Princess Gaoyang is having an affair with monk Bianji, why is her husband Fang Yiai still willing to look after them?

Princess Gaoyang was the seventeenth daughter that Emperor Taizong Li Shimin loved most. Because of his love for him, when she was fifteen years old, Li Shimin carefully selected the second daughter of Prime Minister Fang Xuanling. The last love is her consort.

Ask what is love in the world? It tells you that life and death are mutually exclusive. This is what Jin Renyuan Haowen said, and Li Mochou chanted it the most. If we go back more than three hundred years, I am afraid there is a man who can say this sentence better than Li Mochou. Who is this man? The second eldest son, Xuanling, is the famous Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Fang Yiai is not very famous in history. If he were to rely solely on a famous father, he would probably be forgotten by historians. Fang Yiai later became a little famous because his wife was so famous that he took advantage of her. Who is his wife? She is Emperor Taizong's beloved daughter, Princess Gaoyang, who brought her own pillow to have an affair with a monk. Regarding the extramarital affair between Princess Gaoyang and Monk Bianji, please refer to the relevant chapters of "The Book of Love". After various versions of TV series, it is now a household name, known to all women and children. Zhao Yan will not go into details here, but only proposes three Questions to discuss with everyone: First, Princess Gaoyang lived deep in the inner courtyard of Fang’s family. Why did she meet Monk Bianji? Who gave her the opportunity? Second, Monk Bianji was a virtuous and eminent monk, so why did she live alone outside the temple? Third, Fang Yiai had No preventive and remedial measures?

According to historical records, Princess Gaoyang’s first marriage seemed to have a fair relationship with her husband. Li Shimin doted on Gao Yang, loved his house and his wife, and treated Fang Yiai better than other sons-in-law. This was obviously inseparable from Gao Yang's efforts and influence. As time goes by, problems arise in the relationship between the young couple. It may be due to personality differences, or it may be the fight between Fang Yiai and his brother Fang Yizhi for inheritance rights, which caused Gao Yang to fall out of favor in front of his father. , there must be a rift in the marriage anyway. So, what did Fang Yiai do? He did two things that he took for granted.

First, he takes it for granted that his wife will definitely like his masculine beauty. As a result, he diligently practiced riding and shooting, continued to participate in hunting, and even invited his wife to accompany him to enjoy the hunting, "hunting with the master and his beloved". This "taken for granted" not only answers our first question, but also shows Fang Yiai's serious lack of understanding of Gao Yang. He was singing to the deaf - he was busy in vain. Gao Yang's aesthetic appreciation of men is not about masculinity, but gentleness and fun.

The second is to take it for granted that monks have precepts and that if you leave your wife to a monk, the safety factor must be high. When Gao Yang accompanied him to the wild and felt exhausted and needed to rest, Fang Yiai suggested that there happened to be a thatched cottage not far away, which was the residence of monk Bianji, so the princess should go there to rest. He settled Gao Yang and went hunting by himself. As everyone knows, the monk himself may be safe, but this is not necessarily the case when the Bianji monk stands in front of Gao Yang. His elegant and handsome appearance and restrained temperament are exactly in line with Gao Yang's aesthetic requirements for men: "Bianji is far away." Inheriting the blessings of light lifting, cherishing the joy of dancing when you are young, studying in the new year, wearing hairpins and wearing leather clothes." As a result, Princess Gaoyang "delighted her when she saw him, kept her tent in her house, and made trouble with him."

So, does Fang Yiai know about the situation of monk Bianji? It should be clear. Because after Master Xuanzang returned to the Tang Dynasty after studying scriptures, Bianji was one of the earliest assistants in translating scriptures. He became famous for his talent, knowledge and rich translation industry. Xu Jingzong, the minister at that time, once "supervised by imperial edict", and monk Bianji was able to live outside the temple. It was probably Xu Jingzong's consent. Otherwise, with the management method of Tang Dynasty that monks needed to register when entering and leaving the temple, how could Bianji dare to live alone? As the most favored son-in-law of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, how could Fang Yiai not know this? According to Zhao Yan's analysis, Fang Yiai probably had contacts with Bianji before that. The noble children had contacts with famous monks. Don was not surprised.