In the face of the aggressive Empress Wu, Ziyang Zhenren was unable to fight, so he could only choose to retreat helplessly.
And his concession is not to retreat as advance, temporarily avoid its edge, to show weakness to confuse the opponent, but when the time comes, the mountain rises, suddenly from the shadows, give the opponent a fatal blow, so as to make a final decision, defeat into victory.
This is the usual strategy of soldiers, and it is also the way of forbearance of strategists, and there is no shortage of people in history who have succeeded by using this strategy.
For example, Sima Yi is a master of this way, a family of conspirators, and it took three generations and four people before and after to seize the power of Cao Wei and replace him.
However, Ziyang Zhenren is not a soldier, and he doesn't want to be a conspirator, and the foundation of his Dragon and Tiger Mountain inheritance is in all living beings, how can he make enemies with the royal family who rules all the people, or even do it In order to allow the Dao system of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain to be passed on, and not decay or even be cut off in his hands, so that the ancestors of the past generations would not be able to turn a blind eye, and they rushed to get up from the grave and strangle him to death.
He had no choice but to sacrifice himself in order to dispel the jealousy in the heart of the Empress Wu.
This is also a way to do it, and in a sense, it is also an inevitable end.
Who let him live too long and have such a high influence in the world's Taoist sects, and now in the land of the Tang Dynasty, every Taoist temple large and small, as well as every Taoist priest in the Taoist temple, can be regarded as his disciples and grandchildren from the perspective of Taoist inheritance.
When he sneezes as an old man, he will be regarded by his disciples and grandchildren as the manifestation of the Three Qingdao Daoists, and "one call and one hundred responses" is not enough to describe his prestige.
In fact, this point has already violated the taboo of the emperor, and it cannot be tolerated by whoever becomes the emperor.
The emperor is lonely, they sit alone in the high position, coldly watching the officials busy and intriguing, the soldiers fighting on the battlefield, the horse leather shroud, and the small people in Shengdou lack food and clothing, hunger and cold Everything in the world is in his eyes, suffering and hardship, life and death, honor and disgrace, flies and dogs, stealing and playing tricks, the whole family is in a variety of ways, how can he hide the eyes of the emperors who spread the world Longhu Mountain is not an ordinary inheritance, the former Sui respected it as the ancestral court of Taoism, which can be said to be revered and revered through the ages.
After Emperor Gaozu of this dynasty established himself, he traced the ancestors of the Lao Li family, and finally identified the Taoist patriarch Lao Tzu as their ancestor, and therefore designated Longhu Mountain as the protector of the Tang Dynasty, and Taoism also became the state religion of the Tang Dynasty.
After Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, he personally went to Longhu Mountain to worship the patriarch of the Three Qing Dynasty, told the world, and presented the golden book and jade book, and enshrined Longhu Mountain as the leader of the world's Taoist capital, and the head of Longhu Mountain was also respected as a "real person" and "national teacher", recorded in the annals of history.
When Emperor Gaozong succeeded to the throne, he originally planned to follow the example of Emperor Taizong and go to Longhu Mountain for a tour, and by the way, add an honor to Ziyang Zhenren, but who expected to be stopped by the Empress Wu who had already ascended the throne.
It was at that time that Shangguan Yi, who was bent on maintaining the emperor's rights and wanted to suppress the ambitions of the Empress Wu, that is, Shangguan Wan'er's grandfather, was full of words because of the refutation of the Empress Wu in the dynasty, "The chicken Sichen, the woman interferes in politics, it is the chaos of the country, and the omen of the death of the country" Not only that, but he also used the old things of the "Zhou Youwang Fenghuo Opera Princes" in the past to persuade Emperor Gaozong to be close to the virtuous ministers and far villains, and it is best to abolish the ambitious and unobservant Empress Wu.
Empress Wu is not a submissive little woman, that day saw Shangguan Yi in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, he was verbally criticized, crooked, endless, couldn't help but be furious, rushed out from behind the bead curtain, pointed at Shangguan Yi and asked Emperor Gaozong: "Why don't you kill this fang" Empress Wu, as the face of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military, gorgeously staged a big drama of "Ji Si Chen", not only crushed the Shangguanyi family into powder, but also took advantage of this to pull down the bead curtain, and walked to the front stage in a grand manner, and sat on an equal footing with Emperor Gaozong.
Although he is a loyal minister, but he has no eyesight, Shangguan Yi's head fell to the ground, and the Shangguan family also suffered a heavy blow.
Under the strong intervention of Empress Wu, Emperor Gaozong, who was "afraid of his wife", could only compromise and gave up the trip to Longhu Mountain, but climbed Mount Tai with Empress Wu to worship the heavens and seal Zen.
It seems that there is not much difference between worshipping the heavens and worshipping Sanqing, but in fact, the difference is big.
Didn't Emperor Gaozu say that Lao Tzu was the ancestor of the Li Tang royal family In the legend, Lao Tzu is the incarnation of Taishang Daode Tianzun, one of the Three Qings, and he entered this world with the purpose of spreading the Taoist heritage, so as to rob the luck of the human race.
In this way, Sanqing has all become the ancestors of the old Li family, worshiping Sanqing is like worshipping ancestors, Li Tang's luck and Sanqing's luck are connected together, like this, Li Tang's national fortune will be inherited for eternity, such as the sun and the moon together, then for the unwilling Empress Wu, what day is the day of the beginning The Taishan sacrifice to the sky is different, there are not only the three Qing patriarchs in the sky, but also many gods, and even the Western Heaven Buddha who works alone and does not deal with the three Qing patriarchs.
Moreover, the Empress Wu worshiped Sanqing on Shelonghu Mountain and went to Mount Tai to worship the sky, which can be said to make people cite scriptures and scriptures, and find out tangible evidence.
That is, since ancient times, the reason why the emperor is called the "Son of Heaven" is because the emperor is the heir of heaven, who guards a realm on behalf of heaven and educates all people.
It is precisely because of this that when Mount Tai sealed Zen, the bribe warlock set up a mechanism in advance and performed a miracle.
And it is precisely because of this incident that Empress Wu was called the "Queen of Heaven" by the Lord, and was called the second emperor together with Emperor Gaozong, and her ambitions are getting bigger and bigger.
Faced with the jealousy of the Empress Wu, Ziyang Zhenren thought about it and felt that just abdicating was not enough, and it was not enough to reassure the Empress Wu.
As long as he doesn't die, he is still pestle in Longhu Mountain, with his old man's prestige and appeal, as long as he raises his arms, there will be countless responders immediately, and it is not difficult to do something.
In order to reassure the Empress Wu, Ziyang Zhenren also figured it out, didn't he think that my old man lived too long, and he would not die when he was old Well, I'll die He was a decisive man, he said he would die, and he died thoroughly, cleanly, and not even the remnants of the shedding, and it was said that he had risen by feathering.
Ziyang Zhenren is indeed dead, and since then, there has been no previous generation in Longhu Mountain, but there is one more laughing and angry dust-sweeping veteran on the rivers and lakes.
He reassured the Empress Wu by cheating his death, but his true body turned into a dust-sweeping veteran and went to the major holy places of the hidden inheritance, the purpose of which was to find those old immortals hiding in the cave.
He worked hard in the world to collect luck for the entire Daomen, but now Taoism is suspicious of the emperor, and the Taoist system of Longhu Mountain is in danger, so he can't bear such a crisis alone.
He needs to borrow strength and help, and he is also in the same vein, so you can't stand idly by: