Li Zhi is also nerve-wracking.

To tell the truth, you are the son of heaven, and he is actually afraid of the family gate valve.

How was the Sui Dynasty overthrown? Gaozu Li Yuan's army is one of them, and more importantly, when Emperor Yang of Sui had no way, all the family valves in the world were opposed.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the three generations of emperors did not dare to slack off on the family gate valve, and each generation of emperors married with the major families.

Even in Li Zhi's generation, he was well aware of the threat of the family's gate lords to the imperial power, and deliberately used various policies to suppress the family, but Li Zhi did not dare to go too far, and he always had to slow down, slowly progress, and weaken year by year.

When the emperor wants to balance the situation, he can't be too impulsive. No matter how disgusting the family is, every year when he congratulates Li Zhi to pinch his nose and smile to show favor to the family, he may send a princess out to marry the family every few years.

But Li Qinzai, a courtier, can't manage so much, people live too chicly, happy to take revenge, revenge on the spot, and even the number is consistent, it is simply another humiliation for Li Youdao.

At this moment, Li Zhi is even a little envious of Li Qinzai, born in the world without taboos, not only has a terrible grandfather to help him with the bottom, but also has an unjust son of heaven as his backer.

Such a life is not necessarily worse than that of the emperor.

"Is it only the Zhaojun Li clan who asks Li Qinzai for fame?" Li Zhi asked again.

Song Sen said: "The Li clan of Zhaojun has only surfaced, in fact, there are several major families in Shandong who have united, and they plan to carve up dozens of fame in Li Qinzai's hands and expand their power in the court......

Li Zhi sneered a few times: "Dozens of fame, the family's appearance is not so ugly, their more important purpose is to make the imperial examination system yellow, the reputation stinks, and the court will never lose its trust in the world." ”

"If the imperial examination is full of miasma, you can still intervene only by power, and from now on, who will dare to believe in me again? Who will participate in the next imperial examination? ”

Song Sen was convinced: "Your Majesty sees farther than the minister, and the minister admires." ”

Li Zhi said lightly: "How did Li Jingchu react? ”

Song Sen said: "If the Marquis of Li County had agreed to them, there would have been no such thing as a demonstration of killing horses." It was precisely because he rejected Li Youdao that he got into trouble and offended those families, and I am afraid that this matter will be difficult to be good. ”

Li Zhi smiled with relief: "Jing Chu lived up to my expectations and kept his conscience, I didn't misunderstand him, haha." ”

Immediately, Li Zhi's eyes stared at Song Sen, and he said slowly: "I heard that you have a good personal relationship with Li Jingchu?" ”

Song Sen's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly knelt down and said: "Although the minister has a slight personal relationship with the Marquis of Li County, the minister has never done anything to be sorry for His Majesty. ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "I don't mean to blame you, you and Jing Chu are both my trusted courtiers, and you have a good relationship in private, so it's understandable, besides, you two have also worked together to help me make great contributions, and you have also contributed a lot to the original collection of Gu Hun." ”

Song Sen's mood eased a little, and he quietly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.

Li Zhi pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Jing Chu provoked several major families, with his own strength, I'm afraid he can't deal with it, since you have a good personal relationship with him, you might as well help him, Baiqi Division must have accumulated a lot of cases about the family over the years, right?" ”

Song Sen immediately understood, bowed down and said: "The minister obeys the order, and he will definitely help Li Xianhou deal with the family calmly." ”

After Song Sen retreated, Li Zhi sat alone in the hall and pondered for a long time, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "Chang Fu, pass on Xu Jingzong to see you." ”

…………

Another palace of Taiji Palace, called "Zhenguan Palace".

Empress Wu sat in the hall and summoned Li Yifu, the prince of Hejian County, with a curtain.

Li Yifu is an out-and-out post-party, and he is the backbone of the post-party.

There was no way, there were too many courtiers who hugged Li Zhi's thigh back then, and there were too many people with ability and qualifications, Li Yifu had been queuing for many years and didn't have his turn, so he had to find another way and turned around and hugged Empress Wu's thigh.

After hugging Empress Wu's thigh, I have to say that the official fortune is also the same, the pillow wind blows strongly, and the speed of Li Yifu's promotion is simply flying.

Over the years, his interests with Empress Wu have been deeply bound.

What are the interests of the Empress Wu today?

Like Li Zhi, weaken the power of the family.

Empress Wu is the daughter of the warrior Tong of the Duke of Yingguo, and it is said that she was born in the Guogong Mansion, but the warrior Tong was originally just a businessman, and if you talk about her background alone, she can't climb up to those thousand-year-old families.

After the abolition of Wang Liwu, the eldest grandson Wuji fell, and the Empress Wu and the family gate valve have been incompatible since then, Li Zhi made up his mind to weaken the power of the family, and more or less the Empress Wu blew the pillow wind.

The Li clan of Zhao County killed horses at the entrance of Ganjingzhuang Village, Li Zhi heard about it, and Empress Wu also heard about it.

At the same time that Li Zhi summoned Song Sen, Empress Wu also urgently summoned Li Yifu.

She and Li Zhi have the same idea, Li Qinzai can't bear the revenge of the family alone.

Therefore, the heavenly family must take action, and it has nothing to do with private friendships and grievances, what Li Qinzai is doing now happens to be in line with the interests of the Empress Wu, and she also hopes to use Li Qinzai's hand to suppress the family and officially establish the imperial examination system of the imperial court.

After listening to the story of the martial queen, Li Yifu frowned and said in a deep voice: "These families are becoming more and more rampant, and they even dare to interfere in the imperial examination of the imperial court, so they should be beaten well." ”

Empress Wu sat behind the bead curtain, the jingling bead curtain covering her cheeks, but her cold voice could be heard.

"Li Jungong, the imperial examination system is very important to His Majesty and the palace, the palace does not want this matter to have twists and turns, even if someone secretly makes waves, the palace also hopes to be able to press the wind and waves down, the imperial examination must be held calmly as scheduled, and there is no room for mistakes."

Li Yifu hesitated for a moment, and said tentatively: "I don't know what the queen means......"

Empress Wu said coldly: "Li Qinzai has offended the family, he is too young after all, and there are some things that he can't do alone, and the palace hopes that Li Jungong will echo him in the court." ”

Li Yifu said without hesitation: "The minister understands, the queen can rest assured, the minister will definitely do his best to help Li Xianhou for the queen." ”

After a moment of silence, Li Yifu said cautiously: "Empress, the minister has something to understand......

"You say."

"Let's ...... with Li Qinzai What the minister wants to ask is that Li Qinzai advised Mount Tai to seal Zen and had a disagreement with the queen, has this grievance been exposed by the queen? I also asked the queen to tell me frankly, and it was good for the minister to have a charter when he got along with Li Qinzai. ”

Empress Wu understood what Li Yifu meant, and was asking her if the grudge with Li Qinzai had been resolved, and whether Li Qinzai had any signs of defecting to the Hou Party.

Empress Wu was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Is this palace so easy to forgive others?" ”

Li Yifu immediately understood.

Interests are interests, grievances are grievances, and you can't be too naïve.

(End of chapter)