Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 904 Crown Princess (please subscribe!)

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In the winter of the 12th year of Dading, a small but not insignificant event happened in Dazhong—the wife of Prince Li Xiu, the princess, died suddenly.

Li Xiu's concubine is undoubtedly a woman with poor fortune.

As long as she survives for another two or three years, she will be able to become the queen of Dazhong, the largest empire that has never been seen before or will never come again.

Unfortunately!
She couldn't survive the last two or three years!
If Li Xiu is just an ordinary prince, then there is no need to worry about accepting a new concubine.

However, Li Xiu is not an ordinary prince, he is a prince who will inherit the throne soon. Therefore, he must have an excellent concubine who will be in charge of the harem for him in the future.

Therefore, shortly after the funeral of Li Xiu's concubine was arranged, Li Yan ordered the selection of a concubine for Li Xiu.

Who doesn't know that the concubine Li Xiu chose this time will become a queen in two or three years?
Therefore, no matter whose girl is selected, her family will become a descendant, which can be said to soar into the sky.

Therefore, among the civil and military officials, almost all those who have daughters of the right age at home have signed up to participate in this year's selection of the best girls.

Moreover, this time for the first time, Li Yan, Liu Huiniang and Li Xiu's biological mother Huan'er presided over the selection of the crown princess for Li Xiu.

On the day of the selection, Li Yan brought Liu Huiniang and Huan'er to the selection site.

As soon as he arrived at the talent show, Li Yan's eyes were attracted by a woman.

Ordinarily, there is no one who is too bad to participate in the selection of the princess. The top ones are beauties—the bad ones have already been eliminated by the people in the Ministry of Rites.

But among all the women with this quality, this woman was able to catch Li Yan's attention all at once, which shows how beautiful she is and how gorgeous she is.

Where is the lack of smart people around Li Yan?
Seeing Li Yan staring at a woman for a while, someone immediately came to Li Yan and introduced to Li Yan: "Your Majesty, this girl is called Li Fengniang, and she is the daughter of Li Dao, the official governor of the Qingyuan Army."

After hearing this, Li Yan frowned slightly, and said, "Li Fengniang, Li Dao's daughter?"

Li Yan felt that Li Fengniang's name sounded familiar, but for a while she couldn't remember who she was.

Seeing that Li Yan seemed to be interested in this Li Fengniang, this person immediately introduced: "It is said that this Li Fengniang was born extraordinary, but it is said that before Mrs. Li Dao gave birth to a daughter, a group of black phoenixes flew in front of the barracks and lingered. So Li Dao named his daughter Fengniang for his daughter who was born soon after. Later, the fortune teller Huangfutan went to Li Jiedu's house as a guest. Li Jiedu knew that Huangfutan was a famous fortune teller, so he asked Huangfutan to be his three daughters When meeting with daughters, Li Jiedu's eldest daughter and third daughter are not special, but when the second daughter Li Fengniang came out to pay a visit, Huang Futan said that this daughter is quite expensive, so he dare not accept the visit."

After hearing this person's introduction, Li Yan finally knew who Li Fengniang was, "It turned out to be this scourge."

This Li Fengniang is the queen of Song Guangzong Zhao Dun in history. She is one of the famous empresses in the history of Song Dynasty and even China.

Li Fengniang is jealous by nature, even though she is the head of the six palaces and gave birth to her son Zhao Kuo early, she is still not satisfied.

He once scolded the people around Prince Zhao Min in the second palace of Zhao Gou and Zhao Min.

Zhao Gou had already abdicated at that time, and he didn't want to talk about her, but in the end he couldn't help but said to Empress Wu: "This woman is the seed of a general, and I was mistaken by Huangfu Tan."

Zhao Yan also reprimanded Li Fengniang many times: "You should follow the example of the empress dowager (that is, the empress Wu of Zhao Gou), otherwise, you will be abolished."

But this Li Fengniang still went her own way.

Once, when Zhao Miao was washing his hands in the palace, he happened to notice the white slippery hands of the palace maid who was waiting beside him holding a basin, so he naturally praised him a few words.

However, this trivial matter was learned by Li Fengniang.

As a result, in the afternoon of the same day, Li Fengniang sent someone to deliver a food box to Zhao Miao.

Zhao Miao opened it and saw that it was the hands of the palace man that day.

Zhao Ming was so frightened that he could not speak, and because of this, he became ill for several days.

It is also so cruel to the palace people that Zhao Miao occasionally meets, it is not difficult to imagine how Li Fengniang will treat Zhao Miao's concubines.

At that time, in addition to the queen, Zhao Miao's harem also had concubines such as Huang Guifei, Zhang Guifei, and Fu Jieyu.

Concubine Huang Gui was originally the maidservant of Concubine Xie Guifei (later established as the queen) of Xiaozong Zhao Min. When Zhao Min was the prince at the beginning, Zhao Min gave the Huang family to Zhao Min because she saw that Zhao Min lacked concubines to serve her.

Zhao Miao also loved the Huang family very much, and became a noble concubine after he ascended the throne.

However, Li Fengniang really couldn't tolerate Huang Guifei being favored, so she sent someone to murder Huang Guifei when Zhao Kui left the palace to offer sacrifices.

At that time, Zhao Miao was ill in bed due to the rain, and when he heard the news of Huang Guifei's sudden death, he became even more ill.

Zhang Guifei and Fu Jieyu were also ordered to remarry civilians because of Li Fengniang's jealousy-they were much happier than the tragic death of Huang Guifei.

Of course, what Li Fengniang did was already noticed by the Supreme Emperor Zhao Yun and the Supreme Empress Xie.

When Mrs. Xie was the Empress, she was very filial and respectful to the Supreme Emperor Zhao Gou and the Empress Dowager Wu, but now Li Fengniang is not only rude to her own husband Zhao Kui, but also contradicts the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress everywhere. Responding with the sentence "I and the emperor are husband and wife, it's justified, why not?", insinuating that the empress Xie is not the wife of Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun and Empress Dowager Xie were very angry and planned to abolish Li Fengniang.

However, because Taishi Shi Hao believed that it was too hasty and resolutely opposed to abolish the empress shortly after the establishment, the matter of abolishing the empress was left alone.

Not only did Li Fengniang have an unhappy relationship with the Supreme Emperor and the Queen Mother, but she also separated the relationship between Zhao Wei and Zhao Wei's father and son several times.

When Zhao Miao first came to the throne, Li Fengniang was uneasy because Zhao Kuo, the eldest son, was not made the crown prince.

Once, Li Fengniang took advantage of the fact that Zhao Kuo, who had just recovered from illness, was drunk at a banquet, and asked Zhao Kuo to make Zhao Kuo, who had been named King Jia, the crown prince, so as to help Zhao Min handle government affairs.

Zhao Wei also thought it was quite reasonable, but he insisted on asking his father Zhao Wei to register again.

But Li Fengniang didn't listen, and left angrily, and didn't allow Zhao Wei and others to meet Zhao Wei.

A few days later, Zhao Xuan failed to see her son, so she summoned Li Fengniang to inquire about Zhao's condition. Li Fengniang asked Zhao Kuo, the King of Lijia, to be the crown prince to assist him in the administration.

However, Zhao Xuan believed that it was unreasonable for Zhao Min to entrust all government affairs to his son without even being familiar with political affairs, so he opposed the proposal to establish a prince prematurely.

Li Fengniang felt that Zhao Min was targeting her everywhere, so she went back to the palace and cried to Zhao Min that Zhao Min must have other intentions if he didn't want to establish a prince.

Zhao Min was kept in the dark, thinking that Zhao Min had ulterior motives, so he was so angry that he would never see Zhao Min again.

Zhao Ming's refusal to the Supreme Emperor caused an uproar in the whole court.

After more than a year, Zhao Miao's health improved slightly, and he returned to the court to listen to the government. All civil and military officials took the opportunity to ask Zhao Miao to meet the Supreme Emperor.

Zhao Miao had no choice but to go there once, and the relationship has improved.

But several times in succession Li Fengniang interfered with it, resulting in ups and downs in the relationship between father and son.

Later, when Zhao Min passed away, all the officials asked Zhao Min to preside over the funeral, but Zhao Min kept procrastinating and did not want to go. As a result, the still living Empress Dowager Wu hung a curtain to pay the respects.

Later, the minister saw that Zhao Miao was ignoring political affairs, and asked Zhao Miao to make King Jia his heir.

Zhao Miao, who was constrained everywhere, didn't even want to be the emperor anymore. As a result, the disheartened Zhao Miao abdicated to King Jia and retired as the Supreme Emperor, and Li Fengniang became the Supreme Empress.

Li Fengniang's misfortune passed slowly.

Looking at the concubines of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, it is not uncommon for people who can influence the government, but a queen like Li Fengniang who conquered three generations of emperors as a woman is unique in the history of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, looking at Li Fengniang's life, apart from her unusually pretty appearance and vicious heart, there is nothing special about her.

But what is incredible is that none of the three generations of emperors that Li Fengniang met finally abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor.

Although this rare and strange phenomenon in Chinese history is related to Li Fengniang, it cannot be said that Li Fengniang was caused by a woman.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Li Fengniang was able to become such a great disaster was mainly because Zhao Miao was a waste and an idiot, and the palace was jealous and fierce, and her fear of internal affairs was extremely serious.

Li Yan believed that Li Xiu, who had a completely different experience from Zhao Ming, a trash and idiot who was raised in the palace, even if Li Fengniang was accepted, history would never reappear.

But then again, don't be afraid of [-], just in case, if Li Xiu can't bring down the scourge of Li Fengniang, then the world will be in chaos, and the first dynasty in the history of Dazhong might be destroyed by the hands of a stupid woman On, and then become a joke through the ages.

Therefore, no matter what, Li Yan would never allow Li Fengniang to enter Li Xiu's harem—he wanted to nip the scourge of Li Fengniang in the bud.

Thinking of this, Li Yanchong took the initiative to lean over and said: "Send this Li Fengniang to the harem."

This man was a clever ghost, and immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, this matter will be done in a leak-proof manner, and no one will be aware of it."

This person is really impeccable in his work, not only sent Li Fengniang to Li Yan without anyone noticing, even Li Fengniang's older sister and younger sister were also sent to Li Yan.

Li Yan, Liu Huiniang, and Huan'er went through layers of selection and compared them one by one. In the end, the three of them unanimously selected Hu Quan's talented, virtuous and beautiful second daughter as Li Xiu's concubine.

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(End of this chapter)