In October of the fifth year of Yonghui, Li Zhi was canonized by Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian officially ascended the throne of the queen.

There is gossip that after Wu Zetian ascended to the throne of the queen, the harem was cleaned. After Queen Wang was beaten into the cold palace, Concubine Xiao Shu was not spared, and it is said that she was also liquidated by Wu Zetian and imprisoned in the palace for claustrophobia.

Whether the gossip is true or false is not yet known, Wu Zetian's methods are just to disgust the ministers, but some turmoil in the DPRK does make the ministers uneasy.

Soon after the new queen ascended the throne, Li Zhi quickly began a series of purges in the court.

As early as the first year of Yonghui, Zhu Suiliang because of the convenience of his position, forcibly, at a low price to buy the land of an official in Zhongshu Province, this matter should have been heavily punished, but the then Dali Temple Shaoqing Zhang Rui in order to shoot Zhu Suiliang's sycophants, for him to justify, but this matter is big, the supervision of the imperial history Wei Siqian believes that Zhu Suiliang uses power for personal gain, forced to buy and sell, should be punished with death, and finally under the control of the eldest grandson Wuji, Zhu Suiliang, who should have been sentenced to death, was just reduced to the same continent Thorn History, and was recalled in half a year, And Zhang Rui, who defended him, was only descended to the history of Dunzhou Thorn.

At the beginning of this year, Sun Fujia, the head of Dali Temple, resigned from the old man, and Zhang Ruishu was recalled and promoted to take over Dali Temple. Among them, there is no shortage of operations of the eldest grandson Wuji.

It's just that Zhang Ruiji, who had just returned to Chang'an, would never have thought that he would be the first unlucky egg.

Li Zhi turned over the old accounts, convicted Zhang Rui, who had just taken office and had not even sat on his buttocks, for personal gain, and beat him directly from Zhengqing of Dali Temple to a prisoner in the prison of Dali Temple. It's so big that it's unacceptable!

What is incomprehensible is that Zhang Ruishu was imprisoned for personal gain, but Zhu Suiliang, who he defended, had nothing to do. This makes people wonder why the defendant has nothing to do since the defender has been convicted?

Of course, I am afraid that only Zhu Suiliang present can understand this uneasy mood.

Zhang Ruiji was imprisoned for less than five days, and Li Zhi still did not want to order the disposal of Zhu Suiliang, but Zhu Suiliang really couldn't bear the pressure and took the initiative to ask Li Zhi for guilt.

Li Zhi took advantage of the situation to "sell" a favor, repented of his conscience, and took the initiative to admit his mistakes, and the death penalty could be avoided, but the living crime could not be escaped. Li Zhi assigned Zhu Suiliang to Qingshui County to serve as a county magistrate, and transferred Wei Siqian, the former county magistrate of Qingshui County, back to Chang'an to take over Zhu Suiliang's position.

Wei Siqian was the one who impeached Zhu Suiliang and was finally sent to Qingshui County by the eldest grandson, but he didn't expect that fate would play a very big joke a few years later. The officials who were demoted at the beginning came back to serve as prime ministers, and those who used their power to escape the catastrophe at the beginning are now atoning for the mistakes they made before.

Probably Zhu Suiliang didn't expect Li Zhi to demote him to a county order so happily, he originally just came to show his attitude, hoping that Li Zhi could be lightly dismissed, but he didn't expect the other party to play cards according to common sense, just like a cat waiting for a mouse to get into the cage, and "eat" him with a smile.

Zhu Suiliang was stunned for a long time before accepting this fact, walked out of the palace in despair, and silently packed up his things after returning home, and left Chang'an City on the third day. During this period, there was not even a colleague to send off, which can be described as extremely miserable.

After Zhu Suiliang left, the eldest grandson Wuji finally began to pay attention to his nephew! Back then, it can be said that his words changed Li Zhi's life and helped him ascend to the throne, but now, this seemingly well-behaved nephew seems to want to overthrow himself!

But...... So what? Morally speaking, he is Li Zhi's uncle, as long as he doesn't make mistakes, Li Zhi will never be able to exclude himself on trumped-up charges, so what he has to do now is to firmly control the power of the court and make Li Zhi helpless against him!

In the second month after Zhu Suiliang was demoted, another prime minister, Liu Zheng, was exposed for the crime of embezzlement of ink, and was finally punished, assigned to the frontier, and banned from entering Chang'an for the rest of his life.

And Liu Zheng is the uncle of Queen Wang, who has just been demoted. Now that Queen Wang has been deposed, her uncle naturally has no use value, and may even set himself on fire, so the eldest grandson Wuji kicked him away very simply. After that, his own cronies were installed to take Liu Zheng's place.

In this way, four of the six prime ministers in the court, in addition to Li Tao and Wei Siqian, are the people of the eldest grandson Wuji! His power can almost cover the sky with one hand!

On the other hand, Chen Fei is also secretly gathering momentum. He and the eldest grandson Wuji are almost on opposite sides, and there must be a result between the two. According to the trajectory of history, the eldest grandson Wuji is about to fall off the altar, at this time, you might as well add another fire to yourself?

Chen Fei successively visited Cheng Yanjin and Li Tao, two bigwigs in the army. Cheng Yanjin was in charge of the Praetorian Guard, and was drawn to Li Zhi's side by Chen Fei very early, so the two talked happily. As for Li Tao's side, the cunning and low-key Li Tao had already guessed the emperor's intentions, although he didn't say anything in the court and avoided anything, but he was probably the most thorough one in the court besides Chen Fei.

The old fox and the little fox sat together, of course, they would not talk about any good things, although the meaning of their words was very vague, but they both understood each other's thoughts through this.

Subsequently, Chen Fei entered the palace and told Li Zhi that he did not need to worry about things in the army, and Li Zhi was immediately relieved after hearing this, as long as the army was not chaotic, he could completely rest assured to do many things.

In November, Yu Zhining, the then young prince of the crown prince, was reported for his disrespect to His Majesty because of his drunken gaffes.

In December, the eldest grandson Wuji's iron party Han Ying made a mistake and was scolded by Li Zhi in the court, but he did not do anything to him, which made the ministers of the eldest grandson faction panic.

Things are a little beyond the control of the eldest grandson Wuji, in his impression, Li Zhi's style of acting will definitely not be so extreme, there must be someone behind him who is instigating him! I'm afraid to go on like this

So the eldest grandson Wuji also began to fight back. In the same month, Fang Yizhi directly accused his brother Fang Yiai of rebelling with Princess Gaoyang, and the accomplices were Li Yuanjing, the king of Shu, Yuwenjie and others.

Li Zhi was furious when he heard this, and he almost lost his mind and was about to light up the butcher's knife, so Chen Fei simply stood up in time and persuaded Li Zhi to find out the cause and effect of the incident, otherwise the evidence would be insufficient and not enough to convince the public.

Chen Fei naturally took the risk to stand up and speak because of Gao Yang, but he also knew that most of the elements who were framed for Fang Yiai's rebellion were more because of Fang Yizhi's jealousy and the manipulation behind the eldest grandson Wuji.

In history, Fang Yiai and Gao Yang did unite with Xue Wanjun to rebel, but that was because Gao Yang and the debate machine were exposed and fell out of favor, and Fang Yiai was demoted to Fangzhou Thorn History, and he was resentful and dissatisfied in his heart before he did so.

But now, after Chen Fei intervened, Gao Yang did not do anything out of the ordinary, and Fang Yiai was not degraded, the two had no motive for committing the crime at all, and the careful investigation would definitely be fruitless. And Chen Fei can also use this matter to make a fuss and bite the eldest grandson Wuji back!

Of course, he won't do the bite, well, he has to find the right person.

After leaving the palace, I happened to meet Xu Jingzong, and I got it! Tall, short, fat and thin are suitable, it's you!

Chen Fei hooked Xu Jingzong's shoulders and said with a smile: "Old Xu! Available? Don't have time? It's okay, there's still time to have a meal together, right? Walk! Eat! ”

(End of chapter)