Chapter 432 Wonder Becomes the Emperor

"Wow, this is the first time I have seen such a Taicang.

Zhang Fei was not very interested in this Tianshu, but he was very interested in the materials used to cast it:

"One million kilograms of pure gold! This old lady's descendants will not have to worry about money."

For the first time, Liu Bei nodded in agreement with his third brother's words, and suddenly remembered the twelve golden men of the First Emperor.

It is said that after the world was conquered, the world's soldiers were collected to cast twelve golden men weighing a thousand stones and placed in the Qin Imperial Palace.

But there are many different opinions about whether this legend is true or false, and the final whereabouts of the golden men. Liu Bei has always treated it as a story.

Now, looking at the introduction of the light curtain, it seems that no matter whether the twelve golden men of the pre-Qin period are true or false, at least the Tianshu Pillar of the Tang Dynasty is indeed true.

This makes Liu Bei extremely envious.

When he was in Jingnan, he was poor and white. It was not until later that the sugar and papermaking Shu brocade were spread that life got better step by step.

But now he shouted "Return to the Three Qins" with high spirits Behind the scenes, Kong Ming told him ruthlessly:

With the current treasury, it is just a drop in the bucket to carry out various plans in Yongliang and Guanzhong.

Liu Bei also thought that the Zhenguan period of the early Tang Dynasty was already quite wealthy, but he did not expect that compared with the descendants of "Er Feng Majesty", the wealth was just a drop in the bucket.

"Gather hundreds of billions of wealth from the Hu people, and give gold and copper to the people to make up for it..."

Liu Bei shook his head, and figured out that being the eldest brother has this benefit! Learned it!

Ma Chao saw the expression of the lord above clearly, thinking about himself as a newcomer, and thinking about the lord's generous promise and the ending that was previously revealed, the blood rushed to his head in an instant:

"Why should the lord covet it? Qiang Hu also has copper and iron! If it is not enough, I, Ma Chao, am willing to lead the warriors to Hexi! ”

What do you mean by salivating! Besides, we were planning to let Ma Chao lead the Qiang and Hu to return to Xia, so how could we collect their copper and iron? So Liu Bei immediately scolded with a stern face:

"How can the Qiang people not be Han people? And gold and iron cannot be eaten or drunk, so what is the use of them?"

"Don't say this again, Mengqi. If I hear it again, I will definitely not forgive you!"

Ma Chao immediately confessed his crime.

Liu Bei waved his hand and said gently:

"But Mengqi's sincerity is commendable. When we leave Tongguan one day, I will send you as the vanguard of the three armies."

So Ma Chao turned his fear into joy.

Zhang Fei was a little jealous when he said this, and immediately stood up and said:

"Brother, I want to be the vanguard together."

Facing this third brother who was still talking nonsense just now, Liu Bei waved his hand:

"This is not allowed. "

Kong Ming said in person a few days ago that Yide and Mengqi were both rough but meticulous, but if they went out together, only the rough would remain.

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Bei also felt that it made sense, so he refused without hesitation at this time.

Zhang Fei sat down angrily, thinking that his brother was not acting according to reason:

People in later generations said that after a stick, give a sweet date.

I, Zhang, have been beaten more than Ma Mengqi?

Why is it that only Ma Mengqi is eating dates at this time?

Kong Ming knocked on the table with a smile to attract Zhang Fei's attention and said:

"If we go out of Tongguan, there will be more than one army?"

Zhang Fei was happy: military advisors are still good.

Lu Su, who was beside Kong Ming, had already listened to Pang Tong's brief description. At this time, combined with the map hanging behind him that he had just understood, he was shocked and amazed while giving his own judgment:

"If the Western Regions want long-term peace and stability, they must be garrisoned."

"The order is relaxed every day, which damages the majesty of the emperor and harms the Western Regions' willingness to turn to the Han. "

Seeing Pang Tong nod in agreement, Lu Su pretended to be casual and asked in a low voice:

"When will you attack Cao?"

Pang Tong looked at Lu Su steadily, then smiled and said:

"Zijing also wants to seek the cause of the Central Plains for the left general?"

Lu Su was speechless, and finally could only shake his head with a little disappointment.

Pang Tong smiled and said nothing. At this time, he and Lu Su briefly described the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He would let him see the so-called white-clothed crossing of the river, Zhang Liao's eight hundred tiger soldiers, and the Qingjiao who repeatedly received the title of king...

Pang Tong had confidence in Lu Su, but at this time he still added:

"The attack on Cao will start no later than next year. "

This sentence made Lu Su's heart itch even more.

[When we look back at history now, we often talk about the meaning of some things.

For example, the Wanxiang Temple built by Wu Zetian is a wooden building built strictly in accordance with Confucian etiquette. It is the largest in the world's history from ancient times to the present, and has cultural and architectural significance.

What is the role of Tianshu? This thing is neither a real "center of the world" nor a real threat to the four barbarians.

The only function is probably that when Li Longji took over this shattered empire, he could melt this pillar as the first start-up capital for recreating the prosperous era.

Here we can talk about Mingtang.

Mingtang is a name of attribute, that is, "the hall of Ming politics and religion" , there was a plan to build it when the Sui Dynasty was founded, but it was eventually abandoned because the capital was set in Daxing (Chang'an).

When Li Zhi was killed and the old lady took power, the plan of Mingtang was really restarted, and the action was quite fast. It was officially completed five years after Li Zhi's death, named "Wanxiang Palace", and after the establishment of Wu Zhou, she watched "Shen Gong Dale" here every day.

A large copper pillar like Tianshu could only please the old lady for a while. By the next year, she felt that it was meaningless to watch this thing every day. This time, there was no need for the Wu family to come forward, and the old lady could have enough food and clothing.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year of this year, the old lady happily gave herself a title:

Ci Shi Yue Gu Jinlun Shengshen Emperor, and also pardoned the world.

Then the old lady went on to create the auspiciousness herself.

First, a Dharma conference was held behind closed doors at the Wanxiang Shrine. The attendants were secretly ordered to bring in a cow, kill it, and use the cow's blood to draw a 60-meter-long Buddha statue on the ground.

Then he ordered the guards to dig out the Buddha statues that had been buried here from the ground, and then once again issued an edict to the world:

I was so fascinated by Buddhism that I unknowingly stabbed my best friend Xue Huaiyi and drew his blood to draw a Buddha statue. Unexpectedly, the blood Buddha statue I drew moved the heavens and a Buddha statue emerged from the ground. Do you think it is magical or not?

Of course no one believed this, but it didn’t matter.

But one bad thing about this Dharma conference is that the old lady found that there was a very decent doctor named Shen Nan, and she was summoned every day to study medical theory regardless of whether the doctor Shen was willing or not.

Xue Huaiyi, who fell out of favor, was very angry: I worked hard to collect money for you to build paradise. Ladies, if you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. Watch me burn paradise!

After the completion of the Wanxiang Shrine, Wu Zetian thought about "proclaiming himself emperor through wonders". First, she built a huge Buddha statue in the north of the Mingtang that could hold dozens of people. Then she built a paradise outside using this unprecedentedly large Buddha statue as the skeleton. , as the place where Wu Zetian herself meditated on Buddhism, it is also the tallest wooden building in the history of the world.

The cost of this can only be said to be huge. Therefore, when building Tianshu, on the one hand, money must be scraped from the barbarians, and on the other hand, bronzes must be collected from the people, because the treasury is really empty and can run away.

Xue Huaiyi relied on Wu Zetian's favor in the past and was very reckless. He just started burning it. Unfortunately, there was a strong wind that day, and the fire quickly spread to the old lady who was burned in the Mingtang.

Xue Huaiyi was frightened and went to plead guilty. What made him extremely happy was that the emperor really favored him. He not only comforted him kindly, but also gave Xue Huaiyi the task of restoring the second hall.

But in fact, the old lady was so angry that she just wanted to squeeze out the last bit of use value from Xue Huaiyi. After all, the empty treasury really needs treacherous people like Xue Huaiyi to make money.

In fact, it was true that after the funds for the reconstruction of Tiantang Mingtang were almost raised, the old lady simply summoned Xue Huaiyi into the palace and ordered the guards to beat him to death.

In addition, the old lady gave an additional order, saying that she was too old to see blood.

The person who did it asked what to do with it?

The old lady smiled and said: Burn his body and put it at the bottom of the White Horse Temple Tower.

After finishing this matter, Wu Zetian changed her title to avoid the bad luck:

The Jinlun Great Sage Emperor changed his reign to "Long Live Tianzhu" and once again granted amnesty to the world.

At the end of the year, in order to forget about the unlucky incident, Wu Zetian led a guard of honor on a trip to Mount Song. The purpose was simple: to confer Zen status!

This is also the only emperor in history to be granted Zen status twice, and it is also the only time that Songshan was used as a place of Zen status.

Now that she had been granted the title of Zen, with the criminals waiting eagerly, Wu Zetian unsurprisingly granted amnesty to the whole country again. To commemorate this event, she changed the reign title: Long live the title of Zen.

Three months later, the rebuilt Mingtang was officially completed. The old lady thought that the name of Wanxiang Shrine was unlucky, so she changed its name to "Tongtian Palace".

To commemorate this event, Wu Zetian changed the reign name: Long Live Tongtian. And once again granted amnesty to the world.

Within half a year, there were three changes in the reign and three lines of amnesty. This was Wu Zetian's Tongtian Empire. 】

Even after taking a bitter pill.

Even if you are mentally prepared.

Even with Queen Changsun taking care of her.

But Li Shimin was still so angry that his beard trembled, and he angrily shouted:

"absurd!"

"With such an amnesty, how can the prison be peaceful for the people?"

"How can a country be called a country when criminals are so young that they run rampant in the countryside without being restrained?"

Empress Changsun smiled bitterly. She could also imagine that the people in the village had nothing to rely on, and the only thing they could rely on was the law.

But if a thief who bullies a household keeps causing trouble and is pardoned three times, how will he feel?

She even remembered what her husband had said to her before when he praised Li Shimin for his carefulness in issuing the amnesty order:

"The emperor wanted to show his kindness by granting a pardon, but to say this to the countryside in the capital of Guizhou is no different from a natural disaster."

"The head of Guizhou does not know God's grace. He only knows that those who kill his relatives do not have to pay the penalty. The law is empty words."

"The guilty know that they are blessed by Heaven, but if they are not punished, they will have nothing to fear. The Emperor is acting as an aide to the tiger."

With this comparison, and the fact that the empress was only one generation away from Zhenguan at this time, it is no wonder that her husband acted like this.

"Why should everyone be angry? This woman can be taught, this law can be changed, and future troubles can be prevented."

After some consolation, Li Shimin slowly put away his anger and sat down. Then he stared at the scene of the Heavenly Hall marked as a "special effects restoration picture" released on the light screen, shook his head and sighed:

"There is no military force to intimidate, it is only superficial."

Du Ruhui also sighed:

"All the wealth and wealth in Zuozang's treasury are used here and then distributed to the people. Where can the expenses of the border troops come from?"

"Your Majesty has made hundreds of achievements in battle, and only one West Pole Monument has achieved merit."

"This woman has only won one battle, and she has spread her praises all over the world. How can soldiers fight to the death?"

What Du Ruhui said made others nod frequently. They all came from fighting in the late Sui Dynasty. They had gone through more than a hundred battles. Even Ru Fang, Du and others had to fight with His Majesty occasionally.

According to the history of later generations, in just twenty years, everyone worked together to build the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, making a contribution to the annals of history and having nothing to boast about.

Did the Empress Wu Zhou destroy Tubo or did she completely wipe out the Western Turks?

For a moment, everyone in the hall couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity.

"And God... the woman has such an effect, no wonder the Buddha can cause trouble in the future."

Fang Xuanling muttered.

After hearing this, he roughly understood what the empress did...

It was like His Majesty suddenly went crazy and set up a stage in the Taiji Hall, invited actors to perform, and then dragged a cow to get blood to make a portrait of Laozi, saying that it was a miracle painted by the concubine's blood donation. There is also a statue of Laozi below, which is auspicious from heaven! Why not change the year and grant amnesty to the world?

Fang Xuanling felt tired just by thinking about it, and finally could only sigh silently:

We, the old Fang, have caught up with a good era... Oh, by the way, we must not forget to avoid getting close to His Majesty.

Sun Simiao, who was next to Li Shimin, shook his head in disdain. After all, he now knew that this Buddha was the same as those rebellious Taoists. They were all useless and could not cure diseases and comfort the people.

Yan Lide, who was next to Sun Simiao, had a bright light in his eyes and could not wait to start copying, but soon realized the first difficulty of copying like this. It was difficult to be accurate without a basis for painting.

Otherwise... use the method described by his brother?

According to his younger brother, under the supervision of Dr. Sun, he had to draw not only the internal organs but also the bones of the corpse. In the end, Dr. Sun encountered difficulties in understanding the circulation of blood in the body, and then gave Yan Liben time to summarize his description.

In the end, the core of it is a sentence: Draw the bones first, then the skin, so that you can get the spirit.

For Yan Liben, who is good at architecture, this problem is also easy: rafters are the bones of palaces and towers.

Although it is difficult to draw the rafters of these two peerless palaces, it is easier to copy them stiffly.

While drawing, Yan Lide couldn't help but glance at his younger brother:

The skill of painting is really better than that of brother!

...

"A miracle to be an emperor?"

Kong Ming was speechless, and then he thought about it carefully and felt that there was some truth in it.

Just like the "Xiping Stone Classics" that made Kong Ming dream.

In the sixth year of Guanghe, Emperor Lingdi adopted Cai Yong's proposal to proofread the Confucian classics, and engraved the seven classics on stone into 46 steles, which were erected outside the Imperial College.

At that time, the whole world was shocked, and all the students from the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty were willing to go to Luoyang to read and copy them. Moreover, because it was proofread by the great Confucian scholars of the Imperial College, there were no wrong words, so people at that time called it the "one-word stone classic".

Now that Kong Ming has been looking at the light curtain for a long time, he has also learned to jump out of the shackles to see things. It can be imagined that if there were no turbulent times, this stone classic would be enough to push the learning and governance of the Han Dynasty to a new peak, which can be called a wonder, but...

I wonder how many of the 46 steles in Luoyang are left now?

So Kong Ming also took a pen and wrote down his thoughts:

Governing the country with civil and military power is the main thing, and wonders are supplementary. The prestige spread all over the world and can shine for thousands of years.

But in Kong Ming's view, this wonder is naturally not the heavenly Mingtang of the Wu Zhou female emperor.

Qin built the Dujiangyan, which benefited thousands of generations.

Han hung the head of the Shanyu to deter the four barbarians.

The champion marquis drove a long way, and his achievements were radiant in the history of the Han Dynasty.

The Yanran Mountain engraved his achievements and honors, and later generations paid tribute to him.

They can all be called wonders that benefited the country.

It is really uncomfortable to be diagnosed with viral influenza A. Everyone should take good care of their bodies and don't fall ill.

Today, my condition fluctuated. My throat is a little better, but my nasal congestion is serious. My temperature was 38 in the afternoon, so there are only these 4K words. I will go to bed early, and I hope that tomorrow will be better.

In addition, I have seen the controversy over Wu Zetian. It is mainly a matter of perspective. The merits and demerits of the female emperor Wu Zetian and the historical figure Wu Zetian are very different.