Song Jing returned to the princess's mansion, and Li Chen was practicing calligraphy with Song Yu in the library.

It's rare for the princess to have such a Yaxing, even if the colt is busy and dizzy, she has to go over to take a look. You must know that usually Song Yu's affairs, when his father is in the house, his father is in charge, if his father is busy in Zhongshu Province, then little Song Yu's homework depends on consciousness. Fortunately, Song Yu has been very conscious in these aspects since he was a child, even if Princess Yongchang, who is his mother, has been raising him, he can become a talent on his own.

Before Song Jing could enter the library, he heard his son asking his mother.

"A-Niang, I heard A-Niang say that I also have an uncle, and he has returned to Luoyang now, why hasn't A-Niang taken me to see him."

"You want to see him?"

"Hmm."

Li Chen groaned slightly, and said with a smile: "Wait a little longer, it's not okay now." ”

When Song Yu heard this, he didn't speak again.

But after a while, he said to his mother, "I see that many people have brothers and sisters, and I also have mothers, why don't I?" ”

Li Chen's chuckle sounded, "What? Do you want a sister or a brother? ”

Song Yu didn't answer his mother's question directly, but just muttered: "But everyone else has it, and Apo also has a brother and a brother, I heard Apu talk about what happened to him in the palace in the past, because with a brother and a brother by his side, it seems that no matter how boring things will become interesting." ”

"Apu is now the son of your prince's uncle, and he no longer has a brother and a brother."

Song Jing, who was listening to the conversation between the two outside the door: "......"

Before Song Yu could speak, he heard Li Chen's voice with a little smile and remembered, "Yu'er, you have to figure it out, if you want to have one more brother or sister, it's not impossible, but there will be fewer times when A-Niang can accompany you in the future." ”

"Why?"

A-Niang has enough time to accompany him, if only less...... Xiao Song Yu's brows furrowed, looked at his mother who was lying on the couch and casually flipped through the stories of scholars and female ghosts, thought twice, and then said with a wilt: "Then forget it, Yu'er doesn't want a brother and sister so much." “

This time, it was Li Chen's turn to be surprised, "You don't want it so much?" ”

Song Yu said: "Although Aunt Taiping's Wan Quan is good-looking, she also likes to cry too much, troublesome!" If there is another brother, and his father is very busy, what if he can't read by himself like Yu'er? ”

Li Chen: "......"

It seemed to be very reasonable, and she couldn't refute it.

Song Jing, who was outside the door, listened to the conversation between the mother and son, and walked in.

Song Yu heard the movement, raised his eyes, and looked very surprised, "Aya, you're back." ”

Song Jing bowed slightly, his eyes fell on the princess who was crooked on the couch, and then moved away, first checked Song Yu's words, and then mentioned a few words to him, and asked him to go to Shu Ye to play.

Before Song Yu left, the concubine had already squeezed onto the princess's couch, pulled out the book in her hand, and after turning a few pages, said helplessly: "What's so good about these books?" ”

Li Chen's whole body leaned on him as soft as a bone, and said with a smile: "Yu'er seems to be a little lonely. ”

Song Jing wrapped her in his arms and read the book she had just turned at a glance, a little careless, "Hmm." ”

His salty and nonchalant reaction made Li Chen a little embarrassed, and he raised his eyes to look at him, "Do you want to add a sister or a brother to him?" ”

Song Jing lowered her head slowly, her dark eyes met the princess's watery eyes, with a faint tenderness in her eyes, "Everything depends on fate." "If taught well, one is enough. Song Jing thinks it's good to have Song Yu, he is an only son himself, and he never thinks that there is anything wrong with an only son, although his uncle Song Shizhao always changes his way every day to urge him and Li Chen to have a few more, but Song Jing never insists on these things. Li Chen also has brothers and sisters, and over the years, the horse has become more and more aware of how much his princess has paid for her brothers and sisters. Everything is good or bad, and Song Jing thinks it's good now.

Li Chen smiled slightly, her head rested on his shoulder socket, and as soon as her son left, she seemed a little out of spirit.

"Actually, I think it's enough to have Yu'er." She muttered softly.

Song Jing didn't answer her topic, but just touched her chin with one hand and lifted her face, "Have you entered the palace to say hello to the sage?" ”

Li Chen nodded.

Song Jing didn't speak, the arm around her waist tightened slightly, and her chin rested on the top of her head, "Shu Ye collected some evidence for me that Zhang Yizhi was looking for someone to tell fortunes last month." ”

Fortune telling?

Li Chen laughed, "He is not small, is the evidence collected by Shu Ye enough to convict him?" “

In the Tang Dynasty, only the emperor can divinate and tell fortunes, and the rest of the people dare to tell fortunes, which is a capital crime. Zhang Yizhi is relying on the fact that he is now Wu Zetian's favorite male pet, does he think he can go to heaven?

Song Jing nodded, "As long as the saint doesn't protect him, he will definitely be able to □□ him this time." ”

When Li Chen heard Song Jing's words, he laughed, "My mother doesn't protect them? I'm afraid the colt thought too well. ”

When Song Jing heard this, his eyebrows raised slightly, "Even if the saints protect me, I will definitely do them to the end." The state has national laws, the family has family rules, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, the two arrogant boys, will repay their eyes, relying on the grace of the saint, colluding with Wu Chenghei, Wu Sansi and others, and framing Zhongliang for their own selfishness. Since I am the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu and the Fengge Luantai Ping Zhang, how can I let them disturb the court like this. ”

Li Chen listened to his horse's very righteous and awe-inspiring words, and pursed his lips and smiled.

Song Jing saw that she didn't speak for a long time, and looked down, but when he saw her smiling, he frowned, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Li Chen raised his head, stretched out his index finger and scratched the horse's chin, "I didn't laugh anything, but I suddenly felt that the horse seemed to have become much more handsome than before recently." ”

Song Jing: "......"

Li Chen looked at Song Jing's speechless appearance, and laughed again, the fingers that were originally scratching his chin moved to his face. His facial features are still handsome, but his face has become thinner than before, Li Chen frowned, very unhappy: "It's been almost half a year, does Zhang Cambodia want to exhaust you?" ”

When Zhang Cambodia first held the official position of Di Renjie in the past, all kinds of things were still unfamiliar, so Song Jing had to accompany him. Now that almost half a year has passed, no matter how I say it, I have already entered the state.

Song Jing held the princess's hand and said with a smile: "It has nothing to do with Zhang Xianggong, it's my own problem." ”

Li Chen thought about it, too, after his mother ascended the throne, the imperial examination had to be held once a year, and the appointment and selection of officials were all the affairs of the ministry. While he was busy with the affairs of the ministry, he also had to fight with the Zhang brothers and the Wu brothers, Li Chen just thought about it, and felt hard for him.

Song Jing put the princess's hand to her lips and bit her finger lightly, "Actually, I'm fine, don't worry." ”

Li Chen sighed: "There are always more problems than methods. ”

Sure enough, as Li Chen expected, although the evidence of Zhang Yizhi's fortune-telling was conclusive, Wu Zetian still wanted to favor him, and at this time, the struggle between the ministers in the court to support the Zhang faction and the anti-Zhang faction was also intensifying, when Song Jing said that Zhang Yizhi's case would be tried, Wu Zetian's original intention was to hand over Zhang Yizhi to an official of the Zhang faction to deal with, Song Jing heard it, and he got it and handed it over to the other party, doesn't that mean that there is no need to do it?

Song Jing was in a hurry, so he simply confronted the empress directly, and said loudly in front of the ministers: "The minister knows that the saint is divided into the favored Zhang brothers, but this case must be handled by the minister, if the saint is guilty, Jing will not hate even if he dies!" ”

Wu Zetian had no choice but to hand over Zhang Yizhi to Song Jing.

If Song Jing can try Zhang Yizhi like this, it will be too easy, the empress disbanded the ministers, handed Zhang Yizhi to Song Jing, and sent the official eunuch to send a special amnesty decree when she turned around, saying that the empress specially pardoned all the crimes of the Zhang brothers and did not need to be retried.

Song Jing was so angry that he almost jumped to his feet, and said angrily: "If I had known that the saint had such a move, I should have cut this little rabbit cub with one sword!" ”

Song Jing was made angry by Wu Zetian's actions, and the court ministers led by Zhang Cambodia also began to be dissatisfied with Wu Zetian. Today's Wu Zetian is nearly eighty years old, his body and energy are not as good as before, in the past year, he has become less and less likely to meet the ministers, and sometimes the chief prime minister wants to find the empress to discuss matters is also blocked out of the palace gate, and now the empress's various wills are all conveyed by the Zhang brothers. Whether it's true or not, no one knows.

A group of old ministers led by Zhang Cambodia began to worry, now the Zhang brothers are arrogant and reckless, the empress is old, if they are deceived by these two arrogant boys, how can it be good? The ministers had not consulted with the Empress for three months now.

On this day, Princess Yongchang's mansion ushered in a distinguished guest, and the person who came was Zhang Cambodia, who is now the chief prime minister.

Zhang Cambodia came before, saying that he wanted to meet the concubine, but in fact he wanted to meet Princess Yongchang.

The princess met Zhang Cambodia in the water pavilion of the princess's mansion, and the princess personally made tea to entertain the respected old prime minister.

Zhang Cambodia is a real person, when he saw the princess, after a few polite words, he did not shy away from playing the slogan of "Qingjun side" with the princess, and discussed with the princess how to unite the prince Li Xian, as well as the royal forest army and the harem maid in the palace, and forced the palace Wu Zetian to let her pass the throne to the crown prince Li Xian smoothly.

Li Chen didn't expect Zhang Cambodia to discuss such a thing with her, so he was immediately stunned.

She did place some people in the palace to pull Shangguan Wan'er to her side, which is also a sure thing. But she never thought that she would personally force her mother off the throne.

Seeing that the princess's face sank like water, Zhang Cambodia was not in a hurry, but waited very quietly for the princess to respond.

Li Chen pondered for a long time before lifting his eyelids and asking Zhang Khan Zhi: "The stakes are very high, can Yongchang ask Zhang Ge Lao, who has discussed this matter with?" ”

The old man was clear-minded, and when he heard the princess's words, he knew what the princess was worried about, and said to the princess: "The princess can rest assured, the horse has not been involved." ”

Zhang Cambodia is now over 80 years old, and he became a late bloomer under the recommendation of Di Renjie and became the prime minister in his later years. This old man is a traditional Confucian scholar, dedicated to maintaining the Li Tang regime, and his heart is only on the side of the Qing monarch, ensuring that the empress, who is now in decline, will not let the power fall into the hands of the Zhang brothers before her death, and everything is famous.

In the end, he has been rolling in officialdom all his life, and the four words of discerning people are not bad at all.

Zhang Cambodia had heard of Song Jing's reputation earlier, and now he has been partnering with Song Jing for nearly a year, and he is well versed in Song Jing's style. Song Jing is a virtuous minister who governs the world, and this kind of thing is not suitable for him. Therefore, Song Jing didn't know about this matter from the beginning. Of course, now that he is looking for Song Jing, he personally visits Princess Yongchang to discuss the plan, whether Song Jing can detect the abnormality depends on what Princess Yongchang does.

Li Chen was silent for a moment before he said slowly: "Does the elder know that if Yongchang agrees to you about this, he will be a rebellious and unfilial daughter?" ”

It's not impossible to really do it, my mother is old, and her control over the court is not as good as before, and the Zhang brothers are arrogant, if they don't repair them, maybe they can really toss the sky. It's just that...... These things are also to be done.

Zhang Cambodia: "When Gaozu laid down the Tang Dynasty, he experienced Taizong and the first emperor, and he should have passed on his son, but unfortunately the former prime minister was too weak to manage the government, so he took the throne and let his mother ascend to the throne. Now that the saint has been deceived by the villain, the country is in danger, and what the princess has done is just to return the country to its old master. The princess wants to be filial to his mother, if he doesn't notice it for a while, let Zhang Yizhi's Zhang Changzong brothers succeed in their treacherous schemes, how will the princess face the first emperor under Jiuquan? ”

Li Chen: "Zhang Ge is old and eloquent, but Yongchang can't say anything about you." ”

Once some things are said too clearly, they lose their original high-sounding righteousness. This is what Zhang Cambodia is planning now, he is indeed trying to protect the Tang Dynasty, but when he found these people from Li Chen and Li Dan, no matter how righteous he was, in fact, he was just persuading them to cooperate with him from their own interests. The reason why I was looking for Li Chen was because he was Di Renjie's disciple, and he had heard Di Renjie mention many things. The little princess of the first emperor has done a lot of things openly and secretly, although now Taoguang is obscure, but it is also because the horse is in a high position in the court, she is well versed in the truth of the tree, so in recent years, she has lived in a simple place.

Di Renjie is a big talent, and he never looks at people. When I talked to him about the current situation that day, I also said that the saint favored the Zhang brothers too much, and sooner or later he would cause trouble. At the end, he also said meaningfully, "If there is something that cannot be solved in the court, maybe Princess Yongchang can help." ”

If it weren't for Di Renjie's words, Zhang Cambodia would not have come to Li Chen anyway.

But since the old capital of Di Guo recommended Princess Yongchang like this, Zhang Cambodia felt that what he was doing now was just for Li Tang Jiangshan, and there was no harm to Princess Baili, so why wouldn't the princess do it?

So, when Zhang Khan heard Li Chen's words, he knew that she must be willing to help him, but she was a little hesitant to be filial to her mother.

"It's not that the old minister can speak well, the princess, the former saint ascended the throne, and all the princes and princes from all over the country recalled Luoyang, but the saint was merciful. But if the country changes hands again, the surname Li is afraid and there is no way to live. In that case, why not give it a go? Now there are traitors on the side of the saint, and what the princess does is for the sake of the saint, where is the unfilial piety? ”

Li Chen slowly and methodically divided a cup of tea, and a longevity word was divided on the soup flower, and then pushed it to Zhang Cambodia.

Zhang Cambodia was stunned.

Li Chen said with a smile on his face: "Let me think about this matter, Zhang Ge Lao has a lot of worries about my Li family, and Yongchang only toasts you with tea instead of wine." ”

When Zhang Khan listened to Li Chen's words, he knew that there was a play. He held the wine glass in both hands and said very solemnly: "This should be the minister's business. ”

In the first month of the first year of Shenlong, just after the New Year, the entire Datang Dynasty was shrouded in the joy of the New Year. Li Chen remembered the scene of the New Year when she was young, when her father was still alive, her brothers and sisters were still young, and the prince's brother was only fourteen or fifteen years old. She remembered that Aunt Chengyang was still alive at that time, and Aunt Chengyang would take a few little cousins into the palace to live on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Li Chen stood in the corridor in front of the princess's residence, watching the snowflakes falling from the sky.

What is past will eventually become the past.

Datang is also very lenient to the officials of the imperial court, and has annual leave during the New Year, but Song Jing has been stumped by the affairs of the officials in the past few days, and he has been busy day and night.

Regarding Zhang Cambodia's intention to launch a coup d'état, Li Chen was also pondering in his heart. She also knew that her mother was forced into the palace before, but she didn't know the specific things. Having been through so much in her life, she also knows how complicated it is to launch a coup d'état. All aspects must be taken care of, the troops outside the palace and the Royal Forest Army in the palace should respond, and serve Wu Zetian's palace maids in the Palace of Eternal Life...... There are all kinds of joints to be opened, and if you are not careful, you may lose your life, and you will also lose Zhang Cambodia's daring to think about it.

Li Chen thought, no matter what, the Tang Dynasty is fortunate that there are these people, and her brother can successfully take back the imperial power from her mother.

Zhang Cambodia said that the leader of the Imperial Forest Army had been rebelled by him, but the palace maid in the harem was already a person in the Immortal Palace, and she might need to take care of it. As for if there is any change in the palace, in case there is any difference, what about the response between the Imperial Forest Army in the palace and the troops outside the palace? Since she is going to be involved, she must make sure that nothing goes wrong.

The goose-feathered snowflakes fell in the air and swirled in the wind into the corridor, and the princess stretched out her palm and caught a snowflake in her palm, and in a few moments, the temperature of her palm had turned the snowflakes into droplets.

Li Chen blew into his palm, then turned around and walked into the room.

Mother has been calling for wind and rain all these years, and now that she is old, it is time to enjoy her old age in peace.

When Song Jing returned to the princess's mansion, the princess was sitting on the couch by the window waiting for him.

When the pony who came into the house in a snowstorm saw the princess's appearance, he knew that she had something to say.

The concubine was indeed a person who knew the princess very well, and after the princess poured him a glass of warm hot wine, the first thing she said was: "There may be changes in the palace in the near future." ”

Before the colt could react, the princess's second sentence followed, "But don't care." ”

The colt's fingers clasped the glass of warm wine, and he slowly raised his eyes to look at the princess, his gaze calm and calm.

Li Chen met Song Jing's gaze and showed a very complicated smile, "Today, Elder Zhang Ge came to the princess's mansion and wanted to visit the concubine, but you are busy in the official department, so I will receive it on my behalf." ”

Song Jing drank the cup of warm wine in his hand, "Elder Zhang Ge is just visiting Jing in the name of visiting Jing, but in fact, he wants to meet the princess." ”

Li Chen sighed, picked up the wine on the desk, and filled the empty wine glass for him.

Song Jing's eyes fell on the white jade cup full of wine, and he pondered for a moment before he sighed lightly and said, "Zhang Ge Lao, they finally can't wait?" ”

Li Chen: "You don't seem surprised. ”

Song Jing smiled and sighed, "What's there to be surprised about?" ”

The saint was sick in the Hall of Eternal Life, even on a day like Zhengdan, the saint did not receive the ministers, and officials from all over the country went to Beijing to report on their work, and the saint did not ask any questions, blindly favoring Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong's brothers. If the Zhang brothers are the ones who keep to themselves, then it's okay to say, but it's not. The two brothers will be avenged, and anyone in the court who is dissatisfied with them will have to put them to death. They were arrogant, even with their families, they were arrogant, there was no one in their eyes, and the people in Luoyang City hated the Zhang brothers so much that they gritted their teeth. Of course, Song Jing is also one of them, otherwise how could he keep an eye on the Zhang brothers.

Especially in Zhang Yizhi's case last time, Song Jing was only able to □□ it, but Wu Zetian preemptively issued an amnesty order, and every time he thought about it, he couldn't figure out why he didn't kill the little rabbit cub at that time.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, Song Jing thought of the empress's various means and actions since she ascended the throne, and was not surprised that Li Chen said that there might be changes in the palace in the near future. Now that the saint is seriously ill, he still doesn't let the prince go to serve the decoction, leaving the two Zhang brothers by his side, Song Jing feels that it would be strange if there is no change in the recent days.

He is not surprised that Li Chen will unite with these people of Zhang Cambodia, the saint has turned eighty years old, and now he is seriously ill, many things are not good, if there is an accident, can there be an edict? What will be the content of the edict? What if the Zhang brothers got an edict that they don't know what the hell is, saying that the saint wants to leave the country to their brothers?

Song Jing thought that Li Chen had been scheming all these years, but he was not making wedding dresses for others. When the time comes, she will not hesitate to get back what she should get back for her father.

Li Chen smiled and suddenly asked him, "Have you ever regretted it?" ”

Song Jing was stunned.

Li Chen smiled a little self-deprecatingly, in fact, she also felt that it was redundant to ask this question, she had always been, wasn't she here at this moment? When her mother's control over the court declined, and the courtiers were dissatisfied with her mother's behavior, whether it was Shangguan Wan'er or Li Jingye, or even the Mo family's information system and the now maturing civil force Lingyin Temple, she raised troops for a thousand days, isn't it for this day?

Li Chen doesn't regret every decision he makes, but every time he talks to Song Jing about these things, he inevitably thinks too much.

Song Jing's dark eyes looked at the princess, looked at it for a long time, reached over and held the princess's hand on the table, and her five fingers were closed, and her hand was held in the palm of his hand.

"Guangping Song has never done anything that will make him regret it."

In the first month of the first year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian was sick and immortal.

A group of old ministers led by Zhang Cambodia united with Princess Yongchang, Prince Li Xian and Prime Minister Li Dan to launch a coup d'état, Zhang Cambodia personally plotted against the leader of the Imperial Forest Army, and Li Chen raised troops for a thousand days, the famous general Cheng Wuting and the British Duke Li Jingye listened to her deployment, and the palace maids in the harem had Shangguan Wan'er to take care of the troops outside the palace and the harem.

The day after the coup, Empress Wu Zetian ordered the succession of the crown prince Li Xian and ordered the crown prince to be in charge of the country.

Three days after the coup, the crown prince Li Xian ascended the throne, and Wu Zetian retired as the empress dowager and moved to Shangyang Palace.

After Li Xian ascended the throne, he restored the former Li Tang country name, and restored the color of Li Tang's official uniform and flag.