In the fourth year of Xianqing (659 AD), the 14th day of the seventh month of autumn was less than two minutes.

Wu Kang left the Prince Consort's Mansion and returned to the Wu house of Xiuzhenfang. He found a carriage at the door. Such luxurious decorations and such atmospheric colors could only be the queen's car. He couldn't help laughing, Mei Niang couldn't help but come to praise me. I guess the most excited person is to count her besides cheating Li Zhi.

He stepped off the horse in the stirrup, threw the reins to Lao Chu, and walked into the door. Two children were playing, four-year-old Li Xian, his precious daughter, was playing on the swing. The two were childhood sweethearts, and the charming mother was lying on the mandarin ducks, which made people speechless.

Li Xian wore a gorgeous Confucian robe. When he saw Wu Kang coming back, he immediately asked the palace servant to stop. He trotted over and had a good manner: Xian'er had met his uncle. Nao Nao was serious, bowed in a good manner, and called him daddy in a good manner.

Wu Kang had a headache in an instant, and the girl was too old to stay. The crazy wild girl turned into a dignified lady in front of her Xian's cousin. She rolled her eyes helplessly, leaned over and picked up Nao Nao, and told Li Xian to avoid being treated and to pull his little hands into the house.

Mei Niang Xiaoqing came out and saw the harmonious scene. She smiled slightly. She said hello and the whole family entered the living room and found a seat to sit down. When Wu Kang saw Ganzao, he suddenly had a whim and said to the two juniors: "You both come here, they both widen their eyes and make magic tricks for you."

Nao Nao immediately cheered, Li Xian was excited, Mei Niang and Xiao Qing were helpless, the upper beam was not straight, the lower beam was crooked. Wu Kang didn't care, rolled up his sleeves high, grabbed three red dates, and pressed them into the teacup separately. He took a chopstick casually, tapped the bottom of the teacup. Finally, he stopped on the left, moved quickly to the middle, and shouted "Go in".

When he opened the left teacup, the dried dates disappeared, and the child exclaimed. Wu Kang was very satisfied. He lifted the teacup in the middle and the two dried dates below. Naoba applauded, Li Xian was stunned, his expression was unbelievable, and his eyes were full of admiration.

Mei Niang was also novel and turned her head to look at Xiaoqing, and at the same time, she flashed a cunning look. Wu Kang used the same trick again and turned the dried dates on his right into the teacup in the middle. Then she continued to show off, and the three dates in the middle teacup changed to both sides, which made Li Xian applaud.

The magic performance continued. Li Xian checked the teacup, rolled up his sleeves and robe high, pressed the teacup tightly with his arms, turned his head and frowned. Wu Kang didn't care and continued to pretend. After shouting, he went in and flipped through the teacup, but was hugged by Nao Nao.

Li Xian smiled and slowly lifted the teacup, but the dried dates did not change. He pretended to be a failure, and Wu Kang looked embarrassed and glared at his daughter. If the girl was older than the older one, she would join forces with outsiders to destroy her father's position.

The two children were so happy that Xiaoqing rolled her eyes straight, and Mei Niang smiled and smoothed the scene: "The key to this illusion is Kang Lang's hand speed. He lifted the teacup and took the date in his hand, causing the illusion of disappearance. Then he put it into the target bowl without realizing it. Isn't that true?"

You are so smart, that's it. You give your thumbs up and give it a thumbs up and teach Li Xian: "Xian'er keeps it in mind. All the illusions are tricks, and practice makes perfect. Go to the amusement room to play, come back to have a meal on time, and pay attention to safety."

The two of them immediately cheered, hand in hand and left quickly, leaving everyone helpless. The three of them sat opposite each other, and the servant served hot tea, Xiaoqing said first: "Kang Lang has seen Xincheng, how is her condition? Has it improved? Can you take care of Erya?"

Wu Kang sighed helplessly, shook his head slightly and said, "Heart disease needs to be treated with medicine. I have already given a strong medicine. I hope it will work. If you have time, go see her. It is better to have someone to chat with her than torment alone."

The two nodded at the same time, Xiaoqing couldn't help but sigh. Mei Niang was struggling for a few moments and quietly changed the topic: "Yesterday, A Niang entered the palace and talked about her title, and wanted to become a first-rank lady. I discussed with the saint and I will raise A Niang's title when I visit Bingzhou next year."

The couple knew it well. Yang had an objection, no wonder there were few contacts. She was a wife of the first-rank country, and Xiaoqing was a wife of the first-rank country. She was envious and jealous. She confirmed each other's eyes, and Xiaoqing looked kind and said: "Auntie is an elder, and my decree is higher than her, so I feel very uncomfortable. I'm sorry to report that I'm willing to lower the decree."

Mei Niang was a little embarrassed and looked at the two and said, "The saint means that Xiaoqing is still the wife of Chu, and the imperial decree was demoted to the first rank. Two hundred households were added to the fiefs, and two choices were given, Zhengzhou Xingyang County or Wuzhou Dongyang County, which one do you choose?"

The couple was shocked. Xiao Qingshi was granted two thousand households, and another two hundred households were added, exceeding most princes. When they exchanged opinions, Wu Kang laughed and said, "Please choose Xingyang County. Wuzhou is too far away. I don't want to bother Zhang Jianzhi. It doesn't matter to me whether it is the actual benefits."

Xiaoqing nodded in agreement, Mei Niang relieved her embarrassment and began to express her feelings: "Grandpa went there early, and my mother worked hard and pulled us sisters, and suffered too much. Now the conditions are getting better. I want her to enjoy a happy life, but I am ashamed of you."

It's really shameful. Wu Kang secretly complained that the old witch was not a good-looking lamp. Enjoy your old age well, why did you jump out to act a monster? She hated the Wu family and killed Yuan Qing. Do you still want to kill me? But then again, Mei Niang is quite filial. Knowing that demoting the official family would be detrimental to her, she still obeyed the Yang family.

The atmosphere improved slightly, Mei Niang no longer had any worries and said something happy: "Just three days ago, the revision of the "Subscription" was completed, and the saint wrote the preface himself. It included 245 surnames and 2,287 families, and the families were divided into nine grades. Does Kang Lang know that our Wu family is the first-class family."

Wu Kang was stunned for a moment and soon laughed out loud. This was a farce. Li Er compiled the "Clan Chronicle", improving the status of the Li family, belittling the five surnames and seven hopes, and was regarded as a laughing stock by the wealthy families. Mei Niang became the queen, and Xu Jingzong flattered her and immediately wrote to Li Zhi, saying that the "Clan Chronicle" did not have the original hope of the queen, and suggested re-compiling it.

At that time, Li Yifu was not in the "Clan Chronicle", and he was quite dissatisfied and suggested re-revision. Li Jiu agreed happily and ordered Kong Zhiyou, the Minister of Rites, and Yang Renqing, the author, to change the "Clan Chronicle" to "Surname Record".

He was even more cruel than Li Er. All officials above the fifth rank were included. It was necessary to know that it would cause an uproar in the gentry and add only jokes. The so-called "Clan Records" let's go to read jokes together; the so-called "Secret Names Records" let's watch jokes together.

Xiaoqing held back her smile and winked from time to time. The Cui family's first-class surname is recognized by the world, and her husband's name is not true. Those who recognize "Secret Names" are only poor and common people, who have no wealthy background, but they are swollen and fat.

Wu Kang felt nothing, but Mei Niang said firmly: "Kang Lang, don't underestimate the family background. Your mentor Su Dingfang has always been excluded by the geniuses because he was from a commoner. He had such great military achievements until he was in his sixties and was promoted to general."

The atmosphere was awkward again, Wu Kang smiled bitterly, Lao Su was very sorry and was suppressed everywhere. Thinking of Chongfu Temple, he asked Mei Niang tentatively: "That day, I met Shangguan Yi's daughter-in-law at Chongfu Temple. She seemed to hate me very much. She looked full of contempt and looked arrogant. Is it really because she was born in the Zheng family in Xingyang?"

At the same time, Xiaoqing snorted coldly, "I'm going to return the Cui family in Qinghe, and the Zheng family in Xingyang, what's so great about it? Husband, you don't know. I've met her, and I look arrogant and I really hate her. Let's ignore her."

Mei Niang flashed a cruelty and gritted her teeth and said, "When Kang Lang was in trouble, Shangguan Yi went to prison to break off the engagement, and she was simply not a son. My sister couldn't understand, her character was so dirty, so how could she be qualified to be a prince's servant? What the saint didn't know what she thought was that she didn't agree to the replacement, and she felt sorry for my Honger."

Wu Kang didn't comment, let alone the prince's wife, he would still be the minister in the future. After half a minute of silence, Mei Niang thought of something, quickly frowned and stared at Xiaoqing and said, "Kang Lang has been back from the war for more than half a year. Why is your stomach not reacting at all?"

With naked accusations, Xiaoqing's eyes were slightly red and she lowered her head aggrievedly. Wu Kang was reluctant to leave and smiled to smooth things over: "It is uncontrollable to have a child, Mei Niang, don't blame her. When we come back from the war, we will continue to work hard, and our son will always have it."

Mei Niang shook her head again: "There are three kinds of unfilial piety, no descendants are the best, don't smile. Otherwise, the saint travels to Bingzhou, and Xiaoqing follows me. There is an old woman in Bingzhou, who is 93 years old this year. She is good at treating women's diseases and let her diagnose Xiaoqing."

Xiaoqing nodded obediently, and Wu Kang continued to smooth things over: "If we have no trouble, we will have no health problems. Mei Niang should not be too harsh. But then again, you can go to Bingzhou, just treat it as you are traveling. Don't talk about this topic. I will go to war tomorrow, what explanation will I have?"

At the same time, he sneered at the same time, and there was no explanation, and you didn't listen to it even after he said it. Wu Kang laughed dryly and changed the topic again: "According to time, in the past two days, the censor arrived in Qianzhou. My sister's confidant troubles will completely disappear. It's a joyful congratulations."

Mei Niang smiled slightly and stretched out her thumb to like: "Thanks to our Kang Lang, we have made the entire plan to eradicate our old enemy. I'm afraid no one would have thought that the Changsun family, with a deep root, would be defeated by a few poplar trees. What did you say to him before Yuan Gongyu set off and what did you say to Wuji?"

Wu Kang pretended to be profound and said that the secrets of heaven should not be revealed, which made the two of them sneer. At this time, the servant reported that the meal was ready, and the three of them stopped talking and went to the backyard for dinner. When they walked into the yard, Mei Niang stopped and watched, which was exactly the direction of Qianzhou.

Jiangnan Road, Qianzhou City, Pengshui County, Wujiangfang Governor's house, 50 Qianzhou holds a knife and sticks to the surroundings of the house. Suddenly, he hears the sound of horse hooves, holds a knife and asks the sound, and sees the black knight. He is wearing a green robe and holding a thousand ox sword in his hand, surrounding the two riders.

The crowd lined up quickly with swords. This was the guards in front of the imperial guards, and they could not afford to offend them. The horse team stopped at the door, and the Zhongshu Sheren and Dali Zheng. Yuan Gongyu, who was 45 years old, waved his hand to the sword team and waved indifferently. The sword captain understood and saluted respectfully first, and then led the team to leave.

The guards dismounted and warned them to take their place. The courtyard was drained. The two men opened the door. Yuan Gongyu glanced at Song Zhishun. The two of them dismounted at the same time and walked into the gate of the governor's house. The servant led the way, went outside the study room in the backyard, and gently pushed open the door.

The guard rushed in, checked carefully for a long time, and according to Yuan Gongyu's instructions, he pushed the paper and pen on the desk. The table was moved under the beam of the house, and the white silk was thrown over the beam, and the two ends were tied into a knot. He pulled it hard, then lifted the desk, put the white silk on the bench, and the execution ground was built.

Changsun Wuji sat cross-legged, put down the books in his hand, looked up at Baisai, looked down at the censor, turned his head to look outside the door. Soon, he flashed disappointment, sat up straight and said lightly: "Since the sixth year of Yonghui, I want to have a long talk with Wu Kang, but unfortunately I have no chance. Maybe God is destined to never have a chance."

Yuan Gongyu saluted and sat opposite him and said, "I followed the army to fight. I asked me to give a few words to the governor to judge. Ling Yan first painted, and the Zhenguan administration made great achievements. He worked hard and devoted his efforts to forge Yonghui. Tang Dynasty rules and regulations, annotated rituals and history, and those who were wise ministers in ancient times were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were loyal to the ministers, Kang ministers were frank and officials were famous in history, and Kang was infamous for thousands of years."

Wuji smiled, Yuan Gongyu continued: "The nine-rank central system is the first-rank system, and there are no poor families at the top, and there are no nobles at the lowest-rank. It lasted for thousands of years. Until the prosperous Tang Dynasty, culture and education gradually flourished, and the common people expected to be officials. The imperial examination system was prospering, the family politics collapsed, and it was the general trend. Those who follow suit prospered and those who rebelled were destroyed."

After being silent for a long time, Wuji smiled bitterly, but he still did not comment. Yuan Gongyu sighed and continued to pass on the message: "Therefore, the one who killed the Gong is not the saint queen, but the wheel of history. In the old days, the swallows in front of the King and Xie Hall flew into the homes of ordinary people, and Changsun Gong walked all the way."

After conveying the content, Yuan Gongyu sighed lightly and said with confidence: "It sounds incredible at first glance. I appreciate every word and the word "ghost" is correct. This is the general trend. There is also a poem about change: Zhou Gong is afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble and respectful before he usurped the time, so he died in the first place. Who knows the authenticity of his life? So Changsun Gong, don't blame the saints, and don't hate Wu Kang."

The low laughter gradually rose, and the laughter became more and more unrestrained, until tears burst out. After a long time, he sighed and said, "When a person is about to die, his words are good, so he will tell Wu Kang on his behalf. The saint cannot tolerate him, and it will not last more than three years. He will follow my footsteps. In addition, he told him that the saint sleeps very lightly and the mosquitoes and butterflies will wake up."

Yuan Gongyu didn't understand why, so he thought about it for a long time and nodded his head gently. Wuji stood up, rubbed his sore legs and numb feet, and walked towards Hu Tang. The Censor came to support him. Wuji threw away the Censor and stepped on Hu Tang alone. He hung white silk on his neck, closed his eyes lightly, and kicked Hu Tang under his feet.

His thin body swayed, and the amplitude became smaller and smaller until it was completely still. His era was over. Yuan Gongyu was deeply moved and drafted Wuji's confession. The Yangzhou governor committed suicide fearing his crime. The censors signed the autographs and pressed Wuji's hand seals, and the case was finalized.

He ordered the guards to put down Wuji's body and bury them as planned. After being buried in a hurry, the team immediately returned to the north and returned to the capital on August 25th. As expected, the saint cried again and took his anger at the imperial envoy.

Yuan Gongyu was removed from office, but he didn't care. He just acted like a show. In less than three months, he would be restored to his post. Thinking of Wuji's words, after careful consideration, he ruled out the need to see the wife of Chu. If the change has already gone to war, it will cause criticism.

He went to Xu Jingzong and asked him to tell the queen, but unexpectedly, his grandson avoided him. He had no choice but to go to Li Yi Mansion. He had just been transferred back to the capital and promoted to the Minister of Personnel and was promoted to the third rank of the Secretariat. Old Li agreed to help, let Qianniu prepare for Li Yang, find an opportunity during patrol, and handed the secret letter to the queen.

On the second day of the September 2nd, Mei Niang received the letter and her eyes turned black and she almost fainted on the spot. She had been sleeping together for seven years, only knowing that the saint was sleeping heavily and she was hiding so deeply. Thinking of the Wannian Palace to save the car, Kang Lang saved himself first, and the saint must know.

He was frightened and immediately turned over the Tang Lu comments and wrote a top-secret letter in Arabic numerals. On the tenth day of September, the opportunity finally came. The emperor visited Luoyang Palace, and the prince Li Hong was supervising the country. Mei Niang sent a confidant eunuch to pursue Wu Kang along the official road, and repeatedly told him to hand it over to him.

Su Dingfang's pacification army arrived at Daohe Prefecture, Longyou, and southwest of Kuanghan County. Wu Kang was bored and studied the marching map. Based on the memories of later generations, he quickly came to a conclusion. This is Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, probably southwest of Linxia County.

Jishi Mountain in the northwest is still called Jishi Mountain. I visited it in my previous life. I was puzzled. This place is two thousand meters above sea level and is close to the border of Tuhun Valley. Why do I march here? Fortunately, it was elite cavalry and the plateau reaction was not serious. After asking repeatedly, Lao Su was unwilling to say it, and he was too lazy to ask more questions, and he was quite lacking in interest.

The map was put into the calculation bag, and looked at the white horses around him, carrying tarpaulins and wooden poles, which were used to set up tents. This was a war horse, prepared for Wang Fangyi, but the bastard actually let me go. His flattery was effective. When Li Jiu heard the report, he immediately climaxed. He sent an imperial edict on the same day and appointed him as the governor of Suzhou (Jiuquan City, Gansu Province).

The matter was too coincidental, and Wu Kang even thought that Li Jiu did it on purpose. He knew that Wang Fangyi was a talent, but he didn't want us to have an intersection and would not let him turn to the queen. If this is true, he would be too cautious. Is it because of the demotion of the Wu brothers, and he must have deliberately suppressed the so-called relatives of the foreign country?

Seeing that he was depressed, Su Dingfang joked: "Without Wang Fangyi, there is still a martial arts change, I don't care. Don't be depressed. Now my apprentice is the first-class surname in the Tang Dynasty. I am extremely envious."

The guard laughed, Wu Kang felt embarrassed, and Old Su's head became bad. The laughter became louder and louder, and Su Dingfang made fun of him again: "I heard from the scholars in Hezhou that the imperial court issued an imperial edict to prohibit intermarriage from five surnames and seven hopes. It is stipulated that the amount of money received by marrying a daughter is not allowed to be collected by accompanying the family. Bianzhi told me, how much money did he take with his family when he married the Cui family's daughter?"

The guard burst into laughter, Wu Kang sneered and said proudly: "Tell you that Lao Sutou didn't get half a penny for the so-called family finances, but he took a lot of dowry. When he first arrived in Wuzhou, he was a poor boy. His wife fell in love with me and made a lifelong decision with me."

Everyone booed, obviously not convinced, Qian Shun immediately supported: "The boss is right. I will testify to the boss, and all the brothers in Wuzhou can testify. The wife came to the yamen and hooked up that day. The brothers said something."

Wuying responded in an orderly manner, Suying booed and the atmosphere was very warm. Old Su picked up his long beard and said seriously: "Cui's wise eyes and knew you deeply, and he could not let you down. But then again, people are proud of marrying women from five surnames. This decree of the court is of no use."

Wu Kang deeply agreed, this is a joke, it must have become an empty text. Five surnames and seven hopes intermarriage, and the foreign surnames marrying women of five surnames requires huge bride gifts, which is called family wealth. People in the world are happy. Most of the people who marry huge bride gifts are women born in vain. Xiaoqing, a direct descendant, basically does not marry foreign surnames.

When he remembered that he had a dinner with his colleagues before going to war, Li Yang was frowning. His father, Li Yi's mansion, asked him for a marriage to the Cui family, but the Cui family refused directly and did not consider it at all. It was probably because Old Li held a grudge and maliciously wrote a letter to retaliate, which made such a ridiculous government order?

It felt boring and had nothing to do with me, so I changed the topic: "We left Guannei, and did not follow the Silk Road, but followed the Tea-Horse Road. Why? To be honest, is there a secret order?"

Old Su smiled and said lightly: "Last year, Tubo attacked Tuhun Valley and destroyed the prisons of our dynasty. By the end of the year, Lu Dongzan came to Chang'an and brought great gifts and peace talks. He asked our dynasty to admit that Tuhun Valley returned to them and requested marriage to marry each other, but they were rejected by the saints."

There was such a thing, thinking about the provocation of the Tubo Deputy Prime Minister at the dynasty meeting. After pondering for a long time, he whispered: "I have a strong premonition that the rebellion of the Siji tribe, may be because of the Tubo inciting the provocation of the relatives of the Tubo family, and the failure of the proposal for revenge."

Su Dingfang nodded: "Not only that, before we set out to fight, Tubo launched a large-scale attack on Tuhun Valley, occupied a large area of ​​land and set up defenses layer by layer. It is estimated that it will not take long before the court will guide Tuhun Valley, so take a detour and check it first."
Chapter completed!