In the Qianyang Palace, Li Xuan respectfully kowtowed to the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Minister, Luo Dao pacification envoy, Luo Dao marching chief, Fan Zhou Du Hu, Fan Zhou Thorn History, Right Guard General, Prince Guest, Peng Wang Xuan, meet the Queen of Heaven, Queen of Heaven Wanfu Jin'an." ”

Empress Wu raised her eyes from the music and said calmly: "Flatten." ”

"Thank you diva." Li Xuan stood up slowly this time, bowed his head with his hands, and stood solemnly.

"Your Majesty asked the palace to summon King Peng, mainly to inquire about the affairs of the Western Regions, what does King Peng think about the war in the Western Regions?" Empress Wu looked at Li Xuan calmly, with a concerned expression.

Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "After returning to the heavens, according to the ministers, the war in the Western Regions is not difficult, as long as the armies of the Anxi Protectorate and the armies of the Luo Dao are cautious, it is not a problem to stabilize the defensive ground, but to go further, it is necessary to have a large amount of materials, and the DPRK and China will be properly dispatched, and in the middle of next year, the Western Turks will not be the opponents of the Tang Dynasty, and they should be defeated." ”

"Defeat, just defeat?" Empress Wu frowned, her eyes dissatisfied.

Li Xuan bowed slightly, and arched his hand: "The queen of heaven, the Cui family is in the center, there are prime ministers, there are Shangshu, there are assassins, there are imperial historians, Jiusi Shaoqing, Guozi Siye, and Liubu Langzhong, they have deep roots in the court, and once they are locked, it is difficult to turn around."

If it weren't for Ouyang's reminder that night, Li Xuan might have to hide a lot of things, but now, he knew that he had reached a critical juncture of life and death.

"Oh." Empress Wu became a little interested, looked at Li Xuan, and said, "Tell me more." ”

"Only in this way can they have the greatest benefit." Li Xuan bowed heavily, and in the end, he didn't say the word Xiangwang.

The emperor is not in good health, and he should be suspicious of the crown prince.

Li Xuan pondered the thoughts of the Empress Wu, and continued: "The Cui family Cui Ming will be transferred to Taiyuan in the near future, and the people of the Cui family will be appointed as the county commander of Wannian, and Cui Xiang guarantees that from now on, the Cui family and the Lu family will not make a fuss about the prince's affairs, and even in the affairs of the court, if the prince has a big strategy, the Cui family and the Lu family will also fully support it." ”

"Whoa!" Li Xuan bowed heavily.

Empress Wu waved her hand and said: "DTZ is not just as dissatisfied with Datang, after a big battle, it is not calm." ”

But before this recital fell into the hands of Yuan Wanqing, Cui Lu and Zheng knew a lot.

Li Xuan still bowed his head and said: "The prince, the prince, he should be supported by the courtiers, the prince's governance, as long as it is proper and reasonable, the prime minister of the court should also support it, rather than blocking it with his own selfish interests, the Cui family and the Lu family support the prince, and it is also with the permission of His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven." ”

Empress Wu nodded slightly, and it was not only Pei Xingjian who began to find it difficult to check Yintian, but also the bachelor of Hebei Beimen.

"The crown prince is the crown prince set up by His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven, and the minister is also acting on the orders of His Majesty and the Queen of Heaven, and the prince is generous and benevolent, and he is also suitable for the prince of the world." Li Xuan lowered his head and said word by word very carefully.

Empress Wu raised her head, looked at Li Xuan, and asked, "What about the Zheng family, Cui Lu and Zheng have always advanced and retreated together, why didn't you mention the Zheng family?" ”

Empress Wu's eyes fell on Li Xuan, Li Xuan's face was full of bitterness, and Empress Wu couldn't help nodding slightly.

"Commandment." Li Xuan bowed heavily.

Li Xuan arched his hand with a solemn face: "Tianhou, from Chang'an to Luo, although there is a plateau obstruction, but it is only three thousand five hundred miles, but from Chang'an to Bolu, there are six thousand miles away, and there are thousands of miles of desert in the middle, food, ordnance and soldiers, all kinds of supplies are extremely difficult, the more west, the greater the consumption." ”

"Whoa!" Li Xuan gave up his hand, and then said: "Queen of Heaven, after the end of this year, dozens of children of the family went to Fanzhou with their ministers to take office, but after less than three months in office, they have secretly occupied hundreds of thousands of acres of fields in Fanzhou through their family servants, and the worst person has thousands of acres, and these fields have not been taxed. ”

Now it seems that it should be the people of the Cui family who sold the people of the Zheng family.

"The same can be done vertically and horizontally." Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "The Queen of Heaven, Ruochen sits in Anxi, moves east and west, crisscrosses the north and south, provokes inside and outside, and can also do it, but the Western Turks are dissatisfied with the Tang people, and they will be stable for ten years at most, and after ten years, the war will not be so easy to calm down." ”

This is not the first time Li Xuan has used this method.

Empress Wu sighed in her heart, King Peng is a smart person.

Li Xuan looked at Empress Wu with worried eyes, and at the same time handed over a piece of music, and said seriously: "Taxes, the world is fundamental, the family erodes the fields and swallows up taxes, if it is almost instinctive, if it is not for the ministers to force it tighter this year, and the investigation is tighter, I am afraid that things are far more than that, and the tax sent to the court by Fanzhou this year will be gone." ”

"It can be seen that King Peng is very careful in governing all things." Empress Wu nodded in approval, and then said: "This palace sees that when you were governing Fanzhou, you were quite harsh on your subordinate officials, especially those children of the family, why, does King Peng have no opinions on the children of the family?" ”

The meaning of Li Xuan's words, Empress Wu listened very clearly, as long as it is just and reasonable, the Cui family and the Lu family will support the East Palace, but if it is unreasonable and improper, the Cui family and the Lu family will not support the prince.

"Diva." Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then bowed down and said: "Queen of Heaven, it's not that the ministers have other opinions about the children of the family, but what they do, which is very disdainful of the ministers. ”

The dissatisfaction of the Western Turks is fundamental, and the Tang Dynasty has no ability to appease and suppress the dissatisfaction of the Western Turks.

"Oh?" Empress Wu raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked at Li Xuan with a smile: "Support the crown prince, such a big thing, King Peng said so." ”

He knew that yesterday on Weishui, he and Cui Zhiwen's conversation, although Empress Wu didn't know the details, she knew that they had talked about it, and as for what they wanted to talk about, Empress Wu could also guess a thing or two, which was not difficult.

"If the foundation is too shallow, it is easy to turn back." Empress Wu nodded, she understood the meaning of Li Xuan's words, even if the Zheng family threw themselves at Li Xian, they had a shallow foundation in the court, and they could not get much benefit, on the contrary, if they supported another person to take the throne, once they succeeded, the benefits would be unimaginably rich.

"Yes, Cui Xiang has already spoken to the minister." Li Xuan arched his hand with a serious expression.

"Therefore, the minister proposed that if it is feasible, the daughter of the Zheng family can enter the East Palace as the crown prince Liangdi, so that the family is stable, the government and the opposition are stable, and the world is stable." Li Xuan bowed heavily, and he didn't hide the matter of the Zheng family's daughter.

This also means that the prince's every move is all under the watchful eye of the Empress Wu and the emperor.

Li Xian is already the crown prince himself, as long as the emperor does not issue an edict to abolish his crown prince, the Cui family and the Lu family will inevitably fully support him, and they should fully support him.

This is a means of conspiracy, and it is difficult for even the Empress Wu to say a word.

"Okay, let's talk about Chang'an." Empress Wu leaned forward slightly, and looked at Li Xuan with a smile: "Those plunderers in Chang'an have been cleaned up, and those things in the Peng Wangfu and the Cui family should have been." ”

"The matter of the crown prince and concubine, don't worry about it first." Empress Wu waved her hand, looked at Li Xuan and said, "Everything will wait until after the Zen Ceremony." ”

"In the past year, why has Zuo Xianghe done a good job in water control, if there is no major event next year, then Zuo Xianghe should also recuperate, but he is the water supervisor?" Empress Wu looked at Li Xuan and asked, "Du Shuijian, what are your plans?" ”

Empress Wu paused slightly, then nodded with a smile and said, "What you said is right, the prince's governance, as long as it is appropriate, should have the full support of the prime minister." ”

At least Li Xuan, if he is not careful, maybe he will not be able to get out of this Qianyang Palace today.

Until now, let alone the emperor, even the Empress Wu has never thought of abolishing Li Xian's position as the crown prince.

……

Using the capital water supervision to check the hidden fields is indeed a strange trick.

Empress Wu looked at Li Xuan deeply, her eyes fell on the bullet chapter of Yuan Wanqing on one side, and Empress Wu had a feeling that Li Xuan was afraid that she knew about this bullet.

Empress Wu frowned, just counting it like this, it would take ten years.

"And what about sending troops from you?" Empress Wu leaned forward and stared at Li Xuan with her eyes.

The situation of the Lu family is similar to that of the Cui family, but only the Zheng family, their foundation in the court is too shallow. ”

……

But Li Xuan's hand has already disintegrated the emperor's suspicions lightly, what a means!

Empress Wu nodded slightly, the Zheng family's heart is dangerous, and Empress Wu has also been taught.

Another ten years?

"Sending troops from Luo Dao, the minister can fight to the Kangguo Shiguo, but further west, even the minister also needs the support of the court." After a slight pause, Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "Queen of Heaven, if you want to completely pacify the Western Turks, the minister thinks that the imperial court must have at least five years of preparation, and there will be five years of war, and there must be no mistakes in the middle. ”

At the beginning of the year, Li Xuan found a teacher for the prince, gave lectures every day, and even asked the ministers of the East Palace to participate.

"Alright." Empress Wu chuckled, looked at Li Xuan and said: "This palace knows that this is extremely difficult, and it needs to be arranged in detail, you have been in Fanzhou for a few years, just concentrate on this matter, and when the matter of Fanzhou is over, I will transfer you to Anxi and slowly calm down." ”

Empress Wu's brows furrowed, ten years from now, what will that look like?

"Does it have to be ten years?" Empress Wu looked at Li Xuan and asked seriously: "Ten years to prepare, how much food, soldiers, and ordnance need to be consumed, King Peng, is there any other way to calm down the war, and it does not necessarily require strong means." ”

Of course, no one knew about this piece from Yuan Wanqing's submission to Empress Wu, so Li Xuan couldn't have gotten faith from them.

In these years, it took a full ten years to pacify Tubo, from the defeat of Dafeichuan, Datang licked its wounds, worked hard, and it took a full ten years to completely take Tubo.

Li Xuan wanted to say something, but after he spoke, he still kept his mouth shut, and he said seriously to the Empress Wu: "What the Queen of Heaven said is extremely good. ”

What the East Palace asks is that the Cui family and the Lu family support the prince within a reasonable and legitimate range.

Li Xian was by the emperor's side, and the emperor was now asking Li Xian, if the two of them didn't match each other in this matter, then there would be big trouble.

"Marriage." Empress Wu nodded, then looked at Li Xuan with a smile and said, "For the sake of San Lang, you really use any means." ”

Today, Empress Wu inquired in person to see how much truth Li Xuan would tell.

Li Xuan arched his hand and said seriously: "I heard that the prince of Wenxi County is investigating the hidden fields in Shandong, if he can send the capital water supervisor to Shandong, it may be effective." ”

Empress Wu frowned, but her eyes were staring at Li Xuan tightly, and said: "You are right, it is instinct for the children of the family to swallow the fields, but this is the case in the world, in Fanzhou, and in Shandong and Hebei, so there is now a matter of clearing the hidden fields, so what are your good plans for the current situation?" ”

Li Xuan's expression became solemn, and he arched his hand and said, "......"

(End of chapter)