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Chapter 42: Instructions to Webster

ps: Thanks to the idle people in the valley, lwg-2200, God! It is hard to get a name, the devil with white wings, the fast spectator, kfcxc, the monthly ticket for the old godfather classmate! The difficult month finally got through, the update of ten thousand words every day, and the outbreak during the ban made Tang Yuan tired. Tomorrow, the update of two chapters a day will begin to resume, at twelve o'clock noon and 7:30 pm respectively!

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Two days after Li Zhi's death, the court quickly announced a posthumous gift to him. Li Zhi's posthumous title was "Emperor Emperor" and the temple name was "Gaozong". In the posthumous gift land, he also announced that the emperor would be buried in the Liangshan area north of Gan County. The imperial tomb was named "Qianling". // High-speed update//

Wu Zetian was also honored as the Empress Dowager, and Wei changed from a Crown Princess to a Empress.

Although the throne edict drafted by Wu Zetian on behalf of Li Zhi required Yuanling to guess and be frugal, Li Zhi's funeral was still very grand. The entire Chang'an City was shrouded in a white solemn and solemn manner. All joyful things were stopped, and even the wars in various places were stopped, just for the emperor to mourn. The emperor's death and was buried was the biggest mourning of the Tang Dynasty. Not only the court officials of the Tang Dynasty had to mourn, but the leaders or kings of the various families were coming to mourn. After Li Zhi's death, various post stations had quickly spread the news of the emperor's death to all directions, and the leaders of various tribes or kings of the vassal states would also go to Chang'an to mourn. After receiving the news of the emperor's death, senior officials who were released from the exile also rushed to Chang'an to pay their condolences. For a time, on the official roads to Chang'an from all over the place, there were carriages of officials who hurried back to Beijing to attend the funeral.

The Qianling Mausoleum located in Liangshan has already begun to be built. With the efforts of tens of thousands of craftsmen, the project has almost half. Before and after Li Zhi's death, the court recruited more craftsmen. The place where the Qianling Mausoleum tomb was selected by Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng and his disciples, and the Feng Shui was excellent. After Li Zhi died, he was buried here. Wu Zetian will also be buried with Li Zhi a hundred years later because it is related to his own funeral. Wu Zetian also personally inquired about the construction of the Qianling Mausoleum. The construction of the mausoleum was extremely grand, and neither Li Yuan's Xianling nor Li Shimin's Zhaoling Mausoleum could be compared.

The Tang Dynasty is now strong in its national strength and is completely incomparable to the martial virtues during the Zhenguan period. Even if it spends a lot of money to build a tomb, it will not have much impact on the country's financial resources and the lives of the people.

The emperor's funeral was in full swing, but there were still many people busy working for state affairs. In addition to being filial to Li Zhi, the newly ascended emperor Li Xian also had to take responsibility for the court affairs. However, Li Xian had no experience in supervising the country while serving as the crown prince. Because of his filial piety, he stayed in front of Li Zhi's spirit all day long. Wu Zetian could not take charge of the court affairs at this time. Military and national affairs can be said to be handled by six ministers: Pei Xingjian, Liu Rengui, Li Jingxuan, Xue Yuanchao, Helan Minzhi and Chen Yi. The court was abolished during the emperor's death, and no matter what military and national affairs were handled by the six of them. Then it was handed over to the emperor Li Xian and the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian for a look.

Chen Yi and Helan Minzhi were young, and it was impossible for them to be elected as ministers based on their age and qualifications. Everyone understood what was going on. Therefore, when discussing the affairs of the court, the opinions of the two were very important. Everyone thought that the two represented the empress dowager. However, the opinions of Chen Yi and Helan Minzhi were at odds with each other, which surprised the others.

But Chen Yi tried not to fight with Helan Minzhi. As long as it was not a matter of principle, he would regress and adopt Helan Minzhi's opinion. He did not want to have disputes between the court during Li Zhi's new mourning period and annoy Wu Zetian.

Seven days after the spirit was stopped, Li Zhi's coffin was transported to Qianling Mausoleum, Liangshan for burial. More than 150 miles from Chang'an to Qianling Mausoleum, the funeral team arrived for five days. When Li Zhi's coffin was placed in Ling, the funeral ministers returned to Chang'an, it was already the 20th day after Li Zhi's mourning. Because he was too tired, the newly ascended emperor Li Xian and the prime minister Li Dan fell ill.

Li Xian's illness was not very serious, but because of his fatigue, while Li Dan's condition was quite serious, and fatigue caused respiratory disease. The high fever did not subside for several days, which made Wu Zetian feel anxious and ordered the imperial physician to cure Li Dan at any cost. Even Chen Yi, the minister of life, was sent by Wu Zetian to have a medical examination. However, the result of the diagnosis told by Chen Yi made Wu Zetian's heart sink.

Because of too much effort, and Li Danyuan's bones are not very strong and have some hereditary diseases, Li Zhi's death made Li Dan extremely sad, which directly led to him being seriously ill.

The two sons fell ill one after another, and Wu Zetian was of course the most nervous. In addition to constantly scolding the imperial physician and asking the imperial physician to do his best to treat him, she also sent someone to Shanyang of Zhongnan to invite Sun Simiao, who was nearly a hundred years old, to the palace for examination, hoping that Chen Yi and Sun Simiao would treat Li Xian and Li Dan together, and also sent people to visit famous doctors in the world. The two sons fell ill at the same time because they were busy with Li Zhi's bed and were exhausted during the mourning. Wu Zetian really didn't know what it felt. He even suspected that someone had harmed Li Xian and Li Dan at the same time, but there was no sign of poisoning. In the end, she believed the conclusions drawn by Sun Simiao and the imperial physician in the palace. Li Xian and Li Dan both got sick because they were too tired, but Li Xian stayed in front of Li Zhi's bed less and Li Dan was a little more, which led to Li Xian's condition being much worse than Li Xian.

In addition to Wu Zetian's concern for her two sick sons, there was also a woman who was also worried about this matter, and that was just pregnant and had just become the queen. Because she couldn't figure it out, Wei was always worried in the palace. She also quietly sent someone to contact Chen Yi, wanting to talk to Chen Yi in private.

After Li Xian became the crown prince, he moved out of the Eastern Palace and moved to Penglai Palace. Of course, Wei also moved to the Daming Palace. But she was not very familiar with Daming Palace. Wu Zetian lived nearby and didn't know how to arrange a meeting with Chen Yi. In the end, Chen Yi took the opportunity to report to Li Xian, who was hiding on the sickbed, and met Wei alone.

After shutting down everyone around him, Wei asked Chen Yi with a nervous look: "Shangshu Chen, will his Majesty... be in trouble?"

"Queen, please don't worry, Prince... Oh, Your Majesty is sick because he is overworked. He just needs to take care of himself for some time. He is in a cheerful mood. Don't indulge in grief. He should be cured soon!" Chen Yi smiled at Wei, reached out to touch her belly that was invisible, and lowered his voice and said, "Queen, don't be too anxious. You are pregnant now, but you must take care of your child. It is not easy for you to come here. If something goes wrong, not only Your Majesty will worry, but will vent your anger with you, but the Empress Dowager will scold you. You have to sleep well! Do you understand?"

Wei's face suddenly turned red and his expression was a little disgusting. But he nodded obediently: "I will definitely be well-behaved after listening to the instructions of Shangshu Chen. I won't worry too much, but..." Wei raised his head and looked at Chen Yi quickly, and his pretty face turned red again: "I just don't know if I am pregnant with a man or a girl. I really hope to give birth to a little prince!"

"I hope the queen can get what she wants!" Chen Yi laughed twice, then immediately looked serious: "If the princess in her belly, then the queen can continue to give birth. If she continues, she will definitely give birth to a little prince!"

Wei looked at Chen Yi with a complicated expression, nodded silently, not knowing what to say.

Seeing Wei's appearance, Chen Yi stepped forward and lowered his voice to Wei's voice: "Empress, don't think that if the prince becomes the emperor, everything will be fine. You must keep your heart in everything. Please remind Your Majesty about some things and tell him not to act according to his own nature. The Empress Dowager will be in the palace for one day. She has the final say in the affairs of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Ah?!" Wei exclaimed in a low voice, looked at Chen Yi, and didn't say anything.

Chen Yi knew that Wei was a little unwilling to listen to him, so he had to say patiently: "Today I will tell you the truth. More than ten days ago, the Empress Dowager secretly summoned me to the Xianju Hall to inquire about the establishment of the crown prince. She thought that the Prime Minister Wang Dan was young and studious, and extremely filial, so it might be more appropriate to make him the crown prince. After I persuaded him, the Empress Dowager did not make up his mind to establish the crown prince!"

"Is this really the case?" Wei was a little scared, and his pretty face turned pale, "Shangshu Chen, it was really you who persuaded the empress dowager to change your mind and did not change the prime minister to the crown prince?"

"It should be said that the Empress Dowager was also hesitating, but after a persuasion, he also gave up his hesitation and did not make up his mind," Chen Yi looked at Wei and said meaningfully: "If I could not do anything to Chen that day, then the emperor today should not be your husband, but the prime minister Wang Dan!"

Wei looked at Chen Yi in amazement. After a while, he recovered. He still looked scared. After thinking for a while, he said in a grateful tone: "Shangshu Chen, thank you so much!"

"No need to thank you. From now on, our interests will be tied together. I would like to give you a few words today!" Chen Yi said, showing a very serious expression. After seeing Wei Shi's voice as if he was listening to him carefully, he lowered his voice and said in a voice that only Wei Shi could hear: "Now all the power in the court is still concentrated in the hands of the empress dowager. Your Majesty has no real power. If Your Majesty does something that makes the empress dowager angry and the ministers oppose it, the empress dowager may depose His Majesty, the emperor, and establish a new king!"

In the original history, everything developed like this. After Li Xian became emperor, he did many things that Wu Zetian could not tolerate and angered the ministers. The main reason was that he granted many important official positions in Wei's family, including the appointment of Wei's father as Shizhong, which completely angered Wu Zetian, and eventually Li Xian was deposed. Today, Chen Yi has very long-term goals and plans. He did not want some short-sighted people to do something that makes people hate, so he warned Wei in advance.

"Ah?!" Wei was stunned again, looking at Chen Yi in disbelief, and wanted to argue, but under Chen Yi's very serious gaze, hesitated for a moment and then clicked: "Shangshu Chen, thank you for your reminder. I will always reflect on myself in the future and remind Your Majesty to be careful when doing things!"

"That's good! Queen, your main thing now is to keep your body well and let the children in the abdomen give birth safely!" Chen Yi knew that Wei had not finished listening, but he did not force her to accept it immediately. Some things were better to say after a while, and he thought that he could not stay in Penglai Palace for too long. He then reminded him: "Empress, if you have anything to do in the future, you can pass on me through these people, and I will come to find you! Be careful in everything in the palace and don't make any mistakes!" After Chen Yi said the names of several people, he bowed to Wei: "Then the queen, let me rest first. I will take my leave. I will notify you as soon as possible!"

"Yeah!" Wei agreed, looking helplessly at Chen Yi's tall figure walking out of her sight, sighed before returning to the house! (To be continued. If you like this work, (.) vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m.. to read.
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