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After the death of Emperor Li Zhi, during his two years of serious illness, the queen Wu Mei, who had already held all the power in her hands, officially stepped onto the front stage from behind the scenes, showing her fierce fangs, making frequent movements, eliminating dissidents, and promoting cronies , the entire court has almost become her exclusive hall.

The crown prince, Li Jie, who succeeded the throne, was like a puppet on a string, allowing her to manipulate and control him. He had no right to speak in matters of state or size, all he had to do was nod and seal.

After four years of this, Li Jie couldn't bear it anymore, gathered his cronies, contacted loyal people, plotted a coup d'etat, and eradicated the temptress... Before it even started, Wu Mei detected it in advance and sent troops to take it away. A few days later, Li Jie was deposed As a commoner, he was demoted to Yazhou, and was taken away by a glass of poisoned wine on the way.

After getting rid of Li Jie, in order to better control the court, the Queen of Heaven, Wu Mei, helped her youngest son Li Xian to the stage and continued to act as a puppet.

Li Xian's character is somewhat similar to his father Li Zhi, but even more timid and cowardly. Sometimes, when Wu Mei stares at him with dissatisfaction, he would kneel on the ground and beg for mercy. He is so useless that even Li Xian's teacher Zhang Jianzhi can't see To the extent that it went down, countless loyal ministers and righteous men offered to offer advice, but he refused all of them. Some people who might cause catastrophe, Li Xian even ordered people to arrest them and sent them to Wu Mei's butcher's knife ... The fact that the mud cannot support the wall has made countless people feel desperate.

Wu Mei was very satisfied with the performance of this qualified puppet, and her steps became more radical. Not to mention cleaning out a large number of dissidents, she also attracted a large number of imperial literati to create momentum and hype, making folk children sing "the universe moves, the sun and the moon renew." , yin and yang change, and the heroine comes out" nursery rhymes to brainwash the ignorant people at the lower level.

In addition, in order to be more justified, Wu Mei also ordered people to carry out a series of god-making activities to deify herself.

For example, after the legend of "Demoting Peony" was witnessed by millions of people in the imperial capital, her reputation rose to an unprecedented peak.

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This legend happened in a winter. It is said that in the winter of this year, the emperor of the Holy Goddess took his concubines and maids to Shangyuan to drink and enjoy the snow. , are all dressed in white plain wraps, although the branches and leaves of all kinds of flowers, plants and trees are withered, but after being dressed by snow, they look extraordinarily beautiful like silver branches and jade flowers.

Suddenly, the empress found that in the white snowdrifts, there were a few jumping flames, and after a closer look, it turned out to be red plums in full bloom. The empress was so happy! She couldn't help but chant a poem to express her joy. The concubines who accompanied the flowers saw her so happy and rushed to toast her.

At this time, a concubine said: "Your Majesty, no matter how good the plum blossom is, after all, a single flower blooms alone. If you can issue an imperial decree to let all the flowers in this garden bloom together, wouldn't it be more satisfying?"

Another concubine shook her head and said, "It's the right time for plum blossoms to bloom in the severe winter and moon. If we want all the flowers to bloom, we have to wait for the next spring."

After hearing this, the empress burst out laughing, and said, "It's not surprising that flowers bloom in spring, and a hundred flowers fighting in the snow compete with each other, which suits my heart!"

After all, while the wine was still in full swing, the empress ordered the maids to bring the four treasures of the study, and immediately took a brush of cream in her hand, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote a five-character poem on the white silk:

Visiting Shangyuan in the Ming Dynasty and reporting spring as soon as possible

The flowers bloom all night long, don't wait for the morning breeze to blow.

After writing, she asked the maid to take it to Shangyuan and burn it, and informed the Flower God to know.

After receiving the imperial edict issued by the empress, Fairy Baihua was frightened, and the fairies quickly gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

Peach Blossom Fairy was the least timid, and said shyly, "The Empress is ruthless, she can do anything, we dare not disobey!"

A few little flower fairies also chimed in timidly and said, "Yes! Let's make preparations early and open up ahead of time!"

Only Peony Fairy disagreed with them, and said a little angrily: "The empress is too domineering, you meddle in the affairs of the world, and now you are meddling with us again. These flowers bloom, each has its own season, and the four seasons follow the cycle of heaven and earth." Cong, how can you allow you to go against the sky? Sisters, we can't follow!"

When the flower fairies heard what the Peony Fairy said, they felt it was very reasonable, but when they thought of the domineering empress, they all hesitated again.

Peach Blossom Fairy pleaded with Peony Fairy: "Good sister, listen to me, let's obey. The queen kills people like trampling on an ant, not to mention our delicate flower bodies?"

Many fairies also said: "Sister, this is the time to open the door, otherwise a big disaster will happen!"

Fairy Peony said stubbornly: "We can never do anything against our will. As long as we have strong bones and strong will, what can she do to me?"

At this time, the drums were beating for the fourth time, and the sky was getting brighter. The flower fairies had made up their minds to see the peony fairy, so they had to disperse in a hurry and go to bloom.

On the second day, the queen woke up, dressed and got up, sat in front of the mirror and asked the maid to dress her up. At this time, the maid pushed the door in and reported happily: "Long live, all the flowers in Shangyuan are in bloom!"

The queen was overjoyed when she heard the news, and hurried out of the palace, and came to Shangyuan. Looking up, the garden was full of peach blossoms, plum blossoms, magnolias, begonias, hibiscus, and lilacs, all in full bloom. Clusters, clusters, colorful, competing for fragrance Gorgeous, swaying in the wind, graceful and charming, the morning glow in winter reflects the flowers, and the bright white snow reflects the green leaves.

At this time, all civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty came running to watch. The empress was overwhelmed with pride and walked towards the upper garden with big strides. Before letting go, a surge of anger arose, and he yelled: "Bold peony! How dare you be so presumptuous, resist the decree, set fire to it, and leave no one alive!"

Then the empress decreed that Mudan was exiled from the imperial capital and exiled to Mangshan Mountain, Luoyang, because the empress had been to Mangshan Mountain, and she knew that the place was intertwined with ravines, remote and desolate, so that Mudan could suffer in the place of lonely marriage, so as to relieve her hatred. !

Unexpectedly, as soon as the peonies entered the new soil, they took root again, and the next spring, the mountains were covered with green. People in Mangshan have been fond of peonies for a long time. Every family transplanted and cultivated peonies. Later, people in the city heard about them and came to transplant them one after another. The Peony Fairy was very happy to see that Luoyang people loved peonies so much. During Grain Rain, the trees bloomed in various shapes. People watching the peonies, the old and the young, come and go, day and night, in a sea of ​​people and a sea of ​​flowers, it is an extraordinary occasion.

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This legend of "derogating peonies" was actually written by Zhou Ming.

It is not difficult to make a hundred flowers bloom together in winter, just build a few glass greenhouses and use charcoal fire to heat, so that the climate is suitable, not to mention hundreds of flowers, thousands of flowers can bloom.

Therefore, after the flowers grown in the greenhouse were secretly transplanted to Shangyuan overnight, this scene appeared, which stunned all civil and military officials, and the people of the imperial capital bowed their heads and bowed their heads to worship... This vivid legend happened before my eyes. , people who don’t understand science in this era can only use gods and ghosts to explain things, or they may wonder whether they are hallucinating.

But the scene of hundreds of flowers in full bloom in front of me is so real, and there is indeed not a single peony flower in bloom. The legendary "Emperor Holy Goddess" who can be reprimanded even by peony fairies, who else would dare to stand up to this other than the Queen of Heaven, Wu Mei? pot?

It's not just a big deal like "Demoting Peony", Zhou Ming has also helped Queen Wu Mei come up with hundreds of tricks in recent years, and most of them have been adopted by Wu Mei, with amazing results.

He even, together with Shangguan Yu'er, presided over an imperial examination where all women took part, and selected a hundred female officials for Wu Mei at once, among whom there were many outstanding talents, and there were several good-looking female academic masters with extremely high IQ and EQ , sometimes even Zhou Ming feels that they are terrifyingly scheming, and their talents are no less than Shangguan Yu'er.

And Wu Mei was also very satisfied with Zhou Ming's "performance", she even gave those beautiful female officials to Zhou Ming as concubines, and even Shangguan Yu'er beside her quietly gave birth to a son for him in recent years A woman is attracted by her beauty and uses all his talents.

But Zhou Ming didn't really want to work for Wu Mei. He just wanted to escape from the imperial capital. He wanted to return to his hometown in Qingzhou every moment.

On the one hand, it was the Queen of Heaven, Wu Mei, who was ruthless and merciless, and killed many loyal ministers and good generals, such as Cheng Wuting, Xue Gang, Gao Xianzhi, Pei Yuanshao and other famous generals who were stationed in the frontier. The army was in chaos. The Turks, Tufan and other countries saw an opportunity and sent troops to invade. They plundered a lot of property and land from the Zhou Dynasty.

On the other hand, the Queen of Heaven, Wu Mei, is cronyistic and loyal. She not only puts a group of mediocre talents in a key position, but also vigorously cultivates relatives, and makes the Wu clan king. Wu Sansi, who wanted to kill him, was granted the title of King of Liang by Wu Mei. In addition, he was made Minister of the Ministry of War, in charge of millions of soldiers and horses in the Zhou Dynasty. It was like child's play.

Similarly, for Zhou Ming, Wu Sansi also hated Zhou Ming to the bone. Whenever he made suggestions in front of Wu Mei, he often confronted him tit for tat. He tried to seize these women and went through all kinds of acts of obscenity and humiliation, but Zhou Ming narrowly avoided them.

Until one day, in the back garden of the Forbidden Garden, Zhou Ming saw Wu Sansi tearing Shangguan Yuer's dress and wanting to rape her in the gazebo. He stomped down hard, crushing his manhood. If he hadn't been held by two masters around him, he might have beaten Wu Sansi to death.

At this time, the conflict between Zhou Ming and Wu's family can be said to be completely intensified, to the point that Wu Mei can't alleviate it, unless one party's body completely disappears from this world, it is possible to restore tranquility.

Wu Mei is very contradictory, her nephew Wu Sansi cannot be killed, Tian Zihua is of great use to her, and she cannot be killed for the time being, she can only isolate the two parties and prevent them from meeting, and is going to solve these problems after she ascends the Great Treasure question.

Some people may ask, if he wanted to leave so much, why didn't Zhou Ming run? With his force of one against a hundred, it shouldn't be difficult to escape from the imperial capital, right?

He really couldn't leave, because Zhou Ming was surrounded by five masters at any time. These martial arts masters Wu Mei found from nowhere, all of them were extraordinary in martial arts, with iron arms and bronze bodies. They didn't feel like human beings. It can barely be a tie, but if there are more than two, there is basically no hope of winning.

These five martial arts masters followed closely, monitored day and night, and even waited outside when going to the toilet and having sex at night. They launched attacks many times and tried to escape from these five masters, but all ended in failure.

Zhou Ming even wondered whether these five martial arts masters were bugs released by the system to prevent him from passing the level comfortably.

Fortunately, a few days ago, the clan soldiers sent over two pistols that could be fired in bursts. Each pistol had ten rounds of ammunition, and there were twenty rounds in total. As long as the timing was right, five people could be hit in a short time. He was more than 80% sure that four of the masters could escape from the prison of the Imperial Capital.

"Mr. Zihua, the Queen of Heaven wishes you an audience."

An eunuch came over and summoned Zhou Ming into the palace.

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