Because the leather goods brought have not yet been sold, Zhang Tianai's original intention was to leave Lao Hu and leave half of the people for him. But this decision was vetoed by Li Mu, and the road to the west was not smooth, and it was the middle of winter, the time of the year, when the food was the least. This year, the Turks were exterminated, and the tribes were badly damaged, and I don't know how many Turks will starve to death this winter.

People are going to starve to death, and they can do anything desperate. For the sake of Zhang Tianai's safety, he should still bring more people in case of accidents. As for these leather goods, they are very easy to do, and the opposite door is Wang Ou's shop, which is made of fur, and they are all pulled over directly, and Wang Ou is also simply and directly gave cash. More than 10,000 yuan is just a drop in the bucket for her.

This means that Zhang Tianai doesn't want to do business with Wang Ou, if he didn't make trouble, this little leather goods would have been sold a long time ago.

Returning home at noon, Li Mu took Dugu Jiu and Li Chongyi to clean up the studio and warehouse, and asked his subordinates to clean up the courtyard inside and outside, and then left the mansion where he had lived for half a year with the plaque of "Zhuluhou Mansion" inscribed by Li Shimin. Since it was a temporary residence in Fengqiuhuang, it was not an official move, and the store could not be regarded as a mansion after all, Li Mu did not plan to do any housewarming, and no one notified him.

After placing the things, Li Mu ate something casually. Seeing that there were still two hours before the door closed, he took some candied pastries, things that children like to eat, and let Li Chongyi drive the carriage to the imperial city.

Changle Gate is the east gate of Miyagi, next to the East Palace. If Li Mu wants to get to this place, there are two ways to go. The first way is to enter from the main gate of Miyagi, bypass the Taiji Hall and the East Palace, and arrive at Changle Gate. Then you will enter the door from the East Palace, which will be much closer. It's just that he doesn't want to provoke Li Chengqian, a bear child, this kid is about to go crazy when he plays military chess recently, if he sees it, he doesn't want to do anything, he has to be pulled by him to lower the military flag.

Therefore, Li Mu would rather take a little more detour and end up worry-free.

As soon as Li Mu entered the palace, Li Shimin got the news. He knew that Li Mu was going to do if he didn't come to visit, so he just smiled, and then cast his eyes on the "Western Regions Countries Kanyu Map" on the table.

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The harem, in the TV series of Li Mu's previous life, was portrayed as a place of intrigue and intrigue. In fact, this is indeed the case. The harem of the Tang Dynasty, although it is not as filthy as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there is no shortage of intrigue behind the scenes.

This also includes a particularly strict hierarchy.

Everything in the harem is up to the queen. Even the emperor can't do what he wants. If the concubine offends the emperor, at most she will be assigned 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 the queen to do anything, the concubines, female officials, eunuchs, palace maids, etc. below her will give color to this guy who has no eyesight. Wordless cold violence is the most hurtful, and it won't be long before you go to find death by yourself, which is the so-called, killing people without seeing blood.

The harem is also of high grade, and it is no different from the imperial court. The empress is analogous to the emperor and dominates everything. Under the queen, there are "four ladies", noble, ladylike, virtuous, virtuous, and ranked. Under the four ladies, there are nine concubines, Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiuyi, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, and the second rank. Under the nine concubines, there are also Jieyu (rank three products), beauty (rank four products), and talented people (rank five products) each of the twenty-seventh women.

These are not enough, the so-called three thousand beauties in the harem are by no means a joke. Under the world's women, there are 27 people each of Baolin (rank 6 products), royal maids (rank 7 products), and Cai Nu (rank 8 products), called 81 royal wives.

These people, plus the female officials and palace maids who serve them, 3,000 people are still too little.

According to the harem system, these famous concubines have at least one chance to sleep with the emperor. This is their power, and the emperor cannot disobey it. If they are lucky enough to conceive the dragon seed, the children they give birth to are also princes.

However, there is a world of difference between the prince and the prince.

The son of the queen is called a concubine. Under normal circumstances, only the prince who is born has the opportunity to compete for the throne. Just like Li Shimin's generation, there are dozens of sons of Li Yuan, why on the stage of fighting for the throne, there are only Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji, the three princes born to Queen Dou, and the other princes are so indifferent and don't care about the throne?

Not really, because they don't have a chance. Even if they had a one-in-a-million chance of stealing the throne, they would not be able to sit still. Because they are concubines, they are not qualified.

This is a very unfair thing for these unqualified concubines. But that's the rule, you can be unconvinced, you can be hysterical, but the result has to be accepted.

Leave it alone for the time being. Between the concubines, there are also high and low.

For example, the children of the "Four Ladies", rewards, fiefs, etc., are better than the children of the Nine Concubines. And so on, the treatment will never be the same. Waiting for the children of the last "royal wife", not to mention the king, it is the marquis, it all depends on the ability of this prince. In the palace, the status of the royal wife is even inferior to that of a female official, let alone a great eunuch like Father-in-law Gao. Basically, unless you are particularly beautiful and you will inevitably be able to impress the emperor on that lucky night in your life, this life is the fate of the old death palace.

They are not as good as palace maids, palace maids can also apply to marry out of the palace when they reach the age of marriage, and women who have been fortunate by the emperor have only three ends, either die of old age in the palace, or are fortunate enough to give birth to a son and a half daughter, relying on the protection of their children, and pension in the children's mansion in their later years. The most desolate are those who have no children and no daughters, and they will be buried after the death of the emperor, and the end is extremely miserable.

Now Li Shimin's "four ladies" are Wei Guifei, Yang Shufei, Yin Defei, and Zheng Xianfei.

Among them, Concubine Yin De is a very special existence. What makes her special is not that she is a person.

What makes him special is her family background. Concubine Yinde's father is called Yin Shishi, Emperor Yang was the Taishou of Zhangye, and he was deeply feared by Rong Di, and when the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he stayed in Chang'an after being responsible. During Li Yuan's attack on Chang'an, Yin Shishi killed Li Yuan's relatives, even including one of Li Shimin's younger brothers, which was even more outrageous, he dug up the ancestral graves of the Li family, and after the city was broken, Li Yuan of course wanted to take revenge, not only killing him and the staff Gu Yi who gave him this idea, but also killing their three clans. But he didn't do it completely, leaving him a son and a *** Hongzhi and his sister Yin Yue'e.

Li Yuan rewarded Yin Yue'e to Li Shimin, the second son who had the greatest contribution to this war, and later Li Shimin ascended the throne, and she became the current Yin De Concubine.

The hatred between the Yin family and the Li family is not an exaggeration to call it a common day. The Yin Master dug up Li Yuan's ancestral grave, and Li Yuan sent almost everyone in the Yin family to the ancestor to make amends.

Such a combination is very dangerous. Yin Hongzhi persuaded his sister countless times to kill Li Shimin while he was asleep, and avenged the hundreds of members of the Yin family. But since Concubine Yin De can be sealed with the word 'de', it means that she is a very gentle person. In addition, she and Li Shimin are husband and wife, and they really can't do this. Later, she was left with her son Li You, which was even more impossible. Yin Hongzhi resents his sister because of this, and he will not visit the palace once a year, and his sister and brother are very estranged.

Speaking of Yin Hongzhi, in his early years, because his father was the 'number one' in charge of guarding Chang'an City in the former Sui, he could be said to be the No. 1 gentleman in Chang'an, but after the door was connected, his temperament changed greatly. The habits of the young master were swept away, and he became a person who was full of hatred and regarded revenge as his life's work.

For him, there are only two things to live, succession and revenge. For this reason, he married many women, rumored to be dozens, and after these women gave birth to children, he would give a sum of money to let the two go as far as possible. Because he knew that once one day, he had the opportunity to kill Li Yuan and live Li Shimin, he would definitely die. The incident of the three clans of Zhulian back then will definitely be repeated. And he hides his heirs among the people, even if some are found, there will always be a fish that slips through the net, and the bloodline of the Yin family can continue.

The creation of man is in full swing. But there was no progress at all in the matter of revenge.

Whether it is Li Yuan or Li Shimin, he has never taken him seriously at all. He was left behind for the sake of humiliation. When the humiliation passes, it is forgotten. For a king, the life of an ant, life or death, is a matter of indifference.

Avenge?

It's ridiculous!

This sense of powerlessness, as he gets older, Yin Hongzhi gradually understands. But he didn't give up, and he kept it buried in his heart. Later, one year during the Chinese New Year, Yin Hongzhi routinely entered the palace to greet his sister and saw his five-year-old nephew Li You.

A bold idea came to his mind.

Since I have no hope of revenge in this life, then I will change the method. Li Shimin, you created your father's rebellion and became the emperor. I'm going to let you taste it, too.

From that day on, Yin Hongzhi changed his confrontation with his sister. The number of times he entered the palace increased day by day, and under his music, he quickly won the favor of his nephew Li You. At the beginning of the year, Li You turned ten years old. According to the usual practice, Li Shimin asked Li You to open a mansion outside the palace, and changed him from the king of Chu to the king of Yan, and added the governor of Youzhou. Yin Hongzhi recommended himself and became the long history of the palace.

Concubine Yin De's original intention was that it was better to have this younger brother to discipline her son than outsiders. And Yin Hongzhi has been disguised too well in recent years, making her think that this younger brother has forgotten about revenge.

But it's not that simple.