In June Wuyin of the second year of the Tang Dynasty (675), Gaozong issued an edict to canonize Yongwang Li Xian as the crown prince, amnesty the world, and soon ordered the crown prince Li Xian to supervise the country. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, Gaozong also issued an edict to worship the prince's left concubine, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin, and Lecheng Marquis Liu Renliang as the left servant, and still supervised the history of the country. Zhongshu door under the three products, Dali Qing Zhang Wenjun for the service and the prince guest, Zhang Wenjun in the Dali Secretary during the law enforcement strict, half a month in office, more than 400 doubtful cases, all allowed, since people have a person to resist the guilt, there are no complaints, Wen Qian is sick, the prisoners together for him fasting and praying, hoping that his body will get better soon, at that time are called its law enforcement forgiveness, to compare Dai Guan, now Dali prisoners heard Wen Qian changed officials, a moment of weeping.

In addition, Gaozong also worshiped Zhongshu Shilang, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin, and Yongshan Gong Hao Chujun as the Zhongshu Order, and supervised the history of the country. The servant of the Ministry of Officials, the left concubine of the prince of the inspection school, and the supervisor of the history of the country Li Jingxuan are the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu and the prince of the left concubine, and the three products under the door of the same Zhongshu, according to the former supervision of the history of the country, worship Xue Rengui as the servant of the military department, and worship the three products under the door of the same Zhongshu, and worship the Zuo Cheng Xu Yushi as the head of the household.

On the afternoon of September, he ordered the prime ministers Liu Renliang, Dai Zhide, Zhang Wenjun, and Hao Chujun to be the prince's guests, which shows that Gaozong has high hopes for Li Xian, hoping that Li Xian can do a good job as the crown prince.

Of course, Gaozong's adjustment this time can be said to be a relatively balanced measure, not only to promote his most relied on and trusted Hao Chujun to the chief prime minister (Zhongshu Ling, and also to revise the history of the country), but also to promote his own general Xue Rengui to the prime minister, which made him have a lot more power to speak in the political hall, and at the same time adjusted the late prince Li Hong's cronies Dai Zhide, Zhang Wenqian and others, on the one hand, it restricted the power of the martial queen, and on the other hand, it also strengthened its own control, because in Gaozong's view, Dai Zhide, Zhang Wenqian and others, who were suppressed by Empress Wu, can only move closer to him as an emperor now when they are weak.

Of course, in order to take care of Empress Wu's emotions, Gaozong adjusted Empress Wu's confidant Li Jingxuan, but this so-called adjustment only improved the other party's grade and treatment, and the power actually did not change, but he promoted Empress Wu's other cronie Xu Yushi to Hubu Shangshu, which was definitely a major compromise to Empress Wu, according to Li Xian's guess, this must have been the means of crying, making trouble and hanging again.

In addition to a prime minister Li Jingxuan, and a senior member of the three products, Xu Yushi, there are also Xiao Dezhao, a waiter of the military department, Zhang Chu, a waiter of the criminal department, Xue Yuanchao, a counselor, Pei Yan, a waiter of the Yellow Gate, lawyer Zhonglu of Jinbulang, a foreign general of the left leader, Cheng Wuting, a general of the right guard, Qiu Shenji, a general of the right guard, Ashina Daozhen, a general of the left tunwei, a boy of the right guard, Murong Nuo, a general of the left guard, and Li Zhan, the head of the left prison guard Yulin, As well as Zhaowenguan Zhishu Yuan Wanqing, Fan Lubing, Liu Yizhi, Miao Shenke, Hu Chubin and others, their power is not small, except for the slightly smaller number of prime ministers, they have completely overshadowed the power of the new crown prince Li Xian.

Especially in terms of military strength, Li Xian has almost no power to control, but unlike Empress Wu, he controls a large number of generals, and some are even famous historical generals, such as Heiya Changzhi, Cheng Wuting and others.

And this is not counting the four nephews of the Empress Wu, Zong Zhengqing Wu Chenghei, Taichang Shaoqing Wu Sansi, will be the young eunuch Wu Yizong and the young eunuch Wu Youji. His four nephews are now in critical positions, and Li Xian, the crown prince of Dalian, who is in power, is afraid of them.

In addition, in this year's imperial examination, Empress Wu also recruited a group of Jinshi as a reserve force for training, including Song Zhiwen, Shen Yanqi, Liu Xiyi and others.

Li Xian didn't know the real strength of the Empress Wu, he also thought that he had four prime ministers under his command, and he was even more proud, in order to show off this, he had just got the appointment of Lu Zhaolin and others from the political affairs hall, so he went to look for Li Xian in high spirits.

"Hehe, seventh brother, accept your feelings, for my brother is now made the crown prince as he wishes, and my father appointed Hao Xiang, Liu Xiang, Dai Xiang, and Zhang Xiang as my prince's guests at the same time, so the small appointment proposed by the virtuous brother that day was easily passed, this is the appointment edict, and a copy was written for the brother, and the virtuous brother please take a look."

As soon as Li Xian came to Li Xian's study, he immediately took out the edict of appointment and said triumphantly: "If you have any requests in the future, you can directly ask Brother Wei, as long as it is below the prime minister, I guarantee that I can meet your requirements." ”

Li Xian only glanced at it, and saw that some appointments were written on it: "Lu Zhaolin, worship as the school secretary; Guo Zhenbai, the school secretary, is the head of the ministry; Luo Bin Wang Bai is the superintendent of Henan Province; Chen Ziang, Bai Ding, ordered him to study in Taixue, to be made Zhaowen Pavilion ......"

"Weichen thanks His Royal Highness the Prince's great kindness, this kindness and virtue will not be forgotten, and he will definitely serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the future." Seeing these appointments, Li Xian immediately bowed down as a monarch and minister, but it caused Li Xian's face to be unhappy: "What is the seventh brother talking about?" It's just that some low-level officials are appointed and dismissed, where can the seventh brother be so grateful? In the future, when the elder brother promoted these people to the third rank official or above, it would not be too late for the seventh brother to thank him so much. ”

"This, hehe, yes." Although he seemed excited on the surface, and at the same time he was really happy that these subordinates had been promoted, in fact, Li Xian's appointments were just a means to confuse Li Xian, making him think that he was actually this power, but what Li Xian really cared about was the following appointment on the same edict: "Yuzhou Sigong Cao joined the army and Wang Bobai was the prince of the country; In the palace, the imperial Shi Du interrogated and worshiped as the imperial history; Dali Cheng Di Renjie worships Dali Zheng; Zizhou Thorn Shi Xue Nebai was the governor of Jiaozhou; Sima Tang Xiujing of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was worshiped as the governor of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate; Sima Li Duozuo of the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion, worshiped as the governor of the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion; Worship the grandson of the British Duke Li Ji as a servant Shaoqing......"

"Hehe, these above personnel are the real strength of my Li Xian in the court, and even they can only be regarded as the backbone, because there is an even stronger force behind me, that is, my alliance Dai Zhide and Zhang Wenjun, the two prime ministers, don't look at them as your prince's guests, in fact, they don't really work for you, and your other prince's guest, Hao Chujun, will not serve you, this is my father's cronies, he can be said to assist you, and at the same time, he can be said to supervise you, I will never sit back and watch your strength be so strong that it cannot be contained, in fact, I won't tell you that is, if you really want to say it, none of the four prime ministers appointed by your father as the prince's guests are yours, although the reality is so cruel, but this is the reality. Li Xian listened respectfully to the teachings of the "Prince", and secretly sneered, thinking that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really felt good about himself, and he was afraid that if the Queen Mother fought back a little in the future, he would only cry.

Of course, given that the two are now allies, Li Xian still has to say what should be reminded.

After Li Xian finished speaking, Li Xian arched his hand and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, Weichen has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?" ”

But Li Xian smiled and said: "Look at what Brother Xian said, you and my brother, what can't you say?" The more unkind you say, the better, which is why you and I are brothers, friends, and brothers, and so close. ”

"In this way, the younger brother is not welcome", Li Xian said this, suddenly became serious, and said solemnly: "Brother should know that the situation in the DPRK and China seems to be stable now, but there are too many uneasy factors inside, and now the father and the emperor are not in good health, and the government will naturally be taken up by the prince's brother, but the elder brother should also know that there will be too many constraints there, the elder brother has just been established as the prince, and it is inevitable that he will not be able to see the situation clearly, so he should be more cautious at present, otherwise once he suffers a counterattack, he may fall into a place of no return......

Li Xian originally came out of a good intention, lest Li Xian be kicked off the stage early, and he lost a good meat shield, so he reminded him, but he didn't expect that the words were not finished, but it had already caused Li Xian's displeasure, only to see Li Xian said unhappily: "How to deal with the affairs of the court, for the brother to make his own arrangements, don't worry about the seventh brother, the seventh brother only needs to take care of the people under your command, hehe, although the queen mother is vicious, I will not let anyone slaughter, I am not the weak filial piety emperor, there are still many things to deal with for my brother's East Palace." , don't stay long, farewell. ”

After finishing speaking, Li Xian brushed his sleeves away, leaving only Li Xian with a wry smile.

"Hehe, you stupid fork, I kindly reminded you but didn't listen, when you realize the danger, I'm afraid that the queen mother has already made careful arrangements, and I see how you should deal with it at that time? You don't see that the queen mother is now retreating again and again on the surface, but in fact this is a ploy to pride the enemy, you don't know how strong her power has developed? Her strength may not be as good as the two of us joining forces, if the two of us join forces and use the power we have now to launch some small-scale counteroffensives, the accumulation will become qualitative, and there may be a possibility of victory, but now, it is a good opportunity to be buried in vain by you, a fool, it is really impossible to conspire with the concubine, even so, I have to give up the original plan, with the main goal of preserving the limited strength in my hands. ”

Looking at Li Xian's departing back, a sneer appeared on Li Xian's face, and there was a trace of bitter smile, what does it mean to have more than enough success to fail? What is called a concubine is indispensable, this stupid person is the best interpretation.

"Wuchen, inform Chen Ziang, let him win over Song Jing and the Jinshi on the list this year as soon as possible, inform Wang Bo, and let him tap the talents among the Tai students as soon as possible, I want to draw them under my command and try to arrange officials for my use, although the situation is very good now, I believe that in less than a year, it will be destroyed by the shrewdness of the queen mother and the stupidity of the prince, and at that time, we don't want to say that we want to promote officials again, even if we can protect ourselves, it is already very difficult." (To be continued.) )