Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 94: The End of Debauchery (2) ([-])
After a long time, it was rumored that Concubine Guo Shu discussed with Emperor Yizong to marry Princess Tongchang to Wei Baoheng in order to cover up outsiders.Emperor Yizong naturally obeyed.Unexpectedly, Princess Tongchang knew that her mother had an affair with Wei Baoheng, so she would not say anything, this made Concubine Guo Shu anxious to death.Concubine Guo Shu hoped that Wei Baoheng would be her son-in-law, and the two of them could have a fair and honest relationship, so they secretly continued their old love.

Concubine Guo Shu was helpless, so she was willing to play with all her precious jewels and give them to Princess Tongchang as a dowry; she also discussed with Emperor Yizong and gave the princess 500 million yuan as a marriage gift; she also built a big house next to Renshou Palace Third, the painted buildings with flying eaves are extremely magnificent and magnificent.The windows, fences and pavilions in the mansion are all inlaid with beads and jade; the utensils used in ordinary times are all made of gold and silver.

Princess Tongchang finally nodded.Seeing that Yizong loved the princess so much, the Chinese and military officials of the court fought to present the dowry.On the day of Princess Tongchang's wedding, the streets and alleys of the capital were covered with colorful curtains; 4 people had to carry all the utensils and utensils that were brought into Princess Tongchang's mansion, and parade them on the streets for a week.This kind of luxury and luxury is not comparable to that of Princess Taiping and Princess Anle when they married.

Wei Baoheng was delighted to have such a noble lady and countless money.In addition to going to the court station every day, he accompanied Princess Tongchang in the boudoir all day long, talking, laughing and playing, like glue, never leaving.Concubine Guo Shu also used the name of visiting her daughter to move to the concubine's mansion for banquets from time to time, and she never came back late at night.So the mother and daughter share one husband and son-in-law, which became a big joke widely spread by the subjects of the capital.

6. The extremely luxurious funeral of Princess Tongchang
At that time, people called Wei Baoheng Niutou Apang, which meant that he was sinister and terrifying, similar to ghosts, but Yizong, in order to make his favorite concubine and daughter happy, specially granted Wei Baoheng the title of Hanlin scholar.In the 11th year of Xiantong, when Cao Que dismissed his chancellor, Wei Baoheng was able to enter the prime minister together with Yu Yu, the minister of the Ministry of war, and Liu Zhan, the minister of the household department, and grasped the secrets.So the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty came together to curry favor with Prince Wei, and they immediately became one with each other.

Unexpectedly, when Wei Baoheng was enjoying himself, Princess Tongchang suddenly fell ill.This disease is also very strange, I saw her eyes upward, her limbs curled up, and she couldn't stop screaming. Yizong immediately summoned more than [-] forbidden Chinese medicine practitioners, but none of them knew what the symptoms were and were helpless.After dying for a few days, Princess Tongchang stopped and died.After losing his beloved daughter, Emperor Yizong made his own elegy to reconcile with his ministers and subordinates; he also went to the son-in-law's mansion to cry in person, ordering all the prime ministers to mourn.

In addition to her grief, Concubine Guo Shu took out her grievances on those medical officials.She actually used the emperor's jade seal for private use to arrest more than [-] medical officers who were taking the pulse of Princess Tongchang at that time, insisting that they misused the prescription and killed Princess Tongchang in vain.So these more than [-] medical officers were all beheaded.More than [-] relatives of the medical officials were arrested, and they were all imprisoned. Until the burial of Princess Tongchang in the first month of the next year, Concubine Guo Shu ordered people to bring out more than [-] relatives of these medical officials from the prison, and held them together with iron chains. , crawling behind the coffin of Princess Tongchang, while whipping her with a leather whip.With a whip, there was a bloodstain, and the sound of howling was unbearable, adding horror and misery to the sad atmosphere.

In such horror and tragedy, Yizong and Concubine Guo Shu sat side by side on the Yanxing Gate, and the coffin of Princess Tongchang passed under the Yanxing Gate. The emperor covered his face and wept, and Concubine Guo Shu was choked up.

The guard of honor for the funeral is tens of miles away, and the gold-cast god of opening the way is three feet high, carried by 200 people, and guided in front.In addition, all the treasures, costumes and playthings of Princess Tongchang were divided into 120 cars and buried with Princess Tongchang's coffin. For a time, it was widely rumored that each of these 120 cars of rare treasures was priceless.At the time of Princess Tongchang's funeral, the fragrant cars and BMWs covered the sun with splendor.

Musician Li Keji wrote "Sighing for a Hundred Years Song", recruiting 500 folk singers, each holding fragrant flowers, accompanying the funeral car, walking and singing.Another 500 dancers were recruited to dance the lichen dance. They used miscellaneous treasures as jewelry, eight hundred pieces of colored silk, tied around their waists, and walked and danced.Where the dancing girl passed by, there were pearls all over the ground, and the common people were allowed to pick them up.If a poor family finds a pearl, it can be used as food for three years.All the utensils and other objects used by Princess Tongchang during her lifetime were buried in the tomb.

7. Concubine Guo Shu's private son-in-law

After the death of Princess Tongchang, Wei Baoheng's favor remained unabated.It was inconvenient for Concubine Guo Shu to stay in the son-in-law's mansion, so she often secretly summoned Wei Baoheng into the palace, in the name of accompanying Concubine Guo Shu to play.Concubine Guo Shu had a guilty conscience, fearing that Emperor Yizong would preemptively hear the gossip and think about it. She often said in front of him that she missed her dead daughter and was very sad. She had no choice but to see her son-in-law often.

Yi Zong believed it was true, and sure enough Concubine Guo Shu would cry when she saw Wei Baoheng, but when she saw the son-in-law, she immediately beamed with joy.Therefore, Yizong often sent middle officials to the son-in-law's mansion to call Wei Baoheng into the palace. When Concubine Guo Shu was happy, Yizong was also happy.With this strong support, and the fact that Yizong was already sick in bed at this time, Wei Baoheng and Concubine Guo Shu had no taboos, and they played happily and boldly in the palace.

However, the eunuchs in the palace have become more confused during their illnesses, and have become more insane and obsessed with lust during their romantic affairs. They took the opportunity to form cliques for personal gain, and the leaders were Left Shence Lieutenant Liu Xingshen and Right Shence Lieutenant Han Wenyue. All the eunuchs in the palace, big and small, listened to their orders.

Yizong has never established a queen or a prince because of Concubine Guo Shu.In this way, among the eight sons born to Yizong, there is no distinction between concubines and concubines.According to the principle of establishing an heir based on the elder, the eldest son Wei Wang Li Yi should be established as the prince, but Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue, the two old eunuchs, supported Yizong's fifth son Pu Wang Li Yan as the prince.King Pu's biological mother, Wang, was also of humble origin.But she is also very scheming, very good at colluding with these two eunuchs, just like the Zheng family back then.And all the military power of the imperial guards is in the hands of Liu and Han.

The Wang family planned a big event behind the scenes, but Concubine Guo Shu still slept in her dream of being infatuated with Wei Baoheng, until Yizong died, and Liu and Han Jiao left an edict to succeed Jin Wang Li Yan. This 12-year-old child died before the coffin Later, all the power of the imperial court fell into the hands of Liu Xingshen and Han Wenyue. Originally, one of the important reasons why they supported this child was because he was young and easy to control. , This is the truth that even a fool understands.

In July 874 A.D., the little emperor Li Yan benefited from this truth that even a fool could understand. He ascended the throne as a monarch.

Concubine Guo Shu didn't wake up from the dream in the West Tower until this time, but everything stopped.As soon as Xizong came to the throne, he put Concubine Guo Shu under house arrest, and at the same time demoted Wei Baoheng as governor of Hezhou.Seeing that he had lost power, the group of officials who had served Wei Baoheng in the past rushed to submit a memorial to impeach him.Xi Zong ordered Wei Baoheng to commit suicide on the grounds of everyone's memorial.A good and beautiful young man ruined his future and lost his life just because of his lust for romance.

8. Forced to escape from Chang'an Emperor Xizong
Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty, a young emperor established by eunuchs, was only 12 years old at the beginning of his ascension, and his childlike innocence was still intact. He spent all day in the palace, playing and chasing with a group of young eunuchs. execution.Tian Lingzi was originally an envoy of Xiaomafang, he was literate, he had a lot of insights, and the most important thing was that he was good at flattering Chenghuan.When Xi Zong was king, he and Tian Lingzi got along day and night and got on a blind date, and even called Tian Lingzi his father.After Emperor Xizong ascended the throne, he was appointed as a privy secretary, and he usually leaned on him like a thigh.In order to win Xi Zong's favor, Tian Lingzi did everything possible to coax him to have fun, even if the scene was very luxurious and cost a lot of money; coupled with the secret exploitation by Liu and Han, especially the mother and daughter of Concubine Guo Shu and Princess Tongchang in the previous generation. The court was extremely extravagant and extravagant, and the treasury had long since realized that it was empty and empty.Tian Lingzi also issued an order on behalf of Emperor Xizong to confiscate the goods from the two cities and put them all into the inner treasury for the emperor's use.At the same time, Tian, ​​Liu, and Han worked together to exercise power and accept bribes, and the size of the official position given was determined according to the amount of money donated.

Not long after Tang Xizong came to the throne, the Kanto region was plagued by floods and droughts.The imperial court ordered to open warehouses to relieve the victims or to exempt taxation, but the officials below resisted and resisted and did not implement them.The people couldn't bear it, so they had to rise up.As a result, the world of Tang Dynasty continued to be chaotic, and bandits were rampant everywhere.Among them, Wang Xianzhi from Puzhou and Huang Chao from Caozhou are the most famous.These two groups of rioters, with a clear banner all the way, propagated everywhere that the young master is faint, the power is treacherous and arrogant, the people are full of grievances, the weather is changing, the floods and droughts are frequent, and the people are hungry.The hard-working people who suffered from dire straits were instigated into chaos. Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, the two biggest robbers at the time, benefited from this. Since the uprising, they have robbed states and seized counties. Accounted for half of the country.In a blink of an eye, Huang Chao entered Tongguan, broke through Huazhou, and led all his troops to Chang'an.Immediately, the court was in chaos from top to bottom, and no government orders or rituals could be cared about.

Wang Xianzhi was originally a salt smuggler. He wandered around the world for several years and won the title of chivalrous man quite easily.Huang Chao is also good at riding and shooting, and has a rough reading of some poems, books and historical biographies. He is good at making friends with knights and doing heroic things.When Huang Chao failed in many trials, he once wrote a famous poem about chrysanthemums to express his resentment in a miserable and frustrated mood:

The westerly wind is rustling, and the courtyard is full, and the core is cold, the fragrance is cold, and the butterflies are hard to come.

If I were the Qing emperor in his year, I would bloom together with peach blossoms.

Huang Chao later met Wang Xianzhi.In the first year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi gathered thousands of people to uncover the long wall. From then on, a peasant uprising began to sweep the north of Guangzhou and the south of the Great Wall.In the second year, Wang Xianzhi's army reached tens of thousands, and captured Puzhou and Xuanzhou.The officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed many times, but were repelled.Huang Chao also took the opportunity to rectify the crowd's response. He plundered prefectures and counties and ran rampant in the east of Taihang Mountain.Later, Wang Xianzhi himself died in battle, and Wang Xianzhi's old troops followed Huang Chao.Huang Chao, who became more powerful, called himself General Chongtian, changed Yuan Wangba, and set up officials. For a while, refugees and brave men came to vote one after another, so the team grew stronger and captured Yizhou, Puzhou, Langzhou, Yuezhou, and Yuezhou one after another. State.Huang Chao successfully broke through the blockade of the officers and soldiers by swindling surrender again, leading troops across the Yangtze River and attacking the ground in Zhejiang.

Huang Chao entered Fujian territory from Zhejiang, opened a mountain road for more than [-] miles, and attacked Fuzhou.After occupying Fuzhou, Huang Chao himself submitted a form to the Tang court, begging for him to be appointed as the governor of Guangzhou.But the Tang court didn't take Huang Chao's rebellion seriously at this time, and only gave Huang Chao a small official like Bi Mawen.Obviously, the Jade Emperor decreed to give such a strange title to the male grandson monkey, and there is no need to say anything more about his intentions.The emperor in the sky and the emperor on earth have the same wonderful rule, either concealing or deceiving.After all, Huang Chao has read some poems and books roughly, no more than Sun Houzi back then. He had to be told by others to understand the fact of being humiliated, so Huang Chao was furious immediately: "Tang Ting won't give me Guangzhou, can't I go get it myself?" Huh?!" After yelling, Huang Chao immediately led his troops into Guangzhou, and divided his troops to attack the counties in south of the Five Ridges.Moreover, Huang Chao also marched into the Hubei area. In the first battle in Xiangyang, Huang Chao's army was defeated by Liu Jurong, the governor of Shannan Dongdao, and was defeated.Huang Chao thought he was doomed now, but Liu Jurong thought that once Huang Chao was wiped out, he would have no chance to make meritorious deeds, so he decided to let the Huang Chao army go away first, and deal with him when the Huang Chao army ran amok in the future, so that he The credit will be as great as the sky.

Huang Chao attacked Luoyang, the eastern capital, and passed by Yingzhou, Songzhou, Xuzhou, and Bozhou. Surrendered the yellow nest.

At this point, Tang Ting was shocked and hurriedly sent troops to resist Huang Chao.But the officers and soldiers attacked each other due to unfair treatment, so the lucky Huang Chao was able to go straight to Tongguan, which frightened Tang Xizong into a panic, and hurriedly called all the ministers to the court to discuss a plan to withdraw the thief. Who knows that a minister came to the palace to discuss the matter. Let the edicts be issued one after another to the palace.At this time, Tian Lingzi panicked, rushed into the palace in three steps at a time and shouted: "Long live, it's not good! The thieves have already entered Chang'an. Long live, hurry up and get ready to go on patrol."

Xi Zong was stunned in shock, and asked repeatedly: "Where can I go to settle down?" So Tian Lingzi made a plan for him to flee to Sichuan, and then Xi Zong hurried back to the harem to bring the three most beloved friends. The four concubines staggered out of the palace, and Tian Lingzi led five hundred magic soldiers to escort them, and ran out of Chang'an City. Xizong's move meant that the Tang court had fled Xijing.

The mastermind was lost in the capital, and soldiers, local officials and common people rushed into the treasury to steal gold and silk.In fact, it was not Huang Chao soldiers who came to the city, but the imperial court rescue soldiers from Fengxiang and Boye. Because Tian Lingzi forced them to camp on the Wei Bridge, where they were cold, hungry, beaten, scolded and insulted, the morale of the army changed, and the rescue soldiers suddenly became rebels. Soldiers, especially now that they saw the holy driver fleeing westward, they simply burned, killed and looted in the capital, and became lawless.

(End of this chapter)