In the afternoon, Li Zhen and Di Renjie arrived in the palace on a carriage. Li Zhen seemed to be worried. He didn't know how to face Shangguan Wan'er. He believed that Shangguan Wan'er should have known about Princess Taiping giving her a generous gift. Will she say that she was betraying her?

Di Renjie saw Li Zhen’s thoughts and smiled and said, “It seems that the son-in-law has something to do?”

Li Zhen nodded silently and sighed: "Princess Taiping came yesterday and gave me a night pearl as a gift. It's too expensive."

Di Renjie was also secretly surprised. You should know that the Night Pearl is a rare treasure, and there are not many in the world. Sui Houzhu, who is as famous as the Heshi Bi, is the king of the Night Pearl. The Night Pearl is generally owned by the royal family. It is said that Princess Taiping has four Night Pearls, and she actually gave Li Zhen one as a gift. This cost too much.

Di Renjie immediately understood Princess Taiping's intention and Li Zhen's worries. He thought for a while and smiled: "Princess Taiping is also the core figure of Xingtang Association. You just need to regard her as a member of Xingtang Association. In fact, you don't have to consider her claim. As long as you can clearly see her attitude towards the Prime Minister, I think she has nothing to say."

Di Renjie said the key point, and the key point is that Li Zhen wants to choose Prime Minister Li Dan or Luling King Li Xian. Di Renjie's meaning is of course to let Li Zhen choose Prime Minister Li Dan. Because Princess Taiping also supports Prime Minister Li Dan, supporting Li Dan is equivalent to responding to Princess Taiping and will not anger Shangguan Wan'er.

But Li Zhen knew that Shangguan Wan'er supported Li Xian, and this was undoubtedly the forced Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xian. The problem was still as serious. Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh secretly. He knew that Li Xian would ascend the throne, but how should he tell Di Renjie?

Di Renjie seemed to understand Li Zhen's difficulties and smiled: "I have already said just now. In fact, whether it is King Xiang or King Luling, they are all members of the Xingtang Association. As long as you support the Xingtang Association, there will be no problem for the time being. Do you understand?"

Li Zhen was helpless. This was actually moving the risk backwards, but this was the best choice at present. There was no way, so he had to nod, "The son-in-law understands."

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of Zhenguan Hall. Li Zhen followed Di Renjie into the hall. He was waiting outside the imperial study room, while Di Renjie was summoned into the imperial study room first.

In the imperial study room, Wu Zetian was in high spirits to teach Zhang Changzong to write, which surprised Di Renjie secretly. He asked the Zhang brothers to enter the imperial study room. This was a bad sign, indicating that the Zhang brothers were likely to interfere in politics.

"Old minister Di Renjie will meet with His Majesty!"

Wu Zetian walked back to his throne and smiled and said, "The Prime Minister is in a state of peace!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wu Zetian smiled and said, "Congratulations to Prime Minister Di for his son-in-law. Li Zhen is really good. He is young and promising. He will be a pillar of the Tang Dynasty in the future. I believe that he will take over the position of Prime Minister Di sooner or later."

Jun Wu said jokingly, this is equivalent to suggesting that Li Zhen will be the prime minister one day in the future. Even stupid people like Zhang Changzong could hear it. A trace of jealousy flashed in his eyes. Di Renjie hurriedly bowed and bowed again, "I thank Your Majesty for your kindness!"

Wu Zetian waved his hand and turned the topic back, "I agree in principle about the addition of the three majors, but Dou Lu Wangqin is too old. I am afraid that only one or two years have the Prime Minister Di considered finding me a candidate for later?"

Di Renjie took out the letter of recommendation and submitted it, "Your Majesty, I recommend Zhang Jianzhi. This person has great talent and can be reused!"

Wu Zetian took the recommendation letter and looked at it, and smiled faintly, "Didn't I give him the Luoyang Order?"

"But Your Majesty wants a prime minister's replacement, and he is qualified."

"It's not easy to do a good job in Luoyang Order. He has been serving as Luoyang Order for less than ten days. I'm considering asking him to do it for a few more years."

"Your Majesty, directly promoted from Luoyang Order to Prime Minister will make all officials of the court disobey. If Your Majesty wants to use him as Prime Minister, he should be allowed to enter the provincial platform. I recommend him as the Minister of Justice, not to recommend him as the Luoyang Order."

Di Renjie's repeated insistence made Wu Zetian helpless, and he finally nodded, "Okay! According to Di Aiqing's recommendation, I will grant him the Minister of Justice."

At this time, Wu Zetian said to the eunuch again: "Summon General Li too!"

The eunuch went out and took Li Zhen into the imperial study for a moment. Li Zhen bowed and said, "I am Li Zhen to see Your Majesty."

"General Li, I congratulate you on your wedding."

"Thank you for your care!"

Wu Zetian smiled, "Your father-in-law repeatedly asked me to let you go to a local official. To be honest, I am not very willing because you have done a good job in the inner guard, but! If a young man wants to have a future, he still has to go to the local prefecture for a few years, so I finally agreed to your father-in-law's request. From today on, you will step down as the general of the inner guard!"

"I obey the order!"

Wu Zetian took a few steps behind his hands and looked at Li Zhen again and said, "I plan to appoint Wu Youji as the general of the Inner Guard, but his ability is slightly insufficient. I plan to promote another deputy general to assist him in doing things. Who do you think is more suitable?"

Li Zhen was secretly shocked. Wu Youji was Princess Taiping's husband. Letting Wu Youji serve as the general of the Nei Guard was equivalent to giving the Nei Guard to Princess Taiping. It seems that the emperor wanted to expand the power of Princess Taiping, but the emperor actually asked him to recommend one person as Wu Youji's deputy, which was beyond Li Zhen's expectations.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Weichen recommended General Zhang Li as the deputy general of General Wu!"

‘Zhang Li?’

Wu Zetian thought for a while and said, "This person seems to be the son of Zhang Ting, the governor of Ganzhou. He is your fellow countryman. I remember correctly!"

"He is indeed a fellow townsman of the Wei minister, but the emperor wants the minister to recommend talents. Zhang Li is steady, cautious in his work, and is fully competent for the deputy general. This has nothing to do with fellow townsman."

Wu Zetian smiled, "It's not a family, you don't go into the family. You are the same as your father-in-law. When I asked him to recommend talents, he recommended his own son. Now you recommend a fellow villager, okay! I will fulfill your wishes and give Zhang Li the deputy general of the inner guard."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"...

Li Zhen and Di Renjie dismissed one after another. At this time, Zhang Changzong couldn't help but feel jealous and said, "Your Majesty is too tolerant of Li Zhen."

Wu Zetian glanced at him and said coldly: "I have put him in the place so that you will not be upset. Don't provoke him again in the future. He will have great use to me in the future. Do you understand?"

Although Zhang Changzong was annoyed, he did not dare to ignore Wu Zetian's orders. Fortunately, Li Zhen had been sent away, and he could indeed be out of sight. He had to nod helplessly, "I understand, just ignore him."...

After coming out of Zhenguan Hall, Di Renjie went to the imperial city, and Li Zhen returned to Di Mansion. He was on the wedding leave and was just here to thank him today. But as soon as he walked to Yingtian Gate, he heard someone calling him behind him. Li Zhen turned around and saw a eunuch panting and chasing him.

Li Zhen's heart moved and looked up at Mingtang. Although Mingtang was magnificent, he still saw a person standing in front of a small window in the south. The gorgeous long skirt was particularly eye-catching against the blue sky and the magnificent Mingtang.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh, he still couldn't escape this level.

After a moment, the eunuch ran up and said angrily: "General Li, Shangguan's wife asked the general to go to her official room to meet."

Li Zhen had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow the eunuch to the Mingtang. Soon after, he went to the Mingtang and came to Shangguan Wan'er's official room. The maid Xiao E had already been waiting here. She blushed and went forward to salute and said, "Sonsensei ask the general to come in."

Li Zhen nodded and walked straight into the room. After taking two steps, he heard a mosquito-like whisper from behind, "Congratulations to General."

When Li Zhen turned around, Xiao E's face turned redder and she didn't dare to look at him. Li Zhen smiled, "Thank you, Miss!"

Xiao E's legs suddenly shook and almost hit the door. She turned around and ran away quickly. Li Zhen smiled and shook her head, and walked into the room quickly. In the room, Shangguan Wan'er stood in front of the window, her eyes looked a little melancholy. When she saw Li Zhen coming in, she forced a smile, "Congratulations to General Li for his wedding!"

"Thank you for the gift from the servant, Li Zhen is very grateful."

Shangguan Wan'er glanced at him for a while, with a little disappointed look in her eyes, and waved her hand and said, "Please sit down!"

Li Zhen sat down slowly. At this time, Xiao E brought in two cups of tea and served them to the two, but she did not leave, but stood behind Shangguan Wan'er against the wall. This was the first time that Li Zhen and Shangguan Wan'er were talking, and there was actually someone next to her.

This was just a small detail, but Li Zhen felt relieved. Shangguan Wan'er was hinting that nothing would happen today. Think about it, today is the second day of his wedding. How could he have happened to Shangguan Wan'er? For Li Zhen, it won't happen now and in the future.

Shangguan Wan'er smiled slightly, "I heard you're going to let it go, but it's a bit unexpected."

Li Zhen understood that she was referring to Princess Taiping recommending her, and he smiled bitterly and said, "I thought I was going to Pingzhou before, but today I realized it was Chang'an, which really made me unexpected."

"You really knew nothing before?" Shangguan Wan'er looked at him with a smile.

Li Zhen shook his head, "I really know nothing!"

The implicit meaning of the two was whether Li Zhen had seen Princess Taiping in advance. Shangguan Wan'er looked at his eyes and finally saw frankness in Li Zhen's eyes. Shangguan Wan'er's dissatisfaction slowly disappeared. She said lightly: "This should be the meaning of the King of Xiang."

After pausing, she said again: "Actually, King Luling also asked me to ask me to join the military, so I recommend you to Liaodong, but I didn't expect you to go to Chang'an in the end."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Wan'er sighed softly, and her tone was a little bit desolate. When Li Zhen went to Chang'an, they would not have many opportunities to meet. More importantly, Li Zhen would completely leave her, making her heart full of loss.

The two were silent for a moment, and Li Zhen whispered again: "I just met the emperor, and the emperor said that Wu Youji would be the general of the inner guard."

Shangguan Wan'er already knew the result. In fact, this was the result of the priest's balance between her and Princess Taiping, and she also gained greater power. However, Li Zhen's willingness to tell this matter calmly also made Shangguan Wan'er feel a little more comfortable. She asked again with a smile: "What else did the priest say?"

"And that's right, the Lord asked me to recommend a deputy general."

"Oh--who did you recommend?"

Li Zhen pondered for a moment, and said frankly: "I recommended Zhang Li, and the emperor agreed."

Shangguan Wan'er's eyes showed a knowing smile. It was obvious that Li Zhen was still reluctant to give up the inner guard, so he pushed Zhang Li up. Shangguan Wan'er stopped talking about this and changed the subject and asked, "When are you planning to go to Chang'an?"

"The Lord asked me to set off in ten days!"

Speaking of this, Li Zhen stood up and smiled and said, "If there is nothing else for the sacrificial servant, Li Zhen will say goodbye first."

"Is this your farewell?" Shangguan Wan'er stared at him sadly.

"Why are you saying goodbye? I have to come to the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War to go through the procedures. Besides, I will come back frequently and see it often."

Li Zhen felt that he shouldn't have said that, so he quickly stopped the topic, bowed and slowly retreated.
Chapter completed!