In the afternoon, Li Zhen and Di Renjie came to the palace in a carriage together, Li Zhen still seemed a little worried, he didn't know how to face Shangguan Wan'er, he believed that Shangguan Wan'er should know about Princess Taiping's generous gift to her, would she say that she was betraying her?

Di Renjie saw Li Zhen's thoughts, so he smiled and said, "The virtuous son-in-law seems to have something on his mind?"

Li Zhen nodded silently and sighed: "Yesterday, Princess Taiping came and gave me a night pearl as a gift, which is too precious. ”

Di Renjie was also secretly surprised, you must know that the night pearl is a rare treasure, there are not many in the world, and the Suihou pearl with the same name as the family is the king of the night pearl, the night pearl is generally owned by the royal family, it is said that Princess Taiping has four night pearls, she actually gave Li Zhen one as a gift, this blood is too big.

Di Renjie immediately understood Princess Taiping's intentions, and also understood Li Zhen's worries, he thought about it and smiled: "Princess Taiping is also the core figure of the Xingtang Society, you just need to regard her as a member of the Xingtang Society, in fact, you don't have to consider her request, as long as you can clarify your attitude towards King Xiang, I think she has nothing to say." ”

Di Renjie said a few words to the key, the key is that Li Zhen wants to choose Li Dan, the king of Xiang, or Li Xian, the king of Luling, Di Renjie's meaning is, of course, to let Li Zhen choose Li Dan, the king of Xiang, because Princess Taiping also supports King Li Dan, so supporting Li Dan is equivalent to responding to Princess Taiping, and it will not anger Shangguan Wan'er.

But Li Zhen knew that Shangguan Wan'er was supporting Li Xian, this was undoubtedly forced Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xian, the problem was still as serious, Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh secretly, he knew that Li Xian would ascend the throne, but what should he say to Di Renjie?

Di Renjie seemed to understand Li Zhen's difficulties, and said with a smile: "I have just said, in fact, whether it is King Xiang or King Luling, they are all members of the Xingtang Society, as long as you support the Xingtang Society, there will be no problems for the time being, understand?"

Li Zhen was helpless, this was actually pushing the risk backwards, but this was the best choice at the moment, and there was no way out, so he had to nod, "Son-in-law understands." ”

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of Zhenguan Palace, Li Zhen followed Di Renjie into the main hall, he waited outside the imperial study, and Di Renjie was summoned into the imperial study first.

In the imperial study, Wu Zetian was full of interest in teaching Zhang Changzong to write, which made Di Renjie secretly surprised, and let the Zhang brothers enter the imperial study, which was a bad omen, indicating that the Zhang brothers were likely to interfere in politics.

"Old minister Di Renjie see Your Majesty!"

Wu Zetian walked back to his throne and said with a smile: "Xiangguo is flat!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wu Zetian smiled and said: "Congratulations to Di Xiangguo for getting a virtuous son-in-law, Li Zhen is indeed very good, young and promising, he will be the pillar of the Tang Dynasty in the future, I believe that he will take over the position of Di Xiangguo one day sooner or later." ”

Jun has no jokes, this is tantamount to implying that Li Zhen will have a day to worship the prime minister in the future, even stupid people like Zhang Changzong heard it, he couldn't help but flash a trace of jealousy in his eyes, Di Renjie hurriedly bowed down again, "Thank you for Your Majesty's love!"

Wu Zetian waved his hand and turned the topic back, "Regarding the addition of the three phases, I agreed in principle, but Doulu Wangqin is too old, I'm afraid that in the past two years, has Di Xiangguo considered finding a candidate for me?"

Di Renjie took out the letter of recommendation and presented it, "Your Majesty, Weichen recommends Zhang Cambodia, this person has great talent and can be reused!"

Wu Zetian took the letter of recommendation and looked at it, and said with a faint smile: "Didn't I make him the Luoyang Order?"

"But Your Majesty wants a prime minister's alternate, and he is competent enough. ”

"It's not easy to do a good job in Luoyang Ling, he has been in charge of Luoyang Order for less than ten days, I think it's better to let him do it for a few more years. ”

"Your Majesty, if Your Majesty wants to use him as the prime minister, he should be allowed to enter the provincial platform, and the minister recommended him as a squire of the Criminal Department, not to recommend him to the Luoyang Order. ”

Di Renjie's repeated insistence made Wu Zetian very helpless, and he finally had to nod, "Okay! ”

At this time, Wu Zetian said to the eunuch again: "Summoning General Li in!"

The eunuch went out, and walked into the imperial study with Li Zhen for a while, Li Zhen bowed and saluted: "Minister Li Zhen see Your Majesty." ”

"General Li, I congratulate you on your wedding. ”

"Thank you for your care!"

Wu Zetian smiled, "Your father-in-law has repeatedly asked me to let you go to the local government as an official, to be honest, I am not very willing, because you have done a good job in the internal guard, but what! If young people want to have a future, they still have to go to the local state capital to experience a few years, so I finally agreed to your father-in-law's request, from today onwards, you will step down as the general of the internal guard!"

"Obey the order!"

Wu Zetian took a few steps with his hands in his hand, and then looked at Li Zhen and said: "I plan to appoint Wu Youji as the general of the internal guard, but his ability is slightly insufficient, I plan to promote another deputy general to assist him in doing things, who do you think is more suitable?"

Li Zhen was secretly surprised, Wu Youji is the husband of Princess Taiping, and letting Wu Youji be the general of the internal guard is equivalent to giving the internal guard to Princess Taiping, it seems that the saint wants to expand the power of Princess Taiping, but the saint actually asked himself to recommend someone as Wu Youji's deputy, which was beyond Li Zhen's expectations.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Weichen recommends Zhonglang General Zhang Li as General Wu's deputy!"

'Zhang Li?'

Wu Zetian thought for a while and said: "This person seems to be the son of Zhang Ting, the governor of Ganzhou, and he is your fellow countryman, I remember correctly!"

"He is indeed a fellow villager of Weichen, but the saint is a minister who recommends talents, Zhang Li is steady, cautious, and fully qualified to be a deputy general, which has nothing to do with his fellow villagers. ”

Wu Zetian smiled, "It's not a family, you don't enter a family, you are the same as your father-in-law, I asked him to recommend talents, he recommended his son, and now you recommend fellow villagers, so let's do it! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" ......

Li Zhen and Di Renjie said goodbye and retired one after another, and at this time, Zhang Changzong couldn't help the jealousy in his heart and said, "Your Majesty is too tolerant of Li Zhen. ”

Wu Zetian glanced at him and said coldly: "I have already put him in the place, so that you are out of sight and out of mind, you don't provoke him again in the future, he will be of great use to me in the future, understand?"

Although Zhang Changzong was annoyed in his heart, he didn't dare to disobey Wu Zetian's orders, but fortunately, Li Zhen had been sent away, he could indeed be out of sight and out of mind, so he had to nod helplessly, "I know, just ignore him." ”......

Coming out of the Zhenguan Palace, Di Renjie went to the imperial city, and Li Zhen returned to Di Mansion, he was on marriage leave, and he just came to thank him today, but as soon as he walked to Yingtianmen, he heard someone calling him behind him, Li Zhen turned around, only to see a eunuch panting and chasing after him.

Li Zhen's heart moved, and he looked up at the Ming Hall, although the Ming Hall was magnificent, he still saw a person standing in front of a small window in the south, and the gorgeous long skirt was particularly eye-catching against the blue sky and the brilliant Ming Hall.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh, he still couldn't escape this level.

After a while, the eunuch ran up, breathless and said, "General Li, Shangguan Sheren asked the general to go to her official room to meet." ”

Li Zhen was helpless, so he had to follow the eunuch to the Ming Hall, and after a while, he went to the Ming Hall and came to Shangguan Wan'er's official room, the maid Xiao'e was already waiting here, she blushed, stepped forward and saluted: "Sheren please the general in." ”

Li Zhen nodded, walked directly out of the room, and just took two steps, he heard a mosquito-like whisper behind him, "Congratulations to the general." ”

As soon as Li Zhen turned around, he saw that Xiao'e's face was even redder, and his eyes didn't dare to look at him, Li Zhen smiled, "Thank you, girl!"

Xiao'e's legs shook suddenly, almost hit the door, and quickly turned around and ran, Li Zhen shook her head with a smile, and walked into the room quickly, in the room, Shangguan Wan'er stood in front of the window, her eyes looked a little melancholy, she saw Li Zhen come in, and smiled reluctantly, "Congratulations to General Li on his wedding!"

"Thank you for the generous gifts, Li Zhen is grateful. ”

Shangguan Wan'er looked at him for a long time, with a little disappointment in her eyes, so she waved her hand and said, "Please take a seat!"

Li Zhen sat down slowly, and at this time, Xiao'e came in with two cups of tea and served them to the two, but she did not leave, but stood behind Shangguan Wan'er against the wall, this was the first time, Li Zhen and Shangguan Wan'er were talking, and there were still people next to them.

This is just a small detail, but it made Li Zhen's heart relax, Shangguan Wan'er was hinting to him that nothing would happen today, think about it, today is the second day of his wedding, how could he have anything happen to Shangguan Wan'er again, for Li Zhen, not now, and not in the future.

Shangguan Wan'er smiled slightly, "I heard that you were going to release it, but it was a bit unexpected." ”

Li Zhen understood that she was referring to Princess Taiping's recommendation of herself, and he smiled bitterly and said, "I thought I was going to Pingzhou, but today I found out that it was Chang'an, which really surprised me." ”

"You really didn't know anything before?" Shangguan Wan'er looked at him with a smirk.

Li Zhen shook his head, "I really don't know anything!"

The implication of the two of them is whether Li Zhen has seen Princess Taiping beforehand, Shangguan Wan'er looked into his eyes, and finally saw the honesty in Li Zhen's eyes, Shangguan Wan'er's heart was slowly eliminated, and she said lightly: "This should be what King Xiang meant." ”

After a pause, she said again: "Actually, the king of Luling also entrusted me, hoping that I could let you join the military, so I recommended you to go to Liaodong, but I didn't expect you to go to Chang'an in the end." ”

Speaking of this, Shangguan Wan'er sighed softly, and there was a little depression in her tone, Li Zhen went to Chang'an, and there were not many opportunities for them to meet, and more importantly, Li Zhen would completely break away from her, which made her heart full of loss.

The two were silent for a moment, and Li Zhen whispered again: "I saw the saint just now, and the saint said that Wu Youji should be appointed as the general of the internal guard. ”

Shangguan Wan'er already knew about this result, in fact, this was the result of the balance between her and Princess Taiping, and she also got more power, but Li Zhenken told this matter calmly, which also made Shangguan Wan'er feel a little more comfortable, and she asked with a smile: "What else did the saint say?"

"Also, the Holy One asked me to recommend a lieutenant general. ”

"Oh—who did you recommend?"

Li Zhen pondered for a moment, but still said frankly: "I recommended Zhang Li, and the saint also agreed." ”

Shangguan Wan'er had a knowing smile in her eyes, and it could be seen that Li Zhen was still reluctant to give up the internal guard, so she pushed Zhang Li up, Shangguan Wan'er stopped talking about it, so she changed the topic and asked, "When do you plan to go to Chang'an?"

"The Holy One told me to leave in ten days!"

Speaking of this, Li Zhen got up and said with a smile: "If there is nothing else to do, Li Zhen will leave first." ”

"Is this your farewell?" Shangguan Wan'er looked at him sadly.

"How can I say goodbye? I still have to go to the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War to go through the formalities, and besides, I will come back often, and I will see you often."

Li Zhen felt that he shouldn't say that, so he quickly stopped the topic, bowed down, and slowly retreated.

For a long time, Shangguan Wan'er stood in front of the window with her hands in her hands, staring at the back of Li Zhen who was walking towards Yingtianmen for a long time, and she couldn't help but sigh softly.