"When Li Jingye went to Dingzhou that day, I once wrote a letter to Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, in my father's handwriting, but I didn't expect that his old man would choose to commit suicide."

In the library, Li Chen was crooked on the couch, holding a booklet that had only read a few pages, and said to Song Jing, a concubine who was practicing calligraphy with a brush.

It is now the first year of the holy calendar, and seven years have passed since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, and Li Chen and Song Jing are now about to reach the year of their establishment.

Song Jing is no longer the middle of the imperial history, but the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the same Fengge Luantai Ping Zhang. Now Wu Zetian's prime minister's group, Di Renjie is the chief prime minister, and Song Jing is a part-time prime minister, of course, Wu Chengsi is also a part-time prime minister.

The tip of the brush dipped in ink paused in the air, and Song Jing looked at Li Chen with a very surprised expression, "You imitated the words of the first emperor?" ”

He thought that according to Li Yuanjia's temperament, the Queen Mother would recall him back to Luoyang this time, Li Jingye and him must have a fierce battle to fight, and then Li Yuanjia committed suicide, Song Jing was also unexpected, and felt that this matter was really unspeakable. In fact, when I talked about this matter, it was nothing more than that when I went to court today, the ministers talked about the recall of the princes and county kings, so Song Jing remembered the king of Han who could not be killed and humiliated.

Song Jing: "When will you-" will imitate the words of the first emperor?

Li Chen winked at him, and before he could finish speaking, he took the words: "It's just a small skill of carving insects." ”

Song Jing: "......"

Li Chen can't say that he usually doesn't show his eyes, but at critical moments, there are always tricks that he didn't expect, which really amazed him.

"Later, Li Jingye won his mother's trust because of this matter, and I was also happy in my heart." The most important thing is that when the clan relatives were recalled that year, except for one or two people with particularly strong personalities who occasionally chose to fight hard, the rest of the people were recalled to Luoyang and lived in the mansion arranged for them by their mother.

Good or bad, Li Chen didn't want to say anything.

Someone will be grateful to her for it, and naturally someone will hate her for it, but she doesn't care about these things.

The so-called joy of all is a struggle for imperial power, and it is impossible to happen.

Wu Zetian finally ascended to the coveted throne, and responded to every call, and now even Li Chen and Taiping have not seen her many times when they enter the palace to ask for peace, and now the big red man in front of Wu Zetian is neither Princess Yongchang nor Song Jing, but Shangguan Wan'er and Wu Zetian's two male favorites Zhang brothers.

Speaking of the Zhang brothers, it is inevitable to talk about Xue Huaiyi, when Xue Huaiyi rebuilt the Ming Hall, and did a lot of things for Wu Zetian as the host of the White Horse Temple. Li Chen received the news from the Mo family and Lingyin Temple, saying that this Xue Huaiyi didn't know what shit luck he had, anyway, every time he went to fight the Turks, the soldiers would not be there, and he didn't know which mountain he went to hunt for wild food, so Xue Huaiyi took this opportunity to blow and say to Wu Zetian that when the Turkic army learned that he was going to crusade, he was so frightened that he was going to fart, and he flashed early.

Li Chen didn't know what Wu Zetian thought, anyway, when he heard that Wu Zetian laughed, he was very happy and rewarded Xue Huaiyi with a lot of things.

Li Chen was crooked on the couch, thinking that in the past few years since his mother ascended the throne, a lot of things have actually happened.

Xue Huaiyi later raised too many male pets because Wu Zetian, and he was not a single favorite, so he was jealous, and directly burned Mingtang during the New Year. That's the Ming Hall, and Wu Zetian was worshipping hundreds of officials in the Ming Hall. The Son of Heaven sat in the Ming Hall, how many emperors' wishes, Xue Huaiyi burned the Ming Hall not counted, and then caused trouble everywhere, relying on the fact that he was Wu Zetian's male favorite, ignoring the court officials, and later Wu Zetian couldn't bear it.

Wu Zetian wanted to deal with Xue Huaiyi's matter, so he didn't look for someone else, but directly found Li Chen.

So later, Xue Huaiyi died in an accidental fire in the White Horse Temple.

There was a little time after Xue Huaiyi's death, Wu Zetian favored the imperial doctor Shen Nanqiu again, but although Shen Nanqiu was an imperial doctor, he was just a polite person after all, in short, Wu Zetian favored him for a period of time, and he lost interest. Now the popular male favorites around Wu Zetian are the Zhang brothers, and those two brothers are considered by the ministers to be as good-looking as lotus flowers. Now the Zhang brothers are very rampant, and everyone in the court gives them a little thin noodles, but only Song Jing does not mince words about them.

Li Chen thought, his mother probably used to be too difficult to climb all the way, resulting in the mother after becoming the empress, she has begun to neglect the government, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers have now begun to point fingers at the affairs in the court, and the mother has always looked at her son unpleasantly, in the first month of last year, the two concubines of the fourth brother Li Dan went to ask their mother for peace, who knows that there is no return. Li Dan's two concubines went to ask their mother for peace, but no one came back for several days, and they didn't dare to inquire with their mother, and his children were also taught to act as if nothing had happened, neither crying nor making trouble, let alone looking for their mother.

Later, Shangguan Wan'er secretly sent a letter, saying that the two concubines of the emperor's heir were sued by the palace maids around the empress, saying that they had won the victory and harmed the empress, and when they entered the palace to ask for peace, they had been solved by the empress.

Li Chen was also dumbfounded when she heard this, her mother heard these things in the past, and she wanted to have witnesses and physical evidence, but now she doesn't need to be stolen by anyone, she only needs others to open their mouths and shut up, and the two daughters-in-law can be solved quietly.

In fact, many things, after listening to them a lot, naturally do not feel anything. It's just that Li Chen, who is also a mother now, can't help but feel sad when he thinks of the children of the fourth brother, but what can he do?

Born in the emperor's family, they are destined to grow up in the bloody rain of intrigue and intrigues.

Moreover, Li Chen heard that a few days earlier, the ministers in the court began to reiterate with his mother the matter of establishing a prince.

Li Chen looked at Song Jing, who was now calm, with a slight smile on his face, "I heard that it was Elder Di Guo who told his mother that the country cannot be without a prince, and now is the time to make a prince." ”

Song Jing simply put down the pen in his hand, took off his boots and went to the couch, and scooped the princess over, "What? Do you have an idea again? ”

Song Jing also knew in his heart that the matter of establishing the prince was related to the Li family, and it was impossible for Li Chen to be without ideas.

Li Chen smiled and put the booklet in his hand to the side, and pillowed his head on his shoulder, "What can you think now, if Di Guolao proposes it, then he definitely doesn't want his mother to establish a person from the martial arts family as the crown prince." ”

"You're good at it." Song Jing said with a smile, in fact, this is also the reason, the reason why many people in the court now, including himself, are willing to be loyal to Wu Zetian, in addition to the fact that her position can give them a better platform for people who are not from noble backgrounds, isn't it also because her identity is the wife of the first emperor Li Zhi and the daughter-in-law of the Li family?

Civil and military officials, except for those who colluded with those in the martial family, everyone thinks in their hearts that even if the current sage is called Zhou, the world is still the world of Emperor Gaozong of the original Gaozu Taizong.

Today's sage Wu Zetian built a temple for the ancestors of the Wu family, but he still worships the ancestor of the Li family, Taizong Gaozong.

Even Wu Zetian can't deny that the throne she sits on now, and the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains she enjoys, are inherited from the ancestors of the Li family.

But even so, Li Chen couldn't forget that his mother was enshrined in Songshan a year ago, and Yaxian at that time was not the emperor's heir Li Dan, but her nephew Wu Chenghe. Li Chen felt that one of the very important reasons for the collusion between many ministers in the court who did not have a firm position and Wu Chengsi was Songshan Fengchan.

Songshan Feng Chan, Yaxian is not the emperor's heir Li Dan, but Wu Cheng's heir.

This means that the sage Wu Zetian is biased towards the Wu family rather than the Li family on the issue of the heir in the future.

But for these things of Wu Zetian, the elder Di Renjie has something to say, at least Di Guolao thinks that these actions of the saint are very inappropriate. First of all, the imperial heir is the flesh and blood of the saint, can a nephew be closer than a son? Besides, didn't the emperor who worked so hard to fight the country in order to hope that his children and grandchildren would have a family business in the future? Now that the saint is doing this in the matter of the prince, how can he be worthy of the first emperor?

Li Chen didn't know what happened later, it is said that Di Renjie and Wu Zetian broke up unhappily.

But Wu Zetian has always been very respectful, Di Renjie is also reasonable, Wu Zetian is angry, but he did not embarrass him, and he also used Lou Shide recommended by Di Renjie.

Li Chen imagined the scene where Di Renjie and his mother broke up unhappily, and then said to Song Jing: "Whether it's Wu Chenghei or Wu Sansi, what kind of thing is it, you dare to fight these ideas." Wu Chenghe, that dead guy, I have to toss him sooner or later! ”

Speaking of Wu Chengsi, Li Chen felt angry, but now Wu Zetian is very protective of Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi, the two villains, and even the two little lovers she raised, the Zhang brothers, are also in cahoots with the Wu brothers.

If Wu Zetian wants to establish Wu Chenghei as the crown prince, it is not that no one approves of it, those are all shrimp soldiers and crab generals who have accepted the Wu brothers, compared with the highly respected Di Renjie, it is simply not worth mentioning. Wu Chenghei probably knew that Di Renjie and others advocated making Li Dan the crown prince, so he secretly sent someone to write a whistleblower letter to Wu Zetian, saying that the emperor's heir was now planning to rebel. Wu Zetian has been making a lot of noise over the years, and he hates to hear that someone has rebelled, and when he saw the whistleblower letter, he didn't verify whether there was really such a thing, so he directly handed over the matter to Ji Ji to deal with.

Ji Ji is a cool official that Wu Zetian has used for many years, what can be the result when Li Dan is in his hands?

When Li Chen learned about this, he hated his mother to death. Li Dan was placed under house arrest by her in the harem, the concubine was killed by her mother and did not dare to squeak, his child had to pretend to be nothing without a mother, Li Longji at that time was only seven years old, and the ministers who had dealings with Li Dan in the past were all executed, just like that, others falsely accused him of rebellion, and his mother actually believed it.

When Li Chen was anxious to enter the palace, suddenly Shangguan Wan'er secretly sent a letter again, saying that the danger of the emperor's heir had been lifted, and it had been a long time, and it turned out to be when Ji Ji was going to torture Li Dan, and suddenly one was rescued by the young musician, whose father was a leader of a vassal country, and later surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the young man entered the palace as a musician. Probably never seen these battles, the young man is simple and bloody, listening to Ji Ji said that Li Dan rebelled, he was anxious all of a sudden, in the young man's opinion, Li Dan is in the harem, every day is with these musicians, never in contact with outsiders, how did he rebel?

Obviously there is no rebellion, why do others say that he rebelled, he is a rebellion?

So the young man was furious and rushed to Ji Ji, saying that the emperor's heir did not rebel, how could he rebel if he was such a good person and was with us every day? I'm not lying, if you don't believe me, I'll dig out my heart and show you!

The young man's words fell under the knife, and he really took a big knife from Ji Ji's entourage and cut open his chest.

This incident alarmed Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian was shocked that the young man defended Li Dan like this.

And Li Dan stood in the hall, looking at his mother who came in a hurry, his expression was very complicated, he wanted to speak, but he didn't say half a sentence, he just smiled bitterly, and called out to his mother, but he never defended himself for half a sentence.

How can you justify it?

There was a wolf in front and a tiger in the back, and his mother was suspicious, so she quietly killed his two concubines, and the ministers who had dealings with him in the past also killed, whether there was a rebellion, didn't she know in her heart?

Although Wu Zetian later believed that Li Dan did not rebel, Li Dan finally escaped, and the young man who wanted to dig out his heart for others was rescued and changed his life since then, but-

Li Chen thought, this thing is really chilling.

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