The little eunuch replied: "Xiangye refused to see him, but he didn't leave, and now he is probably still pestering outside the east gate." ”

Li Zhaode was overjoyed and said: "You go and see if he is still there, if he is, immediately lead him into the palace, and take him to meet the Son of Heaven!" ”

The little eunuch didn't know that this prime minister Weishenme had suddenly changed his mind again, but since he had ordered it, he still ran towards the east gate as he said, and after a while, he led a young man wearing a round-necked Confucian robe and a soft-footed hood on his head, and the man had a big turtle on his head, and he followed the little eunuch, escorted by two guards, and his behavior seemed very ridiculous.

Li Zhaode was already impatient, and when he saw him arrive, he couldn't wait for him to give him a thanksgiving gift, so he couldn't wait to say: "Let's go, hurry up, this official will lead you to meet the Son of Heaven!" ”

In order to wait for this person, Li Zhaode delayed a little effort, but he was one step slower than Wang Qingzhi, and when he rushed to Wucheng Palace, Wang Qingzhi had already arrived in front of Wu Zetian one step ahead of him.

Wu Zetian looked at Wang Qingzhi, who was a little nervous and cramped, and asked lightly: "Dan is my own son, so he was made the emperor's heir, and Qing gathered people to petition to abolish the crown prince and establish the king of Wei instead, what is the reason?" ”

Wang Qingzhi swallowed his saliva, controlled his nervousness, leaned over and said: "Bixia, there is an ancient saying, 'God is not a class, and the people are not a race.'" 'To worship one's ancestors and respect one's ancestors, one must first confirm one's lineage, otherwise the ancestral gods will not enjoy the sacrifices, and the people of the world will not recognize their ancestors. Isn't it ridiculous that today's surname is Wu, but the Li family is the heir? ”

Wu Zetian snorted coldly and said, "The prince has now changed his surname to Wu!" ”

Wang Qingzhi said: "Bixia, the current prince has changed his martial surname and can't avoid the fact that his real surname is Li. Since ancient times, the rivers and mountains have been passed on to the descendants of the emperor's own surname, how can there be a reason to pass on to people with foreign surnames? The crown prince was originally surnamed Li, and he was already an adult when he changed his surname to Wu, and once he ascended the throne in the future. Can An no longer restore Li Tang? Then. Where will Bixia's country go? ”

"This ......"

When Wu Zetian heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate, at this moment. The waiter Xiaohai owes a report to the body: "Enlighten everyone, Fengge Shilang, Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Pingzhang Li Zhaode asks to see!" ”

Wu Zetian raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Is Li Xiang here?" Let him in! ”

After a while, Li Zhaode walked into the main hall, followed by a person, this person was wearing a round-necked Confucian robe, about thirty years old, polite and talented, but with a huge turtle on his head, he couldn't help but look nondescript.

Li Zhaode saw Wu Zetian and bowed and said, "Minister Li Zhaode has seen Bixia!" ”

The scribe behind him with the turtle on his head bowed as well.

"Li Xiang is exempt. Throne! ”

Wu Zetian said that, he looked curiously at the person with a big turtle on his head, and asked, "Why did Li Xiang come to see me?" Who is this person? What for? ”

The man heard Wu Zetian ask him. Busy and haggled again, trying to squeeze out a smiling face. The big turtle on top of his head poked its head out. Staring at the small eyes of mung beans, he looked left and right, and suddenly saw Wu Zetian at a glance, as if he was frightened by something, and retracted his head with a "whoosh", and even the four paws were retracted. At this time, it looked like the man was carrying a turtle shell on his head. Shangguan Wan'er, Yang Fan, and the palace eunuchs on the side couldn't help laughing.

Li Zhaode replied calmly: "This person has auspicious Rui and bixia, and he was brought by the minister to see him." Don't be busy, but don't ask him for his name and surname. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the man coldly and said, "Bixia asks you something, you can say it yourself!" ”

The man hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, Zhou Xiaoyu, a member of Xiangzhou, has seen Bixia!" ”

Wu Zetian said: "Are you a member of Xiangzhou?" Why did you come to Beijing to see the driver? ”

Zhou Xiaoyu hurriedly explained, at first because of nervousness, he stammered a little, and then his eyebrows danced.

This Zhou Xiaoyu is a student in Xiangzhou, but this student is not a talent in later generations. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Xiucai was very demanding, and the level was still above the Jinshi, the Jinshi could be admitted to more than 30 people a year, and the Xiucai could not be tested for ten years, which was even more rare than the champion in the Jinshi.

After Zhou Xiaoyu was admitted to the student examination, his fame basically stopped there, because the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was not easy to examine. At that time, the entire world only admitted more than 30 people at most for a scientific examination, and most of these places were divided up by powerful figures.

So, Zhou Xiaoyu found another way, so he thought of the method of Xianrui, hoping to rely on Xianrui to gain the favor of the emperor, so as to become an official. As a result, he conjured a "turtle".

According to Zhou Xiaoyu, this turtle is a dry turtle he stumbled upon in the mountains, at first he didn't think there was anything strange about this turtle, and then he accidentally found that on the turtle's abdominal carapace grew "the Son of Heaven for ten thousand years" five natural characters, which was surprising, so he entered Beijing to offer this artifact to the emperor.

Wu Zetian said happily: "Zhou Qing, hurry up and offer the turtle to me!" ”

Wang Qingzhi was interrupted by Li Zhaode's intrusion in the middle of his generous speech just now, at first he was still standing there, making a majestic appearance, standing very upright, but the turtle on Zhou Xiaoyu's head stole his limelight, and the whole palace was looking at the turtle, and no one paid attention to him at all, and it was really tiring to stand with his head held high like this, so he quietly collapsed his shoulders, collapsed his body, and stood there looking at the Western scenery.

Zhou Xiaoyu took the turtle off his head, Xiao Hai and another chamberlain rushed up to take the turtle with both hands, carried it to Wu Zetian's imperial case, and turned the turtle over, the turtle belly was facing the sky, stretched out its head and limbs in surprise, and when he saw someone in front of him, he shrank back again.

Wu Zetian looked at it fixedly, and saw that there were really five bright red characters on the back of the turtle, "Son of Heaven for ten thousand years", and he couldn't help but be amazed, and said loudly: "Oh, I don't want to have such a divine thing in the world, the Son of Heaven is ten thousand years, haha, auspicious, it is really auspicious, Li Xiang, come and see, there is indeed a text on the belly of this turtle!" ”

Li Zhaode didn't believe in the strange power of chaos at all, he knew that there must be a fake in it after receiving Zhou Xiaoyu's dedication book, and then after listening to Wu Zetian's words, he couldn't help but sneered and said: "Saint, such a divine thing, as much as the saint wants, the minister can create as much as the saint!" ”

Wu Zetian was stunned. Said: "Li Xiang, what does this mean?" ”

Li Zhaode stood up. Strode to the front of the imperial case, swept left and right, and saw Yang Fan standing beside him. Then he said: "This general, help the leader!"

Yang Fan looked at Wu Zetian and saw her nodding. walked up to Li Zhaode and arched his hand: "I don't know what the Xiangye commands?" ”

Li Zhaode rolled up his sleeves, held down the turtle, and said to Yang Fan: "Please general, draw a knife and scrape the words on the belly of this turtle!" ”

When Zhou Xiaoyu heard what Li Zhaode said, his face suddenly changed.

Yang Fan understood what Li Zhaode meant as soon as he heard it, if he said that there were some patterns on this turtle that resembled a certain text, he thought it was not impossible, but there were five big characters on the belly of the turtle. He didn't believe it, so he drew his saber and made the tip of the knife scrape the belly of the turtle.

Yang Fanyuan was also worried that the word would not be easy to scrape. Who wants to go over the tip of the knife. There was a creak, and the tip of the knife went over. The red letter was scraped off little by little, Li Zhaode pressed the turtle and sneered at Wu Zetian: "Bixia, if this word is natural, how can it be scraped off with a knife, it is obvious that this tricky little people are scheming and deceiving the saint!" ”

The expression on Wu Zetian's face was very embarrassed, and he waved his hand and said, "Carry the turtle down, and the people will also blast out of the palace!" ”

Li Zhaode said: "Bixia, this person has deceived the monarch and should be severely punished, how can he blast out of the palace!" Bixia should hand him over to Yousi and punish him severely! ”

When Zhou Xiaoyu heard this, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a tom, kowtowed like garlic and begged for mercy again and again.

Wu Zetian said abruptly: "'Son of Heaven for ten thousand years', hehe, although this artifact is fake, it is not a bad idea after all, forget it, just blast him out!" ”

When Zhou Xiaoyu heard this, he was afraid that Li Zhaode would say something to rectify him again, so he quickly kowtowed and said, "Xie Bixia Hongen!" He crawled and escaped.

Li Zhaode didn't go for him, of course he didn't bother to pay attention to him, but said: "Bixia is merciful, and he doesn't want to punish this Diao people, that's fine, but for these people, you can't be unguarded!" This week, Xiaoyu's sentence of 'Son of Heaven for ten thousand years' is not really to bless Bixia, but to seek his own selfish interests under the guise of blessing Bixia! ”

He glanced at Wang Qing coldly, and said with a pun: "Such people and such things may not be absent in the court, and Bixia must not be observed." ”

When he said this, he slowly walked back to his seat, glanced at Wang Qingyi, as if he had just seen him, and asked casually: "This seems to be Wang Qingzhi, a scholar of Hongwen?" Why did you come to the palace today? ”

Wang Qingzhi hurriedly straightened his chest, and said again the words of his invitation to establish Wu Chenghei, the king of Wei, as the crown prince, and before he finished speaking, Li Zhaode got up, and Wu Zetian said strangely: "Why is Li Xiang laughing?" ”

Li Zhaode arched his hand and said: "Bixia, the minister listened to what Master Wang said absurdly, so he laughed. ”

Wu Zetian said: "Oh? What is wrong with what Wang Qingzhi said? ”

Li Zhaode said: "As the Son of Heaven, Bixia should pass on the inheritance of all generations to his descendants, how can there be a full house of children and grandchildren, but the truth that his nephew is the heir?" The minister has never heard of a nephew who can welcome his aunt into the temple when he becomes the Son of Heaven! The nephew is not close to the aunt, can he still be close to the biological mother and son? ”

Wang Qingzhi said with great disgust: "Li Xiang said this, the lower officials did not think so, there is an ancient saying: 'God is not a class, and the people are not a race.'" 'When today's surname is Wu, An can take the Li family as the emperor's heir? ”

Li Zhaode didn't bother to look at him, and only said to Wu Zetian: "Only the sacrifice of one's own children and grandchildren can be enjoyed by the ancestors, and Bixia Lizi will be worthy of enjoying the Taimiao after a thousand years of life, and the inheritance will be endless; If you are a nephew, after a thousand years of life, who will sacrifice blood food for Bixia? ”

Wu Zetian couldn't help but be silent when he heard this, such a difficult situation can only be encountered by her, a female emperor, since ancient times, no one in the emperor would encounter such a problem as her, so she has no precedent to follow.

Her surname is Wu, and only the heirs of Liwu can inherit her country, but she is a daughter, and her biological son cannot be surnamed Wu. However, if she does not pass on her biological descendants, in what capacity will she enjoy the temple after her death? The deceased can only enjoy blood food through the sacrifice of his own children and grandchildren, if the country is not passed on to his own children and grandchildren, after a hundred years, won't she be a hungry ghost?

Wang Qingyi saw that the emperor was moved by Li Zhaode's words, and knelt on the ground with a "porphy" sound, crying and shouting: "Bixia, the minister is single-minded, all for Bixia!" Li Zhaode never forgets Li Tang, harbors evil intentions, and bewilders are confused, Bixia can't trust him, Bixia is the lord of Wu Zhou, and An can establish the heir of the Li family! ”

Wu Zetian was silent for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "Yi Chu's discussion is nonsense, you don't need to say it anymore, step down!" ”

Wang Qingzhi is out! Li Zhaode, the prime minister of the dynasty, has already been scolded by him, if he can't convince the emperor, Wu Chenghei will definitely not be satisfied, will he still have a way to live at that time? The only way to do this is to go all the way to the dark!

Wang Qingzhi knocked his head to the point of blood, begged for death, refused to retreat, Wu Zetian saw this, couldn't help sighing, picked up the pen and wrote a few words, and used the jade seal, to Zhou Qingzhi: "Qing's loyalty, I know, this piece of printing paper and you, when you want to see me in the future, you will keep going in and out!" Go ahead! ”

Wang Qingyi was relieved when he heard Wu Zetian, and he was afraid that it would be too much, but now that he has this piece of printing paper, Wu Chenghei also has an explanation, so he kowtowed and thanked him, held the printing paper, and retreated with a head of blood.

Li Zhaode came to Wang Qingzhi today, and when he saw him leaving, he also said goodbye to Wu Zetian and went back to the Zhongshu office.

As soon as the two of them left, Wu Zetian's face sank, and he patted the royal case hatefully, and said, "One by one, I don't want me to be quiet!" ”

The palace eunuchs who were waiting in the palace knelt down and said in unison: "Everyone is angry! ”

Wu Zetian said angrily: "Get out, what troubles can you solve for me?" ”

Wu Zetian flicked his sleeves, and when he saw Yang Fan in a blink of an eye, his color eased a little, and asked, "Yang Qing is going to get married soon, right?" ”

Yang Fan stiffened his head and said: "Yes! Thanks to Bixia's care, three days later, it will be ...... Minister's wedding date! ”

"Hmmm! Okay, good! Xiaoman, that kid has been by my side for a few years, this kid is a good girl, you two can become husband and wife, I'm very satisfied, hehe......"

Wu Zetian said, a smile gradually appeared on his face, and said: "There are three days left until your wedding, such a happy event, why are you still on duty in the palace, and Yu Yite will not be a man." In this way, you don't want to go to the palace to do things these days, go back to prepare for the marriage with peace of mind, and prepare to be your groom. ”

Yang Fan didn't dare to look at Wan'er more, just nodded to the ground on one knee and said to Wu Zetian: "Yes!" Thank you Bixia for your grace! ”

Wu Zetian said to Shangguan Wan'er again: "Wan'er, in my life, I have referred to such a marriage, you have to handle it well, don't have a shabby appearance, and lose my face." ”

Wan'er's heart darkened, she lowered her head slightly, and said in a low voice: "Bixia confesses, how dare Wan'er be careless, she has been carefully prepared." When the time comes, Wan'er will definitely arrange it in person to marry Xiao Man's family to Yang Langjiang's family in a beautiful manner, and she will never lose the dignity of the heavenly family, please be relieved! ”

Wu Zetian smiled: "That's good!" I have so many worries these days, and I am very happy to come across a happy event! Hehehe......"

Yang Fan took this opportunity to sneak a glance at Wan'er, and both of them were afraid of losing their temper, so they lowered their heads in unison, and only heard the happy laughter of "Yue Lao" in their ears......

P: Good night friends, I sincerely ask for monthly passes and recommended tickets!

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