In March of the fifth year of Yonghe of the Great Xia Dynasty, on a drizzly morning, in the hall of Wanjia teahouse on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Jinling, the storyteller known as "Zhou Jinsheng" was telling a story, talking about the "Romance of the Great Zhou" that has been widely circulated throughout the country in recent years, especially in the south of the Yangtze River.

"In the first year of Jinglong, the four families of the great squire Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue in this province were copied. At the end of September, Jia Wei, the great-grandson of the young Emperor Taining and Duke Rong, led a group of people back to our homeland in Jinling...... The first thing is to break my brother's legs! Ladies and gentlemen, what do you say? This cousin Jia Huan has sores on his head and pus on the soles of his feet, which is very bad!

"As early as a few years ago, Emperor Taining drove him back to Jinling from Shangjing, but the inferiority did not change, in early September of the first year of Jinglong, the widow Li returned with his son, he actually burglarized, stole a lot of silver tickets, Li asked him, he not only denied it in every way, but also cried angrily Li ...... After more than 20 days, Emperor Taining arrived in Jinling, and when he heard about it, he was furious, and immediately picked up a stick and went to the door......"

Zhou Jinsheng wore a blue shirt, waved a folding fan, and spoke vividly, and talked for a while, ending this story, before taking a break and resting for a while.

He sat and drank tea here, and the tea guests talked about it.

"Hehe, I love to hear the deeds of Emperor Taining, and I never get tired of hearing about it...... Speaking of which, our Jiangnan area is also thanks to Emperor Taining, if he hadn't convened the Jia, Wang, Shi, and Xue clansmen to fight against the Japanese and killed the Japanese invaders, I am afraid that to this day, the Japanese are still a big disaster in our Jiangnan! ”

"Yes, Emperor Taining is wise and martial, and when the Japanese meet him, they can only escape...... Later, Emperor Taining waved his troops north, and the Mongolian iron cavalry was also beaten to the ground, and it was a Buddha in the north......"

"Emperor Taining is indeed remarkable, otherwise he can establish a country outside the Northern Frontier and become my Great Xia barrier?"

"What this brother said is very true, with the friendly country of Da Zhou, I have no worries about the northern Xinjiang of Great Xia......"

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Everyone talked lively, you and I said a word, the atmosphere was warm, only a man sitting by the window on the east side just smiled and listened, but did not say a word.

This person is forty years old, with a shrewd face and gorgeous clothes, but he is Leng Zixing, the son-in-law of Mrs. Wang who accompanied Zhou Duan.

Although he is a native of Jinling, he has been engaged in the antique business in Yanjing very early, often only returned to Jinling once in three or five years, after the Jia family was copied, he then went south, and since then he has stayed for several years, still doing his old business, and then later, the opening of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he lost the antique business, and traded goods between the two countries.

He has a special identity, backed by the Great Zhou royal family, and the relationship between the Great Zhou royal family and the Great Xia royal family is extraordinary and extremely close, so his trade business has always been smooth and smooth, and he has never made a mistake, and in the past few years, he has made a lot of money.

Now his family is in Dazhou, and he himself runs with the business at both ends, because most of the goods in Dazhou are transported to Jinling, and then the goods are purchased from Jinling and shipped to Yong'an, Kyoto, Dazhou, so the time spent in Jinling is not short every time.

For example, this business, he arrived in mid-February, and it is estimated that he will not be able to go north until the beginning of next month, and he will stay for a month in between.

Since most of the business links are handled by his subordinates, he is idle, and during the time when he is waiting for the loading and anchoring, he either chats with the two or three in the old house, or goes out alone to relax. Early this morning, after breakfast, he walked all the way from the old house of the Drum Tower to the ten miles of Qinhuai on Sanshan Street in the south of the city, and then it rained, so he entered this "Wanjia Teahouse" to eat tea and listen to books. It is also a coincidence that what Zhou Jinsheng said today is "The Romance of the Great Zhou", which is the people and things he is familiar with, and he has a cordial and emotional feeling when he listens to it.

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"A few days after Emperor Taining returned to his homeland in Jinling, he stepped into the Pinyu Building and ransomed the first branch of Qin Zhun that year, the Tang Xiaoqing girl......" After a short rest, Zhou Jinsheng resumed his speech, "...... Emperor Taining and Tang Xiaoqing naturally have a lot of connections in the past, so let's not mention it for the time being, and say that Emperor Taining went to Pinyulou to redeem Tang Xiaoqing, and the shot was 60,000 or 70,000 taels of silver, which can be described as a bold move!

"Ladies and gentlemen, at that time, the Jia family had just been raided, and it stands to reason that no matter how much furniture was hidden in secret, they didn't dare to take it out and use it immediately, but Emperor Taining was not afraid, the backer behind him was the eldest princess of Zhenguo Shengchang at that time, and now the eldest princess of Zhenguo Shengchang Zhaode, sure enough, this matter was later transmitted to the imperial court, and the eldest princess came out and said, 'After the Jia family raided the house, I invested a lot of money with Jia Gongzi', and the entire imperial court was silent...... Hehe, the words are far away, let's get down to business......"

“…… As we all know, Tang Xiaoqing's redemption silver is 130,000 taels of silver, Emperor Taining took out 6 or 70,000 taels, and Tang Xiaoqing took out 6 or 70,000 taels by herself, which is considered to be enough, and she could have redeemed herself immediately. He remembered that two years ago in Yanjing, Emperor Taining had politely rejected the request of Mother Li of Jinxiangyuan to come to the door to ask for poetry, and then set the threshold, and said: "Jia Gongzi redeemed himself for Tang Xiaoqing girl, it is a beautiful talk, and this king is also happy to see it, however, the poetry of Gongzi has been outstanding for a long time, and he is the best in Kyoto, why not write a poem on the spot, if it is comparable to "Jin Se", this king is in charge, and the redemption silver is minus 30,000, if it is not as good as "Jin Se", haha, please add another 30,000 redemption silver......

"King Ruijun thought that if he set this threshold, Emperor Taining would have to pay another 30,000 taels of silver, after all, the song "Jin Se" can be met but not sought, even if Emperor Taining himself, in addition to "Jin Se", there are such masterpieces, it is not easy...... But to his surprise, Emperor Taining almost didn't think about it, so he nodded and agreed, and immediately wrote another eternal swan song "Untitled" ......"

Speaking of this, Zhou Jinsheng was about to recite this poem, and a tea guest in the seat had already rushed to read it out loud before him.

Last night's stars and last night's wind, the west side of the painting building and the east of Guitang.

There are no colorful phoenix wings, and there is a little bit of wisdom in the heart.

The next seat sends the hook spring wine warm, and the Cao shoots the wax lamp red.

Yu listened to the drum and responded to the official, and went to the Malan platform to turn the tent.

Seeing this, Zhou Jinsheng couldn't help but laugh and said, "This judge reads well!" At that time, Emperor Taining wrote this song "Untitled" in one go, and the color of King Ruijun changed when he ascended, but he was a prince after all, paying attention to his demeanor, and he was unwilling to break his word, and finally Yinuo subtracted 30,000 taels of ransom silver, and let Tang Xiaoqing leave with Emperor Taining. However, Pin Yulou did not suffer a loss, "Untitled" was first composed by Pin Yulou into a song, and it was sung, attracting many customers for a while.

"Go back and say a few digressions. Emperor Taining's song "Untitled" became popular as soon as it came out. After that, after repeatedly arguing, most of them agreed with one of the statements, saying that this song "Untitled" not only contains affection for Tang Xiaoqing, but also contains a sigh for the sinking of the family background...... The first sentence of the first couplet, 'last night's stars, last night's wind', is full of melancholy looking back on the past...... The pain of raiding the house jumped into the pen ......"

Zhou Jin said this, and the tea guests all nodded slightly.

The story continued, and it was said that the people of Ningrong's Second Mansion arrived in Jinling in mid-November; talked about Jia Wei's resumption of business in Jinling; Speaking of the Yanjing Opera, the world was swinging, and the blessed king Gao Yuanzhen retreated to the south of the Yangtze River...... There were two breaks in between, and then it was talked about until King Fu fought against the Japanese and found Jia Wei to raise silver taels, and Jia Wei volunteered to form a militia group.

At this time, it was close to noon, Zhou Jinsheng made a gesture and left, and the tea guests also left one after another, leaving only a few people in the tea house.

Leng Zixing is one of them.

He had nothing to do, just to kill time, whether he went home or stayed here, so he simply ordered a few fine points, ate here, and waited for the rain outside to rest before leaving.

Outside the window, while slowly tasting the fine points, while reminiscing about the appropriate storytelling, he unconsciously evoked the memory.

As the son-in-law of the Jia family, he has an inextricable relationship with the Jia family, and he naturally knows much more than outsiders about the process of Jia Wei creating a situation in Jinling step by step after the raid, and finally founding the country and ascending the throne and becoming the hero of a country.

At this time, some of Jia Wei's past passed in front of his eyes one by one.

After the people of Ning Rong's Second Mansion arrived in Jinling and settled down, Jia Wei began to do business, and with his business talent, he soon became wealthy.

In the autumn of the second year of Jinglong, Emperor Jinglong collapsed, Gao Yuanqian, Gao Yuanji, and Gao Yuanzhen competed for the throne. The upheaval lasted three months, at the end of the month of Layue, the former prince Gao Yuanqian controlled Kyoto, and then controlled the entire north, the current prince Gao Yuanji retreated to the Sichuan-Shaanxi area, Gao Jie also went with him, and the Fu King Gao Yuanzhen went south to Jinling.

In the spring of the following year, Gao Yuanqian was proclaimed emperor in Beijing, with the year name Yuanxing, and at the same time, Gao Yuanji and Gao Yuanzhen were proclaimed emperors in Chengdu and Jinling respectively, and the era names were Tiantong and Wuding.

After Gao Yuanzhen became emperor in Jinling, he had to deal with Gao Yuanqian's southward army and the Japanese in the coastal area, which was extremely troublesome, and had to recruit and increase the number of soldiers.

Among them, in order to raise a huge amount of silver taels as soon as possible, in addition to the additional endowment, Gao Yuanzhen also personally summoned the Jinling giant businessman Jia and stretched out his hand to ask for money, including Jia Wei.

At the time of the summons, everyone pledged a large sum of money, but unlike others, Jia Wei took the initiative to form a militia group in addition to the pledge of silver money to assist the imperial court in resisting the Japanese, and finally obtained Gao Yuanzhen's consent.

After going back, Jia Wei immediately mobilized Jia, Wang, Shi, Xue four ethnic groups to resist the Japanese, after several months of training, went to the eastern part of Zhejiang, from mutual victory and defeat to repeated victories, during which the team continued to grow, a large number of people joined, from the initial 2,000 people to the scale of more than 10,000 people, more than a year later, the Japanese were completely wiped out.

After the return of the Pingwei, Jia Wei was appointed by Gao Yuanzhen as the envoy of the Eastern Zhejiang Festival, and governed the original Pingwei army. It was by relying on this team that Jia Wei accumulated strength and became a decisive general in the ever-changing tripartite competition that followed, and coerced Gao Yuanzhen to surrender to Gao Yuanji and Gao Jie.

Since then, the three-party competition has become a two-party confrontation, Gao Yuanji's side is stronger, in the sixth year of the world's bandang, Gao Yuanji led the army to invade Kyoto, Gao Yuanji committed suicide, Gao Yuanji changed the name of the year to Yonghe, amnesty to the world. At the request of Jia Wei, Gao Yuanji issued a special decree to let Jia Yuanchun, who was widowed in the Ye Wangfu, return to Jia's house with his children to live.

A few months later, Jia Wei waved his troops to northern Xinjiang, and after two or three years of fierce fighting, he conquered a large area of territory outside the northern frontier of the Great Xia Dynasty and founded the Great Zhou Dynasty.

From the raid to the present, during the period of hardships and hardships, twists and turns, the legend of twists and turns, fortunately, the family is safe, even the elderly Jia's mother, still lives hard.

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After about half an hour, Zhou Jinsheng returned to the building, and then started to talk about "Romance of the Great Zhou".

A group of tea guests also gathered in the hall again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at that time, Emperor Taining had two wives and five concubines, the two wives were double married, one of the five concubines was a noble concubine who was married, two were the maids in the house who had been accepted before, and the remaining two, one was referred to by the eldest princess, and the other was an outer room, and there was no name yet...... However, it is said that when Emperor Taining returned to his homeland in Jinling, among his family, only the concubine and the outer room referred to by the eldest princess followed him, and the rest of the family members stayed in the eldest princess's mansion.

"There's a reason for that. Emperor Guyintaining's two wives were both pregnant, and it was not good to follow Emperor Taining for a long journey, so they had to stay in the eldest princess's mansion, planning to give birth to a child for a year and a half, and then go south. Three of the five concubines were left behind to take care of them.

“…… If things go smoothly, it's okay, at most more than a year, Emperor Taining can reunite with these five wives and concubines in Jinling, who knows that in the autumn of the second year of Jinglong, Yanjing Opera changed, and then the eldest princess and the current saint retreated to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and also brought the five wives and concubines of Emperor Taining and the two children who were just a few months old, since then Emperor Taining and the five wives and concubines have lost their news...... Alas, the world was in turmoil, and by the time the two sides got in touch again, it was three years later......

"On the one hand, there is no news, and on the other hand, there is a long wait...... At that time, no one knew whether these five wives and concubines were alive or dead, and it was not a way to wait so hard after all, and the chief of the palace thought that Emperor Taining could not live without a master mother, so under the collegial discussion, he let him marry the young lady of the Shi family......

"This Miss Shi and Emperor Taining were childhood sweethearts in the old days, two little guesses, the two were very affectionate after marriage, and the following year, Miss Shi gave birth to a son for Emperor Taining...... But Emperor Taining has always been obsessed with the five wives and concubines whose life and death are uncertain, which can be described as 'ruthless may not be true heroes'! ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Jin's voice patted the startled wood, planning to take a break, eat tea and rest, at this time there was a tea guest said, "I heard that Emperor Taining is also very affectionate to his friends, one of his close friends surnamed Wei died in the Yanjing Opera Rebellion, when he waved his troops to the north, he passed by Yanjing, and specially went to the grave to pay respects, his appearance was solemn, his expression was sad, and the people present were all moved. I don't know if there is such a thing? ”

Zhou Jin said in his voice, "Naturally, there is." That's what the world says. That being said, the tone was not very certain.

Leng Zixing couldn't help but smile slightly at the tea party.

Of course, he knew that there was more than that, and even after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the past two or three years, every year during the Qingming Festival, Jia Wei would send people to pay respects.

The condolences to her best friend Wei Ruolan can be said to be touching.

At the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the afternoon, the rain dispersed and the sky was blue, and Leng Zi got up and left his seat and went out.

At this time, Zhou Jin's voice was saying a digression, "...... Oh, it's also interesting, when Emperor Taining was young, because he liked to make fat and powder, he was close to the girl's family, and he was judged by the elder to be lustful when he grew up, and he couldn't be edified...... How do you know that it is a big mistake, Emperor Taining not only achieved a generation of great achievements, but also was by no means lustful...... Ladies and gentlemen, he is an emperor, he should have three palaces and six courts, and the beauties of the world are, but there are only four queens and eleven imperial concubines around him, and that's it......"

Leng Zixing had already walked to the door, and after hearing these words, his steps paused, and his expression was a little more emotional, and after a while, he slowly walked out of the teahouse.

Thinking back then, when he was in Gusu, he met Jia Yucun and had a conversation on similar topics, he didn't think that Jia Wei was a womanizer, he felt that it should be an infatuated person, as for future achievements, it was just ordinary, and now it seems that it is half right.

The four queens around Jia Wei: Baochai, Daiyu, Baoqin, Xiangyun, and eleven imperial concubines: Raider, Musk Yue, Qingwen, Qiuwen, Bijin, Jin Chuan, Yu Chuan, Mandarin Duck, Xiangling, Ziyu, Tang Xiaoqing, except for Ziyu and Tang Xiaoqing, which one has not been a friendship since childhood?

Even Ziyu and Tang Xiaoqing have a deep relationship with Jia Wei.

And maybe the unspeakable honorable woman...... The most difficult thing to accept the grace of the beauty, the situation between the two people, outsiders can't understand it......

Except for these women, Jia Wei has never been tempted by anyone.

There is no liking the new and hating the old, only mutual affection, this is not infatuation, what is it?

But in Jia Wei's achievements, he did misjudge, a generation of founding emperors, legends passed down by word of mouth, no matter what, he couldn't guess it.

Looking back, what made him sigh was that now things are not people, Jia Yucun, his old acquaintance back then, who had talked about this topic together, because he took refuge in Li Yuanqian after the Yanjing Opera Change, and died in Li Yuanji's siege army in the first year of Yonghe.

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Yanjing. Zhenguo Shengchang Zhaode Eldest Princess's Mansion.

In the courtyard of the third entrance in the middle road, a handsome boy was running east and west by the pool with two short legs, having fun, and the two palace maids next to him pulled him from time to time, or reminded him loudly, worried that he was running fast and wrestling.

After not much effort, the boy saw sweat on his forehead, and the two palace maids took him to the porch to stay, wiping his sweat with a handkerchief while talking to him.

"Is Uncle hungry? Need some snacks? ”

The boy shook his head.

"Let's have some snacks. Otherwise, Your Highness will blame the slaves. ”

The boy nodded hesitantly.

The two palace maids looked at each other and smiled, one of them took out a box of jujube flower cakes from the house, served the boy to eat two pieces, and let him drink half a bowl of mung bean glutinous rice soup that had been prepared. After a while, when the bell of the hall struck the ringing bell, the two palace maids went out with the boy and went to the courtyard of the second hall where Gao Jie lived.

Gao Jie is in the bedroom to the mirror hairpin flowers, hairpins are red peonies, this season, it is the season when peonies are in full bloom, most women will hairpin peonies, as the eldest princess, she is not exempt from vulgarity.

When she saw the boy coming, she turned around and said with a smile, "Wei'er, after playing this time, you miss studying, right?" ”

The two palace maids hurriedly smiled, "No, the uncle has already urged His Highness to come here." ”

The boy blinked his dark eyes, knowing that they were trying to please his mother, and he hummed softly.

When Gao Jie heard this, she was really full of joy, and she didn't care about taking care of her temples, and then took the boy's hand and walked to the study.

The two palace maids turned around and returned to Sanjin, and along the way, they talked casually.

"Your Highness's hairpin has a peony, people are more beautiful than flowers, don't you think?"

"Your Highness is a very beautiful ......"

"His Royal Highness has a high status and a very beautiful person, but he ......"

"You're going to die, you dare to say ......"

Looking at each other, the two diverted the topic and talked about something else.

The eldest princess's current situation, everyone around them is clear, but it is indeed a secret.

Let's talk about the little young master, he said that he was raised from Ziyu, but in fact, he was the illegitimate son of His Royal Highness and Emperor Taining of the Great Zhou.

Besides, His Royal Highness has his own person, he goes to the Great Tuesday three times a year to meet with Emperor Taining, but he just doesn't want to marry Emperor Taining to be a legitimate queen.

It's really what the world calls a "maverick".

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Big Week. Kyoto Yongan.

In the backyard of the palace, the layout of a garden is exactly the same as that of the Grand View Garden, and it is also entitled "Grand View Garden".

This rebuilt Grand View Garden, although the layout is the same as the original, but the area is several times larger, each courtyard has also been expanded, the whole garden, in fact, is the Taining Emperor Jia Wei and his queens, the concubines of the dormitory.

At this time, at the beginning of the lanterns, Jia Wei, Daiyu, Baochai, Baoqin, Xiangyun, Raider, Musk Yue, Qingwen, Qiuwen, Bijian, Jin Chuan, Yu Chuan, Mandarin Duck, Xiangling, Ziyu, and Tang Xiaoqing gathered in the front yard of "Yihong Courtyard" to talk to each other and have a happy atmosphere.

This is a continuation of the Yihong Courtyard gathering in the past, compared with the old days, although there are a few fewer people, such as Li Kun, Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, etc. - Li Kun's son Jia Lan has become an adult and has joined the official career, and the mother and son are now in other courtyards, and it is not good to live with everyone anymore; Yingchun and Tanchun have already married separately, not to mention; Xichun lives closely, in the Dharma Nunnery in the park, with Zhi'er, but rarely come down to talk, but often go to Miaoyu's Huicui Nunnery to talk about the scriptures and Zen - but there are also more Tang Xiaoqing and Ziyu.

Fishing rallies and snowy night cruises continue along.

Jia Wei set up a rule, whether it is a gathering in Yihong Courtyard, a fishing rally, or a snowy night in the stream, everyone is commensurate with the old name.

Not for anything else, just to be able to relive the scene of the year more realistically.

"Today's spring rain is soft, like the smoke and rain in Jinling......"

Seeing everyone sitting down, the topic was focused on today's spring rain for a while, and Jia Wei also opened his mouth to make fun, "...... I remember that at that time, in Yanjing Rong Mansion, it was also such a rainy spring day, the lord returned to Beijing from other places, and I tested my homework, and I answered like a stream, and from then on, everyone in the house said that I had enlightened......"

As he said this, the crowd chuckled.

"It's enlightened, the old lady and the old lady have a headache, even the mandarin duck dares to kiss, and they give up studying and doing business......"

"Miss Yun, damn it, why did you mention me in a good way?"

"That's right, I got the hang of it, I went to the Tongshan Poetry Club, and later, Ziyu and Xiaoqing came to our house......

"Miss Lin, you also make fun of the two of us......"

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A room full of laughter and slapstick...... Jia Wei had a smile in his eyes, and his gaze turned over, sweeping everyone's faces one by one...... The green silk is like a dai, and the skin is brighter than snow, they are all mothers, but they are still as bright and beautiful as before.

Eyes stayed for a moment, and then looked out of the house, the two doors were open, the lanterns on the porch were shining, the little maids shuttled back and forth, outside the porch, the drizzle was like silk, and the night was as cool as water. (End of book)

PS: Thank you for the tips from the different Chinese people, Zhicheng, and Akoasm! Leng Zixing saw the second time in the original work, Mrs. Jia passed away in Yangzhou City, and Leng Zixing gave a speech at Rongguo Mansion. Zhi'er is placed in the Bodhidharma Nunnery, see Chapter 328 of this book, Nian Guan 7.

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2018.8.14