After that, more information was delivered.

The "Heavenly Sacred Decree", which had been in preparation for many years, was finally promulgated.

The founding of the Song Dynasty has gone through three emperors, Taizu, Taizong, and Zhenzong, but has always followed the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

The law is the foundation of the country, and once this law is promulgated, the official atmosphere of the whole country is also changed.

Immediately afterwards, the Empress Dowager Liu E took the official Zhao Zhen and hundreds of officials to worship the Jin Ancestral Hall, which had been repaired.

More importantly, many officials noticed during this trip that the emperor has always been respected in travel etiquette, and the emperor has always been before the queen mother's Anlin, and this trip, it was the queen mother Liu E's Da'an who walked before the official Zhao Zhen.

When the queen mother and the official family came back from the Jin Temple, the palace Cheng Fang Zhonggong wrote a letter, requesting that Liu Tong, the father of the queen mother Liu E, be posthumously crowned as the king, and the imperial tomb should be buried, and follow the example of Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, and set up the ancestors of the Liu family to go to the seven temples, so that the people of the world can avoid Liu Tong's name.

A few days later, Cheng Lin of Kaifeng Mansion presented a painting to the Empress Dowager Liu Ejin, called: "Picture of the Martial Empress Linchao".

In the painting, Wu Zetian wears a crown and a dragon robe, sitting on a high dragon chair, her expression is majestic and inviolable, and her eyes are blazing looking down at the ministers.

Not only the courtiers, but also the officials made a positive statement. Taking advantage of the imminent arrival of the Empress Dowager Liu E's birthday, the official Zhao Zhen issued an edict to set the Empress Dowager's birthday as the "Changning Festival", and its birthday etiquette is the same as the emperor's birthday.

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Lu Zongdao, the governor of the political affairs, left angrily, and the prime minister Lu Yijian quickly caught up with him and said: "What is the trouble of Lu participating in politics? ”

This Lu Zongdao has always been known for his outspokenness and daring to admonish, and the first emperor gave him the word "Lu Zhi" when he was there, and others called him "Fish Head Participation in Politics".

At this time, Lu Zongdao snorted angrily and said, "What are you pulling me for?" ”

Lu Yijian shook his head with a smile and said, "If I don't pull you, I don't know what you have to do to make the official family and the queen mother like a fish in the throat!" ”

"I'm going to write a sword when I go back!"

Lu Yijian said: "You can participate in one person, can you participate in a hundred people?" There are some things that you can't open one eye and close one eye, like you do every day to participate in this, and you don't get tired of participating in that! ”

Lu Zongdao said rightly: "Zongdao relies on the duty of being a minister, do what I should do, how to talk about hard work!" ”

"The matter has come to this, I'm afraid you won't be able to listen to the Queen Mother."

"Then I'll say it too!" Lu Zongdao stiffened his neck and said, "Lu Xiang, can you, as the prime minister, ignore it?" He stared at Lu Yijian hatefully, and saw that Lu Yijian's back was numb.

I only heard Lu Zongdao continue: "The husband dies and obeys the son, and the way of the woman is also." Although the Queen Mother is respected, she can't respect Her Majesty, how can her chariot be ahead of the emperor?

The promulgation of the "Heavenly Sacred Order" is even more questionable, and Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty began to implement the "Wu Zhou Law" when he ascended the throne.

The most infuriating ones are Fang Zhonggong and Cheng Lin, what they have done is no longer the way of human ministers!

How can the father of the Queen Mother be buried in the imperial mausoleum? The world avoids the name of the Son of Heaven, should it also avoid him Liu Tong? He can't even set up seven temples for his ancestors, this is the ritual of the Son of Heaven! ”

"You should first participate in the official family, and you should not set the 'Queen Mother's birthday' to be the same as the official family's birthday and birthday etiquette." Lu Yijian smiled helplessly.

"Yes, I was about to say this, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, only the emperor's birthday has been listed as a 'holy festival', and there has never been a precedent for the queen mother's birthday to be the same!"

"Forget it, forget it!" Lu Yijian shook his head helplessly and stopped admonishing.

Lu Zongdao saw Lu Yijian walking away smoothly, and he also threw up his sleeves and left.

It's a pity that none of his advice was adopted by the Queen Mother, and those slashes were all lost in the sea.

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In the Baoci Palace, the Empress Dowager Liu E was in a daze at the "Picture of the Empress Wu Linchao" hanging in the hall.

Wu Zetian in the picture is so majestic and sacred, she seems to have a kind of magic that makes Liu E's eyes can't be taken off.

Over the years, Liu E has done a lot of things that she doesn't even dare to think about for that position, but as people get older, the more distant things become.

Is this really what she wants?

She was originally a simple and kind girl, but why was fate so unfair to her?

Liu E became an orphan in her infancy, and was fostered in her mother's house since she was a child, and suffered from the white eyes of the host.

When Liu E was eleven or twelve years old, there was a famine in Sichuan and Shu, and she was separated from her family when she fled, so Liu E followed her fellow villagers to Guangyuan, Sichuan.

During the day, she wandered the streets begging, and at night, she hid in a dilapidated temple to escape the cold.

On that day, a silversmith named Gong Mei came from outside the temple, and because of the bad business, he sat in front of the temple gate and sighed.

Liu E saw a silver hairpin in his burden, so beautiful and beautiful, she looked at it intently for a long time.

Seeing Liu E's dress and expression, Gong Mei took out a piece of nest head, broke half of it and handed it to her and said, "Little sister, I have a piece of dry food here, you can take it to satisfy your hunger." These silver jewelry are for the rich and noble, so don't look at it. ”

Liu E looked at the nest in her hand, and felt a sour feeling in her heart, why can rich and noble people wear such beautiful and beautiful things, but I can't even look at it?

But for a miserable little girl who has been starving for many days, a nest at this moment is more practical than the silver hairpin.

Liu E devoured the nest. After eating, she sat down next to Gong Mei, and the two chatted.

It turned out that both of them were from Shuzhong, and they were fellow villagers, and the more they chatted, the more enthusiastic they became.

"I've heard people say that the eastern capital of Bianliang is full of gold and silver, and the rich and noble families are next to each other, and I plan to try my luck there, maybe I can get a good life." Gong Mei said to Liu E.

Liu E said: "Big brother, can you take me with you?" I can sew and mend your clothes, cook and do laundry for you, I will do everything. ”

Gong Mei looked at Liu E, shook her head and said, "I can't even support myself, how can I afford to support you?" "Although Gong Mei is five or six years older than Liu E, she is only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child after all.

"Big brother, can I be your daughter-in-law? Please take me, you see that your craftsmanship is so good, you will not starve to death. In the future, I will also learn the craft from you, and I will never eat rice. ”

Gong Mei bowed his head and was silent, he was also an orphan, and he learned some crafts from his master, because the year was not good, the master asked him to go out and set up his own door. Now that he is helpless, wandering, poor and lonely, he also wants someone to accompany him.

"Big brother, please!" Liu E's pleading eyes looked at Gong Mei.

The kind-hearted Gong Mei softened, he nodded and agreed to take Liu E with him.

Liu E went into the temple gate to pack her luggage, saying that it was just two rags, and a quilt with patches falling on it.

Gong Mei looked up at this small ruined temple, there was only one stone statue in the temple.

"Huangze Temple!" Gong Mei read out the plaque in the Buddha hall.

"Big brother, do you know how to read?" Liu E asked enviously.

Gong Mei nodded, "This is the Empress Wu Zetian enshrined here. This Wu Zetian was born in Guangyuan, Sichuan. ”

Although Liu E has been committed to this broken temple for many days, she doesn't know what kind of temple this is and what god it is dedicated to. She only cares about what she got to eat today, where can she focus on other things?

After Gong Mei said this, she went to look at this stone statue carefully.

I saw that the stone statue was wearing a crown, dressed in royal clothes, surrounded by clouds and mist, dancing with neon clothes, revealing dignity in majesty, and showing sacredness in solemnity.

"Who is Wu Zetian?" Liu E asked ignorantly.

Gong Mei replied: "Wu Zetian is a female emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and it is said that the scholar said that there has only been such a female emperor in China for thousands of years. ”

Liu E immediately showed an expression of adoration, "Oh, women can also be emperors!" She's amazing. ”

Saying that, Liu E fell down and bowed, "Living here for so many days, I have been sheltered by you, and I don't know who you are, you must forgive me!" Liu E kowtowed to you, please bless me with wealth and glory in the future, and I can eat a full meal every day. ”

After Liu E finished speaking, she kowtowed to the stone statue three times, then left the broken temple and followed Gong Mei to Bianliang City. This decision is also destined to change the fate of Liu E's life.

At this moment, Liu E is wearing a golden emerald and a brocade dress, and she is already like the little girl who did not cover her body at the beginning, and even her identity at this time is almost comparable to the person carved in the stone statue in the temple.

She looked at the portrait of Empress Wu Zetian and thought silently in her heart, "Why are you so confident and empty-eyed?" Liu E asked again and again!

At that time, she didn't know how to envy and pursue, she just wanted to eat a full meal, the beautiful silver hairpin in Liu Mei's burden was the thing she envied the most, and a dry and hard nest was enough for her to marry that person.

And at the moment she has far more than she imagined, but her heart is empty.

What exactly does she want?

She loved, hated, and pursued, and she finally climbed to the top of the supreme tower, looking down on everything in the world.

She thought that the higher she climbed, the more she would get, but she was wrong, she got it but was not satisfied, and what she had lost it.

In order to maintain what she has gained, she has lost more, lost her original kind heart, and lost the love of her life.

Liu E felt as if her heart had been stung, and she said to Shanshan, the maid beside her, "Go, the four armies of the Dragon Divine Guard have commanded Liu Mei to come over." ”

Coral went out in response.

Soon, an old general walked into the Baoci Palace, it was Gong Mei who Liu E married back then, and now he is recognized as Liu E's righteous brother and renamed Liu Mei.

The man was gray-haired, weather-covered, and had a slightly hunched back, an old man in his early sixties, and he was no longer the young silversmith he had been.

Liu Mei saw Liu E, bowed down and said, "Minister Liu Mei see the Queen Mother." ”

Liu E said with pity in her eyes: "Brother Mei, there are no outsiders here, you sit down and talk back." ”

Liu Mei looked cautious and respectful, and said without transgression: "The queen mother respects the minister, the minister is very grateful in his heart, the minister is a foreign minister, and he should not sit here in the queen mother." ”

Liu E's expression was a little resentful, "Brother Mei, now that I have only you by my side, you are the only reliable person, do you want to be like me?" ”

Liu Mei didn't answer, just looked down at the ground.

Seeing Liu Mei like this, Liu E had to say again: "Recently, there have been some changes in the court, and I plan to let you take charge of the Imperial City Division for a while." ”

Liu Mei's expression was gloomy, and she raised her slightly cloudy eyes to look at Liu E, "It is an honor for the Queen Mother to trust the minister, but unfortunately, the minister's body is already at the end of the strong crossbow." ”

"I know that Brother Mei fell ill in his early years for the country, but now that the situation is urgent, I only dare to give my life to someone like Brother Mei. You toiled for a while, and then I would hand over this burden in a few days. ”

In fact, Liu E also knows that Liu Mei's body is a candle in the wind, and she knows that Liu Mei is just a silversmith, not a military general with outstanding strategy.

But now that there are many capable ministers around her, she does not dare to hand over power to others with the Dragon Guard, the Divine Guard, and the Imperial City Division who controls the Bianliang Guard.

Liu Mei is now the person she trusts the most, and the only person she trusts the most is Liu Mei!

When Liu Mei left, Liu E looked at Wu Zetian's portrait blankly. She ordered another painting to be taken out and fell into another contemplation.

The painting depicts the backs of two people, they walk side by side on the Sui embankment, the weeping willows on both sides of the bank are slightly green and tender, the grass on the ground shallowly will be able to pass the horse's hooves, the low-flying swallows into pairs, the rippling blue waves of the Bianhe River are warm, and it looks picturesque from afar.

This painting is one of the famous Eight Views of Bianjing - the smoke willows of the Sui Embankment. The painting is not very good, but Liu E has tears in her eyes, she knows that the people in the painting will always have their backs to her.

The next day, it was still the Empress Dowager Liu E who responded to the court alone.

Liu E suddenly asked, "What kind of person are you talking about after the martial arts?" ”

The hundred officials looked at each other, and no one dared to respond, and the dripping water in the Chongzheng Hall could be heard.

At this time, someone suddenly said loudly: "Empress Wu is a sinner in the Tang Dynasty!" Datang's prosperous foundation was almost destroyed in her hands! ”

Liu E fixed his eyes and saw that it was Lu Zongdao, the governor of the government.

Liu E didn't say anything, but looked at him coldly.

Lu Zong said righteously: "For her own selfish desires, Empress Wu not only usurped her husband's throne, changed Tang to Zhou, and overturned the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. He even destroyed humanity and killed one of his daughters and two sons with his own hands.

May I ask the Queen Mother, who can do such a thing that loses heavenly reason and human ethics like this?! After the martial arts, where is the reason of heaven? Where is humanity? Queen Mother ......"

"Enough!" Liu E's face turned pale, and she slapped the table in anger.

Lu Zongdao said vigorously, where was he willing to stop, he continued: "Queen Mother, Empress Tang Zhiwu, is the sinner of Tang, bearing a thousand years of infamy, a lesson from the past......"

Liu E was so angry that she flicked the sleeves of her robe, got up and retreated.

Back in the dormitory, Liu E was still angry, she looked at the "Picture of the Empress Wu in the Dynasty", angrily ripped it off and threw it into the charcoal basin. Seeing Wu Zetian's face deformed and burned under the scorching heat, she slowly calmed down.

But no one knew that Lu Zongdao's words made her original hesitation more and more firm. If the name is not right, it is not good, and some things must be done after all!

"Meritorious crimes through the ages, let everything be like the wordless monument erected by Wu Zetian after his death, let future generations say it!" Liu E said to herself.