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Chapter 49 She Liugong Fen Dai is obsessed with Li Shishi

Emperor Huizong was obsessed with the beautiful scenery of Tokyo City, and also fell in love with the beauty of Tokyo City, that is Li Shishi, a famous kabuki. Emperor Huizong was always romantic and lustful, and he had many concubines. Judging from the list of concubines looted by the Jin soldiers later, there were no fewer than a hundred.Among them, Concubine Liu Gui is the most favored, the one whom Lin Lingsu flatters her name as Concubine Jiuhuayuzhen'an.Later, Concubine Liu died at the age of thirty-four, which made the emperor very sad. He named her "Queen Mingda" and wrote a poem to mourn her affectionately.His favorite concubines include Concubine Zheng and Concubine Qiao.But always hanging around among the three thousand fans and daisies in the palace also made the emperor get bored, so he came up with the idea of ​​changing tricks.It just so happened that there was a servant named Zhang Di beside him. Before entering the palace, he was a famous courtier in Tokyo, so he introduced Li Shishi to him.

Huizong was very itchy when he heard that Shishi boasted about his excellent sex and art skills, but after all, he still had some scruples about his status as the emperor of the Song Dynasty, so he lied that he was a wealthy businessman Zhao Yi and went to see Li Shishi.First, Madam Li, the madam, saluted in the living room and made some household chores, and then served fresh fruits, including fragrant snow lotus root, crystal apples, and fresh dates as big as eggs.After the emperor finished eating these rare fruits, he still couldn't see Li Shishi, so he was led to a small pavilion. The windows in the room were bright and clean, and there were some books.The emperor was an elegant man, and he felt refreshed after seeing such a scene, but he hadn't seen any beauties yet.Then, Madam Li led Huizong to the back hall for dinner. On the table were deer roast, chicken vinegar, fish sticks, sheep sticks and other dishes, served with fragrant rice.Li's mother accompanied her and chatted gossip, but Li Shishi never showed up until the meal was over.Huizongzheng was puzzled, so Madam Li asked her to go to the bathroom to take a bath again, the reason was that Miss Shishi is very clean by nature, and benefactors must be clean before going to bed.So Huizong had no choice but to take a bath.After washing, he was invited to have tea in the back hall, but still did not see the beautiful lady.After a long time, Mother Li led Huizong into the bedroom with candles. At this time, Shi Shi still hadn't come.Huizong had no choice but to linger in the room Guying, he must be very annoyed, but he had to wait patiently.Probably because all the procedures were almost done, Mama Li helped a young woman come in, dressed in plain clothes, no makeup, only after taking a bath, she was as delicate and beautiful as a lotus flower out of water.Seeing Huizong, he was arrogant and did not go forward to salute.When Huizong asked her something, she didn't answer, and she simply hid to the side when she asked again, rolled up her sleeves and sat there playing the piano.So the emperor had no choice but to sit there and listen, but what he played was "Pingsha Luoyan", which was played lightly and slowly, and the rhyme was light and distant.Huizong listened intently, but he was fascinated. When the three songs were played, he could hear the rooster crowing outside, so he had no choice but to drive back to the palace.

Li Shishi was so arrogant, because he looked down on this copper-smelling "Jianu", but the emperor's appetite was completely swayed by this.The concubine in the palace asked him what was so good about Li Shishi, and he said that she had "a kind of elegant charm, which should be beyond her beauty".In this way, Li Shishi showed a special charm in the eyes of the emperor.He made her a concubine, but he refused to take her into the palace. Instead, he dug a tunnel from the palace to her house, and he just went back and forth like this all day long.At the Songcheng ruins in Kaifeng, you can still see this authentic preservation.Perhaps after all, it was the emperor of the Song Dynasty who prostituted, and it would be detrimental to the "sage" to say it out, but it was more because "a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as stealing", so it would be more interesting to be so sneaky.

And Li Shishi was originally a famous prostitute in Tokyo, and she had a bold personality and liked to socialize.She also had a hot fight with the famous poet Zhou Bangyan.Once, when Huizong went to Li Shishi's house, Zhou Bangyan happened to be there. Hearing that the emperor was coming, he had nowhere to hide in his busy schedule, so he had to hide under the bed.Unknown to Huizong, he brought a fresh orange from Jiangnan and asked Li Shishi to peel it for him to eat.At this time, the beauty was in front of her, with a charming smile, and the emperor was full of enthusiasm. He couldn't help but say something like this, and he didn't need to describe it in detail, but Zhou Bangyan, who was hiding under the bed, listened to it seriously.Ordinarily, Zhou Bangyan was lucky enough to be present at the passionate performance of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the No. 1 beauty in Bianjing in person, and it is enough to appreciate it, but because of his literati's accumulated habits, he wanted to shout out, so he filled out the song "Youth Tour":

The words of great poets spread quickly, so they were passed on to ten, ten to hundreds, and finally reached Huizong's ears.When he learned that his beloved Li Shishi was still in an old relationship with others, he had long been very jealous; in addition, he had always been sneaky and quite taboo about visiting prostitutes in disguise, but this week Bangyan yelled at him so well that everyone knew it.Therefore, Emperor Longyan was furious and ordered Zhou Bangyan to be driven out of Kyoto. When Huizong kicked his love rival out of the country, he was naturally full of ambition, and felt that Li Shishi would devote himself wholeheartedly to him in the future.But when he went to Li Shishi's place, Shishi was not there. After waiting for a long time, he saw her come back with tears in her eyes and frowning.The emperor was very angry and asked her where she was.Li Shishi was straightforward and said that he was going to see Zhou Bangyan off, and that Zhou Bangyan had also written a song "Lanling King".The emperor really overturned the vinegar vat at this time, but facing his beloved Li Shishi, he couldn't bear to punish her.As for Zhou Bangyan's new work, he was still somewhat curious, so he asked Li Shishi to sing and listen.

Li Shishi held back his green sleeves, his white teeth, and sang in a melodious voice:
Emperor Huizong was also an expert in music and temperament, and when he heard good words, he couldn't help thinking of cherishing his talent, so he ordered Zhou Bangyan to be recruited back again, and appointed him as Tai Lezheng of Dasheng Mansion.This week, Bangyan can be regarded as a person who made the best use of his duties and fulfilled his duties, making the new music made by the Dasheng Mansion a rule of a generation of Ci, and it was still talked about in the Southern Song Dynasty.And the "Lanling King" was praised by the emperor, and it was passed down by tens of thousands of mouths, and it became a must-sing song for people at that time to say goodbye.

To say that Huizong met Zhou Bangyan and his ministers in a brothel, although it is a romantic story, is a bit absurd.As a result, some relentless research scholars of later generations proved that Zhou Bangyan was in his fifties at that time, and it was unreasonable to compete with the emperor for whoring a prostitute.But it is not uncommon for Song people to enter the flower bushes when they are old.Zhang Xian, a poet, was in his eighties and still wanted to seek concubines, which made Su Dongpo write poems and make fun of him.Zhou Bangyan was originally a romantic talent, besides, Li Shishi was still a famous singer at that time. Apart from pleasing his beauty, he probably appreciated his vocal skills more.It would be pedantic to think that he would not dare to go to a brothel when he was over fifty.For Emperor Huizong, it was more in line with his artist nature to be able to appreciate a poet when he was jealous.

There are different opinions about Li Shishi's ending.In the popular "Biography of Li Shishi", it is said that she was unyielding in the face of the coercion and temptation of the golden man, and committed suicide by swallowing the golden hairpin.The image of such a chaste and martyr is naturally talked about by people, so it is also the most accepted.It's just that when the Northern Song Dynasty fell, there was Zhang Bangchang in the front and Liu Yu in the back. He used to be a dignified scholar-official but turned his face to the enemy and was willing to be the leader of the false dynasty. Instead of asking them for such moral and righteous things, he came to target a little girl. It can't help but make people feel cold about the effect of "raising scholars" for a hundred years.Liu Zihui once wrote a poem: "The prosperity of the chariot can hurt you, and the teacher is old in Hunan. The golden sandalwood board is colorless today, and the song moved the emperor in the past." In fact, Li Shishi ended up living in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and still sang as a singer. She was born, but her mood was depressed, her face was haggard, and she no longer had the charm of the past.For the beauties in the Xuanhe capital city back then, one can feel the desolation of the bustling disappearance, but it is probably much better than the ending of Song Huizong's future Five Kingdoms City "sitting in the well and watching the sky".

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