Compared with Wu Zetian's historical achievements, it should also be related to the economic development and national strength at that time, which are not Wu Zetian's personal contributions.

Due to the election of the Juntian system and the flourishing of the imperial examination system, the power of the hereditary aristocracy declined rapidly, the small and medium-sized landlord class rose sharply, and a large number of literati and scholars proudly entered the political arena, and this historical trend pushed Wu Zetian to the throne of the empress.

Therefore, Wu Zetian only conformed to the historical era and played a role in promoting the development of Chinese history, but the premise of all this was the relative stability of the political situation at that time, and Li Zhi did not want to let this original general trend change.

"I understand what my brother meant, in fact, my sister has now begun to contact and deal with the Baisi Table, although it is far from participating in government affairs, but the drafting of the edict is also partly involved. At present, the Empress Wu is doing detailed repairs for a proposal of twelve things, which should be her first move after taking charge of the imperial seal, in addition, another page of paper is attached on the title page, which is a list of appointments, on which there is the elder brother said that the imperial history of the Cheng to Junchen! ”

The 12 suggestions refer to the 12 measures proposed by Wu Ze to enrich the country and strengthen the people, which can be summarized as four major policies: one is to enrich the country and strengthen the people, the second is to make good use of talents, the third is to win over hundreds of officials, and the fourth is to improve the status of women.

After she entered the political arena, there were many turmoils and unevenness, and it took a lot of effort to deal with the situation, but the soul of Taizong never left her mind. , so she has always taken enriching the people and strengthening the country as a top priority.

Hearing this, Li Zhi's expression moved, "Is there a name for Zhou Xing?" ”

In order to suppress those who opposed her, Wu Zetian appointed a group of cool officials long before she became the empress, two of which were the most vicious, one was called Zhou Xing, and the other was called Junchen.

Headed by Lai Junchen, he recruited more than 20 party henchmen to compile a "Whistleblower Luo Weaving Sutra", which has a total of several thousand words, all of which are systematically divided into detailed items according to the content in advance.

He also had to arrange how to fabricate the facts and reasons of the criminal, order his henchmen to denounce it accordingly, and sometimes send the secret letter to the Kuangyuan to let the emperor know, and Wu Zetian was mostly appointed to try this kind of case.

She trusts these cool officials very much, so the power in the hands of these cool officials is very large, whether it is the court or the people, there are a large number of opponents, the reason why Wu Zetian appointed these cool officials, to put it simply, is to suppress these opponents, especially the old ministers of the royal family surnamed Li.

It has to be said that the policy of the cool officials was very successful, and many opponents, even if they were really opposed, later shut up.

The reason is because of the various punishments of these cool officials, such as "fixing a hundred pulses", "asking for death", "roaring suddenly", "dead pig sorrow", "seeking to break the house", "donkey and dog skills", "phoenix drying wings", "jade girl climbing the ladder", "macaque drilling fire", "square beam pressing condyle", "immortal offering fruit" and so on.

These punishments are not pleasant when you look at the name, but when it comes to the people who bear these punishments, you will have a deep experience, many people are obviously not guilty, but they are still charged with all kinds of crimes, forced to confess, and only want to die.

Because the effect is very outstanding, Wu Zetian is very pleased, so it can be said that he trusts these cool officials very much, and these cool officials, in order to cater to Wu Zetian, began to be more unscrupulous.

The ministers of the DPRK and China became everyone in danger, so some ministers of the DPRK and China began to write to report that these punishments were too harsh and asked to stop using them, and a large part of them were Wu Zetian's ministers who thought they were towards him.

So, she listened to the words of these ministers and began to reflect on the harm of her appointment of cool officials, but Wu Zetian still did not stop appointing cool officials, because there are still many people in the court who oppose her, and she still needs these cool officials to deal with these people, followed by more unjust, false and wrongful cases.

Including the later local officials Shangshu Di Renjie and other loyal and good people in the court, they were falsely accused by them.

Since Lai Junchen took the extermination of the clan as his meritorious cause, he naturally wanted to guide others to accept that he had committed the crime of rebellion, he first asked Wu Zetian to give an order, and then took Wu Zetian's edict for interrogation, and they would admit their crimes, because in this way they could also get the result of reducing the capital crimes of other clansmen.

Such people only know how to cater to the intentions, invite merit and reward, show their power, do not hesitate to destroy the conscience of heaven, kill innocents, cruel and cruel, resulting in countless innocent people, and the cases they handle are informant, killing as many as 1,000 ethnic groups before and after, and the people of the world are terrified.

Among them, Zhou Xing is another cool official in addition to Junchen, and the idiom "please enter the urn" according to the allusion of the characters is because of him, which is a metaphor for using someone's method to rectify himself.

Once, a whistleblower letter was sent to Wu Zetian, the content of which was to accuse Zhou Xing of contacting someone to rebel.

Wu Zetian was furious and ordered Lai Junchen to investigate the matter strictly, Lai Junchen muttered in his heart, he thought, Zhou Xing is a cunning and treacherous person, and he can't let him tell the truth with just a whistleblower letter; But if the results can't be found, the Queen Mother will blame her, and I can't afford to come to Junchen.

What can I do? After thinking about it for a long time, I finally came up with a clever plan.

He prepared a sumptuous banquet and invited Zhou Xing to his home. Two of you, you persuade me to drink, and talk while drinking.

After three rounds of drinking, Lai Junchen sighed and said: "Brother, I usually handle cases, and I often encounter some prisoners who do not admit their guilt, I don't know what the brother can do?" ”

Zhou Xing said proudly: "This is not easy to do!" As he spoke, he took a sip from his glass.

Lai Junchen immediately pretended to be very earnest and said, "Oh, please give me advice quickly." ”

Zhou Xingyin smiled and said: "You find a big urn, roast it with charcoal fire around it, and then let the prisoner enter the urn, think about it, what prisoner does not confess?" ”

Lai Junchen nodded yes again and again, and then ordered someone to bring a large urn and light charcoal fires around it as Zhou Xing said.

Then he turned back to Zhou Xing and said, "Someone in the palace secretly accused you of rebellion, and the higher authorities ordered me to investigate strictly." I'm sorry, but now I'll ask my dude to get into the urn himself. ”

When Zhou Xing heard this, the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, and then he fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed again and again, and said: "I am guilty, I am guilty, I confess." ”

Wu Zetian's appointment of cool officials has caused a lot of unjust, false and wrongful cases, and many loyal ministers have suffered injustice, because Wu Zetian trusted these cool officials too much in the early stage, and at the same time, it also showed that her rights were not in the right name and did not go well.

It is precisely because of the fear in her heart that these cool officials will be overbearing, causing a large number of unjust, false and wrongful cases.

Li Zhi paid special attention to this matter, if she made a fuss about this matter early and implicated more figures on the side of the martial arts, not only would she know that it was not too late to make a mistake, but she could also know that her mistake could be corrected, and at the same time, she also rehabilitated those ministers who had suffered injustices and maintained the stability of the court.

Second, it will slap Wu Zetian in the face because of this, so that her mind that is hot because of the imperial power will clear up, and many old ministers of the royal family can escape because of this.

The operation of this matter is very simple, Lai Junchen was a scoundrel to make a fortune, since he was a teenager is a treacherous, capricious, sinister and evil person, originally a homeless who does not do business, and later became a hooligan, does not do business, and finally one day was arrested and imprisoned for committing rape and theft.

Lai Junchen's biggest hobby in prison is "false informants", sometimes chasing after the wind, sometimes not even a shadow at all, and still vividly accusing the jailer that so-and-so has concealed any major crimes.

In addition to such despicable nature, he coveted women, corrupted the law, and committed countless crimes, and he was so bold that he wanted to fabricate charges to falsely accuse the kings of the Wu clan and Princess Taiping, and also wanted to falsely accuse the imperial heir Li Dan and Li Xian, the king of Luling, of rebelling against the Janissaries of the North and South Guards, hoping to steal state power.

Later, Wei Sui, who was good friends with Lai Junchen, reported him, and the kings of the Wu clan and Princess Taiping were afraid, and jointly exposed his crimes, put him in prison, and sentenced him to death.

But because of this, there are too many people who have provoked, and they have all admonished and reported: Lai Junchen is cruel and cunning, greedy and tyrannical, and he is the great evil man of the country, and if he is not removed, the court will be shaken; This person gathers people who do evil, frames good people, and piles up mountains of bribes and bribes, and is full of ghosts who have died unjustly by him, and he is a bad person who endangers the country.

Wu Zetian finally couldn't hold back the anger of the people, so after a few days of delay, he reluctantly approved his execution.

Although Wei Suizhong's reputation is not prominent, he is very studious, very good at arguing, and has good development prospects, but why did he choose to report his friend to Junchen?

That was because one day, Wei Suizhong came to Junchen's house after being drunk, and when Lai Junchen was having a banquet with his wife's family, the gatekeeper deceived him and said that Lai Junchen had gone out.

Wei Suizhong knew that he was lying, so he broke in and insulted him.

Feeling ashamed of being abused in front of his relatives, Lai Junchen ordered someone to beat him and tie him up, and soon released him, but a feud was formed.

Therefore, when Lai Junchen was about to fabricate charges and falsely accuse the kings surnamed Wu, Princess Taiping, Zhang Yizhi and others, Wei Suizhong first exposed his conspiracy.

Li Zhi planned to sneak into Junchen's house, take out the charges made up by Junchen in the future, and hand them over to Shangguan Wan'er to deal with, this woman is familiar with the inside of the palace, so she naturally knows how to deliver it out, and will not cause trouble to herself.

At this moment, Shangguan Wan'er thought about it and replied in the affirmative, Zhou Xingqi's name was indeed on the list.

So Li Zhicai explained his plan in detail, which caused Wan'er to cover her mouth and laugh lightly: "My brother is the real big conspirator who is hidden behind it, and when Empress Wu meets you, it can be regarded as her bad luck!" ”

Of course, his words did not involve specific names and actual cases, Wu Zetian was good at using cool officials, and he was not without a criminal record before, Li Zhi only blurred everything that had not happened.

But about the specific origin, personality and style of Lai Junchen, all of them are said, and there is no need to exaggerate, this person's crimes before he was imprisoned have been exhausted.

Li Zhi counted the time, this person was at the moment when he came out of prison, which happened to be in line with the list in Wu Zetian's hand.

"This man is a great evil, framing the courtiers, the crime is heinous, it is his inherent nature, if it is not for the emperor's entrustment in my heart, I will go back and kill him tonight!" Li Zhi hated and hated.

"Why don't you let Sister Mei'er do it?" Seeing that her own man was angry like this, Shangguan Wan'er was also indignant.

Li Zhi waved his hand to stop: "Let him do evil for a while, maybe this move will condone him to hurt some people, but even if he is killed early, it will not affect the determination of the martial queen to use cool officials, and he will definitely find someone else to replace him." When the arrival of Junchen has committed evil to a certain extent, and the courtiers have also been offended by him, when the time comes, he will be swept away, and he will give a resounding slap to the Empress Wu, and he will finally give up the cool official system. ”

There are clear records in the history books about the origin and evil of the country of Lai Junchen and his party, and the specific list of its core members of 23 people is clearly displayed in the history books of all dynasties.

What Li Zhi can remember, that is, Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing, he is also deeply impressed by the latter, this person is because he strongly supports Empress Wu to take power, Zeng Shangshu asked to cancel Li Tangzong's official membership, so he was reused by Wu Zetian.