Reincarnation of the Heavens: Starting from Hong Kong Comprehensive

Chapter 319 Entering the palace and meeting the saint (two in one chapter)
How to get to the imperial city?

Just walk along the central axis.

Chang'an City is bounded by Suzaku Avenue and divided into east and west parts. One is Wannian County and the other is Chang'an County. The East and West commercial centers are also symmetrically divided into two counties.

Streets extend in all directions, square and square, and several main roads are extremely wide, forming a strict chessboard-like symmetrical layout.

In a nutshell: hundreds of thousands of houses are like a Go game, and twelve streets are like vegetable beds.

Thousands of years later, the north-south central axis of Kyoto in the East and the north-south streets of Seoul on the peninsula were both named Suzaku Street, which became famous at home and abroad and became a symbol of prosperity in other countries.

With the decline of the Tang Empire, the real Zhuque Street in front of us, together with Tang Chang'an City, gradually lost its former prosperity.

If Meng Fan remembers correctly, the mighty Zhuque Street in the Song Dynasty actually still existed, but after more than a thousand years of ups and downs and continuous transformations and changes in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, things and people have changed, and the location has changed. Has been moved.

Outside the gate of Taiji Palace, the palace is strictly forbidden.

Groups of black-armored soldiers were patrolling with weapons in hand, and the decorative dragon heads were held high in the sky, just like resting wild beasts, which was intimidating.

The tide of humanity is upon us.

Fortunately, Meng Fan practiced Taoist Dharma, so the impact was not too great. He straightened his clothes and said in a deep voice:
"Meng Fan, a Taoist from Maoshan, is ordered by my master to go to Beijing to meet the saint!"

The sound echoed outside the empty palace gate, like a bell and a bell, lasting for a long time.

Unless there are special circumstances, horse racing is prohibited in the palace. Even if the messenger is walking as fast as flying, it will still take a stick of incense. Therefore, Meng Fan watched his nose, nose and heart and waited silently.

Whether we can reverse the trend of Taoism and Buddhism starts from now on.

As expected, after about a stick of incense, the palace door was closed and opened a little, and three eunuchs walked out quickly.

"According to the decree, the saint summoned the real person of Maoshan."

If you are sick and ask for leave in advance, if you miss the time to go to court, if you think you have enough status and you have important things to do, that's it, just go outside the palace gate.

But generally speaking, they are all waiting on their knees, and the prison gate is responsible for making announcements. Only people outside of the prison can be treated specially. The most important etiquette is to call out "Poverty Dao Jishou" and bow slightly.

Meng Fan slowly followed the eunuch with a dignified gait. He was not intimidated by the majestic palace and rethought the current situation in the court.

From Queen to Second Saint.

When Wu Zetian first tamed the lion Cong to eliminate the hidden worries in the inner palace, the former Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu struck a hundred strokes each with a stick, amputated their hands and feet, and threw themselves into a vat of wine, promising that they would die of drunkenness.

This is indeed the case. It turned out that the two women Li Zhi loved most were tortured for several days before they died. Empress Wu ordered their corpses to be beheaded, and changed the surname of the deposed queen to Mang and the deposed concubine to Xiao to vent her jealousy. hatred.

During this period, he supported his own son Li Hong as the crown prince.

In the ethics, a wife is valued by her husband, and her son is valued by her husband after his death. Wu Zetian's husband is the current emperor, and his legitimate son is the heir apparent. Their status is as stable as a mountain.

To fight outside, you must first be safe inside.

Meng Fan was convinced of this, and Empress Wu was even more so, so she immediately tamed the lion Cong again: to purge the outer court.

Dispose of six current and former prime ministers and initially support their own power.

As for taming the lion three times and its result, now, she has become one of the two saints from the queen.

And what is a lion?

"Zi Zhi Tong Jian" records that Taizong had a famous horse master called Zi Cong, who was too fat and unable to control him. Wu Zetian served as a palace maid and said to Taizong:

I can control it, but I need three things: an iron whip, two iron sticks, and three daggers.If the person refuses to obey the blow with the iron whip, use the iron cane to hit his head; if he refuses to obey, use the dagger to cut his throat.

The process of ascending to the court and gradually coming from behind the scenes to the stage is her practicing her own way.

From the husband and wife of the emperor, to the brothers and nieces of the family, and then to the foreign ministers, countless innocent lives were killed. It was due to their own plans, the emperor's acquiescence, or maybe just chance.

To be honest, Meng Fan didn't like this kind of internal calculation.

It is true that he struck hard at evil heretics, burned corpses with the true fire of Samadhi, lit lamps with his soul, or was thrown into the eighteenth level of hell, but he never implicated innocent people and always maintained a certain degree of awe.

Precisely because his heart was not dark enough, he seemed a little resistant to being involved in the political situation. He thought about it and finally decided on the simplest and most straightforward strategy.

Support the prince!

As we all know, Wu Zetian was good at domestic abuse. Emperor Li Zhi had eight sons, in order of age:

Li Zhong, Li Xiao, Li Shangjin, Li Sujie, Li Hong, Li Xian, Li Xian and Li Dan.

The first four were Empress Wu's concubines, that is, not her biological sons, but their nominal sons, while the last four were her biological sons.

There are also three daughters: Princess Yiyang, Princess Xuancheng and Princess Taiping, only Taiping was born to her.

All the concubines were born to the emperor’s husband and other women before he came to the throne. Now that she has come to the throne, she must be abused as the legitimate mother——

The deposed prince Li Zhong was first frightened into a mental disorder by various means. He wore women's clothes at night to prevent assassination, but unfortunately he still could not escape.

The second son, King Xu Li Xiaochu, became the governor of Bingzhou and was later demoted to the governor of Suizhou. He eventually died mysteriously seven months before Empress Wu was called the Second Saint. The whereabouts of his biological mother, Concubine Zheng, is unknown.

The third son, Li Shangjin, is under house arrest and is following his elder brother's old path, having been driven crazy by his vicious stepmother.

The fourth son of King Yong, Li Sujie, and the two princesses of Yiyang and Xuancheng were all born to Wu Zetian's love rival, the abandoned concubine Xiao.

The former was very talented and was granted the title of King of Yong at the age of five. Later, he succeeded his eldest brother Li Zhong as the shepherd of Yongzhou. However, after his biological mother was brutally murdered, he began to be intimidated and released. This year, the second year of Yifeng, he was sentenced to death for the rest of his life. Yuezhou was placed under house arrest and was not allowed to have contact with the outside world.

The two sisters, Yiyang and Xuancheng, who were over thirty and did not marry, had been imprisoned in Yeting until six years ago, when Wu Zetian's biological son, now the fifth son, was appointed Prince Li Hong to supervise the country.

The prince accidentally met his two half-sisters in Yeting and felt sympathy for their plight. He immediately asked to marry and was approved by his father. However, he angered Empress Wu and immediately asked the princess to marry a low-ranking official who was on duty in the palace that day. Guard.

Not only that, these two princes-in-law were not promoted to military positions as usual, but were transferred to other places.

When Meng Fan was playing cards at the Corpse Inn, he heard three old men from the Tang Dynasty say that in a few years, the two of them would be framed to death, and the princess, who had been suffering all her life, would become a widow.

Is it better for my biological son?

Although the food city is far beyond the normal system, it is also very strict and requires them to abide by the rules.

The former prince Li Hong was a prince who had received a complete imperial education and had become a talented prince. He encountered Li Zhi's first attack of trouble and successfully managed the country.

Learn politics early, hold upright opinions, and do good deeds for the people. The key is to sympathize with brothers and sisters and constantly intercede for those brothers and sisters, such as:

He couldn't bear to let his half-brother Li Zhong die, so he asked to be buried many times, sympathizing with and caring for the two older sisters who were under house arrest.

This is obviously disobedient to Wu Zetian!

As a result, Empress Wu regarded her biological son as the new Fu Ni Lion Cong.

The first blow is the killer move.

Starting from Li Hong's fiancée, when dealing with the children of the family and He Lanmin, he slandered Min Zhixuan's grandmother, Mrs. Rongguo, the princess's maid, and the prince's fiancée, Yang.

Because he knew it was a slander, Li Hong, who had been looking forward to getting married, was psychologically traumatized. Since he was already weak, he fell seriously ill and became bedridden after experiencing this incident.

Even if he chooses another girl with the surname Pei from Hedong as the crown princess, it will not be able to remedy the trauma.

A few days after the wedding, he died in Yiyun Palace. Emperor Li Zhi also spurted out a mouthful of old blood. His favorite and most talented son was gone!And the ending...

Today, I am extremely grieved and issued an edict to fulfill the promise I made to him before my death, break the so-called rules and etiquette, and posthumously confer this prince, who is similar to the prince Fusu, as a filial emperor——

Being kind and loving to one's relatives is called filial piety, and never forgetting the emperor even to death is called respect, and one can be given the posthumous title of "Filial Piety Emperor".

This happened two years ago. Now the body is buried in Gongling, and the grass on the grave is unusually lush.

Obviously, Wu Zetian won a great victory and successfully killed her first biological son.

Prince Hong had no heirs, and Li Xian, the younger brother of the same mother, succeeded to the throne according to the "Household Marriage Law" of the Tang Dynasty. He was 22 years old at the time, and now he is [-] years old.

And he is the prince that Meng Fan wants to support.

There is no way, according to the general trend of history, the next few are not as good as Li Xian, and all of them were almost collapsed by Wu Zetian.

At least this guy dared to stand up and fight in the ring with his black-hearted mother.

"According to some elders, Li Xian has a photographic memory and an elegant look. He was once praised by Li Zhi in front of Sikong Li Ji."

"I guess it won't be too bad."

While whispering in his heart, Meng Fan carefully sorted out the limited information he had. After all, he was about to make a bet. If he had never fought before, let alone revitalizing the Taoist sect, he would be even more sad.

Six years ago, during the time of Li Xian, the official title was: Envoy Chijie, Commander-in-Chief of the Seven Prefectures of Yang, He, Tu, Run, Chang, Xuan, She, etc., Yangzhou Governor, Yongzhou Mu and Right Guard General, Shangzhu State, King Pei.

In February of the same year, his biological brother, Li Hong, the former prince who was killed by Wu Zetian, was in Beijing to supervise the country. He was also granted power:

The minister was responsible for seizing the matter, and had to discuss the documents such as paying homage to the memorial, and asked Li Xian, the king of Pei, to make a judgment.

Clearly experienced and doing a good job.

Last year, he single-handedly supervised the country and was praised by the emperor's hand. He was deeply recognized by the courtiers. In addition, he co-annotated the "Book of the Later Han" with the great scholar Zhang Daan and others. Even thousands of years later, it will be a famous work in Chinese history.

Unfortunately, Li Xian, like the former prince, was too kind. He sympathized with his third and fourth brothers, who were born from a different mother, and was gradually regarded by Wu Zetian as the new lion.

While Meng Fan was working hard for Li Tangguo, there was a scene of singing and dancing in Chengqing Hall of Taiji Palace.

The two saints appreciate it carefully.

Below, not far away.

A man in a purple shirt with a handsome appearance but a gloomy look on his brows sighed secretly. Not long ago, his mother-in-law asked her subordinate Ying Quan to write "Shaoyang Zhengfan" and "The Biography of Filial Sons" for him, and ordered her to favor him. The maid conveyed the words of reproach.

It’s hard not to think of his brother Li Hong who died with hatred...

In addition, Ming Chongyan, a sorcerer who worships Zhengjian doctor, has been spreading rumors recently:

The prince could not inherit the throne. King Li Xian of England looked most like Emperor Taizong; King Li Dan had the most noble fate.

Blatantly trying to sow discord between brothers!

Li Xianta knew the personalities of his two biological brothers. They grew up together and were playful by nature. They only wanted to be idle princes and had no such idea at all.

When he inherited the title of crown prince, his younger brothers even looked at him with sympathy and made some jokes, saying that they could no longer go hunting together.

The most troublesome thing is that this guy named Ming Chongyan is deeply trusted by his father because he can enchant ghosts, is good at various left-handed techniques, and can relieve the pain of head wind attacks.

To be honest, the constant slanders between the separated parents and siblings, coupled with the previous actions of the biological mother and the words of reprimand, made Li Xian, who needed to concentrate on handling state affairs, increasingly suspicious and suspicious.

Who will solve the orphan's dilemma?

Looking at the row where the ministers were sitting, there was a middle-aged man wearing a dark crimson official robe. He had a mysterious demeanor and a handsome face, but he also revealed an unspeakable evil intention.

It is Ming Chongyan!
This person used peach wood to draw talismans to stop the strange music that displeased the emperor.

In April, he took things from a distance and exchanged a hundred coins for the fruits that the emperor wanted to eat.

Not long ago, the saint wanted to see the snow. Ming Chongyan disappeared for a moment and returned holding the snow, saying that he got it from Yinshan Mountain.

All kinds of factors added up to make his holy family extremely prosperous. If it was just that, it would be fine. This heretic seems to have figured out something, and kept spreading all kinds of rumors in the palace.

On the side, the ministers had different expressions.

Someone looked solemn, already aware of the Queen's attitude, and ordered someone to summon the prince to rebuke him;
Some people looked relaxed, concentrating on enjoying the singing and dancing of the prostitutes, and drinking wine from time to time.

However, as a young Taoist was led into the back of the palace by the eunuchs, the two superior saints showed their attention and specifically ordered the singing and dancing to stop.

At the same time, Meng Fan deliberately made a gesture of neatening his clothes, greeted each other with courtesy, lowered his head to Emperor Li Zhi and Queen Wu, and expressed his apologies for the inconvenience that Master was about to ascend and would not be able to walk in the mortal world.

Ascension...becoming a fairy...

After whispering a few words in his heart, Li Zhi straightened up and asked for some details excitedly. Meng Fan answered them one by one without any rush.

"Xiao Daoist, will I and the queen live forever?"

"..." Meng Fan.

"Ancestor Dragon's Ci": What more can you ask for after conquering six countries? Boys and girls ask about ten states.Canghai didn't respond to melancholy, only to learn that Xu Fu was unfailingly romantic.

"Jia Sheng": The promulgation office asked for talents and visited all ministers, but Jia Sheng's talent was even more incompetent. It was a pity that he sat in front of the table in the middle of the night and did not ask about the people or ghosts and gods.

In fact, like the emperors of the past dynasties, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty also had the habit of taking golden elixirs, not only to long for immortality, but also to resist the diseases inherited in the family.

"Back to the saint, those who wish to live forever must accumulate good deeds and make meritorious deeds, be kind to things, forgive themselves and others, and catch insects with kindness."

The Supreme Being of Humanity has the Heavenly Constitution in his mouth, but he cannot practice it himself. Success is due to luck, and failure is also due to luck.

Therefore, except for those ancient human emperors in ancient times, the latter cannot live forever, nor can they control billions of people and vast territories forever.

But in this situation, Meng Fan didn't dare to speak out and could only play careless.

It is ridiculous to say that quacks and sorcerers dare to speak nonsense, but real practitioners are timid.

"Can the little Taoist master join forces to practice the yellow and white techniques?"

Li Zhi asked again.

It still looks eager to live forever.

"I know a little bit about the art of alchemy, and I can help your majesty and the queen to live longer."

I can only save my life and prolong my life...

The gray-haired Li Zhi sighed secretly and stopped talking. In his early years, his father died after taking the exotic elixir from the Nafu Kingdom of Tianzhu Emperor, so he severely punished the alchemists.

As a result, as he aged and became weak, his own wind disease broke out and became more and more severe. He tried many medicines to no avail, so he could only place his hope in these ethereal things.

"Xiao Daoist, do you have other skills?"

A slightly hoarse, magnetic female voice came from above, with no hint of age.

　I have used the most concise language to describe the political situation of this era, and I will not go into details later~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)