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Chapter 1615 Unable to Kneel
The entire Shao music was played for a full hour. The officials standing below the stage, Wu Zetian sitting on the stage, and Li Shimin and others who stood silently by the side, all listened to the entire Shao music.

The officials and Wu Zetian listened to the entire Shao music because it was the process of the coronation ceremony, and Li Shimin listened to it to the end because it was music dedicated to heaven and earth, that is, music dedicated to Liu Xu, and Li Shimin did not dare to disturb Liu Xu's interest.

But what he didn't know was that Liu Xu was also at the scene at this time. He was staring at Li Shimin and Wu Zetian excitedly, constantly urging them to act quickly. But in the end, he could only helplessly listen to the Shao music for an hour.

To be honest, this Shao music... if anyone dares to play it while offering sacrifice to himself, Liu Xu will get furious!

After the Shao music ends, the next step is to offer sacrifices to heaven, earth and ancestors.

Led by Wu Zetian, all the ministers kowtowed respectfully to the heaven and earth and the ancestors of the Wu family.

When Wu Zetian was offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, Li Shimin still did not dare to make any move. He even led all his family members to kowtow to heaven and earth together. His attitude was much more respectful than Wu Zetian's.

After all, in Wu Zetian's eyes, heaven and earth were just a vague concept to fool most fools. But for Li Shimin, heaven and earth were standing behind him, staring at the whole world. If he showed any disrespect, he would be retaliated by someone with a small mind!
When Wu Zetian was offering sacrifices to the ancestors of the Wu family, Li Shimin would naturally not indulge her anymore. However, Li Shimin did not want to show up so early as the entire coronation ceremony had not yet reached its climax.

He wanted to kick Wu Zetian into the deepest abyss when she was at the peak of her life.

So when Wu Zetian had the tablets of the Wu family's ancestors laid out, Li Shimin himself teleported and sat directly on the mourning hall, looking at Wu Zetian and others below with a sneer.

"Your Majesty, the Holy Emperor of Heavenly Strategy and Golden Wheel, lead all the officials of the Great Wu Zhou to offer sacrifices to our ancestors!"

"May our ancestors protect us and ensure that Wu Zhou will last forever!"

"Kowtowing!" The ceremonial officer shouted in a low voice, and all the ministers of the court followed Wu Zetian and kowtowed to the tablets of the Wu family's ancestors.

Originally, everyone just followed the emperor and kowtowed three times and that was it.

But what no one expected was that when everyone's heads touched the ground for the first time, the tablet of the Supreme Emperor Xiaoming Gao, Wu Shiqi, which was located in the front, suddenly fell straight onto the table, and the crisp sound was loudly heard throughout the Mingtang.

"... Shit..." When the ministers saw this scene, they were all so frightened that they knelt on the ground and dared not get up. Wu Zetian stared fiercely at the eunuchs who were in charge of managing and serving the throne. She made up her mind that after the coronation ceremony, she would kill all these careless eunuchs who could not even keep the throne stable, leaving no one alive.

However, this was the throne hall, where blood was not easily shed and it was not suitable for getting angry, so Wu Zetian could only suppress her anger, personally stand up and walk to her father's tablet, straighten and stabilize the tablet, and then continue to kowtow on behalf of the ministers.

"Kowtow twice!" The voice of the ceremonial officer at this time was also filled with fear and worry. As a result, what they feared came true. When Wu Zetian and the ministers kowtowed for the second time, it was no longer the throne of her father, the Supreme Xiaoming Emperor Wu Shiqi, that was shaken.

Instead, the six tablets of the ancestors of the Wu family were all shaking at the same time, and then pounced forward, scattering on the ground like hail. The crisp sounds that rang out in an interlaced manner were particularly pleasant to the ears in the entire Mingtang, and Liu Xu felt that they were much better than the Shao music just now.

At this time, all the ministers were stunned. If the fall of the throne of the Supreme Emperor Xiaoming Gao Wu Shiqi was a simple accident, then the fall of the thrones of all the ancestors at the same time now did not seem to be something that could be explained by an accident. There must be something going on here!

"Come on, drag out all these criminals who have disrespected my ancestors and behead them!" Wu Zetian, who had just thought that it was not appropriate to see blood, now directly ordered the guards to drag out all the eunuchs nearby and behead them.

The reason is simple. If these eunuchs were not killed on the spot, how could we explain the matter of the divine throne?
It couldn't be that Li Shimin was sitting in the mourning hall and kicked over the tablet of his own ancestors!

After killing all the eunuchs and when all the ministers were trembling with fear and dared not speak, Wu Zetian once again walked to the front of the mourning hall and with great piety personally lifted up the tablets of her ancestors one by one and put them back in place, making sure that there was no mistake and that they were as stable as possible.

Wu Zetian once again led the ministers in kowtow.

"Kowtow three times!" At this time, the ceremonial officer's voice was already filled with fear. After all, who knew if he would be the next one to be killed.

"There won't be any problems this time!" The ministers muttered in their hearts as they looked at the thrones that had been re-erected, and then they kowtowed to them for the third time. This time, the thrones did not fall down, but instead cracked completely.

That's right, it cracked. As all the ministers kowtowed three times, all the shrines broke directly in the middle, broke into two pieces of wood, and then fell on the mourning hall in unison.

This scene completely stunned all the ministers.

If the two strange things before could be explained, then now all the god thrones are splitting in the middle almost at the same time, which cannot be explained by common sense. Could it be that there really are ghosts and gods in this world?
Of course, at this moment, the same answer emerged in the minds of these ministers at the same time, that is, the ancestors of the Wu family had no qualifications and courage to accept the worship of the ministers, so as soon as the ministers bowed, they themselves split apart.

This is obviously a lack of luck. The Wu family is not qualified to establish a dynasty at all!

At this time, Wu Zetian was completely furious, or perhaps she was filled with fear from the bottom of her heart, so that she had to use anger to cover up such fear, and then she used all her strength to order, "Catch all those who are related to the creation of the throne, torture them severely, and make sure to find out who is behind this and who is destroying my Wu Zhou coronation ceremony!"

Well, it is obvious that Wu Zetian would never admit that this was destiny. Someone must have secretly sabotaged it, causing the throne to crack. It was not something that happened between gods and ghosts at all.

Especially at times like this, the more we must carry on with the ceremony.

So instead of having any intention of pausing or shortening the ceremony, Wu Zetian continued to carry it out unswervingly and asked the ceremonial officer to read out her accession edict. Fortunately, nothing went wrong at this time and the entire edict was read smoothly.

In this way, the entire coronation ceremony came to an end. The new emperor Wu Zetian sat on the dragon throne and accepted the worship of all officials.

What is quite striking is that the people standing in the front and leading all the officials in the worship are none other than Wu Zetian's two sons, Wu Dan, who was named the Crown Prince at that time, and Li Xian, who was named the King of Luling.

Although Wu Zetian was still upset about what had just happened, she had to put on a kind and gentle expression and accepted the worship of her ministers with a smile.

Then they just knelt straight down throughout the whole process, but what surprised all the ministers again was that Wu Dan and Li Xian, who were standing in the front, were still standing and refused to kneel down.

"What are you two rebellious sons doing?" Wu Zetian asked angrily when she saw that her two sons, who had been disciplined to the extreme, were now taking the lead in refusing to kneel to her.

"Mother... No, Queen Mother... It's not that I don't want to kneel, it's that my knees can't bend!" Li Dan was about to collapse at this time, crying and saying, "Queen Mother, I absolutely dare not, but it seems that someone has tied my knees, and I can't kneel down!"

"Hahaha!" Hearing this, Wu Zetian, who was about to collapse, finally couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up and stared at her two sons like a madman and said, "Okay, okay, you are the good sons of your true mother. It seems that everything today was manipulated by you two behind the scenes."

"Have you prepared a huge army to give Mother a hard time and rebel against her?"

"We didn't...we dare not!" The two brothers Li Dan and Li Xian were completely terrified and denied it again and again.

"You are no match for me. All the troops in the world are under my control. Once I give an order, I will show no mercy even if you are my sons!" Wu Zetian said coldly.

"We didn't rebel, Mother!!!" Li Dan and Li Xian were so scared that they were about to cry.

"Tell me quickly, who gave you the courage to rebel, and who are your accomplices!!" Wu Zetian asked sternly.

"It's me!" As soon as the words fell, a foot suddenly emerged from the void and kicked Wu Zetian directly on the head, kicking Wu Zetian to the foot of the dragon throne.

(End of this chapter)