In the twenty-sixth year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, the son of heaven, was seriously ill, and Li Zhi, the king of Jin, was appointed as the crown prince before the bed.

Soon after, he died, and the crown prince Li Zhi succeeded to the throne in front of the spirit with the joint assistance of the prime minister's eldest grandson Wuji and the national teacher Yuan Tiangang, and changed the name of the year to Yonghui.

After succeeding to the throne, immediately for the first emperor to set the temple number Taizong, the name of Emperor Wen, Fu Ling into the mausoleum, the whole process is smooth not like words, but also fast not like words, less than three days, succession, change the year number, set the temple number, set the temple number, into the mausoleum all done, as if it has been rehearsed countless times.

When Li Tai, the king of Wei, got the news and hurried back to Chang'an, the dust had already settled.

Li Tai was naturally unconvinced, his younger brother couldn't catch up with him even if he was a horse, how could he be the son of heaven?

Li Tai scolded Li Zhi for usurping the throne in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, which embarrassed the new emperor, Li Zhi was weak, but the eldest grandson Wuji was very ruthless, even if Li Tai was also his nephew, he was not soft at all, and immediately ordered the forbidden army to break Li Tai's legs and confine the whole family together.

And a woman who was thought of by Li Zhi and Yuan Tiangang quietly entered the palace with the eldest grandson Wuji in the court, and this person was naturally Wu Meiniang.

In May of the second year of Yonghui, Wu Meiniang was awarded the second rank Zhaoyi.

Since Wu Meiniang entered the palace, Li Zhi has favored Wu Meiniang alone.

Queen Wang, Concubine Xiao Shufei and others were jealous of her, so they slandered Wu Meiniang in front of Li Zhi, and Wu Meiniang was not a vegetarian and immediately launched a counterattack, and with Yuan Tiangang's cooperation, Concubine Xiao Shuniang was killed in less than a year.

The following year, Wu Meiniang gave birth to her eldest daughter, Princess Andingsi, and one month after Princess Andingsi was born, Queen Wang came to visit, love and tease the princess.

After Queen Wang walked out, Wu Meiniang strangled the girl to death while no one was there, and covered it with a quilt to cover up. Just when Li Zhi came, Wu Meiniang pretended to laugh, opened the quilt to look at the child together, and found that her daughter was dead, and Wu Meiniang couldn't stop crying.

Li Zhi asked the people around him what was going on, and the people around him said, "The queen has just been here." Li Zhi was furious and said, "The queen killed my daughter!" Wu Meiniang then wept and counted the sins of the queen and queen. Empress Wang couldn't explain it clearly, and Li Zhi had the idea of abolishing Wang Liwu from then on.

In the fifth year of Yonghui, after a period of calculations by Wu Zetian and Yuan Tiangang, there were rumors in the harem that Queen Wang and her mother Liu were tired of winning, and Li Zhi was furious when he learned about it, and drove Liu out of the palace, and also made Wu Zetian from Zhaoyi Jin as a concubine.

In the following year, Li Zhi wanted to depose Wang Liwu, but the elder ministers led by the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang were powerful, and Li Zhi's power was greatly restricted.

Many ministers led by the eldest grandson Wuji opposed the abolition of Wang Liwu, and Li Zhi cried above the court that the queen was vicious, and had already said:

"Uncle has already led the court, and I have never opposed my uncle, can't my uncle even agree to this request from my little nephew?"

The eldest grandson Wuji was silent, but still did not agree to the abolition, Li Zhi was furious, and for the first time he had a desire for power.

That night, Yuan Tiangang entered the palace, and the three formed a political alliance.

Li Zhi attempted to use the "abolition of Wang Liwu" to reinvigorate the imperial power and strike at the power of the old ministers. And Wu Meiniang is to become the queen of the Tang Dynasty and taste the taste of power, as for Yuan Tiangang, it is even simpler, eradicating or driving these loyal ministers of the Tang Dynasty out of Chang'an, paving the way for Wu Meiniang to become the emperor.

Soon, Li Yifu, a member of the Zhongshu House arranged by Yuan Tiangang, was the first to support the abolition of Wang Liwu, and was rewarded by Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang.

Many middle-level officials saw that it was profitable to support the "abolition of Wang Liwu", and there were unscrupulous people among them who secretly instigated it, so they turned to support Liwu Meiniang as the queen.

Xu Jingzong, Cui Yixuan, Yuan Gongyu and other ministers saw that things could not be done, and they also asked Li Zhi to establish Wu Zetian as the queen, Li Zhi saw that there were many people who supported him, and he was overjoyed, and asked Li Tao among the meritorious elders, Li Tao was cautious all his life, so he naturally did not say much, and only said one sentence, "Your Majesty's family matter, why ask outsiders."

With Li Tao's ambiguity, more officials began to turn to Li Zhi, and the situation was reversed at once.

On October 13 of the same year, Li Zhi finally issued an edict: on the charge of "conspiracy to poison", the queen was deposed as a concubine and imprisoned; Their parents and brothers were also dismissed from their official positions and exiled to Lingnan. Seven days later, Li Zhi issued an edict again and made Wu Zetian the empress.

At the same time, he demoted a number of high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, such as Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang, who opposed the most powerful prime ministers, to the governors of other states, many of whom were the most loyal courtiers of the Tang Dynasty.

After this catastrophe, most of the upright ministers of the entire court disappeared, the entire court began to be full of sycophants, and the foundation of the Tang Dynasty began to decay.

At the time of the surging power shuffle in Chang'an, the Tang monk and his entourage, who had gone through a lot of hardships, finally came to the Da Lei Yin Temple, and after the last catastrophe of the scriptures, they were ready to return to Chang'an, promote Mahayana Buddhism, and save the world.

The scriptures were successful, although everyone has not yet become a Buddha, but Tang Seng has retrieved the Taoist fruit of the golden cicada in his previous life, so naturally he does not have to walk back slowly as he has always been, and everyone came by the clouds, but they arrived in Chang'an in a few days.

Rao is Tang Seng is detached mood, but along the way, he has seen more difficulties in those small countries, and now seeing the prosperity of Chang'an, he can't help but have some doubts in his heart, why the closer he is to Lingshan, the more demons that eat people.

I didn't have time to think that everyone had fallen into the Chang'an Palace, causing a big chaos in the palace, Datang has His Majesty's Kyushu Ding guard, demons can basically not be violated, and without a license, Sun Wukong and other Taiyi can not enter the territory of Datang.

Now that I suddenly saw a few such demons and monsters, how could everyone not be surprised, that is, Cheng Yanjin, who had been fighting for more than ten years, was also a little timid when he saw such demons.

"Emperor Lao Er of the Tang Dynasty, your royal brother is here, why haven't you come to greet him?"

Sun Wukong shouted, the palace tiles were shocked and fell a lot, those forbidden soldiers were even more frightened when they saw this, Li Zhi was not much better, Tang Seng was originally named Chang'an, when he went to the West to learn scriptures, although Li Zhi was more than ten years old, but now it has been almost twenty years, Li Zhi thought about it for a while, and was so frightened that he hid in the Taiji Palace and trembled.

It wasn't until Wu Meiniang and Yuan Tiangang came together that Li Zhi felt a lot more relieved, and after listening to Yuan Tiangang's brief introduction of cause and effect, he completely relieved himself and went to see Tang Seng and his party.

When he saw the image of Sun Wukong and others up close, Li Zhi trembled with fright, and recognized his uncle towards Tang Seng.

"The little nephew is the son of the first emperor, and now he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I don't know if my uncle returned from a long trip and neglected my uncle, or I asked my uncle to forgive me."

Zhu Bajie on the side, seeing Li Zhi's appearance, also wanted to tease him, the big pig's head came to Li Zhi's eyes, and said with a smile:

"Big nephew, don't talk much, the uncles are hungry, why don't you call someone quickly, and serve with delicious food and drink?"

Li Zhi was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and he was about to cry and said:

"I don't know what kind of thing Uncle is talking about delicious food and drink."

Wu Meiniang saw Li Zhi like this, naturally hated iron and steel, while Yuan Tiangang was much simpler, "It's not that I'm handsome and ruthless, I'm really such a good person, how to be the master of the world?" ”

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