There is a way to know the current affairs for the handsome, the eldest grandson Wuji knows that his general trend has gone, so he simply said that he is sick, closed the door to thank the guests, out of sight is clean, after all, ...... He is really old, and he can't compete with Wu Meiniang at all.

So there was a strange phenomenon in the court, and the eldest grandson Wuji at the same time The bigwigs, almost all found various excuses to nest at home, no longer participate in court politics, in addition to the eldest grandson Wuji, such as Wei Zheng, Qin Qiong, Li Ji, Ma Zhou, Li Daozong and others, most of the generals are also guarding outside, Su Dingfang is guarding Anxi, Fan Lihua is guarding Qinghai, and Xue Rengui is guarding Youzhou.

Now a group of people who are active in the court are Wu Meiniang's henchmen, and the rest are a group of flatterers, Wu Meiniang knows that since she wants to be in power, she must master military power, and those veterans in the court must not be able to buy her account, so Wu Meiniang promoted the newcomer.

At present, among the generals of the new generation of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xiaojie is naturally the best, so Wu Meiniang promoted Wang Xiaojie exceptionally, and now Wang Xiaojie actually entered the Tiance Mansion and served as the general of the Tiance Mansion, which is the highest position in the army.

In addition to Wang Xiaojie, Wu Meiniang also asked Wu Sansi to concurrently serve as General Jin Wuwei and General Zuo Tunwei, Wu Chengsi concurrently served as General Yulin Army, Li Yuanzhong, who was once known as the patron saint of Taiji Palace, was ruthlessly pushed to the end and became Li Zhi's personal guard, accompanying Li Zhi in a vegetative state every day, in fact, this was also his own request.

After three months of sailing, Li Hao's fleet finally arrived in the Americas in February of the following year, in Li Hao's impression, the American continent is now a barren land, but it is not no one, because Li Hao knows that there is an ancient and mysterious country in the Americas - Maya.

Maya is a collective term and abbreviation for the Maya and Mayan civilizations. The Mayan civilization is an ancient Indian civilization in South America, an outstanding representative of the ancient civilization of the Americas, named after the Indian Maya. It is mainly found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the western regions of Honduras and El Salvador. Although he was in the Neolithic Age, he was highly accomplished in astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, art, and writing.

Maya is very famous in history, because they left too many prophecies and legends, Li Hao naturally set the first landing point in the Americas in Maya, he wanted to uncover the mystery of Maya and see the real Maya in history.

The fleet entered the Gulf of Mexico and landed in southern Mexico, where the Maya were.

Li Hao's arrival undoubtedly scared the Mayans, first it was just a group of Mayans watching on the coast, and then they called friends, all came to the beach to watch Li Hao's huge fleet, and it seemed that there was an army coming, in fact, Li Hao was not sure if it was an army, because it felt that this group of people was similar to ordinary people, but the clothes were more complete, holding some bone-breaking spears and stone axes, is this considered an army, maybe it's so.

According to historical records, the Maya were a slave country in the Neolithic Age, and they had a high degree of civilization, with high achievements in astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, art, and writing.

Why is there a high level of civilization still in the Neolithic Age, why is mathematics so powerful that even metal smelting is a problem? Actually, it's not a concept.

In such backward nations or tribes, the highest civilization is the calendar, which is the method of calculating the year, month, and day and correlating them to the relevant celestial phenomena, and the method of reconciling the calendar year, the calendar month, the calendar day and the return year, the synodic month, and the solar day. Whoever can master the calendar perfectly will be admired, and most of the Chinese Xia Dynasty was the same before the Xia Dynasty, why is this?

Because if you master the calendar, you can grasp the changes in solar terms, which is conducive to farming, and for people in this period, farming is their life! More important than anything else.

At the same time, in the eyes of the people of that period, the calendar is so profound that it is like a person who can't read and write to see people programming there, and there will be a sense of admiration, so those who master the calendar can often stand out and lead everyone to a better life.

The Mayan calendar was very magical, arguably the most sophisticated of the contemporaries, with the Mayans believing that a month was equal to 20 days, a year was equal to 18 months, and that there were 5 unlisted death days in each year: the actual number of days in a year was 365. This coincides with modern understanding of the time course of the Earth's rotation.

According to the astronomical observations of the Mayans at the time, the solar system was orbiting the Pleiades. By doing the math, they got the time it takes for the solar system to make one revolution around the Pleiades – equal to the one-year precession cycle of the solar system around the Earth's orbit – about 25,800 years. The Mayans believed that the solar system also experienced seasonal changes during each precession cycle, and divided it into five seasons, with 2012 being the beginning of autumn. The Mayans divided the precession cycle into five seasons, each quarter is 5125 years, the solar system is entering the fifth season of revolution, and the so-called 2012 end of the world, naturally related to this fifth season, can be roughly understood as mankind will face five devastating disasters, and the fifth disaster, in 2012.

Although the end of the world in 2012 did not materialize, Li Hao was still curious about Maya.

The Mayans on the shore were obviously very scared and wary of Li Hao, because they could also see that the two sides did not seem to be on the same level.

Li Hao and the others soon landed, and those Mayans were so frightened that they retreated one after another, not daring to act rashly, because the army brought by Li Hao looked a little terrifying.

Not long after, a large number of Maya people came, and they were lined up in a neat line, and the leader was richly dressed, wearing a lot of gold and precious stones, and looked a bit like a rich man.

The rich man maintained a vigilant and friendly attitude towards Li Hao, Li Hao also smiled and greeted each other, the problem came, the language was not understood, who knew what language this group of Mayans spoke, it didn't matter, just use body language to make a blind comparison.

Li Hao used body language to compare a posture of riding the wind and waves, and the arms were fluctuating up and down, which was really like that, but the others kept snickering after seeing it.

The rich man seemed to understand what Li Hao meant, that is, he came from a far away country, and from Li Hao's polite smile, he could see that Li Hao did not seem to be hostile, which made the rich man breathe a sigh of relief.

Maya's technology is backward, and their military strength is naturally very backward, although they have hundreds of thousands of people, but when they see Li Hao's army, the rich man knows that they are definitely not the opponent of the other party.

In order to express his friendship, Li Hao sent a Tang knife to this rich man, the sharp and exquisite Tang knife is tantamount to an ancient artifact for people in the Neolithic Age, but it makes this rich man happy.

Although they didn't understand the language, they expressed kindness to each other.

Next, the landlord invited Li Hao to his house as a guest, and Li Hao only brought five hundred special forces to go, so as not to frighten them if the battle was too big.

The Maya also had cities, but the walls were low, mainly because there were not many wars here, and it was just a defense against wild beasts and the surrounding wildlings.

Li Hao finally saw the Mayan city with his own eyes, and after being a guest in the city, the rich man also took Li Hao to see their Mayan pyramids, there was a pyramid under construction, and thousands of slaves were carrying huge stones with ropes and rolling logs, and the picture was also extremely shocking.

Li Hao can basically be sure that the rich man in front of him should be the current king of Maya, and he doesn't care whether the Mayans call Pharaoh or King.

After dark, Li Hao returned to the ship, the next day, he took Wu Lei ashore again, brought a lot of goods to the city to trade with the rich man, exquisite ceramics and silk made the rich man's eyes shine, Li Hao compared with the rich man for a long time, the rich man understood that Li Hao wanted to trade with him, not to give it to him, but even if it was trade, he was very happy, because these things were so beautiful.

So the landlord took out a large amount of gold to trade with Li Hao, but due to the language barrier and the different weighing units, the price became a problem, and even gesturing could not solve it.

But Li Hao is very witty, let the rich man take the goods casually, and the rich man's gold, he takes it casually, how much goods you take, how much gold I take, that is to say, Li Hao has the final say in the price.

Obviously, the rich man was not stingy with gold, and took away all Li Hao's goods in one go, and Li Hao was not polite, and took away a whole eight boxes of gold, roughly calculated, about 80,000 taels of gold.

After finishing the matter, the two smiled and saluted, although the way of saluting was different, but the meaning was enough.

In Maya, Li Hao's fleet left, came out of the Gulf of Mexico, went north along the coast, and arrived in North America when it was about the NY location, Li Hao and they docked and landed, after Li Hao landed, he looked around with a telescope, and all he saw was the vast wasteland, and after walking for a day, he only saw wild beasts and some unclothed savages.

Li Hao couldn't help but sigh, this place is still barren, who would have thought that after 1,300 years, a powerful country would appear here, firmly in the position of the world's leader. Thinking of this, Li Hao felt a little angry, when he ordered to erect a huge tablet here, the inscription was engraved more than an inch deep, and the first column was a big-character title "Li Shima, King of Qiongnan of the Tang Dynasty, visited here." ”

Below the title is a small print description, telling about the countries that Li Hao passed through on this voyage, the ships he carried, the number of people, and the goods, etc., and the last date is the tenth year of Yonghui of the Tang Dynasty, March 22.

In this way, the first person to discover the American continent was not Columbus, but Li Hao.

After going to sea from NY, Li Hao suddenly ordered the fleet to turn around and go south, because further north, it was about to reach Greenland, where the climate was cold, and it was close to the Arctic Ocean, and there were many icebergs on the sea, which was very dangerous and not conducive to the navigation of ships, so he was ready to go south to bypass the South American continent.

It's a bit of a long way, and South America isn't as big as Africa, but it's really long, and if you want to get around, it's longer than the last time you bypassed Africa, and for the first part, they're going southeast.

Now it's terrible, those Confucian scholars have begun to question, didn't they say that they went all the way to the west, why are they going east now, liar!

The captains of the various ships conveyed the doubts of the Confucian scholars to Wu Lei, who in turn told Li Hao.

Li Hao has already planned the general outline of South America, and asked people to send it to various ships to show them, the meaning is obvious, it is not that they want to go east, but that he is not pleasing to this continent.

The Confucian scholars were speechless, and the voices of skepticism disappeared, but they still did not believe that the world was a ball.

Although Li Hao has the heart to draw a complete map of the world, he also knows that this is just a dream, and it is impossible for him to do it in the near future, according to the current navigation technology, it is absolutely impossible to travel to every sea area of the world in one decade, for example, there is a large area of land around the Arctic Ocean, he can't go for the time being, and Antarctica, and many straits and bays or something, all of which have been omitted by him, maybe ten years is not enough at all.

But Li Hao is not entangled, doesn't Li Tu want to be a navigator and explorer, this great task will be completed and realized by him in the future, perhaps, he can become the greatest navigator in the world.

When we arrived at Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost island in South America, it was already July, and it took nearly four months, and the wind direction during this time was not very smooth, and the speed of the voyage was really not fast.

Li Hao and they spent a few days ashore on Tierra del Fuego to replenish fresh water, and then Li Hao had a whimsical idea to let the fleet cross the Drake Strait and come to Antarctica.

Every time Li Hao landed, he had to put on makeup, so as not to be recognized by those Confucian scholars, and this time it was the same, Li Hao stepped on the ice field of Antarctica in a plush cloak, although the group of Confucian scholars behind him also wore cotton clothes, but they really didn't expect it to be so cold, their faces were red from the cold, their whole body was shivering, and their snot hung under their noses, becoming ice bumps.

At this time, this group of Confucian scholars finally convinced, why, when they were in the Tang Dynasty before, the world in their eyes was a corner of the Tang Dynasty, but after going to sea for a year or two, how many wonderful places have they seen, and this Antarctica is the most wonderful they think so far, why? Because in their impression, the further south they go, the hotter it gets, and the hottest season is summer, and now they are in a very southern place, and it's summer, but here it's colder than the midwinter in Chang'an, freezing them to death, and most importantly, under their feet, there is now an ice field that can't be seen at a glance, and it's incredible.

Li Hao felt that this group of Confucian scholars couldn't stand it, so he asked them to go back to the ship first, and then sent someone to erect a monument here, just like the last monument, to prove that their Tang fleet had been here, Li Hao believed that he was definitely the first person in history to come to Antarctica.

After erecting the monument, Li Hao returned to the ship and planned a new route, and then their route was very simple, across the Pacific Ocean, the destination, the New Zealand archipelago.

At the same time, Datang experienced a natural disaster, the most common disaster in summer, naturally is the flood, dealing with the disaster can best reflect the ability of a monarch, and the time has come to test Wu Meiniang.

This flood is not small, not only the amount of precipitation is large, but also the scope of precipitation is very wide, the most serious disaster is the two banks of the Yellow River, because the Yellow River water swelled, burst the embankment, the entire Bianzhou was flooded, became a vast lake.

Wu Meiniang suddenly panicked, and hurriedly sent someone to relieve the disaster, she couldn't trust others in the end, and sent her nephew Wu Chenghe.

Although Wu Meiniang usurped Li Tang Jiangshan, as long as the members of the Li Tang royal family did not provoke her, she would not deliberately harm them, and Wu Meiniang also returned the throne to the Li family after her death, but Wu Chengsi was different, he tried his best to suggest that Wu Meiniang kill all the Li Tang royal family and completely occupy the Li family, and he even asked Wu Meiniang to pass the throne to him.

If you want to say that Wu Chengsi has any ability, he has no fart ability, without Wu Meiniang, he is really nothing, even if he has no ability, he is still quite ambitious, which is very embarrassing.

Wu Chengsi received this disaster relief task, but he was very happy, and immediately went to the household department to get money and food and set off to Bianzhou for disaster relief.

People's disaster relief is urgent, but Wu Chengsi has to stop for a day every time he goes to a place, let the local officials entertain him, not to mention good wine and good food, but also give gifts, and invite him to go to the best Qinglou to find the best kiln sister.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty ruled Qingming, and many officials did not know these ways, and most of them just paid a polite visit, after all, Wu Chenghei was high and powerful. But Wu Chenghe's eating appearance is ugly, people don't invite him, he takes the initiative to invite people to go to the Qinglou to eat, drink and play, he doesn't go to get angry, when he eats and drinks, he also takes the initiative to ask people for gifts, let people help settle the bill, along the way the officials are really broken, secretly calling the court stupid, the officials are dirty.

In the city of Bianzhou, there is a vast water, on the streets, the ship is drifting, but Wu Chengsi did not go to Bianzhou at all, because the flood in Bianzhou has not receded, so he did not go, and when he arrived at a county near Bianzhou, he set up a hundred and ten pots to boil porridge to relieve the victims, but there are tens of thousands of victims, and one hundred and ten pots can top anything.

It happened that Di Renjie also came to civilian clothes to investigate the disaster, and when he saw the scene of Wu Chenghei scattering porridge to help the victims, he went up to ask the victims why there were so few pots of loose porridge.

Di Renjie asked, all he heard was the voices of the victims scolding the court, and a scholar said indignantly: "The court is black and blind, send such a faint official to relieve the disaster, only put five or two meters in a pot of porridge, my Datang has been extremely rich over the years, how can there be only such a little food for disaster relief, it must be greedy for ink by that faint official!" ”

This scholar was already scolding more gently, and some other people scolded directly, Di Renjie hurriedly went to the post house to find Wu Chenghei.

Wu Chengsi was not in the post house, but in a green building holding Sister Yao to drink flower wine, Di Renjie heard about it, he was so angry, when he rushed to the green building and broke into Wu Chengsi's room, Wu Chengsi's guards blocked it, all of them were knocked over by Di Renjie, which scared Wu Chengsi.

Wu Chengsi thought at first that someone was going to assassinate him, but after seeing that it was Di Renjie, he was relieved, he knew that Di Renjie would not do anything to him, he didn't have the guts, otherwise his aunt wouldn't spare him.

Di Renjie really didn't dare to do anything to Wu Chenghei, but as the secretary of Dali Temple, he had the power to supervise hundreds of officials, how could he not care when he saw such a ridiculous thing, so he glared and scolded: "As a disaster relief envoy of the imperial court, before the catastrophe, you didn't think about the people's livelihood and suffering, but you ate and drank here and went to the green building, you are a bastard!" ”

Wu Chengsi sneered when he heard this, and said: "Di Renjie, you have been in the officialdom for many years, how did you give birth to an elm head, do you know why the queen appointed me to provide disaster relief?" ”

Di Renjie frowned and glared at him, but did not answer.

Wu Chengsi continued to laugh and said: "Because the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, the disaster relief money and grain are as much as more than 200,000 yuan, so much money, let others be greedy for ink, it is better to be cheap." ”

"You fart!" Di Renjie really wanted to go up and beat him to death when he heard this, but fortunately he endured it.

Wu Chenghei frowned when he heard this, his face showed displeasure, and he said coldly: "Di Renjie, now is not the past, Li Hao has already died, and it is Empress Wu who is in power now!" It's my aunt! ”

"So what!" Di Renjie glared and scolded, "The Son of Heaven broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people, this world, surnamed Li!" No traitor will be allowed to wantonly destroy, you should quickly spit out the disaster relief money and food to relieve the victims, otherwise I will definitely impeach you when I return to Chang'an! ”

"Impeach me?" Wu Chengsi raised his eyebrows and sneered, "Okay, you go and try to impeach, say that you are an elm head, you are really an elm head, stupid!" ”

Di Renjie clenched his fists, his ten knuckles gala, he really wanted to go up and hammer this thing to death now, he suddenly missed Li Hao, when Li Hao was there, the Tang Dynasty was so clear, and the people's lives were so comfortable, even if it was any natural disaster, they were not afraid, but now that Li Hao is gone, Wu Meiniang is in power, the court is dirty, and the disaster relief event has actually become an opportunity for Wu Chenghei to collect money, which is simply ignoring the life and death of the people of Limin.

Di Renjie is very smart, but in the face of power, it is useless to be smart, at this moment, how helpless he is.

Di Renjie returned to Chang'an on the same day, galloped all the way, arrived in Chang'an five days later, and submitted a piece of paper directly to Wu Meiniang's desk, impeaching Wu Chenghei for embezzling ink and food for taking over the opportunity of disaster relief, filling his own pockets, and ignoring the life and death of the people, and the evidence is conclusive, and there is no way to deny it.

Wu Meiniang was also very angry when she saw this, first of all, he was angry with Wu Chenghei, Wu Chengsi disappointed her too much, and actually did this kind of thing, as a person in power, she naturally wanted to handle government affairs well, so that hundreds of officials were impressed, and increase her prestige, but what kind of bad thing did Wu Chengsi do.

At the same time, Wu Meiniang was also angry with Di Renjie, it was precisely because of Di Renjie's performance that she fell into a dilemma, and now hundreds of officials are clamoring and demanding severe punishment of Wu Chenghei, what can she do, forcibly suppress it, this is impossible.

Wu Meiniang is a smart person, she knows that some things can be suppressed, but some things really can't.

In desperation, Wu Meiniang immediately ordered the removal of Wu Chenghei from all his positions, asked him to return to Chang'an as soon as possible to confess his guilt, and sent Xu Jingzong to relieve the disaster.

Although Xu Jingzong is greedy for money, he is not like Wu Chenghe, he has a good grasp of a degree, more than 200,000 vehicles, greedy for 30,000 or 40,000 taels is about the same, you can't be too greedy, you must be a long stream, and Xu Jingzong is very good at doing things, although he deducted part of the victims' food, clothing and disaster relief funds, but in the end the disaster relief matter was solved, but the disaster relief funds received by the victims were obviously not as high as a few years ago.

Wu Chengsi felt bad when he received Wu Meiniang's holy decree, and sure enough, after returning to Chang'an, he was directly deprived of all his official positions and taken into the prison of Dali Temple, which scared him silly, but fortunately, Wu Sansi came to visit the prison and reprimanded him fiercely, and then warned him that he was obediently in prison during this time, and after a while, when the limelight passed, their aunt would fish him out.