CHAPTER XVIII

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"Dare to ask if the girl's surname is really white? Instead of the surname Meng? Li Qingzhao couldn't help but ask. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Meng? My aunt smiled! The little woman's surname is Bai, and her name is Suzhen, which is true! Bai Suzhen was stunned.

That's right, Bai Suzhen is like Queen Meng when she was young. However, of course Li Qingzhao knew that this was impossible, you must know that this Empress Meng was ten years older than Li Qingzhao, and now Li Qingzhao knew that she was already close to the age of sixties, and how could the white girl in front of her be Empress Meng!

Empress Meng! The three words blurted out by Li Qingzhao were very small, and no one paid attention to what the old man was saying, but Bai Suzhen heard it clearly. After Bai Suzhen heard "Queen Meng", her expression changed abruptly, she didn't expect that after so many years, there would still be people who recognized her secret identity.

Empress Meng was the first empress of Emperor Zhezong Zhao Xu, and was also called Empress Yuanyou because of her year name. Zhezong was the seventh emperor of the dynasty, when his father Emperor Shenzong Zhao Ji died, he was only ten years old, and his grandmother Empress Dowager Gao hung the curtain to listen to the government, from ten to eighteen years old, the high-spirited young emperor in the court was just a decoration.

The change of the law in the current dynasty was a big drama, and the people involved included Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Su Dongpo, etc. Sima Guang, Wang Anshi and Su Shi are all good friends, but they are not politically consistent. Wang Anshi resolutely implemented the reforms, while Sima Guang strongly opposed them. In his early years, Mr. Dongpo opposed the change of the law and was rejected by Wang Anshi, and in his later years, Mr. Dongpo opposed the complete rejection of the change, and was dissatisfied by Sima Guang.

Because Emperor Shenzong was deeply dissatisfied with the weak politics and he had always admired Wang Anshi's talents, he immediately ordered Wang Anshi to implement reforms to revitalize the dynasty after he ascended the throne at the age of 20.

However, the ambitious Emperor Shenzong suffered a heavy mental blow due to his crushing defeat in the war against Western Xia, his condition deteriorated, and he died before the age of forty. The new law, which he had spent all his life's work on, was temporarily repealed by his mother, Empress Dowager Gao, shortly after his death.

Empress Dowager Gao is a conservative who resolutely opposes the change of law, she may know that the little emperor has been holding grudges for a long time, and she may also have thought that Zhezong broke out even more violently after the pro-government, and trampled the conservative party under her feet. Along with the Conservative Party, there was also his Empress Meng.

Empress Meng was arranged by her grandmother, Empress Dowager Gao, for Emperor Zhezong. Meng was dignified and virtuous, intelligent, and thoughtful, how could Meng Shi, who was sixteen years old at the time, think that her grand wedding would just let her step into a huge whirlpool.

Only one year later, Empress Dowager Gao died. Empress Meng's days of peace and tranquility also came to an end. Zhezong favored the beautiful palace maid Liu Qingjing. Of course, Liu Meiren coveted the position of the queen and spared no means to murder Queen Meng. The twenty-year-old Empress Meng was deposed on the grounds of "confusing heresy and coercing the Tao", lived in Yaohua Palace, and became a female Taoist priest.

After four years of Meng's career as a female Taoist, Zhezong, who was only twenty-four years old, died of illness. Zhao Ji, the eleventh son of Shenzong and the younger brother of Zhezong, ascended the throne, and Meng was recalled to the palace. The women in the palace are just as incapable of controlling their own destiny. Only one year, Meng was kicked out of the palace again, and was once again assigned to Yaohua Palace as a female Taoist.

This time, the years of seclusion were long and the nights were long, and it was not until she was fifty-one years old that the world remembered her again. The Jin army came to the city, and by Li Gang's words, Huizong hurriedly ceded to the crown prince Zhao Huan. Zhao Huan was enthroned by Song Huizong Chan and changed to Yuan Jingkang.

The Jin soldiers captured Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, Huizong, Qinzong and members of the imperial family were all taken captive and went north, and Meng was not on the royal roster, and because of the fire in Yaohua Palace, he avoided the fate of being captured and went north.

However, at this time, Empress Meng was already dying because of her frailty and illness. After the Jin army retreated, the puppet emperor left behind in Kaifeng City, thinking that he had no appeal, wanted to recruit the support of the Meng family and named him the Empress Dowager of Song.

Perhaps the Empress Dowager Gao's vision was right at the beginning, at this time, the Empress Dowager Meng not only did not turn her eyes on the royal family that brought her disaster, but prayed to the heavens, hoping to be blessed by the gods. The royal family is in danger, and Bai Suzhen, who has just been out of cultivation, is ordered to possess the dying Empress Meng.

Bai Suzhen tried her best to find the orphans of the Song family in order to recover. When she knew that Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Huizong, had not been exiled to the north because he was on duty, she immediately secretly wrote to persuade him to become emperor. With the Empress Dowager's edict, the twenty-one-year-old Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Nanjing Yingtianfu. In this way, the Song dynasty was continued.

As the queen mother, Bai Suzhen's boat arrived in Hangzhou in the cold wind. In a hurry, he took the old state rule of Phoenix Mountain as the palace and settled down. The war is still going on, and the city of Lin'an is not at ease, and there are rebellious ministers and thieves who have launched a mutiny, supporting the three-year-old crown prince Zhao Yang as the emperor, and asking the queen mother to listen to the government.

The north wind blew very quickly that day, and the two sides failed to negotiate, and at the last moment, Bai Suzhen sat on a bamboo chair and was carried out of the palace by four old eunuchs. She did not come to the upper floor where Emperor Zhao Gou was, but fearlessly arrived in front of the rebels, much to the surprise of Zhao Gou and his ministers.

In the face of internal and external difficulties, Bai Suzhen responded calmly. On the one hand, she tried to appease the rebels and promised to let Zhao Gou abdicate, and on the other hand, she quietly summoned the general's wife and asked her to go and inform the general to come to King Qin quickly. Soon, famous generals from all walks of life advanced by land and water, broke through the Linping defense line in one fell swoop, took advantage of the victory to capture the small weir dam of Wulinmen, and the rebellion was quelled.

Zhao Gou was immediately reset, and Bai Suzhen immediately withdrew the curtain. In the following years, the small court was chased and beaten by the Jin soldiers, and has been in exile along the coast, and has not lived much of a stable life. Until the situation changed, the imperial court gradually stabilized, and the royal family moved from the north to the south to Lin'an Mansion, Bai Suzhen was also considered a great success, and then got rid of Empress Meng.

Since then, Empress Dowager Meng's body has become ill, often dizzy, numb hands and feet, and her condition is getting worse and worse. Later, when Bai Suzhen turned into a human form, she simply used the skin of Queen Meng.

During the period of exile in the imperial court, Li Qingzhao happened to follow Empress Dowager Meng, and at that time Li Qingzhao was more accustomed to calling her Empress Yuanyou. In any case, Li Qingzhao was as happy as seeing her old friend, and she decided to hold a grand wedding for Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen again.

When Li Gongfu returned home, he was stunned to find that a wedding was in full swing at home. He had no time to care about all this.

Li Gongfu knew in his heart that his aunt Li Qingzhao must have something on her mind when she returned to Lin'an.

It turned out that at the moment, Qin Hui knelt at the feet of the Jin envoy on behalf of the emperor as the prime minister, and promised to cancel the Song State title, be a vassal of Jin, and pay tribute every year, and the first peace agreement between the Southern Song Dynasty and Jin was reached. The Song court announced a general amnesty to celebrate the success of the "peace talks".

After Yue Fei received the pardon, he stated that he would not go along with the peace proposal, and vowed to "spit on Yanyun and serve the country with revenge". Ten years of power is wasted!

Li Qingzhao has always supported the generals in the main battle, but what makes her indignant and embarrassed is that she is inseparable from the relationship with the Wenchen Qin Hui.

Life should be a hero, and death is also a ghost. So far, I think of Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. Listening to his aunt Li Qingzhao's emotion, Li Gongfu couldn't help but recall the past "ten years of God" and this worst era!