Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 74 Three Powers Eunuchs Mistake the Country's Misfortune (1) ([-])
8. The bloody doom of the eunuch

Seeing that everything was done, Li Fuguo entered Feilong Hall with Cheng Yuanzhen and invited Prince Li Yu out, explaining that the emperor had collapsed and the empress was dead.Prince Li Yu cried a lot, changed into plain clothes, went out of the Nine Immortals Gate, and met with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and spread the news that Emperor Suzong died.Then Li Kui, as the prime minister, helped Prince Li Yu to Liangyi Hall, sacrificed to Su Zong's funeral, and ascended the throne in front of the coffin.Four days later, on Jisi Day in April 762 AD, the new emperor began to listen to the government in the Imperial Palace and was called Emperor Daizong.The biological mother Wu was named Empress Dowager Zhang Jing, and Empress Zhang and Yue King Li Xi were all common people, so the reign name was changed to Baoying.

The new Tongping Zhangshi Yuanzai was promoted from Duzhi Langzhong. He was good at exploiting the common people, adoring the powerful, obedient, and allowed Li Fuguo to handle state affairs.Li Fuguo actually claimed to be the hero of the policy, and became more and more domineering.One day after retreating from the court, there was no one around, Li Fuguo said to Daizong, "Your Majesty, it is fine to stay in the confinement, and the foreign affairs are handled by an old slave!" When he said this, he didn't even look at the newly appointed young emperor.

Although Daizong was unhappy, Li Fuguo held the military power at this time, so he could only pretend to respect him, calling Li Fuguo as Shangfu, following his words, and respectfully said that everything was up to Shangfu to decide.Therefore, the officials in Daizong's era had to go to Li Fuguo's mansion to ask for instructions before they dared to go to court with Emperor Daizong, just like in Suzong's era;All the old ministers of the former court, some who were not in agreement with Li Fuguo, were expelled or exiled or beheaded to the court at this time.

Li Fuguo was extravagant and arrogant, and he called all officials arbitrary.Because of Li Fuguo's strict investigation of the court, Emperor Daizong always thought of Miss Chunying in his heart, but he didn't dare to take her into the palace justifiably, after all, she was Mrs. Li in name.The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty saw that Daizong had been the emperor for a long time, and the seat of the main palace had been vacant, so they wrote a memorial to persuade the emperor to set up the main palace as soon as possible.Daizong wanted to promote Miss Chunying to the main palace, but because Li Fuguo was in the court, he was embarrassed to take away a wife, and of course he didn't dare to seize the love of his ministers; so he used the excuse that the eldest prince Li Shi's mother, Shen Shi, was investigated by the Anshi Rebellion. As for the whereabouts, I temporarily reserved this latter position. At that time, I just registered Dugu, the biological mother of Han Wang Li Hui, as a noble concubine.This imperial concubine is only hiding in the deep palace all day long, and only one or two maids with her are serving her intimately and intimately. She never wants to see outsiders, and of course she refuses to meet Li Fuguo, the chief minister, otherwise Li Fuguo will see her when she sees her. Miss Chunying, who he thinks about day and night, is now pretending to be Dugu and is a concubine, why don't she kill the king and the mother of the country again.In order to cover up Miss Chunying's past affairs, Daizong ordered her to pretend to be Dugu's surname, and everyone in the palace called her Lady Dugu, but no one knew that she was Miss Chunying, Mrs. Li, whom Li Fuguo had been looking for all day long.

Concubine Dugu was lonely all day long. Although His Majesty loved her a lot, he didn't dare to visit her often, for fear of attracting Li Fuguo's attention.Concubine Dugu lived in the deep palace on weekdays and never went out. When encountering routine ceremonies, because Li Fuguo must be present, she became a servant again, except for one or two personal servants and Emperor Daizong. However, no one knew that the handsome servant was actually the beautiful Empress Dugu in disguise, and the one who attended such a grand occasion instead of Imperial Concubine Dugu was her personal maid.Sometimes if Li Fuguo came to Dugu Guifei's palace to carry out his routine strict investigation, he would always change his master and servant's disguise and position immediately.The Dugu Empress, Miss Chunying, was always careful and always on guard. She lived under Li Fuguo's nose, but she didn't let him find out.

Because of Cheng Yuanzhen's meritorious service, his authority grew day by day, and everything he did was comparable to Li Fuguo's, or even surpassed. For a time, the court was full of civil and military affairs, and only knew that there were two powerful eunuchs, Li and Cheng. Emperor Daizong.But since ancient times, the two tigers have not stood side by side, and Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen are both villains, fighting for power and profit all day long, regardless of national affairs.Naturally, Cheng Yuanzhen would enter the palace to report to Daizong, saying that Li Fuguo had the intention of treason. Seeing that Daizong was panicked, he just hesitated to make a move: "The military power is in Li Fuguo's hands. How can we get rid of it to keep me safe?" "Cheng Yuanzhencai played eloquently: "It's okay. Li Fuguo has a general named Peng Tiying, who has long hated Li Fuguo's domineering. As long as your majesty treats him with gentle words, you don't have to worry that Peng Tiying will not be used by your majesty."

Emperor Daizong passed the news of General Peng entering the palace overnight, comforted him with kind words, and made a wish: "If you can contact Li Fuguo's soldiers and protect the king, I will worship you as a general." Emperor Daizong also promised them benefits in the same way.

After everything was done properly, Emperor Daizong decreed that Li Fuguo's marching Sima and Minister of the Ministry of War should be relieved of his part-time positions. General Yao Ziang was sentenced to Marshal Marching Sima.Li Fuguo was furious when he got the decree, and hurried into the palace in person to question Emperor Daizong face to face.Don't want to send soldiers to guard the entrance of the Chao Dynasty, when he saw Li Fuguo coming into the palace, he stepped forward to stop him, pushed him outside and said with a laugh: "Father Shang has been dismissed from office, it is not right to enter the palace again."

Li Fuguo saw that all the people under his command had betrayed him, he felt so angry for a moment, closed his eyes tightly, and fainted on the ground.Left and right stepped forward to help him up, and Li Fuguo shouted angrily: "The old slave will die! I can't do anything for the new emperor, please go to the underground to be the emperor!" After a pause, a decree came from inside, giving Li Fuguo to move the mansion outside the capital.When the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty heard that Li Fuguo had lost power and was dismissed from office, and was relocated outside the city, they deliberately rushed to the gate of the city to congratulate him. All official positions.The next day, the imperial decree came down, and Li Fuguo was granted the title of Prince of Bolu by the Jin Dynasty, and he was still worshiped as Sikong Shangfu, and Xu Shuowang entered the court every day.

Li Fuguo thanked him in court, then packed up the furniture and moved to live in Cidi Middle School outside the city.He used to be a dignitary, but now he is resigned and returns home. His family is deserted and there are few cars and horses.

Since ancient times, misfortunes never come singly, after Li Fuguo moved outside the city for a few days, an assassin jumped into the house in the middle of the night. When the steel knife went down, the head of the powerful Li Shangfu fell to the ground. The head of Li Quangui who fell to the ground might wake up from the big dream of power, but it was too late to wake up.

The two maids in his arms also woke up from their dreams, only to see blood splattered everywhere, and a head was missing from Junwang Li's neck. Looking again, his right arm was also cut off.The two maids were stripped of their clothes by Li Fuguo when he was about to sleep, and it was too late to get dressed, so they had to curl up in the bed, shouting: "Grandpa Huangtian, my God!" , Only then did I know that the county prince Li Fuguo was stabbed to death.

All the people in the Hefu hurriedly lit up lanterns and torches, looking around for Li Fuguo's head.He went straight to the latrine and found Li Fuguo's head, but the face had been cut off with a sharp knife, it was blurry and his eyebrows could not be recognized.The people in the mansion couldn't do it, so they had to order exquisite craftsmen to carve another head and bury it.When the imperial decree came down, he was also given the title of Taifu official, while writing to arrest the murderer everywhere.But he couldn't be caught. Of course, if the murderer was not ordered by Emperor Daizong, the local officials might have caught him long ago.The documents to hunt down the murderer are flying like snowflakes outside, but the real murderer lives in Cheng Yuanzhen's residence.The murderer's surname was Du Mingji, and he was originally a warrior in Cheng Yuanzhen's residence; now, because of his meritorious service in stabbing Li Fuguo to death, he was soon promoted to be the governor of Zizhou.

9. The Unlucky Princess Rouge Tribulation
Since Cheng Yuanzhen murdered Li Fuguo, he has monopolized the political power and became another powerful eunuch who caused harm for a while.Because Guo Ziyi was a loyal and upright minister and had a heavy army in his hands, everything was inconvenient. Cheng Yuanzhen corrected the emperor's edict and summoned Guo Ziyi to Beijing.

At that time, Guo Ziyi was fighting Shi Chaoyi, winning consecutive battles, and when he heard the imperial order, he rushed back to the capital, but Cheng Yuanzhen tried every means to prevent him from meeting the emperor, Cheng Yuanzhen's soldiers were all over the gate of the palace, and they never let Guo Ziyi in.Ten days after returning to Beijing, before seeing the emperor, Guo Ziyi realized that it was Cheng Yuanzhen's trick. He was very angry immediately, and immediately asked his watch to withdraw his titles of deputy marshal and Jiedu envoy.But immediately there was a decree to play, and then moved to the title of Li Shi, King of Lu, as Li Shi, King of Yong, and specially conferred the title of Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses to command the troops to conquer Shi Chaoyi.

Cheng Yuanzhen was afraid that Yong Wang Li Shi's army would be difficult to control, so he asked the Chinese envoy Liu Qingtan to be the supervisor.Liu Qingtan was Cheng Yuanzhen's confidant, and he brought another army to Huihe to recruit troops, ordering Huihe to send troops to help the war.Although Yong Wang Li Shi was born in the royal family, he was born a general. He marched to Tokyo, met Shi Chaoyi, and fought several times in a row, causing Shi Chaoyi to injure many troops.

Seeing that he couldn't resist the enemy, Shi Chaoyi retreated into Tokyo City and closed himself up.Shi Chaoyi also inquired that Liu Qingtan was going to Huihe to invite soldiers, so he came up with a countermeasure, and sent people to Huihe Khan to lie, saying that the Tang Dynasty had two great funerals, and the Central Plains had no owner, so please Huihe Khan Send people and horses into the customs and collect the treasury, and you can get countless children of gold and silk.

At this time, Gele Khan of the Huihe Kingdom was dead, and he passed on the throne to Mou Yu Khan, who was born to Princess Ningguo, the youngest daughter of Suzong.Princess Ningguo is the most beautiful woman in Huihe Kingdom, and now she is a widow, and she accepts the arrangement of fate peacefully.Unexpectedly, after her own son Mou Yu Khan came to the throne, he suddenly proposed to marry his mother as the queen.For Princess Ningguo, this was really unexpected and unbelievable, but for Mou Yu Khan, who had always had a crush on the charm of his mother, marrying his mother was his dream all along.According to the customs of Huihe, after the death of the father, the son can marry his mother.Therefore, it was normal for children, wives and mothers in Huihe country.But such an incident of incest was like catastrophe for the always chaste and self-loving Princess Ningguo, she immediately resigned and returned to Datang.

Mou Yu Khan really loved Chinese women so much, seeing that his mother refused to marry him, he sent ministers to the Tang Dynasty to propose.Emperor Daizong couldn't refuse it emotionally, so he married Pu Gu Huai'en's daughter to Mou Yu Khan as his wife.Although Pu Gu Huai'en's daughter is also young and beautiful, in the eyes of Mou Yu Khan, she is not as charming as Princess Ningguo.Therefore, the husband and wife will not know how many times they have turned against each other within a year.So Mou Yu Khan still wanted to take his mother Princess Ningguo back to China as his wife, so he sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty many times, pretending to ask Princess Ningguo for her daily life, and invited Princess Ningguo to go back to China.

Knowing the son is like the mother, Princess Ningguo knows her son's intentions, and she refuses to go back no matter what the reason is, Princess Ningguo just refuses to leave.Mou Yu Khan was finally annoyed, and was planning to personally lead troops into the Tang Dynasty capital to snatch his mother back to the country; it happened that Shi Chaoyi lied again.So Mou Yu Khan immediately led the Huihe soldiers to drive into the pass. Seeing that the states and counties along the way were empty and the people were in exile, he took the opportunity to plunder the fields, people and animals, and captured more than a dozen cities in a row.

When the urgent report arrived at the deep palace, Daizong was also very panicked. He hurriedly sent his servant Gu Huai'en to comfort him, and ordered his eldest son Yong Wang Li Shi to command troops to Shanzhou to pay homage to Mou Yu Khan.I don't want Mou Yu Khan to be arrogant and rude, and the relationship with the young and vigorous Yong Wang Li Shi has become stalemate.Thanks to the friendship between Pugu Huai'en and Mou Yu Khan, he mediated between them. In the end, Mou Yu Khan agreed to lead the Huihe soldiers as the vanguard, and marched to Tokyo with all the soldiers and horses to besiege Shi Chaoyi.Li Shi, king of Yong, stayed behind in Shaanxi.

Shi Chaoyi was killed by the officers and soldiers so that he discarded his armor and helmet, trampled on each other, and his corpses filled the valley. He retreated to Zhengzhou, and Pugu Huai'en took advantage of the victory to take back Tokyo City.It is a shame that Huihe soldiers have killed, plundered, robbed and raped as soon as they entered Tokyo from Heyang, and the people of Tokyo have suffered repeatedly.After the looting was over, the Huihe soldiers burned most of the prosperous and splendid Tokyo city.All the soldiers and horses were chasing and killing Shi Chaoyi, so they had no time to take care of them.Shi Chaoyi was chased by soldiers and horses from all walks of life and had nowhere to go, so he took off the scarf from his waist and hanged himself to death at the gate of Yilu Temple.So far, An and Shi have had two great turmoil, which lasted for many years before they finally settled down.

However, although Shi Chaoyi was flattened, the Huihe army plundered and looted in various states and counties, the people fled, and the city was desolate.Emperor Daizong had no choice but to order Zhaocheng Lieutenant Ma Sui to privately donate bribes to the generals of the Huihe soldiers to discourage their violent behavior. The prime minister gave food to [-] households in total, and entered the servant Gu Huai'en as the Shangshu Zuopushe, and also served as the order of the Zhongshu. He sat in Shuofang and ordered him to escort the Huihe Khan back to the country.

Mou Yu Khan saw that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty treated him so favorably, so he was embarrassed to mess around anymore, but before leaving, he couldn't forget his love for Princess Ningguo, and asked Princess Ningguo to go back to Heguo together.Princess Ningguo knew that Mou Yu Khan's lust was still alive, so she was willing to choose four court ladies and give them to Mou Yu Khan.Mou Yu Khan was also very happy to have won four court ladies from the Tang Dynasty, and took them back to the palace to have sex day and night.

Princess Ningguo is really a confidante, somehow, because Khan Mou Yu made such a fuss, the name of her beauty reached the ears of Khan Tubo.The Tubo Khan had long been envious of women in the Central Plains, and now he heard that a stunning Ningguo princess, Wen Jun, was newly widowed, so he immediately sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty, asking to marry Ningguo princess by name.How can a dignified princess be willing to marry again and again?Not to mention Princess Ningguo, Emperor Daizong also sternly refused.Unexpectedly, the Khan of Tubo turned into anger from embarrassment. He immediately invited 20 troops from the Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Di, and Qiang tribes to march eastward.

Daizong changed from panic to great fear, and immediately called a group of ministers to discuss the plan of retreating.But at that time, all the officials in the court looked at each other in blank dismay, and they couldn't come up with a powerful strategy to defend against the enemy.At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Princess Jincheng married Tubo Khan, and set up a boundary marker with Tubo at the foot of Chiling Mountain. Thanks to the kind and righteous marriage between Princess Jincheng and Tubo Khan, peace was finally maintained for several years.After the death of Princess Jincheng, Tubo lost peace with the Tang Dynasty again and coveted the boundaries of the Tang Dynasty many times.At that time, fortunately, the Jiedu envoys in the Helong area, such as Wang Zhongsi, Ge Shuhan, and Gao Xianzhi, were well guarded and there was no serious danger.When Anshi rebelled, all the border guards were conscripted into the eastern and western capitals, and the surroundings were empty for a while.

(End of this chapter)