The Tang Dynasty, the imperial capital, the Chang'an Imperial Palace, the five watches.

There is an old Chinese saying that it is called getting up and sleeping in the middle of the night, which is used to describe people's hardships and hardships, but few people know what the fifth watch is.

In ancient times, there was no clock timekeeping, and the ancients divided the night into five periods, each of which was marked by a watch, and the five watches were about equal to about 4:48 in the morning in later generations.

The ancients were very tired, and the fifth watch was regarded as the beginning of a new day, when they had to get up and start working, even if they were emperors.

On the fifth watch, it was actually still a dark night.

However, Li Shimin has woken up, and at this time he is being served by someone to get dressed, and the one who is serving the emperor is a concubine, and the title in the harem has been changed to a concubine.

While helping Li Shimin freshen up, she began to sigh softly and weakly, and suddenly cried and cried, and said pitifully: "Your Majesty, the concubine has only one son." ”

Li Shimin was slightly stunned, and said with a little puzzlement: "What do you mean by this, why are you crying?" ”

Concubine Yin suddenly knelt on the ground, wiped her eyes and tears, and said: "The concubine has only one son, and she was barely made a prince by you, but You'er's fief is so bad that it can't be compared with his brothers." ”

Li Shimin frowned, and said with a little displeasure: "Li Younai is my fifth son, I specially named him the king of Chu, Chu is a place of continuous mountains and rivers, since ancient times, there are many literati and ink nostalgics, this is obviously a good place, how can the fief be worse than others?" ”

Concubine Yin sobbed and said: "The mountains and rivers are beautiful to say, in fact, it is a poor and remote place, literati and ink writers like to drill the mountains and forests the most, the so-called lingering and forgetting to return are all fools, they are obviously lost, and they can't get out of the mountains and forests." ”

Li Shimin was amused by these words, and the emperor couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's the first time I've heard this kind of statement. ”

As he spoke, he pulled Concubine Yin up from the ground and urged: "Hurry up and help me get dressed and get dressed, and I'll talk about the fiefdom later, if you really don't like Chu Di, I can help Li You change a place to go." ”

Concubine Yin still didn't give up, and suddenly hugged the emperor's arm and said: "Then you first promise the concubine to change You'er to the king of Yan, Yandi is closer to Chang'an, and it will be convenient for the child to go back to Chang'an to visit the concubine in the future." Then he changed the Metropolitan Governor of Chu Land that he led remotely, and changed it to the Metropolitan Governor of Youyan Land who led him remotely......"

The Land of the Swallow?

The Governor of the Distant Collar?

Where is the Land of the Swallows? Hebei Province of the Tang Dynasty.

What does it mean to be a remote governor? just wants Li Yun's current official position.

As soon as Concubine Yin finished speaking, Li Shimin's face suddenly became gloomy.

The emperor stared at Concubine Yin and asked coldly, "Is this Li You's idea, or is it the idea of his teacher Quan Wanji?" ”

Concubine Yin hurriedly lowered her head, her eyes dodged: "You'er is still young, he doesn't have his own ideas, Quan Wanji is a rotten Confucian, except for reading, there is no use, these are the concubine's own ideas, the concubine is a mother, I don't want to treat the child badly." ”

"You don't want to treat the child badly, but you want to treat King Zhao badly?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly, his tiger eyes flashed a trace of gloom, and said: "Two years ago, no one in Hebei Province wanted it, they were all disgusted with poverty, and they were all disgusted with the people's lack of livelihood, and now you see that Hebei has a Fanyang City, and you see that the people's livelihood is gradually restoring order, you want to jump out and pick fruits, and you want to grab the benefits into your own hands, but have you ever thought about who has worked hard to develop Hebei Province......

Concubine Yin's eyes dodged: "After all, King Zhao is your son and nephew, and You'er is your child. ”

Saying that, seeing that the emperor was going to be angry, he hurriedly pretended to be pitiful and said: "Although King Zhao has some hard work in Hebei, but now Hebei is no longer hard, the concubine has heard that Hebei has opened up a total of 500,000 mu of wasteland in the past two years, and it will continue to open up wasteland, and it may open up 500,000 mu this year......

"Fart!"

Li Shimin, a dignified emperor, suddenly cursed a foul word from his mouth.

The emperor's chest continued to rise and fall, obviously not lightly angered by the concubine, and said angrily: "Yao Ling, Yao Ling, Yao Ling has a fart?" Sitting at home and leading Hebei Province far away, can the people have enough food and clothing? ”

The more the emperor spoke, the more angry he became, grabbed his dragon robe and walked out, he didn't even want to stay here to freshen up, and directly left the Yin Concubine to hang in place.

Even so, the emperor's angry voice still came from outside the door, roaring as he walked: "You only see 500,000 acres of land in Hebei, but who of you knows how much King Zhao has paid, he personally bent down to plough the fields, no matter how much he eats and lives with the people, under the scorching sun of dog days, his back is all peeled, in order to dig irrigation ditches, he stands barefoot in the water in winter......"

Concubine Yin was still unwilling, chased to the door and cried, and kept saying: "Your Majesty, the concubine is a mother, and the concubine doesn't want to treat her children badly." ”

"Fart!"

Li Shimin's roar came from afar, and he angrily reprimanded: "You are a mother yourself, and you don't want to treat your children badly, but have you ever thought that King Zhao is also a child, and his mother is still the high priestess of the steppe saintess, who is a Turkic leader who can sit on an equal footing with me, what are you, can you learn from other people's mothers." Li You's resealing, you are not allowed to mention it again......"

The Emperor rushed away in a rage.

Concubine Yin stood at the door, her eyes fierce.

At this moment, this woman still looks a little crying.

Yin Concubine!

Yin Concubine!

The title doesn't sound good, and this girl is really not a good person.

Concubine Yin's father is called Yin Shishi, who was an important minister of the Great Sui back then, and his official position was left behind in Chang'an, and he was once Li Yuan's rival, but because the two were of equal strength, no one could defeat anyone after fighting for many years.

In the thirteenth year of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan raised troops against the Sui in Taiyuan, this time the Yin Shishi finally seized the opportunity, this goods directly dealt with Li Yuan in the way of the chaotic ministers and thieves, first dug the ancestral grave of the Li family, and exposed the coffin of the Li family, when Li Yuan had a young son Li Zhiyun fell into the hands of the Yin Shishi, who was only 14 years old and was directly played with a five-horse corpse, the little boy died miserably, and his head was directly made into a wine lord by the Yin Shishi.

With such a deep hatred, how could Li Yuan give up, and later Li Yuan entered Chang'an with his troops, and the first thing he did was to light the sky lantern for the whole family of the Yin Shishi.

There are more than 100 mouths up and down the door, only the young son of the Yin Shishi was spared death in swaddling clothes, the Yin Concubine was only fifteen years old at the time, and according to the rules, she should also light the sky lantern to die, this woman is also scheming, she is not afraid under the sword soldiers, she deliberately recited a long poem of resentment, which attracted the attention of Li Shimin, who was still the king of Qin at that time.

Women can compose poetry, this is a talented woman.

In the face of the sword soldiers, the face does not change, this is the taste of women who do not let their eyebrows go.

Coupled with the delicate and weak, it can arouse men's desire to protect.

Li Shimin was a young man with strong blood at that time, and he was immediately attracted by this woman.

Li Shimin came forward to persuade Li Yuan, this woman can naturally save her life without worry, at that time she was a beautiful girl, relying on her beauty and began to feel pitiful, this girl said that Li Shimin saved her life, but she is the living benefactor of the world, not seeking to repay the grass in the next life, and is willing to take her body as a thank you in this life.

Well, the ancients attached great importance to this, and almost all the important ministers of the Tang Dynasty thought that Concubine Yin was good, and strongly persuaded Li Yuan to give Concubine Yin to King Qin as his wife.

So, he got married.

The Yin family and the Li family obviously have a blood feud, but Li Shimin married a woman from the Yin family, but this woman's kung fu in bed is very good, and it didn't take long to give birth to a son to the Li family.

If it was someone else, maybe she should have been satisfied, but Concubine Yin is not an easy person to satisfy, or her son is not an easy person to be satisfied.

Today, she took advantage of serving the emperor, Chu Chu pitifully wanted Hebei Province, but unfortunately she didn't expect Li Shimin to be so angry, and she didn't even freshen up in her bedroom.

Concubine Yin stood at the door and gritted her teeth, suddenly turned around and returned to her bedroom, she quickly called a palace maid, and whispered: "Find a way to spread a message out of the palace, let the king of Chu and his uncle come to visit the palace, that is, the palace has been feeling cold recently, let them take the opportunity to send more money in." ”

The palace maid was obviously a confidant, and when she heard this, she asked in a low voice: "Niangniang, is this going to spend a lot of money in the palace?" ”

Concubine Yin nodded, and said in a somewhat lost tone: "This palace used to be too crazy, and the palace failed to make a few sisters, this time I want to help King Zhao change the title, and I can't persuade Your Majesty on my own, so I have to spend money hard and let many concubines help me speak." ”

The palace maid's eyes flashed twice, and she said in a low voice: "The most important thing is the queen's side, and the mother must go to express more." If the queen can be soft-hearted and sympathetic, the affairs of the king of Chu can have an eyebrow. ”

Concubine Yin wiped the corners of her eyes and said, "From today onwards, this palace will go to the queen every day to say goodbye, and when the time is right, I will cry again." But the other concubines could not give up, and had to give away a large amount of money. ”

The palace maid nodded again and again, and said, "The slave maid will find a way to spread the news and promise to let the King of Chu and Lord Yin know as soon as possible." ”

Saying that, he lifted the corner of his skirt and hurriedly went out, and ran to the purchasing division on the other side of the imperial dining room with a smoke, and the purchasing department can go out of the palace every day, and if you want to spread the news, you can only start from there.

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At this time, it was only the fifth watch, and there was still an hour before the last dynasty, Li Shimin angrily carried the dragon robe and went straight to his imperial study.

The lights of the imperial study will not be turned off all night, and there are always chamberlains waiting here, because every time the emperor has to come to the imperial study before going to court, or read or review some of the notes that he could not deal with last night.

Because of today's special situation, Li Shimin came a little early, and the group of servants hurriedly served hot tea and went to fetch water to help the emperor freshen up.

Li Shimin sat in front of the table, and suddenly asked in a deep voice to the dark place in the room: "Has there been a major event in the last few days?" ”