I didn't expect Lu Gongzi to see it so thoroughly, it's rare! Li Xian said abruptly.

Lu Xiaoxian continued Li Xian's words and said: "Actually, the king of the county can see it more clearly, and he has long thought that there will be today, so he has been in Taoguang, am I not wrong?" “

Lu Xiaoxian's words surprised Li Xian, and his eyes flashed: "What does Lu Gongzi mean by this?" ”

"Does the king really want me to make things clear?" Lu Xiaoxian asked rhetorically.

"Master Lu, please speak, I'll listen!" Li Xian said with interest.

Lu Xiaoxian was also not polite, and said indifferently: "Can the king of the county remember how high-spirited he was when he was the king of England?" ”

Li Xian was outstanding in learning when he was young, and when Gaozong was alive, he was a well-known prince with potential, and Emperor Gaozong has always intended to cultivate Li Xian as a ** person.

In the first year of Yifeng, Tubo invaded the Central Plains, Li Xian was named Marshal of Daoxing, and led the 42 governors such as Liu Xianli, the general of the left guard, to resist foreign enemies, fought several victories, and finally drove away Tubo.

The following year, Li Xian was canonized as the King of England.

When Li Xian returned to Chang'an, the elderly Gaozong had actually felt the serious threat of Wu Zetian's usurpation, but he was suffering from the lack of available people around him, and seeing Li Xian's victory and prove his talent, he was even more determined to let Li Xian inherit the unification. For this reason, Gaozong resolutely abolished the crown prince Li Xian and renamed Li Xian as the crown prince.

After that, Gojong stepped up a series of preparatory work for Lee Hyun's accession to the throne. First, Li Xian was allowed to enter the study of Chinese culture to study governing the country and cultivating politics. When Li Xian was twenty-five years old, he also made him serve as a "prisoner of the country", directly participated in the handling of court affairs, and granted amnesty to the world.

Gaozong's hard work was not in vain, and Li Xian really became the emperor later. If that incident hadn't happened, Li Xian would still be the emperor until now, and of course there would be no conversation with Lu Xiaoxian today.

Li Xian sighed: "What Lu Gongzi said is in the past, and I blame it on my hot-headed mistakes at the time, which angered Your Majesty to have today's results, and I have always regretted it!" ”

"No!" Lu Xiaoxian was shocked, "What the county king did back then was by no means hot-headed, but deliberately done after careful consideration!" ”

Li Xian's eyes were like arrows, and he shot at Lu Xiaoxian unabashedly.

Lu Xiaoxian smiled calmly, and did not avoid Li Xian's gaze.

Suddenly, Li Xian's gaze slowly became dim, and his body also fell shorter.

In fact, when he saw Li Xian for the first time, Lu Xiaoxian had a feeling: Li Xian may have cultivated some kind of wise and foolish face, this is his protective color, and only by using this "protective color" to cover up his talent and strategy, he can live.

When to advance and when to retreat is a kind of survival wisdom and philosophy of life. Advance when it's time to advance, otherwise you will miss the opportunity. When it is time to retreat, you must retreat, otherwise you may lose all your efforts.

"That's what you really think?" Li Xian tilted his head and squinted at Lu Xiaoxian.

Lu Xiaoxian nodded.

"Why?" Li Xian looked interested, as if he was asking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"For a reason, of course!" Lu Xiaoxian said, "First, no matter how fast a person changes, it will not suddenly be so different from before and after, the former king, the later crown prince and even His Majesty Zhongzong, who ascended the throne, what they did before and after is really very thought-provoking!" ”

Li Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly, there is no one in this world who knows his mother and His Majesty Wu Zetian better than him.

Wu Zetian was on an equal footing with Gaozong and was called the "Second Sage", she played with her son and the civil and military ministers, and finally Suo Xing established his own dynasty and became the emperor. Li Xian had to admit that his mother's success was inevitable, she had a firm character, a strong desire for power, superb ability to control personnel, and of course, ruthlessness and thunderous means to do things, Li Xian was ashamed of himself in these aspects.

Li Xian knew his mother's methods very well in his heart, and the slightest dissatisfaction with himself would lead to death. When the princess Zhao died, Li Xian did not dare to express the slightest dissatisfaction.

After Wu Zetian abolished the crown prince of Li Xian in the first year of Yonglong, he immediately named Li Xian as the crown prince and registered his successor as the crown princess.

In the third year of Yonglong, Gaozong died, and Li Xian became emperor.

After Li Xian succeeded to the throne, he called Wu Zetian "the queen of the emperor", and he found that his circumstances had not changed because he became the emperor. On the contrary, his situation is even more dangerous.

Li Xian didn't want to live peacefully with his mother, but his identity and status determined that this idea was unrealistic, and he would inevitably block his mother's path as an emperor. The two elder brothers were deposed one after another, and the aunts and cousins died one after another, which gave Li Xian a deep sense of crisis, although he was the emperor, but his mother could decide her life and death at any time. Therefore, in front of his mother, Li Xian trembled and did not dare to act.

It wasn't until after "that incident" happened that Li Xian's family was exiled, and the dilemma of being in a high place came to an end temporarily.

"Anything else?" Li Xian then asked.

"Second, judging from the talent you showed when you were the king of England, you would not do such a simple and naïve thing at all, which can only show that you do not hesitate to discredit yourself in order to protect yourself, but unfortunately no one in the world can really understand your hard work!"

Many people believe that Li Xian is the most cowardly of the four princes born to Wu Zetian. There is no talent in terms of talent, there is no appearance in terms of appearance, neither Li Hong's benevolence, filial piety, honesty, jealousy and hatred, nor Li Xian's outstanding talent and neatness, let alone Li Dan, who has excellent popularity among ministers.

Could it be that Li Xian was a little carried away as the emperor, and he had to give his father-in-law Wei Xuanzhen a promotion. When Pei Yan thought that this was against the precedent of the imperial court and admonished him, he said casually: "Even if you give the world to my father-in-law, there is nothing wrong with it." ”

Li Xian's words made Wu Zetian find an excuse, so he was beaten down from the throne with a slap, deposed as the king of Luling, and exiled to Fangzhou.

In fact, Li Xian has long seen it, even if he doesn't say the nonsense of "giving the world to my father-in-law", he won't be able to sit on the throne for long. His mother would always look for him and eventually get rid of him. The dragon chair can only sit one person, and he can only come down, and Wu Zetian must sit on the throne, which is the essence of the matter.

Instead of being taken down by his mother, Li Xian should retreat as an advance and send the handle himself.

As Li Xian expected, Wu Zetian later became the emperor. Li Xian, who was far away in Fangzhou, played Yaohe, which made Wu Zetian very satisfied. The life of Li Xian's family has changed greatly, first of all, the Holy Spirit Emperor canonized Li Chongrun, who has been deposed as a concubine, as the prince of Luling, and the book was sent to Fangzhou by the envoy, which can be regarded as giving Li Xian a ray of life and making him secretly relieved!

There are rewards sent in Beijing every three or five days, and the governor of the prefecture and the county dare not make it too difficult when he sees this. After this, the unbearable poverty of the past will no longer be there.

It is precisely because of Li Xian's mediocrity that he has lived to the present. In the past ten years, the people in the Li family have died of death. Their fate is much more tragic than Li Xian's, and in any case, Li Xian can be regarded as a blessing due to misfortune.

To be honest, what does it mean to be the emperor? What are the benefits? Not to mention that the two elder brothers died miserably, that is, the fourth brother Li Dan, who was named the imperial heir but was imprisoned in the East Palace, in fact, he was not as good as Li Xian!

"When I did this, I really wanted my mother to abolish me!" Speaking of this, Li Xian sighed and said, "In fact, there is another layer of luck in it, if someone supports me at that time, maybe it will be a different situation!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian raised his eyebrows: "You mean Pei Yan?" ”

Li Xian nodded: "That's right!" ”

Before his death, Gaozong ordered Pei Yan and two attendants, Liu Qixian and Guo Zhengyi, to be ministers to assist Li Xian to ascend the throne. After Li Xian succeeded to the throne, Pei Yan was the only "prime minister who took care of his life" in the dynasty.

According to the usual practice, it is generally in the Menxia Province to set up a political hall for the prime ministers to discuss matters, and the famous prime ministers in the Taizong era, Sikong Changsun Wuji, the servant Fang Xuanling, and the prince and master Wei Zheng, etc., all deigned to come to the Menxia Province. After Pei Yan became the prime minister, he naturally discussed matters here until he was appointed as a servant, but after Li Xian ascended the throne, he was reappointed as Zhongshu Ling, and the political hall was moved to Zhongshu Province, which was not only for Pei Yan's convenience, but also to show respect for him.

Although Li Xian tried his best to win over Pei Yan, Pei Yan did something unbelievable.

In his edict, Gaozong left "those who are undecided in major military affairs will take the advance and stop of the queen of heaven", which means that it is not to entrust Wu Zetian to manage state affairs with full power, but to "concurrently" take her decision when there are particularly important "military affairs" that the emperor and ministers "do not decide". However, Pei Yan played on the third day after Gaozong's death and the second day after the crown prince ascended the throne in front of the coffin, saying that the heir had not yet been officially canonized as the emperor, and he had not listened to the government, so it was not appropriate to "issue an order to announce the edict", so it was suggested that "the Empress Dowager's decree should be implemented under the door": that is, all decrees should be issued in the form of the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian's decree.

There was no such precedent in Datang, and with Pei Yan's suggestion, Wu Zetian naturally obtained the right to dispose of state affairs.

The reason why Pei Yan did this may not mean to replace the imperial power, but he definitely wanted to influence the imperial power to the greatest extent in order to realize his ideal of governing the country through the world. Li Xian was an adult when he ascended the throne, and it was not easy for him to completely influence him as a courtier, so Pei Yan wanted to increase the power of the empress dowager to check and balance the emperor, so as to use it for his own use.

In this case, Li Xian deliberately said something like that, which was also a temptation for Pei Yan.

A person who is as smart and wise as Pei Yan will not fail to hear that Li Xian just said angry words on the spur of the moment, and he can't take it seriously, but he took the initiative to participate in the action of abolishing the emperor, obviously he thinks that Li Xian is difficult to restrain him, it is better to abolish it as soon as possible and replace it with a new emperor who can be more influenced by himself, and at the same time, he can also make Wu Zetian grateful to himself.

Of course, the self-righteous Pei Yan would not have thought that it was precisely because of his move that Wu Zetian's position in power was more stable and laid the foundation for the Li Tang royal family.