The people finally dispersed, and there was nothing left in front of the palace except for a piece of garbage.

Li Yu let out a long breath, climbed down from the palace wall, and then issued an edict with a gloomy face: "Summoning all the civil and military officials, just now they can't enter under the pretext that the palace is besieged, and now there is no reason!" ”

Today's events have taught him a lesson, he originally took into account the influence of his reputation and was unwilling to take too drastic measures, but now it turns out that there are almost no trustworthy people around him, the hundred officials are not enough to trust, the forbidden army is not enough to trust, and the slightly trustworthy Yuan Zai is a talented and talented person.

He had to endure, endure for a long time!

One day, when he doesn't have to endure it anymore, he will settle it all down. He knew very well how Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, who was supported by Huo Guang, later killed Huo Guang's entire family. He also wants to learn from Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, even if he endures for ten or twenty years, he must endure!

When the time comes, kill Ye Chang's whole family, no, the whole family, to wash away today's shame and relieve the hatred in your heart!

Not long after his edict was issued, the important ministers of the court arrived, headed by the prime minister Wei Jiansu, except for Wang Zhonghei, who had been recuperating for a long time, and Ye Chang, who was responsible for supervising the construction of the mountain mausoleum.

Everyone's expressions were very serious, and when they saw their faces, Li Liqiang couldn't hold back his nausea and laughed on his face.

"I am wrong, I am too anxious, and I listen to the treacherous words, and I want to practice the law of patents, so that there will be today's changes. I have repelled Yuan Zai, dismissed all his functions, and will personally go to Tailing to ask King Wei to reinstate. Li Li saw that the ministers did not speak, so he spoke.

As soon as the words were spoken, he found that the expressions of the ministers were very strange, not surprised, not joyful, not even disdainful, but a complex look of multiple thoughts mixed together.

His heart jumped.

Wei Jiansu coughed and glanced at Dugu Ming, who urged impatiently: "Wei Xiangzhushi's minister, if you don't open your mouth, when will you wait!" ”

Wei Jiansu sighed, this matter, after all, he still has to do it, and he also knows that he can't shirk it, even if he resigns now and doesn't do it, it's too late.

Thinking of this, he looked at Li Yu and said slowly: "The minister's body is the heavy grace of the first emperor, and he is entrusted with the weight of the orphan, but the minister's talent is short-sighted, and he is embarrassed by the pillar country, which causes His Majesty to be surrounded by treachery and evil, and the minister cannot advise, but there is today." ”

Li Li heard him open his mouth to reproach himself for being surrounded by treachery, and his hanging heart let go of a small half, so he reproached again: "If I don't do anything, I don't use people properly." ”

"In the past, the king of Changyi was the emperor, and within a month, he committed too many crimes, and he was not as good as today, Huo Guang thought that he could not be the son of heaven, but he was abolished as the marquis of Haidu."

"What do you want to do...... What do you want to do? Hearing this, Li Li shouted in panic: "Stop, stop, don't speak!" ”

"The matter has come to this, although I am sorry for the trust of the first emperor, I have to do it." Wei Jiansu continued.

"Someone, someone, guards, arrest this great rebel! An Yuanguang, grab him, I will crown you king, quick! ”

Naturally, the forbidden army did not move at all.

"Bring King Qing into the side hall, take off the clothes and crown, and where is Fu Xilang?" Wei Jiansu said.

King Qing was the title of Li Li before he was made the grandson, and Wei Jiansu had already deprived Li Li of the throne with a word. Li Li was still roaring and furious, but there were already guards and eunuchs who came up and quickly clamped him. Several of his henchmen were cowering at this time, hiding to the side and shivering.

Li Yu realized at this time that he had betrayed his relatives, and Yuan Zai, who could have relied on him, didn't know where Lu Dao was at this time. He said sharply: "What about Ye Chang, let Ye Chang come to see me, he dares to do such a big rebellion, why don't you dare to come to see me?" ”

Hearing him roar like this, Dugu Ming stepped forward and slapped him, his heart was full of happiness: "You dare to slander King Wei, if it weren't for King Wei, how could you be a great treasure like you?" If it weren't for your suspicion of King Wei, when the first emperor was seriously ill, King Wei could not return to Beijing, how could the national policy not be continued? If King Wei can entrust the lonely auxiliary government, why is the state affairs like this? You don't know, but I know that the first emperor not only told me that you are mediocre talent, if you can follow the rules and let King Wei do it, you can become the most outstanding son of heaven in the Tang Dynasty, but you have no self-knowledge, otherwise why would you be like this? You still dare to scold King Wei, but you know that the person who wants to depose you today is not King Wei, but the royal family of the clan, the ministers of the court, and the 90 million people in the world! If it weren't for the benevolence of King Wei, he would have spared your life, and you can still do this? ”

Dugu Ming came out one after another, and shouted back all Li Li's curses.

Li Li was restrained, and the national seal sigils were also collected, Wei Jiansu looked at Dugu Ming again: "Dugu Gong, what should I do next?" ”

"Naturally, it is persuasion." Dugu Mingdao.

Tailing is not far from Chang'an, when the news of the riots of the people of Chang'an reached Tailing, Ye Chang was practicing calligraphy, and when he heard the person who brought the news say that everyone had surrounded the palace, he couldn't help but comment: "Nonsense!" ”

When the news came that Wei Jiansu led hundreds of officials to welcome Shou'an, he was also stunned.

This is definitely not his instruction!

Others may make all kinds of speculations, but he himself knows very well that he absolutely did not instruct Dugu Ming to establish Shou'an as the emperor. Regarding the political situation in the Tang Dynasty after Li Li, his original plan was to make the cabinet responsible system and the reality of the monarch, but Dugu Ming's genius made him feel like he was being driven to the shelves.

He was pondering what to do next, when he heard the door slam open.

Shou'an, who was dressed in a vegetarian body, had a gloomy face and strode in.

She was murderous, and the servants around her retreated, and soon only the two of them were left in the study.

"When do you want to kill me?" Shou An glared at Ye Chang and asked.

"Why do you say that?"

"I received news that Wei Jiansu, Dugu Ming and others are going to welcome me as the emperor and you as the regent." Shou An was sarcastic: "It turns out that you hit this idea, you are really good at calculating, and it is really calculating!" ”

Ye Chang's face also sank, and he felt extremely angry. It's not Shou'an's accusation, but Shou'an's distrust at the moment.

"If I want to take the throne, who do you think can stop me now?" Ye Chang stood up, his figure was still taller than Shou'an, his eyes were both disappointed and angry: "Everyone in the world can doubt me, but you, you shouldn't doubt me!" ”

Shou An was intimidated by his momentum, and couldn't help but be silent for a while.

Ye Chang is right, others don't know Ye Chang's strength, but she should know the way.

Economic strength, Ye Chang's personal income is enough to be comparable to the disposable financial income of the Tang Dynasty, and tens of millions of yuan a year are not necessary for Ye Chang to rack his brains at all. The steel production capacity he controlled was 1,000 times that of the rest of Datang's steel production, which greatly increased the popularity of iron tools in Datang. The grain output of Liaodong alone can support the food of tens of millions of people for a year, and the cotton cloth produced is enough to coat the world.

In terms of troops, although the number of Wei Wang Huwei was small, and after Li Longji'en, there were only 3,600 people, but one-third of these 3,600 people were already equipped with firearms. From the grenadiers who shined when they put down the chaos at the beginning, to the musketeers who lined up in three rows for three-stage attacks during training, and then to the artillery soldiers who were not many but were highly valued by Ye Chang, the combination of far and near, powerful, both offensive and defensive, as long as the ammunition was sufficient, these 3,600 people were enough to break 30,000 or even more. Among the 480,000 standing troops of the Tang Dynasty, the number of troops directly and indirectly affected by Ye Chang reached nearly 300,000.

As for talents, Lushun Academy's ability to cultivate talents has shown amazing results, Ye Chang called it a "snowball", the number of graduates of more than 1,000 every year is still growing, there is a decade, Ye Chang can cultivate an official system all over the Tang Dynasty, plus those old literati who want to display their talents in front of Ye Chang to win wealth and nobility, Ye Chang is not worried about no one at all now! To some extent, it was precisely because of this realization that the courtiers were so decisive about abandoning Li Li and embracing Ye Chang, because they understood that if they were too hesitant, Ye Chang had someone who could replace them.

"I ...... I ......"

"I originally thought about the reality of the hypocritical monarch, although Li Li is mediocre, as long as he can learn a lesson from this change, and be born in the palace in front of his emperor, the preferential treatment given to the royal family every year will still not be missing, and the various conveniences for the royal family will not stop here...... All these decisions can only be made with your feelings in mind. If it weren't for you, I would have let An Lushan occupy Chang'an at the beginning, and the Li family would have been damaged, and I would have taken it from An Lushan in the name of obedience, and I would not want to sit on this throne! When Ye Chang said this, he sighed: "Worm Niang, you talk about me like this, I ...... It's really sad! ”

Shou An couldn't hold back any longer, and cried bitterly.

Ye Chang's words, word by word, hit her heart, she knew very well that what Ye Chang said was true. At the beginning, after the An Lushan Rebellion was peaceful, she married Ye Chang, and Li Longji also confessed to her: "Don't belittle your husband as an emperor's daughter, you must know that the position of the Son of Heaven is one that your son-in-law disdains to take." ”

She remembered that Li Longji once said that Chang'an, the patriarch of her mother's family, all relied on her. At that time, she felt that it was just her father's words, but now that she thinks about it, she is afraid that Li Longji has long been thinking about what will happen after her death.

Thinking of this, she was both frightened and ashamed, so she cried bitterly.

Ye Chang went over, took her into his arms, patted her shoulder, and sighed slightly.

Dugu Ming's ...... The hatred for the Li family has never gone, so he came up with such a trick that harms others and is not beneficial to himself.

But that's fine.

Holding Shou'an's hand, Ye Chang sat down with her.

"If you don't come today, I'm going to look for you too, tell me about it, the tricks that the ministers played this time, should we take it or not?"

"What?"

"Do you want to be the empress of the Tang Dynasty?" Ye Chang stared at Shou An calmly.

Shou An hesitated.

She originally wanted to say no, but for some reason, she felt excited, and the blood on her body seemed to boil when she thought of being able to become the empress of the Tang Dynasty, a great existence like Wu Zetian, and countless people's lives were taken away.

This feeling is very mellow, and it can only be found when you are intimate with Ye Chang.

Therefore, the rejection to her mouth was swallowed back by her.

"If I say no, how will it end?"

Ye Chang smiled slightly: "That's what I just said, choose the young one as the emperor in the clan, we will raise it carefully, ten or twenty years later, if the young master wants to seize power, then repeat today's events again, after two or three times, if you want to come to the clan, you will die." ”

Speaking of this, Ye Chang said lightly: "Don't worry, I want to set a precedent for future generations, and try to shed as little blood as possible, so as not to cause An Lushan and the anti-Heng generation's behavior to reappear in the world." ”

"What if I agree?"

"If you agree, then be prepared now, but there are some things that should be explained to you first." Ye Chang's eyes froze: "If you don't want your husband and wife to kill each other, and you don't want to kill women and children like the Empress Wu, you have to know these things." ”

"W-What?" Shouyasu's body stiffened.

Just now, she only thought about becoming the Son of Heaven like Wu Zetian, but she forgot that Wu Zetian's position as the Son of Heaven was consolidated, but it was not easy.

"First, it is the relationship between you and me, if you want to be an empress like the queen of martial arts, but I don't rely on it, I can't see you raising a face." Ye Changdao.

Shou An was suddenly angry, stretched out her foot and was about to step on Ye Chang, Ye Chang retracted her foot to dodge, she simply stood up and stepped in front of Ye Chang, but was grabbed by Ye Chang, grabbed her arms, and sat on Ye Chang's lap.

Although he gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Ye Chang, Shou An was only slightly plump, not fat, and sat on Ye Chang's lap and did not feel heavy.

"This is a joke, but Empress Wu's desire for power is too heavy, and she does not allow others to threaten her power, so she regrets Prince Zhang Huai. If you are the empress, if you don't want our husband and wife to turn against each other, and you don't want the mother and son to kill each other in the future, you must restrain this desire, and don't build flesh and blood affection for the villain. Ye Chang let her hit her twice before grabbing her hand.

Shou An's body trembled: "I don't deserve this empress, I don't deserve it!" ”

"I think that if you can listen to me, we will make the future things clear now, and this empress should be right, so as not to be ridiculed by me for usurping the throne." Ye Chang Ha smiled: "Since ancient times, there has been no one who does not shed blood, and if you can do things without bloodshed today, it is also a beautiful talk." ”

Shou An was still a little hesitant when he heard him say this, Ye Chang was not in a hurry, and continued: "In terms of governing the country, there is no one in the world who is on my right, and you are not as good as me, what do you think?" ”

Shou An nodded in agreement, I am afraid that no one in the whole world will have an opinion on this.

"In terms of nobility and inferiority, you are the daughter of the first emperor, your father and ancestor and even the ancestor Taizong have all contributed to the country, so you are more valuable than me, and I also admit this. Therefore, if you are the empress, when you go in and out, you are honored and sacrifice to heaven and earth. The national policy of war etiquette and personnel must be approved by you before it can be implemented. ”

Although what Ye Chang said was beautiful and good, in fact, he handed over the ceremonial power of the retreat to Shou'an, and the specific real power was left to himself. What Shou'an has to do, in addition to ceremonies such as sacrifices and court meetings, is to stamp seals on various folds. In the final analysis, it is still a system that Ye Chang has long had, which not only considers the traditions of the Tang Dynasty, but also combines the characteristics of some constitutional monarchies.

This is by no means a perfect system, and it is impossible to fundamentally eliminate future power disputes, but at least to some extent control such disputes. If he and Shou'an were not husband and wife, any talented and ambitious monarch would not accept his set.