Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 853 This Is Slander
Li Shimin was very angry, he felt very strange, why these ministers objected to him being with Xiao Meiniang?
Xiao Meiniang is just a woman, even if this woman has a bad past, so what?

Could it be that she will definitely bring disaster to the country and the people?

Li Shimin didn't think so.

The reason why Emperor Sui Yang fell to the country had nothing to do with Xiao Meiniang, and he would not regard the fall of the Sui Dynasty as the disaster of a woman.

Of course, the most important thing is that now Li Shimin can't do without Xiao Meiniang.

She knew too many things, and these things he couldn't feel from other women.

As an emperor, he has never been short of women, but there are not many women who can make him feel novel. Now that he has met one, he naturally does not want to just give up.

After Li Shimin left the main hall, he came to the Cuizhu Pavilion.

At this time, there was a sound of wind coming from the Green Bamboo Pavilion from time to time, and the bamboo leaves rustled when the wind blew. After Li Shimin came in, he felt a little happier, but his face was still ugly.

Xiao Meiniang came out to greet Li Shimin when she learned that Li Shimin was coming. Seeing Li Shimin's ugly face, she was slightly taken aback, and then asked: "My lord, who made you angry?"

Li Shimin sighed, and then told Xiao Meiniang what happened in court this morning. When Xiao Meiniang heard this, she scolded the eighteen generations of Wei Zheng's ministers' ancestors in her heart.

These people are simply ruining her future.

However, she resented these people in her heart, but Xiao Meiniang showed worry and sadness on her face, and said: "Your Majesty, the existence of my concubines has made my Majesty embarrassing. Please let me let my concubines out of the palace. From now on, my concubines would rather be alone in the countryside than I will never let the Holy Majesty disagree with those ministers because of his concubines, this... is not good for Datang."

Only when the monarch and ministers are in harmony can the court develop better. This is what Xiao Meiniang means. She wants Li Shimin to let her go. Of course, this is just her hypocrisy.

She knew these men all too well.

The more she pretends to be pitiful, and the more she thinks about men, the more these men will do a lot for her, even if it is against the people of the world.

And things were indeed as Xiao Meiniang thought.

After she finished speaking, Li Shimin suddenly put her in his arms and said, "My beauty, what nonsense are you talking about? How can I give up your lonely hometown? Don't worry, even if everyone is against us, I won't Give up yours."

"Your Majesty..." Xiao Meiniang's eyes immediately became moist.

Li Shimin nodded: "I will not let you leave me, beauty."

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Xiao Meiniang finally breathed a sigh of relief, playing hard to get, this method sometimes works very well.

The two of them talked like this, and they couldn't help being upside down again.

But when Li Shimin and Xiao Meiniang were lingering in the harem, a few poems suddenly came out from Chang'an City.

The flowers on the temples of the cloud are shaking, and the hibiscus is warming the spring night.

The spring night is short and the day is high, and since then the king will not go to court early.

Cheng Huan has no leisure to serve the banquet, and the spring is dedicated to the night from the spring tour.

There are 3000 beauties in the harem, and [-] dotes on one body.

These few poems are naturally very good poems. Whether it is the emperor who is not in the court early, or the harem beauties with 3000 people and [-] favorites, they can be called famous lines that can be handed down from generation to generation.

However, although there are many famous lines in this poem, when you look at it as a whole, it gives people a feeling that it lacks the beginning and the end, not like a poem.

When many literati heard this poem for the first time, they discovered the shortcomings of this poem, and criticized it very much for this, but more, they still want to know the situation of the whole poem.

However, no one knows how this poem came out.

And as the poem spread more and more widely, people gradually stopped paying attention to the incompleteness of the poem, and instead paid attention to the people behind the poem.

That is Li Shimin.

From then on, if the king doesn't go to court early, isn't he talking about Li Shimin?
And from the shortness of the spring night, etc., it is not difficult to see that this poem is about Li Shimin's reluctance to get up and go to court because he is greedy for beauty.

The news of Xiao Meiniang's entry into the palace has already spread in Chang'an City, so it is self-evident what happened.

Soon, the people in Chang'an City began to discuss the matter of Li Shimin and Xiao Meiniang.

"Tsk tsk, I really didn't expect, I didn't expect, that the Holy Majesty actually gave Sui Yang's emperor a favor, this... oh..."

"Who says no, who says no, this Xiao Mei Niang is really a disaster for the country and the people. Our sage worked so hard before, but now he doesn't even go to the morning court."

"Oh, sad, sad..."

The people were talking about it, and the whole Chang'an City seemed to be talking about this matter, and some word of mouth about Li Shimin was getting worse and worse.

The matter was spread in Chang'an City, but Li Shimin was here in the harem and did not know about it.

In the morning court the next day, Baiguan did not continue talking about Xiao Meiniang, as if Baiguan had given up on this matter, which surprised Li Shimin, but also a little excited.

This made Li Shimin feel that it must be his anger yesterday that made these officials afraid, so they didn't continue to talk about it.

And this kind of situation made Li Shimin feel the pleasure that power brought him, and he liked this feeling very much.

As a result, Li Shimin was in good spirits during the morning court today, and he dealt with several problems until it was almost noon before he finally retreated.

Li Shimin really liked this feeling.

However, just after retiring from the court, some news about Chang'an City finally reached Li Shimin.

In the imperial study room, on Li Shimin's desk, the poem about the emperor's early court has been placed on it since then. After seeing this poem, Li Shimin's face looked very solemn and terrified.

"Slander, this is a slander against me, a slander against me..."

Li Shimin was very angry, why didn't the king go to court early, why was he loved by three thousand people, when did he not go to court, he seemed to go every day, right?
"Who wrote this poem, dare to slander me, I will never forgive him."

The spy standing opposite was a little shivering. Regarding Li Shimin's question, he smiled wryly: "My lord, no one knows who wrote this poem, and it was spread like this all of a sudden, and now everyone in Chang'an City knows it." , they also said..."

"What else?"

The spies hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "Now those common people believe what is said in this poem, so those common people say that the Holy One is a foolish king, greedy for beauty, similar to that... King Zhou and Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. , Datang is afraid that he will perish in the second generation..."

Before the spies finished speaking, Li Shimin suddenly patted the table: "Damn it, this is slandering and slandering me. How did I become a fool?"

(End of this chapter)