Chapter 49: The Struggle of the Aristocracy
After Shi Siming and Yin Ziqi walked away, Gu Yuanxi saw Nan Jiyun frowning thoughtfully, so he asked with concern: "Brother Nan, are you thinking about your righteous brother?" β
He walked around in the direction of the Jinguang Gate, and said with a smile: "The Pinglu Army has left, and this Jinguang Gate has also been lifted and reopened, so let's go to the front gate." β
Nan Jiyun readily agreed. The two walked to the Jinguang Gate, but found that due to the martial law and blockade of Fang Cai, the trips of the people entering and leaving the city were delayed. Therefore, after the ban was lifted, the people inside and outside the city gate rushed in and out of the three city holes, lest they should be left behind.
The traffic rules of the Tang Dynasty were: the city gate entered from the left, and the exit was from the right. Among the three door openings, the passage out of the city in the right and middle holes is fine, while the entrance tunnel on the left is extremely slow because the soldiers guarding the gate can only enter the city after checking one by one according to the routine. Carriages, horses, and people who entered the city on foot lined up in a long line outside the left cave of this city gate, and Gu Yuanxi and Nan Jiyun in the direction of the city couldn't find Nan Jiyun's righteous brother at all.
"Brother Nan." Gu Yuanxi stretched out his head and stretched out his neck to search for the net, patted Nan Jiyun's shoulder and said, "I don't know what your righteous brother looks like, and what is his surname?" The queue is so long, it's impossible to find it like this. β
Nan Jiyun didn't hide it, he looked around and said: "My righteous brother is eight feet tall, with a dark complexion, a swallow's jaw and tiger whiskers, a leopard's head and eyes, and a majestic style. β
Gu Yuanxi was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled secretly: "I have a dark complexion, a swallow jaw and a tiger's beard, and a leopard's head and eyes." How does it sound so much like Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide's appearance in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He nodded and smiled: "Thinking about such a powerful appearance, it is easy to recognize." β
When the two were stretching out, the queue to enter the city in the left and right caves finally made some progress, and after the inspection on the first carriage, they slowly drove in from the left city cave of Jinguang Gate, and the people behind them all walked forward and waited for the inspection in turn.
Gu Yuanxi saw that the first carriage to enter the city was decorated with gold and silver, and the four horses driving it looked quite miraculous, and the whole carriage looked quite high-end, so he smiled and said to Nan Jiyun next to him: "This carriage is so gorgeous, I think it is also a figure with a head and a face, right?" β
Nan Jiyun looked at it and said with a smile: "Exactly! Zhou Li stipulates that 'the Son of Heaven drives six, the princes drive five, the Qing drives four, the doctor drives three, the scholar two, and the Shuren one.' Tang according to the weekly system, Qing drove four horses, since the owner of the car was driving four horses, thinking that his identity must not be lower than the four-rank official rank. β
"Fourth-rank official?" Gu Yuanxi was stunned when he heard this, thinking that the fourth-rank official rank was indeed a big figure in Datang.
A man next to him pointed to the carriage and said with a smile: "This is the car of the Captain of the Horse, the same member Xiao of the Horse. β
"Xiao Pony?" Gu Yuanxi and Nan Jiyun were stunned when they heard this, and asked one after another: "This eldest brother, how can you tell that it is Xiao Yuma's car?" β
The man said happily: "If you look at the little banners and charms hanging around the carriage, you can know that this is the car of Xiao Heng, the concubine of the imperial princess Xinchang." β
"Oh?" Gu Yuanxi was surprised when he heard this: "Who is this Xiao Horse?" Could it be that he is a good nature? β
"Exactly." The passer-by man nodded and said, "Xiao Yuma's surname is Xiao Mingheng, and the word Jingping is Ping." It is the second son of Xiao Song, the prince and prince who is now at home and the prime minister of the Kaiyuan Dynasty. His elder brother is Xiao Hua, a waiter in the Ministry of Works. His wife is the daughter of His Majesty, Princess Xinchang, after marrying Princess Xinchang in the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan, he was named the captain of the horse according to the custom, and was awarded the title of the servant and the same member. β
"In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan, he married Princess Xinchang, so I think he is at least forty or fifty years old." Gu Yuanxi thought of this, and was speechless. The current Kaiyuan Tianbao Emperor, later known as Tang Xuanzong and Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji lived a very long life, but he was extremely amorous and lustful by nature, and he had a lot of children, a total of more than 50. And the youngest daughter Li Qinniang is only a few years older than the eldest son of the crown prince, Li Jiao, the son of Guangping Wang, who is also the later Tang Dezong Li Shi.
Gu Yuanxi saw a row of road flags hanging on the carriage window, so he nodded with a smile and said, "This Xiao Yuma's family doesn't put up any shelves, and they don't use privileges, but they line up with ordinary people to enter the city. It's also rare. β
"That's it." The passer-by was overjoyed when he heard this, as if Gu Yuanxi was praising himself. He opened his eyebrows and smiled: "This Xiao Horse was born in the famous Lanling Xiao Clan. Lanling Xiao family, what kind of family is that. The royal family of the four dynasties of Jiangdong, the Qi Dynasty and the Liang Dynasty. This Xiao Yuma's father, Xu Guogong Xiao Taishi, was the great-grandson of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu and Emperor Xiao Yue of Later Liang Ming. Xiao Taishi once passed Hexi, and he became a Zhongshu Ling, and Xiao Taishi's grandfather, Xiao Jun, a Zhongshu houser, was the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion and the nephew of Xiao Yu, the Duke of Song. β
Gu Yuanxi smiled when he heard this. The reputation of the Lanling Xiao clan is naturally known to everyone, and no one knows it. The so-called "Wang Xie Yuan Xiao", the millennium family of Lanling Xiao, the top gate valve in the Jin Dynasty after the southern crossing of the Langya Wang, Chenjun Xie, Chenjun Yuan, together with the Jiangdong overseas Chinese surname one of the four families, entered the Southern Dynasty and established the Southern Qi and Southern Liang dynasties. After the fall of Xiao Liang, Xiao Jing, the son of Prince Zhaoming, went north to the Zhou Yuwen clan and established the Later Liang small court. During the Southern Dynasties, the Xiao family of Lanling produced more than 30 prime ministers and 21 sons of heaven. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, because of Empress Xiao of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, he became a noble relative.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the great grandson of Emperor Xuan of the Western Liang Dynasty, Xiao Miao, seized one side and dominated the south. After entering the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Yu, the Duke of Song, was one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. In the entire Tang Empire for more than 200 years, there were eight heirs of the Zhaoming prince Xiao Tong, namely Xiao Yu, Xiao Song, Xiao Hua, Xiao Fu, Xiao Li, Xiao Fang, Xiao Liao, Xiao Yu, from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, he successively served as the prime minister, and was known as the "eight-leaf prime minister" of the Tang Dynasty Xiao. Therefore, Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi praised the Lanling Xiao family: "Fame and virtue look at each other, and Tang is prosperous and declining." The prosperity of the family is unprecedented". And the great writer Su Dongpo also praised "Shake the desire to be a well-dressed watch, and the success should be followed by eight Xiao".
In fact, what Gu Yuanxi didn't know was that this Xiao Heng was not only a disciple of the Xiao family in Lanling, but also the concubine of Princess Xinchang. More importantly, Xiao Song, one of the 'Lanling Eight Leaves Prime Ministers', is his father, Xiao Hua is his brother, and Xiao Fu, the son born to him and Princess Xinchang, is the fifth person in the Tang generation of the Lanling Xiao family.
"This Xiao Horse is really good." Nan Jiyun stared at the Dao Banner Talisman on Xiao Heng's carriage.
"Isn't itβ" The man said with a smile: "Xiao Fuma and Princess Xinchang are kind and benevolent, and the mansion of Xiao Taishi, the Duke of Xu, is in the Buzheng Fang between Liquanfang and the Imperial City, so Xiao Fuma will take a car from this Jinguang Gate every morning to the Taoist Zhaijiao in the western suburbs of Chang'an. β
"That's why you recognized it at a glance as Xiao Feima's vehicle, right?" Gu Yuanxi said with a smile.
Gu Yuanxi said something to the man, and Nan Jiyun on the side looked intently at the team that entered the city in the left city cave of Jinguangmen, although several people entered the city, they found that there was still no figure of his righteous brother, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the direction of Chunming on Jinguang Chunming Avenue, and I saw several carriages sprinting towards the city gate as if chasing the wind and lightning. The two groups of entourage around them rode horses to escort them, and the few strong men in front of them who were whipping the way galloped even more, and they beat people if they didn't hide.
The people on the avenue were so frightened that they fled to both sides of the road. Some of those who ran a little slower were mercilessly whipped by the strong man's leather whip, and a trace of blood was burned from their bodies.
Nan Jiyun was originally a person who liked to fight unevenly, but when he saw this, his brows suddenly frowned, and he asked the man next to him, "Who are these vehicles?" How dare you be so arrogant at the feet of the Son of Heaven? β
Gu Yuanxi was also angry, he glared viciously in the direction of several carriages, and found that the flags on those carriages were all written with the word "Yang" without exception, and asked in amazement: "Could it be that they are from the Yang family?" β
The so-called Yang family, in today's Tang Dynasty, is naturally the Yang family of the Taizhen Concubine Yang Yuhuan.
When Nan Jiyun heard this, he also suddenly realized: "Looking at the specifications of the carriages in front of me, I think the status is not low. And the one who dares to be so domineering and surnamed Yang in the Beijing division must be Yang Guifei's relatives? β
Before he finished speaking, he saw the Yang family's carriage continuing to gallop unscrupulously in the direction of Jinguangmen, and the carriage of Xiao Heng, the Xiao family's concubine in front, happened to gallop in the direction of the city gate. The driver of the Xiao horse was shocked when he saw this, although he hurriedly braked the horse to stop, but because the speed of the car led by the Yang family's team was too fast, the two front of the car inevitably collided together under surprise!
(I continue to change it in the evening)