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In the winter of the 12th year of Dading, something small but not small happened in Dazhong. The prince's wife, the crown prince's concubine, suddenly passed away.

Li Xiu's Crown Princess is undoubtedly a woman with little fortune.

As long as she survives for another two or three years, she will become the queen of Dazhong, the largest empire that may not have come before and after.

What a pity!

She couldn't survive the last two or three years!

If Li Xiu was just an ordinary prince, then there was no need to rush to accept a new concubine.

However, Li Xiu was not an ordinary prince. He was the crown prince and would soon inherit the throne. Therefore, he must have an excellent concubine who will take charge of the harem for him in the future and will be in charge of the world.

Therefore, shortly after the funeral of Li Xiu's Crown Princess, Li Yan ordered the selection of the Crown Princess for Li Xiu.

Who doesn’t know that the crown princess chosen by Li Xiu this time will become the queen in two or three years?

Therefore, no matter whose girl is selected, her family will become a descendant, which can be said to have soared into the sky.

Therefore, among the civil and military officials, almost all who have daughters of appropriate age at home have signed up for this year's female selection.

Moreover, for the first time, Li Yan, Liu Huiniang and Li Xiu's biological mother Huaner were the leader to select the crown princess for Li Xiu.

On the day of the selection, Li Yan brought Liu Huiniang and Huan'er to the talent show together.

As soon as he arrived at the talent show, Li Yan's eyes were attracted by a woman.

In theory, there is nothing bad for those who can participate in the selection of the Crown Princess. Everyone is the most beautiful woman, and they have been eliminated by people from the Ministry of Rites in front.

But among all women of this quality, this woman can attract Li Yan's attention at once, which shows how beautiful she is and how beautiful she is.

Where is the clever person around Li Yan?

As soon as Li Yan stared at a woman for a while, someone immediately came to Li Yan and introduced him to Li Yan: "Your Majesty, this woman's name is Li Fengniang, and she is the daughter of Li Dao, the governor of Guan Qingyuan Army."

After hearing this, Li Yan frowned slightly and said, "Li Fengniang, Li Dao's daughter?"

Li Yan felt that the name Li Fengniang sounded familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember who she was.

Seeing that Li Yan seemed to be interested in Li Fengniang, the man immediately introduced: "It is said that Li Fengniang was born extraordinary, but before Mrs. Li Dao gave birth to a daughter, a group of black phoenixes flew in front of the military camp and couldn't wander. So Li Dao named his daughter, who was born soon after, Fengniang. Later, the accuser Huangfu Tan went to Li Jiedu's house to visit. Li Jiedu knew that Huangfu Tan was a famous accuser, so he asked Huangfu Tan to meet his three daughters. Li Jiedu's eldest daughter and the third daughter were not very special. However, when the second daughter Li Fengniang came out to pay a visit, Huangfu Tan said that this woman was quite noble and did not dare to accept the worship."

After hearing this person's introduction, Li Yan finally knew who Li Fengniang was. "It turned out to be this disaster."

This Li Fengniang was the empress of Zhao Dun, Emperor Guangzong of Song Dynasty in history. She was one of the famous queens in the Song Dynasty and even in Chinese history.

Li Fengniang is naturally jealous. Although she is the leader of the six palaces and gave birth to her son Zhao Kuo early, she is still not satisfied.

He once criticized the people around Prince Zhao Mi in Zhao Gou and Zhao Sing's palaces.

Zhao Gou had abdicated at that time and didn't want to talk about her, but in the end he couldn't help but say to Empress Wu: "This woman is a seed of a general, and I was mistaken by Huangfu Tan."

Zhao Xing also scolded Li Fengniang many times: "We should take the Empress Dowager (that is, Zhao Gou's Empress Wu) as an example, otherwise you will be deposed."

But Li Fengniang still does what she wants.

Once, Zhao Mi was washing his hands in the palace and happened to notice the white slippery hands of the palace maid holding a basin, so he naturally praised him.

However, this little thing was learned by Li Fengniang.

As a result, on the afternoon of the same day, Li Fengniang sent someone to deliver a food box to Zhao Mi.

Zhao Mi opened it and saw that it was the hands of the palace maid that day.

Zhao Mi was so scared that he couldn't speak, and he became ill for several days.

It is so cruel to the palace maids that Zhao Mi meets occasionally. It is really not difficult to imagine how Li Fengniang would treat Zhao Mi's concubines.

At that time, in addition to the queen, Zhao Mi's harem also included concubines such as Huang Guifei, Zhang Guifei, and Fu Jieyu.

Concubine Huang was originally the maid of Concubine Xie (who was later made the queen) of Emperor Zhao Xing of Xiaozong. When Zhao Xu was first crown prince, Zhao Xing gave Huang to Zhao Xu because he saw that Zhao Xu lacked the service of his concubine.

Zhao Mi also favored Huang, and after ascending the throne, he was appointed as the imperial concubine.

However, Li Fengniang could not tolerate Concubine Huang being favored, so she borrowed Zhao Mi to leave the palace to sacrifice and sent someone to murder Concubine Huang.

At that time, Zhao Mi was ill in bed due to rain and heard the news that Concubine Huang died suddenly, so she became even more ill.

Concubine Zhang and Concubine Fu were also ordered to remarry a civilian because of Li Fengniang's jealousy. Compared with Concubine Huang who died tragically, they were much happier.

Of course, what Li Fengniang did was already noticed by the Supreme Emperor Zhao Xing and the Supreme Empress Xie.

When Xie was the queen, he was filial and polite to the Supreme Emperor Zhao Gou and the Queen Wu, and very respectful. However, now Li Fengniang is not only rude to her husband Zhao Jue, but also contradicts the Supreme Emperor and the Queen everywhere. When the Queen of the Supreme advised him kindly, he even said, "I am a husband and wife with the Emperor, and it is justified, so why not?", and implicitly mocked the Supreme Empress Xie, who is not Zhao Sheng's legitimate wife.

Zhao Sheng and Empress Dowager Xie were naturally very angry and planned to depose Li Fengniang.

However, because the Grand Tutor Shi Hao believed that the deposed Empress was too hasty and firmly opposed, the deposed Empress was ineffective.

Not only did Li Fengniang have a bad relationship with the Supreme Emperor and the Queen Mother, she also disagrees with the relationship between Zhao Xing and Zhao Xu and his son several times.

When Zhao Jue first ascended the throne, he did not make his eldest son Zhao Kuo the crown prince, which made Li Fengniang uneasy.

Once, while Zhao Mi, who had just recovered from illness, was drunk at the banquet, Li Fengniang asked Zhao Shen to make Zhao Kuo, who had been named King Jia, the crown prince, to help Zhao Mi deal with government affairs.

Zhao Xu also felt it was quite reasonable, but he insisted on asking his father Zhao Xing to enact it.

But Li Fengniang refused to listen and left angrily, and did not allow Zhao Sheng and others to meet Zhao Jue.

A few days later, Zhao Xing failed to see his son, so he summoned Li Fengniang to ask about Zhao Qi's condition. Li Fengniang then borrowed the words of Zhao Qi's illness and asked that King Jia Zhao Kuo be the crown prince to assist in the administration.

However, Zhao Xing believed that Zhao Xu had just ascended the throne and was not even familiar with political affairs, but entrusted all government affairs to his son, which was because of the disagreement, so he rejected the suggestion of appointing the crown prince too early.

Li Fengniang felt that Zhao Xing was targeting her everywhere, so she went back to the palace and cried to Zhao Xing that Zhao Xing would definitely have other intentions if she didn't want to establish a prince.

Zhao Xu was kept in the dark and thought that Zhao Xing had ulterior motives, so he was so angry that he would not see Zhao Xing again.

Zhao Mi's determination to the Supreme Emperor caused an uproar in the whole court.

More than a year later, Zhao Mi's health improved slightly and went to court to listen to politics again. All civil and military officials took the opportunity to ask Zhao Mi to attend the Supreme Emperor.

Zhao Mi had no choice but to go there once, and the relationship had improved.

However, Li Fengniang interfered several times in succession, causing the father-son relationship to get better and worse.

Later, Zhao Xing passed away and all officials asked Zhao Xu to preside over the funeral, but Zhao Xu continued to delay and did not want to go. As a result, the empress dowager Wu, who was still alive, performed a memorial service on the back curtain.

Later, when the minister saw that Zhao Mi ignored political affairs, he asked Zhao Mi to choose King Jia as the crown prince.

Zhao Jue, who was constrained everywhere, didn't even want to be the emperor anymore. As a result, Zhao Jue, who was disheartened, gave up the throne of King Jia and retreated to the Supreme Emperor, and Li Fengniang became the Supreme Empress.

The disaster of Li Fengniang slowly passed.

Looking at the concubines of the Song Dynasty in the north and south, it is not uncommon for those who can influence the government, but empresses like Li Fengniang who conquered three generations of emperors with a woman are unique in the history of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, looking at Li Fengniang's life, she has nothing particularly outstanding except for her extremely beautiful appearance and a cruel heart.

But what is incredible is that all the three generations of emperors Li Fengniang met were abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor in the end.

Although this strange phenomenon rare in Chinese history is related to Li Fengniang, it cannot be said that it was caused by Li Fengniang, a woman.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Li Fengniang was able to cause such a great disaster was mainly because Zhao Mi was a waste, idiot, jealous and frightened in the palace, and was afraid of the extremely serious inner mentality.

Li Yan believes that Li Xiu, who had a completely different experience than Zhao Mi, a waste raised in the palace, who had a completely different experience, would never happen if he accepted Li Fengniang.

But then again, I am not afraid of ten thousand, but I am afraid that if Li Xiu could not surrender to the disaster of Li Fengniang, then the world would be in chaos. The first dynasty in history might be destroyed by a stupid woman, and it would become a joke for the ages.

Therefore, no matter what, Li Yan must not let Li Fengniang enter Li Xiu's harem. He wants to kill Li Fengniang's disaster in the bud.

Thinking of this, Li Yanchong took the initiative to lean over and said, "Send this Li Fengniang to the harem."

This man was a clever man and immediately said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will do this without any leakage, and I will never tell anyone to notice it."

This man did things without any loss. Not only did he send Li Fengniang to Li Yan without knowing it, but he even sent Li Fengniang's sister and sister to Li Yan.

After layers of selection and comparison, Li Yan, Liu Huiniang, and Huan'er were selected one by one, and finally the three of them unanimously selected Hu Quan's second daughter, who was talented, virtuous and beautiful, as Li Xiu's crown princess.

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Chapter completed!