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Chapter 1589 Why hasn’t Wu Meiniang died yet?
[PS: This chapter begins the historical plot, you can skip it if you don’t like it]

Liu Xu didn't expect that he would become the ancestor of economics, but even if he knew it, he could do nothing but shrug his shoulders.
However, Liu Xu was not too worried about this, because there were still those small worlds that were about to be born, and now the banks placed all their hopes of repaying the loans on those small worlds. Then as long as these small worlds really appeared, and the world masters were willing to use the resources in their own worlds to repay the original loans.

Then the over-issued funds that do not exist will become real resources. But if these world masters turn their backs on us and do not intend to pay back the money, then things will be really troublesome.

Forget it, that’s something for the future, Liu Xu is too lazy to think about it too much.

"This has nothing to do with us!" Liu Xu hugged Wang Run, rubbed her calves and said, "How about I give you something delicious to eat?"

"Okay!" Wang Run said coquettishly, and then said, "But since you rarely come back, you have to tell me when Wu Meiniang can die!"

"Why do you care about this?" Liu Xu asked vaguely while biting the cherry flesh on his lips.

"Hehe, then let me ask you again, do you know which dynasty has the highest proportion among all the new fan fictions published in the past year?" Wang Run held Liu Xu's head and asked with a smile.

"Which dynasty? Let me think about it. Logically, it should be a fan fiction of the Three Kingdoms or the Jin Dynasty. After all, everyone wants Emperor Liu to unify the Three Kingdoms, or to kill the damn Sima family directly."

"But since you asked that, it shouldn't be the traditional one. Could it be that the Tang Dynasty has the most fan fiction now?"

"You're smart!" Wang Run flicked Liu Xu's ear. "Then guess again, which period of the Tang Dynasty is it?"

"Come on, isn't this question just giving me meat to eat? Since you asked me when Wu Meiniang died, then naturally the most fan fiction is about Wu Meiniang!" Liu Xu also flicked Wang Run's ears, then asked with a smile, "I answered two questions correctly, is there any reward?"

"You're lucky!" Wang Run gave Liu Xu a charming look, then twisted his waist into an almost perfect curve, thus delivering both plates of delicious food into Liu Xu's mouth.

Then, they had a super braised pork rice meal. After the clouds and rain stopped, Wang Run lay beside Liu Xu and continued the previous topic, begging, "My dear husband, please tell me how long it will take for Wu Meiniang to be killed! Every time I read your new chapter, I will be pissed off to death by this bad woman!"

"Do you hate Wu Meiniang so much?" Liu Xu touched his nose after hearing this and said, "I can understand that men don't like Wu Meiniang, but why do you women hate Wu Meiniang so much?" "Ah?" Wang Run was stunned by Liu Xu's question, and then asked stupidly, "Should we women like Wu Meiniang, a woman who would do anything for power and even killed her own flesh and blood? This woman is even more hateful than Lu Zhi back then. Should women in the world still worship and admire this woman?"

Wang Run's question actually made Liu Xu understand the situation.

Indeed, I was too deeply influenced by the modern historical perspective of my previous life and the relevant public opinions on the Internet, so I instinctively believed that Wu Zetian was the first and only female emperor in history, whose achievements were unprecedented. She was a real strong woman and a woman worthy of admiration and respect.

In almost all TV dramas and movies nowadays, the more normal ones focus on Wu Zetian's great talent and skills, creating the image of a powerful ruler. The more shameless ones directly start to beautify her and make many excuses for all the things Wu Zetian did.

What with the frame-up by palace rivals, the betrayal by besties, and pure love, it seemed as if everything Wu Zetian did was forced by others, and she herself was still a pure, brilliant white lotus.

It is precisely in such an environment, coupled with the recent T0 version, that most people's cognition and halo are actually overly beautified by the halo of history. If we look at each of Wu Zetian's deeds individually, this Wu Zetian really did nothing human.

First of all, there is the story of Wu Zetian training horses, which is talked about in many TV dramas and related articles. Since this story was narrated by Wu Zetian herself and then recorded in the official history, its authenticity should be beyond doubt.

It is said that Li Shimin had a horse named Lion Stallion, which was fat and willful and no one could tame it.

Wu Zetian said to Li Shimin: "I can subdue it, but I need three things: one is an iron whip, two is an iron rod, and three is a dagger. I will whip it with the iron whip. If it refuses to obey, I will hit its head with the iron rod. If it still refuses to obey, I will cut its throat with the dagger."

Regardless of gender, this method of taming a wild horse is basically no different from that of a gangster, that is, using tough means to beat you until you submit, and if you don't submit, you will be beaten to death. Apart from being reckless, there is no political strategy at all.

In fact, Wu Zetian did this many times in her later years.

According to Wu Zetian, after she said this, Li Shimin praised her on the spot for her ambition and said she was stronger than many men. But in fact, there was no record of Wu Zetian and Li Shimin after that, and Wu Zetian always remained a talented person and did not receive any rewards.

(End of this chapter)