A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 214
October eighteenth.

Wu Huaiyu got married.

Although there are Wei Zheng, Zhang Yungu, Quan Zhirang and other officials and censors impeaching the Wu family for their extravagant and wasteful marriages, etc., but today Ying Guogong and Youjianmen General Fan Xing are still extravagant and high-profile. Cheng Yaojin, who also married his daughter to the Wu family, was much more high-profile.

The dowry of Fan Xing's family is more and more luxurious, especially many brands are deliberately made, and there are servants holding a sign before each red shoulder.

There are five thousand acres of fertile land.

There are also three nephews from the same family who married as concubines, and each of them brought a dowry.

The Fan family had a hundred servants as dowries.

The wedding procession specially paraded through the streets of Chang'an City.

The entire city of Chang'an was alarmed.

East Palace, Lizheng Hall, Xu Luoren came in to report to Li Shimin, and sent another letter.

After listening to it, Li Shimin flipped through the letter and read it carefully for a long time.

"Fan Xing married his daughter, and Wu Huaiyu married his wife. Chang'an City is really lively today. The civil and military officials in Chang'an City basically went to the two houses to give gifts and drink wedding wine. The entire Chang'an City residents watched the excitement of their house together."

When Empress Changsun heard this, she poured her husband a cup of tea.

"Marrying a wife and daughter has always been a major event in life. Even rural folks, after the autumn harvest, have some surplus food at home, so they have to think about marriage matters,"

Li Shimin put the letter away, "The Wu family is very good at marriage. Wu Huaiyi married Cheng Yaojin's eldest daughter, Wu Huaiyu married Fan Xing's eldest daughter, Wu Huaiyu's sister also married Ma Zhou, and the warrior Xun married Hong himself. Nong Yang, I heard that now Wu Huaiyu has arranged for his eight-year-old sixth brother, the daughter of the Wang family in Taiyuan,
It was Wang Ji who Wei Zheng wanted to marry earlier. "

Speaking of this, Li Shimin was very dissatisfied, "This Wang family is really popular."

"Your Majesty, based on the four characters of Taiyuan Wang, I don't know how many people flock to her and want to get married."

"But although Wang Ji's father and brother had literary names, they died early. The remaining four brothers are all of the eighth or ninth rank. In this kind of family, there is no fifth rank, and they are not even nobles. Wei Zheng, Wu Huaiyu, etc. But vying to propose marriage,

Even my confidants like Fang Xuanling and Zhang Liang, Yuan Cong, tried their best to get married with these famous families and counties.

In this world, the surname is Li. "

Empress Changsun advised the emperor to calm down.

"Your Majesty, advocating family status is a custom that has been handed down for thousands of years. Some of the nobles came from humble families and even landlords and commoners. Now they are rich, but they still want to improve their family status and marry those old noble families. It's also a good choice."

However, Li Shimin was very dissatisfied with this phenomenon, and even had an unknown anger in his heart.

It has been nine years of Wude, and the ministers of the imperial court are still humbly asking to marry the daughters of those declining old noble families.

"That's where the reputation lies. Even if these old gentry clans are temporarily in decline now, the background is still there, and they can flourish at any time."

"That's not right."

Li Shimin frowned.

"Your Majesty, don't rush into this kind of thing, haste makes waste, take your time."

"Wu Huaiyu is a smart kid, but he is not tame enough. I just reprimanded the Wang family for taking money from Wei Zheng's family and selling his daughter, so that the marriage stopped, but he immediately went to marry the Wang family again, and brought the Wang family brothers with him. Go find Wuji and let Wuji arrange official positions for them..."

"Your Majesty, this is all human nature."

"Humph."

"Originally, I wanted to say that Wuji's incident implicated him, and I was a little wronged. I planned to issue an order for him to resume his official position when he got married, but now I plan to let him take a long vacation at home."

Empress Changsun didn't persuade her husband any more.

"Wu Huaiyu got married today, and he and Fan Xing are both His Majesty's confidantes, so His Majesty still has to reward him."

"Then reward him with a pair of ambergris incense candles, two red silks, and a pair of silver vases."

Li Shimin was still thinking about the influence of the old clans. Their influence was so great that even the prime ministers and ministers were vying to marry them.

For a low-ranking ninth-rank official like Wang Ji, there are so many people vying to get married, and they are even willing to give millions of family money for this.

Wei Zheng had to collect [-] yuan to marry the Wang family when he mortgaged his house to borrow money, and Wu Huaiyu took advantage of it and gave the Wang family even more money.

Even royal princesses are not so popular.

From these details, Li Shimin felt a strong threat. He didn't want to rule the world with the scholar-officials like the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

This world is surnamed Li, and it was brought down by the Li family.

"It seems that it should be under the auspices of the imperial court to revise the clan annals of the world and re-rank the clans in the world."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the court still has a lot to do." Empress Changsun reminded Li Shimin again.

Li Shimin heaved a long sigh, "Forget it, I'll just bear with it and destroy Turkic Jieli first."

Perhaps recalling Wu Huaiyu's achievements in retreating from the Turks, including his suggestions, Li Shimin thought for a while, "Let Zhang Anan go to the Wu family to reward him personally,
Let Chengqian go with him. "

Li Shimin said to the queen, "What do you think about letting Wu Huaiyu be the crown prince of the Eastern Palace?"

"Your Majesty can consider these matters, and you don't need to ask your concubines."

"Then let him do the washing,"

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In Yongxingfang, the wedding ceremony is being held grandly.

Full of friends.

Not only Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Li Junxian, Wu Heizai, Gongsun Wuda, Li Mengchang, Liu Lancheng, Niu Jinda and others came, but even Li Jing, Chai Shao, Duan Lun, Dou Dan, Changsun Wuji and many other big shots came.

Ma Zhou, Cheng Chumo, Wu Huaiyu, Niu Jianwu, Wu Junya and others who helped entertain today were a little surprised, the house is full of princes.

Wei Zheng, who was next door, heard the resounding registrations sounded from the gate of the Wu family. The prince and the general came to celebrate in person, and felt very uncomfortable.

"It's too much for a sixth-grade jobless Marquis to get married in such a ostentatious way."

"They also posted invitations for you, so can't you just walk over and say a few words of congratulations?"

"I dont go."

"If you don't go, I'll go." Mrs. Pei couldn't stand Wei Zheng's appearance, so she went to change clothes and get gifts.

"You are not allowed to go either."

"I don't care why you and Wu Erlang fell out, but our family is at fault. I have to take advantage of this opportunity to congratulate others, and I will continue to be a neighbor in the future. That matter must be settled."

Wei Zheng refused, but Mrs. Pei ignored him, not only went by himself, but also called all his children to go together, leaving Wei Zheng at home alone to listen to the excitement next door.

Wu Huaiyu was very busy today, went to Huaiyuanfang early to pick up relatives, picked up newcomers, and walked the streets of Chang'an for a long time according to Fan Xing's request, and finally got home, so many guests came, and they had to go up to say hello, their faces were numb from laughter.

He was talking to Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Yang Gongren when Fatty Wu trotted in from outside the door.

"Erlang, the angel in the palace has arrived. Eunuch Zhang is here in person. Hurry up to greet him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Niu Jianwu trotted in again, "Erlang hurried to the gate to greet him, His Royal Highness is also here."

As soon as they heard that the crown prince had come, even Fang Du and the others rushed to greet him.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and even the eldest grandson Wuji, Yang Gongren, and Li Jing all came here in person today. It's not that Wu Huaiyu is too much, but since Wu Huaiyu came to Chang'an, especially after his famous medical elixir, many noble ministers, They also bought medicine from Huaiyu, and even asked him to come to help with recuperation.

For these honorable ministers, Wu Huaiyu's title and official position are not worth mentioning, but a genius doctor is very worthy of their respect. The king of medicine, Sun Simiao, can see his head and tail, but Wu Huaiyu, the son of Qingyang, lives in Chang'an .

What's more, this person is appreciated by the emperor, and it is only human nature to come here for a glass of wedding wine on such a happy day.

Originally, they said they would come over for a glass of wedding wine and presents, and they would return after a few chats. Who would have thought that the prince would come.

Zhang Anan, an internal servant, came in person, which surprised everyone. Who would have thought that the crown prince would come.

"Chen Wu Huaiyu, welcome His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Prince Li Chengqian's brocade robe and jade belt, like powder carved jade, looks really good. It's hard to imagine that such a jade doll will become such a weird prince in the future, or even a lame prince.

Huaiyu had met Chengqian several times before, but the two hadn't spoken yet.

Chengqian brought a lot of guards, and Zhang Anan, the head of the house, personally accompanied him. At such a young age, this majesty is still full.

The prince spoke a little maturely, and even seemed a little deliberate, but the appreciation he showed for Wu Huaiyu and even his intentional closeness made everyone very envious.

"Today's General Wu's wedding, the saint specially asked Gu and Jian Zhang to come to congratulate him, and the saint will also reward him."

The wedding candles mixed with ambergris are only used in the palace. Just a little ambergris is worth hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars. This pair of ambergris wedding candles is also worth at least tens of thousands of dollars. The preciousness of this royal gift does not lie in itself.

Other silk embroidery, silver vase and gold basin are not so special.

"General Wu, there is still a Taoist decree here, please accept the decree."

"Chen Wu Huaiyu accepts the order!"

Prince Chengqian read out the imperial edict in person, and countless princes and princes listened together.

"Under the door, Zhi said:"

Emperor Jinwu Huaiyu Chao San doctor rank, officially entered the ranks of the fifth rank.

He was granted the post of washing horses by the prince of Donggong Sijing Bureau.

The official position of the prince washing horses is not for the prince washing horses, but a very high-ranking official position. From the fifth rank, he is in charge of scriptures and attendants.

This Bureau of Economics and Economics corresponds to the Secretary Province, and the head of the Bureau of Economics and Economics is Prince Xima, two people.

Before Wei Zheng was built, the prince washed the horse.

It is my job to manage the Eastern Palace Books, but its real duty is to serve and teach the prince.

The emperor purposely asked the prince to announce the appointment edict, and the intention is quite obvious. Although the prince is still young, he has already been established as the prince after all. From now on, the East Palace team will be arranged one after another.

Wu Huaiyu is very young and quite talented. Before he was suspended, he was also a commander of the East Palace Prince's brigade. Now it is good to be the prince's book collector, because Wu Huaiyu is capable of Wu Nengwen, and the frontier troops he worked in Longyou Poetry is praised by many people.

It's only a matter of course for the Sanguan's rank to rise from the fifth rank to the lower rank.

"Chen Wu Huaiyu leads the decree, thank you His Majesty the Emperor, thank you His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Wu Huaiyu took over from Chengqian the imperial edict for the crown prince to wash the horses. The beginning of this edict is from the sect: Zhiyue, this is not an imperial edict or oblique seal.

It's just that Wu Huaiyu looked at this handsome and cute little prince, but he was not very happy in his heart. The prince washed the horse, which meant that he was arranged to the East Palace and boarded the boat of the prince Chengqian. This is very different from the previous commanding army. big.

But he knew clearly that the crown prince would not be able to secure the position of crown prince after all, so if he got on the boat now, wouldn't he be on the wrong boat?
But the imperial edict has been issued, he can only comfort himself in his heart, the prince is still young, the time is still early, there is still room.

"Wu Xima, Gu also brought a gift for you."

Chengqian gave Huaiyu a pair of silver vases, a pair of gold cups, and a hundred horses of miscellaneous colors. The little prince was obviously very fond of this East Palace official.

Mrs. Pei gave gifts at Wu's house, chatted with Mrs. Wu Liu's Daoxi, and took her children back home without eating, "His Royal Highness has arrived at Wu's house,

Many things are rewarded. "

Wei Zheng was unmoved.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also read out the Emperor's Edict, conferring Doctor Wu Huaiyu Chaosan and the Crown Prince Xima."

Hearing this familiar official position, Wei Zheng was stunned, and after a long time, he just sighed.

"Isn't Your Majesty deliberately indulging in this extravagance? To marry a wife, to parade the streets of Chang'an, to wear ten miles of red makeup, to show off like this?"

"How many people are still suffering from hunger and cold in this world? Have they forgotten that the Turkic people just left after wreaking havoc in Guanzhong?"

Pei couldn't take it anymore, turned around and left.

It's not that everyone is a saint, so what if people are happy with this condition.

"You Qinggao, why did you Qinggao mortgage the house to lend money to Wang Jiana's family?"

Wei Zheng was silent.

The next moment, he went back to the study, studied ink and spread paper, and began to write admonitions!

As soon as the Turkic people left, everyone began to enjoy such extravagant ostentation. The national atmosphere is like this, and it is a sign of national subjugation!

(End of this chapter)