Man Tanghong

Chapter 197 Another Smart Woman
The princess of Xiangyang is nearly forty years old, a few years older than Li Jiancheng, with a lot of makeup, elegant body and steady steps, she looks like a noble lady.

Princess Xiangyang heard Li Yuanji's call, and responded with a smile from a long distance away, "Silang..."

Li Yuanji left Hu's bed, walked a few steps, and greeted Princess Xiangyang.

Princess Xiangyang walked up to Li Yuanji, looked at Li Yuanji with a smile, and before Li Yuanji could speak, she joked, "It's really rare that you would greet me in person."

Although they are sisters and brothers, but one concubine and one concubine, their identities are very different.

Li Yuanji used to look up at people all the time, and he was not very polite to Princess Xiangyang.

"Second sister was joking, you are my elder sister, and I welcome you, isn't that what I should do?"

Li Yuanji licked his face and smiled.

He needs others, how can he put on airs in front of others.

What's more, it was the previous fool, not her, who was putting on airs for Princess Xiangyang.

Although Princess Xiangyang is a concubine, she is old enough and has been in front of Li Yuan for a long time. The position in Li Yuan's heart is not comparable to those princesses who were just born, or who were born not long ago.

In addition, she was married to a good husband, deeply trusted by Li Yuan, and backed by the Dou family, she was in charge of all the fiefdoms of the underage princes, so she had great authority and great power.

His predecessor put on airs in front of her, except for offending a group of people, there would be no benefit at all.

"When did you become so talkative?"

Princess Xiangyang looked Li Yuanji up and down with great interest, and asked the maids with a smile while ordering the maids to put her enthroned bed in place.

The maids quickly placed Princess Xiangyang's enthroned bed next to Li Yuanji's enthroned bed, placed low tables, placed melons and fruits, and propped up the cattail fan.

Princess Xiangyang was also polite, and sat on the couch generously.

After Princess Xiangyang sat down, Li Yuanji also sat on his couch, and said with a smile, "I don't know why, but when I saw my second sister, I became able to talk."

Princess Xiangyang giggled amused by Li Yuanji's words.

No one used to say such wisecracks in front of her.

Most of the people who have enough status to say witty words in front of her can't bear to lose face.

People who don't have enough status and status to say witty words in front of her, even if they lose face, they dare not say a word.

So she hadn't heard a wisecrack for a long time.

"I think you are asking for something from me, that's why you became able to talk."

Princess Xiangyang laughed uncontrollably. After laughing enough, she stared at Li Yuanji and spoke slowly.

Li Yuanji didn't hide it either, and sighed with a smile: "Second sister is really smart."

Li Yuanji discovered that from the time he arrived in Datang to the present, all the respectable women he met seemed to be very smart.

He didn't need to say more about some things, and the other party could guess his thoughts.

Princess Xiangyang smiled and said: "It's not that I'm smart, but that you have changed too much, obviously you have a conspiracy."

Li Yuanji was ready to exchange some pleasantries with a face full of shame.

Princess Xiangyang said again: "Tell me, what do you want me, a sister, to do for you."

Li Yuanji hurriedly said: "No hurry, no hurry..."

Princess Xiangyang stared at Li Yuanji, smiled and said: "How can we not be in a hurry? After you finish the business, we can talk about the friendship between sisters and brothers.

You don't talk about the business, but keep it in your heart, how can you talk about sister and brother friendship with me wholeheartedly? "

Li Yuanji sighed in his heart when he heard this.

Princess Xiangyang has lived in the elite circle for nearly 40 years, and she really did not live in vain.

Seeing is transparent, speaking is also transparent.

"Besides, if I can't do what you entrusted, we can't talk about sisterhood, what do you think?"

When Princess Xiangyang sighed in Li Yuanji's heart, she spoke again, speaking more clearly.

Li Yuanji said with emotion: "Since the second sister has talked about this, then I will speak bluntly."

Princess Xiangyang smiled and nodded.

Li Yuanji said bluntly: "Someone came to my door, hoping to be the Sima of Songzhou. Songzhou belongs to Duji Province and is under the supervision of my second brother. I can't ask my second brother, so I can only ask you." .”

Princess Xiangyang nodded thoughtfully, and said with a smile, "You are not begging me, but your brother-in-law."

Although Songzhou is supervised by Li Shimin, part of Songzhou is the fiefdom of Song King Li Yuanjia, which is under the management of Dou Dan, so Dou Dan can exert some strength in this matter.

Li Yuanji nodded without hesitation.

Princess Xiangyang smiled and asked again: "Why can't you ask Erlang? Sima Songzhou is not a high-ranking official, so if you go to Erlang, Erlang won't make things difficult for you, right?"

A state Sima, in the eyes of their sisters and brothers, is really not a high-ranking official.

There is nothing to talk about that can affect their interests.

If Li Yuanji went to find Li Shimin, Li Shimin should not make things difficult for him.

But Li Yuanji didn't want Li Shimin to notice this matter, and he didn't want Li Shimin to follow the clues to find out all his plans, so he went to Xiangyang.

But it was not easy for him to tell Xiangyang Ming, so he could only sigh: "I don't want to owe my second brother a favor because of this, and I don't want to be caught between my elder brother and second brother because of this favor."

Li Yuanji's meaning was very simple. He didn't want to be dragged into the water by Li Shimin because of a favor, and become a bargaining chip for Li Shimin to deal with Li Jiancheng.

The reason is a bit far-fetched.

But Li Yuanji does have enough power now to influence the ownership of that position.

If Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng wanted to win over Li Yuanji, they would naturally not miss any opportunity.

A small favor may become their breakthrough.

Xiangyang understood what Li Yuanji meant, and said meaningfully: "I'm afraid it won't be so easy for you to stay out of it."

As the strength in Li Yuanji's hands skyrocketed, the number of people who followed Li Yuanji also skyrocketed.

Dou Dan is one of them.

In order to prevent someone from using Xiangyang as a breakthrough, Dou Dan took the Dou family into the water, so he analyzed the current strength of Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji for Xiangyang.

So Xiangyang clearly knows how powerful Li Yuanji is now, and how effective Li Yuanji's strength can be.

It can be said that whoever Li Yuanji stands for will win.

In this case, even if Li Yuanji wanted to stay out of the matter, it was impossible for Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to let him stay out of it.

"You can only take one step at a time."

Li Yuanji pretended to be bitter.

Xiangyang nodded and didn't say any more on this issue.

On this issue, she couldn't say much.

It is easy to offend people by talking too much.

No matter whether she persuaded Li Yuanji to favor one side, she might offend the other side.

As for instigating Li Yuanji to be a third party, she didn't have that idea.

Leaving aside the fact that Li Yuanji doesn't have enough strength to compete with the other two parties, even if she did, she wouldn't take this muddy water.

Because among the three Li Yuanji brothers, no matter who went up, she is still the princess, and her husband is still a relative.

Only when someone other than the three brothers Li Yuanji wanted to take over, could she possibly wade into the muddy waters.

"Why do you want to ask someone to be an official of Songzhou Sima?"

After Xiangyang understood Li Yuanji's difficulties, he asked Sima of Songzhou again.

Although Songzhou Sima's official position was not high, she had to ask why Li Yuanji wanted to help someone seek this official position.

If Li Yuanji wanted to use this official position to do something, then both she and her husband would be implicated.

It was absolutely impossible for her and her husband to get into trouble just because Li Yuanji put down his airs and said a few nice words to her.

"I owe someone a favor, and they came to me, so I have to pay him back."

Li Yuanji said frankly.

Xiangyang was taken aback for a moment, then said in astonishment: "That's all?"

A prince goes out in person, just to help someone find a Sima, just to repay someone else's favor, no other plans?
She couldn't believe it.

Li Yuanji smiled calmly and said, "That's all."

Xiangyang stared at Li Yuanji with a strange expression, thinking secretly.

She was analyzing whether Li Yuanji had lied or lied to her.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xiangyang said with an even weirder expression: "Did you take money from others?"

Li Yuanji was taken aback for a moment, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

Li Yuanji acquiesced to Xiangyang's statement.

Xiangyang said dumbfoundedly: "You sold your official position in Luoyang City before, and you were criticized by the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty. Now that you have returned to Chang'an City, you still don't know how to restrain yourself?"

Li Yuanji smiled embarrassedly: "You also know that I have more than 10,000 mouths under my hand, waiting to eat, I will make more money."

Xiangyang didn't know what to say for a while.

It's the first time she's seen such an upright and confident reselling of official positions.

"You have to be thankful that you are your father's legitimate son, otherwise you would have died long ago."

Xiangyang gave Li Yuanji a blank look, and said angrily.

Li Yuanji smiled and said, "Then, does the second sister agree or not?"

Xiangyang gave Li Yuanji another look, and said: "Although this matter is small, I have to go back and discuss it with your brother-in-law. If he agrees, then I will agree.

If he doesn't agree, then there's nothing I can do to help. "

Li Yuanji immediately said: "I just take people's money and do things for them. I don't need brother-in-law to take special care of him, and I don't need brother-in-law to continue to support him in the future."

The reason why Li Yuanji added these words was to enhance the credibility of what he said.

After all, this kind of thing is usually a one-shot deal, not including after-sales.

Only if he said that, Xiangyang and Dou Dan would believe that he was really taking money from others and doing things for them.

Only in this way, Dou Dan will agree to help him with this matter.

Xiangyang remembered Li Yuanji's words, "I will tell your brother-in-law what you said when I return home. But I still have one question."

Li Yuanji made a gesture of wishing to hear more about it.

Xiangyang asked: "Why don't you come forward to support this person yourself? If you come forward yourself, you should be able to help him find a higher and better position."

　Thanks to 'Bali'an, Xuanjie Great Sage' for the reward of [-] book coins!
　　
　
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