In August of the fourth year of Chang'an, Wu Zetian began to be sick in bed.
At the beginning of September, the weather changed, and Chang'an suddenly snowed, and such a strange weather caused a rumor in the market.
As early as the end of August, the Turkic general Qi Lewen Chong, who had previously returned to Wu Zhou, suddenly rebelled, and the news reached Chang'an in mid-September.
Although Yao Chong is a civil servant, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he knows military affairs.
When the Khitan rebellion was at the beginning, Yao Chong had written many times, and the analysis of the military aircraft was very thorough and every word, and Wu Zetian considered him a genius, so he was promoted to be a Xia official squire, until now the official worships the prime minister.
Therefore, it is justified for Wu Zetian to send him to lead the troops, and no one has realized at this time that this is the second wave of counterattack launched by Wu Zetian against the ministers.
Wu Zetian, who was bedridden, did not give up her desire for power, and after some careful consideration, she was about to start a series of personnel appointments, and she wanted to make some adjustments to the power structure of the imperial court according to her vision.
Yao Chong is about to lead the troops, and there will be a vacancy in the prime minister's class, and according to the routine, Wu Zetian will ask the prime minister who has returned to his hometown or left his post due to other accidents about the successor.
In fact, at this moment, the prime ministers in the political hall are already overcrowded, and there have never been so many prime ministers in the political hall before.
But there are a few current prime ministers who are as shrewd and capable as Cen Changqian, Ren Zhigu, Pei Xingben, Di Renjie, and Wei Yuanzhong, and the current prime ministers are either sycophants like Yang Zaisi who eat vegetarian meals and wait for death, or Su Wei's kind of ambiguous annihilator at both ends of the first rat.
And Wu Zetian is old and weak, her energy is low, and she doesn't have enough energy to deal with so many national affairs like back then, and she is now more dependent on the assistance of the prime ministers than ever before, so she needs someone who can really do things.
Yao Chong recommended Qiu Guan's squire Zhang Cambodia to Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian remembered that Di Guolao had also recommended him, so he readily agreed.
Of course, Wu Zetian knows that since Yao Chong recommended Zhang Cambodia, then Zhang Cambodia must have the same ambition as Yao Chong, but she knows better that if she wants to govern the country, she still needs such a person.
In any case, Zhang Cambodia has just become the prime minister and ranks last in the prime minister's class, so it should be impossible for him to be as radical as Yao Chong.
If after a period of time, the foundation of this Cambodia gradually becomes, and like Yao Chong, when the tail is too big to replace, it is enough, in the twenty years that she has been in power as the queen mother and the emperor, she has changed more than 70 prime ministers, throughout the ages, there is no emperor as frequent as her, and she has long been familiar with this hand.
What's more, Zhang Cambodia is the same age as her, and they are both eighty years old.
She doesn't have a few days to live, Zhang Cambodia is very old, what kind of turmoil can he stir up, so Wu Zetian relaxed his vigilance, after Yao Chong led the army to go out, Zhang Cambodia was appointed as the Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Ping Zhangshi, settled in the political hall, and became the prime minister of the dynasty.
The day of Zhang Cambodia's visit to the prime minister was October 22 in the fourth year of Chang'an.
On the twenty-third day, Wu Zetian took Wei Sili, the squire of Fengge, as the inspector of Weizhou's assassination history, and Tongping Zhangshi.
On the thirtieth day, Wu Zetian took Governor Shi Fangrong as the correct doctor, and he did things with Pingzhang.
On November 5, Wu Zetian took Wei Chengqing, the heavenly official waiter, as the Fengge waiter and Tongping Zhangshi.
A series of appointments, like an airtight set of combination punches, were fought mercilessly.
Wei Sili and Wei Chengqing are brothers, and the two brothers entered the cabinet at the same time to pay homage to the prime minister, which was a sensation, and what is alarming is that these brothers are close friends with the two Zhang.
As for Governor Huai Fangrong, who worshiped the prime minister, he once participated in the compilation of the Three Sects of Zhuying, and now he is also a party of two Zhang.
When Wu Zetian made this series of adjustments, she had been sick in bed, and these wills were issued through the inner court, which made the people's suspicion worsen.
Many people say that these decrees were not issued by the female emperor at all, and the empress was already seriously ill and unconscious.
In fact, although Wu Zetian lingered on the sickbed and even stopped in the court, she was not so weak that she couldn't see things, at least these orders were all given by her calling the prime ministers in front of her, and their faces were clear and their minds were clear.
However, the princely faction, the Xiangwang faction, the Liang Wang faction and other factions naturally did not stand up to refute the rumors for her, these rumors were beneficial to them, and they were happy to see these rumors, many of which were actually concocted and spread by their people.
When Wu Zetian promoted three Erzhang's henchmen to the political party in one go, she set out to remove the second thorn in her eye.
Since Wei Yuanzhong was demoted, Yao Chong has been the highest representative of the anti-Zhang faction in the political hall, and he is Wu Zetian's first eye thorn.
Now that Yao Chong was sent by her to Lingwu to quell the rebellion, Song Jing, the second important leader of the anti-Zhang faction, has become a nail that she is eager to remove.
Wu Zetianxia edict and ordered Song Jing to go out of Yangzhou, Youzhou, Longyou and Bashu.
These four places, one in the east, one in the north, one in the west, and one in the south, are really not relied on, if you add a Jiaozhi, that is to let Song Jing go around along the border of the Wuzhou Empire, even if these four places are now, Song Jing wants to finish, and he can't do it without a year or two of effort.
Song Jing knew that Wu Zetian wanted to transfer him out of the capital, he was the middle of the imperial history, once he left, the female emperor could replace this important position of the Su political official with a person from Erzhang's faction, and then Erzhang's status would be even more difficult to shake, so Song Jing blatantly resisted the decree and refused to travel.
Song Jing ran to the palace, and in front of Wu Zetian, he solemnly refused: "As a minister in the imperial history, he has the responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, and the court is the pivotal place of hundreds of officials, so he is not allowed to leave the court in a major military event, and there is no major event in the country, and the minister cannot leave."
Song Jing's donkey trick can make Wu Zetian bad, but Wu Zetian didn't want to show her purpose too naked, so he had to endure this.
However, her series of actions in this short period of time, as long as she is not blind, who can't understand what she wants to do In the face of the empress's counterattack, the ministers were sincerely afraid, what they were most worried about was that Wu Zetian's illness had not improved, and only Erzhang could serve the monarch every day, and the ministers had less and less time to see the Son of Heaven, and they were worried that Erzhang would take risks and forge the holy decree when the empress had an accident.
If such a scene really occurs, even if they can still control the situation, it will be untenable in legal theory, and in the history books, they will inevitably leave an evaluation of "chaotic ministers and thieves", which they cannot tolerate.
Prime Minister Cui Xuanwei couldn't hold back, went to the harem to see the empress, and suggested to her: "The crown prince and the king are both Your Majesty's biological sons, they are benevolent and filial friends, enough to serve your Majesty decoction, Your Majesty should order the two princes to wait by your side, the palace is forbidden, or don't let different surnames come and go at will." ” Wu Zetian smiled faintly and said, "Cui Xiang is kind, and I feel gracious." ” However, for Cui Xuanwei's suggestion, Wu Zetian did not accept it, and the ministers became even more anxious, they had been completely opposed to Erzhang, but now the sword that should have belonged to the emperor was in Erzhang's hands, and no one could predict what would happen next.
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