Rebirth of the Great Wilderness, I shall mention it

Chapter 230 Emperor Biography III, Li Xing of the Wu Dynasty ([-])
Before Taizong finished speaking, Li Zhi had already burst into tears.Afterwards, Emperor Taizong called Taiwei Changsun Wuji and Zhongshuling Chu Suiliang into Hanfeng Palace.Tang Taizong held Chu Suiliang's hand, looked at the two ministers, and said: "Over the years, you two have been loyal to me, and I have always relied heavily on you. Now I have summoned the second minister, and I will be ordered to die alone. You all know that the prince is loyal, benevolent and filial, and now, I entrust the heirs of the country to the second minister, hope that goodness will be my assistant, seek good fortune and avoid evil, abide by the legacy of the widow, and protect the land of the Tang Dynasty forever..."

Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang accepted the order silently, accepting the order with tears in their eyes.After a while, Taizong let out a long sigh, looked at Li Zhi who was standing by his side and said, "Now I can go to see the Emperor of Heaven with peace of mind."

On the afternoon of May [-]th, Emperor Taizong passed away in Hanfeng Hall.On the same day, Prince Li Zhi took the oath of enthronement in front of Emperor Taizong's spirit as Emperor Gaozong.When his father died, Li Zhi was overwhelmed with grief, and day after day he knelt and stood in front of Taizong's spiritual throne, guarding him until death.Seeing this, Changsun Wuji had no choice but to go forward to comfort him, and ordered the maid to help him into another room to sleep.

However, Li Shimin didn't know that Li Zhi met Wu Meiniang in Zhenyuan Hall as early as a year ago.When meeting Wu Meiniang for the first time, Li Zhi was deeply attracted by her astonishing appearance.

Since then, Li Zhi can see Wu Meiniang in the palace almost every day.Whenever their eyes met, Wu Meiniang always gave him a knowing smile.Li Zhi seemed to be looking at her through a thick layer of fog.

That night, when Li Zhi woke up from his coma, he found that Wu Meiniang was sitting on the edge of the bed with her back to him, weeping secretly.A crescent moon hangs on the top of the mountain surrounded by beautiful trees outside the window, and the sound of monks chanting sutras in the father's mourning hall can be heard from afar, sounding like a dream.Li Zhi soon noticed that in the valley where the night was as cold as water, there were horses' screams from time to time, mixed with the faint cries of women.

Li Zhi put a hand on her shoulder lightly, Wu Meiniang was startled, she turned around and wiped her tears: "Your Majesty..."

"What time is it?" Li Zhi asked.

"It's past the third watch."

"In the valley outside the window, it seems that someone is making noise..."

"Your Majesty," Wu Meiniang replied, "That's the maids preparing the carriage."

"carriage?"

"Tomorrow morning, the late emperor's concubines will go to Ganye Temple."

"Oh..." Li Zhi sighed.He remembered that according to court regulations, after the death of the first emperor, all the concubines and maids around him went out of the palace and shaved their hair to become nuns.

"So, you're leaving here tomorrow morning?" Li Zhi asked again.

Wu Meiniang's tears flowed again, she nodded.

"The concubine and His Majesty bid farewell tonight, and it will be an eternal farewell..."

Li Zhi turned his face and looked out of the window. On a sidewalk in the valley, several dark carriages were parked quietly in the light blue moonlight, and the figures of some eunuchs and attendants wandered back and forth in the woods.

"Your Majesty..." Wu Meiniang suddenly took Li Zhi's hand, with a shy and reckless expression on her face, "Your Majesty, before going to Ganye Temple, let the concubine serve His Majesty one last time..."

Looking at the woman in front of him, when Li Zhi thought that he might never see her again, his heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.

"Meiniang, don't worry, I will never let you die alone in that Ganye Temple!".Gently wiping away the tears from the corners of Wu Meiniang's eyes, Li Zhi said resolutely.

"His Majesty."

"Don't worry, for at most three years, after I grasp the power, I will definitely pick you up. Mei Niang, can you trust me?"

Looking up at Li Zhi, Wu Meiniang nodded and said: "Meiniang naturally believes in Your Majesty, but His Majesty's actions will cause opposition from the ministers, so how can Meiniang feel at ease!"

"What do those old bones do? After I take power, if they are dissatisfied, what can they do to me!"

"Your Majesty, Meiniang is really ashamed of you!"

"Meiniang, you don't need to say anything. For you, I can do anything. Now, let us quietly spend the last moment before this short separation!" Li Zhi said.

Nodding her head, Wu Meiniang stopped talking and just rested her head on Li Zhi's chest.

Ganye Temple is located about [-] miles west of Zhuque Street. It was originally a nunnery dormant in the abandoned street outside Chang'an City. After it was renamed Ganye Temple in the ninth year of Wude, it has actually become a place for former court ladies. prison.The miscellaneous trees in the temple are reborn, and there are broken walls everywhere. Under the shadow of the dilapidated pagoda, several low houses are scattered in the wilderness.

It was early summer in June when Wu Meiniang and the court ladies were sent here.The air in the monastery is stuffy, except for the uneasy chirping of sparrows and magpies on the trees, only the dull and heavy bells echo in the wilderness.

In the evening of that day, Wu Meiniang and the maids who had recently entered the temple lined up in front of a Buddhist hall to receive their shaving.The nun who presided over the shaving ceremony was named Fa Ming, and she looked about sixty years old.There was no sign of a woman in her body at all, her figure was as strong as a man's, and her voice was rough and powerful.After Faming explained to the court ladies the rules of the temple and the various etiquettes that the court ladies must follow, he began to cut and shave their hair.

After the simple but lengthy shaving ceremony was completed, Wu Meiniang began her waiting.

In a blink of an eye, two years have passed.Now that Li Zhi has firmly grasped the power in the court, Wu Meiniang knows that she will be happy when she leaves Ganye Temple.

Finally, one evening, a carriage drove into Ganye Temple.A moment later, the carriage drove Wu Meiniang, who had been waiting for a long time, to the palace.

On the second day, regardless of the objections of the ministers, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and a group of senior ministers such as Changsun Wuji tore up their faces and fought against all opinions in the Jinluan Hall. They canonized Wu Meiniang as Zhaoyi, whose status was only below that of the empress and the four noble concubines. .

As time went by, Wu Meiniang finally won an absolute victory in the vortex of fighting for power.In this year, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi issued an edict: the queen's royal family has not been born for many years, and she has lost her virtue, so she was deposed from the position of queen, and Wu Zhaoyi, who has both ability and political integrity, was replaced as the queen.

A year later, Li Zhi issued an edict again: the queen decided to play all the affairs.

This edict brought the queen from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, which was a pioneering work in the history of the Tang Dynasty.

Wu Meiniang's long-term efforts finally achieved a brilliant success!Before the emperor issued this edict, she finally won the battle for control of the foreign court.

The eldest grandson Wuji, representing the old aristocrats, has long been the target of the Wu family's struggle. The eldest grandson is a foreign relative, an aristocratic family in the North Dynasty, and an important minister ordered by Emperor Taizong to assist the government. People think that the eldest grandson family is deeply rooted and no one can move Got him.

However, Empress Wu finally defeated him.Behind the scenes, she used the hand of the emperor to reject Changsun Wuji, causing Changsun Wuji to die in the reprimand.

This is a major event that shocked the world.

This is also the cornerstone of Empress Wu's success.

With the passage of time, due to Gaozong Lizhi's weakness and indulgence, Empress Wu has gained more and more power.

Soon, it was the late autumn of another year, Gaozong Li Zhi was sick in the ancient Cuiwei Palace - his father also recuperated here, and he had an affair with the young and beautiful Wu Meiniang here.However, Li Zhi was not as comfortable as he recalled in Cuiwei Palace. His dizziness and headache made him almost blind in his right eye. Coupled with rheumatic pain, he had difficulty moving his right limbs. He was moaning for most of the day.At this time, Li Zhi also began to feel worried about the queen, and he felt that the queen's ambition was getting bigger and bigger.

In order to prevent unfavorable accidents, Wu Meiniang isolated the emperor Li Zhi. In addition to keeping her most trusted Shangguan Wan'er in Cuiwei Palace for a long time, she also promoted her confidant Laixun to be a regular servant. As the supervisor of the internal audience, he led 24 specially selected internal servants and stationed in Cuiwei Palace.Such a deployment is tantamount to confining the emperor.If the emperor has a decree that is not good for the queen, it cannot be spread out of the palace.

Finally, in the spring of the second year, Li Zhi, the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty, completed the last journey of his life and passed away in a daze.

In a dying year, Li Zhe, the fourth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took over the throne.

Li Zhe was born to Wu Meiniang, but he never received the inheritance of intelligence from his mother. He is obviously clumsy and neurotic. Moreover, he has low self-esteem on the one hand and is arrogant on the other.People feel that this is not a whole person.

Wu Meiniang guides her son to court as the empress dowager—she looks like a loving mother, making gentle arrangements for her son's country.

But here comes the problem again——

Li Zhe is a naive character, he doesn't know how to be an emperor at all, not long after he ascended the throne, the Zhongzhou aristocratic group convinced the little emperor like a child - Li Zhe thought that the queen mother missed the old prince who was exiled in Bazhou , his second brother Li Xian.So, in order to please the queen mother, he ordered Shuling to draw up an imperial edict of pardon, and then issued a letter of envoy, which was sent to the queen mother.

In the rush, Wu Meiniang had already forgotten about Li Xian, and when she saw the written statement, she became furious and swept the pile of papers down.Then, she decided to go see herself, the emperor's son, in person.

But when she rushed to the place where the emperor was dealing with daily affairs, she found that her son was actually having a cockfight with high spirits there. Wu Meiniang was desperate about this, and she made a decision.And this decision is necessarily related to what her father, a samurai, told her about fortune-telling when she was a child before his death.

So, on the second day, a news that shocked the ruling and opposition parties and even the whole world came out.And the sender of this news is the current Empress Dowager Wu Zhao Wu Meiniang herself.

Wu Meiniang issued an edict that the current emperor is fatuous and is really not a talent for governing the world, so he deposed him as the emperor, and temporarily managed the government by himself. When there is a suitable candidate, he will establish a new emperor.

A year later, Wu Meiniang, with the support of Empress Wu Zetian, Xu Maogong, a Taoist disciple, and Di Renjie, a Buddhist disciple, expelled Li Chunfeng and demoted Zhu Suiliang.
So far, the "Emperor Chuan III, Wu Dai Li Xing" planned by Zhun Ti has truly come true.

(End of this chapter)