Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

On the day of the amnesty, Li Longji came to show his courtesy, and wrote a letter requesting to give up Li Chengqi's seat. Everyone opposed it, so they gave up, and asked to take back Princess Taiping. Everyone supported it, and the trip was made. Li Dan finally met his younger sister, this good younger sister, just returned to the capital, and gave his brother a blow.She asked to build Haoling and Shunling (imperial scale) for Wu Zetian's parents (Warriors Xun and Yang), and also asked to build an imperial tomb after her husband Wu Youji died.What's more, Li Dan actually nodded!

After that, Princess Xicheng and Princess Longchang (Li Dan's obedient daughter) got into a quarrel, insisting that Li Dan build a mansion and a Taoist temple for them.Both of them also changed their names, Princess Xicheng became Princess Jinxian, and Princess Longchang became Princess Yuzhen.Disrupting order and demolishing houses, the ministers began to complain.However, Dou Congyi, the servant, said that this can reflect the greatness of fatherly love, and asked for an increase in the establishment and extravagance. Dou Congyi now has a new nickname, "Princess Yisi".The reason is that after he went down to court, instead of going home to make out with his wife, he first went to Taiping's house to pay her respects.The "Yisi" here, translated into a more fashionable term, is "dog leg".However, Dou Congyi has a good personality, and he is still very happy. He is no longer the young and promising young man who dared to love and hate that Di Renjie recommended back then.

How it became like this, only he himself understands.Perhaps, after going through so much, those who still persist are considered sages. Taiping has successively suppressed those officials who did not accept bribes for government, which made her lose face.In October of this year, she even asked Li Dan to visit Chengtian Gate personally, and attracted Wei Anshi, Guo Yuanzhen, Dou Huaizhen, Li Rizhi, Zhang Shuo and others to announce the order.Amidst the solemnity, a series of appointments and dismissals were shouted from the gate tower: there are too many political and religious issues, floods and droughts cause disasters, the treasury is exhausted, and bureaucrats are growing; (The above is an explanation of the situation. The current situation is not good. It is my responsibility and the responsibility of the officials.) Wei Anshi can shoot for Zuo Pu and stay behind in Dongdu. The Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhang said that he could be Zuo Cheng, and he dismissed political affairs.Take Liu Youqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, as the servant, Wei Zhigu, the regular servant of the right Sanqi, as the regular servant of the Zuo Sanqi, and Cui Shi, the prince Zhanshi, as the servant of Zhongshu, and he is the third rank of Zhongshu's family; Lu Xiangxian, the servant of Zhongshu, is the same as Pingzhang .

Half are Li Dan's people, half are Taiping people, but they are all Taiping people after all.The handsome Cui Shi quarrels and asks Taiping to recommend him for promotion, but Mr. Cui is a scholar, and scholars have thin skins, so he is too embarrassed to take office alone anyway. Cui Shi knew what to do. In order to show the reliability of this election, he suggested that Taiping promote Lu Xiang together first, and said: "Lu Xiang is a good person first, choose with me, I can get in, but he can't, then I am too shameless, I'll just die!" It can be seen that brother Cui Shi is really shameless. Similar to this, other officials have also mixed in, creating the current situation.Li Dan cherishes his sister too much, and it is right to cherish it, but once his sister's desire is reached at the expense of himself and his son, Li Dan will be at a loss.After resigning, Li Dan went to Songshan to find Sima Chengzhen (Pan Shizheng's apprentice), the twelfth generation master of the Shangqing School of Taoism in Songyang Guannei.

Li Dan: "What is yin and yang, what is Taoism, I want to learn magic, but I don't know where to start?" Sima Chengzhen: "Taoist, damage and damage, to the point of inaction, Anken can work hard to count with academics!" Li Dan: "It is lofty to govern the body and do nothing. How about governing the country?" Sima Chengzhen: "The country is like the body. If things are natural and the heart is selfless, then the world is in order." Think about it, this is the principle of governing the world.) Li Dan suddenly became enlightened, and sighed: "There is no way to exaggerate the words of Guangcheng!"

Chen Ziang, Lu Zangyong, Song Zhiwen, Wang Shi, Bi Gou, Sima Chengzhen, Li Bai, Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, He Zhizhang, these ten people are known as the "Ten Friends of Xianzong".To be honest, the level of the ten friends of Xianzong is uneven, including Song Zhiwen and Chen Ziang.Behind Chen Zi'ang is Lu Zangyong, Zuo Cheng, who wrote to the dynasty.As a fellow Taoist, Lu Zangyong didn't understand Sima Chengzhen very much. He didn't understand why a person can really yearn for peace and inaction, and live a life in an ordinary way? Therefore, Lu Zang found Sima Chengzhen with a cheeky face, pointed to Zhongnan Mountain in the distance, and said: "This place is good, why do you go to Tiantai Mountain to practice?"

But Sima Chengzhen suddenly burst out laughing, "Anyone as stupid as me can see that living in Zhongnan Mountain in seclusion is a shortcut to get involved in an official career, not to mention that you are so smart!" After saying that, he drifted away, returned to the rooftop, and lived his pure life.Counting from this day, Taoism began to influence the history of the Tang Dynasty, and once it did, it lasted for two hundred years. It was an eventful autumn. In July of the first year of Xiantian (AD 712), a meteor slid across the western night sky, fell from Xuanyuan star to Taiweiyuan, and disappeared beside Dajiao.It is a thief star as the folks call it, and it is also a wounded door that Taoists say is bad.

Therefore, many people began to feel uneasy. A dear friend who had studied a few elective courses ran to Comrade Dou Congyi (now called Dou Huaizhen) in a panic and reported a gossip to him, "Mr. Dou, take a look. A meteor has fallen, and the stars are not full, you are going to be imprisoned!" Hearing this, most people would first think of why the meteor has something to do with them, and ask the warlock to produce evidence.But Comrade Dou Congyi was used to doing bad things, so he was terrified. After listening to the alchemist's interpretation, he wrote his resignation letter overnight, and the next day, he ran to Li Dan and submitted it.

Li Dan asked: "If you don't serve as a good official, why do you want to dismiss the official?" Dou Congyi didn't explain much, he just said that he was incompetent and so on.Li Dan was helpless and asked him where he wanted to go.Dou Congyi said: "Just go to Anguo Temple to be a servant." Dou Congyi's abnormal behavior really shocked everyone.The most outraged person should be Princess Taiping.She got angry when she thought of Dou Congyi's useless appearance, ran to her brother, scolded Dou Congyi's low-key killing, and persuaded Li Dan to use this guy again.

Under Li Dan's greeting, Dou Congyi came with a happy face. After returning home, someone asked him, "Yesterday you were still crying for your father and mother, why are you so happy today? Aren't you afraid of going to jail?" Brother Cong laughed, "I escaped!" This time, Dou Congyi really felt the pride of being under the spotlight, because his new official is Zuo Pushe and Yushi doctor, Pingzhang Military and State Important Affairs (Taiping's credit). What makes people feel strange is that Dou Congyi seems to have escaped the disaster, and since Sima Chengzhen left, Princess Taiping's prophecy has also come true.

After meteors, comets appeared. Princess Taiping arranged for a sorcerer to go to the palace and exhort Li Dan, "Your Majesty, do you know why the layout of the comet is so weird this time?" Li Dan said he didn't know.The sorcerer explained, "The comet does not follow the way of the Empress Dowager (I need a grand explanation, once during Wu Zetian's reign, a big Halley's Comet swept across the sky, almost exactly the same way as during the Sui Yang Emperor's reform period, the ancients have records But in fact, the comet this time is not Halley’s Comet at all, so the warlock said that it is different from the period of Emperor Zetian, not bragging, but the truth), and the emperor constellation (α Hercules), Xinqian (the heart star is Uranus) , the star in front of the heart star is the prince star) and the two stars have been very abnormal recently." Li Dan said: "What can that explain?" "The star of the prince in front of my heart flashes from time to time... It means the prince is about to move." Warlock's words are a huge trap, just wait for Li Dan to be furious.He originally hoped that Li Dan would have facial twitching symptoms, and then cry bitterly.Unexpectedly, Li Dan glanced at the warlock calmly, and then looked away.He thought about it for a while, then looked ahead, and said in a seemingly happy tone: "Then spread virtue and avoid disaster!"He was frightened by Li Dan's actions and shouted that it was not good.Li Dan said decisively: "I have made up my mind, so there is no need to say more!" Official pass! The matter spread quickly, and some people went to the Taiping mansion to cry to show their loyalty. Princess Taiping was furious again by Li Dan's behavior. Early the next morning, she mobilized all her cronies to persuade Li Dan to dissuade such crazy behavior. The focus of the debate in the court ranged from how not to abdicate to how not to abdicate so quickly, to how not to abdicate easily, and finally to the fact that comets are nothing. appeared above the hall.Li Dan was also very emotional. Hearing people chattering, he suddenly said: "During Zhongzong's time, treacherous officials came out to make trouble, and there were many stars in the sky. At that time, I asked Zhongzong to find a virtuous child to pass on the throne. Feel the wrath of heaven. After Zhongzong heard what I said, he was very unhappy, and I was so panicked that I didn't eat for a few days." Seeing that none of the officials dared to look up at him, Li Dan scanned the audience first, then raised his voice, and reprimanded sharply: "You say, I can persuade others to make mistakes, but I cannot persuade myself when I make mistakes. What's the point?" The hall was silent... Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the hall. Someone was crying loudly with a broken gong, and the sound was getting closer and closer. Everyone turned their heads to look, but saw that it was Prince Li Longji.Li Longji fell to the ground and kowtowed N heads, "Your Majesty is not talented. I have some minor merits, so I became the prince. But just like this, I am already very scared. I don't know why your majesty suddenly passed on the news. position, I don’t know, Your Majesty!” Li Dan's rigid expression suddenly softened, and he looked at Li Longji, "The country can be stable again, and who is responsible for the reason why I have won the world again?... Children, don't they all belong to you? Now, the emperor seat If there is a disaster in the sky, it is because I did not do well. I passed on the position to you, just to turn disaster into blessing, why should you doubt it?" After listening, Li Longji wailed, his loud voice shocked the audience. Li Dan was angry, he pointed at Li Longji, and shook his head in disappointment, "You are a filial son, son, you just want to wait for me to enter the coffin before you ascend the throne?" Everyone was completely overwhelmed by Li Dan's anger.The smart Li Dan shocked the audience with his excellent acting skills. No one in the audience (including those in Taiping) dared to speak out, only Li Longji was sobbing. In July of the first year of Xiantian (712 A.D.), Li Dan took the throne and succeeded Li Longji. On the third day of August, Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji ascended the throne and respected Emperor Ruizong Li Dan as the Supreme Emperor. Taiping was angry again, it was like a bolt from the blue.However, she was not too anxious yet, because Li Dan's imperial edict clearly stated that the appointment and dismissal of ministers above the third rank would be presided over by the Supreme Emperor.In other words, the backbone of the imperial court still has to listen to Li Dan. Let's take a look at the situation after the new official took office: On the fifth day of the eighth month, the Empress of Heaven (Wu Zetian) was honored as the Empress of the Holy Emperor. On the seventh day of August, the world is amnesty and the Yuan Dynasty is changed to Kaiyuan. On the ninth day of August, the concubine Wang was made the queen, and Wang Renjiao, the father of the queen, was the servant. On August 11th, the prince Xuchang Wang Sizhi was established as the king of Tan, and Wang Siqian of Zhending was made the king of Ying.Take Liu Youqiu as the right servant and Tong Zhongshu's third rank, Wei Zhigu as the servant, and Cui Shi as the inspector and Zhongshuling. See clearly? Others are useless information, only the prime minister.Among the prime ministers, there was only one Liu Youqiu who belonged to Li Longji, and he was surrounded by a group of Taiping people.As the prime minister, Liu Youqiu is currently in a dangerous situation. He is very afraid that Li Longji will be deposed, and he is even more afraid that he will be killed by a group of people around him. One day, Liu Youqiu, who was very proactive in his daily work, found a general from You Yulin.The general's name was Zhang Wei, and under the entrustment of Liu You, Zhang Wei took the initiative to find Li Longji.According to Zhang Wei's analysis, Dou Congyi, Cui Shi, and Cen Xi all became prime ministers because of Taiping, and they conspired against the law.Of course, Zhang Wei understood very well that to scare Li Longji, he had to use Li Dan as an excuse. His last sentence was this: "If you can't make a plan earlier, the Supreme Emperor will be ruined." Li Longji was moved by the person Liu Youqiu arranged, and nodded in agreement with the plan.After a lot of tossing, it was nothing more than convincing Li Longji that everyone supported the coup. Then act!