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Chapter 4397 4399 [Yellow robe added]

After Li Shimin passed away, his son Li Zhi succeeded to the throne. However, because Li Zhi was in poor health, he handed over the government affairs to his empress Wu Zhao, who took the opportunity to seize the power of the government.

After Li Zhi's death, his son Li Xian succeeded to the throne. However, Wu Zetian had a power struggle with her son Li Xian, so she directly deposed her son Li Xian from the throne and made her fourth son Li Dan the emperor. Later, she even proclaimed herself emperor, becoming the only female emperor in Chinese history.

After Wu Zhao ascended the throne, Xiang Nan took back the He Shi Bi. This move caused a sensation and many court officials used it as an excuse to attack Wu Zhao for having obtained the throne in an illegitimate way and being unworthy of inheriting the throne.

Later, when Wu Zhao led her ministers to pay homage to Xiang Nan at Mount Zhongnan, Xiang Nan did not see her either.

These actions made Wu Zhao quite dissatisfied. She thought Xiang Nan was targeting her intentionally, so she ordered the demolition of temples dedicated to Xiang Nan throughout the country. She demoted Xiang Nan to a demon and also demoted the temples dedicated to him to obscene sacrifices, and prohibited the people of the world from offering sacrifices to him.

She herself suppressed Taoism and respected Buddhism, and vigorously promoted Buddhism throughout the country, building Buddhist temples and digging Buddhist caves. The Vairocana Buddha in the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang was carved in her own image.

Xiang Nan didn't care about this. He was not a real immortal, nor did he rely on mortals' incense for a living. Sacrifices were useless to him, so naturally he didn't care.

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Fifteen years later, Wu Zetian was critically ill. Court officials Zhang Jianzhi, Jing Hui and others took the opportunity to launch the Shenlong coup, supported Li Xian to restore the throne, seized Wu Zetian's imperial title, and still called her the empress dowager.

After Li Xian was restored to the throne, Xiang Nan once again rode a crane to the palace and handed the imperial seal back to Li Xian. "This seal has been lost once in your hands. You must not lose it a second time. Otherwise, your Li family's kingdom will be destroyed."

Li Xian looked at Xiang Nan, also so surprised that he was speechless.

Although my grandfather Li Shimin had passed down the words and the historians' history books also recorded that there were indeed gods in the world, but seeing is believing. I really saw Xiang Nan, and he was exactly the same as my ancestors had said. It was really amazing.

Looking at Li Xian's silly look, Xiang Nan finally understood why he, as an emperor, had failed so miserably.

Not only did his mother want to seize his throne, but his wife, daughter, and sister also wanted to seize his throne. In the end, he was poisoned to death by his wife Empress Wei and his daughter Princess Anle.

Among all the emperors in Chinese history, he was considered to be a very cowardly one.

Therefore, Xiang Nan didn't wait for his answer and just rode away on the crane.

After Xiang Nan left, Li Xian suddenly realized what was going on and then felt very upset.

If he had known that it was hard to see an immortal, he should have asked Xiang Nan about the secret of immortality, or at least asked about the country.

It is a pity that the cranes will never return, and the white clouds will be floating in the sky for thousands of years. It is such a great regret.

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After Li Xian ascended the throne, he not only restored Xiang Nan's title of "Tai Chi Xuan Tian Emperor", but also added two words to it, reaching "Tai Chi Xuan Tian Supreme Emperor", and resumed the sacrifices and offerings to Xiang Nan.

After Li Xian's death, Li Longji ascended the throne and continued to confer the title of "Taiji Xuantian Supreme True Cultivation Emperor" on Xiang Nan. He also built many Taoist temples to worship him.

At the end of Li Longji's reign, he pursued luxury, indulged in pleasure, appointed treacherous officials, and alienated virtuous officials, which led to the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion. Although it was quelled later, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty also suffered heavy losses.

After that, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were almost inferior to the previous ones. Only Emperor Wuzong of Tang and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang achieved some success, while the rest of the emperors were inferior to the previous ones.

Therefore, more than a hundred years later, Xuanwu Jiedushi Zhu Wen forced Emperor Ai of Tang to abdicate and founded the Liang Dynasty with its capital in Bianzhou, which was known as the Later Liang Dynasty. At the same time, other Jiedushi also proclaimed themselves emperors in their own fiefdoms, such as Wu, Wuyue, Former Shu, and Northern Han. These dynasties lasted from a few years to several decades, and it can be said that they were in chaos, with one taking the throne and the other taking the throne. Therefore, a famous saying appeared at that time, "The emperor of this world is the one who has strong soldiers and horses."

It was for this reason that after Zhao Kuangyin staged the Chenqiao Mutiny and put on the yellow robe, he strongly advocated the use of civil power to control the military and tried his best to suppress the power of military generals. Even if this led to the weakening of the Song Dynasty's military and it led to defeat after defeat, he did not dare to relax.

It was because at the end of the Tang Dynasty, those military governors who had troops and horses rose up in rebellion, which made people firmly believe that "ruling the country by military generals" was a dead end.

It is worth mentioning that after Zhu Wen forced Emperor Ai of Tang to abdicate, Xiang Nan took the He Shi Bi away again.

After Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao mutiny and put on the yellow robe, Xiang Nan rode a crane to the palace and gave the imperial seal back to Zhao Kuangyin.

Although at this time, Zhao Kuangyin only had the Later Zhou Dynasty, and even within the Later Zhou court, there were many military governors who were dissatisfied and wanted to rebel and overthrow his rule.

But Xiang Nan still gave him the imperial seal and told him, "Although you only occupy half of the country now, I hope that one day you can unify the world and become the true ruler of the world."

"Thank you, God." Zhao Kuangyin said gratefully.

He wore the yellow robe and seized the Zhou family's kingdom. He was originally worried that he had gained the throne in an unjust way. But with the imperial seal bestowed by the gods, he was destined to be the emperor, and no one could say anything against it. Naturally, he was extremely grateful.

"May I ask the Lord God, how many years can our Zhao family's kingdom last?" he asked with concern.

During the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin once asked Xiang Nan this question. At that time, Xiang Nan told him that the Tang Dynasty lasted for 289 years.

Sure enough, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, later generations calculated that from the time Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Li Yuan, ascended the throne to the time Zhu Wen forced Emperor Ai of Tang to abdicate, the dynasty's reign was indeed 289 years, not a year more or less.

Therefore, this also greatly increased Xiang Nan's reputation. Everyone believed that he really knew what would happen five hundred years in the past and five hundred years in the future. He was a truly omniscient, omnipotent, and infinitely powerful god.

So Zhao Kuangyin also wanted to know how long their Zhao family could remain on the throne.

Xiang Nan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Your Zhao family should rule the country for 319 years."

"Three hundred and nineteen years?!" Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed when he heard it.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms lasted only 70 years, but there were so many dynasties, which shows how chaotic the situation was at that time. Many dynasties only lasted 20 to 30 years, and basically died after "having a good time".

Zhao Kuangyin had originally planned this, but he never expected his dynasty to last so long, 30 years longer than Li Tang! !

This undoubtedly gave him a dose of reassurance, "Thank you, God! Thank you, God!"

"Remember, if you want your country to last long, you must practice more benevolent governance, implement more good policies, and learn from the past. Aren't the lessons of the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms profound enough?" Xiang Nan instructed again.

"Yes, definitely." Zhao Kuangyin agreed readily.

Xiang Nan nodded, then rode away on the crane.

Afterwards, Zhao Kuangyin was indeed assisted by God. He successively destroyed the Huainan Jiedushi and Zhaoyi Jiedushi who opposed him in the court. Then, adhering to the principle of "starting with the easy and then the difficult, starting with the south and then the north", he successively destroyed the separatist regimes of Jingnan, Wuping, Hou Shu, Southern Han and Southern Tang in the south, and completed the unification of most of the country.