"The distant mountain eyebrows are long, and the waist and limbs of the thin willows are slender. Make up and stand in the spring breeze, a smile of a thousand gold less. When he returned to Fengcheng, he said that he and Qinglou Dao: Look at the Yingchuan flowers, not like the teacher (Song Dynasty Yan Several Dao "Sheng Chazi"). ＂
In the pen of the poets of the Song Dynasty, there is a wonderful lady who is colorful and smiling in the spring breeze, and her name is Li Shishi.
Li Shishi was a native of Bieliang, Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), a famous geisha of the Northern Song Dynasty. His original surname was Wang, only because his parents died in his early years, and he was living on the street at the age of four, and he was also a poor child. Fortunately, he was taken in by Li Yun, who ran a brothel, changed his surname to Li, and took the name Li Shishi. Although it is a fortunate thing to stay in a brothel, because no matter how you have a place to live, you will not live on the streets and suffer from hunger and cold.
With the increase of age, Master Li not only has outstanding appearance, but also has great talent, poetry, books, paintings, and singing, and is very famous in the Qinglou, which often attracts the favor of princes and nobles. For a long time, it reached the ears of the then emperor Huizong of Song.
Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, 1082–1135, was the eighth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty and a famous calligrapher and painter. He was a typical artist emperor who was quite accomplished in poetry, calligraphy, painting, and collecting, which promoted the prosperity of the Culture of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time. But "men are afraid of choosing the wrong line, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man", Song Huizong is an emperor who chooses the wrong line, in other words, Zhao Yao should not have been the emperor. Because with his talent, he could have concentrated on artistic creation, and he would have been able to achieve greater achievements and become a generation of artists who have flowed through the ages.
But he became emperor and chose a profession that he was not good at. Of course, Zhao Tuo was looking at the power and glory and wealth in it, but he did not pay attention to the governance of the country.
As early as when Zhao Tuo was still the Duan King, he was a debaucher. The luxurious life made him pampered and idle, often going in and out of fireworks willow alleys, but all the famous prostitutes had to be involved. In order to facilitate travel and to be able to occupy for a long time, Zhao Tuo even brought his favorite prostitutes back to the palace. His mother sent the empress dowager Chunlan to take care of his life, and Chunlan was very talented and beautiful, which was deeply pleasing to Zhao Yao, and was later included in his pocket.
After becoming emperor, Emperor Huizong of Song became more obsessed with female sex, and built a large number of civil engineering to build a palace villa, coveting pleasures. Forcibly requisitioning the "Birth Anniversary Class" and the "Flower stone class" to loot the people's wealth.
One day, under the recommendation of the internal attendant Zhang Di, Song Huizong left the palace and went to the Qinglou to see Master Li's appearance. Because Li Shishi's early life was not easy to live in, she formed her unique melancholy temperament, coupled with her poignant appearance, which immediately fascinated Song Huizong. Compared with the concubines in the palace, they do not know how much beauty, they will only be welcomed, only the teacher is versatile, and the poignant beauty contains a little uncertainty, which makes people fascinated!
From then on, Emperor Huizong of Song often went to meet with Master Li. In order to facilitate travel, a tunnel was dug between the palace and the Qinglou for Emperor Huizong of Song to enjoy in time.
In this way, Master Li became the emperor's favorite and became a veritable "second milk" of wealth!