Chapter 184: Empress Wu's Discordant Plan
For Princess Zhou Zhao Yinyue's such a reward, there is another person who is not satisfied, this person is the current Royal Highness of the Tang Prince, Li Xian's brother-in-law Li Xian. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In fact, after getting the trick from Li Xian, Li Xian immediately took action, first of all, he started a huge work of annotating the "Book of the Later Han", and successfully won over Zhang Da'an, Liu Nayan, Ge Xiyuan, Xu Shuya, Cheng Xuanyi, Shi Zangjie and Zhou Baoning and other talents, and greatly increased his prestige, and scholars from all over the world praised it.
In addition, in July of this year, the comet started from the east well, pointed to the North River, gradually northeast, long three zhang, swept the middle platform, pointed to the Wenchang Palace, and disappeared after 58 days. At this time, Li Xian, in accordance with the consultation with his staff, asked the emperor to evacuate the palace (not to work in the main hall to show repentance), reduce the meal (save food), and release the capital to be a prisoner, so that the civil and military officials were all on the seal of the matter, and the reputation increased greatly for a while, and even Gaozong praised it, and immediately allowed it.
What made Li Xian even more excited was that the matter of the martial arts was finally implemented, and Gaozong was really happy after seeing the song, and praised Li Xian's foresight, and at the same time ordered it to be implemented immediately, signed the red edict, ordered the transfer of the Zhongshu Province Hao Chujun, and made a suggestion that Xue Rengui, the left attendant of the military department, should be in charge of the affairs of the martial arts.
Hao Chujun is Gaozong's confidant, upright, never favoritism, before because of the persuasion of Gaozong to order the regent of the Empress Wu, the Empress Wu was very angry, so he secretly ordered the henchman, ready to find him a fault, retaliate against him, especially ordered Hao Chujun's uncle Xu Yushi, be sure to find a mistake of Hao Chujun, but because Hao Chujun was in a very upright position, Empress Wu looked for a few months, but did not find the other party at all, so he had no choice but to give up.
This time, Hao Chujun was greatly surprised when he saw Li Xian's performance, thinking that the prince was really brilliant and could come up with such a good way, so even if he approved this matter, he also ordered Li Yiyan, the squire of Zhongshu, to personally draft the decree to prove that he attached great importance to this matter.
And when Li Yiyan reported the matter to Empress Wu, and then waited for Empress Wu to react, the will was still stamped in Menxia Province, so even though Empress Wu was furious in her heart, she had no choice but to sit back and watch this matter succeed.
However, after all, Empress Wu finally prevented Gaozong from letting Li Xian preside over the final election on behalf of the Son of Heaven, but decided that Li Xian would be the nominal presiding officer, leading Li Jingxuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Xue Rengui, and Xiao Dezhao, the squire of the Ministry of War, to carry out it together, which made Li Xian win fame, but in the end he did not have a chance to cultivate military power.
Later, there were rumors in the palace that the main messenger behind the prevention of Li Xian from serving as the presiding officer of the election was actually Li Xian, and after Li Xian heard it, he decided to go to Li Xian to settle the account, but finally gave up under the persuasion of his staff.
Originally, because of this incident, Li Xian was very angry with Li Xian, but now Li Xian married the princess appointed by the Empress Wu, and the princess's parents benefited from this, and the princess's father Zhao Gui was promoted to the general of Zuo Qianniu in the third grade, which really made him very angry.
You must know that Li Xian is the respect of the crown prince, and his father-in-law Fang Xianzhong is just a Xiazhou assassin, how big a gap should there be compared to Zhao Gui?
Therefore, Li Xian could no longer hold back the anger in his heart and came to Li Xian's palace to find him.
"Hello, seventh brother! Hello! At the beginning, the palace worked hard to get officials for the people under your command, are you such a reward for me? Tell me, are you ungrateful? As soon as he saw Li Xian, Li Xian didn't care about the guards of the Zhou Wangfu around him, and immediately couldn't help but shout loudly to let out the evil breath in his chest.
Seeing this, Li Xian hurriedly pulled him into his study, and withdrew all his subordinates, and said with a smile on his face: "Sixth brother, I'm afraid you have a misunderstanding, right?" Why is there such a big fire? Is there something that our brothers can't sit down and talk about? ”
saw Li Xian sneering and said, "Hmph, still talk about a fart?" See for yourself how much you have taken advantage of? Don't say anything else, let's just say this year, you have taken the lead in martial arts, and those talents who are about to be recruited will become your people, I wasted countless scheming in vain, waiting outside my father's palace every day, and waited for half a month to finally get the opportunity, but what about you, effortlessly picked up the final results, this is just like you often say, what is it called, yes, make wedding clothes for others, this, can you still say that it is a misunderstanding? ”
"Sixth brother, listen to my explanation......"
"Hmph, what else do you explain?" Li Xian interrupted Li Xian's words and continued: "Actually, the matter is already obvious, but this palace is still here stupidly believing in you, firmly believing that you are still with me, but it is not until now that I understand that you were simply bought by the queen mother, in fact, it is not difficult to understand when you think about it, the queen mother gave you a wonderful beauty to be the princess, and her father Zhao Gui was named the third grade, and her mother is my eldest princess, hehe, it turns out that the queen mother is so fond of you, no wonder the seventh brother gave up the original agreement." ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince, please think about it before you speak, although what I said to you is understandable, especially if the prince is now on the cusp, but the more this matter comes, the more you must maintain restraint, otherwise, once you lose the ally of your little brother, I am afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be even more unsatisfactory", after listening to Li Xian's sneering, Li Xian couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, and his tone suddenly rose, and at the same time, he was still secretly scolding in his heart.
"This stupid fork, how can you not use your brain when something happens? You are a dignified prince, the future prince, you are so brainless, how can you fight someone like the queen mother? No wonder I was forced to a dead end in a few years, and it was really my bad luck to meet a guy with this kind of intelligence, as I heard in later life, I am not afraid of god-like opponents, but afraid of pig-like teammates. ”
In fact, strictly speaking, Li Xian's IQ is not low, and he is not bad in terms of doing things, but it is only good, because the opponent Wu Hou he met is too demonic, and Li Xian's foresight is so that he seems to be restrained everywhere, and he is compared to these two.
And in addition, Li Xian didn't want to think about it, if Li Xian's IQ was really too high, so high that even the martial queen was helpless, then what hope would he have in the future?
But no matter what, Li Xian couldn't get rid of Li Xian's big meat shield yet, so he could only hold back the anger in his heart, and patiently explained to Li Xian: "Sixth brother, you have wronged the little brother this time, although this princess is beautiful, but she has no chance with the little brother, don't you say that she was sincerely sent by the queen mother to be the daughter-in-law of the little brother, it is really the queen mother who installed an eyeliner next to me, and it is also an eyeliner that can only be seen but not moved, don't you know how distressed the little brother is now?" ”
You sighed, Li Xian said with a wry smile: "And the promotion of my old father-in-law to the rank of official is definitely not for the sake of the younger brother's face, but for my princess to do a good job of eyeliner, in order to win her over, as for the matter of the martial arts selection you just mentioned, although the younger brother is nominally in charge and represents his father, what is the use?" It's not that you don't know that Li Jingxuan and Xiao Dezhao are both cronies of the queen mother, but General Xue is loyal to his father, and which of them is the younger brother? And the reason why the queen mother let the younger brother be the supervisor is actually the same purpose as forcing the younger brother to marry and promoting my father-in-law's official title, that is, to skillfully provoke and divide the relationship between you and my brothers, so that the queen mother can break each other, the sixth brother, not the younger brother said an inappropriate word, now the queen mother is equivalent to Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms, and you and I are like Sun Wu in Jiangdong and Shu Han in Xichuan, only you and I can work together to avoid defeat, if you and I fight each other, we can only let Cao Wei gain power, and in the end you and I can only be defeated. ”
"Three Kingdoms? Wei Shu Wu? It's really like, if you don't say that I can't remember, alas, I knew that the Three Kingdoms were so useful, and it was better to annotate the "Three Kingdoms" for my brother, but it's a pity that now the annotation of the "Book of the Later Han" has been rolled out, and it is not easy to replace it, so it seems that only when the annotation of the "Book of the Later Han" is completed, and then find a way to annotate the "Three Kingdoms" for my brother, I just listened to your words, and my brother is really waking up from a dream, it seems that the so-called slander of the virtuous brother to prevent the brother from being in charge of martial arts must be, the rumors created by the queen mother, And the marriage of the seventh brother is also the queen mother's intention to elevate Zhao Gui's identity, wanting to stimulate me, causing you and my brother to fall out of harmony, she will then put her hands in it, sit on the fisherman's profits, hehe, this is all blamed on the foolish brother is stupid, and he actually fell into the evil of the queen mother, alas, for the brother to come, this time the reason why the brother was used by others, the main reason is that the brother is still not so trusting the seventh brother, please rest assured that the seventh brother will definitely trust the seventh brother from now on, and will not have the slightest doubt, if he violates this oath, he is willing to die under the sword. ”
Li Xian made a distressed look, patted Li Xian's chest and reassured him, and then said goodbye.
But Li Xian didn't believe in what Li Xian said, because Li Xian, as the crown prince, although he was the heir to the throne designated by Gaozong, because of his own weak strength and short wisdom, he was instinctively jealous of Li Xian, and sometimes he would rather believe in the Empress Wu than believe in himself, after all, in Li Xian's view, although the Empress Wu was strong, he would not take away his throne seriously, because such a shocking thing as a woman being the emperor has never happened in history, and there are too many brothers taking the power of brothers in history.
Therefore, the day after Li Xian's defeat was the day when Li Xian lost power.
But although he didn't believe it, Li Xian would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to expose the other party's step, for Li Xian's trust, he showed a flattered look, and also patted his chest to promise that he would definitely serve Li Xian in the future, and the brothers would work together to thwart the conspiracy of the Empress Wu. (To be continued.) )