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Chapter 1598 Wu Dan
Ever since the update of "The Sun and the Moon Upside Down", especially after Wu Meiniang became the queen, Li Zhi was hung in this Ganye Hall on a daily basis and suffered severe beatings from Li Shimin.

There is no way. Looking at what Wu Meiniang did before, you can understand Li Shimin's mood at this time.

If it was just Wu Meiniang who was a jerk, then maybe Li Zhi would not have been beaten so badly. But when Li Zhi took the initiative to give power to Wu Meiniang and actively supported her to become the powerful queen, Li Zhi's beating was inevitable.

Of course, Li Zhi also felt that he was innocent. He felt that his idea was not wrong. Since he was in poor health and could not directly manage the government, but he could not let other ministers take away the power, he could only hand over the power to his queen, who had given birth to four sons. It was impossible for Wu Meiniang to snatch the throne from her own son!

After all, throughout history, there have been many empress dowagers who are powerful and capable, but there has never been an empress dowager who would actually kill her son to seize power. As a result, he ended up with a weirdo like Wu Meiniang, and he had no choice!

Fortunately, such beatings were not every day, but only once a year. Because the two worlds were ten times apart, it took 10 days to see the latest chapter, and Li Shimin was unwilling to keep following the updates, so he simply read 36 chapters a year and then beat Li Zhi up.

And now is the annual time for Li Shimin to read novels. As a result, just after finishing reading the latest chapter, Li Shimin's whip hit him severely.

Fortunately, Li Zhi soon breathed a sigh of relief, because the next chapter suddenly wrote about a guy named Li Bai, who had nothing to do with Wu Meiniang, so he should not be able to take his anger out on him.

Unexpectedly, after reading this chapter, Li Shimin whipped him again and said angrily, "This Li Bai is probably the gravedigger of our Tang Dynasty. The Great Heavenly Venerable actually spent so much effort to describe this guy named Li Bai. I am afraid that our Tang Dynasty will perish in the hands of Li Bai!"

Li Zhi was so frightened that his mouth twisted.

Fortunately, there is only one chapter about Li Bai, and the plot returns to Wu Zetian. It doesn’t matter if you don’t read the result, because after reading it, Li Shimin’s blushes instantly return.

Because this chapter is about the plot of the ministers persuading Wu Meiniang to ascend the throne and become emperor, but this part of the plot did not break Li Shimin's defense. It's not that Li Shimin's defense is high, but such plots have been appearing continuously for several years before, and Li Shimin's defense had long been broken, and he had become accustomed to it.

But when Emperor Li Dan began to persuade him to ascend the throne, Li Shimin's defense was broken again.

Well, during a large-scale court meeting, when all the ministers in the court advised Wu Zetian to follow the will of heaven and the people and ascend the throne to become emperor, Wu Meiniang still refused with a playful look on her face, saying that the world ultimately belonged to the surname Li, and it would not be easy for her, a person with the surname Wu, to be the emperor. At that time, Emperor Li Dan, who had been sitting on the throne like a puppet, suddenly moved.

Li Dan actually stood up on his own initiative, then knelt in front of Wu Meiniang who was sitting next to him and said, "Mother, please don't be like this. The world belongs to the virtuous. Mother, you have taken care of the people of the world, so you should ascend the throne and be emperor to follow the will of the people."

"Moreover, the world is not the world of the Li Tang Dynasty. I was born to my mother. My blood, flesh, and hair all come from her. What does it have to do with my father? So I should take my mother's surname! I ask you to remove my surname Li and give me the surname Wu. The world should have belonged to the Wu Zhou Dynasty!" Li Dan knelt on the ground and said sincerely, with tears in his eyes. He looked like he would not get up unless Wu Zetian agreed.

"Aren't you all forcing me?" Wu Zetian sighed sadly, but did not reject Li Dan's request. Instead, she replied, "Forget it, you are the emperor, make your own decision, your mother can't control you!"

So at the court meeting that day, Li Dan directly wrote an imperial edict by hand, announcing to the people of the world that from now on he would no longer be called Li Dan. He changed his surname to Wu Dan!
This chapter ended here. Li Shimin's temples bulged high as he watched. The whip in his hand was almost broken. After a long while, he looked up to the sky and shouted, "Okay, okay, my son took the initiative to change his mother's surname. Such a heartless and treasonous thing actually happened to my Li family. It's simply ridiculous. This is the good son born to you, a bastard!!"

Then Li Zhi once again suffered an unprecedented crazy whipping. After Li Shimin was out of breath, he let go of the dying Li Zhi, collapsed on the ground, and continued to read the next chapter.

And today is destined to be Li Zhi's super hardship day, because the following plot is all about the many tragic things that happened to Wu Zetian in her attempt to ascend the throne.

After changing all her sons' surnames to Wu, Wu Zetian was still in no hurry to ascend the throne. Instead, she summoned all the Li Tang royal family members and asked them to come to Chang'an to meet the emperor.

There are quite a few members of the Li Tang royal family. When Wu Zetian wants to ascend the throne, her biggest obstacle is the Li Tang royal family all over the world. If she runs to Chang'an, will she still have a chance to leave alive?
Of course, there were also some members of the Li Tang royal family who were timid and fearful, and they still obeyed the order and went to Chang'an to pay homage to the emperor, but there were also some members of the royal family who rebelled directly on the spot, and were then directly killed by the army that had been prepared long ago.

After all the members of the Li Tang royal family in the world either rebelled and were killed or imprisoned in Chang'an, Wu Zetian climbed the gate tower of Zhatian Gate on the ninth day of the ninth month of the first year of Zaichu, which was the Double Ninth Festival, and issued a general amnesty. At the same time, she announced the change of Tang to Zhou, changed the era name to Tianshou, and established the Wu Zhou Dynasty.

She also officially changed the era name and proclaimed herself emperor, taking the title of Holy and Divine Emperor, making Luoyang the divine capital and Chang'an the secondary capital, becoming the only female emperor in Chinese history who truly controlled the entire world.

When reading this part of the plot, Li Shimin was quite calm. He even just symbolically whipped Li Zhi a few times and stopped whipping him again. After all, the fact that Wu Zetian would ascend the throne had been made clear hundreds of chapters ago.

The next few hundred chapters were just a slow build-up to appease the people, eliminate the remaining forces of the Li Tang royal family, and finally, after completely eliminating all opposition forces, he ascended the throne peacefully and steadily. There were really no surprises at all.

Li Shimin had already accepted this fact.

Li Shimin felt that he could accept it until he saw what Wu Zetian did next.

(End of this chapter)