After Emperor Li Zhi passed away, Wu Mei, the queen who had already held all the power in her hands during the two years of illness, officially walked to the front from behind the scenes, showed off her fierce fangs, and made frequent moves to eliminate dissidents and promote her confidants. The entire court almost became her one-man show.

The prince Li Jie, who succeeded the throne, was like a puppet, and was allowed to manipulate her. He had no say in national affairs, and just nodded and used a seal.

After four years, Li Jie could no longer bear it. He summoned his confidants, contacted loyal and righteous people, plotted a coup, and eliminated the witch... Before he could start, Wu Mei noticed it in advance and sent troops to take it away. A few days later, Li Jie was deposed as a commoner and demoted to Yazhou. He was taken away by a glass of poisonous wine in the middle.

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 personality is somewhat similar to his father Li Zhi, but he is even more timid and cowardly. Sometimes when Wu Mei's dissatisfied eyes glared, he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. He was so cowardly that even Li Xian's teacher Zhang Jianzhi could not bear it. Countless loyal ministers and righteous men took the initiative to propose ideas, but he refused them all. Some people who might cause great disasters, Li Xian ordered people to catch them and take the initiative to send them under Wu Mei's butcher knife... This made countless people feel desperate.

Wu Mei was very satisfied with the performance of this qualified puppet, and her pace became more radical. Not only did she clean up a large number of dissidents, but she also won over a large number of royal literati to create momentum and hype, and let folk children sing the nursery rhyme "The universe moves, the sun and the moon change, the yin and yang change, and the heroine comes out", brainwashing the foolish people in the lower class.

In addition, in order to make it more legitimate, Wu Mei ordered people to carry out a series of god-making movements to deify himself.

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

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This legend happened one winter. It is said that in this winter, the Holy God Queen took her concubines and palace maids to Shangyuan to drink and enjoy the snow. At this time, the heavy snow had just stopped. I saw that all the scenery in the rockery, pavilions, small bridges, and corridors were covered with white and plain. Although the branches and leaves of various flowers, plants and trees were withered, they were dressed up like silver branches and jade flowers, which looked particularly beautiful after being dressed up by the snow.

Suddenly, the queen discovered that there were some burning and jumping flames in the white snow pile. When she looked carefully, she found that there were blooming red plums. The queen was so happy! She couldn't help but recite a poem to express her joy. When the concubines who were watching the flowers saw that she was so happy, they rushed to toast her.

At this time, a concubine said, "Your Majesty, no matter how good the plum blossoms are, after all, it is a flower blooming alone. If you can issue an imperial edict to make the garden bloom in a hundred flowers, wouldn't it be more worthy of your wish?"

Another concubine shook her head and said, "Now the cold winter is now, the plum blossoms are blooming in time. If all the flowers bloom, we need to wait for the spring of the next year."

After hearing this, the female emperor burst into laughter and said, "It's not surprising that flowers bloom in spring. The flowers are fighting for snow and blooming together, which is what I want!"

After saying that, while the wine was still alive, the female emperor ordered the palace maid to bring the four treasures of the study. She immediately held the frost in her hand, dipped it in thick ink, and wrote a five-character poem on white silk:

Visit Shangyuan in the Ming Dynasty, and quickly reward the spring knowledge

Flowers must be set off overnight, don't wait for the morning breeze to blow.

After writing, she asked the palace maid to take it to Shangyuan to burn it, and informed the flower god to know.

After receiving the edict issued by the female emperor burned the flowers, the fairies frightened. The fairies quickly gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

The Taohua Fairy was the most timid and said in a stern voice: "The female emperor is cruel and cruel. She can do anything, so we dare not disobey!"

A few little flower fairies also timidly echoed: "Yes! Let's prepare early and open it in advance!"

Only the Peony Fairy disagreed with their opinions and said a little angrily: "The Queen is too domineering. You are in charge of human affairs, and now we are in charge of us again. These flowers bloom and each has their own seasons. They open up the world and follow the four seasons. How can you let go of the heavens and the earth? Sisters, we cannot follow!"

When the flower fairy heard what Peony Fairy said, they felt very reasonable, but when they thought of the female emperor's domineeringness, they all hesitated again.

The Peach Blossom Fairy begged the Peony Fairy and said, "Good sister, please listen to me, let's obey. The queen kills people like stepping on an ant to death, let alone our delicate flowers?"

Many fairies also said: "Sister, this is the case, otherwise there will be a disaster!"

Fairy Peony said stubbornly: "You can't do anything against your will. As long as we are strong and determined, how can she be with me?"

At this time, the fourth update was already on the verge of the drum, and it was almost dawn. Seeing that the Peony Fairy had made up her mind, the flower fairy had to disperse in a hurry and bloomed on their own.

The next day, the queen woke up, got up in dress, sat in front of the mirror and asked the maid to dress her up. At this time, the palace maid pushed the door open and reported happily: "Long live, all the flowers in Shangyuan are blooming!"

The queen was overjoyed when she heard the words, hurried out of the palace and came to Shangyuan. She looked up and saw the peach blossoms, plum blossoms, magnolias, crabapples, lotus and lilacs all blooming in the garden, clusters, colorful, competing for beauty, swaying with the wind, graceful and charming. The morning glow of winter reflects the flowers, and the bright white snow sets on the green leaves.

At this time, all the civil and military officials in the court ran over and watched the rare. The queen was proud of her, and walked towards the Shangyuan with great strides. Suddenly, she found that in the flower garden, there were only peony branches and bare branches, and one of them was not released, and anger rose naturally and cursed: "Bold peony! How dare she be so arrogant, she can't resist the order, set fire to burn, and no one left!"

Then the empress issued an order to demote Mudan from the imperial capital and exil to Mangshan, Luoyang. Because the empress had been to Mangshan, she knew that the gullies were intertwined and remote and desolate, so that Mudan could suffer in a lonely place to relieve her hatred!

Unexpectedly, as soon as the peonies were entered into the new soil, they took root. The mountains were green in the spring of the following year. People in Mangshan liked peonies very early, and every family moved them and raised them. Later, when people in the city heard about it, they came to transplant them. The Peony Fairy was very happy to see that people in Luoyang love peonies so much. When it comes to Grain Rain, they bloomed in all shapes. People who admired peonies, support the elderly and the young, keep going day and night, and the sea of ​​people and flowers was extraordinary.

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This legend of "derogatory peony" was actually written by Zhou Ming.

It is not difficult to make flowers bloom in winter. Build a few glass greenhouses and use charcoal fire to heat them up to make the climate suitable. Not to mention flowers, thousands of flowers can bloom.

Therefore, after secretly transplanting the flowers grown in the greenhouse to Shangyuan overnight, this scene appeared that made all the civil and military officials stunned when they saw it, and the people of the imperial capital bowed and bowed to their heads and bowed... This legend that happened in front of us, people who did not understand science in this era, except for using gods and ghosts to explain, they would either doubt whether they had hallucinations.

But the scene of the blooming flowers in front of me is so real, and there is indeed a single peony flower that has not bloomed. The legendary "Sacred God Queen" who can even be criticized by the peony fairy, besides comparing with the queen Wu Mei, who dares to take the blame?

Not only is it a big deal like "demoting Peony", in recent years, Zhou Ming has also helped the queen Wu Mei come up with hundreds of strange plans, most of which have been adopted by Wu Mei, and the effect is excellent.

He even joined Shangguan Yuer to host an imperial examination with all women, and selected a hundred female officials for Wu Mei, including many talents. There were several female academic masters with high appearance, with very high IQ and EQ. Sometimes even Zhou Ming thought that they were terrible and scheming, and that they were not as talented as Shangguan Yuer.

Wu Mei was also very satisfied with Zhou Ming's "performance". She even gave the beautiful female officials to Zhou Ming as her concubine. Even Shangguan Yuer, who was beside her, has secretly given birth to a son and a daughter for him in recent years, and used all his talents to win him over with a beauty.

But Zhou Ming didn't want to do anything for Wu Mei, he just wanted to escape from the imperial capital, and he wanted to return to his hometown in Qingzhou every moment.

On the one hand, the queen Wu Mei was cruel and vicious and ruthless, killing many loyal ministers and generals, such as Cheng Wuting, Xue Gang, Gao Xianzhi, Pei Yuanshao, etc., who were stationed on the border, were either killed or demoted by her, resulting in a gap in the top and outstanding generals and a chaos in the army. The Turks, Tufan and other countries saw an opportunity to take advantage of it, sent troops to invade, and plundered a lot of property and land from Dazhou.

On the other hand, Wu Mei, the queen of heaven, was appointed as nepotism and loyalty. Not only did she put a group of mediocre talents in a key position, but she also vigorously cultivated her relatives and enthroned the Wu clan as king. Like Zhou Ming, she was extremely disliked. Wu Sansi, who wanted to kill him many times, was not only named King Liang by Wu Mei, but also made him the Minister of War and in charge of millions of soldiers in the Great Zhou Dynasty. It was like a joke.

Similarly, Wu Sansi hated Zhou Ming to the core. Whenever he made suggestions in front of Wu Mei, he often confronted him and coveted the beauty of Shangguan Yuer and several female officials. He sent assassins to assassinate Zhou Ming many times, trying to take these women over, and he was extremely lustful and was almost avoided by Zhou Ming.

Until one day, in the back garden of the Forbidden Garden, Zhou Ming saw Wu Sansi tearing Shangguan Yu'er's dress and trying to defile her in the pavilion. He was furious and rushed up and smashed several ribs with two punches. He stomped down hard and stomped his male roots. If he hadn't been pulled by the two masters around him, he might have beaten Wu Sansi to death.

At this time, the conflict between Zhou Ming and the Wu family could be said to be completely intensified, and it was to the point where Wu Mei could not relieve it. Unless the body of one side completely disappears from this world, it is possible to restore tranquility.

Wu Mei was very conflicted. Her nephew Wu Sansi couldn't kill her. Tian Zihua was of great use to her and could not kill her for the time being. She could only isolate the two sides and prevent them from meeting each other. She was ready to wait for her to ascend to the great treasure and then solve these problems.

Some people may ask, since they want to leave so much, why doesn’t Zhou Ming run away? It shouldn’t be difficult for him to escape from the imperial capital with one force against hundreds of people?

He really couldn't leave because there were five masters around Zhou Ming at any time. These martial arts masters Wu Mei found from there, all of them had extraordinary martial arts skills and iron arms and bronze bodies. They felt that they were not humans. Zhou Ming could barely tie the game against one. If he met more than two, there was basically no hope of winning.

These five martial arts masters followed closely, monitored day and night, and even waited outside to go to the toilet and have sex at night. They launched many attacks and wanted to escape from these five masters, but they all ended in failure.

Zhou Ming even doubted: Are these five martial arts masters a bug released by the system? The purpose is to prevent him from passing the level comfortably.

Fortunately, a few days ago, the clan soldiers sent two pistols that could be fired continuously. Each pistol had ten bullets, totaling twenty bullets. As long as the opportunity was seized, he would hit four of the five masters in a short time, and he would be more than 80% sure to escape from the cage of the imperial capital.

"Mr. Zihua, the Empress of the Heavenly Queen promises you an audience."
Chapter completed!