At the end of the third round of inspections, Li Xingzhou finally went up the steps under the escort of the two Zuo Yu Lin Guards and came to the door of the building to wait for the summons.

With such a tight defense and such frequent inspections in a short distance, Li Xingzhou should understand who is in this small building no matter how stupid he is.

originally thought that such a big event as today would definitely go to the court, and even a big court meeting, Li Xingzhou was even prepared.

didn't expect Wu Zetian to see him in such an inconspicuous place.

This woman's actions are really beyond people's expectations, but it is difficult that such a big thing as the Gongsheng riot is nothing in her eyes?

While waiting, Li Xingzhou forcibly turned his head and said to Dongfang Qiu and Chen Ping'an.

"Yesterday was full of friends, and today I will become a prisoner under the stairs, the two examiners must be a lot of emotion at this moment, right?"

"Oriental bachelor, encountering such ups and downs in life, how can you be without poetry?"

While speaking, Li Xingzhou was pushed several times by Zuo Yu Lin Wei on his side.

And each time it was heavier and heavier, but he still stubbornly finished his words.

The two examiners were terrified at this time, kneeling at the foot of the stairs without thinking or daring to raise their heads.

Even though they knew that someone was coming, they didn't care, and when they heard this, the two finally raised their heads.

Seeing that it was him, the flesh on Chen Ping'an's face began to tremble slightly, and the hatred in his eyes could melt Li Xingzhou.

Dongfang Qiu didn't hate the light, and his face was full of fear.

Somehow, the more hatred in Chen Ping'an's eyes intensified, Li Xingzhou felt more happiness in his heart, and he couldn't help but want to laugh for a while, so he really laughed.

"The dark room is sad, and the eyes of God are like electricity."

Lin Wei, the left feather on the left, took off the saber on his waist and sheathed it heavily on Li Xingzhou's arm, and a piercing pain made Li Xingzhou's hoarse throat suddenly slammed, and then, this stinging pain turned into Li Xingzhou's bigger laughter.

The voice became more and more hoarse, but Li Xingzhou, who couldn't stop laughing, still said what he wanted to say, and his voice was louder.

"Heaven is the way of justice, and retribution is clear"

"Pop" was another dull thump.

It was this blow that completely stirred up Li Xingzhou's laughter into an uncontrollable laugh,

"Happy, happy!"

What kind of place is this where people can laugh so loudly?

Just when the two anxious and angry Zuo Yulin Guard sergeants were about to hit Li Xingzhou's tongue hard.

I saw the little yellow door of Shicai running out quickly, "Your Majesty has passed on, hurry forward, fast forward"

In the rough pushing, Li Xingzhou, who couldn't lift his arms, staggered into the small building.

.......

Qiu Shenji led Jin Wuwei to rush to Xuanren Gate first.

Zhou Xing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and a large number of public officials from the Criminal Department and Luoyang Mansion were also the first to arrive.

At this moment, a large number of public servants are making the final cleanup of the vicinity, and even the officers and soldiers of Jin Wuwei are arranging for defense.

Qiu Shenji and Zhou Xing stood side by side in front of the city gate of Xuanren Gate.

Both of these men are like killing gods.

As long as one person stands here, no one dares to approach.

The two stood side by side, and the ghosts and gods of the eight directions avoided each other.

Within a radius of ten zhang, there was not even a single person.

The four cool officials in the court, Qiu Zhoulaisuo.

Qiu Shenji and Zhou Xing were officials who climbed up on the road of serious eunuchs, so they naturally formed a faction.

Lai Junchen was originally a prisoner, and he developed by speculating in camps and biting informants.

Suo Yuanli is a down-and-out Persian Hu man, and he is not on the right path, so the two of them are in the same faction.

Wu Zetian's change of dynasty is imminent, and everyone can see that Empress Wu's claim to be emperor is unstoppable.

But Wu Zetian is old after all.

A person who is nearly seventy years old, no one knows when she will return to the west.

Since she wants to be the emperor, the crown prince has become the most concerned issue for all officials.

If Empress Wu wants to be the emperor, the choice of the crown prince is the most confusing.

Other dynasties are no more than those princes, and they are really qualified to compete for the crown prince.

Two or three at most, and even then, officials are often on the wrong side.

And today's Empress Wu is the empress dowager of the Li Dynasty to take her country and establish herself as the emperor.

Turning the Li family into the Wu family, the variables of the crown prince are even greater.

Empress Wu has four biological sons, two of whom have died at her hands, the other two are now puppet emperors, and the other is under house arrest in Fangzhou and is under strict guard.

If Empress Wu becomes emperor, it is really hard to say whether her son will inherit the throne of the crown prince.

So who are the remaining candidates for the crown prince?

After Zhou Xing and Qiu Shenji discussed.

set the target on Princess Taiping.

As a result, Qiu Shenji was a little tempted, and he touched a gray nose.

Now the two of them must choose another "master" to keep their wealth and wealth for a long time.

Zhou Xing stood motionless on the stone steps of the mountain gate.

Even the Sichuan characters that his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled have not changed for a long time.

If it weren't for the spring breeze gently stirring his robe, it would also blow the beard under his chin.

He was like a sculptural pestle there.

After a long time, he shook his head lightly and said in a deep voice.

After thinking about it repeatedly, I still feel that the descendants of the Queen of Heaven are the least likely to be located in the descendants of the Li family! Although it is the biological son of the Queen of Heaven, if it is passed on to them, they will definitely restore the title of Li Tangguo, so what is the point of the Queen of Heaven being called the emperor? It's good if she continues to be a diva! ”

Qiu Shenji nodded heavily and said.

"Yes, that's what I meant."

"That's why we chose Taiping, speaking of which, if Taiping is willing to fight, I think she may be the biggest to become the crown prince."

Zhou Xingdao.

"Hmmm! If there is anyone else in this world that the queen of heaven really loves and cares about, it is only peace. ”

"Although she is also surnamed Li, if she wants to inherit the world, only a new dynasty is possible."

"Once the Li Tang Kingdom is restored, it will be impossible for her, the female emperor, to exist, and she will inevitably remain in the Li Tang Sect."

"So, Tai Ping Shi is the best candidate."

Qiu Shenji's eyes moved, and he suddenly became interested.

"The queen of heaven kills her son if she wants, but she prefers peace, and it is rumored that it is because the queen of heaven strangled her infant daughter to death in order to fight for the position of queen, and blamed the queen Wang."

"The queen of heaven is a woman after all, that is the daughter she killed with her own hands, and the queen of heaven favors Taiping, just because she made up for the guilt of the little princess on Taiping?"

Zhou Xing smiled faintly and said.

"It's groundless. Not necessarily without cause. ”

"A little princess who died at the age of only a few months didn't need a grand courtesy, but after the queen of heaven took power, she gave the little princess who had been dead for many years a big title and a grand burial, and its specifications exceeded all the princesses of the Tang Dynasty, maybe this rumor is really true."

However, there is no need to explore whether it is true or false, what is important. It is a fact that the Queen of Heaven prefers peace, otherwise there would not be so many rumors in the market, but unfortunately, everyone has their own aspirations......

Qiu Shenji said.

"Taiping has no intention of taking the throne, so this imperial heir should be the most likely son and nephew of the Wu family, right?"

Zhou Xing shook his head slowly.

"That's why I can't make up my mind. The relationship between the Queen of Heaven and the Wu family is actually not good, to be precise, it is extremely bad. ”

"After the Queen of Heaven took power, the first person to take action was the martial arts. Think about it, the queen's two half-brothers, Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing, and three cousins, Wu Huailiang, Wu Weiliang, and Wu Huaiyun. What happened to them? ”

Qiu Shenji thought for a while and said.

"Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing died in exile, and it is said that they died of depression because they were too scared. The three cousins of the queen of heaven, Wu Huailiang died a long time ago. Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun were executed by the Queen of Heaven, and their sons and heirs were all changed to the surname of Pi and exiled to the border wilderness! ”

Zhou Xing said "hey".

"Not bad! Even the surname was changed to the surname of the pit viper, the pit viper! Even if Wu Huailiang, the cousin of the queen of heaven who died early, he would not be spared when he died. ”

The Queen of Heaven escorted his wife, Shanshi, into Beijing, and personally whipped him with thorns every day, whipped Shan's back to shreds, exposed his bones, and wailed to death. This is not just a discord with the family, what kind of hatred does it take to do such a thing? ”

Qiu Shenji's eyes flashed, and he said.

"The crime announced by the Queen of Heaven is that they are disrespectful to the Queen's biological mother, Yang. Hehe, I don't believe this reason. Yang was forty years old when he married the father of the Queen of Heaven, when the father of the Queen of Heaven was named the Duke of Yingguo, one of the sixteen founding fathers of my Tang Dynasty, one of the eight prime ministers of the Gaozu Dynasty, in charge of the forbidden army, high and powerful, what kind of woman can't marry?

The Yang family is over forty years old, and she can still marry Ying Guogong as his wife, just because she is Hongnong Yang, a giant lord of the high gate.

Just ask this kind of background, and she is a dignified and just wife of Ying Guo, how dare her two stepsons be disrespectful to her?

Not to mention that Wu Huailiang and the three of them are side branches of the Wu family, and it is impossible to be rude to the Duchess of the Kingdom. ”

Zhou Xingdao.

"Yes, because of this 'rudeness', let the queen of heaven linger, enter the palace at the age of fourteen, and after forty years, he is in power, so he can't wait to execute a few brothers and exile the entire Wu family?"

"This hatred, I'm afraid it's not just that simple, and it may not be on the Yang family."

Qiu Shenji said.

"The queen of heaven entered the palace at the age of fourteen, and I heard that before entering the palace, she was still a young girl, and the name of beauty spread in the place?"

The two looked at each other, as if they had suddenly thought of something, but they didn't want to say it.

The two of them looked at each other, and Zhou Xing diverted the topic.

"The queen of heaven reused the people of the Wu clan from the idea of being the emperor, so she changed them from the surname of Vi to the surname of Wu, transferred back to the capital, and installed important positions."

"That's why I'm not sure, after the Queen of Heaven becomes the emperor, do I need them."

Qiu Shenji thought for a while.

"In my opinion, there is no other choice for the diva."

"If you choose the descendants of the Li family, why should the queen of heaven go to great lengths to seek to be the emperor."

"Once the queen of heaven is called the emperor, what she has to consider is how to inherit her country, since the queen of heaven can give up her hatred and enable the Wu clan in order to be the emperor, then ......"

"In order to pass on her country, she can only choose an imperial heir from the descendants of the Wu family!"

Zhou Xing paced back and forth on the steps with his hands for a while, then looked up and asked.

"So, in your opinion, if the Queen of Heaven can only choose one imperial heir from the Wu family's sons and nephews, who is most likely?"

Qiu Shenji said categorically: "Wu Chenghe! ”

Zhou Xingdao: "Why? ”

Qiu Shenji said.

"Among the nephews of the Wu family, the most promising ones are Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi. From the patriarchal point of view, Wu Chenghei inherited the ancestral lord Zhou Guogong, and inherited the mantle of Empress Wu's biological father, so he is a big sect and Wu Sansi is a small sect. In terms of blood, Wu Chengsi is the first line of Wu Yuanshuang, Wu Sansi is the first line of Wu Yuanqing, Yuan Shuang is the elder brother, is the long room, Yuanqing is the younger brother, is the second room, according to this order, Wu Chengsi should also be the most promising person to become the heir of the emperor, what does Brother Zhou think? ”

Zhou Xing paced up again, paced for a long time, and then stopped, looking back at Qiu Shenji.

"Actually, it's very simple, this time the imperial examination is making trouble, and it will be clear who the Empress Wu will pull to beat whom."