Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 774
In June of the sixth year of Yonghui, Wu Zetian finally launched his fiercest blow. On the fifth day of June, Wu Zetian framed the mother of the queen, Mrs. Liu of the Kingdom of Wei, and tried to subdue Wu Zetian by using spell magic.

A series of evidences made Li Zhi furious, so Li Zhi decreed that the Queen's mother, Mrs. Wei Guo, Mrs. Liu, was not allowed to enter the palace!

But just one month later, Li Zhi once again decreed that Liu Shi, the uncle of the king and queen, should be demoted as the governor of Suizhou (now Suining County, Sichuan). ).

Since then, Wu Zetian finally cut off the internal and external connections of the queen, leaving her in a predicament of isolation and helplessness.

Wu Zhaoyi knew in her heart that her family background was humble and she had no backing. She had to use a group of mid-level officials who were ambitious but dissatisfied with reality to help her, even those who were ambitious but could wave the flag.

In this way, almost all the people who were excluded by the Veteran Party became Wu Zetian's pro-army party. In August of this year, Chang'an was in the hot summer season, and the confrontation between the pro-martial faction and the anti-military faction also became fierce.

Xu Jingzong and others said in the court: "The country bumpkin wants to change his wife after harvesting a few years of wheat. As the emperor, his majesty wants to choose another queen. What does it have to do with others? There is still a lot of discussion."

However, the veteran party has argued with reason.

On this day, after Li Zhi retired from the court, he directly summoned five prime ministers, including Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Li Ji, and Yu Zhining, into the inner hall for discussion!

"The sun is really too dazzling." Li You walked out of his Dunhua Square. During this period of time, Li Zhi has not been in court for nearly a year. Li Zhi often comes to Dunhua Square to play, but Li You does not let Li Zhi Zhi talked about the affairs of the court in Dunhuafang.

Li You told Li Zhi that the meaning of his existence was to deter Li Zhi from those old ministers. The rest of Li You didn't want to know, nor did he want to know. Li Zhi was really grateful for Li You's words.

So I didn't talk about the court anymore, but did Li You really not know about the Tang court?

The answer is of course impossible. The Grand Marquis is Li You's intelligence organization. Almost everything that happens in the court will be told to Li You immediately. Just like Li Zhi's meeting with five prime ministers today, Li You did the same. I knew it early on.

"Fifth brother, let's go swimming together." Li Mingda clung to Li You's side, coquettishly going to the swimming pool to play in the water.

"That's right, let's go, Dad. At worst, I'll help you instead of Auntie when there's a water fight." Li Heng echoed with a grin.

Li You looked at the big and small girls, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: "Farewell, you two, I know too well that you are a wolf and a embarrassment. If I believe you, I will be a fool. Tell me now." One end, but when you are in the water, you two can greet me vigorously, forget it, it’s best for me to be here.”

"Fifth brother...!" Li Mingda directly turned Li You's face to himself and said, "Will you go or not? If you don't go, you will have to keep looking at me!"

"You are so poisonous!" Li You laughed: "However, you still have the heart to find trouble with me, don't you know that your brother Jiu is in trouble."

"Ah?" Li Mingda put down Li You's head and asked because he was not well-known: "Brother Ninth is the emperor, what trouble can he have?"

"What trouble can there be? It's not that Wu Zhaoyi. If someone wants to be a queen, your ninth brother will go all out to support her. Just now your ninth brother summoned all five prime ministers to the palace. I think today I'm going to die." After speaking, Li You smiled slightly.

"Ah Fifth Brother, then you have to help Ninth Brother!" Li Mingda was surprised, and then hurriedly begged for mercy.

Seeing Li Mingda's pleading appearance, Li You laughed: "You two guys really killed me to death, something happened to you, your ninth brother came here overnight to plead for mercy, let me help you help you.

Now that something happened to your ninth brother, you desperately begged me to help you once again, ouch, you two just ask me to help each other like this? "

"Fifth Brother. It's not that you are good. You can do everything. Of course, Brother Ninth and I depend on you. This time, Brother Ninth summoned all five prime ministers. It is obvious that Brother Ninth is going to do his best. If you don't go Help Ninth Brother, this time Ninth Brother will definitely be unlucky, and you know how stubborn those veterans are, especially that old man Chu Suiliang, really!"

Li Mingda complained.

And the fact is really the same as what Li Mingda said. Today Li Zhi called the five prime ministers together, and it is really necessary to be frequent. Among the five prime ministers, Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Li Ji, Yu Zhining and Shangguanyi walked into the hall together.

The five of them found Wu Zhaoyi sitting behind the curtain watching at the same time, and the atmosphere became tense in vain.

Because the five people also knew that someone might see blood here today. Although the five of them had a good chat with Li Zhi at first, when Li Zhi carefully highlighted that he was going to propose to change the queen...!

Chu Suiliang was the first to jump out: "Your Majesty, I was entrusted by the late emperor to assist you. If I don't fulfill my duties faithfully, I'm afraid I won't have the face to meet the late emperor."

"Chu Xiang, I just want to exchange for another queen. You also know that the current queen has no heirs, but the Wu family has a son!"

But before Li Zhi finished speaking, Chu Suiliang on the side immediately retorted: "The empress is of noble birth, and she was chosen by the late emperor for your majesty. The late emperor once entrusted his ministers to take care of Jia Er and Jia Fu.

Now I haven't heard anything wrong with the Empress, and the matter of abolishing the Empress and re-establishing her can't be easily decided. I won't break my promise to the former Emperor just to please the Emperor. "

"You!" Li Zhi was furious, pointing at Chu Suiliang and scolding: "Then what if I insist on abolishing the Empress?"

Chu Suiliang snorted: "It's not impossible for Your Majesty to re-establish a queen, but the Wu family can't. She used to serve the late emperor. Everyone knows about it. If this is done, what will the people in the world think?" "

Hey, what you said is ugly. The so-called hitting people without slapping people, and swearing without revealing faults, Chu Suiliang's words directly stabbed Wu Zetian's heart with a knife.

Li Zhi is also very angry: "Fifth Brother said that I didn't violate any rules by marrying Meiniang. What kind of thing are you, dare to frame me like this?"

The basic political system of the Tang Dynasty was the "Three Provinces System". Any court documents had to go through the legal procedures of drafting by Zhongshu Province, review by Menxia Province, and execution by Shangshu Province.

Except for the empress, all the concubines in the harem of the Tang Dynasty had official ranks. For example, the fourth concubine was the first rank, and the ninth concubine was the second rank. .

At the time of "abolishing the king and establishing the martial arts", Wu Zetian was already Zhaoyi (the second grade) who was the head of the emperor's nine concubines, and only after completing the legal procedures of the "three provinces" could he become Zhaoyi.However, the entire procedure of the "three provinces" was controlled by Changsun Wuji's party at that time. Changsun Wuji himself checked the Zhongshuling. Firmly opposed to "abolishing the king and establishing the military".

In other words, Wu Zetian's appointment as Zhaoyi was approved by Changsun Wuji's party, otherwise the "three provinces" procedure could not be completed.

Since Changsun Wuji's party has agreed that it was wrong for Wu Zetian to be Emperor Gaozong Zhaoyi of Tang Dynasty, then what qualifications does he have to use the wrong one to oppose Wu Zetian's empress?It can be seen that Changsun Wuji's party's opposition to "abolishing the king and establishing martial arts" is not wrong, but a pure power struggle.

　The new book "Second Son of the Ming Dynasty" needs to be collected!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)