A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 584
Li Jing tapped the location of Dingxiang Khan's Court on the map with his finger, "After this battle, I will retire and return home."

"The teacher is still young."

Li Jing, who is in his 60s, has gray beard and hair, but his face is rosy and his body is still in good condition. It is said that he still rides horses, shoots arrows and dances with swords every day. Li Jing is not the kind of general who charges into battle, but he is a military aristocrat of Guanlong, a son of a general, and has great martial arts skills. Not bad actually.

"old."

Li Jing is the same age as the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan. The Supreme Emperor can still have children in the harem, so Li Jing is certainly not old.

However, Huaiyu also heard the overtone of Li Jing's words. This late-blooming famous general could only be said to have been average in the first 60 years. On the contrary, in the past two years, his official position has been promoted one after another.

"After the success of this battle, the teacher will definitely be promoted to the title of Duke and the Prime Minister." Huaiyu said with certainty that among the founding generals, someone like Li Jing had obviously achieved high achievements and had a high official position, but he only had titles, titles, and titles. It is very rare for a city to have a low value.

Dugu Yanyun, who underestimated the enemy and died in the north of the mountain, was a county prince and a general of the state of Shangzhu. Hou Junji, Zhang Liang and others were all real princes, but Li Jing's title for many years was only a county prince.

In fact, everyone who understands the details here understands.
But now that Li Jing is old and can still become the head coach of the Northern Expedition, it is extremely rare. Li Jing is also mentally prepared to retire after the war.

But Huaiyu knows that Li Shimin still appreciates Li Jing, and he can still use his remaining enthusiasm for a few more years, and he can still reach higher levels.

Li Jing patted the couch and said, "You will achieve far better than me in the future."

"I can't compare to the teacher. The teacher's military command is like Sun Wu's rebirth."

"Hahaha," Li Jing couldn't help but laugh, "You kid, but I do plan to write a military book after I retire from this battle. You can come and help me then."

When he finally left, Wu Huaiyu did not give Li Jing a clear answer about Li Sanniang.

Although Li Jing said it clearly.

Leaving Pingkangfang, go north through Chongrenfang and then arrive at Yongxingfang.
Qin Qiong has not been in good health recently.

His right servant, She, often rarely goes to the political hall once or twice a month, let alone once every three or two days to get things done under Zhongshu's door.

Huaiyu took his wife, concubines and children to greet them and presented them with gifts.

Qin Qiong, who had a sallow complexion, was very happy to see Huaiyu and felt much better. The Qin family still had guests today. They were the former prime minister Ying Guogong Yu Wenshi and his wife the head of Shouguang County. They also brought their two sons Yuwen Chongsi and Brothers Yuwen Chongxun are here.

This was the first time that Huaiyudu knew that Yu Wenshiji was not only the son-in-law of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, but also the niece of the Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, and the cousin-in-law of Li Shimin. His ex-wife, Princess Yang of Nanyang, was actually Li Shimin's cousin. Later, he married his sister Yang, who was also his sister-in-law. The emperor and Yu Wenshi were actually still brothers-in-law.

Of course, Yu Wenshiji also sent his sister to Li Yuan's palace. She was very favored, named Zhaoyi, and gave birth to two princes. Li Yuan even wanted to make her his queen at one time. In this respect, she was half an uncle.

Qin Qiong's second wife, the Princess of Tangxing County, was the sister of King Huaiyang and the cousin of Li Shimin, so Qin Qiong and Yu Wenshiji were actually brothers-in-law.

"The Duke of Ying has just called back to Beijing from Puzhou to pay homage to General Youwei," Qin Qiong said.

After Yu Wenshi joined the Tang Dynasty, he had a very high starting point. He immediately became the Minister of Zhongshu, and later became the Minister of School Inspection and Sima of Tiance Mansion. After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he became the Secretary of Jinzhong and the Governor of Liangzhou.

However, he did not stay in Xiangsi for long. He was first dismissed as prime minister and promoted to palace eunuch, then transferred to governor, and then appointed as governor of Puzhou. He could be regarded as emperor and courtier at one time.

Now, for some unknown reason, Li Shimin transferred him back to the court, and was awarded the military position of General Youwei.

Wu Huaiyu didn't have much contact with him and had an average relationship with him. His impression of him was that he was flexible, cautious and quite capable.

Such an old guy must have a lot of meaning when he comes back to the court.

"Seeing Duke Yi, I feel that I am really old," Yu Wenshiji looked at the majestic Wu Huaiyu, full of envy.

His starting point was much higher than that of Wu Huaiyu. His father, Yuwen Shuna, was one of the five nobles of the Sui Dynasty, with all the power in the court. At a young age, he was given the title of Princess Nanyang, the eldest daughter of Emperor Yang, and became the Prince Consort, and later became the Young Master of Honglu. Qing, even after his brothers' regicide rebellion failed, he was able to defect to his old friend Li Yuan, become the minister of Zhongshu, and marry the head of Li Tang County.

The Wude and Zhenguan dynasties also served as prime ministers for several years.

But compared with Wu Erlang, he was incomparable.

Yu Wenshi and all the children who looked at Wu Huaiyu liked him more and more, and couldn't help but said that they wanted to marry the Wu family.

Today, Yu Wenshiji and his wife came with their children. In fact, they also came to get married. Previously, the two county heads went to visit Princess Tong'an.
The eldest princess of Tong'an, who was today's aunt, was married to the Wang family of Taiyuan. She suggested that the two nieces of the county lord get married, and it was for this reason that Yu Wenshiji came to visit today.

Qin Qiong is naturally willing to this marriage.

Although the Yuwen family was originally from the Poyetou clan of Xianbei, their ancestors were originally servants of the leader of the Yuwen tribe, and they changed their surname to Yuwen with their master. However, they were also the hereditary military leaders of Woye Town. It was passed down to Yuwensheng of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who was the general of the Zhu Kingdom. In the Sui Dynasty, Yuwen It is said that he contributed to Yang Guang's support and became a great cause for the five nobles in the court to dominate the government and the public.

This Yuwenshi and that were also prime ministers, so it was a good choice for the Qin family to marry the Yuwen family.

Yu Wenshiji was also quite polite. He wanted to get married with the Wu family, but he said so without being rude. He asked his wife, the head of Shouguang County, to find an opportunity to mention it to Qin Qiong's wife, the head of Tangxing County, and asked her to help ask Wu Huaiyu and his wife about their attitude.

in the study,
Wu Huaiyu helped Qin Qiong feel his pulse, looked, heard and asked about everything.
The body is still weak.

"I plan to go back to Bailuyuan to recuperate. I feel quite comfortable on the plain."

The conditions on the White Deer Plain are quite good. Although it is a little drier than down there, Qin Qiong is not going to farm. He is going there to recuperate and recuperate. The White Deer Plain is quite suitable for him.

"Is my foster father still worried about not being able to lead the Northern Expedition?"

"I think about it, and I don't care so much anymore." Qin Qiong really couldn't think about the Northern Expedition to the Turks, but now he has gradually thought about it. First, Li Jing is indeed better than him in commanding the large corps, and secondly, Moreover, as the prime minister now, he is not suitable to serve as Li Jing's deputy general. Furthermore, he has never been in good health.

The two men were chatting in the study.

Qin Qiong had made up his mind to leave, and really planned to resign this time. He sat all the way in the court to the position of right servant, but he had already known that he was just a military representative, who was forced to be there by the emperor.Qin Qiong himself was not suitable to be a right-hand shooter, and he did not have enough ability. Coupled with the Northern Expedition, Qin Qiong completely wanted to quit.

"The Duke of Ying and the Lord of Shouguang County want to marry into your family. What do you think?"

"What are your requirements? Do you want to marry or marry? Do you have any requirements for concubine?"

"That's not to say,"

"If Mr. Yuwen has no special request, I would be very willing to marry the Yuwen family,"

Qin Qiong also told Huaiyu that the emperor had also said that he would marry Yuwenshi and his daughter in the future, and he had booked Yuwenshi and his daughter as his daughter-in-law.

"Oh, which prince?"

"not decided."

Speaking of the royal marriage, Qin Qiong also knew more inside information. For example, the emperor was choosing concubines for the princes. It was said that Li Shimin's requirement for choosing wives for his sons was to be noble.

We don’t want the old noble families of the five surnames and seven families, we don’t want the relatives of the meritorious servicemen of the Chinese army,

Be noble.

It is best to be a civil servant.

This standard surprised Huaiyu, but after recalling the marriages of Li Shimin's princes and princesses, it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Historically, the crown prince Cheng Qian married the martial arts Su family, and the second son Wei Wangtai married the Guanlong Yan family.
Among Li Shimin's daughters-in-law, they are considered to be relatively well-known noble families, including Li Zhi's wife, the Taiyuan Wang family, Wu King Li Ke's wife, the Hongnong Yang family, and Qi King Li You's wife, the Jingzhao Wei family.

"Has Your Majesty started selecting a concubine for the Crown Prince?"

"Supposedly yes,"

"Do you know which one to choose?"

"I heard about the martial arts Su family." Qin Qiong said.

It was really the martial arts Su family, Huaiyu felt a little emotional.

The martial arts Su family is called noble, but it is not a small family. In fact, it is also an aristocratic family.

The Su family's father, Su Dan, is now the secretary-general. It is true that his official status is not high and he is not powerful. However, Su family's uncle, Su Xu, is one of the eighteen bachelors of the Qin Palace. He is also Li Shimin's prospective brother-in-law and is engaged to the princess of Nanchang.

The great-grandfather of the Su family is even more famous. Su Wei, one of the five nobles of the Sui Dynasty, the prime minister, experienced everything from the founding of the Sui Dynasty to the fall of the country.
Although the Su family's martial arts skills are not as good as those of the Five Surnames Qiwang and the Six Surnames of Guanzhong, they are still first-rate and famous.

Su Chuo, the great ancestor of the Su family, and his brother Su Liang were both known as Ersu in the Western Wei Dynasty. After their death, they were entitled to enjoy the Yuwentai Ancestral Temple.

Suweina was an important prime minister in the Sui Dynasty.
After Yu Wenhuaji regicide, he served as Yu Wenhuaji's Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and later joined Li Mi, and then Wang Shichong, and served as Wang Shichong's grand master. After Li Tang conquered Luoyang, the 80-year-old Su Wei asked to see him. Li Shimin, in the end, pretended to be an old man and said that he was too old to bow down. As a result, Li Shimin was disgusted and scolded him, saying that he bowed to Yu Wenji, Li Mi, Wang Shichong and others, but now he said he was old and sick, so he might as well not bother. We met.

Su Wei regretted it so much that he later went to Chang'an to pay homage to Li Yuan, but Li Yuan didn't see him either.

Even so, Su Wei's grandson is also Li Shimin's bachelor of Qin Prince's Mansion and Li Yuan's son-in-law. Now Li Shimin even wants to choose Su Wei's great-granddaughter as the crown prince.

Nowadays, if we really want to say that there are not a hundred families in the world that surpass the Wugong Su family, there are dozens of them, but the emperor chose the Wugong Su family. As Qin Qiong said, the emperor deliberately did not choose the five Shandong surnames that he had been suppressing. The seven families also deliberately did not choose the old Guanlong clan and the new wealthy people from Conglong.

As for the reason, it is easy to understand. The emperor may be preventing his descendants from becoming too powerful after Qian succeeds the emperor in the future.

For example, the relatives of the Dou and Changsun families are very powerful now. Li Shimin has left Changsun Wuji without a job for so long, and Gao Shilian has also been far away. It can be said that he is on guard against relatives who have made great achievements. Too much power.

"What is the prince's attitude towards the martial arts Su family's marriage?" Huaiyu asked.

"Since ancient times, marriages have been decided by parents and matchmakers. What's more, this is the selection of the crown prince. Naturally, it is the choice of the saint and the queen. There is no need to ask the prince's opinion." Qin Qiong said bluntly.

Huaiyu could only smile after hearing this. Didn't he also arrange the marriages of his children?

The emperor's marriage strategy has become increasingly clear now. For those ministers and confidants with meritorious deeds, they mainly let their son Princess Shang be the consort.

He also chose the daughters of these relatives to be their wives for his younger imperial brothers.

But for his own prince, he basically did not choose the daughters of the top nobles and important ministers of the dynasty. Instead, he chose relatively noble ones.

Wu Huaiyu has a son, Princess Shang, and a daughter, Prince Xu, who are considered exceptions.

The emperor's original intention may have been good, but considering the fate of Chengqian being deposed in history, he felt that if the Chengqian wife clan could be more powerful, they might be able to provide more help to the prince.

With Qin Qiong and his wife acting as matchmakers, the marriage between the two families was quickly achieved. In the end, the Shouguang County Lord personally selected Wu Wulang Chengyou, who was born to Fan Wuniang, and the Shouguang County Lord promised his daughter Yuwen Rulianhua to him.

Princess Shouguang's two daughters, one named Rulianhua and the other Shutara, both have Buddhist overtones in their names.

As for the marriage between the Qin family and the Yuwen family, the daughter of Qin Qiong and the head of Tangxing County was betrothed to Yuwen Chongxun, the second son of the head of Shouguang County. This Yuwen Sanlang was young, but he also had the Duke of Xincheng County in his father's favor. body.

As for Shutara, the second mother-in-law of the Yuwen family, it is said that she has been favored by Empress Changsun for a long time, and she has promised to marry a prince in the future.

As for which prince to marry, it would definitely not be the prince, nor would it be the two direct princes Wei Wangtai and Jin Wangzhi.

(End of this chapter)