Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

Chapter 315 The Useless Traveler Wants to Go Home (13)

However, since Bai Sheng has made up his mind not to personally interfere in the change of dynasties, he will naturally not change his mind.

So the discussion among the elders continued.

It's all based on this.

The radicals saw that things were not going well, and eventually began to lean towards the moderates. After all, no matter how moderate the moderates were, they at least did something and were willing to secretly support Empress Dowager Liu E. Therefore, in the end, the moderates, who were originally weak, unexpectedly gained more recognition.

The future direction of Xuannv Sect is also basically clear.

On the surface, she is still a martial artist, not involved in the dirty affairs of the court. She secretly sends people into the palace to serve as female officials to support the empress dowager.

Ensure the Queen Mother's safety and prevent her from being assassinated.

As for other matters, they don't interfere too much.

After the discussion, the specific implementation would naturally be carried out by the elders who were specifically responsible for this aspect. The elders and the head sect leader quickly bowed and withdrew, but Bai Sheng waved them away and kept the law enforcement elder Liu Qiang, asking her not to leave yet.

After everyone left, she waved her sleeves again and slammed the door of the Grand Elders' Hall shut, then said:

"Although your idea is a bit radical, I am actually very happy. After all, no matter how fantastic your idea is, at least you have the courage to do it. Some people don't even dare to think about it. If we really do it as you said, even if we fail, or even if the Xuannv Sect is destroyed, it will definitely be recorded in history and will occupy at least three or two pages of history books.

But I couldn't do it. Although I didn't know what specific dangers would come if I forced myself to do it, I could sense in my heart that great terror would befall me if I did it.

And I can't do it.

The success rate of your plan is too low."

"Master, why did you keep me here?"

After listening to Bai Sheng's previous words, Zhang Qiang's heart, which had originally cooled down, suddenly became excited again. Unfortunately, Bai Sheng immediately extinguished it.

So ups and downs.

It really made Zhang Qiang a little confused.

"The Central Plains region will definitely not allow you to do these things for the time being. Even if you act carefully and hide your identity, it will not work. There is no wall that is impenetrable in this world.

Not to mention the thing you want to do.

It will inevitably be attacked by moralists.

So, if you still want to achieve the goal you mentioned before, or the expectation, I can allow you to take some people away from Xuannv Sect, and I can give you several million taels of gold in the warehouse. In addition, I can also customize some more special skills for you to avoid exposing that you have practiced the skills of Xuannv Sect.

As for the rest, I can't help much.

It all depends on you.

And you can only go to the West, you can go to the West to fight, you can also go to the West to replace their gods and become their new gods. Where do you start to change?
What? I won’t force you to do it if you don’t want to!”

Bai Sheng just can't directly interfere in the change of dynasties, but providing some help to others and mainly intervening in religion is obviously no problem.

They are originally a branch of Taoism, so it is normal and reasonable for them to send people to the West to preach. If Buddhist scriptures can be spread to the East, why can't Taoist scriptures be spread to the West? No one can question it.

If Zhang Qiang wasn't so ambitious.

If it is just to occupy territory and preach.

It would be fine even if she went in the name of Xuannv Sect.

However, in order to be on the safe side, and also because the strength of the Xuannv Sect except Bai Sheng is not enough to suppress the world and become the enemy of the world, they can only hide their identities, change their identities, and even change their basic skills before they can go west to realize their ambitions.

"Disciple is willing!"

Zhang Qiang replied almost without hesitation that she was really willing to do so. Empress Dowager Liu E was in her sixties and still wanted to usurp the throne. She was only three years older than Empress Dowager Liu E, not even older than Wu Zetian when she ascended the throne.

How can we not make use of our remaining energy!

There are some things that you cannot expect others to give you. You have to get them yourself, fight for them, or even snatch them away.

“Okay, in that case, then you go down and prepare first. By the way, ask if there is anyone willing to go with you. I will go into seclusion to compile a new technique for you.

I'll give you half a month to prepare.

In half a month, bring those who are willing to follow you to come to me, and I will personally teach you the new skills.

Wait until you have learned the new skills.

Just take the gold and travel west!"

Bai Sheng was also very decisive. After explaining these words, she turned around and went to the retreat room behind the Supreme Elders' Hall to begin her retreat. During her retreat, she deduced a new cultivation method that was suitable for them to take to the West to preach.

Zhang Qiang began to make preparations.

Lobbying for manpower, preparing supplies and other operations.

……

At the same time, martial law was imposed in Bianjing, and Liu E's cronies were leading the imperial guards to protect the imperial palace while sealing off the city of Bianjing.

And an unprecedented purge is underway.

It is of no use if doctors are not punished.

The executioner's machete was bent.

The entire Zhao Song royal family was frightened like a frightened bird, and began to write a joint letter, the general meaning of which was that the empress dowager was awesome, wise, and unparalleled in the world, a famous emperor through the ages, the reincarnation of Yao and Shun, whose achievements surpassed the Three Sovereigns and whose virtue surpassed the Five Emperors, so that the Qin Shi Huang, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong and Song Taizu would have to kowtow to her and feel inferior to her.

So you'd better ascend the throne and become emperor as soon as possible.

We have no objection, we have no objection at all.

We can only cheer long live long live long live!!

That's basically what I mean. The actual content is even more disgusting and shameless than the general summary.

But I can understand it, it’s to save lives!
The imperial guards are now in the hands of Liu E's confidants. Taking their lives is just a matter of a word. In order to ascend the throne, Wu Zetian killed so many members of the Li Tang royal family. It's scary to think about it.

Anyway, most of them had no chance of becoming emperor, so if they didn't kneel now, when would they kneel?

The same goes for the one who became the deposed emperor. It was more important to save his life. If Wu Zetian's two sons had not been sensible and knelt in time, it would be hard to say whether they could survive.

The kneeling of the entire Zhao Song royal family made those ministers who were still alive and in trouble feel relieved, and also made those ministers who originally wanted to sacrifice their lives for the Zhao Song royal family completely dissipate the anger in their hearts.

At this moment, they finally understood how the ministers who were loyal to Shu Han felt when they heard the news that Liu Chan had surrendered.

What kind of mood is that?

Mixed feelings!
The ministers are about to fight to the death, why does Your Majesty surrender first?
But it must be said that this operation did clear a lot of obstacles for Liu E to usurp the throne. Except for a few ministers who committed suicide, most of the remaining ministers compromised. After all, the master of the country had already knelt.

What are they still doing?
Moreover, the one who usurped the throne was not a powerful official, but the daughter-in-law of Zhao Song. It was impossible for Empress Dowager Liu E, who did not even have a legitimate family, to pass the throne to Ming Wei's brother.

In fact, he is her ex-husband’s grandson!

After her death, the throne would most likely be returned to the Zhao Song royal family, just like Wu Zetian did back then. After all, since ancient times, there has never been a nephew offering sacrifices to his aunt.

If you are really worried, the worst that can happen is that you find an opportunity to secretly kill Liu Mei's only grandson.

In this way, the throne returned to the Zhao family after Liu E's death.

It's a done deal.

It was based on these considerations that most of the Zhao Song royal family and ministers finally chose to compromise and were unwilling to cause too much trouble.

It even caused unrest throughout the Song Dynasty.

So the two sides can barely be considered to have reached a consensus.

The next thing, of course, was the ascension to the throne. There was no problem with Liu E ascending the throne and becoming emperor, but there was a problem with her wanting to change the country's name to Han. Many ministers strongly opposed it and cited classics to show their unwillingness to do this.

At the same time, he also cited Wu Zetian as an example, saying that her changing the country's name was purely a waste of time and did not benefit the people.

After a hundred years, she will have to change it back to Song.

However, in the end, because Liu E was too tough, and the ministers and the Zhao Song royal family had already compromised once and were not afraid to compromise again, they naturally compromised again and agreed to Liu E's change of the country's name to Han.

From then on, the Song Dynasty was renamed the Han Dynasty.

However, those ministers and royal family members did not do nothing. On the night when Liu E ascended the throne and announced the change of the country's name to Han, her ex-husband, who could be said to be the only son in her brother's family, died suddenly.

Perhaps they were worried that Liu E still had the Shengsheng Zaohua Pill in her hands, so the people who attacked her didn't dare to use any chronic poison at all. They just killed her directly without giving her any chance to treat her.

On the night when she received the news, Liu E was not so angry that she vomited blood, and she did not even faint.

If it was her original body.

It is possible that he would die suddenly on the spot.

But didn't she take the Shengsheng Zaohua Pill? She even took two of them. Now she is in extremely good health without any hidden illness or injury. No matter how great the stimulation is, it is actually very difficult for a person with a very healthy body to die of anger or to vomit blood and faint.

People who are so angry that they vomit blood or faint.

Most have some underlying diseases.

So she was just so furious and angry that she was about to lose her mind, and she wanted to kill people. Her angry roars could be heard from the palace until the late night. The ministers who were not involved but knew about it were even more hesitant about whether to take sick leave tomorrow. Would it make them seem guilty if they did?

But would it be dangerous if I went to court?

The next day, the grand court meeting was held as usual. Although all the officials had their own thoughts and were even a little nervous, most of them were able to attend the court relatively calmly. The brave ones among them even advised Liu E to mourn her majesty as soon as they opened their mouths!

However, Liu E had calmed down by now, so she did not lose her temper. Instead, she waved her hand, signaling the eunuchs to bring all the ten healthy boys and ten healthy girls found from Ci Gu Fang to the Chaozheng Hall from the second half of the night, and then said with a smile:
"My elder brother cannot leave his family line extinct, so I have decided to adopt these ten boys and ten girls as my adopted sons and daughters.

They will all be given the surname Liu if they perform well in future assessments.

He was then granted the title of Prince and Princess.

Even a princess and a throne.

If there is someone who particularly pleases me, it is not impossible to directly make him the Crown Prince. Of course, if there is an especially outstanding adopted daughter, it is not a problem to change the Crown Prince to the Crown Princess. "

“If there is anyone who is honest but incompetent, he can be adopted by my elder brother, so that he can safely continue the family line for my elder brother.

I am not stingy if I can also get a title of king."

In fact, when Liu E said the first two sentences, the faces of all the civil and military officials in the court changed. The faces of several princes of the Zhao Song royal family who had not been deposed turned pale, and many people couldn't help but feel regretful.

If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have been so anxious to kill him.

Liu Mei's only grandson.

In most dynasties, it was simply unthinkable to recognize an adopted son with no blood relationship as the heir to the throne. However, this happened more than once before the founding of the Song Dynasty and was even known to everyone.

Guo Wei, the founding father of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

He then passed the throne to his adopted son Chai Rong.

Of course, he was called Guo Rong at that time, but later generations got used to calling him Chai Rong, and his descendants also changed their surname back to Chai.

Going back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, there were many similar incidents. Even in the Later Tang Dynasty, the throne was passed on to adopted sons for several generations in a row, and it was not surprising to the world.

But that happened in troubled times after all.

Now that the world has been at peace for nearly a hundred years, everyone would naturally prefer to pass on their family property, and even the throne, to their own biological sons. Even if they don't have a biological son, they have to adopt one from a side branch to inherit the family property.

It is extremely rare for an adopted son to inherit a family business.

Unless the entire clan is wiped out.

They only thought that Liu E changed the country's name to Han, and that Liu E's nephew who also had the surname Liu was a great hidden danger, but they forgot that her nephew originally had no surname Liu, and Liu Mei's surname was not Liu either. He was given a surname by the previous emperor and changed his surname to Liu. Since he could change it, there were naturally many people in the world who could change their surnames to Liu.

As long as Liu E herself is willing to admit it.

Anyone can change their surname to Liu and become her relative.

If all these twenty babies were recorded in the royal genealogy, then theoretically, they would have the right of inheritance. Even with Liu E as the emperor now, their right of inheritance would be better than that of those with the surname Zhao.

Although the ministers also knew it.

This action should have been done by Liu E out of anger.

But they did not dare to gamble on the future, so they hurried to stop it in horror. However, this matter was originally decided by Liu E after she calmed down and thought carefully last night, so how could it be possible that it was because of their advice?

Just back off and quit?

So next, Liu E didn't care what the officials said, but directly asked the eunuchs to issue three imperial edicts. The first imperial edict was to build the Liu clan temple, and from then on, the sacrifices to the Taimiao were changed to the Liu clan temple. The royal family was naturally changed to Liu, and her father and grandfather were posthumously named emperors, and her deceased brother Liu Mei and his son and grandson were made kings, and they were worshipped in the Taimiao.

The second imperial decree was to abolish all the titles of the Zhao royal family, no matter whether they were kings, marquises, or earls, all of them would be stripped to the bottom. But if they could change their surnames to Liu in time, they would be included in the newly compiled genealogy of the Liu family.

Then they would be allowed to retain their titles.

The third is to officially announce to the public that he had adopted ten sons and daughters, who enjoyed the same treatment as other clan members.

After the age of five, one can be included in the Liu royal family genealogy.

These three imperial edicts were Liu E's counterattack. She was actually a little hesitant at first, but the murder of her nephew made her completely give up the last bit of tenderness in her heart and officially began her thunderous counterattack.