Empress Wu finally implicitly agreed to the deal.
Yes, a one-time pure transaction, like a down-and-out and half-bald middle-aged man walking into the hair-washing room with pink lights with his head hanging down on a night when no one was paying attention to him.
After staying inside for a mysterious ninety minutes, I walked out with a refreshed look. Everything behind me was as if it had never happened, and no one knew anyone from now on.
This is probably what Li Qinzai wanted to express to Empress Wu.
I'd like to do you a favor. Let's form a good relationship with each other. It's best not to make the relationship too complicated and just maintain a purely mutually beneficial relationship. Whether you are a back-up party member or how to cultivate power is your own business and has nothing to do with me.
Even if you want to fly into the sky, as long as your man doesn't object, I have nothing to say. If your man slaps you, I'm just a loser.
After accepting this amount of money, Li Qinzai began to seriously think about how to boost the queen's majesty.
Although Li Qinzai tried his best to stay away from the court in recent years, there were many civil servants and generals who came and went in his life. At that time, Li Zhi was ill, and the descendants of Wu were reviewing memorials. This really disgusted too many people, and today's courtiers are more or less right.
Empress Wu was a little dissatisfied.
In real history, the reason why Empress Wu was able to promote the "Two Saints Coming to the Dynasty" and later proclaim himself emperor was because there was no variable like Li Qinzai.
If we follow the true historical trajectory, today Li Zhi's condition is already relatively serious, and his vertigo is getting more and more serious. While Empress Wu acted as the agent of the government, she actively planted party members in the government, and the power of the court was expanding crazily.
So not long after Li Zhi's death, Empress Wu pretended to be the Queen Mother for several years. Then she simply lifted the table and put on her yellow robe, saying that I wanted to be the emperor, so I stopped pretending.
What supports her in doing this is that she is convinced that most of the people in the DPRK are already her party members, and she has the strength to overturn the table.
But with Li Qinzai's Tang Dynasty, the historical trajectory was completely bent by him.
Li Zhi's old illness was cured by Li Qinzai's folk medicine. The emperor, who was in good health, naturally no longer allowed outsiders to interfere with the imperial power. From now on, Empress Wu could only be a queen, and could not step beyond the realm of thunder.
Not only that, Li Yifu and other later party members were cut off unexpectedly, and the matter of criticizing memorials in the early years was once again recorded in the minds of courtiers. Today's Empress Wu's reputation in the hearts of courtiers is really not good.
Of course, there was nothing unusual about the outward courtesy of a monarch and his ministers. When Empress Wu accompanied Li Zhi to attend important events, she heard the same roar.
But in fact, the queen in the hearts of the courtiers does not have much weight.
The reason is very complicated, and it is not just a matter of the memorials and memorials at that time.
Later, the poisoning of Wei's wife, and the full-scale promotion of the imperial examination, etc., all severely tarnished the image of Empress Wu as a queen.
Most of the courtiers in the court were still involved in some way with the aristocratic families, either through kinship or interests. It had to be admitted that Li Zhi still needed the aristocratic families to help him govern the country.
The court was full of powerful ministers, so they naturally had no good impression of Empress Wu, who was bent on poaching powerful figures. This was why Yang Hongwu and others bypassed Empress Wu and jointly submitted a draft to the emperor.
One is to deliberately disgust Empress Wu, and the other is to hope that through the draft, several daughters from aristocratic families will be placed in the palace to compete with Empress Wu for favor. It would be best to bring down the empress like Empress Wu did to Empress Wang, so that the empress who has been suffering for many years will be brought down.
The oppressed family members took a breather.
It doesn't matter if you fail, it's just a matter of life or death for a few women.
What I have to admire is that Empress Wu's political sense is very sensitive. Just through Yang Hongwu and others' selection for the draft, she was sensitive to the unusual situation, so she immediately took action, and the direction of the action was very correct. She chose
Ask Li Qinzai for help.
As Empress Wu said, if the Queen's majesty can be boosted in a short period of time, all troubles will be solved.
When the subjects of both the government and the public respect the queen, some conspiracies cannot succeed. This is the crushing of the royal way, and all shady things will be crushed to pieces.
During the Zhenguan period, although Empress Changsun did not interfere in the affairs of the court, both the officials and the people inside and outside the court respected Empress Changsun extremely, and no one dared to show any disrespect to Empress Changsun.
Even at the funeral of Empress Changsun, Xu Jingzong only laughed for no reason during the salute, but he was involved in the ceremony by the angry courtiers. He was sent to a sinecure and could not stand up again. It was not until Li Zhi ascended the throne that he recovered.
What Empress Wu wanted to achieve was the kind of majesty of Empress Changsun, the kind of majesty that the subjects of both the government and the public respected from the bottom of their hearts.
The matter is a bit difficult to handle, and it is possible to slightly boost the queen's majesty, but empress Wu's desire to reach the status of empress Changsun is simply a fantasy.
These two women are fundamentally different.
Unless Empress Wu can stay calm and play the role of a virtuous queen for the rest of her life, her secret will be exposed sooner or later.
Li Qinzai knew very well that Empress Wu had nothing to do with the word "virtuous". She was actually a politician through and through.
I have always accepted the money, which is a bit hot, but not a big problem.
From the perspective of dealing with aristocratic families, Li Qinzai felt that he should help her. The current situation in the court and palace was relatively balanced. Although there were constant turmoil, overall there were checks and balances among all forces.
This balance cannot be broken. Li Qinzai almost paid his life for this country. He did not want to sacrifice himself and countless soldiers in exchange for turmoil in the government and the opposition.
Li Qinzai originally planned to return to Ganjingzhuang and continue to be his teacher after Lu Jiajiduo was eliminated, but now he has taken on another big job, and it seems that he cannot leave Chang'an for the time being.
I feel a little regretful, as if I have delayed the studies of those little bastards again.
It doesn't matter, Li Qinzai can make up for it.
So I immediately wrote down a lot of topics and sent the parts to Ganjingzhuang.
This was the homework assigned to them by Li Qinzai. He also wrote a separate letter to Princess Xuancheng, instructing her and Princess Yiyang to supervise the studies of the little bastards, using the old method of gentleness and domineering, with sticks and whips flying together.
The amount of homework assigned was a bit large, and Li Qinzai made a rough estimate. In the next month, the little bastards will probably do something that doubts their lives.
This was very comfortable, and Li Qinzai felt refreshed from the inside out.
Li Qinzai slept soundly that night. Calculating the time, Bu Qu should have sent a large amount of homework to Ganjingzhuang. At this time, the little bastards should be wiping away tears while rushing to work.
Thinking of that picture, Li Qinzai slept particularly sweetly, sleeping like a baby for a long time.
Late at night, a rapid knock on the door woke up the concierge of the Duke's Mansion.
The concierge cursed and walked out, opened the side door, and saw a eunuch and a team of black-armored guards standing outside the door solemnly.
"According to the order, Li Qinzai, the Duke of Liaodong, immediately entered the palace and took over the defense of the palace. Su Dingfang, the Duke of Xing, took over the defense of Chang'an. Both of them hold the emperor's fish charm and are in charge of the twelve guards of Chang'an. No one is allowed to mobilize soldiers without the emperor's order. In violation of this,