Chapter 282: Rearing the Thorn

Wu Chengsi naturally would not admit it and said, "What Princess Zhou?"

"Don't underestimate other people's wisdom!" As he said that, he hit his neck hard with the back of the sword. This time he used a lot of power. Wu Chengsi was so painful that his neck couldn't help but shrink. Then he said, "If you don't believe me, try it. Will killing you hinder your status?"

Wu Chengsi woke up this sentence.

It is a bit difficult to deal with if the prince really wants to kill him. Now his mother has made all the ministers opposed it. She is a relative of the foreigners, and she has become a nail in her eyes. The emperor wants to issue an order to blame him, and I am afraid that all ministers will forcibly protect the prince. The emperor is not a violent lord, and he does not have to do anything for the sake of his relative of the people, and forcibly deposed the prince in order to take advantage of the opinions of the people of the world and the opinions of civil and military officials.

Moreover, the prince seemed to be so kind, but he was very cruel and ruthless. Helan Minzhinatuo's little meat was cut off by himself.

Li Wei finished speaking and left.

I walked out and sighed, and I was always fighting wits and courage with my father, and still took a evasive and flattering attitude towards my mother, or even pleased me. Or I am the only one in this world who would not really underestimate my mother, but things would develop...

With the help of people, Wu Chengsi is not a kind person. He instigated the disagreement between the middle and his mother was a little bit hot. It is still possible to kill the royal family, and he may even be the first to bear the brunt. After all, if he wants to seize more power, he has become her biggest obstacle.

I have to do this trip today.

There are many tall and lush locust trees on both sides of the road, which cannot be controlled. They all raised snow-white pods, and fell like a thunderous place when the wind blew.

Li Wei said: "It's so snowing!"

...

Before the news was heard the next day, my mother called me into the inner palace.

Of course, when Wu Zetian heard the news, she was furious. There were not many nephews among his relatives. If his sons really dealt with each other, without the help of his relatives, his strength would be immediately weakened. Don’t think that Wu Chengsi had no effect. Having him outside to investigate the news is like having more eyes and ears.

He said in a deep voice: "Hong'er, I ask you, I will not let Princess Zhou go, are you really going to kill Wu Chengsi?"

At this point, Li Wei would not retreat. Of course, the only thing that could beg for mercy was that Zhao's daughter was to curb her mother's ever-expanding "ambition" and to do whatever she wanted for herself. Therefore, she also said in a deep voice: "Yes. As a relative of the outside world, you should know the glory and stop. Empress Wendesheng asked Taizong not to value the outside world. Taizong did not listen, and this caused disaster. If you keep your own duties and each one is content with your own virtue, your son should respect it. But if you don't keep your own affairs and instigate the disagreement, your son should kill him for the country to make peace."

"You are so brave. When I was arguing with the Mang Xiao clan, all the prime ministers and Changsun Wuji were helpless with me. You still want to be able to overcome the world!"

Aversion to chills!

Great Cold!

Too naked.

The matter was not clear about the specific matters back then. Maybe it was known that his father wanted to make his mother the queen, but Changsun Wuji and other important officials refused. So his mother asked Mrs. Rong to plead with Changsun Wuji's house, and almost said all the good things, but it was useless. Until Li Ji said, this was the family affairs of Your Majesty, why bother to ask outsiders? Not only that, it was not the emperor's true number one in the world. If all the ministers were issued an edict, the edict might not be able to be issued. Otherwise, Li Zhi would not have been pleaded with his ministers for Wu Zetian. If he could do this, it would be a tyrant and a foolish monarch. It was Li Ji's help that the edict was finally passed.

Then he helped Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, and promoted Xu Jingzong and Li Yi's mansion. Even Changsun Wuji had to be ashamed of this matter and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

But my mother took the matter out, meaning that I dared to kill Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu like that, cut off my hands and feet and put them in a wine jar to kill. Besides, the Zhao girl was just a small princess, just starved to death.

At this moment, the mother and son looked at each other, and they were not so cute. Li Wei was in a state of air conditioning, and Wu Zetian was resentful.

But now that things have come to this point, it is like an arrow on the string and has to be fired. Li Wei replied calmly: "My mother, my son is not aware of the matter back then. If the mother had not made a quick decision, the Mang and Xiao would have harmed the mother. Not only the mother, but even the son is not today."

Wu Zetian snorted coldly and said angrily: "I thought you didn't know!"

"But my son still wants to say that the Mang clan and Xiao clan and the queen are incompatible, but our brothers are your biological sons. Wu Chengsi is your nephew, but who is close to the son and nephew?"

Although his surname is Wu, his blood relationship has been separated by another generation. I won’t mention Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing. Wu Chengsi’s father Wu Yuanshuang and Wu Yuanqing were not born to the same mother. In this way, blood relationship has been separated by another generation. However, Helan Minzhi’s mother and his mother are real biological sisters.

He also said: "The son may not be like the father. However, the mother and queen should be deeply engraved in his father's actions. Today, the position of the mother and queen is the mother and queen, and it is the mother of the world, but there are so many difficulties and twists and turns in the process. However, because the mother and queen are noble, Wu Chengsi flattered him. Or the son and ministers assume that if the mother and queen are not the queen, but are just ordinary people, Wu Chengsi would treat us mother and son like his father, or serve our mother and queen like today? Do you do more filial than your son and ministers?"

"I think you are the one who instigates you!"

"Heaven knows, earth knows, mother knows, son knows."

Wu Zetian was happy and said, "So when did I want to hurt you four brothers?"

"No, but Princess Zhou is your daughter-in-law, and her mother is Princess Changle."

"You guys, go back and ask your group of stupid men, and then come to see me again." Wu Ze was so incredible that he bombed him out.

Li Wei was a little suspicious. Could it be that the mother of Zhao's daughter, Princess Changle, was wrong? Returning to the East Palace, he sent someone to secretly find Wang Cainian and ask him to inquire about the truth. Wang Cainian also paid attention to the matter and brought news in a while.

Li Zhi said that Princess Changle was the younger sister, but it was not right. The real identity of Princess Changle was Li Yuan's biological daughter and the youngest daughter. Li Zhi was not good. Li Yuan and Li Shimin were both able to have children. In addition to the children who died young, Li Yuan had a total of twenty-two sons and nineteen daughters. Li Shimin was slightly worse, with a total of fourteen sons and twenty-one daughters. This caused a great difference in age between brothers and sisters. Princess Changle was a lifetime longer than Li Zhi, but was born later. She was also the only one among all Li Yuan's daughters who were younger than Li Zhi. Therefore, Li Zhi treated this little aunt as a sister since childhood. Because of this strange relationship, Li Zhi became more pampered.

The children of old and young are particularly spoiled, and they are a little arrogant. Although Li Wei has no contact with this little aunt, he can probably see some shadows in her daughter. Li Zhi is a little favored and often enters the palace. He is not very friendly to Wu Zetian. One is that he is a low-key person, and the other is that Wu Zetian is a talented person of Taizong. Now he is Li Zhi's wife, which makes her look down on her. The conflict has occurred very early. Next is Wang Cainian's speculation. Before last year, he issued an edict to return the title of Changsun Wuji, Princess Changle happened to enter the palace and had a secret talk with Li Zhi for a long time. After that, not only did he issue an edict, he restored Changsun Wuji's title, but also let his daughter marry Li Xian as the princess.

It may not be instructed by Princess Changle, but it is very suspicious.

In fact, according to seniority, there shouldn't be a marriage. After all, the Zhao girl is also a generation older than Li Xian, but she is just a princess. Besides, Li Zhi married her father's woman, which is nothing. But it was a bit unqualified, so it makes people even more suspicious.

The confinement of the Zhao girl was probably Li Wei heard Li Xian’s report. During the confinement, Wu Zetian did not give an order, but sent her confidant eunuch named Zhong Qingshi to supervise. Zhong Qingshi asked his subordinates to send raw food in and sent someone to see if the confinement palace was smoking. This was an intriguing order. It was smoking, which proved that the Zhao girl could cook for life. Then she could not kill her and think of another way. If it didn’t smoke, the Zhao girl would be spoiled and would probably starve to death.

After investigation, it is just confinement, not that you don’t give food. You have made mistakes. Will you send someone to serve you? Who can you blame if you would rather starve to death than cook?

Li Wei wrote down this article carefully.

Even if there is no smoking, why not send someone in to check it out? You can ask a question.

Then after a few days of supervision, no smoke came out of the chimney. Li Wei happened to go to Wu Chengsi's house to make trouble, so Wu Zetian ordered the door to open for inspection. However, the Zhao women all starved to death for a few days, and the weather was warmer, and the body began to rot slightly.

Perhaps Wu Zetian was upset about Li Wei, and everyone was dead. Wu Zetian had not yet given up. With the previous grievances, he buried the Zhao woman in a hurry. He also said that the servants of the Zhao family reported that when Zhao Yan talked with Princess Changle, he once said that the emperor was hypocritical and said that he loved you very much, but my official position is not high and my title is not big. Has he said this sentence? Maybe God knows it. Or he angered his mother's bottom line again, arrested the servant and handed it to Zhou Xing for the first trial, and any truth can be revealed.

This shocked Li Wei again.

Li Wei knew how harmful the secret report was later. The whole country was biting, and the one who bite was very strong, and the one who made a big deal was not counted. The people sued the officials, and countless slaves sued the master. This bite made the whole country bloody not only the children of the royal family, but also the punishment could lead to hundreds or thousands of people. Most of them were innocent people.

So Li Zhi issued an edict, saying that he would not be strict in teaching his daughters, and he demoted Zhao Guan from Dingzhou to Governor of Zhenzhou. Dingzhou was now the first-class prefecture of the Tang Dynasty. Later, Lishui, Zhejiang, might have been a good place in later generations, but now it is a barbarian land. Then he ordered Princess Changle to leave the capital immediately and not allow them to return to the capital.

But it wasn't over yet, Li Xian ran over and cried.

Li Wei had no choice but to comfort him: "Third brother, it was a slave who was careless that made your princess starve to death. If you told me earlier, you might be able to save someone."

I can only say this, otherwise the third brother's temper will become more and more agitated, and my mother has already begun to be murderous and has many concerns about me, but I have very few concerns about me. Besides, I have left some favors, but what kind of grace has the third brother left? The second brother Li Xian died faster. In the past, like his Li Hong, he let go of many complaints to his mother.

Li Xian had to go back.

Of course, with his personality, he might have forgotten this after a few days. However, Li Wei was very unhappy, but the matter was not over yet.

Li Zhi went to Duke Zhou's mansion and said that he had killed Wu Chengsi. He was furious and asked the guards to confine him in the East Palace and think about his mistakes in the door. It was accurate to think about his mistakes in the palace, so he could only move in the East Palace, and would not be as miserable as the Zhao girl.

Bier was unhappy and said, "Your Highness, why did the emperor issue this edict?"

She didn't know the story of Princess Changle, but only knew that Wu Chengsi was just celebrating Princess Zhou. Princess Zhou did not return the gift, and did not count on starving the person to death, but also confine the prince!

Li Wei just frowned, and there was a sword of Damocles hanging high above his head. I don’t know when it would fall down to take his life. After thinking about it, I couldn’t sit and wait for death. My mother’s move after another, but she did not fight back, but was suppressed heavily, which would make many ministers lose hope. Moreover, when they reached this point, they continued to endure, and those who supported her were even more disappointed. And if they endured, their mother would come to Long and look for Shu again. Even if she was in the Eastern Palace, she was in danger. So she wrote a letter to her mother, saying that she was wrong and should reconcile with Duke Zhou, hoping that her mother would allow her to leave the palace and apologize to Duke Zhou.

In the past, he was forced by his father and he also treated Pei Yan with a gift. Wu Zetian also faced pressure from all parties. When he saw his son's letter, he did not mention the sincere gift or false gift. As long as he went to accompany the gift, his son would not be able to kill Wu Chengsi in the future. So he agreed.

Bier was stunned and said, "Your Highness, are you really apologizing?"

"It's really accompaniment." After Li Wei finished speaking, he found a few thorn strips from the East Palace, brought them on a chariot, and came to the door of Wu Chengsi's mansion. He got off the chariot from afar, and then tied these thorn strips to his back. Apologize, what's more than apologizing for the crime. Wu Chengsi also got the news early, but it was actually very difficult. Whether you accompany or not, the prince hated himself. It would be better not to let the prince come to accompany him. When the prince arrived in front of the mansion, I would take the initiative to accompany him.
Chapter completed!