On September 16, autumn is high and cool, and the blue sky is like a wash. Today is an important day for the famous sword villa, one of the weapons suppliers of the Tang Dynasty and also a martial arts family, because after months of intense planning, the recruitment meeting of Dong Bijun, the second lady of the Dong family, is scheduled for today. In the more than 30 years that the current owner Dong Yuanshan served as the owner of the village, he devoted himself to business, maintained a good cooperative relationship with the imperial court, only interacted with officials, nobles, and families, and had little contact with people in the martial arts, almost did not participate in the affairs of the martial arts, and gradually faded out of the martial arts.

With the handwritten invitation letter of Dong Yuanshan, the owner of Mingjian Villa, more than 200 young talents and children of famous families came to Youzhou Mingjian Villa from all over the Tang Dynasty, hoping to get a beautiful woman with both talent and appearance and a great family.

Dong Yuanshan is keen to cling to the powerful, his two daughters are born beautiful, Dong Yuanshan has cultivated them since childhood, and hired the best teachers to teach them literature and history, hundreds of schools of thought, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, dance and martial arts, hoping that they can marry into the family of princes and generals when they grow up, and even the family of emperors. Dong Xijun doesn't like martial arts, only practiced for a few years when she was a child, and if she didn't practice for many years, she had long been abandoned. Dong Yuanshan was very disappointed and pinned all his hopes on his second daughter Dong Bijun.

Dong Bijun's rebellion is not under her sister, her hobby is just the opposite of her sister, she loves martial arts and does not like to read, and she is reluctant to read under the threat that Dong Yuanshan is not allowed to practice martial arts if she does not study, and she has read a lot, but she is only a rough understanding of literature and history, and she is not interested in the hundred schools of thought of Zhuzi, Tang poetry and Hanfu, and her literacy is far worse than that of her sister who is proficient in literature and history, familiar with Zhuzi Baijia, and Gongshifu, music, painting, calligraphy, and chess skills cannot be compared with her sister, but Dong Xijun's martial arts practice brings a benefit, the flexibility, flexibility, strength, and strength of the body. The speed is much better than that of his sister who has not practiced martial arts, so the dance level is much higher than that of his sister.

Dong Yuanshan heard this spring that the emperor and empress of the current dynasty were looking for a crown princess for the crown prince Li Hong, and he carried out various activities, and passed on the idea of sending his second daughter to the palace and letting the emperor and the prince see it, but Dong Yuanshan's ancestors were all people and businessmen in the rivers and lakes, not noble lords, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian did not look down on Dong Bijun, and excluded Dong Bijun's qualification to compete for the crown princess.

Dong Yuanshan decided to hold a huge recruitment meeting for the second daughter in a fit of anger, widely distributed hero stickers, and sent a total of more than 500 invitations to the children of famous families and young talents in the officialdom and rivers and lakes of the Tang Dynasty, covering almost all the outstanding young men in the Tang Dynasty, hoping to select a good son-in-law for the second daughter, except for the background, power, and status that are inferior to the prince of the current dynasty, the rest of the aspects are better than the prince of the current dynasty.

Dong Yuanshan invited the children of nobles, eunuchs, young elites in the business world and young elites in the rivers and lakes to come to Youzhou to enlist, but Mingjian Villa is a supplier of imperial weapons, and except for a few of the princes and nobles, civil officials and military generals, they are feudal officials like a prince, with strong strength and prestige, and they are seriously dissatisfied with Wu Zetian's chaotic government, reusing his mother's family, and squeezing out the Li Tang royal family. The vast majority of them chose to give up, lest the imperial court suspect that they had different intentions - the historical records record that Wu Zetian killed the Taizong Dynasty and the Gaozong Dynasty to be crowned kings and marquises, and dozens of Li Zhi's brothers and cousins almost killed the Li Tang royal family, including killing their own sons, grandsons, and granddaughters, which was after Li Zhi's death, after Wu Zetian monopolized power, and it has not happened yet, and the current Wu Zetian is only in the appointment and dismissal of personnel, promoting and reusing people loyal to her, and suppressing and squeezing out those loyal to the Li Tang royal family.

Thirteen years ago (the fifth year of Gaozong Xianqing, 660 AD), Li Zhi suffered from a mild stroke and eye disease, headache, and sometimes his eyes could not see clearly, and often asked Wu Zetian to handle the government on his behalf, Wu Zetian went to the center of power, Wu Zetian's political ambitions swelled with the expansion of power, and he was no longer deferential to Li Zhi, snared his henchmen, monopolized power, and also restricted Li Zhi's actions, causing Li Zhi to be dissatisfied. Nine years ago (the first year of Gaozong Linde, 664 AD), the eunuch Wang Fusheng reported that Wu Zetian had introduced the Taoist priest Guo Xingzhen into the palace without authorization to practice false cup witchcraft and pray for the blessing of non-sharing. Li Zhi took the opportunity to join forces with Prime Minister Shangguanyi and plotted to abolish Wu Zetian's position as empress.

Wu Zetian instructed his henchman Zhongshu Ling (also ranked as prime minister) Xu Jingzong to falsely accuse Shangguan Yi and Wang Fusheng of colluding with the palace maid and Li Zhisheng's abolished prince Li Zhong to rebel, Li Zhi retreated at a critical moment and did not intervene, as a result, Shangguan Yi, Wang Fusheng and the abolished prince Li Zhong were all executed by Wu Zetian, Shangguan Tingzhi's son Shangguan Tingzhi was executed together, and Shangguan Tingzhi's wife Zheng's elder brother was the highest governor of Dali Temple in charge of justice in the Tang Dynasty, Dali Siqing, because of this relationship. Liu Xiangdao, another prime minister who was good friends with Shangguanyi, was also implicated and demoted.

This incident shocked the imperial court and made the royal kings and civil and military officials see clearly the weakness of Emperor Li Zhi and the strength of Empress Wu Zetian. As the saying goes, a dog will jump over the wall when he is in a hurry, at this time, Wu Zetian is just squeezing out the Li Tang royal family and people loyal to the royal family, and has not launched a crazy massacre against the Li Tang royal family and the loyal ministers of the royal family, so the kings of the Li Tang royal family have not yet given birth to a rebellious heart, but dozens of royal kings, many of whom have political vision, see that Wu Zetian is ambitious, and the Li Tang royal family is in danger, take precautions, and secretly accumulate strength, hoping to turn the tide at the critical moment of the Li Tang royal family.

King Yan and Fan Yang Jiedu envoy Li Yong is one of the representative figures, he has long seen this, deliberately pretending to be a greedy and lustful corrupt official, making Fan Yang boil public resentment, but secretly in the name of raising a family slave to gather dead soldiers, vigorously cultivate the Fang Gang, and install cronies in various real power positions and key departments in the military and government, successfully deceived Wu Zetian, who has always thought he was smart, and accumulated considerable strength in Fan Yang.

Xu Qing killed Fang Zairong and his brother and son, exterminated his henchmen, incorporated his subordinates, took over his family property, and severely damaged Li Yong's elite domestic slave army and killed soldiers, causing Li Yong to suffer heavy losses, Li Yong endured it and did not retaliate against Xu Qing, this is not Li Yong's kindness, nor Li Yong's weakness, but he has lofty goals, his biggest enemy is Wu Zetian, he does not want to ask the imperial court to mobilize the army to encircle and suppress the Longmen Dart Bureau, and the Longmen Dart Bureau will inevitably seriously consume Li Yong's strength, and Li Yong will suffer greater losses, In the end, Wu Zetian benefited.

Li Yong's reason overcame his impulse, and he reconciled with Xu Qing by taking advantage of his eldest daughter Li Xiang to fall under Xu Qing's steps. Li Yong secretly calculated that Sai Weng would lose his horse and know that it would be a blessing, maybe in the future, he would be able to use Xu Qing's powerful forces to resist Wu Zetian's dictatorship and rebellion. Li Yongzhi is scheming and calculating, and naturally understands that by marrying with the Famous Sword Villa, he can get a large supply of weapons from the Famous Sword Villa when needed, and the benefits and disadvantages that cause Wu Zetian and even Li Zhi's suspicion.

Therefore, Li Yong did not send his son to participate in Dong Bijun's recruitment meeting, but he did not want to lose an excellent opportunity to form a community of destiny with Mingjian Villa, so that Jiang Ying, a young general in charge of the supply of military supplies and supplies for the army, and Wang Zan, the son of a cronie county (equivalent to the current deputy county magistrate), attended Dong Bijun's recruitment meeting.

Dong Yuanshan sent out more than 500 invitation letters, and only about 200 young men came to apply, of which nearly half were young men from Fanyang and Liaodong, and most of these applicants were from the rivers and lakes. Famous Sword Villa has been established for hundreds of years, and it has always been a famous and decent family in the rivers and lakes, so people who are evil and crooked are not invited.