In front of the dresser, a maid stood behind Princess Taiping, combing her long hair.
This mansion, Taiping did not live much, from the time she was very young, her father and mother often moved to Luoyang, although her childhood was spent in Chang'an, but at that time she was still young, still living in the palace.
By the time she grew up, married a wife, and was given this mansion, she had already lived in Luoyang for a long time.
However, this mansion is kept very intact, even if she does not come to Chang'an, she will care about the repair and maintenance here every year, after returning to Chang'an, only some daily application things have been added to the house, and the entire princess mansion has regained popularity.
The curtain couch in the bedroom is dazzling; Makeup and pillows are also luxurious.
Behind the six jade painting screens inlaid with gold and tortoiseshell snails is a huge bed of tassels and drapery, and the bedding is soft and shiny.
On a five-screen moire dresser of rosewood, there is a bronze mirror with rhombic flowers and jade beads, which is reflecting the charming and moving face of Princess Taiping.
Princess Taiping looked in the mirror, and from her angle, she could just see a figure reflected in the mirror from the edge of the screen.
The man was a man with a folded scarf and a robe with a collar, and he stood bowed.
The man was reporting to Princess Taiping: "Once the people of Yushitai left Beijing, they were rampant, and they successively forced the Wuman, Baiman, Xie Man, and Slang in Jiannan Road, Qianzhong Road, and Lingnan Road.
Now these barbarian leaders Qi Zhijing Shi sued the emperor, not only did they sue the imperial historian, but they also sued the officials stationed in these areas, accusing them of greed, accusing them of the corpse vegetarian meal, the emperor was furious, and has now ordered the political affairs station to investigate the matter thoroughly."
Princess Taiping sat quietly, while listening to his report, she opened the mirror casually, and the door on the left side of the dresser opened silently, and a small wooden maid slipped out of it, with a snail on her head, her arms in front of her, and her hands holding a face towel, makeup powder, eyebrows and other things.
Princess Taiping took a box of makeup powder from Xiaomuren's hand, and when she heard him say this, her hand suddenly stopped, she frowned and pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "That is to say, Jiannan Dao, Qianzhong Dao, and Lingnan Dao, there will be a large number of officials who will be dismissed."
Taiping waved his hand, and the little maid behind him stopped and took a step back.
Princess Taiping, with her long hair and shawl, slowly paced up in the room: "After this incident, the Yushitai is completely finished, and the officials who have something to do with the Yushitai will also be unlucky."
A large number of officials in the southern provinces will be replaced, and there will inevitably be a large number of vacancies in the DPRK."
Taiping's eyes flickered, and gradually became brighter: "No wonder Ning Ke, who has never shown up, invited me to a banquet, hehe, I'm afraid it has something to do with this matter."
Princess Taiping Huo Ran turned her head, stared at him and said, "What is the movement in the court now?"
The man bowed and said, "Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi are moving around, but they are not very interested in the border wasteland, and they just want to use a deal to exchange more vacancies in the court from other factions for his people."
In addition, the brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong have heard the rumors and tried to profit from it, but they are also not interested in official positions outside the capital, and their ideas are the same as those of Wu Sansi and Wu Chenghe, and they also want to use the way of helping others to win local official positions and install their own people in the court. ” Princess Taiping frowned, the position of the crown prince was about to be lost, she dedicated Zhang Changzong to the mother emperor, although Zhang Changzong's peace temporarily kept the position of the prince, but I didn't expect that the Zhang brothers were not willing to be a face, they were also so keen on power.
This sign made her very uncomfortable, but the power of the Zhang brothers was still very limited, and Princess Taiping didn't think that the opposite pair would become her confidants.
So although I was a little unhappy in my heart, I didn't have the idea of making another enemy.
Princess Taiping thought for a while, and then asked, "Isn't there any movement in Li Zhaode?"
The man said: "Li Zhaode is now gathering people from the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and Yushi Youtai to thoroughly investigate the illegal affairs of the border officials, but I haven't seen any action from him. ” Princess Taiping smiled slightly and said, "Yes, they are close to the water, so naturally they are not in a hurry."
Princess Taiping thought for a moment and urged: "If this opportunity is not successful, we can't miss it, I have to go back to Luoyang as soon as possible."
Speaking of this, Taiping Dai frowned again, and said to herself: "I don't know how he is now, where he went after leaving Panzhou, is he on his way back to Beijing or" Before he could say anything, someone outside the door reported loudly: "Your Highness, Yang Fan, Hu Yuanli, and Sun Yuxuan led a brigade of Long Wuwei to the front of the mansion and asked to see Your Highness."
Princess Taiping was overjoyed and happily responded: "He's here" A large city with a population of more than one million was very rare in the early Tang Dynasty, but even so, the southern area of Chang'an was still sparsely populated and the land was barren, which shows the vastness of Chang'an.
The population of Chang'an City is mainly distributed in the northern half of the city, among which Chongrenfang has the largest population, and the real old Chang'an, who has lived here for generations, even if he no longer lives here, as long as the family is not dilapidated, he must have an old house in this square.
Chongrenfang is close to Jingfengmen Street in the imperial city and is connected to the East Market.
When the Great Zhou Dynasty was still the Tang Dynasty, the capital was set up here, and there were 21 state capitals of the Jinju Yuan were located here, and the provinces went to Beijing on business and were elected to Beijing to wait for officials, all of them were concentrated here, and they were feasted all the time, and every night, other places or quiet, but in addition to Yongkang Fang, it was the most lively in this Chongren Fang, noisy all night, and the lights were endless.
The mansions of Sun Wuji, the eldest prince of Zhao Guo, and Gao Shilian, the prince of Shen Guo, are also in this workshop, both of them are characters on the Lingyan Pavilion, one is ranked first, and the other is ranked sixth, but such a great feat has not been able to ensure that they rest with the country, the eldest grandson Wuji was given death by Gaozong Li Zhi, Gao Shilian was dead at that time, and his son was implicated and demoted.
The eldest grandson Wuji is Gaozong Li Zhi's maternal uncle, Gao Shilian is the eldest grandson Wuji's maternal uncle, Li Zhi's maternal uncle and grandfather, Gaozong restored these two people to the title in his later years, anyway, these two people are dead, Wu Zetian did not want to fall out with Li Zhi for this, so he also let it go.
Although the descendants of these two people were fortunate to restore their hereditary titles, they have been unusually low-key, living in seclusion, and no longer participating in state affairs, just being a quiet and inactive grandfather, but thus avoiding political purges again and again.
At this moment, in a spacious hall in the back house of the Shenguo Mansion, there was a rare grand occasion of more than a dozen guests gathering.
The hall is not luxuriously furnished, but it is clean and elegant.
The guests were not dressed in splendid costumes, and the clothes were plain, clean and comfortable.
Judging from the position where these guests are seated, it is even more strange, most of these guests are old people in their seventies and eighties, and occasionally there are one or two prime and young people, but there is no certain rule for the order in which they are seated.
These people may not all be knights, nor are they officials, so the order of seating should be according to the age of the year, but in fact this is not the case, a middle-aged scribe in his forties and about forty years of age sits in the fourth seat at the top, and on the sixth seat is a handsome young man who looks just and weak in the crown, but the people who sit on their left and right are all gray-haired old men, I really don't know what rules they sit in.
These people are sitting on the ground one by one, even if it is a white-haired old man, they all have a straight neck, a straight waist, and sit extremely energetically, obviously for sitting and walking, they have been strictly trained since childhood, and have long developed a habit.
Therefore, their words and deeds have a kind of dignity and grace in their bones.
Most of these people don't walk around outside all the year round, and it is difficult to find a person in the entire Chang'an City who can recognize everyone in the hall, if there is one person who can really recognize all these people, I am afraid that I will be amazed, because these inconspicuous old men, middle-aged people and young people here have gathered all the family members of the wealthy families.
Of course, it is a big deal for these people to get together, but inside and outside the Gao Mansion, in a row of three alleys, all of them are full of their bright and secret sentinels, and even a fly does not want to fly in, how can anyone see their party.
It seems that they have been talking for a long time and are now entering a brief period of silence.
After a while, a white-haired old man sitting at the top said slowly: "Over the years, we have been trying to regain what should have belonged to us but has been lost by us, but unfortunately we have tried our best to infiltrate a group, and we have lost a group in the political struggle, so far there is no result." ” The old man's voice was old and hoarse, but no one dared to look at him as an old man with no strength and drooping, his voice still powerful, and his eyes still as sharp as an eagle's vulture.
He glanced coldly to the left and right, and emphasized in an accentuated tone: "This is a chance for our revival, a rare opportunity and perhaps our last chance."
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He didn't say much, everyone here is a smart person, everyone should understand what he means, since this opportunity is so important to everyone, then no matter who gets more benefits from it, who gets less benefits, everyone should go all out, if anyone has other intentions because of this, it is everyone's public enemy.
The old man Qingqu, who was sitting in the second place, coughed lightly and said loudly: "The old man traveled to the East China Sea back then, and he once saw a fisherman catching crabs on the Penglai beach.
The crab has eight legs and two claws, and the wicker basket is not without strength, and the crab can crawl out.
But the strange thing is that when the fisherman catches the first crab, he has to cover it to prevent it from crawling out, and when he catches more crabs, he doesn't even need to cover it.
The old man was still a young man at that time, and he was curious, so he went to consult the fisherman, and the fisherman replied with a smile: If any crab wants to climb out, there are other crabs climbing on it, and none of them can climb up.
The old man looked closely, and sure enough, it was so."
When he said this, his voice paused, and he smiled and said, "What Wei Gong meant, I think everyone understands."
I hope that everyone can let go of their prejudices, let go of their own gains and losses, and go all out for our common hope If anyone wants to be the crab that no one can climb out" The old man laughed twice, and there was a bit of murder in his voice: "That's our public enemy."
To be continued: