Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 778 Calling Chu Suiliang Back to Chang'an

"Fifth Brother says what to do, so he will do it. Fifth Brother will decide on the military academy, but I don't know how long it will take to finish these two things. How about three months?" Li Zhi looked expectantly. With Li You.

But Li You shook his head slightly and laughed: "How can it be at least one to three years in three months!"

"One to three years.!"

As soon as this time was said, Li Zhi became bitter, because this time was really too long in Li Zhi's opinion, but Li You smiled and said: "You, it's better to re-establish yours first and then give it back." Well, although I helped you shock those prime ministers, you still need to do the rest by yourself, and I won't interfere. You must make sure that you don't cause too much confusion, otherwise, I still have to take action of."

"Don't worry, Fifth Brother, I can take care of the rest."

Li Zhi chuckled, just like that, after Li Zhi, Li You, and Li Mingda drank together for a while, the drinking situation broke up, Li You returned to Dunhuafang again, and Wu Zetian, who was supported by Li You , and finally started her way to the top.

Wu Zetian first instructed his younger brother Li Yifu to write an article about King Qi saying that the abolition of the empress is the emperor's family business. If Li Yifu had not dared to write it before, because Li Yifu finally climbed to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, he has not dared to move. up.

Some time ago, Changsun Wuji had been targeting Li Yifu. It was revealed that Changsun Wuji wanted to sweep Li Yifu out and go to Bizhou to serve as Sima.

The location of Bizhou is in today's Tongjiang area of ​​Sichuan.

Li Yifu's hometown is in Sichuan. As the pride of the people in his hometown, Li Yifu doesn't want to go back, it's too embarrassing, so now Li Yifu has always been afraid to stand out, just quietly lying on his position as the servant of the Ministry of Punishment.

It's just that when Li Yifu knew that Li You had come out to stand in line, and was on the side of the emperor, hey, Li Yifu was finally not afraid at all. Wu Zetian asked him to write an article, and Li Yifu also wrote thousands of articles in a night battle. The next day, the words were sent to the palace overnight.

The content of this article is citing classics and citing extensively. There is only one content to be explained. Both the empress and Zhaoyi are the emperor's women and belong to family affairs.

After Li Zhi saw this article, he was overjoyed, and soon sent the article to Changsun Wuji. Chu Suiliang had already left, and Changsun Wuji was alone at this time.

However, there are still some other voices in the court. These voices are the emperor and empress, who were appointed by the first emperor, and they withdrew for no reason, which cannot be justified.

However, while the two sides were still arguing, Wu Meiniang had already started to display her team. Many people must be wondering why Wu Meiniang has so many followers.

There is no way to do this, it is still a problem with the imperial examination system.

Although the imperial examination system has been implemented for many years since the Sui Dynasty, Li and Tang's founding team, like the Sui Dynasty, were all Guanlong nobles. To become a high official, one must pay attention to birth.

The imperial examination system and the aristocratic system, the result of the parallelism of the two systems, is that those in the upper class who hold real power are all rich and noble families, while the lower class has gathered a large number of young people with real talents and real learning.

Therefore, a group of people gathered around Wu Meiniang. When the court was still arguing, led by Xu Jingzong, Wang Dejian, Cui Yixuan, Yuan Gongyu, Hou Shanye and others, a large number of middle and lower level officials wrote letters to support Li Yifu.

With the support of this group of people, Li Zhi had enough confidence, and continued to hold the meeting the next day.

This time, Li Ji didn't even make a statement, and directly asked for sick leave. Yu Zhining still didn't speak, but Changsun Wuji and Han Yuan were very excited, but they no longer entangled with the queen, and pointed the finger at Wu Zetian:
"Hehe Zongzhou, praise and destroy it"

What does it mean, that is to say, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi is like King Zhou You, and Wu Zetian is Bao Si.

These two are negative examples of imperial rule. King You of Zhou was the last emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Because he was more playful, he fell in love with Baosi, so he abolished the original queen and helped Baosi to the position of queen. As a result, the dog army captured the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Speaking of this, there was no way to be private, and as a result, Han Yuan was pulled out of the hall, lost his official position, was driven out of Chang'an, and finally died of depression.

Without Han Yuan, the eldest grandson Wuji dared not speak.

Because Changsun Wuji could see that the emperor with Li You's support was very different from the past, he was decisive and not merciful. After so many years of struggling in the officialdom, Changsun Wuji had watched too much, so he decided to be steady first and watch the situation before talking. Unexpectedly, he never got up after this slowdown.

Soon, in the sixth year of Yonghui, that is, in November 655 AD, Wu Zetian was officially canonized as a queen. After Wu Zetian became a queen, it also heralded the decline of the veteran party.

Just when Empress Wu Zetian was complacent, in order to commemorate Wu Zetian's becoming a queen, Empress Wu Zetian urged to change Yonghui to Xianqing, and in the first month of the first year of Xianqing, under her instruction, Master Li Zhi ordered Master Xuanzang to set up a temple in Daci'en Temple. Five thousand monks fasted, and all the ministers of the court were ordered to go to offer incense.

The theme of this grand ceremony is to pray for the new crown prince Li Hong.Master Xuanzang is well aware that this is an extraordinary royal ceremony, which is a ceremony to strengthen the status of Empress Wu's mother and child.

Therefore, he tried his best to host the event without sleeping and eating, which made Li Zhi and Wu Zetian very satisfied and praised him greatly.In order to express her gratitude to Xuanzang, Wu Zetian sent Xue Yuanchao, the attendant of the Huangmen, and Li Yifu, a member of Zhongshushe, to pay homage to Xuanzang on behalf of Emperor Gaozong and herself after the ceremony. Xuanzang felt very flattered.

During the conversation, Xue and Li asked Xuanzang: "Translation of Buddhist scriptures is certainly a good thing for Buddhists. If they are not reviewed and polished to make it difficult for people to understand, can this be used to honor Buddhism?"

Xuanzang said without losing the opportunity: "The function of the Buddhist scriptures is to promote Buddhism, but to really make the Buddhist scriptures play a role, among the Buddhist believers, it mainly depends on Buddhist monks such as abbots; By the emperor."

Xuanzang also made a very vivid and appropriate analogy: "The ship can sail thousands of miles when it is in the sea. Only when it is attached to and entangled with pines and cypresses, can kudzu vines continue to surpass other weeds and shrubs. Buddhist scriptures can only rely on the grand cause of the emperor. Only then can it spread widely in the world and benefit the people of the world.”

After hearing these words, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were naturally very happy, especially Wu Zetian, who heard from Xuanzang's words that Buddhism relies on power.In the eyes of Buddhism, the emperor in the world is the Buddha.

In order to fulfill Xuanzang's request, Li Zhi ordered the new crown prince and Taifu's minister Zuo servant to shoot Yu Zhining, Zhongshu Linglaiji, Minister of punishment Xu Jingzong, Xue Yuanchao, Li Yifu and others to review the new translation of Xuanzang and his disciples. Buddhist scriptures.

In fact, this trial team is all Empress Wu's confidantes. It cannot be denied that this is Wu Zetian's intentional arrangement. She wants to make her group of people associate with Buddhism, and let the Buddhist leader Master Xuanzang realize that there is Wu Zetian's goodwill.According to historical records, Xuanzang was moved to the point of "tears shed his sleeves" by this incident.

Wu Zetian wanted to use Buddhism to cheer him up, to use Buddhism to deify himself, but at this moment, a voice came from Dunhua Square: Two words: "Not allowed.!"

In less than half an hour, the palace issued an order to remove Shenrun. The Shenrun team who had rushed to the temple rushed back without saying a word, and soon there was another voice in Dunhua Square: "Call Chu Suiliang Back to Chang'an!"

(End of this chapter)