female concubine

Tokyo City

In late March, when Yushitai met the emperor in the Chuigong Hall, he presented a letter to the palace in the name of Yushitai.

This Dynasty allowed the establishment of brothels and the existence of city prostitutes. There were many official prostitutes in the official teaching workshop. Private prostitutes are also allowed at home, but the government has clear regulations restricting officials from prostitutes. Officials can only sing and dance with prostitutes to accompany them, and they cannot sleep in the same bed.

In Genyue in the northeast corner of Licheng, the crown prince reported the matter to the emperor.

The emperor threw the Zhazi from Yushitai back into the prince's arms, "I promoted Liang Wenfu to be a political advisor, do you know why?"

"I know... oh no," the crown prince nodded and then quickly shook his head, "I dare not speculate on the holy will."

The emperor frowned and said in a low voice, "If you know it, just say it."

The Crown Prince bowed his head and arched his hands slightly, "In order to prevent the power of the prime minister, I use the deputy minister to separate powers from government affairs. Your majesty is to restrain Lu Wei, the minister of Tongping Zhang."

"This man is smooth. If it is a prosperous time, he must be a minister of the humerus. If it is a troubled time, he can assist the great cause of the future." The emperor raised his hands and walked out of the palace, "Since I let you supervise this country, you can take care of these things yourself. Make up your mind."

"Yes."

On the first day of the fourth lunar month, the Zichen Palace, the crown prince overseeing the country, set up a seat above his majesty, and the servants loudly played the report. All the imperial court officials from the purple robe to the green robe entered the palace with wat boards, and knelt and kowtowed to the prince collectively. .

After Shuoshen's meeting was over, Yushitai Biao impeached Liang Wenfu again, and the prince demoted Shenzhi Zhengshi to the Minister of Punishment under the emperor's order.

The next day, the morning court in the Chuigong Hall ended. The crown prince changed his clothes and went to the back hall to handle government affairs.

"Your Highness, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment is asking to see you."

The Crown Prince then put down the document, "Let him in."

"Your Highness!" Liang Wenfu walked into the hall, "My minister Liang Wenfu kowtowed to His Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness will be forever..."

"Okay, just say what Liang Shilang has to say. I don't want to hear these nonsense now." Wei Kai, who was hearing the government for the first time, was in high spirits at first, but after one month in a row, he began to feel bored. Hearing the civil servants' chatter, memorials, memorials, memorials and inscriptions, he was almost trapped inside and outside the palace.

"Why did your highness send me to the Ministry of Punishment? It's been two years since the sex with a prostitute, and I've already redeemed her. She's still the person your majesty personally ordered to give to Captain Yun. I can restrain Lu Wei in the political affairs hall. Lu Wei is The teacher of King Chu..."

["If you give up, you can't leave any excuses and excuses. After all, only those who can't breathe can really keep their mouths shut."

"His Royal Highness's hands are the hands of governing the country, so of course they must not be contaminated with pickled things," Han Si dipped his tea and wrote half a word on the table, "For the sake of safety, the choice of this scapegoat depends on the Crown Prince of the Supervisory Kingdom." His Majesty's intention."]

Hearing Liang Wenfu's chanting, the crown prince remembered Han Bo's words, and immediately raised his eyebrows lightly and said: "He is still the lecturer of Jingyan in this palace," and then he was about to present the letter from the upper hall and the memorial form yesterday presented by Yushitai Throw it on Liang Wenfu's face, "Take a good look for yourself, they have already done more than one thing, and the court attendants in the Chui Gong Palace are tired of hearing it, so they have no choice but to ask His Majesty's will. If Liang Shilang is dissatisfied, he will Go to Gen Yue to find His Majesty."

Liang Wenfu picked up the memorial and said, "In early April of the 11th year of Jianping, a Taiwan court appealed to the courts. It is the executive minister of the court who is a member of the government. He is an example for all officials. He openly sexed with prostitutes and kept them in the house. It violated the court's etiquette. , how to rule, I would like to record the news, and wait for the edict."

"Liang Shilang shared the bed with the city prostitute. He kept it a secret from no one, but now he is pregnant with your child. The evidence is convincing. As the prime minister, how can those admonishers not impeach you?"

Liang Wenfu understands that although the crown prince can oversee the country, how can he appoint such an important minister and rush to replace the crown prince without asking the emperor? Judging from the statement, it must be the same, but things that have nothing to do with the law are revealed everywhere. Etiquette does not allow.

Liang Wenfu said: "The new censor of Yushitai is surnamed Jiang. His father is the minister of the third department. We have a rule in our court that the admonisher in Taiwan should not have any relationship with the prime minister, let alone his father and son. Your majesty's intention is to contain you, your majesty." ah."

"Liang Shilang, do you know that it is a serious crime of treason to separate the emperor and his ministers from the father and son of the Tian family?" The crown prince got up and walked to Liang Wenfu, patted him on the shoulder, and sighed: "This palace has to pass the imperial court." Let’s talk about the relationship between Shitai and Jianyuan. Besides, there is no minister in the Ministry of Justice. You, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, is the head of the Ministry of Justice. You have only demoted one rank, but you are still in purple robes. The position of Zaifu."

"I'm not greedy for the position of Chancellor, but Your Highness..." Liang Wenfu looked at Wei Kai, and immediately knelt down, "Is Your Highness guarding against this minister?"

The crown prince squatted down slowly, leaned over Liang Wenfu's ear and whispered: "Murdering the prince is an unforgivable capital crime. If the conduct is not careful enough and the news leaks out, how can I be safe? Since Liang Shilang dedicated this plan to this How can I feel at ease if I leave it to someone else? Dali Temple can’t get in, but there is still a vacancy in the Ministry of Punishment. I hope the servant will not let down my painstaking efforts and trust.”

Liang Wenfu raised his head suddenly, but the crown prince did not reply to him that day, and in terms of cruelty, the three kings were the most cruel among all the kings, "I understand, sir, take the order to thank you."

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In May of the 11th year of Jianping, Qinfeng Road.

The sunrise in the early morning was accompanied by a horn, and the arrows rushed towards the city of Gyeongju like a rainstorm. The city faced mountains on both sides. The ambush intercepted, and the two armies fought at the tributary of Luoshui.

There were two deep indentations on the yellow ground. The cannon carts were transported from the camp to the battlefield. The cannon stones and flying arrows were thrown into the city together. Immediately there was a different horn sound in the city. Rawhide-wrapped clock boards resist.

There was an arrow window in the pendant bell panel, and a few drums were heard from the tower, Xia Jun's magic arm bow team shot arrows down through the arrow window.

Arrows with wooden feathers were shot down from the city tower continuously, and drums sounded from the Song army's position. Dozens of pointed wooden donkey carts came behind the formation. Ten soldiers hid in the pointed wooden donkeys and pushed the carts forward. The thick wooden planks made of raw cowhide are used to resist arrows and stone arrows and cover the soldiers approaching the city wall.

However, before the Xia army retreated from Weizhou, they had already transported all the defense equipment in Weizhou to Qingzhou by air. Now when they saw the soldiers of the Song army approaching the city wall, they used these "trophies" without hesitation, such as stones, wood and iron against wood Throwing down from the city tower, the flying ladder and the cloud ladder couldn't be put up after a stalemate for a whole day.

The scouts stood on the watchtower car and the nest car to scout the enemy's situation in the city. Shen Yi'an stood on the podium set up by the three armies and frowned when he saw the flags waving in sequence upstairs.

Shen Yi'an held his waist knife and said with his head sideways: "Pass down the commander's order, and set up Sanhanhan and Qishaopao at Yinshi!"

"Marshal, if you use bed crossbows and seven-tip cannons, Qingzhou City will be destroyed. Qingzhou is my gateway to the northwest. I'm afraid it's not appropriate?"

Shen Yi'an turned his head and gave him a cold look, "Current events are not up to date, so I will return to Gengwen Waterfront."

The lieutenant general who accompanied the army was also a Wen Jinshi, so he naturally understood this sentence, and immediately blushed and stopped talking.

The deputy general was sent by the emperor to accompany the army, so Shen Yi'an turned his head and said: "The general also read the imperial court's reminder. If Qingzhou can't be taken back, those civil servants will let it go? I'm afraid that when you and I go back, the celebration banquet Before the rice is cooked, the tea in the prison will be cooked first."

The sound of the drums became more and more rapid, the bed crossbow was pushed up a hill two hundred paces away from the city in the southwest, and the seven-tip cannon was transported by cart to the southwest of the city fifty paces away. , San Hanhan stood around more than 70 crossbowmen, all of them waved their flags to order, and 70 people simultaneously pulled the winch to open.

Due to the huge size of the seven-point gun, it took half an hour to assemble it when it was transported to the position. The wooden gun mount was fixed on the loess ground, and a horizontal axis that could rotate was installed on the gun mount. It is fixed on the horizontal axis, which is why it is called the seven-tip cannon. Although it is powerful, it can only be fixed and cannot be rotated.

One end of the cannon tip was connected to a leather bag containing stone bullets with a rope, and dozens of long cables were tied to the other end. Two strong soldiers lifted a stone bullet weighing about 200 catties to the In the leather pocket, following the order of the deputy commander to wave the flag, more than [-] soldiers pulled the rope with all their strength at the same time, and the gun tip reversed in an instant, and the stone bullet was thrown out.

A huge boulder weighing more than 100 jins fell on the city tower, cracking the pendulum board and hitting the soldiers' brains heavily, causing three feet of blood to splatter immediately.

The soldiers on the tower began to abandon their shields and retreat from the chaos, and the defense also began to be chaotic. The arrows shot from the tower and the trees thrown down gradually decreased, and the soldiers of the Song army came out of the pointed wooden donkeys and rushed towards the city wall with ladders.

Xia Jun blew the horn to retreat, and when Shen Yi'an got on his horse and led the army to break through the city, he found that the defensive troops in the city were less than half, and immediately withdrew from the city in shock.

"There is a fraud!"

"Report, the main force of the enemy army has besieged the horse troops on both wings of our army, and they are encircling them in the opposite direction!"

In mid-summer in May, Xia's army suddenly sprang out of an ambush from the reeds by the river. The heavy cavalry's legs were cut off and tripped by machetes and iron locks. An open area full of reeds.

Immediately afterwards, large and small pots were thrown from the mountains and forests on the northern side of the plain.

As soon as the whistle sounded, Xia Jun's magic-armed bow team stretched their bows and shot out. The jar was shattered by the arrows, and the sticky oil rained down on the Song Army. Opened, the fire in the reeds spread rapidly, and the sudden rise in temperature of the armor scalded the person before the fire burned him to death.

In addition to the black smoke from the oil fire, there was also a wave of heat visible to the naked eye steaming from the reeds, and the screams of fear filled the surroundings.

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In the middle of midsummer, the Xia army abandoned the defense of the city and did the opposite. The purpose was not to defend the city but to annihilate it. That night Wei Mu Shanxi led his troops around and besieged Shen Yi'an's main force. After several days of fighting, it ended in a disastrous defeat. Gyeongju almost killed himself, except for a Jingsai army that rushed out of the encirclement, the left and right cavalry were wiped out, and it was the enemy commander who led the troops to encircle and wipe out the left wing. Ten cannons and bed crossbows were lost.

Xia's army took advantage of the victory and pursued them all the way. When they retreated to Weizhou, they suddenly ceased fighting.

"Listen to the soldiers of Song on the tower, the Marshal has something to say, let us wait for a truce today. In the past, Xiao Huaide beheaded the commander's eldest son, and today he returned the same amount. Back then, Xiao Huaide returned the whole body with courtesy, and today the commander does the same. "After speaking, several Xixia soldiers carried a coffin into the field of vision of the general guarding the city.

The sudden stop of the attack was due to constant disputes in the Xia army's camp, the governor Yeli's disagreement with him, and the edicts from the royal court were issued again and again.

"I'm afraid that the commander-in-chief will win this battle and squeeze your Yeli family out. Family affairs are important, and you don't know the priorities!" Wei Mudanxi glared fiercely at the warlord who was tied to a pillar and exposed to the sun.

"My aunt is the queen mother, and my brother's daughter is about to marry the king's prince. Wei Mu Shanxi, do you dare to kill me?"

"Poor father and brother, how did you come from such a famous name?" Wei Mu Shanxi's eyes never disappeared, he raised his waist knife and twitched the flesh on his face, hesitating again and again but still couldn't do it.

"This commander wants you to live to see that your daughter is only fit to be a concubine!" Wei Mu Shanxi threw down the waist knife in his hand, and ordered: "Lock this person up, and no one can do it except for meat and water." To approach and visit."

"Yes."

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"News, there is news from Xingqing that Yeli's eldest son married a daughter who has no family. In addition, Yeli also asked the Khan to marry his daughter to the prince by taking advantage of the princess's escape from marriage."

The Wuzang family is a wealthy family in Dangxiang Liangzhou, and now they are married to Ye Li in an attempt to fight against the Wei Mu family who holds military power. Wei Mu Shanxi slammed his fist on the sand table, "Call the princess over here."

As soon as the woman entered the curtain, Wei Mu Shanxi said in a muffled voice: "Go and pack your things now, I'll send someone to escort you back, I've finished the book and sent it to Neng Ti, everything in Xingqing has been taken care of."

"Why?" The woman who was still happy at first grieved instantly, "Ah Soo wants me to go back and get married?"

"There is no reason. Cousin marriage has always been the rule of our Dangxiang clan." Wei Mu Shanxi approached his daughter again, gently stroking the hair on her forehead and said in a soft voice, "Ah Soo is also forced to do so. One day you will understand of."

The woman raised her tearful eyes, "I hate Ah Sock!" She opened her father's hand and ran out of Mu Liang crying.

The confidant lieutenant at the side slowly approached, glanced at the tent opening and said, "Is Mo Ningling sending the Princess back because he is afraid that Khan will suspect you of supporting the army?"

Wei Mu Shanxi heaved a long sigh, "I'm leading the army out now, and the old Khan is suspicious by nature, if Ye Lishi becomes the prince's wife and unites with No Zang, then my Wei Mu family will really come to an end. "

"Report to the marshal, the princess... ran out on her horse alone." A soldier hurried into the room and said.

Wei Mu Shanxi raised his bushy eyebrows, "Hurry up and look for it, if you can't find it, come and see me."

"Yes."

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A fast horse rushed straight to the northeast corner of the old city of Tokyo. A huge bell rang from Kaibao Temple, and the imperial guards entered Genyue from Huayang Gate with a secret message.

The emperor sat in the gazebo beside the Genyue River Pond. The pond was full of lotus flowers, one of which was in full bloom in the center of the lotus pond, and two geese, one black and one white, were also playing in the pond.

The official prostitutes selected by the Jiaofang played the piano in the pavilion, and the breeze blew slowly away most of the heat. The emperor lay on his side on the mat and closed his eyes to listen to the music.

"What's your name?"

The official prostitute who was playing the piano stopped, got up and bowed to the emperor, "All blessings, Your Majesty, my family name is Tang."

The emperor suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the woman, "The surname Tang is rare in my dynasty, you..."

"The former censor Zhongcheng is the second father of the slave family."

Thousands of people were involved in the case of King Yan's rebellion. The Cui family and the Yao family headed by them were all killed by the nine clans, and King Cheng only left half his life. The female family members of the family were included as prostitutes for generations.

The emperor sat up with a cold face, and before he could speak, the imperial army of the imperial city department rushed in.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent military situation in the northwest."

The servant passed the report to the emperor and waved to the side after receiving the military report, "You all go down first."

Woman Fu left behind holding the piano, the emperor raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "Tell the person who sent you here, I kill people and never regret it!"

The emperor stood up and opened the seal, and within a moment, he clenched the front of his clothes and fell to the ground again.

"Officials!" Shocked Zhao Ci yelled, "Come quickly, go to Da Nei to announce the imperial physician."

Different from pretending to be unconscious in the main hall before, this time there were no ministers by his side, Zhao Ci knew that the emperor had really fainted from anger, the trembling hands clenched the letter paper and it fell from his hands as he fell to the ground.

Zhao Ci supported the emperor to lie flat and didn't dare to move any more. He bowed sideways and picked up the military newspaper on the ground, which was facing upside down. He folded it carefully but didn't dare to read it.