To do one thing, before success, there is no need to tell other people. + The top point is that after success, you don't need to be you, everyone else will know.

This is Li Hong's standard for Yu Linwei.

That is, before a thing is done, Yu Linwei must detect it, and when something is done, Yu Linwei must determine whether it is completed as soon as possible. In plain terms, you have to tell me everything as soon as possible.

However, this is not Li Hong's request alone. For Empress Wu, his secret guard also has such conditions.

The secret guard beside Empress Wu has always been in charge of Xu Jingzong before, and it was handed over to Dou Dexuan later, but Xu Jingzong is not letting go, he is still the leader, but the main experience is no longer in this regard.

After changing the person in charge, there are no problems with the dark guard of the martial queen, and they are still very strong.

Dou Dexuan's ability to deal with government affairs is average, and he has no character as a person, and he is the most obedient person around Empress Wu, so Empress Wu will hand over the secret guard to him to manage.

At this time, there were already many people sitting in the place where Empress Wu specialized in handling government affairs, Xu Jingzong, Li Ji, Jiang Ke and Dou Dexuan.

Now these four people are the absolute henchmen of the Empress Wu, and if the Empress Wu encounters a major problem and can only discuss with his henchmen, he will only call the four of them to the front to discuss. Of course, the reason why Li Ji was promoted to a confidant was a decision made after martial arts in the past few days.

"The situation in Chang'an is complicated, what does this Aiqing think?" Empress Wu asked with a cold gaze.

Empress Wu really didn't expect that Li Hong would make a fuss about Liu Ju, and this time the plan would be so perfect, what happened in Chang'an City had not yet reached Luoyang, but Empress Wu's secret guard had already sent the news to Luoyang.

Empress Wu has always had expectations for Liu Ju, she wants Liu Ju to suppress Li Hong's luck, which will make her layout in Luoyang more calm.

But she didn't expect that Liu Ju would be arrested and arrested by Li Hong.

In order not to increase Li Hong's luck and let Liu Ju still check and balance Li Hong, Empress Wu fought with Gaozong and let Liu Ju stay in Luoyang, instead of coming to Chang'an City with Lu Dongzan. She felt that when Li Hong arrived in Luoyang, no one in Chang'an City dared to make a fuss about Liu Ju, because they didn't have the ability, courage and courage. However, he didn't expect that it would be Di Renjie, a young man who was bent on the case as soon as he took office in Dali Temple, ignoring national politics.

Actually, the martial queen at this time regretted it very much.

At the beginning, Di Renjie came to Chang'an to show his talent in the Huaxian case, and Empress Wu did not think about soliciting it. Because of this, she did not oppose Li Hong's request and promoted Di Renjie to the position of Shaoqing. However, when he became a Shaoqing, Di Renjie began to focus on the case, and he didn't ask anything about government affairs. In this way, the Empress Wu hesitated, a person who only knew how to investigate the prison, was it worth her effort to win over and snatch it from Li Hong? But it was her hesitation that caused her to lose Di Renjie and to have Di Renjie's earth-shattering skills today.

Now, it is too late to win over Di Renjie again, because he has completely surrendered to Li Hong.

"It seems that the solicitation of Zhang Yizhi and Li Qiao will be executed, otherwise Li Hong will succeed again." Empress Wu thought so in her heart.

In fact, he had long known that Zhang Jizhi and Li Qiao were Li Hong's people, just like she knew that Di Renjie was Li Hong's people, but she was not afraid of anything, because there was no one she wanted to recruit who she would not be recruited.

Empress Wu attaches great importance to talents, so there is no talent who can suppress Li Hong's recommendation, and she is still secretly paying attention.

"The old minister thinks that we have to prepare for the worst." Xu Jingzong said.

Empress Wu moved her gaze to Xu Jingzong and asked, "Xu Aiqing, what do you mean?" ”

"The first thing to do is to prevent the news from reaching Luoyang, but also to places outside of the central government." Xu Jingzong said, "Secondly, we must be on guard in Luoyang City, and we must not let anyone spread the news of Chang'an City, which is very unfavorable for us to build the White Horse Temple." ”

"It is necessary to eliminate the bad influence of Liu Ju's traitors on Buddhism, to make the people believe in Buddhism, and to make the people believe in Buddhism." Xu Jingzong continued.

Empress Wu nodded slightly, she agreed with Xu Jingzong's opinion, what she can do now is to put an end to the spread of the news, because as long as the news is controlled within the effective range, then the harm it causes to herself is not very great.

However, she felt very uncomfortable not addressing the problem at its source.

Xu Jingzong obviously saw the worries in Empress Wu's heart, and said helplessly, "Niangniang, Chang'an City is not our foundation, we should give up." ”

In fact, he has followed Empress Wu for too long, and Xu Jingzong knows that Empress Wu is Buddhist luck. And Chang'an City is the capital of the Li family, and Li Hong's luck is fundamental. If Empress Wu wants to grab luck with Li Hong in Chang'an City, it is impossible at all, and she will only be more and more passive...

"What does Xu Aiqing mean?" Empress Wu asked Xu Jingzong.

In fact, only Xu Jingzong is resourceful and resourceful, and no one else is able to. She was more optimistic about Li Ji before, but now that Li Ji was cheated by Li Hong, he found out that in the war, Li Ji is very powerful, standing in line, Li Ji is also very lucky, but he is a pit person, Li Ji is really not good. This time, Li Ji was pitted by Li Hong, and he couldn't do it in a righteous and bright way, and he had to cover up for Li Hong, so you can see how embarrassed Li Ji was when he fought with Li Hong.

"After His Royal Highness defeated the attack of the Tubo people and captured Lu Dongzan alive, the general trend has been achieved, coupled with the support of Su Dingfang and the Northwest Army, and the supervision of Chang'an City, now we want to use the previous methods to deal with him, I'm afraid it will not work." Xu Jingzong said, "Only by suppressing him to the west of Chang'an, and we control the most prosperous place in Datang, and slowly eat away at his strength, this is the fundamental policy." ”

"In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to Yizhou, the apprentices west of Chang'an are barren, sparsely populated, culturally backward, and the Western Regions and the Western Turks are restricting the prince, he wants to develop westward, it seems that there is a lot of resistance, and to the east, we are sitting in Luoyang, and his strength cannot penetrate. As long as we crush him to death in the west of Chang'an, in a few years, when Niangniang grows up, and then kills back to Chang'an, we will definitely defeat the prince. Xu Jingzong said to Wu Hou.

Although he has a good friendship with Li Hong, he also has financial cooperation with Li Hong.

Seeing the end, he is still the confidant of the Empress Wu.

Therefore, on the issue of dealing with Li Hong, he did not hide it privately, but always thought about it for Empress Wu.

It is precisely because of this that even if Empress Wu knew that Xu Jingzong and Li Hong were mining to make money and had a good relationship with Li Hong, she did not object to it and did not annoy Xu Jingzong. Because she knows that Xu Jingzong is a very measured person, he has his own bottom line, knows what to do, and is the smartest choice...

Therefore, from this point on, Li Ji has fallen behind compared with Xu Jingzong.

Many people have bad character, but they can still leave a name in history and have a mixed reputation, because he has his own bottom line of being a man, and he has never crossed this bottom line. And the reason why some people are notorious and don't do anything bad is because they ruined him just because of one thing, because he has no bottom line, and what he does breaks through his bottom line.

This time, Empress Wu did not echo Xu Jingzong, but moved her gaze to Dou Dexuan, Jiang Ke and Li Jidao, "What do you think? ”

"Xu Xiang's right, it's time for us to give up Chang'an." Dou Dexuan said, "Since the crown prince subdued Cheng Dazhi and let Cheng Dazhi's Axe Gang annex the Snake Gang and control the underworld forces in Chang'an City, our secret guards have had a very difficult time in Chang'an City, and the intelligence is not as punctual and accurate as before. The prince's secret guard in Chang'an is no, we are very suppressed by his people. If we blindly fight with him in Chang'an City, it will not do us any good. ”

Several confrontations with Yu Linwei did not allow Dou Dexuan to take advantage, so Dou Dexuan was very jealous of Yu Linwei.

Seeing that Empress Wu nodded slightly, Dou Dexuan continued, "Now, the prince has thoughts about the Qing Gang again, Wei Chi Xunyan and Cheng Dazhi have arrived in Luoyang, if we still focus on Chang'an City instead of Luoyang, and when the Axe Gang annexes the Luoyang Qing Gang and controls the Luoyang underworld forces, even if we have an advantage in Luoyang, we will be restrained by them." ”

"You're right, it's Bengu's lack of consideration." Empress Wu suddenly woke up and found that she hadn't taken this into account, so she hurriedly adopted Dou Dexuan's opinion, "I'll leave this matter to you." ”

"The minister understands!" Dou Dexuan commanded.

"Well, then do as Xu Aiqing does!" Empress Wu thought for a while and said, "But we can't let the prince's life in Chang'an be too comfortable, and we must also make trouble for him." ”

"British duke, this matter will be handed over to you, do you think it's okay?" Empress Wu said to Li Ji.

Li Ji nodded slightly, can he not do it now? can only be at the mercy of the Empress Wu, who called himself a failure, to the point of completely relying on the Empress Wu? Otherwise, at the beginning, the Empress Wu could give him such an order?

"As for the matter between you and this palace, this palace will handle it, Li Qing, you can rest assured." Empress Wu said to Li Ji again. not only to use Li Ji and let him do things for himself, but also to give Li Ji a benefit, so that Li Ji does not have too many complaints. Empress Wu is very skillful in the use of this kind of radish and stick means...

"Thank you, mother." Li Ji said gratefully.

If you ask for help, no matter how noble your head is, you have to keep it down.

"As for the news of controlling Chang'an City and entering Luoyang, I will hand it over to Li Qing and Dou Qing." Wuhou Dao. Since he handed over the affairs of Chang'an to Li Ji and the affairs of Luoyang to Dou Dexuan, then Liu Ju could let the two of them be responsible for this matter.

"Yes." Dou Dexuan and Li Ji received orders at the same time.