A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1097 Three Years Later
February.

Spring thunder stings hibernating insects underground. The weather gets warmer and everything grows.

Chang'an Weibei, on the Wanshou Plain in the north of Sanyuan County,

In the early morning, a white deer appeared in front of the thatched cottage.
Wu Huaiyu, who was also dressed in white, looked at the white deer and waved to it with a smile. The white deer was not afraid and walked leisurely into the front of the thatched cottage with four hooves.
The white deer chirps,

He walked straight to Huaiyu and gently bumped his head on Huaiyu's chest.
The fawn's careless intimacy immediately put Huaiyu in a good mood this morning. He turned around and grabbed a piece of bean cake, and the fawn followed behind him.
Huaiyu spread his hands, and Bailu immediately ate the bean cake from his hand.

This white deer is extraordinarily beautiful. Ever since Wu Huaiyu picked up this frozen and shivering fawn in front of his mother's grave last winter and brought it home, the fawn has grown up day by day and has become extremely close to Wu Huaiyu.

Now just like Wu Huaiyu’s pet,
Although Huaiyu allowed it to return to nature, it still kept running back every day.
The sound of horse hooves disturbed the tranquility of the plateau,

The little white deer pricked up its ears and was very alert.

A group of people appeared outside the thatched cottage,

"teacher,"

He looked at this thatched cottage, still wearing the plain robe on Wu Huaiyu,

Wu Huaiyu's wives, concubines, and children all live in the round fort of Sanyuan Longqiao.

"The teacher has observed mourning for three years. Now that the period of mourning has expired, His Majesty asked the students to deliver the message, asking the teacher to return to Beijing and resume his duties."

"Very good," Wu Huaiyu praised.

It is said that three years of mourning are actually twenty-seven months of mourning.

For more than two years, Wu Huaiyu lived a very simple life, wearing plain clothes and vegetarian food, and living alone. The stewards of the Wu family would come regularly to deliver food, but Wu Huaiyu would not let his servants stay to serve him.
Everything is self-reliant,
Daily life is actually very simple, including writing Zizhi Tongjian, reading books, practicing martial arts, cooking, and making tea, day after day, year after year.

"Promoted to fifth grade?"

In the twenty-seventh month, the Kui Festival is held, which is the ceremony to remove the clothes and mark the end of the observance.

Shangguan Yi smiled and nodded, "Newly promoted Secretary Cheng,"

Secretary Cheng, from the fifth rank, has since entered the ranks of nobles. He wears purple robes and silver fish. Shangguan Yi is one of Wu Huaiyu's students and a Jinshi. His official career has been very smooth these years. From Zhengzi to He was promoted to secretary-general from school secretary, then secretary-general, then to secretary-general, and now to secretary-general.

It’s February of the fourteenth year of Zhenguan.
It has actually been more than twenty-seven months since Wu Liu passed away.
When the twenty-seventh month was up, the emperor had already sent someone to convey the decree to reinstate Wu Huaiyujia.

He and Li Yifu, who was now promoted to Zhongshushe, were both students of Wu Huaiyu and came from the same discipline as Jinshi, but they took different routes.

Wu Huaiyu has lived in this thatched cottage for more than two years. Not far from here, there are two thatched cottages, belonging to his brother Huaiyi and his third brother Huailiang.

The other brothers are younger and live in Chang'ao Manor, which has better conditions.

He was dressed in a scarlet robe and had a silver fish bag around his waist, which made his whole person look particularly energetic.

Secretary Cheng Shangguan Yi pushed Chai Fei away and walked into the thatched cottage, while his entourage stood outside and did not come in.

It has been almost three years since Wu Huaiyu and Dingyou left their jobs to mourn their mother.

Shangguan Yi came today to announce the decree, not to show off to the teacher about his promotion.

But Wu Huaiyu didn't go and continued to live in the thatched cottage in front of his mother's grave in Changshou Plain.
After a while, the emperor sent someone to invite him again.
I don’t know how many times Shangguan Yi has come back.

Wu Huaiyu gently stroked Bai Lu's little head with his hand, telling him not to panic.
Looking up at this student,

Shangguan Yi is best at writing and poetry. In recent years, he has been accompanying the emperor and can be regarded as one of the emperor's penholders.

Occasionally meet and chat with my brothers, or meet my wives, concubines, and children who come to visit.

This kind of life has passed without me realizing it for more than two years.

Shangguan Yi went to boil water to make tea, and then fetched a chessboard to talk about a game.

"His Majesty has repeatedly asked the teacher to return to Beijing to resume his prime ministership. Why does the teacher always disagree?"

Wu Huaiyu held the chess pieces and placed them on the chessboard.

"I have no intention of returning to the political hall."

"Why?" Shangguan Yi was surprised.

Wu Huaiyu did not explain that he had stayed here for more than two years, but he also paid attention to the court. Although Ding You's term has expired, the emperor may not really want him to return to the government hall.

Changsun Wuji was still detained in Luoyang, and Li Ji was still in Taiyuan.

Li Jing honestly wrote the Art of War at home.

Chai Shao died of illness the year before last, and Prime Minister Wang Gui died last year. At the beginning of this year, Li Xiaogong, the famous king of the clan, suddenly fell ill and died while drinking.

Also, not long ago, Lao Hei Wei Chi Gong was actually accused of treason. The angry Lao Hei took off his clothes in the palace, revealing scars all over his body, patted his chest and told the emperor that he was indeed treason.

The emperor looked at the scars all over his body and stopped pursuing the matter, but Lao Hei was also disheartened. He had been left out in the cold all these years, and now the emperor wanted to accuse him of treason.

He resigned from the emperor and wanted to go home to retire.

Naturally, Li Shimin could not agree and instead appointed him as the governor of Xiazhou. He also made an inexplicable request, hoping that Yuchi Gong would marry one of his daughters and become his son-in-law.

The old black man's face was both dark and red. He was much older than Li Shimin. It would be too strange to marry a princess.

Of course he refused.

No one could figure out what the emperor was thinking.

One of the two door gods, Lao Hei, went to Xiazhou to be the governor, while the other door god Qin Qiong also recovered from his illness two years after returning to the court.

With the honorary title of Kaifu Yitong Sansi and Prince Taibao, he went home to recuperate and no longer interfered with political affairs.

Now in the court,
Hou Jun gathered his strength and gained power, and his hands were hot.

Even Zhang Liang was recalled to the court from Annan last year to pay homage to the censor, participated in political affairs and paid homage to the prime minister again. However, the prime minister Li Daliang was dismissed and became minister of the Ministry of Industry.

"The Western Region has not been peaceful recently." Wu Huaiyu sighed.

Shangguan Yi was puzzled.

"Originally, under the intervention of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks had the two Khans side by side and were relatively balanced. But last year, the ministers of Shaboluo Zhelisi Khan suddenly came to Tutun and colluded with Yugushe to cause rebellion. Zhelisi fled to Pak Khanna and died there.

Although the Wugu Shibi Tribe supported his younger brother's son Bobuteqin as Yibisha Bolo Yehu Khan, he built a tooth in the north of Suihe River and called it Nanting.

Its jurisdiction is bounded by the Ile River in the east, and Qiuci, Dushan, Qiemo, Tocharo, Yanqi, Shiguo, Shiguo, Heguo, Muguo, Kangguo, etc. are all under its control.

Yibisha Bolo Yehu Khan also paid tribute to us in the Tang Dynasty several times.

But the reality in the Western Regions now is that Yugushe claims to be Yibi Duolu Khan, has the support of the Wudu Lu tribe, and is very powerful.

Yugu was built in Shanxi Province and was called Beiting. Its jurisdiction was bounded by the Yilie River in the west. Jueyueshu, Baximi, Tuoma, Jiegu, Chumukun and other tribes were attached to him.

Even the Gaochang Kingdom, which was originally pro-Tang, was now tied to a chariot by Yu Gushe, attacking Yanqi, harassing Yiwu, and even preventing countries in the Western Regions from crossing the border to pay tribute to the Tang.
Yugushe and Gaochang originally paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty, but now they openly went against the Tang Dynasty. This was a suicide attempt.

The imperial court is planning to send troops to the Western Regions to destroy Gaochang and attack Yugushe.
The news Wu Huaiyu received was that the emperor intended to put Hou Junji, the prime minister, in command and Xue Wanche as his deputy.

(End of this chapter)