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Liu'e, in power, began to abolish the abuses of the later years of the True Sect, and to promote the New Deal. First, he buried the Heavenly Tome Monoliths and the True Sect into the Royal Tomb, ending the Heavenly Book Monster government that had lasted for more than ten years. Then there were the personnel. Generations of court officials colluding with each other to engage in selfish ends never stopped. Not only were there talented people who could not be promoted, private parties ran amok. It was not easy to manipulate the court rules. Liu'e borrowed the death of the real sect to bestow rewards to the relatives of officials. She took the names of the relatives of officials in the imperial court and selected a few of them to hide the reward and reward from others. From then on, this map of the relatives of officials was left in Liu'e's inner palace, eliminating this flaw among officials. In the later stages of the True Sect, Wang Qingrou, Ding Wei, Lin Te, Chen Pengniang, Liu Chengqian, and others who were once called "the Five Devils" were favored by Wang because they believed in the magic of immortals and immortals. But after Liu E took power, he dismissed these five people, and appointed Wang Zeng, Lu Yijian, Lu Zongdao and Zhang Zhibai, the four leading officials, to carry out the New Deal.

In the later stages of the True Sect, although the income of the imperial court had greatly increased due to the opening of the river, the rewards of farming and mulberry trees, due to the sealing of the Heaven's Book, the gathering of the medicinal herbs, and the construction of the palace to pay for the sacrifice of the heavens, the final few years' income had basically been reduced by the amount of expenses, leaving almost nothing. There were also Wang Qingrou, Ding Wei and others who rose up to gather elixir sand to gather elixirs, causing the workers to enter deep into the mountains, wasting the lives of many people.

Liu'e had been born into poverty, and had wandered from Shu to Beijing. She knew the hardships of the lower classes, and had also experienced the uprising of Wang Bo and Li Shun. She knew that if she didn't pacify the people, she wouldn't be able to rule the country forever. Therefore, after her personal administration, she immediately ordered the pros and cons to be taken care of. First, they stopped the construction of the palace, including the alchemy sand collection in Liushui County in Jiangning Prefecture, and the gold sand collection in Jiulong County in Pengzhou. They removed the Lingzhi collection in various places, banned the contribution of warlocks and Taoists, prohibited the destruction of money and bells in various places, and then reduced the cost of all sorts of red tape. In addition, the general amnesty, the reduction of taxes, the pingjingjing, Hebei, Huainan and other places valley prices, the re-opening of Yongfeng canal with salt, the establishment of Yizhou, official paper money as the official circulation of goods.

This side would reduce taxes and save expenses. After a few years of operation, the treasury gradually became more prosperous. Liu E's prestige also increased by a day. But as Liu E's power became more and more stable and the young emperor grew up, the ministers in the court began to divide up.

One was led by conservative officials, such as Fan Yong and Lin, who were required to return the favor to the Empress Dowager. Liu E saw this as a provocation to her power, and the officials who returned the favor were either exiled or exiled. As a result, there was a group of people who were in the opposite direction. There was a letter from Fang Zhonggong requesting her to set up seven temples for the ancestors of the Liu family, just like Wu Zetian's previous example.

Liu E couldn't help but be moved by her words, so she asked everyone in the court, "What kind of person is Wu Zetian?" Lu Zongdao saw through her thoughts and decisively said: "Tang Sin." Faced with the courtier's attitude, Liu E had no choice but to step back. She threw the "Martial Queen's Diagram" on the ground and said, "I won't do anything against my ancestors."

However, if someone knew Liu E's character well, they would know that Liu E's attitude wasn't a form of giving up, but a strategy of retreat. From the whole history of Liu E, she is a more perfect personality. Her character is as strong as Wu Zetian, but tougher. If the situation in front of her was not good, with Wu Zetian's personality, she would encounter gods, slaying ghosts, and gods. However, Liu Er would retreat slightly and use a roundabout way to achieve her goal.

Her experiences had been a setback, and she had always been able to achieve her goals. In the beginning, she had only wanted to be satisfied as the concubine of a vassal lord, but unexpectedly, she was chased out of the estate by Taizong. She was hibernating and pushing the True Sect step by step to seize the throne. She finally got what she wanted and was able to be with the person she liked. However, after she ascended to the position of Imperial Consort, she wanted to immediately be conferred the title of Imperial Consort. Unexpectedly, when the Prime Minister rejected her, she was not discouraged, but started with the position of the lowest beauty step by step. When Guo died, the officials objected to her being the queen, so she went on the lexicon and dispelled their wariness. Not only did she use the method of 'borrowing a child's belly' to block the mouths of the officials, she also used the method of 'luring the tiger out of the mountain' to ascend to the position of queen when the prime minister, Wang Dan, and Kou, who had opposed her as the empress, no longer held the position of empress.

The one who can grasp the pulse of the times is the one who can take advantage of the ups and downs of the times." In the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was different from the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty had a great influence on the strength of the times by using the right or wrong Prime Minister. For example, the Tang Xuan Sect was ruled by Yao Chong and Song Jing, while Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong were thrown into chaos. In the Song Dynasty, in order to weaken the power of the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister was frequently changed. Thus, the political struggle was extremely complicated. In order to expand his power, Kou had involved himself in the plot of the eunuch Zhou Huaizheng, so that the True Sect could only entrust itself to Liu E in the end; the Prime Minister Ding Wei had borrowed Liu E's power out of a desire to exclude him; the successor Prime Minister Wang had fought Ding Wei in order to achieve the goal of eliminating Ding Wei and to increase the power of the Empress Dowager; and the Privileger Cao had used Liu E's power indirectly to fight against the King. Although these people were either loyal or adulterous, they had never thought of creating a new female lead who would come to court. Furthermore, after they had taken over the throne, they had tried their best to monopolize the imperial court and prevent Liu'e's power. However, in order to achieve the goal of defeating their opponent, they had all cooperated with Liu'e to a greater or lesser degree, or promoted her power to expand further. These prime ministers, at different stages, do not feel that they have become a springboard for Liu'e to expand her power. When Liu'e became the monarch of the world, Ding Wei was exiled, Wang was demoted, and Cao used suicide. Now, no one in the imperial court could oppose Liu'e anymore. Although Liu E is a dictator, she has good interpersonal relationships. In the imperial court, many of the ministers who had opposed her in the beginning were conservative subjects, and some even belonged to Qing Liu. They had only been unwilling for the imperial harem to take over and the matriarch to oppose her with her humble background and undistinguished position, but she had used the hands of Wang Qinruo, Ding Wei, and others to first deal with the opponents, then to eliminate the disreputable subjects, and then to reduce her gratitude to the demoted subjects, and then to vigorously dig new ones, thus allowing the entire imperial court to control the benign operation in her hands. As a favored concubine, she was able to live peacefully with Empress Guo. Madame Li gave birth to her son, and Yang Shoufei raised her son. This allowed her to ascend to the throne of the Empress, and allowed her to concentrate on attending to the true sect and assisting the imperial court. She had been intimate with Zhao Heng of the True Sect for forty years, and she and the little emperor, Zhao Zhen, had been very intimate with each other.

Under these circumstances, Liu E really didn't have to kill as much as Lu Zhi and Wu Zetian. However, her ambition also existed. Just because she had publicly thrown away the Martial Queen's Arena, it did not mean that she would give up on this idea. During the seven years of the Emperor's reign, Liu E borrowed the will of the Emperor to issue an imperial edict to promote the ceremony of the Empress Dowager's birthday to the same level as the Emperor's birthday, the Ganyuan Festival, and to the same extent as the Emperor's birthday. In the same year, she issued the "Heavenly Sacred Order", which was the beginning of the formation of the law in the Song Dynasty. The function of the Heavenly Sacred Order in the Song Dynasty was the same as that of the Chastity Order issued by Tang Taizong in the Tang Dynasty. After that, she gave the order to cultivate and advance to the shrine. When the shrine was completed, everyone saw that Uncle Tang Yu, who was originally revered by the shrine, had entered a corner. It was obvious to anyone who saw it. It was the same as Tang Wu and Wu Zetian, who built the incarnation of the Buddha in the world, and made the public opinion for the future Emperor. The Taiyuan, where Jin Shrine was located, was the ancestral home of Liu E's nominal father, Liu Tong. It could also be called the "Land of Long Xing". Liu E also for Liu Tong and seven generations of ancestors of the feudal emperors, Daxing mausoleum such as the Royal Tomb.

However, Liu'e has always been weak in the mother race. Although she is a supreme being, she still can't hide the weakness of her birth. Her only relative in name was her sworn brother Liu Mei who brought her to the capital. Liu Mei was a loyal person. Even though her position in the True Sect had risen rapidly, she did not attract any bad comments. When Liu Mei was still alive, she had been asked by Liu E to look for her family in Shu. Although many of the so-called "Liu clan members" appeared during the search, they were all from the same village. Liu E was not interested in these people, so none of them gave him an official title or brought glory to the capital. From this, it could be seen that Taiyuan's grandfather, Liu Yanqing, and his father, Liu Tong, were more like an illusion concealing their identity. Liu E never sought out these relatives in Taiyuan, but only in Shu.

But even the only fake elder brother, Liu Mei's family, seemed too weak. Liu Mei died a year before the death of Zhen Zong. In her lifetime, Liu Mei was loyal and careful. Before she died, she betrothed her two grown children's marriage to an ordinary wealthy businessman in Shu, rather than to a family of eunuchs. Liu E had to cultivate Liu Mei's eldest son, Liu Congde, but Liu Congde died at the age of twenty-four. Liu Congguang, who was only eight years old, didn't have much use for him.

Of course, the method was something that people thought of. Even Gong Mei who wasn't surnamed Liu could become her blood related elder brother, Liu Mei. What's more, wouldn't it be easy to find a few surnamed Liu that were willing to be the empress dowager's wife? Liu'e had taken a liking to Liu Ye, then a straight maester of the Dragon Painting Pavilion. His family tree was complete and his family background was outstanding. All twelve generations of his ancestors had come from an official family. Liu E immediately summoned Liu Ye, saying that she wanted to use the family tree to see if it was possible for them to be related. Back then, when Liu E had built the seven temples, the shrine had been so popular that anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the empress dowager wanted to imitate Wu Zongtian. If ordinary people could reach the royal family, they would naturally be more than happy to do so, but Liu Ye himself had already made a rich and honorable family, so he didn't want to bring endless troubles upon himself just for the sake of getting to the next level. When he heard that the empress dowager had taken the initiative to marry him, he was so scared that he fainted on the spot. Liu E had no choice but to let him go. She put Liu Mei as her brother to the side of the family and married the royal family.

Although Chong De, Chang Chun, Zi Fu, Huiqing, Chong Hui, Tian He, Cheng Ming, Yan Qing and other palaces only suffered some damage, Liu E took the opportunity to change the names of all the important palaces after the palaces were repaired. Chang Chao's Hall was also changed to the same name as Tang Wu's Hall: Zi Su Palace. Furthermore, most of the important palaces' names and doors were changed as well. The move was a surprise and was seen as a precursor to a change of dynasty. Even more surprising was the fact that Liu E had ordered to wear the crown of the emperor to pay respects to the temple of Tai-tai. Despite the vehement opposition of Pao Kui and others, everything was done according to Liu E's wishes. "Before her death, Ren Zong's birth mother, Madame Li, had died of an illness. Before she died, Liu E was crowned Chen Fei.

In February of the year of Ming Dynasty (1033 A.D.), Liu E dressed as she wished, wearing the dragon robe of the Son of Heaven and the crown of the heavens, but with only two or three ornaments removed symbolically, she still entered the temple as an emperor and performed the first rites of sacrifice. The imperial concubine, Yang, was the third offering, and the emperor's wife, Guo, the empress of Ren and Zong was the last. At the end of the ceremony, Liu E accepted the honorific title given to her by the officials: "Ying Tian Qi Sheng Ji Chong De Ci Ren Sheng Shou Empress Dowager." This was an extremely long title that only the Son of Heaven could accept.

But on the way back, Liu E caught a cold, fell ill and died suddenly the following year. Before she died, she still refused to let go of the power and peace, leaving behind the last words for the grand imperial concubine, the empress dowager, to continue to listen to the imperial court. Grand Concubine Yang, a woman loyal to Liu'e all her life, even though she succeeded as the empress dowager, she didn't have Liu'e's talent or courage, so she took the initiative to resign under the opposition of the officials.

Liu'e's death caused her adopted son, Ren Zong, to grieve and cry so much that he couldn't go to court for a few days. At that time, the eighth prince Zhao Yuan barged into the palace, noting that the eighth prince was not the rumored Zhao Defang, who had died six years ago in Taizong, the eighth son of Zhao Guangyi, and was also the uncle and relative of Ren Zong. Zhao Yuan, who had stayed in the palace after the death of Zhen Zong, tried to repeat the myth of "brotherly brotherhood", but he was unable to win Liu'e. Zhao entered the palace and told Ren Zong that Liu'e was not Ren Zong's biological mother. It was only then that Ren Zong realized his past and his suspicions about his birth mother's death due to Zhao Yuan's words. But after the autopsy of his birth mother, Li Chenfei, he found out that her corpse had not been buried, but had been preserved in mercury, and that her appearance was still the same as before. Liu E, who had always striven for perfection, had been advised by Prime Minister Lu Yi to do a perfect job of dealing with his aftermath. Ren Zong knelt in front of Liu E Ling and sighed, "People should be afraid of words". He almost blamed his adoptive mother.

After Liu E died, Ren Zong, who had been controlled by her for more than ten years, was able to summon court officials alone for the first time. Because Liu E was still wearing the emperor's dragon robes before she died, it became a big issue for Ren Zong and the officials who had just taken revenge on her. Even the emperor Wu Zetian had been buried in the empress dowager's phoenix robe when she died.

Zhao Zhen wailed and asked the court officials, "Before she died, the empress dowager could no longer speak, but several times she tugged at her clothes, as if she had something to say. I wonder if she has any wishes?" Xue Kui, who had been strongly opposed to Liu'e's dragon robe, immediately understood and said, "The empress dowager definitely doesn't want to be buried in the crown prince's robes, lest it become difficult to meet the late emperor underground." Thus, it was natural for him to be considerate of the empress dowager's intentions and to be buried after she had changed into a phoenix robe. However, the Song people still have a conclusion about Liu'e's position. The emperor ordered the empress to imitate Wu Zetian's "Great Sage of Heaven" title and to make Liu'e's four words title as "Zhang Dazhi" empress. Before that, the empress dowager would have to start from Liu'e, with the curtains drawn down around the empress dowager's head and Wu Zetian's four words as well.

After the death of Liu'e, the case was brought to light. People began to criticize Liu'e, and Ren Zong ordered no one to criticize Liu'e's right or wrong when she was in power, citing the fact that he couldn't bear to listen to her words. Although Liu E wasn't the birth mother of Ren Zong, he still expressed his respect and yearning for Liu E after knowing his ancestry. His feelings for his mother were quite good.

Empress Wu Zetian lived to be eighty-one. She had been officially in power for thirty years before she became emperor, but Liu E had only lived sixty-five years. She died of an illness twelve years after her death in the True Sect. It was as if the hand of destiny was arranging things. Who would have thought that after wearing the dragon robe, she would suddenly die from illness?

Historians have always had a suspicion that Liu E did not have the heart to claim the throne. She had publicly thrown away the painting of the Martial Queen, but she had actively changed her name to wearing a dragon robe and offering sacrifices to the Taishan Temple. She had done what she had to do before Wu Zetian became the emperor, and no other empress dowager in Chinese history dared to do this except her and Wu Zetian.

Is it possible for a second empress to appear in Chinese history? If Liu E could live to be eighty-one, like Wu Zetian, not even that long, she would only have to live another ten or five years, and then everything would come to an end.

In addition to Wu Zetian, she was another woman wearing a dragon robe. In the entire history of China, there were only two women.

Liu'e's History of Growth: An orphan girl who had been decided in the early days but still walked out in a state of turmoil, a servant girl who had been despised, a concubine who had been forced to miscarry, a wife who had been forced to seclude, a consort who had helped her husband ascend to the outer chamber of the throne, a consort who had fought for the right to live in the harem, a beauty who was unparalleled in the world. The queen who held power in her husband's illness, the empress dowager who monopolized her son's youth... Liu'e was bathed in blood again and again in times of crisis, from the unliterate Shu girl to the empress dowager who controlled the world. The transformation was both thrilling and logical. Her fight with the Guo Queen was not a battle for the favor of the imperial harem, but a battle between the two political forces. Liu Gelou was a born politician, and her sharp insight allowed her to grasp that sliver of hope in the place of the nine deaths many times. Until her imperial uniform was completed, and she completed the complete transformation from a destitute girl to a powerful one, reaching the highest point in her life that was also history.

It was also because of this that she gave up on the throne, giving up on the lofty sentiments and dreams of dominating the world. However, she still announced the world in the form of Imperial Clothes Sacrifice Temple.

Lu Yijian (978-1040), the character Tanfu, ancestral to Laizhou (now Shandong); Song Dynasty famous statesman. In the year of the True Sect, the Ministry of Justice used their authority to open the gates to the Imperial Palace. He was the Prime Minister. He assisted the young Ren Zong to deal with many conflicts in the Northern Song Dynasty and abroad correctly while the Empress Mother was in court, thus guaranteeing social stability and economic development in the Northern Song Dynasty and becoming one of the famous ministers of the Song Dynasty.

Lu Yi-jian came from the family of officials, his grandfather, Gui Xiang, was a former Zhizhou, Anhui Province, so the family moved to the city. He was a True Sect Scholar in his first year. He had served as a judge in Tongzhou, as well as as as Minister of Ancestral Affairs and Minister of Justice of the State of Binzhou. He also had a history of serving as an assistant minister and Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice. Lu Yijian only know outstanding, careful and diligent government, then has the reputation of being "incompetent." When he knew Binzhou, he asked to be excused from the farm tax, and the True Sect gave it to the world. In the Ancestral Department, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, he criticized the True Sect's construction of the palace view as a waste of money, please do away with the winter river transport of wood and stone. Zhen Zong praised him for "having the heart to love the people for the country", and several times entrusted him with a big role. He had sent out an envoy to negotiate and delimit with Chidan, and had been promoted back to the position of official, becoming a close follower of the True Sect. In the last year of the True Sect, he was promoted to the position of direct maester of the Dragon Painting Pavilion and transferred to the Ministry of Justice. Zhen Zong wrote his name on the screen, saying that Lu Yijian was going to pay homage to him.

Year 1022, True Sect Collapse. The young Ren Zong took his place, and Empress Dowager Liu brought it under control. Lu Yishan kowtowed to the official matter (Prime Minister), the Grand Scholar of the Hall of Assemblage. Empress Dowager Liu had a perverse character and didn't know much about the state, but she had to approve it. On the one hand, Lu Yijian had to deal with national affairs carefully, on the other hand, he had to carefully restrain the empress dowager's indulgence and arbitrariness. In this situation, Lu Yijian, in the spirit of public loyalty to his country, had exhausted all his efforts to handle a myriad of affairs. He took care of the Empress Dowager's face in minor matters, and refused to let her in in major matters, sometimes provoking the Empress Dowager to a great extent. In such a case, Lü Yijian always made a detailed confession, repeatedly stated his opinion, and forced Her Majesty to accept the correct opinion. For example, during the True Sect Temple Accessory Ceremony, Empress Dowager Liu offered to put all the things used when the True Sect was still alive in the Supreme Temple; at the same time, she also used a silver mask to restore the True Sect's position. To say that he would not do so would be disrespectful to the true sect. Lu Yijian said that the best way to cherish the true sect was to assist the young masters in governing the world. Wasting and spreading their wealth was not what the late emperor wished for, and she finally stopped the empress dowager's actions. For example, in the first year of the Ming dynasty, a common concubine of the late Emperor Song Zhen's, Madame Li, passed away. The empress dowager had not publicly attended her funeral. When Lü Yijian brought up the matter before the court, the empress dowager said in alarm, "Does the Prime Minister also care about the affairs of the palace?" Empress Dowager Liu quickly dismissed Emperor Ren Zong and summoned Lu Yijian alone. Lu Yijian countered, "Isn't the empress dowager thinking about protecting the Liu family in the future?" A single sentence shocked the Empress Dowager before she made a decree to bury Madame Li under the title of Empress. So it turned out that Madame Li was no ordinary person, she was the birth mother of the current Emperor Ren Zong! King Jing's son had always been raised in the palace. The empress dowager liked him very much, and would never let him out of the palace even when he grew up. The ministers begged him many times, and the Empress Mother told him to read to Renzhong. Lu Yijian said, "Your Majesty should be intimate with the Confucian officials in order to facilitate the development of the Saints." Her Majesty had no choice but to let him out of the palace. Under Lu Yijian's efforts, the first years of Renjian were peaceful and peaceful, and the society was at peace. Song Shimeng evaluated him, "The sect was just established. The empress dowager has been around for more than ten years, yet the world has remained calm. The number of people who have gathered here is great."

Ming Dao for two years (1033), Her Majesty's fall, Renjianzong's personal government. Lu Yijian put forward eight advice to him, namely: the main court, the path of evil, the prohibition of bribes, the identification of qinyan, the visit of the girl, short study, hard work, the festival. The people of the sect all accepted it humbly. Queen Guo was dissatisfied with Lu Yijian, as she tried to sow discord between him and Lu Yijian. Lu Yijian was rejected for a short period of time and immediately reinstated his position. Empress Guo's temper was flustered. She had an argument with the beauty Shang in the palace and fought with her all the way. Unexpectedly, she slapped Ren Zong on the face. Renjian was determined to cripple her, and so was Lu Yijian; Confucius, Fan Zhongyan, and others were taken out of office.

Lu Yijian in the Song, Liao, Xia relations, consolidation of border defense in the outstanding contribution. It is of positive significance that he appointed Fan Zhongyan to the army and sent a famous official to the state of Liaoning to negotiate peace with the two countries and to protect the stable social environment in the country. But in the above relations, Lü Yijian concedes too much to Liaoxia, and the annual loss of money and wealth is too great, which aggravates the domestic financial burden, which should be pointed out. In terms of servants, Lu Yijian was not lenient towards those who opposed him. These people were often deprecated by him to work at a distance, such as Confucius, Fan Zhongyan, and so on. However, Lu Yijian can still be reused by truly talented officials. They often used it as a way of punishing and demoralizing their opponents, bringing their talents into full play. That is why the Song Dynasty called him: "the affairs of the world to bend and loosen the roll, movement and manipulation."

Two years (1042) of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Yijian fell down from dizziness. Ren Zong gave him a few days to write a letter to decide the military matters of the nation. Then he cut off his beard and gave it to Lu Yijian, saying: "The ancient beard can be treated, but today the beard can be cut and given to the Emperor, who will recover soon. In the spring of the third year of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Yijian was gravely ill. The man was summoned by the sect. They didn't want him to kneel down in front of them, so they helped him to sit down in front of them. I hope he will consult more with the court if his body permits. Lü Yishan repeatedly said that he was allowed to address the official as Grand Commandant. Not long after, Lu Yijian's illness occurred. Renzong lamented the last day of the dynasty: "Ande worries about the country and forgets oneself like a simple" (Song Dynasty). He was bestowed with the title of Grand Preceptor, as well as a book order, as well as the title of Wen Jing. He would be entitled to the Ren Zong Temple after that.