Three days later, Dunhua Fang was captured, but, interestingly, the people in Dunhua Fang were gone at this time and all were transferred away. Wu Zetian was furious and directly issued an order to determine that all the people in Dunhua Fang were rebellious.

Then Wu Zetian began to read the will: "Seven days in the coffin, the crown prince ascends the throne in front of the coffin. The garden and tomb system must be frugal. If there is no decision on military and national affairs, please let the queen deal with it."

The ministers were posthumously named Emperor Emperor and the temple name Gaozong.

Two days later, he was buried in Qianling Mausoleum.

He then allowed Li Hong to succeed to the throne and become the emperor. However, after Li Hong became the emperor, he was directly under house arrest in the palace, and had no pre-reported political affairs and began his life as a puppet emperor. Not only did he not go in and out of the palace at will, he could not even act freely in the palace.

At this time, Wu Zetian had already regarded Li Hong as a stumbling block for him, so Wu Zetian already had the power to rule the country from behind the curtain, but he was still not satisfied. Now Wu Zetian had already thought of the throne of the emperor.

So at this time, she suddenly realized that the children had become her biggest obstacle. From love to hate, only one thought is needed, family affection is not important at all.

Then Wu Zetian directly put Li Hong and all his children under house arrest. In order to purge the court, Wu Zetian ordered the manufacture of copper pots (a copper box, similar to a report box and a box for revenge), placed it in front of Chang'an Palace City, and divided into Yan'en (providing tributes, those who seek official careers surrender), recruiting advice (those who talk about the gains and losses of the government surrender), seeking justice (those who have wronged suppression surrender), and Tongxuan (those who talk about the celestial phenomena and disasters and military secret schemes surrender) and accept the world's memorials at any time.

This move opens up the road of communication in order to deliberately cleanse the Tang sects.

Wu Zetian was the supervisor of the royal family and ministers, and stipulated that anyone could inform the informant. Anyone who was a whistleblower was not allowed to interrogate privately, and the state would provide him with chariots and horses and food. Even if he was a farmer and woodcutter, Wu Zetian would personally receive the matter. If the informant was in line with the will, he could be promoted. If it was not the fact, he would not be punished, so the informant from all directions rose up.

As long as Li You were sued for all the rebels, all the people who rebel were promoted, at this time, Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen, Hou Sizhi and others were granted the position of being in charge of prisons by informing them, forming a "rude official politics". Once the defendants were thrown into this prison, the cruel officials would use various tortures to interrogate them, and there were no one who could be released from prison alive. In this way, with the increasing trend of informing, the number of people who were tortured and killed by cruel officials was increasing. Therefore, "everyone in court was in danger, and no one dared to speak when they met." Every time the ministers went to court, they would bid farewell to their families.

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"The imperial edict is here..."

"puff...!"

A team of eunuchs from Chang'an who were busy with dust were directly killed. A total of fifteen people were all cut off with one knife, clean and neat, without any drag.

At this time, Li You walked out of the tent, with tears in his eyes, and then he heard Li You's order: "The whole army returns to Beijing..."

Fifty thousand troops were left in Goguryeo, and the remaining 300,000 Tang troops began to return to Beijing in an orderly manner. It was very strange that Li Zhi had already been buried in the sky and had spread to the entire army, but there was nothing unusual in the Tang army at this time, which was very unscientific.

Because you must know that Li You has been defined as a rebel by Wu Zetian's decree. As long as Li You is killed, he can be granted the king, but no soldier in the Tang army has the intention to do so.

On the contrary, after Li You ordered, the army was like a terrifying war machine, turning without any obstacles.

"Your Highness, I want to mourn...!"

Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui and other generals all came to Li You's side. Because Li You's eyes had already explained Li You's pain, everyone came to comfort Li You together.

Li You nodded here: "I didn't expect that he and His Majesty were separated from each other, and I didn't expect that Wu Meiniang would become the queen mother and control the court officials of the whole country. I also became a rebellion. It's great, but I know that as long as one of you takes down my head, you can go to Wu Meiniang to be the king."

As he said that, Li You laughed.

But all the generals present knelt down and shouted: "The general dare not...!"

"Hey...!" With a sigh, Li You said slightly: "I know you don't dare to do it. I just say it. I don't know what I did wrong. Let's get up... Let's go back to Beijing and meet that Wu Meiniang. I want to see, how does she want to treat my Li family's Tang Dynasty?"

After saying that, Li You walked into the tent.

The news of Li You returning to Beijing was sent back to Chang'an. Wu Zetian followed him and immediately issued an order, saying that all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty must fight bravely to kill the enemy. Anyone who killed Li You can be awarded a king and a bounty of 100,000 yuan.

These rewards are generous, but what Wu Zetian did not expect was that Li You arrived in Youzhou three days later. The governor of Youzhou led all the soldiers out of the city to welcome Li You in person, and he did not want to fight with Li You at all.

Not only that, Yunzhou, Daizhou, Taiyuan Prefecture, Luzhou, Bianzhou, Luozhou, Puzhou, and directly to Chang'an... Li You was unobstructed along the way, and Wu Zetian kept issuing orders in the Chang'an Palace, to be crowned with a king, 100,000 gold, to the princess, to the king's land, Wu Zetian gave everything he could, but no one dared to stop Li You.

Especially on the day Li You arrived in Chang'an, all the people from Wu Zetian fled in scattered and Wu Zetian herself was panicked. She didn't know why this happened and why those troops did not attack Li You.

I have already given such high conditions, why didn't any of those troops dare to use force against Li You? Even after Li You arrived in Chang'an, all his original confidants fled.

Wu Zetian couldn't figure out what was wrong and why this situation happened.

It is undeniable that Wu Zetian is very powerful, but Wu Zetian can take the position of the emperor, which has more or less a lot of luck. Wu Zetian took the position of the emperor because of Li Zhi and Changsun Wuji almost ruined the Li family who had some ability.

Following Li Zhi's backhand, he defeated Changsun Wuji and let Wu Zetian's people control the government, so Wu Zetian could control these people smoothly. More importantly, Li Zhi was still there at that time, and with Li Zhi in Wu Zetian was orthodox.

But now Li Zhi is in vain and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty has not yet perished. The fool knows what to do. Another thing is that Li You's reputation is so famous. He used to be the King of Qi, and later he was General Tiance.

More importantly, he was the fifth son of Taizong. The legitimate son in front of him died. The emperor's position was Li You. This is what the people want, and Wu Zetian could not change it. As long as he thought he was Tang minister, how could he hand over his destiny to the hands of a surname Wu?

What's more, the man surnamed Wu also sued a report, so no one would follow Wu Zetian.

Li You stood outside Chang'an City and sighed slightly. At this time, Yu Zhining, Shangguan Yi and other prime ministers and officials came to greet him. After seeing Li You, all the officials knelt down and were crying. You must know that Wu Zetian had caused all the officials to suffer.

Because Wu Zetian knew that he still had resistance, he directly dealt with the old ministers of Li Tang... In less than a month and a half, at least more than 200 old ministers of Li Tang were tortured.

Those who do not bow their heads will die, and those who bow their heads will be injured.

In order to get the so-called prisoner he caught to confess, Zhou Xing also performed a lot of tortures, such as "determining the hundred meridians" and "losing the soul and courage", because these methods are too cruel, people who come in often become weak without time to use torture, and they will eventually be executed by Zhou Xing casually.

There is also Lai Junchen. At first, Lai Junchen was just a gangster in the market, stealing and fighting, and doing things was a matter of no reason. Wu Zetian knew it very well, but this kind of person was what she needed. It would be better for people without bottom lines to do something like this. In this way, Lai Junchen became an official by harming others.

There is a saying that big things turn into small things, small things turn into small things. But Lai Junchen just wants to do the opposite. Often, a very small case will become a big case that will be unforgivable under his arrangement, and these big cases are basically related to rebellion. Because it is fatal to be involved in rebellion, this approach is to be the only one who wants to be Wu Ze. It just takes the opportunity to eliminate some people, and then involve some of them on the way, which means everyone is happy.

In order to make the arrested people arouse, Lai Junchen also invented some tortures: cranes spread their wings, dragonflies stand upside down, etc. The families of officials who died in these tortures reached a horrifying hundreds.

After hearing this, Li You cried and said directly: "Zhou Xing killed, Lai Junchen, killed, Wan Guojun, killed...!"

"Get the order..." Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui got the order immediately. After that, all the officials were very happy and continued to say, "The informing system was abolished... Now, are you willing to go to the Daming Palace for me?"

"I am willing to...!"

All the officials bowed down, and afterwards, Li You and his group came to the Daming Palace in a mighty manner. Wherever they went, all the guards put down their weapons and fell to their knees on the ground. No one dared to resist Li You.

Soon, Li You brought all the officials to the Daming Palace. At this time, in the Daming Palace, Li Hong was sitting on the dragon throne, Wu Zetian was sitting behind the curtain, and Yang Qu stood beside Li Hong.

"Uncle...!" Seeing Li You, Li Hong shouted excitedly, and then tears fell. However, Wu Zetian shouted on it: "Li You, you are so ruthless. The Ai family is the empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Hong is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Do you dare to steal the throne of your nephew? Do you want to be ridiculed by the world?"

At this time, Wu Zetian was still fantasizing, fantasizing that Li You dared not touch Li Hong, and imagined that Li You could share the country with her.

"However, you are always Li Hong's uncle, so the Ai family suggested that you can become the regent and participate in the government affairs with the Ai family, so that everyone can be happy, wouldn't it be better?" Wu Zetian looked at Li You with some expectations.

But Li You didn't say anything, but Yang Qu on the side said slightly: "You are not worthy yet..." After that, in Wu Zetian's shock, he walked to Li Hong's dragon throne and pulled out a Li Zhi's will from the armrest of the dragon throne.

In fact, this is the real Li Zhi's will. Since Li Zhi's health became worse and worse, he had already written the will early. The content of the will was that if he was burying the sky before he was fifty, the throne would be directly passed to Li You, the King of Qi of the Tang Dynasty.

I hope Li You can take good care of the people of the Tang Dynasty instead of Li Zhi's will, and I hope to take good care of Princess Jinyang and other brothers and sisters. Li Zhi always believed that his fifth brother was more suitable for being an emperor than him.

After the will was read, Li Mingda immediately shouted in vain: "Brother Ninth..." and then fell into Li You's arms, and knelt down with all the ministers and shouted: "Meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor...!"

Wu Zetian ran out from behind the curtain in panic and shouted: "Impossible, Impossible, this is a fake will, this is Li You's conspiracy, the son of the Ai family is the emperor, the Ai family is the queen mother, Li You, you are ruthless."

"My Mother... do you still have such obsession?" Li Hong stood up from the dragon throne and cried, "My Mother, what did you use to poison your father? I saw that the father died of blood from seven holes. You killed your father and placed me under house arrest. What do you want to do?"

"Mystery...you dare to poison my ninth brother..." Li Mingda widened his eyes and became excited.

"Haha...haha..." Wu Zetian suddenly burst into laughter, followed him crazy and ran directly on the dragon throne, then sat down and shouted: "All my beloveds, I am the Emperor Wu Zhao, I am the Emperor Wu Zhao...!"

However, Yang Qu pulled it down. Li You walked to the next side of the dragon throne step by step, touched Li Hong's head and said, "Don't worry, Hong'er, uncle will not wrongly a good person, nor will he wrongly a bad person...!"

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In 661 AD, King Li You of Qi ascended the throne and became emperor, with the reign of Zhenyuan... Crown Prince Li Zhan, Empress Quan Zhixi, and Princess Li Mingda... Three months later, Wu Zetian hanged himself.

King Li You of Qi valued the use of people, attached importance to education, rewarded production, etc. He personally ordered that all people actively open land and farm, develop farmland, increase production, and rewarded. If production is not done well, people's lives will be unstable, and local officials will be removed from their posts during the year-end assessment.

He also promoted a large number of talents in an extraordinary manner and encouraged his subordinates to recommend talents to his superiors. In addition, he also restricted and cracked down on the powerful nobles in his hands to make them politically enlightened.

The national population at that time was 3.8 million, but ten years later, the national population reached 6.1 million.

"Fifth Brother..." In the Daming Palace, Li Mingda came to Li You's side, leaning on Li You as usual, feeling his sister's dependence. Li You smiled and said, "What's wrong today? Is it because I'm afraid of getting married? You know that Baoer has been waiting for you for thirty years...!"

"Hmph... He made a profit even if he waited for a lifetime." Li Mingda was slightly proud.

Li You laughed: "Of course, my squid is the best girl in the world. What is Xiao Baoer? If he Xiao Baoer dares to bully you, I will issue an order to lock him up."

"Hehe... it's better for Fifth Brother to treat Aizi, but Fifth Brother... I don't know why I miss Ninth Brother. I just dreamed that Ninth Brother smiled at me."

"Is that right?" Li You also smiled: "He may be too happy. His long-standing sister is finally getting married, so come and congratulate her quickly."

"What did you say...who is the long-term disaster?" After saying that, Li Mingda began to squeak Li You. Li You was afraid of itch and could only beg for mercy with a smile. At this moment, under a candlelight, a shadow also smiled.

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Chapter completed!