However, even if he had to wait for the confession from Tiger Cage Pass, Di Renjie still promised to solve the case within three months on the spot. If he failed to do so, he would be punished severely.
When Wu Zetian heard this, she was overjoyed and ordered the Thousand Bull Guard General Hu Jinghui and Zhang Dingguo to protect Di Renjie.
After all, more than 200 rebels had already tried to kill Di Renjie once. In order to prevent the rebels from taking risks when they were in danger, Wu Zetian sent two generals with strong martial arts as bodyguards. She even planned to send more imperial guards to ensure the safety of Di Renjie's life.
Zhang Dingguo was naturally more than happy to accept this appointment. Even if Wu Zetian did not ask for it, he would still think of a way to follow her.
On the other hand, Hu Jinghui, who clearly wanted to be undercover beside Di Renjie, was deliberately being pretentious here, saying that he was a royal guard and was not suitable to be a bodyguard of a minister.
He had to wait for the Emperor to give him a few words of advice before he had no choice but to obey.
However, this wasn't really fragrant, but Hu Jinghui did it on purpose just to appear
After that, Di Renjie saw that Wu Zetian was still in a good mood, so he told her about Li Yuanfang.
Then, with Di Renjie and Zhang Dingguo's intercession, Li Yuanfang's arrest warrant was revoked and she was allowed to follow Di Renjie to assist in handling the case so that she could atone for her crimes.
Before he left, Di Renjie asked Zhang Dingguo about the captive he had captured when he was protecting Princess Yiyang. And what was the outcome of the investigation into the disappearance of The Assuming Group?
After all, so many days had passed. He should be able to find something, right?
Unfortunately, he couldn't find any useful information.
The captive that Zhang Dingguo had captured was not cooperative, so he was given a heavy punishment.
In the end, he couldn't endure the torture and died in the imperial prison?
As for the disappearance of the Assuming Regiment, they did find out that some officers were related to this matter.
However, they were all low-level officers. They were either missing or dead when they were found. Perhaps they had been killed to silence them?
Because of these two matters, Xiao Qingfang had been criticized quite a bit, so much so that she regretted supporting Jin Mulan.
Although Di Renjie felt that there was a big problem, these two matters were the responsibility of the internal guards. It was better not to interfere for the time being. Moreover, there were still more than a hundred captives in Tiger Cage Pass. They couldn't all be silenced, right?
When they were almost done talking about the case, Wu Zetian asked Di Renjie, Hu Jinghui, and Xiao Qingfang to leave.
He also had Di Renjie look for Zhang Jianzhi and have him revoke Li Yuanfang's arrest warrant. He also had Wang Xiaojie stop his plans to attack the Turks and focus on defense for the time being. He also ordered the soldiers not to provoke the border!
However, what surprised Zhang Dingguo was that Wu Zetian actually left him alone. He did not know what to ask him.
"Your Majesty, do you have any other orders?”
Zhang Dingguo asked cautiously after everyone else had left.
"Dingguo, zhen remembers that you haven't gotten married yet, right?”
What was even more unexpected to Zhang Dingguo was that Wu Zetian did not ask him what Di Renjie did not mention on the way back to the imperial court. Instead, she was like an old lady next door who was concerned about his marriage.
"Your Majesty, I haven't married yet.”
Although Zhang Dingguo did not understand the situation, he still answered truthfully.
"Then is there a marriage? Or is it someone you like?"
"Not really."
"That's strange. Speaking of which, you're already twenty years old. Logically speaking, you should have a family long ago?”
Wu Zetian's question was actually very normal because in ancient times, it was very normal to get married at the age of 16 or 17.
Especially in the era just after the war, the rulers would force young boys and girls to get married as soon as possible in order to restore the population as soon as possible.
According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, if a man was over 20 years old and a woman was over 15 years old and still unmarried, they would either be fined by the government or had to accept the forced arrangements of the government.
Of course, this was mainly for farmers. It was useless for people with status and soldiers.
After all, the government did not dare to punish people with status. Moreover, anyone with some status would take in one or two concubines even if they did not get married. There was no need for the government to care about their family's inheritance.
As for soldiers, they mainly had to serve in the war and had no time to get married.
However, for people like Zhang Dingguo, who had a small amount of assets in his family, it was reasonable for them to get married early. After all, he did not lack money. He was not like some poor children who could not even afford a wife and had to wait for the government to allocate them.
That's right, the ancient government would really assign wives to single dogs. However, those who were assigned could not get married. She was probably either ugly or a widow whose husband had died (before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was normal for widows to remarry). After all, those with better conditions would have long been married off by those with better conditions.
Therefore, it was impossible for a handsome, strong young man like Zhang Dingguo, who came from a rich family and had land, to be single at the age of twenty.
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. However, this general is still young. I still want to put my energy into serving Your Majesty.”Zhang Dingguo felt that this was just a small matter, so he thought of a good reason to deal with it first.
If it wasn't for the fact that the current Turks and Tubo couldn't cause any substantial harm to the Great Zhou, Zhang Dingguo would have wanted to learn from Huo Qubing and shout that the Xiongnu hadn't been destroyed, so there was nothing to do!
However, Wu Zetian had some bad thoughts.
"Really? But I noticed that you were staring at Qingfang.”
"What? Your Majesty, I have only heard that the Head of the Internal Guard House is a heroine. And after seeing it today, it was indeed worthy of its reputation. That was why he could not help but take a few more glances. There was absolutely no other meaning!”Zhang Dingguo immediately denied.
Zhang Dingguo admitted that he had indeed taken a few more glances at Xiao Qingfang when Di Renjie was reporting on his work.
However, that was only because Xiao Qingfang was a big boss in the future, so he wanted to observe more and see what was so extraordinary about this snake spirit's sister.
Moreover, Xiao Qingfang was already in her thirties, and she was not very pretty. Why would Zhang Dingguo like her?
Therefore, in order to prevent Wu Zetian from randomly choosing a couple, he had to resist more firmly!
"Oh, that's good. Actually, I was just asking casually. You don't have to take it to heart. But Dingguo, you are not young anymore. It is time to get married. Moreover, after marriage, won't you still be able to serve me? If you take a fancy to any young lady, feel free to come and find zhen. zhen will definitely personally bestow a marriage for you.
Alright, it's getting late. You can go down too…"
Seeing that she had misunderstood, Wu Zetian did not say anything more and let Zhang Dingguo leave.
"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty. If I have someone I like, I will definitely inform Your Majesty at the first moment!
I'll take my leave now…"
After saying that, Zhang Dingguo, who was drenched in cold sweat, quickly ran away...
(Sorry, I haven't been in a good state recently, and I have a slight cold. There are also a lot of other chores, so I haven't updated much.) However, everyone can rest assured. Starting from tomorrow, we will resume normal updates. We will update five times a day. We will not be late!）
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