Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 29 Love and Lore
Taizong was silent after hearing this.From then on, whenever Emperor Taizong summoned his ministers, Concubine Cui dared not accompany her.Taking advantage of this, Concubine Yang also advised: "Your Majesty should often meet with ministers and talk about the gains and losses of the country. It is not advisable to indulge in sensuality and cause harm to the body." Taizong also knew that Concubine Yang said good things, but Concubine Cui's beauty really made him Loved so much, although he was embarrassed to be lucky every night, he still stayed in Xuanhua Palace frequently, until the two beauties in Hou Junji's house were searched, and then Taizong's favor was moved over.

11. Prince Li Chengqian: the master of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji

Li Chengqian was the eldest son of Emperor Taizong and the son of Empress Changsun. Because he was born in Chengqian Palace, he was named Chengqian.He was smart and knowledgeable since he was a child, and when he became an adult, Emperor Taizong often handed over to the prince a ruling when he encountered important state affairs.Taizong saw that he was doing everything properly, and every time he was lucky enough to go hunting, he felt relieved to let the prince stay in the country.

When the honest and honest prince Li Chengqian saw that his father was not in front of him, he often forced his servants to go out of the palace with him in low clothes, entered the people's homes at night, raped the women, and if he saw someone with a beautiful woman, he would give him some money. Buy it back to the mansion and force her to be a maidservant and concubine.

The common people couldn't bear it anymore, and went to Yousi Yamen to accuse the prince of licentiousness and immorality, but which official would dare to accept such a complaint.Kong Yingda, Linghu Defen, Yu Zhining, Zhang Xuansu, Zhao Hongzhi, Wang Renbiao, and Cui Zhiji were all loyal ministers, and they went to persuade the prince, but Li Chengqian sat upright in front of the ministers, talking high-spiritedly, full of righteousness Dali Dali, the ministers all respect the prince Li Chengqian is really a loyal gentleman, those unethical things may be lied to by the common people, so they help the prince to argue in front of Taizong.

There are more than [-] princes and concubines. They are good at singing and dancing. The prince spends all day in the mansion. Whenever he is drunk, he forces all the concubines to stand naked in the big court for him to prostitute during the day, while the maids have to stand aside. Drumming and singing.

The prince also has a strange way. He has hundreds of servants in the mansion, playing Hu people's music, knotting their hair into cones, cutting ribbons into dance clothes, dancing swords and beating drums, singing and singing all night long.Hu people's yurts were lined up in his back garden, and the concubines of concubines were dressed as orchids, and they lived in the dome with their servants.Sometimes he pretended to be dead, and the concubines and maidservants had to jump around him and cry. At this time, the prince would get sexually interested, jump up suddenly, clap his hands and laugh, hug a concubine at will, and get paid.

The prince sometimes changed the guards in the palace into Hu soldiers' attire, and led the soldiers with Li Yuanchang, the king of the Han Dynasty, and pretended to be fighting between the two armies in Houyuan Middle School, shouting for an attack.The prince held a big knife in the back and pressed the battle. If anyone flinched, he would be stripped naked and tied to a tree. If it was serious, he would be beaten to death with a leather whip on the spot.After a child's play, the garden was so murdered that corpses were strewn all over the ground, and the flowers and trees were stained red with blood.The prince often said: "I became the son of heaven, and I just had fun like this. If anyone dares to persuade him, I will kill him. If I kill 500 people in a row, no one will dare to persuade him!"

There is a boy prostitute named Haier in the East Palace. He has a charming appearance, can sing, dance and tease. Prince Chengqian dotes on him more than all his concubines.Hai'er has fair skin and skin, and the prince often makes Hai'er strip naked to compare his skin with the concubines.Sometimes Haier would sleep among the concubines, flirting with each other in private, making the East Palace extremely filthy.

Although the Crown Princess Yingshi is beautiful and glamorous, she behaves solemnly and dignifiedly. Prince Chengqian doesn't like it very much, so he instigates Hai'er to seduce Concubine Ying secretly, but who knows that Concubine Ying is not a trap at all. Going to tease Concubine Ying, seeing Concubine Ying's panic and embarrassment, the prince laughed heartily from the sidelines.Concubine Ying was so ashamed and indignant that she went to the palace to report to Emperor Taizong.Taizong was furious, and immediately went to the East Palace with his servants, captured Hai'er and hanged him on the pillar of the palace.

For this reason, the prince hated Concubine Ying deeply, and was so frightened that Concubine Ying did not even dare to live in the East Palace with the crazy prince, and often hid in Taizong's imperial concubine's palace.Just as he hated Concubine Ying deeply, the relationship between the prince and Taizong was also very tense. After Taizong killed Haier, he did not go to see his father for three consecutive months.The prince's uncle, King Li Yuanchang of Han, smelled it, and said quietly to the prince that day: "Didn't you see that the emperor loves the fourth prince very much recently? I got the news from Concubine Yan that the emperor will make the fourth prince the prince sooner or later. Be careful."

The expression of the lecherous Han Wang Li Yuanchang has no lustful meaning at all, it is completely in the same boat and deeply worried, which really makes Prince Chengqian both moved and furious: "This old thing! See if the lonely king will overthrow him from the emperor's seat sooner or later Come down, wait for the lonely king to become the emperor, and then take his life!"

As soon as the lustful Li Yuanchang heard the words that fulfilled his wish, he hurriedly leaned close to the prince's ear, and happily spread his cards: "If you become the emperor, don't forget to reward me the maid, Xiaoyan, who plays the pipa in the palace!" Prince Li Chengqian nodded without difficulty.

It turned out that on the day of the imperial court's Daqing, the King of Han followed all the princes into the palace to congratulate him. Taizong saw that they were all his children, so he gave a banquet in the inner palace.The king of Han was so drunk that he slipped out to attend.

In the Royal Garden, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, and the green shade was like a curtain. The king of Han enjoyed the scenery in the garden all the way. Unknowingly, the king of Han came to the Chenxiang Pavilion, and suddenly heard the sound of strings and strings. The big red crabapple flowers are densely surrounded around the pavilion.The King of Han looked through the branches of the flowers and saw six or seven court ladies playing the pipa around a woman dressed in pink.At this moment, she is bowing her head and playing the piano, and the beauty of the world is even more revealed in the melody of the piano.

The song came to an end soon. Seeing that they were about to leave, the King of Han couldn't help shouting: "Play a song and listen to Xiao Wang!" Scattered and fled.The King of Han was about to chase after the woman in pink, when he suddenly saw two eunuchs walking up the path and helped the King of Han back to the mat.From then on, the king of Han never forgot this maid who played the pipa, and only hated that he could not enter the palace for no reason on weekdays.

Hou Junji was born in Sanshui, Youzhou. He was very brave in martial arts and was good at bowing horses.When Emperor Taizong was the King of Qin, he followed the expeditions from south to north, and made great achievements. Later, he also made great efforts in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.Hou Junji and Li Jing, Xue Wanjun, Li Daliang and other generals conquered Tuyuhun and fought for thousands of miles. They did not return to the court until Xingxiuhai and Jiyushan. They were renamed Chen Guogong and promoted to Guanglu doctor.

Since then, the barbarians have been returned to the barbarians, and all nations have come to court, and the country has been peaceful.Emperor Taizong built a Lingyan Pavilion in the imperial garden, on which were all the portraits of men of civil and military meritorious service, and then held a feast for the officials in the pavilion, and Hou Junji couldn't help feeling proud when he saw his own portrait painted on the pavilion Be proud and bully your colleagues everywhere.The officials of the Manchu Dynasty did not dare to argue with him because he was a meritorious minister.Hou Junji became even more arrogant, and the trouble became bigger and bigger.

Hou Jun led his troops to conquer the Western Regions. He believed that he had made great achievements in calming the chaos and obtained many rare and rare treasures.Later, he was reported by his subordinates, so Hou Junji was imprisoned for [-] days for the crime of embezzling, until Cen, the servant of Zhongshu, interceded for him on the grounds that heroes and generals should not be lightly humiliated. He issued an imperial edict to release him, but his official position was cut off.Hou Junji lived idle in the mansion, with resentment in his heart, the King of Han took the opportunity to win him over, so he formed a buddy with the prince Li Chengqian, and in the prince's secret room, he cut his arm with a saber and bled, dripped it in the wine, drank the blood wine and made an oath to form an alliance, and then agreed to King Qi Li You raised troops in Qizhou and entered the capital; Prince Li Chengqian led the Imperial Forest Army and entered the West Palace in response.

Who knows that the secret is not secret, King Qi was captured by Li Ji in Qizhou, and sent to the capital, where he was tortured to admit the prince, Hou Junji, Han Wang Yuanchang and his group.Taizong was furious, arrested them all, deposed Prince Chengqian as a commoner, and exiled him to Qianzhou; the prince died on the way to be assigned.The rest of the offenders will all be sentenced to death.
Only Emperor Taizong brought Hou Junji to the palace and personally interrogated him, and said to Hou Junji, "I didn't want to use swords and pens to humiliate the public, so I interrogated myself. Now that the evidence of treason is solid, what can you say?" Hou Junji just Kowtowing to death, Taizong turned around and asked the left and right ministers, "Looking back at the past, when the country was not in peace, Junji moved thousands of miles, and he really made great achievements. Although he is guilty now, I really can't bear to put him to justice. Now I am begging for the king's lords. , please save his life, I wonder if you will agree?"

Before Taizong finished speaking, the left and right ministers said in unison: "Hou Jun collected today's crimes, the heaven and the earth cannot tolerate it, please Your Majesty enunciate the canonical punishment, so as to maintain the great law of the country." Taizong wiped the sincere tears of crying mice again, and said to Hou Jun Ji said: "All anger is hard to offend, it is I who will not forgive you! Now that I have made a farewell to Qing, I will only see Qing's portrait again in Lingyan Pavilion!"

Hou Junji was also moved to the point of tears. Although he died, he had no complaints against this kind big cat. He just cried and kowtowed and begged the emperor to protect his family.The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were also moved to tears by this big cat that was good at crying mice. For such a benevolent and righteous lord, they were willing to do so even though they were heartbroken.In such a touching and atmosphere, Emperor Taizong issued an edict to send Hou Junji to the crossroads of Jingshi Street to be beheaded for public display. At the same time, the mansion of Hou Junji was searched and all men and women were escorted into the palace, leaving only one son to return home to guard the tomb of Hou Junji. .A big mess was wiped out by the political master old fritters, and the sky was sunny.

12. Amazing

That day, Taizong suddenly saw the portrait of Hou Junji on the Lingyan Pavilion in the imperial garden, and immediately thought of Hou Junji and his great achievements, and how he was still moved to tears by his benevolent king before he died. His face was full of tears, although he died without any complaints, he just cried and kowtowed and begged the emperor to protect his family.So this kind big cat thought of Hou Junji's family, and walked to the lower palace in plain clothes, where Hou Junji's family was receiving the best care of His Majesty the Emperor.

The lower palace is outside the west wall of the imperial garden, and the bungalows around it are very narrow, where the wives and children of prisoners are accommodated.Taizong went to the lower palace to see that the children and women were very noisy and messy, and the foul smell choked the nose and throat, which made people feel uncomfortable for a while.

Taizong covered his nose with his sleeve, and was about to turn around to leave, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of two slender hands like white jade protruding from the small window, rolling up the curtain. woman?When I looked again, the curtain had been rolled up high, revealing the woman's face.Although she was dressed in rough clothes with fluffy hair and plain face, her full charm was trying to hide her beauty, and her pink neck became more and more white as snow and moist as jade.

Taizong hurriedly summoned the guards in charge of the palace, and after asking, he found out that they were Ji people from Hou Junji, and they were also sisters. The most important thing was that the two sisters were also a pair of sisters.As soon as Taizong returned to Qingxinyuan, he ordered the two sisters to be brought.

After a while, a pair of Bi people knelt side by side in front of Emperor Taizong. Taizong smiled and said, "Your sisters are really like a lotus flower with parallel heads. They come out of the mud and are not stained." She smiled obediently and said: "Then please give me a name called Lianhua, Your Majesty!" Taizong's joy was amplified by his clever articulation, so he kept the two sisters in the Qingxinyuan for a long time. for more than ten days.At this moment, Hou Junji, who was already in the cold and dark darkness, could rest assured that this kind big cat would protect his family, at least for these two beautiful lotus flowers that came out of the mud but not stained.This kind big cat will not only protect them effectively and forcefully, but also embrace them from left to right, sending warmth to Yixiang, and finally fulfilled the responsibility of protecting Hou Junji in this way.

The skin of the two sisters is so white that there is no blemish at all. Especially in the tent, they look like jade carvings. Taizong was very happy and sympathetic, so the elder named Qiong and the younger. Give the name Jiu, and make them all beauties.That day, Emperor Taizong asked these two beauties why their skin was so white.Qiongmei said that since she married Hou Gong, she was lucky to be loved by Hou Gong very much. She drank human milk all the year round and ate less fireworks, so her skin was so white.

Of course Taizong was more able to put on a show than that Duke Hou, and immediately ordered that in the Qingxinyuan, 20 wet nurses would be hired for many years to milk the milk for the two beauties every day.If Hou Junji knew that his Ai Ji had received such care from that kind big cat, he would definitely be moved to tears again. Mei Lianhua enjoyed better treatment than under his wing.

Later, the concubines in the palace and the Ji people of the ministers also followed suit, and hired wet nurses at home.Immediately, all nurses from all over the country rushed to the capital to enjoy such a generous salary, regardless of leaving behind the child who was still waiting to be fed.Pity these little children who were born in poor families, because they don't have the sweet and nutritious milk of their mothers, they get sick and die.

(End of this chapter)