Chapter Forty-Eight: Flowers and Birds Raise People's Grievances
For several months, Li Longji couldn't sleep at night and didn't know what to eat.
Although there is a pear orchard, Li Longji's depressed mood has been soothed, but the sleeplessness at night is not something that the pear orchard can relieve.
This harem is not without beauties, on the contrary, there are many concubines of all kinds.
It's just that Li Longji was served by Yang Jieyu shamelessly before, which allowed Li Longji to enjoy unprecedented pleasure.
Now that he lost the person next to him, Li Longji's loneliness can be imagined.
As a merry man, but there was no intimate concubine beside him, Li Longji was really uncomfortable, and deep in his heart, he even moved the idea of going to Yang Jieyu many times.
It's just that Yang Jieyu's style is too debauched and her behavior is too vicious.
Even Li Longji, who has no concept of chastity in his heart, feels panicked rationally.
Faced with Li Longji's situation, Colliers also felt heartache.
He served Li Longji day and night, and found that Li Longji's face was a little strange recently, and he was really worried in his heart, so he couldn't help but suggest: "Your Majesty, I have a population of tens of thousands in the Tang Dynasty, and I can't find a virtuous lady who can match Your Majesty's heart?" It is better to hand over this matter to the old slave, and the old slave asked his subordinates to be responsible for the selection of goods, looking for show girls everywhere to relieve His Majesty's worries. ”
Li Longji's eyes lit up, and he pointed his finger and said: "General Gao still understands me, in this way, I will set up an official position as a flower and bird envoy, scatter the world, and choose a show girl for the imperial court......" He paused, feeling that this was too direct, and it would damage his prestige, his eyes rolled, and he said: "Let's just say that I am choosing a concubine for the prince and the kings, and let the people of the world cooperate." There is no need to be too loud about this matter, it will have a bad impact on the imperial court. ”
Colliers naturally understood, and bowed down.
Gao Lishi personally arranged for his eunuchs to be envoys of flowers and birds, scattering all over the world, looking for beauties for Li Longji and enriching the harem.
Li Longji himself did not mean to harm the world, but only considered himself as the lord of the world, and felt that finding a caring concubine for himself was a holy grace and kindness, and the people of the world should cooperate with him as a subject.
But he completely ignored the weight of his words, the king of the world.
As an emperor, his every move will be speculated by the world.
Why did Wang Ji become a popular spicy chicken?
Talented and knowledgeable?
Wang Ji has real talent and real learning, but it is far from enough to make Li Longji feel confident about it.
From the moment when Wang Ji presented Yang Jieyu to Li Longji, it was the time for Wang Ji to really rise.
Whoever presents Li Longji with a beautiful taste for him will become the second king.
Although Wang Ji is a lesson from the past, in the face of interests and a rich future, people who dare to take risks abound.
Li Longji's original intention was quickly misinterpreted.
The flower and bird envoy carried the edict written by the emperor himself, ran rampant, without scruples, and went in and out of the house at will, and the female dependents of the family could not avoid it, making a fuss about life and death, shouting to the heavens and the earth.
Not only those Yunying unmarried sons of good families, but even beautiful ladies with husbands and children are also among the choices.
The flower and bird envoys forcibly took the good-looking women and separated them from their husbands and children.
Through this way, only one out of ten women selected into the palace can be Li Longji's turn, and the rest are just maids in the palace.
This kind of selection is tantamount to a disaster for the people of the world, and this disaster may come at any time, because there is no specified time for the selection of flowers and birds, they may appear at any time, and the woman who sees it will not let go.
I don't know that some people suffered, and the official eunuchs suffered the same calamity.
However, compared with the helpless people, the official eunuchs have a certain ability to resist, and Guo Quan was driven out because he chose the daughter-in-law of Taichang Shaoqing Lu Chongdao and intended to choose her into the palace.
Guo Quan's original intention was to ask for money to eliminate the disaster, but Lu Chongdao was angry, so he didn't give Guo Quan the eunuch money.
Guo Quan was so angry that he sued Li Longji directly.
Guo Quan naturally won't say how arrogant he is.
just said aggrievedly how uncooperative the Lu family's father and son were.
"Your Majesty, the father and son of the Lu family are really too deceitful. The little one interceded with them, saying that the girl entered the palace to serve His Majesty, which was a great favor and a blessing for the Lu family. Where did I think that the Lu family's father and son didn't care at all, and said, 'This kind of ridiculous blessing, our Lu family can't afford it.' I, Lu Chongdao, will never be cheeky to climb this family', he said and drove the little one out of the mansion. ”
Li Longji employs nepotism, so he naturally believes in the cronies and eunuchs beside him, and in anger, he makes another holy decree.
"If the government and the people hide their daughters, they should not be elected, and they will be sentenced to death."
As soon as this holy decree was made, one by one the flower and bird envoys held the sword of Shang Fang and controlled the power of life and death.
In order to vent his anger, Guo Quan beat Lu Chongdao's father and son to death, and forcibly snatched the Lu family's daughter-in-law into the palace.
Luoyang Rushui!
Zu Yong's eyes were red, he spilled the glass of wine in his hand into the water, and angrily threw it to the ground.
Reflexively walked into the dock, took a pen and paper, and wrote hard:
The husband is promiscuous, and the whole country asks for concubines.
claims to be the king's favor, and there is no beauty in the generations.
Biluo is like a heavenly pavilion, sitting on the chariot and taking the spring.
Thousands of palace maids ride, often traveling to the riverfront.
The old face is old, and the makeup is new.
Wiping away tears from the Golden Palace, Jiaoduo does not care about herself.
Jealousy sings and dances in life, and dust after death.
A poem that expresses the unhappiness in my heart.
On the surface, this poem says that in the past, Wu Wangfu was poor and unreasonable, and thousands of palace maids in the palace lived miserably.
The intention is obvious.
Obviously, it is a metaphor for Li Longji's behavior of robbing a woman to enter the palace with Wu Wangfu's errand, and he expresses his indignation in his heart with poetry.
Zu Yong was the champion of the twelfth year of Kaiyuan, Jinshi and first, because he had to say that he was heavy, and served in the court.
After Zhang Shuo's downfall, Zu Yong was also liquidated, and in frustration, he moved to the banks of the Rushui River to make a living by fishing.
When he was in Chang'an, Zu Yong and Lu Chongdao intersected.
Recently, Zu Yong heard what the flower and bird envoy did, thinking that he was indignant, and learned that his friend had died because of this, and in a fit of anger, he directly wrote a poem mocking Li Longji.
The complaints of the people, the sarcasm of Shilin.
Li Longji has no intention of stirring up turmoil in the world, but the emperor is like this, often a decision can stir up turmoil in the world.
And because most people in the temple report good news and not bad news, even if Li Longji is so wrong, not many people dare to stand up and tell the truth.
Because the flower and bird envoys are all eunuchs, and the head of the eunuchs is Gao Lishi.
In the Tang Dynasty, even the prince had to respectfully call Gao Lishi "Gao Weng" when he saw Gao Lishi, who dared to argue with Gao Lishi?
Gao Lishi is not a traitor, but for the sake of Li Longji, he did the things of a minister.
Li Longji also had no intention of stirring up turmoil in the world, and there was no doubt that because of his own selfish interests and desires, the people in the world were boiling and the people were complaining bitterly.
A few women who are quite attractive, in order not to enter the palace, even disfigured themselves.