Chapter Seventy-Four: Stars in the Sky

Li Wen also encountered trouble in the Sixteen Princes' Mansion, he was going to go to the Tiger Garden today, and he didn't want to get up early to listen to the report of his subordinates: Li Jun, the king of Qi, was poisoned.

Li Jun is the eldest son of Tang Wuzong and was also born to Concubine Wang Shu.

Concubine Wang Shufei has a good relationship with Li Wen's concubine Guo Sanniang, and through her, Li Wen is entrusted to take care of her son.

When Li Wen heard the news, he sent someone to apologize to Li Xiao, who was waiting in the Tiger Garden, and then came to see Li Jun.

The Sixteen Princes' Mansion was very large, and it contained all the princes and their descendants who lived within the five suits of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

If the relationship is far away, according to Tang Law, it can only be regarded as the same clan, and you must move out and find a place to live by yourself.

Therefore, the prince will generally rule in Chang'an and pass it on to his descendants.

But this does not include those under house arrest.

Li Jun is such a person who has no freedom, and so is Li Han, the king of Yong.

When Li Wen came over, he didn't feel surprised to see that Li Han was also there.

This King Yong's house is next door, and he is a person who is not willing to be lonely, and he will appear if there is a little wind and grass in the neighborhood.

The people who live here are all princes and grandchildren, but they are similar to other lifang in Chang'an City, and they will not be called Lu when they meet each other, but they are only called by the rank (rank).

"Da Lang, why are you here too?" Li Han smiled and nodded in greeting.

He is the same generation as Li Wen, if he is serious, he is the eldest in this generation of the clan, and Li Wen is far behind.

But this man was very sleek, and he was commensurate with the rank of the emperor's sons.

Li Wen was speechless for a while, and he didn't know what to call this cousin, can't you call me Da Lang, and I will also call you Da Lang?

He didn't mention the title, and said casually: "Jun'er and I have been playing together since childhood, the best thing is it, what is the situation inside?" ”

"The medical officer just saw it, and said that the poisoning is not deep, there is no big problem, and now I just fell asleep, why don't we go in?"

Li Wen shook his head and said, "Since you are asleep, let's wait here." This matter still needs to be reported to the palace, and my father is asked to send someone to investigate it strictly! ”

"Yes, yes, that's nature. There have been too many people who have been poisoned during this period, first the second prince Li Xiao, and now Jun'er, I don't know who is responsible for it. ”

Li Jun is the cousin of Li Han and Li Wen, so they all call him by their first names.

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The news of Li Xiaohuyuan's distress soon spread throughout the palace, and the emperor sent someone to investigate, but the prisoner was nowhere to be found.

When the Empress Dowager Zheng heard about it, she summoned this grandson over and offered condolences.

After this incident, of course, Guo Hong couldn't get out, so he didn't go to Chengsanjiao to give a lecture, but this time the discussion lasted for three days, and he was not in a hurry.

He followed Liu Jieyu and Li Wei to the Daming Palace Jieqi Pavilion.

This is built by the Sui Dynasty after destroying the south of Chen, and the name is taken from the three pavilions of Taicheng, which was built by the queen Chen for his favorite concubine Zhang Lihua.

The imperial palace of the Southern Dynasty is called Taicheng, and Wei Zhuang has a poem: "Ruthless is the most Taicheng willow" is said to be there.

Jieqi Pavilion is also famous for Zhang Lihua in later generations.

The name of the Daming Palace's Qiqi Pavilion has been changed when Tang Xuanzong, Guo Hong saw the familiar plaque, which reads "Ayaqi Palace".

As for why some people still call it Yuki Pavilion? The Tang people love to use ancient names and feel that they are elegant.

It is on the top of a hill overlooking Taiye Pond to the north.

The edge of the pond is the Wangxiantai that Wuzong ordered to build.

Empress Dowager Zheng is sixty-five years old this year, but she is only in her early fifties, and she can still see the beauty of her youth.

She was twenty-four years old when she was chosen by Empress Dowager Guo as a maid, and then she was fortunate to be sent by Xianzong and gave birth to Tang Xuanzong at the age of twenty-six.

Liu Jieyu's mother and son were naturally appeased by the Empress Dowager Zheng, and the emperor also came over in the evening, and heard that Guo Hong had saved the second prince, so he gave him a scarlet robe, but his official quality was not promoted again.

Empress Dowager Zheng's voice was gentle, reassuring: "It's not good to rise too fast, it's easy to be hated, this is the emperor's love for you." ”

Guo Hong hurriedly thanked him.

He had been paying attention to it since he entered the Jie Qi Pavilion, and he didn't find anything special, so he had to keep the terrain firmly in mind.

When his adoptive father was in power, he never came, but he often went to Wangsendai at the foot of the mountain.

Here

It was the residence of the Empress Dowager Guo when she was young, and later the Empress Dowager moved to Xingqing Palace, which has been vacant.

The emperor ordered a family banquet to be held, and all the concubines and concubines were present, and a small eunuch like Guo Hong was not qualified to stay in the palace.

At this time, the lights are already on, the palace is brightly lit, the planning is staggered, and the singing and dancing are leveling.

Guo Hong stood outside the hall, looking up at the night sky, listening to the noisy sound in his ears, and the corners of his eyes gradually moistened.

Human emotions are determined by memories, and bits and pieces lead to rivers.

Those old memories are surging in my mind, even if they are reincarnated, but these memories are connected to emotions, and they cannot but be touched by them, blurring the boundaries between past and present lives.

He also accepted in his heart that there was such an adoptive father as Tang Wuzong, after all, it was a father-son relationship who was truly loved, and it was also the most precious emotion in the world.

Xinghan is splendid, which one are you, father?

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On the morning of the second day, Xingqing Palace passed through the Qiandian.

Guo Hong remembered a lot of past events, asked Liu Jieyu for leave, and went to visit Wang Shufei to get more clues.

"Mother, it seems that my father once told me about the Empress Dowager's hidden treasure, I looked at it in the Jieqi Pavilion and felt very rusty, could it be that the things are not there?"

Concubine Wang Shu was stunned for a moment and asked, "The first emperor said it?" But the treasure was buried by the Empress Dowager in the first year of Dazhong. ”

"No, you have all been deceived, the Queen Mother's treasure may be in the Jieqi Pavilion, but the Guo family's treasure is not, I think the Queen Mother's treasure should just be the key to open the treasure house. My father once said that the Guo Clan's treasure was actually the Li Clan's royal inventory. When Xianzong wanted to set up a second son, the empress dowager was a concubine, she conspired with the eunuchs at that time, secretly transferred part of the treasury out of Chang'an to buri, and later Wenzong Dynasty and his father fought with the eunuchs, and also buried two batches one after another, to Huichang four years is the last batch, the location is in the river, responsible for burying is a member of the father's love general, what is the specific name can not remember. ”

Wang Shufei said: "No wonder so many people can't find it, it turns out that they are all outside the palace." So what else do you remember? ”

Guo Hong shook his head slightly, he pondered for a moment and asked:

"Mother, I saw that there are many palaces nearby, and now they don't seem to be inhabited, but there are envoys on duty, what's going on?"

"There are a total of nine palaces around the Hall of Eternal Life, three on the east side and six on the west side, arranged in nine palaces. The concubines of the first emperor and the concubines of the previous dynasty lived here.

"We are in the northernmost part of the middle, which is the Qiandian, so it is called the Tongqian Palace.

"To the west is the Yi'an Palace, where the Empress Dowager Yi'an once lived, and she was the biological mother of Jingzong.

"The northernmost part of the east side of the Hall of Eternal Life is the Jiqing Palace, where my mother-in-law, Empress Xiao of Muzong, lives, she is called the Empress Dowager Jiqing, and she also died in the first year of Dazhong.

"For my mother to live in this Tongqian Palace, I thought that the emperor would let me be the Queen Mother of Tongqian, but I didn't expect him to learn from Taizong and admit me into the harem."

Guo Hong felt strange and asked, "Why Xue Taizong?" ”

Wang Shufei looked at his puzzled look and felt very cute, so she responded with a smile: "Taizong killed the fourth brother Yuanji, and accepted his Yang concubine, although he didn't kill the first emperor today, but he is also incompatible, and now that he has ascended the throne, he wants to take revenge and come back, and he is just looking for an excuse to learn Taizong." ”

She took a sip of tea and said, "Those concubines of the previous dynasty have passed away in the past two years, and the palace is empty. But the eunuchs did not find the Empress Dowager's relics, thinking that she had been handed over to one of us before she died, so they kept a close watch to prevent them from being smuggled out of the palace. ”

"Who killed the Empress Dowager?"

"On that day, the Empress Dowager boarded the diligent government building and wanted to jump off the building to commit suicide, although she was not happy today, she didn't say anything. You must know that the Empress Dowager has been his mother-in-law since Xianzong's death, and he has been a son for more than 20 years, even if he is no longer angry, he will not dare to kill his mother. ”

"That's Ma Yuanzhen, them?"

"Yes, it's their poisonous hands, these people were all favored by the Empress Dowager back then, but they were mad and forced to ask the whereabouts of Guo's treasure, and the Empress Dowager never let go, and finally Ma Yuanzhen was angry and ashamed, and used poison, and then ordered to repeatedly search the Palace of Eternal Life, and also dug three feet into the ground where Guo Jiajin Wuwei guarded and moved back then, and in the end he still got nothing."

It turns out that this is the Shence Army

The causes and consequences of the large-scale rebuilding of the palace in the palace.

Guo Hong looked at the east side and asked, "I want to go to the Hall of Eternal Life to see if there are any clues?" ”

"Mother will come with you."

"No need, I'll go play by myself for a while and I'll be back in the afternoon."

Concubine Wang Shu nodded, Guo Hong walked out of the Tongqian Palace, and walked along the outer wall of the Hall of Eternal Life to the side door, where the palace door was closed and very deserted.

When he looked left and right, and saw that there was no one, he rushed to the wall and jumped up, grabbed the branches that hung down from the wall to the branches, and used his hands and feet on the wall.

It's barren and grassy, and it hasn't been inhabited for more than a year.

Guo Hong slid down the root of the wall, parted the long grass, and soon found the main road.

Wang Shufei just said that the Shence Army turned this place upside down, and even if there were any clues, it should have been discovered a long time ago.

But Guo Hong still didn't give up, and if he didn't see it with his own eyes, he couldn't sleep well.

The Palace of Eternal Life is uncared for, it is already a little dilapidated, and since the Empress Dowager died, no one is qualified to live here.

The cracks in the stones outside the main hall were covered with moss and weeds, and Guo Hong felt as if he had stepped into a time and space from the past.

He looked around as he walked, but found nothing.

Squeak......

Guo Hong pushed open the door of the main hall, and the dust on it fell in a puff.

In the dark hall, long cobwebs hang from the pillars.

He walked in slowly, feeling a musty smell, and with the gloomy environment, it looked very bleak.

This is where Empress Dowager Guo lived, and it is also where Emperor Xuanzong lived.

The curtain had faded a little, Guo Hong walked to the huge seat in the hall, dusted off the dust, and sat down.

At this time, he faced the door, saw a string of his footprints on the ground, and suddenly stared.

In the middle of the floor of the main hall, a lovesick tree is carved, entangled with each other, with lush branches and leaves, and a pair of winged birds flying on it

The winged bird, also known as the Bird, is from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". This bird has only one eye and one wing, and the male and female must have wings together to fly, and they are the same body.

"On the seventh day of the seventh month, in the Hall of Eternal Life, in the middle of the night, no one whispered. In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and on earth I wish to be a branch. ”

I see, he somewhat understood.

The Empress Dowager's voice and appearance appeared in front of her, and she sat opposite him.

"My favorite Erlang, are you okay?"

"Grandmother!"

"Child, you are finally here, my Guo family has been loyal and good for generations, I didn't expect to end up like this, my grandfather will definitely blame me in the spirit of the sky!"

She got up and walked outside.

Guo Hong stretched out his hand to grab the shadow, but he was empty.

The moonlight shone brightly on the ground, and the hatred was unforgettable, and he no longer dwelled on his identity as a traverser, ready to avenge the father and grandmother of this body, otherwise he would have nightmares for the rest of his life!

A plan was brewing in his heart, and a low roar came from the empty hall:

"Ma Yuanzhen, I want you to die!"

Ps：

Historical figure: Empress Dowager Zheng.

The Huichang Hall is in the south of the Forbidden Garden, and the book was changed to the Tiger Garden due to needs.

According to the "Chronology of Tang Generals", Ma Yuanzhen served as a lieutenant of the left army after Qiu Shiliang in the third year of Huichang, and the lieutenant of the right army after the death of Yu Hongzhi in the third year of Huichang was Ximen Ji Xuan, and in the first year of Dazhong, he was replaced by Tutu Shiye, and the enemy party always controlled the military power!

There is no doubt that Wu Zong died in the collective murder of all the eunuchs, because the subsequent succession to the throne turned out to be his uncle, and the liquidation of the Li Dang, Mu Zong's family and the Guo family was all in the same vein, indicating that the conflict between the two sides had reached a fever pitch at that time, and it was completely a life-and-death explosion. In the case of the general decisive battle between the two sides, how could Wu Zong have died by taking medicine by himself?

It is likely that Ximen Jixuan was a neutral faction, or he was not deeply involved in this struggle, so at the beginning of the middle school, he stood aside like Liu Xingshen, and did not come back until the end of the middle school and the Xiantong period of Tang Yizong.

Empress Dowager Guo's arrangement in the forbidden palace may have begun after Mu Zong came to power, so this article sets the age of Guo Jingshu's adoptive father at about fifty years old, which is the age of Mu Zong's earliest group of chamberlains.