Changsun Wuji made great contributions. In the 17th year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin made great contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty in order to commemorate the twenty-four brothers who made great contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. He ordered the painter Yan Liben to place their portraits on a building called Lingyan Pavilion in the palace for future generations to admire. Changsun Wuji ranked first, which was a great honor for a minister.

When Li Zhi became the emperor, Changsun Wuji made the most efforts and was the minister who was entrusted by Li Shimin. These are enough to show Changsun Wuji's contribution.

However, Changsun Wuji was too obsessed with the power in his hands in his later years, and Changsun Wuji's childhood was very unfortunate.

After his father Changsun Sheng passed away, Changsun Wuji and his sister and mother Gao were driven out of the house by their half-brother Sun Anye and defected to their uncle Gao Shilian.

Gao Shilian married Changsun Wuji's sister to Li Shimin, and later became the wise queen of the ages. Changsun Wuji also followed Li Shimin to fight north and south. When Changsun Anye knew that his sister had become the queen, he probably regretted it.

However, Empress Changsun had a broad mind. She took advantage of past grudges and promoted Changsun Anye, but asked her brother Changsun Wuji to quit her. Their butt was not yet hot. People only saw the wiseness of Empress Changsun, but ignored the other side of the problem, Changsun Wuji's desire for power.

According to historical records, less than half a year after Changsun Wuji served as the Minister of Shangshu, he was reported that he was "excessively favored", which means that he relied on the emperor's favor and over-taken power. After that, Empress Changsun submitted a letter to Li Shimin and severely demanded that his brother resign.

Moreover, Empress Changsun's last words once again mentioned that the emperor would not allow the emperor to promote the Changsun clan to prevent the autocracy of the relatives from being an independent. It seems that Empress Changsun had long discovered the problem of her brother. In this way, Changsun Wuji was forced to live a leisurely life of 16 years of high status and low power in his great years in his life.

Later, when Li Zhi was promoted, Changsun Wuji did make a lot of efforts. In the 17th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin hesitated on the establishment of the crown prince. Changsun Wuji stood up and firmly supported Li Zhi because Li Zhi was in a filial manner. Li Shimin agreed. Afterwards, Li Shimin considered that Li Zhi was too cowardly and wanted to change Li Ke, who was "a heroic martial arts like himself". Changsun Wuji firmly disagreed. Li Shimin asked: "Is it because Li Ke is not your nephew?" Changsun Wuji still said: "The prince is kind and honest, and he really keeps the good master of literature."

As Changsun Wuji said, Renhou made the real reason why he insisted on establishing Li Zhi as the crown prince. Renhou, Renfei, in other words, is weak and easy to control. After Li Zhi ascended the throne, Changsun Wuji's desire for power, which had been suppressed for a long time, completely exploded, and he really regarded him as a weak child.

At the beginning, Li Zhi showed the greatest kindness to Changsun Wuji. At the beginning of the throne, Li Zhi showed high trust in Changsun Wuji, at least on the surface.

In the first year of Yonghui, Li Hongtai, a native of Luoyang, reported Changsun Wuji to rebel. After Li Zhi heard about it, he did not even investigate and ordered Li Hongtai to be beheaded directly. In ancient times, beheadings were usually carried out after autumn. It was spring, and everything was revived and it was not suitable for the execution of criminals. However, Li Zhi asked to do this, with the purpose of killing the chicken to show the monkey and showing outsiders the absolute trust in his uncle.

Later, Yu Zhining advised him, thinking that it was not possible, and thought it would be better to follow the system. Li Zhi saw that the publicity effect had been achieved, and his uncle should know what I wanted to do with him, so he did not force the execution time.

In order to continue to show kindness to Changsun Wuji, the Li Tang royal family married Princess Hengshan into Changsun's family and kinship with her.

Although these were Li You's instructions, Li Zhi also did it in detail. Li Zhi thought that if he did this, his uncle would be moved... But the fact is not the case at all. Changsun Wuji did not feel that Li Zhi respected him, but instead regarded Li Zhi as a little brat and controlled Li Zhi, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, everywhere.

Historical records: "Wuji and Chu Suiliang assisted each other with their hearts, and the emperor respected the two of them and respected them to listen to them." He was very courteous to these two people, and his attitude was particularly low. "Wuji was the uncle of the Yuan Dynasty to assist the government, and everything he said would be praised." No matter what his uncle said, Li Zhi would do it, which made outsiders think a lot, whether the emperor was an uncle or a nephew.

Changsun Wuji was more than twice as old as Li Zhi. He was an old comrade, an old world, rich life experience, and many years of ups and downs in officialdom. He was also a life-threatening minister of the late emperor. His elders, Li Zhi was young and had no contributions in front of him. He was like a little brat, not really recognized by him, let alone regarded as the supreme emperor.

So no matter how good Li Zhi does, these are useless. As time goes by, he has firmly settled and his business becomes more proficient, Li Zhi can't help but feel that this emperor is really boring.

When I was at work, the ministers were polite on the surface, but they were reluctant to let them go as soon as possible. After get off work, they wanted to relax in the harem, but their queen had a stern face every day and had no intention of not being able to do anything.

What made Li Zhi even more speechless was that these two groups of people actually came together. Under the running activities of Queen Wang’s uncle and the Secretary of the Secretariat Liu Shi, Chu Suiliang, Changsun Wuji and others asked to make King Chen Li Zhong the crown prince. Why was Li Zhong?

Because Li Zhong is Li Zhi's eldest son, his mother is a palace maid, she is born in a lowly state, and Queen Wang is infertile, if the queen helps Li Zhong as the crown prince, she will have supporters among the princes.

If Li Zhong inherited the throne in the future, he would definitely be grateful to the queen and would have a support for the rest of his life. On the contrary, if Concubine Xiao Shu's son Li Sujie became the crown prince, the position of queen would be unsecured.

Liu Shi was so active because his official position was largely due to the empress. In the late Zhenguan period, Wang became the crown princess, and Liu Shi was promoted to the Minister of War; in the first year of Yonghui, Wang became the queen, and Liu Shi was promoted to the Minister of the Secretariat: his career and his niece's status almost followed. Since he was the queen's uncle, Li Zhili naturally regarded him as his own person, which was different from the faction of the ministers.

In the first year of Yonghui, Chu Suiliang was demoted to the governor of Tongzhou for his affairs. Li Zhi quickly appointed Liu Shi as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat and replaced Chu Suiliang, hoping that he could play a role. However, seeing that the queen's status was unstable, Liu Shi decisively hooked up with Changsun Wuji and others.

Li Zhi was really sad. At this time, Li Zhi didn't know how much he missed his fifth brother. If his fifth brother was by his side, he would definitely stand firmly by his side, but his fifth brother was driven away by Changsun Wuji.

The ministers of Gushi firmly demanded that Li Zhong be the crown prince. Under pressure, Li Zhi had to nod, but he did not agree. He was very dissatisfied with the queen. Now that Li Zhong is made the crown prince, the difficulty of deposing the queen will increase in the future.

If the queen is replaced, the son is noble because of his mother, and the prince must also be replaced together to shake the foundation of the country.

The crown prince was the most basic power of an emperor, but Li Zhi couldn't do it, and he could imagine his mood.

At this time, Li Zhi's thoughts were all on Wu Zetian. King Chen Li Zhong was appointed as the crown prince in July of the third year of Yonghui. In the same year, Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong of Tang were born in the palace. Li Hong was a prince. Wu Zetian was beautiful and charming, and his personality was complementary to the emperor. What's more rare is that he also has high political wisdom, so he is very favored by Li Zhi. This is the advantage of replacing Queen Wang.

Perhaps, the breakthrough point is here. Wu Zetian was ambitious and wanted to take office very much. He saw that the emperor had the intention to depose the queen and tried every means to make suggestions for the emperor. He included bribing the queen's side, monitoring the queen's every move, trying every means to make the queen smelly, and providing factual basis for the abolition of Queen Wang. Otherwise, his master would be unnamed and would not be able to convince the public. In this process, he even strangled his biological daughter to death.

But when history develops here, it begins to change. Because the fourth year of Yonghui has arrived, something big happened in the fourth year of Yonghui, and this big event changed the history of the Tang Dynasty in this space.

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