Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 600 Looking for fun

Zhao Mu walked through the central hall and slowly came to the backyard of Prince Duan's Mansion.

Although the area of ​​Prince Duan's Mansion is not as large as that of Prince Qi's Mansion, it is very elegant.

Especially the backyard of the palace, the word "elegant" stands out. You can say that Prince Duan Zhao Ji is useless, spineless, incompetent, or even any vicious words, but you can't say that he has "no taste".

A glimpse of the whole picture is enough to prove the taste of Prince Duan when Zhao Mu walked on the corridor in the backyard of Prince Duan's mansion.

His home was not decorated with vulgar things like gold, silver, and gemstones. Instead, there were rockeries made of various strange stones, and patches of rare flowers and plants. Moreover, Zhao Ji himself was much better than Li Qingluo, a pretentious person. The flowers and plants in his yard were perfectly planted and arranged.

Walking through the corridor and looking at the "Three Mountains and Five Peaks" made of strange stones, you will see a screen wall in front of you.

There was a poem inscribed on the wall. Zhao Mu stared at it and then recited it in a low voice: "Jade trees in the backyard, jade grass beside the mirror. The flowers did not age last year, and the moon is full again this year. Don't let them be biased, be in harmony with the moon and flowers, God will teach you to stay young forever."

Zhao Mu also chuckled after reading it. He knew this poem. It was "In Front of the Jade Tree in the Backyard" by Emperor Li Houzhu of the previous dynasty. When he was young, his mother Zhao Ji often taught him poetry.

Among them, the best poems are those by Li Bai, Du Fu, Cui Hao, and Bai Juyi. But my mother only loves Li Houzhu.

Not only his own mother, but also his cousin Liu Ying was the same. There are so many infatuated men and women in this world who all regard Li Houzhu's poems as the best.

But Zhao Mu himself did not like him. In Zhao Mu's mind, no matter how romantic the poems written by a king of a fallen country were, they were in vain.

When it comes to Song Dynasty poetry, he prefers Xin Qiji of later generations. "I look at my sword by lamplight while drunk, and dream of blowing the horn in the camp" is not such a heroic statement better than Li Houzhu's "How much sorrow can you have?"
Although Zhao Mu had little contact with Prince Duan, he had read history and knew that Zhao Ji himself preferred the literary talent of Li Houzhu.

However, looking at the words on the screen wall, Zhao Mu couldn't help but think of an "interesting legend".

In later generations, there were often rumors that Zhao Ji was the reincarnation of Li Houzhu, and that his birth was for Li Yu to take revenge and deliberately destroy the Song Dynasty.

However, this "legend" is not groundless.

Even Zhao Mu had heard of such rumors in this era.

It is said that before Zhao Ji was born, Emperor Shenzong went to the Secretariat to view the portrait of Li Yu, the last ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and "saw his elegant figure and sighed again and again." Then Concubine Chen gave birth to Prince Duan Zhao Ji. Therefore, there is a rumor that "when he was born, he dreamed that Li Yu came to visit him, so his literary talent was a hundred times better than Li Yu."

Zhao Mu now thought that Zhao Ji might really be the reincarnation of Li Houzhu. After all, his fate was almost exactly the same as that of Li Houzhu.

All of them were talented writers and enjoyed sensual pleasures, but they were incompetent to be emperors. Moreover, they all ended up as kings of fallen states and prisoners. Emperor Taizong of Song forced Empress Xiao Zhou to have sex with him, and even shamelessly asked someone to paint him. And the Jingkang Shame of Zhao Ji is needless to say.

Now seeing Li Yu's poems here, Zhao Mu found it quite interesting.

After walking around the screen wall, Zhao Mu didn't delay any longer and went straight to the main gate of the backyard.

At this time, the backyard was guarded by the female guards under Long Xuan. In addition to preventing anyone from escaping, the more important thing was that the female guards could more conveniently watch over the women in the backyard to prevent them from committing suicide out of fear of crime.

Seeing Zhao Mu coming, the guards on duty saluted him and shouted, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Mu nodded at them and raised his hand, motioning them to stand up. After they stood up, they opened the door and let Zhao Mu in.

When Zhao Mu officially entered the backyard, his eyes were opened.

At this moment, he was like Granny Liu who had just entered the Grand View Garden. Everything he saw seemed new to him. Although his own Qi Palace and Qi Mansion in the capital were also magnificent, they were much more vulgar than Zhao Ji's place. There were pavilions, towers, and a pond full of lotus flowers.

Zhao Mu had just walked a few steps when he saw a group of women, each of them wearing shorts and headbands. Zhao Mu knew that this was the attire of the Song Dynasty Cuju players.

Hu Yanjin and others also often played this sport in King Qi's palace.

However, Huyan Jin, Mu Wanqing, Azhu and others are all female knights with martial arts skills. They can climb walls and fly over rooftops with ease, and their level of Cuju is naturally not comparable to those ordinary women around Prince Duan.

Faced with the laughter of these girls, Zhao Mu did not disturb them, but just stood aside and watched silently.

However, Zhao Mu also admired their mentality. Prince Duan was guilty of treason.

At the grand court meeting just now, almost half of the people supported severe punishment and extermination of Prince Duan's three clans.

If it weren't for the Su Shi brothers and Zhao Mu's advice to "not expand", the Duan Wang's concubines and their families would have to go to the vegetable market. Now that they are about to die, they still have the mood to play Cuju. Zhao Mu has to say that this mentality is really good.

At this moment, someone saw Zhao Mu.

She was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground and shouted, "Your Majesty!"

Hearing the woman's cry, everyone else looked at Zhao Mu and knelt in front of him.

Zhao Mu stepped forward and carefully examined the women. Among them, Zheng Cairen and Wei Meiren were both present.

Zheng Cairen was just sitting aside watching, while Wei Meiren went straight onto the field to play with them.

But after searching everyone, Zhao Mu found only Queen Wang.

Zhao Mu came here to confiscate property this time, and also wanted to have some fun for himself.

Li Qiushui was concerned about the war in Lingzhou City and had already gone back. Ah Zhu watched over Yelu Yanxiu day and night. He hadn't touched a woman for a long time.

But he lived in the palace, and he could not touch the women around Cheoljong.

Although it was not difficult to find a palace maid, Zhao Mu's current status was different. Zhao Mu was no longer a prince, but the legitimate emperor of the Song Dynasty. The women he had used had to be given some status. Before he returned to power, he had to be more cautious. Therefore, he had been enduring.

Now that Zhezong had given all of Zhao Ji's family to him, his main purpose for coming this time was to have fun. And the first person Zhao Mu wanted to have fun with was Queen Wang, who had just lost her son.

The reason why Zhao Mu chose her first was not because she was beautiful. Although she was not bad in terms of beauty, Zhao Mu was surrounded by beauties and she was not worthy of his attention.

Zhao Mu was so anxious to find her only because of her status as the queen. Zhao Mu had tasted many princesses from various countries, but he had never tried a queen. And she was the queen of the Song Dynasty. As a prince of the Zhao clan, he felt different when he used the queen of the Song Dynasty, even if she was deposed.

Although Zheng Cairen and Wei Meiren were also empresses of Emperor Huizong in history, they were not actually canonized by Emperor Huizong in their own parallel world.

As for Queen Wang, she was Zhao Ji's first wife and later the Queen of Song Dynasty. Zhao Mu naturally liked her more.

(End of this chapter)