Shangguan Yi is worthy of being a famous literati in the Tang Dynasty, not only created his own "wrong and charming" Shangguan style, leading the trend of poetry in the early Tang Dynasty, but also his articles are famous all over the world, especially proficient in the drafting of various edicts, since the beginning of the Taizong Dynasty, the drafting of various edicts is from his hands. And this kind of ordinary edict of the abolition of the queen really didn't take much effort for him, and it was almost instantaneous.

"Weichen has drafted an edict, please read it to Your Majesty." Shangguan Yi held the edict that had just been drafted, bowed slightly, and handed it to Gaozong.

Gaozong carefully read the edict, was silent, and after a long time, sighed.

"What are the errors and omissions in the edict written by the minister?" Shangguan Yi saw Gaozong's expression and hurriedly asked.

Gaozong shook his head and said slowly: "The genius of the world, the edict he made is fine, and there are no mistakes or omissions. ”

"In that case, why does Your Majesty sigh?" Shangguan Yi was not satisfied with Gaozong's attitude and continued to ask.

"The relationship between husband and wife for more than ten years has broken down today, and I can't bear it."

"Hehe, Your Majesty should know, when the judgment continues, but suffer from its chaos, Your Majesty, as a king, is not only the husband of the Empress Wu, but also the son of heaven of the people in the world, how can you abolish the affairs of the world because of personal feelings......"

"Hmph, what a thing that abolishes the world because of personal feelings."

Before Shangguan Yi finished speaking, he heard the door of the study be slammed open, and then he saw Wu Hou break in with a frosty color.

"Huh? Her Royal Highness the Queen. ”

"Mei, Meiniang."

Shangguan Yi and Gaozong suddenly broke in after seeing Wu, and immediately became flustered, and Gaozong immediately hid the edict that Shangguan Yi had just written into his sleeve.

Unexpectedly, Empress Wu had already seen all this, walked quickly to him, looked directly at him and asked, "What is Your Majesty hiding?" ”

"No, not hiding."

"The concubine has seen it."

"Huh? Hehe, this is an edict written by Shangguan Aiqing. Seeing Empress Wu's question, Gaozong looked extremely embarrassed, but he still didn't take out the edict, but continued to hide it, and then explained with a dry smile.

"What is the content of the edict?"

"No, it's not a big deal, it's just some normal personnel appointments."

"Hmph." Empress Wu was very dissatisfied with this explanation, snorted coldly, snatched the edict from Gaozong's sleeve, and read it carefully.

Empress Wu read it very slowly, almost word by word, and this edict of just a few hundred words actually took a lot of effort.

Suddenly, Empress Wu knelt down in front of Gaozong, and cried sadly: "The concubine has known Your Majesty since Taizong was seriously ill, and it has been fourteen years. In fact, if Your Majesty sees that the concubine is not pleasing to the eye, you only need to say a word, give a white silk, and the concubine can disappear in front of Your Majesty forever. ”

"This, this, Mei Niang, you listen to my explanation......"

"Hehe, what else can be explained, in fact, all these concubines understand. Although the concubine is a woman, she also knows that the dog dies and the dog cooks, and the bird hides the bow. His Majesty deposed the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Yu Zhining, Han Yuan, Lai Ji and others, so that all the power was returned to the top, which can be regarded as a complete victory, but the concubines don't know how much notoriety they have for Your Majesty? I don't know how many grievances I have suffered? His Majesty didn't care about the grievances suffered by his concubines, but today he was so ruthless that he issued an edict to depose the concubines. Your Majesty, tell me what crime the concubine committed? Why depose concubines? ”

"This, I heard what people said, the queen led the Taoist priest into the palace, practiced the art of disgust with victory, and tried to control me to bow, and listened to the system in the court, and was impatient in my heart before I did such a thing. Hehe, fortunately, Mei Niang arrived in time, otherwise he would have regretted it one day. ”

Gaozong cried bitterly when he saw the martial arts, the previous heroic dry clouds had already been thrown out of the clouds, and now he was so powerless to even tell the other party's crimes, and he could only use dry laughter to hide the embarrassment in his heart.

"Hmph, I don't know who is so arrogant and slandering the concubine? What's even more hateful is that His Majesty is convinced of this, and the poor concubine is thinking about my Tang Dynasty, recruiting the Taoist priest Guo Xingzhen into the palace to pray for His Majesty's blessing and healing, hoping that His Majesty's dragon body will improve as soon as possible, and the concubine can also unload the burden on her shoulders and enjoy the blessings of the mother's world, but she didn't expect it to end like this. His Majesty is so unlucky, the concubine is already disheartened, and if you think about it, it is really better to die. ”

While crying, Empress Wu took out the step shake from her head and stabbed it into her throat.

Gaozong saw that Empress Wu was looking for death, and it was already a big mess, so he hurriedly stopped Empress Wu, snatched Bu Shao from her hand, and said while crying: "Mei Niang, Mei Niang, you can't be like this, I was confused for a while, and I was deceived by the villain, all of this was taught by Shangguan Yi and Wang Fusheng, in fact, I didn't believe that Mei Niang would harm me." Mei Niang don't worry, this edict will be torn apart now, and I promise you that nothing like this will happen again in this life. ”

After seeing Empress Wu finally stop thinking because of his own explanation, Gaozong relaxed slightly, and then tore the flowery edict written by Nayi into pieces according to his promise.

"The concubine and His Majesty have been married for more than ten years, and they are not as good as outsiders for a few words, it seems that Your Majesty's soft ears should also be changed, but this Shangguanyi and Wang Fusheng do not abide by the duties of courtiers, frame the concubines, and destroy the relationship between my husband and wife, how should Your Majesty deal with it?"

Empress Wu was unforgiving, and now that the crime was avoided, she began to counterattack and forget it, this time in order to avoid similar incidents, she must completely surrender to Gaozong, and at the same time strike mercilessly against those who dare to oppose her.

How did Gaozong know the mind of Empress Wu? Now that the Empress Wu proposed to punish Shangguanyi and Wang Fusheng, she just thought that the other party was actually just looking for a step down, so she discussed: "It's better to demote Wang Fusheng to serve in the cold palace and see his future performance before using it, and Shangguanyi will be directly demoted to Luzhou to make a history of assassination, how about it?" ”

But after hearing the martial queen, he sneered: "Your Majesty is sacred, the concubine did not dare to have any objections, but the concubine thought that there was something strange about this matter, this matter was originally raised by Wang Fusheng, and then instigated by Shangguan Yi, so the concubine thought that the two thieves must be colluded, Your Majesty might as well order the important ministers of the court to join the Si Xing Temple, the Yu Shi Tai, and the Detailed Punishment Temple to interrogate, and the concubine expected that the cause and effect of this matter would definitely be able to come to light, and the grievances of the concubines would be revealed to the world. ”

As soon as he heard Empress Wu's words, Shangguan Yi, who had known that something was wrong, couldn't help but secretly cry out in his heart: This soft-eared emperor himself is not strong-minded, buried the power that is about to arrive, and also blames his loyal subordinates, and now the righteous side is being interrogated by the unjust party, under torture to extract confessions, what good end can they have? It's just that he is now like a lamb to the slaughter, what right can he say? I only hope that the emperor can stick to his principles and leave them a life, and they will be lucky for three lives.

But now that the Empress Wu is victorious, Gaozong has been completely manipulated by the other party, how can he still find a way to exonerate them at this time?

And the truth was as Shangguan Yi expected, Gaozong agreed like a sound worm, and then asked, "I don't know who is worthy of being the chief judge?" ”

But he heard the Empress Wu say: "The concubine is a person, Xu Jingzong is the elder of the three dynasties, he is upright, quite talented, and prestigious, the concubine thinks that it is the most suitable to be the chief judge, I believe that with Xu Qing's ability, he will soon be able to find out the merits, neither wronged the good people, nor missed the wicked." ”

"Can this Xu Jing Zongyan be called upright? If even this person can be called upright, is there a villain in this world? In this way, I am afraid that my old life will not be saved, Your Majesty, don't agree. Although Shangguan Yi had long lost the right to speak, he was still there after all, so he hurriedly signaled to Gaozong with his eyes, hoping that Gaozong would have another person to preside over the case, but Gaozong didn't even look at him, so he happily agreed.

"Alas, I really regret not listening to my son Tingzhi at the beginning, and participating in such a major event as the abolition of the queen, but now I can't regret it, I just hope that the emperor can save my son's life for the sake of my many years of service." Shangguan Yi burst into tears, silently remembering what his son Shangguan Tingzhi conveyed to him before he went to court today: "Father, in recent days, the relationship between the saint and the queen has been very unharmonious, and the son knows that his father has always been upright, but the emperor's family affairs are beyond the interference of our courtiers. ”

At that time, Shangguan Yi disagreed, and reprimanded loudly: "Confused, as a minister, we should do our best to be loyal to the heavenly family, and now the queen interferes in the government affairs, this is the chicken Sichen, which is not conducive to the country, as an important minister of the court, if there is a need for the saint one day, I should not hesitate to fight against the Nawu clan for the world." ”

"Father, has he forgotten the eldest grandson, Taiwei, Chu Suiliang and others? Although my father is expensive now, what does he do with these people? Even these few people confronted the martial queen, it was inevitable that they would die and die in the family, if the father wanted to forcibly resist, what was the result, how could he use his son to remind him? ”

"Hmph, the eldest grandson Taiwei and Chu Xiang are my models of Shangguanyi, I am willing to follow the example of the sages for the Tang Dynasty, and swear to fight the rebellious ministers and thieves to the end, although I have no regrets. What's more, at this time and that time, the reason why the eldest grandson Taiwei and Chu Xiang and others failed miserably was that the saint deliberately connived at the Empress Wu in order to seize power, and now the saint and the Empress Wu are split, I rely on the support of the saint to deal with a woman, isn't it nine out of ten? Needless to say, I have made up my mind......"

Shangguan Yi now thinks about what he said at the beginning, and feels how ridiculous and pathetic it is, even if he is loyal, but the emperor's cowardly temperament, he sold himself to others at the beginning of the confrontation, this is simply a situation of defeat without suspense, hate only hate himself for being loyal to the wrong object, if it was the original Emperor Taizong, he would definitely become a generation of direct ministers like Wei Zheng.