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Since five years ago, Wu Zetian has rarely appeared in the imperial study, she is nearly eighty years old, but due to too indulgence**, her health is getting worse, and she can no longer bear the heavy court affairs, except for the major court affairs reported by Shangguan Wan'er, the rest of the daily court affairs She handed over to the control of the crane mansion, let the two zhang handle it for her, the two zhang is also so powerful, the control of the crane mansion has been able to fight with the political affairs hall.

Wu Zetian happened to be in the imperial study today, listening to Shangguan Wan'er report to her on some important military affairs, at this time, a eunuch whispered at the door: "Your Majesty, he is here." ”

"Announce him in!"

Wu Zetian has always had a good impression of Li Zhen, and Li Zhen was not in the capital a few years ago, but he did a very good job in the Guanzhong area, and it was with his efforts that the Long March athlete plan advocated by Wu Zetian was finally completed, mainly the people of Guanzhong, and a total of more than 100,000 families went to the Western Regions to settle down, so that the Anxi Army had a stable source of soldiers.

After the completion of this plan, which took nearly six years, Li Zhen was transferred back to Luoyang and served as the general of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion, in charge of the 25,000 cavalry of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion, and belonged to the military power faction.

Li Zhen walked into the imperial study quickly, Shangguan Wan'er turned around and stood behind Wu Zetian, looking at Li Zhen with a calm expression, Shangguan Wan'er was still not married, and her appearance was basically unchanged from ten years ago.

For Li Zhen, Shangguan Wan'er has long been out of control, but the relationship between the two is not too cold, and when they meet occasionally, they can treat each other politely, after all, Li Zhen holds military power, and she doesn't want to make this enemy.

Li Zhen stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "Weichen Li Zhen has come to confess to Your Majesty!"

Wu Zetian was stunned, and asked with a puzzled smile: "What is Li Aiqing's crime?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, Weichen was impulsive and beat Zhang Changyi, I was afraid that he would offend Ye Guogong, so I came to ask for guilt. ”

Wu Zetian's face was a little unnatural, she immediately thought of Di Renjie, Di Renjie was insulted by Zhang Changzong, so angry that he fell unconscious, and Li Zhen beat Zhang Changyi again, these two things must be related.

Wu Zetian originally wanted to wait for Di Renjie to wake up and ask Zhang Changzong to apologize, but when Zhang Changzong refused to go, Wu Zetian was embarrassed, but this incident happened, which made her feel a little headache, so she asked: "Li Aiqing told me first, what happened, why did you beat Zhang Changyi?"

Li Zhen recounted in detail what happened outside the Xiping Gate, and finally said: "Wechen didn't want to cause trouble, but Zhang Changyi saw that he was lustful and insulted Wechen's wife, Wechen couldn't bear it, so he ordered to do it, Wechen beat the powerful, and was willing to bear all the responsibility." ”

Wu Zetian's face really couldn't hang up, Zhang Changyi was so bold that he dared to bully the minister's wife, this is not a matter of fighting, but of killing, Wu Zetian was really angry, not only did Erzhang cause him countless troubles, but now even their families are causing trouble for themselves.

Wu Zetian held back his breath and said slowly: "General Li doesn't have to take responsibility for himself, as long as what you say is true, I will never blame you." ”

"The minister's words are true, Your Majesty can ask the garrison at the city gate, and they have all seen it with their own eyes. ”

Wu Zetian nodded, she suddenly felt very tired, so she waved her hand and said, "You retreat first!"

"Wechen retires!"

Li Zhen didn't look up at Shangguan Wan'er, and slowly retreated, and when he walked away, Wu Zecai sighed slightly and asked Shangguan Wan'er, "How should I deal with this matter?"

Shangguan Wan'er said in a low voice: "Wan'er heard that Di Xiang's situation is not good, and His Majesty will punish Li Zhen again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to the Di family and the hundred officials. ”

Wu Zetian smiled bitterly and said: "You are right, if Li Zhen is punished, I really can't explain to the Di family, may God bless and let Di Xiang recover his health as soon as possible." ”

Wu Zetian was physically exhausted, and just returned to the dormitory, he saw Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi kneeling at the gate and crying: "Your Majesty, you have to be the master for us!"

The two just got the news that their brother Zhang Changyi was beaten by Li Zhen outside the Xiping Gate, and his limbs were broken, and the pain was extremely painful.

Wu Zetian's anger that had just calmed down was made a fuss by them, and it burned again, she pointed at the two and scolded angrily: "Shut up!"

The Zhang brothers were suddenly startled, they had never seen the saint have such a big temper, neither of them dared to say anything more, Wu Zetian pointed at Zhang Changzong and scolded angrily: "You are so bold, you dare to go to the political hall to make a fuss, ruin my reputation, and bully my Xiangguo, I haven't settled accounts with you yet, you came to complain first, I tell you, if Di Xiangguo is fine, it is your luck, if Di Xiangguo has three long and two short, see how I clean you up, get out of here!"

The two were so frightened that they crawled away, Wu Zetian rushed to his bedroom in anger, and ran outside the palace, Zhang Changzong stopped Zhang Yizhi, "It's strange! The old beggar seems to know about this." ”

Zhang Yizhi also felt strange, just as Xia Zhong, the eunuch of the imperial study, was walking towards this side, Zhang Yizhi rushed up and grabbed him by the placket, "Say it quickly, who did the saint see this afternoon?"

Xia Zhong was startled, and hurriedly said: "The old slave was about to report to the two generals, and not long ago, the saint met with Li Zhen, as if Li Zhen had come to ask for guilt. ”

Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong looked at each other, as they expected, Li Zhen was the villain who sued first, confusing the old beggar, Zhang Yizhi pulled Zhang Changzong, and the two quickly returned to the Yaoguang Palace, Zhang Yizhi drove all the palace maids and eunuchs out, closed the door, and whispered to Zhang Changzong: "It's a little bad!"

Zhang Changzong understood what he meant, if Di Ren did something outstanding, Li Zhen would definitely not let them go, Zhang Changzong gritted his teeth and said: "I wanted to kill him back then, but I was stopped by the damn old beggar and let him get away with it for eight years, if I don't kill him again, when the old beggar dies, he has to kill us, and we can't drag it out any longer." ”

Zhang Yizhi scratched his head and said with some concern: "But he has military power, and it is not so easy to kill him." ”

"Yes, we can't be in a hurry in this matter, we have to think about it in the long run, I suggest that we ask Wu Sansi for help." ”

"But he doesn't have any connections in the military, so it's better to find Wu Yizong, this person controls the prison guards and has tens of thousands of troops, wouldn't it be easy for him to kill Li Zhen?"

"But Li Zhen is not a dog or a cat after all, it's not a matter of slaughtering with a knife, you let the Wu family kill Li Zhen, do you know what conditions they will offer?"

Both of them were silent, in fact, needless to say, they also knew that what the Wu family wanted was Jiangshan Sheji, and Wu Zongyi was to listen to Wu Sansi's command, in the final analysis, they still had to go to Wu Sansi, and after a moment of silence, Zhang Changzong said: "If we don't kill Li Zhen, we will definitely die in the future, and if we don't do this, we have to do it, I will go to Wu Sansi, talk to him, touch his bottom first, and then look at the situation." ”

"Go to find Wu Sansi, to find Cao Wen. ”

"I know!"

Zhang Changzong replied impatiently, turned around and left the room.

In the past few years, Wu Sansi has really lived a little aggrieved, in Wu Zetian's words, he woke up, he did not enter the Qinglou, did not drink flower wine, and formulated strict family rules for his children and the family in the house, last year there was a house slave who molested women on the street, and was ordered by Wu Sansi to beat two hundred sticks, and paraded in Luoyang for three days.

Not only that, Wu Sansi has also taken out tens of thousands of stone of grain in recent years, and has been on the streets every day to help people who have fled to the capital due to disasters, and has also demolished all the houses he occupied over the years, returned the land to the original owner, and it is said that he also personally came to the door to make amends.

He was even more respectful to the ministers of the DPRK and China, and lived with his tail between his legs all day long, and even when a six-rank official's carriage approached, he had to stop and give way.

A few years of hard work have not been in vain, Wu Sansi's reputation is not as ugly as before, and some sycophants began to write articles praising him, and last year the saint praised him for his prodigal son, and restored his princehood, and became His Royal Highness King Liang again.

Although Wu Sansi has been very hypocritical and aggrieved in the past three years, he has also gained a lot, at the beginning of the year when the Wu family held a family sacrifice banquet, the saint also came to participate, and said in front of hundreds of Wu clansmen, "If the Wu family is the heir, you have to think twice." ’

This made Wu Sansi's originally desperate heart give birth to a seedling of hope, maybe he still has hope to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Honor.

Another thing that made Wu Sansi happy was that Wu Chengsi finally died of illness last year, and died of excessive drinking, as soon as Wu Chengsi died, the other faction of the Wu family had no backbone, and they all expressed their allegiance to him, and now only Wu Youning and Wu Youji brothers have been silent because of Princess Taiping.

As usual, Wu Sansi sat in his jade room and carefully admired his collection of various jade, he was a virtuous corporal, with a good character, and naturally he would not go out to drink and have fun at night, so playing jade at home has also become a major hobby of him in recent years.

At this time, the voice of his son-in-law Cao Wen came from outside the door, "Father-in-law, my son-in-law has something important to return." ”

What satisfies Wu Sansi the most is that he got this son-in-law, not only his military advisor, teaching him how to pretend to be high, selling his reputation, and reversing his reputation by force, but also the representative of power in the court, three months ago, Cao Wen served as a very powerful minister, and became a high-ranking official who Wu Sansi could compete with Yao Chong, Zhang Khan and others in the court.

Moreover, Cao Wencheng's mansion is very deep, his calligraphy and attainments are also high, shrewd and capable, even Di Renjie praised him for his quality of Xiangguo, so Wu Sansi was ready to recommend him to replace Yang Zaisi in two years.

Wu Sansi never allowed anyone to enter his jade room, not even Cao Wen, so he said, "Go to my outer study first, and I'll come right away." ”

Wu Sansi changed his clothes and walked out of the study in a hurry.

Walking to the outer study, Wu Sansi smiled and said, "How is Lilac now?"

"She was very good, and she wanted to come to visit her father, but I didn't let her come because I had something to do. ”

Wu Sansi nodded, "I think since I have no children under my knees, I might as well pass on one of you, isn't it suitable for any of your sons and nephews?"

Cao Wen smiled bitterly, "The son-in-law has no nephew. ”

"Oh-I forgot, in fact, even if you don't have a nephew, you can inherit one of the clansmen, as long as the surname is Cao, I don't think it hurts. ”

Originally, Cao Wen was in the Wu Sansi Mansion, but in order to envelop this capable general, he agreed that Cao Wen would succeed a son in his own family, rather than from the Wu family.

Cao Wen was overjoyed, "Thank you father-in-law for your success!"

Wu Sansi smiled and said, "Let's get down to business! what's the matter?"

Cao Wen's face became solemn, and he said in a low voice: "Zhang Changzong came to me just now. ”r1148

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