"No gifts..."

Wu Zetian sat on the dragon throne and looked at the ministers who were kneeling down to him. At this time, Wu Zetian looked at these ministers. Each minister had a hypocritical face, but Wu Zetian could not scold these hypocritical people, but could only fight wits and courage with these people.

With a smile, Wu Zetian said no to give up.

All the ministers stood up and then knelt on the side. Today's morning court began. They first talked about some people's livelihood issues. These issues were all things that happened in the Great Zhou Dynasty recently. After these issues were finished.

Finally the highlight is about to begin.

Li Zhaode came out first and said, "Your Majesty... I checked the records of the Ministry of Revenue yesterday. Now our average grain output per mu of arable land in our Great Zhou is less than three stones.

Moreover, the manpower in our Great Zhou was still insufficient. If 30,000 troops were transferred to the Western Regions.

I believe it will be very serious, which will lead to insufficient supply of food and grass, and there may be a desertion shortage, so I beg your Majesty to withdraw his order and not increase his troops in the Western Regions."

"Wei Chen agreed..."

"I also agreed with you..."

.............

After Li Zhaode finished speaking, the other ministers also agreed. At this time, Wu Zetian was not angry, but smiled and said, "My ministers, don't you understand my intentions?"

I am not very happy to increase my troops in the Western Regions, because only by increasing troops can we truly achieve peace in the Western Regions and ensure that the borders on the western borders are worry-free.

I know...increasing troops will bring some difficulties to me in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but for the sake of our descendants, I think it is appropriate."

"Your Majesty...!" Li Zhaode bowed again: "For the sake of our descendants' plans... I also think it is appropriate, but for the sake of our descendants' plans, we need to have descendants. If the increase of 30,000 troops is implemented this time, we may not have descendants.

So how can we plan for our descendants...?"

Wu Zetian frowned slightly and said, "Li Xiang... You are too alarmist... You just increased your troops by 30,000, so why are there no descendants... I think our Great Zhou can still overcome the temporary difficulties."

If it were the past, after Wu Zetian said this, Li Zhaode would definitely shut up, but now it is different. Li Zhaode stood forward again and said, "Your Majesty... There was a flood in the Great Zhou just now.

3,000 houses were destroyed...5 times of bridges... more than 1,000 people were drowned. This is a warning... If Your Majesty insists on doing his own thing, then the sky will bring about a greater disaster."

"Take it seriously..." Wu Zetian was slightly moved at this time.

You must know that this is Li Zhaode's killer move, and some people will definitely not care about it. They think that if Wu Zetian said this, how could Wu Zetian change her mind? In fact, the Tang people were very afraid of this natural disaster and always thought that this kind of self-conceived disaster was a response from heaven and man.

Due to the constraints of various objective factors at that time, such as the level of productivity development and the level of technological development, the ancestors often could not give objective explanations about the occurrence of disasters, and often had some idealistic views.

Their understanding of disasters is gradual. They first believed that the occurrence of disasters was caused by ghosts, gods and souls, and later they noticed that improper government affairs could also cause disasters. Until the Western Han Dynasty, the theory of Yin and Yang disasters based on the "sensation of heaven and man" became the mainstream concept of disasters.

Especially in the Tang Dynasty, whether it was emperors, generals, or ordinary people, they continued the concept of "resonance of heaven and man" and carried out certain social activities based on this concept. Under the guidance of the concept of "resonance of heaven and man", various disasters were given political missions and formed a correspondence with human affairs.

For example, the Tang people believed that its causes were yin and yang imbalances, political and political affairs, ministers conspired to cause chaos, harems were chaos, etc.

In the first year of Yonghui, there were constant earthquakes in Jinzhong. Emperor Gaozong of Tang believed that this result was because he "was missed rewards and punishments, and was misleading in politics". Therefore, he ordered the ministers to point out their own misunderstandings.

As a common disaster, flood and drought disasters have been given more political missions. Disasters and God's condemnation say that the formation of flood and drought lies in the lack of sacrificial etiquette of the monarch, the abusive criminal law, the heavy burden of national servitude, excessive construction of palaces and the failure of ministers to abide by monarch's etiquette.

Even Di Renjie said: "If the government fails to work, evil spirits will be done. If evil spirits are done, insects and borers will be born and floods will occur." (Old Book of Tang) Such various disasters echo the various inactions between real politics. The occurrence of disasters is a warning and punishment from God to the world.

The Tang people believed that natural disasters occurred because of political ineffectiveness, corruption of officials, chaos in the legal system, moral decline and loss of ethics.

So when Wu Zetian heard about the disaster, she was a little frightened.

Li Zhaode nodded slightly and said, "It's true, and this is just the beginning. According to what I think, the flood will only increase and affect Luoyang. Now the water in the Luo River has increased significantly, so please think twice. It is absolutely impossible to increase troops in the Western Regions. Now we must keep the troops in the Great Zhou, so that we can be foolproof."

"This...!" Finally, Wu Zetian hesitated... At this moment, Ang Lee walked into Mingtang step by step.

No one dared to stop the Baiqi behind him. Seeing Ang Lee, Li Zhaode cursed: "Bold Ang Lee, how dare you trespass into Mingtang?"

Ang Lee ignored Li Zhaode but looked at Wu Zetian excitedly and shouted: "Grandma... is so happy, so happy, auspiciousness comes from the sky, auspiciousness comes from the sky...!"

Everyone was stunned by Ang Lee's shout.

Li Zhaode shouted again, "And Li, what are you talking about? Where are you talking about? Now is the time for civil and military officials and His Majesty to go on a morning court. You broke in without Xuanzhao. Do you know what crime should you be punished?"

"What crime should I be blamed..." Suddenly, Ang Lee looked at Li Zhaode with a grand momentum and said, "Li Zhaode, you disappointed me so much..."

The word "Zhen" was out, and the whole house was panicked. Di Renjie even shouted loudly: "Your Highness... please pay attention to the words?"

Wu Zetian also showed a shocked expression, but just when the whole house was panicked, Ang Lee suddenly smiled and slowly faced the civil and military officials in the entire court and said, "Among you, there are people promoted by me, and those promoted by Mei Niang.

When Li Zhaode was young, he entered the officialdom with the Ming Dynasty and was moved to the Chief Censor of the Censor. He was smart and capable, with the style of his father Li Qianyou.

However... I still disappointed me. You are here to connect with each other today for your own selfish desires. Even the people of the Tang Dynasty have forgotten that Mei Niang’s idea of ​​increasing troops to the Western Regions this time is to benefit the country and the people.

But you have repeatedly stopped you deliberately. I am so disappointed. If you are still officials of the Tang Dynasty, you should support Mei Niang."

After saying that, Ang Lee looked at Wu Zetian again and said, "Don't worry about food. Have you forgotten that I asked this little guy to give you something... The potatoes are ripe, so take these ministers to dig.

As for the flood situation, don’t worry, let’s work together…” After saying that, Ang Lee smiled and slowly closed his eyes.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Is it you..." Seeing Ang Lee closing his eyes, Wu Zetian could no longer collapse, and tears fell down and shouted, it didn't matter if he shouted.

All the officials present were stunned and then knelt down and shouted excitedly at Ang Lee: "I'm going to pay homage to His Majesty Gaozong..."

At this time, Ang Lee opened his eyes and showed a panic expression and said, "Ah...this...this...this...this...this...this...this...this, what happened? Dear ministers, are you going to kill Xiao Wang?"

"Your Majesty... are you not willing to say a word to Mei Niang?" Wu Zetian's tears could no longer be stopped, and she cried so much that she felt very sad. There was gratitude, guilt, and sorry in this sadness...!

I am grateful because when I was betrayed by everyone, my husband could still help me. I am guilty because I stole the throne of my husband. I am sorry because I really sorry for my husband.

"Grandma... why are you crying...!" Ang Lee turned around and walked to Wu Zetian in surprise. Seeing Ang Lee, Wu Zetian hugged Ang Lee and burst into tears. Ang Lee seemed to have no idea what was going on at this time.

But in Ang Lee's heart, Ang Lee slowly exhaled, because his performance just now should have been recognized.

In fact, what Ang Lee said just now was pretending, it was Ang Lee's own performance. He pretended to be Emperor Gaozong just to help his grandmother get through the difficulties, because if he didn't pretend to be Emperor Gaozong, this connection would not be resolved at all.

Only when Emperor Gaozong came forward would those ministers of the Tang Dynasty surrender.

Some people will definitely say that potatoes should be able to dispel those people's plans, but it is not true, because Ang Lee has considered that potatoes are high in yield, but now they are only one acre, and it is impossible to expand to the entire Great Zhou Dynasty in less than a few years.

Just now, Li Zhaode moved out the induction of the heavenly beings again, and Ang Lee had to learn to pretend to be a god. Fortunately, what happened today was actually because Li Zhaode and others were guilty because they were indeed selfish and did not want the woman Wu Zetian to have such martial arts.

So Ang Lee beat the snake more than seven inches, but Ang Lee is also very lingering today. If one doesn't do it well, just one calls himself me... Then Ang Lee will definitely die.

It’s just that Ang Lee wants to help his grandmother, Ang Lee doesn’t want to see a man in his 70s bullying an old man.

"Stop crying...grandma..." Ang Lee gently patted Wu Zetian's back with his hands.

Wu Zetian felt Ang Lee's slap, and her tears became even more uncontrollable. Fortunately, Shangguan Wan'er shouted to retreat to the court...The ministers left one after another.

But this time I left... all the ministers began to suspect again. The old ministers of Li Tang, led by Li Zhaode, began to feel that they were being fooled again. The one who was really possessed by Emperor Gaozong just now?

But why did Emperor Gaozong possess an outsider of the Li family and why did he not possess his descendants?

Thinking of this, the more these ministers thought about it, the more they became, the more they were wrong. They felt that it was an act just now, and in an instant... these ministers turned back and asked to see Wu Zetian again.
Chapter completed!