Chapter 176: Talents

In 696 AD, the 73-year-old Wu Zetian held a ceremony to seal the Zen sacrifice to the sky, and the Qin Emperor Han Wu and other 72 emperors all chose to seal the Zen in Mount Tai different, a generation of empresses to seal the Zen Zhongyue! Unique.

Throughout the more than ten years since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, although she appointed cool officials and implemented a reign of terror, it made the people of the government and the opposition panic.

The killing also gave her an infamy, but in the second year of Feng Chan Songshan, Wu Zetian personally solved the cool official Lai Junchen, and Zhou Xing died at the hands of Lai Junchen a few years ago.

The death of Lai Junchen also marked the complete end of Wu Zetian's cool rule.

In addition to eradicating the cool officials, Wu Zetian also reformed the imperial examination system, held palace examinations, and created martial arts, bootstrapping, test tube and other systems, so that a large number of poor students had the opportunity to get ahead.

In addition, Wu Zetian also has a good reputation, he knows people well, just look at Di Renjie and other virtuous ministers, which one was not pulled up by herself?

When Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing and other cool officials were still alive, they had troubled Di Renjie and others more than once, if there was no protection from Wu Zetian, I was afraid that Di Renjie and other famous officials would have died at the hands of those cool officials.

Heavy cool officials, protectors!

Wu Zetian's contributions are more than these, in the future, he created two virtuous ministers in the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, Yao Chong and Song Jing were also promoted by Wu Zetian, it can be said that Li Longji's prosperous era of Kaiyuan has a lot to do with these two virtuous ministers.

Without them, there may not be the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and without the foundation laid by Wu Zetian, the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty would not be so brilliant, even if the glory will bring eternal disaster and decay.

In terms of economy and military, Wu Zetian also made a lot of contributions, stabilizing the Western Regions, reducing servitude, allowing the people to recuperate, and gradually recovering from the previous rebellions.

The above is basically the contribution made by Wu Zetian during his reign. In fact, she is not the only one who has made these contributions, and there are also Wan'er's credits in them, and many things are almost all decisions made by her and Wan'er after consulting with each other, and the edicts that issued the edicts were always written by Wan'er.

There are many articles in it, such as one day Wu Zetian suddenly became angry and ordered a certain important minister to be executed, or issued a certain confusing decree.

After all, when people are old, many things are more than enough but not enough, and even with their heads will not be very clear.

At this time, Shangguan Wan'er, the Zhongshu who is in charge of the palace system, can appear and use the power in his hands, so as to prevent Wu Zetian from making some confused and irreparable mistakes in his old age.

Over the years, Wan'er has done a lot for Wu Zetian, and also helped Wu Zhou or Li Tang a lot, but unfortunately, not too many people know her credit, but unfortunately, many courtiers still have the impression of being cruel, lewd, and chaotic.

In 699 AD, with the help and persuasion of Shangguan Wan'er and the former ministers of Li Tang, Wu Zetian finally issued an order to summon Li Xian, the king of Luling, who had been assigned for 14 years, to return to Luoyang and be re-established as the crown prince, and the original prince Li Dan was demoted to the king of Dan.

Fourteen years, Li Xian, who had suffered in other places for fourteen years, finally returned to the political center of Wuzhou, and finally did not have to worry that he and his wife might be killed by the people sent by the queen mother anytime and anywhere.

Fourteen years, Li Xian was imprisoned in Fangzhou for fourteen years!

No one knew how frightened he was when he was in Fangzhou and heard that his brothers were killed by Wu Zetian one after another.

What is he afraid of? He was afraid that he would become the next one at some point, the next Prince Li Tang to be killed by his mother.

In the past fourteen years, whenever Li Xian saw the envoy sent by Wu Zetian, Li Xian looked trembling, his posture was very low, and even several times, before the envoy arrived, he had not told him what he was here for, Li Xian was so frightened that he wanted to commit suicide.

Every time, when he heard that a messenger had come to Fangzhou to see him, Li Xian thought that his mother had sent someone to kill him, and he was so frightened that he almost solved himself first.

Every time, several times he almost died before the messenger arrived......

Fortunately, there is his wife, if it were not for Wei Lian'er, if it wasn't for Empress Wei comforting Li Xian again and again, telling Li Xian not to be afraid, Your Majesty doesn't necessarily have to kill you, relax, let's see what the envoy says first, after all, you are Your Majesty's biological son, she will not treat you the same as other princes.

Without Wei Lian'er, I am afraid that Li Xian would have committed suicide a long time ago.

But when he heard the words of his biological son from Wei Lian'er's mouth, Li Xian still wanted to cry, he wanted to tell Wei Lian'er loudly that there were still fewer biological children who died in the hands of her Wu Cao over the years!

Li Xian is a cowardly person, a person who doesn't have many opinions, over the years of Fangzhou, it was Wei Lian'er who has carried this family, of course he will choose to believe his wife's words unreservedly!

In this way, Li Xiancai has survived for a full fourteen years. It is estimated that there is no Empress Wei, but I am afraid that Li Xian will solve himself when he hears that Wu Zetian is called emperor.

Fourteen years, as the so-called adversity sees the truth, since Li Xian was abolished on the throne and deposed Chang'an, Wei Lian'er has been by her husband's side, rain or shine, and it is precisely because of her repeated exhortations that Li Xian has the confidence to live, Wei Lian'er used her soft body to take care of her husband's fragile heart again and again, all of which made Li Xian particularly moved.

In private, Li Xian once said that as long as I can regain power one day, I will give you whatever you want, including the whole world.

Well, it's a pleasure in suffering.

At that time, Wei Lian'er just smiled lightly and told her husband with a smile.

"Go to bed early (don't talk nonsense) ......."

As for what happened after that........ It's also normal.

Don't look at the relationship between the two now, they can be called each other, but at that time, Wei Lian'er was just a down-and-out wife of the abolished emperor, and his husband Li Xian was even more unpopular and could be killed at any time!

In this precarious situation, Wei Lian'er thinks most about how to survive every day, and she is not in the mood to think about the glory and wealth that may be there in the future, but basically will not be there.

Alas, thinking about it in the future, Wei Lian'er can probably only be described in one sentence.

But we can share hardship, but we can't share prosperity.

.......

At the age of forty-four, because he has lived in a frightened life for a long time, Li Xian doesn't look like a middle-aged man at all, and he looks more like an old man with gray temples.

The moment he learned that he was re-established as the crown prince, Li Xian did not feel the slightest anger, but cheered, he didn't care at all that he had ascended the throne, and now he had become a prince again, how humiliating it was for an emperor.

He only knew that he didn't have to worry about whether he might be killed by his queen mother at any time. Not only that, but the queen mother's health has also deteriorated over the years, and it may not take a few years for him to ascend to the throne again!

Dreamy, dreamy life, I still have the opportunity to be the emperor, and I, Li Xian, still have the moment to become the master of the Tang Dynasty! Hahaha, ahahaha!

There's no way to evaluate him, this guy's waste has already rushed out of the sky.

Because of these fourteen years of tragic life, Li Xian never dreamed of returning to the small courtyard in Fangzhou, so after he returned to Luoyang and reconfirmed the position of the prince, Li Xian realized the survival skills of his younger brother Li Dan.

Low-key, unusually low-key, simply low-key outrageous.

Under Wei Lian'er's instructions, Li Xian did not dare to interfere in political affairs, and his first task every day was to pretend to be a filial son, enter the palace every day to meet Wu Zetian, and take care of his kind-hearted old mother every day...... He's hard enough, too.

The so-called people will always soften a lot when they get old, Wu Zetian, who is already seventy-five years old, looks at Li Xian, who enters the palace every day to ask for peace for himself, and looks at Li Xian's filial appearance, the family affection that is almost gone in his heart also appears little by little, and the worries and regrets not long ago also disappear little by little.

Let him succeed to the throne, in fact...... Isn't that pretty good?

In this way, Li Xian's position as the crown prince finally stabilized.

.......

On this day, as usual, Li Xian entered the palace to ask Wu Zetian for peace, and after chatting with the mother and son in the dormitory for about half an hour, Li Xian kowtowed to Wu Zetian very respectfully, and withdrew from the dormitory in Wu Zetian's satisfied eyes.

It has been three months since he returned to Luoyang, Li Xian's face is becoming more and more red, as the so-called people are in good spirits when they are happy, and now Li Xian dares to assert that as long as Wu Zetian dies, then he can smoothly inherit the throne, so as to restore Li Tang! In this way, it can be regarded as living up to the expectations of those old ministers.

Walking out of Wu Zetian's dormitory, recalling his mother who was lying in the arms of the Zhang brothers not long ago, Li Xian's heart felt a little nauseous.

As an emperor, there is nothing wrong with having three thousand beauties, this is normal, if it is an old emperor in his seventies, hugging two delicate beauties left and right, then this picture is acceptable, and it can even reflect that the old emperor's sword is not old.

But if it was an old woman in her seventies, with a wrinkled face and teeth about to fall out, lying on the bed and hugging two white young men, and giving a few kisses from time to time........ Then this picture is a little too beautiful, and the beautiful Li Xian almost vomited out his breakfast.

Li Xian really doubted that the Zhang brothers still had that Xue Huaiyi, how did they do it!

Every day with an old woman in her seventies and eighties, who can be their grandmother, lying on the bed, it is said that there are a lot of tricks, damn, what did you do it? Don't you feel disgusted and unappetizing? Also licked......

"Vomit-" Because his brain hole was too big, Li Xian, who was standing outside Wu Zetian's bedroom, couldn't help retching, followed by bursts of cold sweat.

To this day, he also admires those faces from the bottom of his heart.

Talents, they are all talents, they can do it! Tsk tsk.

Li Xian didn't think of another more in-depth question, that is, the old emperor who is the same age as Wu Zetian, no, he doesn't have to be an old emperor, don't some old tyrants of the people also raise a large number of beauties at home, and they are dozens of years younger than them?

Among those beauties, many of them must have taken the initiative to send them, right? I didn't care at all that the old man was lying on their delicate bodies, gnawing and licking their delicate bodies disgustingly.

This is also one of the reasons why Wu Zetian loves male pets.

In her eyes, whether it is a man or a woman, as long as they can get enough rewards for their efforts, even if it is a disgusting thing, someone will definitely do it.

But Li Xian couldn't think of this, he just admired the Zhang brothers, and at the same time, he had to hurry back to the palace to find his wife to make love.

Nothing else, my eyes are spicy and need to be healed.

Just as Li Xian was about to return to the East Palace, a beautiful figure hidden in the depths of his memory suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Looking at the girl who slowly came to him from the bottom of the stone steps, Li Xian was also stunned for a while.

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Uh-huh, that's it, okay, happy birthday to the blue brother of the sky, ah, it was yesterday's happy birthday...... Ah, I hope you don't mind, ah, I'm going to continue coding.