() In front of the gate of heaven, the ministers came to the congratulatory table, and their own officials entered the class to collect.

This amount of work is by no means small, because today's court meeting is a knight and a knight, and all those who are in the capital need to participate. Everyone is neatly crowned and lined up in front of Zetianmen, Li Tong took a cursory look, and the number of people present was at least 2,000 people, or even 3,500 people.

Among them, the biggest water is naturally the honorable officer, and since the founding of Li Tang, the honorable officer has already had the problem of indiscriminate awarding.

The second is the dispersion of officials, after the reform of Zhenguan, the official products are determined by the rank of dispersion, and those who have positions must be dissolved, and those who are dissolved may not have posts. Since the advent of the Empress Wu, there has been a flood of rewards, and the most added is the scattered rank. Just now, in the order of the train in front of the gate, Li Tong saw with his own eyes that there were as many as two or three hundred guerrilla generals of the five ranks.

So many people gathered in front of the gate of heaven, and each person had a congratulatory watch, which was as many as several thousand. Thousands of people got together and competed to offer rainbow farts, and such a strange scene also opened Li Tong's eyes. The ceremonial officer entered the class to collect the congratulatory sheets, and they had not finished collecting them for more than half an hour, and the congratulatory sheets collected by the healthy guards in and out of the house were already exhausted and out of breath.

Of course, for such a long time, the ministers could not wait, so there was a ceremonial official in front of the gate of heaven who read the edict, which was all about the Turkic war.

Li Tong was also very bored, bowed his head and listened carefully to the reading of the ceremonial officer, and gradually heard some flavors.

The edict first recounts the background and causes of the Turkic border troubles, starting from the capture of Jieli Khan in the fourth year of Zhenguan and the fall of the Eastern Turks, and the subsequent decades of Sebian have remained stable, and the Turkic tribes are all under the Shan Yu Dadu Protectorate. This continued until the first year of Gaozong's revelation, in 679 AD, when the Turks began to rebel.

Li Tong could hear that the reason why the edict traced these stories was nothing more than his grandmother Wu Zetian's intention to shake off the pot, announcing that the Turkic border troubles in the world were not because of her heroine's chaos in the country, but because of the problems that had existed in the Gaozong period.

Although Li Tong didn't have a good impression of his grandfather Li Zhi, after hearing these smells, he couldn't help but feel that his grandmother was a little unauthentic.

You must know that when the Li Tang clan was in turmoil last year, Wu Zetian still hugged the emperor Yu Yun tightly, and even moved back to the forbidden Zhenguan Hall to deal with political affairs. But this year, the situation was different, and they immediately began to go to Gaozong.

Of course, there is not much truth to be said in political propaganda, except for the opening chapter, the content of the following edict focuses on praising several victories such as the Battle of Montenegro and the Battle of Yunzhou against the Turks.

These victories also occurred in the late Gaozong period, but the so-called Emperor Jiu's illness and the Divine Emperor's military politics have little to do with Emperor Gaozong. When Li Tong heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, so he wanted to ask his grandfather if he had a spirit in the sky and heard his daughter-in-law arrange it like this, would he be happy or unhappy?

Behind the edict, there were posthumously enshrined Pei Xingjian and Xue Rengui, two deceased generals, and each chose an heir to take the title. Among them, Xue Rengui's heir, Xue Ne, was directly awarded by Sima from other states as the general of the Right Guard Mansion, and was able to enter the forbidden middle school.

Hearing this, Li Tong couldn't help but feel the embarrassment of his grandmother Wu Zetian coming to the dynasty as the heroine, that is, even if he preached the martial arts of side affairs, he didn't dare to overly flaunt the generals who were alive and in the year of fighting, such as Hei Yan Chang and the like.

The heroine's presence in the dynasty is not the political norm in the first place, and the border generals are different from those in the court, and they can control and balance through power techniques. Once they are given too high glory, the people will naturally be attached, and once they raise their arms and shout, they will directly shake the power structure of the central government.

When the edict was read, the congratulatory table of the ministers was not finished. But the scene did not fall silent, and then the congratulatory table of the ministers began to be read. The first to be read out was the congratulatory table of the history of the Feng Pavilion and the newly sealed Deng Guogong Cen Changqian.

When the ceremonial officer began to read out, Li Tong obviously felt that Cen Changqian in the prime minister's train not far away was already bursting with negative energy.

The reason is also very simple, the so-called congratulatory table is nothing more than the rainbow fart of the scene, this thing is over as soon as it is written, and even some people don't write it themselves at all, and directly instruct their protégés, and even Fengge, Lintai and Zhuxue Hall have officials to write these things directly instead of high-ranking officials.

It's all scene work, and whether these congratulatory expressions are good or not is secondary, but one thing is certain, that is, there will inevitably be many false and beautiful words and phrases. This kind of words, it doesn't hurt for everyone to circulate them in private, but if they are read out in public, it will inevitably be embarrassing, and the prime ministers are shameless?

Especially Xue Huaiyi's military exploits this time, which were already full of moisture and blown out. Perhaps ordinary officials are still unaware of what is going on, and they will mistakenly think that it is really a great military feat, but how can the prime ministers not know the truth? The rainbow fart that I slapped with my conscience was read out to everyone, and you can imagine what it was like.

Cen Changqian is not the only one with this kind of treatment, the prime ministers do not pull any of them, and even Zhang Guangfu, who was absent due to illness, has his own Fengge Sheren to prepare a congratulatory table for him, which was also read out in public.

After such a toss, the time soon reached noon, and then the Divine Emperor Yi drove down the Tianmen Tower, returned to the Ming Hall under the guards of the ministers, and gave him food.

It was not until late afternoon that the ministers dispersed.

ended the day's ceremony, but Wu Zetian had no time to rest. After initially stabilizing the hearts of the people in Duyi, the next thing is the moment when the butcher's knife is raised.

The Qiuguan Criminal Department and the Si Xing Temple are not within the scope of today's ceremony, and the main task is naturally to interrogate a group of criminals overnight, but things are not going well.

Xu Jingzhen had been secretly escorted back to the capital last night, but the situation in Kinai was different. In particular, Luoyang Ling Gong Siming had already known about Xu Jing's true affairs in advance, although he had been arrested and imprisoned, he refused to cooperate with pulling more people out, and only insisted in his words that Qiu Shenxian, the general of Zuojin Wuwei, had sent a letter to lure him, and kept asking to confront Qiu Shenxian.

Therefore, although Xu Jingzhen's confession has been obtained, due to the lack of testimony from the key witness Gong Siming, Zhang Chujin, the official secretary of Qiuguan, refused to enter the case, and only repeatedly asked for human and physical evidence.

"The thieves of the Gong clan refused to confess, but they only intended to delay time, fantasizing about fighting for their out-state people to escape, but they didn't know that all the out-state people had been arrested."

Wu Yizong, who was responsible for going to Xiuzhou to bring Xu Jingzhen back, traveled thousands of miles, his short and fat body looked a little sluggish, but his spirit was still excited, and the confessions he took from Xu Jingzhen's mouth were mostly involved in famous people in the sea. When he thought that he could catch so many people in such a big event as he was plotting, he couldn't help but be excited.

Wu Zetian raised his eyes to look at this nephew, and after a moment of silence, he said again: "Xu Jingzhen's confession, I won't show it to the public for the time being." ”

The incident of mentioning Xu Jingzhen was leaked in advance, making the situation extremely passive. Especially her biggest target this time, Zhang Guangfu, was startled, although there was no action on the surface, but she was also working hard in private.

Since the accident occurred on the eve of the previous night, there have been more than 100 copies of the recitals accumulated by the left and right political platforms, and eighty percent of them are impeaching the Northern Ya Forbidden Army for overstepping their duties and rushing into the market for abusing their powers, and asking for the responsibility of Wu Youning, the envoy of the Thousand Cavalry.

"This time, the purpose is to make a quick decision, if it is postponed, all families are prepared, I am afraid that they will not be able to get rid of all evils!"

When Wu Yizong heard this, his eyes widened, and he was worried that he had wasted so much effort in vain.

Wu Zetian didn't understand this truth, she was a decisive person, and she would never hesitate when she should do it. But even if it is a killing, there must be a scale.

In particular, the scope of this attack is too wide, not only concentrated in the center of Taiwan Province, but also has a number of foreign state assassins, if we cannot reach a judicial procedure that can ostensibly convince the public, everyone in the world will be in danger. And no one can predict what kind of turmoil will arise in such a situation of widespread fear.

The reason why she went to great lengths to lure Xu Jingzhen back as an excuse for purging was to avoid this from happening. Let those out-of-state assassins understand that there is a reason why these people died, and as for them, those who are outside the matter can stay in their duties without worrying about being affected.

"The first plan at the moment is to take Zhang Guangfu first, Luantai and Fengge are united, and the edict is justified."

Wu Youning opened his mouth and said: "Zhang Guangfu plundered Yuzhou in the old years, accumulated a lot of resentment, and then slandered Di Renjie. Renjie has been impeached many times before, and this time he quoted his previous argument and let Zhang Guangfu avoid suspicion and retreat. Zhang Chujin, the autumn official, entered the political hall first, seized the power to push the case, and let Zhou Xingli ...... the Gong clan"

Wu Youning's suggestion was somewhat constructive, Wu Zetian bowed his head slightly while listening, and only after Wu Youning finished speaking, she said again: "Zhang Chujin is not suitable to pay homage to the prime minister, so he will be transferred to Si Binqing and the ambassador of the army, and go to Hebei to welcome the triumphant army." As for Zhou Xing......"

Speaking of this, Wu Zetian groaned, Xu Jingzhen's matter was already top secret, and not many people knew about it. Although she suspected that her nephews were greedy for the power of Zuo Jinwuwei's military and deliberately leaked the news in order to affect Qiu Shenxian, she did not rule out the possibility that someone else would leak it.

Although Zhou Xing did not know about Xu Jingzhen, Wu Zetian had secretly instructed Zhou Xing to sort out the criminal files related to Xu Jingye's rebellion case in the old years, and implied that he would focus on sorting out the content related to the Gong family. According to Zhou Xing's scheming, it is not difficult to deduce some inside information from this.

"Wenchang Zuo Cheng Li Yuan was transferred to the secretary of the criminal department, and he and Zhou Xing jointly promoted the case."

Even if he didn't consider his suspicion of Zhou Xing, Wu Zetian understood that Zhou Xing's reputation was too bad, and even if he reasoned out what the facts of the case were, he would not be able to convince the public.

Li Yuan was born in the Li family of Zhao County, and is the younger brother of the former prime minister Li Jingxuan, and his younger brother Li Jingyi has a grudge with the Gong family recently.

Thinking of this, Wu Zetian asked again: "The master of the palace who was imprisoned in Luoyang County Prison ......"

"His name is Fu Youyi."

Hearing Wu Youning's answer, Wu Zetian nodded and asked again: "Why did that Fu Youyi die?" What kind of crime did he have that made Qiu Shenyun have to take the risk of telling the Gong clan? ”

After hearing this, Wu Youning said with a bitter face: "At that time, I really didn't know that Fu Youyi was promoted to the Luoyang County Party, a thousand horses were newly created, and the soldiers were inevitably unfamiliar, and the incident happened suddenly. Under the strict push, it is inevitable that the thousands of cavalry soldiers will be panicked. ”

Hearing Wu Youning say this, Wu Zetian also sighed helplessly. Before Xue Huaiyi's army returned to the capital, the strength she relied on the most in Jini was the Beiya Yulin Army and the Thousand Cavalry, and at this time, she naturally would not shake the strength of her henchmen.

But as soon as Fu Youyi died, things related to Qiu Shenyi became confusing. Although Qiu Shenyun kept saying that he didn't know Fu Youyi at all, nor did he know the truth about Xu Jing, let alone send a message to Gong Siming, everything was a disaster and was framed.

But now that there is no proof of death, Qiu Shenxian's one-sided words, Wu Zetian will not be trusted. After all, Qiu Shenqian is just a mouth, and Gong Siming and Jin Wuwei Street envoy Chen Mingzhen both swore to accuse Qiu Shenxian.

Especially that Chen Mingzhen, who was originally recommended by Qiu Shenqian to be introduced into the Nanya Forbidden Army, and also had the evidence of Qiu Shenxian's crime of killing good and making meritorious contributions in Bozhou last year, after falling out of harmony with each other, Qiu Shenxian's intention to kill people and destroy his mouth is not unreasonable.

"The origin of the palace goods in Chen Mingzhen's house, have you found out?"

Wu Zetian asked again, and Wu Youyi, the general of Yulin, stepped forward and replied: "The people involved are Si Gongtai Su Jiancheng, Shanggong Tai Si Shu Zhang, etc., all of them have confessed, and Qiu Mou in the old year was in the dark and spied on the forbidden private,"

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and then added: "In addition, Su Jiancheng also confessed, Qiu bribed him to privately arrange for people to serve in the mansion of King Yong, and his son Su Liang is still in ......the palace of King Guanghan."

After Wu Zetian heard this, his face suddenly turned angry: "These cheap slaves, how can they have the guts!" The palace officials involved will be punished! ”

Wu Sansi, who was also in the hall, heard Wu Youyi's words, and was about to open his mouth to speak, but seeing that the God Emperor was so angry, he was also a little flustered for a while, and obediently swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

In the next few days, Wu Zetian has been busy. After Di Renjie's old theory temporarily seized Zhang Guangfu's position and transferred Zhang Chujin, the official secretary of the Autumn Season, from the Criminal Division, things gradually got on track.

In particular, Zhou Xing, the official of the autumn office, obtained key evidence during the interrogation process, and Zhang Guangfu privately discussed both ends of the plot and the yin and the evil in the battle to destroy Li Zhen, the king of Yue in Yuzhou last year, which can be regarded as completely sending Zhang Guangfu to a dead end.

Because of this crime, two key witnesses were also involved, that is, Lu Chongyu, the chief of the Chinese army, and Cen Changqian, the chief of the rear army, who were also in charge of counterinsurgency at that time.

These two people, one is the general of Nanya, the general Zuo Wuwei, and the other is the internal history of the Fengge, and they can't or dare not cite evidence of Zhang Guangfu's loyalty to the king at that time. In this way, even if someone exonerates Zhang Guangfu, they will not be able to make a strong argument at all.

After winning this most critical goal, Wu Zetian breathed a sigh of relief and was in the mood to care about the rest.

After Wu Youyi sent the testimony of a group of palace officials, Wu Zetian deliberately glanced at the evidence of the eunuch Su Liang who was placed in the residence of Li Guangshun, the king of Guanghan, and found that Su Liang had been hiding in the palace for several months, and he had not been able to confess a case of the eldest grandson's daily life being out of order.

Seeing this confession, Wu Zetian was naturally very satisfied.

In the past few days, she can be said to be very busy, and there is no time and energy to care about a few grandsons out of the cabinet, today came to the interest, so I came to the palace official Yuzheng, and asked the three kings what they have been busy with recently, and then learned that in the past time, the three kings have not been idle, in addition to the earlier congratulatory table, there are several copies of the book accumulated on the case.

Among them, Li Shouli, the king of Yong, said in the name that Ciwutai was about to be built, and he hoped to offer Buddhist scriptures to Taiwan for worship.

"These children are also trembling."

Holding this book in his hand, Wu Zetian sighed casually, and then opened another copy of the third grandson Hedong Wang's book, and saw that it was also the same kind of content, but in addition to asking for Buddhist scriptures, there was also Jinyan who recently traveled to and from Weiguo Temple, and often saw the families of the powerful people in the capital borrowing scriptures in Weiguo Temple but did not return them for a long time, hoping that the imperial court could face up to and solve such vices.

This kind of trivial matter, Wu Zetian did not doubt him, and approved it casually, and after turning to the recital of Li Guangshun, the king of Guanghan, who asked him to stay in the forbidden place, her face showed a little relief, and her demeanor became formal, and she replied seriously.