Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 786 Rumors Spread
"Mount Tai Fengchan" is an extremely solemn activity held by the emperor who has made great contributions to the world and the people in ancient times to worship the heaven and the earth on Mount Tai. Usually, this activity is used to show his great achievements and pray for the world.

In the previous history, apart from Yao and Shun, the only emperors who have done Mount Tai Fengchan are "Qin Shihuang", "Han Wudi", and "Guangwu Emperor", and they are all people who have achieved great achievements.Later, basically no emperor did this. Why, he felt that his achievements were not brilliant enough, so he was too embarrassed to do this.

Originally, Tang Taizong Li Shimin also wanted to confer Mount Tai. It should be possible based on his achievements, but because the country was not rich at that time, it could not afford the financial resources consumed by such large-scale sacrificial activities, so it could not be done.

At this time, Wu Zetian proposed to "enclose Zen and Mount Tai". It is not enough to say that Tang Gaozong Li Zhi's credit is not enough, but Tang Gaozong Li Zhi readily agreed.

why?

First of all, with the good foundation laid by Tang Taizong’s Zhenguan rule, the Tang Dynasty did develop quite well during the period of Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi, but it is said that the people are happy to work, and the people’s livelihood has been greatly restored, and the expenses of this activity can be borne .

The second one we said that Li Zhi's character is cowardly and inferior. He admires and fears his father Tang Taizong Li Shimin very much, but in his heart he really wants to prove his ability and ability.

If he can accomplish something that his father failed to do and prove that he is no worse than his father, then he is very willing to do it.

In this way, under Wu Zetian's best efforts, Li Zhi decided to go to Fengchan Taishan.According to the normal process, the emperor first offered sacrifices to the God of Haotian in Fengchan Taishan, and at this time, the former emperor shared it.

Then the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs will offer sacrifices to the emperor's land. At this time, the Empress Dowager will share it. This is called Yaxian.There is nothing about the queen in this ceremony, so how could Wu Zetian be willing.

So Wu Zetian raised an objection, thinking that this etiquette process was inappropriate.

She put forward the reason: "The sacrifice to the heavens is shared by the first emperor, and the first offering is made by the emperor. The sacrifice land is shared by the empress dowager. If the ministers come to the sub-offer, it will definitely be unsuitable. After all, men and women are different! If the queen does the sub-offering It’s perfectly appropriate to honor your mother-in-law.”

So Empress Wu created another great feat: as a queen, she conferred Zen on Mount Tai together with Emperor Gaozong Li Ye of Tang Dynasty.

Wu Zetian completed her Fengchan ceremony in the colorful tent, creating a precedent for women to sacrifice in Mount Tai, and also made her show off in front of the subjects of the world.

Originally, the Empress completed the Fengchan Ceremony in the colorful tent, making it colorful, and all the officials were still secretly laughing at Wu Zetian.But after Mount Tai's conferment of Zen, some people really laughed from the heart, because of what?They got promoted.

It turns out that Empress Wu used the matter of enshrining Zen on Mount Tai to invite Li Ye, Emperor Gaozong, to add officials and ranks to the officials accompanying the sacrifice, especially to set those critical points at the third and fifth ranks. Officials who are not qualified for senior titles are all promoted.This is really rejoicing, Empress Wu's status in their hearts is soaring, and Taishan Fengchan has allowed Empress Wu to greatly buy people's hearts.

Since then, Empress Wu's reputation has grown, and many people have put Wu Zetian and Li Zhi together. Since then, Wu Zetian has finally been satisfied, and she believes that she has the ability to challenge Li You.

You, Li Youyoujiuxi, are the deputy emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and her Wu Zetian is equal to the emperor, so she is higher than Li You, but Wu Zetian doesn't know that all of this is Li You's secret trick.

This is Li You's big, big set. This set is ready to seal Wu Zetian in the set. Wu Zetian still doesn't know anything at this time. You must know that Li Zhi is already very dissatisfied with Wu Zetian at this time. .

Wu Zetian's poisonous killing of He Lan Minyue had already reduced Li Zhi's affection for Wu Zetian to the lowest point. Moreover, after Li You came back from the outside this time, he found that Wu Zetian's power was growing. Li Zhi was not willing, but Wu Zetian carried it out on his own.

The most speechless one was when Li Zhi complained in the palace, saying that he knew it, and someone immediately reported this complaint to Wu Zetian, who then ran up to Li Zhi and asked him why he scolded himself like this , Li Zhi was so frightened, so he had no choice but to say that there was no such thing, and then shifted the responsibility to another young eunuch.

What Li Zhi didn't expect was that Wu Zetian beat the little eunuch to death without saying a word, and he was still unwilling to do so, so he found the whole family of the little eunuch and killed them all. .

Although Wu Zetian defended his position for a while, the little favor Wu Zetian left for Li Zhi has faded away. Li Zhi told his fifth brother about his thoughts. At this time, Li Zhi Yu also asked Li Zhi clearly.

Li Zhi once again affirmed his own thoughts, so this time the big trap officially started, and the Taishan Fengchan was the first step of the trap, the purpose was to make Wu Zetian think that he could already be on an equal footing with the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Another important reason was to arouse the anger of Changsun Wuji's group of old ministers. In the following matters, Li You still needed to rely on the old ministers' party.

The time point was switched to the military account again.

Zhou Chong heard that Wu Xiaowei said about Mount Tai's confinement to Zen, and Zhou Chong also knew the result of this encirclement of Mount Tai. Captain, then I will do it to you.!"

"Okay!" The military captain laughed: "General Zhou Zhonglang, as long as you can bite Su Dingfang to death, then I can guarantee that you will be the queen's confidant in the future, and you will have endless glory and wealth!"

A sentence of endless prosperity and wealth made Zhou Chong laugh out loud. Seeing Zhou Chong's big laugh, Captain Wu also showed a happy smile, but Captain Wu didn't know that the nightmare of the Wu family was about to strike. coming.

Five days later, there was some gossip from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty that Su Dingfang, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, hid all the treasures of the Western Turkic Palace privately, probably to gather money for someone's rebellion.

It's just that this matter was rumored but there was no real evidence. This matter slowly spread to the palace, and all of a sudden, people in the palace began to panic.

(End of this chapter)