(Happy Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone!) ）

The Liangyi Hall in the Taiji Palace is very lively today.

The court musicians are playing hard, the music is fluttering, and the bamboo is wrapped around the pillars.

The lights in the hall are brilliant, and the precious ambergris exudes a curling light smoke, and countless palace attendants run among them.

The Liangyi Hall is the inner court of the inner court area, and it is also the place where the emperor and the sect gather and retreat to receive the doctor, because in the forbidden area, only a few ministers can enter to discuss state affairs with the emperor in the past, so the behavior is more casual, and there is no need to observe too many etiquette.

In the past, when Taizong was there, it was also a place where Taizong feasted ministers and tribute envoys, and he had banqueted officials above the fifth grade here many times.

The second hall of this Taiji Palace is very lively today.

Today's son, Taizong's ninth son, a young son who unexpectedly ascended the emperor's throne, succeeded to the throne for four years at this time, but he was only twenty-five years old.

If it weren't for the fact that Prince Chengqian and Wei Wangtai were both defeated in the struggle for the throne, they were all deposed, and it would not have been his turn to be the crown prince.

Although Cheng Qian and Li Tai were abolished in the end, although he was the last prince at that time, after all, he was only the ninth among the brothers, and there were several brothers above. Especially the third son Li Ke, who was once intentionally selected by the emperor as the heir.

King Li Ke of Wu has a noble bloodline, and his mother is the princess of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui. Li Ke is of royal blood in Sui, Yang, Li and Tang, and Li Ke has been very similar to Li Shimin since he was a child, and he is extremely smart, which is deeply liked by Taizong.

If it weren't for the strong support of his uncle and eldest grandson Wuji at the critical time, Li Zhi would not have been able to become the crown prince at that time.

The New Year is approaching, and the young emperor is holding a banquet here today, not for the ministers, but for the royal family.

Li Zhi sat silently, and the person sitting beside him was not Queen Wang, nor the most favored Concubine Xiao Shu before, but Wu Zhaoyi, who is now popular and favored.

He sat there with a glow-in-the-dark glass in his hand, filled with grape wine from Gaochang in the Western Regions. His hand gently shook the glass, letting the crimson wine turn and flow, but he didn't mean to drink.

He looked at the clan relatives sitting on both sides of the hall, these uncles, brothers, aunts and sisters.

Thirty-three years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, after three generations of kings, the Li Tang royal family has gradually become larger. Gaozu has twenty-two sons and nineteen daughters, and Taizong's fourteen sons and twenty-one daughters, all of whom have many children, as well as other clans, and many royal members.

These are my royal clansmen, and here are my uncles and brothers and sisters, but how many of these people are of the same heart as me.

Li Zhi's eyes swept over these clansmen and saw smiling faces, but he knew that among these people, there were actually many people who did not accept him as an emperor.

For example, Wu Wangke, who was sitting there drinking wine, and even his imperial uncle Jing Wang Yuanjing and others, his uncle and eldest grandson Wuji said that they had been close recently, and he believed that there was no wind and no waves.

He used to admire Wu Wangke very much, and felt that this brother was better than himself, but in the end, he picked up the crown prince and sat on the throne of the emperor, he must have been unconvinced.

"Gao Yang is very happy today!"

Wu Zhaoyi, who was next to him, said.

"She's not happy one day." Li Zhi replied nonchalantly.

For this sister of the same age, Li Zhi actually has some disgust in his heart, he is more easy-going, but in his bones he is the kind of person who is more polite. But Princess Gaoyang has become an alternative in the royal family, when she was a child, she was extremely favored, and she was close to King Wu, but she was not kind to herself.

Not to mention, all kinds of profligate frivolity after marriage.

"Today's Gaoyang is a little different." Although the Wu family has always been by the emperor's side, those eyes are very tax-friendly, "Gao Yang seems to have encountered something good, he is in a very good mood today, and he is very happy to smile." ”

Li Zhi was still thinking about Wu Wangke's affairs, and the eldest grandson Wuji said that King Wu wanted to rebel, and he also circled a group of people, saying that they were secretly forming a party and plotting, but now the evidence in his hand is not enough.

There are a lot of people in this group, both the clan and the fathers, as well as many noble children, officials in the DPRK and China, which makes Li Zhi feel uneasy.

"Just ask Gao Yang directly." Li Zhi said casually to the Wu family.

Wu smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, why worry too much, just leave some things to Uncle Guo." Today is a family feast, and Your Majesty should be happy. ”

Li Zhi snorted, but still couldn't laugh.

He has been the emperor for four years, but he does not feel the authority of the emperor, and he does not feel the authority of his father's reign.

He has to rely on his uncle and grandson Wuji and other elders everywhere, but he also has to watch out for the dissatisfaction of Wu Wangke and other brothers and uncles everywhere, and even has to often have headaches against the concubines in the harem.

Wu beckoned to the side and called an attendant.

"Go and ask the eldest princess of Gaoyang to come over."

Gao Yang wore a very beautiful dress today, she was in a good mood, and she chatted happily with the sisters next to her.

The chamberlain came over.

"Zhaoyi asked the eldest princess to come over and speak."

Gao Yang turned his head to look over there, and Wu raised his glass and smiled at her.

She didn't have much affection for the Wu family, and even looked down on the Wu family in her heart, the Wu family was originally a talented person of Emperor Taizong, a talented person, but a very low rank among the harem concubines. Wu entered Taizong's harem for many years, but she was not favored, and after Taizong's death, she was sent to Ganye Temple as a monk.

But not long after, the Wu family was taken back to the palace by the new emperor Li Zhi, and this matter can be described as a very sensational. After all, no matter whether the Wu family was favored or not, she was a talented person in Taizong, and she was Li Zhi's concubine in terms of identity.

Although the Li family has Hu Feng, it is also rude to accept the stepmother, even if it is Emperor Taizong, at most, he just included his brother Yuanji's wife in the palace.

Li Zhi, who has always been polite, refused to compromise in this matter, no one could stop him, the Wu family entered the palace, and soon gave birth to a child, and now he even sealed Zhaoyi, and even took away the favor of the queen and Concubine Xiao Shu.

Gao Yang admired Wu's ability a little, but hated her.

I don't want to be perfunctory with this woman, she thought to herself, but she remembered what she said when Li Xiao said goodbye to her in Lanxi that day, 'Don't offend Wu Zhaoyi, if you can, have a good relationship with her.' ’

This sentence had no beginning or end, and Li Xiao left after saying it at that time.

Thinking of this sentence now, Gao Yang hesitated.

In the end, she decided to listen to Li Sanlang's words and go and say hello to the Wu family, even if it was for the sake of the emperor's brother's face.

Pick up your glass and get up with a smile.

Come to the front and salute the emperor and the Wu clan.

Li Zhi still had that faint expression, the brother and sister were very angry, but Wu Shi took Gao Yang's hand very enthusiastically and asked her to sit next to him.

"You're radiant and look very happy today, what good things have happened?" Wu asked with a smile.