In August of the fourth year of Chang'an, Wu Zetian began to be sick in bed.

At the beginning of September, the weather changed, and Chang'an suddenly snowed, and such a strange weather caused a rumor in the market.

As early as the end of August, the Turkic general Qi Lewen Chong, who had previously returned to Wu Zhou, suddenly rebelled, and the news reached Chang'an in mid-September.

Although Yao Chong is a civil servant, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he knows military affairs. When the Khitan rebellion was at the beginning, Yao Chong had written many times, and the analysis of the military aircraft was very thorough and every word, and Wu Zetian considered him a genius, so he was promoted to be a Xia official squire, until now the official worships the prime minister.

Therefore, it is justified for Wu Zetian to send him to lead the troops, and no one has realized at this time that this is the second wave of counterattack launched by Wu Zetian against the ministers. Wu Zetian, who was bedridden, did not give up her desire for power, and after some careful consideration, she was about to start a series of personnel appointments, and she wanted to make some adjustments to the power structure of the imperial court according to her vision.

Yao Chong is about to lead the troops, and there will be a vacancy in the prime minister's class, and according to the routine, Wu Zetian will ask the prime minister who has returned to his hometown or left his post due to other accidents about the successor. In fact, at this moment, the prime ministers in the political hall are already overcrowded, and there have never been so many prime ministers in the political hall before.

But how many of the current prime ministers are as shrewd and capable as Cen Changqian, Ren Zhigu, Pei Xingben, Di Renjie, and Wei Yuanzhong? The current prime minister is either a sycophancy like Yang Zaisi who eats a vegetarian meal and waits for death, or a treacherous person like Su Wei, who is ambiguous and treacherous.

And Wu Zetian is old and weak, her energy is low, and she doesn't have enough energy to deal with so many national affairs like back then, and she is now more dependent on the assistance of the prime ministers than ever before, so she needs someone who can really do things. Yao Chong recommended Zhang Cambodia, the autumn official waiter, to Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian remembered that Di Guolao had also recommended him. So he gladly agreed.

Of course, Wu Zetian knows that since Yao Chong recommended Zhang Cambodia, then Zhang Cambodia must have the same ambition as Yao Chong, but she knows better that if she wants to govern the country, she still needs such a person. In any case, Zhang Cambodia has just become the prime minister and ranks last in the prime minister's class, so it should be impossible for him to be as radical as Yao Chong.

If after a while, the foundation of this Cambodia will gradually become formed. In the twenty years that she has been in power as the queen mother and emperor, she has changed more than 70 prime ministers, and no emperor has changed his appearance as frequently as she has in the past 20 years. She has long been familiar with this hand.

What's more, Zhang Cambodia is the same age as her. They are all eighty years old. She didn't have a few days to live. Zhang Cambodia's age, what kind of turmoil can he stir up? Therefore, Wu Zetian relaxed his vigilance against him, and after Yao Chong led the army to the expedition, Zhang Cambodia was appointed as the Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Ping Zhangshi, settled in the political affairs hall, and became the prime minister of the dynasty.

The day of Zhang Cambodia's worship of the prime minister. It was October 22 of the fourth year of Chang'an.

On the 23rd, Wu Zetian took Wei Sili, the squire of Fengge, as the inspector of Weizhou's assassination history, and Tongping Zhangshi.

On the 30th, Wu Zetian took Governor Shi Fangrong as the correct doctor. Same as the same chapter.

On November 5, Wu Zetian took Wei Chengqing, the heavenly official waiter, as the Fengge waiter and Tongping Zhangshi.

A series of appointments, like an airtight set of combination punches, were fought mercilessly.

Wei Sili and Wei Chengqing are brothers, and the two brothers entered the cabinet at the same time to pay homage to the prime minister, which was a sensation, and what is alarming is that these brothers are close friends with the two Zhang.

As for Governor Huai Fangrong, who worships the prime minister, he once participated in the compilation of "Three Teachings and Zhuying", and now he is also a party of two Zhang.

When Wu Zetian made this series of adjustments, she had been sick in bed, and these wills were issued through the inner court, which made the people's suspicion worsen. Many people say that these decrees were not given by the female emperor at all, and the empress was already seriously ill and unconscious.

In fact, although Wu Zetian lingered on the sickbed and even stopped in the court, she was not so weak that she couldn't see things, at least these orders were all given by her calling the prime ministers in front of her, and their faces were clear and their minds were clear.

However, the princely faction, the Xiangwang faction, the Liang Wang faction and other factions will naturally not stand up to refute the rumors for her, these rumors are beneficial to them, and they are happy to see these rumors, many of which are actually concocted and spread by their people.

When Wu Zetian promoted three Erzhang's henchmen to the political party in one go, she set out to remove the second thorn in her eye. Since Wei Yuanzhong was demoted, Yao Chong has been the highest representative of the anti-Zhang faction in the political hall, and he is Wu Zetian's first eye thorn.

Now that Yao Chong was sent by her to Lingwu to quell the rebellion, Song Jing, the second important leader of the anti-Zhang faction, has become a nail that she is eager to remove. Wu Zetianxia edict and ordered Song Jing to go out of Yangzhou, Youzhou, Longyou and Bashu.

These four places, one in the east, one in the north, one in the west, and one in the south, are really not relied on, if you add a Jiaozhi, that is to let Song Jing go around along the border of the Wuzhou Empire, even if these four places are now, Song Jing wants to finish, and he can't do it without a year or two of effort.

Song Jing knew that Wu Zetian wanted to transfer him out of the capital, he was the middle of the imperial history, once he left, the female emperor could replace this important position of the Su political official with a person from Erzhang's faction, and then Erzhang's status would be even more difficult to shake, so Song Jing blatantly resisted the decree and refused to travel.

Song Jing ran to the palace, and in front of Wu Zetian, he sternly refused: "As a minister in the imperial history, he has the responsibility of supervising and supervising hundreds of officials, and the court is the pivotal place of hundreds of officials, so he can't leave the court if he doesn't have a major military event, and there is no major event in the country, and the minister can't leave!" ”

Song Jing's donkey trick can make Wu Zetian bad, but Wu Zetian didn't want to show her purpose too nakedly, so he had to endure this shit. However, with a series of actions in this short period of time, as long as she is not blind, who can't understand what she wants to do?

In the face of the empress's counterattack, the ministers were sincerely afraid, what they were most worried about was that Wu Zetian's illness had not improved, and only Erzhang could serve the monarch every day, and the ministers had less and less time to see the Son of Heaven, and they were worried that Erzhang would take risks and forge the holy decree when the empress had an accident.

If such a scene really occurs, even if they can still control the situation, it will be untenable in legal theory, and in the history books, they will inevitably leave an evaluation of "chaotic ministers and thieves", which they cannot tolerate.

Prime Minister Cui Xuanwei couldn't hold back, went to the harem to see the empress, and suggested to her: "The crown prince and the king are both bixia's biological sons, they are benevolent and filial friends, enough to serve the decoction for bixia, bixia should order the two princes to wait by his side, the palace is forbidden, and it is better not to let different surnames come and go at will." ”

Wu Zetian smiled faintly and said, "Cui Xiang is kind, and I feel gracious." ”

However, Wu Zetian did not accept Cui Xuanwei's suggestion, and the ministers became even more anxious, they had been completely opposed to Erzhang, but now the sword that should belong to the emperor was manipulated in Erzhang's hands, and no one could predict what would happen next.

The sword is already hanging over their heads, and they have only one choice: rise up and resist!

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