Chapter 51 Chapter 51 The Empress Boldly Enters the Talented Talents Li Jue Mie Goes Crazy in the Northeast

Wu Zetian looked at Wang Qiuli, who once suggested building Mingtang into a thatched cottage, and admired him sincerely.She ordered no more donations. Facts have proved that the country is still very rich, and the treasury is almost empty, but the military savings are enough for the army to eat and drink for countless years, and the donation is over.In the autumn of the first year of Longevity Tianchu (AD 695), Tubo invaded Lintao, and Wang Xiaojie was appointed as the chief commander of the Subiandao march to lead the expedition. In the spring of the first year of Wansui Tongtian (AD 696), Wang Xiaojie welcomed his partner, Lou Shide, the deputy chief of the Subian Road march.The two cooperated together to challenge Tobu.

In March, the Tang army fought against the Tubo brothers Lunqinling and Lunzanpo in Suluohan Mountain (Lintao border, Gansu Province), and the Tang army was defeated.After the war, Wu Zetian exempted Wang Xiaojie from being a commoner, and demoted Lou Shide to Yuanwai Sima.The fate of Wang Xiaojie and Lou Shide is really bad. They became useless as soon as they formed a group. Lou Shide, who had a better life, became the Sima of a small official who was not a member of Yuanzhou (Pingliang, Gansu), belonged to the border area, and was not in the establishment.This position is generally the assistant officer of the governor, but in fact he is not a fart.

Fatty Lou walked slowly to the government office to go through the transfer procedures. He asked the manager, "Where did I go?" "Yuanzhou Yuanwai Sima." Lou Shide had already made the necessary psychological preparations, but when he heard this, he almost fainted and said in shock: "Ah! All the officials and titles are gone?!" "Yeah, not very thorough." After thinking for seven seconds, Fatty Lou swallowed his saliva, nodded, and said to himself: "Yeah, yeah!" (Yishan, Yishan!) Then he picked up the official certificate, shook his buttocks, He walked away slowly and cheerfully.

Wu Zetian was still very psychologically prepared to demote these good officials who counted as ten. As early as January of the first year of longevity (AD 692), she set up a system of "examination officials" with mixed reputation and reputation. What is a big deal?What is unprecedented? Wu Zetian told you that as long as you are from the earth, as long as you can pass the Datang Juren examination, no matter what you look like or how old you are, you will definitely get an interview opportunity, and try to do a more appropriate job according to the interview results. official.In the spring of this year, juren from all over the world gathered together, and Wu Zetian personally checked and divided the juren into several categories.You know, in the Tang Dynasty, most of the people who passed the exam were not nerds.

He needs to have the ability to make arguments and a wealth of knowledge, and he needs to reach the finals under the inspection of veteran court officials.So we saw that those students with excellent interview results were assigned to high-quality positions in Fenggesheren and Gishizhong. Lang... This move caused a sensation, and all the scholars and people in the world cheered. Even though Wu Zetian killed people without blinking an eye, but in the face of generous treatment and noble character, who cares about what will happen in the future?Some scholars are very good at pretending. While yearning for being an official, they wrote poems to express their disgust for the official examination system, and at the same time severely accused Wu Zetian of her faults.There is a poem, which contains four lines:

Make up the que and connect the car, pick up the relics and level the volume. 欋tui serves the censor, and the bowl is off the school. Translation: There are so many officials in the Celestial Dynasty, one car after another. Supplementing the Que and picking up the relics to serve the Yushi, one person, one drop becomes a big river. There was a Juren who was really idle. When he saw that it was fun to write poems, he followed up with four lines: Commentary does not read the law, the doctor does not seek chapters. Save the batter, squint the Holy Emperor. Translation: Criticism never reads books, and Ph.D.s do not produce good articles.

Cun Fushi, with a long face, is blind and blames the Holy Emperor. Facts have proved that the candidate was just looking for a lottery player for nothing, and even insulted the emperor. Therefore, a censor named Ji Xianzhi wrote a letter to impeach him.The crime is to slander the government and demand that he be beaten in the court, and then go to pay the law.Wu Zetian asked Yu Shi to read it aloud. After listening to it, she laughed and said to Ji Xianzhi: "You said that you really take yourselves seriously. If you are not bad yourself, are you still afraid of others talking about it?"

Among the examiners, those who were filled with righteous indignation swallowed bitterly. In the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Long Live Tongtian (AD 696) (actually the twelfth lunar month of the previous year), Wu Zetian finally set off, taking advantage of the world to go to Songshan to enshrine Zen.Feng Zhongyue Songshan Mountain is a sacred mountain, amnesty to the world, and changed Yuan Long Live to Dengfeng.The place where the huge team passed was the Songyang area, so Songyang was renamed and became Dengfeng County. After enshrining Zen, Wu Zetian ordered the common people to be exempted from rent and tax for one year. The king of Shenyue Tianzhong was honored as Shenyue Tianzhong Yellow Emperor, the concubine was the Queen of Tianzhong Huang, Xia Qi was the Qisheng Emperor, and Xia Qi's mother was the Empress Dowager Yujing.

Wu Zetian had a special liking for Mount Song. The main reason is that Taoism in Mount Tai is more prosperous, Buddhism in Mount Song is more prosperous, and Mount Song is the center of the world.As the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha, she would naturally choose to enshrine Zen in Songshan Mountain.To commemorate this miraculous grace, many years later, Wu Zetian wrote a letter to the Songshan God. Although the entire letter was small in number, it was made of pure gold. She sent people to cast it in a hidden area of ​​Songshan Mountain. The main contents of the letter are as follows: "Wu Zhao, the lord of the Great Zhou Dynasty, loves the true way of immortality and immortality. I would like to go to the Songgao Mountain Gate in Zhongyue. I voted for a gold slip to get rid of Wu Zhao's crimes. Hu Chaoji bows and bows again."

This golden letter disappeared in Songshan, and there has been no audio for more than a thousand years, so there should be no written records.The uncovering of historical truth is often due to accidental discovery.No one knew where this large piece of golden slip that weighed one catty fell, until May 1982, 1,286 years later, a mountain picker from Dengfeng County (it was still a county at that time) The medicine farmer suddenly found a large piece of gold in the crevice of the stone.It was lost somewhere on the north side of Junji Peak, and the Jin Jian is now in the Henan Museum. This piece of gold has become the only cultural relic handed down to her later generations (Wu Zetian's tomb has not yet been opened).

There is a rather strange person, after he followed Wu Zetian to enshrine Songshan Mountain, he did not return to the court, but lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests. He was General Zuoqianniuwei of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, King Taiping, named Wu Youxu. Unlike Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi, this Taiping King really didn't like to speculate on Wu Zetian's holy will, and he was not very good at flattering.The difference from Wu Youning is that he does have real talents and learning, but he is calm and ascetic. Although he is romantic and suave, he never wants to talk to the powerful officials in the court.Wu Youxu lived in seclusion in Songshan, this is his wisdom.He knew that Wu Chengsi's fate would definitely not be good; he also knew that instead of watching the misfortune of the Wu family in the future, it is better to find a wild scenery in the mountains and forests, and love people, do happy things, and live a life freely. This is my dream, what's wrong? Wu Chengsi told him that this was really bad, because Wu Zetian often sent people to monitor him to see if he had any intention of rebelling.But later, when the person in charge of disguising himself as a woodcutter arrived at Songshan Mountain, he saw a person dressed as a grass farmer enjoying himself among the mountains, rocks, valleys and streams.In winter, he reads in the thatched hut, and in summer he rests in the stone room under the forest. Above the stone room, there is often a clear spring flowing through it, forming a rain curtain outside the door. Wu Zetian believed that this Wu Youxu was really strange, and when he was rewarded to the kings, he was also rewarded by the way.But Wu Youxu didn't seem to appreciate it. He threw the treasures and utensils in the stone room, never taking a look. After a long time, those things were covered with dust.Wu Youxu's wisdom will appear in a few years, he is the real wise man, the wise man who is as wise as a fool! Tubo is not peaceful, nor is northern Xinjiang.Someone insists on recognizing Wu Zetian as his mother, and that person is the current leader of the Turks, Ashina Mochu. In order to recognize his mother, Mochuo also offered his big gift, returning all the soldiers of the original Eastern Turks and all the land in Hexi.Wu Zetian was really moved. In order to commend this comrade, she sent Yan Zhiwei and Zuo Weilang, Generals of Baotao Wei, to confer silently as Generals of Zuowei and Qianshan Khan. At this time, the Khitan's rebellion came at the right time, and the Khitan was also very unfortunate, because Zhao Wenhong, the governor of Yingzhou, was a headstrong guy with a cruel temperament. Khitan's fortunes were not good, so Zhao Wenhui refused to open a warehouse for relief, and even treated the chief of Khitan as his grandson.The Khitan people of Yingzhou, Li Jinzhong, the governor of Songmo, and Sun Wanrong, the governor of Guicheng Prefecture, were furious. They thought that it was really chilling for Wu Zetian to treat them like this. So they led troops to capture Yingzhou and killed Zhao Wenhui to relieve their hatred. The actions of Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong made Wu Zetian very angry. She sent Cao Renshi, general of Zuoying Yangwei, Zhang Xuanyu, general of Youjinwuwei, Li Duozuo, general of Zuoweiwei, and Marenjie, Shaoqing of Sinong Eight generals led hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer. In order to comfort the wounded people, Chunguan Shangshu Liang Wangwu Sansi was appointed as the comfort ambassador of Yuguan Road (northern Hebei), and Yao Qin was the deputy envoy, while guarding against Khitan's surprise attack.In order to appease her wounded emotions, Wu Zetian ordered the rebels to be renamed.Li Jinzhong changed his name to "Li Jinmie", and Sun Wanrong changed his name to "Sun Wanzhan". Khitan's development was very rapid. The Yingzhou rebels had had enough of Zhao Wenhui, and with the same hatred, they attacked the city in all directions.In a short time, the Yingzhou rebels had expanded into tens of thousands of troops and entered Tanzhou (northeast of Miyun County, Beijing).Someone from the Tang Dynasty came, and Zhang Jiujie, the former deputy commander of the Qing Frontier Army, led the vanguard commando to kill them. For Li Jinzhong, who just claimed to be the "Supreme Khan", it was a question of who he would be loyal to. In the end, he figured it out.People must be loyal to themselves.Zhang Jiujie yelled Li Jinmie's name, killed him by surprise, and drove the rebels out from Tanzhou. On August 28, the first year of Long Live Tongtian (696 AD), Kip Shigu (Qian'an, Hebei). Khitan staged a deceitful conspiracy, Khitan was imprisoned, and hundreds of Tang soldiers were captured.Hearing that the Tang army was attacking, Comrade Li Jinmi was a little flustered. He could only let the jailer coax these Tang soldiers into saying: "Our family members are suffering from hunger and cold and cannot survive, so they rose up and resisted. We will surrender when the Tang army comes." After the jailer finished speaking, someone ordered them all to be pulled out.Tang Bing, who hadn't eaten for a few days, noticed that someone kindly brought porridge cooked with chaff in front of him.Li Jinzhong appeared, and he said to them amiably, "I have no food to feed you, and I can't bear to kill you, so go away!" Tang Bing was let go just like that. They traveled hundreds of miles and came to Youzhou. Tang Jun believed the words of the escaped prisoners, and the army soon marched to the Yellow Deer Valley, and a bitter picture appeared in front of their eyes.On the road, the old and the weak came to visit and surrender, and the roadside was full of old cows and horses.Master Cao Ren laughed, he could tell at a glance that this was Li Jinzhong's trick, so he mounted his horse and led the three armies to chase after him.At this time, the rebels had been waiting by the set trap for a long time. The cavalry led by Zhang Xuanyu and Maren Jie charged forward, but was blocked by the sudden appearance of Fu Heng. When they were turning around, they suddenly killed a group of men and horses, raised a strange-shaped thing (zip line), and captured the general of Tang soldiers alive. up.Zhang Xuanyu, Marenjie and others were all captured alive, and the Tang army was besieged by tens of thousands of Khitan troops, with many casualties. Li Jinmie obtained the military seal, forged an official certificate, asked the captive Zhang Xuanyu and others to sign it, and sent it to the general manager of the Tang army.It was written in the official ultimatum: The officers and soldiers have already defeated the thieves. If they go to Yingzhou, their generals will have been beheaded, and our soldiers will be useless! (The officers and soldiers have already defeated the thieves. If they reach Yingzhou, all the generals will be killed, and the soldiers will not be honored!) Tang Army Chief received the information, and sure enough, they set off immediately, traveling day and night, killing in the direction of Yingzhou regardless of sleep or food.At this point, I have to admire the artistry of Wu Zetian's naming.Li Jinzhong deserves to be called Li Jinmie, and he really wiped out all Wu Zetian's troops. In September, seeing that the entire Northern Expeditionary Army was wiped out, Wu Zetian asked for advice. Someone came out and said, "How is Wu Zhou not a prisoner? How about conscripting prisoners and brave domestic slaves, buying them with money from the government, and attacking Khitan?" Wu Zetian nodded approvingly.