Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 19 Lessons from the Past
Each of these words, to Empress Xiao, was like a thunderbolt, which shocked her thinking, and she was stunned for a long time, not knowing what to say, and her face was already pale and red, red. It's white again.At this time, Empress Cao asked her relentlessly, who else died?Empress Xiao didn't dare to say anything about Wu Jiangxian again, lest she would find it boring, so she said there was no more.But Xianniang sneered and said, "I've heard people say that there is another Immortal Wu Jiang who risked his life to offer poisoned wine in order to avenge the late emperor. Unfortunately, this murder of Yu Wenhuaji failed, and another The shameless slut offered an extremely vicious trick, causing Wu Jiangxian to die miserably after being tortured, is this true?"

At this moment, Empress Xiao hated that there was no hole in the ground, so she hid in it, but the princess chased after her and asked, she couldn't say no, so she just nodded.Empress Cao continued: "I heard that Mrs. Xue, who danced with a sword, is still there?" Empress Xiao could not have imagined that Xue Ye'er was behind the curtain waiting for an opportunity to appear, so she said with peace of mind: "She failed because of stabbing a thief." , was kicked out of the palace, and now I don’t know where he is now.” Xiao Hou hadn’t finished speaking, when the curtain of the inner room was lifted, and Xue Ye’er walked out as if descending from the sky.Empress Xiao was stunned for a moment, Xue Ye'er gritted her teeth and said with a sneer: "Unexpectedly, I met your empress here again.

The concubine thought that the empress would finally be able to enjoy wealth and honor for a long time after following Yuwen's rebellion, but she didn't want to be displaced to this point? "Hearing Xue Ye'er's words, Empress Xiao felt unbearable. She had been ridiculed because of Empress Cao and Xianniang's mother and daughter, who were hot and cold. They deliberately arranged it for the purpose of humiliating her. Xiao Hou was thinking about how to deal with this situation, Princess Yong'an said again: "Since you don't hold the pipa, why not play it and sing three times! Empress Xiao was ridiculed so hard by them that she couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment, and said brazenly: "The widow is not greedy for life or afraid of death. The empress and princess don't know about the suffering.Just because the rebels entered the palace that night, there was a rush. At that time, the late emperor was killed, and the corpse was buried in the palace, and there was no one to consult. If it hadn't been presided over by the concubine, the carved bed of agarwood was changed into a coffin. Let's collect them one by one, otherwise those corpses will rot... Alas!The widow really had to bear the humiliation at that time, otherwise, how could the traitor be willing to bury the late emperor and make Qin Wanghao his successor?So we have to be more considerate of the widows. "

When Empress Cao heard this, she couldn't help but retorted: "I have to accept the truth, but I don't know when the thief minister poisoned and killed the young emperor later, the empress was in love with the thief minister, why didn't she say a word to rescue him? "

Empress Xiao wept and replied: "At that time, the widow's own life was still in the hands of the thief, so it was useless to say it." Empress Cao sneered: "The three-character empress of the "widow" can reluctantly be called that, but I don't know what the empress keeps saying. Who is the widow referring to? Is the empress a widow of the Yang clan today? Or should she be a widow of the Yuwen clan? I have to ask my empress about this!" A single question made Empress Xiao speechless and ashamed. I couldn't help being very sad, so I had to cover my face and weep.

It happened that at this time Xia Wang Dou Jiande returned to the palace. Seeing this scene, he hurriedly ordered two maids to send Empress Xiao back to her residence, and persuaded Empress Cao behind her back: "She has reached this point now, it is enough for her. You don't have to humiliate her anymore!"

Although Dou Jiande distributed many pearls, jade, gold, silver, colored silk, silk and maids in the Sui palace to the meritorious soldiers at that time, there were still countless treasures brought back to the palace. Empress Cao was naturally happy when she saw it, so she was so happy , smiled and said to Dou Jiande: "Now there is still a living treasure here, I don't know where your Majesty will put it!" Dou Jiande said: "My wife Hugh treats me like Yuwen! The reason why I brought Queen Xiao back is because It's just that I'm afraid that Empress Xiao will stay in the Central Plains and be raped by others, and Yu Xianchao will look too bad. As the saying goes, knowing a husband is better than a wife, we have been married for many years, why should the royal wife be so suspicious!"

12. Empress Xiao flees beyond the Great Wall

Empress Xiao returned to the dormitory, the humiliation just now made her more and more sad, and the more she thought about it, the more anxious she became. If she stayed here for a long time, how could she withstand the humiliation and torture of Empress Cao and Princess Xianniang? Where can she find peace Where are you going?Empress Xiao cried all night. At dawn, she came up with a solution, which was to marry Princess Yicheng, the daughter of Turkic Shibi Khan, who would definitely help her out of this predicament.So Empress Xiao immediately edited the book, expressing her misery and pain to the fullest.Then she sealed it tightly, and took out a few pieces from her top-quality jewelry, and bribed a court lady to help her find a reliable person to send the letter outside the Great Wall.

It's true that money is a magic trick. Empress Xiao spent some gold beads, and her letter really reached the hands of Princess Yicheng outside the Great Wall.After she finished reading in tears, she immediately went to see her husband Shibi Khan.Shibi Khan agreed and sent envoys to Leshou to pick up Empress Xiao.Dou Jiande was in a dilemma because he couldn't deal with Empress Xiao. When he saw the Turkic envoys coming to welcome him, he really wanted it, and he immediately agreed.

Empress Xiao, who had been eagerly looking forward to this sound all day long, heard that the Turkic envoys were coming to welcome her, so she packed up her luggage immediately, bid farewell to Dou Jiande, and followed the Turkic envoys on the road.When the mother and daughter met outside the Great Wall, they didn't know where to start to say a thousand words, but they just kept crying.

13. Die by accident

Since Wang Shichong of the Eastern Capital defeated Li Mi and brought all the government affairs under his control, his arrogance and lawlessness have become more and more serious.At the beginning, he proclaimed himself Taiwei and Shangshuling, and then he proclaimed himself King Zheng and Jia Jiuxi.But Wang Shichong was still not satisfied. Like those powerful officials in this situation, he also suddenly and inevitably abolished Emperor Huangtai in one day, and became emperor himself, with the country name Zhenghuang; He was named Duke Lu.Of course, the matter would not stop there. Before long, Wang Renze, Wang Shichong's nephew, who was torn to pieces in the future, brought poisonous wine to Emperor Huangtai's residence, and invited him to drink to relieve his boredom.Emperor Huangtai, like those descendants of the Yang family, knew that his doomsday was coming. This innocent young man cried bitterly and said that he wanted to see his biological mother for the last time, but Wang Ren was neither benevolent nor righteous. The emperor begged repeatedly, just urging him to drink poisoned wine.

Emperor Tai, who believed in Buddhism, set up a mat and burned incense, weeping bitterly and asking the Bodhisattva: "May from now on, I will never be reborn in the emperor's house again." Then he took the poisonous wine himself, and drank it with his neck up Not a drop was left.But his luck was really bad, the toxicity of the poisonous wine just didn't show up for a while.Wang Ren couldn't wait any longer, stepped forward with a ferocious face, tightly tied the cloth around the little emperor's neck, and didn't let go of anything, even though he struggled until the veins on his forehead bulged, his eyes protruded from his sockets, and his nose bulged. The fresh blood in the mouth is rushing violently.

14. A preview of the rise and fall
Yang Hao, king of Qin with the surname of Yang in the Sui Dynasty, died, and died of an accident; Emperor Yang Tong, the emperor of the eastern capital, also died, but also died of an accident;As if by fate, in one year, these three [-]-year-old and [-]-year-old teenagers happened to be born in three different places because they were born in the emperor's family. Family, with a common means and a common way to support the emperor, and then these three teenagers, because of a common reason, were sent to a common result.

When these three different royal youths were dying, they said one thing in common, that is, they hoped that they would not be born into the emperor's family again in the next life.Yes, it is terrible to be born in an emperor's family. For all the five emperors in the Sui imperial family, some of them were murdered by their parents and children during the 38 years of Guozuo, some were hanged to death by the mutiny launched by their subordinates, and some died after the death of the country. They were strangled, some were publicly poisoned, some were murdered, and their deaths were unknown.

In total, the Sui clan came to an end after a total of 38 years since Emperor Wen usurped the Zhou Dynasty.The regime of the Sui Dynasty ended the 200-year-long division since the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, unified China with the Yellow River and the Yangtze River as the center, and surpassed the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. Sufficient and necessary conditions were prepared for the rise of the Tang Dynasty; at the same time, this short, prosperous and affluent dynasty is a lesson for the Li Tang Dynasty, which was nearly ten times as long as Guozuo.The ups and downs, prosperity, prosperity and bloody wars during this period are actually just a small rehearsal of the powerful Tang Dynasty.

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