How to get to the Imperial City?

Just walk along the central axis.

Chang'an City is bounded by Zhuque Street, divided into two parts, east and west, one is Wannian County, the other is Chang'an County, and the two cities of the east and west of the commercial center are also symmetrically divided into two counties.

The streets extend in all directions, the square market is square, and several main roads are extremely wide, forming a rigorous chessboard-like symmetrical layout.

In a word: hundreds of thousands of houses are like a game of Go, and the 12th Street is like a vegetable garden.

A thousand years later, the north-south axis of Oriental Kyoto and the north-south streets of Seoul on the peninsula were named Suzaku Street, which became famous at home and abroad and became a symbol of prosperity in other countries.

With the decline of the Tang Empire, the real Vermilion Bird Street in front of it, together with Tang Chang'an City, gradually lost its former prosperity.

If Meng Fan is not mistaken, the mighty Vermilion Bird Street in the Song Dynasty actually still exists, but after more than a thousand years of wind and rain, after the continuous transformation and changes of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it has already become a thing and a person, and the location has been moved.

Outside the gate of Taiji Palace, the palace is strictly forbidden.

A team of Xuanjia soldiers patrolled, and the dragon head used as a decoration was like a desolate beast resting, which was daunting.

The humanitarian trend is coming.

Thanks to Meng Fan's cultivation of the Taoist Fa, the impact was not great, so he straightened his clothes and said in a deep voice:

"Meng Fan, a Taoist from Maoshan Mountain, is ordered by my master to enter Beijing to face the saint!"

The sound echoed outside the empty palace gate, like a flood bell and a big Lu, for a long time.

If there are no special circumstances, it is forbidden to run horses in the palace, even if the person who is arraigned is like flying, it will take a stick of incense, so Meng Fan looks at his nose and nose and waits silently.

Whether the trend of the Buddha can be reversed starts from here.

As expected, after about a stick of incense, the palace door was closed and opened, and the three eunuchs walked out quickly.

"By order, the saint summoned the real person of Maoshan."

If you ask for leave in advance and miss the time of the court, if you think that your identity is enough, and you have important things to do, this is the case, and you will come directly outside the palace gate.

But generally speaking, they are all kneeling and waiting, and the prison door is responsible for the passage, only people outside the party can be special, and the heaviest etiquette is to call out the "poor road chief" and bow slightly.

Meng Fan slowly followed behind the eunuch, with a dignified gait, not frightened by the huge and majestic palace, and rethought the current situation in the court.

From the queen to the second saint.

Wu Zetian tamed the lion at the beginning of the year: to clear the hidden worries of the inner palace, the former queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, each with a hundred rods, amputated their hands and feet, threw themselves into the brewing urn, and claimed to let the two of them die of drunkenness.

It is true that the two women who were most favored by Li Zhi were tortured for several days before they died, and the Empress Wu ordered his corpse to be beheaded, and changed his surname to Python with homophony, and abolished the concubine to Xiao, in order to vent his jealousy.

During this period, he supported his son Li Hong as the crown prince.

In the religion of etiquette, the wife is valued by the husband, and the husband is valued by the son, Wu Zetian's husband is the emperor, and the son-in-law is the prince of the prince, and the status is as stable as a mountain.

If you go outside, you must first settle inside.

Meng Fan thought this deeply, and the Empress Wu was even more so, and immediately tamed the lion again: purge the foreign dynasty.

Dispose of six former and former prime ministers, and initially support their own forces.

As for the three lion skulls and their results, it is now, from the queen to one of the two saints.

And what is a lion's skull?

According to the "Zizhi Tongjian", Taizong has a famous master and a son, and he is fat and incapable of controlling, Wu Zetian is the palace maid, and he said to Taizong:

If a concubine can make it, she must have three things, an iron whip, two iron swords, and three daggers. If he refuses to accept the blow of the iron whip, he will be struck with an iron striking, and if he refuses to accept it, his throat will be cut off with a dagger.

The process of ascending to the court and gradually coming from behind the scenes to the front of the stage is that she is practicing her own way.

From the wife and concubine of the husband and the emperor, to the brothers, nieces, and then to the foreign ministers, I don't know how many innocent lives have been killed, including their own plans, the emperor's acquiescence, and perhaps coincidences.

To be honest, Meng Fan doesn't like this kind of internal calculation.

It is true that he struck hard at the evil demons, burning the corpse with the true fire of the samadhi, lighting the lamp of the soul, or entering the eighteen layers of hell, but he never implicated the innocent, and always had a certain amount of awe.

It is precisely because his heart is not black enough that he seems to be a little resistant to getting involved in the political situation, thinks about it left and right, and finally decides on the simplest and most straightforward strategy.

Support the Prince!

As we all know, Wu Zetian is good at domestic abuse, and Emperor Li Zhi had eight sons, in order of age:

Li Zhong, Li Xiao, Li Shangjin, Li Sujie, Li Hong, Li Xian, Li Xian, and Li Dan.

The first four are the concubines of Empress Wu, that is, non-biological, nominal sons, and the latter four are their biological sons.

He also had three daughters: Princess Yiyang, Princess Xuancheng and Princess Taiping, and only Taiping was born to him.

Before the concubines were all on the throne, the husband and other women were born, and since she was on the throne, she must be abused as a mother-in-law-

The deposed prince Li Zhong was first frightened by various means to the point of insaneness, and wore women's clothes at night to prevent assassination, but unfortunately he still could not escape.

The second son, Xu Wang Li Xiaochu, worshiped the governor of the state, and later demoted to the assassin of Suizhou, and finally died mysteriously seven months before the martial queen was called the second sage, and the whereabouts of his biological mother Concubine Zheng are unknown.

The third son, Li Shangjin, is under house arrest and is following the old path of his eldest brother, who has been driven crazy by his vicious stepmother.

The four sons, Li Sujie, the king of Yong, and the two princesses of Yiyang and Xuancheng were all born to Wu Zetian's rival concubine Xiao.

The former is talented and intelligent, and he was named King Yongwang at the age of five, and later succeeded his eldest brother Li Zhong as the pastor of Yongzhou, but with the brutal murder of his biological mother, he also began to be intimidated and exiled in various ways, and this year, that is, the second year of Yifeng, Yuezhou was placed under house arrest for life, and he was not allowed to contact the outside world.

The two sisters, Yiyang and Xuancheng, who were over thirty years old and did not marry, were imprisoned in the court until six years ago, when Wu Zetian's biological son and fifth son were now the crown prince Li Hong.

The prince happened to see two half-sisters in the court, sympathized with their tragic situation, and immediately asked for marriage, which was approved by his father, but angered Empress Wu, and immediately asked the princess to marry the low-level guards of the palace that day.

Not only that, but the two horses did not promote their military positions according to the custom, but were transferred to other places.

When Meng Fan used to play cards at the corpse inn, he heard three Tang Dynasty brothers say that in a few years, the two of them would be framed to death, and the princess, who had suffered all her life, began to be widowed.

Is it better to have a biological son?

Although the food is far beyond the norm, it is also extremely strict, and they are required to abide by the rules.

The former crown prince Li Hong was a prince who had received a complete imperial education and had already become a talent, and he encountered Li Zhi's head wind for the first time, and he smoothly benefited the country.

Early learning of politics, upholding righteousness, compassion for the people and doing good, the key is to sympathize with brothers and sisters, and constantly intercede for those brothers and sisters, such as:

couldn't bear to let his half-brother Li Zhong violently corpse, and repeatedly asked him to be buried, sympathizing with and caring for his two sisters who were under house arrest.

This is obviously disobedience to Wu Zetian!

As a result, Empress Wu regarded her biological son as a new rebellious lion.

The first hit is a killer move.

Starting from Li Hong's fiancée, when dealing with the children of his own family and Helan Min, he slandered Minzhi's grandmother Mrs. Rongguo, the princess's maid, and the prince's fiancée Yang.

Because he knew that it was slander, Li Hong, who was looking forward to getting married, was psychologically traumatized, and because he was already frail, he fell seriously ill and was bedridden after experiencing this incident.

Even if another daughter surnamed Pei from Hedong was chosen as the crown princess, it failed to remedy any trauma.

A few days after the wedding, he died in the Yiyun Palace, and even the emperor Li Zhi spurted out with a mouthful of old blood, and his favorite and most talented son was gone!

And the ending ......

Today, he mourned and issued an edict to fulfill the promise made to him before his death, breaking the so-called rules and etiquette, and posthumously presenting His Royal Highness the Prince, who is similar to Gongzi Fusu, as a filial piety to the emperor-

Kindness and love are said to be filial piety, and they do not forget to respect the king, but they can be called filial piety to the emperor.

This was two years ago, and now the body is buried in Gongling, and the grass on the grave is unusually lush.

Obviously, Wu Zetian won a big victory and successfully killed his first son.

The crown prince Hong has no heirs, and according to the Tang Dynasty's "Household Marriage Law", he succeeded to the crown prince with his second brother Li Xian, who was twenty-two years old at the time, and now has four in his twenties.

And he is the prince that Meng Fan wants to support.

There is no way, according to the general trend of history, the latter ones are not as good as Li Xian, and they were all completely destroyed by Wu Zetian.

At least this one dares to stand up and fight with his black-hearted mother.

"According to several elder brothers, Li Xian has the ability to never forget, and he is elegant and elegant, and he was once praised by Li Zhi in front of Li Ji."

"It won't be too bad to think about."

When he whispered in his heart, Meng Fan carefully sorted out the limited information he had, after all, he was going to bet on it, if he hadn't fought before, let alone revitalized the Daomen, I was afraid that it would be even more sad.

Six years ago, when Li Xian was eighteen years old, his official titles were: Envoy Jie, Du Du Yang, He, Tu, Run, Chang, Xuan, She and other seven military states, Yangzhou Thorn History, Yongzhou Mu and Right Guard General, Shangzhu State, Pei Wang.

In February of the same year, his brother-in-law, the former crown prince Li Hong, who was killed by Wu Zetian, was in Beijing to supervise the state, and he was also granted power:

Shangshu Province and the seizure of affairs, and must discuss the worship of the matter and other documents, and take the Pei Wang Li Xiantong sentence.

Obviously experienced, and well done.

Last year, he supervised the country alone, and was praised by the emperor, and was recognized by the courtiers, in addition, he and the great Confucian Zhang Da'an and others jointly annotated the "Book of the Later Han", even if thousands of years later, it is a masterpiece of Chinese historiography.

It's a pity that Li Xian, like the former prince, is too benevolent, he sympathizes with the third and fourth brothers born to his half-mother, and is gradually regarded as a new lion by Wu Zetian.

When Meng Fan was thinking hard about Li Tang Guozuo, there was a scene of singing and dancing in the Chengqing Hall of Taiji Palace.

The two saints appreciate it seriously.

Below, not far away.

A man in a purple shirt with a handsome appearance, but always a gloomy air between his eyebrows, sighed secretly, not long ago, his queen mother asked his subordinate eagle dog to write "Shaoyang Zhengfan" and "The Biography of Filial Son" to him, and asked the pet maid to convey the words of reproach.

It's hard not to think of his brother Li Hong, who died with hatred......

In addition, a warlock Ming Chongyan, who worships the righteous doctor, has been spreading rumors recently:

The crown prince is unbearable, and King Li Xian looks most like Emperor Taizong; Prime Minister Li Dan is the most expensive.

Blatantly sowing discord between brothers!

Li Xian knows the character of the two brothers-in-law too well, they grew up together, they love to play by nature, they just want to be an idle prince, and they don't have such thoughts at all.

When he inherited the crown prince, his younger brothers also cast sympathetic glances and joked that they could no longer hunt and have fun together in the future.

The most tricky thing is that this guy named Ming Chongyan is favored by his father because he can impeach ghosts and is good at various left-hand techniques, which can relieve the pain of a head wind attack.

To tell the truth, the constant slander between separated parents and siblings, coupled with the previous behavior of the biological mother and the words of reprimand, made Li Xian, who needed to concentrate on handling state affairs, more and more suspicious and suspicious.

Who will solve the plight of orphans?

Looking at the column where the minister was sitting, there was a middle-aged man in a deep scarlet official robe, with a strange demeanor and a handsome face, but with an indescribable evil intent.

It's Ming Chongyan!

This person drew talismans in peach wood to stop the strange music that the emperor did not like.

In April, he took things in the air and exchanged 100 yuan for the melons and fruits that the emperor wanted to eat.

Not long ago, the sage wanted to see the snow, but Ming Chongyan disappeared for a while, held the snow and returned, saying that it was obtained from Yin Mountain.

All kinds of factors add up, causing him to be extremely long, if it is just like this, this leftist seems to know something, and continues to spread all kinds of gossip in the palace.

On the side, the ministers had different faces.

Some people looked solemn and already knew the attitude of the queen of heaven, and ordered someone to send a message to reprimand the prince;

Some people looked relaxed, intently watching the music and dancing of the prostitutes, and drank fine wine from time to time.

However, as a young Taoist was guided into the temple by a eunuch, the two high-ranking saints paid attention to it and specially ordered the singing and dancing to stop.

At the same time, Meng Fan deliberately made a gesture of tidying up his clothes, greeted him with courtesy, and bowed his head to express his apologies to Emperor Li Zhi and the Queen of Heaven Wu to express his master's imminent ascension and inconvenience in stepping into the red dust.

Soaring...... Becoming an Immortal......

Repeating a few words in a whisper in his heart, Li Zhi straightened up and asked some details excitedly, Meng Fan was not in a hurry, and answered them one by one.

"Xiaodao Chief, can I live forever with the Queen of Heaven?"

"......" Meng Fan.

"Zulong Ci": What more do you want to annex the six countries, the boy and the girl ask the ten states. Canghai did not respond to melancholy, and he knew that Xu Fu was romantic.

"Jia Sheng": The Xuan Room seeks talents to visit the ministers, Jia Shengcai is even more incoherent, pitiful in the middle of the night, he doesn't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods.

In fact, like previous kings, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty also had the habit of taking Jindan, both to aspire to immortality and to resist the family's inherited wind diseases.

"Returning to the saints, those who want to live forever must want to accumulate good deeds, be merciful to things, forgive themselves and others, and be benevolent to catch insects."

The Supreme Humane has a heavenly constitution in his mouth, but he can't practice himself, and he will be lucky if he succeeds, and he will be lucky if he fails.

Therefore, except for those ancient human emperors in ancient times, the latter cannot gain immortality, nor can they live forever to rule over the billions of people and the vast territory.

But in this situation, Meng Fan didn't dare to speak out, so he could only be sloppy.

It is also ridiculous to say that the warlocks dare to speak out, but the real cultivators are afraid.

"Can the little Taoist master join forces to refine the Yellow and White Technique?"

Li Zhi asked again.

It still looks like it's desperate for immortality.

"Poor Dao knows a little about the art of Dan Dao, which can help His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven to save their lives and prolong their lives."

It can only save life and prolong life......

The gray-haired Li Zhi sighed secretly and stopped talking, in the early years, his father died because of taking the exotic elixir of Emperor Tianzhu, so he had severely punished the monks.

As a result, with the aging and decay, his own wind disease attacked, and it became more and more intense, and many attempts for medicine were fruitless, so he could only hope for these ethereal things.

"Xiaodao Chief, do you have any other skills?"

A slightly hoarse, magnetic female voice came from above, and there was no sense of old age.