Chapter 4: The Tang Princess (I)
In the eighth year of the Tang Dynasty, I was born in a palace room in Daxing Palace. My father was Li Shimin, the emperor of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who was admired by later emperors. Oh, calling my father by his name was disrespectful at the time, and he would be punished for bullying and his head would be cut off. However, time has long passed, and many people mention their father's name when they talk about wine and talk.
In the eyes of the world, I am the proud daughter of heaven who was born with a golden spoon in her mouth, and I should be envied and admired by the world.
However, the truth is often quite different from what appears to be. Behind the glamorous and superior life, there is blood and slaughter, full of sadness and helplessness.
Although my father was busy with political affairs, he was full of energy. Therefore he had many wives and concubines, and many children. In the royal family, the branches are luxuriant and the people are prosperous, which is a symbol of great luck.
Among the Han people, men are respected and women are inferior. Although the father's lineage contains the blood of the Hu people, it is also unprecedentedly consistent with the Han people in this regard.
All my royal brothers and royal brothers, they were given names by their fathers. When you grow up, you can be crowned a king and knighted if you make a little achievement. And we, the girls, were casually given an empty title by our father and sent away. Of course, there are exceptions, the princesses born to the noble eldest grandson empress, and the father and emperor have carefully named and blessed them one by one.
Changshan was given to me by my father long after I was born. These two words are not only my name, but also my title, and these two words represent everything about me.
Ha, from the name, you can see the inequality of the emperor's house, and you can see what kind of fate I will suffer.
I was raised in a palace nursery since I was a child, and I was raised by my grandmother in the palace. I left my mother at birth, and until I grew up, I didn't know who my birth mother was, and I didn't meet her.
I have never received love from my father. Ten years after I was born, the eldest grandson, Empress, who was loved by my father and the emperor, passed away. The whole love world of my father collapsed, and he lived in remembrance of the eldest grandson queen all day long.
Sometimes I really envy Mingda and Brother Jiu. also lost their mother at a young age, but because of their mother, they got all the love of their father.
Mingda is a year older than me, she is quiet and introverted, and she has an excellent temper. The most rare thing is that she will never put a stinky shelf in front of me because of her father's love.
It can be said that the existence of Mingda has added a ray of sunshine to my gloomy childhood life, and made me feel a trace of warmth in this cold harem.
People who have come into contact with Mingda, whether it is a minister above the court or a palace maid and eunuch in the court, they all say that Mingda is very much like the eldest grandson queen. She is the most like the eldest grandson queen among the many children of the eldest grandson, both in terms of personality and appearance.
In my young heart, Empress Changsun is simply a god, a Nuwa Niangniang-like existence. She has a worldly appearance, a modest and gentle character, so she has won the love of her father.
Sometimes I really complain to God why he didn't let me be born three or five years early. If this is the case, I will be able to be raised by the eldest grandson queen herself, like Sister Yuzhang, and bathed in her kind maternal love.
The morning when I met Mingda, even after thousands of years, is still very clearly imprinted in my mind. That day, Princess Changle went back to the palace to visit her father, because her father went to the early dynasty in the morning, and she took Mingda to play in the Taiye Pool.