Li Zhaode came out of the Vientiane Shrine, straightened his waist, and felt a deep tiredness. Compared with those old prime ministers who are often seventy or eighty years old, Li Zhaode, who is in his sixties, is considered to be a young and powerful person, but the whole world is pressed on his shoulders, and he still feels a little powerless.

There are many things to discuss at today's court meeting, and the first thing is particularly important, which is Wu Zetian's most proud achievement: recovering the four towns of Anxi.

This credit is hers, and it is the most brilliant achievement of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, so Wu Zetian does not hesitate to publicize it and reward it. More than 100 civil and military officials who participated in the recovery of the four towns of Anxi were commended, and the commander Wang Xiaojie even went to the next level as the general of the left guard, moved the Xia Guanshangshu and Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Sanpin, and became the prime minister of the dynasty.

Wang Xiaojie has made such a great contribution, it is inevitable that he will be promoted to prime minister, Li Zhaode will not stop it, and he does not need to stop it, Wang Xiaojie's prime minister is the same as Lou Shide's prime minister, it is just an honorary title, and he will not share his power.

Power is a kind of thing that makes people fluttering, food and brocade clothes can't be compared, children and grandchildren can't be compared to knees, beauties and beauties can't be compared, and longevity is not compared, it is the biggest temptation in the world, the empress can even kill her children and grandchildren's families and her own flesh and blood for power, he just drags his old body, hard work, tiredness, what is this?

Today, the second thing discussed in the court can be said to be the icing on the cake for the first thing: Tianshu has caused!

"Tianshu" stands at the end gate of the imperial city, consumes the total steel output of the country for two years, Tianshu is one hundred and five feet high, ten feet in diameter, eight sides, five feet in diameter each, cast iron mountain under Tianshu, one hundred and seventy feet in circumference, two zhang high, take copper as the dragon, the unicorn surrounds it, and the top is cast Tengyun Chenglu plate. Three feet in diameter. The four dragons hold fire beads, one zhang high.

"Tianshu" is engraved with the names of civil and military officials and Siyi chiefs and the inscription that records Wu Zetian's dethronement of Wu Lizhou, and there is also a line of big characters in Wu Zetian's handwriting: "Great Zhou Wanguo Song De Tianshu!" ”

On the day of the completion of Tianshu, it coincided with the return of Wang Xiaojie to the court, and Wu Zetian lavishly rewarded the meritorious ministers, and the inscription that recorded Wu Zetian's achievements was more convincing, so Wu Zetian cherished this opportunity to publicize his merits. Let the civil and military officials discuss a grand celebration ceremony.

Now Li Zhaode has decided on the major affairs of the DPRK and China, and the so-called 100 official deliberations are completely planned by him alone, in order to make this grand ceremony majestic and magnificent, Li Zhaode racked his brains and finally satisfied the empress. Of course, this matter also consumed a lot of his mind.

The other thing seems to be a little incompatible with this festive situation, because the third thing is to kill people, kill the people of Yushitai. Originally, some ministers suggested that the treatment be postponed, and on the day of the big day, it seemed unlucky to see blood.

But Wu Zetian himself objected, she walked all the way out of the sea of blood by stepping on countless corpses. How can you care about killing? Murder in her opinion. It added a bit of solemnity to this ceremony, and it was in contrast to the more than 100 officials who recovered Anxi. It seems that she has clear rewards and punishments.

The emperor himself doesn't care, Li Zhaode is naturally as good as a stream, not to mention that he himself also wanted to execute the cool officials of the Yushitai as soon as possible, the night is long and dreamy, since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, the changes in the court are even more frequent and unpredictable, so it is better to kill these people as soon as possible.

As a result, one of the zuihou of the court was to announce the crimes of a group of cool officials in the Imperial Historical Observatory and execute them publicly.

Huang Jingrong and Liu Guangye have died in southern Xinjiang, and they have only been removed from their official positions. Others, such as Wan Guojun, Wu Rang, Zhao Jiulong, Wang Deshou and others, were all beheaded.

Once the scenery was infinite, even the prime ministers of the political hall were afraid of the snake and scorpion, the imperial history platform was wiped out, and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military bullets celebrated each other, it seems to be ...... The cool politics of the Wu Zhou Dynasty came to an end with the death of these people.

The criminals paraded through the streets, and then were dragged to the three cities of the north, south, and east respectively to be publicly beheaded, and abandoned the city for three days.

The North City Execution Ground is crowded with people.

Most of the people who have been persecuted by the Imperial Historical Observatory are official eunuchs, although this time the cool officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory will not be rehabilitated because they blackmailed the barbarians in southern Xinjiang and framed the exiles to rebel, but some of their family members, relatives, and friends in Beijing still set up incense cases around the execution ground, lit incense candles, burned paper money, and waited for the moment the head landed on the ground, comforting the souls of the deceased relatives in heaven.

Among the many incense cases of different sizes set up for wronged relatives, there is a small inconspicuous incense case, in which two teenagers, a man and a woman, kneel in linen and filial piety in front of the spiritual seat. They are a pair of sons and daughters of Feng Junheng, Feng Yuanyi and his sister Feng Min'er.

Feng Min'er had already been arrested in the teaching workshop and filled into an official slave, Feng Junheng's case was rehabilitated, she was released, and she was also picked up by Yang Fan and temporarily placed in her own home. Today, the court publicly beheaded a group of cool officials, and the two sisters and brothers also came to the execution ground and laid out an incense case for their relatives.

The execution ground was quiet, the alleys were empty, there was no sound at all, and even the cold and clear voice of the prison officer could be heard clearly by everyone in the audience. When the executioner raised the ghost-headed knife high, the audience was even more silent, as if a needle could be heard falling to the ground.

The knife rose and fell, and a cold light brought up a rain of blood!

As the knife fell, as the blood rain rose, it was like opening the ghost gate on July 15, and the terrible and terrifying cries quickly filled the audience, and countless people cried like rain, they were not crying for the cool officials who were cut down, but crying for their dead relatives: "Enemy, finally beheaded!" ”

In the cry, they worshiped the deceased, cursed the cool officials, and naturally they also mentioned Yang Fan, if it wasn't for Yang Fan's risky trouble, birth and death, how could the enemy be beheaded, and how could the relatives be blind? However, when they offered the tablet of immortality and kowtowed to their benefactors to offer incense, they didn't expect Yang Fan to stand among them.

Yang Fan was dressed in soap clothes, standing behind Feng Yuanyi's sister and brother, waiting for the two of them to incense, worshiping their deceased father, and when they fell to the ground and wept bitterly, they sighed softly, stepped forward, sifted a glass of water and wine, and gently poured it in front of Feng Junheng's spiritual position, and turned around to help Feng Yuanyi's sister and brother, and said in a low voice: "The deceased is gone, now that the enemy has given the head, your father can also look at it, mourn!" ”

"Brother Yang!"

Feng Yuanyi threw himself into his arms and cried loudly. Yang Fan gently patted him on the shoulder, and said comfortingly to Feng Min'er, who was wiping tears on the side: "Now that Ling Zun has been rehabilitated, you have regained your free body." In a few days, I will send you back to Lingnan! ”

Feng Yuan, who was crying on his shoulder, opened his mouth to speak as soon as he heard this, but when he saw his father's spiritual position in a blink of an eye, in front of his father's spirit, how could he bear to say his plan and make his deceased father's spirit in the sky painful and uneasy? Words to the lips. He swallowed it back......

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Li Zhaode returned to the political hall. There were two stacks of tall cases waiting for him in the government hall.

Li Zhaode stood in the court all morning, his heel hurt, and he instructed the little chamberlain to fetch a bucket of hot water, take off his official boots, and put his feet in the bucket of hot water, and then let out a long breath of relief.

Although there were many official documents on the case, he was not bored at all. On the contrary, seeing the case stacked high, he felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart. Every case is a power, or someone should be promoted for meritorious service, or someone should be severely punished for breaking the law. Or a certain place should be allocated money and food for disaster relief, or a certain infrastructure needs to be approved, all of this is up to him.

Herbs were put in the water, and the hot water seeped into his skin, enlivening his blood for him, and his mind fluttered like a fairy as he reviewed the music. There's a strange thrill.

"Be diligent in government. Dare to do anything, I am the humerus. You can't leave it! This is what the Empress said about him.

I don't know how many official documents were approved, Li Zhaode's presbyopia eyes were already full of tears, and his old back was so sore that he was about to break off, so he had to regretfully put down the official documents, beckoned the little chamberlain to bring a wet towel to wipe his face, pulled his feet out of the already cold wooden barrel, and put on a pair of high-toothed clogs, wanting to go behind the screen and let the little chamberlain massage his shoulders and back.

As soon as Li Zhaode got up, a small chamberlain walked in lightly and bent down to report: "Li Xiang, the new Tianguan Langzhong Yang Fan asks to see you!" ”

"Oh?"

Li Zhaode was unmoved, as if he had known that Yang Fan would come, he walked behind the screen as usual, and ordered lightly: "Call him in!" ”

Yang Fan followed the little chamberlain into the political hall, but did not see Li Zhaode, Yang Fan's eyebrows raised slightly, the little chamberlain kept at his feet, walked to the side of the screen, glanced back at him, and motioned for him to follow.

Yang Fan smiled knowingly, followed with his steps, bypassed the screen, and saw that the painting screen enclosed a space, with a bed in the middle, and a pillar of sandalwood burning at the head of the bed.

Li Zhaode rested his chin on the back of his hand, closed his eyes, and didn't open his eyes when he heard Yang Fan come in.

Yang Fan stood still, gave him a long bow and said, "Xiaguan Yang Fan, I have seen Li Xiang." ”

Li Zhaode closed his eyes and said, "Hmm! The servant wanted to invite Erlang to a banquet yesterday, but he didn't expect the master to hold a banquet for you. Today's official business is busy, but there is no time to drink, and I plan to invite Erlang to come over tomorrow, why is this here? ”

Yang Fan smiled politely and said: "Where can Xia Guan be worthy of Li Xiang's invitation, I just returned to Beijing yesterday, and I wanted to visit Li Xiang after seeing Bixia, I don't want to see Yang Fan for a long time, and under the joy, I have set up a banquet in Jinchai drunk, so I didn't come to visit until now." ”

“haha……”

Li Zhaode smiled loudly, opened his eyes, looked at Yang Fan with a smile, and said: "Erlang returned to Beijing this time, and was promoted to the rank of Tianguan Lang, the right to know the Tianguan Lang, gratifying, congratulations!" ”

When Yang Fan heard this, he made a bitter face: "The lower officials are soft-spoken, and the new officials have no foundation to speak of, a small bamboo raft is about to weigh on a heavy burden, and the lower officials are worried...... It's going to sink! ”

Li Zhaode raised his white eyebrows and glanced at him with interest: "Even the cool officials of the Yushitai who are as fearful as snakes and scorpions in the Manchu Dynasty, Erlang is not afraid, how can he ...... Is it difficult to be a heavenly official and a servant? ”

Yang Fan shook his head, smiled worriedly, and shook aggrievedly: "The sharp teeth and claws of the cool officials of the Yushitai can be seen and touched, and they are not powerful. But the position of the official Lang in this day is different, especially the turmoil of the election of officials in southern Xinjiang, the undercurrent is turbulent, sinister and abnormal, and one careless will have to be crushed. ”

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