Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 420
Chapter 416

Li Ke was very happy and excited. He didn't expect that his father really agreed to let him serve as Shaoyin, and he also said that he had to work hard in the past few years, which meant letting him stay in Beijing for a few years. It means to let him compete for the crown prince.After leaving the Ganlu Hall, Li Ke looked up at the sky, feeling that the sky was extraordinarily blue and cloudless!

Li Shimin, on the other hand, was sitting on the side of the Ganlu Hall, drinking tea slowly, thinking about things, not so happy, and even a little heavy.

In the evening, just after Wei Hao returned to the mansion, he heard a servant report that Li Ke came to visit.

"He's here?" Wei Hao was still a little surprised, but he just came back and wanted to visit, Wei Hao couldn't refuse, so he went to the gate by himself, no matter what, he was a prince.Before reaching the front door, I saw Li Ke coming in.

"I've seen His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" Wei Hao said, cupping his hands.

"Shen Yong, you are welcome. I came here today mainly to see the old man. Look, I brought some pastries and some fruits! The old man has your care. We are really relieved!" Li Ke signaled After looking at the two servants behind, they were carrying things in their hands!

"I'm interested, please, this way please!" Wei Hao said to Li Ke with a smile, and the two walked towards the old man.
At this moment, the sound of mahjong was heard from the old man's study room. Wei Hao and Li Ke entered. It was Wei Furong and the two housekeepers who were playing mahjong with the old man.

"Old man, look who is coming to see you!" Wei Hao shouted at Li Yuan with a smile.

"Well, oh, Ke'er is here, have you returned to Beijing?" Li Yuan looked up and found that it was Li Ke, and immediately asked with a smile.

"Father, you should go to another place to fight and find someone to fight. The king of Shu just returned to Beijing, so he came to visit the old man!" Wei Hao said to Wei Furong with a smile.

"Okay, let's change to another place, old man, you are done with your work here, and you still want to fight, so send someone to greet us, and we will leave first!" Wei Furong also stood up with a smile, anyway, they often accompany the old man After playing for a while, I will play every day, but the playing time will not be very long, at most two hours.

"Okay!" Li Yuan said with a smile,

Wei Hao went over to support Li Yuan and sat down at the tea table.

Soon, Wei Furong and the others went out. Wei Hao wanted to go out too, but was stopped by Li Yuan.

"Sit down, you kid too. I've been so busy recently that I don't have time to drink tea with this old man." Li Yuan said to Wei Hao.

"Isn't it? Hey, my father is too pitiful. If you have nothing to do, find something for me. What can I do? Or, someday, you go back to the palace and I will find you a stick. You go and clean him up." , just say, I'm so busy, I don't have time to play with you?" Wei Hao looked at Li Yuan with a smile and asked.

"Okay, I'll go back to the palace one day, and I want to talk to this kid, it's shameful, there are so many ministers in the court, you are still missing one?" Li Yuan nodded in agreement.

"That's right, staring at me every day is afraid that I will be idle!" Wei Hao said in agreement.

"Well, Ke'er, how long will it take you to stay in Beijing this time?" Li Yuan looked at Li Ke and asked.

"Old man, it may take a while. This time I am coming back to prepare for a big wedding, so I will have other plans after the Chinese New Year is over!" Li Ke said honestly as he sat there.

"Well, that's right, but you should stay in the capital, otherwise, um!" Li Yuan stopped talking after finishing this sentence.

"The grandson also thinks about it, but if the emperor doesn't allow it, I have no choice. The prince will be a vassal. There is no way!" Li Ke said helplessly. He dared not say anything about not staying in Beijing. , It has not been completely settled yet. If the imperial edict is issued, it will be more or less the same, but it has not yet, so we can only wait.

"Well, I guess your father will let you stay in Beijing this time, Shen Yong, do you know what it means?" Li Yuan looked at Wei Hao while talking,

Wei Hao looked at Li Yuan pretending to be confused, and shook his head.

"Hmph, your father is a suspicious person. Don't look at him pretending to be very arrogant all day long. He has already settled many things. Believe it or not this time, he wants to stay in Beijing!" Li Yuan looked at Wei Wei. Hao asked, pointing at Li Ke.

"I don't know, why?" Wei Hao pretended to be confused and looked at Li Yuan.

"Your father is worried that Gao Ming will grow up. Now that Gao Ming is growing up next year, he will start to handle government affairs. Now he is more and more proficient in handling government affairs, and he has not made mistakes. In addition, now that Gao Ming has money in his hands, he can do a lot of things. It is also the same among the people. You have a little reputation, you say, it’s nothing like this now, but if you let Gao Ming continue to do this, can your father not worry? Don’t worry that Gao Ming will completely empty him out at that time, hmph, on the surface it is very grand, in fact, Everyone is on guard!" Li Yuan sat there and said with a cold snort.

"I don't know about this, anyway, I don't bother to guess what the father thinks!" Wei Hao said with a smile.

"You stay in Beijing this time, work hard, and when you need Azu's help, send someone over to let you know!" Li Yuan said to Li Ke.

"Yes, thank you Azu, but it may not be possible to stay!" Li Ke was very happy, knowing that your old man is still very supportive of him, so now he just needs to do things well.

"I said yes, I can, but I don't believe you wait, otherwise, I won't let you go back to Beijing right now. Let you go back to Beijing, just to make you prepare well in the capital!" Li Yuan said to Li Ke.

"That's good. I'm afraid I won't be able to stay. It's the best to stay!" Li Ke said in a low-key manner, and then Li Ke and Li Yuan talked about other things. Wei Hao just sat there and listened.

It was almost before the curfew that Li Ke returned, and Wei Hao also saw him off in person.

"Shen Yong, tell me, can I stay in Beijing?" Li Ke asked Wei Hao with his hands behind his back.

"How do I know this?" Wei Hao was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile.

"Shen Yong, you are also my brother-in-law. As for me, I don't have a sister of the same mother. Li Zhi is my oldest sister!" Li Ke said to Wei Hao. Wei Hao pretended not to understand, but he was thinking in his heart. That said, but they have an older sister who is married now.

"Of course, you brothers and sisters have a good relationship, of course I know!" Wei Hao said with a smile and nodded.

"Well, let's send it here, I hope we can cooperate happily in the future!" Li Ke said to Wei Hao, clasping his hands.

"Ah, oh, happy cooperation!" Wei Hao didn't know what to cooperate with at all, why did a happy cooperation come, but Wei Hao didn't say so much,
After sending Li Ke away, Wei Hao sighed. He guessed that Li Ke was determined to stay in Beijing, but what he couldn't figure out was why Li Yuan could think of this matter while sitting in his house. It seems that Li Shimin He was really guarding against Li Chengqian. If so, Li Chengqian would be very wronged. He didn't do anything, so Li Shimin found him an opponent.

The next morning, Wei Hao was practicing martial arts. Not long after practicing martial arts, Wei Hao found Eunuch Hong standing beside him.

"Master? You're back?" Wei Hao was surprised when he saw Eunuch Hong. Eunuch Hong had gone to Bozhou before, and it's been more than a month, and now he's back.

"Well, I just came back last night. I went back to the palace first, and then I took care of some things. I came to your side early this morning!" Eunuch Hong looked at Wei Hao with a smile and said.

"Well, how's it going? Did you find it?" Wei Hao asked insanely, and then accompanied Eunuch Hong to his study.

"I found it, and someone brought it here. I picked the oldest grandnephew and brought him here. He is in the hotel now. You can pick him up when the time comes!" Eunuch Hong said to Wei Hao.

"Okay, don't worry, master!" Wei Hao nodded and said.

"You arrange a place for him to live. In the next two days, His Majesty will surely come down with an imperial decree to make him a Marquis. From now on, he will be able to live comfortably!" Eunuch Hong said with emotion.

"Just stay with me, it's fine!" Wei Hao immediately said to Eunuch Hong with a smile, and Eunuch Hong nodded.

After arriving at the study, Wei Hao had someone deliver breakfast and served it himself.

"My grandnephew, who is two years older than you, got married. This time, his wife is pregnant, so he didn't come with him. When the time comes, after giving birth, he will come here because he wants to settle down here and take it together. People, read the book, but very honest,

As for you, take it with you, anyway, you are also your nephew, you teach him how to do things, let him understand some things in the officialdom, I guess, His Majesty will definitely give him an official, His Majesty said yesterday, let him go to Chang'an Mansion Things, the Chang'an Mansion has not yet been established, you serve as Shao Yin? " Eunuch Hong looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"That's right, I'll be Shao Yin, and it will be even better if he has to work in Chang'an Mansion!" Wei Hao said to Eunuch Hong with a smile.

"Well, that's good. I'll just follow you. I don't think this kid will be very promising. However, he is my grand-nephew, and he is still very old. Of course, I need to bring him. That's fine." It’s not right to do business for my younger brother, so let’s do it like this!” Eunuch Hong said with a sigh.

"What's the matter? Old man, what else can we do after this trip?" Wei Hao looked at Eunuch Hong and asked.

"There's nothing wrong with it. It's just that my brothers haven't seen each other for so long, so I started to be surprised. After that, I feel a little strange. It's completely, eh, you know, my brother and I haven't seen each other for at least 50 years, 50 years ah I don’t know what to say about many things, but the only thing that is tied together is the blood!" Eunuch Hong said to Wei Hao, Wei Hao nodded, and he could understand, there must be a strange feeling!
"Okay, his name is Hong Jushun, I've told him, you will pick him up today!" Eunuch Hong said to Wei Hao.

"Hong Jushun, okay, I remember, what hotel?" Wei Hao continued to ask.

"It's the Caishun Hotel in the eastern suburbs of yours!" Eunuch Hong continued.

"Understood, master, I will pick him up in person!" Wei Hao nodded and said, and then the two chatted while eating, mainly Wei Hao was asking about Eunuch Hong's trip to Bozhou this time, Eunuch Hong Not very interested, Wei Hao knew that there must be something wrong, otherwise, he wouldn't be like this, but Eunuch Hong didn't say anything, so he couldn't keep asking.

After the meal, Eunuch Hong left, Wei Hao went to wash up, then rode out, and soon arrived at the Caishun Hotel in the eastern suburbs. When he got there, he asked the person who registered at the front desk and found Hong Jushun Wei Hao stood there and knocked on the door. After a while, a young man opened the door and looked at Wei Hao in confusion.

"Are you Hong Jushun?" Wei Hao asked with a smile while standing there.

"Yes, I am, you are?" Hong Jushun stared at Wei Hao and asked, while Wei Hao looked him up and down. He was a very ordinary boy, a little dark, and he looked like he was doing farm work, but he was also bookish. .

"My name is Wei Hao, and I'm your uncle's apprentice!" Wei Hao looked at Hong Jushun and asked.

"Oh, it's you, hello uncle!" Hong Jushun looked at Wei Hao happily and said.

Then he stepped aside from his seat and said please to Wei Hao.

"Well, you just arrived last night?" Wei Hao asked Hong Jushun with a smile.

"Yes, I came here with my uncle. When I arrived in Chang'an, the curfew and the city gates were closed, so I came here to live. But my uncle didn't know where to come, so he said you would come to pick me up!" Hong Jushun stood There, looking at Wei Hao honestly, he said that he knew Wei Hao's identity. Eunuch Hong told him yesterday that this person is the Duke of the State, with a prominent status!

"Well, pack it up, come here, help me carry things!" Wei Hao nodded with a smile, and soon, Hong Jushun packed up, and Wei Hao took him out of the hotel, rushed to the city, and returned own house,
Before coming, Wei Hao told his parents that Eunuch Hong's nephew and grandson would come to live for a while, and they had ordered the servants to clean up the yard.
After taking Hong Jushun to the courtyard, Wei Hao said to Hong Jushun: "You will live here during this time, His Majesty will give you a knighthood, and then he will give you a mansion, and you can move there again, come here, get 100 guan Money here!"

After Wei Hao spoke, he said something to the servants behind him, and someone was going to collect the money immediately. After the money was received, Wei Hao told Hong Jushun to go shopping in Chang'an City, and the servants in the mansion would bring him He went out for a walk,

After settling down, Wei Hao went back to the county government. After all, he was still the county magistrate, and he had to deal with many things in the county by himself.

But at this moment, in the court hall, just finished discussing the establishment of the Chang'an Mansion, Li Chengqian was appointed governor of the mansion, Wei Hao and Li Ke were respectively appointed as left and right Shao Yins. At the beginning, many people in the court hall opposed it, but the opposition was not so fierce. The main reason is that Changsun Wuji is not in Chang'an. If he is in Chang'an, it may be a different scene.
After Li Chengqian's appointment was confirmed, he was very calm on the surface, but very unhappy in his heart. He did not expect that his father, the emperor, would appoint him as Shaoyin, and he would work with Wei Hao in the future. It is impossible for the prefect to go to Chang'an Mansion every day, and even said that it is very good to be able to go once or twice a month, but Li Ke and Wei Hao will meet every day.

After Li Chengqian finished handling things in the palace, he returned to the East Palace. When he arrived at the East Palace, Chu Suiliang, Du Zhenglun and the others stood in the hall waiting for Li Chengqian.

"You know everything, right?" Li Chengqian asked with a forced smile as he watched them.

"Your Highness, this matter is too sudden, we are not prepared at all!" Du Zhenglun looked at Li Chengqian and said.

"Gu knows, and Gu doesn't have any news. The third younger brother was entrusted with a heavy responsibility just after he came back. His father valued him very much, but why didn't Gu see it before?" Li Chengqian said with a smile.

"Your Highness, from now on, Your Highness needs to be careful, Your Majesty." Chu Suiliang stopped after saying the word Your Majesty.

"Say it straight!" Li Chengqian looked at Chu Suiliang and said.

"Your Majesty is going to polish you, and this kind of polishing, I really don't know who is the most suitable in the end!" Chu Suiliang said, looking at Li Chengqian worriedly.

"Gu knows, it looks like he is grinding Gu, maybe, Gu could also be a grinding stone! Ha!" Li Chengqian said with a wry smile.

"Your Highness, today's matter is opposed by so many ministers, and His Majesty insists on going his own way. No one can do anything, including Fang Pushe, Li Pushe, and several ministers, but His Majesty insists on doing this. Unfortunately, today Wei Hao Not here, if Wei Hao is here, there may be a turning point! Wei Hao will not go to court, this time His Highness will be passive!" Du Zhenglun stood there and said regretfully.

"Shen Yong may not be ignorant, but Father must have warned him!" Standing there, Li Chengqian thought of Wei Hao being called to the Ganlu Palace by Li Shimin alone after the meal last time, probably because of this incident.

"This, Wei Hao knows?" Du Zhenglun looked at Li Chengqian in shock.

"Maybe, he might know, but he's not sure. Tell me, if uncle was here today, would this be the same result?" Li Chengqian sat down and said.

"This is also the result, but it may not be so fast, and it will not be so sudden. Your Majesty will definitely greet Qi Guogong! And Qi Guogong may not agree! But if you don't agree, it can't stop your majesty from carrying it out." Chu Suiliang immediately cupped his hands and said.

"Father is very scheming, while my uncle is out, quickly summon the third child back, and deal with this matter, when the time comes, there will be nothing I can do, so scheming!" Sitting there, Li Chengqian said with a wry smile .

"Your Highness, now that the matter has been decided, the key still depends on Wei Hao's attitude. In fact, Wei Hao is still in charge of the affairs of Chang'an Mansion. The key is, what should Wei Hao do?" Du Zhenglun suggested to Li Chengqian at this moment.

"What do you mean?" Li Chengqian looked at Du Zhenglun incomprehensibly.

"Your Highness, it is your credit for the good management of the Chang'an Mansion, and it is also the credit of Wei Hao and the King of Shu for doing well. If the things you do are only the credit of your Highness, you and Wei Hao, and there is no such thing as King Wu, then that's fine." Already!" Du Zhenglun looked at Li Chengqian and said.

"You mean, let Shen Yong do everything? This is inappropriate. One is that Shen Yong refuses to agree, and the other is that the King of Shu will be happy to do this. What he wants is in the capital. As for the credit in Chang'an Mansion, No fault is credit!" Chu Suiliang immediately looked at Du Zhenglun and said,
After hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded,

(End of this chapter)