Princess Consort of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 363 Cruel Choice

Shen Yi fought a lot with the Turkic army, after each battle he would summarize and write down his experience.

Major General Black Tooth kept praising him as a general after seeing it.

Shen Yi said that Zhang Yang lost his life to save Major General Hei Chi, and hoped that Hei Chi would live well in the future and look after the border for his master.

The two cherish each other, but after the Turks are stabilized, Hei Chi still needs to go back to continue to prevent the Northwest.

Shen Yi played directly, because he had a deep relationship with the army left behind by Zhang Yang, and because his Turkic ambitions were not dead, he stayed.

The empress is ready to play.

In the imperial court, after Cui Xuan paid homage to his chancellor, his attachment was like running water, and the threshold of Cui's family was stepped on by Luoyang and the rich gentry from all over the world.

Cui Xuan also officially became the Prime Minister admired and praised by the world.

Shen Sanwen put the restructuring of the Ministry of Punishment on the agenda again, but was opposed by Cui Xuan.

Now is the time for Cui Xuan to expand his influence. Whether it is laying off officials or reducing the number of staff, his influence will be greatly reduced. Cui Xuan feels that this should not continue.

Cui Xuan refused Shen Sanwen's request on the grounds that it was better to maintain the tradition, maintain the stability of the officialdom, and make the officials feel at ease so that the country can be governed well.

Shen Sanwen was shocked by Cui Xuan's changes, he only said one word to Cui Xuan, "Power really is a poison that corrupts people's hearts."

What should happen, will definitely happen on the day when the position changes.

The dispute between prime ministership and monarchy was more concentrated in the longer period, but after the Tang Dynasty created three provinces and six departments, the king's ability to control the entire court was still very strong.

However, as long as a person is ambitious, like Li Shimin, he can be promoted from a three-ranked official to the level of being in charge of the six ministries.

What's more, for a talented person like Cui Xuan, no matter who he is from, they will give him a bad face.

Has natural advantages.

The eldest son of the family, the members of the family, in their struggle with Shen Sanwen, Cui Xuan more or less provided help, and he was one of his own.

Brilliant, a person who made his way to officialdom through imperial examinations, after evaporating the water behind Yao Chong, the number one scholar, everyone understood who was the winner of the first imperial examination in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Maybe there is something wrong, and the heroes cherish each other.

As for ordinary people, Cui Xuan did not seldom show his face in front of others. When the empress was still a princess, Yuanzhou, who had the highest support for the princess, also respected and worshiped Cui Xuan.

To say that the only ones who really have trouble with Cui Xuan are the forces of the Wu family and the Li family.

If there is no struggle, it is easy to implement various decrees, but if several people have different opinions and have considerable strength, all this will be very difficult.

In the era of the Tang Dynasty, when scholars had not yet determined that the emperor and ministers had to die, it was not advisable to kill heroes.

Leaving a stigma is light, the important thing is to chill the hearts of those with lofty ideals, so that they will be separated from the king, so they will not be willing to serve, and there will be more hermits and magical warlocks.

The Empress naturally didn't want to see this.

Of course, the more important reason is that Cui Xuan has not yet been able to truly control the court situation.

The identity of the emperor is natural suppression, coupled with a layer of military power control, holding the imperial army in his hands, and held in the hands of everyone in the Li family. After promoting a group of talented and loyal people who were once out of favor as the core, the people of the court The inside can be as solid as gold.

The struggle between Cui Xuan and the empress can only be manifested in different political opinions, but most of the time he can only obey the empress.

Shen Sanwen asked the Empress about her plans.

Cui Xuan is very powerful, and it will become bigger and bigger. How to contain it, everyone still doesn't think it will be troublesome when it really becomes powerful.

Although his method of planting trees can solve the famine problem caused by the predicted soil erosion, no one can guarantee that God will not give him a new test.

The Empress thought for a while, "Let He'er participate in political affairs, I have to leave it to him, it's time to get used to it."

Li He has been studying with Wu Zetian for a long time, and it is time to accept the real test. At the same time, the empress will correct some of his concepts, and face some bloody and real politics that he could not accept before.

This is also the way to balance the emperor.

For future consideration, but also for the stability of the country.

Always support opposing forces, let them fight and quarrel with each other, attack each other for fame and interests, make everyone doubt themselves and their subordinates, doubt everyone, and finally sort out their own ideas and understand what they need to do well.

Li He is still very, very young, but he was taught by Di Renjie and Wu Zetian, and has experienced all the changes in Luoyang Imperial City, so he is more or less mature.

The empress always let him make the decision alone, whether it is the life or death of others, or whether to do or not to do things that benefit or harm the people, he must make a clear decision by himself.

Many choices are painful, but someone has to make the choice.

The first thing Li He personally decided was Li Longji's life and death.

This can be regarded as his old friend in the past. When Li Longji was born, the counselors around him would not be able to survive. After his death, many people could still have a warm home, and the family could live well.

Li He went to see Li Longji.

He was a bit crazy, but when he saw Li He, his eyes suddenly flashed with clarity, and he recognized the person in front of him.

Li He asked him a question, "Why do you have to be emperor?"

Li Longji replied, "Everyone in the world can be the emperor, why can't it be me? Am I worse in education than you? Is my background worse than you? But those masters only see you in their eyes. So what about Di Renjie? Isn't he just a fool?" The old man. There is also that woman who condoned his nephew to kill my mother. I must take revenge so that people in the world can never hurt me again."

Li He asked again, "Do you know that you will hurt other people like this? For example, your father, your subordinates, and the people of Jinling."

Li Longji laughed, "You have been taught to be stupid, no matter who is the emperor, whether I have been to Jinling or not, their life is never in their own hands, I just pursue an opportunity to make decisions, what is wrong, they are willing Being ruled and coerced by others, who can blame this? The innocent can only blame their incompetence."

In the end, Li He chose to keep Li Longji.

It's not because he agrees with what he said, nor is it because of the short-term friendship of classmates when he was a child, but because of the brother-sister relationship between his mother and Xiang Wang.

In other words, this decision was what the Empress wanted to see.

As an emperor and heir, every decision must be made to see the interests and forces represented behind it, and to know the probability of his success and potential risks.

This choice is also considered a filial piety. From now on, I must abandon unnecessary kindness and kindness, and truly grow into an emperor's heart, living alone and strong.

"Li Longji, this world will get better and better, and one day everyone will be able to live freely in this land."

(End of this chapter)