Impeachment will make me stronger, and I will be invincible on the road to death.

Chapter 16: Promotion!A meaningful appointment

"Draft the decree! Yang Yanzhang's loyalty is a lesson, he has served his purpose in impeachment, and he will be promoted to Shi Yushi from now on!"

As Wu Zetian announced her decree, Yang Yanzhang's heart finally fell to the ground.

Although Yang Yanzhang did not become the censor Zhongcheng, he was not unhappy at all.

In the Censor's Stand, the Chief Censor is the eldest, followed by the Censor Zhongcheng. After that, the Censor's Assistant has the highest status.

In later generations of units, this would be equivalent to the leader of a certain department, and no longer the role of a supervisory censor who ran errands and was at the bottom of the pile.

Moreover, in the censor's desk, when all the censors are present, the censor can sit, but in the palace, the censor and the censor can only stand.

Therefore, serving as a censor is already a very respectable position.

Of course, the most important thing is that Lai Junchen is just a supervisory censor now, and he is overpowered by Yang Yanzhang!
In other words, when Yang Yanzhang is sitting in the future, Lai Junchen can only stand and talk.

Lai Junchen, who had stolen the chicken but lost the rice, bulged his eyes in despair and looked at Yang Yanzhang in disbelief.

He could not understand why, as the Queen Mother's favorite, he was impeached by a new supervisory censor who had only been in office for two days!

From being the highest-ranking censor on the censor's stage, he was brought back to his original form and became a supervisory censor at the bottom. In Lai Junchen's view, this was not just a punishment, but also a humiliation!
However, Wu Zetian listened to politics from behind the curtain, and her words came out, which meant that the imperial edict was implemented and absolutely cannot be changed.

Lai Junchen doesn't have Yang Yanzhang's courage and dare not disobey the order!

Originally, he was just a market hooligan. Once Wu Zetian was angered, he couldn't even keep his identity as a supervisory censor. Wouldn't he have to return to a lowly career in the future?

At this time, most of the civil and military officials felt extremely happy.

Yang Yanzhang's promotion was regarded by many ministers as a victory in the struggle against the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian.

Both Xue Huaiyi and Lai Junchen were Wu Zetian's cronies and people who were extremely hated by many ministers.

The reason why I hate her is not necessarily because Wu Zetian has brought chaos to the Li family, but more because Xue Huaiyi has set a precedent for the Queen Mother to recruit male favors, putting men in the world in trouble and making everyone feel humiliated, because a market scoundrel like Junchen can do it. The high position of imperial censor made countless nobles and people who entered the imperial examination angry.

In the past, Wu Zetian held great power, and these people relied on Wu Zetian's support to feel emboldened. They were shameless and arrogant all day long, and those who impeached them would soon be falsely accused and imprisoned.

With the emergence of Yang Yanzhang, this embarrassing situation was suddenly reversed!

Xue Huaiyi was first cut off and then executed. This happened within two days!

And Lai Junchen, who framed and killed many loyal ministers and caused the displacement of many people, has now been removed from his important position and is suppressed by Yang Yanzhang!

This allowed the ministers to see a new atmosphere, except for those who were attached to the Wu family.

"The Empress Dowager Shengming!"

The old Su Liangsi pursed his lips and praised him, but his cloudy eyes were filled with tears of excitement. "The Queen Mother can uphold justice for the courtiers, which makes them happy!"

Zhang Guangfu also choked with tears and praised.

Li Duozuo, who was demoted to patrol the city the day before yesterday, couldn't help but shout excitedly: "The Queen Mother has the appearance of a saint, she is truly a hero among women!"

As a result, more and more ministers agreed and praised Wu Zetian so much that she almost flew into the sky!
When the emperor Li Dan saw this, he secretly felt bitter in his heart: It's over. I thought that Yang Yushi, the man who impeached the queen mother, would help my Li family regain power. Unexpectedly, by mistake, the queen mother won the hearts of the people!Why! !

Wu Zetian, who was hiding behind the curtain, was initially a little tangled and unhappy, but was quickly melted away by these compliments. Her face was quickly filled with smiles, which were difficult to hide. She even trembled with laughter, and she had to cover her lips with her hands, barely able to smile. Don't let yourself laugh out loud.

At this time, Wu Zetian really liked Yang Yanzhang.

The feud between her and the minister has been going on for a long time.

In the past, Li Zhi liked to discuss government affairs with her, which made many ministers, especially those headed by Changsun Wuji, extremely dissatisfied.
Later, when the two saints came to court, the officials were even more furious!

Later, in order to consolidate her position, Wu Zetian began to use cruel staff to falsely accuse ministers, which intensified the ministers' dissatisfaction with her!
Thinking about it carefully, for decades, there was almost no time when she was truly happy in court.

Today's situation can be said to be the first time for a big girl to get on the sedan chair!

After a long time, the voices of the ministers finally stopped.

After Wu Zetian felt so proud, she actually walked out from behind the curtain, still with an obvious smile on her lips.

After looking around, her eyes fell on Lai Junchen: "Lai Junchen, look at everyone's attitude for yourself! I just punished you, how happy are all the officials! From now on, you will lead As a warning, don’t make random false accusations against your colleagues, do you understand?”

Lai Junchen glanced at Yang Yanzhang bitterly, but he could only accept the order and did not dare to resist.

Wu Zetian looked at Li Duozuo again: "Li Duozuo, yesterday Yang Yanzhang's residence was burned down. You interrogated the suspect in time and found out the real culprit. This is a great achievement! From now on, he will resume his original position and continue to serve in the palace. Let me take charge of the imperial army!"

Li Duozuo was overjoyed: "Thank you, Queen Mother! I will encourage myself even more in the future..."

Finally, Wu Zetian's eyes returned to Yang Yanzhang, and the corners of his mouth raised: "Dear dear friends, I heard that Yang Yushi's house was burned down, and wanted to give him some rewards to give him a place to stay, but he didn't want to I appreciate it, but I’ve tried to shirk it several times and don’t want to!”

Yang Yanzhang couldn't help but complain silently: You want to provide me with a place to stay, but you want me to stay in the palace and sleep with you!
But the ministers who didn't know what was going on felt that iron could not become steel. Especially in the past two days, Wu Zetian killed Xue Huaiyi and punished Junchen. This made the ministers support Wu Zetian unprecedentedly, so they all condemned Yang Yanzhang.

"Yang Yushi, this is your fault! How can you refuse the Queen Mother's kindness?" Su Liangsi shook his head and sighed.

Di Renjie couldn't help but said: "Yang Yushi, the Queen Mother always rewards the Queen Mother for her merits. Are you trying to trap the Queen Mother into injustice by rejecting her kindness?"

Yang Yanzhang thought to himself that Lao Di really didn't feel pain in his back when he stood and talked!
If it were your boy, would you be willing to warm the Queen Mother's bed?
But, this matter can't be revealed yet. We can't say in front of everyone that the Queen Mother's reward is to stay in the palace. Yang Yanzhang can only apologize in embarrassment and suffer a secret loss.

Seeing this, Wu Zetian's smile became even stronger: "Yang Yanzhang claims to have talents that can be sold to make money, enough for food and accommodation! However, I have doubts about this. Why don't we just take a day off today and let everyone go and see what talents he has?"

(End of this chapter)