A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 359
Xuanyang Square.

Ma Zhou and Wu Yu'e came to see Huaiyu's mansion together. The two of them had heard about this mansion in the square before and knew its luxury, but they just saw it from a distance and never entered it.

All the way to watch, I was amazed, this garden is too big.

"Wang Junkuo is a treacherous villain who is capricious, and he is responsible for such a fate." Ma Zhou couldn't help saying, looking at many violations in the mansion.

Compared with Huaiyu's current level of success, Ma Zhou has temporarily entered a stable period. He is still a fifth-rank official in the subordinate province. His official rank is not high but his powers are indeed heavy. He is very appreciated by the emperor, and he often serves as a staff officer and adviser. Although he does not have the title of participating in the government, he also participates in military affairs.

Wu Huaiyu asked Xin Zhao to arrange for people to demolish all the illegal places in the mansion, including the family temple of his royal family.

What can Wang Junkuo say? Wu Huaiyu admires him somewhat. He was born as a grassroots rogue, and he has no bottom line in life. Left and right, rising among the forces.

He doesn't have the support of the powerful and noble families behind him.

Wang Junkuo has a bit of Liu Bang's feeling, and he did gather a group of brothers who can fight, but Wang Junkuo has no bottom line in success, and there is no bottom line in defeat. In troubled times, his personality allowed him to rise, but when the world Unification, Wang Junkuo's behavior is still so bottomless, that is the way to bring disaster.

How despicable this guy was when he cheated on his in-law Li Yuan, now how ruthless Li Shimin is when he cheats on him.

In fact, facing Wang Junkuo who has no bottom line, which superior person can tolerate it, they are all afraid of being backlashed.

"This house is too big. I want to divide half of it. Please order to set up a Taoist temple."

Huaiyu's words surprised the eldest sister, the 200-mu house, which occupies a quarter of the workshop, is really big.But the repair is so good, even though it is not finished, there is no way to spit out the meat of the mouth, and she also heard that Huaiyu actually only left one-third of Wang Junkuo's property.

Wu Huaiyu's reason is that he feels that his recent rewards are too high and too fast. Zhu Luoyi and Liang Shi have killed Wang Junkuo. Although they are all very famous, they are a bit suspected of picking heads after all. He can get such a generous reward mainly because he is the emperor. appreciation.

Furthermore, the foundation is not deep. Although Li Shimin still uses veterans of Wude, even the old gentry from Shandong and the old clans from Guanlong, etc., he also likes to use newcomers.

Using multiple forces together can obviously play a more balanced role, and newcomers without foundation can be more loyal to the emperor.

People like Wu Huaiyu are actually collectively referred to as close ministers. There have been many in the past dynasties. It is the same reason that the emperor likes to use eunuchs. People who are trusted and trusted are trustworthy.They don't have deep roots, and their power comes from the emperor, so they will support the emperor unconditionally.

Unlike those aristocratic families, when they reach a certain strength, they can sit on the fence and even put their family above the country.

Wu Huaiyu is now extremely appreciated by the emperor, but too fast a reward also brings some disadvantages, that is, too many people stare at him, and many people envy and hate him.

At the beginning, Ma Zhou also encountered such a problem. He went from commoner to an important post all the way, and even gave Zi to enter and exit the emperor's bedroom and participate in court discussions.

Ma Zhou was often attacked by people, but fortunately, he was stable now and showed enough ability, and the voices of those attacks gradually decreased.

Wu Huaiyu is now turning red and purple.

Yi Guogong, who has six hundred households sealed, is much worse than other sealed heroes in terms of qualifications. He is neither a hero of the Yuanmou Uprising in Taiyuan, nor has he participated in the founding and unification battles of the Tang Dynasty, and he has not even participated in the most important today. The Xuanwumen palace changed.

A Taoist monk who returned to the secular world and became an official after the bloodbath at the Xuanwu Gate in the ninth year of Wude, even a young man under the age of 20 who was born as a small official like Qian Lingshi in Sanyuan County, did not have a solid family background, but now he has become an official. He sealed six hundred households of Duke Yi.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have been many kings with different surnames, clan kings, and various princes and uncles, but 49 meritorious officials have been granted titles. In addition, Li Yuanchao gave the titles and died in battle or was convicted and killed. There are only a few dozen of them in total.

So many people in the Wu De Dynasty worshiped the prime minister, but in the end, only Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, and four of them received the real titles. Others, such as Yang Gongren, Chen Shuda, Dou Wei, Dou Kang, Pei Ju, etc., although they were granted the title of Duke, they were only false titles.

There are still many princes in the court, all of whom are only vain titles. For example, Tan Guogong Qiu He, who also has high achievements, is still only a vain title.

There are countless vain titles of county dukes and county dukes below the state duke.

Although people like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were directly enshrined as dukes, and Hou Junji was also made duke by viscount, but he lacked the achievements of Xuanwumen after all.

This makes him very special and enviable in the current court.

Xuanyangfang is one of the most noble places in the east of the city. Among the princes and nobles living here, the family of Dou Yi, the father-in-law of Li Yuan, has a more prestigious status. Although Dou Yi is long gone, Dou Yi was posthumously named King Qi Yes, his cousin Dou Wei and nephew Dou Kang also paid homage to the prime minister in Wude.

But now the Dou family inherits the title from Dou Yi's great-grandson, whose title has been downgraded to the Duke of Shenwu County.

However, in addition to the Changfang, the Duke of Shenwu County, his family also has many princes and barons such as the Duke of Julu County, plus Dou Kang, Dou Wei, Dou Gui and other Dou families have several Dukes, and the Dou family is still the same. Datang's first relative family.

The Dou's family only occupies one-eighth of the area in the square, and Huaiyu is not good at occupying a quarter of the area. He wants to use half of it to build the Longmen Temple and carry forward the inheritance of the old way.

Before that, Qihui, the abbot of Louguan Taoism, had gone to Wangxiantai, Zhongnan Mountain to pay homage. Because of the collapse of the earthquake, Taiyi Peak also changed, and there was a lake below. There was no place where the old Taoist was buried. Qihui was in the lake under the peak. While cultivating a Longmen Temple, some Louguan disciples were arranged to practice there.

As the descendant of the Longmen Sect of Louguan Taoism, Wu Huaiyu is now called the second generation head of the Longmen Sect by Louguan.

Many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an were donated by the Chang'an royal family or nobles. There are more than 100 large and small temples in Chang'an City, and almost every square has one or two. Most of them came from this way.

Only a few, such as Daxingshan Temple, Xuandu Guanqinglong Temple, etc., were planned and built when Daxing City was built, and many of them were relocated from the old Chang'an City.

This kind of behavior of donating one's own house or another courtyard to build temples is very popular in Chang'an.

Of course, generally only those very powerful princes, nobles or royal families have such a big deal.

It is quite reasonable for Huaiyu to take half of this house to build a Longmen Temple. In this way, this house only occupies one-eighth of the square, and it is as big as the house of Duke Dou of Shenwu County. The family occupies a corner, not so much. protrude.

Furthermore, it is also in line with the values ​​​​of Chang'an people. By the way, I would like to remind everyone that Wu Huaiyu is a disciple of Immortal Louguan, and he plated himself with gold.

Huaiyu even planned to send people to find those families who were bought by Wang Junkuo's various means to give appropriate compensation. Anyway, the money copied by Wang Junkuo was used, and if some money was used to compensate those families before, it would be settled once and for all. He will never suffer future troubles, and gain some fame by the way.

The eldest sister felt a little distressed, but she still didn't intervene in such a big matter.

On the contrary, Ma Zhou could understand Huaiyu's thoughts and expressed his support.

"More than 200 mu of land is indeed a bit big. Even if half of it is allocated, there are still nearly 120 mu of land, which is still very large."

The half of the Li Taoist Temple is actually mainly the gardens and family temples built by Wang Junkuo. The main building of the Wang family is still here. The violations are dismantled, repaired and repaired. You don’t need to move anything, and you can move in with your bags. Yes, the houses and furniture here, even concubines and servants are all available.

Even Wang Junkuo's family temple in the garden over there can be used as a Longmen Temple after a simple repair. After all, the shape of the family temple is similar to that of a temple, and the temple view is actually not much different.

The most important thing is the difference in enshrining.

Huaiyu looked at the big sister's swollen belly, and felt her pulse specially.

"Sister, your pulse is like twins."

Yu'e was pleasantly surprised, and Ma Zhou was also surprised, "I thought Mother E had a big belly, so I thought it was a boy."

"It's not wrong. The eldest sister is pregnant with twins, and they should be twins, a son and a daughter. Both little guys are very healthy, and their stomachs are rumbling."

The elder sister rubbed her stomach, "It's really noisy, there is no rest, could it be that the siblings are fighting in the stomach?"

Ma Zhou laughed, "Maybe they are brothers and sisters."

None of them doubted Wu Huaiyu's medical skills. He said that it must be twins. Both of them were very surprised, and they didn't expect to be pregnant with twins.

What was even more surprising was the twins, who gave birth to two at a time, a son and a daughter, which was so gratifying.

As a half-way couple, Ma Zhou has a son, and Wu Yu'e has two daughters. They are not young, and they definitely hope to have another child together.

After the eldest sister became pregnant, she actually kept trying to take another concubine for Ma Zhou, but Ma Zhou always refused. He even refused the eldest sister's arrangement of a personal girl to live with her. It was rare, and he devoted more energy to work.

"I'll take my brother-in-law's pulse too."

Huaiyu took Ma Zhou's pulse carefully. Before that, Ma Zhou drank a lot, and even overeating. His life and diet were very irregular. As a result, Ma Zhou in history suffered from diabetes. He died very early.

"Are you still drinking?"

"I quit completely. Now I don't drink a drop of alcohol. Drinking alcohol is wrong and hurts my body. Now I drink tea instead." Ma Zhou now likes to drink Wujia tea, especially green tea.

"I suggest that my brother-in-law should drink various kinds of tea in turn. Don't drink one kind of tea for a long time, and try not to drink tea at night. Although he is busy with affairs, drinking tea at night will also affect sleep and even affect health,"

Tea is a good thing, but it should be taken in moderation.

"In fact, you can drink a little wine, just in moderation, not too much, but drinking in moderation is also good for your health." He said with a smile.

"The most important thing is whether you are busy or not, brother-in-law, you'd better take time to exercise every morning. You can ride horses and archery, you can also practice Babu Vajra Kungfu, you can even practice whip and mace, throwing spears, and in summer, you can swim. , you can dig a big swimming pool in your backyard and swim every day, it’s good for your health.”

"The body is afraid of not moving, even if it is young, if it does not function for a long time, various diseases will come."

Ma Zhou envied Huaiyu's figure very much. He was not as big and strong as many generals, but he was still slender and fit, and his complexion was good. Although he quit drinking now, he loved drinking tea and worked day and night.

He doesn't accept concubines or maids now, but it's not all because of his self-discipline, the main reason is that he feels that his body is indeed much worse, and he doesn't have such a strong need.

"Proper exercise is better than a hundred medicines."

"Brother-in-law can also play cuju. I have a small team at home, and I can play when I have time. This sport is very good. It is not dangerous but also healthy. It is more suitable than polo."

Polo is too intense and prone to injury, but Cuju, which is football, is very good.

Archery, swimming, football, and exercises, taking one or two hours a day can greatly improve Ma Zhou's sub-health status. "Brother-in-law, practice hard. I guarantee that you will have many children in the next three years."

"It's hard for a woman to conceive in October. I can't bear to make your sister suffer too much. One in three years is enough."

Ma Zhou actually praised Huaiyu for having a son, now he has three sons and two daughters, and four more are pregnant, and there are only two wives and concubines in the family who are not pregnant yet.

"Those two are also just pregnant." Huaiyu smiled faintly.

Ma Zhou gave a thumbs up directly, which is really not idle at all, but this kind of behavior is also really good.

The elder sister smiled and said, "Erlang is young, so he needs to have more children. Our family is originally small."

Huaiyu said, "We are still young and strong. We have given birth to our third child and we are pregnant with our third child. Yesterday we told me that we want to take a concubine again. This is on par with our patriarch."

Yu'e covered her mouth and laughed, since her father entered Chang'an City, it was like a different person, and the nobleman's way of learning was almost the same.

Wu Huaiyu didn't bother to care about this, anyway, these are not big things, just like the patriarch Samurai Lengchang said, a prosperous population is the foundation of a family.

There are many children, all of which are valuable, and those who have many children will always be promising and capable.

Even if it is a daughter, it is very useful for nobles and wealthy families to marry.

Although it seems very utilitarian to say so, in fact, all noble families are like this.

Even if there are many sons, the legitimate sons actually have more status, but the family is inherited by the eldest son, and the rest of the legitimate sons will not split and threaten the family, because the wealthy will not easily divide the family, at most they will share some money with others. Sons, this will ensure that the great family does not weaken.

As for the concubine, or even those maidservants who have children, they belong to tool people. These people are sons, but they are not real masters. They will gain the trust of the family and become the people in charge of the family's affairs. They don't have to worry about threatening the eldest son or anything. For many famous families, these concubines and maidservants are actually the most useful helpers.

After all, they have the blood of the family, but because of the status of their biological mothers, they are restricted. Waiting, besides being lustful, the concubine they give birth to will also be an important resource for the family.

If there is really a son of a concubine who comes out of the army or the imperial examination, the family will invest resources to support it, and the benefits will be even greater.

Wu Huaiyu feels that she has gradually acquired this kind of aristocratic thinking now.

It's really the ass deciding the head.

(End of this chapter)