Days are everlasting

In the 12th year of Kaiyuan, in April of summer, the fifteenth son of the emperor, Li Min, Wang An, and Li Qing, the eighteenth son of the emperor, returned to the palace.

Probably, I don’t know if the Fengshui in the palace is not good or what. Concubine Wu Hui—in the tenth year of Kaiyuan, the emperor was under the empress, and there were four wives. On the grounds that it did not conform to the ancient law, the hierarchy system of concubines in the palace was changed, and the original noble concubine Concubine Shu, Concubine De, Concubine De, and Concubine Xian were changed to the system of Concubine Hui, Concubine Li, and Concubine Hua, and Wu Jieyu ascended to the sky in one step, becoming the concubine Wu Hui who is below one person and above ten thousand in the harem—— Among the children, except Li Siyi, king of Xia, who grew up safely, the rest had to stay away from the palace.

Although the eldest daughter, Princess Shangxian, who was born after King An and Li Min was well cared for, she was as weak as her two elder brothers. Later, she had to become a Taoist priest in the name of praying for the late emperor and His Majesty.

Unlike her half-sister Princess Wan'an who was also "ordained", Princess Shangxian was soon sent out of the palace and entrusted to be raised by Li Longji's younger sister, Princess Yuzhen.

Emperor Li Longji had two younger sisters, Princess Jinxian and Princess Yuzhen, but neither of them married, but became nun crowned women.

Just seeing that Li Min's title is King An, one can tell that his physical condition is not very good.

In fact, since the eighth son Li Wei, only the ninth son Li Siyi and the fifteenth son Li Min have been crowned kings, but judging by the physical condition of the two of them, it is really hard to make trouble.

King An and Li Min were born in the seventh year of Kaiyuan, Princess Shangxian was born in the eighth year of Kaiyuan, and Li Qing, the eighteenth son of the emperor, was born in the ninth year of Kaiyuan. Perhaps the uninterrupted pregnancy and childbirth in the middle was also the reason why the children of Concubine Wu Hui were weak.

In fact, even she herself has signs of trouble.

For the health of her children, Concubine Wu Hui had to send all her other children out of the palace. Anwang Li Min and Li Qing were sent to the home of the eldest brother and fourth brother of the emperor to be raised respectively.

Only Xia Wang Li Siyi, although still weak, seemed to be in better condition than his younger brothers. The emperor loved this son very much and did not want to be separated from him, so he stayed with his parents in the palace.

If you want to talk about which of their children Li Longji and Concubine Wu Hui have the deepest affection for, although they also miss the other children, there is no doubt that Li Siyi, who was raised by their side, is the most valued by them.

Following Li Longji's wishes, Li Siyi's popularity among his brothers gradually improved, and he often went to find some brothers to communicate with, which made Li Longji very pleased.

Different from the times of the ancestors, at the time of Li Siyi, it was very difficult for the princes to make friends with ministers and accumulate strength.

Itself started with a coup d'état in the palace, and experienced the Wu Zhou era, which was extremely unfriendly to the Li and Tang royal families, and the Zhongzong Dynasty, which was about to repeat the past. intervention.

In the early years of Kaiyuan, Li Longji appointed Yao Chong as prime minister, and one of the prerequisites for Yao Chong's agreement was that Li Longji agreed to his ten principles, one of which was to restrain the members of the royal family. , that is, an important position in the imperial court, no member of the royal family can hold it.

After Li Longji's princes were entrusted with the title of Jiedu envoy and other official positions, they did not hold real positions. The emperor valued power very much, and he did not allow his sons to stretch out their hands indiscriminately.

What's more, there are too many sons of the emperor to write about, not counting daughters, he already has more than 20 sons, and maybe he can't even remember the faces of many of them, let alone daughters.

The large number of children undoubtedly weakened the emperor's love for his children. Li Siyi had a mother who was a favorite concubine and became the emperor's beloved son smoothly. He was already much luckier than other brothers.

Perhaps this identity is also the reason why he was chosen by a group of ancestors.

Although the third brother Li Sisheng was brought up in the palace by the empress, his treatment is really not good.

However, among Li Siyi's elder brothers, some would rather be little transparent than have a close friendship with him, and some of them formed their own groups, only raised at the queen's knees, and taught to work hard as brothers and sisters. Li Sisheng, who lives up to the teachings of the queen, will try his best to express kindness to him and the few other brothers who have been excluded among the brothers.

Although Li Siyi and Li Sisheng are friends, this does not change the fact that the two women who raised them fought to the death.

But for Li Siyi, Concubine Wu Hui was a little too impatient.

When it comes to doing things, it's too easy to leave people talking, and it's too bad.

In the beginning, there were several emperor's favored concubines and Concubine Wu Hui who shared the infamy of the emperor's concubine's destruction of his wife. If he had the ambition to become a prince, he might be in an embarrassing situation.

Of course, perhaps the Wu family, who is now conferred the title of Concubine Hui, thinks that she is only one step away from the queen's position, and she is too confident in herself, which leads to the expansion of her confidence.

Being crowned crown prince as the favored youngest son, Li Siyi is more willing to listen to the words of the eunuch Gaozong Li Zhi who has such experience. Too many beaks, after all, her old man also followed the route of being favored, murdering the queen and Concubine Xiao who was also favored before, and finally succeeded in being named queen.

However, according to Li Siyi's observations, the route that is suitable for his wife is not necessarily suitable for his aunt Concubine Wu Hui, not to mention that she also happens to be surnamed Wu. Take precautions.

Li Siyi is still young, even though as he grows older, the farthest distance between the former emperors and him has increased to fifty feet, it will not help. With such a distance, they can only be expected to hear other news. Said it was wishful thinking.

However, in fact, Li Longji was basically disgusted with his queen, maybe it had something to do with his favorite concubines in the harem, or maybe it had something to do with her constant efforts to increase the strength of the family and angered Li Longji.

Queen Wang is a rare twin in this era. Her brother-in-law is Wang Shouyi, and the princess Qingyang married by Wang Shouyi is Li Longji's younger sister. Therefore, the relationship between the two families can be said to be relatively close.

But no matter how close the relationship is, it won't work when Li Longji despises the queen.

What's more, in the era of Tang Dynasty, the son-in-law was just a consumable to the princesses if the relationship was not good. Without the son-in-law, the princess could remarry, and she could also keep noodles in her own mansion.

Rather, a virtuous and virtuous princess is a relatively rare species in this era.

Li Siyi was still studying in elementary school, but his imperial brother had already been promoted to Hongwen Hall, so if he wanted to go to Li Sisheng to reminisce about the past, he had to go to the palace where the queen lived.

Every prince wears clothes that represent their status. Basically, no one will mistake the prince or the clan, and the maids in the empress palace are quite familiar with him, the ninth prince, so Li Siyi walked down safely all the way. Came to Li Sisheng's bedroom.

Li Sisheng was obviously surprised by Li Siyi's arrival, he was followed by a little guy who was about the same age as Li Qing, but compared with Li Min and Li Qing, this kid's appearance was obviously not good enough.

Li Siyi thought about it carefully before calling out uncertainly: "Sixteen Lang?"

Xiao BuDian nodded towards Li Si: "Ninth brother."

There seemed to be something wrong with his neck, but it was mostly normal, but even so, his father didn't like it.

"I heard third brother talk about you a few days ago, but I just saw you today." Li Siyi said so, and naturally sat down opposite Li Sisheng and Li Ze.

Li Ze, the sixteenth son of the emperor, was held in Li Sisheng's arms and placed on his lap. It could be seen that Li Sisheng loved him very much.

Li Siyi only recently heard that the Shunyi Guo family who was born in the Guo family in Taiyuan was gone, and the sixteenth son of the emperor fell into an embarrassing situation.

His mother is Shunyi, and she is one of the high-ranking concubines. After Guo Shunyi, there are few concubines who are qualified to raise him. Not to mention, Li Ze himself has obvious defects and cannot be loved by his father. He became a hot potato, and few concubines wanted to take over him.

This is also the reason why Li Sisheng, the elder brother, is raising Li Ze.

Although Li Sisheng was raised under the name of Empress Wang, there is still a difference between Li Zesheng being raised by him and being raised by Queen Wang.

There are not many topics that can be discussed between brothers, and one has to be careful not to encounter topics that others are unwilling to talk about. After talking about the topics that he wanted to communicate with Li Sisheng, Li Siyi began to have nothing to say.

"Will the sixteenth man live with the third brother in the future? I see that there are more palace people and waiters outside. After the fifteenth man and the eighteenth man returned to the palace, the people outside my palace also changed. There are too many." Li Siyi said so.

However, Li Sisheng shook his head: "That's not the case, it was specially ordered by Auntie. After the previous uncle came, Auntie sent some people from her place to serve me. It happened that Shiliu Lang was newly accepted. Come to my place, some old people from Shun Yi's side have also been dispersed, only a few came here with Shiliu Lang, I think Aniang is also thinking of Shiliu Lang."

Li Siyi responded with indifference on the surface, but secretly cared.

If the queen really needs to add people to Saburo, why is there a need to send people from her own palace?I'm afraid there's something wrong here.

Li Siyi, who was aware of the problem, only hoped that his aunt Wu Huifei would not intervene in it, otherwise, the matter would be serious.

The author has something to say: Well, Queen Xuanzong, a woman who is as unlucky as Queen Gaozong, especially when they met a woman named Wu, emmmmm, Yin Chuisting.