Chapter 111: The Tang Dynasty Princess Marries into the World

  Zhaoyang's appearance in Li Shimin's harem caused a great earthquake, which can be said to have slapped these women in the face. Whether it was the empress or the four consorts, even the lower-ranking concubines and palace maidens, they all looked at this delicate and lovely little girl who was about to turn seven with no good expression.

  An illegitimate child is a shameful thing in any respectable family, let alone the imperial family that should set an example for the world! Their Majesty must have been bewitched by this little girl and her mother or something, to actually publicly acknowledge her as his illegitimate daughter and even confer upon her the title of princess!

  Although the title of Zhaoyang Palace is not as good as other princesses' titles, and her fief only has 1,500 households, which is half that of other princesses, she still made the women in the harem jealous.

  Li Shimin had many children, but only the children of his eldest son and daughter-in-law, as well as those imperial sons and daughters who attracted him in some way, could get attention. However, this illegitimate daughter got continuous favor from Li Shimin after entering the palace!

  A daughter born to a woman who had an illicit relationship outside the palace actually gained the favor of the Emperor, not only did it make the face of Empress Zhangsun lose its luster, but also made the other consorts hate Zhao Yang to death. And Noble Consort Wei Zhi, who was ordered by Li Shimin to raise Zhao Yang, almost gnashed her silver teeth to pieces.

  She spent so many years learning good calligraphy, just to make Li Shimin look at her differently, but this rough and tumble illegitimate daughter actually got Li Shimin's favor! She admits that Zhaoyang is quite lovely and charming, but as soon as she speaks, she reveals her rough and arrogant nature!

  It is said that Zhao Yang was raised by her grandmother, who was also a silk washer when she was young and later became a servant in a wealthy family. What kind of upbringing can such a person provide? The child she raises will naturally not be able to hold their head high. But this grandmother actually told her about her origins, allowing her to feel proud of being the daughter of an emperor...

  Even if the princesses in the palace are proud, it's really surprising that Zhao Yang can be so young and yet so domineering! Of course, Wei Guifei doesn't know that this is because of Prince Ye's reason. Even if he didn't want to bother with these illegitimate princesses, his mother was Li Shimin's empress, and if these princesses went too far, it's likely that someone would gossip about the empress.

  After all, Empress Dowager Zhangsun was the birth mother of all the emperor's sons and daughters.

  Since Empress Zhangsun didn't pass away early in the tenth year of Zhenguan, Ya Ge couldn't let her reputation be tarnished. Even if these things had nothing to do with her final happiness, Ya Ge still took them into consideration. For his mission, it's better for him to be more careful, or else he'll capsize again!

  Fortunately, Wei Guifei's daughter Meng Jiang had been appointed as the Princess of Linchuan and married to Zhou Daowu three years ago. Their life was relatively smooth, and they were a loving couple. Wei Guifei was grateful to the Crown Prince for this, if he hadn't set an example by only marrying one crown princess, the current princesses might not be so happy.

  Although her son Li Shen later could only marry one wife, Wei Gu was willing. At first, she chose to marry Li Shimin also reluctantly, the Wei family could keep her as a widow, but wanting to live the life before she got married was impossible!

  Marrying Li Shimin as a concubine was also one of her most accurate choices. Li Shimin needed her to win over the aristocratic families, and she needed Li Shimin to provide her with a good life. Wei Gui was different from other imperial consorts, she had a clear understanding of her position, so she wouldn't let Li Zhen strive for anything, as long as he did well as the King of Qi.

  And she and her ex-husband Li Mi's daughter are also very happy, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he enfeoffed her as the Countess of Dingxiang County and married her off to Xue Guogong Ashina Zhong. Can't a daughter of a guilty minister get such a result also be due to this mother making the right choice?

  Moreover, if it wasn't for her own merits, how could she have been appointed as the Imperial Noble Consort by Emperor Taizong of Tang in the first year of the Zhenguan era and ranked first among the four consorts? What about Yang Shufei being a princess of the Sui dynasty? She was still suppressed by Wu Zetian. Moreover, that person is still not reconciled to this day. No matter how excellent Li Xian was, as long as he had the bloodline of the Yang family, Your Majesty would never have passed the throne to him!

  Poor Yang Shu Fei is indeed intelligent and clever, but until now she still can't see through it.

  Just looking at Zhao Yang living in her palace, Wei Guifei's mood became even worse. Li Shimin should not have raised this daughter under her name, shouldn't it be better to raise her under the Empress's name? Didn't Princess Yu Zhang live under Empress Longsun's name back then?!

  Wei Zifu, who was furious, did not hesitate to drag Empress Longsun down with her in her imagination, although she knew even more clearly that Emperor Taizong would never have allowed Consort Shangyang to be named as a daughter of Empress Longsun.

  A private-born daughter raised to the name of the empress, this is truly slapping the face of the Changsun family, and even the Li Tang royal family's face has been lost. Although when he acknowledged Zhao Yang, the Li Tang royal family's face had already been completely lost. Fortunately, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan had passed away several years ago, if he were still alive, he would probably be driven to death by this son!

  Li Shimin, who was capable of killing his brother and forcing his father to abdicate, actually did something as stupid as this. Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji really died unjustly!

  Facing all this, Yajiao was very calm, and under his persuasion, Empress Changsun also calmed down. No matter whether the weaving girl was a cinnabar mole or a white moonlight in Li Shimin's heart, she is no longer there now. Even if she were here, she couldn't surpass this empress!

  Let's talk about Zhaoyang again, she is just a princess. Even if Li Shimin favors her, what can be done? This world will still be in the hands of her son in the future. Moreover, she coldly observes from the side, although Li Shimin favors Zhaoyang, he has not surpassed the nine-year-old Princess Jinyang.

  It seems that Zhao Yang is not considered a big deal in Li Shimin's heart.

  Li Shimin's most beloved and spoiled child was still Li Mingda, who was born slightly weaker than his other siblings. When Empress Zhangsun was pregnant with her, she suffered a lot, making her congenitally weak. The culprit behind all this was someone he couldn't handle, and even if he had handled the culprit, he would still feel deeply guilty towards this daughter, more so than towards Zhao Yang.

  Yahiko only then felt that he had done a good deed by saving Li Mingda at the beginning, not only did he get a branch reward, but also had the effect of making Li Shimin not too brain-dead now, which made him extremely pleased.

  Although this Li Shimin makes his plans more difficult, Yage would rather face such a Li Shimin. The Li Shimin in the TV series "The Princess is Married" is really too disappointing, I don't know how much hatred the screenwriter has for Li Shimin to write him as a person who dotes on his illegitimate daughter to the point of being ignorant of heaven and earth, and even marries off a merchant to avoid marrying into Tibet!

  Even in the Tang Dynasty, among the four classes of scholars, farmers, workers and merchants, the status of merchants was the lowest. Li Shimin must have been out of his mind to marry off his beloved daughter to a merchant's family, and still to the second son of that family! Even if Li Shimin's princesses remarried, which one didn't marry into a noble family?

  Even if those aristocrats were mostly followers of Li Shimin's conquests, and in the eyes of many noble families they belonged to the class of nouveau riche, they still had a certain status on the court!

  So, did Li Shimin truly love Zhao Yang or just treated her as a plaything and intentionally raised her to kill her? Letting his illegitimate daughter be even more noble than his legitimate daughters, the things he rewarded her with also surpassed those of other princesses. Was it really for Zhao Yang's own good?

  It's not that Li Shimin's body is particularly good, but as long as he's around, Zhao Yang can rely on him and no one dares to do anything to her. But what if he's not around? He doesn't worry that this precious daughter will offend all the other princesses and princes, and her husband's family has no real power and still needs to rely on the princess's merchant family. What kind of ending will Zhao Yang have in the end, does it even need to be said?!

  Yahua doesn't know what to do, although Li Shimin isn't as strange as he is in the later stages of the plot... but he's already showing signs of slowly developing that way.

  Su Wan gave birth to her and the crown prince's eldest son after ten months of pregnancy. The third day after birth, Li Shimin didn't show up for the celebration, only bestowed a name on the child, then took Zhao Yang out of the palace to go hunting!

  Go hunting outside the palace! When Yage heard this, her face was twisted. Is there a suitable place for hunting near Chang'an? Father Emperor, have you really been infected with some kind of virus?! This virus is so powerful that it can even poison the brain nerves of an emperor who has been revered for thousands of years?!

  Yahiko, who had still held onto a glimmer of hope, fell silent. He quickened his pace and made more frequent clandestine contact with his brothers and sisters, as well as the powers in the imperial court that he had long since won over, all of whom were hastening to thoroughly recover. Even if this world was not entirely a parallel historical world, he did not wish for any blemishes to remain on Taizong's life.

  What's more important is that he didn't want to make Empress Zhangsun sad.

  Even if she guarded her heart, having been with Li Shimin for nearly thirty years, he still had a certain position in her heart. For the first twenty years, Li Shimin treated Empress Changsun as if she were in the palm of his hand, but now he was willing to give up everything for the daughter of a silk-washing woman.

  As long as Consort Yang pouts, Emperor Taizong of Tang is willing to satisfy most of her wishes. Shouldn't Empress Changsun be grateful that he still remembers she's the empress and there are some things only she and her daughters can use? Hasn't he already given those things to her just because of Consort Yang's coquettish pouting?

  That princess who can't even get her own position right, thinking that having Emperor Taizong's favor makes her the most proud existence in the harem, does she really know that she has already walked herself to the edge of the cliff?!

  Before long, time flew by and the harem was in chaos, while the previous dynasty also had its own set of problems that were lost to the past.

  The birthday banquet of the eldest son of Ya Ge was very grand, and the Princess Chang Le, who had just given birth to a child not long ago, came with her eldest son holding her younger daughter. She gazed at the little golden boy who was walking steadily and grasping an official seal, laughing so hard that he drooled, then looked down at her younger daughter sleeping soundly in her arms, and suddenly had an idea.

  She handed her little daughter to the eldest grandson, who was standing beside her, and Li Lijin walked up to Yage's side, pulling on his wide sleeve, and said coquettishly: "Big brother, I really like Little Elephant, can he be my son-in-law in the future?"

  After experiencing many ancient poems, the idea of being close to the ancients was not surprising. If his plan did not fail, Li Xiang would be his successor. Although he liked Li Lijun, this younger sister, if the empress of the next generation of the Tang Dynasty still came from the Longsun family, it was not very realistic.

  Smiling faintly, Yage pinched Chang Le Gongzhu's nose as if she were a little girl: "Lizhi, let them handle their own emotions. If the two kids really hit it off, I, their elder brother, won't have any objections."

  When she heard the words of Ya Ge, Li Lijun finally reacted. She was not only the Princess Chang Le but also the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chang Sun family and the future matriarch of the Chang Sun family. Compared to being a princess, these two identities were more important. If she were just Princess Chang Le, her crown prince brother would certainly agree to any request she made.

  She closed her eyes to hide the bitterness in her heart, then smiled brightly and said: "Big brother, I was just joking, it's still early for these two kids to grow up, who knows what they'll be like by then."

  The conversation between the siblings naturally caught the attention of some people, and upon learning that the prince had no intention of continuing to form an alliance with the Longsun family, many began to ponder. Even if there is currently no granddaughter or daughter in the house, it doesn't mean there won't be one in the future!

  Li Xiang, although only just over a year old, looked different from other children. It was understandable, after all, the Crown Prince and Princess personally raised him, so he would naturally be more outstanding than others. However, unbeknownst to them, this was because Yage occasionally used her True Yuan power to nourish Li Xiang, making him slightly more intelligent than ordinary children.

  After all, this is the heir of Yajiao. If possible, he doesn't want Li Xiang to suffer too much. As a successor to the throne, one has to go through a lot, but if they are ruined by their own parents like Yin Yu, it's big trouble!

  Li Xiang's first birthday banquet, Li Shimin's princes and princesses all came to Chang'an, except for the one in the palace, Princess Zhaoyang. More than a year has passed, she still can't see her own position clearly, but instead, the distance between her and these princes and princesses is getting farther and farther apart.

  A princess originally couldn't have too much contact with princes other than her own brothers, so it wasn't strange that she didn't get along with her own brothers. But what was unbearable was that her relationship with the other princesses in the palace was also very poor. Of course, in Xiangyang's heart, she didn't think she had done anything wrong, but rather felt that those princesses, whether big or small, were all so sycophantic!

  No matter how proud they are, the major events of marriage are still in the hands of the emperor. And as for her, the emperor has already promised that she can make her own decisions about her future marriage. As long as she doesn't like someone, she won't have to marry him!

  Of course, Zhao Yang, although disdainful of the other princesses, still followed the wet nurses assigned to her by Wei Guifei and studied etiquette and rules diligently. Although she didn't want to admit it, the movements of those princesses were indeed elegant and picturesque, and compared to them, she seemed a bit rough.

  But what's the use of being elegant, the princess most favored by the emperor is still her! The emperor has just bestowed a personal palace maid on her, and this palace maid is named Sutu Yinpeng. However, her identity as a palace maid is only superficial, privately she possesses the golden token bestowed by the emperor, and is actually a Jin Feng Chao Huang left and right protector, with the golden token by her side!

  Other princesses did not have such palace maids by their side.

  Of course, only knowing that the self-satisfied Zhao Yang would not know, these princesses all had guards with different identities bestowed by Li Shimin, especially the four princesses born to Empress Changsun, who were followed by even more secret guards. Of course, these secret guards were not just arranged by Li Shimin and the Changsun clan, but also had the mark of Ya Ge's hand.

  His legitimate siblings all had his arranged loyal and trusted confidants by their side to protect them, the result of over a decade of operation was that he also privately possessed power not inferior to the imperial dark guards. As for the loyalty of these people, Ye Ge didn't have to worry at all, the terror of the Soul Searching Technique, only those who frequently used it like him would understand.

  In the 17th year of Zhenguan, on January 17, Wei Zheng died at home after being bedridden with illness for nearly a year, opening this year with an inauspicious start.

  The author has something to say: Finally, it's time to write about Li Shimin stepping down and becoming the Taishang Huang. Let him experience what his father had gone through.

  This chapter comes from the lovely draft box, Potato is continuing to kill time on the train... qaq

  Don't worry about typos and such, I'll correct them all at once later!

  Additionally, the next world is likely to be a Korean drama world, combining elements of "Glass Shoes" and "Stairway to Heaven".

  Korean dramas and potatoes don't want to be written separately, let's solve multiple problems at once!