Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty: Please say long live His Majesty

Chapter 348 Wu Mei ascends to power, Li Zhizhang's dynasty

Chapter 348: Wu Mei ascends to power, Li Zhi returns to the court (Part )
The night is deep and the autumn moon is high in the sky.

In Yifeng Hall of the Eastern Palace, Li Chengqian was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded outside the hall.

It was very abrupt in the silent night.

"Your Highness, Your Highness!" A voice sounded outside the hall. Although it was not very loud, it was clearly heard by Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.

After a moment of confusion in his eyes, he finally came to his senses, turned sideways, and looked outside the hall: "What's the matter?"

"Your Highness, news has just come from Cuiwei Palace that Concubine Xu has been deposed." Xu An's voice couldn't help but tremble slightly.

The emperor's harem was basically peaceful. The last concubine to be deposed was Yin Defei, the mother of Prince Qi Li You.

It was because of the dethronement of Concubine Yin De that the positions of concubines were gradually upgraded, which led to Xu Hui being promoted to Concubine Xian.

Xu Hui was deposed.

Li Chengqian immediately sat up from the bed and said, "Send a message immediately to Cuiwei Palace to inquire about what happened. Tomorrow morning, I will go to Cuiwei Palace to greet my father."

"Yes!" Xu An bowed, then turned and left.

"Your Highness!" Zhang Xuan's voice sounded in Li Chengqian's ears. She stood up with the help of her arm and looked at Li Chengqian with hazy eyes.

Li Chengqian sighed, then laid down with his arm around Zhang Xuan's shoulders, and said softly, "I still remember that in April, after Concubine Xu went to Mount Zhongnan, she wrote a letter to the court saying that the court was frequently dispatching troops to conquer the barbarians and building palaces, which made the people tired and resentful. We should restrain ourselves and not treat the people harshly just because of our own ideas.

The words were profound and profound, and the Emperor greatly appreciated them."

Zhang Xuan hesitated slightly, but still said, "Your Highness, I feel that both Your Highness and His Majesty have their own plans regarding the war. Furthermore, not to mention His Majesty, Your Highness alone has been toiling away late into the night for the past six months, planning for the empire. If something truly went wrong, wouldn't Your Highness be aware of it?"

Li Chengqian gently stroked Zhang Xuan's smooth shoulders, smiled softly, and nodded, saying, "My beloved concubine is right."

Xu Hui wrote a letter about the emperor's western expedition to Gaochang, eastern expedition to Goguryeo, and northern expedition to Xueyantuo. All the taxes paid by the people in recent years were used to fight these wars.

In addition, there were many heavy rains this year, so Xu Hui advised the emperor to use the people's power with caution.

Of course, the most direct reason for this was that the emperor mobilized the people to repair Cuiwei Palace.

The people even worked hard. Xu Hui saw it and felt uneasy. She then wrote a letter to the emperor, saying, "A virtuous king takes the happiness of his people as his own happiness; a king without virtue takes his own happiness as his own happiness."

At the same time, he also said that "jewelry and jade are poisons that corrode people's hearts" and "it is easy to become arrogant when the country is at peace, and it is easy to indulge oneself when the situation is stable."

She used these words to persuade the emperor, and the target of those words was naturally self-evident.

"Without virtue", "intellectual pride"...

In the end, the emperor rewarded her because what she said was very reasonable.

However, Li Chengqian understood the emperor best. His father was the kind of person who would agree with what you said but would never change.

"Actually, there are some things Concubine Xu doesn't understand." Li Chengqian hugged Zhang Xuan and whispered, "It rained heavily this year, and Father recruited civilians to repair Cuiwei Palace. He was actually using it as a form of labor relief, but Concubine Xu didn't realize it. I wonder if Father explained it to her."

"Definitely not." Zhang Xuan said subconsciously.

Li Chengqian nodded slightly. Yes, if the emperor had explained to Xu Hui, then Xu Hui would not have been deposed.

"But father will not depose Concubine Xu for this reason." Li Chengqian raised his head and looked at the darkness above.

He knew that Xu Hui's dethronement was definitely related to Wu Meiniang.

There were only two people around the emperor, Xu Hui and Wu Meiniang.

Xu Hui was deposed, and only Wu Meiniang remained by the emperor's side.

Childish slave.

The figure of Li Zhi flashed in Li Chengqian's mind.

At the beginning of the year, Li Zhi sent a message to Wu Meiniang through the Wu family. Now, it was only early autumn, and Xu Hui had been deposed.

The one who took action must be Wu Meiniang, and Li Zhi must be behind it.

very good.

Li Chengqian smiled lightly. Wu Meiniang stabbed her sister, the virtuous concubine who had always loved her the most, in Zhongnan Mountain.

Then from now until the emperor returns to the palace, Wu Meiniang will be able to dominate the emperor.

Li Chengqian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he began to understand the fundamental reason why Xu Hui was deposed.

When the emperor was injured, it was Xu Hui who actually changed the dressing for him every day.

The emperor would never let a third person know his true injury, so in Cuiwei Palace, Wu Meiniang was isolated from the emperor in many matters.

Seeing Xu Hui accompanying the emperor every day while she could do nothing, it would be strange if Wu Meiniang didn't go crazy.

So in the end Xu Hui was deposed.

Li Chengqian smiled proudly. He knew very well what Wu Meiniang wanted.

It's nothing more than offspring.

But can Wu Meiniang get what Xu Hui couldn’t get for half a year?

The emperor's body was there, and the closer people were to him, the more clearly they could see the essence.

Especially for a smart person like Wu Meiniang, the more she expects, the crazier she becomes when she can't get it.

Wu Meiniang and Li Zhi are finally joining forces. Father, can you bear it?
……

The autumn rain continues.

In the Wude Hall, Dou Zhijie, the Junior Eunuch, came running over and bowed to Li Chengqian, who was standing in front of the hall, saying, "Your Highness, Concubine Xu has been sent to the Ye Ting and banished to the cold palace."

Li Chengqian nodded calmly and said, "Everything must be done according to the palace rules."

"Yes!" Dou Zhijie bowed immediately.

Li Chengqian raised his head, looked towards Cuiwei Palace, and said, "It's already autumn, and my father has no plans to return to the palace. The eunuchs have sent a batch of firewood and herbs to Cuiwei Palace.

Also, I'd like to ask if the guards and maids at Cuiwei Palace should be replaced?"

"Yes!" Dou Zhijie bowed, then turned around and left quickly.

Li Chengqian looked at Dou Zhijie who was gradually disappearing in the rain, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

He wanted to go to Cuiwei Palace to pay his respects to the emperor, but the emperor refused.

However, he also knew the reason why Xu Hui was deposed, that Xu Hui poisoned Wu Meiniang.

Li Chengqian couldn't help but shook his head.

Would Xu Hui, who always regarded Wu Meiniang as her own sister, poison her?
The emperor is so smart, how could he not see through such things?
no no.

Perhaps Xu Hui really poisoned Wu Meiniang.

But everything was forced by Wu Meiniang.

Li Chengqian looked towards Cuiwei Palace in the rain and sighed softly.

He could now imagine what kind of big events had happened in Cuiwei Palace during the time when the emperor was recuperating there!
Two concubines who were as close as sisters gradually came to the point where one poisoned the other, and the other forced her to poison herself.

These things in the harem are always things you can't imagine, but they will happen.

Li Chengqian couldn't help but think of his own East Palace backyard.

Fortunately, there are not many people like this now, and many of them already have children, so they don’t have so much time to think about intrigue.

But no matter what, he has to pay more attention to the affairs in the backyard of the East Palace in the future.

Wu Meiniang, Li Zhi.

Li Chengqian snorted coldly, then turned and returned to the Wude Hall.

The matter of Emperor Xu Xianfei being deposed may seem like a big deal, but in fact, not many people really care about it.

Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and other prime ministers in the court did not care much about it.

……

In the blink of an eye, autumn goes and winter comes.

Before we knew it, it was already the twelfth lunar month.

Winter snow paves the road.

At the post station at the foot of Mount Hua, pedestrians and merchants traveling back and forth confirmed that they would not be able to reach Chang'an City before the curfew tonight, so many of them chose to rest in Mount Hua.

In the largest courtyard in the backyard, hundreds of guards inside and outside, wearing golden armor and holding long swords, looked around with cold eyes.

In the study in the courtyard, Li Zhi was sitting on a short couch, with Ji Jiafu standing beside him, and opposite him stood a young man in green clothes, with a gentle face but a hint of coldness in the depths of his eyes.

"Luo Qing, tell me, what exactly happened in Zhongnan Mountain?" Li Zhi raised his head slightly.

Prince Luo Bin bowed calmly and said, "According to investigation, Concubine Xian was unwell for a few days, so Concubine Wu was serving Your Majesty. Your Majesty originally ordered Concubine Wu to return to the palace to rest every day, but Concubine Wu remained in Your Majesty's palace out of concern for Your Majesty's health. When Concubine Xian found out, she became unhappy. The real cause of the conflict was the death of Concubine Xu's personal maid."

"Died of illness?" Li Zhi leaned forward and asked, "Did he really die of illness?"

"I don't know. The information we can find out is that he died of illness. As for the deeper details, there is no way to find out." Luo Binwang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

It is not so easy to investigate the emperor's harem. The fact that Li Zhi was able to find these things shows that the manpower he left in Chang'an was powerful enough.

Yes, it was Luo Binwang who investigated the matter, but the people he used were all the people Li Zhi left in Chang'an.

Li Zhi nodded slightly: "You continue."

"Yes!" Luo Binwang bowed, then said seriously, "Afterwards, Concubine Xu suspected that Concubine Wu had poisoned her and complained to Your Majesty. The Ministry of Internal Affairs investigated but found nothing. Concubine Xu became a little unhinged and even made a scene in front of Your Majesty.

After that, she poisoned Wu Cairen, was discovered, and was deposed."

Li Zhi nodded slightly. He could see that all of this was planned by Wu Meiniang.

This set of calculations is actually not difficult to see. The key is to not find any evidence.

Xu Hui was not found, and neither was the emperor, so Xu Hui was deposed.

"Afterwards, Concubine Xu was sent to the Imperial Court, and Your Majesty stayed in Cuiwei Palace for another two months before returning to the palace." After a brief pause, Prince Luo Bin bowed and said, "After Your Majesty returned to the palace, although he attended court every day, he only listened to the general outlines. Almost all matters were still handled by the Crown Prince."

"Your Majesty still trusts my brother!" Li Zhi sneered slightly.

Luo Binwang lowered his head calmly. He was not surprised by Li Zhi's vague ambition.

Li Zhi withdrew his gaze and looked at Luo Binwang, asking, "My Royal Brother, how much has he done in the past year or so? Have you found out?"

"Found out!"

(End of this chapter)

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