Ranking Pass History: Inventory of the Top Ten Great Players in History

Wu Zetian, who was already 80 years old in the Wuzhou plane, suddenly became the master of the Bianliang Palace, and miraculously recovered to the physical condition of the 50-year-old, clear-headed and full of energy.

Wu Zetian also made the list alone, just like Liu E.

But Wu Zetian's motivation for making the list alone is different from that of Liu E.

Liu E wanted to take a gamble and see if Jingkang's shame could be redeemed, so she made the list alone.

Wu Zetian really couldn't find anyone to trust.

Even Princess Taiping still couldn't get her true trust.She's a quintessential power beast, trusting no one's loyalty nor anyone's ability.

She also does not allow anyone to share her power.

However, as an evaluator from the heavens said, Wu Zetian is an expert in civil wars, but an outsider in external wars.

After becoming emperor, she was able to lose half of Li Zhi's territory, not just because the Khitan people and Tubo people were powerful, but because she couldn't employ people.

She is best at using cruel officials, but cruel officials torture themselves and deal with foreign aggression, they are just a bunch of trash.

When Wu Zetian traveled through the past, he faced exactly the same situation as Liu E, and there were still [-] reorganized forbidden troops.

It seems that even the Zhutian system does not recognize Wu Zetian's ability to deal with war.

Sitting in the Bianliang Palace, Wu Zetian issued the first order to punish the six thieves.

But her methods are much more ruthless than the previous two.

She directly ransacked the homes of the six thieves and their henchmen, and wiped out the three clans.

This action can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

It not only accumulated a huge amount of gold and silver of more than 3000 million guan for Wu Zetian, which was enough to deal with the next anti-gold war without taxation, but also won the hearts of the people in the world for Wu Zetian. The thief's end applauded, and they couldn't stop praising Wu Zetian for being wise and martial.

At the same time, Wu Zetian also shocked the surviving officials in the court.Not only those generals were silent, but even those civil servants who had always been proud saw that Wu Zetian violated the ancestral rule of "not killing scholar-bureaucrats", and immediately dared not put their eyes on their foreheads, and straightened their status as slaves of imperial power.

However, Wu Zetian was still worried about the loyalty of these officials.

She also secretly expanded the power of the Imperial City Division of the Great Song Dynasty, allowing them to secretly investigate and monitor all officials, and once officials committed misconduct, they would be arrested and interrogated immediately.

Now, the officials of the DPRK and China are even more panicked, and they no longer dare to criticize the Tian family openly.

After these two matters were settled, Wanyan Zongwang also led the East Route Army to the outside of Bianliang City.

"The barbarians of the golden dog invaded our Great Song Dynasty for no reason, and are now outside Bianliang City. Dear friends, how do you think we should deal with the golden dog?"

Sitting on the throne, Wu Zetian asked this sentence expressionlessly.

His Highness and his ministers looked at each other, but none of them dared to speak out.

Even those ministers who fear gold like a tiger and want to negotiate peace with the gold people at all costs dare not mention the word "negotiate peace".

These ministers are all good people, good at adapting to the wind.

Wu Zetian has already called the golden man a golden dog, how dare they negotiate peace?

"Is no one talking?"

Wu Zetian glanced over the ministers lined up on the left and right, and sneered in his heart:

The officials in the court of the Song Dynasty are indeed a bunch of weak bones who have not taken responsibility.

At this moment, Shangshu Zuocheng Li Gang stepped forward and said resolutely,

"Queen, the Jin invaded the Song Dynasty for no reason, destroyed more than ten cities, and killed nearly a million people. They have become our sworn enemies.

For the current plan, naturally only defend the city against the enemy.

When the king's army arrives, we will strike again to defeat Yan Zongwang and avenge the dead Song people. "

Wu Zetian nodded, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It seems that above the court, only this Li Gang has the responsibility.It's a pity that this Li Gang is an upright minister, but not a capable minister.

Because Wu Zetian found out, Li Gang did a good job in guarding Bianliang, and did not pose any threat to the Jin soldiers outside the city.

Instead, the truly powerful ministers became local officials.

"Li Aiqing is commendable for being loyal and brave. From now on, you and the commander-in-chief He Guan will be in charge of the Bianliang city defense. If you can keep Bianliang safe, I will reward you generously."

Wu Zetian was not worried at all that Bianliang would be captured by Jin soldiers.

Because she discovered that Bianliang is indeed the strongest city in the world.Such a city, as long as it is stable and does not open the city to surrender, even if a group of people are recruited, it can still be guarded for a year or so.

Now that there are [-] forbidden troops as the backbone, Bianliang is naturally as stable as Mount Tai.

But just defending Bianliang City is not enough.

As the only female emperor through the ages, Wu Zetian is naturally arrogant.

She also wants to occupy the top three places on the list, so as to obtain an elixir that can prolong life.

After arranging the defense of Bianliang, Wu Zetian began to arrange a net for the Jin soldiers.

She issued more than a dozen imperial edicts in succession, while ordering the [-] Western troops who were fighting the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River to rush to rescue Bianliang, and at the same time issued secret orders to Zhang Shuye in Qingzhou, Guan Bisheng in Jinan, and Zongze in Cizhou, asking them to act according to their own instructions .

These instructions of Wu Zetian are naturally a series of military actions copied by Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang.

Wu Zetian didn't think there was anything wrong with plagiarism, because Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang's series of military operations seemed risky, but in fact they were as stable as old dogs.

Because even if those military actions failed, it still did not affect the Western Army's expulsion of Wanyan Zongwang from the Song Dynasty.

In the secret decree, Wu Zetian ordered Guan Bisheng and Zhang Shuye to join forces and rush from Qingzhou to Zhongshan Mansion, and after defeating Guo Yaoshi, they went straight to Yanjing.

But Wu Zetian didn't just copy Xiao Yanyan, she also copied one of Liu E's actions.

In Liu E's reward and kill order operation, the most outstanding performance was not the [-] elite Western Army, but the Taihang grassroots recruited by Zongze, especially the famous generals such as Yue Fei and Yang Zaixing among the grassroots.

Xiao Yanyan Han Derang's actions focused on Zhang Shuye and Guan Bisheng, while Wu Zetian decided to pursue both.

In the imperial decree she wrote to Zongze, she named Zongze as the envoy of Hebei Road and the chief of the military and horse capital, and asked him to do his best to recruit the Taihang grassroots, thus greatly strengthening his resistance to gold.

After Zongze received the imperial decree, he was overjoyed.

He immediately led [-] people from Cizhou to Zhending Mansion, and defeated Wanyan Zongwang's [-] Han soldiers who stayed here in one fell swoop.

Then Zong Ze took office in Zhending Mansion and completely entered the role of envoy.

It has to be said that Zong Ze, who had been depressed all his life, was indeed a first-class handsome talent at the turn of the Song Dynasty.

When he served as the prefect of Cizhou, he not only led the people to repel the Khitans who raided the grass valley several times, but also implemented a policy of suppressing and pacifying the grass bandits in the Taihang Mountains.

What makes Zong Ze different from other officials is that he does not hate all Taihang grassroots.

Because Zong Ze knew in his heart that among the nearly one million grassroots bandits in Taihang Mountain, there were not many who actually committed crimes.