The young Li Longji was claustrophobic by his grandmother Emperor Wu Zetian in the Forbidden Palace, and for several years there has been an elusive shadow in his heart, but as a teenager, he cannot think deeply and far, reading, playing the flute, learning words, riding horses, playing, playing is still very sufficient in his life.
It was only when he was quiet, when even Aunt Dou was not around, that he recalled this secluded life, the cowardice of his father, the tragic death of his mother, the exile of his grandmother and uncle, the caesarean section of An Jinzang, and the harshness of his increasingly rare grandmother Wu Zetian.
And Longji's grandmother, Emperor Wu Zetian, has always had one thing in her heart in the past two years. In the past few months, this incident has caused Emperor Wu Zetian to fall into a deep trouble.
She often dreams. The dreams were all nightmares, she dreamed of her own son, the former deposed prince Li Xian's face was full of blood to ask her for her life, "Mother", Li Xian opened his mouth, "You said that I did not listen to your words, and I was demoted to Bazhou, but where do I have the intention to rebel against you?" Why did you send someone to kill me?" Mother, if you look at my heart, is there any conspiracy?"
Saying that, Li Xian opened his chest to reveal a beating heart. Wu Zetian woke up in shock, Fang knew that it was Nan Ke's dream, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Sometimes she also had dreams about her snoozing kung fu, dreaming of her own son Li Hong crying to her in tears: "Mother, you only listen to the rumors of villains, do not listen to your son's defense, you kill your son, you don't even give me the opportunity to defend, I am so miserable." ”
After saying that he turned around, he was gone, Wu Zetian knew that he was dreaming again, a flurry of panic, hurriedly let Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong two brothers snuggle up to her, the old lady just returned to the soul, her heart was a hidden pain, Zhongzong Li Xian became the emperor and collided with me, I demoted him to Fangzhou, Ruizong Li Dan became the emperor cowardly and incompetent, I pulled him down.
Today, I am in a high position, and my own sons Li Hong and Li Xian have long been killed, and Li Xian is far away in Fangzhou, and there is only one Dan'er left around. Alas, thinking about what I have done to my son, it is also a last resort. How can I become emperor without taking an iron wrist? How can I sit on the throne without an iron heart?
In the early years, that Xu Jingye rebelled against me in Yangzhou with the help of Li Tang, and was killed by me, and when I found out, even Pei Yan, the prime minister, was killed by me. A few years ago, in Bozhou and Yuzhou, Li Tangzong's office, Li Yuan, Li Chong's father and son raised troops against me, and in a fit of rage, I killed many Li Tang sects, and there was almost not much left! Now that everything is safe and stable, how did I become a lonely person?
A few days ago, my nephew Chenghei and Twice came to see me, and that intention could not have been more obvious, nothing more than wanting to be the crown prince. To tell the truth, the two nephews did a lot of things for me before and after the saddle, which saved me a lot of heart, but I made you the heir as the crown prince, how many manchus can Wenwu promise me? Thinking about it, she remembered an incident that happened in the second year of her reign as emperor.
At that time, Fengge ordered Zhang Jiafu to instruct Hundreds of people, including Wang Qingzhi of Luoyang, to make Liwu Chengsi the crown prince. However, Wenchang's right-hand man Cen Changqian and the prefectural official Shangshu Gefuyuan and others resolutely opposed, and above the court, they said: "The imperial heir is in the Eastern Palace, it is not appropriate to have such a discussion, please cut the responsibility of the person who wrote the letter, and the notice is dispersed?"
Soon, however, Lai Junchen said that Cen Changqian and dozens of other courtiers wanted to rebel, and after killing some, Wang Qingzhi further entered Wu Zetian's table. In view of the objective situation at that time, Wu Zetian could not depose the imperial heir Li Dan, so he angrily said to Wang Qingzhi and others: "Li Dan is my own son, how can I depose him?" Wang Qingzhi said vigorously: "God does not summon non-kinds, and the people do not regard non-clans, who has the world today, and takes the Li clan as his heir?"
Later, Wang Qingzhi repeatedly invited Jin to see him, and Wu Zetian became angry and asked Li Zhaode and others to beat him out with a stick, which was for the nephews of the Wu surname to see, and the Emperor of Heaven intended to do so.
After Li Zhaode and others pulled Wang Qingzhi out, he pointed at Wang Qingzhi and said to the guards: "This guy is not a small thief, and he wants to depose our imperial heir and establish Wu Chengsi as the crown prince." Give me a hard beating!"
The guards had long been tired of this unsavory thing, and a burst of punches and kicks, and a combination of sticks and sticks, beat Wang Qingzhi to death.
So, who will the throne be given to in the future? Wu Zetian became distressed. Was it passed on to his son Li Dan or to his nephew Li Chengsi? Doesn't passing it on to his son mean restoring from the Wu Zhou Dynasty to the Li Tang Dynasty? How does this work? Moreover, Wu Chengsi and others repeatedly said that Emperor Ruizong Li Danmou had different intentions, and a few years ago, he inquired about it, causing Legong AnJin to hide and resist, and wanted to commit suicide by caesarean section.
The feelings of Wu Zetian and Ruizong Li Dan have since become much estranged. Passed on to nephews, the nephews of the Wu surname can be said to be extremely loyal to Wu Zetian, but Wu Zetian has never treated them badly.
After consecrated as the King of Wei and the King of Liang with three thoughts, Wu Zetian also made Wu You Ji the King of Xuan, Wu You Ning the King of Jianchang, Wu You Yi Jian'an Wang, Wu You Xu An Chen Wang, Wu You Ming Jiujiang Wang, Wu Yi Zong Hanoi Wang, Wu Si Zong Linchuan Wang... One or twenty people were crowned kings, which can be described as the reuse of the martial surname.
In the second year of longevity (693 AD), Wu Chengsi organized 5,000 people to honor Wu Zetian as the "Golden Wheel Holy Spirit Emperor", and the next year further organized more than 26,000 people to advise Wu Zetian, who was given the title of "Yuegu Golden Wheel Holy Spirit Emperor", and tried his best to win the trust of Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian could not have been more clear about what Chengsi and others had done, but it was too attentive, but it caused Wu Zetian to be disgusted, and he felt that he could not rely on it completely, if he passed the throne to his nephew, in the future, the Taimiao Temple would be served with food, who would do it for me? Wu Zetian thought so.
In the first year of Shengong (697 AD), Wu Zetian was seventy-five years old, and her aging deepened day by day, and this old woman also deeply felt that old age was coming.
In order to get rid of the worries of the two parties who passed the throne to Li or Wu, she resolutely reused the two brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, with Changzong as a regular attendant, Yizhi as a Wei Shaoqing, and raised as a close confidant.
At the same time, they were specially given thousands of additional foreign officials. In this way, with the support of these people, the Zhang brothers gradually formed a third faction in addition to the forces of Li and Wu. Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi immediately slapped the Zhang brothers on the back.
In the hall, the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning came in a few steps from outside the gate, and then the light dimmed a little, and Emperor Wu Zetian sat on the Golden Ruan Hall looking down at the ministers who were talking on the steps, and she yawned, and let the palace maid next to her tuck her luxurious coat on her body tighter.
The following discussion suddenly subsided, and Di Renjie, the chancellor, came out of the ministers, and he said loudly to Wu Zetian: "Just now the ministers discussed the matter of Wu Chengsi, the king of Wei, asking for the crown prince, and the contributions of the King of Wei and the Great Zhou Dynasty are indispensable, of course, it has become a conclusion. It was a proper duty for his subjects to be loyal and filial to his majesty, and the subjects thought that it was impossible to make Wu Chengsi, the king of Wei, crown prince. Your Majesty, which is the relative of the nephew and the relative of the mother and the child? If His Majesty makes his son the crown prince, then long live the thousands of years and still eat in the Taimiao Temple, and the descendants will inherit infinitely, will it not be a blessing for all the worlds! But if Your Majesty makes his nephew the crown prince, I have never heard of a nephew as the prince, and I have never tasted it in history. The second nephew was made the crown prince, and after the Spring and Autumn Period of His Majesty, there were food to be served on the Taimiao Temple? Look to Your Majesty and think twice. ”
"What Di Cheng xiang said is extremely true." As soon as Di Renjie finished speaking, before he could retire, Li Zhaode then went forward to speak to the emperor, "Establishing a nephew as the crown prince is afraid of attracting the eyes of the world."
A few years ago, there was a man named Wang Qingzhi who repeatedly asked the emperor to make Wu Chengsi the Prince of Wei the crown prince, but was he not killed by His Majesty's staff?"
The chancellor Ji Yan also stepped forward and said, "After Your Majesty ascended the throne, you changed the Li Tang Sect's family name from Li to Wu, Crown Prince Li Dan as Imperial Heir, And The Crown Prince changed his surname to Wu, and Your Majesty followed him after thousands of years, and this world is still your Great Zhou Dynasty!"
Wu Sansi listened impatiently. At this time, Wu Chengsi was inconvenient to go forward to speak, and of course he understood it twice, so he hurriedly went forward and said, "Your Majesty, what the ministers just said is also bad!" Just imagine, although the crown prince and emperor grandson changed the surname of Li to the surname of Wu, in fact, the Li Tang Sect Room is still not the Wu Zhou Sect Room, and under the whole world, where is there anyone with a different surname as the Crown Prince?"
Wu Zetian listened to the opinions of the ministers, and there was no expression on his face, and he had a tired look. After thinking twice, Wu Zetian moved his body a little and said, "What you Ai Qing said has its own reason, and after thinking about it, let's settle down, scatter the dynasty." ”
After the dispersal of the dynasty, the ministers walked out one after another, and most of them agreed with the propositions of the chancellor Di Renjie, but due to the faces of the kings with the surname Wu such as Wu Chengsi the King of Wei and Wu Sansi of the Liang King, they stopped talking and went back to their respective countries.
Zhang Changzong, the chief secretary of the Imperial Guard, was also at the imperial court, and the two of them who did not say a word just now looked at what the crowd was talking about.
Although the Erzhang brothers were favored, they also vaguely felt that the kings of the Wu surname were becoming more and more threatening to themselves. They knew that although they were now powerful as pets, they were after all the people who entertained the Emperor. The emperor was getting older, and once there was an accident, the kings with the surname Wu would not accommodate the two of them who accompanied their aunts and aunts to the emperor's amusement.
So the two of them secretly asked the minister ji hao, who was deeply related to him, to stay behind, and went to the second room to ask about the strategy of self-safety.
"Minister Ji, how do you think we should be?" The two young men asked the elderly Ji Hao.
Ji Yan was trying to speak to the emperor through Erzhang. A few days ago, The Chancellor Di Renjie, as well as Li Zhaode, Zhang Dongzhi, Wei Xuan, and others had discussed with him, and they all agreed that they would resolutely oppose Li Wu Chengsi as crown prince and resolutely support the establishment of Li Zhaode as crown prince. As for which prince to appoint? They used to think about it.
It is reasonable to say that Ruizong Li Dan was already the imperial heir and was the heir to the imperial throne, but the emperor's inaction that did not look up to the imperial heir was also known to the government and the public, especially after the An Jinzang incident, the crack in the mother-son relationship between Wu Zetian and Li Dan deepened, and now the imperial heir is in a claustrophobic situation, obviously not an ideal candidate.
In this case, the chancellor Di Renjie made a claim: recall Li Xian, the king of Luling who had been demoted to Fangzhou, that is, Emperor Zhongzong, who had been emperor for two months and was deposed by his mother Wu Zetian, and asked Li Xian to be made crown prince. When you think about it, that's all there is to it now. Zheng Yan did not have the opportunity to specifically speak to the emperor, and Erzhang took the initiative to find him, and these two people were the best candidates.
Therefore, Ji Yan said to the brothers Yi Zhi and Changzong: "Now the people and bureaucrats in the world are nostalgic for the Li Tang Dynasty, this is the trend of the times, the people's hearts are the same, I don't know if the two Ming Princes are aware of it." Now that Li Xian, the king of Luling, is degraded in Fangzhou, and Li Dan, the king of Xiang, is claustrophobic and deep, the Lord sees that the Spring and Autumn Period has become high, and the affairs of the society must be entrusted to whom? In the morning, the two ministers in the court talked about one or two. Although the kings of the Wu clan are reused by the Lord, they have no basis in terms of food from the Taimiao Temple. Therefore, the Lord did not really want to make Wu Chengsi the prince in his heart. If the two Ming dukes could calmly ask the lord to make King Luling the prince, this was in line with the wishes of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu and the choice that the lord had to make. If they can succeed, the two Ming Princes will not stop turning misfortune into happiness, and will enjoy the weight of the thatched earth for a long time!"
Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were deeply touched by Ji Yan's words, and there was no worries at all. After sending Ji Hao away, they carefully dressed up and walked to wu Zetian's inner palace room with great energy...
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