Empress Dowager Wu was quite hesitant, during this sensitive period, she still left Wu Qing's performance unpublished, because she was not sure whether this martial arts examination could be used for herself, and she decided to start purging dissidents from within.

So after the Eastern Turks attacked and disturbed Changping, they only ordered Heiya Changzhi to lead the army to attack it, and a new round of purging began.

First of all, Li Xiaoyi, who has been demoted to Shizhou Thorn History, she listened to Wu Chenghe's words, saying that Li Xiaoyi's name has a rabbit in the word "Yi", and the rabbit is a thing in the moon. So he ordered someone to take it and put him in prison.

followed by Liu Yizhi, Liu Yizhi was told by Jia Dayin, a member of the Fengge house, both of them are in Fengge, they belong to colleagues, and they don't see the kind of people who look up and see each other. Liu Yizhi was jealous of the authority of the Empress Dowager Wu, and he did not dare to admonish, so he said to his subordinates that since the Empress Dowager can abolish the faint and establish the Ming Dynasty, why use the dynasty to weigh the system, it is better to return to the government and calm the heart of the world. was immediately told by Jia Dayin to the Empress Dowager Wu.

Empress Dowager Wu couldn't help but be furious, Liu Yizhi is one of the bachelors of the North Gate, and all his glory and wealth are given by Empress Dowager Wu. It can be seen that there are not many people in the court who want to rebel against themselves.

In the Zhenguan Palace, Empress Dowager Wu said angrily: "Liu Yizhi is a minister who I value, and now he has the heart to betray me, and he really ignores my kindness." ”

Soon, someone secretly reported that Liu Yizhi had privately accepted bribes from Sun Wanrong, the Khitan leader and governor of Guicheng Prefecture, and had an affair with Xu Jingzong's concubine. Liu Yizhi was immediately imprisoned. Wang Liben announced the holy decree. Liu Yizhi was originally the one who drafted the edict, how to accept it. scolded: "Without going through the Fengge Luantai, what is the name!" ”

Empress Dowager Wu was naturally furious, and immediately convicted of "refusing to defend the envoy" as a capital crime. Liu Yizhi used to be an old minister in Li Dan's palace. When Li Dan heard about it, he hurriedly pleaded with Empress Dowager Wu.

Empress Dowager Wu did not let Li Dan enter the palace, and then quickly gave Liu Yizhi to death.

After Liu Yizhi's death, Empress Dowager Wu ordered Zhou Xing, a cool official, to continue to be imprisoned according to the shackles, and dug out Liu Yi's henchmen, and more than 100 people, such as Lintailang Guo Han and Prince Wenwen Zhou Sijun were exiled.

Since the death of Liu Renliang. There were no ministers left in Chang'an, so he ordered Su Liangsi to move to Wenchang Zuo Xiang to stay in Chang'an. At the same time, Nayan Wei Si is humble and Pei Judao is the internal history. Formal greetings. Zhang Guangfu, the Xia official waiter, entered the political hall with the Fengge Luantai Pingzhang for the Fengge waiter.

The minority ethnic groups in the Lingnan border rebelled from time to time, but they were immediately pacified, and the heavy dà incident such as Jiaozhi was killed by the raccoon household. The leader Li Si and others were immediately suppressed.

The Eastern Turks invaded Shuozhou. Empress Dowager Wu listened to the slander again, and decided not to use Wuqing to go on the expedition, and ordered Hei Ya Changzhi to be the head of the Yanran Dao march, and then named Li Duozuo as the deputy head of the Right Eagle Yang General and sent troops to Shuozhou.

At this time, Wuqing, with the title of General Zuo Yu Lin Wei, was the county commander in Wuqing County, which was also a peculiar phenomenon in the imperial court. After dealing with heavy things every day, he soaked in the black powder laboratory. Began to study black powder. Running around various workshops, especially after adding blast furnaces and coal in the past six months. The coinage has increased tenfold, and the fineness of the Kaiyuan Tongbao is quite good, the copper content has reached eighty percent, and the new money is smooth and in good condition. Wu Qing was ready to use the money to buy private gold and silver.

Because he had a wish, that is, to use gold and silver as the currency reserve of the empire, of course, this is only for the future.

This year, there was a great drought in the world, especially in Guannei and Shandong.

Wu Qing sat in the attic, and finally made up his mind, and in a moment a dark shadow appeared in the attic.

"The Cowherd has seen the Lord!"

Wu Qing was silent for a moment and said, "Cowherd, what do you think of today?" ”

This cowherd is the Kunlun slave who assassinated Lu Yuanrui, the governor of Guangzhou, in fact, he is not a Kunlun slave, because he is just a descendant of the Han people who fled overseas from the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty. originally returned to live in the Central Plains in accordance with the ancestors' wishes, but he didn't expect to encounter Lu Yuanrui blackmailing Kunlun slaves and killing him in anger. Now he has been accepted by Wuqing, and after more than a year of training, he is very capable. Codenamed Cowherd.

"The subordinates only know the Lord, but they don't know the world."

Wu Qing smiled slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, then recruit me three thousand cowherds, I want you to form a cowherd guard, you may be able to do it?" ”

How did the cowherd not understand, he was suddenly overjoyed, so he bowed and saluted: "The subordinates must complete the task!" ”

Whenever there was a great drought or disaster, there would be people who sold their sons and daughters, and Wu Qing would order someone to take them in or buy some, and also saved some lives from a certain process. Although the purpose is not pure, it is also something he does his best. Three thousand cowherds is definitely not a small number, so Wu Qing took out an envelope with the word "top secret" written on it and handed it to the cowherd.

"Follow the steps here!"

"Yes, Lord." Then the cowherd retreated.

In fact, Wu Qing was forced to do this, now his family has a big business, maybe one day the Empress Dowager Wu will have a temperament, and maybe he will be done, human nature is really difficult to figure out, in short, it is right to pave the way back. Once the incident happened, Shangguan Wan'er and Wei Tuan'er in the palace informed them in advance that those eunuchs were all friends with Wuqing, and even some of the captains who guarded the city were from shadow guards. In the middle of the port in Wuqing County, there is a warship that has changed its appearance, not to mention a warship hidden in Jiangnan Chuanxing, Yangzhou and other places. Now that the fortress of Ryukyu Island has begun to be built, if it can be operated for five years, he believes that by then, with Ryukyu Island, he will be able to defeat the Tang Dynasty sailors.

Of course, at that time, it doesn't matter what the world is, and he can't say that he can compete for hegemony. If you can research explosives bags and the like in the past few years, fighting for hegemony or something, it's just like playing. What's more, how many people can fight in Datang today?

In addition, the first batch of students has already been found at the Ocean School in Quanzhou, and they practice diligently every day. Within a few years, these students were naval soldiers. The training manuals are all from Li Jing's Art of War. Of course, under normal circumstances, ordinary people will not see this military book. But as Wu Qing, he can naturally see the "Law of War" from the royal collection. Wu Qing couldn't help but admire Li Jing very much, especially for the naval army, which is also very unique. And it also seems to be revealed between the lines. The sea will eventually be conquered by man.

It can be seen from this that Li Jing is worthy of being a real military strategist, from a strategic point of view. Li Ji is a little worse.

In the middle of the court, Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi saw that the black tooth Changzhi quickly defeated the Eastern Turks in Huanghuajie, and they couldn't help but have thoughts, it seems that this Eastern Turks are not very powerful, so they went to the Empress Dowager Wu and was willing to lead the troops to attack the Turks.

Empress Dowager Wu summoned the two and said, "You two want to lead the troops to the battle. I'm not old yet! Don't go on this kind of slack in the future, so as not to be laughed at by the hundred officials, understand? ”

Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi didn't expect to be called and scolded. The two of them didn't like it in their hearts, but their faces were very deferential, and Wu Sansi thought about it, so he said, "Auntie." The minister can recommend one person. When you can lead your troops to attack the Turks. ”

When Empress Dowager Wu heard that the two were no longer insisting, she asked, "Who do you recommend?" ”

Wu Sansi bowed and said: "It's the right prison guard Zhonglang General Baobi, this person is brave and strategic, is a rare talent?" ”

Empress Dowager Wu was stunned, there was such a talent, why didn't she notice it, but seeing Wu Sansi's serious look, she said, "Since this is the case." Then he was ordered to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to support Blacktooth Changzhi, but he must listen to Blacktooth's dispatch. ”

The two were overjoyed. Then he came out with gratitude.

Soon, Baobi led 20,000 troops to the Shuozhou area.

Soon, Yang Jiechen, a native of Yuzhou, falsely called himself General Lang, recruited soldiers to meet the king of Luling, and was denounced, but after more than a month, he was arrested and corrected on the spot.

But this also reminded the Empress Dowager Wu, and then sent troops to guard the King of Luling more tightly. The wind of whistleblowing is even worse. Officials of the four grades like Zhang Zhimo, the autumn official waiter, all want to push the prison system, which shows its cruelty. Zhang Zhimo also asked his nephew to supervise the imperial history Wang Shoushen to join him in prison, but Wang Shoushen refused.

Wang Shoushen felt that the court was rampant by cool officials, and there was no hope, he himself could not guarantee that he would not be imprisoned, so he resigned as a monk. At the same time, Xu Renji, Sun Chuxuan and others either resigned and went into hiding, or became monks.

Of course, during this period, there were not a few officials who became monks and retreated. After all, cool officials are rampant, and they don't have much security, so they can only save their whole body by becoming a monk and returning to seclusion.

Wu Qing's thinking is not without this reason. It's just that behind him is the Empress Dowager Wu, and the Empress Dowager Wu is the mastermind behind the cool officials, as long as the Empress Dowager Wu does not give orders in person, the cool officials still dare not bite Wu Qing lightly.

Soon, the military situation came from the northern Xinjiang, and Baobi did not listen to the advice of the black tooth Chang, and pursued Ashid Yuanzhen with victory, and was ambushed, and the whole army of 20,000 elites was killed and wounded, and he escaped with a light horse and returned to Shendu.

Empress Dowager Wu was furious, reprimanded Wu Sansi and Wu Chenghei, and beheaded Baobi in the city. Since then, Empress Dowager Wu no longer dares to send generals to the expedition, because not to mention the humiliation of the country, it will also make the people of the world despise her Empress Dowager Wu's court.

Of course, Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi hated Hei Tooth Changzhi.

On this day, Empress Dowager Wu summoned Wu Qing.

Wu Qing stepped into the Lijing Palace, the weather in November was indeed a little cold, but the Lijing Hall was as warm as spring.

After giving the Empress Dowager Wu a salute, the Empress Dowager Wu said to Wu Qing: "Last year, the imperial court lost the four towns of Anxi, which cut off the trade routes in the Western Regions. ”

Wu Qing was stunned, there is a general drought in the world this year, and I don't know how many people are starving to death. The Heyuan army, which was less than 20,000, had to guard against the Tibetans, and was also divided into half by the black tooth Chang to fight against the Turks. Nowadays, if we don't say that it is difficult to raise food and grass, let's just say that this source of soldiers is a problem.

"The Queen Mother, the minister thinks that it is not the time to conquer Tibet at this time, why not wait for the Queen Mother to recruit new soldiers, train for a year and a half, and then send a general to conquer Tibet, and the four towns of Anxi will return to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty in less than half a year." Wu Qing said categorically.

Although Wuqing did not have a caravan to trade with the Western Regions, he knew that the trade between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty was very close, and now the backlog of goods in various places was due to the fact that the four towns of Anxi were occupied by Tubo and the trade routes were blocked.

Empress Dowager Wu was obviously a little impatient, and the fall of the four towns of Anxi in her hands gave her a sense of failure, in short, she just wanted to conquer Tibet.

"If I send you to ask for it, would you be willing?"

Wu Qing was stunned for a moment, what he said was very clear, the Queen Mother still had to be requisitioned, so he said: "The Queen Mother, even if Weichen goes to requisition, he is not sure of victory." Please also ask the Queen Mother to think twice. ”

Empress Dowager Wu was stunned for a moment, and said slowly: "That's it, you should retreat first." ”

Wu Qing looked up and saw that Shangguan Wan'er was waving her hand, so she understood what she meant and bowed down.

Soon news came out that Empress Dowager Wu Feng Wei was the head of the Yanran Road march, and the Suzhou Assassin Shi and the Right Eagle Yang Wei were the generals to defend against the Tibetan Turks. (To be continued......)