Chapter 427 Reluctant Wu Zetian (Thanks to Yan Yan Yao Shi Boss
Chapter 427 Reluctant Wu Zetian (Thanks to Yan Yanyaoshi for the reward)
Zhuge Liang naturally didn't know that he was being taken advantage of by others.
Seeing that the light screen was slowly switching pictures, Kong Ming didn't waste any more words and immediately stretched out three fingers and said:
"Just three questions, and then watch with us. With Zijing's talent, it is not difficult to guess the original situation of this matter."
This means that Lu Su can only ask three questions.
After the initial panic, seeing the usual attitude of other people in the hall, looking at Zhang Fei's undisguised eyes that seemed to care for a child, and thinking of the mysterious three-month period under Liu Bei's command in the intelligence he had seen before, Lu Su also understood a little.
As for the panicked question just now asking whether he had drowned in the underworld, Lu Su even blushed a little when he recalled it now.
In order to hide the embarrassment, Lu Su sat down calmly and rolled another sugar-powdered lychee into his mouth.
The sweet taste that kept washing in his mouth also made Lu Su calm down slowly. He lowered his head and thought for a while before saying:
"General Zuo, look at this thing... When did this light curtain appear?"
Kong Ming remembered this clearly, and he also remembered the winter when he first occupied Jingnan:
"Winter, the 14th year of Jian'an."
This was right, and Lu Su, the former governor of Jiangxia, nodded secretly.
So he immediately asked the most concerned question:
"Did you know about Sun Hou's affairs from this time?"
In any case, Sun Quan was considered to be his old master and had some feelings for him, so Lu Su asked a vague question.
But seriously, the war with Jiangdong has not stopped yet, so no one is unaware of what Lu Su is asking, including Zhang Fei who responded before Kong Ming:
"Hahaha, what Lu Junshi asked is interesting. What is the matter of the 100,000 brothers?"
"Is it that the 100,000 people were frightened by Zhang Liao's 800 followers?"
"Or did he attack Hefei five times but failed and then stabbed my brother in the back?"
"Or did he shamelessly accept the title of King of Wu of Wei by writing a letter of surrender to Cao?"
"Or is it..."
"Yide!" Liu Bei jumped up directly.
He hurriedly covered his third brother's mouth while smiling apologetically at Lu Su, and everything was self-evident.
In contrast, Lu Su was shocked and took two steps back, unable to hide his gaffe:
"Sun Hou has surrendered to Cao? How can this be, how can this be?!"
"How dare you do this, forget the will of your father, brother and Gongjin?"
After all, he had worked for him for more than ten years, and he was like-minded and cooperative with Zhou Gongjin.
Even though five years have passed, the raging fire that defeated Cao's army at Chibi with Zhou Yu's internal and external forces still occasionally appears in Lu Su's dreams.
So when he suddenly heard Zhang Fei say this, Lu Su subconsciously touched his waist and found that he didn't bring his sword, but it didn't stop him from cursing:
"If I had known that the banquet in Jian'an City during the Yuanzheng period was a request for surrender and self-humiliation."
"I should have drawn my sword and rushed through the door to sacrifice the head of Cao's envoy to Gongjin!"
The words were so powerful that Pang Shiyuan and Kong Ming were a little embarrassed. They could only hurriedly hold the furious Lu Su:
"Zi Jing, wait a moment, Yi De is talking about the future, and Sun Hou has not surrendered to Cao Cao at the moment."
After hearing Kong Ming say this, Lu Su calmed down a little, and after hearing the word "future", he also had a vague understanding of the light curtain in his heart.
Seeing the chaos over there, Ma Mengqi also volunteered to comfort him:
"Don't panic, Lu Junshi. Now that Dr. Zhang is also in Chang'an, he will not let you die in two years. There will be a turning point for these things!"
Liu Bei was too lazy to talk, and at this time he regretted not bringing his sword in.
But Zhang Fei was one step faster than him at this time, and he directly pointed his finger at Ma Chao's head:
"What are you talking about, Mengqi?"
"With Dr. Zhang here, Lu Junshi will surely live a hundred years!"
Lu Su said, "Thank you both very much." At the same time, he became more and more curious about the light curtain. Can it know the future? Is he going to die soon?
But he himself did not notice that he was not so resistant to the title of Lu Junshi.
Amid the clamor, Lu Su temporarily forgot the third question, because at this time the light curtain switched after a short opening picture, and finally froze on a portrait of a person.
This is a woman in a bright yellow robe, wearing a crown that is completely different from the Han emperor, with a majestic look on her face, and a small note next to her:
Wu Zhao, Wu Zhou regime, posthumously named the Great Saint Emperor Zetian.
Then the picture gradually faded, and the light screen darkened. Lu Su could see a group of people in gorgeous clothes rushing in the dark, rushing straight to the center of the palace city.
Accompanied by it, the voices he had just heard reappeared in an orderly manner at this time.
[705 AD, the first year of Shenlong.
After months of conspiracy and alliance, the eighty-year-old prime minister Zhang Jianzhi, who had just taken office for only a month, finally blocked the eighty-two-year-old Wu Zetian in bed that night.
The five ministers headed by Zhang Jianzhi, together with the crown prince Li Xian and hundreds of imperial guards, after raising the slogan of clearing the court, immediately killed Wu Zetian's two favorite twenty-year-old male favorites Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, and surrounded the Jixian Hall, asking the emperor to return power to Li Tang.
Under the pressure of the situation, Wu Zetian obviously had no other choice, so the following process was very familiar to the people of the Tang Dynasty.
The crown prince was regent, the emperor abdicated, and Wu Zetian became the only female emperor in history.
One month after Li Xian ascended the throne, he officially announced to the world that the country was restored to Tang, and the official uniforms, color, writing and customs were all restored to the old Tang system.
At this point, the Wu Zhou regime officially ended. The coup led by Zhang Jianzhi to purge the court and seize power was called the Shenlong coup.
This may be the simplest coup in ancient history. On one side, the prime minister, the prince and the imperial guards were united, and on the other side, Wu Zetian had been seriously ill for several months and her two male favorites made the court chaotic.
More importantly, in this coup that had been planned for several months, the Wu family remained silent, which caught Wu Zetian off guard and she had no choice but to upgrade to the emperor.
For the loyal ministers of Li Tang, this coup was undoubtedly a blessing, because it did not let Li Tang follow the path similar to the Qin Dynasty and die in three generations, and successfully extended a wave of life.
But in fact, we can now see clearly that Wu Zetian, who became emperor in a patriarchal society, could not cover up her innate shortcomings no matter how strong her political means were:
Wu Zhou did not have a successor to her own regime.
In fact, this is a simple choice of kinship. Although Li Xian's surname is Li, he is Wu Zetian's biological son after all. In the genealogy of Li Tang, he is also the empress of Emperor Gaozong.
If he really dared to take the risk of establishing Wu Sansi as his successor, if this nephew who was not close to him ascended the throne, the person who would be posthumously honored would definitely be his father Wu Yuanqing and grandfather Wu Shigui, and would not have much to do with Wu Zetian.
Although this is the truth, there is still an old minister behind Zhang Jianzhi and others who worked hard and was still planning to return power to Li Tang until his death. We are all familiar with this name:
Di Renjie.
Let's go back 22 years.
In 683, Li Zhi was ill, and Li Xian succeeded to the throne.
But only two months later, Wu Zetian personally deposed him as the King of Luling, and established Li Dan as the emperor, and she herself took the throne as the queen mother.
In the next six years, on the one hand, he appointed cruel officials headed by Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing, and Lai Junchen to control the government, kill dissidents, and suppress the anti-Wu trend in the local area.
On the other hand, he promoted Buddhism and constantly strengthened the prophecy of Wu Zhou replacing Tang among the people.
Until July 690, monks headed by Fa Ming from the Eastern Wei State Temple wrote the "Da Yun Sutra", saying that Wu Zetian was the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha and should be the master of the world.
Wu Zetian was very happy and ordered the "Da Yun Sutra" to be promulgated throughout the country. She also ordered that a Dayun Temple must be built in each state to collect, recite and explain the "Da Yun Sutra".
By September, the atmosphere had been almost set off. Officials, civilians, clan relatives, leaders of the four barbarians, monks, and Taoists jointly requested Wu Zetian to change the country's name to Zhou and give the emperor the surname Wu, but Wu Zetian refused.
But soon, Emperor Li Dan also wrote to Wu Zetian, asking for the surname Wu, and Wu Zetian finally agreed "reluctantly".
Thus, the Wu Zhou Dynasty was officially established, and the royal family and system of the Tang Dynasty were abolished and replaced with a new system.
After the establishment of Wu Zhou, in order to balance the power balance in the court, Wu Zetian indulged cruel officials to persecute the remaining officials of Li Tang, and promoted Wu clan members to serve as officials in the court.
The new nobles of the Wu family in the court soon presented the first letter of surrender to the grandmother of the clan:
Di Renjie deliberately rebelled, and the evidence is conclusive. 】
Lu Su opened his mouth and forced himself to temporarily forget the unreliable words of Zhang Fei and Ma Chao at the beginning of the light curtain slowly telling the story.
After all, just looking at the changes in the content of the light curtain, you can know that it is definitely not an ordinary thing.
But as he listened, Lu Su began to doubt:
The Queen Mother claimed the throne, the Emperor was deposed and another emperor was established, a new dynasty was established with a different surname, and finally the throne was abdicated to his son and he was called the Supreme Emperor...
If the light curtain was not too magical, Lu Su would really doubt whether the words in it were made up like the storyteller at the tea stall.
It is no wonder that Lu Su doubted, because at this time he rarely agreed with Zhang Fei's exclamation:
"A female emperor over 80 years old, and a male favorite over 20 years old?"
The subtext is also clear to everyone. With such an age difference, people would believe that they are great-grandmother and great-great-grandson, but the result is...
In the end, Jian Yong said humorously:
"It seems that whether it is a man or a woman, this kind of thing is not much different."
Lu Su accepted this statement, and thinking back to the events of the Han Dynasty in which he lived for hundreds of years, it can only be said that it is not surprising.
But he still asked in a low voice: "Then how old is the Tang Dynasty...from us?"
Pang Tong smiled and took advantage of the interval between the light curtains to whisper to Lu Su about the situation of the Tang Dynasty.
…
In the Ganlu Palace, Empress Changsun, who came here for the first time, had already made up her mind to watch more and ask less, but when she saw the related information about her own son, she still couldn't help asking:
"What does this mean?"
"I know this too."
It was still Li Shimin who jumped out first, with a confident smile on his face:
"In the future, people will not say death, but call it ka."
Empress Changsun was immediately choked: Zhinu is also your own son.
But Li Shimin's good mood only lasted for a moment.
As the light curtain slowly narrated, Li Shimin's face soon turned red:
"Please abolish your surname? This is how you change the system?"
Thanks to the big brother [Yan Yan Yao Shi] for the reward of 100,000 gold and five baht!
The status in the first two months was very bad. This effort will first normalize the update time, and then give more updates to the big brother of the alliance leader.
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