Sishui Pass is the famous Hulao Pass. It is connected to Songyue Mountain in the south and the Yellow River in the north. It is surrounded by mountains and ridges and is naturally dangerous. It has the tendency of "one man can guard the pass and ten thousand people cannot open it", and it has been a battleground for military strategists of all ages.
This is the place where Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty captured two kings in one battle and laid the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. The Luoyang Basin behind him is still the strategic center of the world. The so-called "living in China and conquering the world" is where Xijing of the Song Dynasty is located. Although Jingkang was massacred several times after that,
It has almost become a white field. Even the prime minister has set himself on fire here. But after all, it has gained some popularity after six or seven years. This can be seen from the officials of the Song Dynasty and his entourage who stood up one after another after Zhao Jiu got off the boat.
Looking from the river, I saw that Sishui Town was also a bit bustling. I think Luoyang City will only be better, and maybe it will be rejuvenated.
And this place has other meanings for Zhao Jiu. The Battle of Yaoshan, the Battle to Destroy Xia and the final Northern Expedition all started here as the first stop.
In a daze, he didn't even hear what Li Wei said clearly. When he received Yang Yizhong's look, he quickly flashed out Li Xiuzhi behind him and said dryly: "This time I brought a nephew to Li Dayin.
Not only do the brothers of Mr. Li’s family become ministers one after another, but they also have Jiahe on their behalf, which makes me feel very happy.”
The conscience of heaven and earth, Zhao Jiu's words are really praising Li Gang's family cultural heirloom, but he has become more eccentric in recent years, and his reputation has spread all over the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. Li Wei knew that although his eldest brother made some mistakes, he was a well-deserved Ming minister.
Although he and his younger brother were also Jinshi, who didn't know that they were promoted all the way because of Li Gang's win over Tianqing, which made him feel guilty and ashamed. As an official, he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to keep a straight face and scold him regardless of the occasion.
Li Xiuzhi half an hour.
Zhao Guan's family were all dumbfounded, but Li Xiuzhi acted as if nothing was wrong. He lowered his head and didn't refute a word. After seeing his uncle pause, he said: "My uncle's strict training, my nephew has benefited a lot. It's just that he is welcoming the Holy Master at this time, or
How about your majesty getting into the carriage and entering Luoyang first?"
Hu Hong, the promotion officer of the Henan Prefecture on the side, had long been at odds with his boss. At this time, he said more directly: "It's very, very, very, loyalty and filial piety, what comes first and what comes last, I think this little Li Sheren
I understand better than some people.”
Li Wei was humiliated by his subordinates in public and could hardly stand it, but he did not dare to really neglect the officials, so he took the Luoyang officials to respectfully invite the officials to board the dragon chariot, and the group headed to the main city of Luoyang.
At this time, Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan were naturally on horseback guarding both sides. Apart from Li Xiuzhi and Zhao Zicheng, who only knew how to survey rivers and calculate silt, Zhao Guan's family was only served by Feng Yi. He thought it was not easy to ask Li Xiuzhi about this, so
He turned around and said: "I remember that Hu Hong was sent out to join the army as a scholar in Henan Prefecture in the seventh year of Jianyan's reign. Last year he was excellent in the assessment and was promoted to a fifth-grade official. Why..." He is still so dumbfounded.
Poor Feng Yi was dumbfounded by the question. Although the official was gentle to the people around him and easy to serve, Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan had almost completely usurped his internal responsibilities. His usual task was to search for delicious food in Tokyo and run errands for the official.
By the way, he managed the mulberry fish pond. He was warned again in the early years. If Lan Daguan hadn't been too old to walk this time, it wouldn't have been his turn to follow the emperor. But the problem is that he didn't dare to interfere in political affairs for how many years.
Okay, how can I know everything about local officials?
Fortunately, Li Xiuzhi rescued him at this time and said: "The official, excuse me, interrupted. This matter cannot be blamed on Hu Tuiguan. It concerns my family. Speaking of which, my father was very angry at Hu Yin and Mr. Hu for denying his biological parents."
Disdainful, it also affected his uncle. He has spoken about it publicly since he became the Queen of Yin of Henan. Hu Tuiguan is also the younger brother of Hu Xianggong (to put it simply, Hu Yin was almost drowned by his biological parents when he was born, and his uncle Huan Guo saved him.
He also adopted him, so Hu Yin only recognized Hu Guo as his father, and Hu Hong, Hu Guo's biological son, as his younger brother and did not recognize his biological parents). Naturally, he was not angry. His daily official duties were fine, but there were many discords in private."
There is another thing that is difficult to say. Both of them have bad tempers, but no matter how famous your brother is, he has been retired for many years. My brother is the current prime minister. Who is afraid of whom?
Zhao Guan's family was surprised that he was so honest, which was extremely inconsistent with his performance along the way. He said curiously: "Xiuzhi, you are my close minister, but why do I feel that Li Dayin is extremely harsh on you? You are close relatives. And Li Jing is obviously in the capital.
You have a house, so how come you still live in the house of Mr. Li Xianggong (Li Guang, who has a good personal relationship with Li Gang), and then you go directly to your father-in-law’s house.”
The patriarchal clan is very powerful these days, and Li Xiuzhi's actions are really weird. I didn't think much about it before, but now that I think about it, the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes.
Li Xiuzhi was really magnanimous. He didn't care about the other people in the car and said directly: "Both uncles don't like me. They think I have brought discredit on my father and the Li family."
Being so straight is a bit like Li Gang, but Zhao Zichen was shocked after hearing this. Don't be kidding, I know you are a family of top academics, but whose family would think that a twenty-year-old top student is a black mark? There are only two in his family.
As for my son, if I can have a Jinshi, I have to thank Taizu for his blessing.
As if he knew what the people around him were thinking, Li Xiuzhi said: "I am a concubine. This is nothing, but my father was the son of Le Nu, a Jiaofang Secretary, when his father was dismissed from office. Naturally, a living woman cannot redeem her life, so since I was born, I have
He was raised by his adoptive mother."
"If that's the case, it's okay. My aunt recognized me, and I am a descendant of the Li family. However, my parents are a bit sincere. After the Jingkang Incident, my father returned to his hometown disheartened. When he learned that his biological mother had been released, he wanted to accept her.
When she entered the house, before the etiquette was completed, the official family decided to stay in the Central Plains to fight against the Jin Dynasty and recalled her father as prime minister. It was despised by the elite to get a job from a humble family, so the two uncles persuaded him to put state affairs first. His father later became the third
Five years ago, he was entrusted by the government to the southeast and became the Red Banner of the Anti-Jin Dynasty. Naturally, he couldn't care about anything, so after all, his biological mother did not enter the Li family. Unfortunately, she died in such a depressed way, and she was not allowed to enter the Li family's ancestral grave after her death.
It was not allowed to buy a piece of land next to the ancestral grave to bury my mother. In the end, she had to be sent back to her biological mother’s hometown, that is, Wuweijun’s place for burial. It’s said that Mei Zhizhou and I met at that time.”
After saying that, he laughed at himself and said, "If I hadn't been clever since I was a child, which made me very popular with my aunt. I was far better than several brothers in reading, my father might have had the same attitude towards me."
Several people in the car were all embarrassed, especially Zhao Jiu who regretted how he was so mean-mouthed and opened up a scar on others. No wonder Li Xiuzhi was so smooth and scary from time to time. Given the environment he grew up in, if he had the bad temper of his father again,
It doesn’t necessarily mean how much you have been offended.
How to put it, these days, as long as there is no throne in the family to inherit, the concubines are not that important. The eldest son will naturally inherit the ancestral property. But for the officials who studied in the era, whoever has the ability really belongs to them. As Li Xiuzhi said,
As long as the family recognizes it, the legitimate mother recognizes it. The birth of an official is not a big problem, otherwise Liang Hongyu's imperial edict of Mrs. Qin and Han Shizhong's other two concubines would not be published.
But Li Gang almost accepted him, which was really a bit of a problem. You have to know that when Han Shizhong married Liang Hongyu, he was the commander, and what was the status of a military commander at that time? What was the status of a prime minister? And when the censor asked, you are Li Gang
When the official family is determined to fight against gold and find you to come back and become husband-in-law, you are still planning to marry a mistress. It shouldn't be too unpleasant to say it. Especially because Li Gang has offended a lot of people because of his bad temper, he may be exonerated one day.
Out.
But as a modern person, Zhao Jiu would not think that this was a big deal. After thinking about Li Xiuzhi's age and character, he said: "You are still young, and the past cannot be traced. It is the rule of this dynasty that officials above the fifth rank can ask for a royal title for their mother and wife."
"Although your mother...but I have always been a frivolous official." But after finishing speaking, he glanced at the other two people and pretended that he didn't hear anything he shouldn't have said.
Li Xiuzhi was stunned, all kinds of emotions suddenly came to his heart, and he suddenly kowtowed heavily in the car.
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A huge change in the status of women in ancient China was the abolition of the official service system. This happened during the Jianyan period of Emperor Shizu of the Song Dynasty. The main organizer was Li Xiuzhi, the Minister of Punishment at that time.
The concept of prostitutes in Chinese history seems to be broader than what we have said and understood. It is divided into details and consists of palace prostitutes, camp prostitutes, official prostitutes, domestic prostitutes and civilian prostitutes. Among them, official prostitutes were worshiped by officials in ancient times.
Prostitutes, in order to cater to the needs of civil servants, need to be able to write poetry, calligraphy, music, and painting.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, official entertainment banquets were attended by official prostitutes, but officials were not allowed to engage in prostitution. But don't think that having an official title makes you superior to others. They still had to serve people with sex and entertain people with their voices. Even if they got married and had children, they had to work for generations.
A despicable industry. Some official prostitutes are in prostitution, but they have a strong desire in their hearts to be good, break away from prostitution, and restore human dignity and rights. But even so, they will be discriminated against all their lives. It is worth mentioning that Li Xiuzhi’s biological mother Huang
The surname was a Congliang official. Later, with the special approval of Shizu, she was granted the title of Lord of Anxiu County and Lady of Jiujiang County.