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Chapter 9 Chapter 7 The Son of Heaven incarnated as a Whore——Yuan He Gong Bian was an Eunuch and King Killer

Walking out of the smoky Xingtang Temple, let us go south through the entire Chang'an city until we reach the Qujiang River in the southeast corner of Chang'an.From another angle, let's see what happened. The flowers drop dew, the willow shakes the smoke, and Qujiang Pond is the season when the smoke is bright and the swallows are flowing.Tourists in twos and threes linger among Taoqi and Liumo, and there is a kind of enchanting style of "smoke moves between flowers and leaves, fragrance flows immediately". A nun temple is hidden in the west of Fangcao Island in Qujiang Pond.Evening drums and morning bells did not ring, and there was silence inside and outside the Buddhist hall in the afternoon.There were only a few frivolous women, surrounded by a beautiful woman, surrounded by the release pool, chatting and laughing secretly from time to time.Bend your tender and soft fingers, tap on the water sill, and countless fish and turtles gather in the sparkling water.Seeing their naive ways of wagging their heads and swaying their tails for food, the beauty leaning on the railing laughed, not noticing at all that those frivolous women were winking behind her, as if some farce was about to happen.

We really don't want to mention the real name of the victim of this farce, so let's call this beautiful heroine by her hometown "Hejian". The Glazed Vatican Palace and Jade Abode in front of him are all so novel in He Jian's eyes.She stays with her widowed mother-in-law all year round, and almost never goes out, let alone visits Qujiang.In the deep boudoir, she wasted so much time by being an endless number of female celebrities, and also won her a good reputation among relatives and friends as chastity and tranquility.Those frivolous women beside him are relatives of Hejian's husband's family.They often visit their mother-in-law at home.But Hejian was disturbed by their obscene expressions, and always kept away from them.These rascals couldn't understand Hejian's attitude of being alone and alone, and always wanted to drag her into the quagmire.More than a year ago, they invited Hejian to see the newly painted murals in the Buddhist temple in the south of the city.When He Jian took his seat in the Buddhist hall, he heard the coughing sound of a strange man faintly coming from the room.He Jian, who was still sitting still, fled in fright.Today, the three aunts and six wives who haven't been to the house for a long time came to invite again.Unable to resist her mother-in-law's repeated requests, Hejian reluctantly agreed to accompany them to visit the scenery of Qujiang.

At some point, the people around him quietly dispersed.Hejian didn't notice it, he was fascinated to look up at the treasured appearance and Buddha's face, and walked to the depths of the corridor.When she suddenly realized the ambiguity in the air, the crystal curtain had quietly come down, completely separating her from the red vine, the green berry moss, and the sunlight outside.Behind the curtain, there were faint moans and gasps that seemed to be ecstasy.Hejian, who had been married for many years, could of course hear what that sound was.There was a flash of red tide on the face of surprise.She wanted to leave, but the verandah, which was originally empty, was covered with rolling curtains, and she opened layer after layer, and she couldn't find the way she came.

In panic, Hejian suddenly felt a burst of hot breath on the back of her bare neck, itching, arousing her desire.She hurriedly turned around, and the naked male body came into view.He Jian didn't know why, but his eyes subconsciously slid towards the lower body of the strange and beautiful boy.His gaze was stuck in shame, and he couldn't shake it off. A pair of powerful arms hugged Hejian into his broad chest.The masculine aura like musk deer and orchid rushed towards her face, obliterating her and suffocating her, giving her a feeling of being overwhelmed.Hejian wanted to struggle, but was so powerless, so she had no choice but to drift with the current, letting the imaginary wind take off her clothes, skirts, and socks... In a daze, some people laughed, some scolded, and some whispered in her ears .

In the tide of pleasure, the naked Hejian shed tears. In the early morning of the next day, those family scoundrels came to the door of Hejian's room with smirks that had succeeded in plotting, wanting to see the shameful face of this well-known virgin.Unexpectedly, the door was still closed.Behind the door, the laughter and laughter that rang all night still did not stop.Hejian's body fully bloomed in the cloud of greasy rain, as if to make up for the lost happiness in the dull nights of the past.The people outside the door were stunned for a moment, no one thought that the joy of fish and water overnight would change a person so completely.

When dusk came quietly, He Jian hadn't come out yet.Those relatives who plotted in every possible way and wanted to tarnish Hejian's chastity began to panic.If she didn't go back, her husband's family would know about He Jian's affair.Under their begging, Hejian lingered for another night before reluctantly getting up when the day came.Before getting into the car, she turned around abruptly, and hugged the exhausted beautiful boy tightly, leaving tooth marks on his arm, talking as a token of two nights of romance. More than a year later, a small wine shop was opened in the southwest corner of a certain Lifang in Chang'an.When Tao Ran, the drinkers passing by, toasted, he would never have guessed that a pair of lustful eyes were secretly sizing up their faces and muscles through the small holes in the wall.Every day, there will be strong drinkers who are called away by the red-sleeved girls.Step into the fragrant inner room.Through the light veil, they vaguely saw a plump and white body...

That is the famous virgin Hejian in the past.Her husband has been killed by her.Even the beautiful boy in the Buddhist temple can't bear the endless demands on the bed in the river, like a premature willow, withered and out of shape.Whether it's a sunny day or a late night when the moon is waning and the stars are cold, people in Lifang often hear knocks on the door of Hejian's house that make people think about it again and again.But she still felt the flame of desire burning under every inch of her skin.No one can satisfy her with the rascal men she frequents.Hejian had no choice but to use Kaijiulong as a cover to find a body that could give her a moment of pleasure.After the climax is over, when the drinker slips tiredly from the fiery female body, he will see He Jian, who was dying of ecstasy just a moment ago, put his eyes on the small hole again, lest he miss the next partner...

Ten years have passed, and the exhausted river, like a remnant flower, withered on the bed of clouds and rain. As Helen Laurensen said: "No matter what you call sex, it can't be said to be a noble performance anyway." Liu Zongyuan performed a sex carnival with delicate and coquettish brushstrokes, and also created A major difficulty in Liu Wen's research.Liu Zongyuan therefore became the protagonist of the spittle dispute. Various people have various interpretations: some people say that Liu Zongyuan wrote a legend of sluts similar to Pan Jinlian and Pan Qiaoyun; Later, Qian Daxin, who was also known as "Southern Qian Beiji" with Ji Xiaolan, believed that the unsightly plot implied the truth of "knowing its indecentness, but you can't repay it yourself". A Liu Zongyuan who "understands the way through culture"; a little later, during the Xianfeng period, Lu Yitian told us that the story of Hejian is to warn those women who like to go in and out of Buddhist temples to be careful of how many treasures are hidden behind the solemn Buddha statues. Shameful dirt; in modern times, Zhang Shizhao, who has studied Liu Zongyuan most thoroughly in modern times, simply declared: "He Jian Zhuan" is a fake.

Fake obscene books, insinuations and slander, you name it.Liu Zongyuan therefore became the protagonist of the spittle dispute.Amidst the din, the voice of Hu Yin, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty, attracted special attention: "To slander Xianzong (Li Chun) by satirizing prostitutes who have a beginning but no death." Liu Zongyuan, who has a clear style of writing, wrote such a beautiful and evil article, which already makes people feel paradoxical; Hu Yin's interpretation is even more paradoxical.According to him, the lascivious woman in "Hejian Biography" is used as a metaphor for Li Chun, while the family scoundrels and dissolute men around her are the eunuchs in the Daming Palace——

In the body of indulging in sex, I wrote a secret history that I want to talk about. Why did the masters of ancient prose who learned from three generations describe the emperor at that time in this way?Things should start from Yongzhen inner Zen. Fifteen years back in time, under the coercion of eunuchs Ju Wenzhen, Liu Guangqi, Xue Yingzhen and others, Tang Shunzong (Li Song) Zen was located in Lichun.But Chang'an is still unpredictable.For his own position, under the instigation of the eunuchs, Li Chun showed his butcher knife.Those who might threaten Li Chun's throne died one by one, except the Supreme Emperor in Xianning Palace.

Li Chun hesitated.This is his father after all.When he turned his questioning eyes to Ju Wenzhen and the others, he only looked at pairs of encouraging eyes.At that moment, Li Chun seemed to be that Hejian, surrounded by his husband's relatives and rascals, sitting by the water threshold of the nunnery.Everything that is full of temptation has already been arranged, just waiting for him and her to break through the bottom line that has been stuck for many years.Li Chun waved his hands anxiously, asking everyone around him to leave.He needs a space to calmly think about his situation. It took an unknown amount of time before Li Chun woke up from his contemplation.Ju Wenzhen and the others no longer knew where they had gone.Only Xiao Huangmen Tu Tu Cheng Cui, who had been with him since he was a child, was still on the sidelines. The surname Tutu is said to come from a certain tribe at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.However, this eunuch was a true southerner.When he was young, Tutu Chengcui was brought to Chang'an from remote Fujian, and entered the Eastern Palace.Li Chun has always doted on this sensitive little Huangmen.Such a confidential matter may only be discussed with him.The most alluring thing in the world is sex and power.Power is even more seductive than sex. "Facing the temptation and taboo of the forbidden fruit, no one can pretend to be naive."The young emperor and the young eunuch whispered for a long time before they made up their minds. Looking at the back of Tu Tu Cheng Cui hurrying away, the young Li Chun couldn't stop crying—the coat of benevolence, morality, loyalty, filial piety and shame was peeled off layer by layer, revealing a flesh full of sin and blood. Perhaps, only the pleasure of having power can make up for this inner pain. After receiving the message from Tutu Chengcui, Ju Wenzhen quickly arranged everything.A few days later, Li Chun's father passed away. His temple name was Shunzong, and his posthumous title was Emperor Zhide Da'an Xiao. The initial posthumous title of Tang Taizong (Li Shimin) was only one word: "Emperor Wen"; the initial posthumous title of Tang Gaozu (Li Yuan) was only two words: "Emperor Dawu".Tang Shunzong, who had a very short reign, had such a long initial posthumous title. "The number is the watch of merit."Some people say that Li Chun used the first posthumous title with the most words in the Tang Dynasty to express his guilt towards his father. Wang Shuwen died, and so did Wang Niu.Their good friends Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi escaped the slaughter, but like the rest of the Eight Sima, they took the skinny donkey to win the servant and embarked on the journey of thousands of miles.As they parted, they drank one glass after another.Until today, the poets who are not drunk from the cup know that it is true that "the wine is too thin to be hated."Under the setting sun, the carved plates and wine vessels were in a mess.The two frustrated people staggered, stood up, and disappeared in the lonely wind and smoke. Decades later, time has passed, and the parties have passed away.As the last person among the two kings and eight Sima, the poet Liu Yuxi wrote the eight words "Jianhuan Lishun, credit to noble ministers" in "Liu Zi's Autobiography", citing the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty who punished and killed ministers and supported Emperor Shun , Emperor Huan's allusion, to compare Yongzhen's inner Zen, and tell us a story that is likely to be the truth. After Yongzhen's inner Zen was sold out, Ju Wenzhen was promoted to the general of Youwei.However, compared to Tu Tu Cheng Cui, they are not as good.The formerly unknown little Huangmen turned into the hottest eunuch in Chang'an.In a few years, he was given the title of regular attendant, learned internal affairs, and was named the general of the Zuo Jianmen. He skyrocketed, surpassed many senior eunuchs with more senior qualifications, and became the powerful lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army. Just as Liu Zongyuan was trekking thousands of miles to Shaozhou, he received another imperial edict.Li Chun, who was still unsatisfied, exiled him to Yongzhou, which is more remote and less populated. In the mountains and mountains in the south of the sky, fallen leaves rot, insects and snakes rot and die, and after the steaming heat, the air turns into filthy air.According to the legend of the barbarians, the poison lurking in the ground has been lurking for a long time, and it is a spirit and a monster, exhaling and swallowing clouds in the deep forest: the poisonous gas spit out from the mouth of the black frog is the so-called "black frog miasma"; The poisonous gas ejected from the snake's snout is called "long insect miasma".Some people also said that there is a kind of fairy miasma, which flickers a creepy light in the deep forest at night. Li Chun just wanted to take this opportunity to quietly get rid of this literary giant who stood on the opposite side of him.Accompanying Liu Zongyuan was his mother Lu, who was nearly seventy years old.An aging body cannot withstand sudden bumps and hardships.Half a year later, the old man died in the demolition camp. Ten years of smog and rain caused Liu Zongyuan to "shake his knees when he walks, and paralyze his legs when he sits."In February of the tenth year of Yuanhe, when he returned to Chang'an again, he was prematurely old.But Li Chun's dislike for Liu Zongyuan remained the same.In late spring and March, together with Liu Yuxi, he embarked on the road to relegation again.This time, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to be the governor of Liuzhou, and Liu Yuxi was going to the deserted Bozhou.Thinking of his good friend and his eighty-year-old mother to take care of him, Liu Zongyuan had to write to the court several times, requesting to exchange demotions with Liu Yuxi.But there is no news.Taking the opportunity of entering the palace to meet the emperor, Pei Du also mentioned that Liu Yuxi's mother is old, but it is unbearable to say goodbye to her son who has been relegated to the wild.After hearing this, Li Chun said coldly: "As a son of man, you should act cautiously so as not to worry your relatives; in this case, Liu Yuxi must be blamed even more!" Pei Du tactfully persuaded: Your Majesty serves the Empress Dowager with filial piety, and should show more mercy to Liu Yuxi. Only then did Li Chun resentfully say: What I said was just to blame the son, and I didn't want to make his mother sad. In this way, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Lianzhou. Outside the long pavilion, Liu Zongyuan bid farewell to his best friend, and went on horseback.This time, we will never see each other again.Amidst the solitude and smoke in the sky, two people were left waving their hands in a desolate gesture of farewell. "Eastern wind is full of spring, and the willows in the flower city are sad for a few people"-a Yuanhe era full of spring, it seems that it has nothing to do with Liu Zongyuan who is full of worries.There is no time to resolve the entanglement between him and Li Chun. In a certain corner of the poor mountains and rivers, Liu Zongyuan wrote "Hejian Biography" with a pen.That was his curse on Li Chun's fate, and it was also a prophecy.Extremely private subject matter, hidden political public statement.He wants to use Hejian's obscene experiences to hint at people: Li Chun was tempted by an eunuch and committed a crime, but he will eventually die at the hands of the eunuch, after repeated struggles. Liu Zongyuan foresaw that: on the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, at the end of the time when the dust and smoke dissipated, he was waiting for Li Chun. That day, the huge shadow cast by Zique Danlou in the last slanting light of the cold day was like a monster that had been dead for a long time, laying its corpse horizontally on the cold brick floor in front of the Zhonghe Hall.The embroidered tassels and chinchillas are nothing but three-dimensional shadows, straddling the days and nights of the year. Another corpse of a young eunuch in yellow was dragged out of the shadow of the Hall of Central Harmony, leaving a long bloodstain on the brick floor. The eunuchs and court ladies watched silently, their hearts filled with sorrow.The passing day is so difficult for those in the center and the temple.After taking the elixir sent by Liu Bi uninterruptedly, Li Chun, who had been absent from court for several months, fell into a state of mania, restlessness, and even madness.He danced and scratched in the air with his hands, as if he wanted to tear everything in front of him into pieces.A word spoken when it should not be said, a movement made when it should not be done, even a look, a gasp, will bring death. Li Chun gasped heavily, staring at the blood-red eyes, scanning the people around the hall like a wolf, catching every opportunity that could make him vent his anxiety. kill him!Kill this slave! Li Chun's hysterical roar echoed in the air of Zhonghe Hall.People can't remember how many victims this is. Li Chun on the sickbed breathed heavily the bloody air, as if the cold bloody smell could extinguish the fire fueled by lead and mercury in his heart.No one knows which weak life will be devoured by the scorching heart fire at the next moment.The palace man and the eunuch who were on the verge of collapse exchanged glances silently, but they saw Sesuo's figure in each other's pupils.The entire Zhonghe Temple was filled with a tense atmosphere where everyone was in danger. Suddenly, a little eunuch who couldn't stand the torture and collapsed screamed frantically, ran away with his head in his arms, escaped from the Hall of Central Harmony, and fled to a place far, far away... The remaining few trembling eunuchs curled up in the corner, begging their eyes to Chen Hongzhi, the servant hidden behind the palace pillar. But Chen Hongzhi seemed to be ignorant, looking at the three or two osmanthus trees on the side of the Zhonghe Hall with ecstasy-these plants have withered for nearly a hundred years.Nobody would propose digging up the once-scented remains.There are too many inexplicable taboos in the weird palace.In order to dig up lifeless flower trees, to destroy the feng shui of the emperor's house, or to offend the unknowable divine way, it is really useless.The dead osmanthus tree is odorless and colorless, as an old prop left over from a bygone era, it is abandoned in the palace pot lacking greenery. After a long time, Chen Hongzhi sighed, and slowly moved his eyes away from the tangled branches of the dead laurel tree. A suffocating afternoon will always remind people of stories they have heard before for no reason. Chen Hongzhi seemed to see that the curtain hanging from the ground absorbed all the light from the sky and the earth, leaving a space with almost no light for the people on the sickbed.That was the palace in Luoyang decades ago, which was falling to the hands of Hebei rebels. The thin figure flickered and disappeared into the darkness of the inner room.A moment later, a cold face poked out from behind the curtain.The dimly lit eyes stared straight at the bloated body on the bed. In his sleep, An Lushan turned sideways with great difficulty.This simple action has already made obese people breathless.In an old dream for a long time, he would be spitting and haggling with Hu merchants in the tooth market, dragging Khitan captives and galloping across the long grass, and dancing in the flickering eyes of Concubine Yang Guipan... all over his body. The malignant sore was stinging again, and An Lushan called out in a low voice in the half-dream and half-awake: Li Zhuer. Behind the curtain, there was still that expressionless face. Looking at An Lushan, who has a big belly and sagging knees, it is hard for us to imagine that he can perform the difficult Hu Xuan dance in the most rapid beat.The bloated body and enchanting dancing posture symbolize a decadent body legend.After getting off the red pole, An Lushan returned to his clumsy original shape, and even for simple actions such as changing clothes, he had to rely on Li Zhuer.When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty gave soup to bathe in Huaqing Palace, he made an exception and allowed Li Zhuer to enter the pool to undress An Lushan. From the bottom of his heart, Li Zhu'er could feel the master's love.He has always had mixed feelings of resentment and gratitude for this old, sick and intrusive hero on the bed.If it weren't for Anlu Mountain, Li Zhu'er might still be a free and poor Khitan, herding sheep, singing songs, and multiplying his offspring under the vast sky.However, An Lushan swept him from the desert to Youzhou thousands of miles away.That's how fate changed.An Lushan liked this well-behaved Khitan boy.One day, he suddenly operated the knife himself and pinned Li Zhu'er to the ground.Li Zhu'er, who was bleeding several times, woke up leisurely, and saw An Lushan holding up his cuffs, carefully applying plant ash to the wound on his lower body.After being castrated, Li Zhuer has been following his master. Cancerous sores, obesity, and anxiety after the rebellion afflicted An Lushan, who was dying.After Yuyang rebelled, his eye disease became more and more serious.The world dimmed day by day in his eyes, and finally there was nothing left.His temper was even more irritable, and if he was unhappy, he would lash out at the slaves around him.Li Zhuer, who is the most beloved, is also the one who has been flogged the most. Li Zhuer, who was behind the invisible curtain, subconsciously stroked his bruises all over his body.The burning pain aroused his anger.The other hand gently pressed the handle of the knife... An Lushan suddenly woke up from his light sleep.Facing the approaching danger, the hero who has half his life as a soldier has a natural vigilance.The knife in Li Zhuer's hand could not be seen through the cloudy eyes, but the imaginary eyes were always glaring.Beside the pillow, there should have been a sharp saber.An Lushan turned his hand over suddenly, but he didn't touch anything.In a split second, Li Zhu'er raised the knife in his hand, and the blade slashed fiercely at An Lushan's huge abdomen.The blind patient frantically shook the pole beside the bed.In the final twitch, An Lushan uttered a long, creepy howl like a wounded wolf: House thief!House thief... The bed was covered with bloody intestines; the dark red blood flowed several buckets, dripping, and was still dripping from the bed; the corpse wrapped in felt, and the newly dug a few feet deep pit-- Chen Hongzhi, who was immersed in the bloody imagination, shivered involuntarily: it was another cold first month, and another hysterical master. The setting sun was setting like a blood fetus behind the Zhu Gongwan tree, and the Penglai Pond shone with light like fish scales.The setting sun elongated the projection of the osmanthus tree, superimposed with the figure of Chen Hongzhi, like Li Zhuer's ghost.In the cold evening wind, he couldn't help shivering again. The people of Baitougong told Li Zhuer's story vividly.The old events more than 60 years ago still make people unable to distinguish between today and night, lost in the plot of reverse loop. With an uneasy mood, Chen Hongzhi was still waiting for his moment to appear.However, Liang Shouqian, Lieutenant of the Right Shence Army, and Wang Shoucheng, the privy envoy, were sent out for a long time, but they did not return. For many years, Liang Shouqian served successively as the Minister of Internal Affairs, the envoy of the Academy of Sciences, the Order of the Yeting Bureau, and the Minister of Internal Affairs.In the fourth year of Yuanhe, he entered the core circle of power in Chang'an with the "general privy office".When begging Wu Yuanji in Huaixi, Liang Shouqian was going to recruit the capital prison. "Ming of Gongde" even exaggeratedly praised him as "seven out of ten for destroying Cai".After returning to Chang'an, Liang Shouqian was transferred to the position of Lieutenant of the Right Army of the Shence Army, holding half of Chang'an's troops. Wang Shoucheng is another notable eunuch in this period of history.The fifteenth year of Yuanhe was just his first appearance on the stage of history.For the next decade or so, the position of eunuch leader will belong to Wang Shoucheng.The two of them, together with Ma Jintan, Cui Tanjun, Liu Chengkai, and Wei Yuanyuan, are all eunuchs that Li Chun loves very much.At the moment they are standing behind the scenes, inciting Chen Hongzhi in the Hall of Zhonghe to play the role of the legendary Li Zhuer.Without them, Chen Hongzhi would not have dared to act rashly in the Hall of Central Harmony.Because he was afraid of Zuo Shence Army Lieutenant Tutu Chengcui. Conventionally speaking, the lieutenant of the left army is above the lieutenant of the right army.Tutu Chengcui's holy family is also far above Liang Shouqian and others.In the fourth year of Yuanhe, Li Chun attacked Chengzong, the king of Chengde.The commander he chose was Tu Tu Cheng Cui.There was an uproar with a decree.Memorials flew like snowflakes.Appointing Tutu Chengcui as the commander-in-chief was a personnel arrangement that the scholar-bureaucrats could not accept, but could not be changed in the end.In order to deal with these spitting ministers, Li Chun changed the title of envoy of the four soldiers and horses who had spit out Chengcui to envoy of comfort.On the day of the expedition, the emperor personally visited the gate tower of Tonghua to see him off. In a dark corner, there is still a villain hiding evil intentions——Lu Congshi, the governor of Zhaoyi Jiedu.At the beginning, it was he who wrote a letter to offer advice, vowing to regain Hebei.As soon as he turned around, he quietly colluded with Wang Chengzong again.When the armies from all walks of life encircled Chengde, Lu Congshi himself stayed behind, but falsely accused the Jiedu envoys of all walks of life for collaborating with the enemy, and spread rumors everywhere that they could not enter the army, secretly driving up the price of millet, which made it difficult for the imperial army to supply.Lu Congshi did not expect that his figure jumping up and down fell into Li Chun's eyes.After thinking for a long time, the unbearable emperor sent someone to Tutu Chengcui with a secret decree. Lu Congshi and Tutu Chengcui's camp are facing each other and are close at hand.In his eyes, this prominent eunuch is just a fool around the emperor, as ignorant and incompetent as a baby.Lu Congshi didn't take Tutu Chengcui seriously.Tutu Chengcui was also very quiet, and often gave Lu Congshi some treasures from Chang'an, and the two soon became close friends.Who would have thought that behind the smiling Tutu Chengcui, a group of strong men with sharp knives had quietly lurked in the curtain.When Lu Congshi stepped into the big tent, soldiers surrounded him and knocked him to the ground.The left and right guards who followed Lu Congshi had already killed more than ten people on the spot before they understood what was going on.Several strong men dragged Lu Congshi to the tent, tied him up with a rope, stuffed him into a prison cart, and drove to the capital under the cover of night.It was not yet clear, and the Lulu prison van left the jurisdiction of Zhaoyi Town early. Capturing Lu Congshi alive did not save the failure of this expedition.After all, Tutu Chengcui still came back in defeat.However, the emperor's favor for him has not changed.Li Jiang, a Hanlin scholar, accused Tutu Chengcui of being domineering in person.But Li Chun was very unhappy and said: "Your words are too much!" Later, Sun Yu, the general of Yulin, bribed Liu Xiguang, the bow and arrow treasury envoy Liu Xiguang, with 20,000 yuan, in order to seek the position of Jiedu envoy.After the case was revealed, Liu Xiguang was bestowed dead by Li Chun.But people believe that he is just a handyman.Behind him is Tu Tu Cheng Cui, who is extremely powerful.This time, Li Chun couldn't find any reason to excuse his favorite eunuch, and asked Li Jiang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, angrily: How about Zhen Tu Tu Tu Cheng Cui? Li Jiang said respectfully: Outsiders did not expect His Majesty to do this. Li Chun pretended to be relaxed and said: He is just a domestic slave, and it is as light as a feather for me to go! Some people say that this shows the majesty of the emperor; others say that this sentence reveals his contempt for eunuchs.I think they all misunderstood what Li Chun meant.Under the pretentiously harsh words, there is clearly an intimacy that cannot be concealed.After the edict came down, Tutu Chengcui was released to the Huainan Supervisory Army. A few years later, Tutu Chengcui returned to Chang'an, and became a lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army.During the months when Li Chun was ill, he frequently went in and out of the Hall of Central Harmony.Every time he entered the pilgrimage, he had to talk with the emperor in secret for a long time.No one knew how the monarch and his ministers had so much to say.But Liang Shouqian and others knew what Tutu Chengcui had said to Li Chun: He wanted Li Chun to choose Li Kuan, the prince Li Kuan whom he admired—the Yongzhen Inner Zen fifteen years ago, and Tutu Chengcui won Li Chun's favor. Favourite; Fifteen years later, he wanted to monopolize Yidai's achievements.Liang Shouqian and others who have been at a disadvantage for many years can no longer sit back and watch Tutu Chengcui's plot succeed.They can't change Li Chun's love for Tutu Chengcui.However, they can use the butcher's knife to change Li Chun's fate. Just like fifteen years ago, the eunuch Ju Wenzhen couldn't change Li Chun's father's trust in Er Wang Ba Sima, so he changed the target of attack to the emperor. Tutu Chengcui's foundation is still shallow, and the wealth and poverty are all tied to Li Chun.With him around, nothing that would hurt Li Chun would ever happen.The tens of thousands of Zuo Shence troops under his command are stationed outside the Zuoyintai Gate of Daming Palace.Once the plot to murder the emperor is revealed, the wolf-like Shence Army will tear Chen Hongzhi to pieces.Before doing anything, Tutu Chengcui must be killed; and the knife that kills Tutu Chengcui is held in Liang Shouqian's hands—only the Youshence Army outside the Nine Immortals Gate and Youyintai Gate can contend with the Left Army . Unknowingly, the fragmented sky divided by the messy dead branches of the osmanthus tree is dimming little by little, and the suffocating day is coming to an end.Chen Hongzhi's figure was slightly blackened by the twilight.With the sound of footsteps in the distance, his heart beat violently, as if it was about to jump out of his chest.There must be important news from Liang Shouqian and Wang Shoucheng.He suppressed his flustered mood, and quickly walked up to him. At this moment, another important character in the story is hurrying into the Daming Palace through the night. For several days, Zuo Jun Lieutenant Tutu Chengcui has been restless. "The Doctrine of the Mean" says: When a country is about to perish, there must be evildoers.But when that person was about to be defeated, why couldn't the figure and shadow of the evildoer be faintly visible? There is a secret room in Tutu Chengcui's private residence, which houses confidential manuscripts such as imperial edicts.One morning a few days ago, he pushed open the door as usual and walked into the secret room with red beams and powder walls.The scene in front of him stunned him.On the brick floor, two feet long hair grew overnight, and the gorgeous secret room was a barren scene.It took half a day for the stunned Tutu Chengcui to come back to his senses.Deep down in his heart, he vaguely felt that this was not an auspicious sign.After hesitating for a moment, Tutu Chengcui turned around and backed out, closing the door quietly behind him. Tutu Chengcui did not tell anyone about the weird scene in the secret room.He quietly took a pair of dustpans, and personally removed the ground hairs in the room bit by bit, and then secretly buried them in an unknown place.In the spring of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, which was full of crises, Tutu Chengcui didn't want to see this strange incident being exaggerated and causing disturbances all over the city. A few days later, the nephew secretly told Tutu Chengcui that he saw two young men who had just returned from the Gongyuan outside the gate of Anshang, talking and laughing about the messy hair in the lieutenant's house... When he said After that, he raised his eyes, just in time to see Tu Tucheng's frightened eyes. The long hairs in the secret room add a touch of ghost to the uninvited disaster. In the existing historical materials, there is no clue that a bloody battle broke out in Daming Palace on the night of the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month.According to speculation, Liang Shouqian, Lieutenant of the Right Shence Army, got the news of Li Chun's death immediately.After discussing with the eunuchs Ma Jintan and Wang Shoucheng, he blocked the news and summoned Tutu Chengcui into Daming Palace. After Li Chun took the elixir, he was ill for more than a month, but his condition was not serious.Therefore, Tutu Chengcui did not expect that "something serious happened" and entered the palace happily. After entering the Yintai Gate, Tutu Chengcui went through the multiple projections of the deep hall of Fugong Palace and walked towards the Hall of Zhonghe.He is one of the few characters who can enter and leave the bedroom at any time.This path is all too familiar.It was cold and sad, and the piercing wind passed through the pine and osmanthus trees beside the road, making bursts of howling, covering the rapid breathing of the soldiers beside the road.The sound of the wind seemed a little unusual.Tu Tu Chengcui looked up at the dark night sky, beyond the shadows of dead branches, a frozen last quarter moon shone coldly on his face. When Tu Tu Cheng Cui lowered his head, he saw a few black shadows growing up from behind the tree silently.He froze, and subconsciously scolded.The other side was still silent and there was no response.Behind the shadows, there are more shadows. Tutu Chengcui suddenly realized that something was wrong and turned around to leave.At this time, a cold hand silently locked his throat. While struggling in vain, Lu Congshi's distorted face appeared in Tutu Chengcui's mind.However, he changed his role.The dying eunuch saw his soul break free and stood by the side of the road, watching his body being pushed down to the ground as if nothing had happened, struggled a few times, and then stopped moving.That situation was strikingly similar to when he captured Lu Congshi alive many years ago. The soldiers of the Youshence Army seem to have heard Tutu Chengcui say something vaguely.It seems to be "Lu Congshi", maybe not.Who knows?They dragged their gradually cooling corpses and disappeared among the palace trees and cloud towers... Under the dim sky, the armor of the right army was shining green, like the savage clans that haunted the abyss, cruising outside the gloomy palace gate.In the big camp of the Zuo Shence Army, there was a lot of fighting, and there was no sound.Little did anyone know that their lieutenant had just died tragically a few moments earlier. Half an hour later, a ghostly black shadow floated into Li Chun's bedroom. Late at night.Daming Palace was pitch-black. "The incense burns and the shadow of the candle remains", even the maid who smoked and ironed the royal clothes for the emperor fell into a deep sleep.Only the Feifei flame at the bottom of the silver smoked cage was shining faintly. In the dead of night, Chen Hongzhi quietly walked out of the blood-shrouded Hall of Central Harmony.He carefully wiped off his bloody hands, bid farewell to the palace in Chang'an, and went east to Yangzhou to serve as the supervisor of Huainan.In the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying that "one promotes two benefits".Riding a crane down to Yangzhou is the most enviable thing in life.In Posuo Yangzhou, the Huainan military supervisor can take whatever he wants.After the qualified eunuchs were transferred from Yangzhou, most of them had the qualifications to get involved in the privy envoy and the lieutenant of the guard.After leaving the Chunming Gate, looking back at the palace in the dragon smoke, Chen Hongzhi, who was on the golden scorpion horse, might think with regret, why he forgot to go to the cold and deep palace before leaving, to visit the white-headed palace lady, and ask her, Li Zhuer's final ending in the story... A farewell to Chang'an, the mountains are long and the water is wide.Only when he dreamed back at midnight, would Chen Hongzhi recall the cold feeling of touching the dead with his fingertips for the last time. Chen Hongzhi's associates wanted to characterize the Yuanhe Gongbian as a pill poisoning; the few records in the new and old Tang books could easily make people mistakenly believe that the Yuanhe Gongbian was Chen Hongzhi's personal behavior, a pill poisoning. drug-induced murder.However, it can be clearly seen from the punishment of the murderer Chen Hongzhi that things are far from that simple.The imperial court asked Chen Hongzhi to temporarily leave Chang'an, the center of the political vortex, but chose to settle him in the charming Yangzhou, where peonies are blooming and beauties are blowing. This kind of reward with ulterior motives shows that the regicide is not an independent event, but only a key link in the whole plan.When the plan was fully realized, Chen Hongzhi, the executor of the plan, just took his share of the pie. Comparing the Left and Right Shence Army to the two hands that hold Chang'an, Yuanhe Gongbian is a victory of the right hand over the left hand. After Tutu Chengcui was killed, the leaderless Zuo Shence Army did not have anyone who could rival Liang Shouqian and Wang Shoucheng in terms of qualifications to lead them against the Right Army.Zuo Jun could only choose to remain silent.Six days later, that is, the third day of the first lunar month of that year, the overall situation has been decided.Prince Li You, surrounded by smiling Liang Shouqian, Wang Shoucheng and others, boarded the Tai Chi Hall.The new emperor immediately issued an edict to reward all the troops in the capital.The soldiers of the Shence army received 50 min per person, a full 20 min more than the Sixth Army of the North Gate.It's just that this money is a bounty for the right army, and a consolation for the left army—— 对控制左、右神策军的宦官来说,都无所谓。 柳宗元没有看到自己的预言变成现实。元和宫变发生前几个月,他在荒凉的柳州一瞑不视,年仅四十七。此时,赦还的诏书还在送往柳州的崎岖山路上。透过纸页,我看到一个凄苦灵魂,满怀乡愁,在烟瘴中渐行渐远。 轻飘飘的一纸《河间传》,就这样,飘摇于荒城的晚风中。 极尽挑逗之能事的亲族妇女,还有那些骑跨在河间身上顾盼自雄的奸夫,原来都是阉人猥琐的幻影;而一代中兴帝王,却化身河间淫妇,以娇艳如花的肉身,辗转、呻吟于市井无赖的肮脏躯体下——被偷窥的性,藏着已被公开的政治。这可真是一种不太让人接受的幽默。宋代大儒胡寅对柳宗元敢于以如此污秽的荡妇形象,来指代当时的天子而愤愤不平。他宣称:柳宗元等人没有被处极刑,已经是万幸;摈废终身,根本不算什么。 可是,在某种程度上,《河间传》比新、旧唐书,还有冠冕堂皇的文字更接近历史真实,因为柳宗元挑战和挑逗了社会道德尺度,明白无误地说出了道德与不道德的颠倒错乱。如此吊诡的书写,真实地表现了晚唐色相流转、秩序颠覆的真相—— 交媾男女的阵阵娇喘中,绮丽而疲惫的晚唐永劫不归。
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