When Zhao Heng just died, because Zhao Zhen was young, the Great Song Dynasty also fell into a storm, when Liu E, the queen mother, just took over government affairs, even the ministers below did not take her seriously, Ding Wei and others wanted to change the way of listening to politics, so as to completely empty Liu E.

However, no one expected that in just a few years, Liu E not only demoted Ding Wei to Hainan, but also firmly held the imperial power in his own hands, and a group of henchmen she promoted appeared in the court, it can be said that Liu E's grasp of the imperial power now even exceeds that of Zhao Heng at the beginning, except for a few people in the court such as Lu Zongdao, no one dares to disobey Liu E's intentions.

It is also in this situation that the direction of the wind in the court has slowly begun to change, after all, there are villains everywhere, and some people even began to encourage Liu E to be the emperor for their own future, for example, two days ago, Cheng Fang Zhonggong in the palace suddenly wrote a book, asking Liu E to "tell the story after the martial arts", in fact, it is a blatant encouragement for Liu E to be the emperor.

The palace province was originally in charge of the emperor's service, such as the Shang Food Bureau, the Shang Yi Bureau, etc., all of which belonged to the jurisdiction of the palace province, but in the Song Dynasty, the functions and powers of the six Shang bureaus were independent from the palace province, so the palace province became nominal and insubstantial, and Fang Zhonggong, the palace minister, was only from the fifth grade, the level was not high, and there was no real power in his hands, so he has always been a dispensable little person in the court.

But no one thought that this little person would be so bold, and took the initiative to ask Liu E to be the emperor, it is estimated that he also wanted to take the opportunity to fight, if Liu E agreed, then he would have the merit of supporting the throne, and it was not impossible to be crowned a marquis in the future, it can be said that Fang Zhonggong was a speculative villain, and he gambled the rest of his life on this performance.

In fact, there were speculative villains like Fang Zhonggong who wrote to ask Liu E to be the emperor, but they were generally torn up directly by Liu E, but this time after Fang Zhonggong's music was sent to Liu E, Liu E did not tear it up after reading it, but did not make any criticism, but put it on his own bookcase, and this anomaly also attracted the attention of some people.

What is even more unexpected is that another major event happened in the court today, and the initiator of this incident, Li Zhang, also knew that it was Yin Chenglin of Kaifeng Mansion who had exterminated the ghost beggars with him before, this Cheng Lin was also Liu E's confidant, otherwise he would not have sat in such an important position as Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and this time he presented a picture to Liu E.

"Empress Wu Linchao?" When Li Zhang heard this name from Zhao Zhen's mouth, he couldn't help frowning, this Cheng Lin is a capable official, and he was also well-organized last time to clean up the ghost beggars, but he didn't expect that he was also a flattering villain, and he even encouraged Liu E to be the emperor at such a critical moment.

You must know that Cheng Lin is not the Fang Zhonggong, Kaifeng Mansion Yin not only has real power, but also has a very high grade, only under the prime minister and the six Shangshu, he is a high-ranking official from the first grade, it can be said that Cheng Lin is much stronger than the five-grade petty official of Fang Zhonggong, and the "Picture of the Emperor Wu" he presented, in fact, has the same meaning as Fang Zhonggong, which is to persuade Liu E to follow Wu Zetian and become the emperor.

"Cousin, what should I do now, after Cheng Lin presented this picture today, the ministers in the court didn't dare to speak, and in the end, thanks to Lu Shenzheng's loyalty and outspokenness, he scolded the Empress Wu for being a sinner in the Tang Dynasty, which made the eldest lady throw away this picture, but I feel that the eldest lady is just testing the attitude of the ministers, but except for Lu participating in politics, everyone else is silent, which has allowed the eldest lady to achieve her goal!"

Zhao Zhen shed tears as he spoke, he always remembered Li Zhang's advice, and usually tolerated Liu E everywhere, and never got involved in the affairs of the court, but he didn't expect Liu E's ambition to get bigger and bigger, and now his ambition to be the emperor is exposed, if she becomes the emperor, then what should Zhao Zhen, the emperor, do? Especially when Zhao Zhen thought of Wu Zetian's sons who died tragically at the hands of his mother in history, he felt even more frightened.

"Don't cry first, the eldest lady uses this method to test the attitude of the ministers, and at the same time, it may also be testing your attitude, if you lose your inch, it is easier to have problems!" Li Zhang could only open his mouth to persuade at this time.

Hearing Li Zhang say this, Zhao Zhen also hurriedly wiped his tears, in fact, when he heard that someone wanted Liu E to become the emperor after learning martial arts, he was already frightened, and now he actually doesn't care much about the throne, and the whole person only thinks about whether he can survive if Liu E is the emperor?

Li Zhang was very calm at this time, because he knew that although Liu E had the heart to be the emperor, but in the original history, she was not able to be the emperor, of course, now he has changed a lot of history, so it is still unknown whether Liu E will be the emperor, but in Li Zhang's opinion, the possibility of Liu E being the emperor is not very large, in addition to the pressure inside and outside the court, the most important thing is that although Liu E has ambitions, but does not have Wu Zetian's courage and decisiveness, that is, as the saying goes, there is a thief but no thief.

"Cousin, you should say something, the ambition of the eldest lady has been exposed, although this time it was stopped by Lu to participate in politics, but what if there is a next time?" Zhao Zhen saw that Li Zhang was silent, and he was a little anxious at the moment.

"Don't worry, since the eldest lady threw away the painting in front of the ministers, she must also know that she can't do anything, and there are still people in the court who participate in politics, they won't let the eldest lady mess around, so you can completely put your heart in your stomach, after all, time is on your side." Li Zhang immediately spoke again and persuaded,

"But...... But I always felt uneasy, it was like a knife hanging over my head, God knows when it will fall? Zhao Zhen cried again at this time and said with a sad face, he was not a bold person in the first place, and now he met Liu E and wanted to seize the throne, which made him feel like he was on pins and needles.

Seeing Zhao Zhen's frightened appearance, Li Zhang could only try his best to persuade him, but Zhao Zhen couldn't listen to it at all, and finally he thought about it for a while and said: "That's it, I and Wang Xiang are also acquaintances, I have been asking him privately about the situation in the past two days to see what they plan?" ”

Hearing that Li Zhang wanted to contact Wang Zeng in private, Zhao Zhen also felt that it was a good way, he didn't dare to contact the ministers in the court now, mainly because he was afraid that Liu E would be too careful, after all, if Liu E became suspicious, so as to use any drastic means, it would be even worse.

Wang Zeng was the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, although when Cheng Lin presented the picture of Empress Wu to the dynasty before, Wang Zeng did not make a sound, but Li Zhang knew that Wang Zeng was a person with a bottom line, the reason why Wang Qinruo recommended him at the beginning was to let Wang Zeng contain Liu E, otherwise Lu Zongdao alone could not force Liu E to give up the idea of being the emperor, so Wang Zeng can be said to be the backer behind Lu Zongdao, like today, there is no need for Wang Zeng to come forward in person, after all, he is the prime minister, if he is openly against Liu E, I am afraid it will cause instability in the court.

Facing the uneasy Zhao Zhen, Li Zhang persuaded him for a long time, and finally let Zhao Zhen slowly calm down, Li Zhang should not stay with him for a long time, so he said goodbye and left, and assured Zhao Zhen that he would find an opportunity to contact Wang Zeng in the next two days.

However, when Li Zhang left Jingfu Palace, he still couldn't help sighing, as the so-called country is easy to change, and his nature is difficult to change, although he has always wanted to change Zhao Zhen's somewhat cowardly character, and has done a lot of things for this, but Zhao Zhen's character has not changed much, especially when encountering this kind of major event, Zhao Zhen will be chaotic, and he does not have the calmness of being an emperor at all.

"He is still young, and he is not pro-government, maybe when he is pro-government in the future, he will look like an emperor." Li Zhang muttered to himself at the moment, and then walked out of Gyeongbok Palace.

After returning home, Li Zhang did not immediately go to Wang Zeng, after all, such a big thing had just happened in the court, and he went to Zhao Zhen again, these must not be hidden from Liu E, if he went to see Wang Zeng immediately, with Liu E's suspicious character, he would definitely guess something, so he must not make a noise when he saw Wang Zeng, and he could not even let anyone notice.

If there is enough time, Li Zhang can arrange it slowly, now he is not alone, with the growth of Huozi, coupled with the layout of various industries, Li Zhang also has a lot of power in the capital, although it is difficult to hide from Liu E's ears and eyes to see Wang Zeng, it is not completely impossible.

But it's a pity that Li Zhang promised Zhao Zhen to see Wang Zeng within two days, so he didn't have much time to arrange, and in the end he could only use the most primitive and crude method, that is, to find the wild dog the next night, and then take advantage of the night to let the wild dog take him out of the house.

Wang Zeng's Prime Minister's Mansion is also in the west of the city, not very far from Li Zhang's house, it is now the second watch, most of the people have gone to bed early, and the streets are very deserted, except for the occasional patrolling guards, there is no longer half a figure.

The wild dog's injury has almost healed, and now he is running around the streets and alleys of the capital with Li Zhang on his back as if he is playing, and sometimes even on the eaves of the road, running on the undulating roof, it is like walking on the ground, and after a while, he took Li Zhang to Wang Zeng's mansion.

However, after coming to Wang Zeng's house, Li Zhang was dumbfounded, because Wang Zeng's mansion was very large, he didn't know where Wang Zeng lived, if he looked for it one by one, in case he met the female relatives of Wang Zeng's family, it would probably not be good.

Fortunately, Li Zhang is smart, now it has passed the second watch, and it will soon be the third watch, most of the rooms in Wang Zeng's mansion have turned off the lights, and such a big thing happened in the court yesterday, so Li Zhang concluded that Wang Zeng should not rest so early, and there are not many rooms in Wang Zeng's mansion that are still lit now, so they only need to look for these lit rooms.

Thinking of this, Li Zhang asked the wild dog to take him to avoid the courtyard of Wang Zeng's house, and then looked for the room with the lights on, but when they just found the third room, they really found Wang Zeng inside, this should be Wang Zeng's study, and Wang Zeng, who was dressed in regular clothes, was sitting behind the desk, frowning and seemed to be in deep thought.