From the side, wu Zetian and Li Zhi's power struggle

After Wu Zetian gained a foothold, he began to lay out in the imperial court, and after Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and others were expelled from the imperial court, Wu Zetian promoted his own people to fill the vacancies of Changsun Wuji and others, of which the right chancellor Li Yifu was one, and Li Yifu was also a bit of a dog and a manpower, using Wu Zetian's forces to buy and sell officials, causing a miasma of smoke and miasma up and down the imperial court.

Li Zhi was also trained by Li Shimin, and he was very dissatisfied with Li Yifu's style, and once Li Zhi said to Li Yifu: "Your sons and sons-in-law are too ostentatious in their work, and they seem to have done a lot of illegal things." In order to save your face, I can cover up for you, but you also have to teach them to restrain themselves! When Li Yifu heard this, he immediately became furious, and the green tendons on his neck burst out, and he blushed and said to Li Zhi, "Which king and bastard said it to you?" Li Zhi looked at Li Yifu's posture and said, "If what I say is the truth, why do you care where I heard it?" Li Yifu took a look at Li Zhi, turned back and walked away in a square stride, as if to say, "Lao Tzu is like this, see what you can do with me!" "The hatred in Li Zhi's heart is ah, but the anger is also helpless!"

From the lawlessness of Li Yifu, it can be seen that a villain like Li Yifu has long understood that at that time, the world of the Tang Dynasty was already surnamed Wu, although Li Zhi still occupied the emperor's position, but like a toothless tiger, there was no longer the power of the emperor!