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Chapter 768 Chapter 787: A wave of unrest and another wave

At this moment, Li Zhi smiled and explained to Queen Wang: "There is a word 'waiting' written in my uncle's secret letter, which is to ask me to be patient and wait for the opportunity, but there are four words written in the secret letter of Poet Kuang." Cao GUI's debate', Cao GUI's debate comes from "Zuo Zhuan". The whole article talks about the importance of momentum when marching and fighting. The ministers kneeling and admonishing are now in full swing. At this time, I must not fight against them, otherwise I will definitely lose. Only when their momentum falls, that is, when they are exhausted, That's the perfect time."

Queen Wang has also read some books, so it is not difficult to understand the meaning of Li Zhi's words. After hearing this, she couldn't help but nodded and said, "Zhao Guogong and Li Taifu are indeed the two virtuous ministers most relied on by the Tang Dynasty, even their strategies are the same."

"No." Li Zhi waved his hands with a smile, "Obviously, Poetry Maniac is better than uncle. Poetry Maniac knows that I'm not very smart, so I wrote four words. I can understand these four words at a glance. And I only half understand the word 'waiting' for uncle."

Queen Wang naturally didn't like Li Hao very much. After all, it was Li Hao who made their Wang family so miserable, but she was a queen, and she was not good at arranging ministers in the court. What's more, Li Zhi valued Li Hao so much, so she couldn't do more. In order not to offend Li Zhi, he could only smile and nod and said, "Indeed, Mrs. Li is a rare genius in the Tang Dynasty."

"It's more than a rare sight in a hundred years." Li Zhi laughed, "I think it's rare to see him in a thousand years!"

Hearing that Li Zhi spoke highly of Li Hao, Queen Wang and Wu Meiniang frowned secretly.

Soon, it was dark, and the officials were still kneeling outside the Chengtian Gate. There were so many mosquitoes on a summer night, and the officials were kneeling here, counting the mosquitoes as the happiest, flying around them, and biting them when they were hungry. This ding, that ding, and for a while, the Jinwu Guard on the top of the city heard the sound of "cracking" from below, and someone asked curiously: "What are these adults doing down there? Slapping their ears?"

"Can you really think about it, are they crazy, slapping their ears?" A Jinwu guard said, "It must be caused by mosquito bites. We are standing on this city wall. The night wind is strong and there are no mosquitoes. The mosquitoes below are holding a temple fair. .”

The Jinwu guard wanted to laugh when he heard the words, but he forcibly held back when he thought that the matter of the officials kneeling to remonstrate was too serious to be laughed at.

The early morning sun filled Chang'an City, a group of ministers knelt in front of the Chengtian Gate listlessly, and some of them were already swaying from side to side and began to doze off.

Before the sun set yesterday, there were 39 people kneeling here to protest, but now there are only [-] left. The other nine people couldn't stand the mosquito bites and went home to sleep. These nine people just came to join in the fun. Wanting to make a name for themselves, but found that he couldn't bear the hard work, so he could only retreat. Of course, these nine people were despised by the number of people kneeling here all night.

Yu Zhining is old, and it is very difficult for him to kneel down, but he persisted until now, and now he feels that his legs are no longer his own, because they are already numb, and now even if he is asked to stand up, he will not He couldn't stand up anymore, he was so wronged and angry, why his legs were so unbearable, and he only knelt for a night, why was Li Zhi so foolish, knowingly committing crimes, and committing such a big mistake...

Yu Zhining's heart was roaring, he was really heartbroken, in his opinion, Li Zhi's act of such immorality was the beginning of moral decline, which would lead to the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, the country will be destroyed, and the consequences will be unimaginable. So he had to appeal to Li Zhi to change his mind and take back his life.

Although there were 30 people who persisted overnight, no more than half of them had the same thoughts as Yu Zhining. The others were more or less selfish, and most of them wanted to take the opportunity to make a name for themselves. Selling straight, maybe I have the hope to become the next Wei Zheng. Compared with the nine people who flinched in the middle of the night, this group of people has more perseverance and patience.

I didn't sleep all night, I didn't eat breakfast, the officials were tired and hungry, Yu Zhining felt his head was heavy and his body was very uncomfortable, but he was still trying to support himself. After noon, it was about one and a half to two o'clock in the afternoon , This is the hottest time of the day. The thermometer in Li Hao’s house has shown the air temperature is 36 degrees. The ground temperature must be higher. It's hot, but outside the Chengtian Gate, there is a marble floor, which is more terrible than the concrete floor. After being irradiated by the sun for a while, it was scalded to death, and the sweat of the officials dripped on the ground, and it was evaporated immediately. All the ministers regretted it in their hearts, because it was so terrible, not to mention the numbness of their legs, this is the rhythm of drying them up.

Li Zhi was very caring, thinking that they might suffer from heatstroke in this kind of weather, he specially asked the imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital to wait here to prevent anyone from suffering from heatstroke.

After all, Yu Zhining was old, why did he suffer from such high temperature, plus he was hungry and tired, he really suffered from heat stroke, and suddenly fell to the ground with a thud, all the officials exclaimed: "Master Yu! Master Yu..." He wanted to go up to help him, but he didn't dare to move. If he moved, his knees would be useless until now.

Seeing this, the imperial physicians of the imperial hospital stepped forward one after another, diagnosed and treated Yu Zhining, and then confessed: "Master Yu is fine." Then they carried him away.

Yu Zhining was their leader, and he was the first to pass out, and the others suddenly started to retreat. If this continues, they really can't afford it. If they kneel down again, their legs will be useless, and there will be mosquitoes again at night Bite them all over their faces...

But now they are riding a tiger, and if they leave now, how can they still have face in Chang'an in the future? They are officials.

Immediately afterwards, another person passed out due to heatstroke. This time it was Guozijian offering wine, and he was not too young. He was a figure second only to Yu Zhining. This is all right, the dragons have no leader. Everyone, look at me, and I will look at you , His face was full of helplessness.

Soon, someone passed out again, this time it was actually a 40-year-old censor, everyone was a little suspicious, this guy was pretending to be unconscious, in order to give himself a step down, well, after knowing this method, many people started Imitation, every ten minutes, someone will faint, some of them are really suffering from heat stroke, but some are pretending, anyway, the people in the hospital don’t care, when they see someone fainted, they go to give first aid, and then carry them away .

At ten o'clock in the evening, there was no one in front of Chengtian Gate except the guards. All the officials who participated in kneeling and admonishing had been carried away by the Tai Hospital. Some had gone home, and some were still receiving treatment in the Tai Hospital.

Yu Zhining has already returned home, he is very depressed, this time kneeling and admonishing ended so hastily, it is really shameful, so he sent a letter to the ministers who knelt and admonished together before, and kneeling and admonishing again, must make the emperor change his mind , the time is tomorrow morning.

The next morning, Yu Zhining came outside the Chengtian Gate, but there were only a few people waiting here. After counting, there were only seven people including himself, and after waiting for a while, three more people came, making a total of ten people. Such a sharp shrinkage made Yu Zhining extremely disappointed. He knew that ten people would not be able to accomplish anything, but once the words were spoken, they had to be done. Now they knelt down to remonstrate not just to make Li Zhi change his mind, but to make Li Zhi change his mind. Mingzhi!

Based on the previous experience, this time he knelt for a longer time, until the next afternoon, and ended up with heatstroke again. When Yu Zhining woke up, he was already lying at home.

Feeling the pain from his legs, Yu Zhining felt that it was nothing, because his heart hurt even more, he propped himself up vigorously, trying to get up, his son came to help him, Yu Zhining waved his hand and said: "Don't help me , Get the pen and ink for my father, I want to write a memorial."

"Yes!" The son hurried to fetch pen and ink for him.

Unfolding the notebook, Yu Zhining dipped a brush in his hand and filled it with ink. Looking at the notebook for a moment, he raised his head and sighed, "Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent and can no longer serve the Tang Dynasty." After finishing speaking, he suddenly wrote , Swimming like a dragon and snake, he wrote his resignation memorial, tomorrow is the Great Court Meeting, and he will hand in his resignation memorial at the Great Court Meeting.

Being an official in the court is similar to working in a company in the future world. The emperor is the boss, and the officials are the employees. scattered.

The next morning at the court meeting, Li Hao came again, but Changsun Wuji didn't come again, and the officials murmured that those who should come didn't come, and those who shouldn't come came instead. The group of officials spoke very loudly, and Li Hao left I have heard it from so far away, Li Zhi knows that these guys are talking to him, but it doesn't matter, who told us that we have a big stomach, ignore them, he is not here today because of Wu Meiniang, but another new thing The big thing happened.

After arriving at the Tai Chi Hall, the emperor and his ministers greeted each other. Li Zhi is in a good mood today, because he is in sight of victory, so of course he is in a good mood.

At the beginning of the court meeting, the Minister of Honglu Temple unexpectedly came out ahead of Yu Zhining, and played loudly: "Your Majesty, the envoys of Silla arrived in Chang'an yesterday with their letters of credence, requesting to meet His Majesty!"

Li Zhi knew about this yesterday, and said with a smile, "Xuan!"

"Xuan Xinluo envoys have an audience!"

A Silla envoy with a standard Silla pancake face entered the Taiji Hall, and then unexpectedly bowed to Li Zhixing in the center of the hall, saying, "Silla envoy Kim Jong-won, pays homage to His Majesty the Emperor of Tang!"

Li Zhi was a little confused when he met and performed such a grand ceremony, but Li Zhi reacted quickly, raised his hand and said, "The envoy of Silla is flat."

"Thank you, His Majesty the Tang Emperor!" Jin Zhengyuan stood up.

At this moment, there was an urgent report from the Jinwu Guard outside the hall: "Report! The Ministry of War has sent an urgent battle report!"

When the ministers heard that it was an urgent battle report, their hearts tightened. How could there be a battle report if it was so good?Which barbarian was detained again?
Li Zhi also frowned for a while, and then said loudly: "Come in!"

Xu You went to the gate of the Taiji Palace to receive the battle report and presented it to Li Zhi. Li Zhi opened the battle report and looked at it. How dare you offend Tang Tianwei again! You are courting death!"

(End of this chapter)