Extreme luxury

Yizong was the most corrupt and wasteful emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty not to be bumpy. He led the royal family and lived a very comfortable life. He has the most thorough understanding of Confucius and Confucius's "never get tired of eating, and never get tired of being fine". It is said that there is a dish called "Ling Xiao Burn", which is selected from mutton, and a sheep can only get one or two meats, which can be kept fresh for a long time, "although it is poisoned by the heat, it will not stink in the end".

He wants to be an emperor who never forgets his ancestors, sixteen imperial tombs, and goes separately once. Each time, "100,000 yuan, 500 cars of gold silk, 500 musicians of 10 parts, 500 caravans of caravans and Zhuwang paintings, and 3,000 guards".

By the time of Yizong, it had been a hundred years since the Anshi Rebellion, although there was no great Tang Taizong and the great Tang Xuanzong period of wealth, but the people's small life was still peaceful.

Why? Wenzong ascended the throne in 827 and ascended the throne in 859 to Yizong, for more than 30 years, they experienced Wuzong and Xuanzong, and they were very careful about frugality. Wenzong's clothes were torn, mended three times, and he is still wearing them. These emperors really knew that it was difficult, so they paid attention to frugality, so they could govern the country well and the people lived a stable life. They saved money and originally wanted to help their children and grandchildren in difficult times, but they didn't know that they had prepared a comfortable hotbed for Yizong. It's a shame.

There was a prime minister in the Han Dynasty named Shu Guang, who said, "If you are virtuous and rich, you will lose your ambition; If you are foolish and rich, you will benefit from it." It is not a good thing to leave more wealth to your children and grandchildren. If their children are wise, it will cause them to lose their aspirations. If your children are stupid, it will bring them insults.

Originally, Yizong could use the surplus of thirty-two years, plus the governance of Emperor Xuanzong of Xiaotaizong. In the country, the emerging meteorology, if you do something. It can be carried forward on the basis of Xuanzong's governance, and it is completely possible for the Tang Dynasty to become strong again. But. That fortune came too easily. Whether Xuanzong harmed him, or whether he was unambitious, the reader thinks for himself.

Historically, there have always been many losers. Yi Zong was born in the deep palace and grew up in a greenhouse, he didn't have contact with the society, and he didn't see the hardships of the people. He didn't know the difficulties of starting a business, the hardships of society, and the crampedness of the country. His life was characterized by lavish spending. Throwing a lot of money,.

Here are a few things that only a very bad emperor can do. For a ruined son who has ruined the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for more than 200 years, as long as you understand what he did, you will find that it is too easy to be an emperor.

One of the corruptions, the princess married.

Princess Tongchang was born to Yizong and Concubine Guo Shu. He likes Concubine Guo very much, and he also likes this woman very much. Because his father Xuanzong didn't like him, he held his tail between his legs every day, and no one seemed to be optimistic about him. Guo Shufei is very beautiful. And the female red is also doing very well. He snuggled in the arms of the beauty every day, basking in the sun like this, hugging women, and seemed to have lived a moldy life. Concubine Guo Shufei gave birth to a girl for him. And it's the biggest of the girls. It's also strange to say that this girl is usually old enough to speak, but she has not said a word. The family thought he was mute. If she weren't surprisingly beautiful, no one would treat her as a human being.

Oddly enough. One day, she suddenly spoke. An inexplicable sentence: It's alive now! The voice hasn't landed yet. The guard of honor arrived at the door, and it turned out that he was enthroned! Yizong's special fondness doesn't stop there. Like her mother, Guo Shufei, this woman is ingenious and extremely smart. It is said that the twelve birds she embroidered on silk are vivid in color, flexible and flexible, and seem to fly.

Yizong and Guo Shufei took a lot of effort to find a horse for their daughter. Wei Baoheng is a new science and technology jinshi, who looks great and shows talents. This marriage brought Wei Baoheng and his family the opportunity to flourish. Wei Baoheng was promoted from the right to the lieutenant of the living room and the concubine. "Treasures in the palace are given as gifts", given in Guanghuali, a prime location, eighty or ninety thousand square meters. The windows and door frames and thresholds of the villa are all made of jade, and they are also decorated with gold and silver. It is really magnificent, the abode of immortals. The wells, beds, tables, chairs, stools, and utensils of the patio were made of gold and silver. The needlework and broom are all decorated with gold and silver. Afraid that she would suffer at her husband's house, she also gave her five million yuan, not to mention other things.

However, Princess Tongchang fell ill less than a year after she got married. Under the guidance of Chief Physician Han Zongshao, those imperial doctors discussed in depth, asked for advice, and tried their best. Of course, the best medicine was used, but it still couldn't cure the princess's illness. Now that I think about it, there must be something else. From a scientific point of view, the abundance of jade and heavy metals may have been her cause. There is gold and silver everywhere, and it looks good, and it is rich. However, it is this gold and silver that may be the source of radioactive materials. And where could the doctors at that time think about this aspect?

In the face of the princess's long-term treatment, the emperor and Concubine Guo Shu were sad all day long, never slept or eaten a peace of mind. Widely summoned the famous doctor Wu Zhu to treat the princess of Tongchang. The emperor gathered the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital, and more than 20 people were sent to the Tongchang Princess Mansion to treat the princess. However, even the imperial doctors couldn't figure out what kind of strange illness Princess Tongchang had. They knew that the princess was no longer cured. In a panic, he discussed an idea and prescribed a prescription full of rare and exotic products. This prescription was sent to the emperor, hoping that the emperor could not get together the medicinal materials, and then he could shirk his responsibility and escape the catastrophe.

The prescription includes red honey, white ape ointment, thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, and so on.

However, the imperial physicians underestimated the emperor's determination to love his daughter. Yizong actually sent someone to bring all the medicinal materials quickly. It is doubtful that those who went to find medicine were just as afraid of the emperor's wrath as the imperial doctors, and made some fake medicine to fool his imperial doctors. The imperial doctor and the person looking for the medicine knew it, so they had to make a mistake and pour these medicines into the mouth of Princess Tongchang. Irrigation or not, the ending is the same, only that Princess Tongchang was tortured like this before she died. Princess Tongchang, who was seventeen or eighteen years old, passed away on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 870 AD. The full moon was scattered, and the crying was heavenly. The bright moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival really shouldn't be round.

Speaking of Princess Tongchang, she is really a very strange person. In the second year of her marriage, Princess Tongchang had a dream while taking a nap. I dreamed that someone came to her and said: Concubine Pan Shu of Nanqi is coming to fetch her Jiuluan hairpin. The nine luan hairpin is an ornament often worn by the princess of Tongchang, and this jade hairpin is carved with nine Luan phoenixes. Each phoenix is different. The hairpin is also engraved with the word "jade", which can be called a treasure in the world. Princess Tongchang felt very strange about this dream. And he told his maid. Not long after the dream, Princess Tongchang suddenly fell ill.

This Concubine Pan Shu is a beautiful woman in Nanqi, who was originally selected into the palace for her beauty, but she never had the opportunity to be lucky. Later, when she learned that Liu Yilong liked the habit of patrolling the harem in a sheep cart, Concubine Shu first decorated the curtains and sprinkled salt water on the ground outside. So every time Liu Yilong passed by Pan Shufei, the sheep would stop licking the grass. There was salt on the grass, and the cattle and sheep liked to eat it, and the sheep didn't leave. Liu Yilong said. Sheep will be stumbling for you, let alone people. Since then, he has been very fond of Concubine Pan Shu and loves the harem.

Self-victory

The death of the princess led to the killing of a group of people, the closure of the guan, the suicide of suicide, and the distribution of distribution. A large number of families were ruined and their wives were separated. The whole capital was mourned. The people are like grass mustard, and those who are born of themselves are people.

In the first month of 871, two years after the princess's death, Yizong was going to bury the princess. This was the first major event in the spring of the imperial court. It is a major event of national priority. Officials at all levels are called on to do their best to enslave the people and dedicate their strength. The guiding ideology of this work. It is to give Princess Tongchang a comfort to the spirit of the sky and increase the longing of Yizong and his wife. The task is: All the things that the princess liked to play during her lifetime were all made sacrifices. The specifications are, those sacrifices. Decorated with gold and silver, decorated with pearls and jade, and draped with brocade. Quantity, one hundred and twenty carts for each thing. Many sacrificial utensils, such as Ming utensils and honor guards, are indispensable.

The holy decree went down, and all levels immediately took action, studied carefully, deeply understood, and implemented step by step, ready to apply for Guinness. The craftsmen in the palace were mobilized, and the neighborhood committee of Chang'an Street inspected the hygiene. The whole Chang'an is busy, Chang'an City is brightly lit, and Chang'an people can't sleep all night.

Once the preparations are made, the second step is the burial. The whole city is under martial law, all the way to martial law. The funeral procession left the city and headed west. Stretching for more than 30 miles, the red dust is rolling and the dust is full. I can't see where the head is going, and I can't see where the tail is lost. Those who carry poles, those who carry lamps, those who light incense, those who guide the way, those who support flowers, those who carry baskets, those who carry burdens, those who drive oxen, those who wipe tears, those who persuade to cry, those who comfort, those who carry paper horses, those who resist toys, those who carry food and drink for the royal family, and those who act as mighty tigers. Thousands of people traveled all the way west, without talking, laughing, but walking with their legs, and breathing through their noses, and nothing else. Big drums and small drums, noisy and deafening; Big and small cymbals, sonorous and sonorous. The sound of blowing is mixed with the sound of crying, and the sound of crying is mixed with the sound of blowing. All the way, all the way to lament, all the way to gasp. The flickering candlelight fireworks, like a fire dragon, licked the strange road and filled the weeds. The people along the way were stunned and chaotic. When you are hungry, take a bite of the biscuits; When thirsty, drink a sip of cold water; Sleepy, stunned.

When I arrived at the cemetery, it was full of people, so spectacular, very magnificent. The blood and sweat of the people, and the savings saved by Xuanzong of the previous dynasty for many years, were wiped out in this way, and there was a toss.

The emperor used up all the gold and silver wealth, and Wei Baoheng's family took advantage of it to make a fortune. When the tomb burned, the green smoke was filled, the paper ashes were blown away, and the gold and silver were still there. They rushed to sweep the ashes, bustling, and the scene was very lively. Baskets, bags and bags, hired to carry them to the river. Sift the ashes with a fine-perforated sieve, and then wash them in water, and scoop them up, which is golden gold and white silver. Real money, not fake.

In such a cost, there is no record in "Zuo Chuan", there is no record in "Warring States Policy", and the nearly 1,500-year history recorded in "Zizhi Tongjian" is nothing more.

Those who carried the coffin, and those who carried things, and those who carried things, and those who carried incense and candles, all had wine to drink and cooked bread to eat. There are dozens of bags of cooking cakes that are used as dry food on the road alone, and there are 100 catties of wine, which is equivalent to 10,000 catties.

The excitement of the burial has passed, and Chang'an has returned to silence. The people are still full of food, hungry for a meal, half a pair of pants in winter, and bare-chested in summer. Those who farm the land still dig loess with the sun on their backs, and those who do small business still open their doors and wait for the shadow of customers at the door with their hands open. The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee, the loyal ministers are still loyal and serve the country and the people. The traitors are still cunning and rude, thinking about how to be corrupt and pervert the law unscrupulously. Anyway, the mountain is still the mountain, the river is still the river, the star is still the star, and the moon is still the moon.

However, Yizong and Guo Shufei are not stars or stars. He felt that the unprecedented funeral was not enough to mourn. So, the composer Li Keji saw this opportunity and was promoted to make a fortune, needless to say. Thereupon. It took a few days and a few all-nighters, although there was an extra pair of panda eyes, and he still made "Sigh for a Hundred Years" quickly.

This piece is extremely talented and very poignant. With the affirmation of the emperor Lao'er and the nod of Concubine Guo Shu, the capital began to be busy again. It's looking for actors, gathering bands, rehearsals, and dubbing. The garment department prepares this cloth and that material day and night, matching colors and ingredients, and tailoring the clothes. The inner warehouse of the pipe, the needle and thread of the cloth, are on duty twenty-four hours a day, and they dare not leave a step for a moment. The dancing girls' jewelry was all taken from the inner treasury, and they took whatever they wanted. The carpet on the floor is made of 800 pieces of cloth, which is incomparably bright, luxurious, and magnificent.

The leaders above, beware of the emperor and Concubine Guo Shu's blame, can only compress the construction period. came to guide again and again, and let those singers work overtime and fight at night. I don't know how many times a day I raise my jade arm, stretch it to the left, and stretch it to the right. Each section asks the girls to kick their legs and hook their waists, point their toes, point a little forward, and then a little back.

Finally finished the show, and there was no time to rehearse, so he was pulled to perform in front of the sad-faced Yizong couple. When the court band plays, there are hundreds of dancers. The dancers danced to the music, sometimes flying, sometimes spinning, turning their heads, swaying step by step. It's not so much a grief as a performance. The beads of the dancers falling from their heads to the carpet were everywhere. I don't know who picked it up, anyway, if you don't pick it up, you won't pick it up.

That scene is the scale of today's CCTV performance, and it is not good to say that it has its lively style. The director must be an exaggeration like today's Zhang Yimou. The atmosphere was extremely exaggerated, very miserable, and so tragic. Yizong and his wife seem to be unable to live if they don't inject music into their empty souls every day. They lived, and the singer died of exhaustion.

Major projects are over, the achievements of officials are also in hand, and it is only a matter of time before they are promoted and make a fortune. A large number of singers fell, and several officials went up. In history, Li Keji's son got married, and the Yi sect sent someone to send a pair of wine jugs. As soon as the messenger left, Li Keji picked it up and looked at it. Why didn't there be wine in the pot, it turned out to be a pair of solid silver kettles. I think it's strange, and if you look at it again, it's full of gold. (To be continued......)