Chapter Forty-Eight The Old Homeland Cannot Bear a Retrospective in the Bright Moonlight (III)
Word Number:144
Author:一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time:2025-09-21
Thus it is said: “When the false is feigned as true, the true becomes false; Where nothing exists, something seems to be, yet vanishes again.” Seven days after the Empress ascended the throne, she established in Luoyang the ancestral temples of the Wu clan: posthumously honoring King Wen of Zhou as Emperor Wen, his consort of the Si clan as Empress Wendìng, granting princely titles to her uncles and nephews, ennobling her cousins as commandery kings, and bestowing the dignity of princess upon her aunts and sisters. She further elevated her trusted followers: Shi Wuzhi became Chancellor of the Imperial Secretariat, Zong Qinke became Chancellor of the Inner Court, and Fu Youyi was named Deputy of the Luantai and co-Chancellor. Thus all the power of the court lay in the hands of the Empress’s confidants. Yet her heart was not at ease