In front of everyone's eyes, Da Honglu actually walked towards Wu Chenghe.

Wu Chengsi was obviously prepared, and there was no expression of surprise on his face [Xu Xu had already rehearsed the ritual procedures of sacrificing heaven and earth under the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites, and I saw him calmly follow the guidance of Da Honglu, and step by step from among the civil and military officials and the emperor's relatives.

By Wu Chenghei as the sub-offering, what about the crown prince?

Although this is a solemn hall, there is still a buzzing sound in the Vientiane Shrine, no one dares to talk to each other in this place and at this time, this is just the instinctive reaction of people's surprise, and the heavy breathing of more than a thousand officials converges at the same time to form a wave of qi.

Princess Taiping's face turned pale suddenly, and she quickly lowered her head to hide her surprised and panicked expression.

Yang Fan is a five-rank official, and the lowest rank among the officials who are qualified to participate in the sacrifice to the heavens in this hall today is the fifth grade, so he is standing in a row of zuihou, this unexpected scene also made his eyes wide, he looked at the hall, and his superb eyesight allowed him to see Wu Zetian's face clearly.

But what he saw clearly was only the twelve rows of crowns hanging in front of Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian was standing steadily, and the twelve strings of beads and jade hanging with silk threads in front of him were like a dense curtain, completely blocking her face, Yang Fan noticed that the crown was hanging quietly, motionless [Xu, Wu Zetian behind the crown is scanning the reaction of the ministers with those sharp old eyes at this moment?

Yang Fan took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and lowered his head: "Is this the empress openly expressing her determination to change her heir to the ministers and the world?" Or is it ......, by the way, and the final dedication, will it ...... Does the empress want the crown prince to make the final offering? ”

Yang Fan suddenly had a glimmer of hope in his heart, and the officials also thought of this one after another, and after the end of the Asian dedication, they quietly raised their heads by a line. This movement of raising the head is very slight, but countless people are doing the same action at the same time, and even the slightest movement is spectacular enough.

The civil and military officials, the emperor's relatives and relatives, seem to have an invisible silk thread holding their heads. After Wu Chengsi retreated, they raised their heads in unison, and the corners of Wu Zetian's mouth, who was standing on top of the tall Dan Majesty, hooked slightly, evoking a grim smile!

After Wu Chengji retreated, Da Honglu stepped forward again and began to guide the person in charge of the final dedication.

Vientiane Shrine is spacious and huge. It can be called the best palace in the world. Countless pairs of eyes moved with his form, moving ......, and everyone held their breath to see who he was heading towards. Da Honglu step by step, and finally walked to the side of Liang Wang Wu Sansi, and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu was dumbfounded.

With the guidance of Da Honglu with a solemn face, Wu Sansi took a big step and ascended to His Majesty.

When Wu Sansi's voice echoed in the Golden Palace, no one looked at him [no one listened to what he said, when Wu Sansi made the "final offering" gift, all the civil and military officials had already set their eyes on Wu Zetian's son, and on Li Dan, the former emperor of the Tang Dynasty and now the prince of the Great Zhou.

Some of the people standing behind him can see his back, and some of them can only make a general salute in the direction that others are looking. I can't see his existence at all, but the people standing around Li Dan can see him. Li Dan's expression was calm, and there was nothing unusual.

His throne was taken away by his mother, and the two concubines who accompanied him day and night were also beaten to death by his mother, and now in full view of everyone, he was humiliated like this, and his crown prince was about to be lost. But Li Dan didn't have a look of shame or excitement on his face. However, the faces of the few little princes standing behind him were flushed, and their anger was beyond measure.

A sacrifice is not just a sacrifice. It is a clear political signal.

At the beginning, when Adou, who was "happy to think about Shu", ascended the throne as the emperor, he told the world that "the government is governed by the Ge family, and the sacrifice is widowed." ”

Even someone like Adou knows very well that something must be in his hands. He can hand over all the government affairs of Shu Han, no matter how big or small, to Zhuge Liang to be responsible, but he must make it clear in the edict of succession to the throne that he sacrifices to heaven and earth, this is his right, and others cannot touch it.

Even if he controls all government affairs, he is only a minister of power, not the lord of a country, and the sacrifice of heaven and earth is not, which is a symbol of the power of the king.

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The big festival is over, the civil and military officials, the emperor's relatives and relatives have retreated, as soon as they exit the Vientiane Shrine, they hurriedly walked out, today's scene of the big festival revealed too much information to them, they need to go back to digest it, for a while even the phenomenon of talking heads and ears is rare.

The crown prince's family is the most embarrassing in this crowd, since the emperor decreed that the crown prince is not allowed to meet with hundreds of officials again, in fact, his family has been placed under house arrest in the palace, except for the people waiting around him, no one can see anyone. And today, despite the fact that they are surrounded by so many courtiers and clansmen, they still feel extremely lonely.

All the people were avoiding contact with them, so that when they saw the crown prince's family coming over, they had to lower their eyes and speed up their steps to avoid them, Li Dan still looked calm, but the sons who walked behind him were extremely sad and angry. Li Chengqi and Li Longji were so excited that Li Dan had to reprimand them in a low voice to restrain them.

At this time, Princess Taiping walked towards Li Dan, and some courtiers saw it, and the only thing they could do was to lower their heads and walk faster, as if they didn't see anything. And the Wu family's nephews and those who had already fallen to the Wu family sneered with disdain.

No one knew what the brother and sister had said, they stood in the spacious open space in front of the Vientiane Shrine, and after standing opposite each other for a long time, Li Dan arched his hand to his sister gloomily, and turned to walk towards the Tai Palace.

Yang Fan was the first group of officials to withdraw from the main hall, but he wanted to let the officials with high rank who retreated go first, so he became a group of people walking in zuihou, when he walked next to Princess Taiping and Li Dan's brothers and sisters, he did not rush past like those ministers who avoided the prince's family like snakes and scorpions, but paused slightly.

Li Longji saw him, his eyes fixed on his face, Yang Fan zhanzhu's footsteps, and he bowed his hand to him.

This is etiquette, since he has already met with the king of Linzi County, he should salute, but in the entire court, after the sacrifice to heaven today, only Yang Fan is left.

Li Longji didn't show a happy expression, he recognized Yang Fan, in his memory, this Yang Fan had a very close relationship with the martial arts, so he just bit his lip and turned his head coldly.

Yang Fan sighed in his heart and walked slowly past them.

Li Dan walked towards the palace with several sons, and Princess Taiping walked outside the palace gate and soon caught up with Yang Fan.

In front of Li Dan just now, Princess Taiping behaved very calmly and calmly, but after breaking up with Li Dan, her face was strangely pale, and looking at her fluttering eyes, her mind was in a trance. When crossing the Jinshui Bridge, Princess Taiping stumbled and fell forward with an "oops".

"Princess, be careful!"

Yang Fan jumped to Princess Taiping's side with an arrow, stretched out his hand to help, and quickly withdrew his hand and saluted her.

Princess Taiping Huarong glanced at him dismally, and walked towards the bridge with heavy steps, Yang Fan hesitated slightly, and then followed her.

If there was no one next to Princess Taiping, as if she hadn't seen him at all, she walked out of the palace gate hesitantly, Xu Houde rushed to the carriage, put down the pedal, Princess Taiping was about to board the car, Yang Fan suddenly hurried a few steps, walked to her side, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness!" ”

Princess Taiping glanced at him and said coldly: "Yang Langzhong, what do you have to say?" ”

Yang Fan understood her current mood, so he just smiled faintly and said, "Can I talk to the princess?" ”

Princess Taiping glanced at him and said lightly: "If you are not afraid of gossip, then get in the car!" "Let's walk up to the car first.

Yang Fan followed the carriage without hesitation, Princess Taiping walked into the carriage and sat down, and when she saw that Yang Fan really followed, she couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Yang Fan grinned, smiling with a sunny face: "Anyway, the whole world knows what is going on with me and you, although we are not like that." ”

If it was replaced by the previous Taiping, at this time, he would have to correct him with resentment, but at this moment, Princess Taiping was in turmoil, how could she still be in that mood.

She was silent for a moment, and said faintly: "This matter is my fault, Li family...... It's about to be over [The day Emperor Xu Mu returns to heaven, that is, when my Li family is wiped out by the Wu family, I shouldn't bother you, I will find a way...... Break it off with you. ”

Yang Fan said: "Many years ago, I was a little beggar, I left my hometown, to a far, far away place, in fact, I just wanted to stay away from the enemy, so that it could be safer, but I would never have thought that I would meet anything there, if the direction I chose at that time was not to the south, maybe I am still a beggar today." ”

Princess Taiping's eyes suddenly became a little strange, but Yang Fan didn't pay attention, he continued: "Many years later, when I arrived in Luoyang, I didn't save a person by the canal, if I hadn't accepted her Jihua to play a ball by the Luoshui River, if I hadn't decided to rob the law field when I was escorted to ......the execution ground in Maqiao, if if, many ifs, then, I wouldn't be sitting here now......"

Princess Taiping frowned slightly and said, "What exactly do you want to say?" ”

Yang Fan said: "I want to tell you that in a person's life, every step is faced with a choice, every choice, he thinks that his decision is the most correct, in fact, before the choice, no one will ever understand whether his choice is right or wrong, let alone whether his choice will change again, because ...... There are so many things that can affect it in the future. ”

Princess Taiping said miserably: "Do I still have a choice?" ”

Yang Fan said meaningfully: "What I'm talking about now is not your choice, but the choice of Emperor Bixia." ”