Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty

For two days in a row, Professor Wan took his daughter to live in the wooden house in Tanggushan, living a leisurely and happy life just like a vacation.Except that I went to a temple at the foot of the mountain to burn incense on the first day, asked the presiding monk to consecrate the jade ring on my daughter's wrist, went to see a nearby Tibetan doctor, and sat there for an hour, and did not communicate with the outside world. have any dealings. Professor Wan originally contacted a well-known local Chinese medicine doctor who had treated him before.Unfortunately, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine went to Tianjin for a visit, and it would take a day before he could come back.Except for the symbolic hunting and so-called forest bathing near the wooden house, the father and daughter spend most of their time chatting in the wooden house.

Although Zhao Hongyu's body is still relatively weak and unable to go hiking, she is still obsessed with hunting.This was her first time hunting. Although there were only rabbits, pheasants, and birds to hunt near the wooden house, and even medium-sized wild boars were hard to find, Zhao Hongyu was able to show off her marksmanship in front of her father. Being able to reap two rabbits and one bird still made her feel very happy and satisfied. For many years, Professor Wan has almost never had the feeling of having a heart-to-heart chat with his family.Being with his daughter this time allowed him to experience the warmth of receiving love and the excitement of giving love.What made him happy was that the daughter did not shy away from all the topics he talked with his daughter, including her daughter's studies and her future career, as well as her daughter's love and her future marriage.

Professor Wan confirmed Shao Kuancheng's position in his daughter's relationship from his daughter's mouth.He had many quarrels and even physical conflicts with this young man who didn't look tough. It can be said that the hostility between the Weng and his son-in-law has reached the point of tearing faces.However, in front of his daughter, Professor Wan still maintained his cautious words and the tolerance of the elders, and did not comment much on Shao Kuancheng, let alone severely criticize him.There is also no such thing as blatantly knowing that the right family is right, but a more roundabout way is adopted to express one's attitude.From the perspective of life planning and career development that young people should have, he tactfully poured water on his daughter's love to cool down, and calmly expressed his disapproval of Shao Kuancheng.

Professor Wan made such enlightenment and advice to her daughter: the ten years from the age of 20 to the age of 30 will be the most critical ten years in a person's life.Where will a person's life be fixed, at what height will he be positioned, whether he will be fulfilled or wasted, whether he will be rich or poor, whether he will be powerful or unknown... In a word, whether he is happy or unlucky depends mainly on how he arranges these ten years time!Time is like an arrow, you must cherish time like gold!First of all, my daughter will soon enter the school to study for graduate school, and soon, she will also study abroad. I don't know how many years it will take to complete this study.After finishing school, he immediately has to manage his father's wealth and accept the test of his career. Before all this has started and he has not set foot on the right track, love is unimportant and must be placed second.

Moreover, once a person's career and status are obtained, they will be stable and last for a lifetime; but once love is obtained, it will quickly become trivial and dull.With a good career, do you need to worry about love?A person who has wealth, status, social prestige and network resources, a successful person who has entered the mainstream society, is it afraid that there will be no elites to pursue him wholeheartedly?Do you still need to care about dicks before success? Of course, Zhao Hongyu understood what his father meant, and his father almost used his personal experience of giving up on love more than 20 years ago to speak out.Although the father expressed his apology to his daughter for his choice back then and made a confession, once this choice was abstracted to the level of values, the father's attitude towards life has not changed.

Of course, Zhao Hongyu could understand her father's BS to Shao Kuancheng, but she just bowed her head as if listening and thinking, without expressing her position and not agreeing.She didn't explain for Shao Kuancheng either, she obviously didn't want to talk too much about her love and marriage.If getting married was not an urgent matter, she would not be in a hurry to persuade her father, disobeying her father, and having disputes and debates with her father during this leisurely "holiday" in this beautiful mountain. After entering the mountain, although Zhao Hongyu's spirit has improved a lot, her physical strength has not yet recovered, so she can't stay up all night, and she becomes exhausted shortly after dinner every day, so she has to go to bed.After her father left her bedroom, she sent a few messages to Shao Kuancheng as usual. First, she briefly reported her physical condition and the daily activities of the father and daughter. Watching Shao Kuancheng have a few intimate words, teasing the poor in various ways, laughing and cursing, it is also happy.Shao Kuancheng was full of energy at night, begging for more chats, and even begging for a call, Zhao Hongyu couldn't keep his eyelids open, after a few rounds, he had to beg good night, and then the phone turned silent, and soon fell asleep.

That night, Shao Kuancheng stayed in the guest house of the Tanggu County Public Security Bureau, and said good night to Zhao Hongyu, so he didn't feel sleepy.After reporting to Li Jinxin that he was safe, he lay on the bed and watched TV alone, and changed channels for a long time in boredom, but chose to watch "Tang History Lecture Forum" on Xijing TV. After watching several episodes of "Tang History Lecture Forum", Shao Kuancheng gradually realized that the personality of Professor Wan in the camera and Professor Wan in reality is actually very different.Professor Wan, who talks eloquently on the podium, has an elegant demeanor, benevolent eyebrows, gestures, and smiles. He is definitely a gentle, courteous, thrifty and elegant elder.In reality, however, Professor Wan is self-respecting, self-defensive, inviolable, and sometimes even domineering, not calm at all, and somewhat market-like in his bones.Abandoning his "wife" and daughter back then, and being in harmony with Lin Baiyu for many years, it shows that Professor Wan is a very realistic person, and many choices are made according to the needs of reality.He didn't know whether his evaluation of Professor Wan was mixed with personal likes and dislikes.In fact, he was very entangled in treating Professor Wan like this. If there were no accidents, Professor Wan would become his father-in-law in a few years, and he would have to call him "Daddy".At that time, if the "Weng and son-in-law" were still so prejudiced and harbored such grievances, wouldn't it feel like being called "father"?

This issue of "Lecture Forum" talked about the end of the prosperous Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and the palace fights intensified.Prince Li Qing, who was carried out of the palace by King Ning more than ten years ago, has grown up, changed his name to Mao, and named him King Shou.His mother, Concubine Wu Hui, the quasi-empress, chose a folk girl as his wife for the longevity king Li Mao in order to prevent the aristocratic forces from infiltrating the harem. After summoning the girl for the first time and being satisfied with the girl, Concubine Wu Hui gave the girl a white Yuhuan was used as an engagement gift, because the name of this folk girl surnamed Yang is Yuhuan.

Looking back at the Tang Dynasty today, more than a thousand years later, there are undoubtedly two women who are the most famous.One is Wu Zetian, who ousted Emperor Li Tang and replaced him, and the other is Yang Yuhuan, who made the Li Tang Dynasty completely decline.And standing between these two most legendary women is Concubine Wu Hui who saved and continued the prominent position of the Wu clan and chose her heir.Concubine Wu Hui has ruled the harem for nearly twenty years. Although she finally won the brutal struggle with the Queen's Party and the Princeling Party, the public opinion of later generations praised her more and less. And literary works are also evil.According to Professor Wan, the reason is that, firstly, historians of all dynasties adhered to the orthodox view of history, and all the historical figures who seized their descendants by concubines were less favorable; It is obviously unfair to do a thorough study.From the perspective of the political role of historical figures, the Wu family accompanied Tang Xuanzong for 20 years. The government was enlightened, the officials were clean, and the world was open to the outside world.Compared with Yang Guifei, who was later in chaos in the Tang Dynasty, it is enough to infer that Wu's formation of the Kaiyuan prosperity undoubtedly produced positive energy.Therefore, Professor Wan believes that the historical role of Concubine Wu Hui should be considered and judged in a new way, based on the general situation and ordering out of chaos.

Although Concubine Wu Hui was politically independent, she chose Yang Yuhuan as her daughter-in-law, which objectively laid the root of disaster for the future direction of the Li Tang Dynasty.Not only does Yang Yuhuan resemble her mother-in-law in appearance, but she is also good at singing and dancing, and her talents are not inferior to Concubine Hui.A few years later, Concubine Hui passed away, and Tang Xuanzong missed Concubine Hui so much that he exchanged wives with his son, and gave Li Mao a beautiful woman, and took his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan as his concubine to replace Concubine Hui, filling the emptiness.A few years later, Yang Yuhuan was famous through the ages with the great poet Bai Juyi, while Concubine Wu Hui was placed on the edge of official history and almost forgotten.

This issue of "Tang Poetry Lecture Forum" really shocked Shao Kuancheng. Only then did he know that Tang Minghuang's favorite concubine Yang Guifei was actually his daughter-in-law, and had been married to his biological son for five years.This kind of historical fact made him petrified for a long time, and he has been in the fortress for a long time. I don't know how many such unethical stories in history make people dumbfounded.According to Professor Wan's explanation: the emperor surnamed Li in the Tang Dynasty was from a minority ethnic group in the Northwest. He was not as strict with Confucian ethics as the Han people in the Central Plains.If you use the current concept and use the current language to evaluate, Tang Xuanzong seized the love of his son, it is really against the sky, it is too weird!However, there is no criticism or condemnation in all the history books of later generations, and Bai Juyi even sang and praised three times, which shows that history is not ashamed of this matter, but proud of it. Professor Wan said: Li Qing changed his name to Mao, named Shouwang, returned to Daming Palace from his father's order, and set a lifelong life with Yang Yuhuan from his mother's order.According to unofficial legends, after returning to the court, King Shou Wang Li Mao was attacked, robbed and killed by unknown armed forces during a tour, and survived only by the desperate protection of his guards.At this time, Queen Wang has long been deposed, and Wu's suspicion can only be pointed at Prince Li Ying and his party. If it is said that for many years, the Wu family has always been conservative in the struggle against the queens and princelings, then this time, she took the initiative to attack.There are many records in Tang history about Wu's conspiracy to abolish the crown prince and replace him with Li Mao. Regardless of whether it is true or not, it should be a fact that Wu and the princelings had been feuding for a long time until it became a fire and a fire. Ever since she was conferred the title of Concubine Hui, the Wu family already had a lot of followers in the harem of the Tang Dynasty, and it was not difficult for people to spread rumors in a planned way.As a result, there were rumors in the palace that some internal guards attempted to rebel and the emperor was in danger, and then Prime Minister Li Linfu and other important officials asked the emperor to take measures to strengthen the guards and security of the palace.In 737 A.D., when the time was ripe, Concubine Wu Hui found a person trusted by the princelings to deliver a message to Prince Li Ying, King Guang Li Ju, and King E Li Yao, saying that someone in the palace was making trouble and the emperor could not bear to be disturbed, so she begged the prince to unite the two The prince entered the palace to clear up the chaotic party.Li Ying, Li Ju, Li Yao and others quickly led their subordinates into the Daming Palace with weapons, claiming to be escorted by the order. Concubine Wu Hui immediately told the emperor that the prince led the crowd to force the palace to rebel. Ju, Li Yao and others were disarmed and detained, and the prince was therefore deposed.This is the famous Three Kings Incident in history.Although Concubine Wu Hui's son did not get the crown prince, the Three Kings Incident was undoubtedly the last battle of the Wu family's struggle against dissidents, marking the end of the battle for the harem during the Kaiyuan period. Thirteen hundred years later, in this remote town far away from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, in this public security guest house in the small town, in the dead of night, Shao Kuancheng is still unable to sleep because of this long-disappeared palace battle.He thought, the more people are at the pinnacle of power, the more people are at the pinnacle of wealth, will they be happier or less fortunate? Logically speaking, power, status and wealth will definitely be accompanied by endless brilliance and wanton enjoyment, but from a historical point of view, all intrigues, struggles, traps and accidents also complement each other and occur in direct proportion to power and wealth.Pursuing to be happier than others is human nature. Of course, this nature has animal genes. Judging from this law, various positions and weights, all kinds of wealth are equivalent to each other, and the life of countless powerful people is also a life full of struggle and strife!The animal rule of the jungle will definitely be more intense and explicit.These are all stories. Ordinary ordinary people, little people in the food and clothing class, can't understand it!But the relatively peaceful ordinary life of little people may be the true interpretation of happiness.