Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 674 The Encounter of the Subjugated Princess (Second Change)
After Ren Hu's family finished the New Year's Eve dinner, they didn't go to play mahjong like Li You's family did. The name of the ceremony is "Dan Nuo"!
This "Nuo" is a relatively traditional "exorcism" ceremony.

Let a boy put on a mask with teeth and claws, put on red and black clothes and pants, and dance with drums.Then there will be twenty "backup dancers" behind the boy.

They dance with the boy, which means to drive away evil spirits and achieve the purpose of praying for blessings.

You must know that the "Great Nuo" ceremony held in the Datang Palace last year was even more spectacular.

After seeing it once, a poet wrote a poem like this: "The lamps and people in the palace are fighting for the fire, and the Nuozi in the palace are chaotically driving away demons."

It is a pity that there is no such behavior now, and this kind of "eliminating the plague" is a unique activity for Tang Dynasty people during the Spring Festival.

After the ceremony is over, other performances will start one after another, such as hoops, juggling, magic, and opera. They will appear one by one, not only in Dunhua Square, but also in other Chang'an workshops. However, Dunhua Square should be the most lively After all, Dunhuafang has the strongest purchasing power. Of course, the best performances will be performed in Dunhuafang, so that there will be more things sold for rewards.

This kind of night will last for three more days, and those traders will squeeze out the spare money of all the people in Dunhuafang.

Because of this, the night in Dunhuafang is really the most fun. Ren Hu took his mother and his sister to walk on the street of Dunhuafang together. The laughter and laughter around made Ren Hu's family happy endlessly.

Regrettably, Li You did not appear on the street in Dunhuafang, because Li You was worried that his appearance would disturb the night, so Li You did not appear, but Li You will appear tomorrow morning, bringing Li Zhi , Li Mingda thanked all the people together.

Just when all the people in Qinglongfang and Dunhuafang were celebrating the Spring Festival, in Shengyefang, Li Ke and Li Yin also left the palace and returned to their palace, because they could not stay overnight in the palace, and they did not have Li Youhe. In order to save face, Li Zhi picked up his mother.

Li Ke actually went to look for Fang Xuanling, but Fang Xuanling directly refused, the reason was the ancestral system, but later Concubine Yin was allowed to leave the palace, Li Ke didn't ask, but Li Yin asked angrily, and Fang Xuanling's answer is that there is a guarantee from the prince.

To be honest, Li Yin was so angry that Li Ke could only sigh.

At this moment, the two of them were sitting in front of the window of a restaurant, watching the scene of people coming and going outside Shengye Fang, and for some reason, the two brothers were so melancholy that they drank down their stomachs with a sip of wine.

Li Yin was the first to speak: "Brother Emperor, aren't we two too useless? Why can Concubine Yin go out of the palace, but our concubine mother can't go out of the palace? Our concubine mother is really suffering. It's the concubine mother who is a high-ranking princess of the Sui Dynasty, but now the princess of the Sui Dynasty can't even get out of the palace.

It was then, and it is now! "

As Li Yin talked, his eyes turned red. You must know that although Li Yin is a jerk, he still respects and loves his family very much, especially Concubine Yang and Li Ke.

People in the world say that Concubine Yang Gao Gao is the daughter of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and the concubine of Emperor Tang. She is simply too expensive, but his family knows his own affairs. Li Yin knows very well that his mother and concubine are actually a poor concubine. people.

Although Concubine Yang is the daughter of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, she is the least favored. How can you say that during the 14 years of Yang Guang's reign, he only spent 186 days in Chang'an, and most of the time was not on tour. On the way, she is preparing for a tour, if Concubine Yang is the favored princess.

Then it should be like his eldest sister, Princess Nanyang, to accompany Emperor Sui Yang and stay away from Chang'an.

But the fact is exactly the opposite. Judging from the fact that Li Ke was born in the second year of Wude, Princess Yang should have entered the palace in the first year of Wude.In other words, as soon as Li Yuan ascended the throne in Chang'an, Princess Yang became a member of the backyard of Prince Qin's mansion. Obviously, although this Princess Yang was also the daughter of Emperor Sui Yang, she did not get the attention and love of her father at all, so Only then will it be forgotten in Chang'an and be taken over by the newly established Li Tang Dynasty.

Here maybe you want to say that the Li family respected this princess enough to make her a noble concubine. In fact, that is even more false. The mothers of Li Yuan and Yang Guang are both Dugu family, or sisters. Empress Dugu took good care of Li Yuan. The Tang Dynasty established by Li Yuan was at least nominally abdicated from Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty. As a result, Li Yuan lost his cousin's daughter who was forgotten in Chang'an to his son as a concubine.

If Li Yuan still valued this former princess who was more or less blood related to him, no matter what, he should marry her as a regular wife instead of a concubine—whether it was to marry a prince or a minister.And even if she is a concubine, she should be given to the prince Li Jiancheng, not to the Qin king Li Shimin who seemed to have no relationship with the throne at the time.

After all, Li Jiancheng was still the crown prince nine years ago in Wude. If there is no accident, this princess Yang, as Li Jiancheng's concubine, can become a concubine of the fifth rank or above after the prince ascends the throne. As a concubine, the prince is at most a fifth-rank child.

This is not care at all, in fact, it is humiliating Concubine Yang in disguise, and Li Shimin doesn't like Concubine Yang, why do you say that? According to Yang Guang's death in March of the second year of Yining (618), Li Ke Judging from the fact that Li Tangwude was born in the second year of Wude (619), Princess Yang was obviously conceived during the period of filial piety, and she couldn't even keep 27 months of filial piety for her biological father.

From this we can see what kind of existence this so-called "Daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty" was in the eyes of the Li and Tang Dynasties, let alone what kind of courteous treatment she could get. If Princess Yang's status is still honorable, how could she Being dismissed so casually, he didn't even have a chance to be a filial piety for his father.

Of course, it is perfectly normal for Concubine Yang to be treated like this. Since ancient times, the status of the king of the subjugated country has been placed there, let alone the subjugated princess.

Think about the miserable appearance of "concubines and grandchildren, princes and grandsons, resigning from the downstairs hall, and chariots coming to Qin" in the six countries after Qin destroyed the six kingdoms; The princess was awarded to Yang Su as a concubine, Mrs. Xuanhua and Mrs. Hongzheng were confiscated into Sui Yeting, and several were awarded to the court ministers and princes; think about Song Huizong's daughter, Roufu Diji, who is also a princess. What kind of life they lived in the Jin Dynasty, we can know that these subjugated princesses are nothing more than spoils of war in the eyes of the new dynasty.

This is actually the real life of the subjugated princess, and also the real situation of the two sons of the subjugated princesses, Li Ke and Li Min. Li Kezhen went to the fief in 7 years, but Li Tai, who is the same age as Li Ke, did not need to go to the fief at all. Li Zhi has been raised by Li Shimin himself since the death of Empress Changsun. Even after he was named the prince, he still asked Li Shimin to stay by his side even if he blatantly violated the etiquette system. In the 18th year of Zhenguan, he begged the emperor not to keep the prince by his side and let him go back to the East Palace.

In the 7th year of Zhenguan, when Li Ke went to serve as the governor of Qizhou, Li Shimin said to Li Ke: "The relationship between father and son, don't you want to see each other often? But family and country affairs are different, so you must be a fan screen." The family and the country are different", and it is even more to eliminate the "coveting heart" of the princes.

All the above shows that Li Shimin is very eccentric, and Concubine Yang, Li Ke, and Li Yin are not as high as imagined. They have a glass of wine each, thinking of their mother and concubine in the cold palace, lonely. The two brothers Ke and Li Yin were also timid.

(End of this chapter)