Prime Minister Wang Dan led all officials to report: "The holy virtues are increasing day by day, and God responds to everything, and I am not grateful." Zhao Heng said happily: "This is also due to the merits of your servants and others." After saying that, he welcomed the heavenly book to Hanfang Garden, and fasted and bathed, prepared the Dharma, and went to the palace to worship. Zhao Heng ordered Chen Yaosou, the official of the Privy Council, to read it in Kaifeng. All officials listened respectfully, but heard Chen Yaosou read it: "You respect filial piety, cultivate the people and bring blessings, Sir Jiarui, all the people know. Keep your words secretly and understand my intentions. The country will last forever and live a long life."

After reading it, Chen Yaosou went to the hall with the heavenly books. All officials gave Zhao Heng the title of honor, saying that it was the Emperor Chongwen, the Emperor Chongwen Guangwen, the Heavenly Lord Taoist Bao Yingzhang. Zhao Heng issued an order to build the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace and worship the heavenly books with devout worship. Wang Zeng, the Lord of the Master of Yu, and Changmin, wrote a letter to advise, but it was ineffective. In winter, Zhao Heng went to Mount Tai for the Fengshan, carried the heavenly books with jade, and set off first. He led the Yiwei and set off. He walked for a total of seventeen days before he arrived at Mount Tai.

Wang Qinruo welcomed the road and presented more than 38,000 copies of zhicao. Zhao Heng comforted him. After three days of fasting, Zhao Heng went to Mount Tai. The road was steep and he could only walk. After reaching the top of the mountain, Zhao Heng sacrificed God Haotian, left Chen Tianshu, and was accompanied by Taizu and Taizong. He also ordered his ministers to enshrine the sacrificial altar at the foot of the mountain. Zhao Heng inspected the Circular Platform and then returned to the tent. Wang Dan led the official to congratulate him.

The next day, Zhao Heng sacrificed the emperor's land on Sheshou Mountain. Wang Qinruo and others successively chanted lyrics, saying that the sky was full of splendor. Zhao Heng personally visited the Shouchang Hall in the altar and accepted the congratulations of all officials. The upper and lower levels of the country were chanted, and the valley was shaken. The imperial edict was issued to pardon the world, and civil and military officials increased the order. Qiang County was changed to Fengfu County, and a banquet for Muqing Hall, and then the elders of Taishan were invited to the palace gate. The emperor's kindness was really great.

A few days later, Zhao Heng turned to Qufu and visited Confucius Temple. He ordered his close ministers to divide them into 72 disciples, and appointed Confucius as King Xuansheng Wenxuan, and then sacrificed to Tailao. After that, Zhao Heng led his ministers to visit the Confucius Forest. When the funeral was over, he issued an edict to return to the palace. He still used jade lords to carry the letter of heaven and returned to the capital according to the post. Wang Qinruo protected Xihui, joined forces with a group of charming ministers, and kept praising merits, which made Zhao Heng think that the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors and Three Kings were not as good as him.

Ding Wei introduced the auspicious pictures of Fengshan again and displayed them in the court. So after the east seal was not allowed, he discussed the west seal again. At this time, a sudden flood occurred in Xu and Yanzhou, and the river and Huaizhou encountered drought. Fire broke out in Jinling, and disasters were reported to the capital one after another. Zhao Heng had no choice but to temporarily suspend Fengshan of the Western Mountains. Since Zhao Heng had been in the Tai Mountains, no emperor has been to Fengshan, because they did not want to be with Zhao Heng.

More than a year later, China and foreign countries were a little at peace and brought up the old story. The ministers submitted a letter requesting a sacrifice to Huashan in the west. Zhao Heng immediately approved the report and decided to be happy in the spring of the following year. All the ceremonies were still in good hands. So Shanzhou reported that the Yellow River water had become closer to Qing Dynasty, and Yan Shu, the director of Jixian College, offered a tribute to the river Qing Dynasty. Zhao Heng personally wrote a statement to protect the people and declared the ministers. In the blink of an eye, winter was gone and spring came, and Zhao Heng ordered the ministers to prepare sacrifice ceremony and not to slack off.

Just then, the capital was drought severely, and the price of grain rose sharply. Longtu Pavilion was waiting for Sun Shi to control him, so he resolutely submitted a memorial to persuade him. Seeing this memorial, Zhao Heng knew that Sun Shi was a loyal minister, so he did not punish him. He just detained the two memorials and put them on the shelf.

One day, taking advantage of the weather, Zhao Heng set off westward, and still set off from the capital with the heavenly book. He passed Tongguan and crossed the Wei River. Zhao Heng sent his close ministers to worship Xiyue and entered Baoding County. He worshipped Houtuchengzhi, all the etiquette was roughly the same as before. Zhao Heng

Rewarding merits and forgiveness of sins, and offering banquets and giving banquets is the same as when he was in Mount Tai.

Then, Zhao Heng summoned the hermits Li Du, Liu Xun, Zheng Yin, and Li Ning to meet him. Li Du made an excuse that he had a problem and was unwilling to please him. Zheng Yin and Li Ning finally arrived, and received the tea, fruit, grain and silk from the emperor, and still asked to return to the mountain. Only Liu Xun was appointed as a judge in Dali. When he came to Qi Township, Zhao Heng summoned the Taoist Chai Youxuan and asked him the point of doing nothing.

The two talked for a few words, and Zhao Heng did not like what the other party said, so he asked him to withdraw. After arriving in Shaanxi, Zhao Heng sent Shaanxi ruling Wang Xi to recruit the hermit Wei Ye, who said that Wei Ye would not come. In the fifth year of Xianping, Zhang Qixian heard that the Jingzhao hermit Zong Fang was very famous, so he submitted a report to Zhao Heng, requesting him to be appointed as an official in the court. Zong Fang accepted the position of Zuo Sijian.

As for Li Du and Wei Ye, they were famous for a moment. The two were originally friendly and planned to get married. After Wei Ye's death, Li Du lost his good friend. Six days later, Lin Fu, a hermit in Hangzhou, never married for life, lived in seclusion in West Lake, built a mountain of hut, and his wife was plum and siren. Zhao Heng believed that he was very loyal and refused to go to the quest, so he could only engrave it in his heart from afar.

After returning from Xifeng, there were other three mountains that were not granted. Zhao Heng sent Xiang Minzhong to serve as the envoy of the Five Mountains, plus the title of the Five Mountains Emperor, and worshipped the Five Mountains. He also appointed Wang Qinruo as the Privy Councilor, promoted Ding Wei to serve as the political affairs, and used Lin Te as the envoy of the Three Divisions. The three colluded with each other and talked about Fu Rui's affairs. Chen Pengnian, deputy envoy of the Jingshi system, was treacherous and nicknamed the Nine-tailed Fox. He had a secret voice with the eunuch Liu Chenggui, and widely practiced palaces and regarded them as the Five Ghosts in the court.

Liu Chenggui also reported: "Wang Jie of Tingzhou met a Taoist in Nankang, who claimed that his surname was Zhao and his name was Xuanlang, which was Siming Zhenjun. The Taoist also passed on to Zhao Jie's alchemy technique and divine sword, so he heard of it." Zhao Heng then summoned Wang Jie into the court and was appointed as the General of the Left Wu Guard, and gave him the name Zhongzheng.

The ministers naturally found it strange, but Zhao Heng said, "I once dreamed that a god had passed on the order of the Jade Emperor, saying that I had already ordered my ancestor to give me a letter of heaven. The next day, I dreamed that the god man passed on the words of the Holy Ancestor, "I am sitting in the west and there should be six people waiting for me. I ordered a temple in Yan'en Hall, with five drums at the same time."

Soon, the Holy Ancestor came here in person in Huangguang. I worshiped His Highness again. At this moment, six more people came to pay homage to the Holy Ancestor and sat down one by one. The Holy Ancestor ordered me to say, "I am one of the nine people of the Human Emperor, the ancestor of the Zhao family, and then demoted to Emperor Xuanyuan. The Zhao family was born again in the Later Tang Dynasty. It has been a hundred years since then. I hope your back hall will be good at ease and don't forget your previous aspirations." After saying that, he left on the clouds.

Wang Dan and others dared not refute, so they had to kneel on the ground in a dark way and claim congratulations together. Therefore, Zhao Heng issued an edict to the world to avoid the taboo of the Holy Ancestor. "Xuan" should be "Yuan", and "Lang" should be "Ming". If there is a taboo in the book, each of them should be defective. The two words "Xuan" and "Yuan" have similar sounds, and changed "Xuan" to "Zhen", and "Xuanwu" to "Zhenwu". Ding Wei and others ordered to revise the ritual notes of the Holy Ancestor, and said: "The Holy Ancestor, Linggaodao, Jiutiansi, was determined to protect the Emperor of Heaven." The Holy Mother Yi said: "The Great Sage of Yuantian."

Zhao Jianjing Ling Palace Taiji Temple was visited by Shouqiu, and worshipped the Holy Ancestor and the Holy Mother of the Saint Ancestor, and ordered Jiankang Army to cast the statue of the Jade Emperor, Taizu, and Taizong, and appointed Ding Wei as the envoy of the Yingying Palace in Yuqing. Zhenzong personally led all officials to visit him, and then appointed Wang Dan as the envoy of the jade envoy, Wang Qinruo and Ding Wei as the deputy, and engraved the jade books in the heavenly scriptures and kept them in the palace. After that, all the sacrifices of the Zhaoying Palace in Yuqing were under the charge of Wang Dan, and he was given an official name, called the Zhaoying Palace envoy of Yuqing. Although Wang Dan felt that it was ridiculous, the emperor's order was difficult to violate, so he had to accept it.

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Besides, Zhao Heng's queen Guo, humbly asked Huixia to be jealous and extravagant. When her tribe members entered the palace to meet, as long as the clothes seemed a little gorgeous, she immediately gave a warning. If her parents' family had any requests, they never agreed. Therefore, Zhao Heng also respected him quite well and never complained. In the fourth year of Jingde, Empress Guo followed Zhao Heng to Xijing to pay homage tombs. On the way, she occasionally ran away from the cold air and returned to the palace to get sick, so she could not afford it. After her death, she was posthumously named Zhang Mu.

There were several concubines in Zhao Heng's palace, and the most favored one was Concubine Liu De, the second was Concubine Yang Shu. The resume of this Concubine Liu De's ancestral home is Taiyuan. His father is said to be the commander of Hujiedu in the early Song Dynasty and was the governor of Jiazhou. Therefore, his family moved to Huayang, Chengdu. Shortly after Liu E was born, his parents died, and Liu E, who was in the cradle, became an orphan and was fostered in his mother's Pang family.

Liu E, who was living under someone else's roof, grew up and became a singer. Not only did she sing and listen to her singing, she was also good at playing turtles. Liu E married a silversmith named Gong Mei in Shu at a very young age. Gong Mei took her away from Shu and came to the capital Bianliang to make a living. Because of her hardship in her livelihood, Gong Mei planned to sell Liu E and marry someone else. Zhao Heng's commander Zhang Qi recommended Liu E to him. When Zhao Heng saw Liu E, he loved her very much. He immediately bought Liu E and took her back to the royal palace.

One day, when Zhao Guangyi saw Zhao Heng getting tired and thin, he asked Zhao Heng's wet nurse, who was around the prince? The wet nurse didn't like Liu E, so she told Zhao Guangyi about Liu E's entry into the mansion. When Zhao Guangyi heard that the prince was hanging with a folk woman of a humble origin and unknown origin, he was furious and asked Zhao Heng to drive Liu E out of the palace.

Soon, Zhao Guangyi gave Zhao Heng a marriage. The bride came from a famous family and was the daughter of Pan Mei, the founding hero of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Heng did not dare to disobey his father's order, and he was reluctant to part with Liu E, so he secretly placed Liu E at the home of the commander-in-chief of the palace, and often had private meetings. Zhang Qi saw that he was the person the prince loved very much and served Liu E was very cautious. In order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Qi did not dare to go home from then on, so he chose another house outside to settle down.

After Zhao Guangyi's death, Zhao Heng inherited the throne. After ascending the throne, Zhao Heng brought Liu E into the palace. However, there was already Empress Guo and other concubines in the harem, and Liu E had no name. After entering the palace, Liu E did not compete for favor with the empress and concubines in the harem. Among the concubines in the harem, Yang was extremely favored. Zhao Heng went on a tour, Yang was always with him, and was very favored, and was almost equal to Liu E. For the favorite concubine Yang, Liu E was as affectionate as sisters, and had no gaps, and advanced and retreated together in the harem.

In the first year of Jingde, Liu E was named a fourth-rank beauty. Later, Liu E was promoted to Xiuyi and Concubine De. Liu E was an orphan, without parents or other family members. Liu E then recognized Gong Mei as her brother, and Gong Mei changed her surname to Liu since then.

In the fourth year of Jingde, Empress Guo passed away. Zhao Heng wanted to make Liu E the queen, Kou Zhun, Li Di, Xiang Minzhong, Wang Dan and other important officials expressed their firm opposition on the grounds that "Liu E was born in a humble and could not be the mother of a country."

Zhao Anren, the assistant minister, not only opposed Liu E as his queen, but also proposed another candidate, Shen Cairen, the granddaughter of former prime minister Shen Lun. Zhao Heng was unhappy. Wang Qinruo took the opportunity to slander and said that Zhao Anren asked to establish the Shen family for personal gain. Zhao Heng quickly scolded Zhao Anrenyuan.

In the third year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Li, the maid of Liu E, was favored and gave birth to the only prince at that time for Zhao Heng. The prince was still in his infancy, so Liu E took the prince as his own son and asked Concubine Yang to raise him on his behalf.
Chapter completed!