A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 578

Pei Ji was exiled to Jingzhou.

Li Shimin convicts Pei Ji of the four major capital crimes, but in the end he still does not kill him. The prime minister who won the emperor's favor in the Wude dynasty was also knocked out of the dust step by step after the change of Xuanwumen Palace.
There were two Jingzhous in the Tang Dynasty, one in the middle of Shu, within the Lizhou Governor's Mansion, and one in the west of Lingnan. The Jingzhou where Pei Ji was exiled was within the Lizhou Governor's Mansion.

The Governor's Mansion of Lizhou is a bit special. Luo Shou and Li Xiaochang both served as Governors of Lizhou, and both were executed for treason.

Pei Ji, who held two death-free golden coupons, eventually ended up in exile after seizing his official position, expropriating his title and property.

The emperor spared his death twice, which can be regarded as the new emperor's keeping his promise to the iron coupon issued by the Supreme Emperor to avoid death.

From being dismissed as prime minister to being exiled, Pei Ji took one step at a time, and finally reached this point. Most people had expected it, but now it's just the last shoe that has fallen.

This also represents the complete end of an era.

From June of the ninth year of Wude to June of the third year of Zhenguan, it was only three years.

"Liu Dewei wants to meet you. When you are free, I will bring him to visit you."

"Pengcheng County Lord?"

"Well, didn't his son go to Youzhou to join your shogunate and join the army?"

Liu Dewei is the Supreme Servant. He was previously the Minister of the Ministry of Justice together with Wu Huaiyu. In his early years, he also served as the Inspector of the Dali Temple. Later, he became the governor of Mianzhou and returned to the court. Now he is the Supreme Servant and concurrently inspects the six schools.

After Zhang Liang paid homage to the Prime Minister, he had taken over the leadership of the Six Gates. After Wu Huaiyu and An Yuanshou left, the Six Gates were now headed by Dugu Huairang, Gao Huitong, and Li Dejiao.

Speaking of Liu Dewei, he can be regarded as one of his own. He is from Pengcheng. He was a general of the Sui Dynasty in his early years. Fu Sima, assistant Li Yuanji,
His mother was the Yuan family in Henan, and his first wife was the Zheng family in Xingyang. Later, he participated in the pacification of Wang Shichong and was instrumental in pacifying Wang Shichong. Li Yuan granted marriage to the county magistrate of Pingshou, and Qin Qiong also married a county magistrate.

However, Liu Dewei did not fight much since then and has been working in the judicial field, including Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, for more than ten years.

His younger brother Liu Demin and Liu Dezhi have been serving as generals in the Prince of Qin's Palace, and they are both very brave and good at fighting. Liu Demin was once the commander of the army of the Prince of Qin's Palace, and was awarded the title of Zhu Guo.

"Do you want to see me if you have something to do with Six Doors?"

"I just came to pay you a visit. After all, you are also a senior of Liumen. Moreover, the Northern Expedition is about to start, and Liumen will also participate. I want to say hello to you first."

"Another day, I will personally visit Mr. Liu."

The Liu family in Pengcheng is also a famous family, not to mention Liu Dewei and Qin Qiong are old comrades-in-arms, and Wu Huaiyu now has a good relationship with the general at Wagang Mountain.

The aunt asked the coachman to take Huaiyu to the gate of Duke Yiguo's Mansion in Xuanyangfang.

"Go home and spend more time with your wife, concubines and children."

"Let's go in and sit together."

"I still have something to do, come back another day."

Gao Huitong waved his hand and drove away.

Standing at the gate of the Wu family, he felt that there had been a big change. As soon as he entered Beijing today, he was taken into the palace first, and he didn't even have time to enter the house.

Yi Guogong's mansion originally occupied an area of ​​more than 120 mu, accounting for a quarter of the square. He used half of it to build the Longmen Temple, and now it still occupies an area of ​​more than [-] mu.

With the renovation of Chang'an Market, the walls of Xuanyangfang have also been demolished. The Wu family has also demolished most of the courtyard walls along the street, moved back a little, and independently transformed the land along the street into shops along the street in accordance with the requirements of Yongzhou Prefecture. Even if the Wu family renovated the shop themselves, it would still be owned by the Wu family.

The main gate and side entrance still remain along the street.

The Wutou gate of Duke Yi's Mansion is still grand. On both sides of the concierge are the shops run by the Wu family, selling tea, medicinal materials, sugar, wine, salt, books, paper, ink, pens and inkstones, grain, silks and cloths, and leather blankets, etc.
There are many things for sale, but most of them are now owned by the Wu family. There are also teahouses and inns owned by the Wu family. In the past, the street outside the wall of this village was very deserted. Although pedestrians and cars passed by from time to time, they were all in a hurry. .

Now that the square wall has been demolished, there is Dongshi to the east and Pingkangfang to the north. The markets here have also become golden markets. Even in front of Longmenguan, because there is a large square, a market has been formed here, and there are regular Many traders come here to market.

There are also many people who go to the market.

It's really lively.

The door opened, and the concierge had already run out to welcome the owner back to the house.

Soon, the eldest lady Fan Xuanfu also came over with a group of concubines, and there was a large group of people holding their children in their arms.

"I received news that Alang would return to Beijing today. I had already sent someone to Baqiao Post to greet him, but I never saw anyone."

"I returned to Beijing with the grain fleet. I specially checked the situation of the grain ships entering Beijing, but I missed it."

"Did Alang just arrive?"

"I came back early, but as soon as I entered the capital, I was summoned to the palace by the saint."

Fan Xuanfu came up and looked at Huaiyu carefully. The couple had been separated for more than a year. When they left, it was still the early spring of the second year of Zhenguan. Now it is the late summer of the third year of Zhenguan.
When she left, Fan Xuanfu was just pregnant with her second child, and her eldest son was just over a year old. Now Fan Xuanfu has given birth to her second child, and the child is over half a year old.
The eldest son, Chengsi, is almost three years old.

"Da Lang, call me quickly."

Wu Chengsi has a tiger-like head and bright eyes. The longer this boy grows, the more he looks like Wu Huaiyu. He even has the small mole on the bridge of his nose that is the symbol of their old martial arts family. This is really strange. Samurai Ke has it, Wu Huaiyu and Wu Huaiyi brothers all have it. Now, Wu Chengsi also has it.

The boy is not afraid of life, perhaps because there is a self-portrait of Huaiyu at home, which is very lifelike. Fan Xuanfu usually makes the boy scream at the portrait, but now he will come up and scream when he sees the real person.

"Yeah."

"Hey, let dad give me a hug."

Huaiyu picked up this boy. He estimated that he weighed about thirty kilograms and was about to be planted.

When Xuanfu saw Chengzong, the second son in his hand, Yiyi gesticulated, "What's wrong, you want Aye to hug you too?" Wu Huaiyu held his eldest son Chengsi in his left hand, and his second son in his right hand. Zichengzong, the two brothers had a very good relationship. They kept laughing in his arms. The two brothers asked you to scratch their beards and he to scratch their eyes.

"Yeah, I want it too." Wu Yingluo, the eldest daughter who was over two years old, was being held by Fan Jiuniang. Seeing this, she also hugged Huaiyu's thigh and wanted to hug her.

"Hug, hug."

But if you hug this one, you should hug that one too.

A crowd of children gathered around Huaiyu, hugging him and lifting him up.

"Lift high,"

Once one is lifted, all the others must be lifted.

Looking at the group of children around him, Wu Huaiyu smiled very happily. These children grew up so fast. When he left Beijing, he had only six sons and four daughters, but now he has 24.

Thirteen sons and eleven daughters.

In terms of childbirth efficiency, he is no worse than the elder uncle.

Fan Xuanfu, Gao Huian and Duan Wan also gave birth to a second child. Over in Youzhou, Gao Twelve, Lu 35, Yang Muyun and Jianyi were also pregnant.
This is really a prosperous place.

"Oops, I can't even tell you brothers and sisters apart,"

There were only ten eldest children, but they had to be hugged and lifted around him. Huaiyu smiled from ear to ear.

Fan Xuanfu said from the side, "You don't know how many people envy our family."

Marrying wives and concubines from aristocratic families does have advantages in terms of fertility. However, even if many families have many wives and concubines, they may not be able to have many children. If they have many children, they may not be able to raise them. Even the royal family often has children who die in infancy.

But in Wu Huaiyu's family, he now has one wife, eight concubines and fifteen concubines, as well as two outside wives, who gave birth to 24 children for him, and none of them miscarried or died in infancy. This is very unnatural.

People say that Wu Huaiyu is worthy of being a disciple of the gods.
Some people also think that this is because Wu Huaiyu has a panacea, which not only enables Wu Huaiyu to give birth, but also gives birth to healthy children, and even illnesses can be cured immediately.

This is indeed true. The method of calculating ovulation is quite outrageous in this era, and it is more than half the effort.

Not to mention that when the Wu family gives birth to a baby, not only the midwives, but also the pregnant women have Huaiyu who has given them many lessons in advance. Not only are there exercises that can change the position of the fetus, but they will also disinfect the tools used during the birth.
In ancient times, the level of medical care was limited and knowledge was insufficient. There were a large number of difficult births, and many mothers died of postoperative bleeding, infection, etc., and many newborns also died due to this.

Baby care is also very important. If you are not careful, you may suffocate, choke on the milk, or catch a cold or have a fever, etc. If it is not handled well, it will be gone.

There are also many families whose conditions are not good, and their babies have no milk to drink and are even malnourished.

Of course, there are also many babies who die prematurely due to lack of preparation during pregnancy or malnutrition during pregnancy, which leads to fetal congenital defects, deformities, etc.

Wu Huaiyu was well prepared in all aspects.

So far, all the children in the Wu family are born full-term and healthy. They are well taken care of during pregnancy and fully prepared when they are born. After birth, there are dedicated wet nurses and nannies to take care of the confinement and babies. The conditions are good and the care is in place. , each one grows very healthily.

Moreover, although there were many people in the Wu family's backyard, the overall atmosphere was pretty good. There were no shady affairs like those in the backyards of some big houses, and there was no such thing as wives and concubines harming each other's children, and no one dared to do so.

Many nobles and even the palace came to the Wu family for advice.

This also makes the Wu family's Qianjintang Pharmacy now have six branches in Chang'an City, but the business is still booming.

There are indeed some prescriptions in Qianjintang that are used to regulate pregnant women and treat babies. The effect of symptomatic medicine is very good, which makes the name of the Wu family even more famous.

Empress Changsun now often lets Fan Xuanfu enter the palace to help teach the concubines in the harem how to raise children.

After a long time of excitement, the children were willing to let Huaiyu into the house.

Seeing the whole house full of children, this sense of satisfaction overflowed.

"Madam, when I'm not at home, you have to take care of all the work in the house. It's really hard."

Fan Xuanfu smiled and said, "There are so many people working inside and outside the family, I don't have any hard work, but Xianggong has been out of Beijing for almost two years, so it's really hard work, and it's very dangerous to go out to fight all the time. Well, the ancestors bless you."

"Jianyi was pregnant, so I left her in Youzhou. I betrothed the other seven Sword Princesses to each other. You won't blame me, will you?"

"Since my husband has decided not to keep them, we can't object. Besides, my husband also found young talents to marry for them in Youzhou. He was not a lieutenant colonel in the army, but he also joined the army as a civilian. They are both high-quality officials, which is also good. Home. It’s just that we married a little far away, so we can’t see each other often.”

The four sisters of the Fan family each have four sword girls, and they are all guest girls of the Fan family. Although their status is higher than that of ordinary maids, legally, they have the same status. After a slave is released once, if he still lives with his master, he is a guest girl. , and exempted once more, they are civilians.

Guest girls can marry slaves and tribesmen, but they cannot marry lovers.

When Wu Huaiyu went to Youzhou, Fan Xuanfu asked her to bring eight sword girls with her, not only to take care of her, but also to let Wu Huaiyu take in these guest girls who they had personally married.
In the end, Wu Huaiyu only accepted Jianyi, and he released several others as good friends. The remaining seven eventually acted as matchmakers for them, and were betrothed to low-level civil and military officials from Youzhou who were born in poverty. They were all selected from poor family backgrounds. But the kind who are young and relatively capable,

He also specially prepared a dowry for each of them, which is equivalent to marrying his adopted sister.
"The eight sword girls in the family have all chosen the right one to get married. I will also save the dowry and get married as my adopted sister."

"Okay, listen to Alang."

Although the Fan sisters really wanted to keep their personal dowry Sword Girl as a concubine or something, and have a helper and companion in the backyard, but now that Wu Huaiyu wanted to get married, they still agreed.

For Wu Huaiyu, there are too many wives and concubines now, and there are too many children. There is really no need to keep Jian Ji and the others as adopted sisters, buy a share of the dowry, and find potential ones for them to marry off. In fact, it is not only for They seek a good home, and for the Wu family, this is also a way to expand their power.

These talents who married Huaiyu's good sister have ordinary family backgrounds and no backing, but they are capable. Now through this kind of marriage, they also become members of the Wu family. After being labeled as the Wu family, the Wu family will provide assistance for their careers , they also contributed to the Wu family.

Aristocratic families have always operated in this way.

(End of this chapter)