Except for Shangguan Wan'er and some palace servants in Yaoguang Hall, there was no one wearing official clothes. Obviously, this was a summoning against Tang Song alone.

Since this is the case, Wu Zetian, who had not seen her for more than half a year, did not sit on the imperial throne specially set up for her in the hall. Instead, she let a common bamboo lady in the folk beside the window leaning against Ningbi Pool, and she lay on it casually...

Seeing Tang Song coming in, Wu Zetian still lay halfway down before he got up, but just raised his hand and waved, "I'll give up my salute, let's come here to let me see you..."

Hearing Wu Zetian's voice with a faint but obvious joy, and seeing her so casually and intimately greeting her, Tang Song was immediately relieved and knew that she was very satisfied with the completion of her mission. It seemed that this time the reward would definitely not be able to escape.

It was until Mrs. Mingzhu of Tang Shishi, who was actually in front of the Zhuliang bed in later generations. Tang Song then stood firm and raised his energy and looked at Wu Zetian calmly.

Although he forced himself to do so, the two knife injuries were not for nothing. After all, the expression on his face could still be controlled, but the sweat beads that were oozing out of the pain on his forehead could not be controlled or blocked.

After several times, General Wu Zetian looked at Tang Song, who was as beautiful as a jade, with an unconcealed look of appreciation, his eyes fell on the sweat beads on Tang Song's forehead, "You Tang Song, everything is good, even if you have to change your strong character, I have to let you go into the hall with your shoulders, so why bother yourself?"

After saying that, Wu Zetian turned his head slightly and looked at the man who was pinching her shoulders and arms, and then turned his gaze back to Tang Song. This situation was clearly a secret comparison between the two.

In fact, it is not just her. Since Tang Song entered the palace, although the people on duty did not dare to look up and look blatantly, they were trying to make the same comparison with the eyes of their eyes. On one side, Tang Song, who often entered the palace last year, had handsome eyebrows and a jade-like charm; On the other side, Zhang Liulang, who has been with the emperor recently, has a lotus face and a jade-like skin. Which of the two is beautiful?

This question has been raised since Zhang Changzong entered the palace. Although Zhang Changzong has an absolute advantage, there are also some who support Tang Song. Therefore, the two factions have been secretly controversial and have invisibly helped the depressed palace people to pass a lot of boring and empty time.

The reason why the debate has been endless is that when Zhang Changzong entered the palace, Tang Song had already left the capital, and there was no opportunity for the two to fight head-on. Today is finally here, how can these palace people on duty bear it?

After Wu Zetian finished watching the two of them, he pointed to the person who was lowering his head to massage his shoulders and arms and asked Tang Song, "This is my newly accepted eunuch Zhang Liulang. I heard that Wan'er said that the palace had long been discussing what is beautiful about you or him. When he learned that you were going to enter the palace today, some palace servants even had a fight for this and bet on winning or losing. Tang Song, now you can tell me, which one is beautiful about you or Liulang?"

Since entering the palace, Tang Song has been paying attention to Wu Zetian. Moreover, Zhang Changzong has been lowering his head to massage Wu Zetian, so he has noticed him at all.

Hearing the question, he looked at Zhang Changzong who was looking up.

After witnessing Wu Zetian getting close to Tang Song with his own eyes with his own eyes, Zhang Changzong, who looked up at this time, had almost unconcealed jealousy and hostility in his eyes, but what he met was Tang Song's warm eyes after nodding with a smile.

His face was full of hostility, but others were like spring breeze, which made Zhang Changzong unable to react and was stunned for a moment.

Tang Song naturally knew the origin of his jealousy and hostility, but he was not worried about it. I wouldn't even do it if I asked me for the position of the leader. Why? After a gentle smile at Zhang Changzong, he carefully looked at this male favorite, which is the most famous in history.

Zhang Changzong is also tall like him, especially tall. Besides, his facial features are exquisite, which throws Tang Song out of eight streets, at least that's how Tang Song himself believes; the most evil thing is his skin, which is really worthy of the praise of his skin color, and counts all the people Tang Song has seen in his later life. Regardless of men and women, no one can compare to him. It seems that only after Yang Guifei, who is "slimming the hot spring water" is born, can there be someone who can suppress him.

It is really, really outrageous for a man to look like this! Compared with Zhang Changzong in front of him, the famous beauty flower boys in later generations are really weak, and this is the real beauty flower boy. No wonder he was praised as the rebirth of Pan An, no wonder he was able to become the number one male favorite in ancient and modern times. His own conditions are really good and so despicable.

He was looking at Zhang Changzong, and Zhang Changzong was also looking at him. As he looked at him, he suddenly spoke: "Young Master Tang is so stern about the saint, so did he forget to apply powder when he went out?"

The meaning of his question was very obvious, and he was clearly ridiculing Tang Song for being too dark and showing obvious jealousy.

Although the reasons for hearing this were different, Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er, who were standing a little far away, frowned.

"One day, my skin is dark, but I never add to the powder..." Tang Song smiled casually, then said to Wu Zetian after a gentle ritual to Zhang Changzong, the leader of Zhang Changzong, "The beauty of Eunuch Zhang has reached the point of taking advantage of his fortune and taking over the world's beautiful beauty. He is just an ordinary person, how can he compare?"

It is because Zhang Changzong is indeed too beautiful, so these two praises from Tang Song are indeed sincere. The sincerity he praised is not only Wu Zetian, but Shangguan Wan'er and the palace people heard it, and even Zhang Changzong himself also heard it. Standing behind Wu Zetian, he smiled at Tang Song for the first time. Although he smiled reluctantly, he smiled after all.

Shangguan Wan'er looked at Zhang Changzong, Tang Song, and then looked at Wu Zetian. Her eyes flashed with a little ridicule, a bit of deep love, and a bit of pride that she could not hide even if she tried hard to hide. Then she lowered her head slightly, but a little smile as bright as spring light appeared on the corner of her mouth.

At this moment, the thirty-year-old Shangguan Wan'er suddenly realized that she was a thirteen-year-old girl, enjoying a secret little happiness alone.

"Oh! It's really rare to hear something that you, Tang Song, say that you are not as good as others..." After Wu Zetian finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Changzong and sighed slightly. Suddenly, she was already indifferent to the topic of the two of them. She waved her hand and said, "Tang Song and Wan'er, let everyone else retreat..."

"Your Majesty, the little minister hasn't pressed the leniency yet..."

"Hmm?" Wu Zetian's face darkened and his face darkened, but he didn't say anything after all. He reached out to touch Zhang Changzong's face, and then patted him gently, "Go, I'll call you in to serve you after I finish talking about politics..."

These touches and pats comforted Zhang Changzong. He also retreated with the palace servants. When he was about to leave the palace gate, he looked back at Tang Song intentionally or unintentionally.

After all these people retreated, Wu Zetian got up from Mrs. Zhu and looked at Tang Song again, although she was still relaxed and at ease, her face was completely gone, "You have handled the old tribes in the north very well, better than I expected. She can clean up the children of four families from the court smoothly. Those who are proud of their families can have an ending today, and you have made great contributions. Now do another thing and the task I assigned you that day can be completed..."

The shocking case has already begun, the ending has been decided, what else should I do? "Your Majesty asks..."

"I intend to revise the "School Name Sang""

When Tang Song heard Wu Zetian mention this, he suddenly realized it, and at the same time he could not help but blame himself for restricting and suppressing the four families and the old tribes in the north, how could he forget this matter?

In the sixth year of Zhenguan during the Taizong Dynasty in the former reign, Li Shimin, in order to suppress the old aristocratic forces in the north, strengthen the imperial power to consolidate the rule, and restore the old military nobles in Guanlong, adopted the suggestion of Minister Wei Zheng and ordered the Minister of Personnel Gao Shilian, the Censor Wei Ting, and the Minister of the Secretariat Cen Wenben and others to be responsible for revising the "Clan Chronicle". Although it took a lot of twists and turns and changed the draft several times, the "Clan Chronicle" was finally promulgated.

The fundamental purpose of revising the Clan Chronicle this time is to improve the status of the Li family, support common landlords, suppress the old aristocratic forces in the northern region and consolidate the imperial power. Judging from the final result, the effect is indeed, but there is still a big gap between it and Emperor Taizong's initial expectations.

Just thirty years after the revision of the Clan Chronicle, as Wu Ze took control of real power in the former Gaozong Dynasty, the Clan Chronicle officially published by the former Taizong Dynasty was a bit out of place. Not to mention that this book was aimed at improving the status of the Li Tang royal family, the worst thing is that in this Clan Chronicle, the Wu family was not among the high ranks. This is directly related to the origin of the Warrior, the father of Wu Zetian, who was the warrior of the great timber merchant. After all, even if the merchants were rich, their social status could not be high.

Wu Zetian was often ridiculed for her father, the marquis timber merchant, especially those who are proud of her family. This made Wu Zetian feel angry and objectively not conducive to her future plans for a high position.

It was in this context that in the first year of Emperor Gaozong of the previous dynasty, Wu Zetian successively killed and demoted a large number of ministers from the Li Tang royal family and the Guanlong group who refused to support him, and vigorously promoted people from lower-level or who had defected to the Wu family group to take important positions and completely controlled the government. He ordered a luxurious writing team composed of twelve people including Kong Zhi, the Minister of Rites, Yang Renqing, and others, and began to overturn the "Clan Chronicle" of the Taizong Dynasty.

After four years, finally in the fourth year of Xianqing, a new "School Name Record" was released. In this Wu Zetian version of "Clan Chronicle", in addition to continuing the compilation policy of suppressing the old tribes in the north, it also vigorously improved the status of the Wu clan and ranked it with the Li Tang royal family. At the same time, in order to win over the military, it also greatly improved the surname status of the active intermediate and above military officers.

It should be said that this book "Supername Record" has implemented Wu Zetian's will very well, but unfortunately it was boycotted and ridiculed after its promulgation. The old tribes in the north called him "Xiongge". Under their influence, many scholars in the world have been shamed to be included in "Supername Record". Although Wu Zetian strongly promoted it, from the actual effect alone, the revision of "Supername Record" this time was a big loss, and even made the Wu family's merchant family's background laugh.

Nearly thirty years later, when the four families and the old tribe in the north were in a slump, Wu Zetian re-mentioned the old story. It was only one aspect to reverse the case that he was strong by nature. Tang Song thought that her more important purpose was to use this revision of the "Scholar Names" to send a fatal blow to the old tribe in the north who was in a state of falling into the water, that is, when the reputation of the old tribe in the north was the weakest, he would completely defeat them from the position of the high sect by an official decision.

After all, whether it is the "Supername Record" or the "Clan Record", the compilation of "Supernames" is an important criterion. In short, if a family has more officials and more officials, their status in the "Supername Record" will naturally be high. This is impossible to avoid in the dynasty era of official positions. If anyone else is involved, this principle should not be neglected.

Now the four families have almost completely cleaned up the power of the officialdom, and most of them are below the fifth rank. Now that they are editing the "Scholar Name Record", is there any results for these four families?

Thinking of this, Tang Song couldn't help but sigh that he was still too young after all. If you talk about power, the gap between him and Wu Zetian was really unpredictable! He has been thinking about how to deal with the fourth family for more than a year. Wu Zetian seemed to ignore it, but at the last moment, he took a little action and dealt with it. The mountain sword sealed the throat and directly cut off the roots of the fourth family.

But she used this trick and couldn't say anything else. Tang Song really learned his skills today.

"Your Majesty is so far-sighted that he admires you..." Tang Song's chanting for the saint was from sincerity, and he didn't even have any perfunctory to flatter.

Just looking at this attitude, Wu Zetian also knew that Tang Song had completely understood her profound meaning, and smiled to show his appreciation for his lively thoughts. "Once this matter is done, this kind of thing has to be considered..."

The so-called "like inversion" is actually a question of the principles of editing and selection standards. There are so many people and so many surnames in the world. What is the principle and standard for distinguishing these surnames? If this is not sure, then this book will not be necessary.

The reason why Wu Zetian was so cautious was that the failure of the "Supername Record" thirty years ago made her feel scared. There are two inherent principles for doing this kind of thing since ancient times to the present. One is "Supername" and the other is "Supername". Since we want to suppress the original high-ranking families, the principle of "Supername" cannot be used, but if we simply use "Supername..." - the previous "Supername Record" was ridiculed as a "reputation" because of this.

This is indeed a big problem. If this problem is not solved, the entire work of sealing the throat of the four families with one sword cannot be officially launched.

The minister was distracted in front of the emperor because he was in a bad mood when he met the emperor, so he could not help but drag him out to make a thirty stick. However, Wu Zetian was in deep thought at this moment but was completely happy with Tang Song. He slowly walked to the window and admired the scenery of the Ningbi Pool outside.

Tang Song, who was thinking, suddenly began to slowly move. This was a problem he brought from later generations. When he was thinking about something, he didn't like to sit and think about it. Seeing him like this, Wu Zetian smiled and turned his head over.

Shangguan Wan'er was completely speechless. This little man... is such an anomaly. It seems that since the first time he met the saint, among so many ministers in the court, he was the only one who could be so relaxed in front of Wu Zetian. He seemed to have no idea that the emperor was standing in front of her. Or he knew that this was the emperor, but he did not regard the emperor as "son of heaven..."

It's strange, but Wu Zetian is really tolerant of Tang Song like this, and even seems to have a little appreciation for...—....

But if you think about it again, although Tang Song has been relaxed in front of Wu Zetian, there has never been a real place to go beyond the rules. Perhaps this is the fundamental reason why His Majesty can tolerate his attitude.

It is so difficult to achieve the balance between the two in front of the emperor if you relax without breaking the rules? At this point, Shangguan Wan'er could not see through Tang Song.

Tang Song naturally didn't know these little thoughts of Shangguan Wan'er. After slowly turning nearly a stick of incense in Yaoguang Hall, he suddenly raised his head, "Your Majesty, what if Shangguan is the main one, what if Shangde is the auxiliary one?"

"Oh?" Wu Zetian turned around, "What is Shangde?"

"Sages like Confucius and Mencius can be said to be virtuous and magnanimous. Their direct blood descendants cannot have a low status in the "School Name Record", right?"

"The two saints are all far away from now on......" Before Tang Song could explain, Shangguan Wan'er's doubts were interrupted by Wu Zetian. "This is the old method he used when he led the tribute students to break into the imperial city that day. Do you want to use his deceased ancestors to suppress the living people? Is it right?"

With the dead, you can even see through the living people in the blink of an eye. What else can Tang Song say besides nodding?

Shangguan Wan'er is not an idiot either, "But there are quite a few sages since the three generations?"

Upon hearing the question, Tang Song smiled slightly, "As long as Confucian sages are enough, it is enough. As for how to choose among these sages, we need to make a decision based on the actual position of their direct descendants in this dynasty..."

Wu Zetian pondered for a while and nodded slowly.

Tang Songxu also said: "In addition, among the officials in this dynasty, if there are high moral character and a lower rank among the world, they also need to take good care of them in the "Secret Names". For example, Di Gong, Lu Xiang and others have accumulated a reputation among the people for many years. If their rank is too low, the people will inevitably be dissatisfied..."

When Tang Song mentioned Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan'er glanced at Wu Zetian, but could not see any change in her expression on her face.

After Tang Song finished speaking, Wu Zetian said without much thought, "It seems that his words are feasible. It can not only increase the effectiveness of the "Secret Names" to be able to convince the world, but also use this to educate the world. It is a good strategy. If you can think about these in this short time, you can be said to be quick-witted! After you think carefully about this, you will report it to me and let me think about it again..."

Seeing that Wu Zetian seemed to have arranged the revision of the "School Name Record" to him, Tang Song hurriedly said: "Your Majesty wants to do this important thing, but there is a host who recommends it..."

Tang Song has always been a person who is afraid of trouble, but this matter is too harsh, and 90% of it may be thankless. If you don’t hide now, it will be too late to regret it if you really fall on it.

However, how could he hide his little thoughts from Wu Zetian? "Revising the "Secret Names" is to identify the surnames in the world on behalf of the court. If you are not an important official, you can rest assured..."

Upon hearing this, Tang Songgan smiled, "Your Majesty can see thousands of miles and be able to observe the slightest bit of your hair, and worship..."

This time, Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er couldn't help laughing out loud.

With an unfinished smile on his face, Wu Zetian looked at Tang Song, "There are no obstacles for the four generations in the past thirty or fifty years. Tang Song, tell me, what do you want me to reward you?"

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!