Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

Chapter 332 I Really Want to Live Another 4 Years ()

First of all, the civil and military officials in the court were too obviously biased towards Li Xian, and they were all very afraid that Bai Sheng would depose Li Xian from his position as crown prince.

And there is a deeper meaning behind this.

There is no doubt that it is because they are loyal to Li Tang.

In many people's minds, Li Xian is the true legitimate successor to the Tang Dynasty and the designated successor of Emperor Gaozong. His legitimate status and priority are far higher than those of Prince Xiang, even though Prince Xiang had also been an emperor.

After all, he was the designated successor before Emperor Gaozong's death.

Li Dan was a puppet supported by Wu Zetian.

This can be clearly seen in the Jinglong coup.

In the original history, although Li Duozuo participated in the successful Shenlong coup and was promoted to the Prince of Liaoyang, the fate of Zhang Jianzhi and others being forced to death by Wu Sansi and Empress Wei undoubtedly made him a little worried and afraid, and he took it as a lesson. Therefore, when the position of Crown Prince Li Chongjun was threatened and he wanted to launch a coup and contacted him, he immediately agreed.

He joined forces with Crown Prince Li Chongjun to launch the Jinglong coup.

They wanted to kill Empress Wei and Wu Sansi, and force Li Xian to abdicate. That's right, they didn't want to kill Li Xian.

After all, Li Chongjun didn't want to be branded as a patricide.

Li Duozuo also did not want to bear the reputation of regicide.

Except for the emperor, everyone else could be killed. This was the tradition of their Li Tang family. With Taizong taking the blame, no clan member or official could question it.

As long as you don't directly kill your father or your king, it will be fine.

The rest is acceptable to everyone.

As a result, Li Xian made a high-profile call and designated Li Chongjun and Li Duozuo as rebels. Most of their imperial guards who followed them to force the emperor to abdicate immediately turned against them. The Jinglong coup failed, and only Wu Sansi and his son were killed in the process.

Wu Zetian also appeared in the Shenlong coup.

Is it useful? No...

The prime ministers she personally promoted all betrayed her.

How to describe it, all the civil and military officials in the court gave Bai Sheng the feeling that they had always assumed that the world was still ruled by the Li Tang Dynasty, and that what the original body had done was just nonsense.

Once she really chooses a member of the Wu family as the crown prince, I'm afraid the entire God will explode like a powder keg.

Except for her gender and the fact that she is the daughter-in-law of the Li family.

The most important thing is that the foundation laid by Taizong and Gaozong was so good and solid that their reputation among the people was extraordinary and difficult to erase.

For example, the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong. Since the death of Emperor Taizong, the people of the Tang Dynasty and even the ministers who had suffered grievances would go to Zhaoling to cry and petition. This tradition even continued into the Song Dynasty. When the civil officials of the Song Dynasty were wronged, they would not run to the tombs of Emperor Taizong or Emperor Taizu of Song to cry, but would still go to Zhaoling to cry.

Another example is Qin Wang Po Zhen Le, which protected the Tang Dynasty once again even more than two hundred years after Qin Wang's death.

When Huang Chao attacked the city and held a banquet to solicit surrender, a song of Qin King's Breaking Formation Music rekindled the blood of the soldiers. The people were outraged and tore up the surrender agreement. The military and civilians united to resist Huang Chao. Although they could not rebuild the country, they did extend the life of Li Tang for another half a century.

At that time, Taizong had been dead for 231 years.

When was that? That was when the Li Tang dynasty had already produced a lot of rubbish emperors and incompetent rulers, yet he still had such a residual prestige and reputation. Moreover, it had only been more than 50 years since his death, and the previous emperor Gaozong was not a incompetent ruler, but a true ruler who maintained and expanded the territory of the Tang dynasty to its peak.

The combination of these factors directly resulted in the original body being unable to win back the hearts of his subjects and the people even though he had been in power for more than twenty years and had founded the Wu Zhou Dynasty for more than ten years.

They still have their hearts set on Li Tang.

This was probably the most important factor in the original body's final decision to return power to Li Tang. If Wu Zhou wanted to forcibly preserve his own dynasty, it would most likely only cause greater casualties.

So after comprehensively weighing the pros and cons.

Returning power to Li Tang is the best choice.

Unless she could live another sixty years, or even longer, allowing the Wu Zhou Dynasty to last for about a hundred years, or two or three generations, time would slowly erase the traces of the Li Tang Dynasty.

And outlast those who were most loyal to Li Tang.

It’s best to survive for two generations.

Then many things will be much easier to handle.

The original body didn't have this ability, but Bai Sheng did. And this time Bai Sheng was not planning to rebel. After all, she was the emperor. Why should she rebel? Should she rebel against herself?
She just took it slow, from top to bottom.

There are only two most important things now. One is to extend her life, and the other is to always control the financial power and most of the imperial guards and border troops. As long as she can stay alive and hold power, her reputation will become higher and higher even if she does not do much.

After all, we have seen many emperors.

I have never seen an emperor who lived over a hundred years old.

As long as she could live over a hundred years old, even if she was not a female emperor, her legendary status would be enough to crush most emperors. At this time, she would not need to do any propaganda herself, as the people would spontaneously sanctify her.

Understand and analyze this information.

At the same time, I have made a rough decision in my heart.

Bai Sheng practiced in seclusion in the Xianju Palace. It didn't matter that the outside environment had no spiritual energy, and it didn't matter that she couldn't breathe together with this world for the time being. She could still breathe together with her own portable plane.

So it wasn't long before she began to transform.

The maximum lifespan is also constantly increasing.

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Prince Xiang's Mansion

As soon as Prince Li Dan returned, he hurried to the back hall to find his son and several other advisers.

Today, the Xiangwang Mansion is still led by the Xiangwang on the surface, but everyone knows that the 20-year-old Linzi Prince Li Longji is the actual decision-maker of the Xiangwang Mansion. Many decisions and major policies of the Xiangwang Mansion were discussed between him and his advisers, and the Xiangwang was just a puppet machine responsible for issuing orders.

As Prince Li Dan returned.

Li Longji and others quickly stepped forward to ask for details.

Actually speaking, as a prince, Li Longji was qualified to attend court, but he was not required to do so. Moreover, he was really afraid of his grandmother who ruthlessly forced his cousins ​​to death, so under normal circumstances, he would rather not go to court unless specifically requested.

At this time, Prince Li Dan of Xiang, of course, quickly and truthfully recounted the general situation of today's court meeting:
"Sanlang, I did what you said, but it seems to have no effect. Didn't you say that if all the civil and military officials in the court pleaded for the prince, Her Majesty would be furious? But I don't think she is angry today.

It was said that the prince should reflect on his mistakes in seclusion for half a year.

The tone was quite gentle! By the way, this time it was very rare that not only were no one implicated, but even most of the 500 imperial guards who actually participated in forcing the emperor to abdicate were treated lightly and spared their lives.

He was just exiled to a remote frontier.

This is all too unusual. Sanlang, you should quickly think about what is going on. Why has the current emperor changed so much?"

Compared to the past, especially some time ago, she was very harsh to her own grandchildren. Just because they talked about the two Zhangs behind their backs, they were forced to death. Now her behavior is like a different person.

Being kind is a little unlike her.

Is it true that discussing her male favorites is a bigger sin than forcing her to abdicate?

After listening to Prince Li Dan's description, Li Longji and the staff present all fell into deep thought. After a long time, several staff present whispered their ideas.

"I have heard that some people become cruel as they age, while others become extra kind, especially when they feel they will die soon, and are more willing to accumulate merits. And didn't Your Majesty express some time ago that he wanted to be buried together with His Majesty Gaozong in Qianling Mausoleum?

Maybe it's because of Emperor Gaozong's face.

That’s why I choose to handle it with care! "

"Or maybe His Majesty was just bewitched by the two Zhangs before, and now that the two Zhangs have been killed, there is no one to bewitch His Majesty anymore, so His Majesty can't bear to hurt his own son."

"Father, I think we should not be too optimistic. In fact, we need to be extremely cautious in the future, because some people may become moody and forgetful when they get older, which is terrible.

Do you remember that we met an old man in his 90s who often complained that his children were unfilial and didn't give him food? We were very angry at the time and even wanted to blame his children. But after a detailed investigation, we found that his children were very filial and didn't give him food because he had already eaten five meals a day and would forget about it every time he had eaten. If he didn't have some control over himself, he might eat himself to death.

His children are also very distressed about this, but this is just forgetfulness. His mood swings will cause greater harm to his children.

The most important thing is that those old people I am talking about are just ordinary people. They don’t have any rights and can’t hurt anyone. At most, they will cause some distress to their children. But if the current emperor is like this, it would be unimaginable!
Father, don’t you think the emperor looks a bit like you?
It's like the feeling of being old and confused.

So I think we should try to keep a low profile in the future. If we can avoid attending court, we should avoid showing up. It would be best if His Majesty doesn’t remember us.

Then just wait and see how the situation develops."

Unlike some of his aides who turned directly to metaphysics and the current emperor's fear that it would be difficult to explain to him when he met Emperor Gaozong after his death, Li Longji did not really believe in these things. After thinking about it, he felt that his royal grandmother might be ill.

I'm old and my mind is muddled.

He had seen people like this who were old and confused before. Mood swings and forgetfulness were just the initial symptoms. In serious cases, they would not recognize people. When they were just ordinary people, it was already a torture for their children and a headache for their neighbors. If it was the emperor, he couldn't imagine how much damage it would cause.

After hearing Li Longji's doubts, Li Dan was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his back, and he immediately said that there was no problem.

He then immediately gave an order for all his men to lie low, keep a low profile and remain as invisible as possible. At the same time, he sent people to contact the imperial physician who could diagnose the emperor's pulse, and asked him to find a way to make a copy of the emperor's pulse record and send it to the Prince of Xiang's Mansion.

Go back and find some famous doctors to help analyze and judge.

In addition, the latest pulse cases must continue to be sent in.

Unlike the Xiangwang Mansion, it is suspected that Bai Sheng may have Alzheimer's disease, which is commonly known as senile confusion. Wu Sansi thought about it and couldn't figure out why his aunt had changed so much. In the end, he could only attribute it to her old age and soft heart.

A biological son is still a biological son after all, no matter how different they are.

As his nephew, he can't compare to him at all.

Based on this, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​deposing the crown prince, and continued to discuss with his staff and juniors how they could preserve the Wu family from being liquidated and exterminated once the current emperor passed away.

They are not that stupid, they have read history books.

The fate of the Lu family and the Han Dynasty's relatives were clear, and the Lu family and the Han Dynasty's relatives had not yet usurped the throne. At most, they were in power, and most of them only ruled the government from behind the curtain for more than a dozen years. But his aunt directly ascended the throne and changed the dynasty.

If you want to change the dynasty, then just change it thoroughly.

Now it's neither here nor there.

We must also return the throne to Li Tang.

She returned the throne to Li Tang, and happily became a family again with her son and grandson, but what about the Wu family? Who can guarantee that they will not be liquidated and exterminated?

There are so many precedents.

A bloody lesson from the past!

However, since they did not dare to rebel, they did not have any good solution. After much discussion, they finally found only one solution, which was to expand the scope of marriage.

Marry more people from the Li Tang royal family, and deepen the marriage alliance. When they want to exterminate the Wu family, most of the Li Tang royal family will be killed or injured. Only in this way can the Wu family be preserved. Even if it cannot be preserved, at least it will not be exterminated.

Back then, Empress Lü just had a short life.

If she had lived another twenty or thirty years, and had lived to see the daughters and sons of the Lu family who married the Liu kings, and with her help inherited the throne, then more than 90% of the new generation of Liu clan members would have Lu blood in their bodies, and nothing would have happened to her Lu family, even if her sons and grandsons were all wiped out and she had no descendants.

Her Lu family would not be wiped out.

In her later years, Wu Zetian worked hard to promote marriages between the Li and Wu families, also with the idea of ​​preserving the Wu family.

The effect is actually quite good.

My niece's granddaughter became Emperor Xuanzong's Consort Wu Huifei.

At this time, the atmosphere in the Princess's residence was completely different, because her second son Xue Chongjian once again advised her not to interfere too much in state affairs as soon as she returned:

"Mother, since ancient times, powerful officials have never had a good ending, not to mention the princesses and princes in power. Unless you can inherit the throne and become the second empress, the greater the power you hold now, the greater the danger in the future.

Now that the Holy Emperor is on the throne, she is your mother.

Parents will naturally favor some of their own children. The current queen is also a woman, so she may have no objection to your power and will not be overly wary of you. But once the crown prince or the prince succeeds to the throne, how can we tolerate you still holding such power and interfering in state affairs and the promotion of officials?

So I hope you can stop as soon as possible.

Stop interfering in government affairs."

Xue Chongjian had never seen a princess who was so deeply involved in state affairs as her mother. Her power far exceeded that of many princes in all dynasties. He was really scared when he thought about such a mother a little more, and felt that her life might be in danger.

Therefore, his repeated persuasion was sincere.

"Why can't I become the second empress?"

Princess Taiping was extremely angry. If the person she was admonishing was not her own son, she would have chopped him down with a knife.

But he just whipped it over directly.

Xue Chongjian was beaten so hard that he fell to the ground.