Chapter 4397 4399 [Yellow Robe]

After Li Shimin passed away, his son Li Zhi succeeded to the throne. Because Li Zhi was weak, he handed over the government affairs to his queen Wu Zhao, who took the opportunity to seize the power of the government.

After Li Zhi died, his son Li Xian succeeded to the throne, but Wu Zhao had a power struggle with his son Li Xian, so she directly abolished his son Li Xian's throne and made his fourth son Li Dan the emperor. Later, she even proclaimed herself the emperor, becoming the only female emperor in Chinese history.

After Wu Zhao succeeded to the throne, Xiang Nan took back the Heshi Bi, which caused a sensation for a time, and many court officials used this as an excuse to attack Wu Zhao for not having obtained the country legitimately and not being worthy of inheriting the throne.

Later, when Wu Zhao led her officials to pay homage to Mount Zhongnan, Xiang Nan did not see her.

These actions made Wu Zhao quite dissatisfied. She thought Xiang Nan was targeting her intentionally, so she ordered the demolition of temples dedicated to Xiang Nan, and demoted Xiang Nan to a demon. The temples dedicated to him were also demoted to obscene sacrifices, and the people of the world were prohibited from offering sacrifices.

She herself suppressed Taoism and respected Buddhism, and promoted Buddhism in the world, built Buddhist temples, and excavated Buddhist caves. The Vairocana Buddha in the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang was carved in her own image.

Xiang Nan didn't care about this. He was neither a real immortal nor did he live on mortal incense. Sacrifices were useless to him, so naturally he didn't care.

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Fifteen years later, Wu Zhao was critically ill. Court officials Zhang Jianzhi, Jing Hui and others took the opportunity to launch the Shenlong coup, supported Li Xian to restore the throne, seized Wu Zhao's imperial title, and still called her the empress dowager.

After Li Xian was restored to the throne, Xiang Nan rode a crane to the palace again and handed the imperial seal back to Li Xian, "This seal has been lost once in your hands, and it must not be lost a second time. Otherwise, your Li family will be gone."

Li Xian looked at Xiang Nan, and was speechless with surprise.

Although his grandfather Li Shimin had passed down the words, and the historians' history books also recorded that there were indeed gods in the world. But hearing is false, seeing is believing. It was really amazing to really see Xiang Nan, and it was the same as the rumors of his ancestors.

Looking at Li Xian's stupid look, Xiang Nan understood why he, the emperor, was so unsuccessful.

Not only did his mother want to take his throne, but his wife, daughter, and sister also wanted to take his throne, and in the end he was poisoned to death by his wife Empress Wei and his daughter Princess Anle.

Among the emperors of all dynasties in China, he was also a very cowardly one.

So Xiang Nan didn't wait for him to answer, and rode away on the crane directly.

After Xiang Nan left, Li Xian suddenly realized and then felt very upset.

If he had known that it was difficult to see immortals, he should have asked Xiang Nan about the method of immortality, or at least asked about the country.

It is a pity that the cranes never return and the white clouds are empty for thousands of years. It is really a great pity.

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After Li Xian succeeded to the throne, he not only restored Xiang Nan's title of "Taiji Xuantian Emperor", but also added two words to reach "Taiji Xuantian Supreme Emperor", and restored the sacrifice and offering to Xiang Nan.

After Li Xian's death, Li Longji ascended the throne and continued to confer Xiang Nan the title of "Taiji Xuantian Supreme True Cultivation Emperor", and built many Taoist temples to worship him.

At the end of Li Longji's reign, he pursued luxury, indulged in pleasure, appointed treacherous ministers, and alienated wise ministers, which led to the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion. Although it was quelled later, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty also suffered heavy losses.

After that, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were almost inferior to the previous one. Only Emperor Wuzong and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang were relatively successful, and the rest of the emperors were inferior to the previous one.

Therefore, more than a hundred years later, Zhu Wen, the governor of Xuanwu, forced Emperor Ai of Tang to abdicate and founded the Liang Dynasty, with its capital in Bianzhou, known as the Later Liang Dynasty. At the same time, other governors also proclaimed themselves emperors in their own fiefdoms, such as Wu, Wuyue, Former Shu, and Northern Han.

These dynasties lasted from a few years to several decades, and it can be said that they were in chaos, with one taking the throne and the other taking the stage. Therefore, a famous saying appeared at that time, "The emperor of this world is the one who has strong soldiers and horses."

It is for this reason that after Zhao Kuangyin's Chenqiao mutiny and wearing the yellow robe, he vigorously advocated the use of civil power to control military power and tried his best to suppress the power of military generals, even if it led to the weakening of the Song Dynasty's military power and lost every battle, he did not dare to relax at all.

It was because at the end of the Tang Dynasty, those governors who had soldiers and horses rose up in rebellion, which made people firmly believe that "military generals governing the country" was a dead end.

It is worth mentioning that after Zhu Wen forced Emperor Ai of Tang to abdicate, Xiang Nan took the Heshi Bi away again.

After Zhao Kuangyin rebelled at Chenqiao and put on the yellow robe, Xiang Nan rode a crane to the palace and gave Zhao Kuangyin the imperial seal again.

Although at this time, Zhao Kuangyin only had one territory in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and even within the Later Zhou Dynasty, there were still many governors who were dissatisfied and wanted to rebel and overthrow his rule.

But Xiang Nan still gave him the imperial seal and told him, "Although you only occupy half of the country now, I hope you can unify the world one day and become the real ruler of the world."

"Thank you, immortal." Zhao Kuangyin said gratefully.

He put on the yellow robe and seized the country of the Zhou family. He was worried that he had obtained the country in an unjust way. But with the imperial seal given by the immortal, he was destined to be the emperor, and no one could say anything, so he was naturally grateful.

"I dare not ask the gods, how many years can our Zhao family's country last?" He asked with concern.

During the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin once asked Xiang Nan this question. At that time, Xiang Nan told him that the Tang Dynasty lasted for 289 years.

Sure enough, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, later generations calculated that from the time when Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan ascended the throne to the end of the Tang Dynasty when Zhu Wen forced Emperor Ai to abdicate, the dynasty lasted for 289 years, not a year more or less.

Therefore, this also greatly increased Xiang Nan's reputation. They all thought that he really knew the past 500 years and the future 500 years. He was a truly omniscient, omnipotent, and boundless god.

So Zhao Kuangyin also wanted to know how long their Zhao family could sit on the throne.

Xiang Nan was stunned, then smiled slightly and said, "Your Zhao family should sit on the throne for 319 years."

"319 years?!" Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed when he heard it.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms lasted only more than 70 years, but there were so many dynasties, which shows how chaotic the situation was at that time. Many dynasties only lasted 20 to 30 years, and basically died after "having a good time".

Zhao Kuangyin had originally planned this, but he didn't expect that his own throne would last so long, 30 years longer than Li Tang! !

This undoubtedly gave him a dose of reassurance, "Thank you, God, thank you, God!"

"Remember, if you want the country to last long, you must practice more benevolent and good governance, and learn from the past. Aren't the lessons of the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms profound enough?" Xiang Nan urged again.

"Yes, definitely." Zhao Kuangyin agreed.

Xiang Nan nodded, and then rode away on a crane.

Afterwards, Zhao Kuangyin really seemed to have divine help. He successively destroyed the Huainan Jiedushi and Zhaoyi Jiedushi who opposed him in the court, and then adhered to the principle of "first the easy and then the difficult, first the south and then the north", successively destroyed the separatist regimes in Jingnan, Wuping, Hou Shu, Southern Han and Southern Tang in the south, and completed the unification of most of the country.