The new year has arrived, and this year, Wu Zetian, who likes to change the year name, has set an era name in advance: Shenlong.

Wu Zetian has always persistently believed that changing her name can change her luck, perhaps she wants to improve her physical condition by this new era name, so that she can still rise like a dragon and soar above the nine heavens.

However, her health did not improve because of this, and after the imperial doctor had treated her body, he resolutely opposed her participation in a series of New Year's celebrations. The stubborn Wu Zetian had no choice but to give in to her two little lovers and gave up the opportunity to participate in the New Year's celebration.

While Wu Zetian was still sober, Erzhang, who had not discussed a good countermeasure, also asked Wu Zetian for advice in a roundabout way, expressing their deep worries, but Wu Zetian did not think so, she firmly believed that her body would get better, and she did not feel that she was terminally ill.

At the same time, Wu Zetian is very confident in the future pattern of the Wu Zhou Empire that she designed with one hand, and the Wu and Zhou empires ruled by the Li family, she does not believe that the Wu and Li families will unite against her, as long as the Wu and Li families cannot unite, the political system she designed is absolutely stable, and the Wu and Li clans are holding each other back, how can anyone be unfavorable to the two Zhang?

However, in the difficult period of personnel and unpredictable people's hearts, her careful arrangements and precautions, with her aging and her excessive connivance with Erzhang, have become full of loopholes and vulnerable, and it seems impossible to unite the Wu and Li families, because Erzhang's sudden rise has destroyed the balance between them, and they have joined forces to prepare to plot against her, the supreme emperor.

Wu Zetian was forced to cancel or not participate in a large number of celebrations due to her physical condition, but she did not want to cancel the ceremony of the pilgrimage of the Son of Heaven on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and she did not want to avoid attending. She knows. If she doesn't even participate in such an important ceremony, her control over the court will further shrink.

However, with her current physical condition, even if she only sat on the throne and said nothing, it was difficult to support it, so Wu Zetian changed the visit of all civil and military officials and imperial relatives, meritorious heroes and magnates in Beijing to more than five grades after careful consideration. After that, it was changed to more than three grades.

Rao was like this, she did not insist until the official worship was over, and she was forced to retreat to the dormitory to rest in a sweat, so that her acceptance of the pilgrimage of the hundred officials did not achieve any effect at all. On the contrary, it had the opposite effect, and the officials became more and more worried about the emperor's physical condition. Discussing the emperor's posthumous affairs has become an open topic.

In this case. Wu Zetian, who had already been watched by countless people and stared at by countless pairs of eyes, did two more things, which aroused the vigilance of Zhang Cambodia and others, who were actively planning military advice, and prompted them to decide to launch military advice immediately.

I don't know if it was because of an emperor's instinctive reaction when he was critically ill, or because Wu Zetian naively discovered something, after the fifteenth day of the first month, Wu Zetian suddenly ordered Qianniuwei to participate in the palace guard. Due to the inconvenience of transfer during the New Year, after repeated persuasion by Zhang Khan Zhi, Cui Xuanhui and others, she decided to postpone the implementation until after the first month.

Another thing is that she met Prime Minister Yang Zaisi with her illness. I don't know what I discussed with him, but it took half a day before Yang Zaisi left the emperor's bedroom.

Now Zhang Changzong is the general of Zuo Qianniu Weizhonglang, and he can command this army justifiably, and Yang Zaisi has been sycophant to Erzhang, thinking that he is Erzhang's disciple, Wu Zetian's actions may just listen to Erzhang's worries and confessions, and intend to add a layer of protection for them, but for the two parties of Wu and Li, who are plotting big things, it is a chill in their hearts.

As a result, Zhang Cambodia, who "seized the day", resolutely decided to immediately implement the military advice.

But this time, it also required all kinds of preparations, so they began to learn the news on the 16th day of the first lunar month and decided to admonish the army, and they prepared intensively for five days, and spent five days of hard work like a year, and then began to officially implement it.

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On the 22nd day of the first lunar month, it snowed heavily.

In the first month, state affairs are relatively relaxed, and the prime ministers are old, so they take turns to be on duty in the political hall, and this day is the day when the two prime ministers Zhang Cambodia and Cui Xuanhui are on duty.

In the afternoon, the snow was getting heavier and heavier.

Zhang Cambodia walked to the bottom of the corridor, looked at Qiong Yao in the garden, raised his hands and stretched his body, Zhang Cambodia was moving, Cui Xuanhui also walked out of his duty room, and when he saw Zhang Cambodia, he smiled and said: "Brother Meng Jiang, you are so idle." ”

Zhang Cambodia laughed and said: "I am not busy with government affairs in the first month, but I still have to sit in this class, and I haven't dealt with anything in the morning, and my old bones are itching." ”

Cui Xuanhui said: "Brother Meng Jiang, why don't you play chess to kill time?" ”

Zhang Cambodia thought about it for a while, and said, "Make it." Then he strode towards Cui Xuanhui's duty room.

As soon as the two entered the house, the two little eunuchs who were guarding the hall closed the door and led them around the main hall where government affairs were handled, and turned into the room where the prime minister was resting. The two walked all the way, and the relaxed expression on their faces became cold unconsciously, and they could no longer see the slightest smile.

The four of them stood still in the bedroom, Cui Xuanhui gestured to the two little chamberlains, and the two little chamberlains pushed open the back window, and there were also heavy snow outside the window, and there were two people standing in the snow, with a thick layer of snow on their heads and shoulders, and it could be seen from the color of their robes and clothes that they were also palace attendants.

As soon as the window was opened, the four inner and outer attendants took action, set up footstools, helped the two old prime ministers out of the window, and then draped the two-piece one-piece cloak that had been prepared in advance on them, covering their heads and bodies.

"Two ministers, please go this way!"

A small waiter outside the window said in a low voice, leading Zhang Cambodia and Cui Xuanhui to leave in a hurry. The little chamberlain who stayed outside the window was very tall, and he said to the two little chamberlains in the room with a solemn expression: "You two go back and stay in the front hall, so that no one can find out that the two ministers have left!" ”

The two little chamberlains said yes and covered the window. The tall chamberlain looked up at the gray sky, and the snow fell from his head, and he did not speak, but pursed his lips, and strode away. Looking at his appearance, it is Gao Lishi.

Snow falls silently.

The guards draped in oilcloth hoods stood straight under the Xuanwu Gate. The wind was uncertain under the doorway, and the snowflakes drilled straight into the doorway, causing the guards to squint their eyes.

Ma Qiao "recovered", he held the handle of the knife and paced nervously through the doorway. Sometimes he walked into the gloomy doorway, and even his figure could not be seen clearly, and sometimes he paced out, and the snow reflected his face pale. That's not frozen, it's nervous.

At this moment, he still has a dream-like feeling, thinking that he was just a gangster who lived a nightmare life, and he couldn't even wake up and squint when he listened to the bell and opened the door. It's this little fart who can take on such an important mission today. Participate in the military advice that determines the fortunes of the country.

Distance. In the misty snow, a light car drove over, and when he saw that the official flag was Li Duozuo, the general of the right Yulin, Ma Qiao's eyes shrank, and the car he was waiting for finally came, Ma Qiao immediately waved his hand and said: "Open the door." Release! ”

The stakes are very high, and only he, the general, knows about the military advice, and the officers and soldiers under him are still at a loss, so Ma Qiao is extremely nervous. As a result, the voice has changed a little. Fortunately, the soldiers were not suspicious, and as soon as they heard the general's orders, some guards immediately caught up, lifted down the latch, and opened the heavy palace door.

At this time, Wu Youyi, the general of Zuo Yu Lin Wei, wore a cloak, took a few guards, and walked slowly along the palace wall to the tower of Xuanwu Gate, and saw the light car galloping under the city at a glance, Wu Youyi couldn't help but sigh, although this is the North Palace Gate, but the people who are qualified to drive in the palace are really rare, Wu Youyi was suspicious, because of the heavy snow in the city, and because of his old age and limited eyesight, he wanted to go down to the city to check.

"Tell them to stop!"

Wu Youyi pointed to the city and commanded the guards, and he was about to go down the city.

"General! General Wuda! ”

There was a sudden shout behind him, Wu Youyi turned his head to look, and saw Yang Fan, the general of the Thousand Cavalry Loyal Martial Forces, running out of the city gate tower quickly.

"Haha, general, it's so hard, you're still patrolling the city."

Wu Youyi pointed to the city and asked, "Whose car is that?" ”

Yang Fan glanced at the city and said casually: "Oh! It was General Li Duozuo's car. ”

Wu Youyi snorted and said, "This old horseman, such a big man, how did he get in the car?" ”

In the Tang Dynasty, the military generals of Wenchen were all on horseback, and only a very small number of people who were too old and had difficulty moving could ride or walk to the court, such as Zhang Cambodia.

Yang Fan said with a smile: "General Li fought in the northwest back then, lying on the ice and snow, and got a pair of old cold legs, and he had a leg disease attack in winter, and he couldn't bear it." By the way, General, General Jin Wuwei sent a letter to ask the General to come over, the last general was about to send someone to find the general, and this happened to happen. ”

Talking here, because Wu Youyi had no further instructions to the city, the guard who wanted to go down to the city to drink and order to stop was also zhanzhu, the city gate was wide open, and the car left the city and drove along the empty road of the north city, leaving only two deep and long ruts in the snow.

Wu Youyi couldn't help frowning when he heard Yang Fan's words, and said in his heart: "What is Wu Yizong looking for me to do?" ”

Wu Youyi and Wu Yizong are both princes, and they are both generals who command the army, Wu Youyi was quite dissatisfied with Wu Yizong's behavior of sending people to deliver letters, but he was far less temperamental than Wu Yizong, and he didn't want to hurt the harmony because of this little thing, so he frowned and decided to take a trip.

Wu Youyi ordered his men to bring the horses, and after waiting for about two quarters of an hour, the guards brought the horses from the stable, and Wu Youyi took a group of personal guards down the city, turned on their horses, and left the palace. Yang Fan stood on the city, looking down at the city, Ma Qiao just raised his head from the city, the two of them looked at each other, and they were as sharp as a sword in the snow.

Yang Fan nodded to Ma Qiao, turned around and walked to the other side of the city wall, and on the white imperial road outside the wall, he saw Wu Youyi leading a group of guards to gallop away.

Yang Fan stood motionless at the head of the city, and after a moment's effort, his head and shoulders were covered with a thick layer of snow, like a snowman, but he still didn't move, as if he was not watching Wu Youyi leave, but waiting for someone to come......

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(To be continued......)