pick the elixir in the mountains around Luoyang, and returned to the Shang Medicine Bureau to prepare the elixir. He also took the dragon throwing Jane to the top of the mountain, the water's edge, and the ground to cast the dragon to make merit for Li Hong!

After Li Hong took the panacea, his condition actually improved. Li Zhi thought that Mr. Dongyue really had two brushes, rewarded him with a lot of treasures, and named him the doctor of Chaosan.

On April 1 of the second year of Longshuo, the emperor and queen returned to Chang'an from Luoyang and still lived in Taiji Palace. Empress Wu was already pregnant for many months at that time, with a big belly, and lived in the Chengxiang Palace.

One day, the palace maid Jin Zhi reported that she heard strange sounds in Beihai Pool in the evening, and searched for the sound, but she did not see people and animals. At night, Empress Wu was sleeping soundly, and suddenly saw the python clan and the owl clan standing in front of her bed, and screamed loudly in fright, and the maids Hualin and Liushuang hurriedly lit the lamp to comfort her.

Empress Wu reported to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi was also surprised. From then on, the emperor and queen thought in one place, worked hard in one place, and worked together to promote the construction of Penglai Palace, and they both wanted to move in as soon as possible and leave this heavy and damp place. But I still have to live here before the new palace is built, what should I do?

Empress Wu thought of Mr. Dongyue and asked him to enter the palace to pray, fast, and do things to eliminate disasters and misfortunes. Mr. Dongyue set up a Jiao altar in the palace forbidden, stepped on the dougang, recited spells and drew talismans, transcended the undead, and dispelled ghosts.

After the ceremony, Mr. Dongyue and Empress Wu talked about the teachings. Empress Wu said: "This palace has been influenced by A-Niang since childhood, and loves Buddhism, and after entering the Ganye Temple, it is like a fish in water, reading the Tang monk's translation of scriptures, and has become a postdoctoral fellow in Buddhism." ”

Mr. Dongyue said: "Niangniang has read the scriptures and history, knows everything, is extremely rich and diligent, and makes the ministers extremely admired!" As the saying goes, the most terrible thing in this world is that people who are better than you work harder than you! The ministers should also learn from Niangniang, and study hard with the spirit of hanging the beam with their heads and stabbing their strands. ”

Next, Mr. Dongyue used the Taoist scriptures to debate Buddhism with the Empress Wu, but he was convinced and said that he would switch to Buddhism.

Empress Wu was very happy, lent him the Mahayana sutra to read, and asked him to be responsible for the construction of five gold and bronze Buddha statues and two eleven-faced Guanyin statues, so that they could be enshrined in the palace and pray for the blessing of their soon-to-be-born children.

Mr. Dongyue is actually not profound, but he has a flexible mind, can speak well, can take care of things, and dare to do things, so when the time comes, he can make a fortune. He was born in a poor family since he was a child, his family business was low, and he was fed up with poverty, so he loved money very much.

As soon as he heard that Empress Wu asked him to do things again, Mr. Dongyue was very happy, and thought: Haha, I can make money under the guise of the minister of the Imperial Mission again!

After retiring, Mr. Dongyue went around swindling, confusing officials and people at all levels in the name of the empress, defrauding the gold, silver, copper, iron, jade and other property stored in the warehouse, and accepting bribes on a large scale.

After accumulating money, Mr. Dongyue bought farmhouses, waterwheels, stone mills, carriages, cattle and sheep in both capitals, and prepared to become a local tyrant.

While accumulating money, Mr. Dongyue did not forget that he promised Empress Wu to convert to Buddhism, and at every opportunity, he instigated other Taoist priests in Chang'an to mix Buddhist scriptures and teachings together, and then secretly entered the Taoism.

But what Mr. Dongyue didn't notice was that everything he did in and out of the palace was recorded by the superintendent of Fusheng, the king of the inner temple.

The duty of the inner temple is to picket all kinds of illegal things in the palace and supervise the entry and exit of outsiders in and out of the palace, so it is normal for him to do this. What was abnormal was that he reported the record to Shangguan Yi, the squire of Xitai, and Shangguan Yi sent someone to follow the movements of Guo Xingzhen and his disciple Du Zhigu.

In the blink of an eye, in the spring of the third year of Longshuo, Li Yifu, a cadre of the pro-martial arts faction, was abandoned by Li Zhi because of the corruption of his family, and Li Yifu, his son and son-in-law were all removed and exiled! Soon after this was done, the emperor and queen moved to live in the newly built Penglai Palace.

After several years of training, Empress Wu gradually became accustomed to planning everything and managing everything, and the constraints on Li Zhi were everywhere. Empress Wu excitedly took care of everything, engrossed in enthusiasm and effort, and ignored Li Zhi's psychological changes.

After Li Zhi moved into the new palace, although his condition improved greatly, he felt that his spare time life was not as rich as the history of assassination and county orders outside the capital, how could it not be melancholy?

Shangguan Yi, the squire of Xitai, has been figuring out Li Zhi's psychological changes, and secretly communicating news with Fu Sheng, the inner temple prince in the harem, to feel the changes in the relationship between the emperor and the queen.

After a year of hard work, Shangguan Yi and Wang Fusheng had collected a large amount of evidence of Mr. Dongyue's violations of the law, and decided to throw it out after feeling that there was a rift between the emperor and queen in order to expand this rift.

Wang Fusheng saw the opportunity and reported to Li Zhi that Mr. Dongyue was recruited into the palace by the Empress Wu to get tired of winning, and Shangguan Yi reported Mr. Dongyue's bad deeds of swaggering and deceiving outside.

After Li Zhi sent someone to investigate secretly, he found that the technique of disgust with victory was not true, because Guo Xingzhen did not curse someone with a puppet, paper puppet, or puppet with a needle, but only made a gold and bronze Buddha statue. But Guo Xingzhen did confuse the people outside under the banner of the emperor and queen, and took a lot of property.

What's more serious is that Guo Xingzhen dared to instigate other Taoist priests in Chang'an to mix Buddhist scriptures and teachings together, and then secretly enter the Taoism.

Li Zhi is a descendant of Taishang Laojun and admires Taoism, how can he tolerate Guo Xing's true and false holy religion? So he sent someone to arrest Guo Xingzhen and bring him to justice, tortured him, and Guo Xingzhen was forced to admit his guilt and submit to the law.

Li Zhi knew that Guo Xingzhen had the shadow of the Empress Wu behind the Holy Sect, but he just wanted to use this incident to beat the Empress Wu, and he didn't want to cure Guo Xingzhen's capital crime, so he excused Guo Xingzhen to visit the Taoist Gate, and he couldn't bear it, and forgave Guo Xingzhen's capital crime.

On December 14, an edict was issued to remove Guo Xingzhen from his name and exile him to Aizhou, and confiscate the slaves, maids, farm houses, carriages and other family properties he had purchased.

Guo Xingzhen was exhausted after a long journey, and was attacked by poisonous insects and miasma in the south, and had a strange disease, and died of illness soon after arriving in Aizhou.