Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 21 Concubine Party (2)
After all, a man's mouth is no match for a woman's mouth. Several loyal ministers also advised the Tang Emperor, saying how domineering the prince Li Jiancheng is outside, if it is not abolished early, the consequences will be disastrous.Tang Huang also knew that the prince's behavior was not good, and it would be difficult for him to continue his great career in the future; but as soon as he entered the palace, the group of concubines talked about how loyal and filial the prince was, and his heart was shaken again.Thinking back to the past, when Li Jiancheng first conquered the world, Li Jiancheng protected his family in Hedong, and led troops to pacify Xihe and Luoyang. He also made great contributions, especially Zhang and Yin concubines tried their best to speak for the prince. Good words, no matter what you say, you can't bear to abolish the prince.

4. Controversy over Shangdang Meitian

In fact, even if it wasn't for the crown prince, Zhang Jieyu wouldn't speak well of King Qin, and there was already a rift between them.When the Tang soldiers captured Luoyang, the treasures and property in the Sui Palace and the deeds of land and houses were really piled up in mountains and seas.There are also the ingenious twists and turns of the embroidered house and fragrant house in the sixteen courtyards. The beauty of the decoration has long been famous all over the world.Now they all fell into the hands of the Emperor Tang, and the group of concubines knew about it, and they all yelled at the King of Tang that they wanted to go to the Sui Palace to play.However, the emperor of Tang had no time to consult because of the hesitation of soldiers and horses. Although he also planned to take this opportunity to move the capital to Luoyang, he sent his concubines to go first.

Along the way, there were many fragrant cars and embroidered flags fluttering. King Qi led the Yulin Army to protect the concubines and entered Luoyang City.Qin Wang Li Shimin was picking up the Sui Palace, when he heard that his concubine had arrived, he went out to greet him.Zhang Jieyu was self-confident, she meant to go directly to the Sui Palace to stay, but she didn't want the King of Qin not to agree, saying that the utensils in the palace hadn't been checked clearly, so it was inconvenient to move in for a while.Then King Qin placed this group of concubines in another hall.The house is small and cramped, which made all the concubines complain.

It was hard work, and I hoped that the Sui Palace would be cleared up, but the concubines moved into the palace to have a look, and were greatly disappointed.It turned out that the King of Qin had already put away all the rare playthings displayed in the sixteenth courtyard, leaving only a few tall and empty courtyards.Zhang Jieyu questioned the King of Qin, and the King of Qin said that those treasures had not been seen by his father, and Xiao Wang dared not use them without authorization; now they are all stored in the treasury, if you nobles want to enjoy them, please go to the treasury to have a look.

Zhang Jieyu then took a group of concubines to the treasury to watch. Unexpectedly, those treasures, clothing, money and deeds were all packed in boxes, and the boxes had the seals of Prince Qin's Mansion on them.The concubines yelled together, saying they wanted to open the box to see it, but the King of Qin insisted on not doing so, saying that he must wait for his father to have a look, and he could not open it lightly.

The concubines came here in high spirits and returned in disappointment. Everyone hated King Qin from resentment.As soon as Zhang Jieyu returned to the palace, she wrote a memorial, saying that the King of Qin had sealed off the treasure and begged for Shangdang's beautiful fields for her father.The beautiful field in Shangdang was originally the imperial field of Emperor Sui Yang; the harvest is very rich every year.Zhang Jieyu had already heard about it when she was in Jinyang Palace, and she was very fond of it.

Zhang Jieyu's father was just a farmer, and his family was very poor.When Zhang Jieyu, who was born beautiful, suffered from hunger and cold at home, the father and daughter often cried to each other in the hut.At that time, Mr. Zhang sighed and said: "If there are three acres of Susukida in the family, my daughter will never be starved, alas!" Because of poverty, Mr. Zhang had to sell his daughter to a wealthy family in the city. household to be an adopted daughter.Later, when she was selected to enter the palace, Zhang Jieyu never forgot her old father.

Unexpectedly, this memorial was sent out of the palace, and a decree from Emperor Tang had already been sent to the palace of King Qin.The imperial decree stated that, except for inner palace clothes for playing with money and silk, the king of Qin can execute all officials and nobles' farms and houses with exclusive power.With this decree, King Qin bestowed Shangdang Meitian to his uncle Huaian Wang Li Shentong, because Li Shentong was the first to attack Luoyang.In addition, those who were conferred titles, those who granted Tianzhai, all civil and military officials cheered thunderously, and praised King Qin everywhere; but those concubines hated King Qin to the bone, and their teeth were itchy. Because not only Zhang Jieyu's father didn't get Shangdang Meitian, but all the relatives of the concubines didn't get any benefits.

Unexpectedly, in a few days, the Tang emperor issued a second decree, ennobling the father, brother and relatives of the concubines as marquises, and some of them also served as court errands, and granted land and houses in the same way.At the same time, another imperial edict was issued, awarding Shangdang Meitian to Zhang Jieyu's father.

Zhang Jieyu immediately beamed with joy, and immediately sent the inner eunuch to the countryside to find her father, bathed in clothes, and lived in a tall mansion, where hundreds of slaves and maidservants served in groups. Haonu, go to Shangdang to pick up Meitian.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the field, the king of Huai'an had already sent Zhuang Ding there to guard the field.Both families are powerful people, and they refused to back down, and beat them up if they disagreed.I don't want the group of Zhuang Ding of King Huai'an to be very violent and beat to death the slaves of Zhang Jieyu's father's family.Seeing that the incident was getting serious, the inner supervisor grabbed the head of Zhuangtian and came to Beijing together to file a complaint in Taiwei's yamen.

The Taiwei saw that the plaintiff was Zhang Jieyu's inner eunuch, and the defendant was Zhuang Ding of the King of Huai'an. How dare he take care of such a big background, so he came to the palace of King Qin in person and asked the King of Qin to make a judgment.

The king of Qin was also very surprised, so he hurriedly went to Zhang's mansion to inquire.Zhang Laoer took out the imperial edict of the Tang Emperor, and the King of Qin read it, but he had nothing to say, so he had to put the case on hold for the time being.

Later, when Emperor Tang came to Luoyang, as soon as he entered the palace, Zhang Jieyu cried and told how King Qin had bullied her father.Tang Huang was furious when he heard this, and immediately passed King Qin into the hall, and asked him how dare he refuse to obey the imperial edict?The king of Qin was so frightened that he hurriedly argued: "How dare I be the master, the reason why I rewarded Shangdang Meitian to the king of Huai'an is because my father had ordered me to execute my son."

Tang Huang didn't wait for King Qin to finish speaking, and shouted loudly: "Is my edict not as good as your hand?" This sentence made King Qin speechless, and hurriedly lay on the ground, not daring to move.At this time, Pei Ji was standing aside, hurriedly went up to persuade Li Shimin, and finally solved another difficulty for Li Shimin.

But at this time, Li Shimin's heart, which has always been hot for the country, was very cold. There was a time before, because Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei were good at talking, and Emperor Li Yuan, who had always been suspicious of Li Shimin's meritorious service, completely believed this time. His son Li Shimin would talk about usurping the throne for others. For a while, Li Yuan was so angry that he couldn't sleep or eat. But the war has not ended and the situation in the whole country is uneasy. At this time, it is really impossible to get rid of this powerful arm who can fight well. Yes, Li Yuan weighed He did not finally make up his mind to get rid of Li Shimin again and again, but since then he acquiesced in the attack and murder of Li Shimin by Prince Li Jiancheng and others. How could this not make Li Shimin very cold.

With the efforts of Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei to add fuel to the fire and fan the wind again, Li Yuan, who was so frustrated, called Li Shimin into the palace in order to vent his anger. After a pause: "The Son of Heaven is appointed by the heavens, and it is not something you can become by using some tricks. Although I am not dead yet, I am already so old, why are you so impatient! Your elder brother Jiancheng is honest and incompetent , he will definitely not be your opponent in the future, and it will be easy for you to get rid of him, just please don't kill me now!"

At that time, Li Shimin was also so frightened that he lay on the ground and did not dare to move, but that time he was not so scared that he kept silent, but repeatedly defended, but Li Yuan also didn't believe it at all, and continued to yell at him.It's just that Pei Ji wasn't around that time, so of course he couldn't rush to persuade him.At the critical moment of Li Shimin, Xiao Huangmen sent an emergency document for the invasion of Turkic soldiers. What Li Shimin could hardly believe was that his emperor's father, Li Yuan, immediately turned his anger into a smile, and said magnanimously: "Forget it!" , Forget it, the words of some women are the most untrustworthy, why hurt our father-son relationship because of this! The most important thing now is to discuss how to deal with the Turkic soldiers!"

5. Catastrophe

On the second day when the imperial decree came down, Zhang Jieyu's father was still rewarded with Shangdang's beautiful fields, but Zhang Jieyu's resentment towards the King of Qin did not dissipate because of this.At this moment, unexpectedly, one wave was not settled, and another wave rose again. In a few days, Du Ruhui, an official of the Qin Palace, forged a deep hatred with Concubine Yin Defei's father, and Li Shimin was almost implicated and lost the throne.

Du Ruhui and the King of Qin can be described as friends in need. Du Ruhui had been in the Li Mansion for many years, and he was trusted by the King of Qin because of his integrity.This time King Qin was wronged because of Shangdang Meitian, Du Ruhui felt wronged for him, and often said to his colleague Fang Xuanling that he must show King Qin's uselessness.

Fang Xuanling understood the human condition and the way of the world very well, shook his head and sighed and said: "Now the lord loves the two concubines Zhang and Yin, and the concubine's party is in full swing, you must not scratch the tiger's head, otherwise you will miss the important event of the lord .” Du Ruhui listened to the persuasion and agreed to swallow his anger.

Because His Majesty the Emperor is greedy for beauty, he must favor the concubines, and if the concubines are favored by him, they will inevitably indulge their mother's family to run amok.So for a while, the concubine's relatives became more and more domineering day by day. They relied on the favor of the concubine internally, and colluded with the minions of the Prince's Mansion and Prince Qi's Mansion outside to act recklessly in the capital, causing resentment from every family in the capital.Cases of robbery and adultery that occurred in the streets and alleys were reported to the Yushi Yamen. There were always more than ten cases every day. Don't dare to ask.

Among the relatives of the concubines, the fathers of the second concubine Zhang and Yin were the most domineering. They even secretly arranged for the prince's gangsters to rob wealthy households on the ground in the capital.

Although Prince Li Jiancheng didn't have many strategies and achievements, he had been fighting with his father all the time. So he had a group of fierce generals under his command, and because he became a prince, he was afraid that other brothers would plot against him secretly, so he adopted many people who went over the wall. the chivalrous man.At dusk and night, he quietly went to various palaces to inquire about the news, and returned to the palace to report to the prince.This group of people were originally thieves, they went in and out of the wealthy households in various palaces, and when they saw treasures and belongings, their hands would always itch; after the robbery, the father of the two concubines Zhang and Yin became the safest nest.

Those rich and wealthy families who were robbed reported the robbery to the officials, but they never solved the case, which made all the rich and powerful families in the city panic.Zhang and Yin's families became more and more courageous, and even the servants dared to intimidate someone who passed by with valuables in their hands and ordered them to stay.

King Qin dared not speak out because he had suffered in the past, but Du Ruhui couldn't help it.Without telling King Qin, he led a group of soldiers, all of whom held treasures in their hands, and led them on horseback. He purposely walked past Concubine Yin De's father's house.The group of wolf-like slaves standing at the door of Yin's house saw them, they all rushed forward, stopped with a shout, and then unceremoniously stretched out their hands to take the belongings in the hands of the soldiers.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers got the order in advance, and immediately shouted and fought together, and started fighting in an empty field outside the gate.That group of soldiers was used to fighting, and they all carried weapons with them.In a short while, more than a dozen servants of the Yin family were killed, and their corpses fell in disorder in the empty field.

Seeing that he was out of breath, Du Ruhui was about to turn his horse's head and walk away, when he saw more than 20 servants coming out of the gate with an old man in their arms, and shouted: "You bandits, don't even think about getting away! Stop quickly, listen to me!" Come bind!"

Du Ruhui became angry as soon as he heard it, he patted his horse forward and asked, "Who are you, old thief?"

The old man patted himself on the chest, laughed and said, "This old man is the current King Yin! You slave and clown, why don't you get off your horse and kneel down when you see the old man?"

When Du Ruhui heard that he was Concubine Yin De's father, he added fuel to the fire and ordered his soldiers not to be afraid, fight!Here, Yin Guozhang was instructing his servants to come forward and beat him up. He jumped off his horse, drew out his saber, and by surprise, he chopped off two of Yin Guozhang's fingers.Immediately, Yin Guozhang was in pain, screamed, and fainted to the ground.Du Ruhui sneered, turned around, jumped on the horse, and rode away.

Here, the servants of the Yin family helped Guozhang Yin into the inner house, those who asked for a doctor invited a doctor, and those who reported to officials were busy.In Prince Qin's mansion over there, Li Shimin also complained that Du Ruhui should not have caused such a catastrophe, but Du Ruhui said: "I will go through fire and water, and I am willing to go with my whole body."

More than a dozen servants of the Yin family were killed by officials in the Prince Qin's mansion, and two fingers were cut off by Zhang Guozhang Yin. The news immediately spread throughout the capital.

How dare the local officials accept the case when they saw that it was a case brought by the Qin Palace.Concubine Yin De's mother rushed into the palace and cried to Concubine Yin De.Concubine Yin De was dying in front of Emperor Tang, crying and complaining coquettishly and coquettishly, asking Long Live to avenge her, and of course she said a lot of bad things about King Qin.

Emperor Tang was also very suspicious of Li Shimin's disobedience to laws and decrees because of his hard work and great achievements. Since the Shangdang Meitian incident, he has been quite honest with him. Come into the palace.

Du Ruhui had already tied himself up neatly, sat in a cage, carried by two soldiers, and went into the palace with the King of Qin.Fang Xuanling hurriedly informed Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, Changsun Wuji, and Yuchi Jingde, a group of ministers, and begged them to quickly enter the palace to rescue King Qin.

These ministers are the Tang Emperor's friends in need, and they usually obey their advice.When the four of them hurried into the palace, they saw the Emperor Tang yelling at Li Shimin, saying: "The officials in your family dare to bully even my concubine's family. It is also unreasonable for you to encourage your subordinates to bully the people. You can imagine it." The King of Qin prostrated himself on the ground, weeping bitterly to argue, but the Emperor Tang didn't listen at all, and only ordered the King of Qin to be deposed as a commoner, and Du Ruhui to be torn to pieces.

Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, Changsun Wuji, and Yuchi Jingde hurriedly knelt down on the ground, interceding on behalf of King Qin, saying that King Qin is a father and son in the royal family, and a hero in the country. Even if His Majesty doesn't care about the love between father and son, he should forgive the hero.Now that His Majesty has abolished King Qin's title for the sake of the father of a concubine, it will chill the hearts of all the heroes from now on, and the pros and cons are self-evident.

These words softened Emperor Tang's heart, so he issued an order to pardon King Qin's crimes, expelled Du Ruhui from the capital, and would never be allowed to employ him again.

But those concubines and relatives, after Du Ruhui's punishment, they also disappeared a lot.Prince Li Jiancheng saw that the King of Qin did not like the Emperor Tang, so he showed his filial piety in front of the Emperor Tang, and was more careful with the concubines. The concubines were coaxed, so he always said good things for the prince in front of the Emperor Tang. , so Emperor Tang trusted the prince even more.

(End of this chapter)