People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1459: King Peng’s concubine, King Peng’s friend, King Peng kills without blood
"Your Majesty, do you mean to blame Yuan Wanqing for all the reasons?"

Cui Zhiwen's body couldn't help but feel cold, even if he wore thick clothes in winter, he still felt like this.

Li Xuan had so many plans, but the one she finally targeted was Yuan Wanqing.

Yuan Wanqing was the leader of the North Gate scholars and the most important assistant minister of the Queen of Heaven.

"Someone has to take responsibility. In the end, there are only three parties responsible for this matter. Prime Minister Cui, the Zheng family, and the King of Prime Minister. If no one takes responsibility from the King of Prime Minister, then everything will fall on the Zheng family and the Prime Minister. Cui Xiang and the Zheng family are just a few governors in the court, which they cannot afford. "

Li Xuan raised her eyes and looked at Cui Zhiwen. If the Zheng family couldn't bear it, then the Cui family would bear it.

Cui Zhiwen's face was ashen.

If the Cui family didn't want to take the responsibility, they would have no choice but to shift the responsibility to the Prime Minister's Mansion and overthrow Yuan Wanqing, the North Gate bachelor.

The North Gate Bachelor is used by the Queen of Heaven to divide the power of the prime minister.

In the current Shangshu Province, there are still no ministers around, but it does not affect the flow of political affairs. This is because Empress Wu has a bachelor from Beimen around her.

All the scholars from Beimen assisted the Queen of Heaven in exercising administrative powers.

Although Zhongshu and subordinates also have many powers, they are equivalent to being emptied out.

The emperor ordered the prince to sit in the political affairs hall. The fundamental purpose was to deal with the affairs of Shangshu Province. In this way, he could not go beyond the political affairs hall and directly reach the hands of the Queen of Heaven.

This is the real reason why the emperor arranged this.

This is also the core of the most intense disputes in the Tang Dynasty today.

But the emperor deliberately suppressed everything, and others could only pretend they didn't see it.

After all, they were a couple, and besides, the emperor still gave them a break.

The prince is like this now.

However, this matter has nothing to do with Cui Zhiwen, the Huangmen Minister. He himself did not have a clear position between the emperor and Empress Wu.

Therefore, he completely pretended that this matter could not be seen or even existed.

He would even choose Li Dan for the sake of his family, but unfortunately, someone had a deeper calculation.

……

"The prince still doesn't trust Cui." Cui Zhiwen looked at Li Xuan calmly. After all, what Li Xuan wanted was a certificate of surrender, but this certificate of surrender was too cruel.

Li Xuan gently cupped his hands and said: "Cui Xiang thinks too much. If someone wants to do something wrong to the prince, they will naturally target that key person."

Not to mention targeting Empress Wu, I didn't, I was targeting Yuan Wanqing.

This is what Li Xuan means. The emperor is not dead yet, and he does not want to provoke the anger of the emperor and Empress Wu.

What he wants to do is to target Yuan Wanqing alone.

"Besides, Your Majesty and the Queen of Heaven must already know about today's matter. If this matter comes to pass, people from Yuanshe will naturally go to convince the Queen of Heaven, and then naturally there will be another way to deal with it." Li Xuan raised his eyes to Cui Zhiwen and said softly: "Okay Prime Minister Cui saw through the scam in time, so that the chaos could be brought to order. "

Scam, bring order out of chaos.

Cui Zhiwen knew that Li Xuan was determined to kill Yuan Wanqing.

But before, he had other means.

Now that he has come together, he will naturally use himself to make a certificate of submission.

Cui Zhiwen calmed down and looked at Li Xuan: "I have always respected the prince, but now I would like to ask, if Cui didn't notice anything strange today, how would the prince deal with Cui?"

Li Xuan smiled calmly and even bowed slightly, but did not say a word.

So far today, Cui Zhiwen has only said that Li Dan is getting married to the Zheng family. He has said nothing else.

At this time, how could Li Xuan expose his trump card.

……

Seeing Li Xuan's silent but extremely firm attitude, Cui Zhiwen nodded and said, "Well, I will do the matter of Yuan Sheren."

"Thank you very much, Prime Minister Cui. Xuan will personally explain to Your Highness what happened today, but this impeachment memorial, today..." Li Xuan stared at Cui Zhiwen.

Cui Zhiwen agreed to impeachment. However, Cui Zhiwen also promised to support Li Xian in the future, but he regretted it.

"The prince still doesn't believe Cui." How could Cui Zhiwen still not know that if he didn't do something, he wouldn't be able to get Li Xuan to help.

But help is help, and Li Xuan still doesn't trust him. Even after today's incident, Li Xuan still holds his trump card.

This is what Cui Zhiwen is most worried about. The prince and the king are not as important as his own family.

The same reason why he chose Xiang Wang was because it was the future of his family.

But there may be a tomorrow for King Xiang, but he and the Cui family are likely to fall before dawn.

Or to be more precise, with all his planning, he finally underestimated Li Xuan.

In other words, he had overestimated Li Xuan as much as possible, but he never imagined that Li Xuan could control the two prime ministers.

In other words, without Cui Zhiwen, the Prime Minister would have no say at all in the political affairs hall.

He, Cui Zhiwen, was a loner in the political affairs hall. If others wanted to deal with the Prime Minister, he would naturally be the first to deal with him.

If Li Xuan were to push someone else at this time, with his viciousness, the entire Cui family might be in trouble.

Li Xuan smiled slightly, her face calm and calm, but the more she looked like this, the more Cui Zhiwen felt the pressure on her heart.

"I don't know how to make the prince trust Cui?" Cui Zhiwen looked at Li Xuan with a solemn expression. It was obvious that he impeached Yuan Wanqing and helped the prince deal with the prime minister. Li Xuan also distrusted him, and even his He still holds a trump card in his hand.

Looking at Cui Zhiwen, whose face became solemn, Li Xuan sighed softly, cupped his hands and said: "Cui Xiang has been the prime minister for many years, how can Xuan make random comments, but now, even Xuan doesn't know how to trust Cui Xiang, morning and evening, When dusk falls and morning rises, please ask Prime Minister Cui to clear up any doubts."

Morning rises and dusk falls, dusk falls and morning rises, Cui Zhiwen was slightly startled, and his face immediately darkened.

The saying "morning rises and dusk sets, dusk sets and morning rises" refers to Cui Zhiwen, who spends his days day and night.

In the past, he could turn to the prince, and then betray him. Today, he chose to turn to the prince and betray Li Dan. So in the future, how can people trust him when he acts so repeatedly. "Your Majesty, the old man has a granddaughter..." Before Cui Zhiwen finished speaking, Li Xuan waved her hand directly and said, "The Zheng family also has two granddaughters."

Of the two granddaughters of the Zheng family, one was promised to the prince and the other to the prime minister. Women from the aristocratic family had no value to Li Xuan.

Cui Zhiwen couldn't help but suffocated, the Zheng family did this.

In the past, marriage was the best way to unite each other. One family, one branch, one lineage, connected with each other, both prospered and suffered losses.

But now, the Zheng family has two legitimate granddaughters. One is married to Prince Li Xian as Prince Liangdi, and the other is betrothed to Prince Li Dan to be Prince Concubine.

The Zheng family was originally the mother-in-law who wanted to be the crown prince, but in the end they colluded with the Prime Minister to try to usurp the crown prince's position.

Li Xuan, who saw all this very clearly, naturally couldn't trust this kind of thing.

Cui Zhiwen couldn't help but look extremely sad. He almost forgot that there was such a huge hidden danger.

If the affairs of the Zheng family affect the marriage of the three Cui, Lu, and Zheng families, it will be a major event that directly shakes the foundation of the three families.

Now, there is no doubt that King Peng thinks so, the prince will think so, and countless people in the East Palace will probably think so too.

The original plan of the Zheng family was for their family to become the Prime Minister's concubine, or even the Prime Minister's concubine, or even the Crown Princess, or the Queen, so that the family would naturally prosper.

Those things that happened before will no longer be remembered by anyone.

However, such a thing is simply impossible to happen.

Cui Zhiwen looked up at Li Xuan and sighed in his heart.

Among all the figures, he is probably the only one who knows how terrible the plan of the man in front of him is.

Next, he will use countless means to retaliate against the Zheng family.

Some of them were originally aimed at him.

……

"May I ask the prince, what does the prince need to make the prince trust Cui?" Cui Zhiwen handed over the initiative, but there was a sharp flash in his eyes.

Li Xuan smiled bitterly, cupped her hands and said, "Xuan has little experience and has never encountered such a thing. Xuan also wants to win Prime Minister Cui's trust, but... she really can't think of it."

Cui Zhiwen nodded, but his eyes relaxed a lot, and then said: "I heard that there are still several positions for Prince Peng's friends in Prince Peng's Mansion. I wonder if Quanzi is qualified to take up this position, and then follow the prince."

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then looked at Cui Zhiwen seriously and said: "Cui Xiang has thought clearly."

"Well!" Cui Zhiwen nodded seriously, looked in the direction of the East Palace, and said softly: "After this incident, no matter what, the East Palace will be on guard against old age, and it will be even more difficult for the Prime Minister's Palace. In this way, the future generations can only ask the prince. ”

Friends of King Peng, accompanying and advising, and close ministers of King Peng.

If Cui Zhiwen's legitimate son becomes Li Xuan's Peng Wangyou, then he will be marked by Li Xuan for the rest of his life.

Even to a certain extent, following Li Xuan was equivalent to being a hostage.

Cui Zhiwen's son should at least be the local governor now, starting from the fifth rank, and Peng Wangyou, starting from the fifth rank.

The grade is not lost, but the real power is gone.

Not only that, with such a person falling into Li Xuan's hands, if Cui Zhiwen really does it again, I don't know how much trouble Li Xuan will have.

"Since Cui Xiang has such thoughts, Xuan won't say anything more. Cui Xiang should take this thing back." Li Xuan took out two memorials from his sleeves and handed one of them to Cui Zhiwen. Cui Zhiwen immediately took it. He came over, opened it, and his expression changed instantly.

Impeachment of Cui Zhiwen, the minister of Huangmen, and Cui Zhidi, the minister of household affairs, because their parents' tombs were violated.

"I don't know if Prime Minister Cui knows that at the beginning of the year, the Boling Cui family repaired their ancestral tombs and for some reason built a cemetery for Prime Minister Cui's parents. The shape used exceeded the limit of the Prime Minister's grace." Li Xuan nodded calmly, but Cui Zhiwen died. Staring at the memorial.

Boling rebuilt the tombs of his parents, which he knew about. He also sent his second son back to Boling in person, but he really didn't expect that he would go beyond the control.

If it were normal times, this would be nothing. If you admit your mistake, you would be fined a few months' salary and forget about it.

But now that there is something going on in the political hall, the prince's party will probably go crazy to impeach him. Li Xuan only needs to send this memorial, and then he and his brother will be finished.

Not only that, even the ancestral graves and the tombs of parents will be damaged.

After all, he violated the regulations, and the illegal things will naturally be demolished.

If I were dismissed as prime minister and then had to face damage to my parents' tombs, I might be so angry that I wouldn't be able to breathe.

What a cruel method!
While Cui Zhiwen felt happy in his heart, his eyes focused on the other memorial in Li Xuan's hand. He lowered his head and asked, "May I ask, Your Majesty, which one?"

Li Xuan smiled and handed the memorial over nonchalantly.

Cui Zhiwen opened it and took a look, and the corners of his mouth twitched again.

Cui Jiguan, the nephew of Cui Mi, the imperial censor, was impeached for explaining the bribery case.

Cui Zhiwen immediately understood that Li Xuan wanted to bring the Cui family to death.

There were only three people in the Cui family who could really talk to each other in the center, but Li Xuan's two memorials were all wiped out in one go.

"Originally, I was thinking that if it didn't work out, I would ask Prime Minister Cui to go back and copy it before sending it back."

Li Xuan smiled softly, but Cui Zhiwen stared at Li Xuan, breathing very heavily.

What Li Xuan meant was to ask him to go back and copy a memorial to impeach Cui Mi.

Let Cui Zhiwen impeach Cui Mi, only then will he be willing to let the Cui family go.

This cruel method was even thought up in a short period of time.

"The prince's deep understanding of the Cui family is really admirable." Cui Zhiwen gritted his teeth and handed over the memorial to impeach Cui Mi, but kept the memorial to impeach him and Cui Zhiti.

"I'm really sorry. After all, the Cui family all stood together before." Li Xuan took the memorial and said softly: "It seems that this memorial can only be delivered by the Zheng family."

Cui Zhiwen's breathing suddenly stopped.

(End of this chapter)