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Chapter 804: Martial Law in Luoyang

Li Xian was ready to die, and the army knelt down in unison.

The grieving civil and military officials knelt in front of Li Xian's body, and Wu Zetian, who almost suffocated to death on the dragon bed.

The crowd formed a colorful picture.

The most attractive thing in the scroll is Li Xian who committed suicide by slashing his throat.

In the words he spoke before his death, he paid tribute to this and that, and did not mention the current emperor Wu Zetian in a single sentence, but every sentence was about Wu Zetian.

Starting from King Li Gui of Yue, all the way to the later princes, even Li Jingye who was deprived of his surname Li and changed it back to Xu, and Prince Li Dan of Xiang.

All these people died because of Wu Zetian, without exception.

What is the purpose of killing these people?

Of course, this is to point out that his death was also caused by Emperor Wu Zetian, who forced him to death.

Wu Zetian seemed to see Li Xian's body through the crowd of officials.

"what……"

"Your Majesty has fainted, Your Majesty has fainted!!"

"Imperial Physician, Imperial Physician!!!"

……

The riot in Qianyang Palace was eventually quelled.

Under everyone's expectations, Li Cunxi finally came out as the King of Qin to deal with the current situation.

The situation of all the princes of the Wu family being killed was before him. Whether to punish those who followed the prince in the rebellion was also a problem he should consider. The death of Li Xian was of utmost importance. The history books would leave a vivid record for this tragic prince.

After Wu Zetian was diagnosed by the imperial physician, it was determined that she had fainted due to grief and anger, so she was sent to the Yangxin Palace to recuperate and wait for her to wake up.

Li Cunxi looked at Li Bin and Li Jiao and sighed:

"If my guess is correct, there shouldn't be many survivors in the Zuo Jianmen Guard's camp, right?"

"General, lead the troops to continue guarding Luoyang. The former Zuojianmen Guard Camp is now empty, so you can use it as a military camp!"

"General Li Duozuo, please send someone to escort the heir to Prince Pu back to his palace."

"General Jinghui, please send someone to escort Lord Yang Zaisi back to the palace."

"General Xu, you... go catch the thieves."

With just a few words, Li Cunxi secretly declared these people not guilty.

It also declared their victory in forcing the emperor to abdicate.

"Come, fetch the coffin to hold His Highness's body, and then return His Highness's body to the East Palace."

"All the deceased in the Eastern Palace will be sorted and sent to the mortuary of the Chang'an County Government Office."

After Li Cunxi finished speaking, he glanced at Li Xian's corpse, which no one dared to touch.

"Also, Lu Tong will temporarily take over the post of Grand General of the Left Golden Guard!"

"General Hu Jinghui of the Qianniu Guards is temporarily taking over the position of Grand General of the Right Guards. While taking charge of the Right Guards, he will also be in charge of the Left Guards who were on duty at Taichu Palace last night."

"General Gao Huan of the Qianniu Guard will temporarily assume the position of Grand General of the Right Golden Guard and take charge of the Right Golden Guard!"

"Later, I will have to trouble you all to cooperate wholeheartedly and lead the Left and Right Jinwu Guards, the Left and Right Yulin Guards, the Left and Right Jianmen Guards, the Right Wuwei Guards, and the Qianniu Guards to control the entire Luoyang and put Luoyang under martial law!"

"Until martial law is lifted, no one is allowed to go out on the streets!"

……

Orders were issued one after another in an orderly manner, and a group of soldiers took control of the entire Luoyang overnight.

When the morning light was dim in the east, some people wanted to go out, but as soon as they opened the door, they saw guards standing guard every twenty steps on the street outside.

The entire Luoyang was placed under martial law overnight.

In the Prince of Wei's mansion, Wu Chengsi was unable to enter the palace, so he had to stay in the main hall and watch three little kids eating.

Especially Li Chongrun.

As the saying goes, a young boy can eat his father out of money. Li Chongrun ate five bowls of rice, a roast duck, half a roast goose, a big carp, and half a basin of green leaves before he felt full.

Finally, he burped and looked cautiously at his half-father, Wu Chengsi.

"father in law……"

Wu Chengsi's eyes were distracted, but after hearing these words, they focused on him.

Seeing that Li Chongrun seemed to be still a little unsatisfied, he naturally did not want to treat his son-in-law unfairly, so he said:

"Are you still not full? I'll ask the kitchen to bring you some more food."

Li Chongrun waved his hands quickly.

"No, no, father-in-law, I, I want to drink some wine."

"Drink?" Wu Chengsi turned around and said, "Go get a few jars of my treasured fruit wine."

Wu Chengsi was quite nice to this son-in-law who showed up halfway.

Fruit wine has long been popular among the upper-level officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty and is the favorite of the nobles.

Wu Chengsi was also a person who liked to pretend to be cultured. Naturally, he had some fruit wine at home, and now he wanted to take it out to entertain Li Chongrun.

Soon, the housekeeper called the servants to bring the fruit wine over, opened it in front of Li Chongrun, and Li Chongrun poured the wine.

Wu Chengsi closed his eyes, his CPU was about to burn out, and he had no idea what the situation might be inside the White House.

But Li Xian had told him last night not to go out, and that someone would come to escort him to the court at noon, so he didn't even leave the house.

After a while, Lao Bai came in hurriedly from outside and bowed to Wu Chengsi and said:

"Your Highness, the streets outside are all guarded, with a guard every twenty steps. I looked around from the rooftop and found that it's not just our area that's guarded, but also several other adjacent streets."

"You can imagine what kind of terrible incident happened last night!"

Wu Chengsi lowered his head and thought for a while, and could only guess that a huge change had taken place in Taichu Palace.

The deposed Crown Prince Li Xian must be dead. His determination to die is too obvious, otherwise he would not have entrusted his care for the orphan to Wu Chengsi.

Wu Chengsi had no idea whether the emperor would collapse because of Li Xian's death.

In Taichu Palace.

It was not until noon that the emperor woke up in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. She was dying, and looked at the carved beams and painted pillars with lifeless eyes.

"Your Majesty, you are awake."

Shangguan Wan'er, who had been kneeling on the side without sleeping all night, crawled over happily.

"Thank God."

"Wan'er?" Wu Zetian turned to Shangguan Wan'er, "What's going on outside?"

"Your Majesty, after you fell unconscious, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin took care of all the matters outside."

Shangguan Wan'er was very well-behaved and told Wu Zetian the whole story in detail.

After listening to this, Wu Zetian nodded.

"Cunxi should do this. Li Xian is dead, and so many princes of the Wu family are dead. Too many people have died. If we don't deploy defenses in Luoyang, the rumors alone will be enough to cause chaos in the city."

"The same goes for Li Bin, Li Jiao, Yang Zaisi, Xu Ji, Li Duozuo, and Jing Hui. None of them can be dealt with, otherwise my reputation will only get worse."

"I have already been saddled with so much infamy, and I absolutely cannot bear the added infamy of wantonly killing loyal ministers."

She has killed too many loyal ministers and cannot continue to do so.

If there are too many lice, it will be very itchy!

"Summon the Prince of Qin Li Cunxi, Internal Secretary Di Renjie, Minister of State Zhang Jianzhi, and other ministers to come in and see me!"

"Yes."

Outside, Li Cunxi, who was tired after a night of work, had just drunk some tea when he saw Shangguan Wan'er coming over.

As the Secretary General, Shangguan Wan'er stayed with the unconscious Wu Zetian all night. She would never come out if Wu Zetian had not woken up.

"Sir Shangguan, has His Majesty awakened?"

"Yes, His Majesty summons all of you to come in and see him."