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Xue Huaiyi ran to the Yaoguang Hall with great interest along the way, his heart was full of sweetness, and he thought that Wu Zetian was still inseparable from him.
Surrounded by water on all sides, the Yaoguang Hall has a quiet environment that makes people feel relaxed. After Xue Huaiyi arrived, he couldn't see the empress on all sides, and his heart couldn't help but wander. Just when he was suspicious, he suddenly heard the scattered footsteps around him, and the sound of killing was everywhere.
He hurriedly looked up, only to see Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Youning, the King of Jianchang, running towards him with a murderous face, followed by dozens of warriors. He hurriedly got up and ran, but the crowd had already arrived, swords and swords in unison, and Xue Huaiyi had instantly become a ghost.
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In September 2010, "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" was released nationwide, and the whole film was imaginative, the storyline was twisted and bizarre, and the picture was grand and sophisticated, almost comparable to Hollywood's big productions. The whole film revolves around the cremation case layer by layer, the plot is confusing, and the plot is fascinating. The setting of the scene in the movie is particularly eye-catching, it is the starting point of the storyline and the end point.
Stills from "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire"
In order to create momentum for his ascension to the throne, Wu Zetian ordered the construction of the Tongtian Floating Massacre opposite the Ming Hall, requiring it to be completed before ascending the throne. In the movie, tongtian floating tu is sixty-six zhang high, meaning to take the sixty-six heavens, towering straight into the clouds, standing majestically above the divine capital Luoyang, and far away from the Dengji Dianming Hall.
The Tongtian Floating Tu in the film is a huge bronze Buddha with a feminine face and headdress. Obviously, this was deliberately built by the officials in the image of Wu Zetian in order to pat themselves on the back. It is said that the prototype of the Great Buddha of Lushena in the Longmen Grottoes is Wu Zetian. This majestic Tongtian Floating Tu was not imagined by Xu Ke, and of course it was not built according to the records in the "Book of The Kingdom of Brahma" mentioned in the movie, but it is a real thing in history.
The Zizhi Tongjian records that in February of the fourth year of Tang Chuigong (688 AD), Wu Zetian ordered his male favorite Xue Huaiyi to build the Ming Temple. In December, the construction of the Ming Hall was completed. According to the book, the Ming Hall was 294 feet high (one foot in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to 30.7 centimeters today) and had a circumference of 300 feet. The building is divided into three floors, the lower floor symbolizes the four o'clock in the spring, summer, autumn and winter, the middle floor symbolizes the twelve o'clock, and the upper floor is a dome, supported by nine dragons. On top of it is an iron phoenix, one foot high, and decorated with gold.
At this time, although Wu Zetian had not yet ascended the throne and claimed the title of emperor, the heart of the emperor had been clearly revealed, and the architectural pattern of the Kowloon phoenix showed the domineering spirit of the only female emperor in Chinese history to the fullest.
After the completion of the Ming Hall, Wu Zetian ordered the construction of a five-story heaven on the north side of the Ming Hall to store the Great Buddha. The specific size of heaven is not recorded in the book, but it says that standing on the third floor of heaven, you can look down on the Ming Hall. How big is the Big Buddha? According to the "Zizhi Tongjian", the little thumb of the Big Buddha can accommodate dozens of people, and it is not an exaggeration at all that several people in the movie can stand in the eyes of Tongtian Futu and look down on the scenery of Luoyang.
Heavenly Floating Massacre
Speaking of Mingtang and Heaven, we have to say that Xue Huaiyi, the first male favorite of Wu Zetian, was the overall person in charge of building Mingtang and Heaven.
Xue Huaiyi, whose original name was Feng Xiaobao, lived in the streets of Luoyang in his early years and made a living selling medicines. I don't know what kind of medicine he sells, but I would love to imagine him as selling dog skin plasters or pills, and you can think about what kind of image this second-rate person is. Later, somehow, he hooked up with the maid of Princess Qianjin and began his infamous soft rice career. Princess Qianjin was the daughter of Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, and judging by what this person had done, there were serious problems with her ideological and moral level.
After Princess Qianjin learned of her maid's scandal, instead of punishing these two people, she took Feng Xiaobao as her own.
At this time, Emperor Gaozong of Tang was dead, and Wu Zetian was sharpening his sword at Li Tangzong's room, and those princes and grandchildren who had unlimited scenery in the past were all in danger and precarious. In order to please Wu Zetian, Princess Qianjin entered the palace and recommended Feng Xiaobao to her, and also worshipped her as her mother. In fact, in terms of generations, Wu Zetian is the niece and daughter-in-law of Princess Qianjin, which is different from generations, but in order to survive, it does not matter what the generations are.
Wu Zetian was very fond of Feng Xiaobao, and the two were very hot. But Feng Xiaobao is a man after all, and frequently entering and leaving the palace is inconvenient and will fall into the handle. In order to facilitate access to the palace, Wu Zetian shaved Feng Xiaobao's head and made him a monk.
Although monks are also men, there is still a difference between them and men, the difference is that monks are men who have left home, and in theory, such people should be spiritual eunuchs. However, it is clear that Feng Xiaobao is not.
Luoyang Heaven Mingtang Scenic Area Night View
Feng Xiaobao came from a poor background, and in order to elevate his status, Wu Zetian made him and Xue Shao, the donkey horse, by making him Xue Shao's uncle, and at the same time changing his name to Xue Huaiyi and letting him live in the White Horse Temple.
In addition to giving him a relative of a famous and prestigious family, Wu Zetian took pains to elevate Xue Huaiyi's status. First he asked him to preside over the construction of heaven and the Ming Temple, and later let him lead his soldiers out to fight, and he also made meritorious contributions. In fact, Xue Huaiyi's meritorious service was completely a piece of luck, the two Invasions of the Turks were Xue Huaiyi's troops to fight, but each time the Tang army had not yet reached the border pass, the Turks withdrew their troops, there was no way, luck came to block it.
In order to repay Wu Zetian, Xue Huaiyi also took the initiative to do some things.
Before Wu Zetian ascended the throne, Xue Huaiyi and the monk Fa Ming compiled the Buddhist classic The Great Cloud Sutra. In order to popularize the boring and obscure classics to the public, they wrote a popular version, named "The Great Cloud Jingshu". Xue Huaiyi used this scripture to actively create momentum for Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne. In the book, he preached that the Tang Dynasty was in decline, that the Empress Dowager was Maitreya, and that her mission was to replace the Tang Dynasty's rule.
Buddhism has an important tradition of holding a grand bongjah meeting every five years, called the Unobstructed Meeting. In the first month of the first year of the First Year of the Book of Heaven (695), Xue Huaiyi held an unobstructed meeting in the imperial hall. Before the meeting, the monks worked overtime all night to chisel a large pit five meters deep on the ground, installed mechanisms in the pit, placed some Buddha statues in the pit, and then covered them with loose soil. When the unobstructed meeting was held, the monks twisted the mechanism, and the Buddha statue slowly rose from the ground and broke out of the ground, and Xue Huaiyi announced to the outside world that the Buddha statue had poured out of the ground to show auspiciousness.
Soon, Xue Huaiyi killed cattle and bloodied, and painted a large Buddha statue with cow blood, with only his head two hundred feet high, and Xue Huaiyi claimed that he had pierced his knee to take blood. He hung the Buddha statue high in the south of Tianjin Bridge, and set up a fast under the Buddha statue to pray for the empress' blessing.
Exterior view of Ming Hall
Although Xue Huaiyi was favored by Wu Zetian, there were not many things that interfered in politics, and his bad deeds were mainly manifested in his flying and stumbling. He often rode with a group of monks on horseback on the streets of Luoyang, trampling and trampling the people from time to time. When he entered and exited the palace, he was arrogant and rude, did not pay attention to the ministers, and seriously injured the imperial history who had repeatedly impeached him in the court, so the ministers were very jealous of him.
However, Xue Huaiyi also had times when he touched the nail.
One day Xue Huaiyi met Su Liangsi, the prime minister, at the gate of the palace, and he did not pay attention to this prime minister at all, and acted very arrogant. Su Liangsi was furious, and at his command, his entourage rushed up and beat Xue Huaiyi around. After being beaten, Xue Huaiyi ran to Wu Zetian to file a complaint, thinking that Wu Zetian could give him a blow. However, although Wu Zetian was fierce in heart, he was not confused. In her eyes, Xue Huaiyi was just a tool, and the real governance of the country depended on the prime minister. So she told Xue Huaiyi that the south gate was where the ministers walked, and you should go to the north gate when you enter the palace later.
When often faced with the same thing, even if the thing is beautiful, people are prone to aesthetic fatigue. Therefore, the wealth and glory obtained by sacrificing hue will certainly not last.
Those who do things in Israel are fading and loving, loving and loving. - Book of Han. Biography of a Foreign Relative
Soon, Xue Huaiyi tasted the taste of falling out of favor.
Wu Zetian may have been tired of Xue Huaiyi, so he married a new one and favored an imperial doctor named Shen Nanxuan (qiu). Xue Huaiyi knew that after the vinegar was furious, in order to vent his dissatisfaction, Xue Huaiyi burned the heavens and the Ming Hall. According to records, the fire illuminated the city of Luoyang at night like daylight, and it burned all night before it was extinguished.
The male pet burned the Ming Hall in order to fight for the wind and jealousy, and this matter was not good after all, so Wu Zetian did not blame Xue Huaiyi, and the imperial court announced that the fire was caused by the accidental fire of the people in the palace. At the same time, Wu Zetian ordered the rebuilding of Heaven and MingTang, and still let Xue Huaiyi be the person in charge.
It was okay to poke such a big Lou Zi, Xue Huaiyi was a little overwhelmed, and he was even more arrogant from then on, but at this time, he didn't know that he had become a grasshopper after the autumn, and he couldn't bounce for a few days.
One day a month later, Wu Zetian invited Xue Huaiyi to the Yaoguang Hall for a meeting.
After killing Xue Huaiyi, Wu Zetian ordered his body to be sent to the White Horse Temple, burned with fire, and then built a stupa from his ashes.
Although Xue Huaiyi died, the reconstruction of the Heavenly Ming Hall did not stop.
The following year, the construction of the new Ming Hall was completed, and its scale was slightly smaller than the old one. At the top, a gilded iron phoenix was still sculpted, and it was two feet tall, but it was soon blown by the wind. Wu Zetian ordered the iron phoenix to be changed to a copper fire bead, and the nine dragons were still allowed to hold the bead below, creating a pattern of dragons holding the beads.
When the new Ming Hall was completely completed, Wu Zetian renamed the Ming Hall to Tongtian Palace, changing it to Long Live Tongtian, which was the first year of Long Live Tongtian in 696 AD.
A meteorologically glorious heavenly empire began...