Chapter 282: Back Thorns
Wu Chengsi naturally wouldn't admit it, and said, "What Princess Zhou?" ”
"Don't underestimate the wisdom of others!" As he spoke, he hit his neck hard with the back of his sword, this time with a lot of force, and Wu Chengsi couldn't help but shrink his neck in pain. Then he said: "I don't believe you try it, if Lone kills you, will it hinder Lone's status!" ”
Wu Chengji woke up with this sentence.
The prince really wants to kill him, and it is a little difficult to do. Now her mother has made the ministers oppose it, she is a relative, and she has become a nail in her eye. The emperor wants to issue a decree to blame, and I am afraid that various ministers will forcibly protect the prince. The emperor is not a tyrant, and he can't afford to risk the opinions of the people in the world and the views of the civil and military ministers for the sake of his own relatives, and forcibly abolish the crown prince.
And this prince seems to be the so-called benevolence, but he is muddy, and his wrists are ruthless, and Helan Minzhi's Natuo small flesh was cut off by his own hands.
After Li Wei finished speaking, he also left.
came out, sighed, has been fighting wits with his father, and still adopts an evasive and flattering attitude towards his mother, and even pleases. Or maybe you are the only one in the world who doesn't really underestimate your mother, but things are ......
With manpower, this Wu Chenghei is not a kind person, instigating discord in the middle, and his mother's hands are a little spicy, it is still possible to kill the clan, and even he may bear the brunt of it, after all, if she wants to seize more rights, she has become her biggest obstacle.
Today's trip, I had to do it.
There are many tall and lush locust trees on both sides of the road, which can't stand it, and they have raised snow-white pods, and when the wind blows, they fall like **.
Li Wei said: "It's snowing! ”
……
The next day, before he could hear anything, he was called into the inner palace by his mother.
Of course, when Wu Zetian heard the news, he was furious, there are not a few nephews among his relatives, if his son really deals with them one by one, without the help of his relatives, his strength will be weakened immediately, don't think that Wu Chenghei has no effect, he is outside to spy on the news, as if he has a pair of eyes and ears.
said in a deep voice: "Hong'er, this palace asks you, this palace doesn't let Princess Zhou go, do you really want to kill Wu Chenghei." ”
At this point, Li Wei will not back down, of course, it is not only the Zhao daughter who can ask for mercy, but also the "ambition" that curbs her mother's expanding "ambition", and acts by any means for herself. Therefore, he also said in a deep voice: "Yes." As a relative, I was supposed to stop knowing the glory. Empress Wende asked Taizong not to reuse his relatives, but Taizong did not listen, so it was a disaster. If you keep your own peace, everyone will be virtuous, and your sons and ministers should respect them. However, he was restless and guarded himself, instigating discord, and his sons should kill him for the sake of the society, so that the country would be peaceful. ”
"You are so bold, when the palace and the python clan had a dispute, all the zaifu, the eldest grandson Wuji is alive, they are all helpless against the palace, you still want to be able to turn the sky over!"
Chills!
Big cold!
It's too naked.
The details of the events back then are not clear, and I still know that my father wants to make my mother the queen, but the eldest grandson Wuji and other important ministers refuse, so my mother asked Mrs. Rongguo to go to the eldest grandson Wuji's house to intercede, and almost said all the good things, but it didn't work. Until Li Ji said, this is His Majesty's family matter, why bother asking outsiders. Not only that, but it is not the emperor who is really the first in the world, if the edict is issued, all the ministers are against it, and the edict may not work. Otherwise, Li Zhi would not be pleading with his ministers for Wu Zetian. If you can do that, you will be a tyrant. It was Li Ji's help that finally the edict was passed.
Then to Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, Li Ji helped him, and praised Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, even if it was the eldest grandson Wuji, he had to be ashamed of this matter and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
But my mother turned this matter over, which means that I dare to kill Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu like that, cut off my hands and feet and put them in the wine urn to kill, and the daughter of the Zhao family is just a little princess, just starved to death.
At this moment, the mother and son looked at each other, and they were not so cute, Li Wei's heart was cold, and Wu Zetian was resentful in his heart.
But the matter has come to this point, like an arrow on the string, it has to be sent, Li Wei calmly replied: "Queen Mother, the things of the year, the sons and daughters don't know. If it weren't for the queen mother's quick decision, the python clan and the owl clan would also harm the queen mother, not only the queen mother, but even the sons and daughters would not be today. ”
Wu Zetian snorted coldly and said angrily: "This palace still thinks you don't know!" ”
But Erchen still has to say. The python clan and the Xiao clan are inseparable from the queen mother, but we have a few brothers, but they are your biological son, and Wu Chenghei is your nephew, but who is the son and nephew? ”
Although the surname is Wu, the blood relationship is separated by another generation. Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing don't mention everything, Wu Chenghe's father Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing were not born to the same mother, so they are separated by another generation. However, Helan Minzhi's mother and his mother are real biological sisters.
And he said, "His son may not be like his father." But his father's move, the queen mother should be unforgettable, today's status of the queen mother, is the queen mother's hard work, to become the mother of the world, but how many difficulties and twists and turns. However, because the queen mother is expensive, Wu Chenghei is flattering. Or if the queen mother is not the queen, but just an ordinary person, Wu Chenghei will treat our mother and son like his father, or serve the queen mother like today? Do you be more filial than your sons? ”
"This palace sees that you are the one who instigated you!"
"God knows, the earth knows, the queen mother knows, and the sons know."
Wu Zetian was happy and said, "Then when did this palace want to hurt the four of you brothers?" ”
"No, but Princess Zhou is your daughter-in-law, and her mother is Princess Changle."
"You rammer, go back and ask your group of more stupid men, and then come to see the palace." Wu Ze was extremely weathered and blasted him out.
Li Wei was a little suspicious, could it be that there was something wrong with Princess Changle, the mother of the Zhao family? returned to the East Palace and sent someone to find Wang Cainian secretly and ask him to inquire about the truth of the matter. About Wang Cainian also paid attention to this matter, and he would bring news in a while.
Li Zhi said that Princess Changle is a sister, but in fact, it is not right. The real identity of Princess Changle is Li Yuan's biological daughter and the youngest daughter. Li Zhi can't do it, Li Yuan and Li Shimin are both very capable of having children, including the children who died young, Li Yuan has a total of twenty-two sons and nineteen daughters. Li Shimin is slightly worse, with a total of fourteen sons and twenty-one daughters. This caused a large age difference between siblings, and Princess Changle was a lifetime older than Li Zhi, but she was born later. is also the only one younger than Li Zhi among all Li Yuan's daughters. Therefore, Li Zhi has treated this little aunt as a younger sister since he was a child. And because of this weird relationship, Li Zhi is even more pampered.
The old and young children are particularly pampered, and with their noble birth, they are usually a little arrogant. Although this Li Wei has nothing to do with this little aunt and grandmother, he can probably see some shadows from her daughter. Li Zhi is a little favorite, he often enters the palace, and his attitude towards Wu Zetian is not very friendly. One is from a humble background, and the other is that Wu Zetian himself is a talented person of Taizong, and now he is Li Zhi's wife, so she is not used to it. Contradictions have been there for a long time. Next is Wang Cainian's speculation, before the edict was issued last year to return the title of eldest grandson Wuji, Princess Changle happened to enter the palace and had a long talk with Li Zhimi. Later, he not only issued an edict to restore the eldest grandson Wuji, but also let his daughter marry Li Xian as the princess.
It may not have been instructed by Princess Changle, but it is very suspicious.
In fact, according to the generation, there should not be this marriage, after all, the daughter of the Zhao family is also older than Li Xian, but it is only a princess, besides, Li Zhi even married his father's woman, which is nothing. But in the end, it is a little impolite, so it makes people even more suspicious and speculative.
The Zhao family's female confinement is probably Li Wei's report when he hears Li Xian. During the solitary confinement, Wu Zetian did not give an order, but sent her cronies and eunuchs, named Zhong Qingshi, to supervise. Zhong Qingshi asked his subordinates to send raw food in, and sent someone to see if the palace chimneys were smoking. This is an intriguing order. There was smoke, proving that the Zhao girl knew how to cook in order to survive. Then you can't kill her, think of another way. If it doesn't smoke, the Zhao daughter will be pampered and will probably starve to death.
If you are held accountable, you are only confined, and you are not denied food, you have committed mistakes, will you still send someone to serve you? You'd rather starve to death than cook, so who can blame you?
Li Wei wrote this down carefully.
Even if it's not smoking, why not send someone in to check it out? I can also ask a rhetorical question.
Then supervised for several days, and no smoke came out of the chimney. It happened that Li Wei went to Wu Chenghe's house to make trouble, so Wu Zetian ordered to open the door to check. But the Zhao women starved to death for a few days, and the weather was warm, and the corpses began to decompose slightly.
About Wu Zetian was annoyed by Li Wei***, everyone died, Wu Zetian had not given up, and with the previous grievances, the Zhao family buried the girl hastily. He also said that the descendants of the Zhao family reported that when Zhao Bi and Princess Changle talked before, they had said a paragraph, saying that the emperor was hypocritical and that he loved you, but so far my official position is not high, and my title is not big. Whether or not this was said, about God knows. Or once again anger the mother's bottom line, arrest this subordinate, hand it over to Zhou Xing for a trial, and any truth can come out.
This made Li Wei frightened again.
Li Wei knew how harmful the secret report was later, and the whole country was biting, and if the one bit badly, the official would do a big job. The people don't count the officials, but the slaves sue their masters. This bite has bitten the whole country to the blood, not only the children of the clan, but there may be hundreds of people and thousands of people who will be punished, but most of them are innocent people.
So Li Zhi issued an edict, and the goddaughter was not strict, sat and watched, and demoted Zhao Bi from the history of the Dingzhou Assassin to the history of the Baizhou Assassin. Dingzhou is now the first-class state capital of the Tang Dynasty, and Lizhou is in Lishui, Zhejiang, which may be a good place in later generations, but now it is a remote place. Then he ordered Princess Changle to leave the capital immediately and not allow them to return to Beijing.
But it's not over yet, Li Xian came running and cried.
Li Wei had no choice but to comfort: "Third brother, it was the sloppy slave who made your princess starve to death." If you had told me earlier, you might have been able to get people back. ”
can only say this, otherwise with the third child's fiery temper, the mother has begun to be murderous, and she still has many scruples about herself, but she has very few scruples about the third child. Besides, I still have some favors, but what kindness did the third child leave? is like the second Li Xian, who died faster, and like his own Li Hong, he used to let go of many complaints about his mother.
Li Xian had no choice but to go back.
Of course, with his character, after a few days, he may forget about it. However, Li Wei was very unhappy in his heart, but the matter was not over yet.
Li Zhi went to the Zhou State Mansion for him, saying that he had killed Wu Chenghe, and he was furious, and the guards confined him in the East Palace, and thought about it behind closed doors. To be precise, I have thought about it behind closed doors, and I can only move in the East Palace, and I will not be as miserable as the Zhao family's daughter.
Bi'er was not happy anymore, and said, "Your Highness, why did the emperor issue this edict?" ”
The story of Princess Changle, she didn't know, she only knew that it was only Wu Chenghei who gave a gift to Princess Zhou, and Princess Zhou didn't return the courtesy, starving people to death doesn't count, and the prince was imprisoned!
Li Wei just frowned, and there was a sword of Damocles hanging high above his head, and he didn't know when he would fall and take his own life. After thinking about it, it was impossible to sit still and wait for death, and my mother made one move after another, but instead of fighting back, she was severely suppressed, which would make many ministers lose hope. And it has come to this point, and it continues to endure, and the supporters are also even more disappointed. And endure it, my mother gambled ruthlessly, and she also came to a vested Long, looking back at Shu, she was in the East Palace, and she was also in danger. So he wrote a letter to his mother, saying that he was wrong and should reconcile with Zhou Guogong, hoping that his mother would allow him to leave the palace and apologize to Zhou Guogong.
In the past, he was forced by his father, and he also accompanied Pei Yan. Similarly, Wu Zetian is also facing pressure from all sides, seeing his son's letter, he does not mention the sincere and false gifts, as long as he goes to accompany the ceremony, this son will not be able to kill Wu Chenghei in the future. So it was granted.
Bi'er was dumbfounded and said, "Your Highness, are you really apologizing?" ”
"Really accompanied." After Li Wei finished speaking, he also found a few thorns from the East Palace, took the chariot, came to the door of Wu Chenghe's mansion, got off the chariot from afar, and then tied these thorns to his back. Apologize, what could be more sincere than asking for guilt. Wu Chengsi also got the news early, in fact, he was also very embarrassed, whether he accompanied him or not, the prince hated himself. It's better not to let the prince come to accompany the ceremony, and when the prince arrives at the gate of the house, I will take the initiative to accompany the ceremony.
So he stood at the door, bent over, to greet the arrival of the prince, and saw a few green thorns, and a few young leaves, in the warm sunshine that began in late April, as Li Wei walked, constantly swaying with the wind. Seeing this strange scene, many ordinary people immediately stopped, and at first glance, it was the prince, and now there are not too many people who know the prince, and they began to talk about it together. His face immediately turned pale, and beads of sweat fell from his forehead.