Bishui Pass is the famous Tiger Prison Pass, connecting Songyue in the south, bordering the Yellow River in the north, the mountains are staggered, and it is a natural danger. There is a trend of "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open", and it is a place for soldiers of all dynasties.

This is the place where Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, captured the two kings in a battle and laid the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. The Luoyang Basin behind him is still the key point of the world, and the so-called living in China and facing the world is where the Great Song Xijing is located. Although Jingkang was slaughtered several times after that, it almost became a blank land, and even the prime minister set himself on fire here, but after all, it has been six or seven years, and it has also raised some popularity, which can be seen from the Great Song Dynasty officials and their entourage who stood in turn after Zhao Jiu got off the boat, and looking at the river, in the end, I saw that there was also some bustle in Bishui Town, presumably Luoyang City would only be better, maybe it had been rejuvenated.

And here has other meanings for Zhao Jiu, the Battle of Yaoshan, the Battle of Annihilation of Xia and the final Northern Expedition are all from here as the first stop.

In a trance for a while, he didn't even hear what Li Wei said, and when he received Yang Yizhong's eyes, he quickly flashed out Li Xiuzhi behind him, and said dryly: "This time, I can bring sons and nephews to Li Dayin, and the Li Gongxiang family is not only a brother one after another, but also a generation of Jiahe, I am very relieved." ”

The conscience of heaven and earth, Zhao Jiu's words are really praising the cultural heirloom of the Li Gang family, but he has become more yin and yang over the years, and his notoriety is all over the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty. Li Wei knew that although his eldest brother had some mistakes, he was a well-deserved generation of ministers, and although he and his younger brother were also Jinshi, who didn't know that it was for Li Gang's sake to promote all the way, and he was inevitably ashamed in his heart. The official family didn't dare to say anything, so he had to keep a straight face and reprimand Li Xiuzhi for half an hour regardless of the occasion.

Zhao Guan's family was dumbfounded, but Li Xiuzhi looked like he was fine, bowed his head and didn't refute a word, and after seeing his uncle pause, he said: "Uncle is strictly disciplined, and the little nephew has benefited a lot." It's just that at this time, is it to welcome the holy driver, or how about His Majesty enter the carriage into Luoyang first? ”

Hu Hong, the governor of Henan Mansion on the side, had long been at odds with this boss, and said more directly at this time: "It is extreme, the word loyalty and filial piety, what is in front and what is behind, I think this little Li She person understands much better than some people." ”

Li Wei was humiliated by his subordinates in public, and he could hardly hang up, but he didn't dare to really snub the official family, so he took the Luoyang officials to respectfully invite the official family to go to the dragon, and the group went to the main city of Luoyang.

Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan were naturally on horseback to protect both sides at this time, except for Li Xiuzhi and Zhao Ziyan, who could only survey the river and calculate the silt, there was only one Feng Yi to serve, he thought it was not easy to ask Li Xiuzhi about this matter, so he turned his head and said: "I remember that Hu Hong was released to join the army for the seventh year of Jianyan as a scholar of Henan Prefecture, and last year he was promoted to an official from the fifth grade, how can he ......?"

Poor Feng Yi was asked stupidly, although the official family is gentle and easy to serve the people around him, but the responsibilities of the internal service province are almost swallowed up by Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan, and his usual task is to find food in Tokyo to run errands for the official family, and by the way, manage the mulberry fish pond, and he was warned in the early years. This time, if it weren't for the fact that Lan Daguan was too old to move after all, he wouldn't have been able to follow the royal driver, but the problem was how many years he didn't dare to ask about political affairs, how could he be so precious about the problems of local officials.

Fortunately, Li Xiuzhi rescued him at this time, and said: "The official family forgives the minister to intervene, this matter is not to blame on Hu Tuiguan, it is related to my family." Speaking of which, the father of the family is very disdainful of Hu Yin Hu Xianggong's disapproval of his biological parents, and even influenced his uncle, he has publicly talked about this matter since he became Henan Yin, and Hu Tuiguan is also Hu Xianggong's younger brother (to put it simply, Hu Yin was almost drowned by his biological parents when he was born, and his uncle Hu Anguo rescued and adopted him, so Hu Yin only recognized Hu Anguo as his father, and Hu Hong, the son of Hu Anguo, was his brother and did not recognize his biological parents), naturally he was not angry, his daily official duties were fine, and there were many discords in private. ”

There is another sentence that is not easy to say, both of them have bad tempers, but no matter how famous your brother is, he has been retired for many years, and my brother is the current prime minister, who is afraid of whom!

Zhao Guanjia didn't expect him to be so honest, which was extremely inconsistent with his performance along the way, and said curiously: "Xiuzhi, you are my close minister, but how do I think Li Dayin is extremely strict with you, you are close relatives." and Li Jing obviously has a house in the capital, why do you still live in the house of Li Xianggong (Li Guang, who has a good personal relationship with Li Gang), and later went directly to your father-in-law's house. ”

In these years, the patriarchal law is strong, Li Xiuzhi's actions are really weird everywhere, I didn't think much about it before, but now that I connect it, the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes.

Li Xiuzhi was also really frank, ignoring that there were other people in the car, so he said directly: "The two uncles don't like me and think that I have smeared my father and the Li family." ”

It's a bit of Li Gang's shadow to be so straight, but Zhao Ziyan was stunned after hearing it, don't be kidding, I know that you are a scholarly family, but who in the family would think that a twenty-year-old Tanhua is a black spot, and he has two sons at home, and he has to thank Taizu for his blessing if he can have a Zhongjinshi.

seems to know what the people around him are thinking, Li Xiuzhi said: "The minister is a concubine, this is nothing, but it was born to his father and the teacher Sile girl when he was dismissed, and the registered woman naturally cannot redeem herself, so since the minister was born, he was raised by the adoptive mother beside his mother-in-law." ”

"If that's the case, it's okay, my grandmother recognized me, and I am a descendant of the Li family. But my parents are a little sincere, after the Jingkang change, my father returned to his hometown in discouragement, and learned that his biological mother had been released, so he wanted to admit her into the door, and the etiquette was not done, so the official family decided to stay in the Central Plains to fight against Jin, and recalled my father as prime minister. The lowly family started from the good, and this matter was disdainful in the end, so the two uncles persuaded him to take state affairs first, and his father was entrusted to the southeast by the official family in the next three or five years, and became the anti-gold red flag, so naturally he couldn't take care of anything, so after all, his biological mother did not enter the Li family. Pity her and died so depressed, she was not allowed to enter the ancestral grave of the Li family after her death, and the minister wanted to buy a piece of land next to the ancestral grave to bury her mother, but she was not allowed. In the end, I could only send it back to my biological mother's hometown, that is, Wuweijun's side for burial, and Mei Zhizhou and I met at that time. ”

said that he laughed at himself, "If it weren't for my cleverness since I was a child, I would have been a little favored by my mother-in-law." I was far better than my brothers in reading, and my father might have the same attitude towards me. ”

Several people in the car were embarrassed by capitalization, especially Zhao Jiu regretted how he was cheap and uncovered a scar from others, no wonder Li Xiu was sleek and terrible from time to time, just in this growth environment, if he was his father's stinky temper, he would not necessarily be offended.

How to say it, as long as there is no throne to inherit in the family these years, the importance of the concubine is not so important, and the eldest son naturally inherits the ancestral property, but for the official eunuchs who study in the times, it really belongs to whoever has the ability, as Li Xiuzhi said, the clan recognizes it, and the mother-in-law recognizes it. The birth of this official is not a big problem, otherwise Liang Hongyu's decree of Mrs. Qin Guo and Han Shizhong's other two concubines would not have been issued.

But Li Gang almost accepted people at that time, which was really a bit of a problem, you must know that when Han Shizhong married Liang Hongyu, he was a commander, and what was the status of a military general at that time? What is the status of the Prime Minister? And as soon as Yu Shi inquired, you Li Gang's official family was determined to resist gold and find you back to be the prime minister, and you were still planning to marry a little wife, so don't be too ugly to say. Especially Li Gang offended a bunch of people because of his stinky temper, and he might be turned out one day.

But Zhao Jiu, as a modern person, where would he think this was a big deal, thought about Li Xiuzhi's age and character, and said: "You are still young, you can't follow the rules of this dynasty in the past, and you can ask for a decree for your mother and wife, although your mother is ...... But I have always been a frivolous official. But after saying that, he glanced at the other two, and said something that shouldn't be passed on as if he didn't hear it.

Li Xiu was stunned, and all kinds of tastes came to his heart for a while, and he suddenly kowtowed heavily in the car.

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One of the great changes in the status of women in ancient China was the abolition of the official system, which occurred during the reign of Emperor Jianyan of the Song Dynasty, and was mainly sponsored by Li Xiuzhi, the secretary of the Criminal Department at that time.

The concept of prostitutes in Chinese history seems to be broader than what we have said. It is carefully divided, and is composed of palace prostitutes, camp prostitutes, official prostitutes, domestic prostitutes and folk prostitutes. Among them, the official is a prostitute who worships officials in ancient times, and in order to cater to the needs of civil officials, they need to know poetry, calligraphy, piano and painting.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, there were official prostitutes waiting for official banquets, but officials were not allowed to prostitute themselves. But don't think that they are superior to others with an official character, they still have to serve people with sex, entertain people with vocal music, and even if they get married and have children, they must engage in cheap jobs for generations. Some official prostitutes are working in prostitution, but they have a strong desire in their hearts to be good, to get rid of prostitution, and to restore human dignity and rights. But even so, he was discriminated against for the rest of his life. It is worth mentioning that Li Xiuzhi's biological mother Huang was a good official, and later with the special approval of Shizu, she was crowned the Jun of Anxiu County and the Lady of Jiujiang County.

——"The Legal Status of Chinese Women", Qian Muzhi