Chapter 273 Why is the emperor so rich?
After hearing what Zhang Lin said, Liang Wangwu Sansi was very happy, with an excited and excited look on his face. He wanted to jump in front of Zhang Lin and call him "Uncle" affectionately!
Princess Taiping smiled even more like a flower. Her eyes looked at Zhang Lin with a gentle tenderness. She felt that her decision to visit Lanyuan was the most correct decision in her life!
Although Zhang Lin was speechless, Li Zhaode did not admit defeat. He scratched his head and thought about it. After finally getting a loophole in Zhang Lin's words, he decided to give up the others and launch a fierce counterattack at the same time. He tilted his head and asked in an old-fashioned manner:
"What did you say just now? Make Princess Taiping the crown princess? I heard it right?"
"You heard it right! The emperor's choice is based on the emperor's preferences! The emperor will establish whoever he wants!"
Zhang Lin nodded and said loudly without hesitation.
"Woman is the culprit, your strange arguments are really shocking. This is the first time I heard about it! It's really unpleasant!"
Li Zhaode said in a sarcastic tone.
Everyone at the scene burst into laughter regardless of their position.
Zhang Lin was fearless and had no taboos. He raised his hand and waved his hand and said passionately:
"Before the emperor ascended the throne and became emperor, have you heard of the precedent of women being emperors? No! But the emperor just acted, and even acted very well. Qin Emperor and Han Wu, all rely on the side! Can a woman be an emperor, but she cannot be a culprit?"
After hearing Zhang Lin's praises, Wu Zetian smiled and felt sweeter than drinking honey.
Seeing that Zhang Lin advocated the woman as the crown prince in court and argued with Li Zhaode and others in eloquently, Princess Taiping was so happy that she could not describe it in words. She wanted to jump in front of him immediately and sip him hard.
"We should not discuss this!" Li Zhaode quickly admitted defeat and continued to discuss it. Maybe the emperor was moved by Zhang Lin's fallacies and evil sayings and decided Princess Taiping as the crown prince on the spot, which was not impossible.
Li Zhaode was defeated completely, and none of the three issues were successful, and Zhang Lin was refuted. Although he felt regretful, it didn't matter if he thought about it. Originally, he was an attempt, which was to give the emperor a chance. If the emperor accepted his proposal, he could avoid a war. But the current situation forced him to take risks! Of course, this is a later story, and it needs to be arranged extremely well to take action. There is no such urgent yet!
"Don't be too arrogant, you should consider Xiao He and Chen Ping's safety." Li Zhaode, who was angry and embarrassed, approached Zhang Lin and lowered his voice. The threat was extremely obvious.
After hearing Li Zhaode's words, Zhang Lin immediately understood that he had asked Gao Lishi to send money to the dilapidated temple on Qiushan Street, and there was no one inside. It turned out that they were both in Li Zhaode's hands; the other party captured Xiao He and Chen Ping as hostage, hoping to threaten and intimidate him.
Zhang Lin snorted coldly in his heart, Li Zhaode, you made the wrong idea. To me, Xiao He and Chen Ping are just someone he just met, and it doesn’t matter. If you use them to threaten him, you may be disappointed!
"Don't be too domineering! Hong Shaoqian is in my hands, and he has inexhaustible evidence!" Zhang Lin faced tit-for-tat without retreating.
Li Zhaode grinned and said to himself, why is Zhang Lin invincible? I think he is probably pretending! "These two are robbers, and they have no moral integrity. Under severe punishment, they will definitely expose your scandals one by one."
"Haha, it depends on who's ugly things are more uglier and more lethal to me!" Zhang Lin smiled faintly and said indifferently.
It is fake to say that he doesn't care. In the dilapidated temple, Chen Ping threatened to shake out his scandal! What kind of scandal did his predecessor do? He didn't know.
Now that things have come to this point, Zhang Lin has no choice but to pretend to be calm and not to show any cowardly in front of Li Zhaode.
"Dear friends, I wonder who has memorials and suggestions?" Wu Zetian glanced at the main hall and the outside of the hall for a week with a spring breeze on his face, and then asked with a kind look, as if there had never been any attempt to force the palace.
Next, someone boldly put forward a few suggestions, which were all irrelevant. None of them really related to the country or the people's livelihood were mentioned. Even if they had suggestions, they would write memorials and hand them over to Luantai Nayan Zhang Jianzhi and pass them to the emperor.
The meeting was over, and Wu Zetian was in a very good mood. When he walked down from the dragon throne and passed by Zhang Lin, he stretched out her fair and soft hand to the latter. Zhang Lin understood that she wanted to walk with him to the door of the hall, meet the ministers in the square, and have fun with the people.
Of course, Zhang Lin was also happy. Every time the emperor held hands, it was a process of extra points for him.
Since he has already served in bed, he certainly wants to gain more power and establish greater prestige.
The two of them held hands and walked slowly into the middle of the ministers in the hall, then appeared under the arcade at the entrance of the hall, looking at the dense ministers in the square.
When Zhang Lin and Wu Zetian held hands, many people at the scene had bad looks, including the royal heir Li Dan, the Luling King Li Xian, Zhang Jianzhi, and several important officials who did not like to be close to each other.
But they just looked ugly and didn't look carefully, and they couldn't see the change in their faces.
The three people with the biggest change in their faces belong to three women. Their faces do not become ugly, but become very ugly, and they feel that their favorite toys fall into the hands of others.
Ye Yu is the first, Shangguan Wan'er is the second, and Princess Taiping is the third. However, since their opposition is the emperor, no one dares to show his ugly face.
Most of the ministers in the square met the younger Wu Zetian for the first time. They opened their eyes wide and took in breaths, feeling unimaginable and unbelievable.
"Ah, our emperor is so beautiful!"
"The Emperor's beauty seems to have retreated decades ago!"
"The emperor is so young, it's not time to become a crown prince! Old Master Li is worried!"
This is the first time that more people have seen Zhang Lin. Where did they have the opportunity to see the head of the harem before? Therefore, they all became jealous and all said anything.
"That person is Zhang Lin, the first person! He is so handsome!"
"That is Ganglie Hou who just defeated Mr. Li?!"
"Yes, the emperor was critically ill at the time, so he used blood transfusion to save the emperor!"
"It's really a talent!"
"If this continues, he may be the male queen!"
"The emperor was so powerful back then! He was the queen and the queen mother with an ordinary concubine!"
"However, no matter how powerful Zhang Lin is, he will never be able to be the queen mother!"
"Who knows, the emperor is rejuvenated and may even have his fertility function restored!"
Seeing Zhang Lin and Wu Zetian appearing together at the entrance of the hall, another woman's face became unfair. She was Shang Gong Qiushuang. As a harem maid, she was also qualified to attend the court meeting, but her rank was not high and she could only be in the square and was on the same rank as the fifth-rank officials.
Usually, Qiu Shuang is very generous, but when she sees her beloved holding hands with another woman, she cannot turn a blind eye, see without feeling, feel without jealousy, and jealous without complaints!
If she could do this, it means she didn’t like Zhang Lin!
In an instant, her eyes turned red, but fortunately, it was far from Wu Zetian and was not easy to detect.
Wu Zetian glanced at the ministers in the square and then said loudly: "Dear friends, today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I will have fun with you. I will give each person one tael of gold, one ingot of silver, one dou of rice, one stone of rice, and one book of scriptures!"
"Thank you, the emperor!" All the ministers bowed down and greeted each other, and burst into tears of gratitude.
These rewards have nothing to do with salary and are additional benefits, which are nothing to do for high-ranking officials of the third and fourth ranks, but for officials under the fifth rank, it is a large amount of money. How can they not be grateful?
Through this gift, Wu Zetian won over 80% of the people on the scene, because low-level officials account for the vast majority of the number of people. The reason why many people follow Li Zhaode is simply to have a better future. Now the emperor directly gives them additional gifts, what else do they want?
Li Zhaode was wondering, where did she get so much gold and silver with the emperor's generous reward? If he knew that Zhang Lin accidentally discovered a huge amount of gold, he would probably grab it at any cost.
As for the scriptures, it is naturally the "Great Cloud Sutra". Although the 20,000 books have not been printed yet, it is still enough to send one copy to more than 1,000 officials on the scene.
"In addition, I have prepared a meeting in heaven and asked everyone to follow me to discuss it!" Wu Zetian said happily.
Chapter completed!