Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 437 Ci Emperor Li Yu
In the palace, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, left the government and changed his monk clothes to worship the Buddha. After reading the scriptures, he took a bath and changed his clothes. He changed into a loose and fitting robe and played chess with the queen in the harem.

His current queen is called Xiao Zhou Queen by people outside the palace, because the queen's sister, Zhou Ehuang, was originally Li Yu's first wife, the queen. After Zhou Ehuang's death, Li Yu continued, and her younger sister Zhou Jiamin was accepted.

The combination of the emperor and Empress Xiao Zhou was actually quite dissatisfied with the Southern Tang Dynasty officials and gentlemen at that time.Because the former empress Zhou Ehuang was dignified and virtuous, she was very popular in the Southern Tang Dynasty. However, when the empress was sick, her younger sister Jiamin visited the palace, but she had an affair with her brother-in-law Li Yu. He made the eloquent and intimate "Bodhisattva Man" into a Yuefu, and spread it out without any care. At that time, the queen was the only one in the country.

Of course, the queen finally found out the truth, the queen died of illness, but many people think that if the emperor hadn't been so romantic and had fun with her sister during her serious illness, which made the queen unhappy, her condition might worsen and she would die suddenly , so I was dissatisfied with Li Yu after accepting Xiao Zhou.

The regular monarchs of the Tang Dynasty were all regular wives who were married before becoming emperors. Before that, no emperor married a queen when he was in power. Therefore, how the emperor accepted the queen was unprecedented in the history of the Tang Dynasty and could not follow the old rituals. At the time of the ceremony, the ministers of the DPRK and China used the excuse of not being familiar with the ceremony after the ceremony to shirk their excuses.

How can Li Yu's life be separated from singing and dancing, surrounded by beauties?The queen died of illness, and he had lived a deserted court life for three years according to the ancient rituals. Seeing the ministers arguing and shirking, and the date of marriage was so far away, at this moment, he could no longer pretend to be reserved, so he personally intervened and made a final decision impatiently. Auspicious period.

Because the time was wrong, the wild geese had already flown south, so Li Yu simply used the white goose to replace the wild goose. Enter the palace after a week.

On the night of the emperor's wedding, important ministers Han Xizai, Xu Xuan, Wang Dongyang, Wei Jiazhu and others gathered friends for a banquet and wrote poems to ridicule Li Yu in public. Among them were vitriolic lines such as "the spring is unknown in the world, and we will enter Jiuchongcheng first tonight", but Li Yu didn't care either.However, he is really sincere and infatuated with Empress Xiao Zhou. The two have been married for more than two years. Among the concubines, he loves the little empress the most. They worship Buddha and play chess together. Helping the queen develop coloring materials for dyeing clothes, powder cakes for covering face, and rehearse singing and dancing.

Just when Ye Chen entered the Southern Tang Palace with the eunuch passing the decree, Li Yu was playing chess with Empress Xiao Zhou in the Jindong Hall of the Harem.

Both Li Yu and Empress Xiao Zhou are full of romantic factors. It is late autumn at this time, and the beginning of winter is about to begin, but the fragrance of flowers is permeating in the Jindong Temple. The couple collected several kinds of flowers that are not many in autumn. , filled the roof beams, window sills, walls, steps and other places of the palace with flowers, and even the maids around them put flowers on their temples, and built many beautifully decorated small pavilions among the flowers and vines. Surrounded by the translucent pink silk, the inside is very narrow and can only accommodate two people. When they are interested, they will hide in this two-person world, drinking and reciting poems, playing chess and chess. Avoiding the eunuchs and maids in the palace, and sometimes even summoning foreign ministers here.

As for the important minister Jinling Mansion Yin Wang Dongyang who was stabbed and seriously injured, he didn't take it to heart at all, and he didn't even show his condolences or put on any airs.Instead, Chen Qing, the author of the "Sapphire Case", was impatient and sent someone to invite him immediately.

When Ye Chen came, the eunuchs and maids of the inner court knew that the king attached great importance to poetry, so they didn't dare to neglect. After the transmission, Li Yu didn't bother to meet Ye Chen in the front palace, and let people take Ye Chen into the harem.

Ye Chen went so deep into the Southern Tang harem, he was still quite vigilant about this, and he was always worried that it would not be Li Yu but Lou Yanming who he would meet later.But now when he arrived at a small pavilion, he saw a thin tent surrounded by a thin layer of silk, and the two figures clearly came out.

There was a slender and slim shadow behind Si Luo, and Ye Chen was inconvenient to look at it. He breathed a sigh of relief, his ears twitched, and while paying attention to the wind and grass within a radius of tens of feet, he thought to himself, at this time, Li Yu can be easily captured. Assassinate, but assassinating him is not a good thing for Da Song.After all, it is not easy to find such a stupid Southern Tang lord, but Lou Yanming can probably see that Li Yu is controlled by Gu worms. Instead, he exposed himself. For such a stupid lord who is not a threat, the gain outweighs the loss.Thinking this way, he was about to go up to see him, when a servant beside him stepped up and said, "Your Highness, General Lin Renzhao, the Governor of Zhenhai, has something to ask for a visit."

From the Siluo Brocade Tent, there was a charming smile from Gege, as sweet as an oriole: "Guan, with this move, you have nowhere to go, right?"

Li Yu's chess board was trapped by Empress Xiao Zhou, and he was thinking hard about how to get out of the siege. After hearing the report that the inner court knew, he responded casually: "Lin Renzhao is here? Why doesn't he stay in his place and come to the capital?" "

All the eunuchs in the inner court laughed and said: "I don't know, General Lin seems to have a very important matter, and my servant dare not ask about it."

Li Yu waved his hand, and the inner court knew that he dared not speak again. After thinking hard for a while, Li Yu's eyes lit up, he picked up a chess piece and "slapped" it, and laughed loudly: "Queen, this will solve the siege ?"

Afterwards, Li Yu chuckled and said, "Song Guo won't call now, so what's important for Lin Renzhao? Is Chen Qing, the Wuyue scholar who wrote "Remembering Home Country" and "The Qingyu Case" here? , directly brought to see Gu.”

The eunuch who brought Ye Chen in hurried forward and said, "Your Highness, Young Master Chen has arrived."

Ye Chen bowed at the right time and said: "Chen Qing, a scholar of Wu and Yue, pays homage to the lord." Compared with the Song Dynasty, the status of literati in the Southern Tang Dynasty has reached a certain extreme, especially those famous talents who met the lord, It has become a fashion for the prime minister not to kneel.So although the Chen Qing that Ye Chen is pretending to be now is just a scholar, but he can't kneel and worship at this time, but it is also in line with his current status as the number one talented man in Jinling.

As soon as Li Yu heard that Chen Qing had come, he said, "Mr. Chen, don't be too polite. Wait for a moment. After the game of chess is over with the queen, you and I can talk about poetry. Come, show Mr. Chen a seat."

Lin Renzhao, dressed in military uniform, hurried back and forth in a side hall.From time to time, he would rush to the entrance of the palace, look up at the harem, rub his hands again and again in anxiety, and then go back to pace.

Time passed bit by bit, the sun first rose and then gradually set to the west, but before the servant was seen, he returned. Lin Renzhao raised his eyebrows, bursting with anger, and thought to himself: "These eunuchs who are not as good as pigs and dogs are greedy for money and contemptuous." , I don’t know how bad it is, could it be that he deliberately delayed me because he didn’t promise him any benefits?”

Lin Renzhao is brave and good at fighting. He is the number one military general in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He is known as the "Tiger Son", and the army is honored as the "Tiger Commander". , almost entirely because of his single-handed handling.

With his status and strong temperament, how often has he been subjected to such pickling, but this is a royal palace after all, even if he is full of anger, he can only endure it, he can only stop from time to time, looking up to the sky and sighing.
It didn't take long for this game of chess to be played. Li Yu won his wife, laughed, walked out of the gauze tent, and met Ye Chen.

At this time, Li Yu was not wearing the five-claw dragon robe, but a purple dress.

When Ye Chen saw this famous figure in history, he couldn't help being disappointed.Li Yu's words are magnificent and beautiful, and no one can match them. In Ye Chen's mind, although he has done a mess in the position of emperor, he should be a person with a beautiful heart. Even if he is a little older now, he cannot be an elegant Mr. Jia, at least he should be a handsome and handsome uncle in a green shirt, a face like a crown jade, and three beards.

But this person in front of him is wearing a purple robe, he is not an official or a private person, he is a little fat, with a round and slightly fat face, and a mouthful of teeth, especially, one of his eyes has two holes. There are two pupils. When looking at you, it always seems to be looking away, which makes people look awkward.

This person is the legendary generation of Ci emperors, the master Li Yuli who wrote "socks with fragrant steps, golden shoes in hand", and "a river of spring water flows eastward" such quatrains?Ye Chen felt a little disappointed, the Emperor of Ci in his heart turned out to look like this.

These people who can write exquisite poems are really the same as the great gods who write online novels in the later generations.

Ye Chen was sighing secretly, Li Yu had already stepped forward, and politely supported Ye Chen, who got up and prostrated again, with both hands, looked at Ye Chen, and said gently: "It really is a young talent."

Li Yu's demeanor was still graceful and generous, Ye Chen pretended to be neither humble nor overbearing, and said: "Your Highness, I appreciate it."

Next, the two began to talk about the poems together, especially around the artistic conception of Ye Chen's "Recalling the Homeland" and "The Sapphire Case", Li Yu carefully analyzed word by word.Ye Chen racked his brains and memory to not say much, but when he said it, he must get to the point, and occasionally said a word or two.Overall, this very artistic conversation between the two is going on happily.

But after finishing these two poems, when Li Yu talked about the poems and his experience over the years, Ye Chen gradually couldn't keep up with the rhythm.Fortunately, the helper Ye Chen sent for before entering the palace also entered the palace at this time.

Xu Xuan, the number one talented scholar in the Southern Tang Dynasty.He was capable of poetry at the age of seven and literary at the age of ten, and became an official in the Tang Dynasty at the age of 16. Even in the historical records of later generations, he has a lot of pen and ink, and he is respected as a very famous writer and calligrapher in the early Northern Song Dynasty.Because of this, he won Li Yu's favor.

Therefore, even though he was under house arrest in Wuyue Kingdom some time ago, some people suspected that he had rebelled, but Li Yu still did not impose any punishment on him.

When Xu Xuan was coming, Li Yu was startled when he heard it, and then he was overjoyed, saying: "It's just right for Xu Aiqing to come! Call in quickly, and discuss poetry with Gu and Mr. Chen."

(End of this chapter)