[In 697, although the war in the north continued, Wu Zetian still met the true love of his life again.

This true love was introduced by her daughter, Princess Taiping.

Although we talk about Princess Taiping now, we often have to talk about her recruitment of male favorites, but in fact, people have a process of change.

Around 680, Li Zhi granted the fifteen-year-old princess Taiping the right to choose her own horses.

Picking and choosing, he finally fell in love with Xue Shao, the second son of Princess Chengyang, and officially married the following year.

Wu Zetian was dissatisfied with this marriage, and the reason was also outrageous: Xue Shao's brother Xue Yi's two wives Xiao and Cheng were from humble backgrounds and humiliated the family, so it was better to take a break.

The Xue family was stupid, and asked someone to mediate that the Xiao family was born in Lanling Xiao, which was not an insult to the family, and finally let Wu Zetian put down the matter on the surface.

Perhaps it was because of this incident that Li Zhen and Li Chong's father and son later rebelled against martial arts, and Xue Yi also participated in it.

After the defeat and capture, Wu Zetian did not hesitate to behead Xue Yi, and in the name of implication, Xue Shao was arrested and imprisoned with a hundred rods, and "forgot" to release him, starving him to death in prison.

When Xue Shao died, Princess Taiping and Xue Shao's fourth child was still in infancy and less than a month, and as compensation, Princess Taiping's food seal was increased to 1,200 households.

However, at this time, it was already on the eve of changing the country's name, and in order to avoid Princess Taiping being implicated by the cool officials, Wu Zetian once again made the decision to remarry her to the Wu family.

The old lady strongly recommended Wu Chenghei Wu Fengxian, but Princess Taiping thought she was too old and finally married Wu Youji.

After this marriage, Princess Taiping began to choose male favorites, had many dealings with courtiers, and finally introduced Zhang Changzong, the male favorite in the house, to the old lady when her mother was unhappy, and stepped on the accelerator for Wu Zhou's downhill broken car.

In addition, it is emphasized that this beautiful man's name is Zhang Changzong, not Zhang Zongchang, a warlord who wrote the poem "The cannon bombarded his mother, and Weijia returned to his hometown".

Ask, how long does it take to go from selling faces to making a living to being powerful and moving the world?

Zhang Changzong replied: Half a month is enough.

This beautiful man made the old lady very satisfied just by seeing him for the first time, and on the day of the meeting, he was appointed as General Yunlu, exercising the duties of General Zuo Qianniu Wei Zhonglang, and taking charge of the palace forbidden army.

Zhang Changzong was also very satisfied, and told the old lady: My brother is far better than me, and he is good at refining medicine, and has extraordinary ability, Wu Zetian immediately summoned him again.

Zhang Yizhi also awarded the lawsuit to Wei Shaoqing on the spot, rewarding the house, servants and maids, cattle, horses, camels and property.

A few days later, Zhang Changzong Jiayin Qingguanglu doctor, sensitized the government, and then posthumously recognized his father as Xiangzhou Thorn Shi, mother Wei Zang as Mrs. Tai, every day there are female officials in the palace Shang Gong asked about life.

In order to please the old lady, the Wu family also needed to look at the two faces, rushed to lead the horse and hand the whip to her, and even named the two brothers Wulang and Liulang respectively.

Wu Zetian Dayue, and then Jia Zhang Changzong's right scattered cavalry, this official position is no longer a loose official since Gaozong, but an official subordinate to the three products of the province, and his status is second only to the prime minister.

The Zhang brothers went from the white body to the provincial scattered cavalry attendant, and jumped straight to the twenty-fifth level official to force the prime minister, and it took less than half a month before and after, which belonged to An Lushan's envy of the three-point treatment.

These two brothers were the first to be killed in the name of the Qing monarch in the previous Shenlong coup.

From this point of view, the historical significance of the Zhang brothers is probably that the "anti-martial faction" finally united. 】

"True love ......" Zhang Fei pondered for a moment the two words that were said by later generations, and then reacted a little and muttered:

"Our group of short-lived people are really not as good as the old lady who is good at pleasure."

This is not difficult to calculate, it has been mentioned earlier that the old lady was eighty years old at the time of the Shenlong coup.

Then going back, at least seventy-five at this time.

Look at this house again, not even a single one will live to seventy......

Looking at Zhang Fei's pure, child-like gaze without any impurities, Kong Ming's smile suddenly froze.

This gaze then swept over Lu Su, Fa Zheng, and Pang Tong in turn.

Then the whole hall heard Zhang Fei's whisper:

"Zhuge Junshi is already considered to be a high lifespan."

Looking at several think tanks with different faces, Liu Bei waved his hand weakly:

"It's just buried."

After another lesson, Liu Bei rubbed his slightly painful palm and sighed:

"This mother also doesn't let her daughter worry."

"But this Zhang Zongchang looks quite noble as an emperor, and this poetry is also vulgar."

The matter of the royal marriage is not news, and those who marry the princess as their wives are not only heroes like the Marquis of Changping, but also people like Han Guang who participated in the rebellion and was punished.

But after getting married, it is indeed rare to be found fault by the royal family in addition to affection, and Liu Bei can only sympathize with Xue Shao.

As for this poem, although it is a bit vulgar, it also reminds Liu Bei of the power of the trial gunpowder he saw in Chengdu:

"There is the power of the heavens, there is this sigh, and it is also over."

The trial production of gunpowder in Chengdu Qingyunguan can be called orderly, but the production progress of artillery is quite slow.

On the one hand, it is considered that Chengdu is not a place to stay for a long time, and on the other hand, compared with breaking the enemy in the battle formation, this thing is more beneficial to use in the mountain of Kaiyizhou.

After the gunpowder was completed, the first iron cannon was very miserable, and Liu Bei felt that the trial production of the artillery was not easy after seeing it.

Kong Ming thinks: Gold and iron can't block the power of gunpowder, let alone mountains and rocks?

After changing the direction, Liu Bei also had to admit that this thing was used to open mountains and roads to extract ore, and it was a sharp weapon.

After all, although Yizhou has a large population, if you want to take coal, iron and copper ore and other things in the mountains, you also have to take care of agricultural affairs, and these manpower will be stretched.

And seeing this poem today, Liu Bei's heart itched again.

Imagine that when he went out of Tongguan and Cao Cao refused to fight, he directly pulled out an artillery cannon and argued with the Cao thief who was a hero......

Isn't it beautiful?

Kong Ming didn't know what Liu Bei was thinking in a big circle, and when he heard the lord's sigh, he also seriously affirmed:

"Gunpowder is a thing, which can destroy millions of enemies when you advance, and can stabilize the country so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, which is a gentleman's sharp weapon."

He knew the hidden dangers of this thing, but if it was due to choking, it would not be done by a wise man.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Guanzhong, Kong Ming also visited around Chang'an, wanting to set up a place for the gunpowder workshop and set a system for the security of gunpowder.

Pang Tong was also full of approval on the side, if this thing is managed well, the fire of Yanhan Sanxing will definitely be extremely blazing.

But if you don't notice that it falls into the hands of Xiaoxiao, it may be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire in the current troubled times.

……

The eldest grandson Wuji calculated it carefully, if so, this princess Taiping can also be regarded as the kinship of the eldest grandson.

But...... The eldest grandson Wuji sighed, a person who was hanged to death, why did he still think about this?

To plot rebellion, how dare the clan.

However, at this time, seeing that His Majesty's brows were tightened, the eldest grandson Wuji inexplicably felt a sense of relief.

At the same time, there is also a trace of disgust for this Zhang brother.

After all, he also contributed to this world, and as a result, he was used for such wanton pleasure, and he could more or less feel a little bit of His Majesty's mood.

Seeing a face-seller relying on the character of his grandmother to curry favor with him, he regarded the law of etiquette as nothing, and only had more than ten days of power leaning towards the government and the opposition, and the experience of the eldest grandson Wuji was just two words: outrageous.

Over there, Wei Zheng's lips trembled a little, and the eldest grandson Wuji didn't have to think about it, and he knew that most of them were talking about the imbalance of yin and yang, and the transposition of Qiankun.

Even the faces of Fang Du and the others over there were a little distracted, and the eldest grandson Wuji expressed his understanding.

After all, thinking about Wang Xuance, who traveled majestically before, it took a year to be born and die for such a feat in the annals of later generations, and it was only a five-level promotion.

It's inevitably depressing in comparison.

However, the eldest grandson Wuji is also a little curious because of this, the world is still not chaotic, and the legacy of Zhenguan is so stable?

[In the same year when the Zhang brothers opened the eyes of the whole world, Lai Junchen fell.

As a famous cool official leader in the Wu Zhou period, the fall of Lai Junchen can be regarded as a helpless one.

After all, Wu Zhou has officially changed his name for six years, and all the exploits that can be brushed for such a cool official have been brushed, and if the vicious dog does not bite a little, it is easy for the owner to suspect whether it is old.

Lai Junchen grinded his teeth, and after carefully thinking about his master's thoughts, he decided to fight for himself to have a background that could retire peacefully:

Luo sued the kings of the Wu clan and the princess of Taiping, and falsely accused the emperor's heir and the king of Luling against the north and south.

To put it simply, the martial arts family and the Li family came to a pot, and the subordinates really couldn't see themselves clearly in the environment at that time, after all, even the old lady had to tease the martial arts family to give people a glimmer of hope, you just want to stud when you come up, how much did you drink?

The result was not too surprising, before Lai Junchen could make up the charges, the kings of the martial arts family and Princess Taiping couldn't help but say that Lai Junchen was imprisoned.

Then the juniors went to the old lady to cry, and the final thing can be said to be a matter of course, Lai Junchen was killed by the martial queen.

After all, since ancient times, cool officials are essentially emperor's minions, and Wu Zetian can launch a dozen or so Junchen at any time when he needs it, and he can naturally pinch them to death when he doesn't need them.

After Lai Junchen was robbed of food in Chang'an to celebrate, Di Renjie, who was appeasing the people in Weizhou, was summoned to Beijing by the old lady:

Wu Zhou has already decided, so let you be the prime minister.

Previously, although Wu Zetian had the power to degrade Di Renjie to Peng Ze, the old lady's good nephew Wu Fengxian still asked for life to kill Di Renjie many times, but he was not allowed.

It was not until the Khitan Rebellion that Di Renjie was activated again, and he used the official position of Weizhou Assassin to protect the people's livelihood.

After entering Beijing, Di Renjie wrote a long letter to the old lady as a prime minister, and the words were very sincere.

There is only one main idea: we should shrink strategically.

In fact, it is no wonder, after all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that from Taizong to Gaozong, military spending has been steadily rising.

When it came to the Wu Zhou period, it was even more amazing, not to mention the old nose of the Khitan Fei, the defeat of Tianmenling made the Bohai State de facto independent, completely cut off the Liaodong Corridor, and the Andong Protectorate had already existed in name only, so it was better to abolish the money saved to appease the people of Hebei.

There is one meaning in and out of the words, old sister, this is not the time for Zhenguan. 】

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