After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 7 The Princess's Full Moon Ceremony
In the Yinyue of the second year of Linde, Hanliang Hall.

Before dawn, the maids in the court came in and out, serving Empress Wu fasting and bathing, and helping the little princess wash her body.

Today is the day of the little princess's full moon. According to the Tang system, the emperor and empress will hold a full moon ceremony for the newborn in the Hanyuan Hall.

Wu Zetian was in a good mood, and seemed to have forgotten the little episode after the waste last night. Only Li Lingyue knew that she actually stayed up all night.

The imperial edict has been promulgated after the abolishment, but the Shangfu Bureau still prepares the hairpin and bare clothes according to the queen's etiquette.

Twelve maids from the Shangfu Bureau held trays, inside which were placed in order: nine-tailed phoenix crowns, dragon and phoenix combs, golden phoenix earrings, red phoenix gold hairpins, dragon tail ribbons, phoenix feather robes, phoenix phoenixes...

By the time Empress Wu finished dressing up, it was already three quarters of an hour.

The palace people carried the phoenix to the entrance of the Hanliang Hall. Surrounded by the female officials, Empress Wu carried Li Lingyue onto the phoenix, and a group of hundreds of people marched mightily to the Hanyuan Hall.

On Li Zhi's side, he was also dressed gorgeously, with a crown of heaven on his head, a dragon robe, a belt of thirteen girdles around his waist, and boots with dragon patterns on his feet, waiting for the arrival of Empress Wu in the apse.

Grand Duke Chen Li reported everything that happened last night to Li Zhi truthfully. When Li Zhi learned that Empress Wu did not come out to receive the order in person, he knew that abolishing Empress Wu was not as easy as imagined.

So Li Ji, the British prince, was summoned into the palace overnight.

Li Zhi believed that if Li Ji also agreed to abolish the Empress, then no matter how Empress Wu resisted, he would have enough confidence to make this decision.

As a result, Li Ji said: "Your Majesty, who will be replaced after the abolition?"

This question stopped him, and he immediately realized that unless he didn't set up a "rear position", Wu Zetian could only take the queen's seat.

Because the few princes he fancy are all born of Wu Zetian now, if other people are appointed as the heirs, then Li Hong's crown prince will not have a proper name.

Li Zhi thought about it all night, and from Li Ji's words, he could tell that the other party was not in favor of abolishing the empress, but he had no choice but to give up.

But the imperial edict has been promulgated, and Li Zhi still has a little fantasy, thinking that the best status quo is to abolish the empress but not establish an empress, and after the prince succeeds to the throne, he will pursue Wu Zetian as empress dowager.

Standing on the stone steps of the apse, Li Zhi was in extremely complicated mood. Facing Wu Zetian who was about to appear, he was both looking forward to and nervous.

He wanted to see what kind of court dress Wu Zetian was wearing. If it was plain clothes, it meant that Wu Zetian accepted being deposed.

I just need to comfort the prime minister with good words, and then increase the rewards in the name of Wu Zetian giving birth to a little princess at the ceremony, and even continue to let Wu Zetian be in charge of the harem. Both sides are happy.

But if Wu Zetian was wearing a phoenix robe, it meant that she refused to submit, and she could only pretend to be confused, as if nothing happened.

Not long after, Empress Wu's Luanjia came out from the corner, and Li Zhi, who was waiting to "open the blind box", saw the cattail fan held high by the court lady, and knew that the edict to abolish the Empress last night was completely a decoration.

He sighed in disappointment, quickly forced a smile on his face, and led Eunuch Chen to meet him.

"The courtiers and concubines see His Majesty!" After Wu Zetian was kicked out, he hugged the little princess and was about to salute.

Li Zhi hurriedly supported her, and said angrily: "Meiniang, I have told you many times that you don't need to salute in private!"

Wu Zetian smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the rules... cannot... be broken!"

Wu Zetian deliberately bit the words "rule" and "waste" very hard. Li Zhi knew it well, but he pretended to be confused and laughed, and changed the topic to the little princess.

"Come on, let me hug the little princess!"

Wu Zetian didn't say much, and handed Li Lingyue over.

Li Zhi took the baby, hugged the baby in his arms alone, then took Empress Wu with the other hand, and walked towards the inner hall.

With this move, Wu Zetian instantly understood that Li Zhi was compromising to himself.

An arc was drawn at the corner of her mouth, allowing Li Zhi to pull her forward.

When the couple appeared hand in hand in the Han Yuan Hall, the civil and military officials, princes, princes, concubines and female relatives who had been waiting for a long time immediately fell silent.

Immediately afterwards, there were voices of discussion one after another, and Hao Chujun's eyes widened in the audience, his eyes lingering on Wu Zetian and Li Zhi.

He never imagined that Li Zhi had already surrendered before the struggle started.

Grand Duke Chen Li shook the floating dust and sang loudly:

"The emperor and empress arrive, all the officials kowtow!"

"See Your Majesty, see Your Majesty! Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Everyone loves to be flat!"

As soon as all the officials got up together, a figure quickly came out: "Your Majesty, I have something to say!"

Li Zhi saw that it was Hao Chujun, Prime Minister of the Left. He coughed in embarrassment and said with a smile:

"Hao Xiang, today is the full moon ceremony of my princess, let's talk about it later!"

"Your Majesty!" Hao Chujun prostrated himself on the ground, raised his head and remonstrated: "This matter is related to our Great Tang Dynasty, we must investigate it!!"

"This..." Li Zhi wanted to persuade him again, but Wu Zetian beside him said:

"Your Majesty, since Prime Minister Hao has something to say, let's listen first!"

"That's good, that's good!" Li Zhi smiled bitterly, and could only ask with his head straightened, "What's the start?"

Hao Chujun took a deep breath and said loudly:
"Qizou Your Majesty, today is the princess's full moon ceremony. Although the queen is the birth mother, she has been deprived of her title. How can she use the emperor's ceremonial guard again? Since she is an abolished queen, how can she appear in the Hanyuan Hall? Your Majesty, please drive her out of the hall." !"

Li Lingyue, who was lying in Wu Zetian's arms, obviously felt the hand holding her tighten. She vomited and sweated secretly for Hao Chujun.

Uncle Hao, whether he is brave or Er, have you never heard a saying: Never mess with a woman, especially when she wants to save face the most!
As soon as Hao Chujun took the lead, other officials and princes of the anti-martial faction came out to respond one after another.

In an instant, more than half of the hall was kneeling.

Li Zhi couldn't get off the tiger, he didn't know whether to be happy or angry, he took a peek at Wu Zetian, and saw that Wu Zetian was indifferent, with a smile on his mouth, his heart turned cold, and his instinct as a couple for many years told him: My wife is still holding back her big move.

Sure enough, Wu Zetian's right minister Xu Jingzong winked, and the latter immediately came out and said loudly:
"Qizou Your Majesty, the old minister has never heard of the abolition of the Empress. Mr. Hao denounced rumors and made up words, which is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor. Please issue an order to punish him!"

Hao Chujun laughed, and said confidently to Xu Jingzong:
"My lord Xu, the old man entered the palace last night and read the edict to Wu Zhaoyi to abolish the Empress.

Good guy, Hao Chujun didn't even call the queen, and directly demoted Empress Wu to Wu Zhaoyi.

Without waiting for Xu Jingzong to refute, Cui Yixuan, the imperial historian, stepped out, pointed at Hao Chujun and said angrily:

"Well, Hao Chujun, as a prime minister, who dared to break into the harem late at night, who gave you the courage!"

"Of course it's His Majesty..."

Cough cough, Li Zhi coughed violently twice, Hao Chujun's face froze, and he choked back his words deeply.

Cui Yixuan, the official censor, turned his head and asked Wang Derang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites:

"My lord Wang, you are the Minister of Rites. May I ask Mr. Hao if he broke into the harem at night, can he agree with the etiquette? If not, what should he do?"

"This..." Wang Derang wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was from Hao Xiang's side, and he was set on fire before he could exert his strength.

"Why, when the empress was abolished, Mr. Wang quoted scriptures and talked strangely. Why can't he speak today!" Cui Yixuan bowed down to Li Zhi, "Your Majesty, Minister of Rites Wang Derang is incompetent and incompetent. Please dismiss him!"

"Your Majesty, please remove me!" The officials on Wu Zetian's side all knelt down and echoed. Obviously, this was to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys.

(End of this chapter)