Li Chen felt that when the Tang Dynasty was mentioned in later generations, he would think of the prosperous era, and she was no exception. 【Latest chapter reading. But since she became a princess, she found that the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty she imagined had not come. When her Aung Taizong was alive, she was wise and martial, and passed down the rule of Zhenguan. Li Chen asked his father about some things during the Zhenguan period, Zhenguan's rule, political prosperity, official integrity, and national peace and security, the most prominent is the achievements in political style, especially the measures to streamline the central officials presided over by Fang Xuanling himself, even Li Chen, a person in later generations, admired it.

Later, when my father was in power, the natural disaster **, before I could recover my strength, there was another □□. In short, how the people live depends on God's mood, it is not happy, a hole is broken in the east, and a crack is leaked in the west, and the court is busy every day to go to disaster relief, and the people will be unlucky.

Li Chen wondered why he thought that his father was an emperor full of humanistic care, because his father was very thrifty, and he was exempted from conscription in which states in three days, sometimes for one year, sometimes for two years. Song Jing also said that although the Guanzhong Plain is a rich land, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, various wars have consumed too much, and it has not yet recovered, and the population of Chang'an is not known how much more than before, but the waterway is not passable, and it is difficult to transport grain to Chang'an, so every □□, the pressure on Chang'an is particularly urgent.

Li Chen leaned on Song Jing's arms and asked softly, "Guangping, when did you say that the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty will appear?" ”

The smile on the corner of Song Jing's mouth condensed slightly, and then said: "Don't worry, in your lifetime, you will definitely be able to see the prosperous era coming." ”

Li Chen raised his head and looked at him, "Really? ”

Song Jing bowed slightly, "Really." ”

Song Jing hugged Li Chen, and was also thinking about when the prosperous era would come, when the queen mother was in power, I was afraid that the prosperous era would not come, and now the vitality of the Tang Dynasty was greatly damaged, and the queen mother tried all kinds of means in order to eliminate dissidents.

If the prosperous era is coming, it must be a gentleman and a virtuous minister, not that the queen mother is incapacitated, but that everyone is in danger above the court now. Especially after the Yangzhou Rebellion, the Queen Mother enabled Zhou Xinglai Junchen and others, these people were not of high origin, and completely regarded the laws of the country and nothing, Pei Yan's case and the Yangzhou Rebellion involved many loyal people in the court who took their lives. In the long run, even if the Queen Mother can turn the world upside down, she will not be able to let the prosperous era come. Not to mention that the border countries are now eyeing the land of the Tang Dynasty, and the current queen mother is not as far-sighted as the previous emperor in dealing with border affairs, and today's saints have no real power.

Within ten years, the four realms of Datang can be a country and a country and a people's peace is already very good. As for the prosperous era, it may be the next new emperor.

Song Jing didn't feel discouraged and disappointed when he thought of these things. He always had an inexplicable belief in his heart: he and Li Chen were still young, and they still had a long way to go, and in their lifetime, they would always see the arrival of the prosperous era.

Song Jing came back to Chang'an to preside over the overall situation, and Li Chen ran to Princess Taiping's mansion when he had nothing to do, to see Sister A, and then to see Sister A's children. After watching Sister Ah and her nephews, it was naturally the turn of Master Wuyun of Lingyin Temple.

The master has probably stayed a little comfortable in Chang'an over the years, and he is more and more like a white lotus in front of the Buddha. Seeing Mingyue Langjun taking Shu Zhi and Shu Ye and his party to Lingyin Temple, he came out to greet him in person.

Li Chen waved his hand, and then went to Master Wuyun's courtyard to play a game.

The game is just a cover-up, Li Chen has also done a lot of things over the years by using the secret guards and Lingyin Temple left by her father, when Mo Ziying took refuge in her, the condition was to ask for the head of the governor of Yizhou. There are many times when official people have to collect evidence, and there are inevitably some mistakes and omissions, and it is inevitable that someone will cover it up. Li Chen simply asked his secret guards and Lingyin Temple to collect some evidence, the governor of Yizhou secretly corrupted the law, and actually colluded with a good bandit leader in Yizhou, Mo Ziying's family was brutally killed because the bandit leader fell in love with Mo Ziying's sister, and Mo Ziying's sister was unwilling, so the bandit leader revealed his true nature and went to kill all the people of the Mo family that night. Under the protection of the governor of Yizhou, the tragedy of the Mo family being wiped out was actually suppressed in the local area.

Later, Lingyin Temple and the secret guard collected a lot of evidence of the Yizhou Governor's favoritism, and handed it over to Song Jing by Li Chen, who took the opportunity to supervise the Yizhou capital, and even cleaned the wine bags and rice bags of the corpse vegetarian meal in the Yizhou area.

Li Chen told Song Jing in the past that she couldn't interfere in all the affairs of the court, but she always knew something, so Song Jing lacked something when impeaching the traitorous ministers, and he also told the princess very unceremoniously about his difficulties, but everything Li Chen could do, he did it beautifully for him.

The princess couldn't turn the clouds and rain in the court, so she simply paid attention to the movements of the people and the frontier generals. Since Li Jingye got the handwritten letter from the prince Li Xian, he is now as well-behaved as a big cat who has only been touched smoothly, pointing to the east and not the west, although he is not happy with the queen mother, but at least it does not hinder the eyes of the queen mother, so that the princess is very worry-free.

Master Wuyun told the princess that Xue Huaiyi, the host of the White Horse Temple, is now creating all kinds of myths for the Queen Mother, which is nothing more than saying that the Queen Mother is now the true son of heaven and so on, and also said that when Mrs. Yang was not pregnant with Wu Zetian, she once went to a dragon pool in Lizhou to play, accidentally fell asleep, dreamed of a golden dragon playing with her, and after going back, she became pregnant and gave birth to Wu Zetian.

Master Wuyun counted the Buddha beads in his hand, "The rise of Buddhism is all thanks to the Queen Mother's belief, Xue Huaiyi is now the host of the White Horse Temple, and he frequently enters and exits the palace, and now he is the host of the White Horse Temple, so that the monks of the White Horse Temple have added such a life experience to the Queen Mother, I am afraid that there will be the next step soon." After all, at the beginning of the year, Xue Huaiyi annotated a "Great Cloud Sutra" in a simple and easy-to-understand way, and asked his monks to give it to the people to circulate when they went out to preach. ”

Regarding this matter, Li Chen and Song Jing have long known about it.

The "Great Cloud Sutra" tells the story of the Heavenly Maiden Pure Light, which is a Buddhist allusion to supporting women's governance. For example, today, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism coexist, Confucianism opposes women in power, Li Tang proclaims himself a descendant of Taoism, and Wu Zetian has no choice but to use Buddhism.

Li Chen: "Master, if you look at the general trend today, even if I have the help of the Lingyin Temple and the Mo family, it is only a drop in the bucket compared to what my mother has." "What my mother has is the power and army that can destroy a country, and I, at most, can only make some sideways, occasionally look at those cool officials very annoying, so let the secret guards plan to solve them, but in the end, it is not visible, and it is only a drop in the bucket in terms of the situation of the entire court.

Wuyun looked at the princess.

Li Chen: "The master has done a lot of things over the years, but I have not achieved anything so far, have you ever been disappointed in me?" ”

Master Wuyun clasped his hands together, "The monk only talks about the sufferings of the common people, regardless of personal merits and demerits. "But in the end, I can't calm down. Master Wuyun once thought that Li Chen had tried his best to protect Li Xian, and he was running to get the Mo family's intelligence network, and there would be some action in the future, but who knew that the princess who returned to Luoyang from Yangzhou had no less capital in her hands, and she didn't make any moves.

When Master Wuyun talks with believers about the scriptures and Taoism, he will say that his family is empty, but he is just a fake monk, and he once expected to follow Li Chen and see the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Now that the court is surging, the Queen Mother is creating auspicious myths everywhere, obviously not satisfied with her current position, and wants to wait for God's seat. As an imperial princess, the princess was indifferent when the first emperor saw that the country was about to change hands.

Master Wuyun didn't say anything, but he still felt disappointed in his heart.

The princess seemed to understand the master's thoughts, glanced at the master with a smile, and said, "Master, no matter how good my mother is now, she is four years older than my father, speaking of which, it has been more than four years since my father died. ”

When Master Wuyun heard the princess's words, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

The princess's words are really not straightforward, she probably means that the queen mother can toss now, and she will not live too long, after all, the first emperor is not considered to have died young, and the queen mother is several years older than the first emperor, and probably will not toss for many years.

Seeing Master Wuyun's rather speechless appearance, Li Chen smiled and dropped a sunspot on the chessboard, very lightly, "Master, now is just the beginning, we don't need to do anything, just wait and see." ”

If you really want to do something, you will probably have to wait for the mother's fluctuation to pass, and then you can plan it. But Li Chen didn't plan to do anything when his mother was in her prime, and it would probably take several years from her mother waiting for the throne to when she had to think about the successor.

Li Chen doesn't want to toss much at the moment, but she doesn't want to toss, but something has to come to her. Song Jing presided over the overall situation in Chang'an, and he was very busy, so the princess didn't need to be accompanied by a horse for such trivial things as Lingyin Temple. On the way back to the princess's mansion, the princess, who was not accompanied by a horse, met Zhou Xing, who had arrived in Chang'an from Luoyang.

Who is Zhou Xing?

Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and others are famous all over the world, everyone knows that they are treacherous villains and framed Zhongliang, but they are very popular with the Queen Mother. There was no one who did not plead guilty to the "prisoners" who were presiding over them. Why? Because Zhou Xing and others invented the so-called ten tortures in order to extort confessions by torture.

Li Chen, the cool officials who are villains, have never had a good impression, and every time his mother wants to deal with something unseemly, she will send these cool officials out. For example, when he wanted to test whether Li Xian was really crazy and wanted to kill him, he sent a cool official Qiu Shenji to Bazhou.

It's really a nest of snakes and rats, which minister is going to frame when Zhou Xing came to Chang'an this week?

Li Chen frowned slightly, and said to Shu Ye, who was guarding outside the sedan chair: "What is Zhou Xing, I don't know, let him get out of the way." ”

Shu Ye hadn't passed the princess's words intact, probably because Zhou Xing in front of him was already very impatient, he directly lifted the curtain and said, "Who is ahead?" The court ordered officials to go to handle the case, but they dared to stop it? Don't hurry up and avoid it! "He came all the way from Luoyang, dressed in regular clothes.

Shu Yemo's eyebrows were slightly raised, and before he could speak, he heard the princess's voice coming out of the sedan chair, "What a big breath, can you afford it if I avoid it?" ”

Zhou Xing was born as a small official, and when he was not reused by Wu Zetian, he was often looked down upon, even if he was reused by Wu Zetian now, he was still looked down upon, but he was despicable and treacherous, and his methods were ruthless, and ordinary people did not dare to provoke him. He couldn't stand others talking to him in such a contemptuous tone, and when he heard Li Chen's words at this time, he was furious.

Shu Ye knows a lot about the temperament of his princess, and the best choice at the moment is to be a qualified background.

Zhou Xing: "Heh, do you know who I am?" ”

Li Chen didn't lift the curtains, he sat very freely in the sedan chair, and the words he said choked people to death: "I heard that your name is Zhou Xing, but I also said it, I don't know what Zhou Xing is." ”

Zhou Xing held his breath, gritted his teeth and said, "...... I am Shangshu Zuocheng, and I have obtained a letter from the Ministry of War, suspecting that there are remnants of the Yangzhou rebellion in Chang'an City, and I have come to investigate this matter. If you delay this, you are the culprit. ”

Shortly after the earthquake in Chang'an at this time, the two roads were in ruins, and there were still many people who went to receive food from the imperial court. And there are many of them, although they don't know Zhou Xing, but they have heard of him, and when they hear Zhou Xing, they hate him so much that they grit their teeth. At this time, when I saw someone facing Zhou Xing head-on, I applauded the other party's courage in my heart, and couldn't help but sweat for her.

Who knew that at this time, the people in the sedan chair became more and more bold, and sneered: "Wu Sansi, the secretary of the military department, suspected that there were remnants of rebellion in Chang'an, and did not report such a major matter to the imperial court, and actually sent an order to you without authorization, what is his intention?" ”

Zhou Xing listened to the other party's tone, and his intuition was wrong.

Li Chen's life has been very calm recently, and he originally thought it was nothing, but now that he saw Zhou Xing, he suddenly felt that his life had been too boring recently, and finally someone who was not afraid of death bumped into him, and he felt that everyone had become energetic.

The princess was still sitting in the sedan chair, and said in a very firm tone: "Wu Sansi, as the secretary of the military department, can't do things so imperceptibly, you are so bold, not only pretending to be an official of the imperial court, but also framing an official of the imperial court!" ”

Zhou Xing, who has always framed others, was framed indiscriminately and almost vomited blood.

Li Chen instructed Shu Ye, "This person has ill intentions, and dares to pretend to be an official of the imperial court and take it for me." ”

Zhou Xing didn't have time to think about why this person was so bold, and immediately became furious: "You dare?!" ”

Shu Ye looked at him, showed a smile, and then with a wave of his hand, several secret guards who acted as sedan chair men stepped forward to take Zhou Xing down, as for Zhou Xing's shrimp soldiers and crab generals, it was not Shu Ye who wanted to blow it, it was really a random secret guard who could do a dozen. The dark guard took Zhou Xing down very cleanly, and when he opened his mouth to try to speak, he shoved a piece of broken wood into his mouth.

And then...... The world fell silent before it had time to make noise.

The onlookers watched a big show unexpectedly, and they were stunned.

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