"I'm not real money, so how can I satisfy anyone? Is this what he just said? Wu Mei glanced at Li Zhi, who was lying on the couch and fell asleep, even after falling asleep, her brows were still tightly locked, as if she was still suffering from the great pain caused by vertigo, and after sighing silently, she motioned for Shangguan Wan'er to go outside with her.

The two came to the front hall, and after Wu Mei slowly sat down, she pondered what Shangguan Wan'er said just now, and did not let Shangguan Wan'er sit down next to her for the first time, but paused for a moment and said, "It seems that Your Majesty's Spring and Autumn Period is not far away...... ”

"Mother, no. My father is still in the prime of ...... Spring and Autumn Period. Shangguan Wan'er looked at the complicated sadness that flashed in Wu Mei's expression, and hurriedly relieved, but she faintly regretted in her heart, did she say the conversation with Li Hong just now to the queen mother too bluntly.

"Although I don't know how Li Hong knew and determined, once Li Hong decides about it, this matter will not be far from what he predicted. Over the years, have you ever found that Li Hong's foresight and decision-making have been wrong? Even if Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng are alive, they have not judged so many things with Li Hong so firmly over the years. So...... You don't have to plead for Li Hong, this palace has been with your father for many years, and these days this palace is also clear about your father's body, and the deadline is approaching...... I hope Hong'er's filial piety can make His Majesty have no regrets. Wu Mei said and looked behind her involuntarily, although the two of them were still far away from the place where Li Zhi slept, but in Wu Mei's feeling, it seemed that Li Zhi was sleeping behind her, quietly listening to her conversation with her daughter-in-law.

"The queen mother, the son's intention is not to ......." Shangguan Wan'er looked at Wu Mei's lonely and sad expression, and saluted again. Originally, I wanted to say some more words of relief, but after seeing Wu Mei waving her hand, she could only swallow the next words back.

"He has a lot of things, and it is his filial piety to want to record some merits in His Majesty's lifetime achievements, but as he said, history is always written and judged by later generations, so why care about the merits and demerits, the name behind him is just a false name, you go down, if you have anything to say in a while, I will tell him in person." Wu Mei reluctantly squeezed out a kind smile to Shangguan Wan'er and said.

Although they have been walking leisurely on the road from Chang'an to Luoyang these days, even if they can't walk many miles in a day, the journey of nearly two months away from the city has also made Wu Mei a little tired.

Especially after returning to Luoyang Palace, Li Zhi's vertigo attacked, which also brought a lot of pressure to her spirit, which made her want to confide in others a lot of helplessness and feelings in her heart, for a while, in addition to Li Hong, Wu Mei did not feel that anyone else could replace Li Hong.

After all, whether it is from an emotional point of view, or from the perspective of understanding each other, or from the perspective of knowing each other, Wu Mei has always believed that Li Hong is the son who knows him best, and he is also the person who knows his inner world best.

Thinking of this, Wu Mei, who had already entered her twilight years, involuntarily began to sit alone in front of the window after Shangguan Wan'er left, looking at the incense in front of her stupidly, and fell into the memory.

Since Li Hong was born to the present, this son, who initially worried and worried him the most, eventually became the king of a country and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

But in the course of the past few decades, the relationship between his eldest son and himself is a mother-son relationship, and there is also a relationship like a confidant, a teacher and a friend, and even the last time he had a deep conversation in Chang'an Xingqing Palace, Li Hong was keenly aware of his attitude and disdain for leaving a name in history.

This makes her sometimes have to wonder whether she gave birth to a son to Li Zhi when she was pregnant in October that year, or whether she gave birth to a roundworm in her stomach, otherwise how could this rabbit cub understand herself so well!

Even if Wu Mei looked at the incense and her thoughts were flying, she would not have thought that when Li Hong had a long conversation with her in the back garden of Xingqing Palace that day, she could keenly perceive her attitude towards leaving a name in history, completely because of the original trajectory of history, her famous wordless tablet made trouble.

Although the mother and son did not talk about this matter thoroughly that day, because Li Zhi saw that his health was getting worse and worse, and the deadline was approaching, when the mother and son talked about Li Zhi, they would inevitably talk about whether they would care about her records and future generations in the annals if she had reached the deadline.

Wu Mei pondered and meditated, and didn't find out which of her words really exposed the truest thoughts in her heart, but what words did the rabbit cub rely on in his words to poke at the bottom of his heart?

Wu Mei, who subconsciously shook her head and thought hard, was still staring blankly at the incense on the table, and she was unaware of the fire that was gradually lighting up in the palace, immersed in her own world, and aimlessly fluttering with her various thoughts.

Li Hong did not come to visit Li Zhi at the first time, nor did he appear in the Zhenguan Hall of Xingqing Palace after the lantern was held in Luoyang Palace, at this time, he was still in his palace, waiting for the information of Jingwei and Yin Li Zhaode of Luoyang Mansion.

Bai Chun went to Jiannan Road to take the things that Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang left for him, Li Zhaode was in a hurry after a busy day, after thoroughly registering the identities of all the people who risked death today, and rushed to the palace without even taking care of dinner.

His Majesty rarely comes to Luoyang, and the number of times he comes to Luoyang is very little compared to the number of times the Emperor and the Queen Mother, and even once a year, but every time he comes, Luoyang will always have a large or small court turmoil under His Majesty's strict investigation, and this time it is obviously much more serious than in previous years.

Just like after the spread of the famine in the first two years, His Majesty came once because of the granary, and then he didn't come again for nearly two years, and now after looking at the things in Luoyang at the time of the famine and today's things together, Li Zhaode suddenly found that between these two things, there seems to be a faint connection between them.

With ambiguous doubts in his heart, the music in his hand seemed to suddenly become much heavier after he entered the palace, but he didn't dare to slow down the slightest bit, he knew very well in his heart that His Majesty was probably in the palace at this time, waiting for the results of his registration.

"Minister Li Zhaode see ......."

"Excuse me, say it." Before Li Zhaode finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Hong, who was sitting in the study: "How? Can the statistics come out? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has truthfully counted it." Li Zhaode saluted again.

Even in the face of Li Hong, whose expression and tone were very relaxed, Li Zhaode could still feel his heart beating violently, as if the next moment with Li Hong's questioning, his heart might be directly shocked out of his chest.

"Play." Li Hong got up and walked to Li Zhaode, patted Li Zhaode on the shoulder, signaled to sit down next to him, and then took the piece in Li Zhaode's hand, and did not open it for the first time.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Zhaode already felt his teeth fluttering involuntarily, after all, there were too many people involved this time, and there were officials of all grades.

Originally, he thought that Luoyang Chengdu was already the most high-grade official among them, but when he finished the statistics, he found that he really underestimated the determination and ability of these wealthy families and five surnames and seven wangs to risk death to advise His Majesty this time.

"Back to Your Majesty, there are a total of 2,781 people who gathered to make trouble this time, including 127 people with titles and no official positions, 307 people with official positions and no titles, 78 people with both titles and official positions, and the rest are all wealthy families and noble children, a total of 2,269 people, and now they have all been sent home, and the ministers tried their best to persuade them to retire either forcefully or gently under the condition of controlling the influence." Li Zhaode lowered his head and said, but the violently beating heart made him involuntarily raise his voice a lot, and he was afraid that His Majesty would not be able to hear his own performance clearly.

But fortunately, when he finished these words in one breath, the whole person suddenly relaxed, and he was not as nervous as he was when he came in just now.

"I went from Chang'an to Luoyang, in the past two months, these noble and wealthy families, five surnames and seven wangs really have the means, they were able to convene and lobby so many people, and there were nearly 3,000 people in total, if I were in the place where the crime occurred today, if I were more ruthless, mediocre and tyrannical, and directly deduct them from the charge of rebellion and rebellion, would it be much easier to deal with than now?" Li Hong shook his head and smiled, he thought of the forces led by the five surnames and seven wangs, the power that could be gathered, but what he didn't expect was that these people with titles and official positions or without official positions and titles added up to five hundred and twelve people!

If you judge by the number of officials in Chang'an or Luoyang alone, the number of so many people is even two-thirds of the entire officials who have gone to Chang'an or Luoyang.

Of course, Li Hong also knew very well in his heart that the more than 500 people who could gather together with the five surnames and Qiwang were not all officials from Chang'an and Luoyang, and most of them were still other officials of relatively low grade, and the proportion of officials from Chang'an and Luoyang was not very large.

But even so, having the ability to summon so many officials from all over the Tang Dynasty to Luoyang to directly admonish him in two months is not much less than that of Xu Jingye, Cao Wang, Li Ming, and others who rebelled in Yangzhou back then, and in terms of influence, the influence of these literati is no less than that of Xu Jingye's rebellion, and even more so.

These people can gather together for the common good, and these people can still take the risk of gathering together to invite themselves even when they know that they are likely to risk their lives and directly admonish themselves, and it is likely that they will completely ruin their careers.

Thinking of Li Hong here, he couldn't help but start to waver a little bit in his decision-making, after all, in history, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system headed by five surnames and seven hopes was banned, and it didn't take just a few years to be completely banned.