Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty

East Palace.

In the dark night, the small school grounds are illuminated by torches on all sides as bright as day.The sound of shouting and killing on the school field shook the world, and several pairs of guards in Turkic costumes fought each other with knives, shouting continuously.

The prince looked excited and crazy, beat the drum himself, and shouted loudly at the school: "Kill! Kill quickly!"

The fighting below suddenly became more intense.

The East Palace is located in the east of Ganlu Hall, very close to each other. The palace wall on the west side of the East Palace is only about [-] paces away from Da Nei.

He was sitting in the hall, when he suddenly heard a loud shouting outside, he put on his coat and went outside to see, on the high terrace of Ganlu Hall, he didn't need to distinguish carefully to know that the sound came from the East Palace.

The emperor lowered his face, extremely displeased, "Well," he murmured, glanced at the eunuch next to him, and said impatiently, "Go to someone and see what the prince is doing again!"

The eunuch lowered his head and trotted out quickly.

The emperor glanced in the direction of the East Palace again, gathered his collar, and walked slowly into the palace.

Walking into the inner room, I saw a woman standing there looking around. The emperor frowned and said loudly, "Who are you?"

The woman seemed to be startled, knelt down quickly, and replied, "I am a talented person, Wu Mei." Wu Meiniang was sent to the palace by the eunuch serving the bed, but the emperor disappeared. She was looking around when she suddenly heard a voice behind her. She couldn't help being startled by the low voice.

The emperor searched in his mind, and remembered who this Wu Mei was. He walked over majestically and said in a deep voice, "Raise your head."

Wu Meiniang raised her head as she said.

"Well," the emperor looked down at her for a while, "your eyes are full of unchanging stubbornness."

Wu Meiniang didn't know whether it was a compliment or a reprimand, she felt nervous and bowed her head to thank her: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your words."

The emperor smiled, and the meaning was unclear, which made people even more frightened: "I still like to play tricks."

Wu Meiniang raised her heart, not knowing how to speak, she was thinking carefully, and just about to speak, she heard the report from outside the door that the eunuch who had gone to the East Palace to check had returned.

The emperor left Wu Mei behind, turned around, and said, "Come quickly."

The eunuch didn't dare to hide anything, so he made it clear: "His Royal Highness makes people perform martial arts for fun. The performers are all dressed in Turkic costumes. The prince personally beats the drums and participates in it."

It was a truthful report, but the emperor was displeased when he heard it: "Are you alluding to the crown prince's incompetence and performing martial arts for fun?!"

As soon as the eunuch heard this, his legs went limp, and he lay down on the ground, kowtowing again and again: "The little ones dare not, the little ones, the little ones just report the truth, and dare not show any falsehood!"

The emperor refused to listen again: "I hate the most for someone to accuse the prince of his fault!" He said loudly: "Come on! Drag him down and kill him with a stick!"

The eunuch was paralyzed in an instant, begging for mercy with trembling voices in despair, but after a single sound, the guards who came in covered their mouths and dragged them out.

The emperor looked at him coldly, with no emotion in his deep and cold eyes, when the palace door was closed, he turned around again, saw Wu Meiniang was still kneeling, and snorted coldly: "What are you still kneeling for? Don't come and undress me!"

Wu Meiniang still played back the eunuch's struggling body and desperate sobs when he was dragged out just now. Hearing this, she was about to get up, but her legs were so frightened that she almost fell down. She quickly stood up straight , stepped forward to undress the emperor.

The hall was dark, Wu Meiniang was startled by the scene just now, she was still a little trembling, inadvertently, when she was going to crown the emperor, she caught a lock of the emperor's hair, the emperor was furious, Wu Meiniang's heart went blank, only thinking about the clear The eunuch, who didn't make a single mistake, subconsciously pleaded guilty.

The emperor was already angry, and angrily reprimanded: "You are so stupid, how can you be worthy of being a concubine of the emperor!" Premonitioning that his next sentence would be cold "death with a stick", Wu Meiniang was in a hurry, and for self-protection, she blurted out Out: "The concubine is so dull that she is not worthy of being a concubine. I just ask Your Majesty not to expel the concubine and make her a slave or a servant girl. As long as she serves the king, Wu Mei is grateful for her kindness!"

"Oh?" The emperor seemed to have discovered something more interesting, and said in a low voice without distinguishing between emotions and anger, "Do you really want to be a slave and a handmaid just to be by my side?"

"There is no other way!" Wu Meiniang tried her best to make her words sound resounding.

The emperor smiled. The king who holds the fate of all lives in his hands is like playing with a humble ant, with great interest: "Then I will lower you to be a maidservant of the Palace of Ganlu. !"

Only then did Wu Meiniang feel the murderous intent to leave, she escaped, she humbly thanked her, and withdrew.

The next day, Gao Yang was summoned to accompany the emperor to have dinner, and when she saw Wu Meiniang dressed in the clothes of a maidservant serving beside her, her heart skipped a beat, but there was no change on her face, and she greeted the emperor with a smile: "Please, dear!" Dad is safe."

The emperor was very happy to see her: "The Seventeenth Niang is here, sit down quickly, Sizi and Jiulang have gone to Yuanyuan, and she will come later."

"What about Jiulang? I haven't seen him for a long time." Gao Yang followed the emperor's conversation.

The emperor smiled: "I asked him to read more books. The mansion outside the palace has been built, and so is yours. If you find a sunny day, you can go for a walk and see if there is anything you don't like. Order it as soon as possible." People have to change it." He was a little regretful, originally the mansion was built, and the next step was to get married, it's a pity, his eyesight is clumsy.

Gao Yang pretended not to know, and said happily: "Thank you, Father."

The emperor laughed.

Wu Meiniang came forward to serve tea for the princess, Gao Yang took a look at her, no different from any maid in the palace, and continued to chat with the emperor: "I saw Shiro last time, he seems to be majestic again."

King Wei is the emperor's favorite son. Speaking of him, the emperor's expression softened a lot: "You also said that? It can be seen that he is really fat again. It is hard for a fat person to walk. I can't bear it. Why don't you compare Wu De What do you think of giving Shiro the palace to live in the palace?"

Gao Yang restrained his smile, thought for a while, and said carefully: "This is an act of my father's love, but the ministers are afraid that they will not agree."

The emperor was a little displeased: "I cherish my children, why do they talk so much? Don't they have children of their own? Can't they treat others with themselves?" He settled the matter himself.

Gao Yang didn't persuade anymore, and talked about other places.

Near noon, Jin Yang came back, saw Gao Yang was there, and ran over happily.

After lunch, the emperor was going to take a nap, and the two left.Jin Yang invited Gao Yang to her room, but Gao Yang declined politely: "I have other things to do, come back next time."

Jin Yang didn't ask any more questions, and just insisted on agreeing with her on the "next time" date.

Gao Yang walked out of the shot and stopped.After a while, Guo Yi, the inner eunuch of Ganlu Hall, trotted over. In the past two years, Guo Yi relied on his cleverness and the money generously given by Gao Yang to serve in the palace.

"Princess Da'an." Guo Yi knelt down and greeted Gao Yang with a big gift.Gao Yang said: "Get up and talk."

Guo Yi got up, bowed his waist: "Thank you, Your Highness, what orders does Your Highness have?"

"What's the matter with the new maid in Ganlu Palace?"

Guo Yi also didn't know the reason, and said: "That was originally a martial artist, she was supposed to be in bed last night, but for some reason, everyone was offended, and everyone demoted her to be a maidservant."

Gao Yang frowned, and asked: "Is there anything unusual last night?"

Guo Yi had lingering fears about last night, the blood on his face faded a lot, he said repeatedly: "Yes, yes." Without waiting for Gao Yang to ask again, he said in all detail: "When the night was deeper last night, the East Palace Drum Music Great work, occasionally mixed with shouts of killing, everyone ordered people to watch..." The dead eunuch was also on duty with them, and they often had contacts on weekdays, but after a while, a living person was beaten to death. , Guo Yi and the others were terrified, and made up their minds that in the future, it would be related to the crown prince, and they would avoid it if they could.

Gao Yang guessed that Ah Wu had bumped into His Majesty's remaining anger, and he had to find an opportunity to talk about the specific situation in person.

Because of her past life experience, Gao Yang is not worried that something bad will happen to A Wu, but this time she experienced it again, she has a lot of worries in her heart, fearing that A Wu will suddenly be humbled and be bullied by her subordinates.

Wu Meiniang, who was cared about by her, also thought about her. She really didn't know what it was like to meet in Ganlu Hall today, and seeing the princess treat her as an irrelevant person, although she was bitter in her heart, she also knew that this was the best way , the Holy One is suspicious, it is one thing to be able to miss one thing, she is a maidservant, and she was only a mere talent before, how to explain how she got acquainted with the princess?

Wu Meiniang tried her best to serve the emperor's daily life, and the emperor only treated her as a maidservant.

so peaceful.

In the Daxing Palace, the ministers were in the early court, and Wu Meiniang was the maid of the palace. It was the first time to see the grand occasion of the emperor's early court. The ministers held ivory wats and respectfully visited.

Wu Meiniang stood on the high platform, feeling nervous and apprehensive in her heart, but somehow she felt suppressed excitement and longing when she saw such a situation for the first time.

In the hall, Wei Zhengshang remonstrated with the emperor: "Your Majesty loves the king of Wei and ordered him to move to Wude. This hall is located in the west of the East Palace, and Xiangzhe Hailing tried to live in it. People at that time didn't think it was acceptable; although things are changing now, the ministers are also afraid. The heart of the King of Wei does not dare to rest." Hailing is the third son of Gaozu Yuanji, who was posthumously named King Hailing.

The King of Wei was annoyed when he heard the words, hated that Wei Zheng had misunderstood him again, looked up and saw that the emperor was showing signs of being persuaded, his heart moved, and he came out to agree with Wei Zheng: "My son, please go back to live in the mansion."

The Hall of Wude is adjacent to the East Palace. It used to be the residence of King Hailing. Yuanji conspired with Jiancheng here, which became a major disaster today.It seemed inappropriate to say this, the emperor thought that he had been rash, accepted Wei Zheng's remonstrance, and sent the king of Wei back to live in the mansion.He also felt sorry for putting the king of Wei here. Thinking of the previous admonishment to the doctor Chu Suiliang, who said that Wei Wangyue had given the prince Yue Yue, he said: "It is reasonable for the king of Wei to recruit scholars to write books and open the library. In the middle, in order to deal with the prince's area, the upper limit of the prince's expenses was withdrawn, and the inner treasury was allowed to be used by him."

The ministers have already refuted the emperor once, and they dare not refute the second time, so they all agree.The emperor retreated to advance, and he gained greater benefits for the king of Wei, so that he would be handsome for a long time, and he didn't need to be restrained by money when his family was like a market.

This kind of deliberation is very new to Wu Meiniang, it is a brand new world that has never been seen before. She listened very interestingly, and unknowingly figured out what the emperor said, how the emperor said, how the ministers responded, and the ministers If there is a refutation, how should the emperor judge.

When the prince heard this, he was very jealous, and privately said to Du He, "Your Majesty, you don't know that Tai has been coveting my position for a long time?" I really wonder if the emperor intends to abolish him, and now he is paving the way for the king of Wei.

Du He, Du Ruhui's second son, Du Zijun's uncle, was Princess Chengyang's son-in-law at that time, and was loved by the crown prince.Du He persuaded the crown prince: "Be patient, endure until the day when the Great Treasure is ascended, the King of Wei will be a prisoner for His Royal Highness."

The prince hated it extremely: "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that day."

Du He was silent.

In the future, because of the limit of uselessness, the prince will play more and more.Zhang Xuansu, the son of the left concubine, wrote to persuade the prince again.The prince hated him deeply and cursed Zhang Xuansu so much that everyone knew about it.

Within a few days, Zhang Xuansu was killed on the way to court.All of a sudden, everyone was shocked.

King Jin told Gao Yang in private, he was very jealous: "His Royal Highness is really ruthless." Zhang Xuansu had taught the prince, and he was a half-teacher, and it was His Majesty who asked him to persuade the prince, but the prince actually asked someone to kill him. A crown prince without virtue, even a cowardly and indisputable person like the king of Jin was worried that if one day the crown prince ascended the throne, would he treat him kindly as a brother.

Gao Yang didn't say a word, he said in his heart, where is the prince's heart, it's clearly a conspiracy of King Wei.King Wei has been waiting for this opportunity to make the prince lose his heart for a long time.