At the gate of Shangyang Palace, the note received was left by Shangguan Wan'er, and it was the secret hiding place set aside for Li Zhi.

It's just that Princess Taiping and her entourage first arrived in Luoyang City, she couldn't leave the palace for the time being, and Li Zhi came to that place, and he was the only one alone.

In this courtyard, Li Zhi planted ambergris for her, a new tree, which is not only Shangguan Wan'er's favorite, but also means the beginning of a new life.

After a long lag, he left a purse-like Qiankun bag and quietly returned to the Wenqitang Annex, which was less than two hours before the sky was bright.

Zhenguandian and his entourage let him put his mind at ease, and Li Ying of Songwangfu was originally waiting for him to leave a letter, which was sent to Luoyang City in an expedited manner for 800 miles.

Due to the temporary decision of Luoyang and his party, Li Zhi needed to go to Gaozong in person to explain the reason.

Since the evening exploration, the Empress Wu's mind has been slightly clear, and his plan has succeeded.

But after three months, how to completely change Wu Zetian's eagerness to ascend to the top is still a difficult problem.

The future empress was very taboo about herself, Li Zhi was not surprised, but it was Princess Taiping's secret maintenance, which made him quite surprised.

It's just that Taiping was in a too anxious mood, so that the scheming Wu Zetian peeked out a mystery.

However, this also confirms from the side that the Empress Wu attaches great importance to and cares about Taiping, and it seems that the historical records of later generations in this regard are more in line with the truth, and the future empress regards her as herself, which is obviously in line with reality.

In this way, Taiping regarded his mother as an idol and was bent on emulating it, which was almost real, which was the focus of Li Zhiban's consideration at night.

He really wanted to know what kind of final outcome Taiping would have because of his appearance, and the deep entanglement in his heart made Li Zhi not really figure out a clue until dawn.

For a moment, he even laughed at himself in his heart, having the ability to foresee, but not being able to make a decision that changed the tragic end of a woman.

This was once regarded by him as the target of the scene, but when he found out that this woman was defending himself in front of Wu Zetian, his mind has been confused since then.

The core problem is that Princess Taiping was an indispensable and important figure in the following two decades.

Because of blood reasons, Wu Zetian and his son are naturally destined to have irreconcilable contradictions in politics.

In the power distribution cake after Gaozong's death, there is a zero-sum relationship between mother and son, and Li Xian and Li Dan, although they cannot shake Wu Zetian's power, their identities determine that they must be the banner that Li Tang's supporters must carry.

When there is a loosening of power, they are the vanguard of the seizing of power.

This contradiction between Wu Zetian and his son determines that they are either in a power struggle relationship, or a potential relationship for the greatest power contender.

Moreover, once the other party succeeds in seizing power, based on the needs of the legal system, it is inevitable that Wu Zetian's status will not be recognized, and the policy towards her, especially the policy involving her mother's family, will be greatly changed.

These are all intolerable to Wu Zetian, as a politician, so her relationship with her sons is that of rivals. As for the mother-son relationship as an ordinary person, it is not worth mentioning.

In this strange situation, Princess Taiping is her daughter, and she is not involved in this supreme power struggle.

Subjectively, the early Princess Taiping did not have a clear desire to become the crown princess like Princess An Le later.

Objectively, Princess Taiping at this time did not have the establishment of Wu Zetian himself, nor the support of any important ministers of any faction, and her mother was considering her son or nephew.

So Princess Taiping is only a supporting role in the battle for power, plus this supporting role is with herself, and it is still a mother-daughter relationship, so there is no need for Wu Zetian not to like it.

However, when it comes to any power issue, turning the other cheek is also faster than turning the page.

Princess Taiping's first husband Xue Shao, the two already have children, once they may be rebellious, they will be killed directly, and they will not give their daughter the slightest favor.

Later, this person's marriage was also more of a need to marry with the martial family, so it was not that Wu Zetian had more feelings for his daughter than for his son, but that the family affection of the emperor's family was too worthless in the face of power.

It's just that after Wu Zetian came to power and Li Xian was reinstated, Princess Taiping gradually came to the front of the scene, actively participated in politics, and was respected and supported by Li Xian, which made her power tilt towards the government and the opposition for a while.

Her greatest achievement was to participate in the action of Li Longji and others to kill Empress Wei and eliminate Wei's henchmen in the matter of Empress Wei's chaos with Princess Anle and poisoning Li Xian.

Since then, because of his repeated achievements, his powerful position has become more prominent, making Taiping's power even more powerful than that of the subsequent Emperor Li Dan.

Whatever Princess Taiping wanted to do, Li Dan did not disagree, and the Chinese military officials from the prime minister down, or promoted or dismissed, all in her words.

The rest of the scholars who have risen to prominence through her recommendation and held important positions are innumerable.

The number of people who became attached to her was innumerable, and it made her think the same as her mother.

Therefore, the crown prince Li Longji's wisdom and wisdom were regarded by her as a major problem in her heart, and she wanted to change a mediocre and cowardly person as the crown prince, so that she could maintain her current position of power for a long time.

She immediately spread rumors repeatedly, spreading that the crown prince was not the eldest son of the emperor, so he should not be made the crown prince, and even planted a lot of eyes and ears around Li Longji, which made him feel very uneasy.

This is the main reason why Princess Taiping finally fell into a tragic fate.

Li Zhi's distress is to find a way to get out of a series of imperial civil strife, and to make this change not affect the original historical process.

In fact, all this chaos is caused by the decline of yin and yang in the shadow of Wu Zetian.

The entire Tang Dynasty, theoretically abridged this part, since Gaozong died, Li Xian and Li Dan succeeded to the throne one after another, until Li Longji opened the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, and then to the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty began to decline, and the fundamental development trajectory of this famous dynasty is also complete.

Of course, Wu Zetian is famous for his maverick and daring to be the first in the world, and history cannot erase it.

But from Li Zhi's point of view at this time, since Wu Zetian brought that bloody crown, the Tang Dynasty has been full of intensive murder since then.

Her life's game, which is full of turbulent waves, also plunges the royal family surnamed Li into a period of bloody political murder.

As a later generation, Li Zhi believes that from the point of view of the royal family surnamed Li, this chaotic and cruel period of female power can be ignored.

Since he was descended here, the will of God is not to let him tamper with history, but to borrow him to save the royal family surnamed Li and make it suffer less.

Li Zhi even wondered at a moment if he was the incarnation of a certain royal ancestor surnamed Li. Or according to its will.

At this time, he seemed to have figured out a truth, things were not as complicated as he imagined, he only needed to do his best to dilute the imminent opening of the Yin and Yang Decline Imperial Power.

As for the future fate of Princess Taiping, perhaps he was left to change, but in fact it did not fundamentally change the course of history.

Because the more deeply and thoroughly he analyzed the evolution of the entire situation, the more obviously he felt that he was sent by the will of the ancestors of the royal family surnamed Li.

The inexplicable energy in his body may be the actual manifestation of that kind of will, and his reward is to have a cultivation body with infinite development possibilities.

At the moment when there was a knock on the door of the courtyard, Li Zhi suddenly fully understood.

As for why the will of the ancestor of the royal family surnamed Li did not carry it with his own people, but found this body of other bloodline people with the surname of the royal family, perhaps because Princess Taiping would appear at a certain point in time.

And this girl will be a key to solving the chaos of the royal family, that is to say, to change the life of Princess Taiping is to accelerate the dilution of the influence of the empress, and try to promote the Tang Dynasty, which has taken a detour, to return to a normal historical trajectory.

At this moment, there was a hurried knock on the door, pulling Li Zhizi out of the tide of thoughts, and he looked over, but it was two little girls dressed as palace maids, each carrying a food box and waiting outside the door.

Li Zhi hurriedly got up to greet him, and it was only a moment before he entered the courtyard under his footwork.

The far door opened, and the two daughters signed up for their surnames, respectively called Yiqiao and Yiqing, of course, they were assigned by Princess Taiping.

The two of them have the same handsome appearance, both are sixteen years old, and Yiqing, who is slightly taller, said: "It is true that we were sent by Princess Taiping, but the princess did it by the emperor's orders. ”

Yiqiao is not as restrained as an ordinary maid as he imagined, and has the same lively personality: "My sister and I were originally the emperor's maids, because the emperor learned of Mr. Li's arrival, so he ordered the princess to pass on the will, and from then on we were promised to Mr. Li as personal maids." ”

There are enough women around Li Zhi, and it stands to reason that they are not needed, but these two people are gifts from the emperor, so they can only passively accept it, otherwise it will be against the emperor's order.

Li Zhishan's second daughter entered, and said with a smile: "Since you are my personal maid, why are you still wearing palace clothes?" ”

"Her Royal Highness the princess said that Mr. Li's Zhengqing Wenqitang has ready-made ones, as Mr.'s maidservant, she can't dress simply, and she must be clearly different from ordinary people!" Yiqiao hurriedly said.

Li Zhi Daqi, "Your two personalities don't look like they were born in the palace, but like the girl next door who has never been in the world!" ”

Yiqing said with a smile: "We understand what Mr. means, why the two of us have not been bullied by the chief of the palace and have worn out our nature." Sir doesn't know, the two of us were born in the palace since we were children, grew up, and we are very familiar with each other, and the current saint still hugged us when we were young. When I grew up, I was recruited by the saint as a maid in the dormitory, in fact, she was protecting us, and the only thing my sister had to do was to wipe the dragon book case in the emperor's study! ”

To put it bluntly, handmaidens are female slaves in the ancient slave society, and they began as women who were captured by the enemy after the country was destroyed, or poor women who were demoted to handmaidens by the government after the family committed crimes.

Later, with the development of the slave society, the oppression of the poor by the slave owners became more and more serious, and the people at the bottom of the society could no longer make ends meet after losing their land, so they sold their daughters and even wives.

These poor women have also become slaves, and the children born by slaves have been slaves for generations, like Yiqiao, Yiqing is the descendant of the people in the palace.

The first is the personal maid who serves the unmarried young master in the big family, such as Chunrou, Xia Shu, Qiu Feng, and Dong Hui.

The second type is the girl who married with the ancient women when they got married, they generally grew up with the young lady since they were young, and they are the people that the young lady can trust, such as Ping'er, Cui'er, Fang Yi, Fang Yun.

Coincidentally, Yiqing belongs to the former, this kind of maid generally does not do any rough work, its status is second only to the concubine, and it belongs to the relatively high status of the slaves, only under the housekeeper.

Their main thing is to serve the male and female hosts in the room, which shows that the ancients did not avoid the girls in the room.

Another main thing to do is to give the male and female hosts wide clothes, and even the male and female hosts take a bath while the mandarin ducks are bathing.

And, in the process of that, such as the quilt falling off, the pillow falling off, and the cleaning up after the incident, etc., were all sorted out with the help of the girl in the room.

This is why Li Zhi is curious about why the two of them are so lively, but whenever they are promised to a new master, they should be frightened and uneasy.