Because the fur goods he brought have not yet been sold, Zhang Tianai originally planned to keep Lao Hu and leave half of his people. However, this decision was vetoed by Li Mu. The road to the west was not smooth, and it was
It is midwinter, the time of year when food is at its lowest. The Turks were wiped out this year, and various tribes were severely damaged. I don’t know how many Turks will starve to death this winter.
When a person is about to starve to death, he will do anything desperate. For the sake of Zhang Tianai's safety, it is better to bring more people with him in case of unexpected events. As for these leather goods, they are very easy to handle. Wang Ou's shop is right next door.
It was the fur maker who pulled her over, and Wang Ou simply gave her the cash. More than ten thousand dollars, to her, it was just a drop in the bucket.
This means that Zhang Tianai does not want to do business with Wang Ou. If there was no quarrel, these leather goods would have been sold long ago.
Returning home at noon, Li Mu took Dugujiu and Li Chongyi, tidied up the studio and warehouse, and asked his servants to clean the yard inside and outside. Then he left the house with the "Zhulu Hou Mansion" plaque inscribed by Li Shimin.
The mansion he had lived in for half a year. Since he was living temporarily in Fengqiuhuang, it was not a formal move, and the shop could not be used as a mansion after all. Li Mu did not plan to hold any housewarming celebrations and did not notify anyone.
After setting up the things, Li Mu ate something casually. Seeing that there were still two hours before the square gate closed, he took some candied pastries, things that the children liked to eat, and asked Li Chongyi to drive the carriage to the imperial city.
Changle Gate is the east gate of the palace city, next to the East Palace. If Li Mu wants to reach this place, there are two ways to go. The first way is to enter from the main entrance of the palace city, bypass the Taiji Hall and the East Palace, and arrive at Changle Gate.
Then enter from the East Palace
It would be much closer. But he didn't want to provoke Li Chengqian, a naughty kid. This kid was going crazy playing military chess recently. If he saw him, there would be nothing he could do. He would have to drag him down the military flag.
Therefore, Li Mu would rather take a longer detour to save worry and trouble.
As soon as Li Mu entered the palace, Li Shimin got the news. He knew what Li Mu was going to do when he bypassed the Tai Chi Hall instead of coming to see him, so he just smiled and turned his attention to the "Kandu Map of the Kingdoms of the Western Regions" on the table.
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The harem, in the TV series of Li Mu's previous life, was portrayed as a place where intrigues and intrigues were rampant. In fact, it was indeed like this. Although the harem of the Tang Dynasty was not as dirty as that of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many hidden secrets.
Intrigue and intrigue, but not too much at all.
This also includes a particularly strict hierarchy.
Everything in the harem is decided by the queen. Even the emperor cannot do whatever he wants. If a concubine offends the emperor, the most she can do is be sent to the Yeting Palace. But if she offends the queen, there will be no place for her in the harem. There is no need for it.
Queen takes action
, the concubines, female officials, eunuchs, maids, etc. below her will all look down on this guy who has no eyesight. Silent cold violence is the most hurtful. It won't take long before she herself seeks death.
It is the so-called killing without blood.
The harem also has grades, just like the imperial court. The queen is analogous to the emperor, who dominates everything. Under the queen, there are "four ladies", who are noble, virtuous, virtuous, and virtuous. Under the four ladies, there are nine more.
Concubine, Zhaoyi, Zhao
Rong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, the second rank of Zhizheng. Under the nine concubines, there is Jieyu (the third rank of Zhizheng), beauty (the fourth rank of Zhizheng), Caiyu
Nine people each (ranking five grades) are women of the twenty-seventh life.
If these are not enough, the so-called three thousand beauties in the harem are no joke. Under the worldly wives, there are Baolin (ranked sixth rank), Yunv (ranked seventh rank), and Cainv (ranked eighth rank) each with twenty-seven.
People are called the Eighty-One Imperial Wife.
These people, plus the female officials, palace maids, etc. who serve them, the number of three thousand is still less than that.
According to the harem system, these famous concubines have at least one chance to sleep with the emperor. This is their right, and the emperor cannot violate it. If they are lucky enough to be pregnant with dragons, the children they give birth to will also be princes.
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However, there is a huge difference between the prince and the prince.
The queen's son is called a legitimate son. Under normal circumstances, only a legitimate prince has a chance to compete for the throne. Just like Li Shimin's generation, there are dozens of sons of Li Yuan. Why is Li Jiancheng the only one on the stage of competing for the throne?
, Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, the three princes born to Queen Dou, are the other princes so indifferent and don't care about the throne?
No, it's because they don't have a chance. Even if they have a one in ten thousand chance to steal the throne, they can't sit still. Because they are bastards and have no qualifications.
For these unqualified bastards, this is a very unfair thing. But the rules are like this. You can be unconvinced or hysterical, but you must accept the result.
Let’s leave aside whether the direct descendants are superior to others. There are also distinctions between noble and inferior among concubines.
For example, the children of the "fourth wife" will receive better rewards, fiefdoms, etc. than the children of the ninth concubine. By analogy, the treatment will never be the same. When the children of the last "imperial wife", let alone the title of king,
Even the title of Marquis depends on the ability of the prince. In the palace, the wife of the royal family
Their status is not even as good as that of female officials, let alone compared with great eunuchs like Eunuch Gao. Basically, unless they are particularly beautiful, they will definitely have a lucky night in their lives that leaves a deep impression on the emperor. Otherwise, this
A lifetime is the end of old age and death in the palace.
They are not as good as palace maids. When palace maids reach the age of marriage, they can also apply to leave the palace to marry. Women who have been favored by the emperor have only three endings: either they die of old age in the palace, or they are lucky enough to give birth to a son and a half and rely on their children.
With the blessing of the emperor, they can live in their children's mansions in their later years. The most miserable ones are those who have no children. They will be buried after the emperor's death, and their end will be extremely miserable.
Today, Li Shimin's "four ladies" are Concubine Wei, Concubine Yang Shu, Concubine Yin De, and Concubine Zheng Xian.
Among them, Concubine Yin De is a very special existence. What makes her special is not that she is a person.
What's special about him lies in her family background. Concubine Yin De's father is called Yin Shishi. Emperor Yang was the governor of Zhangye at that time and was deeply feared by Rong Di. During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he took charge and stayed in Chang'an. During Li Yuan's attack on Chang'an, Yin Shishi
Shishi killed Li Yuan's relatives, including one of Li Shimin's younger brothers, which was even more heinous.
Unfortunately, he dug up all the ancestral graves of the Li family. After the city was destroyed, Li Yuan of course wanted to take revenge. Not only did he kill him and his staff Gu Yi who gave him the idea, but he also implicated their three clans. But he did not
Everything went perfectly, leaving him with a son, Hongzhi, and his sister Yin Yuee.
Li Yuan rewarded Yin Yue'e to his second son Li Shimin, who made the most contributions in this battle. Later, when Li Shimin ascended the throne, she became the current concubine Yin De.
The hatred between the Yin family and the Li family is not an exaggeration to call them irreconcilable. Master Yin Shi dug up Li Yuan's ancestral grave, and Li Yuan sent almost everyone in the Yin family to make amends to his ancestors.
Such a combination is very dangerous. Yin Hongzhi persuaded his sister countless times to kill Li Shimin while he was sleeping to avenge the hundreds of members of the Yin family. But since Concubine Yin De can be sealed with the word "virtue", it means that
She is a very gentle person. In addition, she and Li Shimin were husband and wife, so she really couldn't do this. Later, she was left with her son Li You, which was even more impossible. Yin Hongzhi resented his sister for a year.
They would not even visit the palace once, and the siblings were very alienated from each other.
Speaking of Yin Hongzhi, in his early years because his father was the "number one" responsible for guarding Chang'an City in the former Sui Dynasty, he could be said to be the number one dandy in Chang'an. However, after his entire family was implicated, his temperament changed drastically. He was a dandy.
The young master's habits were completely wiped out, and he turned into a man filled with only hatred and taking revenge as his life's work.
For him, there are only two things in life, carrying on the family line and taking revenge. For this reason, he married many women, it is said that there were dozens of them. After these women gave birth to children, he would give them a sum of money and let them go.
The further away the better. Because he knows that once there is a
God, if he has the chance to kill Li Yuan and Li Shimin, he will definitely die. What happened in the past that implicated the three clans will definitely happen again. And he hid his children among the people. Even if some are found, there will always be one that slips through the net. The Yin family
The bloodline can continue.
The matter of creating humans is in full swing. But the matter of revenge has made no progress at all.
Neither Li Yuan nor Li Shimin took him seriously at all. The purpose of keeping him was to humiliate him. When the humiliation passed, he was forgotten. For a king, the life of an ant is nothing.
, life or death, it doesn’t matter.
revenge?
It's too ridiculous!
As he grew older, Yin Hongzhi gradually understood this feeling of powerlessness. But he did not give up and kept it in his heart. Later, during the Chinese New Year one year, Yin Hongzhi went to the palace to pay his respects to his sister as a routine. See
When my nephew Li You arrived, he was five years old.
A bold idea emerged in his mind.
Since I have no hope of revenge in this life, I will change my method. Li Shimin, you rebelled against your father and became the emperor. I want to let you taste this feeling.
From that day on, Yin Hongzhi changed his confrontation with his sister. The number of visits to the palace increased day by day. Under his flattery, he quickly won the favor of his nephew Li You. At the beginning of the year, Li You turned ten. Li Shimin according to the
As usual, Li You was allowed to open a palace outside the palace, and he was renamed King of Yan from King of Chu and made governor of Youzhou. Yin Hongzhi recommended himself and became the long history of the palace.
Concubine Yin De's original intention was that having this biological brother to discipline her son would be better than outsiders. Moreover, Yin Hongzhi had been pretending too well in the past few years, making her think that this younger brother had forgotten about revenge.