Great Tang princess

Chapter 5 The Women of the Li Family
After knowing this matter, Li Yuechen's mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

It seems that there are advantages to being born in the royal family, especially for a princess like this, who can retire after birth!

Since Li Zhi gave the employees a holiday, there were not many memorials these days, so the emperor and the empress could also spare some time to live their two-person world.

But after all, as parents, they always have various expectations for their children.

This morning, both of them slept late and waited for the sun to rise before getting up.

After washing up and eating something casually, Wu Zetian asked the maid to call Xiaofu.

After Xiaofu came to the palace, he saluted first: "I have seen the saint, my lady!"

Wu Zetian stretched out his hand to make him excuse: "Has Chen'er been studying recently?"

"Reporting to Madam, the princess is studying hard every day." Eunuch Fu replied.

"What kind of books are you reading?"

Eunuch Fu respectfully replied: "Mostly focus on national history, and there are various Confucian classics and other categories..."

Hearing his answer, Wu Zetian slightly raised his eyebrows: "Where are the Four Books and Five Classics?"

"It's all there, it's just..." Eunuch Fu thought for a while and replied cautiously, "The princess seems to be not interested in such things."

Wu Zetian stood up as soon as she heard it, intending to go and have a look.

But before he went out, he was stopped by Li Zhi: "Now that Chen'er is still young, it's normal that he can't read those obscure books, so there's no need to go to war over it."

"His Majesty……"

"Meiniang, you are too strict. Don't forget that Chen'er is only four years old." Li Zhi pressed her shoulders and let her sit down, "Besides, although Chen'er is quiet, he knows benevolence and filial piety, and often comes to accompany us..."

Wu Zetian seemed a little puzzled by his words: "Why does Your Majesty prefer Chen'er so much?"

Li Zhi sat down with a smile: "I don't know how long I haven't seen those pure eyes since I was sensible... Every time I see Chen'er, it always reminds me of Sizi..."

As he spoke, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

Hearing what he said, Wu Zetian fell into silence. Sizi is Li Zhi's younger sister, Princess Jinyang, who grew up with him beside Li Shimin since childhood, and has a very deep relationship.

When Li Zhi was about to start participating in politics as the prince, she would always hold on to his clothes and bid farewell, reluctant to part.

It's a pity that the sky is jealous of the beauty, and Princess Jinyang died of illness at the age of twelve, which made Li Shimin and Li Zhi at that time heartbroken, and they cried for several days.

Wu Zetian waved his hands to let the servants back out, and slowly took his hand to chat with him.

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Eunuch Fu who had quit walked away with a happy expression on his face. He heard what Li Zhi said just now.

The little princess is so valued by the saint, she can also develop accordingly.

He returned to Chengxiang Hall with a happy face, put on a charcoal brazier respectfully, and waited aside.

The princess is smart, and now there is no need for him to teach her to read, but occasionally someone she doesn't know will teach him to read.

After all, although Li Yuechen could understand most of the traditional characters, he couldn't understand some single characters that were too different from later generations.

If it's a phrase, you can even guess it, but if you can't connect the top and bottom to form a phrase, you will be blind.

At this moment, Li Yuechen was sitting in the sun, with various books scattered on the tatami mat under him and the surrounding floor.

These are all the books she has been flipping through these days. If she thinks it is useful, she will read it twice. If it is not useful, she will throw it aside after flipping it twice.

Suddenly, a copy of "Rules for Women" came into her sight.

This book has been placed here for several days, but Li Yuechen has never touched it. She instinctively felt that it should be a book about the three obediences and four virtues and abiding by women's morals.

But today, speaking of Xiaohe, the court lady who takes care of her closely, this book seems to be written by Empress Changsun.

She didn't read it and didn't know the specific content, she just heard about it.

Li Yuechen still held a tinge of admiration for this empress of the ages who had a famous reputation after more than a thousand years.

To be precise, it's not just Empress Changsun. Recently, as I have learned more about the Li Tang Dynasty, I have a lot of admiration for the women in this family.

Maybe it's because I have become a woman now, so I have a different perspective on many things.

Li Er's grandmother, the sister of the former queen Dugu Jialuo, a real strong woman.

Li Er's mother, Empress Dou, accompanied Gaozu Li Yuan and advised him. It can be said that he was like a personal think tank, but it was a pity that she died too early.

Li Er's elder sister, Princess Pingyangzhao, had gathered tens of thousands of troops when Li Yuan first raised his army.

It can be said that Datang’s foundation was initially built on the funds earned from selling wood by the people brought up by Princess Pingyang and the grandfather warrior Xun.

This princess of Pingyang is good at fighting, and has won most of the country for the Tang Dynasty. The famous general Qu Tutong was once defeated by her!

And in all the history of the current dynasty, this is the only princess who was buried by the army and buried with military ceremonies.

The last thing I have to mention is Empress Changsun. When I really opened this "Rules for Women", I read word by word and found that it doesn't seem to be something like three obediences and four virtues.

On the contrary, it is more like a book...how should I put it?Gongdou guide?
Or... the Harem Participation Guidebook!
Leaving aside this book, I read a lot of national history and found that this queen has never been at home waiting for news.

When fighting everywhere before, this queen followed Li Er closely, and even played the role of a staff officer in many cases!

……

These things were not known before, and they were all things that Li Yuechen did not know until he really came to this era.

From this point of view, my old mother Wu Zetian will become the emperor in the future, and it seems that I can find a trace of logic.

If these are true, then it is not an exaggeration to say that half of the Tang Dynasty was supported by women.

Of course, the most interesting thing is that, from other basic books, it turns out that in this period in East Asia, women were in power.

During the period of Emperor Sui Yang, the first female emperor appeared in Japan, Emperor Tuigu.

In the later period of Zhenguan, a queen Jin Deman also appeared in Silla. After her death, she passed the throne to her younger sister Jin Shengman.

Think about Wu Zetian, my wife who is going to be the emperor next...

Li Yuechen couldn't help shivering, goose bumps all over his body!
Originally, she didn't believe in metaphysics, but after seeing these materials, she felt that these things were difficult to explain with a "historical coincidence".

……

Slowly putting down the books in his hands, Li Yuechen looked at the sun outside, and made a preliminary judgment, it should be around three o'clock in the afternoon.

Through reading a book recently, she found out that she should have two older sisters, and she plans to check it out.

Looking at the maid guarding the door, Li Yuechen waved his hand: "Xiao He, come here!"

The maid hurried over: "Your Highness, what are your orders?"

Li Yuechen asked: "It sounds a bit curious, Grandpa, am I the only daughter?"

"This……"

Hearing her question, Xiao He's face changed slightly, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at Eunuch Fu who was also guarding the door.

Seeing her like this, Li Yuechen waved again: "Eunuch Fu, come here too!"

Eunuch Fu froze for a moment, then walked over with a wry smile.

"Don't bend down, you all sit down!" Li Yuechen ordered, "Tell me, what's going on?"

"..." Eunuch Fu looked complicated and stood there without saying a word.

Li Yuechen waited for a while, then blinked suddenly, and showed a cute smile: "If you don't tell me, I'll tell my mother that you bullied me!"

"Your Highness, please spare me!" Eunuch Fu immediately knelt down, "I beg Your Highness to spare the life of this servant!"

Eunuch Fu begged with a cry in his voice, and his head knocked on the ground with a "bang bang" sound.

"Okay, okay..." Li Yuechen felt a little guilty when he saw his terrified appearance, for a moment he even forgot that he was a princess, and could easily decide their life and death.

"Then tell me what you know!" Li Yuechen said.

Eunuch Fu gritted his teeth, and then said in a low voice: "The sage...there are indeed two princesses, but now those two princesses are in...Yeting Palace!"

"Yeting Palace?"

Li Yuechen frowned, she knew this place, it was a special training place for maids of honor.

To put it bluntly, it is the prison in the imperial palace. Many court ladies who have made mistakes will be imprisoned in this place, and many of them are family members of criminal officials.

This place is not the same as the Jiaofang, but the Jiaofang is a place where official prostitutes are trained, and they learn to serve men every day, as well as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, rhythm and dance...

Yeting Palace is a place for induction training for new maids, and it also serves as a prison in the palace. Many maids who have made mistakes or are not favored have to do the dirtiest and worst jobs here.

If this Daming Palace is compared to a city, then Yeting Palace is a dark area where the three do not care.

Li Yuechen raised his head and asked, "Why did the two elder sisters end up here?"

"This..." Eunuch Fu looked at Xiao He next to him, but dared not speak.

This matter is actually not a secret to them, but if you tell the little princess like this, I'm afraid...

But looking at the little princess's current state, I'm afraid she will not give up if she can't ask. For a while, the two of them were a little entangled.

"You don't have to worry. If Auntie asks about it in the future, I will tell them." Li Yuechen comforted them, "Besides, Auntie didn't order you not to tell me about this matter, did she?"

Eunuch Fu and Xiao He glanced at each other, then gritted their teeth and said, "This matter should start before His Highness was born..."

Now he was ready to go all out, and started to talk about the events of the year to Li Yuechen, and Xiao He would occasionally add a few words beside him.

But the two of them are just eunuchs and court ladies after all, and they are just servants after all, so they have no way to know too detailed things.

All I know is that these two princesses were descended from Concubine Xiao Shu, and they were thrown to the Yeting Palace after their mother Wu Zetian became a queen.

Listening to the explanations of the two of them, Li Yuechen recalled some information he had read on the Internet in his previous life, and roughly deduced what happened.

To put it simply, his old mother Wu Zetian finally won the championship in this Gongdou competition, and both Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were given a white silk and hanged themselves.

Speaking of this, when Concubine Xiao Shu died on the Internet, she said that she would become a cat in her next life to eat Wu Zetian's remarks.

Since then, Wu Zetian has become very afraid of cats, and has nightmares...

But Li Yuechen didn't believe it, because now there are cats in Daming Palace!
Not only are there, but there are quite a few cats. Most of these cats are wandering around the Daming Palace.

The Daming Palace is a wooden building, and it is particularly afraid of mice, so these cats were raised.These cats are between wild and domesticated. They basically don't run into the palace, but they are not very afraid of people.

Even Wu Zetian, occasionally when he was in a good mood, would grab one and hug it for a while.

……

Speaking of these two sisters, Li Yuechen felt a little pitiful. After all, he came from a civilized age where disasters were not as serious as his family members, and he had an instinctive aversion to this kind of sitting-style punishment in his heart.

But it is obviously impossible to expect her to release the two sisters with a single word in the past.

Without a nod from Li Zhi or Wu Zetian, what would she be?

I want to see it, but without the consent of Wu Zetian and Li Zhi, I am always worried about causing suspicion.

However, after thinking about it using logical analysis, Li Yuechen shook his head again.

First of all, I don't know Concubine Xiao Shu because of neither relatives nor relatives.

Besides, she is Wu Zetian's biological daughter, and she has no connection with the Lanling Xiao family behind Concubine Xiao Shu.

The most critical problem is that I am still a child with a simple mind, even if I do this, it will probably be considered as kind-hearted, but a virtue.

Sometimes, children still have some privileges that can make people preconceived.

After all... what bad thoughts can a child have?

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen raised his head and asked, "Are you rich?"

Although she is a princess of a country, she has no title yet, and all expenses are paid by her mother Wu Zetian.

So the pockets are cleaner than the face, and I can't get a penny out.

Eunuch Fu was stunned for a moment, and slowly took out a bunch of Kaiyuan Tongbao from his arms, about thirty pieces.

Then Li Yuechen turned his head to look at Xiao He, without saying a word.

Xiao He also took out a bunch of twenty pieces from her bosom.

Li Yuechen weighed two strings of copper coins in his hand, stood up and said, "Let's go."

Eunuch Fu and Xiao He followed behind, seeing that Li Yuechen had already walked out in front, they followed and asked, "What should I do?"

"I can only report the truth." Xiao He smiled wryly and shook her head, "I hope the saint and empress won't take their anger out on you and me..."

But Eunuch Fu said: "Your Highness said it's fine, then we can only trust His Highness."

Although his tone didn't sound that confident.

……

Li Yuechen stepped on a thin layer of snowflakes on the ground, and slowly came to the gate of Yeting Palace.

He raised his leg and was about to go in, when he saw a middle-aged court lady wearing a black hat came out, bowing and saluting, "I've seen Your Highness the Princess!"

"You are?" Li Yuechen had a questioning expression when he came.

"Returning to Your Highness, the maidservant's surname is Liu, and she is the Shang Palace of the Yeting Palace." The middle-aged maid replied.

Li Yuechen nodded: "Liu Shanggong, I am here to see my two elder sisters, is it convenient?"

Although Li Yuechen sounded suspicious, she was a princess after all, how could Liu Shanggong dare to refuse?

Immediately bent down and waved his hands, he said, "Here! Your Highness, please follow me!"

The area of ​​Ye Ting Palace is not too small, it has about three parts, the middle part is the labor detention place for the criminal court ladies, and it is also the place where most court ladies rest.

When I came to an aisle, I saw two girls who looked like they were in their twenties cleaning.

They are also wearing the clothes of court ladies, their hair is a little messy, and their faces look a little haggard.

(End of this chapter)