The Water Queen thought it was an easy thing, but when she actually got started, she found that it was not easy at all. Just as Hou Zi said to her on the Hell Planet, she was good at studying talismans and seals, but she lacked understanding of the complex human heart.
, this is her shortcoming.
In the world of cultivation, this may not be too important. There are many noble people who work hard and don't care about worldly affairs. But if she is allowed to preside over the most difficult task of competing for the throne, the gap will be huge.
too big.
Conspiracy, darkness, shamelessness, subterfuge, alliance, betrayal, frame-up, unscrupulous means, no lower limit, etc. In the history of the human world, no power struggle has surpassed the struggle for the throne.
She originally thought that with her own ability, she only needed to show off her ability in a small way, and the whole court should be able to follow it. Then she only needed to do a little investigation into the past of a few adult princes, and then observe each of them face to face.
Personality and temperament, these all have methods for practitioners, and then they can decide the matter.
Then she sent herself to the already-renovated Royal Taoist Temple and continued her quiet practice for the next thirty years. This was the only escape route she arranged for herself, and it was also the only building she used the treasury for as the mother of a country.
However, when she put all these plans into reality, she was surprised to find that the abilities she displayed were not enough to shock others, even mortals.
Only then did she understand that in the past twenty years, these scheming officials had already seen through her and knew that she was a true practitioner who followed the rules and would not do anything to harm mortals.
It makes no sense in front of bureaucrats who are not in the same circle as her.
If people just don't listen, what can she do? Can she beat them up? Kill them as a warning? She's not that vicious person.
This is the consequences of being seen through.
Okay, then let's discuss it with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. As long as you are not entrusted to someone else, you can be considered worthy of everything you have enjoyed in Dali Kingdom in the past twenty years.
The reality made her realize her naivety. She thought that if she took a step back, she would be able to gain a brighter future. But in the cruel truth, there was only one consequence of taking a step back, and then another step, step by step, countless steps.
Just retreat. Her character is not competitive, nor is she trying to save face in front of mortals. Instead, she regards this matter as a test of her own state of mind. This is a bit self-deceptive, but it is an effective adjustment.
The way of mentality.
If the goal can be achieved and Dali has a wise king on the throne, it doesn't matter if she feels a little wronged and ignored, but this is not the case.
These courtiers unanimously recommended a prince who was inconspicuous among several qualified princes. No matter from any aspect, this prince was not qualified...age, experience, reputation, governance, virtue,
Achievements etc.
Suspicious, she started her own investigation and soon discovered something fishy. It turned out that the fifth prince had a cultivation background. Although he was just a low-level cultivator who had not yet truly entered Taoism, he
The Taoist school where he studied was in the Guo Kingdom, which meant that he barely had the background of the Southeast Dao Sect.
When the mortal imperial power and the forces of cultivation are entangled, this problem becomes even bigger; because in the southeast region, the traditional cultivation rule is that the Taoist imperial power is divided and irrelevant. Although it is difficult to achieve this in theory, the attitude is
Such.
Dali is the orthodoxy of the Yinfu Sect, but the throne should be handed over to a prince with a Guo Sect background. This is very inappropriate; among nearly a hundred countries in the mainland, the imperial power either belongs to a complete mortal. If you have some spiritual practice, If there is potential, it will definitely be the cultivation tradition of the country. There is no reason to worship a master from abroad. This can easily create a gap between cultivation power and secular power, thereby affecting the stability of a country.
Simply put, the state religion must be the orthodoxy of the country, including the royal children.
Queen Water, who sensed this, was a cultivator after all, and immediately realized that the death of her titular emperor husband might not be that simple. Although the two rarely had contact with each other, they had been a couple for more than 20 years. She knew very well how much this dead emperor husband valued his country and would never allow outside forces to interfere in Dali's internal affairs.
When we think about those inexplicable beauties, a physically strong person can die in the wind of a horse in just a few years, and the weirdness in this becomes apparent.
Queen Water realized that she might be involved in some kind of whirlpool, and she also understood why her dead husband wanted to leave the throne to her before his death. This was not revenge, but entrustment, because in his opinion, from The troubles in the world of cultivation should be solved by cultivators, and she is the only cultivator he can trust.
Over the past twenty years, although the emperor could not be said to have much affection for her, he had shown respect for her for decades, allowing her to do what she really wanted to do without any worries. This makes this trust so heavy that it is difficult to abandon it.
After thinking about this, Queen Water finally became serious and began to secretly contact those upright people in the court who had a righteous mind; in view of the fact that she might meet a real monk of the sect, but she was alone without any helpers. , so she immediately appealed to the Yinfu Sect for help. In her opinion, facing the infiltration arrangements of other orthodox traditions in the country, the country’s cultivation forces should be the most wary, right?
But the facts gave her a heavy blow. The Yinfu Sect responded beautifully, resolutely preventing foreign orthodoxy from interfering with Dali Kingdom, but they took no actual action at all. Instead, they looked on with an attitude of watching the fire from the other side.
The Water Queen was not good at worldly affairs, but that didn't mean she was stupid. She immediately understood that the force trying to decide Dali's fate was an extremely large force. It might be the behemoths of the Daodao Gate in the southeast, which overwhelmed the Yinfu Gate. He didn't dare to speak out, and he was even one of the participants.
She didn't understand what the ultimate purpose of these forces was, so she played tricks and pretended, and finally heard a plan from the fifth prince who was not yet experienced enough.
It turns out that the Southeast Taoist Sect intends to integrate the Southeast into a country, but this kind of thing cannot be done by the Taoist Sect. It would be too ugly, so it can only start from the mortal imperial power. Among the dozens of Taoist countries in the Southeast, there are still several and Dali. Same situation.
This is just a test to see what kind of repercussions it will have in the southeast and on the mainland. If the process goes well, the next step will be the unification of the entire southeastern country.
Generous.
In the southeast, no one would dare to do something like this without a few nods from the Dao Daomen, so it is self-evident who her opponent is.
