My harem can't be this messy

In the bamboo garden, Li Zhi went back to the garden. Empress Changsun looked at him and waved to him. Li Zhi quickly walked a few steps and walked away from the queen mother.

Chapter 203 Guanlong Group

"Zhi'er, why don't you go to Xiao's house, did Mrs. Rong make things difficult for you?"

"Mother, the Xiao family will not make things difficult for the emperor. You Rong's eldest sister-in-law is from the Xie family in Chen County. She is well-educated and sensible, and she can distinguish right from wrong, let alone make things difficult for her."

"The Xie family of Chen Jun, those famous families in the south of the Yangtze River have intermarried with each other these years, and they are harmonious."

Li Zhi could hear that there was something in his mother's words, but he also understood that sitting in the position of mother's queen, he could only talk about some things occasionally.

Clan politics has been around for a long time at this time, freezing three feet is not a one-day cold, and it cannot be easily changed.The Jiangnan Clan is actually nothing at this time, and the most troublesome thing for the parents is probably the Guanlong Clan.

To put it bluntly, the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty were just changes in power and rights in the Guanlong Group, which was a reshuffling of the rights of the Guanlong Group.Both the Longxi Li family and the Hongnong Yang family are important families in the Guanlong Group.

The Eight Great Masters of Guanlong, the Eight Pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Speaking of the Guanlong Group, we have to go further.

In order to ensure the safety of the capital Pingcheng (now northeast of Datong, Shanxi), the Northern Wei Dynasty established six military towns in the border areas, that is, later northern Hebei and southern Inner Mongolia, collectively known as the six towns.

In the early days, most of the soldiers in the six towns were Xianbei nobles, and some were powerful Han people, but the Han people gradually became the main body in the later period.

One of the six towns is named Wuchuan Town. According to legend, a fortune teller who was proficient in fortune-telling once came to Wuchuan Town one day.

This Mr. Xiangmian was startled when he arrived in Wuchuan Town, because he saw that the pedestrians and soldiers coming and going in Wuchuan Town were all the faces of emperors and generals.

Not to mention so many people with this kind of face, usually one or two things are extraordinary.As a result, Mr. Xiangmian saw so many in Wuchuan Town.

At that time, the Mr. Xiangmian panicked and fled Wuchuan Town overnight in fright. After returning, he burned all his books on Xiangmian, and never met again.

And who was there in Wuchuan Town at that time, which frightened this Mr. Xiangmian to this point.And who is it that there are so many emperors and generals meeting each other.

In Wuchuan Town at that time, there were generals of Zhu State Yu Wentai (great-grandfather of Li Shimin), generals of Zhu State Li Hu (grandfather of Li Yuan), generals of Zhu State Duguxin (grandfather of Yang Guang and Li Yuan), generals of Zhu State Zhao Gui, and generals of Zhu State. General Hou Mo Chenchong (surname Hou Mochen), General Hou Mo Chenshun, General Yu Wendao (nephew of Yu Wentai), General He Lanxiang (nephew of Yu Wentai), General Yang Zhong (father of Yang Jian) .

These people included most of the twelve generals of the Eight Pillar Kingdom in the Northern Dynasty.

And these people and their descendants successively established three regimes, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty.

In a sense, it was these Wuchuan soldiers and their descendants who established the most powerful dynasties in Chinese history.

And these people are the representatives of Guanlong Group.Also during the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties, the most important faction in Chinese history, the Guanlong clan, was active.

Even in the early Tang Dynasty, Qin Wang Li Shimin supported by the Guanlongmen Clan and Prince Li Jiancheng supported by the Shandong gentry competed for the throne, and the Guanlongmen Clan finally won.

During the Zhenguan period, the Guanlong clan became stronger and stronger, and it was already the most feared faction in the early Tang Dynasty.Naturally, the royal family also felt a little threatened and afraid.

Naturally, the Li Tang royal family at this time was also from the Guanlong faction, and they knew how powerful and terrifying the Guanlongmen Clan was at this time.

Empress Changsun mentioned the intermarriage of the gentlemen in the south of the Yangtze River, and her complexion changed slightly, but soon Empress Changsun's complexion returned to normal.Aristocratic politics still needs to deal with disintegration slowly, and it is not something that can be dealt with in a short while.

Empress Changsun's complexion improved, and she smiled slightly at Li Zhi.At this time, he pulled Li Zhi's hand, pulled the front of him, caressed Aiko's hand carefully, and looked at Li Zhi.

Then he pulled Aizi and let him sit beside him. Li Zhi had already sensed that something was wrong, and as expected, the empress directly put his head into her arms.

Forget it, isn't it just facial cleanser? It's not like taking it once or twice.

"Zhi'er, it's good that the Xiao family didn't embarrass you. The queen mother just got the news that your imperial sister should return to Chang'an with the son-in-law in the past two days."

Li Zhi raised his head slightly, looking at his mother.

When the imperial sister and son-in-law returned to Chang'an, what the empress mother said could only be Princess Chengyang. I didn't expect that Princess Chengyang would be back in two days.

Originally, Li Zhi was still thinking about how to face Jinyang Princess Li Mingda, but this time is good, Chengyang Princess is coming back first.

My own imperial sister, why don't I accompany my son-in-law Du He to travel around the mountains and rivers, and spend a few years in the great mountains and rivers of the motherland, why come back so early.

"Zhi'er, why did you hear that Chengyang is coming back? The queen mother thinks you are not happy."

"Ah! No way, Chengyang Huangmei is going back to Chang'an, Zhi'er is very happy. I haven't seen Huangmei for a long time, I really miss her."

"Oh, when Chengyang comes back, the queen mother will let her live in the bamboo garden for a few days, and when the time comes, it will also relieve your pain of missing your sister."

Li Zhi was almost moved to tears, and buried his head in his mother's arms at this moment, already thinking about how to face his imperial sister.

Hey, none of these royal sisters are easy to deal with, but Li Zhi has to deal with it.The concubines are fine, but Li Zhi can't escape any of the concubines!

Princess Chengyang is also fourteen this year, only one year younger than herself.This girl must not imitate the empress mother and the two imperial sisters!Don't learn from Hengshan, let yourself be hugged at every turn, and even get into your arms.

Li Zhi could bear Hengshan's situation, after all, she was only nine years old, but if Chengyang was like this, Li Zhi felt that he might not be able to bear it.

Thinking of Princess Chengyang at this time, Li Zhi was also depressed. In fact, if you really want to count, Princess Chengyang in history had a deep entanglement with him.

My future daughter will still marry the son of Princess Chengyang. Princess Chengyang is the aunt and mother-in-law of Princess Taiping. Look at the chaos of the marriage of close relatives in Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhi lay in the arms of the empress for a while, and Empress Changsun stroked Li Zhi's long hair, stroked Li Zhi's shoulders, looked at the beloved son in her arms, and even the smile on her face seemed much more loving.

In the bamboo shadows of the setting sun, a carriage arrived at the gate of the bamboo garden. Xiao Yourong brought the cook who came from home, and the cook was holding two fresh fish. The fish were caught in the Wei River, and the gills were still there. Open and close slowly.

Hearing footsteps in the bamboo forest, Li Zhi got out of his mother's arms, got up, looked at the path in the bamboo forest, and then walked out of the bamboo forest after seeing Xiao Yourong.

"You Rong, I thought you wouldn't come to the bamboo garden today!"

Li Zhi walked over and had already held Xiao Yourong's hand.

"How can I not come back to Zhuyuan, Yourong promised to make fish cakes for the empress."

Chapter 204 Princess Chengyang

At this moment, Xiao Yourong gave way to the cook who was following behind, and the river fish in the cook's hand glistened in the afternoon sun.

Li Zhi took a look at this fish, and it should be a carp. Some people may think that carp and Li have the same pronunciation, and Datang is Li's surname, so they have some taboos on carp.

Moreover, some books and miscellaneous notes in the Tang Dynasty also recorded that the Tang Dynasty did not eat carp.

But in the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi understood that there were no such boring taboos in the Tang Dynasty.

Among other things, Tang poetry was the most popular in the Tang Dynasty, and there are many poems about cooking carp in Tang poetry.

Wang Wei's "Luoyang Daughter's Journey": "The beloved Yule rides on a horse, and the maid is a carp with a golden plate."

Bai Juyi's "A Boat on Jiangzhou Road": "There is a stove on the bow of the boat, and rice is used to cook red carp."

These verses clearly stated that eating carp in the Tang Dynasty was just a common thing, and there were no vague descriptions in the verses, let alone any cover-ups or taboos.

On the other hand, the most famous record about people in the Tang Dynasty not eating carp is the collection of notes and novels "Youyang Miscellaneous Zu" created by Duan Chengshi.

And this collection of novels is probably not read by future generations!

In the Tang Dynasty poems that have been handed down to later generations, there has never been a description that Tang people did not eat carp, and the description about cooking carp is very simple and straightforward, without any embellishments, which is enough to show that some people are afraid of taking the meaning out of context and writing books based on their own imagination.

Moreover, Li Zhi has been in the Tang Dynasty for some time, and the ethos of the Tang Dynasty has always been inclusive and open. With his father's style of conduct, he will definitely not be like the Ming and Qing Dynasties, where he took meaning from the words and misinterpreted them to create a literary prison.

Not to mention anything else, the Ministry of Min in the six parts still coincides with the character of the father, Shimin, and the father just said that as long as the word Shimin is not used together, there is no need to avoid it.

In such an enlightened and prosperous age, how could people in the world fast to eat carp because carp has the same pronunciation as Li's surname.

At this moment Li Zhi saw the two carps that the cook was carrying, and so did Empress Changsun, seeing the fat and alive carps, Empress Changsun just smiled.

"Yourong, you also brought this Weishui carp from home."

"Your Majesty, can you tell if this is a Weishui carp?"

"This palace can still divide these."

"You can't do it if you have tolerance, let alone a certain kind of fish in the water area, even if there are two different kinds of fish, you can't tell them apart."

Empress Changsun just smiled, distinguishing the same fish from the two waters is a careful job, and it can only be distinguished from very subtle places, it is normal for Xiao Yourong to be unable to tell the difference.

"I'm just waiting for the fish cake made by Xiao's cook."

The cook there was carrying the carp, so she asked where the kitchen was, and a maid took it away, but Li Zhi suddenly stopped the cook.

"Wait, I want the cook from the bamboo garden to learn the skill of making fish cakes from you, okay?"

"Your Highness, this is naturally possible."

"Yihong, call the cook from Zhuyuan here, and let her learn from Xiao's cook. From now on, Zhuyuan can also make fish cakes, and you can also teach people from the food bureau in the palace to do it. "

Yihong responded, and went to the bamboo garden to call for someone.

The cook there had already carried the carp to the kitchen to slaughter, so Li Zhi and Xiao Yourong would not go to see it.

A gentleman stays away from cooking, but in fact he kills living beings far away.The scene of slaughtering live fish, as King Jin and Miss Xiao, would never get close to it.

Accompanying her mother at this time, Nai Yihong had already led the two cooks into the bamboo garden, and walked towards the kitchen of the small bamboo garden.

At this time, on the main road leading to Chang'an, a carriage was slowly moving forward under the guard of a group of cavalry.

In the carriage, a young man was carefully beating the calf of a beautiful and dignified lady next to him. The lady kicked her foot with a boot, and the man rubbed her jade feet carefully.

"Small belly, I'll be back in Chang'an in a while, you go back to Du's house first, I'm going to the palace to meet the queen mother and the emperor's brother and sister."

"Your Highness, you always call me Little Belly, which is too ugly."

"What's the matter, you are not happy to call you a small belly, isn't your belly small?"

The woman was not shy either, she patted the man's belly twice, and even took off her clothes to see the white belly.

The man was not angry, he still rubbed the woman's jade feet carefully.In fact, I just walked for a while, but His Highness kept saying that my feet hurt.

At this time, this woman is naturally the 14-year-old Princess Chengyang, the second daughter of Empress Changsun who was born to the current emperor, and this man is Du He, the late prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Du Ruhui's second son.

Emperor Taizong never forgot Du Ruhui. Although Du Ruhui had passed away for more than ten years, Emperor Taizong's favor to the Du family continued.

It is a great favor to marry myself and the eldest grandson empress's daughter into the Du family.

At this time, Du He served Princess Chengyang with all his heart, even though Princess Chengyang was only 14 years old, and sometimes she still had a childlike heart.

His surname is Du, and he really doesn't have the drunk belly that is common among dudes. Princess Chengyang and him went out to play this time, so they called him a little belly. I don't know, I thought he was the little girl next to the princess. Where is the eunuch!

Du He protested a few times, but at this time the princess was compliant, and she was not willing to change.

Du He had no choice but to admit it, let's have a small belly!

When the carriage entered Chang'an City, Du He and Princess Chengyang separated. He naturally wanted to go back to Du's house, while His Highness wanted to go back to the palace.

As soon as the two separated, a group of palace people rushed to the princess's carriage.

"Slaves pay homage to Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

"Get up soon, did the queen mother ask you to come here to welcome me?"

"His Royal Highness, Your Majesty is not in the palace at this time, but lives in the bamboo garden."

"Bamboo Garden, I remember that Bamboo Garden is not a royal property, why does the Queen Mother live there?"

"His Royal Highness, Princess Yuzhang is recuperating in the bamboo garden, and the empress is going to accompany her in the bamboo garden."

"What happened to my queen?"

"This servant doesn't know either!"

"Quick, hurry to the bamboo garden."

The wheels of the carriage crushed the road in Chang'an, and they were already galloping towards the bamboo garden. Princess Chengyang was eager to rush the carriage several times.

When they got to the gate of the bamboo garden, Princess Chengyang rushed into the bamboo garden with her maid. At this time, the guard of the maid in the bamboo garden hurriedly stopped her.Princesses in the palace seldom go out on weekdays, so how do people outside the palace know each other.

"Get out of the way quickly, I want to see my mother!"

After hearing that Princess Chengyang wanted to see her mother, the guard maid of the bamboo garden naturally knew the identity of the person in front of her, and immediately knelt down on the ground.

"His Royal Highness, the empress is not here, she is at the small bamboo garden."

"Little Bamboo Garden, when did this Chang'an City have a Little Bamboo Garden? How come I don't know anything about it?"

"His Royal Highness, this is a garden just opened in the bamboo garden!"

Just as the maid answered, Cui Yan happened to be walking here. Seeing the door like this, he had already guessed a bit. When he saw Princess Chengyang, he already knew her identity, so he hurried over a few steps.

"Are you Princess Chengyang?"

"who are you?"

"Cui Yan has met His Royal Highness Princess Chengyang, and His Royal Highness must want to see His Majesty, so Cui Yan will take His Royal Highness there."

Chapter 205 Princess Chengyang

Cui Yan led Princess Chengyang, but at this time he took a closer look at the young royal princess. Sure enough, the princesses born by Empress Changsun for Her Majesty are not bad.

No, it's not that they don't have a bad appearance, but that they are all overwhelmed. Cui Yan felt a little inferior when he saw it. This is still Princess Chengyang who is only fourteen this year. After a few more years, she will be another Princess of Changle.

Princess Chengyang, who followed Cui Yan to the small bamboo garden, walked quickly a few steps just after passing through the gate, and walked together with Cui Yan.