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Chapter 1613 Miraculous Victory
Li Zhi did not have the chance to develop any feelings with this Lord Shangguan, because he was quickly pulled away by Zhangsun Wuji. He returned to his residence and had a good sleep... Li Zhi even felt that this was the best sleep he had had in more than a decade, and he had never slept so happily and comfortably.

When they woke up the next day, the Zhenguan group was naturally ready, and the entire Luoyang city was extremely lively at this time. Almost all the people were rushing towards the Mingtang, because this was the place where Wu Zetian ascended the throne.

Of course, not everyone can enter the Mingtang. Ordinary people can only gather and kneel one mile away from the Mingtang.

When Li Shimin led his men to set out, he found that the people in the city were kneeling on the ground. Anyone who stood would be beaten and scolded by the surrounding yamen runners. If they could kneel down immediately, it would be fine. If they stood for more than three seconds, they would be dragged away by the surrounding soldiers and would be seriously injured.

"What's going on?" Li Shimin asked with a frown when he saw this scene.

"Your Majesty, it was that bitch who issued the order, requiring all the people in Luoyang City to kneel down in the direction of the Mingtang from the beginning of the Chen hour. They are not allowed to move around or stay at home, otherwise they will be charged with disrespect!" Xu Maogong, who was in charge of the preliminary intelligence investigation, reported immediately.

"All the people in the city must kneel down? What a great power! I may not have had such courage when I ascended the throne!" Li Shimin's face became even uglier after hearing this. When he ascended the throne, except for the officials on the scene, he did not ask the people of Chang'an to kneel down and worship him collectively.

"Wait, that bitch will ascend the throne at the beginning of noon and will not end until the third hour. These people will have to kneel for a full eight hours!" Li Shimin calculated the time and said in disbelief.

Chenshi is 7:3 in the morning, and Shenshi is 7:3 in the afternoon, which means that all the people have to kneel from 8:8 in the morning to 8: in the afternoon, a full hours, without being able to move, and they are not even allowed to get up during the period... You know, in the yamen, kneeling for hours in a row is already a very severe punishment. As a result, Wu Zetian now required all the people in the city to kneel for hours in a row.

It’s okay for young people, but how can the older people survive!

"This bitch, she wanted the whole city to be in mourning the day after her coronation ceremony!" Li Shimin was already extremely angry, but Li Shimin still wronged Wu Zetian on this point.

Because she ordered that people with babies to raise, pregnant women, and people over 50 years old do not have to kneel, but must stay at home and not appear.

In short, anyone who appears on the street must kneel down, otherwise how can she demonstrate her majesty as a queen?

"Your Majesty, let's rush to Mingtang as soon as possible and deal with Wu Zetian, then everything will naturally be over!" Fang Xuanling advised.

"Let's go!" Li Shimin glanced coldly at the entire audience and led his men directly towards the Mingtang.

Mingtang, when hearing this name, most people’s first reaction is probably a spacious and bright lobby.

In fact, it is not wrong to say so. Before the Great Hall, there was also a Mingtang, but it was just a ritual building used by ancient emperors for governing and offering sacrifices. It was not very famous in the entire imperial architectural complex.

It was actually our Wu Zetian who made the word "Mingtang" known to the world. The Tang Dynasty had always planned to build a new Mingtang, but because the Mingtang consumed a huge amount of manpower, Emperor Taizong of Tang was reluctant to do so, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang did not have the energy. After Wu Zetian came to power, in order to demonstrate her legitimacy, she demolished part of the Luoyang Imperial Palace under the command of Xue Huaiyi to build the new Mingtang.

The entire hall took three years to build. It is divided into three floors. The bottom floor is a square, symbolizing the four seasons. The middle floor is a 12-sided polygon, symbolizing the twelve hours. The upper floor is a 24-sided polygon, symbolizing the twenty-four solar terms.

On the top floor of the Mingtang, there is a golden phoenix made of more than two tons of pure gold. This golden phoenix is ​​enough to buy a city.

Mingtang is also known as the Palace of All Things. Its total height reaches an astonishing 294 feet, or 98 meters. During the Tang Dynasty, it was truly the tallest building in the world.

If the golden phoenix is ​​included, the height of the entire Mingtang is actually over 100 meters.

Precisely because it was so terrifyingly high, surpassing the entire era, even people in villages more than 100 miles away from Luoyang could see the Mingtang from afar, and every foreign envoy who came to Luoyang to pay homage would feel the shock of Luoyang before entering.

At the same time, in order to win people's hearts, after the Mingtang was built, Wu Zetian also ordered that unless the court had something to do, the Mingtang would be open to the public free of charge. All citizens could enter the Mingtang to visit and feel the greatness of the Wu Zhou Dynasty.

One can imagine how shocking it was to have such a Mingtang in that era, how much honor it would bring to one's own country, and how much fear it would bring to the surrounding ethnic minorities. This is a standard spectacular victory!

But Mingtang is not the only one, because behind Mingtang, there is actually a paradise.

Don't get me wrong, this is not a paradise that sends people directly to heaven, but a paradise used to house a giant Buddha.

Readers who have read "Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame" will probably be impressed by the huge, 66-zhang-high Tongtian Pagoda where Wu Zetian ascended the throne. However, at the time, everyone probably thought that it was just something made up for the movie.

But in fact, this is true. When Wu Zetian was building the Mingtang, in order to reflect her identity as the incarnation of Maitreya, she also built a Tongtian Pagoda behind the Mingtang. It was a giant Buddha as tall as the Mingtang. It is said that more than a dozen people can stand on the index finger of this Buddha.

This has also become one of the symbols of Wu Zetian. Everyone who comes to Luoyang and sees this giant Buddha will naturally think of Wu Zetian, and believe that Wu Zetian is the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha.

After the Buddha was built, it was damaged by wind and rain every day. Because the Buddha was already tied to Wu Zetian, it could not be damaged at all. So Wu Zetian ordered the construction of a pagoda outside the Buddha to protect it. The pagoda was named Tiantang, and it was another top-notch spectacle when compared with the Mingtang in front.

If this world is a showdown between Civilization VI, then our Wu Zetian has already achieved a spectacular victory.

(End of this chapter)