Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

The next day, he held court as usual in the Purple Palace.

Bai Sheng showed up and then left. The Tang Dynasty did not need to hold court every day. Holding court every three days, five days, or even ten days was normal. If there was nothing important, the three ministers or the prime minister would organize a meeting to discuss minor matters. The crown prince of the Eastern Palace could also do the same.

But the prerequisite is to gain the trust of the current emperor.

Otherwise it will easily cause fear.

With Bai Sheng's departure, the dominant power of the Chang court naturally fell to the crown prince who was allowed by her to appear. While the ministers could not help but look at the crown prince's face and physical condition, Crown Prince Li Xian also felt as if he had been in another world and was a new person, and he did not dare to presumptuously do anything.

He just guided the regular court process and the collective discussion process, and did not express any opinions during the process.

After the court session, officials from the Eastern Palace came to talk to him.

He also mostly kept silent.

How to describe it? Maybe he felt that his every word and action was under surveillance, so he was very cautious and cautious, and would not speak if he could, trying his best to protect himself and not leave any loopholes that could easily be impeached.

But don’t tell me, Bai Sheng was really staring at him.

Although this world has great restrictions on spiritual energy and practitioners, it does not seem to have any aversion to technology. Not only can bionic bodyguard robots be used normally, but other technological means can also be used normally.

So in reality, not only the Crown Prince was under Bai Sheng's surveillance, but also Prince Xiang and Li Longji, including Princess Taiping, Wu Sansi and others, and even some members of the Li Tang royal family, were under the surveillance of her nanorobots.

Their every move, every word and every action.

Bai Sheng knew everything about it.

The main difference is that Bai Sheng does not care too much about their overstepping of authority and their words and deeds. If it were really like his original self, where his grandchildren would force them to death just for saying a few bad words about the male favorite behind their backs, then few civil and military officials in the court would be able to survive, because most of them had a grudge against his original self.

At the same time, they were muttering about their original bodies behind their backs. Oh, no, to be precise, now they were muttering about Bai Sheng.

To sum up, it’s still the same sentence.

Everyone's heart was with Li Tang.

She had to take it slow and turn the situation around slowly. She had plenty of time anyway, so that afternoon, Bai Sheng specially issued an edict to Princess Taiping's Mansion, and at the same time issued an imperial decree to the outside world. The edict sent to Princess Taiping's Mansion was to confer the title of prince to all her surviving sons.

All the surviving daughters are princesses.

The imperial edict conveyed to the world was to recruit talented women from all over the world to participate in the examination in the Divine Capital, and those who passed could become officials.

This operation was undoubtedly another bolt from the blue.

Let the undercurrent of God's capital surge again.

Even compared with the later operation of informing the world and recruiting talented women from all over the world to serve as officials, the chain reaction caused by the previous operation of conferring the title of prince on all the sons of Princess Taiping and the title of princess on all the daughters was far less great.

……

Prince Xiang's Mansion

Li Dan, Li Longji, and all the staff affiliated with the Prince of Xiang's Mansion who received the news, all became extremely anxious in an instant, and even had a mental breakdown.

"How could this be?"

"Your Majesty, what does she want to do?"

They couldn't be blamed. In fact, Bai Sheng's operation was too significant in their eyes, because in this dynasty, only the sons of the crown prince could be conferred the title of prince, and all the daughters could be conferred the title of princess. Other princes could only have their favored sons and the crown prince conferred the title of prince, and their daughters could occasionally be princesses, but most of them could be princesses of counties. The sons of princesses rarely could be conferred the title of prince, and most of their daughters could be princesses of counties.

So at this time Bai Sheng conferred the titles of princess princess on all of Princess Taiping's remaining sons and county princess on all of her daughters.

To others it means.

She intended to make Princess Taiping the Crown Princess.

In this case, how could the Prince of Xiang and the others not be anxious? It seems that the current emperor has already begun to consider making his daughter the Crown Princess, and has not considered their family. How can they not feel frustrated and anxious?
"It's so strange. If Her Majesty wanted to make the younger sister the Crown Princess, why was she so tolerant of the Crown Prince and even let him preside over the regular court today?"

Li Dan really couldn't figure out what was wrong with him?
How could he be like a transparent person? He has never been considered. He was made emperor before, but he was just a transitional puppet. He didn't enjoy much blessing, but suffered a lot of sins. Now he is directly ignored.

"Is it to temporarily stabilize the prince?"

"Why bother to stabilize the crown prince temporarily? Previously, the crown prince participated in forcing the emperor to abdicate. If His Majesty had not clearly stated that the crown prince was coerced, it would have been a natural thing to depose the crown prince."

"That is to stabilize the princelings."

"There's no need to be so anxious to stabilize the princelings. Now that this decree has been issued, how can the princelings be stable?"

"There will definitely be impeachment during the court tomorrow."

"I hope Your Highness can calm down. After all, the most anxious ones right now should be the Crown Prince and his party officials. It might even be a good thing. As the saying goes, when the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits. If the Crown Prince and Princess Taiping start to fight, you must not get involved. Just sit on the sidelines and watch."

"That's true..."

After all, the Prince of Xiang was not the crown prince to begin with, so at this moment he was more surprised and astonished, rather than angry and worried because he felt threatened.

Therefore, anxiety comes quickly and goes away quickly.

He soon recovered from his shock under the comfort of his staff, but Li Longji did not think this was a good thing:

"Father, I am waiting for disaster to come."

“If the position of the crown prince is stable, and the current crown prince ascends the throne and becomes emperor in the future, then my father and I may be able to continue to be the Prince of Taiping, the Prince of Taiping, and so on.

But once Aunt Taiping comes to power.

I'm afraid we'll have to die together!"

"How can you say that? Your Aunt Taiping has been quite nice to you. Could it be that if she becomes the Crown Princess or ascends the throne in the future, she will still kill us all?"

Prince Xiang did not support his sister becoming the Crown Princess.

Mainly to refute his son.

"Father, do you think the civil and military officials and the Li Tang royal family will allow another woman to be crowned emperor? Do you think no one will support us by then, or even rebel in our name to force the emperor to abdicate? If we don't die, Aunt Taiping will never be able to sit on the throne securely. Maybe not only us, but the entire Li Tang royal family will be a threat.

And don't forget that Aunt Taiping's current husband is Prince Ding, who is a member of the Wu family. Except for the one with the surname Xue, the rest of her sons are surnamed Wu. Do you think the Wu family can not actively support it? Maybe the Wu family is quite happy to let Aunt Taiping be a transitional stage and pass the throne to the Wu family.

I even suspect that the current emperor still wants to pass the throne to the Wu family, but there were too many opponents before.

So I wanted to have Aunt Taiping make the transition.

We are still alive in the Wu Zhou Dynasty not because we are members of the Li Tang royal family, but because the current emperor is your mother and my grandmother. But if the emperor becomes Aunt Taiping, or even Aunt Taiping's son, a certain Wu family, not only us, but even the entire Li Tang royal family will be able to survive.

At least it would be very dangerous for us to sell out our direct descendants.

Do you still think we can just sit back and watch? "Li Longji couldn't be blamed for thinking too much. The main reason was that political struggles were indeed so cruel. A person who originally had no chance of inheriting the family assets would, of course, first try to kill someone who was more qualified to inherit the family assets than him.

This is human nature.

In the traditional concept of the world, not only Li Xian and Li Dan were more qualified to inherit the throne than Princess Taiping, but their sons, grandsons, and even other branches of the royal family were more qualified to inherit the throne than Princess Taiping's daughter.

Therefore, if Princess Taiping wanted to secure her throne, her best option would be to kill those who were more qualified than her.

"This……"

Li Dan might not be that smart, but Li Longji had already said this. No matter how slow-witted he was, he had to admit that there was nothing wrong with Li Longji's guess:

"What should we do? Should we help the prince?"

"We must help the Crown Prince. His personality is similar to yours, and he is quite good. If the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future, we will most likely be safe. At least it will definitely be safer than Aunt Taiping ascending the throne as the Crown Princess.

Even for our own lives.

We have to help the prince too!
If we really have to face a desperate situation and we really can’t help the Crown Prince, and His Majesty is determined to support Aunt Taiping to take the throne, then I’m afraid we can only…”

If it really comes to that, it would be better to fight to the death and attempt a coup rather than be forced to wait for death.

Although Li Longji did not say it very directly, everyone present could understand what he meant. After all, in their Tang Dynasty, military rebellion or forcing abdication was not a rare event.

"But now the Imperial Guards and the generals of the Xuanwu Gate and other gates have been replaced by strangers we have never seen before and whose identities we do not know. They don't even have relatives and live directly in the palace. We still need to stabilize the situation for now and must not be too anxious!"

The replacement of the generals of the Imperial Guards and the Xuanwu Gate has only happened in the past two days. Li Dan currently knows nothing about them, and without the cooperation of these people.

It is simply impossible to stage a coup.

Therefore, coups and the like will naturally have to be discussed later.

Don't be impatient.

"What? No wonder Zhang Jianzhi and his coup failed. It seems that the emperor has been on guard for a long time and even does not trust the previous imperial guards. We really can't be impatient. Let's see the attitude of the East Palace first.

Father, we must investigate the identities of those people, but we must not alert them, and we must not let His Majesty know."

Li Longji was not aware of this matter. His father's generation was still the most active in the government affairs. All the civil and military officials in the court also allied themselves to their father's generation instead of him as a prince. Even many resources were not available to him. He had to get his father's cooperation.

Therefore, it is normal to be unaware of recent events.

However, there was one thing he was very clear about, that is, if one wanted to stage a coup in the Tang Dynasty, it would be basically impossible to succeed without the help of the imperial guards and the gatekeepers.

Even Emperor Taizong was like this back then.

Therefore, the most important thing at the moment, in addition to helping the prince, is to find a way to find out the identities of the leaders of the Imperial Guards who have become very unfamiliar now, and even grasp their weaknesses and form a united front.

It is undoubtedly quite important.

Unfortunately, they had no idea that Bai Sheng had replaced all these important positions with his own bionic bodyguard robots, so it was ridiculous for them to want to communicate with them secretly.

On the other hand, the crown prince who had already returned to the Eastern Palace, his officials, and officials from the crown prince's party were of course extremely nervous. They had no idea what the current emperor meant by doing this, and they didn't know if she was trying to warn the crown prince.

Or he really intended to promote Princess Taiping.

There was also intense discussion internally about what to do next. Should we send someone to impeach tomorrow?
However, Crown Prince Li Xian remained quite taciturn.

I didn't even hear them discuss it later.

I went straight back to the inner bedroom to rest.

The only ones who were particularly happy were probably Princess Taiping and her party. The Wu family was a little excited, thinking that they still had the possibility of becoming a member of the royal family.

They are currently discussing whether to fully assist Princess Taiping and push her to the throne. Anyway, their Wu family already has a daughter who is the emperor, so it doesn't matter if they have a daughter-in-law who is the emperor, or even better. After all, isn't Princess Taiping's son also a member of their Wu family? As long as it's not her eldest son or the second son, the two surnamed Xue, who succeed to the throne, then the throne will still belong to the Wu family.

As for Princess Taiping, she laughed heartily for a while.

He then took his whole family to the palace to thank Bai Sheng.

Thank you, that's normal.

However, after thanking the favor and returning, although Princess Taiping looked much healthier, with a rosy and radiant complexion, and even her appearance that looked ten years younger, she was obviously not as excited, and even seemed a little gloomy.

When he returned to the princess's residence, he closed the door and said directly:

"From now on, be obedient to me. Don't expect anything like the title of Crown Princess. Don't even mention it. And don't let the officials who are attached to you talk nonsense.

Keep a low profile, life is long."

"You... Taiping, what did the emperor do when he took you into the inner chamber? Why do you look so much younger and your attitude has changed so much?

Weren't you very happy before entering the palace?
And you said you wanted to be the first crown princess in the world?"

Wu Youji was really quite confused.

"My mother gave me a magical pill. After taking it, I looked 10 years younger. My body feels no different from when I was in my early twenties. Some of the hidden illnesses I had from pregnancy and childbirth have all disappeared. I should be in very good health.

In addition, my mother also told me implicitly that this pill has no effect on prolonging life, but if the quantity is enough.

It can allow people to live to the limit of their lifespan.

It's a bit exaggerated that Peng Zu lived to be 800 years old, but there were still some people in the country who lived to be over 100 years old, and there are quite a few such people recorded in history. This shows that the maximum human lifespan is definitely over 100 years. The exact number is uncertain, but it is definitely over 100. My mother was generous enough to give one pill each to the Crown Prince and me, so there must be more than a few of these magic pills.

And if my mother could really live to be over a hundred years old.

Whether it is the crown prince or the crown princess, they are just targets. Throughout the longevity of the monarchs, how many crown princes can succeed to the throne normally? I don’t know what my mother means now. It’s better to keep a low profile. "

Princess Taiping, who had fully witnessed the magic of the elixir, no longer dared to think about the position of Crown Princess.

If the current emperor is about to die, the position of Crown Princess is indeed very attractive. But if the current emperor can live another 20 to 30 years, or even longer, the identity of Crown Princess is completely useless.

It is a pity that it is tasteless.

It's also easy to be made a target.

He is more likely to be targeted than the prince.

Although Wu Youji had never taken the magic elixir, the changes in Princess Taiping were visible to the naked eye, so he quickly nodded in agreement and immediately gave the order.

Please stop all plans such as establishing a crown princess.

However, the next day, something happened in the court that shocked everyone. That was Crown Prince Li Xian publicly resigned from the position of Crown Prince and asked to confer the title of Crown Princess. (End of this chapter)