[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 9 Brawl 9

Just three days after Xu Hui gave birth to the 22nd Niang, several people from the Palace who died for unknown reasons were found in a remote part of the palace. One of them was Azhi from Wanchun Palace, and the other was Alin from Caisiyuan...

His Majesty Li Er was furious when he heard the news, and ordered Concubine Wei and Concubine Yan to investigate the matter immediately.

In the end, it was found out that one of these dead palace people was beaten to death by Wei Jieyu...

In the next half month, several concubines and servants in the palace were found to be suspected of murdering Xu Chongrong...

His Majesty Li Er was so angry that he ordered him to deal with it strictly, whether he was given death or sent to the North Palace of Yeting, there was no room for negotiation at all!

There was a bloody storm in the palace for a while, and everyone was in danger.

Soon, Xu Chongrong, who woke up by accident, heard about this, and wrote a letter asking His Majesty Li Er to only investigate the culprit and not to involve the innocent.

His Majesty Li Er allowed it, and the purge gradually subsided.

In this turmoil, apart from Wei Jieyu, two beauties, three or five talented people, and Bao Lin were identified as suspects. His Majesty Li Er wiped them all together and sent them to the North Palace of Yeting as slaves. , I am afraid that there will be no bright future in this life.

In addition, the Crown Princess Wang was also reprimanded by Cui Neiwei, who was sent by His Majesty Li Er, to blame her for not controlling the backyard of the Eastern Palace!

Wang also apologized with a bald bun and grounded Wei Liangdi.

Originally, His Majesty Li Er wanted to kill a group of palace servants in his rage, but he was dissuaded by the crown prince on the grounds of "accumulating blessings for Xu Chongrong and 22 Niang".

After this incident, the ruling and opposition parties have come to know the benevolent heart of the prince again, and Li Shimin is no longer worried that his family Jiulang will not be able to control the situation because of benevolence and weakness—the pheasant slave is benevolent, not weak. , he can also black out to the end!

Because Li Mingda and Xu Hui had accidents one after another, the entire Taiji Palace was shrouded in a depressive atmosphere, and all the concubines and concubines were cautious, for fear of arousing the anger of His Majesty Li Er again.

It wasn't until the full moon of the 22nd mother that His Majesty Li Er didn't see a smile.

The full moon banquet was organized jointly by Concubine Yang Shu and Concubine Yan De—Concubine Wei Gui is also seriously ill now—both of them are close friends with Wanchun Palace, and because of Wu Xu’s relationship, they are also half alliances with Caisi Academy, so naturally they don’t It will make 22 Niang suffer.

And His Majesty Li Er probably wanted to take advantage of this happy event to break through the dark atmosphere in the palace recently, so he acquiesced in the two concubines' wanton manipulation...

Therefore, this full moon banquet was held in a grand manner, no less than the prince's full moon banquet.

For such an important banquet, Wu Xu had to go to work, and she had the function of 'in charge of the banquet order'.

Concubine Yan De didn't hesitate to ask Wu Xu to be in charge of receiving guests and arranging seats, and made up her mind to let her show a small face at the opportunity to get acquainted, so that her promotion in the future would not be inexplicable.

Those who can participate in the full moon banquet are not ordinary people. Apart from the royal family members, there are only civil and military ministers above the third rank in Beijing.

What Wu Xu has to worry about is to determine who can attend the banquet, what position should be arranged, and how to arrange if someone is absent...

There is a lot of knowledge here, if Wu Xu used to be able to ask Miss Xu to be her adviser, but now Miss Xu is always in a coma for a while and wakes up for a while, she is too embarrassed to bother her...

And Concubine Yan's cousin was too busy, so Wu Xu couldn't always ask her, but after hearing the news, Li Xiaojiu took the initiative to come to help her.

Li Zhi copied a list of the current confidential ministers of the DPRK and China, as well as the current family status of those people and the degree of favor by His Majesty Li Er, for Wu Xu's reference.

Really drowsy brought a pillow!

"Thank you, Prince!!" Wu Xu didn't expect Li Xiaojiu to be so powerful, she almost cried with joy, and couldn't help but salute and thank her. "You have helped my concubine a lot!"

"Ah Wu, what are you doing so out of sight?" Li Zhi smiled and turned to the side, refusing to accept Wu Xu's big gift, and said, "It's not all because of you..." As the prince, of course, he must pay attention to the employees who will take over in the future. Got it!

Wu Xu understood, but still thanked him seriously: "I still want to thank Jiulang for your trouble! I will return these things to you immediately after I use them up..."

Li Xiaojiu should have listened to his father talking about his servants a lot, but it took a lot of hard work to sort out such a detailed material!

But Li Zhi just smiled lightly and said: "It's nothing... Gu also just wants a little help..."

"Maybe when Sizi is happy, he will be cured..."

Hearing Li Zhi mention Little Lolita, Wu Xu felt a little sad again.

This time Li Mingda narrowly escaped death, after all, he was seriously injured, ruining the foundation he had worked so hard to raise in the past few years.

Although His Majesty Li Er did not punish Wu Xu and the others, he changed all the attendants of the Wanchun Palace except Aju, Afu and a few other personal servants of Li Mingda's little palace.

There is also a warning in this.

If Wu Xu made any mistakes at the full moon banquet this time and offended His Majesty Li Er, he would probably go to the cold palace just like Wei Jieyu!

Therefore, Li Zhi was also secretly worried about her.

"Sizi likes to be lively, this time 22 Niang Miyue, I'm glad it's her..." Li Zhi changed the subject calmly. "Gu saw that many royal relatives came from the fief, if you don't understand something, I can explain it to you..."

Hearing this, Wu Xu turned her mind back to the Dao banquet, and said: "The imperial relatives are of high status, I'm afraid it's not a concubine who can greet them, this matter depends on the arrangement of the concubine De..."

"It's the arrangement of the ministers and workers, and I still have some questions. How do you see the ranking of Shen Guogong and Zhao Guogong? Who will go up and who will go down? And this Wei Guogong..."

Li Zhi saw that the girl was frowning, telling him about her difficult problems seriously, no matter how you look at it, she is so cute~~~~

"Zhao Guogong is a lonely uncle, and Shen Guogong is an uncle, so this guy is naturally an elder..." Li Zhi answered Wu Xu patiently, "Although Wei Guogong is old, he is in good health, Dad This time, I specially sent an oral order to let him enter the palace, you can arrange him to be next to Duke Shen..."

"Fang Gong is sick, so I'm afraid he won't be able to come. It should be his eldest son's widow..."

Afterwards, Li Zhiyou pointed to Cen Wenwen, Ma Zhou, and Liu Ji, and said, "These people are all sages who love ministers, and Wen Wen is close to each other... King Bin and Si Tao are important ministers of my East Palace. You can arrange seats according to your discretion. Get closer..."

Then, Li Zhiyou babbled about a lot of Wu Xu's familiar characters, among which Chu Suiliang and Xu Jingzong caught her attention-although Xiao Wu's history is sloppy, at least he has heard of these two characters, one is against Ah Wu Until death, one supported Ah Wu until death, how could she not be curious? !

Seeing that she was interested, Li Zhi casually popularized the two people.

Speaking of it, Chu Suiliang can be regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in the court today. When Wei Zhengshi was in power, he was very popular with Mr. Wei, and was recommended by His Majesty Wei Zheng and Li Er many times.As soon as Mr. Wei died, Chu Suiliang switched to Changsun Wuji's sect, and was promoted all the way. At the beginning of the year, he was named the servant of the Huangmen, and he joined the political affairs hall to participate in political affairs.

In contrast, Xu Jingzong, who was slightly superior in terms of qualifications and knowledge, was in a miserable situation.

As early as when Li Shimin was the King of Qin, Xu Jingzong, who was famous all over the world, had already been selected as one of the Eighteen Scholars of the Qin Mansion. As a result, so many years have passed. He, to this day, is still just a prince left concubine...

Li Zhi has no interest in these two people.The former always pretends to be an admonishing minister, and frequently advises with loyalty, but after the death of his benefactor, he makes trouble, which makes him disgusted; although the latter has a talent and reputation, he is obsessive, and he doesn't like it.

On the contrary, Ma Zhou and Liu Ji have always been admirers of Li Zhi.

Ma Zhou was born in a poor family, and entered an official position in white clothes. He is modest, eloquent, and gentle. He is the ideal teacher of Li Zhi...

Liu Jie, on the other hand, has a handsome appearance and a chic demeanor, with a strong chest and a chivalrous spirit, and there are not many people in Beijing who are fascinated by him.

When Li Zhi became King of Jin, he was secretly envious of these two people because of their friendship with his fourth brother!

After entering the East Palace, his father sent two people to the East Palace to assist him. Li Zhi couldn't know how happy he was!

Therefore, when it comes to these two people, Li Zhi can't help telling Wu Xu that she must seat them closer to him...

"Understood ==" Wu Xu made a mark under the two names, thinking that she would like to see what these two men with Li Xiaojiu's blue eyes look like.

A few days later, 22 Niang had a full moon banquet.

With strong curiosity, Wu Xu searched for Ma and Liu among the officials.

To be honest, these two people are really outstanding, and it didn't take much effort for Wu Xu to find them.

Ma Zhou looked like he was in his early thirties, with a fair complexion, soft eyebrows and eyes, and a bookish air all over his body.

Liu Jie seems to be slightly younger than Ma Zhou, but his figure is much taller than Ma Zhou. His facial features are handsome, his eyebrows are straight, and he speaks with vigor and vitality...

The two came hand in hand, and the surrounding civil and military couldn't help turning their eyes to the two...

"King Bin, Sidao... You are here..." Changsun Wuji smiled when he saw the two of them coming, and took the initiative to greet them.Behind him is probably Chu Suiliang, in his 40s, with a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looks upright!

When Ma Zhou saw the two of them, he greeted them very respectfully, "Eldest Sun Xianggong, Deng Shan..."

Liu Ji also came forward to salute, he was quite respectful to Changsun Wuji, but something was wrong with Chu Suiliang, and he looked quite disdainful.

Chu Suiliang didn't have a good look at Liu Ji, but even though he is a celebrity in front of His Majesty Li Er, his official position is not as high as Liu Ji's, so he can only bow his head to salute Liu Ji.

The smell of gunpowder in the air is quite heavy!

Xiao Wu, everyone on the periphery of this station has heard of it, so there is nothing there!

It seems that not only the water in the harem is very deep, but also the court is not as harmonious as it looks on the surface!

The author has something to say: By the way, I really like Ma Zhou and his good friend Liu Ji.

ps: According to historical records, the two have a very good personal relationship, and both had scandals with a young and beautiful boy!

Guess which beautiful boy is who, I promise to surprise you xDD

The answer will be announced in the author's message in the next chapter xDD