Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 49 The Tang Dynasty's Pink Age (2) ([-])
Yan Qinrong, who was thin and withered, was lifted up high by several powerful warriors, and suddenly fell to the ground with a shout. This happened several times, and it is estimated that none of the internal organs of Yan Qinrong, a local official, could survive. It wasn't broken. At that time, the bright red blood was rushing out from his mouth and nose, and even one of his eyeballs was thrown out of the socket, and it was in a state of inseparability on his face. with.

Emperor Zhongzong's face was very ugly when he witnessed all this. Empress Wei saw the muscles of his face and cheeks twisting secretly. She knew that was called secretly gritting her teeth, and she couldn't help feeling an unprecedented faint sense of crisis.

Princess Anle became more and more domineering because of the emperor's favor. Her slaves and the servants of Princess Changning and Princess Anding got together to plunder the children of the people and drag them into the princess's mansion to serve as slaves.Even a pretty woman is bound to be raped by a powerful servant.Therefore, in secluded places in the gardens of the princess' mansion, there are often the bodies of girls who were hanged or thrown into wells.Those common people who had lost their children rushed to the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to file a complaint. As usual, the officials were too frightened to intervene. Therefore, the parents of these children, who had nowhere to sue, searched for death at home, so that a family often committed suicide en masse. , It's really a broken family.

This boiling public grievance made Yuan Congyi, the censor of Zuotai, very angry, and secretly sent the servants to visit everywhere. On that day, when he visited Xichenggener, he saw a group of slaves robbing a girl from a family. The parents of that family were kneeling on the ground. Crying and begging, the hateful slaves just grabbed the girl and left, not even paying attention to the two distressed parents.

A group of yamen servants hiding in the dark swarmed up at the right time, tied up the hands and feet of the slaves, and sent them back to the censor's yamen.The censor Yuan found out that it belonged to Princess Anle's family after sitting in court for a first trial, so he ordered a heavy punishment, beat a few slaves to their skins, and then put them on death row.

At that time, the Haonu who had escaped hurried back to the mansion to report to Princess Anle. When she was used to being domineering, she jumped up and roared when she heard that the censor's yamen dared to capture her. servant.Zhongzong immediately issued an edict for his good daughter to Yushi Yamen, ordering to release the servants of Princess Anle's family as soon as possible.

Who knows that Yuan Yushi didn't obey the edict, but rushed into the palace in person, and said: "Your Majesty listened to the princess's one-sided words in vain. The princess ordered the slaves to rob the children of good families. If your majesty does not punish the crime seriously, what will happen to you?" Rule the world! I know that by killing the slaves, I will offend the princess, and if I offend the princess, a catastrophe will come soon, but releasing the slaves will save me from disaster, but I will never pervert the law and steal my life!" Yuan Yushi said bluntly, and kowtowed again and again , until his forehead touched the ground with blood.

Zhongzong had nothing to say, so he ordered Princess Anle to step down temporarily.When Yuan Yushi returned to the yamen, he immediately tied up those slaves to the place where the accident happened in Xichenggen, and showed them to the public. Then he also abandoned his crown and belt, put on a watch, resigned and went to live in seclusion in the mountains.

7. Disaster to the people will bring disaster to the country
The other princesses saw that someone dared to take care of them, and it was Princess Anle's servant who killed them, so they have stopped a lot since then.But Princess An Le has lost face, how can she give up?Every day, he nagged to his father, saying that he wanted to capture Yuan Yushi from the mountain where he lived in seclusion, and pay for the life of her slave.Zhongzong comforted her in every possible way, and gave Princess Anle the mansion of Princess Linchuan. Then Princess Anle became happy, and immediately summoned 5 husbands to build a new mansion.

The private houses in the fourth week of the original house were occupied, demolished and transformed into gardens in the mansion.Poor that poor family, who used to shelter from the wind and rain with a mud hut of three tiles and two thatch, but now it is taken over by Princess Anle, there is no tile or thatch on it, no bed or bunk on it, really homeless.One after another went to the Jingzhao Yin Yamen to file a complaint, but nine out of ten reports were not allowed, so the poor went to the gate of the princess mansion to cry and mourn.But the princess ordered them all to be beaten to the side. Poorly, many innocent people were beaten to death by the slaves in the mansion with sticks as thick as bowls, and many people simply hit their heads on the stepping stones and died on the ground with blood streaming down their faces. Many people hanged themselves outside the gate of the mansion in the middle of the night.So outside the gate of Princess Anle's new mansion, there were many corpses, which was very miserable.As soon as twilight arrives, the wind will rustle.

The pleadings for redress of grievances in the local yamen are also sent in snow flakes, but where can I find another Yuan Yushi who does not follow the power, does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and is willing to pour blood for the people to avenge the people's grievances?
On the day when another new residence of Princess An Le was completed, she was escorted by [-] cavalry from the Imperial Forest Army, and celebrated with palace silk music all the way, sending the princess and her son-in-law into the house.Zhongzong and Empress Wei were lucky enough to have a banquet in the mansion.The son of Princess Anle's ex-husband Wu Chongxun is already eight years old, and he came to pay homage to the empress in a courteous manner. Empress Wei was very happy, hugged the child on her lap, and immediately issued an edict, worshiping him as Taichangqing, Duke of Hao, and Shiyi Five hundred households.

When Zhongzong saw that Empress Wei made an edict without authorization, he didn't take him seriously as the emperor at all. He was very unhappy in his heart. He stopped Empress Wei's edict and said: "Slow down the edict! Wait until I go back to the palace, and then do it again." care about."

After hearing this, Empress Wei said coldly: "Why care about it? When your Majesty was in Fangzhou, didn't you say that everything in the future will be left to the concubine to do as she pleases? Why do you want to interfere with the concubine now?"

When Zhongzong saw that the empress had spoken out his private words in public, he felt more and more uncomfortable. He thought that the empress seemed to be domineering every day, and if he didn't take advantage of today to subdue her, wouldn't he become the second empress dowager in the future? ?Emperor Zhongzong didn't say a word right away, he just passed the decree and drove back to the palace. At that time, Emperor Zhongzong's face was also very ugly, and the muscles of his cheeks were twisting secretly. Empress Chachawei saw this kind of secret grit your teeth.

Empress Wei, who had long put the emperor in her eyes, was still on the surface unfazed when she saw Emperor Zhongzong returning to the palace in a fit of anger, and was still drinking and having fun in Princess Anle's mansion.But the faint sense of crisis in her heart suddenly intensified, and with her keenness, this sense of crisis quickly rose to the extreme.

It was lively until midnight, when the guests gradually dispersed, Empress Wei summoned her confidants and officials to discuss the matter. In the end, the son of the state offered wine to Ye Jing, the constant attendant Ma Qinke, Guanglu Shaoqing Yang Jun, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Pei Tan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry Zhang Xi, generals Zhao Chengfu, Xue Jian, Wei Qiao Wang Chongfu, Wen Wang Chongmao, agreed with Empress Wei and Princess Anle to raise an incident in Princess Changning's newly built Dongdu mansion.

8. Good and evil will be rewarded
Princess Changning is also Empress Wei's biological daughter. When she saw that her younger sister, Princess Anle, had built a new house, she also asked her mother for land to build a new house. Empress Wei gave her a large piece of land, and Princess Changning asked the emperor for 20 Ten thousand, and then large-scale construction.At the east and west ends, there are two large ponds, each with a radius of [-] mu.On the surface of the pool is a curved bridge water pavilion, which is exquisite and transparent, like a crystal palace.Along the Luoshui area, high-rise buildings were built, which looked very magnificent, just like a mirage.

Empress Wei planned that on the day when Princess Changning's new mansion was completed, she and Zhongzong would come to the princess mansion together. Generals Zhao Chengfu and Xue Jian would lead the Imperial Forest Corps to surround the mansion outside the mansion, and then force Zhongzong to issue an edict and hand over the palace. Yuxi ceded the throne to Empress Wei, and made Princess Anle the empress dowager.

Just when Princess Changning's mansion was about to be completed, King Wei Qiao came to inform him: "Princess Taiping and her son Xue Chongjian escaped from the capital last night and conspired against King Li Longji of Linzi." Unexpectedly, she stomped her feet angrily and said: "My good plan was ruined by her!"

Princess Taiping was originally two grasshoppers jumping on the same rope with Queen Wei. Later, because Queen Wei occupied her beloved Wu Sansi, but Queen Wei was more powerful than herself, she dared to be angry but did not dare to speak; Xue Chongjian, the son of Xue Chongjian, is actually the illegitimate son of Wu Sansi. When Princess Taiping saw that Empress Wei worshiped Wu Chongxun's son as Taichangqing and made him Duke Gao, she became jealous, so she went to ask Empress Wei for the title for Xue Chongjian, but Empress Wei would not allow it.For these two reasons, Princess Taiping hated Empress Wei, and secretly colluded with Ruizong and his son.

Empress Wei immediately gritted her teeth: "The one who strikes first is the stronger, and the one who strikes later will suffer!" That night, Ma Qinke was ordered to rush to make sweet cakes, and Princess Anle filially and touchingly presented them at the Dragon Hall. The resentment and anger were immediately resolved. The undefended old father looked at his beautiful daughter with loving eyes, and ate it undefended. He still ate several pieces in a row, and ate it while eating He praised the delicious food again and again, until his daughter, Princess Anle, walked away satisfied and relieved.It is not surprising that this incompetent and loving emperor's father died of poisoning in the middle of the night.It was May 710 A.D., and it was only a few days before Yan Qinrong, a small official in that place, wrote a letter accusing Empress Wei of fornication and was thrown to death in the hall.

Before his death, Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian was tossing and rolling on the exquisite and gorgeous dragon couch in extreme pain, but after hearing the news, Empress Wei, who deliberately dawdled for a long time before arriving, asked Zhongzong, who was suffering from abdominal pain, lightly, as if nothing happened. How did Zong do it.At this time Zhongzong could not speak anymore, only the sound of weeping came from his throat.Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian desperately pointed his finger at his mouth, his face was full of tears.Now Wei no longer has to be afraid of her emperor's husband secretly gritting his teeth, and now she doesn't have to be afraid of being as promiscuous as she likes.

Next, Empress Wei first ordered 16 troops from the government to station the capital, with Governor Wei Wen as the internal and external troops, and then did not stop secrets until the sixth day. crown prince.After the funeral, she protected the crown prince Li Chongmao, the emperor, who was later called Emperor Shang and changed his reign name to Tang Long.Empress Wei herself also came to the court to listen to politics again, as the empress dowager.

Just when she felt more and more that she was the second son of Wu Zetian, on the one hand, she was ennobling her clan party members, and on the other hand, she was going to attack Ruizong and his son who were deposed by Wu Zetian back then.The same verification of the principle that those who strike first are strong, and those who strike second suffer disaster, was that Empress Wei was in a sweet sleep after indulgence, when suddenly Linzi King Li Longji led his troops into the palace and dragged her out of the brocade embroidered quilt.

When Li Longji, the king of Linzi, saw her standing in front of her in bright pajamas with sleepy eyes, he yelled angrily and killed this regicide whore!The left and right soldiers stepped forward, dragged her sideways, and killed her in front of Zhongzong's coffin.Seeing a beautiful and gorgeous corpse lying in front of the steps, mosquitoes and flies come to suck her blood, snakes and rats eat her flesh, and no one comes to pity her and bury flowers.

Then Linzi King Li Longji turned around and led his soldiers to attack Princess Anle's mansion. At that time, Princess Anle was thrushing her eyebrows in front of the mirror, accompanied by a young and beautiful man.Hearing the shouts outside the door, the princess was so panicked that she dropped the thrush pen on the ground, stood up and fled to the back garden, but it was too late, Linzi King Li Longji commanded the soldiers to rush up, with the shining knife He chopped off towards Fen's neck.There was only a scream, and Princess Anle also fell to the ground and died.Linzi King Li Longji ordered Princess Anle's head to be cut off, then turned around and searched for Ma Qinke, Yang Jun, Ye Jing and other empress Wei's faces, as well as Wu Yanxiu, the son-in-law, and escorted them to the palace gate to behead them.As for all the soldiers who came from all walks of life in the capital, Li Longji, the king of Linzi, comforted them with kind words.Li Longji's outstanding talent can be glimpsed in this small incident.

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