A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 394
Wu Huaiyu is obviously the son and daughter of the emperor, but Li Shimin insisted on saying in front of the court that my sons are young, and I regard you, Wu Huaiyu and eldest grandson Wuji as my own sons.

Bah, doesn't this take advantage, smelly and shameless.

But at that time, all the ministers in the palace cast envious looks at Wu Huaiyu. How many people wanted to be the emperor's son, but they were not qualified.

I don't know how many concubines came here today because the emperor regarded Huaiyu as his son.

There is never a shortage of people who are icing on the cake in this world, but few give charcoal in a timely manner.

Cheng Chumo, Dou Lu Huairang, An Yuanshou, Niu Jianwu and a group of nobles and nobles looked at the long line at the gate of Wu's house,

"I heard that the gate of Yongxingfang had to be temporarily closed."

"Well, I almost couldn't get in just now. It seems that half of the people in Chang'an City are crowding into Yongxing Fang. Li Zheng is about to cry, so I have to stop them temporarily, unless they are guests of the Wu family."

Yongxingfang is only a thousand acres of land, and there are too many people coming at once, not only the four gates of the workshop are congested together, but also the streets are blocked, and there are long queues in front of several gates of the Wu family.

Too exaggerated, but it is true.

The sedan chairs are carried by everyone.

Several people envied Wu Huaiyu very much, because their backgrounds were better than Wu Huaiyu's. Even Niu Jianwu, his family was also a family of officials. His grandfather was the county magistrate of the Sui Dynasty, and his father also had the founding baron of Weicheng County in the Wude Dynasty.

He also joined the Xun Wei as an errand early on.

But in fact, they are also the envy of everyone in the long line at that stop.

Cheng Chumo, the Duke of Dong'e County, the eldest son of Duke Lu, has become the governor of Yinzhou in his twenties, and even got married and engaged to the Cui family of Qinghe, and successfully married a woman with five surnames.

Doulu Huairang, the son-in-law of the sixth daughter of the Supreme Emperor, Princess Wanchun, the sixth brother-in-law of today's emperor, is also Doctor Yinqing Guanglu at a young age, and was also named Duke of the county. , the post of governor of Yanzhou, but with his family background and status, it is not a matter of time before he recovers.

Even Niu Jianwu, although his father is now the county magistrate, and he himself is only a county magistrate, is now the Sima of the Dudufu.

A group of young talents, the children of heroes, is enviable.

Li Yifu was in the long queue, and he didn't feel he moved a few steps for a long time, looking at those young people dressed in purple, his face was full of envy.

At such a young age, he is already dressed in purple clothes, and he is known as a prodigy, and he has written beautiful articles, but now he still has to wait in a long line to give gifts.

Seeing his envious eyes, Li Desheng said, "It's just because you didn't cast a good baby, you're not capable."

The Li family is from Raoyang, Yingzhou, Hebei. Their ancestors have always been small officials like county magistrates. They have never been out of the fifth rank. The local petty gentry, Li Desheng has studied hard for many years. , Li Desheng was willing to go to that remote place, so he had to be awarded the prefect of Shehong County in Shuzhong.

Although he is not a high-ranking official, he reads books well and writes good articles. Of course, what Li Desheng is most proud of is that he took his son with him and taught him himself. He taught him very well.

Not only has he been known as a child prodigy since he was a child, but he is also handsome, especially when he talks to people, he always smiles and looks like a gentleman.

The article is well written, eloquent and eloquent, and the eloquence is not bad. Li Desheng believes that his son will have great promise in the future. This time he came to Beijing on business, and he brought his son with him, so he wanted to recommend him to the dignitaries of the court.

It's a pity that his official position is too low, and he doesn't have any noble family background. Although he has submitted many greetings and poems, he has not received any reply so far.

Maybe people haven't seen it at all.

But he always believed that his son was excellent and just owed a chance.

Li Yifu also thinks so.

At this time, several people came, but there was no need to line up. Fang Ding at the gate of the square directly led them across the long line and came to the gate of the Wu family.

But the servants at the door of Wu's family saluted them respectfully when they saw them, and invited them in directly.

"These two people look very young, how can they directly enter and leave Duke Yi's mansion?"

A middle-aged man in Jiang Gong's uniform in front of Li Yi's mansion in the team heard it and said with a smile, "These two are not ordinary, the former son of Rong Guogong, the adopted son of the current Prime Minister Qin Gong, and the righteous brother of Yi Guogong."

Li Desheng said, "Duke Rong of the former dynasty? But the general?"

"Exactly, these two are both Jinshi of the Wude Dynasty. Now one is a direct scholar of Chongxianguan, Prince Literature of Donggong Sijing Bureau, and editor-in-chief of Beijing News, and the other is Secretary Lang of the Secretary Ministry and a direct bachelor of Hongwenguan. They are all sixth-rank officials, and they are all extremely important positions."

Li Yifu was very surprised when he heard that the Lai family brothers are so young and have already been appointed as six-rank officials.

Even if they come from a Jinshi background and are selected by the Ministry of Officials, they usually start from the county lieutenant who was selected as the ninth rank. These two brothers are so young that they have reached the sixth rank.

Sure enough, a good article is not as good as a fetal cast.

There is a prime minister's adoptive father, a popular favorite minister who is a righteous brother, and his official career is smooth.

This made Li Yifu more and more determined, and he wanted to worship under Wu Huaiyu's family.

If he can become a student of Wu Huaiyu, and with his writing ability, he can reach the sixth rank in ten years.

With that in mind, another person jumped in line.

This time, it was delivered by a veteran of Marquis Wu, who maintained order at the gate of the square.

"Who is this?"

The middle-aged man in front of Li Yi's mansion was dressed in Jiang Gong's uniform, and he knew at a glance that he was an exile from Chang'an. He sized him up a few times, and then lowered his voice when he passed by, "This one is also very good, and he was born in Gaoyang. Xu's famous family, the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials in the former dynasty, he used to be an [-]th scholar in the Qin Palace, and later became an official of the sixth rank, and was demoted again and again for crimes last year, and finally he was demoted to Xunyang County. It's in Jiangbiao."

"Have you heard the long poem Pipa Xing?"

"Duke Yi's masterpiece is very well written." Li Yifu said.

"The Sima of Jiangzhou was referring to him in the pipa line. Duke Yi performed a pipa in front of the palace, which made His Majesty miss him again, so he issued an edict to recall the court to pay homage to the fifth rank of the province. Compiling the history of the country can be said to be a salted fish turned around."

Li Yifu understood now, it turned out that this was Xu Jingzong whom the scholars in Chang'an City talked about so much.

It is said that he is also a very talented person. He has a good relationship with Yi Guogong. Yi Guogong played a pipa, which made this guy promoted from Xunyang County Prime Minister to the imperial court, and he also took such an important position as Shizhong.

It could be seen that Xu Jingzong, who had just returned to Beijing, was somewhat complacent, but compared to before, he was a little more calm and less impetuous.

There are many people who enter the house directly without queuing.

The middle-aged man in Jiang's uniform was Shuling Shi of Shangshu Province, but he recognized the identities of many people, anyway, they were either meritorious officials or relatives, or high-ranking officials and generals.

There is no one who can go in directly.

There are no cheap merchants.

"That's the son of Jingzhaowei's family, younger brother of Concubine Wei."

"That's the son of the Du family, the son of You Pushe and his brother's son."

"That belongs to the Qinghe Cui family, that belongs to the Zhengzhou house, that belongs to the Yanling house, that's..."

"That belongs to the Lu family of Fanyang. That is the new Wannian county magistrate of Yongzhou, the Duke of Fanyang County."

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Jiang Gong Fushu Lingshi and Li Yifu kept introducing those who went straight to the Wu family. He liked this young man who called himself Li Yifu. He always spoke with a smile and was very polite. However, the son of the county magistrate was extremely polite to him and gave him enough respect to make him feel comfortable.

One of the most important things to be an official in Chang'an is to be able to recognize people. You have to be familiar with the nobles in Chang'an city, even relatives of the clan, otherwise you will be very troublesome if you accidentally provoke someone.

Jiang Gongfu has been an official in Shangshu Province for a long time, and he often travels in various government offices. He knows the famous families of nobles and relatives in Chang'an quite well.

With his introduction, Li Yifu got to know many nobles and had a more intuitive impression of the status of the Wu family.

He has heard a lot these days that Wu Huaiyu offended Jingzhao Weidu and Guandong Cui Zheng, and the consequences are so serious, but now the folk rumors are not very reliable.

Didn't Jingzhao Weidu and Shandong Cui Zheng also come to give gifts, and many of them are even descendants of the direct line, even the Zheng family in Xingyang has descendants.

"These top aristocrats from aristocratic families are like this. Even if they stab each other in the back, they must be laughing and laughing when they meet, and it doesn't even affect their marriage." Jiang Gongfu is not surprised. , does not represent the real situation.

Li Desheng stroked his beard and sighed, "It's a pity that I didn't give birth to a suitable daughter, or I guess it would be easier to send her to the Duke of Yi's mansion than to send my son."

Jiang Gongfu liked this dude very much, and couldn't help persuading him, "Actually, how many people want to learn from Duke Yi, whether you want to learn Danqing, poetry, or elixir, or even Taoism, military art, etc. Wait, it's not easy to really worship in,
Think about it, if you were Duke Yi, you have so much kung fu, would you accept and teach disciples casually? "

"It's even more difficult for ordinary people to send their daughters to the Wu family. Is there a lack of women for such nobles? Look at the sisters of the Qiu family who passed the door today, the granddaughter of Tan Guogong, the daughter of the Duke of Tianshui County, and she is just a concubine."

This undoubtedly poured cold water on Li Yifu and his son.

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Sunset dusk.

Wu Huaiyu welcomed the Qiu sisters back from the Qiu family. Many people received their relatives and many people sent them home.

The two teenagers Yuwen Chengdu and An Lushan had red silk flowers hanging on their chests, and they were holding Huaiyu's Yehobai.

Qiu Shenji and his brothers escorted his sister's float.

The long line behind.

It was supposed to be simple, but I didn't expect it to be extremely noisy in the end. Yongxing Square was directly blocked, and the street was full of people.

There were even long queues at several gates of the Wu family.

Even if you just register a name and don't accept the gifts, the team will continue to grow unabated. Even if the street drums sound and the city is closed, these people are not willing to go back like this.

They would rather stand on Fangzhong Street tonight than they plan to leave.

When Huaiyu picked up the man and came back, seeing this scene, he couldn't help but have a headache.

A bit too ostentatious.

I'm afraid there will be an official impeachment tomorrow, helpless.

This is not his intention.

"Immediately arrange someone to persuade everyone to go back first. The city will be closed soon. It's so cold that I can't stand on the street overnight."

"Send someone to the gate of the workshop again. If you haven't entered the workshop yet, please don't come in again,"

Seeing that the scene was out of control, Wu Huaiyu took the Qiu family sisters into the house, hurriedly performed a ceremony, and immediately ended it early.

Let Su Lie, Huai Yi, Cheng Chumo, Dou Lu Huairang, Wu Fatty and others help to apologize and see off the guests, otherwise he is really afraid that everyone will be stuck in the workshop today.

"The hospitality is not good, so I will visit you another day."

Everyone can understand that this scene is indeed too noisy.

Originally, if there were fewer people, the close relatives and friends who came would just stay at Wu's house for one night. After all, there are many houses in the [-]-acre mansion, and people can also be arranged to live in the Duke of Qi's mansion in the same square.

But now there are too many people.

Whether invited or uninvited, we can only see off all the guests first.

Cheng Chu smiled silently and said to him, "Take a concubine, and the one who can make such a noise is probably you, Wu Erlang, right?"

"Stop talking, hurry up and see off my guests." Huaiyu said helplessly.

(End of this chapter)