Since this day, the imperial heir Wudan has not waited for the two concubines. When he learned that the two concubines had been beaten to death in the court, he was even more afraid to speak, and only knew how to drink and have fun every day. Li Chengqi's four brothers have also been demoted to the kings of the county, and they follow their father all day long, and they can't stop worrying.

Since Pei Bandit and Fan Yunxian were framed and beheaded, the hundred officials did not dare to see the emperor's heir, and the emperor's heir completely lost contact with the hundred officials. Now that the two concubines of the emperor and the heirs have been killed at the same time, all the officials dare not speak, and the queen's rule is not only terrifying, but also makes people of insight worried.

Soon, Li Youdao, Wang Xuan, Yuan Zhihong, Cui Shenji, Li Yuanyuan, Chunguan Shilang Kong Siyuan, and Yizhou Governor Shi Ren Linghui were all framed by Lai Junchen and others, and were dismissed from their official positions, reduced to death and exiled, but this time they were all exiled to the border of the Western Regions.

As a result, this part of the people became the first prisoners to go to the four towns of Anxi, Wu Qing couldn't help but be overjoyed after receiving the holy decree from Broken Leaves, with this group of literati, are you still afraid that the Western Regions will not be able to hold it? So they divided the seven men into various places. Wu Qing named Li Youdao to be sent to Shaoye, because this person had served as the assassin of Shaanzhou, and later entered the court as a winter official Shangshu, and then entered the political affairs hall and served as a deputy prime minister, so it can be said that he has a lot of experience in politics. So it's a good thing to be able to let these people exert their residual heat.

A month later, when Shattered Leaf City was covered in snow, Li Youdao and his family, a total of thirteen people, together with the caravan from the Western Regions, came to Shattered Leaf City.

Wu Qing naturally did not go outside the city to greet him, but he met Li Youdao in the Governor's Mansion, after all, he was once an official in the court, and now as a rogue person, he has nothing to do with wealth and nobility. What's more, life and death are in the hands of Wu Qing.

Li Youdao is from the Li family of Zhao County and is a real famous family. That's why it goes without saying, but now as a streamer, I can't talk about this. Maybe he will be removed from the clan.

But no matter what, such a person is not lightly defeated, so after Li Youdao saw Wu Qing in the Governor's Mansion, he only saluted very indifferently, without flattery or indifference.

Wu Qing looked at this middle-aged man in his fifties and smiled slightly. The literati of this era are like this, which is called integrity.

"Gong Li doesn't have to be restrained. Feel free to sit, this is the Western Regions, not the mainland, there is not so much red tape, and this king really doesn't like those false courtesies. ”

Li Youdao also sat down. Wu Qing immediately ordered people to serve dishes and wine. Then he raised his glass and said: "This cup should be regarded as a dust wash for Duke Li, Duke Li's residence is in this governor's mansion, and the family members have settled down properly, so you can rest assured." ”

Li Youdao's eyes showed a hint of surprise, he suddenly sighed, and said: "It is said that His Royal Highness King Wei can treat the people of the world with courtesy, and this is true. Your Highness. Please! ”

The two of them lifted each other and drank it.

Wu Qing shook his head. said: "Li Gong's words are wrong. ”

Li Youdao was stunned for a moment, and looked up at Wu Qing, as if asking why.

Wu Qing smiled slightly and said: "The people that Wu Qing respects are all people of insight and who cherish the country, not people who are vegetarian and flattering. ”

Suddenly, Li Youdao understood that if he didn't have the two characteristics that Wu Qing said, he wouldn't have drunk here, but would have been thrown into a village or barracks as a miscellaneous worker. So what will be the fate of his wife and daughter? Thinking of this, Li Youdao trembled. He had never experienced exile, but he also knew that how many of those who were exiled to Lingnan were still alive? Wives and daughters were subjected to arbitrary sexual humiliation, and they were subjected to heavy daily labor. It would be better if there was a better prefectural order, but if there were bullies or something, it would be similar to the legendary hell.

At this time, Li Youdao no longer dared to sit still, he got up slowly, and then bowed deeply to Wu Qing, and arched his hand: "Your Highness's kindness, Li Youdao is unforgettable in this life, Li Mou thanked His Highness for the whole family." If His Royal Highness has any orders, Li Mou will definitely repay him. ”

Wu Qing waved his hand, didn't care, and said: "Li Gong doesn't have to be like this, since I invited you here, I naturally want Li Gong to make some contributions to the Western Regions." This king is not hypocritical, this king has a big plan, that is, to completely turn the entire Western Regions into the land of my Great Zhou, instead of setting up a fetter state like the previous dynasty, so the Western Regions need talents like Li Gong. ”

Li Youdao also suddenly understood, why didn't the empress give them a chance if she exiled them here? So he arched his hand and said: "Your Highness has orders, and You Dao will do his best." ”

Wu Qing stood up, in fact, didn't he just wait for such a moment, and smiled faintly, "There will be a position in the Governor's Mansion of Broken Leaf Town, but there will be no one in this position, can Gong Li understand?" ”

Li Youdao has been in the officialdom for many years, how can he not understand, he is a rogue and naturally cannot be a long-term history, but he can have the authority and material of a long-term history. In any case, this may be the only guarantee for his family to survive.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for promoting." Li Youdao bowed and thanked.

Wu Qing waved his hand and said, "You don't have to thank me, this is what this king should do." But remember the king's warning, and don't let the king hear the news of rebellion. Otherwise, I believe you have heard of the king's methods. Of course, this is just a warning, whether you are loyal to the Tang Dynasty or not, this king doesn't care, but doing your job well is the only condition for your survival. ”

Although Li Youdao had resentment in his heart, he also knew very well that what Wu Qing said was a fact. In fact, in the hearts of many courtiers, there is no difference between Wu Zhou and Li Tang, and some people insist that it is because of the cool official court, which makes them precarious, and the instigators behind the cool officials are those pretentious Wu clansmen. This is also an important reason why the officials are completely disappointed in the Wu family, and it is also the hope that people of insight in the world have a glimmer of hope for the Li family to revive the dynasty.

There may be die-hard loyalists in the world, but these are only a few. The people only care about whether they will be able to eat enough tomorrow and whether the rice jars at home can be filled. Baiguan only hopes that there will be a fair opportunity for promotion in the future, and he can serve a monarch who has a little heart for the world, instead of just enjoying himself and relying on cool officials to exclude dissidents, and the court prime minister is arbitrarily slaughtered.

Just ask, who wants to live in a precarious court?

The empress once showed a natural phenomenon to the officials at a night banquet.

Summer evenings. Or the empress dowager's palace people lit a hungry bonfire in the empty courtyard, and said to the ministers: "Have you seen this bonfire?" ”

When the officials naturally saw it, they said that they had seen it.

The Empress smiled again, "Do you see the moths hovering nearby?" ”

The officials still nodded. But I don't know what the empress wants.

The empress smiled and said: "The officials of Aiqing are all given by me, and I can also take them, degrade them, and kill them." ”

Someone said, "The power of this saint is also." ”

The empress drank her glass, and then said, "I'm afraid you will say that I killed a hundred officials." There was no one left. But you can also see that the moths hovering above the bonfire are thrown into the campfire one after another. Isn't there some truth to that? ”

Then the Empress stood up, looked at her courtiers, and said, "Moths can put out fires." Can't I attract learned people? ”

All the officials were terrified.

This is the mentality of the rulers. That's the Empress's mentality.

In order to survive, Li Youdao accepted Wuqing's conditions and became the invisible long history of the Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion and an important arm of the new Governor Du Fang. And this Du Fang is one of the Wuqing Shadow Guards, who was promoted to Zhonglangjun because of his military merits, and now he has moved to the Governor of Broken Leaves, which can be regarded as a complete career.

And the Dadu Protector of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate of Wuzhile was also not realized, but he was given the position of Governor of Tingzhou. After Wu Qing expressed regret. Uzile also admitted it, after all, it was very good for him, a chieftain of a tribe with only 30,000 tents, to be able to get the position of governor. So the Turgish also settled in Tingzhou. It was mainly used to prevent the Eastern Turks, and the imperial court moved 50,000 Han people to Tingzhou to reclaim the land.

After Broken Leaf deployed various measures, Wu Qing left Broken Leaf, and at the end of February of the second year of longevity, he braved the wind and snow to lead Zuo Yu Linwei to Qiuzi, now the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

King Qiuci had already been waiting for him, and after Wuqing received him politely, he stepped into the city, and saw that the snow in the city had been removed, and he couldn't help but recognize King Qiuci a little more, this King Qiuci was still very good in government affairs.

"King Qiuci, this idea of shoveling snow is good, although the snow is falling heavily, but the past merchants are continuous, shoveling snow, facilitating business travel, and also winning a good reputation for Qiuci. This move is commendable. Wu Qing praised.

He looked at the smiles on the faces of the people in the city, and understood that Qiuzi must have developed well in the past six months, and every household was hung with red lanterns, and there were traces of firecrackers, which showed that the trade routes in the Western Regions were unblocked, and the lives of the people here had improved a lot.

King Qiuzi had a smile on his face, and he couldn't help but be inexplicably grateful to his youngest daughter Bai Yina, this snow shoveling thing was still made by his youngest daughter, but at this moment he could only be ashamed.

"Your Highness let the villain be in charge of civil affairs, and the villain can only do his best and dare not slack off."

Wu Qing smiled slightly, and stepped into the Anxi Metropolitan Mansion, in front of the mansion, a girl with Liujia standing in front of the door, like a Qiuzi woman waiting for her husband to come home.

When Wu Qing saw this scene, he couldn't help but move in his heart, and then stepped forward, helped Bai Yina, who was about to kneel, looked at the frost and snow on her long eyelashes, and said, "It's so cold, how can you come out?" ”

Bai Yina was a little moved, but still said: "Your Highness has let the people of the Western Regions live a peaceful life, and the little woman is a woman, so what's the harm in waiting here." ”

Wu Qing hugged Bai Yina's slender waist and stepped into the mansion. In the carriage behind her, Shizuko Genchu looked at Bai Yina who was walking slowly with envy, and then looked at her very flat lower abdomen, sighed, and got out of the carriage and entered the mansion accompanied by the maidservant.

Wu Qing didn't put a lot of effort into Yuan Chu Jingzi's body, but Yuan Chu Jingzi was incomparable, but he couldn't plant it, which made Yuan Chu Jingzi, who wanted to become a real woman in Wuqing, extremely resentful, every time he was happy, he played tricks that even Wu Qing, who had read countless movies in his previous life, was dazzled.

When he entered the mansion, there were already servants who baked the room warmly, and three pots of charcoal fire burned in the room, and Wu Qing only felt as if he had entered early summer.

"Tell King Qiuzi that the reception banquet will be waived, and let him take care of the government." Wu Qing ordered someone to pass the word.

Then he ordered his servants to prepare dinner, and he himself sat on the couch with Bai Yina and Minamoto Shizuko in his left and right hands.

Looking at Bai Yina's towering lower abdomen, Wu Qing couldn't figure it out, he couldn't plant it so many times with Yuan Chu Jingzi, and this Bai Yina was planted in just three nights, which was a bit unreasonable. But from Fan Lihua's letter, he knew that this child must be his.

"Thank you for your hard work." Wu Qing said to Bai Yina, and then kissed her white earlobe.

Bai Yina blushed. But snuggled up to Wu Qing's shoulder.

Wu Qing looked at Yuan Chu Jingzi, who was becoming more and more tempting on the side, and couldn't help but have some expectations for this slut in his heart, it seems that some women are suitable for childbirth. And some women are suitable for fun.

That night, Wu Qing and Yuan Chu Jingzi played tricks for a few hours, and then fell asleep.

The next day, he summoned the subordinate officials of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, a total of three people, Guo Zhiyun, who was in charge of public security, and two small officials who were in charge of document writing.

Wu Qing asked, "Where are the exiles who are assigned to Qiuzi being held, and how many people are there in total?" ”

The scribe Zhao Xi was a native of Qiuzihan. Originally, he was a scribe of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The most people who have been assigned to Qiuzi are the largest, with a total of more than 3,800 people. They are all imprisoned in dungeons and abandoned dwellings. ”

Wu Qing was stunned for a moment, then asked coldly, "Can you make a charcoal fire?" ”

The scribe suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and when he looked at it, he knew that these two scribes were making trouble. Wu Qing couldn't help but be furious. He drew his long sword and stabbed two scribes to death with a single sword. Guo Zhiyun hurriedly ordered someone to carry the two out.

Wu Qing said slowly: "I ordered all the governors to ensure the safety of the displaced people before, such a harsh winter, imprisoned in the dungeon, and not given warmth, what is the reason, tell me?" ”

Guo Zhiyun knew Wu Qing's temper, and he didn't dare to hide it at this time. Then he said: "Your Highness calmed his anger and retreated from Tibet. Although the people's lives are better, the imperial court has never allocated various expenses such as food and salaries, which has some charcoal stored in the palace, which is enough to survive a winter, but His Royal Highness ordered that the lowly position is only in charge of defense affairs, and is not allowed to intervene in political affairs, so the lowly position can only watch the homeless people starve and freeze. Please punish Your Highness. ”

Wu Qing waved his hand and said: "It's all my fault for being negligent for a while, you don't have to ask for guilt, immediately order the soldiers to light charcoal fires in the dungeon and dwellings, I hope that there are not many people who die, and then order the cook to boil meat porridge and carry it to the prison." ”

Guo Zhiyun got the order, so he immediately opened the treasury, took out charcoal and charcoal, and went to the prison to make a fire.

Wu Qing was not idle, and ordered civil officials such as the record to join the army and the long history to temporarily take over the duties of the capital protector and count the casualties. He didn't go to the dungeon to see, he knew that after a winter, he didn't know how much he froze to death, and he couldn't bear it. If it weren't for him, those exiles wouldn't have died. He was guilty, he didn't expect that the people of the world were still not optimistic about the people.

In the dungeon, the wanderers suddenly saw a group of soldiers coming in, thinking that they were going to kill them, and they couldn't help but burst into tears, and in trembling, they cursed, and some of them cried and cried, and they were extremely sad.

It wasn't until the soldiers lit the charcoal basins in the aisles that the homeless people finally fell silent. An old homeless man asked, "Master Jun, why do you want to make a charcoal fire?" ”

The soldier hurriedly bowed down and said, "Old man, this is ordered by His Royal Highness the King of Wei." ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Wei?" Everyone shouted softly, with infinite questions.

The soldier said: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei only rushed to Qiuzi from Broken Leaves last night, and this morning I heard that the Liuren did not warm the charcoal fire, and beheaded two scribes, so I waited for the Liuren to make a fire, and there will be meat porridge for a while!" ”

Hearing this, the crowd was silent for a moment, until a smell of meat porridge entered their noses, and the streamers shouted "Long live King Wei", and the soldiers reported to Wu Qing and scared Wu Qing half to death.

Who dares to call the word "long live", not to mention that I don't know how many people in this army have been bribed, and after thinking about it again, I decided to clear up the involvement first, so I gave the empress a secret recital.

Shendu.

The empress's mood at this time was complicated, because of the New Year's sacrifice, she wanted to recall Wuqing and take Wuqing as the second sacrifice, but she was not at ease about handing over the affairs of the Western Regions to others, so she had to let Wu Chenghei be sacrificed, and Wu Sansi was finally offered. Let Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi compete for the crown prince's heart rekindle, and constantly annoy themselves.

At this time, a palace maid came to report, "Holy Lord, the princess has come to see you." ”

The empress was stunned, she had never seen Taiping since the first day, but she didn't expect her to come back today, so she said, "Let her in." ”

Taiping is still beautiful and moving, stepping into the Lijing Palace, seeing Shangguan Wan'er sorting out the music, the empress is looking at herself, so she walked up to the empress, bowed and said: "Mother, my daughter misses you, when will the concubine come back?" ”

The empress pulled up Taiping, lovingly stroked Taiping's tender hand, and said: "The horse is making great achievements, you, just rest assured that you can take care of your body here, and when he comes back, he will have another one." ”

Princess Taiping said coquettishly: "Mother" immediately took out an envelope sealed with fire paint and handed it to the empress, "This is the secret music that the horse sent to you." ”

The empress was stunned for a moment, looked at the fire paint, it was intact, then opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be stunned in her heart, and then she understood in her heart, but there was no fluctuation on her face. Princess Taiping couldn't see it, so she didn't dare to ask.

"Come today, don't leave, I will let the imperial chef cook a few good dishes you love to eat, and accompany me to drink a few cups." The Empress stared into Princess Taiping's eyes.

As she grew older, her body gradually aged, and the empress's consciousness also underwent a heavy transformation, she no longer had much desire for physical desire, but more wanted to enjoy the family pleasure of her children. She can't enjoy Li Dan and Li Xian's family happiness, only from her daughter and grandson. Therefore, the empress does not love Taiping and her grandsons Wu Chongyuan, Wu Chongrun, and Wu Yuaner, these two sons and one daughter were all born to Princess Taiping.

Now Wu Chongyuan is ten years old, like a little adult. Extremely smart, loved by the empress, named Zhou Guogong, Wu Chongrun was seven years old, named Lixian male, Wu Yuaner was named Wuqing County Lord. In short, Taiping's sons and daughters were all knighted because Princess Taiping was favored. This made Wu Qing very helpless.

Seeing the flickering hope in the empress's eyes, Taiping nodded heavily and said, "Mother has a life, but my daughter dares to disobey her life?" (To be continued......)