Chapter 145: The Heavenly Empress's Past Revisited (9)

Wei Lian'er entered the palace to be received by Wu Zetian and was named the crown princess. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Princess Taiping returned to the vulgar from the Taiping View, and Wu Zetian was ready to choose a talented and beautiful concubine for her. The happy event of Li Xian and Princess Taiping was jointly held, and the double happiness came, Li Xian married Wei Lian'er, and Taiping married Xue Shao. Li Zhi suddenly prepared to go to Songshan to seal Zen and wanted to move the palace back to Chang'an, Wu Zetian felt a little frightened. Li Zhi and Wu Zetian went to Songshan, and Li Xian was left behind in Luoyang to supervise the country, at which time Wei Lian'er showed her ambitions. Li Zhi fell ill on the way to Songshan. At this time, Li Xian and Shangguan Wan'er also had an ambiguous relationship because they had been governing together for a long time.

Li Zhi returned to Luoyang and prepared to grant amnesty to the world. After Li Zhi issued the edict, he died of illness before returning to Chang'an. In the last days of Li Zhi's life, Wu Zetian served him wholeheartedly, and the two loved each other and loved each other. After dealing with Li Zhi's funeral, Wu Zetian put Li Xian on the throne for Zhongzong. Wu Zetian handed over the government to Li Xian, and she herself was completely immersed in the grief of losing Li Zhi. Shangguan Wan'er admired Wu Zetian more and more. Li Xian is an extremely mediocre person, after ascending the throne, he not only ignored Wu Zetian's previous advice and twelve things, but also worked against Pei Yan above the court, and for a while, Li Xian fell into a dilemma, and Wu Zetian began to go out of the mountain again and interfere in the government.

Pei Yan is in charge of the DPRK, and Wu Zetian also has his own power, and Li Xian, who wants to do something big, seems to be weak. Li Xian obeyed Empress Webster's words. Empress Wei is an insatiable person, she proposed to Li Xian to promote her father to the prime minister, all the family members to be knighted, and even the nurse's son should be named a five-rank official. Li Xian agreed to all of them, and after Shangguan Wan'er learned about it, she persuaded Li Xian to take a long-term view, but Empress Wei scolded Shangguan Wan'er bitterly, and Shangguan Wan'er was very disappointed in Li Xian and Empress Wei.

Prime Minister Pei Yan reported Li Xian's decision to seal Empress Wei's family to Wu Zetian, who was furious and accused Li Xian of corrupting discipline and decided to abolish Li Xian. Wu Zetian summoned all the ministers and announced the abolition of Li Xian as the king of Luling, Li Xian only served as the emperor for two months before stepping down, and Li Dan was made the new emperor. Li Danzhong was honest and honest, and when he saw that his brothers did not end well, he trembled in front of Wu Zetian and let Wu Zetian manage the government. From then on, Wu Zetian watched the court and listened to the government in the Zichen Palace, and Ruizong, the emperor, was nothing. In order to take sole control of the power and suppress the power of the royal family surnamed Li, Wu Zetian promoted Wu Chenghei to the prime minister and reused the surname Wu, and the Li dynasty was about to be replaced by the Wu family. All the changes in the imperial court were reported to Li Xian, who was far away in Bazhou, and he saw his mother disposing of the brothers one by one, and his heart was sad, reading the lyrics of the Huangtai that he had created before: Planting melons and yellow under the stage, melons are ripe and leaving. One pick makes the melon good, and then the pick makes the melon thin. Three picks can still be, and four picks can be returned. In terms of personal emotion, Wu Zetian felt more and more lonely and lonely. With her most intimate daughter, Princess Taiping, knew what her mother lacked the most, and began to for her mother.

Princess Taiping dedicated Feng Xiaobao to Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian gave the name Xue Huaiyi. Li Xian, who was exiled in Bazhou, felt frightened at first taste, worried day and night that his mother would send someone to kill him, and finally became psychopathic, often changing into women's clothes, pretending to be a servant, and sleeping all night to change places to avoid assassination. Wu Zetian was sad after hearing this, and wanted to comfort this son, so he sent Zuo Jinwu General Qiu Shenji to Bazhou to visit Li Xian on her behalf, and at the same time asked him to bring a pot of wine. Unexpectedly, Qiu Shenji misunderstood Wu Zetian's meaning, he thought that Wu Zetian asked him to visit Li Xian, but he actually wanted to poison Li Xian, because at this time, someone in Yangzhou was preparing to rebel, and it was Li Xian's banner that was played. So, Qiu Shenji went to Bazhou and asked Li Xian to reflect on what he had done to be disloyal and unfilial. Li Xian also misunderstood Qiu Shenji's meaning, thinking that his mother was trying to kill him, so in fear and despair, Li Xian pulled out a knife and committed suicide. Li Xian's death left Wu Zetian grief-stricken, and she held a grand state funeral for her son, while sending Qiu Shenji to the frontier.

When Wu Zetian was still immersed in the grief of losing his son, a rebellion suddenly broke out. Xu Jingye raised troops in Yangzhou, and many royal families surnamed Li participated in the crusade against Wu Zetian's army, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Once, Su Liangsi met Xue Huaiyi on the way to the court, Xue Huaiyi was arrogant and rude to Su Liangsi, Su Liangsi was furious, and ordered the people on the left and right to drag Xue Huaiyi down and slap him dozens of times. After Wu Zetian learned about this incident, he said to Xue Huaiyi: The Zen master should enter from the north gate, and the south government is the prime minister, don't offend them. Xue Zhongzhang, the superintendent of the imperial history, asked to go to Yangzhou to investigate Xu Jingye's rebellion, but in fact, he went to Yangzhou to meet Xu Jingye and others, and decided to cooperate with them inside and outside to rebel together. Xu Jingye faked a holy decree, held the military and political power of Yangzhou in his hands, and mobilized the army in one fell swoop. Xu Jingye also released a biography written by Luo Bingwang, which immediately shook the government and the opposition and was widely praised.

Wu Zetian was amazed by Luo Bingwang's literary brilliance, and sent someone to pay for the collection and publication of his poems, Shangguan Wan'er and all the ministers were shocked by Wu Zetian's mind and bearing. Above the court, Wu Zetian strategized and prepared to wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop. Xu Jingye's rebels are winning one after another, and they are about to approach the capital. At this time, above the court, Pei Yan said that Xu Jingye's banner was Kuang Fu Luling King, as long as Wu Zetian returned to the government of Luling King Li Xian, Xu Jingye would not be self-satisfied. Wu Zetian had insight into Pei Yan's involvement with Xu Jingye and others, so he sent someone to monitor Pei Yan. And Xu Jingye also sent Luo Bingwang to the capital to secretly contact Prime Minister Pei Yan, and **** Wu Zetian in one fell swoop. In order to let Pei Yan take the bait, Luo Bingwang carefully designed a trap, and he asked the child to sing a children's song at the door of Pei Yan's house: One fire, two fires, and the scarlet-clothed child sits in the palace. Luo Bingwang went to see Pei Yan, and mentioned this children's rhyme in the chat, Luo Bingwang explained to Pei Yan, saying that "Scarlet Clothes" is the word "Pei", "one fire, two pieces of fire" is the word "Yan", and "sitting in the palace" means that Pei Yan should have the world. Pei Yan was overjoyed when he heard this, thinking that he would be destined to be a nobleman, so he promised Luo Bin Wang to cooperate with the outside world. Luo Bingwang planned a conspiracy, he asked Pei Yan to let Wu Zetian go out to Longmen, and then sent people to ambush and raid to kill Wu Zetian. And Wu Zetian, who had already seen that Pei Yan had a conspiracy, promised Pei Yan to go to Longmen, but secretly mobilized heavy troops to exterminate the rebels in ambush. Wu Zetian, who returned to the palace, instantly arrested Pei Yan.

The ministers of the court collectively begged Wu Zetian to pardon Pei Yan, and Wu Zetian put Di Renjie in charge of trying Pei Yan's treason, and Pei Yan was beheaded. After a hard battle, Wu Zetian finally turned the tide and won the war, and the rebels were finally controlled. After the defeat, Xu Jingye and his family were killed by his subordinates. Wu Zetian granted amnesty to the world, and pardoned all the rebels except for a few leaders who participated in the rebellion. After the defeat, Luo Bingwang began to travel all over the world. Ruizong Li Dan wrote a letter of resignation to the emperor, begging his mother to become emperor. And Wu Zetian was not in a hurry to ascend the throne as king, but instructed Wu Chengsi to create public opinion, Wu Chengsi directed the good show of "Heavenly Bestowal Holy Map", Xue Huaiyi was not far behind, and concocted the Great Cloud Sutra with the monks, saying that Wu Zetian was a goddess of heaven, and the Buddha asked her to replace Li Tang as the emperor and dominate the world. Li Dan resigned as emperor, voluntarily demoted to the emperor's heir, and changed his surname to Wu. Wu Zetian finally ascended the gate of Zetian, held a grand enthronement ceremony, she became the first and only orthodox female emperor of China, and changed the name of the country to Zhou.