(Thanks to Lao Gandad, Zhutou Military Teacher's Book Friend's monthly tickets, and Qianye Feng's book friend's reward)

In the inner hall of Xianju Hall, after hearing Zhou Xing's report that Chen Yi led people to break into the Dali Temple prison at night and kidnapped Wei Xuantong, Wu Zetian's anger surged up in an instant. After listening to Helan Minzhi's explanation of adding fuel to the fire, he was even more angry and wanted to summon Chen Yi into the palace immediately and denounced him. However, after Helan Minzhi's words persuaded him, he calmed down.

Chen Yi dared to do this, and the meaning was definitely not simple. Wu Zetian also understood immediately that Chen Yi was preparing to break up with her completely.

What should she do? What should she do?

At this time, Wu Zetian realized how difficult it would be to truly break up with Chen Yi and deal with him.

Over the years, although she has been resentful and even angry about Chen Yi's many things she has done, she has endured it. Even after many provocative statements in front of her, Helan Minzhi never expected to break up with Chen Yi.

Wu Zetian told Chen Yi that she wanted to be the emperor, but Chen Yi did not clearly express his support, and his actions directly showed that he did not support or even opposed her doing so. Even if he understood this, Wu Zetian never thought of killing and removing Chen Yi. Even the idea of ​​removing him from office was only aroused, but he did not make a final decision!

She herself didn't know why!

This happened today, and Chen Yi must have some follow-up measures. What should she do?

What will Chen Yi do next?

Could it be that he would launch military advice and use the power of the imperial guards he had in his hands to force her to do what?

There is really this possibility!

Over the past few months, she has tried very hard to replace a group of generals of the imperial guards, including the left, right Yulin Army, left, right Jinwu Guard and left, right Qianniu Guard. However, due to the constraints and influence of various factors, she only changed the candidates of the left and right Qianniu Guards, the left, right Yulin Army, left, right Jinwu Guards, and no time to replace the generals of the commander of the left, right Qianniu Guards. Of course, this was mainly due to Chen Yi's interference and stopping.

Thinking of the imperial guards in Chen Yi's hands, Wu Zetian felt a little chilling. She instinctively guessed that Chen Yi's courage to do this today was relying on the imperial guards in his hands.

Should we take immediate response measures and urgently ask Helan Minzhi to take over the imperial guards to avoid future troubles?

But this seems to be inappropriate. Such an emergency committee may cause a big mess.

Moreover, Helan Minzhi was unlikely to fully control the imperial guards, even if he was entrusted with him to be fully responsible for the affairs of the imperial guards in the north and south yamen!

But Chen Yi did this and it was impossible for him to have no follow-up measures. If something unexpected happened, what should he do?

When it was difficult to make a decision, Wu Zetian seemed to have never encountered it several times in her life. But today she really didn't know what to do.

She knew that according to common sense and her behavior, she would definitely attack Chen Yi immediately, list various charges to take him down and deprive him of all his official positions, and even kill him, but she could never make up this decision!

After hearing what Zhou Xing said and his subsequent statement, he did not say anything. Helan Minzhi said anxiously: "Auntie, Chen Yi does not want you to be the rule of the court. If you want to be the emperor, he will firmly oppose it! Today he dares to do this, ignore your orders, ignore the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and openly hijack important prisoners from the Dali Temple prison. That means he does not take you seriously at all, and does not take the laws of the Tang Dynasty seriously. He wants to be the emperor. Such a person with a scorpion heart, you can no longer tolerate him. You must bring him to justice..."

Seeing that Wu Zetian heard what he said, he still did not express his opinion immediately, and he was hesitant and unable to make decisions. Helan Minzhi was even more anxious. Of course, he also knew that Chen Yi dared to do this and would never be overwhelmed by passion. He did not care about doing this. With his understanding of Chen Yi's style of doing things, his brother-in-law was very capable and thought about things carefully.

In addition, Chen Yi has so many talented people who dare to go to the Dali Temple prison to rob the prison. It is impossible not to make any arrangements. At that moment, he was eager to urge Wu Zetian to say: "Auntie, you must be punished and you will suffer the chaos. No matter how capable Chen Yi is, if you are not used by you, it will be a disaster. You cannot let it go. Today he did such a thing, you must..."

Before Helan Minzhi could finish his words, he was interrupted by a sudden voice: "Uncle Minzhi said this! Did I ever think of using any means to the Empress Dowager? I asked myself that I didn't do anything too much to you, why did you have such resentment towards me and want to get rid of me?"

With the sound, Chen Yi walked out from behind the curtain, saluted Wu Zetian, who was looking at him in surprise with a faint expression, and then saluted to Helan Minzhi, who was stunned and said, "Uncle, I heard what you said just now. Your mouth is too poisonous, and you have called me a sinner who is unforgivable! I guess the Queen Mother wouldn't agree with what Uncle Minzhi said, right?"

"You...how did you come into the palace?" Helan Minzhi trembled his fingers, as if he had finally come to his senses, pointed at Chen Yi in horror and said: "Dangerous Chen Yi, you dare to enter the palace privately! What do you want to do?"

"Auntie, look at Chen Yi who is so brave that he dares to break into your bedroom without your consent at night without your permission. If you break into the palace privately, it is an unforgivable crime. Please ask your aunt to immediately order Chen Yi to be taken down!"

"My uncle is too anxious. Even if he wants to take me down, he will have to give an order in person!"

Chen Yi said, walked to Wu Zetian and bowed again, "Empress Dowager, because I have reported something very important, I have broken into your bedroom without regard for etiquette. If there is something abrupt, please punish me!"

Wu Zetian stopped the furious Helan Minzhi from continuing to scold something, walked to Chen Yi with a blank expression, looked at it for a while, sighed and said quietly: "Chen Yi, are you planning to show up with me today? Are you trying to use the Wei Xuantong incident to force me to make a choice?"

Unexpectedly, Wu Zetian had expected this. Chen Yi was slightly surprised, but he still looked at Wu Zetian without retreating and replied in a calm tone: "Empress Dowager, I actually think that you should be satisfied with handling the affairs of the court on behalf of the emperor. You should not think of standing up and becoming the emperor! To replace the descendants of the Li family as the emperor, most ministers in the court will not agree, and I also disagree. Today I just want to persuade the Empress Dowager not to be the emperor, don’t create any more momentum, don’t clean up those officials who are unwilling to obey your orders. The Tang Dynasty needs stability, the rapid development of economy and people’s livelihood requires a stable environment. There has been too much turmoil in recent years, and now, great turmoil is coming soon. Even the prime minister like Wei Xuantong, who is in the Political Affairs Hall, can be arrested and detained secretly. What else will not happen?"

Without waiting for Wu Zetian to say anything, Chen Yi immediately said: "Empress Dowager, you have been in charge of the Tang Dynasty for so many years. The contributions you have made to the Tang Dynasty will be remembered forever. I think you also hope that the people in the world will remember your wisdom and greatness, and do not want you to leave the image of cruelty, greed, and no means to do anything for power?"

Hearing Chen Yi say this, Helan Minzhi can no longer hold it back and roared: "Chen Yi, you are too presumptuous! You dare to speak to the Empress Dowager like this." He was furious and roared outside: "Come here, take Chen Yi down quickly and wait for the Empress Dowager to deal with it!"

When Helan Minzhi acted so overstepping his power, Wu Zetian sighed and did not stop him. He just turned his head over and lowered his eyes and pondered.

However, due to the surprise of Wu Zetian and Helan Minzhi, after shouting, no one rushed in and took Chen Yi down.

Helan Minzhi, whose anger was getting more and more angry, shouted again, and shouted a few times in a row, but he still didn't respond. He rushed out of the hall and shouted loudly at the outside, but no one responded to him. The entire Xianju Palace was silent. He saw no one, except for a little Yu who was waiting outside without expression and was about to be told by Chen Yi.

Xiaoyu did not let Helan Minzhi rush out of the hall.

"Empress Dowager, I want to say a few words to you alone. Please let Uncle Minzhi go out first!" Chen Yi still looked calm and said to Wu Zetian.

"Chen Yi, have you brought someone to control this place?" Wu Zetian's eyes flashed with awesome anger. He took two steps and approached Chen Yi, and said murderously: "You brought the imperial guards to the Xianju Hall and wanted to force the palace to make concessions with force. Is that true?"

"Empress Dowager, I just don't want turmoil in the palace, I have no other intentions. I know that I can talk to the Empress Dowager calmly!" Chen Yi was not afraid at all and still stood like this. "I don't want my uncle Minzhi to make trouble here. I just want to make things clear with you, Empress Dowager. I don't want any conflicts with the Empress Dowager!"

"Chen Yi, don't be too arrogant. This is the Empress Dowager's palace, and it's not your turn to speak!" Helan Minzhi was almost furious when he heard Chen Yi say this. "Empress Dowager, call in immediately and take Chen Yi down. It's not his turn to be arrogant here!"

"Minzhi, you go out first. Since Chen Yi asked this, then my aunt would have a good chat with him!"

"Auntie, Queen Mother..."

"Minzhi, be obedient, go out! Just wait in the outer hall, don't come in, come in after my aunt and Chen Yi finished talking!" Wu Zetian said, ignoring Helan Minzhi's request, and walked to the inner room.

Chen Yi sent out a secret code, and Xiaoyu immediately walked in and bowed to Helan Minzhi and said, "Duke Zhou, please follow me to the outer hall to wait!"

Helan Minzhi glared at Xiaoyu with a expressionless face, and there was no fear on her face. She glared at Chen Yi viciously, and walked out with her sleeves!

Chen Yi sighed, followed Wu Zetian and walked into the inner room! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!