After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

"Come here, take Yang Kuo to me!" Li Zhi ordered without hesitation.

"Wait!" Yang Kuo stroked his beard and threatened nakedly:

"Your Majesty, you should think twice. It is easy to take me, but it is hard to say whether your majesty and the princess can survive this Kunzhou city!"

A small censor, Zhongcheng, dared to be so rampant. Eunuch Chen, who was always by Li Zhi's side, had seen many powerful officials, and had never met someone as arrogant as Yang Kuo. Before Li Zhi got angry, Holding the floating dust in his hand, he pointed at Yang Kuo's nose and shouted angrily:
"Yang Kuo, you are so courageous, you dare to speak insultingly to His Majesty, it is simply rebellious, do you want to implicate the nine clans?"

Yang Kuo laughed wildly, and said dismissively: "Anyway, it's a death anyway. If the emperor and princess can be buried with the old ministers, what's the matter with the Zhu family?"

After that, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, he waved his hand fiercely, and shouted:

"Where are the officers and soldiers in the pass?"

With this voice, a hundred or ten archers suddenly appeared on the city wall of the east gate. Each of them had a yellow ribbon wrapped around their left arm.

The people standing in the audience noticed that a large number of officers and soldiers had appeared at the top of the city, and instinctively began to retreat.

Behind them, the sound of 'rumbling' footsteps was like rolling thunder in early spring. Thousands of soldiers, with swords and spears in their hands, formed a crescent shape and surrounded everyone outside the east gate.

Several generals in full armor, holding sabers in their hands, and some carrying bloody heads, came to Yang Kuo's side with murderous spirit amidst the screams of the common people, and knelt down on one knee.

"Cui Hao, the governor of Yanzhou, killed the governor Liu who refused to obey orders, and led Yanzhou's five thousand troops to wait for your lord's dispatch!"

"Qian Ning, governor of Fangzhou, leads three thousand crossbowmen, and is at your disposal!"

"Yang Xu, the governor of Huazhou, leads five thousand infantry, and is at your disposal!"

"The governor of Shanzhou, Zhao Siyang, leads three thousand infantry, and is at your disposal!"

"..."

Li Zhi on the stage was furious by this scene. He would never have imagined that nearly [-]% of the state governors in Guannei Road would submit to Yang Kuo's command.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the central government set up the post of "dudu" in the local state capitals. They assisted the governor and managed the local military administration. The soldiers under their command were farmers who cultivated the land in peacetime, trained during the farm break, and joined the army in wartime.

In order to strengthen the rule, above the governor, there is a post of "Great Governor", which is usually held by the vassal king, like the Grand Governor of Guanneidao, who is Li Zhi's fourteenth younger brother, Cao Wang and Li Ming concurrently, Li Zhi inspects Guannei Road, Cao Cao Wang Liming was recalled to Chang'an to prevent the local vassals from rebelling against the emperor.

What made Li Zhi angry was that Cao Wang, as the governor of Guannei Road, was emptied by the censor without knowing it. He was so fatuous and incompetent that he let Yang Kuo monopolize power.

"Yang Kuo, are you going to rebel?!" Li Zhi suppressed his anger and gritted his teeth.

With his hands behind his back, Yang Kuo stepped in front of all the governors, and said with a sneer:
"Rebellion? Hehe, the old minister has no guts! His majesty presided over the disaster relief ceremony, but the princess forced the people to feed on locusts, causing public resentment. In the midst of the riot, in order to avenge His Majesty and the princess, the old minister killed all the tyrants who killed the king, and then submitted a letter of resignation afterward. Does Your Majesty think that anyone will believe this is a rebellion?"

Li Lingyue's heart shuddered, this old man was really sinister and had planned everything.

He has been running the Guannei Dao for many years, and he has already covered the sky with his hands. Whatever he says, he will naturally do it. In order to kill the king, he did not hesitate to drag tens of thousands of people to be buried with him. He has a vicious heart.

Li Zhi smiled angrily, "Old thief, aren't you afraid that if the matter leaks out, you will end up being torn apart and imprisoned by the nine clans?"

"Scared! Of course I'm afraid, so I have to kill them all!!" Yang Kuo took a few steps lightly, showing a fierce look on his face.

"As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not overwhelm a snake. Your Majesty, you are the emperor of the real dragon, and the whole world belongs to you. But so what, who told you to come to my territory in Fuzhou? I have the final say on all matters here. , even if it is a real dragon, you have to be honest with me! If I tell you to live, you will live; if I tell you to die, you will die!"

Yang Kuo's arrogant and wild words made Li Zhi calm down. He sat back on the dragon chair and said without fear:
"Old thief, I'm just sitting here, if you have the guts, kill one!"

"Hahahaha!" Yang Kuo laughed loudly, looking as if he was holding the winning ticket: "Don't worry, the old man still has a question to ask the princess. After the question is over, Your Majesty will have a look at my methods!"

After that, he turned his head to look at Li Lingyue, and said with a sinister smile: "I think the disguise is perfect. Your Majesty has been deceived year after year. The first time the princess came, she revealed the truth. I thought about it for a long time, but I don't know why Where there are flaws, I ask the princess to enlighten me!"

Li Lingyue said with a chattering smile: "It's very simple, I just blame you for being too clean!"

"Integrity?" Yang Kuo muttered these two words, still puzzled.

Li Lingyue walked to the side of the high platform, leaned over and replied: "An honest and good official who really pleads for the people will never be like Mr. Yang, who has the cheek to be the censor Zhongcheng for so long, doing nothing but always relying on this high position." , Honest officials never care about official positions, they only care about the life and death of the people and their own reputation. When encountering resistance, they will never tolerate compromise. There is no other way, either kill yourself and become a benevolent, or return to the countryside, after all, they want face, officials like Master Yang, who are clean on the surface, are only suitable for deceiving the common people!"

Yang Kuo nodded approvingly, "That's right, the princess is really smart. No wonder she was able to compose poetry at a young age. I thought it was just a bit of literary talent, but I didn't expect that the officialdom is more thorough than the old man. The old man is attracted by you." It’s not wrong to see through it!!”

Li Lingyue thought for a while, and then asked: "My princess thinks that Mrs. Yang is really a kind old woman. Could it be that Mrs. Yang deliberately pretended to be clean and honest, and deceived her old mother?"

"Of course!" Yang Kuo admitted generously: "My mother is kind-hearted and has always been proud of the old man, so I can only deceive her. It's funny to say that when the old man was young, he also wanted to be a clean and honest official, but it's a pity... There will be no good rewards for the official, just take Liu Dudu's father as an example, and the old man's classmate friendship, the result is not the end of being dispatched to the frontier."

After what Yang Kuo said, all doubts in Li Lingyue's heart were basically resolved. Looking at the situation now, Yang Kuo is determined to kill the king.

No wonder after killing Kong Ji, he didn't abscond, but showed up at the disaster relief meeting as usual, in order to fight to the death.

If he escaped, his mother and wife might lose their lives, and he himself would end up in a desperate situation.

If he fights to the death, he may be able to change his life. He is betting with the emperor with the capital he has accumulated over the years.

But why not Li Lingyue!
She is also betting, by delaying time, that a "savior" will appear!