The day after Doulu Qinwang met Li Xian, Li Xian issued an edict announcing: "When there is a military matter, the Zhongshu Sect can work together to achieve a peaceful chapter."
With this special purpose, Doulu Qinwang has the power of prime minister.
However, Li Xian's special purpose did not change the official position of Doulu Qinwang.
Since then, worshipping servants has become a title to show respect, and there is no longer the right of prime minister.
People in the outside world do not know the inside story of Doulu Qinwang's loyalty to Li Xian, for Doulu Qinwang to be reappointed as prime minister, courtiers, scholars, and the common people all think that this is the emperor's recognition and encouragement of King Xiang to hand over military power, but in fact, although King Xiang has handed over military power, Li Xian is still not at ease, and his power and influence on King Xiang and Taiping are being tightened and compressed step by step.
The weather is getting colder day by day, and the relationship between the emperor and King Xiang and Taiping is also getting colder day by day, and the relationship between Yang Fan and Shen Mu is becoming colder and colder with the distrust between the two sides.
The source of the conflict and trouble between the visible and hidden is very complicated, although there is a secret troublemaker of Lubin, but he does not create something out of nothing, but uses the mutual disbelief between the two sects and the inevitable competition in business to buy a few people at the bottom, and this contradiction can be intensified and expanded.
This is like the quarrel between the two mulberry pickers on the border between Chu and Yue during the Warring States Period, which first involved two families, then two villages, and then expanded to two cities, and finally developed into a war between the two countries Not to mention that Yang Fan summoned several chief stewards in charge of the north back to the capital to inquire in person, even if he personally rushed to Zhuozhou and made the whole cause of the conflict clear, he would not find anyone to blame, because the problems between the two sides did exist, and even if there was no Lu Binzhi to make trouble, one day it would accumulate small grievances into big grievances.
Fortunately, although Yang Fan and Shen Mu both had a feeling of distrust of each other, they both maintained the greatest degree of restraint, so they did not extend this local opposition to the all-out war between the two sects.
However, Yang Fan's status and influence in the Xianzong are obviously not comparable to Shen Mu's control over the Yin Sect, he has consumed too much energy and time in the officialdom, and one is to take over Jiang Gongzi's old department, and there are many factions under him, and the other is to single-handedly create the organization, and the control of the two cannot be compared at all.
Although Yang Fan has now realized the danger and has begun to gradually regain power and install cronies, it will take time to make amends, maybe give him another ten years, and his status in the Xianzong will be as stable as Shen Mu in the Yinzong today.
Therefore, during this period of time, Yang Fan was under much heavier pressure than Shen Mu, not only from the outside, but also from many elders within Xianzong who were dissatisfied with his "show of weakness".
In Shangyang Palace, Li Xian, Empress Wei, Shangguan Wan'er, King Xiang, Princess Taiping, King Liang, and many relatives of Li Wu are kneeling in front of the couch, the palace is full of internal guard warriors, and outside the palace is surrounded by ten thousand cavalry soldiers led by Yang Fan himself.
Every eunuch who enters and leaves the Shangyang Palace must be subjected to the strictest interrogation, and one person each sent by Wan Qi and the internal guard to monitor the place, and no entrainment is allowed, nor is it allowed to move around without authorization, and the palace eunuchs in the palace are walking on tiptoe, not daring to make a sound.
Wu Zetian's illness began the last time Dou Lu Qinwang visited Li Xian, and since then, although she has continued to delay medical consultation, her body has not improved, and Wu Zetian, who is already eighty-two years old, is about to come to the end of his life.
In the past few days, she has been sometimes sober and sometimes confused, and to this day, the imperial doctors, who have never dared to make an accurate judgment on her condition, have to tell Li Xian this time that the empress has indeed reached the point of death.
"Mother" No matter how much hatred there is between them in this life, there is no need to mention it again at this moment.
Seeing that the biological mother described the withered tree, Li Xian, Li Dan, and Princess Taiping, the three children who knelt at the front, couldn't help but feel sad and left tears.
Wu Zetian woke up leisurely, and the imperial doctor, who had just finished administering the needle to her, took a few steps back on his knees, sweating profusely, to make way for the empress and her own children.
"Lingyue, Lingyue" Wu Zetian called out in a weak voice, and Princess Taiping hurriedly stepped forward on her knees, held her cold and old fingers, and choked up: "Mother, my daughter is here." ” "Daughter, my mother dreamed of the concubine just now, and my mother also dreamed of the queen" Wu Zetian muttered: "They cursed loudly for their mothers, saying that their mothers were going to see them, and they wanted to tell the saint about their mothers." ” Li Xian tilted his ears and listened hard to Wu Zetian's words, since the last time Wu Zetian suddenly fell seriously ill when he listened to music in Caisi Garden, he had already instructed him to report it to him immediately if there was anything wrong with his mother, he wanted to make sure that he could wait by his mother's side and know what his mother's will was when she died.
Now that her mother finally spoke, what she said had nothing to do with the country's plans, and she actually mentioned Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, who had long been turned into rotten bones, which made Li Xian a little dazed.
The corners of Wu Zetian's mouth gently hooked a proud arc, and said: "In the world, they are not my opponents, and in the underworld, they are not my opponents either."
Daughter, your father is a wise king, but he is not so shrewd in the harem.
When my mother saw him, she was still the most favored, hehe" "Mother's Parent" Princess Taiping was a little crying and laughing, she didn't expect her mother to say these things at this time, but somehow, listening to it, she felt a little sad.
Wu Zetian suddenly heard the sound of snoring, Li Xian hurriedly raised his head, but saw that Wu Zetian had his eyes open, but he seemed to have phlegm in his throat and was breathing a little short.
When Wu Zetian saw him, her expression suddenly turned cold, she closed her eyes, and was silent for a while before she slowly called: "Xian'er." ” Li Xian hurried to her, Princess Taiping made way for him, and Li Xian held Wu Zetian's hand.
Wu Zetian's hand subconsciously shrank for a moment, and finally slowly relaxed.
The deadline is approaching, everything has to be put down, so why bother not to look at it so much.
She was silent for a while before she said in a low voice: "Xian'er, my mother has always been mean to you, but you can let my mother keep the title of emperor to this day, my mother is really ashamed." ” This was the first time Wu Zetian showed weakness in front of his son, and Li Xian was a little panicked and didn't know how to answer.
Wu Zetian sighed softly and said, "My mother is leaving, after my mother dies, remove my mother's emperor name." ” Li Xian looked at a loss, but agreed blankly.
Wu Zetian's thinking seems to be very clear, but all she can remember seems to be the past twenty or thirty years ago, she has forgotten everything in recent years, she no longer remembers Xue Huaiyi who has accompanied her for more than ten years, no longer remembers her favorite Zhang Changzong, and even her glory as an emperor in the past fifteen years.
She thought hard, and said: "The clansmen of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, as well as the relatives of Chu Suiliang, Han Ai, and Liu Zheng, are all pardoned."
Li Xian agreed blankly.
Wu Zetian's face slowly showed a trace of contempt and arrogance, and said: "Mother can't help them who die in the yang world, so she can only put the sin karma on their clansmen."
Now that the mother is going to die, they don't give up, so the mother will go to the underworld to clean them up, so naturally there is no need to embarrass their clansmen in the yang world. ” For her words, several children have no way to deal with her, Wu Zetian has been fighting all his life, it seems that he is old and strong, and his fighting spirit is stronger, but now her ambition is going to be taken to the underworld to perform.
Wu Zetian's eyes were foggy for a moment and gradually became clearer, and he muttered: "Forget about the Zhou Temple built by Niang, after Niang died, attach the spiritual seat of Niang's god to Li Tangtai Temple, and bury Niang Niang in your father's mausoleum." ” Although Wu Zetian's voice was very weak, it still seemed to have indescribable magic, and Li Xian didn't have the courage to oppose at all, so he just agreed in a low voice.
"Qi Temple" and "Guiling", cancel the emperor's name.
A generation of empresses, when their lives were about to come to an end, finally compromised and gave up what she had diligently pursued all her life.
She bowed her head to the world and admitted that she was not the emperor, she was the empress of Li Tang.
Although the so-called abolition of Tang Jianzhou is really a mother and a son, which is very different from the ordinary change of dynasty, so even the subjects under her rule have never recognized the so-called Wuzhou Empire in their hearts, but it is very rare for her to make this decision.
She bowed to her husband.
After the death of her husband, she seized power step by step, two of her four biological sons died and two were abolished, she killed all of her husband's relatives, and finally got her wish to ascend to the throne, but now she is willing to return to her husband as a daughter-in-law.
She forgave Queen Wang, Concubine Xiao Shu, and the relatives of Chu Suiliang, Han Ying and others who stood on their side, not because people are dying and their words are good, but because she firmly believes that when she reaches the underworld, she can still sweep everything, and what she is forgiven in the yang world today will still be her subordinate prisoner if she does not bow her head in the underworld in the future.
However, did she really surrender?
She didn't Everything she did, it was to hold on to her victory.
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What was lost had been lost, and even if she wanted to hold on tightly, it was impossible for her to retreat as the only correct thing she could use right now.
She cut the title of emperor and restored the title of queen, so that no one would overthrow her title and end up with nothing.
She instructed her son to bury her in the temple and the mausoleum, and bury her in the Qianling Mausoleum as the legal wife of Emperor Gaozong, as a son, filial piety comes first, and can only obey.
Unless future generations want to overthrow Emperor Gaozong together, they will never be able to counterattack and dig her grave.
She is wise, since she entered the palace at the age of thirteen, her life has been vigorous, until the last year of her life, from the 22nd day of the first month of the first year of the Shenlong to the 26th day of the first month of the first year of the dragon, these last nine months and four days have not been bleak.
In the last moments of her life, she still let her wisdom shine with a dazzling light.
Trying to keep what she wanted to keep as much as possible in the concession was something she had only once in her life with her always tough character.
After Wu Zetian said all this, she seemed to be extremely tired, and she fell asleep again.
I don't know how long it took, Wu Zetian suddenly got up from his dream, and called out in a panic: "Daughter Lingyue" Power, status, and fame have no effect in the last moments of her life, and all she can remember and warm at this moment is the bone in her bones and the flesh in her flesh.
Taiping held her hand, Wu Zetian was relieved, she let out a long breath, and muttered, "It's so cold, what season is it now." ” Taiping replied in a low voice, "Mother, it's winter, and it's snowing outside." ” Wu Zetian listened, and a girlish smile suddenly bloomed on his withered and aging face: "Is it snowing, remember when my mother entered the palace, it was also when it snowed."
I don't know that the plum blossoms in the incense hall are blooming now, and I don't miss the fragrance there. ” Princess Taiping was a little stunned, and was stunned for a while, before reminding softly: "Mother, this is Chang'an, and the Wenxiang Palace is in Luoyang." ” "Ahh Wu Zetian smiled dumbly: "Yes, my mother is confused" She wanted to laugh, but the orange-peeled old face had just bloomed with a smile, and her mouth was still slightly open, and it froze there forever.
To be continued: