.May is the time when Li Wei defeated Salem in the Wuhu River in Lingxi and attacked Moufu City. May is also the season for plum rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

But in the past two years, the Dragon King of the East China Sea knelt Little Maruko, and became more and more excited. According to his duties, he would start work in Jiangnan in May, but before he finished it, he waved his tail and ran to the north to make trouble. Seeing the flowing water of the small bridges, pavilions, towers, and a gentle and soft look of a small family, he was embarrassed to toss and drizzle. After arriving in the north, he saw the mountains and steep mountains, Ohara Kyukawa, but he felt energetic.

As for the great man in the north, then I will have a heavy rain in the north again.

I swept my tail and stood in Henan to call for wind and rain. Last year, the drought and flood were uneven, which made the people of Guanzhong suffer, and I probably felt sorry for it. Guanzhong did not get rid of the disaster, but just specifically harmed Henan.

So in May, Luoyang lifted the curtain and turned into a rain outside the curtain.

Li Zhi arrived at the Wanfanggui Palace in Luoyang and was about to go to Hebi Palace to avoid the office. The heavy rain kept falling and stopped. The cloudy and humid weather also aggravated his condition.

At this time, all government affairs were handled by Wu Zetian alone. However, Wu Zetian handled them in an orderly manner, so some ministers were impressed by them. In any case, the Empress Dowager was a very capable strong woman.

The imperial guard stopped at Fanggui Palace, and Wu Zetian could only work in Fanggui Palace. It was dusk, and there were many tall trees around Fanggui Palace. Although the weather was getting better, Fanggui Palace became dark early.

Li Shoucheng walked in and said, "Empress Dowager, have a meal."

"Well, don't worry, I'll go and see Your Majesty and bring you good news."

Li Shoucheng was a little suspicious. Last year, the Guanzhong disaster was severe, and Henan has been raining since April this year, which made the people panic. What good news will be there?

Wu Zetian's child said happily: "Bu Luoji is destroyed."

Bu Luoji, also known as Ji Hu, Shan Hu, has been moving in the mountains in northern Shanxi and Shaanxi. Two hundred and fifty years ago, Gao Huan wanted to make Erzhu Zhao's rebellion, so he forged a letter saying that Erzhu Zhao ordered Gao Huan's six towns to go to the battle against Bu Luoji. The entire army of the six towns cried and thought they would die. Gao Huan then said that Zhenji Hu would die, and that they would die if they delayed the military period. What should we do? All the six towns rebelled. At that time, the six towns were so powerful that they had not yet gone to the battle, but they thought they would die. The Hu Ji people showed how powerful they were.

By the Tang Dynasty, Jihu gradually declined, and its power could not be underestimated. In Suizhou, there was a powerful Jihu tribe, one of whom was named Bai Tieyu, who buried the Buddha statue. Spring came and grass grew. He said to the villagers, "I saw the Buddha's light here. I chose a day to gather people to dig the ground and dug out the Buddha statue. I once again bewitched and said, "Those who see the Buddha's light will be cured." He also used some other small means, and those who believe in it will become more and more.

This year, he led his believers, believed to be Ping County, proclaiming himself Emperor Guangming and set up hundreds of officials. He then attacked Suide and Dabin counties, killed officials and burned the houses. The Husbands responded and suddenly became a turbulent wave of war.

In fact, he might have just cheated money. Seeing that there were more believers, he was ignorant and easy to deceive. When he saw that the Turks in the north planned to rebel, Pei Xingjian of the Tang Dynasty suppressed twice, and Lao Pei fell ill. The Tang Dynasty court seemed to be helpless and became bolder, so he rebelled.

The court had enough of the past two years. When he heard that Bu Luo was treasonous, Wu Zetian was furious and asked Zhang Qianxu to raise an army from Bingzhou, and Cheng Wuting led his troops from Luoyang to suppress it. Two brave generals went to deal with this group of mobs, which was simply a bit worthwhile. He immediately suppressed the rebellion and captured Bai Tieyu's life.

But this news made Wu Zetian very happy.

After all, these two people were her confidants. They were asked to compete with Pei Xingjian for merit and seize the military power in the north, but they were helpless to deal with the Turks and were often criticized by the people. This time the credit came too timely.

"This is great news." Li Shoucheng said.

After saying that, they opened the Huangluo umbrella, and the two walked through two long corridors and came to the bedroom. Li Zhi fell asleep in the bed. Wu Zetian waved his hand and called the eunuch on duty, and asked in a low voice: "How is Your Majesty's condition today?"

"Qi Biography, the Emperor today called for a split headache. I had someone rubbed it for a long time before the Emperor went to bed."

"Emperor Li, go and pass the imperial edict and hire a good doctor from all over the world. If anyone can cure Your Majesty's condition, he will be rewarded with tens of thousands of gold and be appointed as the county guard."

"No need," Li Zhi suddenly said.

"His Majesty."

"My Madam, I know this disease in my heart. It is better to rest with peace of mind than to make the world bustle."

"Your Majesty, you must not learn from Emperor Gaozu of Han."

"God-Emperor Gaozu of Han did not believe in medicine, but I was taking medicine. But how many doctors in the world can beat imperial doctors in the palace? My wind and dizziness disease is not a day or two. If a doctor could cure it, he would have come to the palace to invite a wealthy person. I just want to discuss something with you. I want to issue an edict to let Honger come back."

"Then I will issue an edict, and I will draft an edict immediately."

Li Zhi looked at her suspiciously, unable to see clearly, so he could only tell from his voice that his wife had some sincerity. Wu Shang Zuo Cheng Feng Yuanchang came, and the eunuch and the palace maid went down to prepare for decoction. Seeing that there was no one around, Feng Yuanchang said: "The authority of the central palace is too heavy, so it is better to suppress the damage."

One sentence awakened Li Zhi. Since Li Yiyan stopped the prefecture, he promoted Liu Jingxian to balance. But soon after, Cui Zhiwen died of illness again. Almost no important minister in the court had a son, although he was guarding against his son. After all, anything could happen if he involved the throne. It is not uncommon for his son to force me to be a palace. It is not only his father. There are few things to kill me, but there are also some. Yang Jian's death is just a suspicion. Liu Shao actually led his troops to kill me Liu Yilong.

The most reassuring thing is to hold power in your hands. However, his health is not good, and all the important officials of his son in the court have been removed from office, which is not what he wants to see. With Feng Yuanchang's reminder, he couldn't help but have doubts. His wife so decisively agreed to call her son back, and he thought he was thinking about it. He hesitated: "Let me think about it again."

"Your Majesty, according to my opinion, I will let Honger come back. The land in the west of the Ridge is far away from the Central Plains, and it is useless to get it. Instead, it will cause troops to be injured in money. In order to attack Dashi, how much supplies have been transferred in this year. If Honger wants to fight, it is better to let him fight the Turks."

"He is the future king, why do he think about fighting all day long? He is not a barbarian." Li Zhi said with a pout. But his wife was so determined that he did not talk about this topic anymore. After all, once his son comes back, he and he are both embarrassed. That's why his son took the initiative to avoid it and went to the Western Regions.

It turns out that he thought so.

"Your Majesty, it's time for meals. Let me serve you to eat."

"Um."

The eunuch brought dinner, and Wu Zetian fed Li Zhi bit by bit with a small silver spoon. Looking at her husband's thin face, she thought of the imperial doctor's secret report and suddenly shed tears.

"What's wrong with you?"

"nothing."

"I heard you sobbing," Li Zhi said, stretching out his hand, groping, touching Wu Zetian's eyes, and also touching tears. After a long time of sadness, he said, "Mei Niang, don't deal with government affairs today, talk to me."

Zetian agreed obediently.

The sound of rain outside became less and it became dark.

...

A group of Japanese girls were dancing a strange dance. Li Xian couldn't help but ask, "What kind of dance is this?"

Shortly after the war between Japan and Silla, Kim Famin passed away. However, Japan underestimated Silla's tenacity. Silla fought repeatedly and fought repeatedly, causing Japan to make every inch of land occupied by Japan. From time to time, it even sent ships to Japan to attack and captured the people and sold them to the Tang Dynasty.

The more fierce the two countries fought, the more slaves were sold. However, the Tang people soon discovered that slaves from these two countries were not very useful.

Unlike Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun is barbaric, but they developed a habit of nomadic peoples, and the losers often became slaves to the victors. According to the rules of the tribe, it was normal for them to become slaves to the Tang Dynasty people. When they met the good family, they were very loyal. In fact, these landlords were also thinking about their labor. Compared with the barbaric nomadic peoples in the grassland, Han landlords also learned some Confucian knowledge and were relatively more benevolent. As long as they adapted to the land and water, these Tuyuhun were the best part.

The Japanese are different from the Silla people. The Silla people are shameless, very stubborn, and do not eat the hard and soft. The Japanese people like the strong, but this kind of liking the strong is that they sinisterly want to benefit from the strong, and have never really surrendered to that strong man. They are a strong and united nation in their bones. It seems that the Japanese people are very docile, unlike the Silla people. If you want to fight and kill, you can do whatever you want, but over time, they are more vicious than the Silla people.

It was very uncomfortable to use, and the market price plummeted. At this time, something happened in Qizhou. A Silla tribe wanted to assassinate his master, but luckily avoided it, but the landlord was also seriously injured. In anger, he castrated all the Japanese and Silla people in his family. Don’t you have blood? Cut off your roots to see if you have blood? Not to mention, this trick is quite useful.

When the matter spread, people first found it funny, but some people started to learn and finally became a trend. The officials didn't know what to say about this. According to the Tang Dynasty's law, it was illegal to do so, but they were castrated by Japanese slaves and new slaves, not the people of their own country, and they could not control the law. They didn't know what to do, so they had to persuade these landlords and not to do too much.

These landlords said to the soldiers who sold, "Don't sell them to us whole people, and you can only give you five or six pounds of money." Or if you castrate them yourself, I will give you more than a dozen pounds of money."

The gap between the two was so big that these Japanese and Silla soldiers began to be castrated in Dengzhou. This is strange. The two countries fought to the death, but after they arrived in Dengzhou, they were in peace. It can only be said that the charm of money is too great. They came to sell people for money, not for the war.

So I registered the beach of the state, and howlings were heard all day long. When the Dengzhou officials heard this, they were frightened and ordered, "Don't cut on my territory, you want to cut you to the sea and slowly cut on the boat." Do I still want political achievements?"

Compared with men, women are better. However, the people of the Tang Dynasty soon discovered that because of the differences in customs, the Japanese did not respect the concept of chastity at all. As long as they were forced and dragged to that corner, they could have sex casually. Although the Tang Dynasty did not have a strong concept of chastity, they could not do it like this casually. But they had one advantage, because they had a low status in the country and were very good at serving men. Being wives and concubines at home was not safe, and being prostitutes in brothels was very popular.

So in the Tang Dynasty, spring suddenly came one night, and Japanese prostitutes opened thousands of courtyards and buildings. They were almost squeezed out the market for selling spring.

Not long ago, the eunuch who managed the deep palace transferred the palace maids who served Li Xian and transferred a group of Japanese women. This was undoubtedly a serious insult. Because it was cheap and did not harm the people, a small number of Japanese women were also used in the palace one after another, which was used to do rough work, not to serve the master.

Li Xian also accepted it silently.

After hearing Li Xian’s question, a Japanese girl replied: “Your Highness, it’s called Cage Bird Dance.”

Very clever, shortly after coming to the Tang Dynasty, he actually spoke fluent Tang Dynasty words.

"Cage bird dance?"

"Well, it means that a bird locked in a cage yearns for the world outside."

"Bold, who asked you to dance this dance?" Fang shouted angrily.

"My wife, follow her. My condition is not as good as the birds in a cage. What's so angry about?"

"Your Highness," Fang suddenly softened, and wanted to say something, why didn't you listen to me at the beginning? But when you saw your husband's depressed look, you didn't say it.

"You guys keep jumping."

"Here."

After the song was finished, it was time for dinner, and the girls dispersed. The Japanese girl who had just answered fell behind and was getting bigger and bigger from the girls in front. When he walked to the corner, he saw a eunuch coming over and whispered: "All the eunuchs, Your Highness Yong said he was better than a bird locked in a cage."

"Okay, okay," said the eunuch happily: "Continue to work hard and make contributions, and I will send you back to reunite with your family."

"Thank you all the eunuchs."

The two of them finished speaking in a hurry and left each other. All the eunuchs returned to the hall and began to write letters with pens.

...

After dinner, Liu Rengui came to the room, sat down, and asked the butler: "How much is the wheat price outside?"

The old housekeeper replied: "Alang, fifteen words of one dou of wheat."

"well."

Last year, Liu Rengui was ordered to deal with the disaster as a Guanzhong left-behind. This is a kind of respect and appreciation. Xijing Chang'an was the first capital of the Tang Dynasty. Generally, it was not a prince and could not be held. In fact, Liu Rengui's power was cut off and no compensation for reputation was given, which seemed to be difficult to explain.

Liu Rengui himself is also very happy.

When the emperor went to the Western Regions, what did he do in Luoyang? Should he also use a magnifying glass to show his affairs with his seventh aunt and eighth aunt? That person has no shortcomings. If he magnifies this way, there will be only one person among the civil and military officials in the court, Pei Yan!

He is not Li Yiyan, with a deep experience and high prestige, but if someone treats him like Li Yiyan, he will inevitably get a piece of sewage. There is no need for this. Besides, he attaches great importance to the left-behind Xijing. He is not a use-for-use position, and is a use-for-use position. He is also very useful. Once the emperor counterattacks, his position will also be the prime minister, which will have some impact on the Yulin Army in Chang'an and can also mobilize the guards and materials around Chang'an.

If there is no movement, you cannot alarm the snake if you don’t move.

However, grain prices are his job.

Last year, there was a severe flood and drought, and the locust plague, and Guanzhong became as clean as washing clothes. After autumn, the weather returned to normal. Farmers rushed to plant winter wheat, and the weather this year was normal. Before the summer came, grain prices fell and fell again. However, the guy Black-toothed Changzhi saw that the summer came from Guanzhong, and drove the people back together. The grain prices rose again. But overall, the food in Qinghai and the more than 200,000 immigrants in the Western Regions reduced the burden on Guanzhong. Food in various places continued to be mobilized to Guanzhong, and the grain prices rose and fell again.

It is May, and in August, corn matures and grain prices will fall one step further. The Guanzhong crisis will be resolved.

When Liu Rengui heard the decline in grain prices, he was in a good mood and took out a copy of "Wei" from the stand. When he saw this passage from Empress Dowager Feng, he suddenly compared Empress Dowager Feng with the current Empress Dowager in his mind. The two were very similar, extremely wise and tough.

However, after comparing it, in Liu Rengui's mind, the current empress dowager obviously cannot reach the height of the highest position in the ages and Queen Mother Feng.

The origin of Wu Zetian is not good, but Empress Dowager Feng is the princess of the Northern Yan State. She can't do it either. She is very disgusted with Wu Zetian and Liu Rengui, but she has to admit that Wu Zetian is also very capable. Over the years, the Empress Dowager of the Government Affairs Bureau has been taking care of her and there is no big mistake. As a woman, it is not easy. But what about Empress Dowager Feng?

Just one thing, the Queen Mother is far from the same as the equal-field system!

This is a milestone system. After nearly three hundred years, this system has been retained for the Sui and Tang dynasties. It is easy to say but difficult to implement. Wang Mang's well-field system is similar to the equal-field system, but the result is that the heavens are angry and people are resentful. First, the land occupied by the wealthy families is difficult to move. Secondly, the Yinhu. According to statistics from the Ministry of Revenue, there are many lands in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but in fact, there are countless tenant farmers and tribes in the families of major wealthy families. Empress Dowager Feng first used the policy of moving to Kuanxiang to squeeze out the land space. The latter could not move. This is why the prince of Baodao made the country resentment soar, allowing Liu Yu to see the opportunity and destroy the country. So she used the Three-Leading System to attract Yinhu from the wealthy families.
To be continued...