There were four Yangs in the palace of Emperor Li Shimin.
Concubine Yang Shu was Princess Yang Guang, who gave birth to King Ke of Shu. Concubine Yang, who later gave birth to King Li Fu of Zhao, was her half-sister. The other two were Yang Jieyu and Princess Chaola's Yang family.
Yang Jieyu and Princess Yang of Chaola were both born in the royal palace of the Yang family in Hongnong. They were biological sisters. They were both daughters of Yang Gongdao. Yang Gongdao was the sixth brother of Yang Gongren and the brother of the consort Yang Shidao.
Li Shimin killed his brother Jiancheng Yuanji during the Xuanwumen Incident, and later brought his sister-in-law Zheng Guanyin and his sister-in-law Yang into the palace. In the end, he even favored the Yang family. However, because many ministers criticized and opposed this, Li Shimin eventually also
Unable to give Yang a title, he brought Yang's sister into the palace and gave her the title of Jieyu.
The Wu family is related to the Yang family.
The wife of the warrior Xun was the cousin of Yang Gongren and the aunt of the two Yang families. Wu Huaiyu called her aunt.
Therefore, Yang Jieyu calls Huaiyu her cousin, and now she is getting married and getting closer.
Although Yang Gongdao gave birth to many daughters, his official career was not smooth. During the Daye period, he actually participated in Yang Xuangan's rebellion. Then his eldest brother Yang Gongren was ordered to send troops to quell the rebellion. After entering the Tang Dynasty, he became the assistant officer of his son-in-law Yuan Ji. However, his son-in-law Yuan Ji also
He was executed by Li Shimin and implicated.
Fortunately, when his two daughters entered the palace, Li Shimin had just arranged for him to be a junior official in the Wei Palace to consult with him about joining the army.
Yang Gongdao also had a half-sister who was married to Dou Lukuan, who had just been removed from the post of Minister of Etiquette due to his involvement in the ghost market.
Of course, Yang Gongdao also had a half-sister who married Yan Rong's son, and then her daughter also married the current emperor, who was Concubine Yan De.
In Li Shimin's harem, all the women are relatives.
Yang Jieyu was quite satisfied with her cousin Wu Huaiyu's in-laws, and even invited a strong man to ask Wu Huaiyu, who had just finished grilling skewers, to give some portraits to their sisters.
The grandfather of Sister Yang Jieyu is Yang Xiong, King of Guan of Sui Dynasty. Yang Xiong is the nephew of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian. Yang Jian is the grandfather of Concubine Yang Shu and Concubine Yang, so Si Yang is a cousin of the same clan.
Concubine Yan De is their aunt's cousin.
In addition, Xiao Meiren and Xiao Cairen in the palace are nieces of Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty, so they are also cousins of Yang Shufei's sisters.
Yang Xiaoyan has seven cousins.
Going to that station, it is really a beautiful bird, thin and fat, graceful and graceful.
Li Shimin's aesthetics is indeed very good. Although they are all political marriages, these concubines are all really good, they are all tall and fit.
Wu Huaiyu couldn't refuse.
He took paper, pen, and paint to draw portraits of the seven sisters. Li Shimin, the prince, his younger brother, and the queen watched on the spot. They watched Wu Huaiyu splash ink on a piece of white paper, just sketching and smearing. At first, he couldn't tell what it was.
But it gets more and more amazing later on.
Finally, the seven concubines seemed to fly into the paper.
Prince Chengqian was full of admiration for Huaiyu, and the fat boy Wei Wangtai even screamed and insisted on becoming his disciple on the spot.
None of the seven concubines expected that Wu Huaiyu could finish the painting so quickly and that the painting was so good. Although it was not a very large scroll, it was so fast and the painting looked so similar. They were all overjoyed.
Wei Guifei and Wei Zhaoyi, sisters in the palace, acted coquettishly with the emperor when they saw this, and wanted the sisters to draw a picture too.
Li Shimin laughed loudly, stroking his carefully groomed beard,
"Huaiyu, please work harder and draw one for Sister Wei Guifei."
Huaiyu had no choice but to continue.
The sisters of the Wei family were all widows who had married before. Wei Zhaoyi even served as Wang Shichong's crown prince. During the Sui Dynasty, Wei Guifei married the son of Li Zixiong, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and gave birth to a daughter. In the first year of Zhenguan, she was canonized as a noble concubine and the fourth concubine.
head.
In the fourth year of Wude, she remarried with her daughter. The eldest daughter was now canonized as the head of Dingxiang County. In the sixth year of Wude, she gave birth to Li Shimin's daughter, the twelfth princess Linchuan Princess Meng Jiang. At this time, she was pregnant again. The emperor just now
She also asked Wu Huaiyu to take her pulse.
Huaiyu said it was a boy.
That will be Li Shimin's tenth prince.
The Wei sisters in their early thirties are undoubtedly the most beautiful in terms of beauty, especially Wei Zhaoyi and Wei Nizi, who are peerless and known as Little Xishi. The beauty of the Wei sisters is well known to the world. Wei Nizi also has a younger sister who married Hongnong.
Yang's son is also known as Xiao Diao Chan.
Among Wei Zhaoyi's younger brothers, Wu Huaiyu and Cucumber Hou Wei Siren were familiar with each other, and they had been partners for a long time from Shenji Camp to Yanzhou.
The second brother Wei Siqi married the second daughter of former prime minister Du Yan.
These two sister flowers are really amazing,
Wu Huaiyu painted it, and the two sisters in the portrait looked even more stunning. Even Empress Changsun couldn't help but admire it after seeing it.
Li Shimin was a little stunned.
Although the painting was still the same two people, when Wu Huaiyu came back to his senses and looked at his own work, it seemed that he had put a filter on the Wei sisters, making them more artistic and beautiful than the real people.
Concubine Wei joked that she might as well ask the emperor to marry the tenth prince in her belly to the Wu family.
Li Shimin smiled and actually agreed.
"Okay, then let's kiss her more and more, and marry the eldest daughter of Duke Yi to the tenth prince."
They were booked even before they were born.
Empress Changsun was laughing but did not interfere.
Wu Huaiyu's eldest daughter was only a concubine. Although she was born to his concubine, the Fan family, she was only a concubine and still a concubine. The ninth prince in the queen's womb was the third legitimate son of the royal family.
In the future, if you want to marry a wife, you must definitely marry a daughter of a real family. The Wu family is still not enough.
Even after he painted two paintings for the concubines, the other concubines were also a little moved, but before they could speak, Wei Wangtai spoke first and asked Huaiyu to paint one for their brothers.
The eldest brother, Prince Cheng Qian, the third brother, King Li Ke of Shu, the fourth brother, King Li Tai of Wei, the fifth brother, King of Yan, Li You, and the others who are still nursing will be ignored for the time being.
Where the four brothers were standing, the little fat man took the initiative to let everyone get closer.
Prince Cheng Qian was a little restrained and a little nervous in front of his father, but the little fat boy was the most active, while Li Ke, the king of Shu, was also quite stable. He was indeed the most similar to Li Shimin, and the fifth child, Li You, was the most naughty.
The eldest is only ten years old, and the youngest is only seven. They are the most innocent and innocent age, and there are no conflicts between the brothers.
Li Shimin looked at these four sons, stroking his beard and smiling.
I am afraid that the emperor could not have imagined what the four brothers who love each other so deeply would become in the future.
The eldest son and the fourth son fought for the throne, and in the end they were both deposed. In the end, the ninth son won the throne, but the third son did not escape being liquidated in the end. The fifth son was even more awesome, and the one who was the first to cheat on his father was killed.
However, looking at the somewhat lonely Concubine Yin Xian in the far corner, Li You actually laid the clues for his future rebellion, because Concubine Yin Xian's father, Yin Shishi, assisted Yang You in staying in Chang'an at the end of the Sui Dynasty. After Li Yuan raised his army, Yin Shishi
They hunted and killed Li Yuan's son Li Zhiyun, and even dug up Li Yuan's ancestral grave.
After Li Yuan entered the capital, he was not polite and killed Master Yin Shi, leaving only his young son Yin Hongzhi and all his female relatives as slaves in Yeting.
The Yin family is very beautiful and elegant. The Yin family is also a military aristocrat of Guanlong and has been serving as generals for generations. Her grandfather was the highest official in the State of Zhuguo, Duke of Zhao, and was given to Sikong after his death. Her father was also General Zuo Yiwei, who stayed in Xijing.
In the Yeting Palace, even if the Yin family wore coarse clothes and skirts and did dirty work, she could not hide her temperament. When Li Shimin met her once, she was very surprised and accepted her as his favor.
After he ascended the throne, he even made the Yin family a virtuous concubine, one of the four concubines. However, how could the Yin family forget the family feud in her heart? It was only for the sake of the remaining members of the Yin family that she politely accepted the favor.
But hatred can never be forgotten in the bones. Li You was naturally affected by this since he was a child. It is not surprising that he would rebel against his father when he grew up.
Nowadays, everyone in the Yin family has been exempted from punishment because of Concubine Yin Xian, and they have even been given new officials and titles. Li Shimin even specially granted marriage to Concubine Yin Xian's younger brother Yin Hongzhi, and chose Concubine Yan De's sister as the wife of Concubine Yin. Hongzhi is his wife.
Although the Yan family is from Xianbei, it is also a noble family in Guanlong. The mother of Concubine Yan De is the third daughter of Yang Xiong, the sister of brothers Yang Gongren and Yang Shidao, and the aunt of Concubine Yang and the others.
This is also a close relationship.
After painting the four brothers, Li Shimin also became interested and asked for Huaiyu to be given to him, the queen, and his three legitimate children, Prince Chengqian, King Li Tai of Wei, and Princess Li Lizhi of Changle.
"Sixth Princess, come quickly."
Empress Changsun smiled and waved to Princess Yuzhang.
Princess Yuzhang was the sixth daughter of the emperor. She was born only three days apart from the fifth princess, Princess Changle. Princess Yuzhang's biological mother was a concubine in the palace. She died in childbirth when she was giving birth to the princess. At that time, Empress Changsun also just gave birth to her eldest daughter, Princess Changle III. God, I felt sorry for Princess Yuzhang, so he took her and raised her personally.
Princess Yuzhang also grew up eating the queen's milk like Princess Changle. Among the princesses, the sixth princess was the most favored by Li Shimin and his wife, second only to Changle.
Princess Changle’s name is Lizi, and the sixth princess’s name is Lihua.
The emperor named the unborn 19th princess Li Shu, also known as Lizhen.
Li Shimin hugged Li Zhi, the Queen hugged Li Hua, and then Cheng Qian, with Li Tai standing on both sides, a family of six.
King of Shu Li Ke, King of Yan Li You and other princesses and princes could only watch from a distance.
There is a difference between direct descendants and concubines.
They are both princes and princesses, but their status as concubines is also very different.
Princess Yuzhang is special. She was raised by the queen since she was a child. She is an adopted daughter, but her status is higher than that of other concubines.
Wu Huaiyu's two biological mothers, Yang Jieyu and Wei Guifei, could only stand aside with envy. Although Wei Guifei's ex-husband's daughter was also the emperor's adopted daughter and had been granted the title of county head, on such an occasion, she could not even come close to him. They don't even have the qualifications of an emperor or empress.
Wu Huaiyu painted this portrait of the emperor very carefully, and the size is even larger.
When this extremely painstaking painting was completed, the emperor and empress were indeed very satisfied.
Zheng Guiren, Xiao Cairen, Wang Meiren and others also wanted to paint one for themselves, but the queen spoke directly, saying that it was getting late and she would not keep tiring Duke Yi.
Wu Huaiyu felt as if he was receiving a general amnesty and hurriedly said goodbye and left the palace.
Every time he entered the palace, as long as he met the concubines in the harem, he would always be troubled. Either he would take their pulses, prescribe prescriptions and regulate their bodies, or he would like his portrait.
He acted like a court painter or a royal doctor.
Too tired.
He left the palace in a hurry, as if he was running away.
Although the emperor's women are all beautiful and elegant, they can't even look at them. It's too tiring to stay with them.
As soon as he left the palace, he ran into his old friend Doulu Huairang.
Doulu Huairang looked very miserable as if he were mourning his heir. When he saw Huaiyu, he took him to Pingkangfang and got drunk until he got drunk.
"Isn't it just a house in Yankangfang, and it removes the post of governor of Lingzhou governor's office and governor of Yanzhou? There is no need for this, right?"
"What you said is easy. I, the Minister of Rites of Aye, have given me permission. Don't say anything. If you are a brother or not, just go drinking with me if you are a brother."
In the past two years, Doulu Huairang's career has been smooth. When he first met Huaiyu, he was the crown prince's right guard and the chief historian, only seventh rank. Now he is the chief historian of Lingzhou Governor's Office and the governor of Yanzhou, a third rank official, and even gave himself
I got a county Marquis Sanjue, and I was so proud that I even felt a little more confident in front of Princess Wanchun.
Who would have thought that now he would be dealt a blow. His father, the Minister of Rites, had been dismissed, and he had also been dismissed as the governor. Both of them had reduced their duties, and even the former Yang Su mansion in Princess Yankangfang, which occupied a quarter of the square, was given away.
It was confiscated, and the emperor also confiscated a lot of money from the Doulu family.
What made Doulu Huairang most happy was that Princess Wanchun Hedong Lion Roar blamed everything on Doulu's family, and even beat to death one of Doulu Huairang's favorite maids in a rage.
Doulu Huairang had no choice but to live outside his home, unable to return to his home. He felt so aggrieved that he insisted on dragging Huaiyu to accompany him to Pingkangfang for a drink.
Although he looked quite sad and embarrassed, and there were even a few red scratch marks on his neck, Wu Huaiyu did not sympathize with him, nor did he sympathize with the Doulu family and Princess Wanchun.
After all, he still couldn't get rid of the tragic scenes in the ghost market caves in the south of the city. The Doulu family and the princess's mansion actually made such money, and they deserved any punishment now.
However, as Doulu Huairang's friend, Wu Huaiyu was still willing to have two drinks with him.
