In the Penglai Palace, the sun and moon rise together. In front of the Taizhen Palace, there are jade eaves on the Yao stairs.
Prince Li Shi's mind was spinning a thousand times, and his mouth was filled with panic. He had seen Concubine Taizhen before. She was the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong, his great-grandfather, and she was crowned the Sixth Palace. However, he was still young at the time and his memory had long been blurred.
Concubine Taizhen's appearance and clothing only left a superficial impression.
When Concubine Taizhen was given the death penalty of Mawei Station, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was mixed up with a group of palace people traveling to the west. From a distance, they only saw General Longwu Chen Xuanli and others, who dug a pit at random and dug a pit.
The pomegranate-red object was thrown in. Later, as I grew older, I realized that Concubine Taizhen liked to wear pomegranate skirts the most. The thing thrown into the pit that day was Concubine Taizhen's body...
Seeing the fright on his face, the fairy was speechless, but she still smiled and said: "You don't have to be afraid. The fragrant soul of the Taizhen Concubine left the skin, the heavenly soul returned to the upper world, and she became the Peony Flower God. These are all destined. How could she
Will she cause trouble with your descendants of the Li family due to mortal disputes? You came here by mistake today, maybe she wanted to lure you here and have some good words to say."
Prince Li Shi finally calmed down: "I, I must go... to pay homage to the Flower Goddess?"
"Having come here, it would be disrespectful to avoid seeing him. Besides, the grievances of previous generations are not your fault anyway. Just don't worry." The fairy said with a smile.
Prince Li Shi thought it was reasonable, so he followed the fairy, parted the clouds and mist, walked through flowers and walked around the path, and came to a golden tower and jade palace. On the plaque were painted several eye-catching official characters "Taizhen Palace". He was surprised and cautious at the same time.
I couldn't help but hold back a sentence: "Xian, fairy, may I ask how you call me?"
The fairy turned her head and raised the corners of her mouth slightly: "Just call me Xiaoyu. I will see the Flower Goddess later, so don't be restrained. If you have any questions, you can ask her."
Prince Li Shi silently made a note of it, chased Xiaoyu up the stairs, and arrived at the palace in a short time. He saw the beautiful scenery on the ground, the hall full of gold colors, the banquet cases, and the smoke from the incense burner. Compared with the Tai Chi Palace and the layout of the Daming Palace,
, not to mention giving too much.
Among them, the carved phoenix sat alone on the couch. A beautiful woman with half-baked breasts and an embroidered skirt was leaning on a table, holding an amber cup in her hand and sipping jade liquid. Her cheeks were red with wine. She saw someone.
Entering the palace, he waved his sleeves and the amber cup that he couldn't drink from disappeared immediately.
The beautiful woman smiled charmingly and said: "Shi'er is here. Come forward quickly and ask Aijia to take a look! We have been apart for nearly twenty years, but now she has a majestic figure, a dragon and a phoenix, and is not inferior to Sanlang in his time."
When Prince Li Shi heard this, he had no choice but to step forward, bow his hands and salute, and said in a panic: "Sun Chen pays homage to the empress! Since the empress passed away, my great-grandfather has missed me day and night. He looks at the flowers and remembers people, brushes the willows and weeps, hears the bell and is heartbroken, and sees the moon and is sad.
He was always depressed and unhappy, and his body deteriorated from bad to worse, and finally collapsed in the Manna Palace. My great-grandfather knew that he owed his wife the best, so he always held a grudge against him, which made his life miserable. I hope that my queen would care about her honor and favor at that time and not bear any grudge against him. "
The beautiful woman pushed the table away, her smile unchanged: "Traveling in the world is just a joke. Whether you love it or not, hate it or not, Shi'er is too careful. Your journey here today is not accidental.
, it’s just a whim of the Ai family, using some tricks to attract you here, and I have a few good words of advice.”
Prince Li Shi bowed politely, raised his eyes slightly and said, "Sun Chen respectfully listens to your Majesty's instructions."
The beautiful woman sat upright, her plump posture was even better than before, and she said with a smile: "Since ancient times, throughout the history of several dynasties, there have been ups and downs, prosperity and decline. The eight hundred kingdoms of the Zhou Dynasty were destroyed, and the second generation of the Sui Dynasty was beheaded.
, no one can escape this law, how can there be a dynasty that has lasted for thousands of generations? Your Li family's prosperous dynasty only lasted for three hundred years. If you don't promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages and work hard to govern, I'm afraid this country will collapse within a few generations.
bad."
Prince Li Shi calculated in his mind and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat: It has only been a hundred and fifty years since the founding of the prosperous dynasty! If Guo Zuo only had only three hundred years, wouldn't it be halfway through? As a prince, he will surely be a great treasure in the future.
, how can we not worry about the foundation of this prosperous dynasty!
With this thought in mind, Prince Li Shi couldn't care less and knelt down to the beautiful woman with a bang: "Sun Chen, please give me advice on how to rejuvenate the country!"
However, the beautiful woman sighed tenderly: "There is no way for blessings and misfortunes, they can only be brought about by oneself! When the Ai family was still in the mortal world, he once sat and watched the prosperous dynasty conquer all nations, and also witnessed Sanlang's transformation from trying hard to govern to being complacent and neglectful. He also dismissed Zhang Jiuling.
Zhang Shuo and other virtuous ministers gradually corrupted the government. He listened to his favored ministers and blindly trusted his generals, which eventually led to the "Jizhou Rebellion". My mortal body and relatives were all destroyed because of this military disaster.
He deserved to be killed.
Today you ask about the strategy of rejuvenating the country, what can Aijia have to say? After all, it is a woman’s opinion. However, since the rise of the Han Dynasty, there have been two eternal masterpieces. You can study them in detail, and you will definitely have some ideas.
What you understand.”
After the beautiful woman finished speaking, she raised her sleeves slightly, and two scrolls flew out and landed gently on the knees of Prince Li Shi. He hurriedly picked up one scroll and unfolded it skillfully. What he saw were lines of beautiful handwriting copied by Juan.
But they were two "Exhortations to Masters" written by Zhuge Kongming, the Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty. He had read these two "Explanations" when he was young, and felt that they were sincere and sincere, and they were indeed worthy of the word "heroic article".
Immediately, he picked up another scroll and opened it to read, but it was a memorial "Ten Thoughts" written by Wei Zheng, a famous official at the beginning of the dynasty, who satirized Emperor Taizong. This article was known to everyone in the Manchu dynasty.
Xiao. When I read it suddenly, the sound was like the ringing of bells and drums, deafening and deafening. When I thought about it carefully, I felt cold sweat running down my spine and I felt restless. The way of governing the country was explained very thoroughly.
Prince Li Shi knelt down in the palace and read the two magnificent articles over and over again. When he looked up again, there was no Jade Palace or Golden Hall. There was white mist on all sides. In the ethereal space, there seemed to be a majestic fairy mountain floating in the air.
In mid-air, two seal characters "Peng Lai" faintly appeared on the mountain wall. When I looked down again, I was scared out of my mind: as far as the eye could see, there were all blue and furious waves, which may be the East China Sea recorded in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"
…
At this moment, the clouds and mist around him seemed to be overwhelmed and dispersed one after another. Prince Li Shi screamed and fell into the vast East China Sea!
Prince Li Shi sat up with beads of sweat on his forehead. He lifted up his brocade quilt and saw four or five palace maids holding lanterns pouring in from both sides of the cabin. The other palace maids were all gathered outside because the cabin was small, but they also
He put the lantern in and immediately illuminated the cabin like daylight. Only then did he suddenly realize that it was actually a strange dream.
Prince Li Shi was sitting in the cabin, what he saw in his dream was still vivid in his mind, and the words from "Shi Shi Biao" and "Ten Thoughts" were constantly swirling in his mind:
"To be close to virtuous ministers and to stay away from villains is why the early Han Dynasty prospered; to be close to villains and to be distant to virtuous ministers is why the later Han Dynasty declined."
He who defeats the ultimate will destroy the few"...
Seeing that his expression was gradually recovering, all the maids in the palace calmed down one after another. They silently set up a small table, placed a box of new braised mutton, a bottle of rose peach wine, and several baked cakes before tiptoeing out.
Prince Li Shi looked at the table full of delicacies, but found them tasteless. When he got out of the cabin, he realized that it was completely dark. He had just slept, but he had not woken up from the wine and was still a little dizzy.
Looking around, there are lanterns hanging in the palace outside the Jiuzhou Pool, and the waves in the Jiuzhou Pool are surging in the wind. The river hangs upside down in the middle, echoing the line in the sky. It is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and it is full of incomprehensible mysteries. It is exactly:
After being drunk, I don’t know that the sky is on the water, and the boat is full of clear dreams that overwhelm the stars.
The words are divided into two parts.
But he said that Li Changyuan came out of the Beggar Gang, and when he saw Xiaoshu in Nan City, there were few people around, and he felt cold in his heart.
It was already past lunch time, and it was said that the Nanshi market had already opened. However, looking at the open shops one after another, the shopkeepers could not come out, and the waiters were yawning, all looking dejected and uncaring.
Li Changyuan sighed and walked faster.
Not long after I returned to the East Palace, I saw Prince Li Shi sitting in the main hall, holding two volumes of books in a trance. He raised his hands and saluted: "Your Highness, may you be blessed! I am leaving the palace this time. Fortunately, I have fulfilled my destiny and am already in the Shendu Garden."
They found the Zoroastrian holy nun. The holy nun made it clear that the reason why she encouraged Hu Shang to strike was because she was forced by Wang Jin of Taiwei Palace and had no choice but to do it. Unless Wang Jin reined in his horse from the brink, stopped early and returned the place.
Discipline the believers and relatives. Otherwise, this matter will be punished until death."
Prince Li Shi threw down the scroll and frowned: "These Zoroastrian barbarians are really arrogant. Wang Jin is not only the Duke of Qi, but also the right-hand man of the powerful Prime Minister Yuanzai. How can he be hijacked by them? I wonder if the Zoroastrian people in the Sa Bao Mansion
Right, how do you view this matter?"
Li Changyuan was silent for a moment, but he shook out his sleeves and started counting with both hands. After a while, he said: "Master Zhuan Zheng has set off from Chang'an on a fast horse and will arrive in Luoyang in a few days. I can inform His Highness in person at that time."
Prince Li Shi pinched his temples, as if the power of the wine had not yet dissipated, and then he changed his tone and said: "Sir, there are no outsiders here. There is no need for these red tapes. Please sit down and talk."
After hearing this, Li Changyuan bowed again, then slowly walked to the left side of the prince, found a round seat and sat down, and smiled calmly: "What is your confusion today, Your Highness?"
Prince Li Shi did not answer. He looked around and said in a deep voice, "I am discussing scriptures and Taoism with Master Chang Yuan. Do you also want to listen?"
When the guards and maidservants from the east palace around heard the words, they all trembled and said in unison: "I don't dare." Then they all left the main hall, leaving only Li Changyuan sitting next to the crown prince Li Shi.
Prince Li Shi then said with a worried look on his face: "Master, last night...last night I had a strange dream, and my soul traveled to the Taizhen Hall of the Penglai Palace in the East China Sea, and saw that...the Taizhen Concubine who was hanged to death in Mawei Station!
"
When Li Changyuan heard this, he was also shocked: it should be known that people who die violently are prone to give birth to evil ghosts and resentful souls. Concubine Taizhen was once an honorable and powerful family, but because of a military disaster, she was killed by Chen Xuanli and others.
, how come there is no resentment? Even though it has happened several years ago, how could she know that her sudden ghost dream was not to harm the Li family's bloodline?
It can be seen that His Highness the Crown Prince is safe and sound in front of him, but he feels strange. He can only ask: "What can His Highness see? What can he hear?"
Prince Li Shi was even more worried, and said with a sullen face: "Concubine Taizhen said that the prosperous dynasty of Zuo only has three hundred years. She also said that if we don't promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages, I'm afraid it won't last even three hundred years!"
Li Changyuan was also shocked, and couldn't help but solemnly said: "Such predictions of the fate of the dynasty are not only treasonous, but also reveal the secrets of heaven! Even Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng would remain silent even when they were alive, and keep the secrets they speculated in their stomachs. Therefore, although there is a "Tuibei Tu" handed down from generation to generation, it is ambiguous and unclear, so as not to cause people's minds to change and lead to the disaster of overthrow!"
Prince Li Shi nodded in agreement: "I thought so too. But I couldn't help but believe what the Taizhen Concubine said. She also advised me to read two great essays so that I could eliminate accumulated shortcomings, eliminate foreign troubles, and clarify my aspirations in the future. These are the two volumes in front of me."
Li Changyuan then picked up the two open scrolls, glanced at them, and nodded silently: It turned out to be Prime Minister Zhuge's "Biao Shi" and "Ten Thoughts" by Wei Zheng. They are indeed ancient and powerful texts suitable for emperors and princes to study.
After thinking about it, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "It seems that this concubine Taizhen was extremely favored when she was alive, but was slandered after her death. Now she has changed her mind and is going to devote her whole life to the prosperous dynasty Guo Zuo!"