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Chapter 49 Disaster for the Country
Li Ji bought Liang Wu and Guandong Wu through You Shi, and asked them to tell Jin Xiangong: "Quwo (now northeast of Wenxi County, Shanxi Province) is where the ancestral temple of the Jin Kingdom is located. It is best to send Prince Shen Sheng Go to guard, Pucheng (today's Luliang County, Shanxi Province) and Nanbeiqu (today's southeast of Shilou County, Shanxi Province) are frontier fortresses, and it is best to send sons Chong'er and Yiwu to defend them respectively." Xian Gong made a plan, leaving only Xi Qi and Zhuo Zi and the two were by their side, waiting for an opportunity to abolish Li, laying the groundwork for Xi Qi to replace Prince Shen Sheng in the future.It is known in history as "Twenty-Five Harms to Jin", and everything is ready, but Li Ji is not in a hurry to do it.Xian Gong expressed to her in private that he wanted to abolish the crown prince and replaced him with Xi Qi. Li Ji cried and said, "All the princes know about the establishment of the crown prince, and the generals are attached to him by the common people. The king must do it, and the concubine commits suicide." On the surface, she only spoke good words for the crown prince Shen Sheng, but behind her back she ordered people to slander Shen Sheng in front of Jin Xiangong, gradually separating the relationship between father and son.Here is a story of "Li Ji Cries at Night", which tells that one day Li Ji persuaded Jin Xiangong to return to the crown prince.After seeing Duke Xian of Jin, the prince went to meet Li Ji.Li Ji invited the prince to dinner and had a pleasant conversation.The next day, the prince entered the official position to thank him, and Li Ji invited him to dinner again.That night, Li Ji cried to Duke Xian of Jin, saying that the prince had molested her, and said something like "my father is old now", and that she could go to the Royal Zoo for an outing with the prince, so that Duke Xian could observe on stage.The next day, Li Ji asked the prince to go on an outing with her.Li Ji first spread honey on her hair, so that the bees gathered around her hair.Li Ji said: "Prince, can you help me drive them away?" The prince drove away the bees and butterflies from behind her with his sleeve.Duke Xian of Jin saw it and thought the molestation was true.He was very angry and wanted to kill the prince immediately.Li Ji knelt down and begged, "I asked the prince to come back, but he was killed. I killed him. Besides, outsiders don't know about these things in the palace, so just bear with it." Jin Xiangong drove the prince back to Quwo He went, but he ordered his subordinates to secretly collect the crimes committed by the prince, and wait for the opportunity to abolish him.Later generations took "Li Ji Crying at Night" as an allusion to tell tales out of nothing.

When Li Ji felt that the time was right, she took action in a roundabout way.She pretended that Duke Xian dreamed of Shen Sheng's dead mother, and asked Shen Sheng to go back to Quwo's ​​ancestral temple to sacrifice.After Shensheng sacrificed, the wine and meat gifts (胙) used for the sacrifice were presented to Xian Gong.At that time, Duke Xian was out hunting and did not return, so Li Ji left the wine and meat in the palace and poisoned it.After Xian Gong came back, the chef brought the sacrifices, and Xian Gong was about to enjoy them. Li Ji stopped him immediately and said:

"It's always far away, so you should try it." Spill the wine on the ground, and a big bag will rise on the ground; feed the meat to the dog, and the dog will die; let the minister drink, and the minister will die.Li Ji burst into tears immediately, and said as she cried: "How can the prince bear it! His father wants to kill him, let alone others? And the king is old, and the man of the evening, who couldn't wait and wanted to kill him!" The crime was added to Prince Shensheng.Then he said to Duke Xian of Jin: "The reason for the crown prince is only because of my concubine and Xi Qi. The concubine wishes her mother and son to avoid other countries. If she commits suicide early, she will not let the mother and son be fished by the prince. The first king wants to abolish him, but the concubine still hates him." As for now, my concubine has lost herself here." After she said this, Jin Xian believed it to be true.Under such circumstances, Shen Sheng did not dare to confess, so he fled to other places.When Duke Xian of Jin learned that Shen Sheng had run away, he was even more furious, and executed the prince's Fu Duyuan.They also sent two or five soldiers to arrest Shen Sheng. Shen Sheng was notorious and could not clear his name, so he hanged himself to death.

When the matter developed to this point, Li Ji still refused to give up and pointed the finger at the second son.At this time, the son Chong'er and the son Yiwu were in Jiangdu.Li Ji slandered in front of Duke Xian of Jin, saying that the two of them also knew about the prince's conspiracy.After the two heard about it, they fled back to their fiefs in a hurry. Chong'er fled back to Pucheng, Yiwu fled back to Qucheng, and urged the city to defend itself.Seeing that the two left without saying goodbye, Xian Gong thought that they really participated in the "conspiracy" of Prince Shen Sheng, and soon sent troops to crusade.

At the beginning, Jin Xiangong sent officials to build Pucheng and Qucheng for Chong'er and Yiwu, but they accidentally put firewood into the city walls.Yiwu told Jin Xiangong about this, and Jin Xiangong sent someone to reprimand Shiwei.The scholar kowtowed and replied: "I heard that if there is no mourning and sorrow, sorrow will definitely turn into hatred. If there is no war and build a city, the enemy will definitely come and occupy it. Since the enemy will come and occupy it, why should you be so cautious? If you are in an official position, you will not accept the king's order. , This is disrespect, and strengthening the enemy's city is disloyalty. If you lose respect and loyalty, what can you use to serve the king?
"Poetry" says that "virtuous conduct is peace, and children of the same clan are strong cities." If the monarch can cultivate virtue and strengthen the position of the eldest son, what city can compare with it?Three years later, the army will be used, so why be so cautious? Shiwei wrote a poem after he retired, saying: "Fox fur robes are fluffy, there are three princes in a country, which one should I follow?" "

When the disaster happened, Jin Xiangong sent the eunuch Pi to attack Pucheng.Chong'er said: "Your father's order cannot be disobeyed." So he announced to everyone: "Those who disobey the king's order are my enemies." Chong'er fled over the wall, and the eunuch cut off his cuff. .

In the spring of the sixth year of Duke Xi of Lu, Duke Xian of Jin sent Jia Hua to attack Qucheng.Unable to hold on, Yiwu made an alliance with Qu Ren and left.Yiwu was about to flee to the country of Di, but Rui said: "You fled to the country of Di after Chong'er, which proves your guilt. It is better to go to the country of Liang. Liang is close to Qin and has the trust of Qin." So Yiwu went Liang Guo.

As a result of this incident, Duke Xian of Jin made Xi Qi the crown prince, and Li Ji's goal was finally achieved.But within a few years, Duke Xian of Jin was critically ill. Before he died, he left Xun Xi alone and asked him to support Xi Qi as the king of Jin.However, as soon as Jin Xiangong died, the doctors Rick and Pizheng mobilized the party feathers of the three princes to rebel. Ke killed, twenty five were also killed.Seeing that the situation was over, Li Ji committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, and Rick ordered the body to be fished out and chopped into meat paste.The power that Li Ji had worked so hard to win for her son and the status she had won for herself suddenly became useless.

In 650 BC, Rick welcomed the escaped son Yiwu back to the country and took the throne as Duke Hui of Jin.Later, it was not until Chong'er returned to the Jin State to take power, and the disaster brought to the Jin State by Jin Xiangong's favor and trust in Li Ji came to an end.

Feng Xiaolian: Jade Body Heng Chen Ye, Master Zhou Ren Jinyang

Gao Wei, Empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was a licentious king who lived a luxurious life and only knew how to play. He was known as the "Worriless Son of Heaven".The Northern Qi Dynasty was already crumbling under his hands.But not only is he calm and calm, but he also sits around beauties all day long and drinks happily day and night.There are countless concubines in Gao Wei's life, the most famous of which is Feng Xiaolian, who has a "decent body".

The two poems "Northern Qi" written by Li Shangyin, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, satirize the story of Gao Wei, the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Feng Xiaolian, the favorite concubine, who were desolate and subjugated the country:

One:

When a country collapses with a smile, why bother with thorns?

Xiao Lianyu's body crossed Chen Ye and reported to Master Zhou to enter Jinyang.

Second:

Knowing the enemy's chances with a clever smile, Qingcheng is most in military uniform;

Jinyang has fallen into rest and looked back, and asked the king to hunt around.

Feng Xiaolian can be said to be the most famous woman among the princesses of the Northern Qi Dynasty. She is a famous beauty in Chinese history, and her name closely follows the four ancient beauties.According to the "Northern History" records: Feng Xiaolian is "intelligent, capable of playing the piano, singing and dancing", she is a smart, beautiful, and talented woman.She was originally the maidservant of Gaowei's third queen, Mu Xieli (nicknamed Huang Hua), and Mu Xieli was the maidservant of Gaowei's first queen, Hulushi.The queen favored her and made her queen.Gao Wei is also really funny, he always likes to play the role of a gentleman in the girl's business, but the post-officials are full of beauties, and the emperor's virtue is that he likes the new and dislikes the old.Soon, Gao Wei didn't like Mu Xieli any more, but favored sister Cao Zhaoyi who played the pipa well.

The father of Sister Cao Zhaoyi is a musician named Cao Sengnu, who cultivated the musical talents of her two daughters since childhood.The two sisters not only have artistic potential, but are also born beautiful. The talented and beautiful sisters were transplanted to officials soon.But Da Cao was stable by nature, not good at lewdness, and sometimes lost his bad temper like a lady from a noble family, so Gao Wei stripped him of his face and kicked him out of the palace.Xiao Cao was just the opposite of her elder sister, she was teasing and seductive, charming and charming, and Gao Wei liked her very much. Soon after, she was canonized as Zhaoyi and was loved all the time.Gao Wei built the Longji Hall for her, with carved beams and painted buildings, which was extremely beautiful, and his favor surpassed all the beauties of later officials.

Women are jealous, and Cao Zhaoyi won the emperor's exclusive favor. It is conceivable that the other concubines were dissatisfied, but most of them just lamented their own suffering.But Queen Mu Xieli is different. Her status as queen determines that she is the one who smashed the vinegar vat most thoroughly, and she is also the one who most tries to get rid of Cao Zhaoyi.She used the most despicable trick, which was also an old trick that had been tried and tested in the courts of all dynasties. She falsely accused Cao Zhaoyi of using witchcraft.

Unexpectedly, after getting rid of the rival in love, Tao Zi was picked by her.A beautiful woman named Dong Zhaoyi caught Gao Wei's eyes and was greatly favored. She was soon named his wife, and she was lingering like glue, regardless of day or night.Empress Mu was so angry that she wanted to die, and she shed tears all day long.The maid Feng Xiaolian is beautiful, intelligent, and understanding, and she sympathizes with Empress Mu very much. Empress Mu also regards her as her own person, so she cries out to her full of grievances and dissatisfaction.Feng Xiaolian is a heavenly treasure, with icy muscles and bones, as bright as jade, proficient in musical instruments, graceful singing and dancing, and smart, very scheming.

So she offered a plan to Empress Mu and asked Empress Mu to give her to Gao Wei as a gift. She was willing to use her body as a bait to act as a spy to drive a wedge between the beauties and win back Gao Wei's fading love for Empress Mu.Empress Mu thought it was a good idea, so she agreed.Sure enough, since Gao Wei got Feng Xiaolian, he neglected Dong Zhaoyi.But it also caused Empress Mu to lose Gao Wei completely, because Feng Xiaolian was so beautiful, Gao Wei was fascinated by her as soon as he saw her, and the joy of cloud and rain was even more wonderful.

Feng Xiaolian had undergone rigorous training in music and dance when she was a child, and she was more familiar with a set of tricks to seduce men. After entering the officialdom, she became more accustomed to the tricks of concubines fighting for favor and coquettishness, so she developed a new set of seductive tricks, which made Northern Qi The latter came into contact with a new and strange interest, and was so fascinated that he couldn't tell the world clearly.

Feng Xiaolian is very proficient in the structure and venation system of the human body.When she was serving Empress Mu, she tried to relieve her hostess' body fatigue by hammering, beating, pulling and other techniques. Over time, she practiced massage methods without a teacher.Later, when she kept moving up and down Gao Wei's body with her limp hands, this romantic emperor who was actively looking for excitement all day suddenly felt a kind of passive fun and joy, which made the whole person feel uneasy. Indulge in it.

From then on, Gao Wei favored Feng Xiaolian exclusively, "sitting at the same table, and going out with horses", and vowed "I wish to live and die together".As long as Feng Xiaolian asks for anything, Gao Wei will not refuse.If the moon in the sky can be picked off, I am afraid we will not be able to see the bright moon now.The clothes and jewelry on her body are often worth thousands of gold.Gao Wei likes music, he tried to compose his own lyrics and compose music for the pipa, and sang with Feng Xiaolian, his voice was noisy and his words were earnest.Sexy dancing and carnival, all night long.The two were very happy, like gods, hence the name "Worriless Son of Heaven".

After Feng Xiaolian was favored, Gao Wei wanted to make her a queen several times, but Feng Xiaolian cared about Empress Mu's kindness and didn't agree, so Gao Wei made her a concubine Shu, second only to the queen, and awarded Longjitang to her. she.This Longji Hall was originally the residence of Cao Zhaoyi, Feng Xiaolian was jealous, unwilling to move in immediately, and asked the emperor to tear it down and rebuild it.Naturally, Gao Wei had no objection, and immediately allocated a lot of gold and silver from the national treasury as repair expenses to make the Longji Hall even more magnificent.Since then, Gao Wei has been having fun with Feng Xiaolian in the Longji Hall every day, unwilling to leave.

According to some unofficial history notes, Feng Xiaolian is a natural beauty, with skin that can be broken by blowing bombs, and breath like blue.

The jade body has reached the best golden section ratio, with exquisite curves and well-proportioned bumps. If you gain one point, you will get fatter, and if you lose one point, you will get thinner.In winter, it is soft like a ball of cotton, warm like a ball of fire, and the embrace is a gentle place that makes people want to die; in summer, when the bed is hot, it is as firm as jade and as cold as ice.Hugging, pillowing, caressing, or kissing, everything is tactful, Cheng Huan is a natural beauty, and this also makes her quickly get the unique favor of the long-standing Gaowei.

High latitude is also naturally romantic, he feels that "it is better to have fun alone than to have fun with others".He thinks that for a lovely person like Feng Xiaolian, it would be wasteful for him to be the only one to enjoy her beauty. Wouldn't it be a great thing if all the men in the world could appreciate her natural beauty.The majestic king of a country is so absurd, and Feng Xiaolian actually agreed.So after some design and arrangement, Gao Wei let Feng Xiaolian lie naked on the Longji Hall, and at the price of a thousand dollars, let rich men come to see Feng Xiaolian's natural beauty. This is the idiom "jade body" Hengchen" allusion.This is another ridiculous act of slipping the world.

In addition to building luxurious palaces, dancing and carnivals, staying up all night, and extravagance and waste that were common in the past dynasties, Gao Wei, the Empress of Qi, often put Feng Xiaolian in his arms or put her in his arms even when discussing matters with ministers. On the knee, the ministers who discussed the matter often flushed with shame, spoke incoherently, and returned without success.But no one from the ministers advised him, because the ministers at that time were afraid of the timid and bloodthirsty emperor.Some people had lost their lives for persuading him to be diligent and caring for the people before, but now, who would dare to stand up?Therefore, the emperor Gao Wei and his concubine Feng Xiaolian were in love with each other in the court hall. It was really absurd, and the government was naturally abandoned.

Such a moving beauty, and being so favored by the emperor, naturally some people would classify Feng Xiaolian as a calamity to the country and the people, but the title of confidante and misfortune was indeed well-deserved for her. Striving hard to govern, becoming stronger and stronger, and eyeing the Northern Qi like a tiger, this "Worriless Son of Heaven" simply ignored political affairs and remained indifferent to the threats of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.How could the ambitious Northern Zhou let go of this golden opportunity, so he launched a powerful offensive against Northern Qi.

In 576 AD, the army of the Northern Zhou Dynasty attacked the Northern Qi Dynasty and surrounded the important town of Pingyang.At this time, Gao Wei was hunting, and after hearing the news, he planned to add reinforcements, but Feng Xiaolian didn't enjoy the game at that time, so he said coquettishly, "Kill another round."

Feng Xiaolian's coquettish voice calmed Gao Wei's worries about the country, so he made another round.By the time the siege was over, Jinzhou had already fallen.

Feng Xiaolian thinks that war is as fun as hunting, and hunting is better than watching war, so she encourages Gao Wei to personally lead troops to counterattack Pingyang.Gao Wei obeyed, and Feng Xiaolian accompanied him in military uniform.

Pingyang was originally the territory of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the Northern Qi Dynasty sent troops to regain the lost ground. Therefore, the city of Pingyang was surrounded.Although Liang Shiyan, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty who stayed behind in Pingyang, led his soldiers to defend the city desperately, he was already in danger under the reckless charge of the Northern Qi army.Seeing that victory was in sight and Pingyang was about to return to the hands of Northern Qi, Feng Xiaolian thought that it was too late for her to see the grand scene of the siege battle, and asked to attack the city after dawn the next day, Gao Wei He actually agreed to her request.

The next day, the sky was dark, the north wind was roaring, the first snow was falling, and the land gradually turned silvery white. Feng Xiaolian thought that the weather was bad and he couldn't see clearly, so he asked to suspend the siege.Little did they know that when the night was dark or the weather was not good, it was the best time for military operations and offensives. Due to women's views, the Northern Qi army unexpectedly lost two great opportunities for no reason.When the snow melted and the sky cleared, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had personally led his army to Pingyang. The two armies fought bloody battles for days, and the Qi army was defeated and retreated into Jinyang.After the Northern Zhou Dynasty occupied Pingyang, Gao Wei of the Northern Qi Dynasty actually said something like this: "As long as Feng Xiaolian is safe, it doesn't matter if you lose the battle!"

After the Battle of Pingyang, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty believed that the soldiers were fighting particularly hard in the severe cold, and planned to take the army back to Chang'an to rest.Liang Shiyan, a general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, offered advice and suggestions, thinking that the opportunity must not be missed, and the time would never come again, so he should go straight to Jinyang, an important town in the Northern Qi Dynasty.Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty adopted Liang Shiyan's opinion, and the self-unified army pursued the Qi army and went straight to the city of Jinyang.Jinyang is an important town in the north that has been operated by the Northern Qi Dynasty for many years. The city is high and the moats are deep, and the defense is tight and very strong.The city is rich in grain and equipment, and it will be no problem to support it for a year or so. The Zhou army is far away, and it is the severe winter, and it will not take long for them to retreat. Gao Wei waited for the Northern Zhou army to withdraw automatically.

Gao Wei ordered people to build a towering overpass in the city, and he often boarded the bridge with Feng Xiaolian to look at the enemy's situation outside the city, not to analyze the enemy's situation, but to go sightseeing.After getting off the bridge, Feng Xiaolian performed a dance for Gao Wei to relieve his worries.Gao Wei actually said brazenly: "After watching it, you can clear your mind and become full of energy."

One day, the overpass made of wooden frames suddenly collapsed. Feng Xiaolian thought it was an ominous omen, and repeatedly asked Gao Wei to give up Jinyang and return to Yecheng.Gao Wei really listened to Feng Xiaolian's advice and returned to Yecheng. The Northern Zhou Dynasty easily won Jinyang, an important town in the Northern Qi Dynasty.But this time they really went to the end of the road.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty fought more and more bravely, and went straight to Yecheng.After Gao Wei retreated to Yecheng, there were still [-] elite soldiers who could resist fiercely, and even make a comeback and win a complete victory.However, the emperor, who didn't love the country and the beauties, actually went to the doctor in a hurry. While praying for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, he passed the throne to the crown prince Gao Heng, and fled eastward from Yecheng to Qingzhou with Feng Xiaolian. Take Yecheng.

In the end, the queen master Gao Wei, Prince Gao Heng, Feng Xiaolian and others all became prisoners of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and came to Chang'an, the capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The Northern Qi Dynasty perished and the Yellow River Basin was reunified.After coming to Chang'an, Gao Wei was granted the title of Duke Wen.Gao Wei, who was already the king of subjugation, still couldn't forget Feng Xiaolian, and begged Emperor Wu of Zhou to return Feng Xiaolian to him.Emperor Wu of Zhou was not a womanizer, and said with a smile: "I look at the world as if I were a woman, how can I cherish an old woman." He gave Feng Xiaolian back to Gao Wei.

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