Great Zhou Empress

Xue Zhijing didn't expect that within two days of Nadingshan, she would be persuaded to come in a second time.

What is it this time, "Xiangrui"?

She has never believed in any auspiciousness, she has made a jade turtle to fool Qin Guogong Liu Mian, will she still believe in the auspiciousness that can be made casually?

But in this era when mysticism is in power, there are many people who believe it.

It is said that this auspicious sign was dug out from the Bian River outside the city.

It is said that an old fisherman, when he got up to fish in the morning, cast a net down, ouch, he couldn’t pull it out, isn’t this a big fish?

The old farmer was very excited, and called his son and grandson on the boat to pull it together. After a lot of effort, he finally pulled out the thing at the bottom of the river.

It is said that when the thing came out of the water, it was shining golden in a radius of ten meters, and the old farmer could hardly keep his eyes open, calling out for a miracle.

The family carried the thing onto the boat, and after a long time, they realized that it was actually a big rock.

There are eight big characters in the letter "Destiny Xuanniao, the world returns to Zhou".

"The mysterious bird of destiny" is taken from the allusion of "the mysterious bird of destiny descended to give birth to Shang", and "the world returns to Zhou" naturally means that the world should belong to Zhou Guogong.

This time, Ding Shan not only found a group of scholars, but also gathered citizens from all walks of life, beating gongs and drums, and bustlingly carried the auspicious big stone to the gate of the palace.

At the gate of the palace, a group of people put down the auspicious big stone covered with red cloth, and then they all knelt down, shouting slogans to persuade them to enter, and bowed to the palace like a priest.

When Xue Zhijing heard the news in the office of the Military Aircraft Department, his face turned dark.

Is this over yet?

Isn't this putting her on the fire?

Xue Zhijing really didn't want to show up, so he asked Li Jing who was in the house to go out and let them all disperse, so they don't come here anymore, what should they do.

Li Jing can naturally understand Xue Zhijing's troubles at this time, but she is not a roundworm in Xue Zhijing's stomach, and she doesn't know whether Xue Zhijing really wants to be an empress.

But she was very alert, after she went out and persuaded people to leave with a few words, the big auspicious stone stayed and placed it at the gate of the palace.

"Why did you leave that stone at the gate of the palace? Let them take it away." Xue Zhijing was so angry that his brain ached.

Li Jing said with a smile, "Shouldn't Zhou Guogong carry that stone to meet the Empress Dowager?"

Xue Zhijing sighed, really, this group of people are so full that they have nothing to do, so they only create trouble for themselves.

Yuan Hanzhang was easy to say, after listening to Xue Zhijing's report, he acted as if nothing happened again, and joked with Xue Zhijing.Although Xue Zhijing felt that something was wrong in his heart, he had no choice but to work harder and find someone to watch over Nading Mountain, so as not to let him play for a third time to persuade him to come in.

Time moved forward, and more things began to happen gradually.

Because the Lichun Academy improved printing technology, movable lead type printing became popular throughout the Dacheng Dynasty in the past few years. Compared with the previous woodblock printing or copying books, this printing method can be said to have greatly improved people's ability to print books. speed.

The bookstores on the market began to prosper more, not only books, but also newspapers with only a few pages telling current events or commenting became more popular.

Things happened gradually, and by the time Xue Zhijing and the others found out, it was already in full swing.

That is, some scholars from all over the world have written a lot of comments and criticized her.

Criticism has different aspects, some are weak and can be seen as a joke, while others are decent.The most troublesome thing is the kind of mixed truth, for example, criticizing the little emperor for not being the heir of the previous emperor, but a fake child Xue Zhijing recruited to control the court, saying that Xue Zhijing used the method of replacing the prince with a civet cat to make the current little emperor The emperor ascended the throne.

There is also something even more bizarre, saying that this little emperor was born by Xue Zhijing, and she pushed him to the throne just to become the empress dowager herself, so as to obtain the throne, and now she is even more trying to play the trick of empress ascending the throne.

There is no TV in this era, otherwise everyone can see that her belly has never been bigger.But not in this era. Ordinary people, who would never see a high-ranking official in the capital once in their lifetime, naturally believed in such bizarre stories.

So now, no matter what Xue Zhijing thinks, in the entire public opinion field, she has become the well-mannered opportunist who uses conspiracy and schemes to seize the throne.

Well, in order to seize power, she also gave birth to a son.

When sitting in the carriage with Xiao Liege to the comprehensive university outside the city that was about to be completed, Xue Zhijing always had a face full of headaches.

Xiao Liege didn't take it seriously, "If you want to be a female empress, then go for it. You don't have to worry about what these literati say, they can really hurt you. If you don't want to be an empress, you can order them not to Besides, it's over."

Xue Zhijing gave her a blank look, "How can it be so simple."

"It's because you think too complicated."

After arriving at the comprehensive university, Xue Zhijing's mood improved, and she dragged Xiao Liege to the newly completed auditorium.

"This is a place where parties, lectures, and large-scale lectures can be held, and it is also a place where performances can be held during the New Year's festival." Xue Zhijing said.

The technology of this era is still unable to build the kind of vast auditorium of later generations. The current auditorium is considered to be the largest building in this era. It also has two floors. The second floor is like an attic, and the first floor can seat hundreds of people. There is a big stage ahead.

"Come on, let's go to the second floor and have a look."

Xue Zhijing was in good spirits, and took Xiao Liege up to the second floor, and opened a door, and there was a spacious balcony outside.

Under the balcony is the gate on the first floor that they came in from. From here, there is a wide square outside.

Xue Zhijing waved his hand towards the square, "Look at this place, whether it's people standing or sitting on a small stool, tens of thousands of people will definitely gather. By then, this place will be the largest in the school. A gathering place where mountain leaders like me can come and talk to everyone."

"The head of the mountain?" Xiao Liege smiled, "You really like being a teacher to the students, and this is the head of a teacher."

"It's easy to be a gentleman."

Xue Zhijing said to Xiao Liege, "You said that those literati wrote comments in various newspapers, and I ordered them to stop writing, but I think this is not a good way. You know that I built this comprehensive university Why? One is to add talents to the entire dynasty, and the other is for this era. I hope that this era will have a freer and more open academic atmosphere and ideological atmosphere, where people can speak freely and express their thoughts Tell others what you think.”

Seeing that Xiao Liege didn't understand, Xue Zhijing pinched her face, "To put it simply, I don't think people should be bound, especially their thoughts. We humans are the spirits of all things, creatures between heaven and earth. There are tens of thousands. At present, it seems that only we have thoughts, can invent and create, and feel art and beauty. The beautiful world I hope is a world where everyone can have free thoughts. Even if such freedom Thoughts hurt me, and I cannot destroy such a foundation."

Xiao Liege knew that Xue Zhijing was like this, so he stopped arguing with her, and just said, "To build a different world, the best way is to have enough power yourself. From this point of view, you can become emperor, It is necessary."

Xue Zhijing turned sideways, leaned on the railing of the balcony and asked Xiao Liege, "You want me to be an empress?"

It was rare for Xiao Liege to seriously talk about such a topic with Xue Zhijing, and he really analyzed it seriously, "Based on my years of experience, sometimes when you are pushed to a position, you won't back down. Capital. Don’t look at your powerful power now. After two years, you will know what risk is. The Liu family still has a clan, and the little emperor has relatives. They can’t let you, a foreigner, occupy power for a long time Not to mention, your beloved empress dowager."

Xue Zhijing patted her arm, "Don't get sore when you mention your empress."

"I'm not sour. I'm telling the truth. You are so devoted to her. For her, you can run away from me in Liao Kingdom. But do you know what she thinks? You also know what she thinks and what you think Hers? People, as long as the seeds of suspicion are planted, time will ferment them. You should know, what will the superiors do in such a situation?" Xiao Liege said with a half-smile.

Xue Zhijing said coolly, "Cut the grass and roots."

Before Xue Zhijing was ready to deal with this matter, another large-scale flood occurred in the Dacheng Dynasty.

In fact, floods occur every year, but this year is particularly serious. It may be because of the wars in the past two years that damaged the upper reaches of the two river systems. This year's soil erosion is very serious.So throughout the summer, various resources and manpower were deployed to stabilize the situation in various places.

Towards the end of summer, every place is strictly guarded, and there is no breach of the embankment, but it is accompanied by the pervasive plague.

First, sporadic plagues appeared in some small places, and the new young officials from all over the place were inexperienced in dealing with them, and finally broke out completely in the largest city, Bianjing.

When the epidemic of the plague had already appeared in Bianjing City, it was already a bit serious.

Xue Zhijing estimated that this was probably caused by some kind of virus epidemic caused by the poor sanitary conditions caused by the flood.

However, the level of science and technology in this era is not enough, so it can only be collectively referred to as the plague.

The Military Aircraft Department urgently convened the imperial doctors to discuss countermeasures.

Whether it is floods, droughts, locust plagues or plagues, there are many records in the history books. Everyone learned from others and quickly came up with a plan.

Anjifang was set up in various places, and officials from all over the place united with doctors from all over the place to let patients live separately in Anjifang. At the same time, a reporting system was established. Doctors kept records of their illnesses and officials made reports.

According to the situation of each state, the imperial court issued funds ranging from 30 guan to 50 guan to deal with the plague in various places.

At the same time, the imperial court printed a large number of medical books for free and distributed them to the people, and mobilized the power of folk doctors to deal with patients in different places with families or townships as units.

In big cities such as Bianjing, collectively carry out cleaning and sanitation activities, especially the drainage ditches that circulate throughout the city must be dredged again, and the whole people should be organized to clean and ventilate the interior.

At the same time, there are still some requirements for the public, such as not being allowed to spit anywhere, covering the face with a cloth towel when in contact with patients, and the clothes of the family members of the patients must be boiled in hot water before they can be worn, etc.

Just when the spread of the plague slowed down, Yuan Hanzhang, who was the least likely to be infected with the plague, suddenly fell ill with the plague.

The eyes of the entire court were on Xue Zhijing.