Chapter Fifty-one The carved balustrades and jade terraces should yet remain (I)
Word Number：219
Author：一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time：2025-09-28
Saying: How so? At this question — life’s affairs come and go like the shuttle. Let us idly watch the winter wind and the clear ripples of the Luo River. It is told that in the second year of Changshou (693), in the first month, as the court’s supervision and the prisons had grown lax, the Empress felt the hearts of her ministers hard to read and feared hidden traitors. She pondered for days how best to govern. Wan Guojun, a secretary at the Northern Gate, heard of this and conceived a poisonous scheme. Wan Guojun was a man from Luoyang, one of Wu Zhou’s cruel officials — of the same ilk as Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing — skilled at manipulating people. One day Wan Guojun entered the hall and remonstrated with the Empress: “Your Majesty, lately many ministers at court show treasonous tendencies. Those who rise against their superiors betray filial piety and loyalty. Much of this springs from the old classics followed by examination candidates — the Daodejing teaches no hierarchy between ruler and minister; over time people grow arrogant. I dare counsel that henceforth the examination curriculum be changed to new texts.” The Empress, hearing words she liked, took them to heart and asked, “What new text would you propose, minister?” Sensing his chance, Wan Guojun hurried
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