Chapter 49 Chapter Forty-ninth: Wu Chengsi Keeps Upholding the Honorary Title Li Zhaode Drives People Off the Altar

A few little things: ① Lai Junchen is still very safe, Wu Zetian doesn't want to kill him yet, he really should put the "Luo Zhijing" on the incense stand for worship, and thank him for his experience. Lai Junchen is getting more and more arrogant. He has three hobbies: first, women, especially other people's women; second, money, especially other people's money; . (The main personnel include General Zuowei, Yuan Xiancheng of the Koryo nationality, etc.). ② Pei Xuanli was demoted to Yiling Order, and the cruel official Huo Xianke (the one who was at odds with Hou Sizhi) was very dissatisfied. As Pei Xuanli's nephew, he felt that he had to kill his uncle to relieve his anger.After Pei Xuanli was demoted, he was so angry that he ran to Wu Zetian and kowtowed, crying and showing his loyalty, "If your Majesty does not kill Pei Xuanli, I will die for you!"

After saying that, he swore allegiance to the Emperor and Wu Zhou, and if he did not severely punish the rebels, he, Huo Xian, would die with peace in his eyes. Wu Zetian thought to himself: Then go to hell! Seeing that he couldn't get off the stage, Huo Xian had no choice but to bite the bullet and bumped his head on the steps of the hall, bleeding all over the ground.Wu Zetian expressed great respect for Huo Xianke's noble feelings of not being selfish, and asked him to go back first.But Huo Xian got it cheap and acted like a good boy. After the injury on his head healed quickly, he still wrapped it in a green cloth.But the Futou can just cover the wrapped green cloth, so that it will not show that he has been injured for fighting.

So, Huo Xianke deliberately pulled the green cloth out, revealing a little bit of green. Whenever Wu Zetian looked at him, he was very excited, well, the emperor will definitely think of my loyalty to the head bump! Not to mention wearing a cuckold, as long as the emperor values ​​it, you can wear a cuckold! ③ In May of the first year of Changshou (AD 692), Empress Wu Zetian issued an edict prohibiting the slaughter of living beings and the arrest of fish and shrimp. This is totally against the laws of nature. Fishermen are not afraid of being beheaded and secretly catch fish to eat.Of course, many officials of the imperial court hid at home and ate meat, and Wu Zetian could guess that.Just recently, Zuo Shiyi Zhang De had a happy event at home recently, his wife gave birth to a fat boy, today is the third day.Three days of great joy, then please invite everyone!Zhang De was so happy that he slaughtered a sheep with his own hands.When his colleagues came, he secretly took out the mutton, and there was a moment of silence.In the silence, everyone's eyes showed the color of hungry wolves. They didn't talk much, but gnawed in a very low-key manner, and gnawed with gusto.

At this time, Comrade Buque Du Su entered our screen.But he secretly pinched a piece of mutton bone, hid it in his sleeve, and then ate it sullenly. The next day, a meeting. "I heard that Aiqing's family has added a boy, congratulations!" Zhang De was flattered and thanked him again and again. Wu Zetian suddenly changed the subject, took out a piece of mutton from his pocket and asked, "Where did this piece of meat come from?" Zhang De was terrified and apologized again and again. Seeing that he was nervous, Wu Zetian smiled and comforted him, saying: "I forbid slaughter, but it is reasonable, except for red and white things." After a pause, he added: "You should be more careful when making friends in the future."

Afterwards, Du Su was demoted to a place where the birds don't shit.Before leaving, he said in court that he was actually very ashamed, but all civil and military officials in the court wanted to spit on his face (the court wanted to spit on his face).Wu Zetian couldn't understand villains, especially villains who told others to eat meat after eating meat! ④ Li Zhaode, whom Wu Chengsi hated the most, was not dead. He became mad and sued repeatedly.Wu Zetian finally got annoyed, and she warned Wu Chengsi: "I can only sleep well if I appoint Li Zhaode. He is in charge of the overall situation for me. Don't talk about it in the future!" Wu Zetian scolded cruel officials in front of him.Even the powerful Wu Chengsi could only pretend to be a younger brother in front of Li Zhaode.

Wu Chengsi sent someone to Xiangrui, and someone presented a white stone with red writing on it.Hundreds of officials who clocked in to work, in various official uniforms, came to watch the excitement.Someone was puzzled and asked what kind of auspiciousness there was. The person offering auspiciousness said: "It has a red heart!" Li Zhaode was furious in court, pointing at the man and cursing: "This stone has a heart, and the other stones are rebellious?!" All the officials burst into laughter. Wu Chengsi also appointed a man named Hu Qing to offer auspiciousness. He was so good that he wrote the words "Ten Thousand Years of the Son of Heaven" on the turtle's belly with red paint, and ran to the court to offer treasures.Li Zhaode took the tortoise, scraped off the words with a knife, turned around and ran in front of Wu Zetian, and asked to punish Hu Qing.Wu Zetian had no choice but to smooth things over for the person who offered auspiciousness and said: "He has no bad intentions." It can be seen that now that he is the emperor, Wu Zetian also takes auspiciousness indifferently.

But Wu Chengsi was angry: "Li Zhaode, in this world, either you will die or I will live! Just wait and see!" Li Zhaode: "The power of King Wei (Wu Chengsi)...is too heavy." Wu Zetian: "He is my nephew, so I don't worry." Li Zhaode: "The relationship between a nephew and his aunt, or the relationship between a son and his parents, which one is closer? If a son kills the king and father, let alone a nephew!" Wu Zetian: "..." Li Zhaode: "Wu Chengsi is His Majesty's nephew, he is also a prince, and he is also a prime minister. The power has already surpassed His Majesty."

Wu Zetian: "..." Li Zhaode: "I don't worry about anything else, I'm afraid that your majesty won't be able to secure the throne for a long time..." high! It's really high! Li Zhaode, come to the marketing department for an interview, you must be an excellent salesman! Wu Zetian said helplessly: "I really never thought about it..." Wu Zetian's thoughts were chaotic. On the first day of the first month of the second year of longevity (AD 692) (actually the first day of November, which was stipulated by Wu Zetian), she offered sacrifices to the Vientiane Shrine, Wu Chengsi offered to Ya, Wu Sansi For the final offer.A month later, Wu Zetian made another unexpected move, giving Wu Chengsi some hints:

Emperor's grandson Li Chengqi descended to Shouchun King, The prince Hengwang Li Chengyi was downgraded to Hengyang King, Prince Chu King Li Longji was downgraded to Linzi King, Prince Wei Wang Li Longfan was downgraded to Baling King, Prince Zhao Wang Li Longye was downgraded to King Pengcheng. Li Zhaode needs to be careful when fighting against people like Wu Chengsi. Li Zhaode is upright, but also has a bad temper.One example is very representative: Both Lou Shide and Li Zhaode were the servants of the imperial court, and they had a good relationship on weekdays. When they went to court that day, they discussed going into the palace together.Li Zhaode waited for Lou Shide for a long time before this guy came slowly.The reason is very simple, because Lou Shide is a big fat man, and he can make twenty catties of fat oil by cutting off half of his buttocks.

Li Zhaode stood in the entrance hall and waited for a long time before Lou Shide came to Li Zhaode with a big belly and trembling buttocks.Li Zhaode was so angry a long time ago, he yelled at Lou Shide: "You country bumpkin, you are a country bumpkin!" Lou Shide stood in front of Li Zhaode slowly, chuckled, and said, "Shide is not a country bumpkin, Then who is the bumpkin?" Li Zhaode was very helpless. Li Zhaode can't be angry with Lou Shide, Lou Shide is eloquent, generous and generous. Once, his younger brother was assigned to be the governor of Daizhou. Before leaving, Lou Shide said to his younger brother: "I am an official to the prime minister, and now you have become the state shepherd again. The honor and favor are too much. Others must be jealous, you know How can we avoid disaster?" His younger brother knelt on the ground and replied loudly, "From now on, if someone spits on my face, I just wipe it off, and I will never let my brother worry!"

Lou Shide was suddenly very sad, and he said to his younger brother: "Oh, I'm just worried about you! When someone spit on your face, they are angry with you. If you wipe it off, it will definitely make people even more unhappy, and they will be angry." Even more angry. Let me tell you, if someone spits on you in the future, don’t rub it, let it do it yourself, and you have to laugh at me, do you hear me?” Later generations called Lou Shide's patience as "spitting on his own face". Li Zhaode is not as tolerant as Lou Shide, so offending people is certain.During this period of time, Lai Junchen felt that the wife he married before was ugly and not aristocratic, so he divorced and forced to marry the daughter of Wang Qingshen of Taiyuan.Hou Sizhi was greedy, so he followed suit and said that he wanted to marry the daughter of Li Ziyi (also a nobleman) in Zhaojun. Wu Zetian didn't want to take care of this kind of thing, so he asked the prime minister to discuss it in the political affairs hall. The prime ministers had a meeting, Li Zhaode talked about Hou Sizhi's marriage, clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "It's ridiculous! In the past years, Junchen raped the daughter of the royal family, which has insulted the emperor's etiquette. Today, this guy is blackmailing Li Ziyi again, afraid that the emperor will forgive him. Don't let him!" Hou Sizhi knew about this sentence, and the cruel officials reached a consensus. But Brother Zhaode is not so easy to mess with. He was the first to investigate Hou Sizhi's corruption case, lifted Hou Sizhi upside down, beat him with a Meng Qing stick, and Hou Sizhi died tragically in prison.The cruel officials suffered a heavy blow, which was not a good thing for Wu Zetian.Brother Zhaode is too arrogant in his daily affairs, which makes people dissatisfied except the cruel officials. This year, due to repeated invasions by the Turks, Wu Zetian felt a little discouraged when he saw that there was no general who could hold a banner in the Manchu Dynasty.However, as soon as Master Huaiyi came out, things quickly turned around.Xue Huaiyi, the light dipper, took on the task of making Wu Zetian look good, and became the general manager of the Shuofang Road March, Li Zhaode was the long history, and Su Weiwei was the Sima. Wu Zetian arranged eighteen generals for the monk, and the leading ones were mainly Qi Biming, Cao Renshi, Sha Zha Zhongyi and others, all of whom were descendants of famous generals.Thanks to Master Huaiyi, everyone can only listen to him.Li Zhaode changed from his previous prestige and obeyed Xue Huaiyi's words, for fear that he would make Xue Huaiyi unhappy if he did something wrong.After the Tang army set off, the Turkic army withdrew to feed the horses in view of the fact that the grass in the garrison was gone. Master Huaiyi led the army to this place, wandered around, and returned with satisfaction. After returning to the court, he played to the court: Our army was presided over by Huaiyi, and the Turks were frightened when they heard about it. Wu Zetian was overjoyed and asked if there was anything to summarize. Master Huaiyi began to speak. During the march, Xue Huaiyi angrily scolded Li Zhaode because Li Zhaode was disobedient.Xue Huaiyi made an eloquent statement, Wu Zetian agreed, and took out the document of impeachment of Li Zhaode by all officials, and ordered Li Zhaode to be examined.Li Zhaode was so hot-tempered towards his colleagues that he overwhelmed the heavens. Someone even wrote a "Stone Treatise" with several thousand words, which specifically discussed the specific situation of Li Zhaode's monopoly, and submitted it to Wu Zetian for reading. Wu Zetian was disappointed, and remembered what Wu Chengsi had said.She first demoted Li Zhaode to Nanbin as a county captain, and then exiled him without death.Wu Chengsi was proud, he felt that the opportunity had come, so he led more than 5,000 people into the Luoyang Palace in a mighty way, and came to Wu Zetian. Wu Chengsi said that the emperor is incomparable, please honor the title (he will not do anything else). As for the honorary title, I believe you have heard it before, that is "Golden Wheel Holy God Emperor".The golden wheel, the King of the Golden Wheel, the wheel-running king in Buddhism, was used as a war item in ancient India.Legend has it that when a wheel-running king who can conquer all directions is born, this Buddha treasure will appear in the sky, indicating that this person will be invincible in the future. Wu Zetian also naturally accepted it, and asked people to make seven treasures, including the golden wheel, and put them on the court every time the court meeting was held, just like holding a law meeting.Comrade Wu Chengsi was infected by this, and determined to launch another huge petition.This time, he brought in 26,000 ordinary people, crying for their fathers and mothers, filling up the entire imperial palace.For no other reason, I still give him the honorary title "Emperor of the Ancient Golden Wheel Holy God". Beyond ancient times, supreme supreme. Seeing that she couldn't dodge it, Wu Zetian reluctantly came to Zetian Gate, accepted this title, amnesty the world, and changed the Yuan again. Wu Chengsi was working in full swing, and Wu Sansi was not idle. Who doesn't want to fight? Wu Chengsi is dead, isn't it me? He led the Siyi chiefs to the front of the hall and asked Wu Zetian to build a "Tianshu" and stand it outside the Duanmen. In any dynasty, Tianshu is a very grand project.But it is very difficult to create a Tianshu, because the treasury is indeed empty.This is thanks to Comrade Xue Huaiyi, the contractor of Mingtang Construction. His work attitude that treats money like dung makes the money be spent like a torrent of water in the Yangtze River.It is said that this guy bought countless high-quality carving materials, all of which were burned as firewood, and some were laid under the ground as waste. Master Huaiyi cried poor because he didn't have enough money. Wu Zetian loved him very much, so when the Mingtang was built, Tianshu would have no money to use. The cost of Tianshu is not much less than that of Mingtang. According to records, the big pillar in the middle of Tianshu is 105 feet high (about 33 meters, twelve stories high), and the diameter of the big pillar is twelve feet (about 3.7 meters). There are eight sides in total, engraved with hundreds of officials and The name of the chief of the Four Barbarians.The lower part of Tianshu is an iron mountain with a circumference of 170 feet (about 53 meters and a diameter of 17 meters), surrounded by copper dragons and unicorns.On the Tianshu, auspicious clouds emerge from the end, with a diameter of three feet (nine meters), and there are four huge dragon figures holding fire beads, which are one foot high.The Tianshu is 40 meters long, and the overall color is golden. The golden part is all made of copper coins, and the main body is inlaid with gold. The workmanship is exquisite and consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.Wu Sansi led the Siyi chiefs to implore the creation of Tianshu, and the Siyi chiefs naturally expressed their gratitude.They pulled out money one after another and put together tens of billions.In this way, there is no need to hurt money, and these gold, silver and jewelry can be exchanged for copper coins. At the end of the day, another trouble arose.