Five years have passed.

A lot of things have happened in the past five years, but they are not very important to Wu Qing, but there are still a few things that need to be explained.

In the first year of Xianheng, Xue Rengui led the army to the west to conquer Tibet, Guo Zhifeng escorted the heavy grain and straw, and Xue Rengui was his top boss, delaying the time of the march, Xue Rengui was surrounded by 200,000 troops in Qinling, and the 180,000 elite Tang army was wiped out because of the lack of food and grass. Xue Rengui was defeated in Dafeichuan, and Wei Yuanzhong, a student of Tai, wrote a letter requesting that Xue Rengui and others be killed, and Wu Qing pointed out that Wei Yuanzhong was grandstanding and making a lot of nonsense, just to attract the attention of the emperor. For this reason, he had a bad relationship with Wei Yuanzhong, and Gaozong recruited Wei Yuanzhong to play right and praised his talent. Awarded the secretary the provincial orthography and gave Wu Qing a hot slap in the face. Xue Rengui was also dismissed and reduced to a civilian.

Wu Qing couldn't get the hint of Empress Wu, nor did he get Gaozong's approval, which made him helpless, so he devoted himself to studying and practicing martial arts diligently.

In the imperial court, Liu Renliang was once again activated to compile the history of the country. Soon, a generation of painters and a generation of prime ministers, Yan Liben, also died.

In the first year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, Gaozong made Empress Wu the queen of heaven, respected himself as the emperor, and granted amnesty to the world, and Wang Bo was pardoned for capital crimes.

By the second year of Shangyuan, Wu Qing had grown to the age of thirteen, he was slender, his facial features were delicate, and his eyes were even more unfathomable.

On this day, Wu Qing dived in the Luo River.

In the spring, the water of the Luohe River was cold, and a woman in a Luo skirt looked at the river motionlessly on the bank. She is Qiu Ju, the Luo River has just thawed, and the river water is still very cold, but Childe has insisted on diving for half an hour every day for the past few years. She was moved by Wu Qing's diligence and hard work, and she cared more about this little brother, adding a little bit of husband and wife.

"Whoa!"

I saw a wave break on the surface of the river, and a human head got out of the water, and then swam from the river to the shore, with nothing but a pair of pants on the body, although she had seen Wu Qing's body countless times in the past five years, Qiu Ju still showed shyness, and quickly took the handkerchief to wipe Wu Qing's body.

Wu Qing took the handkerchief and said, "I'll do it myself." ”

After getting dressed, he slowly rode on a sweaty BMW and walked towards the house with Qiu Ju in his arms.

As soon as he entered the mansion, Wuda came to report that the crown prince Li Hong had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time.

The annex is called the Seishin Courtyard, which is a form of the academy. The Qingxin Pavilion was idle, and Gaozong did not let Wuqing preside over the Qingxin Pavilion, Wuqing had to open a separate courtyard again, of course, the Qingxin Courtyard was not public, and it was in the Wufu, the Wufu occupied too much area, Wuqing opened up an elegant place, to be used as an annex, Wuqing's study also moved to the courtyard, and Wuqing's two apprentices finally came out of the school, and often came to the other courtyard to write.

Not long ago, two people came to the courtyard, one was Zhang Shuo, a native of Luoyang, who was eight years old. There is also Cui Rong, a native of Qizhou, who is twenty-two years old, should be ranked first in the eight-subject system, and he entered the Qingxin Courtyard because he admired the storytelling culture. Of course, there is a group of half-old children, a few years ago, when there was a famine, Gaozong issued an order to let the rich adopt orphaned children as servants, and Wu Qing adopted twenty in one go, most of them were girls. Now these children are reading and practicing martial arts every day, and they are quite attentive, and Wuqing also has a sense of achievement. Of course, there are also some poor children from the side branches of the Wu family, who eat, live and study in the Wu Mansion.

Walking into the courtyard, Wu Qing went straight to the study and saw the crown prince Li Hong sitting in the circle chair, but his face was pale and he coughed a few times from time to time. Wu Qing knew that this was tuberculosis, and it could not be cured in this era, and it could only alleviate the condition.

Seeing Wu Qing come in, Li Hong got up, his face showed joy, and said, "Cousin, you're finally here." ”

Wu Qing bowed his hand and said, "What is Your Highness looking for a minister?" ”

Li Hong said with a smile: "Now my father often has a bad head attack and wants to give me the Zen position, but the queen mother chose Nayan Pei Judao's daughter as the crown princess, I want you to decompose it for me, how to make the queen mother believe that I have the ability to handle national affairs." ”

Since Chang'an and the crown prince Li Hong sat in the carriage, Li Hong has often hosted banquets for Wuqing in the past few years, and Wuqing has also expounded some more useful ideas for governing the country, which has benefited Li Hong a lot, so Li Hong, who has nothing to do, likes to run to Wufu, and even Li Hong has contributed a lot to the establishment of this Qingxin Courtyard.

Wu Qing understood that the biggest reason was because Empress Wu, Empress Wu wanted to assist Gaozong and control the government, and did not want the prestige that had been established to be replaced by Li Hong, so he chose a concubine for Li Hong to dilute this matter.

So Wu Qing said: "Since it makes sense for the Queen of Heaven to do this, Your Highness should also reach the age of marriage." What's more, His Royal Highness cannot be disobedient, this is filial piety. As for political affairs, His Royal Highness is assisted by Dai Zhide and others, are you still afraid that you won't be able to govern the country? ”

Li Hong was just unexpected, and when Wu Qing said this, his thinking gradually became clearer, so he said: "Cousin, if I ascend the throne, I will worship you as the prime minister." ”

Wu Qing said with a smile: "Your Highness must take care of your health, if Your Highness ascends the throne, Wu Qing is willing to follow the dog and horse, and congratulate your cousin on your wedding in advance." ”

"Hehe, then thank you cousin, I'll go back."

After sending away the crown prince Li Hong, Wu Qing couldn't help but fall into deep thought, what does this martial queen mean? Could it be that she is thinking about usurping Tang now, if so, it would be too terrifying. After pondering for a long time, Wu Qing shook his head, Empress Wu is not so stupid, Gaozong is still alive, and Empress Wu and Gaozong are in love, no matter what, judging from the "Twelve Suggestions" proposed last year, she is really for Gaozong and wants to govern the country well.

At this time, Qiu Ju came in, and now Qiu Ju was like a ripe peach, Wu Qing couldn't wait to bite it and eat it, and asked, "What happened?" ”

Qiu Ju bowed and said, "Wu Chenghei sent someone to invite the son to the banquet." ”

Wu Qingjian's eyebrows suddenly froze, at the end of last year, he gave the crown prince Li Hongjian yì, and asked Li Hong to write a letter to reduce the servitude and taxes of the people in the disaster area, so as to stabilize the livelihood of the people in the disaster area; set up a city department to increase the tax revenue of the imperial court; Encourage miscellaneous learning, reward inventions and creations, etc., as a result, Empress Wu soon made the Beimen scholar put forward the "Twelve Suggestions", and recalled Wu Chengsi, the son of Wu Yuanshuang, who was exiled to Lingnan, and was awarded the title of Shangshu. Soon after, Wu Sansi, the son of Wu Yuanqing, was also recalled.

For the first time, Wu Qing realized the old and spicy methods of Empress Wu, and he also understood that Empress Wu was suing him, and he had to tell her first if there was anything he could do, and those who could inherit Zhou Guogong would also have the two martial family descendants of Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi.

Now this Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi know that Wu Qing is deeply loved by the Empress Wu, so every once in a while, the two of them will have a banquet for Wu Qing. Wu Qing was very impatient and refused many times. Originally, there was nothing between cousins, but these two goods met from the first day as if they had met their father, they were in their thirties, and they had to compliment Wu Qing vigorously, Wu Qing couldn't stand it, and he never went again.

Wu Qing thought about it for a while, and then said, "If you come again in the future, you will say that I have gone to Yunyou." ”

In recent years, Wuqing has traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers near Luoyang, once raised his eyes to look at the sky in Pishan, listened to Buddhism in Songshan Shaolin Temple, and soaked in hot springs in Longmen. Therefore, at a young age, he also won a reputation for not doing his job.