[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 20 Conquer 02

Grandson Xianggong had a stroke? !

The hard-core imperial party among the veterans-Zhong Shuling, the prince and grand teacher Cui Dunli died? !

Two successive astonishing news suddenly sounded above everyone's heads like thunder, and everyone was so shocked that they couldn't regain their senses.

Not only Li Zhi and Wu Xu were shocked, but Li Hong, Wu Minzhi and Li Yifu were also surprised.

Zhongshu Ling Cui Dunli is indeed not young, he had already begged His Majesty Li Xiaojiu for his bones a few years ago, but His Majesty Li Xiaojiu did not agree to let Old Man Cui retire and sent him to The East Palace is on hold.

It's not easy for Mr. Cui to persist until now!

However, Wu Xu just threw Laiji and Han Yuan, the top leaders of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, out of Chang'an today. The DPRK and China need someone to take charge of the overall situation. Isn't Mr. Cui's hanging up messed up?

You said there is still Mr. Li Ji?

just forget it!

Man is a well-known old fox who is wise and protective. It's too late to pretend to be sick at this time, so don't think that he can jump out and preside over the overall situation =. =

With Mr. Cui's hanging up, the original plan to let him succeed Uncle Changsun was ruined.

Not to mention that it made Xiao Jiu very depressed, even Wu Xu felt a little headache.

Uncle Changsun's side was even more troublesome.

Stroke or something, I don't know whether it should be counted as a living person or a dead person. This kind of half-dead state will definitely make a group of veterans vacillate. Is it really driving people crazy? !

Moreover, when it comes to the cause of Uncle Changsun's stroke, he will probably look at His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, right? !

Even Li Hong's little friend knew that the eldest grandson went to the palace to present the book today, but who would have thought that the eldest granduncle would have a stroke when he returned home after presenting the book?

If this matter has nothing to do with His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, I wouldn't even believe it!

Wu Xu couldn't help looking at Li Zhi.

She was really curious, what exactly did Li Xiaojiu swell Uncle Changsun =. =

Today, when Uncle Changsun entered the palace, he was considered aggressive. He called it offering a book, but he was actually admonishing him.

It was obvious that they wanted to coerce Li Xiaojiu while Li Xiaojiu was still ill!

It's a pity that because Wu Xu returned to the palace early, the plan of the elder party to recall Chu Suiliang failed completely, and they lost control of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province!

In the end, Li Xiaojiu left Uncle Changsun to talk in secret. According to Wu Xu's idea, it should be to persuade Uncle Changsun to let go of his power and position, retire and provide for the elderly...

According to Uncle Changsun's temperament, he shouldn't be so angry, right?

Could it be that Li Xiaojiu did something wrong?

Wu Xu couldn't help staring at His Majesty Li Xiaojiu beside him in doubt.

The young man pursed his lips tightly, the expression on his face was terribly gloomy...

If people in this era have a stroke, [-]% of them will never wake up again...

Judging from the political situation, this result is good news for Li Zhi...

But in terms of personal feelings, it's probably bad news, alas!

Wu Xu suddenly felt sorry for Li Xiaojiu.

It is not easy to be an emperor, and it is even more difficult to be a good emperor who can do everything!

Aside from the fact that Uncle Changsun is arbitrarily assertive, framed clan relatives and ministers, and always suppressed the imperial power, his meaning to Li Xiaojiu is sometimes more important than that of the late emperor!

However, since things have already happened, it is useless to think too much.

Moreover, what Wu Xu can be sure of is that without the court of Uncle Changsun, Li Xiaojiu can carry out various social reforms more smoothly, and the road of Quanxing in the Tang Dynasty will be smoother and unimpeded...

In the face of national interests, all personal feelings are just floating clouds!

Wu Xu sighed secretly, squeezed Li Zhi's arm, and said, "Sage, please send the imperial physician to the Duke's Mansion..."

As if waking up from a dream, Li Zhi hurriedly asked Wang's servant to go to the imperial hospital to pack the best imperial physicians and medicinal materials to Zhao Guogong's mansion, and asked Cui's servant who came to report the news to give feedback on the specific situation of Zhao Guogong's mansion at any time.

Uncle Changsun finished the arrangements here, and His Majesty Li Xiaojiu remembered that Mr. Cui's funeral should not be sloppy. It happened that Li Yifu, the Minister of Zhongshu, was present, so he asked Li Yifu to directly draft the decree for the burial of Mr. Cui, and ordered him to return to the Ministry of Zhongshu to work overtime immediately. !

As a staunch supporter of His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, Cui Dunli's funeral was held in a very grand manner, no worse than that of Ma Zhou. His Majesty Li Xiaojiu even wrote a sacrificial oration himself, calling him a worthy official and Liangbi.

And not long after Zhongshu ordered Cui Dunli to be buried in Zhaoling, the eldest grandson Xianggong who had been in a coma for many days also passed away...

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu was heartbroken, and went to court with an illness. He organized a grand funeral for Uncle Changsun. After the Ministry of Rites gave Uncle Changsun a beautiful posthumous title, he secretly sealed his youngest son as the governor.

Uncle Changsun's tomb was marked out when His Majesty Li Er was alive, and it is the closest to Zhaoling among all the officials buried with him.

On the day of the funeral, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu sent the First Prince Liang Wang Li Zhong to attend the funeral on his behalf, and at the same time asked him to pay homage to the late Emperor and Empress...

Continuous toil, coupled with excessive emotional ups and downs, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's unhealed body suffered great trauma, and the day of recovery became far away...

The loss of four prime ministers in a row, the sudden death of two elders, and the repeated illness of Li Xiaojiu, Wu Xu's burden suddenly increased. Even with the support of Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong, Cui Yixuan and others, she was going crazy.

But at this time, God also came to add to the chaos.

At the end of May in the first year of Xianqing, heavy rains continued in Dingzhou, Bingzhou and other places, causing floods, while tsunamis occurred in Kuozhou and Puzhou, dozens of counties were flooded by seawater, and countless houses and farmland were destroyed...

After the natural disaster, followed by **.

The Western Turkic rebellion Ashina Helu, who had been mauled by Cheng Zhijie's army before, fled to the Western Regions to recuperate with his remnants during the Tang Dynasty's Spring Festival. In June, he finally regained his vitality and joined forces with several small countries in the Western Regions to attack Anxi Protectorate, trying to regain his territory.

However, Su Dingfang's army had been prepared for a long time, and he attacked several times, cutting He Lu's army into several sections and defeating them one by one.

Ashinahelu, Xiyun, Quechu and other rebel leaders broke through in a hurry and fled to Shiguo, Persia and other places respectively.

Su Dingfang personally led an army of tens of thousands in pursuit, and his deputy Xiao Siye used a strange plan to break through Suduo City of Shiguo and captured Ashina Helu.The other army was led by military adviser Zhonglang Laiji, and chased them to the city of Polis. The whole country of Persia was horrified, and immediately tied up Xiyun and Que Chuo and dedicated them to the Tang army.

At this point, the Western Turkic Kingdom was destroyed, and the Tang Dynasty set up Kunling and Mengchi here, and all the former Western Turkic Kingdoms re-established state capitals.

From then on, the territory of Datang bordered on Persia in the west, and most of the Silk Road was included in the territory of Datang.

This rare good news made Li Xiaojiu's illness look much better.

"Awu, you really have a vision, this Su Dingfang is indeed a great general..." Li Xiaojiu was very excited, and after receiving the good news, he asked Zhongshu Sheng to draw up an order to award Su Dingfang well.

Wu Xu was a little dumbfounded, because she didn't dare to show Li Xiaojiu the other copy.

It was Laiji who impeached Su Dingfang for allowing the soldiers to loot the original residents of Tandu City...

Gee!

In fact, in Wu Xu's view, robbing a few middle-east assams is not a big deal. Who knows if those guys who dare to stay in Tandu City when the two countries are at war, with countless gold and silver in their pockets, are not spies!

However, this kind of looting is not a glorious thing after all, and the guy with the square head in Laiji bumped into him, so Wu Xu had no choice but to send an envoy over symbolically, and verbally criticized Su Dingfang.

After the demise of the Western Turks, all the chiefs and khans in the old land of the Eastern Turks who had already belonged to the Tang Dynasty were so frightened that they wrote to the court one after another, requesting that they be relieved of their positions as governors and governors, and only retain their titles. They will never be as rebellious as Ashina Helu.

When Wu Xu received these petitions, he naturally accepted them all with a smile, and suggested to Li Xiaojiu that these ethnic minority brothers and their tribes move to the south of the Yangtze River to enjoy the rich life of a land of fish and rice.

As soon as Li Zhi heard Wu Xu's suggestion, he immediately understood her intention, and immediately ordered Wuzhou to enclose a large piece of land, and let all the northern ministries move there.

As for those small countries in the Western Regions who followed Ashina Helu's rebellion, Wu Xu was not so polite, and directly exiled them all to mining in the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou and planting rubber in the rainforest of Vietnam...

After the settlement of the original residents in the west and north, Wu Xu issued a decree in the name of Li Xiaojiu to open Enke, allowing scholars and officials across the country to sign up for the western official selection examination. You can take office immediately, and the official rank is at least from the seventh rank.

At the same time, Wu Xu also asked Anxi Duhu Mansion and several neighboring prefectures to relocate tens of thousands of people to the newly established Du Hufu. Various free welfare policies have been issued, such as land, farm tools, cattle, etc., and local taxes have been exempted for three years.

Swallowing such a large piece of territory in the Western Regions in one go, Wu Xu is not worried that someone will take advantage of the situation and rob him. Those guys in the Middle East are still afraid to take action against Datang, but Tubo in the west must be careful.

For this reason, Wu Xu specially invited old man Li Ji and Minister of Rites Xu Jingzong to enter the palace to analyze the situation in the surrounding countries.

Speaking of Tubo, Wu Xu first

What she thought of was Princess Wencheng who she had seen once and a half back then.

After Li Ji and Xu Jingzong's science popularization, Xiao Wu learned that Princess Wencheng is now a widow, and even her nominal son has died!

It turned out that Songtsan Gampo died of illness suddenly in the first year of Yonghui, and his only son died before him. Now Zanpu in Tubo is Songtsan Gampo's grandson Mansong Mangtsan, and he is just a kid.

Princess Wencheng, as the most noble Zanmeng, has a certain right to speak in the Tubo Dynasty. In addition, Lu Dongzan, the auxiliary minister who was entrusted to Gu, is pro-Tang, so today’s Tubo still maintains Songtsen Gampo The political position of the posthouse at the time was to be close to Datang, and would not hinder Datang's military operations for the time being...

So, don't worry about someone coming to share the pie~~~~

However, Wu Xu had more things to think about. After hearing about the current situation in Tubo, she didn't feel relieved at all. Instead, she asked the envoy to immediately send a message to Su Dingfang to station [-] troops on the border to prevent accidents.

The author has something to say: First clear the west, and then expand to the east =. =

I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year~~~