Hearing Wang Wenzuo first mention the New Year's Eve East Palace Night Banquet, and then Xiaoman, Wu Xiaoyi's doubts suddenly disappeared, and he thought to himself: There is no such coincidence in the world. Even if he goes to inquire about my life experience now, he can at most find out Cao Cao. How could I still know about Aman and his performance at the East Palace on New Year's Eve despite the relationship between the teacher and me? It seems that what happened today is not a coincidence. This guy probably knows everything very well and just waits until the end before taking action. Thinking of this, he was completely disappointed: "Since you know everything, why bother asking me!"
Seeing this, Wang Wenzuo knew that the other party's psychological defense had been broken. He couldn't help but secretly rejoiced. He quickly smiled and said: "I know it's true, but it's still different whether you say it or not. After all, you should be lenient if you confess and be strict if you resist. Do you understand?"
"Leniency for confession, severity for resistance?" Wu Xiaoyi's eyes lit up, then dimmed again: "I have been sentenced to death, but I just don't want to implicate others. Do you know my name?"
"Isn't your name Wu Xiaoyi?"
"That was just my pseudonym later. My real surname was Chu, and my grandfather was Chu Suiliang. I offended the Queen Wu family because of the establishment of the queen, and was later demoted and exiled. My family was afraid of being punished, so they said that I had an emergency and died of illness, but secretly I gave it away and renamed it Wu Xiaoyi."
When Wu Xiaoyi said this, the atmosphere in the room had become extremely gloomy. Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice: "Ijilianbode, go guard the door and don't let others approach!"
"Yes!" Yiji Lianbode hurriedly went out. Wang Wenzuo took a deep breath and asked, "So you are a descendant of Chu Pushe. Sit down and talk!"
"Thank you!" Wu Xiaoyi didn't give in and sat down directly. It turned out that the Chu Suiliang he was talking about was one of the two ministers who supported Emperor Taizong. One of them was Changsun Wuji, and the other was Chu Suiliang. He was the one who drafted the edict of passing the throne at that time. In the fourth year of Yonghui reign (AD 653), Chu Suiliang became the minister Youpuse and became the de facto prime minister. However, in the dispute over the deposed queen two years later, he and Changsun Wuji sided with the deposed Queen Wang. When Li Zhi expressed his intention to abolish Queen Wang and establish Wu as his queen. Chu Suiliang first said bluntly: "The queen comes from a famous family, married by the previous dynasty, and served the first emperor. She has no wrongdoing as a woman. The late emperor did not hesitate, took your majesty's hand and said to the minister: "I am a good son and a good wife, and I will pay it to you now." Your majesty. The sound of personal inheritance is still in my ears. The queen has never made a mistake since then, so she may not be deposed. I dare not obey now, and it is contrary to the order of the late emperor. I would like to think again and again. A foolish minister who disobeys the holy face will be punished by death. I hope I can live up to the kindness of my ancestors, so why bother about my life? ” It made Li Zhi speechless at that time.
The next day, Li Zhi once again brought up the matter of abolishing the queen and establishing a queen. Chu Suiliang said bluntly: Your Majesty will definitely want to change the queen, and you will ask Miao to choose the clan of the emperor, why bother with the Wu family. The Emperor Wu's Sutra was well known to everyone, and the eyes and ears of the world could be concealed. After all generations, what will you say to Your Majesty? May you think twice! I have disobeyed Your Majesty and shall be punished with death. Suiliang brought the wat to his majesty in the palace and said, "Return this wat to your majesty." He still took off his turban and knelt down, bleeding. At that time, Li Zhi was furious and ordered his attendants to pull him out. Wu, who was behind the curtain, shouted loudly: "Why not kill this beast?" (This paragraph is not that Weber is lazy and directly copied and pasted it from the New Book of Tang Dynasty. , mainly because the original text was so well written that Weber tried to write it twice in vernacular, but it still didn’t have the same flavor)
After this incident, Chu Suiliang's fate can be imagined. He was soon transferred to Guizhou (Guilin, Guangxi), and then he was falsely accused of rebellion, and then was demoted to Aizhou (Tanghua, Vietnam) again. Obviously, Li Zhi wanted the long distance and miasma to kill this annoying old guy for him. After all, Chu Suiliang was the Tuogu minister left by the late emperor. To say that he was plotting rebellion in that ghost place in Vietnam would be too insulting to the intelligence of the people of the Tang Dynasty. . It is a pity that the Tang Dynasty's military front only reached central Vietnam today. Otherwise, Chu Suiliang might have been able to go all the way south and be demoted to an isolated island in the Pacific. In 658 AD, Chu Suiliang finally died in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam today. Soon after, his descendants were also exiled. It was not until Li Zhi died that he issued an edict to return him to his hometown. However, there are still descendants of Chu Suiliang in Vietnam today. .
"You are a descendant of Chu Pushe, so why do you still stay in Chang'an? You should know very well that it is very unsafe for you, right?"
"I want to assassinate Empress Wu and avenge my family, tomorrow!" Wu Xiaoyi said.
"Assassinate Empress Wu? Are you crazy?" Wang Wenzuo showed an unbelievable expression: "Not to mention that it is impossible, and your family should still be in Aizhou. No matter whether it succeeds or not, they
Everyone will be implicated by you! If your ancestor knew anything about it, he would not agree to what you did! "
"Tomorrow is the Thousand Autumn Festival, and the emperor and empress will have fun with the people in front of Guangda Tower outside the imperial city. That is the best opportunity!" Wu Xiaoyi said: "I will destroy my face before the assassination. No matter whether I succeed or fail, I will not be implicated. Come to my family!"
Looking at the handsome face of the young man in front of him, Wang Wenzuo was speechless for a moment. He found that what Wu Xiaoyi said was quite true. The emperor and the empress would have fun with the people at Guangda Building outside the imperial city tomorrow night. Although there must be the Imperial Army on guard, But there was a mixed crowd at that time, and it was night. If someone was determined to die, there was no hope of success. And Wu Xiaoyi was only an eleven or twelve-year-old child when he left home. Six or seven years later, his appearance has changed drastically. If he is disfigured again, there are so many people in the world who want to kill Wu, who can connect him with Chu Suiliang? stand up?
"There should be someone behind the scenes instigating you, right?" Wang Wenzuo asked, "Only you, even during the Qianqiu Festival, would be too difficult. Who are they?"
"Haha! Do you think I will tell you?" Wu Xiaoyi showed a mocking expression.
"They are using you!" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "Do you understand? These guys hiding behind the scenes want to use your assassination to create chaos and then make profits from it. I don't know who these people are, and I don't know what they want to do. What are you doing, but there is nothing wrong with this, you must believe me!"
"You're right, I think so too!"
"What did you say?" Wang Wenzuo could hardly believe his ears.
"I have the same opinion as you, those guys are using me, I know it!"
"Then, why are you still willing to be used by them?"
"Because they gave me a chance to kill that ***! You don't think it's possible to kill her just because I don't want to die, right?" Wu Xiaoyi laughed: "My life is worth it in exchange for this opportunity. Pay the price!"
Wang Wenzuo opened his mouth, but had nothing to say. For a person who has already realized his mortality, any words are feeble. He stood up and said to Hei Te Changzhi: "You take good care of this guy. If Let him run away, and you won’t have to live anymore!”
