Chapter 44 Chapter 44 Qianyuan Hall is demolished and made Mingtang, the princes silenced and responded to the King of Yue

Wu Zetian listened to the discussion results of the group of Confucians, laughed, and said "hard work", and then she expressed her opinion, "I think this bright hall should be built in the palace!" The Confucians were silent, everyone It took a long time to do it for nothing, but unfortunately it became a means for the empress dowager to express herself. In February, Empress Wu Zetian ordered the destruction of the Qianyuan Hall and started construction on the original foundation. Xue Huaiyi, the project director, has a heavy responsibility. He goes on tour every day to urge the corvees to speed up the construction period, and at night, he goes on a date with the Queen Mother.Xue Huaiyi felt that he was great. There were tens of thousands of workers working under his nose. It can be said that the scale of Mingtang was beyond everyone's imagination.

As Xue Huaiyi's son, Wu Chengsi naturally couldn't be idle. He usually led the horse for the bald donkey, stood behind his buttocks and brazenly disciplined the officials of the Ministry of Education.Wu Chengsi worked very hard, and the others were not far behind. The cruel official Zhou Xing ushered in a big order in his life, because in April, Hao Xiangxian, the prince's general official, conspired against him. The reason is that this person is Hao Chujun's grandson. Hao Xiangxian was sued by the servants at the head of the family, and was deliberately arranged to be interrogated by Zhou Xing.Zhou Xing exhausted all kinds of torture, and Hao Xiangxian was convicted of the crime.Before his execution, Hao Xiangxian cursed and ignited the enthusiasm of the surrounding crowd.Everyone listened with high spirits to Hao Xiangxian scolding Wu Zetian, talking about what she did with Xue Huaiyi, and saying that Empress Wu had sex with many unkind wild men.

After Hao Xiangxian finished cursing, he was still insane. He escaped from the guards, rushed to a woodcutter watching the crowd, pulled out a wooden stick, and then rushed to the executioner to twitch wildly.Seeing this, the Jinwu soldiers shouted that it was not good, Qi Qi stabbed Hao Xiangxian with a big spear, and Hao Xiangxian died of exhaustion. When Wu Zetian heard about this, she was extremely ashamed and very angry. She ordered Hao Xiangxian to be dismembered, the graves of his father and grandfather (Hao Chujun) were dug up, the coffin was dug out, and the bones were burned.She also ordered that from now on, whenever executions are executed in the vegetable market, a wooden ball must be stuffed in the prisoner's mouth to avoid revealing his private affairs.

Seeing the woman defending this hard-won love so much, Xue Huaiyi smiled knowingly. Only work hard and let her know that she is serious.In the past year, Xue Huaiyi ran all over the construction site and injured countless labor and industry officials in exchange for today's achievements.Yes, Ming Tang was built.This bright hall is 294 feet high (about 90 meters, equivalent to a 30-40-story building) and 300 feet wide. It has only three floors in total. Decorated with gold. The Mingtang is surrounded by copper decoration, covering a huge area and quite magnificent.The entire Mingtang is named "Vientiane Shrine", which represents the universe and the gods of the four directions.

Wu Zetian is very satisfied with Xiaobao, but she still feels that there are some shortcomings.She had a sudden thought, since the Mingtang was built, why not build a big statue for herself? As for the height, it must be higher than the Ming Hall. The Ming Hall has three floors, so the Tiange where the statues are installed must have five floors.Therefore, the pavilion needs to be at least 150 meters high (fifty-storey high-rise buildings), in order to accommodate towering buildings such as idols, and it is named "Heaven".The heaven was also built on schedule. The towering statues we saw in "Di Renjie: The Heavenly Empire" were not fictional, but actually existed.

Regardless of ancient and modern times, regardless of Chinese and foreign, such a tall portrait building is really rare in the world.Just after the statue was completed, Master Huaiyi's son and horse boy, Mr. Wu Chengsi appeared again. Wu Chengsi said that a Yongzhou native named Tang Tongtai had good luck recently. He changed from an ordinary commoner to a guerrilla general in the dynasty.However, Tang Tongtai did not expose the governors of their prefectures and counties, nor did he sue Li Tang's clan. Instead, he found a stone tablet by the Luoshui River.The front of this stele is engraved with the words "The Holy Mother Comes, Yongchang Emperor" in large purple flowing characters, and the whole body is white and clean.

Tang Tongtai reported the discovery of the sacred stele, and Wu Zetian was overjoyed, so he sent someone to investigate.The stele has not been corroded in any way, but in the eyes of the big guys, this situation is really normal, because the stele is indeed not corroded by running water.Wu Zetian was there in person, and she led all the civil and military officials and a huge ceremonial team to the southern suburbs to thank God Haotian.After the bout of tears, everyone gathered in Mingtang for a meeting. Wu Zetian was overjoyed, and announced that important officials from all over the country had to come to worship Luoshuihe God, and stipulated: "The governors, governors, clans, and relatives of all states must gather in the capital of the gods ten days before worshiping Luo!"

A few days later, she added the title of "Holy Mother God Emperor". On the first day of June in the fourth year of Chuigong (688 AD), people saw a solar eclipse.Later, Wu Zetian ordered people to make three jade seals, which were called "Three Seals of the Emperor of God".On the first day of July, she pardoned the whole world and led officials from all over the country to pay homage to Luoshui. "Hou", special advance, prohibiting the people from fishing, and offering grand sacrifices on a regular basis. The spring near the place where Shentu was discovered was named "Shengtu Spring", and the county next to the spring was renamed "Yongchang County".The nearby mountain (Songshan Mountain) was renamed "Shenyue", and the god of Songshan Mountain was granted the title of "king of heaven".

As soon as the sacred stele came out, many sacred steles appeared in various places. Sishui first followed Luoshui's good example, and there was an extra Ruishi. Empress Wu Zetian changed Sishui to Guangwu. Everything is just a well-known trick. The person who asked Tang Tongtai to make the stele was Wu Chengsi who had no other skills.Wu Chengsi didn't care much about what Wu Zetian sealed Luoshui, he only cared about her impression of him.However, this god-making movement had just been kicked off by Mr. Wu Chengsi, and was caught off guard by the princes of Li Tang's clan. Because Li Tang was angry.

The main personnel leading the clan movement are: Jiangzhou Inspector Li Yuanjia, King of Han Qingzhou Inspector Huo Wang Li Yuangui Li Lingkui, the governor of Xingzhou, king of Lu Li Zhen, King of Yue, Inspector of Yuzhou Li Yuanjia's son, written by Huang Gongli, the governor of Tongzhou Li Yuangui's son, Jinzhou governor Jiangdu Wang Li Xu Son of Li Feng, King of Guo, Li Gongrong of Dongguan, governor of Shenzhou Li Lingkui's son, Fanyang Wang Li Ai Li Zhen's son, Bozhou Inspector Langya King Li Chong The initiation of this large-scale movement must also be thanks to Wu Chengsi's unintentional move. Wu Zexia ordered all important personnel to gather in Luoyang, and all the princes of Li Tang's clan received this invitation.Wu Zetian is not Xiang Yu, so naturally she can't imitate Xiang Yu, and put on a grand feast of letting others go.Comrade Huang Gong Li Zhuan (Li Yuansun) saw the imperial edict and exclaimed that it was not good, so he wrote a relatively cryptic letter to Yue Wang Li Zhen (the eighth son of Li Shimin): "My wife is seriously ill, and he should be treated quickly. So far this winter, it may become a chronic disease."

There are two meanings to this letter. The first one: My daughter-in-law's illness is getting more and more serious, and she needs to be treated quickly. If it is delayed until this winter, she may never be cured. The second type: The person in the palace is getting more and more neurotic, we have to treat her quickly, and wait until winter before we act, for fear that our lives will be lost. The kings have also experienced scenes. They know the meaning of Wu Zetian's edict better than anyone else.They communicated privately, and they agreed that the Holy Mother of God, the Emperor, would let someone inform them during the feast, and catch them all.Li Zhuan knew that everyone was doomed, so he felt that he should act as an advocate and launch a clan movement. So, he sent something to Li Chong, the king of Langya in Bozhou (Liaocheng, Shandong). After Li Chong received it, he opened it and realized that it was an imperial decree. He was shocked. "I'm under house arrest, the kings hurry up and send troops to rescue me!" Yue Wang Li Zhen (Li Chong's father) received the letter, immediately imitated Li Zhuan, and also forged a copy of the emperor's seal, "The emperor wants to take away the Li family and pass the country to the Wu family." The kings received the letter , Only then did I know that Emperor Li Dan was imprisoned by the woman and sent a distress signal.This is Li Tang's last chance. If we don't act, what big things will happen when that woman kills everyone? On August 17th in the fourth year of Chuigong (688 A.D.), Li Chong ordered Changshi to recruit troops near Bozhou, and sent a letter to inform King Han, King Huo, King Lu, King Yue, King Ji and others to lead their troops to the capital of God. .It was this kind of behavior that put Li Chong and others in danger. Because Li Chong was the first to recruit troops, he quickly recruited more than 5,000 people. He planned to cross the Yellow River and head straight for Jeju.But if you want to cross the river to capture Jeju, you must first capture Wushui.Guo Wuti, the magistrate of Wushui County, saw Li Chong approaching, and fled to Weizhou (Wei County, Hebei Province) at the speed of a red rabbit horse to rescue soldiers. Ma Xuansu, magistrate of Xin County, saw this and fought Li Chong with seven thousand soldiers.Because he was afraid that he would not be able to beat Li Chong, he followed Guo Wuti and hid in the county town, guarding behind closed doors, refusing to open the door.Li Chong was very angry. He asked people to push countless grass carts to block the south gate of Wushui. He checked the weather, and after three hahaha sounds, he lit a torch and threw it over.The south wind keeps blowing, if God wants to kill that vicious woman, let the strong wind blow even more violently! God still didn't really want to destroy Wu Zetian. Just two minutes later, the wind direction suddenly changed by 180 degrees. The flames licked Li Chongbing who was pushing the cart, and the soldiers were immediately smoky and unable to move forward.The general in charge of leading the troops to fight Wushui was named Dong Xuanji, and he was a lonely and useless person. Dong Xuanji is Li Chong's confidant, but he feels that Li Chong's rebellion is wrong, and he spreads his views while leading the army to fight, "King Langya is at war with the country, this is treason!" Saying it once is deep, saying it twice is true. Loyalty, if you talk too much, it is Xianglin's wife.Dong Xuanji's words were heard by Li Chong, and Li Chong was furious, "If you don't want to hang out with me, get lost, and fight for me and beep, can you not kill you?! Dong Xuanji was brutally beheaded. At this time, the soldiers who had been incited by him also became confused. Everyone was convinced that Li Chong was doing something improper, so they were panicked and fled the barracks at night. Afraid of being caught by the officers and soldiers, they hid in the grass. hid in between.Yes, after several days of frantic escape, there were only a few dozen people left by Li Chong's side.Li Chong looked helplessly at the remaining cronies, shook his head, packed his bags, and fled back to Bozhou. Bozhou, the generals and soldiers defending the city, Li Zhen and dozens of cronies, the sky, white clouds, weeds, banners... When Li Chong came back, everyone cheered and opened the door to welcome him.Li rushed into the city, and the crowd took up their knives and chopped him into meat sauce.Everyone wanted to prove their innocence by killing Li Chong, and waited for the inspection by the court officials.The imperial court really sent someone, and Qiu Shenji soon arrived outside Bozhou City.To commemorate the death of the prince, Bozhou military officers and officials came out in white clothes to meet the imperial envoy.General Qiu should understand their painstaking efforts, and he should comfort them. Qiu Shenji shook the dust on the Xuanjia, and walked forward quickly. The queue dressed in white was getting closer and closer, Qiu Shenji suddenly picked up the Mo Dao and slashed at the leader like lightning.Blood was spilled all over the ground, and the officers and soldiers following Qiu Shenji also slashed wildly with their knives. All the people who came out to meet him were killed, and more than a thousand people died outside the city of Bozhou.Qiu Shenji, a person who has no performance on the battlefield, he directed such a play in order to get enough people to kill the bandits. The governor of Yuzhou (Runan, Henan Province) Yue Wang Li Zhen raised troops to respond to Li Chong, and successfully captured Shangcai. On the first day of September, Wu Zetian ordered Qu Chongyu, the general of Zuo Baotao, to be the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army and Cen Changqian to be the commander-in-chief of the rear army.She announced that the affiliation of Li Chong and Li Zhen would be cut off, and the surname would be changed to "虺 (pronunciation: destroy)" as an insult. Li Chong lost his life within seven days of starting an army. After making a difficult decision, Li Zhen was going to go to the Queen Mother to plead guilty.Li Zhen is not young, he knows what will happen to him if he does this. Zhao Gui: Believe me, I will make you the second happiest person in the world! Chang Le: Why not number one? Zhao Gui: With you... I am the happiest person in the world.