Chapter Ninety-Six: Butterflies

After sending away Xiao Concubine Zhang Wenyi, she only felt physically and mentally exhausted, although she was ready for Gong Dou, but after she really came into contact with it, she still didn't feel very comfortable.

But what can you do if you don't fight, can you let others slaughter you? Zhang Wenyi clenched her fists, she is not just a queen now, but a mother with two Yuxue's lovely children.

In the past, she felt that it didn't matter if her child was a prince or not, but now it seems that her child can't be a prince, and she has to keep her position as the queen.

I'm so tired, my heart is so tired, this is how Zhang Wenyi feels now. Watching others cross always seems to be thrilling, not even thrilling, at most it's just bickering, but when it's your turn, it's just killing step by step.

She couldn't figure it out, the biggest battle of the Xiao family was Xiao Yu, the Duke of Song Guo, who was in the position of prime minister. It has been several years since his old man died, and now that the power of the Lanling Xiao clan has been greatly reduced, why is she Xiao Yan so arrogant?!

Zhang Wenyi still knows a lot about Li Zhi, although he has been suppressed, it can be seen that he is also a lustful person.

Li Zhi has an advantage that his heart is softer and more nostalgic. But that doesn't mean he's indecisive, and it doesn't mean he's kind. On the contrary, once such a person initiates a ruthless attack, he is often more ruthless, and he can shed tears and stab him with a knife.

Just like Xiao Yan said, could it be that he was insulted by Emperor Taizong and affected Li Zhi's feelings for him? Zhang Wenyi couldn't imagine that although this stain was not what she wanted, the stain was a stain after all.

But Li Zhi's feelings for himself last night didn't seem to be fake, the two have been together for so many years, Zhang Wenyi asked herself if she could still understand Li Zhi.

If the root is not in Li Zhi, then it is in external forces. Now Zhang Wenyi is no longer the little girl who knew nothing about the outside world back then, and she knows more or less about the major forces in the DPRK and China.

Take the harem as an example, among the four newly favored concubines, behind the Helan clan is the Guanlong nobles; Xu is the younger sister of Emperor Taizong's concubine Xu Hui, she is from the south, and she must be inseparable from the Jiangzuo clan; Webster represents the aristocratic power of the Central Plains in the Gyeonggi area; The Wang family, who was born in Langya, represents the wealthy family of Qingji.

These four people are favored by no means because of their beautiful appearances and virtuous conduct, but more because of the forces they represent behind them.

From here, it can be seen that Li Zhi has now begun to embark on the old road of approaching the gate valve family again, but Zhang Wenyi can understand it as a compromise without other means.

Now that southern Fujian has been able to supply blood to Datang, if the second brother Wen Zhonglian can completely control Lingnan, then the entire south will provide sufficient financial support for Datang. In that way, it is possible for Li Zhi to get rid of the control of the gate valve family, and in this way, the entire imperial court will weaken and attack the forces of the gate lords, and the independence and governance of the imperial court will be stronger.

The queen was supposed to represent the Hanmen military forces in the court, but now Cheng Zhijie, the representative of the Hanmen military forces, is about to leave with him, Li Ji also has a general friendship, and Wei Chi Jingde still has a festival with himself. This caused the queen to have no power of her own, and she only relied on the royal family.

Xiao Yan was born in the Xiao clan of Lanling, and it stands to reason that she should be the representative of the Qingji clan, but the intervention of the Langya Wang clan is obvious that the Qingji clan does not approve of Xiao Yan.

After the death of Xiao Yu, the Duke of Song, the color of his royal family has faded a lot, and he cannot represent the Qingji clan. Xiao Yan dares to target herself, what is she fighting for?

Xiao Ying is Li Zhen's wife, what if the British Duke feels that his connection with the Hanmen military meritorious class is dull, and instead supports Xiao Zhen? Zhang Wenyi feels that this possibility is still very large.

Xiao Ying is Xiao Yan's cousin, and the two have grown up together since they were young and have a deep relationship. Although Xiao Ying is also good to herself, she is not as good as her cousin who grew up together since childhood.

The most important thing is that Xiao Ying is Li Zhen's wife, and Princess Pingyang Zhao is Li Ji's wife. Among these four people, except for Li Zhen, who may not stand on the opposite side of himself, Princess Pingyang Zhao will definitely stand on the opposite side of herself, Xiao Ying will be influenced by her family and in-laws to oppose herself, and Li Ji is a veteran who aims for the development of the military class of the poor family. When Emperor Taizong was alive, Li Ji was one of the targets of his suppression.

With Li Zhi's favor inside, and the pull of the Hanmen military class outside, it is not difficult to understand Xiao Yan's behavior. But will Zhang Wenyi be afraid? Thinking of this, she smiled self-deprecatingly, and was really a little scared.

In the evening, Li Zhi took Li Xin back to the queen's Qingning Palace early, and Zhang Wenyi naturally welcomed him.

Looking at the dinner that had been prepared a long time ago and Zhang Wenyi and Li Ruyi's mother and daughter, who had been waiting for him to come back, Li Zhi had the feeling of going home for a long time.

Looking at Li Ruyi, who was lying on Li Zhi, Zhang Wenyi smiled helplessly. It is said that the daughter is the lover of her father's previous life, which is somewhat reasonable, and Ruyi is more sticky to Li Zhi. When she came back, Li Zhi hugged her, and Ruyi began to laugh very sweetly and happily, but she laughed and laughed and didn't know why it turned into a howling cry.

At that time, Li Zhi was distressed, his face was full of dissatisfaction and accusations against Zhang Wenyi, and Zhang Wenyi was also very helpless. Saying that, she was also full of emotion and tears. It's just that Li Zhi's eyes really frightened her, and the killing radius of this little padded jacket is too big, and even she, a mother, is affected.

Fortunately, Li Zhi returned to normal at night, otherwise the first night of their husband and wife might have been unpleasant.

Seeing Li Zhi looking at his daughter dotingly, Zhang Wenyi had no choice but to let their father and daughter communicate first. Li Xin helplessly watched his sister coquettish with his father on the side, he could only pout his lips and silently go to wash his hands and eat first.

Ruyi was squeamish for a while and slipped off Li Zhi's body, Li Zhi was about to take her to the table to eat, but he didn't expect Ruyi to pull him and ask Li Zhi to wash his hands before he could serve it.

Although he was not very accustomed to the modern rules of washing his hands, Li Zhi was obediently pulled by his daughter to wash his hands. Seeing Ruyi washing his hands and wiping Li Zhi clean with a serious face, and being a father enjoying his daughter's service, Zhang Wenyi almost laughed.

The family happily ate around the table, although there were only four dishes and one soup on the table, and there was no luxury when eating at other concubines' places, Li Zhi still enjoyed such family fun very much.

There is no rule at the dinner table, the daughter is busy serving vegetables for her father, and Zhang Wenyi communicates with her son about the feelings of the day.

Li Zhi didn't seem to be too comfortable with this, but he was really surprised to see Li Xin communicating with his mother about his feelings about the three teachers like a little adult.

Today, Li Zhi appointed Yan Guogong and Yu Zhining as young masters; appointed Zhang Xing, the secretary of the Beiping County Gong, Shizhong, and the Criminal Department, as the young master; Appointed the county prince, the Zhongshu order, and the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu Gao Jifu as the Shaobao. and ordered Li Xin to worship them as teachers.

Zhang Wenyi has been in the palace for so many years, so she naturally knows what the young master, the young master, and the young guard do, plus there are already eunuchs who have come to her to report the good news during the day, and Li Xin was named the king of Yue.

Through these two incidents, it can be seen that Li Zhi did not establish the crown prince, but the tendency is already very obvious.

The royal teachers include Taifu, Taishi, Taibao, as well as Shaofu, Shaoshi, and Shaobao. These six official titles are the teachers of the emperor and the crown prince, and the three teachers such as the young master are the teachers who really teach the prince.

Li Zhi's appointment of the three and letting Li Xin worship the three as teachers only shows one point, that is, he is biased towards making Li Xin the crown prince. This move also made Zhang Wenyi a little relieved, and this was only a little reassuring.

The battle for the throne in ancient times has always been very fierce, and the initial advantage does not mean anything. The crown prince of the previous dynasty was Yang Yong, but it was Yang Guo who succeeded him; Similarly, Emperor Taizong was not the original crown prince, the original crown prince was Li Jiancheng; It's the same with Li Zhi, the earliest prince is Li Chengqian.

Three emperors in a row have ascended the throne and are not the original princes, and Zhang Wenyi has a clear understanding of this. Therefore, she did not get carried away, in Zhang Wenyi's mind: the throne belongs to the person who has the last laugh.

After Zhang Wenyi killed Wu Meiniang, she knew that history had been tampered with by herself. In fact, what she didn't know was that since she married Li Zhi, the history of the Tang Dynasty has been rewritten.

Today, the history of the Tang Dynasty has undergone earth-shaking changes. In the original history, Zhang Wenyi's position belonged to Queen Wang, the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang family.

Wu Meiniang, who secretly belongs to the Qingzhou forces, has successfully ascended to the queen's throne this year with the support of the Guanlong nobles, and took the opportunity to eradicate Queen Wang, who represents the Hedong forces, and Xiao Guifei, who represents the Hanmen and Qingji forces, at the same time.

In the end, Wu Meiniang successfully defeated the banner figure of the Guanlong nobles, Changsun Wuji, which dealt a heavy blow to the power of the Guanlong nobles and made them collapse.

As the Guanlong aristocratic forces, which were closely related to the nomads, were gradually driven out of the court, the nomadic cavalry that the Tang Dynasty relied on for conquest no longer obeyed the dispatch of the Tang Dynasty, which directly affected the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army and the ability to control the grassland.

Over time, Tibet grew stronger, eventually purging the Tang dynasty from the Western Regions.

Since the day Zhang Wenyi married Li Zhi, the trajectory of history has changed.

The Taiyuan royal family failed to get in touch with the royal family in the first place, and finally lost the position of empress, which made the Hedong forces unable to join the power struggle in the court in time.

Because of the existence of Zhang Wenyi, the Hanmen military class did not disperse immediately after Qin Qiong's death as before, and the Hanmen slowly became a small force under the integration of Li Ji. In particular, Su Wan'er's intervention has made Hanmen gain a firm foothold in the DPRK and become a force.

The Qingji family originally relied on Wu Meiniang's early death, so that they could not enter the government in time, and they still did not get any right to speak.

Jiang Zuoshiren sacrificed the talented woman Xu Hui and was appreciated by Emperor Taizong, and in the previous life they replaced the Hanmen to enter the court. But now the influence of the Hanmen in the court has increased, squeezing the space of the Jiangzuo scholars.

Therefore, after the death of Taizong, they immediately sent Xu Hui's sister to the palace. It's just that now the competition for Li Zhi's harem is very fierce, and the pace of Jiang Zuoshi's entry into the court has been temporarily blocked.