Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 794
"Wu Mei. You are still too confident. This king admits that you are very scheming and courageous, but you are a girl, do you think the ministers of the court will join you?
Forget it. The eunuchs and maids are the only ones who are willing to be with you.

Put down the weapon in your hand now, or kill without mercy! " Li You raised his hand slowly, as long as Li You's hand is lowered at this time, it will be a dead end, and Wu Meiniang must die on the spot.

"Let go, Meiniang, I guarantee you will not die." Li Zhi shouted loudly.

Many people will be surprised, shouldn't this Li Zhi help his queen with all his heart? We all know that Li Zhi is weak and incompetent, and the throne of the year was also picked up.

At that time, Li Shimin himself was not in the right position, so he established his eldest son Li Chengqian as the crown prince early. However, in Li Shimin's later years, because he loved Wei Wang Li Tai too much, Li Tai had unsuitable thoughts about the supreme throne.

Li Chengqian was forced to take a risk, and actually wanted to follow the example of the "Xuanwumen Incident" and raise troops to force the palace, but the matter was revealed.However, Li Tai, the king of Wei, did not ascend to the position of prince as he wished, but was deposed by Li Shimin together with Li Chengqian, and then Li Zhicai was canonized as prince.

When Li Zhi was still the crown prince, he had an affair with the talented Wu Shi who was four years older than him, that is to say, he gave his father a cuckold. How dare a weak and incompetent person do such a thing? If he found out, he, the prince, would have done it.

After Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi blatantly brought Wu Shi back to the palace from Ganye Temple.The Wu family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and she tried her best to please the queen, which made Li Zhi's love for her deepen day by day. In the end, Li Zhi ignored the firm opposition of many elders such as Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang, and changed the Wu family to be the queen. It is "dry gang arbitrariness".

This is a great love, and it is also Li Zhi's dependence on Wu Zetian, and Li Zhi's weakness, so he obeys Wu Zetian's words, and because of this, the Datang regime gradually shifted to the Wu family.

In fact, this is not the case. Li Zhi is not stupid, so when such a situation occurs, Li Zhi is forced to do nothing.

The royal family of the Tang Dynasty has always been ill. Li Zhi often felt dizzy and dizzy, which seriously affected the handling of government affairs.

At this time, Li Zhi naturally needs a helper, but not everyone can do this helper. First of all, the ability must be outstanding, and the most important thing is to make Li Zhi feel at ease.

Wu Zetian is an excellent candidate. Wu Zetian has outstanding talents. The most important thing is that she is a woman and a queen.

After Wu Zetian entered politics, he gradually took control of the Tang Dynasty's political power, but the real power has always been in the hands of Li Zhi.While Li Zhi was using Wu Zetian to govern the world, he was also guarding against her and restricting the development of Wu Zetian's power.

Wu Zetian's supporters Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong were dismissed by Li Zhi.At the same time, Li Zhi also formulated the "Internal Training" and "Foreign Relatives Precepts" to limit the development of the power of the Wu family.Regarding Li Zhi's suppression, Wu Zetian was always helpless.

During this period, Wu Zetian began to act as a domineering, intervening in the government affairs, and even influencing Li Zhi's decision-making many times.Wu Zetian's rising political enthusiasm and participation in politics have long aroused Li Zhi's vigilance.

All in all, although Li Zhi has a relatively generous personality, he is by no means a mediocre monarch.On the issue of consolidating Li Tang's imperial power and preventing the harem from taking power without authorization, Li Zhi was more vigilant against Wu Zetian.

This is also the fundamental reason why Li Zhi chose candidates who were conducive to the continuation of Li Tang's imperial power, rather than candidates who were easy for Wu Zetian to control on the issue of establishing the prince.

However, Li Zhi's defense against Wu Zetian was not thorough on the whole. He did not estimate that Wu Zetian's desire for power was so great that he wanted to change the dynasty and establish himself as emperor.Therefore, not surprisingly, Li Zhi's various measures could not prevent Wu Zetian from becoming the empress.

But now it's different, Li Zhi's fifth elder brother Li You makes a move, as long as Li You makes a move, Li Zhi will have a solid arm, so he can easily get rid of Wu Meiniang.

"lay down your weapon.!"

In the end, Wu Zetian chose to surrender. At the moment Wu Zetian said to put down his weapons, Huben Guard arrested all the inner guards, and Wu Zetian was also captured without a fight.

Wu Zetian was escorted to kneel on the main hall. Li You walked up to Wu Zetian and said, "The Wu clan slandered the king for rebellion, and the king informed me of the crime of counter-fraud. If you are pardoned, you will not be pardoned!"

Wu Zetian didn't speak, but just glanced at Li Zhi affectionately, Li Zhi also sighed at this time and said: "Meiniang, don't worry, we will be a husband and wife, I will not let anyone bully you, stay here In the cold palace, I will visit you."

In this way, Wu Zetian was detained, and all the inner guards were collectively executed. As long as they were Wu Zetian's people, none of them could be kept. If one was left, Li You was very worried that there would be other troubles.

In this way, a good show finally came to an end, Wu Zetian was abolished, the inner guard was eliminated, and the whole Tang Dynasty seemed to usher in the sun. Just three days later, Changsun Wuji asked to resign and return to his hometown, and followed his eldest grandson. Behind Wuji, Chu Suiliang also resigned.

Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang had a good death together.

You know, according to history, in the fourth year of Xianqing, Xu Jingzong ordered someone to submit a secret chapter to Gaozong, saying that Li Chao, the supervisory censor, colluded with the eldest grandson Wuji to plot a rebellion.Tang Gaozong ordered Xu Jingzong and his servant Xin Mao to review together.

Xu Jingzong said: "Changsun Wuji's rebellion has already appeared. I am worried that he will take emergency measures if he knows that the matter has been exposed, and he will call on his comrades. This will cause serious trouble. I hope His Majesty can deal with it decisively and arrest him as soon as possible."

Tang Gaozong cried: "How can I bear to convict my uncle? What will future historians think of me?" The old adage of "the chaos" urges him to make up his mind.

Tang Gaozong did not confront Changsun Wuji, so he issued an edict to cut off his official position and fief, and fled to Qianzhou, and asked the state capitals along the way to send troops to escort him.The sons of Changsun Wuji were all dismissed from office and exiled to Lingnan.

In July of the same year, Emperor Gaozong asked Li Ji and Xu Jingzong to review the case of rebellion against Changsun Wuji.Xu Jingzong ordered Yuan Gongyu, the scholar, to go to Qianzhou to interrogate Wuji for treason.As soon as Yuan Gongyu arrived in Qianzhou, he forced Changsun Wuji to hang himself.After the death of Changsun Wuji, the family property was confiscated, and all close relatives were exiled to Lingnan as slaves.

Chu Suiliang opposed the appointment of Wu Zetian as the empress and was demoted to the governor of Tanzhou (now Changsha).After Empress Wu took power, she moved to the governor of Guizhou (now Guilin), and then demoted the governor of Aizhou (now Thanh Hoa, Vietnam), and died in office.

Now the two of them can give up their rights and leave the court, which is considered a great blessing. From then on, Datang's chariot began to roll forward.

(End of this chapter)