The matter that Doulu Qinwang, Tao Wenjie, and Yang Fan were discussing at the moment was how to completely defeat the cool official group gathered in the Yushitai.

Among these three people, Yang Fan and Tao Wenjie are on Princess Taiping's side, and Doulu Qinwang is on Li Zhaode's side, Li Zhaode and Princess Taiping both want to defeat Yushitai, a powerful enemy who has been committed to framing hundreds of officials and attacking the ministers of the Baoli faction for many years, Doulu Qinwang and Tao Wenjie have already received instructions from their masters in advance, so the negotiation between the three of them is very smooth.

In short, the result of the discussion was that in the future, Doulu Qinwang would use his eloquent skills to be responsible for "making peace with the mud", "pretending to be a good person", and "playing Tai Chi pusher", while Tao Wenjie would be responsible for formulating specific strategies and actions to attack Yushitai.

As for Yang Fan......

Yang Fan is naturally going to act as the chief thug of the Criminal Department, a double-flower red stick!

Well, in the words of Doulu Qinwang, Yang Fan is: "The pioneer of the fight against the underworld, the nemesis of crime!" ”

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People who can be photographed by Princess Taiping naturally have extraordinary skills.

Tao Wenjie quickly drew up a meticulous, detailed, all-round, and three-dimensional jihua to attack the Yushitai.

Many of the methods used in this jihua are similar to the methods used by Lai Junchen to collect evidence and attack ministers in the first place--I know that the methods listed in Lai Junchen were not originally imaginary, but successful examples of the imperial historians collecting evidence and attacking political opponents, and Lai Junchen only collected them and compiled them into a book.

At the same time, Yang Fan also learned through Zhao Yu that Jiang Gongzi had suffered a big loss in Chang'an, and his many years of foundation in Chang'an had fallen into the hands of Shen Mu.

In view of this, Tian Ainu did not dare to make any more reservations about Yang Fan. She told Yang Fan all the information she knew about Jiang Gongzi, and Yang Fan was also careful after learning how big Jiang Gongzi's shili was.

Of course, in view of the fact that Jiang Gongzi's shili is unlikely to make a public appearance against the government, the main thing he is most afraid of is Lu Boyan, who is said to be much more clever than Situ Liang. But since Situ Liang appeared inexplicably, Jiang Gongzi's side has not moved, and Yang Fan can only stand still.

Now. Anu is hiding in the yamen of the Criminal Department, and he gets along day and night, this feeling is extraordinarily sweet, whether it is Yang Fan or Tian Ainu, they are not in a hurry to change this relationship.

This kind of relationship is very special, both sweet and ambiguous, but very different from the wife or lover, mixed with the ambiguity of love, is their working relationship. Yang Fan and Xiaoman also worked together in the palace, but now Anu's identity is Yang Fan's long-term follower. It's a different story.

These days, the relationship between the two has gradually recovered, but now it is the strong pressure from Jiang Gongzi that has become a powerful liliang that prevents them from combining, Yang Fan doesn't know what Jiang Gongzi's plans are to come to Luoyang, and he doesn't know how much potential strength he has in Luoyang. He can only respond to change with the same.

But on the other hand, after Tao Wenjie's jihua was drafted, there were difficulties in implementation.

In order to encircle and suppress a Shili group, it is also necessary to take into account factors such as time, location, people, and so on.

At present, the New Year is approaching, and the New Year is a very important festival for the Chinese, and it is not an appropriate time to launch an encirclement and suppression of the Yushitai at this time, but because of the New Year's Festival, the efficiency of the various yamen will slow down, and there will be ample time for the Yushitai to respond.

Doulu Qinwang, Tao Wenjie, and Yang Fan have not yet discussed a result in whether they will attack the year before or calmly arrange the new year, and the accident has made them completely give up Jihua, who launched an attack on Yushitai a year ago.

This accident is the triumph of Master Xue Huaiyi Xue!

Xue Huaiyi didn't fight, this benevolent brother was really a lucky general, he led the army to the Western Regions, and he was only halfway there, so he didn't have to continue to advance, because his opponent was the same as the last time, and he was gone.

The Mo Du, who led the troops to invade Lingzhou, didn't know if it was because of what had happened inside, or because he heard that Da Zhou had sent 200,000 troops, considering that he was alone and too risky, in short, he retreated.

If he retreats to the prairie, Xue Huaiyi will naturally have nothing to fight, and it is impossible for Xue Huaiyi to ask for hardships and go deep into the desert to take the initiative to attack.

For a long time, the desert grassland is a moat set up by God to help the nomadic people, and the farming people rarely have the ability to send a large army deep into the desert, thinking that when the stirrup was not invented, the Hun cavalry was not as strong as the current grassland people, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu to make the country ten rooms and nine empty, and it was about to collapse, today's Wu Zetian is not comparable to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and today's Xue Huaiyi is not as good as Wei Qing and Huo Quai.

So, Xue Huaiyi is really as Li Zhaode said when he was doing it for him: the horse has been successful, or even the horse has not arrived and the success has been completed. He didn't shoot an arrow, he didn't shoot an arrow, he achieved a great achievement, Xue Huaiyi excitedly said to the court, "Mo Du fled as soon as he heard the prestige of the Sprinkle family, and asked Bixia Yunchen to return to the court!" ”

Xue Huaiyi's return to the court would not have had any impact on the encirclement and suppression of the imperial envoy by the criminal department, but after the news of Xue Huaiyi's "great victory" was transmitted back to Luoyang, Empress Wu Zetian suddenly had an idea: she thought that the army had already set off, so there was no need to go back and forth like this, and it was better to let the army continue to go on the expedition, but the battle goal was changed to "recapture the four towns of Anxi".

After several years of preparation, the imperial court has been ready to recover the four towns of Anxi, whether it is in terms of grain and grass, armor and arrows or sergeant training, if it were not for the sudden attack of the Turks, Wu Zetianyuan also planned to use troops, she planned to send troops to recover the four towns of Anxi after the New Year, and now she is just pushing the boat down the river and advancing Jihua a few months in advance.

Because of this incident, there was a fierce debate between the DPRK and China, some agreed to send troops, some thought that it should be carried out according to the original Jihua, and some opposed the expedition, and all parties had different opinions.

Doulu Qinwang discussed with Tao Wenjie and Yang Fan, and decided to suspend Jihua for the time being, and wait for the dispute between the DPRK and China to end. After some heated debate between the DPRK and China, since Wu Zetian himself was in favor of the expedition, his opinions gradually became unified, and he agreed to send troops. It's just that the military salary originally raised was to attack the Turks and recapture Lingzhou, but at this time it was changed to an expedition to the four towns of Anxi, and at the end of the year, the finances were inevitably a little tight.

Doulu Qinwang made a suggestion to the emperor, suggesting that all officials above the ninth rank of the Great Zhou should dedicate two months of Yulu as military expenses, Wu Zetian was a little moved, but this fact has no precedent, she first let out the news to test the reaction of hundreds of officials, and this matter really caused the dissatisfaction of the officials.

Doulu Qinwang wanted to show his support for the emperor and show his high demeanor as an official, but he let him take advantage of the limelight, but for others, there was only a loss ��1 Some officials did not make a profit, and they all relied on Yulu to maintain their relatively decent life, and they could not bear it if they gave two months of Yulu.

For example, he was transferred to the Imperial History Observatory after he came to Junchen and other officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory or was killed or demoted or exiled, and this Imperial Historian was still incorruptible, and his family had no savings, so he couldn't stand it if he deducted two months' salary, so the Imperial Historian immediately wrote a righteous and stern impeachment note, citing scriptures to refute the absurd remarks of Doulu Qinwang.

Wang Qiuli's refutation was responded to by a large number of officials, and Wu Zetian saw that the officials had rebounded too much, so he had to give up this jihua.

At this time, Wu Sansi was still in full swing about the matter of casting Tianshu, and the craftsmen of Sanyang Palace and Xingtai Palace had already rushed to the construction site, cleaned the ground, planned the drawings, and purchased masonry and wood. These three projects cost a lot of money, but no one proposed to suspend the construction to help the military funds, and Wu Zetian himself also ignored them intentionally or unintentionally.

In the end, the problem of military spending was solved by the household department racking its brains, and the method used was nothing more than to eat food. General Xue Huaiyi received the emperor's will, retired and returned to the imperial court, while the army continued to march westward, and the imperial court sent another general Wang Xiaojie who was familiar with the situation in the Western Regions to command, officially opening the prelude to the war to recover the four towns of Anxi.

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Wang Xiaojie was appointed as the chief of the Wuwei Army, and chased after his expeditionary army, at this time Luoyang City had ushered in the New Year's Day of the new year.

This year's New Year's Day is November 1st.

During the Xia Shang Zhou, the Xia Dynasty took the first day of the first month as the New Year's Day, and the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival at that time were the same day. The Shang Dynasty took the first day of December as New Year's Day, and the Zhou Dynasty took the first day of November as New Year's Day∝ and after the first emperor ruled the world, he thought that his merits were not inferior to the ancient emperors, so he ingeniously made a first day of October as New Year's Day.

Since then, most of the New Year's Day of each dynasty and generation is based on the calendar established by the Xia Dynasty, the first unified dynasty in China, and the first day of the first month is the New Year's Day.

One is renewed, and everything is renewed.

On New Year's Day, the emperor should lead hundreds of civil and military officials to sacrifice heaven and earth.

Wu Zetian convened all the officials above the fifth grade in Beijing in the Vientiane Shrine to hold a grand ceremony to worship the heavens and the earth, Wu Zetian was dressed in a black crown dress, decorated with twelve chapter patterns, and many accessories such as knee covering, leather belts, large belts, and ribbons. Wearing a crown on her head, twelve rows of tiaras adorned with precious jade blocked her old face from the back, looming more and more majestic.

Yang Fan is a five-grade official, just among the officials who are qualified to participate in the great sacrifice of heaven and earth today, he is also wearing a solemn sacrificial dress, and the entire Vientiane Shrine is black and pressed, with the loud singing of the Great Honglu, they bow together, worship heaven and earth, and listen to Wu Zetian read the prayer of the sacrifice to the sky.

After the emperor's first offering, it should be offered by the crown prince, but after Wu Zetian read the prayer for the sacrifice to the sky and stepped aside, an unexpected scene appeared.