[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 21 Second St. 01

Now there are two Li Xianggongs in the political affairs hall, one is naturally the Prime Minister Li Ji, who has always played a role in supporting His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, and rarely expresses his opinions.The other is Mr. Li, who is favored by saints and empresses, and who has the potential to be the next prime minister.

Xiao Shunzi is the queen's wife's confidant, if someone else came to the pavilion at this time, it would be rare for him to come in and make trouble, but it happened that the queen's lady's most valued Mr. Li came, this...

Die is die!

Xiao Shunzi bit the bullet and reported Mr. Li's knocking on the pavilion, then shrank aside and pretended to be dead.

Wu Xu inspected the living conditions of Li Xiaojiu's concubines and princes and princesses in the harem during the day, and specially reserved a few key subjects for private conversations, a lot of brain cells died...

Poor thing, Li Xiaojiu's current harem is really bleak, the number of concubines and girls can be counted on one hand, and there are still a few princes and daughters, but those princes who have already grown up like Li Kuan can only live in Wu Xu. The youngest fourth prince, Li Sujie, has also reached the age of official this year.This baby is also pitiful, his biological mother was originally the most noble concubine in the harem other than the queen, and he was born smart, so he almost ascended to the position of the Eastern Palace...

As a result, good fortune tricked people. After the Xiao family was demoted, Li Sujie's status also plummeted. Although he was still a prince, his title had changed from the imaginative "King Yong" to King Xing.Now that this baby has reached the age of the official, no one has mentioned his marriage...

Wu Xu couldn't help sighing, she wanted to keep Li Sujie for a meal, but she scared the baby to death, she dared not stay, so she had to let him go back.

As for Li Sujie's two younger sisters, they are cuter. According to the local customs, the older one is acceptable, while the younger one is only as high as Wu Xu's knee.The clothes of the two babies are not bad, but they really don't have much meat on their bodies. It seems that what Erlang said is true, these two little girls have indeed been wronged in the palace!

At that time, Wu Xu also kept little sister Xu to have refreshments with her.

Little sister Xu is now the highest-ranking concubine in the palace besides Wu Xu, and she often helps Wu Xu manage the affairs of the harem. The only shortcoming is that she has nothing under her knees. After 22 Niang got married, she had no children around her. Relieve the boredom.

Therefore, when Lady Xu looked at the eager eyes of the two noble masters, even Wu Xu felt it...

Therefore, classmate Xiao Wu made a favor and directly decided to put the two young masters under the name of Concubine Xu Xian.

After finishing a bunch of chores, Wu Xu went back to the Hall of Hundred Fortunes, and settled down the three babies waiting to be fed in the hall, she was almost exhausted!

However, Li Xiaojiu didn't let her sleep well, and she became inexplicably irritated. If Li San didn't come knocking at the pavilion suddenly at this time, she really wanted to kick him out of bed.

"What's the matter with him?!" His Majesty Li Xiaojiu was full of anger, so the unlucky Xiao Shunzi became cannon fodder.

"Knocking on the pavilion in the middle of the night, there must be something important!" Wu Xu pushed back someone who was still pressing on her, urging him to change clothes quickly.

Li Zhi got up reluctantly, called all the servants in, and asked them to help him get dressed.

"Meiniang, don't get up..." The young man saw that Wu Xu also asked the palace people to dress her, and couldn't help saying: "This is more exposed to the cold, don't catch the cold..."

"You'd better take care of yourself, saint!" Wu Xu gave him an annoyed look upon hearing this.

I don't know who it is, but I just recovered from the wind and cold not long ago, and the scars are gone, so what's the food and clothing!

"I guess Li San's son coming here now probably has some important information about the Wa Kingdom, and I have to listen to it..." Wu Xu has never had the opportunity to call people into the palace to ask questions since Li Sanlang and the others came back from the Wa Kingdom. Ask about the situation in Wa country, now she finally seized the opportunity to inquire about the situation, how could she let it go.

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu heard that Wu Xu went to see Li Sanlang for the sake of the Wa Kingdom, so he had no choice but to shut up.

Wu Xu participated in every detail of Datang's various countermeasures against the Wa Kingdom. He never forgot to ask for the latest information during the confinement period. Li Xiaojiu knew that even if he tried to persuade her, it would be of no avail. .

The two hurriedly put on their regular clothes, pulled their hair casually, and went to the front hall to summon Li Yifu.

Mr. Li is also wearing regular clothes, but the color of the clothes is indeed the same bright red as his official clothes, and the waist is a black widened version, which makes the young man's waist look like it is not full, which makes people turn around when they see it. out of sight...

Wu Xu looked at Li Sanlang's attire at first glance, and was also slightly taken aback, and turned her head involuntarily to look at His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's already soft belly...

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu has been paying attention to Wu Xu's expression, seeing her unabashedly sizing up his stomach, her face immediately turns dark...

"Li Qing knocked on the pavilion so late, why?" His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's question was filled with resentment, and Li Sanlang couldn't help but tremble.

"Sage and lady, I got a report that there was a famine in the territory of the country of Japan, and the prince of the country of Japan was seriously ill, so I made his younger brother the emperor's younger brother..." Li Sanlang introduced the newly released emperor's younger brother, the Hairen prince. for details.

Wu Xu frowned more and more when he heard this.

She has only made up for the history of the Wa Kingdom in these years, especially the real leaders of the Wa Kingdom from Prince Shotoku in the Sui Dynasty to the current Crown Prince Zhongda. She found that there are basically few kings in the Wa Kingdom. Those who hold great power, and those who really hold the real power, are often the ministers of the DPRK and China or their direct blood relatives.

Beginning with Prince Shotoku, Japan began to learn advanced Chinese culture, and sent envoys to the mainland to learn every few years...

Crown Prince Chuda obviously wants to learn from Prince Shotoku, especially after the battle of Baijiang Village. He should have discovered how huge the gap between the two countries is. To achieve the level of Datang in a short time is simply a fool's dream!

Wu Xu could have expected that the reform of the Crown Prince Zhong would be resisted by the nobles in the country, but what she did not expect was that there was a radical faction hidden beside the Crown Prince Zhong, the Prince Hairen. He was able to pretend, but he actually pretended to be a dandy, and almost deceived Li Xiaohu!

"Even you think that the prince from the sea is quite resourceful, so this Japanese nobleman's rebellion should be suppressed soon, right?" Wu Xu originally thought that the Japanese civil strife would be a good opportunity to enter the island country. I don't think there are still a few talents in Wa country.

Earlier, she had heard that Zhongchen Lianzu, who was next to the crown prince, was a capable minister. As long as this person is there, the internal affairs of the Wa Kingdom will be stable for a day.Now there is another leader-type talent like the Hairen Prince...

Could it be that the power of the Wa country is not exhausted?

Hearing Wu Xu's tone, Li Sanlang knew what she was worried about, so he said, "Young lady, don't worry, although the prince from Haihai is somewhat heroic, he is not yet fully fledged. There will be rifts, let alone help the prince of Hairen, if the monarch and his ministers are not in harmony, sooner or later something will happen..."

"There is a rift between Zhongchen Kamazu and the crown prince of the Japanese country, what's going on?" Isn't it said that Zhongchen Kamazu is the iron party of the eldest brother, the crown prince?In order to win him over, Emperor Xiaotoku even sent out his most beloved concubine to befriend him, but he didn't change his mind. Now Li Sanlang broke up a pair of good friends, don't be too awesome!

Regarding the fact that Mr. Li sacrificed his color to solve the only son of Nakatomi Kamazu, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu certainly knew about it, but Wu Xu didn't. So when she asked, the two men present began to gossip about him.

"I heard that the prince of the Japanese country is not much older than me, and he probably won't pass the throne to his younger brother for a while..." In fact, what His Majesty Li Xiaojiu wants to say is that whoever would be an emperor who is still in his prime? Willing to delegate power to another person, not even the closest brother.

Mr. Li obviously had the same idea, and continued: "The sage is right. In fact, the illness of the crown prince of the Japanese country is not fatal. After three months at most, he will be cured without medicine. However, at that time, his younger brother will be alone Qiankun..." Well, brother Ni Qiang is a matter of time.

"My minister just got the news that a daughter-in-law of the crown prince of the Japanese kingdom just gave birth to a prince..."

With his own son, the psychology of the eldest brother, the crown prince, will probably change.

Wu Xu was still struggling with the matter of Zhongchen Lianzu. When Li Sanlang said that the eldest brother, the crown prince, had a suitable heir, he immediately remembered the things that Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and his own brother Zhao Kuangyi had to say...

He is also the younger brother who helped his elder brother conquer the country, and he is also capable of both civil and military affairs, has a strong ability to govern, and is quite popular. In the end, he was chosen by his elder brother as his heir...

I don't know if the prince of Hairen can be the top leader in the last minute counterattack like Zhao Kuangyi?

Just as Wu Xu imagined, the eldest brother Crown Prince Zhong and his younger brother Hairen Prince of Wa really staged the story of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi...

During the period when the eldest brother, the crown prince, was seriously ill, the Hairen prince was in power and supervised the country. He immediately put away his usual lazy energy and sent troops to suppress the uprising in Kyushu Dazaifu and the aristocratic uprising in Tōkaidō.

Afterwards, the prince of Hairen slaughtered several old nobles to make an example of them. His iron and blood methods really made the whole country dare not act rashly.

But for the locust disaster, the prince of Hairen is still powerless. He can only follow the example of the virtuous emperors in ancient China, reducing taxes and distributing relief food.This move won the great reputation of the Hairen prince in the middle and lower classes of the Japanese country. For a while, the whole country was grateful to him, and his reputation far surpassed that of his elder brother, the eldest brother, the crown prince.

This made the eldest brother, the crown prince, who was already psychologically fragile in a serious illness, very uncomfortable, and the next thing made him completely wary of his younger brother.

In August of the fourth year of Xianqing, the plague of Japanese locusts spread from near the river to the whole country. At this time, the eldest brother, the crown prince, basically recovered from his illness. However, he found that some restrictions on the local wealthy families were lifted by his younger brother, the prince Hairen. , which made a considerable part of the nobles in the country begin to support the prince of Hairen.

And his most trusted internal minister, Nakatomi Kamazu, also began to be 'kind' to the prince of the sea because the concubine given to him by the prince of the sea gave him a son...

The eldest brother, the crown prince, felt a feeling of betrayal, and his heart was in great pain, but on the surface, he had nothing to do with his younger brother who was becoming more and more powerful...

As a result, the eldest brother, the Crown Prince, gradually became obsessed with Buddhism. However, he was the leader of the Japanese kingdom who had been in power for many years. Even though he tried to use religion to relieve pain, he did not let him let go of his power.

After the eldest brother Crown Prince Zhong returned to the court, he began to disregard the objections of the Prince Hairen, and enforced various laws and regulations restricting the power of nobles and local wealthy families. He secretly began to attack those nobles who supported the Prince Hairen, and gradually emptied the Prince Hairen. At the same time, he began to focus on cultivating his son, Prince Otomo...

At the end of the fourth year of Xianqing, the eldest brother, the crown prince, announced his accession to the throne on the occasion of the New Year. However, when the crown prince was established, he unexpectedly appointed his own two-year-old son, Prince Dayou!

This move caused an uproar in the Japanese political arena, and the battle between the forces supporting the prince of Hairen and the forces of the new king was about to break out!

The author has something to say: get the Japanese country from the inside out =. =