On the way back to Beijing, Han Ying, who was riding a white mule, looked at the eldest grandson Wuji, who had been distracted by the side of him, and couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Auxiliary machine, you won't really want to admit defeat by that kid in a few words, right?" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji rode on a donkey, closed his eyes and pondered, and let the mules under him carry him forward.

"You can't get caught up with that kid, we haven't lost yet."

Eldest Sun Wuji opened his eyes, he looked at Han Yuan, and then shook his head, "We have already lost, we have already lost, and we have lost completely." When we were dealing with Li Daozong and them, busy with Guan Longren's own infighting, Li Ji and them were watching the excitement from the side. When we were scarred by our own fight, Li Ji made a move. ”

The Guanlong people have actually been fighting infighting all these years, from the Western Wei Dynasty to the present, fighting back and forth, the strength of the Guanlong aristocratic group is long gone.

Even if they are fighting to the top of the court now, there is no situation where they are the generals of Guan Long. The Gyeonggi Janissaries and the Suwei Guards were almost all concentrated in the hands of those Shandong upstarts.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have soldiers in his hands, how could his eldest grandson Wuji plant such a big fight.

"Old Li Ji, it's too cunning." Han Ying complained about Li Ji, who would have thought that Li Ji, who had been silent in the court, would suddenly stand firmly on the emperor's side, coupled with Cheng Yanjin, an old man, which made them very passive.

If you don't have soldiers in your hands, you will be so passive.

Who is to blame for this, blame all these years of infighting, infighting again and again, they Guanlong people don't have a few decent characters in the military now.

Although there are still many Guan Long's children in various states and counties in the world, or as the county commander of the assassin history, or as the governor and the captain, but far water cannot quench the thirst of the near.

"Boyu, I thought about what Li Sanlang said just now, and there is actually some truth. In the current situation, we are fighting hard, but we are just using the mantis arm as a car and hitting the stone with an egg. At the end of the day, it's never what we want to see. Instead of this, it is better to take a step back, take a step back and open the sky. ”

"How do I get back?" Han Ying asked with wide eyes. He didn't think as far as the eldest grandson Wuji thought, what he thought was that if he retreated, then he might never have a chance to return to the court in this life, and he might even be thrown into a well, ending up like Chu Suiliang.

"So we have to take the initiative, we can't wait for His Majesty to drive us away, we will go by ourselves." When he said this, Eldest Sun Wuji seemed to have made up his mind.

During this time, the eldest grandson Wuji was also exhausted.

Chu Suiliang was ruthlessly degraded again and again, and Zhao Zhiman's fall into slavery made him even more disheartened.

I hope that as Li Xiao said, take the initiative to leave, so that the emperor can remember their hard work, retain some dignity, and leave some leeway for the Guanlong nobles.

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After the eldest grandson Wuji and Han Ying left, Li Xiao stayed by the Weishui River, he sat by the river with the fishing rod left by the eldest grandson Wuji, but he was so restless that he didn't even put down the bait.

"What does Saburo think?" Zhao Zhiman saw that Li Xiao was stunned for a long time, and couldn't help asking.

"I'm thinking of another possibility."

Zhao Zhiman didn't ask him what the other possibility was, mumbled, and then sat next to him and continued to accompany Li Xiao to fish.

"Do you hate Eldest Sun Wuji and Han Jin?" Li Xiao asked Zhao Zhiman.

"Hate it." Zhao Zhiman sighed.

"Second brother, after some time, I will ask Your Majesty for intercession, and maybe Your Majesty will allow you to leave your nationality and return your beloved. Maybe in a few years, you will be able to work for nothing, go to Liaodong or Mobei or the Western Regions to re-enter the army, fight for a new meritorious title, and revitalize the lintel of the Zhao family. ”

Zhao Zhiman smiled bitterly and shook his head, he didn't have that kind of luxury.

The emperor degraded him and his family as slaves, which was actually better than expelling the people into exile in Lingnan. Generally, if a felony is committed, especially a felony such as rebellion, if he is exempted from death, he will generally be expelled from the people and exiled to Lingnan. Expulsion from the people's nationality means that the official status is removed from the people's body, and they are no longer allowed to be officials for the rest of their lives, and they are exiled to the land south of the Five Mountains, where they will fend for themselves.

When Wu Zetian was in history, because someone falsely accused that there were people in Lingnan who wanted to rebel, Wu Zetian sent troops to Lingnan Liudao and slaughtered thousands of people.

Although the people are people, they are actually not as good as slaves, at least they are slaves in the Li family, and their lives are actually not bad. But regaining his freedom, or even restoring his official title, he didn't dare to think of it at all.

Chang'an City, Taiji Palace.

Under the corridor of the Ganlu Palace, Emperor Li Zhi was looking at the two corn plants that he had carefully tended to grow. The corn has grown more than one person tall, and the clay jar under it has long been replaced by a large vat.

The seedlings are dark green, the stems are thick, and it is obvious that there is too much water and fertilizer.

"One plant with three ears, I am reluctant to pick two ears."

The two corn plants planted by Li Zhi himself, because of sufficient water and fertilizer, and under careful care, one plant bore three ears.

"Didn't Li Xiao say that it is best to leave only two ears of corn on one plant, if the fertilizer and water are insufficient, only one ear can be retained, otherwise it will be reduced, but it is better to leave one ear for harvest."

"That being said, but how well these two corns are planted, can't the three ears have a better harvest?"

"You still have to pick it." Wu persuaded beside him.

"An ear of corn is easy to pick, but some people are not good at picking." Li Zhi sighed, he touched the ears of corn with his hand, and he still couldn't do it for a long time.

The Wu clan knew that he was talking about the eldest grandson Wuji and other elders, and now that the emperor had completely mastered the court, there was no other problem in taking down the eldest grandson Wuji, and the only thing to worry about was the impact.

As long as there is a reason, and there is no need for even some definite evidence, the emperor can take down the eldest grandson Wuji.

But at this point, he was still a little hesitant.

When he took Chu Suiliang, he was excited, even happy.

But Chu Suiliang is different from the eldest grandson Wuji, and besides, he can't be sure that if he wins the eldest grandson Wuji, there will be no other accidents.

After all, there are many Guanlong generals like Zhao Zhiman all over the country, even in Gyeonggi, in the Yulin Army, in the Qinxun Yiwei, and among the thousands of cattle in the left and right reserves.

"Tomorrow, King Jiangxia will return to Chang'an." Wu reminded the emperor that the eldest grandson was not the only one among the Guanlong nobles who was influential, and Li Daozong was also extremely influential among the Guanlong children.

"Ai Concubine, if you say that if you degrade the eldest grandson, where should you be, and what kind of official should you be?"

Wu Shi said without hesitation, "It can be reduced to the history of Fangzhou Thorn, and then send someone to die at the halfway station." ”

This kind of trick of degrading first and then killing is very easy to use, and it is often unpleasant.

First demote an official, and then give a cup of poisonous wine in the post station halfway, or give a white silk, or directly send someone to kill with a cane, anyway, there are many means, this method of killing halfway is much less influential than directly executing in the capital.

When Li Zhi heard that he was given death, he couldn't help but hesitate. He remembered that when the crown prince Chengqian and Wei Wangtai competed for succession, he had no chance, but later both of them were deposed, and it was the eldest grandson Wuji who tried to protect him in front of Emperor Taizong.

At that time, Fang Xuanling supported Wei Wangtai, and there were ministers who supported Li Ke.

Later, Taizong died, and it was the eldest grandson Wuji who escorted him back to the capital to succeed to the throne.

"Ugh." Li Zhi sighed.

"Your Majesty, don't be soft." Wu persuasive.

"Okay, I'll belittle him tomorrow." Li Zhi gritted his teeth and said.

Li Zhi immediately sent someone to summon the imperial historian Yuwen Festival into the palace to face the saint, and the opportunity to teach him face-to-face was appropriate.

After a long time, Yuwenjie left the palace with a proud face.

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The first day of the fifth month.

New Day Meeting.

The nine products of the Kyoji civil and military ministry have been on the court.

The first and fifteenth day of the first month of each month is the Shuowang Dynasty, and the specifications are much higher than those of Changshen.

On the top of the golden palace, there are black walls, kicking seats, smokers, incense cases, and display the honor guard according to the time.

Yuwen Festival, the imperial historian, led the subordinate officials of the imperial history platform to the west of the palace, summoned from the official Zhu Yi, and urged hundreds of officials to take duty.

Under the leadership of the superintendent of the imperial history, the group of officials were in place in the palace according to their ranks.

At this time, the emperor came out to sit down, and the officials sang and praised the ceremony and bowed again.

Li Xiao followed among the vast hundred officials, and shouted long live with the mountain.

Originally, he was previously a six-rank minister, but he was later stripped and demoted to the master of the nine-grade Lantian of Quanzhi, but he was sentenced to the corn supervisor. Fortunately, the emperor didn't really evil Li Xiao, and later saw that his corn seeds were indeed good, so he found a reason to give a reward, and then awarded Li Xiao a corn supervisor, no longer the right to know the master of Lantian County, and no longer a judge corn supervisor.

Because it was actually taught by the Ministry of Officials, the original six-rank official position and five-rank official rank were restored, and the scarlet whitebait was also restored.

Yongye Tian and Vocational Field have also been given.

However, Li Xiao's actual position is still sixth, so except for the first and fifteenth Shuowang Dynasty of the first and fifteenth days of the new year, there is no need to participate in the court meeting on other days, and the permanent staff must be a ministry official above the fifth grade, or an official of the imperial history and the court.

There are many people who participate in the Shuowang Dynasty, but they never really discuss any major matters, but they are just routines, equivalent to a ritual.

Li Xiao looked at the two classes of civil and military officials with some boredom, and he didn't recognize nine out of ten of them.

was looking, but he encountered a gaze that turned from the front, it was the person at the front of the civil official class, Sun Wuji, the chief teacher.

Li Xiao stepped forward, and the eldest grandson Wuji smiled at him, and then turned his head away.

This smile made Li Xiao a little unclear.

"The minister Sun Wuji has a book!"

When several procedures were completed, everyone thought that the court meeting was coming to an end, and unexpectedly, Sun Wuji, the chief teacher, came out of the class to play the right one.

Li Zhi glanced at Yuwen Festival suspiciously, originally at this time, it should have been the Yuwen Festival of the Imperial Historian, saying that he would impeach the eldest grandson Wuji, how could he let the eldest grandson Wuji stand up first.

He twisted his body, feeling a stinging all over.

As soon as the eldest grandson Wuji spoke, the entire hall was shocked.

This powerful minister resigned, and he also had to resign from all official titles.

Li Zhi opened his mouth wide, unexpectedly.

At this time, Han Ming, who was a servant under the door and a third-grade man under the door of Tongzhongshu, also came out to play Chen, resigned from all official positions, and returned to his hometown.

Immediately afterwards, Shangshu left servant shot, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin Yu Zhining beggar bones to return home.