Chapter Eighty-five When my beloved returns, there shall be no parting (I)
Word Number：229
Author：一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time：2025-09-28
It is said: The star comes, its fate fulfilled, it bids farewell and departs; on the autumn night, no moon hangs in the sky. Laughter and words of old drift away with the wind; tonight, a solitary shadow faces the empty forest. In the spring of the second year of the Xiantian era (713 CE), Princess Taiping, in her ambition to secure the realm, threw wide the gates of her mansion to welcome scholars from the four seas. She honored those of distinguished repute, and further advised Emperor Ruizong, the retired sovereign, to elevate Xiao Zhizhong as Chief of the Secretariat and Dou Huaizhen as Left Deputy Minister of the Department of State Affairs. As the saying goes, a scholar dies for one who truly understands him. Princess Taiping bore no grudge for past grievances, and Xiao Zhizhong and Dou Huaizhen, moved to tears, vowed to serve her with utmost loyalty. At this time, of the seven chancellors in the court, five were appointed through her influence. It is also said, in every ten households, there is surely one loyal; within ten steps, there is bound to be fragrant grass. By the third month, Liu Youqiu and Right Yulin General Zhang Wei secretly conspired to eliminate her with the Yulin troops. Liu Youqiu said, “Princess Taiping’s manipulation has long departed from the former ways. She now oppresses the sovereign
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