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Chapter 1045: The Anger of Changsun Wugou

People will not look for their own responsibilities, but will vent their anger on Bianji, the temple, and Jingzhao Prefecture Governor Chu Heng. Under such a strong public condemnation, the cost of protecting Chu Heng is too high, and they will basically give up!

Not to mention any promises, no promises would work. Chu Heng himself was hated by the imperial power and could only rely on the Qianshi clan.

If the nobles let go again, he would have no chance to reason with them. Since he was willing to be a gun of the nobles and stab the imperial power, he must be fully prepared mentally.

If you succeed, you will be promoted to a higher position; if you fail, you will die without a burial place!
Chu Heng was originally the next target that Li Yan wanted to get rid of. If Chu Heng continued to appear in the court, it would only show everyone the weakness of the imperial power and the incompetence of the emperor. Therefore, getting rid of Chu Heng was what Li Yan had to do.

Chu Heng is the first obstacle Li Yan will face in establishing his prestige.

From a certain perspective, killing him so quickly also shows that Emperor Li Yan still has a certain amount of power.

The emperor, who was able to pull teeth out of the jaws of the nobles, should not be looked down upon.

In this way, the entire situation will be completely reversed, and the negative impact brought by the court meeting will be reduced to a minimum!
For the court officials, it was not easy for the new emperor Li Yan to achieve this.

Li Yan looked at Xu Jinzhong who was looking nervous in front of him, nodded with satisfaction, and was about to speak.

Suddenly I thought of something and picked up the letter and read it again.

Finally, his eyebrows jumped, and he found out what he felt was a little awkward just now, and then he said to Xu Jinzhong with a cold face: "What do you think of a willful little girl, in despair, with a mood of grief and turbulence."

"Can a written suicide note be so clean and neat?"

'Well'

Xu Jinzhong's face froze, sweat poured down his forehead, his body trembled like a sieve, and he looked at Li Yan with horror. He knew that this kind of thing could only be done, not said, and the emperor would not admit it. Once it was exposed, all the responsibilities would be borne by himself.

"Your Majesty."

Xu Jinzhong could almost imagine his own end, and his voice almost sounded like tears, with endless pleading and despair.

His body went limp and he was about to kneel on the ground.

Li Yan felt relieved. As expected, the dog he had collected was easy to use. No wonder emperors had always liked to use flatterers. Those ministers outside were all proud of their status and reputation. Who could show such a state in front of him?
Xu Jinzhong's low status greatly satisfied Li Yan's desire for power.

Then Li Yan frowned, pointed at a table next to him with the letter in his hand, and said coldly: "Why don't you go and fix it?"

With just one sentence, Xu Jinzhong's heart, which had fallen into the abyss, was pulled up again.

He struggled to get up hurriedly, took the letter in a panic, and walked to the side table where there were writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone.

Xu Jinzhong picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down. Then he picked up the brush and started to paint on it, with some places covered with ink.

Finally, put down the brush, put your hand into the container of water, dip it in water, lift your finger, and let the water droplets naturally fall on the letter paper. Some places will melt naturally when they come into contact with water, just like the writer's tears falling on it.

After blowing dry the water stains, Xu Jinzhong gently squeezed the letter twice, which looked slightly wrinkled, and put it on the ground, which was covered with dust. After checking it carefully and feeling that it was foolproof, he walked over and handed it to Li Yan.

Only after getting it again did Li Yan feel completely satisfied. He finally said, "If it had a little more powdery scent, it would be perfect."

This sentence made Xu Jinzhong ashamed. He didn't expect that the emperor was so careful and could even consider these things. He originally thought that it was enough to hide it from everyone, but he didn't expect that the emperor only read it a few times.

With so many loopholes found, Xu Jinzhong, who had always been confident, began to feel guilty.

The emperor's people are not useless. Even the young and inexperienced emperor is so powerful. Those prime ministers outside are probably not easy to deal with. It seems that I still need to be humble and not get carried away.

"How many people know that you are good at imitating other people's handwriting?"

Li Yan looked up and asked. Xu Jinzhong froze again and said quickly, "Your Majesty, don't worry. Being good at imitating other people's handwriting is like being good at seeing through people's hearts. No one will like it. If everyone knew about my ability, they would definitely be on guard against me."

"So few people in the court know about it, and only a few people in my family know about it!"

"Well, be careful next time and don't expose yourself. This ability may be of great use." Li Yan suggested.

Xu Jinzhong felt relieved. He was not afraid of being used by the emperor, but was afraid that he would be useless to the emperor. As long as the emperor did not abandon him, he would be relieved.

As the two were talking, suddenly, there was a commotion outside the palace. Li Yan had just turned around when Wang De pushed the door open with a nervous look on his face. "Oh no, Your Majesty, the news of Princess Gaoyang's death has spread to the Daming Palace. The Queen Mother is outside the palace, and she's coming over angrily."

Li Yan took the two of them and hurried out of the imperial study.

Zhangsun Wugou was wearing a full set of empress dowager ceremonial attire, with a frost mask on her face and a sullen face as she walked in. Ankang and Princess Jinyang were also with her. A large number of eunuchs, palace maids, and guards were left outside the palace.
In fact, Changsun Wuji had long known that he would have to face accountability from his sister. Rather than being alone, it would be better for him to have a large group of people here to share some of the firepower, so he did not leave.

Cen Wenben, knowing that the Empress Dowager would come to trouble the Emperor, and as someone who had just been promoted and had not yet made any contributions, he did not dare to leave. If he left, the Emperor would naturally not blame him for it.

However, the emperor still had the impression that he was irresponsible.

That's why he deliberately stayed here, intending to share the hardships with the emperor.

Seeing that the two important ministers refused to leave, Xiao Yu, Ma Zhou and Liu Bo naturally felt embarrassed to leave alone, and finally waited for the wrath of the Empress Dowager.

"Your servants pay their respects to the Queen Mother. May the Queen Mother live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years!" Several people hurriedly saluted.

Li Yan also came out at this time. Seeing Zhangsun Wugou's eyes that seemed to be about to spit fire, he felt a little uneasy: "My son pays homage to the Queen Mother. May the Queen Mother be blessed with good health and happiness."

"Jin An, how can it be Jin An?"

Changsun Wugou rebuked him mercilessly, "I have just spent two days of comfortable life in Daming Palace, and you guys have made the court meeting a mess, and Chang'an City is also in an uproar. Now even my Gao Yang is dead."

"The Emperor has only been in bed for less than three days, and you already think that no one is watching over you, that you are lawless, and that you no longer take me, the Empress Dowager, seriously."

Seeing Changsun Wugou so angry, everyone knelt down and said, "Your servants have your own subordinates. Please punish us, Queen Mother!"

"My son is guilty, please punish me, mother."

Li Yan also knelt down. As soon as the emperor Li Yan knelt down, the guards, eunuchs, and palace maids around the hall knelt down one after another. Even Ankang and Jinyang, who were protecting Changsun Wugou, knelt down.

Zhangsun Wugou, wearing a phoenix crown and a red robe, stood in the center of the hall, like a majestic female emperor, firing at Li Yan first: "Chengqian, how can you be a brother? Didn't you say yesterday that Gao Yang should go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to reflect on his mistakes?"

"How come Gao Yang is gone after just one night?"

"Before your father woke up, he loved Gao Yang the most. If he woke up one day and found that Gao Yang was gone, how would you and I, mother and son, explain to him?"

Seeing that Changsun Wugou was furious and emotional, Li Yan did not explain much, but just pleaded guilty: "My son is guilty, please punish me, mother!"

Seeing that Li Yan had a dead pig-like look that was not afraid of boiling water, and did not try to explain but just bowed his head and confessed his guilt, Changsun Wugou felt a surge of anger in his heart.

He turned to look at Changsun Wuji and asked him bluntly, "Changsun Wuji, you are now the Prime Minister. You have the final say in the entire Shangshu Province. Qian'er has just ascended the throne and needs the assistance of old ministers like you. How do you do this as the Prime Minister?"

"So many things happened just after Prime Minister Fang stepped down. Is this how you govern?"

"You must give me an explanation for this matter. Otherwise, I think you are still not capable of taking on the responsibility of serving as the Prime Minister."

Zhang Sun Wu Gou's words were very confident. In fact, the most influential person in the entire Tang Dynasty now was not the new emperor Li Yan, but the empress dowager Zhang Sun Wu Gou.

After Li Shimin fainted, many former generals of the Qin Palace, such as Fang Xuanling, Yuchi Gong, Cheng Zhijie, all respected Zhangsun Wugou. Moreover, ministers such as Li Jing, Dou Dan, Gao Shilian, Tang Jian, Liu Dewei, and Zhangsun Shunde were still influential.

Although they didn't have much affection for Li Yan, they both admired the virtuous Queen Zhangsun Wugou.

The most important thing is that Li Yuan's descendants such as Li Yuanjing, Li Yuanchang, and Li Yuanheng, as well as royal generals like Li Daozon, and other royal relatives of the Li family, all believed in the empress dowager very much.

It can be said that Li Yan's current stable position as emperor is partly due to the support of his mother, Changsun Wugou. Even Changsun Wuji did not dare to touch the influence of the Empress Dowager Changsun Wugou.

After all, he is the minister, and Changsun Wugou is the king!
Well.
In fact, in ancient times, the true pinnacle of a man was the emperor, while the true pinnacle of a woman was not the queen.

But the emperor's mother, the empress dowager.

Of course, if there is someone higher than her, there must be one, and that is the Empress Dowager.

At present, in the entire Tang Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Zhangsun Wugou is the most respected. Although Li Shimin has a law that the harem cannot interfere in government affairs, to be the Empress Dowager, she has already transcended the mundane world.

The country has its own system. The Imperial Concubine cannot control the general or the king, but the Empress Dowager, as someone above the emperor, can naturally control them.

All dynasties have ruled the world with filial piety. Even Li Shimin, a ruthless character who killed his brothers and forced Li Yuan to abdicate, had to promote this view. After all, you can conquer the world by tyranny and do whatever it takes.

But to govern the world, we still need to rely on benevolence, righteousness, morality and etiquette.

(End of this chapter)