Chapter 13 Section 12

Wu Youji was still distracted when he met the queen, it was the first time he faced the great aunt alone.Wu Youji's face turned pale, he didn't know whether the strange encounter that day was a blessing or a disaster for him.I heard that your wife died suddenly. What's going on?said the queen.Just heard the bad news, and was about to go back to the house to inquire. Since it was a violent death, it must have been poisoned by mistake, and people cannot be resurrected after death, so no matter how they investigate, it will be useless.In my opinion, you still focus on mourning.said the Queen again.

Wu Youji wanted to say something, but he found that the queen frowned, as if she didn't want to hear any confession from him. The queen was telling her will in a jumping rhythm and to the point.The queen said, I heard that the Zheng family was born in a poor family and has no women's virtues. Her sudden death may have fulfilled you. I value you the most among the Wumen clan. Alright, do you know what I'm going to give you?The queen suddenly smiled, she clapped her hands, and looked behind the brocade curtain, come out, child, I have seen your new son-in-law. Wu Youji's mind suddenly went blank, he just knelt down subconsciously, and he didn't even have time to think about the causal relationship between Feilai Yanfu and his wife's sudden death.The humble minister thanked the emperor for his great kindness.Wu Youji's fair and handsome face was distorted by a dream-like accident, and his forehead was covered with bead-sized beads of sweat.

The remarriage of Princess Taiping was a topic of discussion in the streets of Chang'an and Luoyang at that time. There is no doubt that people were discussing the cause of death of Wu You and Fa's wife. There were rumors that Princess Taiping sent someone to poison Zheng, and forced arsenic into her mouth. Yes, someone in Prince Ding's mansion heard Zheng's screaming and struggling.Another veiled version refers to the mastermind as the queen, a view that communicates with eyes and tacit understanding.People know that the queen loves her only daughter from the first line, killing a Zheng family to find a good husband for the princess, such court stories are also common.Other people of insight valued the political significance of the princess’s remarriage. This time Princess Taiping married into Wumen, and the power of the Wu family was even more obvious. , the world really belongs to the Wu surname, so it seems that Princess Taiping's remarriage is also a pawn on the queen's huge chessboard.The empress sat in the court hall in a purple robe with a golden crown on her head. Civil and military officials could now clearly see the appearance of the emperor who had been hiding behind the purple tent for many years. As the good men and women in the world said, the queen is Maitreya Bodhisattva who came to the world.The courtiers noticed the empress's gratitude to Buddhism, and the gratitude could easily turn into a kind of sincere respect. When the empress ordered the construction of Dayun Buddhist Temples all over the country, and when the empress presented titles and purple cassocks to ten eminent monks, the courtiers knew that the empress would Leading an era in which the Buddha came first and then the Dao, and the ethos that Dao first followed the Buddha respected by Li Tang has become an old imperial calendar.When Lai Junchen sued Fengge servant Ren Zhigu, Dongguan Shangshu Pei Xingben and other seven people for their crime of rebellion and restoration of the Tang Dynasty, the queen was immersed in a kind of compassionate emotion, and she lightly opened her lips and said, pardon the crime , the ancients stopped killing with killing, but now I want to stop killing with kindness.The courtiers praised the emperor's holiness and benevolence.But a few days later, another decree from the queen was astonishing. In order to follow the Buddhist creed of not killing animals, the queen forbade all the subjects to hunt and kill animal spirits for their stomachs, and the queen told the courtiers that she had begun her vegetarian life for many days .

This decree means the prohibition of eating meat, whether it is pork, mutton, beef or venison and poultry meat from hunting, which makes the officials who love meat dishes at a loss. You must know that many people have to eat meat, but the queen does not seem to know Their pain, the empress seems to have issued this edict in the posture of Maitreya Bodhisattva, the livestock in the market were nowhere to be found for a while, tens of thousands of people were tortured by worldly appetites, and their dissatisfaction and resentment Like bitter vegetables growing in people's stomachs, if you believe in Buddha, you should believe in Buddha. Why do you force people to have the same appetite?Some people secretly kill and eat meat. These people have two main grounds that they are not afraid of punishment. The first is that garbage such as fish bones and meat bones are still dumped every day behind Princess Taiping's mansion, and the second is that they use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son. In defense, if you don't kill, how can you kill someone, the emperor will not kill you if you steal a few chopsticks of meat.It is said that the prohibition on meat will cease to exist in name only one month later, and people will secretly eat meat tacitly. After all, the queen is old. The important thing is that the new Zhou Dynasty is rising, and there are many more important things than the prohibition of meat, which are left to the empress to see clearly.On the New Year's Day of the second year of Tianshou, the Queen held a grand enthronement ceremony in Vientiane Shrine.In front of the shrine, people saw the imperial flag called Dachi, a bright blood-like red color, without fringe decorations, only a golden and colorful dragon head carved on the flagpole, which was erected in imitation of the ancient Zhou ceremony. However, the people who looked up at the Great Red Flag did not feel nostalgia for the past. Their eyes flickered with different thoughts, and the Queen's red flag fluttered in eight different directions under their eyes.Of course, people have also seen the empress under the red flag. The empress has officially used the title of Emperor of the Holy Spirit. Her mysterious powder cream still covers her old and tired face. Tang Zhongchen was not without dejection thinking, will that old woman die?Is that old woman really Maitreya Bodhisattva who will never die?The immortal queen sprinkled the soil of the land on the altar in front of the shrine, and made Luoyang the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Chang'an Zun, seven hundred miles away, as the accompanying capital.

On New Year's Day, the Vientiane Shrine is awash with festive incense.The gift of great enjoyment lasted for a day and a night.Worship to the gods.Worship to the sun god.Sacrifice to the moon god.Worship to the wind god.Worship to the god of rain.Sacrifice to the god of earth.Sacrifice to the river god.Worship to the God of the Five Sacred Mountains.worship all the gods. The queen was full of pity for the situation in which her officials were intrigue and everyone was in danger.The empress pardoned Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong for their crimes of rebellion. Di Renjie won the hearts of the people with his honest and fair official style, while Wei Yuanzhong was a veteran of the three dynasties who had just unruly and bold. In fact, their resistance to the new dynasty even empress herself She also noticed it, but the empress told the murderous and red-eyed Lai Junchen that Di Qing would not be killed, and Wei Qing would not be killed either, as long as they were expelled from Beijing.Lai Junchen was perplexed, he didn't understand why the empress changed her old style of being vigorous and resolute, and he didn't believe that this woman really became a Buddha immediately, as if to answer Lai Junchen's question, the empress said again, I know Di Renjie He and Wei Yuanzhong's heart belongs to Li Tang or Wu Zhou, but one is tortured into a trick, and the other is not pleading guilty. How can such an old official be punished to establish a clear and bright government?They are too old to turn the sky.There was a faint intellectual smile on the Queen's lips, and finally she said to Lai Junchen in a teasing tone, I also know that you are jealous of killing people, but I don't want to kill people now, I want clarity and peace, yes It's time to put away the blood blade.

But when Qiu Shen, the general of the Zuo Jinwu Guard, was accused of treason by the enemy, the queen immediately ordered him to be executed.The ending of Qiushen seems even more puzzling. Onlookers remember that the empress often entrusted Qiushen with important tasks in the past. The late Prince Xian was forced by Qiushen. The explanation seems to be crossing the river and tearing down the bridge. The people of Qiushen just throw away the waste pens after using them. Naturally, the Queen's heart is clear. Maybe she has always regarded those pawns in the past as dogs and dogs.How exactly does the queen play her chess?

Does the Queen still want to continue playing her game? No one can tell, maybe you have to ask the queen herself. The life-and-death struggle in the government office has reached its bloody peak, and the wind of informants is blowing more and more fiercely, and finally blows to the maker of the source of the wind. Yuanli is the head of the cruel officials of the generation of tigers and wolves, and he has a deep grudge against him. When Shangguan Wan'er relayed to the queen the courtiers' impeachment of Suo Yuanli, the queen said that the Persian looked like a tiger and wolf, but his cruel temperament was even worse than that of a tiger and wolf. , Now is the time to vent your anger on the officials.Shangguan Wan'er said, it's just that no one has sued Suo Yuanli yet, some dared to sue Qiu Shen, but no one dared to report Suo Yuanli's crimes.

The queen laughed, and she said, that's not easy?Let Lai Junchen handle the Suo Yuanli case. Lai Junchen is the number one genius in this dynasty.Let the vicious dog bite the mad dog, it's time for me to clean the dog cage. Lai Junchen lived up to the queen's expectations. He made eleven charges against his former colleagues, sneaked into Suo Yuanli's mansion late at night and arrested the well-known guerrilla general Suo Yuanli, without giving him any chance to resist. The head was removed.The next day, there was a lively scene in Luoyang where Suo Yuanli hanged his head to show the public. The news spread to the palace, and the empress was very pleased. Killing is not enough for the common people. Since the common people are so happy, beheading and extorting rituals will be done.Later, the empress found two letters against Zhou Xing, the right minister of Wenchang, from a large pile of informant letters, saying that Zhou Xing was an accomplice in the rebellion against God Qiu. The position of Shangshu of the Xingbu was promoted to the third rank of Wenchang Youcheng, and he was proud and full of ambition.The queen said suspiciously, Zhou Xing was the most talented and knowledgeable among those who got credit for the whistleblowing, and I treated him well, so why would he have any reason to turn against me?Shangguan Wan'er said that it is impossible to distinguish the authenticity of the whistleblower letter, and it seems that the matter should be clarified after the criminal evidence is cleared up before making a conclusion.The queen asked again, who do you think is the most suitable to investigate the case of Zhou Xing?The Shangguan pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, let the vicious dog fight the vicious dog, Your Majesty might as well continue to wait and see how Lai Junchen's skills are, and the Queen also laughed, which is exactly what I want, somehow I think of Lai Junchen first when encountering such things.

How is Lai Junchen?In fact, there is no need to go into details, the scriptures of inviting the emperor into the urn handed down by later generations are enough to prove Lai Junchen's genius in extorting confessions.It is said that Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing had a very close personal relationship, so Zhou Xing went to Lai Junchen's banquet unsuspectingly.Of course, the incident happened when Zhou Xing was drunk. Zhou Xing heard Lai Junchen asking him for advice on how to deal with prisoners who refused to convict. Punishment, some flesh and blood can't do anything to him, Zhou Qing is full of knowledge, can he teach him a good plan to adjudicate his crime?Zhou Xing waved his hand and said, prepare a big urn, surround the urn with charcoal fire, let him squat in it, within half an hour, the bronze man and iron man will have to be recruited, Lai Junchen nodded repeatedly, and told his subordinates, listen Do you understand, just do as Master Zhou said.After a while, Lai Junchen suddenly asked, does Zhou Qing want to follow me to watch the prisoners in the urn?Zhou Xing said, you might as well take a glimpse.Zhou Xing came to the kitchen with Lai Junchen, and saw that the servants who came home had already moved out the big urn and set up a charcoal fire. Zhou Xing stretched out his head to look at the urn mouth, he said, where are the prisoners?At this time, he saw a sneer on Lai Junchen's lips, and Lai Junchen stretched out his hand towards the big urn and said to him, please enter the urn.Zhou Xing was dumbfounded, and the alcohol disappeared. Only then did he realize that Lai Junchen had arranged a Hongmen banquet. His heart was so sinister that even Zhou Xing was caught off guard. The heat from the big urn was already slightly scorching on the black boots, and Zhou Xing's seven-foot body suddenly collapsed. In desperation, he kowtowed, and stretched out a hand to hug Lai Junchen's thigh.Zhou Xing drew a charge on the confession book prepared for him by Lai Junchen. If the charge was drawn, it would be a capital offense, but the queen said that Zhou Xing had served the new dynasty, and exempted him from the death penalty and exiled Lingnan.The strange thing is that Zhou Xing, who was in shackles and chains, was ambushed as soon as he left the Luoyang border. Several masked men raided the team of exiles on the mountain road, and the escorted soldiers fled up the hillside. Looking back, Zhou Xing was headless. The dead body lay in a pool of blood.The identity of the masked person is unknown, but the deceased has been reduced from a high-ranking official in a purple robe to a prisoner under the shackles, so no one will question the mastermind behind the scenes.Maybe the ghost of the deceased Zhou Xing will appear in Lai Junchen's mansion, but this is just a guess of people, just like the legend that the Queen is the reincarnation of Maitreya Bodhisattva, there are legends that Lai Junchen is not a mortal, but a devil Incarnation on earth.

The prime ministers knew that the queen had always been worried about the emperor's heir.Once the Great Zhou Dynasty was established, Emperor Ruizong Li Dan was also given the surname Wu, and he lived in seclusion in the East Palace as a prince. It was logical for Prince Dan to be the queen's heir. Ming Jing, she should know that Wu Dan will become Li Dan again at that time, and the Great Zhou Dynasty of the Wu family will definitely be like a flash in the pan, and the Tang Dynasty will surely make a comeback. Capricious emotions are felt.Zhang Jiafu, a member of Fengge House, thought about what the queen thought, and he speculated that the queen had the intention of making Wu Chenghe the emperor's heir, so he planned a desperate plan to establish another prince.So there was news that Wang Qingzhi, a Luoyang native, led 300 citizens to petition to make Wu Chengsi the prince.The petition was handed over to the queen, but the queen looked indifferent and noncommittal. She summoned Wen Jing's right minister Cen Changqian and local official Shangshu Ge Fuyuan to inquire about the matter. Asked for severe punishment of Wang Qingzhi and the people behind the scenes, and Ge Fuyuan listed all kinds of disadvantages to the political situation that abolished Prince Dan for no reason. They noticed that the empress's face gradually became embarrassing. Say, did I say that I would abolish the Crown Prince crown of my own son?It doesn't matter if you don't listen to your clichés, but if you listen to them, it will make me upset. You can step down, I still need to consider the matter of the emperor's heir, and I will naturally make a proper decision.

Cen and Ge Erchen were deeply frightened and depressed by the queen's inexplicable anger. Cen Changqian said to Ge Fuyuan, why is the emperor losing his temper with us?Could it be that she really wants to abolish her parents and establish a nephew?Ge Fuyuan said, God knows, maybe she is also in a dilemma. Perhaps the two veteran officials did not expect that their remarks in front of the queen would soon reach Wu Chengsi's ears.Wu Chengsi's years of grievances against them have now reached the point where he must be killed before he can hurry.When the disaster struck, Cen Changqian was already on his way to lead an army to conquer Tubo. He didn't know that the backyard was on fire, and his son Lingyuan had already revealed the content of a party at his home under torture. Verbal criticism and pen criticism, and a lot of ridicule and attack on the empress who closed the Yin Wumen too much.Wu Chengsi and Lai Junchen's ghost-headed swords have already tested the blade behind him, Ge Fuyuan, Ouyang Tong and other veterans.On the way west, Qiao Changqian received an order from the imperial court to return to Beijing. He did not expect that the exhausted return journey would be the road to death.When Lai Junchen's captors blocked his horse outside the Luoyang city gate, Cen Changqian finally understood, his desperation and survival instinct made him scream wildly, get out, and let me see the Holy God Emperor.Lai Junchen sneered a few times, he said, it was the Emperor Shengshen who issued an order to arrest you, and you have the face to meet His Majesty the Emperor even though you have wholeheartedly betrayed the Great Zhou Kuang and restored the Tang Dynasty?At that time, the local official Shangshu Ge Fuyuan and Zhongshushe's Ouyang Tong had just been imprisoned, and the guards in the Royal Prison saw Cen Changqian, who was ordered to conquer Tibet in the west, being taken into a secret room. Qiao Changqian somehow spit out At the mouth, his angry curses resounded through the claustrophobic space of the prison, what is Wu Chengsi, if he becomes the heir of the emperor, he will be destroyed by heaven and earth.The empress came to express her remorse for the killing of Cen Changqian and other courtiers, and more importantly, she was disturbed by the matter of the emperor's heir, and she did not want to hear anyone mention Wu Chengsi's name.Wang Qingzhi, who led the petition, had received a warrant from the queen, allowing him to enter the palace gate to see the emperor at any time, but when Wang Qingzhi came to Shangyang Palace repeatedly, the queen became disgusted with this ignorant commoner, and she asked Fengge The servant Li Zhaode knocked Wang Qingzhi's stick out of the palace. Li Zhaode always hated Wang Qingzhi's speculators and flatterers, and he was delighted to receive this secret order. He simply killed Wang Qingzhi's stick in front of the palace gate, and came back to report to the queen that Wang Qingzhi had been eliminated. I will never bother the emperor again.The queen said, did he kill him? Li Zhaode said that the criminal officials hit him harder and accidentally hit the back of his head.The queen pondered for a while and said, remember not to hurt people casually.But that Wang Qingzhi is really abominable, give him a ladder and go up to the roof, I haven't reached the end of my life yet, I don't want to hear about the grassroots who are always nagging about the emperor's heir.The queen sighed and looked at Li Zhaode, Fengge's servant. Suddenly, did Li Qing have any advice on this matter?Can be remonstrated but not remonstrated.Li Zhaode's answer revealed his witty and relaxed style. He said, His Majesty the Emperor has always amazed the humble ministers with his virtues and wisdom. It is His Majesty's decision who will be the heir of the emperor, so why should the courtiers talk about it?What's more, His Majesty and Prince Dan's mother-child relationship has never been quarrelsome, and the son inherits the father's career as a family bond, and the son-step mother position is also a matter of course.How do you see it?The empress interrupted Li Zhaode, her gentle and encouraging eyes undoubtedly showed a little more vigilance and caution.At the beginning, Emperor Gaozong entrusted the Jiangshan Sheji to His Majesty. If the world was passed on to Wu Chengsi, Emperor Gaozong would definitely not accept blood sacrifices.What's more, hearts and minds are separated in the world, father and son are the same, mother and son are the same, let alone aunts and nephews?The last words of Fengge servant Li Zhaode touched the queen's heart. When she mentioned that the late Empress Gaozong had a little old tears in her eyes, she nodded approvingly to Li Zhaode. Li Qing's words are worth a thousand officials' advice , Over the years, I have recruited talents from all walks of life, but there are very few people who can hit the target like Li Qing.From then on, Li Zhaode became the Queen's celebrity, and also became Wu Chengsi's enemy and the object of envy of other prime ministers. Of course, this was Li Zhaode's own business. The Queen had no time to take care of this kind of thing, and the Queen soon fell into new troubles.The new trouble came from Xue Huaiyi, the queen's first male favorite. At that time, the imperial physician Shen Nan 谖 received Pei Xinshi ≈* had become the queen's new love on the bed. Xue Huaiyi in the White Horse Temple was tortured by frustration and jealousy. One day he Tell the monks in the temple, don't think that I am a donkey whip that I can throw as I want.I am the heavenly soldiers and generals sent by the Jade Emperor, even the old lady in the palace can do nothing to me, as long as I want, as long as I breathe, Luoyang Palace will become a piece of scorched earth. The monks at the White Horse Temple thought that Xue Huaiyi was insane. Someone reported his anomaly to the palace, but the empress laughed it off. He was a crazy monk and was used to talking nonsense since he was a child, so there is no need to take him seriously.The queen said again, but don't underestimate the crazy monk, he was ordered to build the Mingtang at the beginning, and he made great achievements. He didn't exceed the deadline, and he didn't spend a penny on the treasury.From the Queen's words, the reporter felt some kind of protection due to old feelings, so he didn't dare to make a slight mistake to Xue Huaiyi.The horrific fire broke out a few days later.It was a windy night, and the palace people on duty suddenly found a flame emanating from the ceiling of the Vientiane Shrine. The fire quickly spread due to the wind, and the entire palace city was illuminated by the flames. The night sky was as bright as day.The panic-stricken palace people poured out of the palace and poured out pots of water to extinguish the several fire dragons spreading in all directions, but the Vientiane Shrine could not be kept. People watched its nine giant dragon eaves being swallowed by the flames. , the wings of nine golden phoenixes fluttered away from its branches, and a shocking sacred palace slowly collapsed in the black wind and fire, and finally turned into a pile of warm ruins at dawn.The frightened palace people did not think of who was the arsonist, and many people suspected that it was the holy fire of the gods.The empress in Shangyang Palace also saw the huge fire in the Mingtang. The empress was supported by Shangguan Wan'er and looked at the flames. She was calm at first, but after seeing her body swayed from side to side, the palace people hurriedly helped her up. back to the palace.The queen was lying on the dragon couch with a pale complexion, she said, Wan'er, is it God's punishment?Wan'er said, Your Majesty don't need to worry too much, in my opinion, someone set the fire on purpose.The queen suddenly turned her face away sadly, I knew who set the fire, it was that damned crazy monk.The queen almost groaned to herself, I spoiled him, he dared to burn down the palace, he actually burned down the Vientiane Shrine.The arsonist hiding in the White Horse Temple had already set himself on fire, but Xue Huaiyi was still half-crazed and half-crazily asleep.One day an uninvited guest came to White Horse Temple, it was Princess Taiping's maid Zhao Juan'er, Zhao Juan'er came to invite Xue Huaiyi to the banquet of Princess Yaoguang Palace, Xue Huaiyi laughed and said, I have a very close friendship with Princess Taiping, she came Please let me go naturally, so what if I go, the emperor can't bear to kill me, so is the princess willing to kill me?Xue Huaiyi didn't know that Princess Taiping was entrusted by her mother to get rid of him.Xue Huaiyi's death was extremely strange and vivid. It is said that he died at the hands of twenty-four palace maids. Twenty-four palace maids rushed out from the flowers of Yaoguang Palace and covered the mad monk with a big net , Then fifteen strong men ran up, each of the fifteen strong men held a wooden stick, and hit each of the people in the net with a stick, Xue Huaiyi died quietly.Later, Princess Taiping giggled and described to her mother the scene of Xue Huaiyi struggling in the net, but the queen sternly stopped Princess Taiping, don't mention him again, the queen said, that crazy monk makes me sick. Since she came to the throne, the empress has been frequently changing the Yuan Dynasty. In the first year of Zhengsheng, the empress's imagination has reached its peak. In this year, the empress changed the title of the reign to Tianshu Longsui, and called herself Tianji Jinlun Dasheng emperor. People are not used to these flashy and weird posthumous titles, but this is not important. The important thing is that the queen likes changes. The older the queen is, the more she likes new changes. Many officials are disappointed to find that their footsteps of flattering the queen will never catch up with her amazing The speed of thinking.The court officials are still staging a good show of fighting openly and secretly against the queen around the queen.The good times of Li Zhaode, the iron-handed prime minister, did not last long. Not only Lai Junchen and Wu Chengsi, but also many important court officials were full of disgust, jealousy and hatred for Li Zhaode, the internal history. He was demoted to Lingnan, and at the same time, Lai Junchen, who was involved in the bribery case, was also driven out of the capital.People said that it would be a happy ending if the two ministers Li and Lai died of old age and died in foreign lands, but two years later, the empress just recalled them back to Kyoto to serve as supervisory censor and servant Shaoqing respectively.This is the beginning of the contest between Enemy Road and Narrow Road.It is said that Li Zhaode first discovered the evidence of Lai Junchen's crime of soliciting bribes, which was more serious than before, but when he was about to report it, Lai Junchen acted preemptively. Li Zhaode was first pushed into prison.If Lai Junchen washes his hands at this point, it may be possible to avoid the same fate with Li Zhaode, but Lai Junchen cannot restrain his madness of revenge and murder. Lai Junchen also wants to get rid of Wu Chengsi and the kings of the Wu family. Wu Chengsi made a breakthrough by forcing the women of the people to be his concubines, and reported the conspiracy of the Wu kings in one fell swoop, but a confidant named Wei Suizhong quietly informed Wu Chengsi of the news.So a wonderful series appeared. The kings of the Wu family adopted the same pre-emptive measures. They mobilized Du Jingjian, the minister of justice, the king of internal history, and several courtiers to sue the queen, requesting that Lai Junchen, who was very angry with bribes and accepted bribes, be punished. capital punishment. It is said that the empress was restless during that time, and her mood was volatile, and she did not approve the execution of Li Zhaode and Lai Junchen for a long time.She said to Shangguan Wan'er, these two people are available to me. Killing them hurts me deeply, but not killing them is not enough to calm the hearts of the officials. I am afraid of killing the wrong person. I have to find a way to know who Who should be killed and who should not be killed.Shangguan Wan'er said, this is very difficult, the ministers have different opinions on anyone, and it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the false.The queen was silent for a while and said, maybe the only way is to kill the chicken and take the eggs, kill two people and abandon the market, and let the people face the corpses, they will naturally have different reactions, good people and bad people let the people have the final say.So there is a dramatic scene where Li Zhaode and Lai Junchen go to the execution ground together.It coincided with the hot summer in June when the sky was full of dark clouds and the sky was unbearably hot. The people of Luoyang watched the executions of a generation of famous ministers Li Zhaode and Lai Junchen amidst thunder and lightning.They remembered that the two ministers Li and Lai had been staring at each other before they died. If they hadn't kept their mouths shut, they believed that they would have heard the brilliant debate or criticism of the two dead criminals at the end. The head fell to the ground where the light of the knife flashed, and the bean-heavy raindrops poured down on the bloody execution ground. The executioners hurried to shelter from the rain under the eaves, while quietly watching the people's reaction to the two corpses.They saw the crowd of onlookers rushing towards Lai Junchen's corpse suddenly roaring, many men lifted their clothes to urinate on the dead body, and several mourning women were crying and tearing Lai Junchen's hands and feet.The executioners were terrified, and turned to look at Li Zhaode's body. The rain washed away the blood on the dead head and the surrounding area. No one disturbed his way to heaven. Later, two old people took a straw mat and covered Li Zhaode's body. On the morning, the criminal officials heard a brief conversation between two old men, one said that Li Zhaode was an upright official.Another said, I don't know if he is an honest or corrupt official, all I know is that he repaired the middle bridge over the Luo River. Later, the execution officer reported to the queen what he had seen and heard in the execution ground. After hearing this, the queen said that Lai Junchen was right to kill, and then he punished the Chi clan to punish the common people.After a while, the queen said, "Li Zhaode was murdered by a villain, and I also deeply regret it. Let's choose a good feng shui place to build a good cemetery for him." The beautiful boy Zhang Changzong entered the empress' bedroom of Shangyang Palace in the second year of Wansui Tongtian. He was the elixir of immortality that Princess Taiping found from the people. Bringing it into the mother's palace is like carrying a mysterious and precious gift, and when the empress saw the young man facing the jade tree in front of her, her indifferent and sleepy eyes really shot out a kind of scorching light of love.The empress left the living gift in the palace. This year Zhang Changzong was eighteen years old. He was like a docile and lovely fish lightly pecking at the dry and wrinkled skin of the empress. Instead, she smelled a dreamy scent from the boy beside her pillow, a mixture of red sandalwood, musk musk deer and frankincense. The queen vaguely touched her own girlhood, which is strange and sad for the queen, so the queen often uttered a moan-like call in the joy after the cloud and rain, Meiniang, Meiniang, Meiniang.Zhang Changzong later learned that Meiniang was the queen's nickname. The beautiful boy Zhang Changzong is like a fish in water in Shangyang Palace. It is easy for him to take care of an old lady's bed, so the glory and wealth he gets is beyond the reach of young people outside the palace. Zhang Changzong was sealed by the empress within five days after entering the palace. As Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, he received a mansion in Luoyang, slaves, horses and oxen, and 500 pieces of silk.Zhang Changzong came back to his poor family one day and saw his brother Zhang Yizhi playing the qin. Zhang Changzong said to his brother, don’t play the qin against the wall here. I will take you to the palace to meet the queen. You can learn things about Fengyue without a teacher, and the empress will definitely keep you in the palace.Zhang Yizhi asked, will he also seal me Doctor Guanglu?Zhang Changzong laughed and said, whether it is Doctor Guanglu or Doctor Guangfu, it is no problem to be awarded the fifth rank.Sure enough, the empress also fell in love with Zhang Yizhi at first sight, and Zhang Yizhi was conferred the rank of Shangcheng Fengyu on the day he entered the palace. From the spring of this year, the Zhang brothers were like a pair of golden-haired birds nestling in the arms of the queen. The maidservants in Shangyang Palace often saw the younger brother sitting at the feet of the queen, the elder brother leaning on the shoulder of the queen, the sunset and the morning star The court servants did not dare to face up to such sexual affairs, and they found that the old empress was swaying in spring, and she was greedily sucking the youthful juice of the Zhang brothers with her wrinkled lips.No one could believe that the queen's twilight years turned out to be the most beautiful and lustful time in her life.Some people talked about the empress' love in old age in a beyond-worldly way, which was exactly the same as Princess Taiping's original intention. The empress has always taken lightly on bedtime love, and the Zhang brothers are just her elixir of life. The queen had a strange dream one day. She dreamed that a parrot escaped from the cage with great difficulty, but its wings suddenly broke off.After waking up from the dream, the Empress was at a loss. She vaguely felt that the dream implied a mystery. She stated the dream to the Zhang family brothers in front of the bed. We brothers.The queen couldn't help laughing, and twisted Zhang Changzong's pink face, nonsense, the queen said, although I love you brothers, the parrot wings I dreamed of would definitely not be your brothers.Di Renjie, a veteran of the former court, was restored to the post of prime minister after going through ups and downs. Di Renjie didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse for the empress to call him into the palace. He remembered that the empress had a strange expression that day, and it was the first time she was exposed in front of the ministers without heavy makeup. Haggard, withered, and gray-haired, her peaceful and tired eyes told Di Renjie that this summoning was extraordinary.The queen said, Di Qing, you have always been good at interpreting dreams, can you resolve a strange dream for me?Di Renjie felt strange, he had never been good at interpreting dreams, but when the empress told the parrot dream, Di Renjie understood everything. Two princes, Luling Wang Zhe and Prince Dan. The queen said, but I dreamed that the parrot's wings were broken, and the parrot couldn't fly no matter what.Di Renjie said that the minister thought that the parrot had to move its wings first in order to fly. Perhaps it is time for His Majesty to recall the King of Luling to choose the heir.