What kind of bad intentions can the little prince have?

With the acquiescence of the upper echelons, the news that Li Yue and Empress Wu had reached an agreement naturally leaked out of the court. Xue Huaiyi was originally recruited by the Wu family. After spending some time with Empress Wu, he left the palace and went to the Wu family.At this time, although Empress Wu has not registered, and Wu Sansi, Wu Youji and others have not yet been crowned kings, they are all upstarts in the court.They suffered a lot in Minyue back then, although now they are suddenly rich, but they still dare not be too arrogant.After learning that Li Yue was going to Beijing, the brothers inevitably became murderous.

To tell the truth, the brothers of the Wu family are all bullying and afraid of the strong. When they were exiled, they were exiled by the Empress Wu, but because their wealth and wealth were all placed on the Empress Wu. ah!Therefore, even in the most embarrassing time, they did not dare to resent Empress Wu, but instead resented others.For example, Li Yue, after all, Li Yueming knew that they were foreign relatives, so not only did he not give them any preferential treatment, but he even cheated them, so that they lived in extreme embarrassment.

After Xianyu turned over, they hated Li Yue even more.Now Li Tang's male clan can be regarded as very few with status, the three sons of Empress Wu accounted for more than half, and the other one that cannot be ignored is Li Yue!In their view, people like Li Yue should naturally be killed. Before Li Yue entered the palace, Wu Sansi and the others were all imagining that Empress Wu would call a group of knives and axes to lie in ambush outside the palace, waiting for Empress Wu to throw the cup For the sake of the name, and then chopped Li Yue and his wife into minced meat!Who would have thought that Xue Huaiyi came over and said that Empress Wu was extremely affectionate to Li Yue, even inferior to Princess Taiping. Immediately, Wu Sansi, Wu Youji, and Wu Chengsi were all at a loss, they shouldn't, Empress Wu can even kill her own son, so is it possible that she still has feelings for this little uncle?It doesn't necessarily mean that Li Yue is good-looking. What other feelings does Empress Wu have for this little uncle?

Xue Huaiyi is actually a superficial character, he was just a marketer, a professional eater, first hooked up with the maid of Qianjin Princess' mansion, and then hooked up with Qianjin Princess, and later, under the instigation of Wu family brothers, Qianjin Princess So he dedicated him to Empress Wu, and then went straight to the top without any setbacks, and he didn't have too deep a city. In other words, he actually didn't have much political sensitivity, and he only wanted to please Empress Wu.Of course, his strategy is very correct. For a person like him with no foundation and humble background, the only person he can rely on is Empress Wu.The brothers of the Wu family still have a blood relationship, but for Xue Huaiyi, if he lost the favor of Empress Wu, he would be beaten back to his original form immediately, and he would not even be as good as before.After all, he used to be able to live well as a shopkeeper, but now, once he falls out of favor, those who have suffered from him can immediately turn into a pack of wolves and tear him to pieces.

Xue Huaiyi and Li Yue have no grievances or enmities. For a long time to come, Xue Huaiyi will not have any intersection with Li Yue. Since this is the case, he will naturally not have nothing to do with Li Yue.Therefore, after passing the news to the Wu family brothers, Xue Huaiyi felt that he had repaid the Wu family brothers' love, and then went back to his own site, Baima Temple, in a relaxed and happy manner, thinking about new tricks to please Empress Wu.

Li Yue and his wife have also returned to their palace at this moment. Although they seldom come back these years, and even dismissed most of the servants, no matter whether they are in Chang'an or Luoyang, the palace will always send people regularly Taking care of, even, some menial tasks have been done all the time, and the palace has been well maintained, which also saves Li Yue and the others a lot of work.

After Li Yue washed up, she lay down directly on the coir mat. Yang Yao had already removed the hairpin from her head, sat down beside Li Yue, and combed her hair with a jade comb. Scalp, in order to meet Empress Wu, Yang Yao had to dress up and turned herself into a jewelry shelf. After staying for such a long time, she felt that her scalp was not her own!

"It seems that the queen mother doesn't have any thoughts about us!" Yang Yao combed her scalp again and again, and her tone became much more relaxed.

Li Yue nodded, and said: "The queen mother is not some impulsive brat, even if she wants to cut down the feudal clan, she won't be at this moment!"

"Then Xue Huaiyi doesn't look like a handsome man, but he can also serve in the palace?" Yang Yao muttered, as if she had some doubts about Empress Wu's aesthetics.

Li Yue curled her lips, he looks quite handsome, okay, why isn't he a handsome man!However, in this kind of matter, Li Yue would definitely not argue with Yang Yao, so he just said: "Since the queen mother likes him, then he must have something special! After all, the queen mother is not the kind of superficial and only A person who can read faces!"

Yang Yao nodded, feeling that this made sense.After Mrs. Yang of Rongguo was taken to Chang'an by the Queen Mother, she raised some beautiful boys in the backyard, and it is normal for the princesses of the Tang Dynasty to have faces. Well, they don't want to live a celibate life, so they will also choose to raise one or even more faces.In short, this kind of thing is actually quite common in the upper circles. Therefore, it is not unacceptable to Yang Yao for Empress Wu to make a face as the empress dowager.In fact, the courtiers below actually didn't care, and some even gloated a little.After all, at the beginning, Li Zhi directly greened his own father for the sake of Empress Wu. Now that Li Zhi is gone, Empress Wu also put on a green hat for him. This undoubtedly has a sense of karma.Of course, what makes these people feel indifferent is that at such an advanced age, Empress Wu will not give birth to a few extra children like the two famous empress dowagers in the Qin Dynasty to confuse the blood of the old Li family.Therefore, even those who still adhere to Li Tang's orthodoxy so far will not object to this.Otherwise, the court would not be so peaceful.

Neither Li Yue nor Yang Yao cared much about Xue Huaiyi. No matter whether this person had any special strengths, he would not be able to interfere with Minyue's affairs. In this case, Xue Huaiyi's existence meant nothing to them. Of that irrelevant type.

But after arriving in Luoyang, both Li Yue and Yang Yao discovered something different from before.Old Li's family has always advocated Taoism. Don't look at Shaolin Temple's thirteen-stick monks to save Tang Wang, but whether it is Li Yuan or Li Shimin, they have suppressed Buddhism since they came to power.After all, after the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population and taxes were relatively tight. As a result, monks were forbidden to marry and occupied a lot of land, but they didn't pay a single cent of taxes, which naturally made people feel an eyesore.Therefore, at that time, the old Li family strictly controlled the number of degree certificates, but those who did not have degree certificates were fake monks who could be directly arrested to do coolies, and Buddhism was hit hard by this.

Like that Xuanzang, he went to Tianzhu by smuggling, that is, after he came back, he received a bit of courtesy. Even after Li Xian was born, because his health was a little sick, Li Zhi and his wife asked him to give Xuanzang a gift. Became a named disciple.Even so, Buddhism is still subject to great restrictions. Even the Daci'en Temple, which Li Zhi built in memory of his deceased mother, the eldest grandson, was also subject to many restrictions.Xuanzang is an eminent monk who has really attained the Tao, and he was somewhat dissatisfied with many practices of Buddhism. Therefore, when he was alive, he presided over the Da Ci'en Temple, and he quite agreed with some laws and regulations of the court. During his presiding over the Da Ci'en Temple, more The time is spent translating scriptures, and only occasionally come out to teach the Fa, and the disciples don't receive much.

But Empress Wu was going to come to power, she would not continue to worship Taoism. After all, the old Li family regarded Li Er, one of the first ancestors of Taoism, as their ancestor. Taoism was the state religion in Li Tang. Naturally, the upper class of Taoism had a very close relationship with the Li family.In this way, if Empress Wu wanted to replace Li Tang, she would naturally have to suppress Taoism, so she easily chose Buddhism, which is why she asked her male favorite to become the abbot of the White Horse Temple.Of course, Xue Huaiyi is also a person who is very good at currying favor with the gold master. He doesn't think there is any problem with becoming a monk and changing his name. After all, the Feng family is not a wealthy family, so they value their surname very much. After all, apart from The Feng family has nothing worth inheriting this surname.Therefore, after Xue Huaiyi became the host of the White Horse Temple, he immediately began to think of ways to create momentum for Empress Wu's ascension to the throne.Xue Huaiyi himself doesn't know any Buddhist scriptures, but he can't stand the Buddhist school being suppressed for many years. Apart from letting them go to places like Tubo to preach, the old Li family can think of them. After hugging Wuhou's thigh.Therefore, Xue Huaiyi gathered a group of eminent monks headed by Faming who were proficient in various Buddhist scriptures, and then began to search for evidence in the vast and misty Buddhist scriptures that could make Empress Wu the emperor as a female protagonist.Sure enough, they found a "Great Cloud Sutra", which recorded the record of a woman who became the lord of the country and became a Buddha, and then concocted a commentary, enshrining Empress Wu as the auspicious goddess next to the future Buddha Maitreya , which means that Tang, the descendant of Wu, is the destiny of heaven.

In short, after some manipulations, Buddhism is now flourishing in Luoyang, the temples that were abolished during the Li and Tang Dynasties have been rebuilt again, and the number of monks has also begun to recover.This did not cause much backlash. Buddhism itself has a great market at the bottom, but at the top, the influence of the Xianbei clan is still there. Xianbei people originally believed in Buddhism, otherwise there would not be many nicknames They are all taken from the nouns of Buddhism. Now that Buddhism has begun to prosper, except for the Taoist sect who is not reconciled, no one else has much reaction.

After Li Yue thought of this, she immediately pondered whether to introduce religion in Ryukyu, Mingzhou, and the vast territory in the future. After all, it is impossible to expect the people at the bottom to be firm materialists these days. The common people also have a very simple point of view, that is, they will believe a little when they meet any gods. Those who burn incense in Buddhist temples all day long will go in to worship Sanqing Taoist priests when they encounter Taoist temples, and even encounter some earth temples. , Chenghuang Temple and the like, they will go to worship.To put it bluntly, the people of Zhuxia are actually pan-believers, and most of their beliefs are utilitarian. If the gods and Buddhas don't give them any benefits, they won't bother to believe in them!Thinking of the performance of the extreme believers of a certain religion in later generations, Li Yue suddenly felt that it was necessary to give the people below a relatively decent belief. Compared with Buddhism, Li Yue was still more inclined to Taoism.