Chapter 12 The Historical Status of the Night Banquet in the Qinghe Palace
Many years later, whenever Taishi Ling Changman looked at the "Emperor's Living Note" stacked on the desk, he could always think of the night when the moon was like a hook in the spring of the seventeenth year of Yanqing.
Later, the courtiers reacted that the night banquet in Qinghe Palace was actually a trap for some courtiers by the Holy Lord and the Marquis of Dingyuan.
The so-called draft is just a fictitious one, because someone heard the wind and moved, so he bribed Dingyuan Hou, who did not refuse on the surface, but secretly wrote it down, and handed it to the saint in an expedited manner of 800 miles on the same day. The saint was worried that he had no chance to rectify the corrupt officials, so he set up a bureau with the Marquis of Dingyuan.
The officials who fell into this chess game are far more than more than 30 people in the account books, in addition to the selection of concubines and bribes, there are not a few people who sell official beards, there is a local county magistrate in Jiangnan who has embezzled 10 million taels in office for two years, it is said that the beds in the house are made of golden gold, and the people who raid the house are blinded, and it took three days to sort out the corrupt gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin.
The saint was furious, determined to cut off these rotten flesh in the court, but he didn't want to cut it more and more, and the court and even the harem were involved in countless of them, and the earthquake in the court lasted for three months, and at the end of the hundred officials were replaced by more than half.
Although there were corruption after that, but it was also very rare, as the historical position of the Qinghe Palace Night Banquet that caused the earthquake cannot be underestimated, it marked that Jing Lang entered a rare era of incorruptibility, and also brought the light of the light to many poor students in the dark.
And this night banquet has also become a nightmare for the princes of all dynasties - every time the princes mentioned the imperial power, they always had to take out this past and study it repeatedly, and they would ask the prince to write a 3,000 to 5,000-word national policy theory, and the views should be different, if there are similarities, then rewrite.
The crown prince of Emperor Yanqing was undoubtedly the luckiest, and with the change of the throne, the later princes became more and more painful, because many views were written by their predecessors, and they had no way to write when it was their turn.
One time the crown prince took a different approach, arguing why the Holy One invited his female dependents together, and some people said that it was very unorthodox for the Holy One to do so, but he thought that this was precisely the wisdom of the Holy One.
In the male protagonist and the female protagonist of the Jing Kingdom, a woman decides the future of a family, and the woman teaches her husband and children, if the woman misbehaves, then the three generations of the family will be ruined. Especially for men who are officials in the court, their wives must be more strict with themselves, and the holy generals invite the families of the courtiers to the Qinghe Palace, which is to let them personally experience the difficulties of the men in the court, so that they can go home and reflect on themselves, do not cause trouble in their lives, and play the role of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.
In fact, he thought about it a lot, and the original intention of the saint was only two points, one was to let the queen mother stop choosing a concubine for him, and the other was to let the ministers stop stuffing their daughters into the palace, so that he could be quietly intoxicated with government and politics, and be an emotionless governing machine.
Whether they understood the meaning of the saint or not is unknown, but since then, the queen mother said that she was old and stayed up all night and her vitality was greatly damaged, so she concentrated on worshipping the Buddha and never mentioned the matter of letting the saint take a concubine, until the saint died, and no concubine entered the middle palace. As for the courtiers, during that period of time, they seemed to have found the meaning of life and the joy of life - the arrest of corrupt officials and the impeachment of Dingyuan Marquis Youyi.
It is said that when the feast was dismissed that day, the east had already revealed the white of the fish's skin, and the Holy Lord had been merciful to stop the day, but the adults said that they were in good spirits and could fight again.
So the monarchs and ministers were happy to move from the Qinghe Hall to the Fengtian Palace.
The early dynasty of that day was really wonderful, the courtiers were divided into three factions, one faction thought that the Marquis of Dingyuan deceived the monarch, took his daughter who was born with a strange illness to the banquet, and tried to harm the saint, it was simply a waste of the saint's grace to the You family for many years, in addition, he taught his daughter no way, and his daughter was lawless, openly colliding with the saint and the virtuous concubine Niangniang, and also lost his honor after drinking, and spit filth, it is not an exaggeration to destroy the nine clans.
The other faction believes that in order to cooperate well with the saint, the Marquis of Dingyuan did not hesitate to use the seriously ill concubine as bait, and even brought it to the imperial capital thousands of miles away, which also led to the aggravation of the disease.
The third faction is led by the saint to watch the excitement, of course, there are also the adults who were not able to participate in the banquet of the Qinghe Palace, they expressed their envy of the above two factions, and implored the saint If there is such a grand event in the future, you must remember to call them, otherwise the court and colleagues have no topic, it seems that they are a little outdated, making them feel very inferior.
No one knows whether the saint will hold such a party, but it is certain that the ladies and ladies who attended the night banquet of the Seihe Hall will no longer want the saint to hold such a party, most of them are quite frightened, and they are also very tired, after all, there has never been a banquet from twilight to dawn, they came home hungry and slept for a day and a night, and after getting up, they feasted to celebrate that they were still alive.
It can be seen that these ladies and ladies are usually too lacking in exercise, the adults in the court are still in good spirits after arguing for a day and a night, and an official in the Ministry of Rites still feels that he is not happy after going down to the court, and he wrote more than 10,000 words of impeachment of the Marquis of Dingyuan, focusing on the portrayal of the section of the husband in front of the palace of the Marquis of Dingyuan at the night banquet of the Qinghe Palace.
However, due to the number of words, the saint scolded him fiercely before reading it, and the content of the twist and turn spread to the people, and since then You Zimo, the daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, has become a nightmare for the emperors, many children are disobedient, and his mother said, "Sell you to You Zimo", and he was so frightened that he obeyed.
In such a situation where everyone is punished, the Dingyuan Hou family is like a flat boat on the Miao Miao River, which can capsize if you are not careful.
I didn't know any of this, and I began to fall into a coma from that day, with a high fever that would not go away, and my life was hanging by a thread.
I only felt that I was in the Qinghe Palace, there was no figure, but the sound of ridicule and abuse was endless.
I didn't panic at all, I didn't hurry, and even walked out of the Qinghe Hall with a smile and walked into the mist.
I don't know how long I walked, and there was an open door in front of me, and the door was engraved with a hundred birds and a phoenix, and I seemed to have seen it somewhere, so I went straight in.
The room was simple and ornately furnished, filled with a faint scent of medicine, the sunlight poured into the room through the hollowed out carved windows, and sprinkled a little bit of crumble on the ground, and across the window was a large pear wood bed, and a man was talking with a woman in his arms, who seemed to be very sick and about to die.
I suddenly remembered that this was the General's Mansion ten years ago, when I was still young and liked to play hide and seek with my third brother, and once hid in my father's and mother's bedroom.
The man with a sad expression was his father, and the woman who was dying was her mother.
She was so beautiful, her delicate face was not powdered, her cherry-like lips, her small nose, and a pair of bright eyes that were enough to make people fall in, Rao was sick for many years and did not reduce her brilliance by half a point, but she was full of delicate beauty, the bright sunlight outside the window reflected her like a fairy, and her body exuded a faint light, she lay lazily in her father's arms, like a little fox squinting her eyes, as if she was about to fall asleep.
Her voice was as clear and ethereal as the spring water in the Lotus Mountain, and she said, "Don't cry, You Yi. ”
I couldn't see Daddy's expression, but he nodded, but his shoulders kept moving.
"You Yi, the children will be handed over to you in the future." As if she remembered something, she laughed, and the smile was so pure and moving that I felt like a flower blooming all around me.
"You see how much Ah Qian and Ah Mo look like me, you will see them in the future, just like I am still alive in the world, okay?" She smiled regretfully, "It's a pity that I can't watch them get married, there will always be such and such regrets in this world." ”
"There is no room for you in this capital, but wherever you go, take our children with you," she said softly, "and you take them with you, and they will survive." ”
She smiled and laughed, tears flowed down, and her voice choked: "I don't want to leave, but ...... It's too hard to live. ”
"Rao is so difficult, you have to live." She seemed to be facing her father, but she was also looking at me, "Do you hear me, you have to live." ”
I just felt so sad that the sorrow was suppressed in my chest, and it was about to burst my heart, and suddenly my eyes opened.
What caught my eye was Chu Yuyuan's big bed with pear blossoms, and the sister-in-law who was leaning on the side of the bed and dozing off.
Shallow Rou was the first to notice me, and she cried with joy: "Miss, you can be considered awake!" ”