Chapter Sixty-seven Just like a river of spring waters flowing eastward (II)
Word Number:158
Author:一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time:2025-09-28
It was said: Sixth Lord’s schemes press the loyal, As though one dream might drift into Mount Luofu. Now we come to weigh the true and false— Who betrays the heart, and who shall fall. Now, the brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, though ennobled and favored with titles, lived outwardly in calm. Yet Heaven’s winds are ever shifting, and man’s fate may turn from fortune to calamity in the space of dawn and dusk. In the early spring of the third year of Chang’an (703), the Empress was seized by illness, her malady growing grave. Zhang Yizhi, fearing that should the Empress depart this world, he and his brother would surely be slain by the ministers of the Li clan, began to entice Zhang Changzong to turn against his allies, seeking first to eliminate those whom he most detested. Zhang Yizhi said to Zhang Changzong: “Sixth Lord, the affairs of this world are ev