Power in the World: After Eternal Age

Seeing Empress Dowager Feng falling into grief, San Gong had no choice but to leave.Emperor Xianwen killed Li Yi, and let out a bad breath in his chest. However, after he was over excited, he began to feel a little scared again.

Emperor Xianwen knew that Empress Dowager Feng had fallen in love with Li Yi thoroughly, and if he killed her lover himself, the Empress Dowager would definitely be angry.If Empress Dowager Feng got angry and had a contest with Emperor Xianwen, the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty would cause a storm, and it was unknown who would win.

After a few days, the queen mother was surprisingly calm, and she did not see any dissatisfaction with the emperor, nor did she summon other ministers.Emperor Xianwen thought that Empress Dowager Feng might be tired of Li Yi, or that after she formally assumed power, the Empress Dowager thought that she would no longer have the ability to fight against the emperor, so she ignored Li Yi's death and couldn't help but feel very happy.

He didn't know that Empress Dowager Feng had already been killed at this moment, and she vowed to avenge her lover Li Yi to the death.It's just that the Empress Dowager Feng at this time is more mature politically and more foresighted.Empress Dowager Feng also knew that Emperor Xianwen had cultivated a group of forces of her own, and when she didn't know the true strength of Emperor Xianwen, she would never reveal it easily.

Another reason why Empress Dowager Feng remained calm was that she adopted a policy of dealing with Yihun. She wanted to show weakness to Emperor Xianwen, so that Emperor Xianwen could fully expose his own strength while he was proud.What's more, in order to win people's hearts, Empress Dowager Feng deliberately made Emperor Xianwen think that she had killed the empress dowager's lover but nothing happened. From then on, she became even more arrogant and aroused the dissatisfaction of many veteran officials with real power in the court, and completely fell to the empress dowager's side .

Sure enough, as expected by Empress Dowager Feng, Emperor Xianwen no longer paid attention to Empress Dowager Feng after testing Empress Dowager Feng, and began to implement his ambitious dream of becoming an emperor.

Emperor Xianwen carried out drastic reforms and appointed and dismissed officials without any scruples, which inevitably angered a large number of hard-working veterans in the court.What the veterans couldn't bear especially was that Tuoba Ming started his career by falsely accusing Li Fu. Emperor Xianwen not only made him the supervisor of Zhongshu, but also named him Minister of the Household Department soon after.

In stark contrast to Emperor Xianwen's big actions, Empress Dowager Feng remained silent in the harem.Except for Sangong's frequent visits to Queen Mother Feng, Emperor Xianwen did not hear any dissatisfaction from Queen Mother Feng towards him.

What reassured Emperor Xianwen was that Empress Dowager Feng seemed to have lost her desire for power and was immersed in sensuality.In a short period of time, Empress Dowager Feng found two lovers one after another.At this time, Emperor Xianwen no longer cared about the matter of Feng Taihou looking for a lover again. He suddenly understood that he had been dissatisfied with the fact that Feng Taihou had a lover Li Yi, not because of his father's reputation, but because of his father's reputation. At that time, I was listening to the government for Empress Dowager Feng, but I was dissatisfied that I had no real power as an emperor.

Dowager Feng will find a lover again, not only does this not make Emperor Xianwen angry, but secretly happy in his heart.He was worried that after he killed Li Yi, Empress Dowager Feng would use her prestige to fight him to the death, and it was not certain whether she would be able to keep the position of emperor.Since Empress Dowager Feng is indulging in sensuality, it means that she has completely lost her desire for power and is no longer a threat to Emperor Xianwen.

After Li Yi was killed, Empress Dowager Feng still had no scruples about her private life, and many fit and strong men became her new favourites.Empress Dowager Feng appointed the talented people among them to important positions and appointed them as confidantes. Most of these people became her political helpers and ministers.

Wang Rui, who was born in Taiyuan, inherited his father's career since he was a child, and is proficient in astronomy and divination.He was favored by Empress Dowager Feng because of his majestic appearance, and he was immediately promoted to Shizhong by leapfrogging.Soon, he was worshiped as Sanqi Changshi, Shizhong, and Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and was bestowed the Duke of Taiyuan.

Wang Rui knew very well that a companion is like a tiger, and when Empress Dowager Feng took a fancy to him, he was terrified, trembling and dared not speak.Seeing Wang Rui's outstanding appearance, Empress Dowager Feng couldn't hold back her empty heart for a long time, so she called him into the palace and wanted to go to Wushan with Wang Rui.

Wang Rui fell to the ground and begged Empress Dowager Feng to let him go.Empress Dowager Feng looked at his words and saw the fear in his heart, so she told Wang Rui, don't be afraid, Li Yi's bad luck will never befall him again.And just like Li Yi at the beginning, Wang Rui personally gave Wang Rui the gold medal to save him from death. Only then did Wang Rui happily enter the Empress Dowager's couch, and share the joy of fish and water with Empress Dowager Feng.

Later, during a hunt, Emperor Xianwen led his officials to drive away the tiger and wanted to shoot it, but unexpectedly the tiger escaped from the siege and rushed towards the empress dowager and the emperor's grandson Tuobahong.Wang Rui stepped forward and shot the tiger with an arrow, and the tiger escaped in pain, protecting the queen mother and emperor's grandson Tuoba Hong, so she was even more favored by Queen Mother Feng.

Although Li Chong, a native of Longxi, was reused by Empress Dowager Feng because of his excellent physical skills, but because of his extraordinary demeanor and handsome appearance, he was gradually favored by Empress Dowager Feng and became her lover.Empress Dowager Feng often gave him some treasures and royal objects, and Li Chong, who was always known as poor, became a rich family.During the reign of Empress Dowager Feng, he performed his duties as a confidant, and many reform measures during the Taihe years were mostly planned by Li Chong.After the death of Empress Dowager Feng, Li Chong served Emperor Xiaowen loyally, decisively and closely, and Emperor Xiaowen also "deeply trusted him, and loved him with the utmost respect", which was known in history as "there is no other friendship between monarchs and ministers".

In addition to those favored officials, Tuoba Pi, You Minggen, Gao Lu and other celebrities for a while were also quite aggrieved.Whenever Wang Rui and others are praised, Empress Dowager Feng will also praise Tuoba Pi and others to show selflessness.These people became the confidants of Empress Dowager Feng during her reign.

Emperor Xianwen also disapproved of these people appointed by Empress Dowager Feng because they were not well-known.This is the cleverness of Empress Dowager Feng, who appointed talented newcomers and used various means to win over these people's hearts without arousing Emperor Xianwen's vigilance.

In addition, Empress Dowager Feng also greatly appointed eunuchs.Eunuchs used to serve in the palace and often lived around the emperor's concubine. The Empress Dowager Feng came to the court to listen to the government, and even cited talented people among them as her confidantes.Therefore, Qi De, Wang Yu, Zhang You, Fu Chengzu, etc. were all promoted by low-level eunuchs, and entered the rank of prince at the age of one.Empress Dowager Feng used them to go in and out of the Forbidden City to foretell the secrets, forming a situation of "middle officials use things".

However, during the period when she was in charge of the court, there was no phenomenon of eunuchs monopolizing power and coercing the court.This is because although the Empress Dowager Feng used eunuchs to do things in the middle, she imposed strict restrictions on her behavior. "Wei Shu? Queen's Biography" stated: (Feng) The Empress Dowager has a strict nature. Although she pretends to be kind and trustworthy to the eunuchs, she treats her with relatives and favors, and never indulges herself.Even if the people on the left and right have sins, they will be punished by Chu Chu's stick. There are as many as a hundred or as few as dozens.However, the Empress Dowager is tolerant and benevolent by nature, regardless of previous suspicions, she still treats her as before afterwards, and some of them become even richer because of this.Because of this, everyone is greedy for profit, and they don't want to quit until they die.