099 back, Empress Dowager Wu was restructured in the dynasty, and Mei Xiaolang was ordered to divorce his wife

Mei Zhenyi had to smile bitterly: "Yes, I am a mortal after all, not a golden immortal like you, it is difficult not to think about it, just now I couldn't help but have this idea." ”

Qingfeng: "Naturally, I won't be like you, but the immortals will also move, the Heavenly Punishment Thunder Tribulation is not only once, and the circumstances that trigger the Heavenly Punishment are not only when they ascend." For example, as long as you enter and exit the fairy world, you will encounter heavenly punishment and thunder tribulation, whether it is big or small, everything depends on chance. ”

Mei Zhenyi said in surprise: "Is there such a thing? Then the immortal nether realm, there are too many things entangled in the human world, isn't it a little troublesome when you go back?"

Qingfeng: "It's not just a little troublesome, the law in the world is just out of the gods, if the karma is too deep, you can't go back." Therefore, there are some golden immortals who have incarnated in the Nether Realm, and they have to cut off some things, and then cut off this incarnation from now on. ”

Mei Zhenyi asked: "Above the realm of immortals, is there still a heavenly tribulation?"

Qingfeng: "Yes, but the mystery is not the same as the cultivation in the world, and it is too early to talk to you about this now, and it is useless to talk about it." When you can one day ascend to immortality, go and confirm it yourself. ...... Don't talk about that, I've got you in big trouble today, think about it, there's one more thing to tell you. ”

Mei Zhenyi: "What's the matter, a good thing or a bad thing? If a good thing is spoken, the bad thing will not be discussed." ”

Qingfeng: "I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's a good thing for you." ...... In fact, there are many kinds of ingenuity, many kinds of mysteries, and many choices for the Ascension Tribulation, and you will understand when the time comes. ...... This game of chess is not finished yet, so let's finish it. ”

Mei Zhenyi stretched out his hand and pulled on the chessboard: "Don't play, I'll lose!"

Qingfeng stood up: "Then let's go, Mei Yi's matter is over, Xue Zhang's matter is over, then Mr. Sui should also leave Wuzhou, I can be quiet for a while." ”

Mei Zhenyi: "You want to be quiet. I'm afraid it may not be possible. ”

Qingfeng glanced at him: "Don't talk nonsense!"

Mei Zhenyi: "I said Qingfeng, a good fairy, why have I never seen you smile?"

Qingfeng: "What's so funny about things in the sky and on the ground?" After speaking, he waved his sleeves, took Mei Zhenyi and the game of chess, and flew away in the sky. The sun had just risen, and the sun was shining on the ridge of the hill, and the surroundings were quiet. It seems that nothing has happened here.

The scale of Xu Jingye's rebellion was not large, only between the Jianghuai and Huai, it was not long, only a few months, but it was a great turmoil that shocked the government and the opposition, and the shrewd Empress Wu took this opportunity to purge the dynasty. In that year, it was changed to Yuanguang Mansion again, and the edict was issued to change Shangshu Province to Wenchangtai, and the left and right servants were renamed left and right phases. The six departments of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers were renamed Heaven, Earth, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

Menxia Province was renamed Luantai, the central province was renamed Fengge, and Yushitai was renamed Left and Right Suzheng Terrace. For example, the official positions of prime ministers such as Shizhong and Zhongshu Ling are now renamed as Luantai Nayan and Fengge Internal Officials, which sound like ducks in modern nightclubs. Maybe Empress Wu will be in this tune.

Not only that, but the Empress Wu officially designated Luoyang as the capital of the gods. The Tang Dynasty implemented the accompanying capital system, the capital was in Chang'an, and Luoyang was only the accompanying capital. However, Empress Wu liked Luoyang and wanted to establish an imperial industry here, and Luoyang's status once surpassed that of Chang'an. Empress Wu also did one thing, that is, to chase down his ancestors.

The fifth generation of the martial arts ancestor Wu Keji was posthumously named the Duke of Wuguo, Gaozu Wuju was often posthumously named the king of Beiping County, great-grandfather Wu Jian was posthumously named the king of Jincheng County, his grandfather Wuhua was posthumously named the king of Taiyuan County, and his father Wushi Wok was posthumously named the king of Wei. Five generations of upward sealing. It is usually done by the founding emperor, Wu Zetian has not yet been called the emperor, and can only crown his ancestors as kings, but this also sends a strong signal to the government and the opposition - she wants to be the queen mother and do the things of the emperor.

To change the yuan and reform the system, of course, to reward and promote some new officials, and at the same time, to take down a group of remnants of the stubborn forces in the DPRK and China who resisted her accession to the throne, Pei Yan bore the brunt of the sword. Pei Yan has been a tree for many years, with deep roots. There are many henchmen inside and outside the government and the opposition. In the name of thoroughly investigating Xu Jingye's rebellion, Wu later carried out a major purge. Shan Yudao, who led the army to the border, appeased the ambassador Cheng Wuting and was the first to be implicated.

Cheng Wuting made great contributions with Pei Yan in the court coup d'état that deposed Li Zheli and Li Dan. Later, he led the army north to defend the northern frontier, and the reason for the origin of the land was also related to the Turkic rebellion. As mentioned above, the Turkic rebellion was suppressed, and Che Shu himself was killed by Mei Xiaolang's arrow, only Yuan Zhen led more than 20,000 people to escape, and at the same time there was a shaman and a great priest of the grassland.

Yuan Zhen still has some means and strategies, and the first thing he did after fleeing was to gather the Turkic tribes scattered throughout the steppe. All the sturdy men of these tribes joined the chariot army, and the remaining old and weak women and children also found it difficult to survive on their own in difficult conditions.

Yuan Zhen found these tribes one by one, and took away cattle, sheep, horses, young women, and healthy children, leaving the sick and weak. In this way, the landing force of his own troops snowballed and grew, forming the only Turkic tribe that could continue to run rampant on the steppe. In the process, Gu Dulu formed an alliance with Yuan Zhen, and called on the remnants of the Turkic tribes to submit to Yuan Zhen as the great priest of the steppe, which helped him a lot.

Gu Dulu had a dislike for Yuan Zhen before, why did he suddenly wear another pair of pants? Gu Dulu needs the continued worship of the grassland tribes, and Yuan Zhen also needs the spiritual power of the gods to call on and restrain the people. These two people got together, moved eastward with the tribe, and came to the Mobei area, and in two or three years, they also recovered a trace of vitality, often going south to plunder and harass, but they did not dare to invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

This is also a headache for the imperial court, Yuan Zhen and Gu Dulu always move their hands and feet, once the imperial army comes to attack, they will immediately flee to the north of the desert, and it is not easy to chase after them. Pei Yan recommended Cheng Wuting to garrison the border, Cheng Wuting was good at using soldiers, known as a brave warrior, and the Turks heard that Cheng Wuting was coming, and did not dare to attack again, which happened in the same year as Xu Jingye's rebellion.

Cheng Wuting was originally Pei Yan's henchmen, and he once recommended Tang Zhiqi and Du Qiuren in Xu Jingye's rebels to the imperial court, these two people are the main leaders of the rebels, and they have always had close contacts with Cheng Wuting. After Pei Yan was imprisoned, Cheng Wuting wrote to protect Pei Yan, but the Empress Wu was very dissatisfied, and was afraid that Cheng Wuting might change if he held heavy troops in the frontier, so he sent the general Pei Shaoye directly to the army to announce the decree. He was beheaded on the spot on charges of colluding with the treason against the party.

Cheng Wuting and Pei Yan formed a party, and Mei Xiaolang wore small shoes for a period of time, but Mei Xiaolang also felt that it was a pity that this brave man was going to die, but he had no way to protect Cheng Wuting's life. couldn't keep Cheng Wuting, but Mei Xiaolang saved another person, that is, the stunned general Wang Fangyi.

Wang Fangyi is a relative of the former queen Wang, and he didn't recruit the queen to see him, but it happened that at this time, there was a copy of Wang Fangyi's imperial history, and Wang Fangyi was taken to prison. What did Wang Fangyi do again? We have to start with the Cheshu Rebellion of that year.

I think Mei Xiaolang led the army to quell the rebellion. In Atami, before he had time to deal with the aftermath, he was urgently recruited back to Beijing, and the rest of the things were handed over to Wang Fangyi to deal with. This battle annihilated the main Turkic force, so that the remnants of the Turks no longer had the strength to make a big mess, and the rest of the more than 100,000 Turkic cavalry became prisoners except for those who fled and were killed, totaling more than 30,000 people.

These more than 30,000 people are not easy to deal with. Of course, it can't be put away, and it costs too much money to raise it. According to the Tang Dynasty's usual policy of appeasement, as long as these people were willing to submit to the tribute, they would generally return to their hometowns, but their tribes had been swallowed by Yuan Zhen and no longer existed. If they can't go back, will the imperial court still have to give them land to support them? Even if they are raised, who can guarantee that these people will not become a new source of trouble in the future?

The stunned general deserves to be the stunned general, and he did something that stunned everyone. He sold all these 30,000 people and sold them to foreign countries! Sold them to Persia, Qiuzi and other places as slaves, and made a lot of money, which was used to rebuild the fortress of Black Sand City and to pay additional compensation to the families of the fallen soldiers. At that time, he was in power in the army, and he also wrote the battle report, and the matter was concealed without reporting the presence of these prisoners. I didn't expect the paper to contain the fire. In the end, it was still reported by people.

When Mei Xiaolang heard the news, he wrote to Wang Fangyi to intercede, and he said this - although Wang Fangyi's move was reckless and did not conform to the law, it was also a rough and detailed plan. Tens of thousands of people are not easy to kill, and it is difficult to settle, and if it is difficult to restrain them by dividing the land, such capricious people will inevitably regenerate and become chaotic in the future. Wang Fangyi can deal with this matter without slaughtering the people, spending money and food, and leaving no troubles, and there are also reasons for exoneration.

Because of Mei Xiaolang's intercession. Wang Fangyi was released from prison. Exile in Yazhou. Mei Xiaolang's people who can keep him can't keep his local officials, but the other person who is implicated can't even keep his officials. It's Cheng Xuanhu. Cheng Xuanhu made up for Sima in Haozhou back then, but it was recommended by Pei Yan and Cheng Wuting, and he himself was Cheng Wuting's nephew, so it was impossible not to be implicated.

But this time it was very simple to speak for Cheng Xuanhu, he himself led his troops to fight the rebels, and he couldn't be implicated in this matter. The imperial court neither punished nor rewarded Cheng Xuanhu, and Cheng Xuanhu escaped a catastrophe.

Of course, the thorough investigation of Xu Jingye's rebellion case cannot just be punished, the military merits of the counterinsurgency still have to be rewarded, and there are many people who have been rewarded with the corners. On Mei Zhenyi's side, the most advantageous is Jiang Hua, the assassin of Wuzhou.

This Jiang Tingshi didn't do any work, but he gave power to Mei Yi, but he got a great success, because he was the nominal military and political governor of Wuzhou after all. Jiang Hua was promoted to the autumn official and went to Beijing to take up his post, the reason why he was able to enter Beijing was not entirely because of his military exploits, there was another thing that made Empress Wu happy.

Last year, he reported to the imperial court that the green snow appeared on Jingting Mountain and enshrined the Cuiting Nunnery of Guanzi Bodhisattva flew into Wuzhou overnight. Empress Wu was very happy at the time, but the court was in an eventful autumn, and he had no time to take care of this matter, this time he saw the Wuzhou battle report, remembered his auspicious past, Feng Yan Yiyue transferred him to Beijing, which was extraordinarily gracious.

Of course, the so-called decree of reward, this holy decree is not necessarily set by the Empress Wu herself, trivial matters are drawn up by the officials below, and the Empress Wu adds a few opinions to approve and then send it back, which can be regarded as a holy decree. Therefore, many details of the reward are drawn up by the relevant personnel, and then you can see a person's connections in the officialdom.

For example, Mei Zhenyi's uncle, Liu Zhi, the Cang Governor of Ningguo County, was given the honor of Yun Cavalry Captain, but his official position has not changed, and he is still the Cang Governor of Ningguo County. According to the current parlance, it is similar to a section-level position, enjoying the treatment of the department level. Don't forget that Wuzhou is a rich place, and although the cang-governor is not big, he is in charge of the county's money and grain reserves, and the cang-governor of Ningguo County is also in charge of the ordnance procurement of the Shanggong court, which is a rare fat shortage.

Liu Zhi's own family is doing business in Wuzhou, and he is also the governor of Ningguo County, which has a lot of oil and water, so when the handling personnel proposed a reward for him, he only gave him the rank of an officer, and did not move his position, which was also to give the Mei family face. Zhang Guo and a number of meritorious people and local garrison soldiers who defended the city were rewarded accordingly.

Mei Yi is the person who has contributed the most. Crowned General Dingyuan, temporarily led the history of Wuzhou Thorn. This reward is also interesting, and it is okay to add General Dingyuan, and he is actually put in charge of Wuzhou Mansion temporarily. Jiang Hua, the assassin of Wuzhou, was transferred to Beijing, and Mei Yi was temporarily appointed by the assassin history, which was not to ask him to be the assassin, but to let him deal with the post-war pacification before the new assassin arrived, which was also a big fat gap. It is also deliberately to give the Mei family face to have such an arrangement.

After the battle, it is necessary to settle accounts, how many people have been requisitioned, how many casualties should be compensated, how much grain should be distributed, how much materials should be consumed, and what ?—— needs to be replenished and procured. To take the simplest example, isn't the land used to defend the city in Wuzhou a bamboo gun, and how many bamboos are shared. Whose land is it, and how much is it?

Mei Yi is a general immediately, how can he pay attention to these things, so he simply called Zhang Guo, and even handed over the Great Seal of the Assassin to Zhang Guo. Ask him to deal with it. Zhang Guo has always been very generous to the people in the Mei family, and this time he is also generous to the people of Wuzhou. Everyone was elated.

Although Mei Zhenyi won't ask, how can Zhang Guo be stingy with his own family, the Mei family's land account is extraordinarily wide, not only with bamboo guns and other materials, but also for example, the cost of receiving Princess Yuzhen should have been borne by the Wuzhou Mansion, but because of the war, the Mei family was asked to pay in advance, and according to the specifications, this cost is not low, and he took the opportunity to make a lot of money.

Zhang Guo can make money. There is another person who can earn more than him, and that is Liu Zhi. The ordnance materials for this war, except for bamboo guns, were all moved from the armory of Ningguo County, and these things were originally to be paid tribute to the imperial court, and they had to be replenished and purchased neatly. So how much loss is there in the battle? These numbers are all money, and a lot of money!

This matter should have been counted by Mei Yi, Mei Yi asked Zhang Guo to handle it, and Zhang Guo simply called Liu Zhi to do it himself. Yanagi was originally a businessman. It's embarrassing to be polite at this time. Naturally, it is a fortune. Zhang Guo and Liu Zhi almost emptied most of the money and grain depot in Wuzhou Mansion. But no one said anything, firstly, Zhang Guo was equally generous to the villagers' defenders, and secondly, he made money ruthlessly but his calculations were clear.

It's the end of the year in a blink of an eye, and it's almost the New Year, and Wuzhou Mansion is full of lights. The people who should be rewarded have all been rewarded, but there is one of the most important people who has not been rewarded by the imperial court for a long time, that is, Princess Yuzhen who lives in Wuzhou.

Princess Yuzhen has made great contributions this time, and her deeds of "climbing the city to retreat from thousands of troops, and secretly beheading and dedicating herself to work" have all been compiled into jokes, and the storyteller's recitation has spread in the Jiangnan area, so why has the imperial court's reward not moved for a long time? When the imperial court issued an edict to transfer Jiang Hua to Beijing, by the way, a holy edict came down, ordering Princess Yuzhen to "temporarily live in the Mei family in Wuzhou and wait for the court's decree."

This oracle is also very peculiar, neither recruiting Princess Yuzhen into Beijing, nor letting her return to Bazhou, but letting her stay in Wuzhou temporarily. It's just a matter of staying in Wuzhou, an unmarried princess should live in a post house or a separate courtyard, how can she live in Mei's house temporarily?

Princess Yuzhen received this holy message, her heart jumped, some things she understands better than Mei Zhenyi, as a princess, there is no reward, it is nothing more than a reward for money, land and house, if you are not married, and then "reward" a good husband. Let yourself live in the Mei family temporarily, is it because the Empress Wu wants to give marriage? When I think of marriage, that is, I am marrying Mei Zhenyi, and a huge sense of happiness surrounds Yuzhen.

Mei Zhenyi didn't know what Princess Yuzhen was thinking at this time, he understood what the princess was thinking about him, and he also pitied Princess Yuzhen, but he didn't have so many thoughts, just pity and love. After receiving the holy decree, the Mei family was respectful, and according to the princess's own wishes, they still arranged her to Qiyunguan.

Princess Yuzhen was full of joy in Wuzhou, waiting for the happiest New Year in her life. And Mei Xiaolang, who was far away in Luoyang, was frowning in the study at the moment. Empress Wu just summoned him, and after talking about the government, he said a private matter - ordered him to divorce his wife!

Empress Dowager Wu was not a mediocre monarch, and even compared to most emperors in history, she was a better politician. But she is also a woman, with the usual characteristics of women, such as being nosy, liking to change people's names, and so on. But with Mei Xiaolang's status, his marriage itself is also political, and it is no wonder that the martial arts queen is troublesome.