After living for more than 50 years, Zhang Chao has never been nervous at this moment, and his whole heart is pounding and beating, as if waiting for the verdict of fate.

The meaning of Zhang Chao's words is to divide the emperor and queen, to talk about the government, and to despise the prince of the dynasty. Even if Li Zhi doesn't blame him, Nuo has ears across the wall and reaches the ears of Empress Wu, even if Zhang Chao is glad that he is an orphan, without a father, no mother, no brothers and sisters, and does not worry about being punished by Empress Wu, he will end up with a tragic death.

Li Zhi's face became gloomy, and his heart fluctuated, he never thought of what Zhang Chao said. It's just that when others point it out in front of the person concerned, the impact on the heart has long been beyond the ups and downs in one's own heart.

It's like a person who knows his own shortcomings, but knows but doesn't correct them, but when others unceremoniously point out his shortcomings in front of him, think about whether he can still remain calm and pretend not to know in front of outsiders?

Li Zhi thought of the deeds and people of Empress Lu of the Western Han Dynasty, and then looked at his queen, who were really like two people coming out of the same mold.

Who is Empress Lu? It was a woman with a strong desire for power and control, and she had a black heart. Turned her enemy Mrs. Qi into a human being with cruel methods, and frightened her son Emperor Hui of Han so much that he ignored the government from then on.

After the death of Nuo Fei Lu, the kings of the Liu family united to oppose Lu, and the founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty also joined forces to seize the power of the Lu family, who held the military power of the forbidden army in the north and south of Chang'an.

Look at the martial arts queen again, she is also ruthless. The half-brothers, cousins and wives who had bullied her were all killed, and the children were reduced to slavery and slavery. The opponents of the former palace fight, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, were first imprisoned in a dark room, and then they cut off their hands and feet, soaked them in a wine vat, and were finally tortured to death. was afraid that his niece would be like her to lure Li Zhi to replace her as queen with her beauty, so he did not hesitate to poison her.

Li Zhi knew everything that Empress Wu did, but he still chose to indulge, even if he knew that his beloved Mrs. Wei was poisoned by Empress Wu, he pushed the boat down the river, and according to Empress Wu's statement, it was determined that Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun did it, and the two were executed.

Not to mention the same love for power as Empress Lu.

Because the prime ministers of the DPRK and China were not only not his cronies, but also opposed his interference in politics, they took the opportunity of Liu Yizhi, a direct scholar of the Hongwen Pavilion, and Lang Yuan Wanqing, who were called by the Hanlin Academy, to write books such as "The Biography of the Daughters" and "The Minister's Track", and secretly ordered them to participate in the confidential information in order to share the power of the prime minister. Achieve the goal of recruiting cronies and restraining the ministers of the DPRK and China to protect their rights.

Thinking about the benevolence and weakness of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty for his mother Empress Lu, the eldest son Li Hong is also praised for benevolence and filial piety at home and abroad, although he has his own ideas in politics, he has a fatal defect in his body, and it is difficult to manage the government when he is sick, and his character itself lacks heroic spirit, and it is difficult to confront the strong and skilled military queen. In the future, Li Hong will succeed to the throne, and the possibility of being controlled by his mother Empress Wu is too great.

Even if Li Xian succeeds to the throne in the future, will he be able to confront the Empress Wu, who has deep roots in the government and the opposition and is experienced in political struggles?

Li Zhi was not sure about this.

Li Zhi thought about it carefully and was extremely afraid, after he was in the sky, wouldn't the Tang Dynasty be unstable in the middle of the court, and Li Yu would hold a heavy army in his hands and take Anton, and peep into Chang'an in the west, wouldn't the frontier be unstable?

Looking at Zhang Chaoyin's nervous and unnatural look in his heart, Li Zhi knew that he was afraid of what he said just now, but he had no intention of punishing Zhang Chao, but instead revealed to him his worries about a hundred years later.

Zhang Chao's thoughts turned sharply, remembering that when he took care of King Yan, who had not yet left the palace to open the mansion, the young King Yan commented on the root cause of why the kings of the Liu family were able to succeed in opposing Lu in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and his heart was overjoyed. Informing the sage with the judgment of King Yan at the beginning can not only relieve the doubts of His Royal Highness King Yan in the heart of the sage, but also relieve the sage's worries about whether the succession of the new monarch in a hundred years will be controlled by the extremely powerful and shrewd Empress Wu to affect the national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty.

"Sage, Empress Lu has controlled the power of the Western Han Dynasty for more than ten years, and has carefully cultivated a group of Lu relatives to control the military and political power of the Western Han Dynasty, why was the powerful Lu group wiped out in just one month after Empress Lu died?"

Zhang Chao suppressed the little excitement in his heart and asked steadily in a calm mouth.

This is because Zhou Bo and Chen Ping are still the founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty, and they have great prestige in the Western Han Dynasty and the forbidden army stationed in the north and south of Chang'an City. Outside, there was the cooperation of the kings of the Liu clan and the army to crusade against Zhulu. ”

Li Zhi was a little strange, why didn't Zhang Chao, who didn't talk much on weekdays, ask him this?

"No, what the sage said is just a record in the history books, but it does not involve the deep-seated reasons why the Western Han Dynasty was able to destroy Zhulu and protect the throne of the Liu family."

"Oh?" Li Zhi was puzzled, "Zhang Chao, what is the deep-seated reason?" ”

The reason is that in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Han Gaozu divided many princes and kings with the same surname in Shandong, and these princes and kings occupied half of the territory of the Western Han Dynasty, with strong strength and many soldiers and horses. Empress Lu, who was powerful and shrewd and different from ordinary people, did not dare to persecute them too much in fashion, so as not to provoke the joint rebellion of the kings of the Liu clan and threaten him. But as soon as Empress Lu died, Zhu Lu had no strong people, and the strong strength of the Liu kings was not afraid of Zhu Lu, who held the authority of the court. The founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty all seized the power of the dynasty after destroying the central Zhu Lu, and the soldiers of the Liu kings against Lu were far away in Shandong, and what happened in Chang'an could be said to be beyond the reach of the whip. But these powerful ministers could only choose Liu Heng, the acting king who had no strength or strong power from among the kings of the Liu family, as the emperor. Why? It is not because the ministers are afraid of the strength of the Liu kings in Shandong, so they have to do it. ”

"What do you mean......"

Li Zhi was a little enlightened, and looked at Zhang Chao meaningfully.

Zhang Chao didn't seem to understand what Li Zhi meant by looking at him, or he understood, but he pretended to have immediate interests to borrow Gu Yujing by taking advantage of the anti-Lu incident of the Liu kings in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.

Zhang Chao lowered his voice and continued: "Sage, now that the queen is in control of the government, her influence on the dynasty is becoming more and more profound, and recruiting a group of cronies from the North Gate to control the government is probably another ...... in the long run."

Zhang Chao paused, and said: "At present, the Tang Dynasty is not the prince of the clan that had many feudal states in Shandong in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. Although the princes and kings of the dynasty served as local governors and assassins, they had no fiefdom and no military power, and only had the right to govern local civil affairs. In the future, if there is something going on in the Nuo Dynasty, it will be difficult for the princes and kings to play the role of the center of the defense even if they are in the locality. ”