-- The book continues --

Just when Wang Zheng was chasing and killing the Japanese and going to sea, Li Shimin died and Li Zhi ascended the throne.

Liangyi Palace.

Li Zhi, who became Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, began to prepare for the plan of destroying the Western Turks, destroying Baekje, and turning the territory of the Tang Dynasty into the largest, starting from the Korean Peninsula in the east, expanding the Aral Sea in the west, covering Lake Baikal in the north, and reaching the southern and central part of Yue Yi in the south.

At this time, Wu Mei began to let her political opponent Changsun Wuji step down, and the eldest grandson Wuji was falsely accused by Xu Jingzong of Zhongshu Ling, cut the lord and exiled him to Qianzhou, hanged himself, and the Tang Dynasty officially entered a crisis, and also laid the first foreshadowing for the Anshi Rebellion in the near future.

You must know that the eldest grandson Wuji is an important initiator of the Xuanwu Sect, this time, the eldest grandson Wuji did not become a minister, on the contrary, the eldest grandson Wuji was demoted to the outside.

Tang Gaozong's Li Zhi, with the help of the samurai family and other families, began to quickly clear the power of the royal government.

Eldest Sun Wuji's expression suddenly became firm at this moment, he still thought that Wang Zheng was still plotting against himself, Wu Mei appeared in front of Eldest Sun Wuji and asked Eldest Sun Wuji to join Wang Zheng tomorrow.

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Day 2!

On the top of the main hall, the eunuch said loudly: "There is a book to start playing, but there is no book to retreat!" ”

"Your Majesty!"

This voice of His Majesty immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"The minister thinks that this royal government is a demon. Because since the appearance of this royal government, the first emperor has not only married all the princesses to him, but also obeyed him in everything. There is a hunt to kill the widows who begged for the protection of the Tang Dynasty, and the death of the first emperor is very likely to be related to Wang Zheng! Wu Mei's No. 1 dogleg said.

"Your Majesty also asks Your Majesty to summon the king for political crimes, Wang Zheng gave the emperor some ecstasy soup, so that the emperor became trusted, and threatened the emperor to agree to hunt down and kill - poor Kou people, causing the emperor to die of illness!" Wu Mei's No. 2 dog leg said.

"Threatening the Emperor?" Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and after a moment he thought of giving the black cauldron to Wang Zheng.

"Datang has worked so hard to build, but it can't be someone else's wedding dress! , Wang Zheng marrying so many princesses is self-intentioned. I don't know what the intention is, now Wang Zheng led 10,000 bright horsemen to increase his troops all the way after setting off from Chang'an, and now he has an army of 100,000! Don't be careful! Wu Mei's No. 3 dog leg said.

After the eldest grandson Wuji waited for everyone to finish speaking, he stepped forward with tears in his eyes but said with great firmness: "Your Majesty is unwilling to get rid of the teacher Wang Zheng, then Wuji will do it for you, if this person is not removed, Your Majesty will be blinded every day." ”

Soon, Li Zhi issued three orders since he ascended the throne.

The first order was for Cheng Mingzhen to rebel against Lizhou, with Xue Rengui as his deputy general. Xue Rengui defeated the Lizhou army in Guiduancheng, beheaded more than 3,000 ranks, and all the nobles left in Lizhou were killed.

Xue Rengui fought with Liang Jianfang, Qi Bi He Li and others in Hengshan.

Xue Rengui held a bow and arrow, took the lead, rushed into the enemy formation, and all those who shot fell to the ground.

Then, he fought with the Goryeo army in Shicheng, met the enemy general, and killed more than ten Tang soldiers, but no one dared to do it.

Xue Rengui was furious when he saw this, and rode in alone and captured him alive.

In December, Xue Rengui and Xin Wenling defeated the Khitan in Montenegro, captured the Khitan king Abgu and the following soldiers, after the war, he worshiped General Zuo Wuwei for his merits, and sealed the male of Hedong County.

The second order was to let Wei Chi Jingde lead his troops to destroy the Western Turks and destroy Baekje, which led to Wei Chi Jingde, who would have died of illness in the third year of Xianqing, died early, and then Li Zhi asked Xue Rengui to lead the troops to destroy the Western Turks.

The third order was to let the Wu family copy Wang Zheng's house, but the brainless Princess Gaoyang actually started to rebel under Wu Mei's plan!

Li Ke, the third son of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and his mother was Concubine Yang, the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui, heroic and courageous, deeply favored by Li Yuan, and was implicated in the case of rebellion against Fang Yi's love in history, and was victimized by the eldest grandson of Taiwei, Wu Mei rehabilitated Zhaoxue for Li Ke, posthumously presented Sikong, and restored the title of King Wu.

And now, under the name of Wu Mei, Li Ke united with Princess Gaoyang, concealed Princess Wencheng, secretly gathered soldiers, and prepared to kill Li Zhi.

Wang Zheng gathered all the princesses of the Tang Dynasty in the twentieth year of Zhenguan and became Li Shimin's favorite minister, with the fall of the eldest grandson Wuji, Wang Zheng's Guogong Mansion was secretly monitored by Li Zhi, until Wu King Li Ke conspired with Princess Gaoyang to prepare to raise troops, and Wang Zheng, who covered the sky with one hand, also entered the countdown to death!

Wang Zheng's power seems to have reached its peak, but after Li Shimin's death, except for some die-hard loyalists, he basically took refuge in the martial arts, and Li Ke was the springboard to eliminate Wang Zheng.

Pei Xingjian, Changsun Wuji, and Chu Suiliang are all good at calligraphy, and they are all mixed in this circle, and now the eldest grandson Wuji is gone, but Chu Suiliang is still there, and Chu Suiliang has a great opinion on Wang Zheng.

After all, there had been a feud before.

Pei Xingjian is also because of this influence, and now the new emperor Li Zhi is ready to use Wang Zheng's knife, and of course several people support it.

At this time, Wang Zheng, who was chasing and killing the Japanese Kou all the way, was about to completely destroy the last group of Japanese Kou, but was stopped by the army led by someone.

"Dingguo Gong, Your Majesty asked you to return to Chang'an quickly!" A general saluted Wang Zheng and said.

"Why?" Wang Zheng asked strangely.

"I don't know, Dingguo Gong, please follow General Mo to return to Chang'an as soon as possible!"

"Get out of the way! Destroy this last group of widows first—Kou is saying! Wang Zheng looked at the Japanese who was about to disappear into the sea, and was anxious.

"Dingguo Gong, do you dare to resist the decree?" The generals directly stopped Wang Zheng.

"Get out of the way!" Wang Zheng said angrily.

"Pass on Your Majesty's holy decree, Dingguo Gongzheng plotted to kill the emperor, if it is against the decree, kill it on the spot!" The general took out the decree and read it aloud.

"The Emperor? Li Er is dead? Wang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and he was screaming badly in an instant.

Wang Zheng knelt down directly, raised his head to the sky and roared, and shouted: "You are disgusting Heavenly Dao, but you really want to let this damn lowly --- (Kou will slaughter my innocent compatriots in the future?) I hate it! ”

Everyone didn't know why Wang Zheng would talk nonsense about these things they didn't understand, and suddenly Wang Zheng drew his sword and killed the general who read the holy decree, and when everyone was stunned, Wang Zheng quickly got on his horse and galloped.

"Chase!" An army of more than 100,000 immediately pursued Wang Zheng.

On the other side, Li Zhizhao's right guard general Zheng Rentai was the main general, Xue Rengui was the deputy general, and led the troops to Tianshan to attack the nine surnamed Tiele, Zheng Rentai and Xue Rengui led the army to the Tianshan Mountains, and the nine surnamed Tiele supported more than 100,000 people to refuse, and made dozens of brave knights come to challenge. Xue Rengui fired three arrows and killed three people, and the rest of the knights were afraid of Xue Rengui's divine power and dismounted to surrender.

Xue Rengui took advantage of the situation to wave his army to cover up the killing, defeated the nine surnamed Tiele, and killed the pawns. Then, Xue Rengui crossed the north to pursue the defeated army of Tiele and captured the three brothers of Ye Hu (leader).

After Xue Rengui collected his troops, the army sang: "The general has three arrows to set the Tianshan Mountain, and the strong man sings a long song into the Han Pass." Since then, the nine surnamed Tiele have decayed and are no longer a border trouble.

Xue Rengui led more than 1,000 people to attack the important town of Fuyu City, Xue Rengui triumphantly sang all the way, and joined forces with Li Tao's army outside Pyongyang, the capital of Lizhou, forming a joint encirclement of Pyongyang.

Yi Xiang took advantage of the situation to attack and captured Pyongyang in one fell swoop, so far, all the Goryeo nobles who betrayed after Li Shimin's death perished.

In this battle, the Tang Dynasty obtained a total of five departments, 176 cities, and 697,000 households, so it divided it into nine prefectures, 42 prefectures, and 100 counties, and set up the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate to govern the entire old land of Goryeo.

Due to the rebellion in Goryeo, Xue Rengui moved from Pyongyang to Xincheng after taking office, and during his tenure, he raised orphans, supported the elderly, dealt with thieves, promoted and appointed Goryeo talents, and commended and rewarded the people with noble character and excellent behavior.

——To be continued——