It is said that Empress Wu persuaded Li Zhi to visit the Wannian Palace in February of the first year of Linde, recalled the past, and posthumously crowned Princess Anding, completing the goal of reuniting the emperor and queen.

It's summer again, and the Empress Wu changes into a light hairpin dress and walks with Li Zhi on the promenade of the Wannian Palace. Empress Wu said: "Do you remember our beautiful encounter? Twenty-three years ago, it was also summer. ”

"Of course I remember, at that time, Aya went to Luoyang to prepare for the sealing of Zen, I stayed in the palace to study hard, and went to the library of the Inner Literature Museum to consult the volume of "The Book of Poetry, Xiaoya, Beishan", and I didn't want to meet the lady! Clever and coincidental! It's no coincidence that there is no book, maybe it is providential! Li Zhi smiled happily.

"The concubine actually went to the library to find out the etiquette system about Mount Tai's Feng Zen, such as Sima Qian's "Historical Records and Feng Zen Book", Ban Gu's "White Tiger Tongyi" and Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han", in case of the sage's advisor!"

Empress Wu recalled: "I met Jiulang unexpectedly, and since then there has been hope in life, just like the spring breeze blowing on the water's edge, and the sun shining on the orchid on the mountain!" ”

Li Zhi suddenly stopped and asked, "There is a question that has been stuffed in my chest for a long time, I don't know if the lady knows?" Empress Wu looked at Li Zhi's white gauze hat and white skirt and said, "Oh, what's the problem?" ”

"Aya Wencheng Wude, dominates the world, and creates the rule of Zhenguan, which is comparable to the rule of Chengkang of the Great Zhou Dynasty, why did he give up two opportunities to go to Mount Tai to seal Zen?" Li Zhi asked.

Empress Wu had studied this problem before, and she had already been confident, so she calmly replied: "The emperor governs the country, if he has the six conditions of high merit, virtue, national security, Siyi Binfu, Nian Gu Fengdeng, and Heavenly Fu Rui, he can be enshrined in Zen!" ”

"In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Taizong had these six conditions, but Wei Zhengjin said that it is not possible to worship false names and suffer disasters, which is very reasonable, plus Henan and Hebei have a lot of water, so stop sealing Zen, Jiulang also knows."

He also said: "In the spring of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Taizong went to Luoyang to prepare for the enshrinement of Mount Tai in February of the following year, but unexpectedly, on the night of June 19, a bright comet appeared in the area of the ten stars of Taiwei in Shangyuan, which directly violated the fifteen stars of Lang. Taizong was afraid of the power of the sky, worried about the loss of heaven's will and the loss of people's hearts, so he avoided the main hall to think about the blame and issued the "Edict of Stopping the Seal". ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "The gods warn that it should be in the world, it is Shiro and Dalang competing for the throne!" Everything is providential, if Aya does not go to Zen, so that the inner court is empty, how can you and I meet and know each other? If Shiro doesn't compete with Da Lang for the throne, how can I become the crown prince? ”

Empress Wu said with a smile: "So Jiu Lang was ordered to hold the picture of Yuyu in the future!" Why didn't Jiu Lang finish Taizong's unfinished business and go to Dongyue to seal Zen? ”

Li Zhi showed a yearning look and said, "Dongyue Feng Zen? Not only Dongyue, I also want to go to Songshan Mountain and Wushi Mountain! Like the crown prince Jin, the feathered crane blows the jade sheng, takes the white crane, swims between Yishui and Luoshui, and then flies directly to Dongyue! Xianle Langlang, colorful Xia Fei, save thousands of rides, for labor costs! ”

Empress Wu happily applauded: "Good, good!" Then seal Zen Mount Tai first, and then seal Zen Song Mountain, if there is still time, it will be all over the five mountains! ”

"All over the five mountains? Wow, the lady is magnificent, traveling in Kyushu, non-vulgar fans are comparable, and ordinary people should also look up! ”

Li Zhi walked to the end of the corridor, greeted the cool summer breeze, looked at Bicheng Mountain and Phoenix Mountain in the distance, and said: "I have been in the world for fifteen years, do you have the six conditions for sealing Zen?" ”

Empress Wu Zhengse said: "Your Majesty is benevolent and filial, and loves the people like a son, this is virtue; The great destruction of the Western Turks, the destruction of Baekje, the defeat of Pyongtiele, the defeat of the Wa Kingdom and Goguryeo, this is a high achievement! ”

"I have the Tang Dynasty to reach Mengchi in the west, east to Silla, north to Beihai, south to Aizhou, a radius of 108,000 miles, Fengsui is not surprised, Huarong is on the same track, the crown is a hundred barbarians, and the car is thousands of miles, this is Guoan and Siyi Binfu!"

"The wind and rain are smooth, the water and drought are not harmful, a bucket of rice is five copper coins, wheat and beans are not listed in the city, this is a good harvest in the year; Yizhou and Mianzhou saw the dragon, the unicorn appeared in Jiangzhou, and the lintoe was found in front of the palace, which is a heavenly Fu Rui! ”

The warm wind blew through the corridor, Li Zhi put his beard in his hand, laughed, and said: "Unconsciously, I also met the six conditions of high merit, virtue, national security, Siyi Binfu, Niangu Fengdeng, and Heavenly Fu Rui, haha!" ”

"The lady said so reasonably, I was speechless! Ha ha...... Let's go, let's go to Tiantai Mountain! The two of them held hands and rushed to the top of the mountain.

On July 1, Li Zhi issued the "Edict on Holding the Edict of the Confederacy of the Zen Institute Si Jiyue": In the first month of the third year of Linde, the governor of the prefecture gathered under Dongyue in December of the second year of Linde, and the kings gathered in the eastern capital in October.

On August 7, Emperor Luan Yu returned to Penglai Palace from Wannian Palace and began to raise money and food for Feng Chan.

In the spring of the second year of Linde, Empress Wu planned to leave for Luoyang after the Shangyuan Festival to prepare for the sealing of the Zen Dai Sect, but at that time she had a big belly and was about to give birth. Li Zhi suggested postponing the departure and waiting for the empress to give birth.

Waiting left and right, waiting for many days, the honor guard to the eastern capital was ready, the Empress Wu still did not give birth, and he was also very anxious, and said to Li Zhi: "Don't delay the Tang Dynasty Ceremony because of a concubine, let's leave on time!" Li Zhi couldn't bear it, and the Empress Wu resolutely asked for it.

On 10 February, Luan Yu drove to Luoyang, Li Zhi took the jade chariot, Empress Wu took Chongzhai, the crown prince Li Hong took the golden chariot, Sikong Li Tao took the elephant ornament, and Xu Jingzong took the leather chariot, and marched forward in turn, temporarily stationed at Baqiao.

The next day, Luan Yu traveled to Lintong Palace, because of the bumpy road, Empress Wu finally couldn't help giving birth in Chongzhai's car and gave birth to a baby girl! The imperial doctor, the medicine, the nurse and others rushed to take care of it.

When Empress Wu woke up, it was already night, a bright moon was in the sky outside the window of the palace, the spring breeze blew in the bamboo forest, Empress Wu looked at her daughter, felt very happy, and later named her daughter Li Lingyue.

Li Zhi said to the courtiers Li Tao, Xu Jingzong, Jiang Ke, Lu Dunxin and others in the palace: "Emperor Yang of Sui refused to admonish and died, I often take it as a warning, and I have been humbly asking for advice, but I have not been admonished for a long time, what is the reason for this?" ”

Li Tao said loudly: "Your Majesty has done everything you can, and the ministers have nothing to admonish." ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "I am famous, words are good, is it really good?" Gong is slapping my ass! ”

Li Tao looked at the palace of Empress Wu and replied: "Your Majesty has the assistance of the goddess, and the military and political handling is perfect, and the ministers want to pick a bone from the egg, but they can't pick it out!" Everyone laughed and the atmosphere was very relaxed and harmonious.

On the 25th, Luan Yu arrived at the Hebi Palace in Luoyang Xiyuan, where he stayed temporarily. The reason is that the construction of the Qianyuan Hall and Zetianmen Project in the Eastern Capital, presided over by Tian Renwang, the Shaoqing of Sinong, has entered the final stage and has not yet been fully completed.

Luoyang West Garden is in the west of Ziwei Palace, a radius of several hundred miles, there are big lakes and fairy mountains in the garden, in addition to the Hebi Palace, there are large palace groups such as Wangchun Palace and Suyu Palace, and it is also a fairy residence! The Empress Wu was very comfortable and comfortable in her confinement here.

After waiting for more than a month, the Eastern Capital Qianyuan Hall and Zetianmen were fully completed. On the first day of the leap March, Luan Yu moved to the eastern capital, and the emperor and queen lived in the Ziwei Palace after the majestic Qianyuan Palace.

Li Chunfeng, a member of the Secret Cabinet, believed that Fu Renjun's "Wuyin Calendar" was gradually inaccurate, and on the basis of the previous calendar, he wrote a new "Lin De Calendar", which was presented to the imperial court on May 20, and the emperor approved its implementation.

The emperor appointed Sikong Li Tao, the young master of the crown prince Xu Jingzong, the right minister Lu Dunxin, and the left minister Dou Dexuan as the envoys of the inspection school and the seal of Zen, responsible for convening hundreds of officials, supplies along the way, and ceremonial altar building.

The edict ordered the officials of the country, the examiner Wailang, Dr. Taichang and other ceremonial officials to determine the details of the sealing ceremony, such as the position specifications of the altar of enshrinement, the altar of Dengfeng, the altar of descending meditation and the altar of pilgrimage, the usage of Guibi, the date of sacrifice, and the clothes of the emperor, empress and prince, etc., all of which should be determined according to the ancient rites.

In the blink of an eye, summer has passed, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. After receiving the edict of the Governor of the Prefecture and the Governor of the Prefecture, they all took active action, stepped up preparations, and arrived at the designated place on time to gather in order to praise the great gift!

Empress Wu planned to sacrifice the earth in person, and also sent the inner attendants and inner counselors out of the palace to summon Wei Jue, the concubine of Ji Guo, and Yan Ping, the concubine of Yueguo, to come to Luoyang to participate in the grand event!

In order to arrive on time and not delay the grand ceremony, Concubine Wei ignored the bumps in the road, ordered the servants to speed up their horses and gallop all the way, and when they arrived in Luoyang, they were unfortunately tired and sick.

On September 28, Concubine Wei died of illness in the house of Dunxingli in Luoyang. Concubine Yan and Concubine Wei were twelve years old, and they were safe and sound after arriving in Luoyang.

After the funeral was finished, Empress Wu and Concubine Yan rehearsed the program of the Society's Shoushan Sacrifice to the Earth together.

Xu Jingzong presented the ceremony of ascending the seal and the ritual of descending to Zen agreed upon by the officials, and the Empress Wu repeatedly read it several times and did not find the procedure for letting women participate in the sacrifice, so he was disappointed and dissatisfied, and reprimanded the official fiercely.

Empress Wu said: "Kun is the land, it is a woman, and the sacrifice of the land is only matched by the queen mother, and the act is done by the minister, which is to infringe on the feminine with masculinity, where is the palace and the internal and external women?" ”

"You are observed, you are obsessed with the rules of pretension and stubbornness, and you all have mothers and wives, how can you deprive them of their rights? This palace will call on all mothers and wives to rise up and exercise, nail your chestnut shells, and correct your ears until you return power! ”

Xu Jingzong, Dou Dexuan, Wang Fuzhen and others were so frightened that they covered their ears and fled.

On October 15, Empress Wu went to the "Please Sacrifice the Land Table" to Li Zhi and the courtiers to discuss.

Li Zhi fully agreed with the opinion of the watch, and believed: "The ceremony of descending Zen should be personally laid by the concubine, so that the queen mother-in-law can enjoy the ritual of worship." There is no precedent in the previous dynasty, and our dynasty can set a precedent for the future generations, so that the light of the candle will increase in the sun and the moon! ”

The courtiers saw that the emperor's wife sang with her husband and the piano was harmonious, they all looked at each other, touched their ears, and unanimously passed the opinion of the empress. So he issued an edict: the head of the Zen Society is dedicated to the queen, and the concubine Yan Ping of the Yue Kingdom is the final offering.

Empress Wu discussed with Concubine Yan the details of the sacrifice of the women inside and outside the Six Palaces, removed the too simple weed, straw, pottery, and sacrificial vessels, and adopted Yin, mattress, Wei, and Jue sacrificial vessels. The literary dance uses "Success Celebration and Good Music", and the martial dance uses "Divine Skill Breaking Array Music", which was approved by Li Zhi.

The preparations before departure were basically in place, but the Dragon King of the East China Sea did not give face, and the rain in Luoyang was continuous, and the emperor and queen were very anxious!

At this time, Maoshan Taoist Liu Daohe refined the Jiuyang Soul Restoration Pill in Songshan Taiyi Temple, and hurriedly gave it to Li Zhi. After Li Zhi subdued Jindan, his spirit improved, he returned with a strong wind, and calmly commanded the operation of the entire Feng Chan ceremony.

Li Zhi arranged for Liu Daohe to go to Luoyang Xiyuan Dao Zhenguan to cultivate immortals, it was raining at the time, Li Zhi said: "Liu Dao is strong in Taoism, can he pray for rain and stop rain?" I'm about to travel to seal Zen, but God is not beautiful! ”

Liu Daohe said: "Poor people are not talented, I have followed the ancestor Wang Yuanzhi to cultivate for many years, and the art of praying is a little bit clear!" Li Zhixi said: "Okay, then it is scheduled for tomorrow, and an altar will be set up in the Yiluan Hall of Luoyang West Garden to pray!" ”

The next day, in the drizzle, the smoke in front of the Yiluan Palace, Liu Daohe wore a crown of gold on his head, a fairy brown silk veil on his head, a green hat on his feet, and a bamboo hand board in his hand, and he climbed the Jiao altar to pray for the rain to stop.

He stepped on the bucket step, chanted mantras and drew talismans, and suddenly threw a wine gourd into the sky, the wine gourd fell from the sky and hung upside down, he opened his mouth and drank it all, and then turned around and performed Ling Bo Weibu, reaching out to catch the wine gourd. The onlookers cheered in unison with the disciples, concubines, and palace maids.

When it was too late, the wine he had drunk came out of his head again, and the wine that came out washed the crown of gold to the ground. Everyone was exclaiming, and after the wisp of gold crown fell to the ground, it turned into a golden wine glass, just catching all the wine that came out! The crowd applauded again.

Liu Daohe stretched out his slap and sucked up the gin glass, drank it all, and put the gin glass on his head, and the gin glass became the first crown of gold again!

After an hour, the drizzle stopped, and after two hours, the clouds cleared, and the sun rose, shining on the earth! Liu Daohe walked down the Jiao altar amid the cheers of the onlookers and bent down to accept Xu Jieyu's flowers.

Li Zhi was overjoyed, and named Liu Daohe as the Heavenly Master, and sent Liu Tianshi and his disciples to take the Anche and go to Dongyue first to pray for the blessing of the Zen Ceremony!

At the end of the month, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the emperor and queen set off from Luoyang by Luan Yu and headed for Dongyue.

The momentum of this travel team is the greatest since the Tang Dynasty, not only the police, guards, canopy, banner, Hanbi, and advocacy, but also the guide car, the egret car, the Luan flag car, the Qingyou team, the Yamen flag, the pheasant tail fan, the Huang Lu, the Xuanwu team, etc.

This is the team of the emperor and queen, which has been flying for ten miles, followed by the honor guards of the Li kings and the honor guards of the women inside and outside the six palaces, and it has expanded for another hundred miles.

If you think that the hundred-mile-long procession has come to an end, you are wrong, followed by the ranks of the envoys of the chieftains of Qiuzi, Shule, Kang, Kunling, Shiwangzi, Tocharo, Persia, Khotan, Wuchang and other chieftains! The road is mighty and stretches for hundreds of miles.

Luan Yu has already walked through Jishan, and some of the Fengzen teams have not yet walked out of Luoyang City. On the road from Luoyang to Dongyue, felt tents and domes, cattle, alpacas and horses filled the road, and all the people from all roads were camped and set up tents, filling the empty suburbs and vast fields.

Being able to see such a huge team shows the heyday of Datang's national strength! Scholars and celebrities have praised the Tang Empire, proud to be born in the Tang Dynasty, believing that since ancient times emperors such as Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Guangwu, the great ceremony of Zen is not as good as today's grand occasion.

On November 8, Luan Yu was temporarily stationed in the camp in Yuanwu County.

Hearing that there was a tomb of Ji Xin, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, Li Zhi sent Taichang Shaoqing to sacrifice with pigs and sheep in the Shao Prison, and posthumously presented Ji Xin as a hussar general in recognition of his loyalty in sacrificing on behalf of the lord.

On the 20th, Luan Yu traveled to Puyang, and Dou Dexuan, the left minister, rode a horse and followed the side. Li Zhi suddenly opened the jade curtain and asked, "Dou Xianggong, Puyang is also called Emperor Qiu, what is the reason?" ”

Dou Dexuan can't be right. Xu Jingzong jumped forward from behind and replied loudly: "In the past, one of the five emperors lived here, so it was also called Emperor Hill. Li Zhi gave a thumbs up.

At noon, Xu Jingzong said to his peers: "The minister can't be uneducated, I heard that Dou Dexuan couldn't answer, and I felt ashamed of him. ”

Dou Dexuan's ears were sharp, and he heard it from afar, and said: "Everyone has their own abilities and can'ts, I don't force myself to answer questions I don't know, this is what I can do!" ”

Li Tao said with a smile: "Jingzong is well-informed, and he is indeed worthy of praise, and Dexuan's words are not bad." ”

Two days later, Luan Yu traveled to Shouzhang County, Yunzhou, and the emperor heard that Zhang Gongyi, a person from Shouzhang, lived together for nine generations, and that the Northern Qi, Sui, and Tang dynasties all showed their doors, and they were very curious, so they descended to visit together.

When I arrived at his house, I found that a village had been formed, and there were 900 people in the family, and they would beat drums and eat every day! Raising 100 dogs is also lacking.

Zhang Gongyi was eighty-seven years old, and when Empress Wu asked him how he had managed to live together for nine generations, Zhang Gongyi asked for pen and paper without answering, and carefully wrote a hundred words of "forbearance" on the scroll to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi unfolded the imperial tour, couldn't help but be moved to tears, choked up and said: "Within a family, all fathers and sons, husbands and wives, brothers, mothers-in-law, concubines, masters and servants, must endure, and nine hundred people have nine hundred forbearance words." There are also difficult crops, unadjusted wind and rain, and officials knocking on the door, all of which have to be endured! ”

Empress Wu also said movingly: "If Your Majesty can take the law from the Zhang family, have the word forbearance, restrain selfish desires, sympathize with the people's feelings, and cherish the people's strength, then the world will be peaceful and the Tang Dynasty will be Yongchang!" "Ordered someone to take the silk and reward Zhang Gongyi.

On December 9, Luan Yu arrived at the Qizhou Mansion and temporarily stationed here. Li Zhi and Empress Wu joined hands to visit the scenery of Qilu, and saw the snow wrapped in green mountains, and the trees were made of pure silver. A few days later, Luan Yu arrived at Lingyan Temple in the northwest corner of Dongyue.

In Yeongamsa Temple, there is a clear pond formed by the confluence of spring water, pine trees and chrysanthemums of various colors are planted on the edge of the pond, and red carp are fed in the pond. The emperor and queen walked hand in hand to watch this beautiful scene of fish and flowers, and the mood was very happy.