A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 789 Enemies of the Wu Family
  Yongzhou, Xuanhua.

The long-awaited envoy from Chang'an finally arrived. Hundreds of cavalry from the Forbidden Army arrived. They changed horses without changing people along the way. They traveled day and night alternately by land and water. When they arrived at Yongzhou, their legs were worn out and their lips were all chapped.

"The saint's decree calls upon Prime Minister Wu to return to the capital immediately."

Finally getting the order, Wu Huaiyu asked the captain's name and found out that he was from the Changsun family. He thanked him kindly and gave him a gift, and asked him to rest in Yongzhou for a while. Huaiyu immediately set off back to Beijing.

First take the Xijiang Waterway to Guangzhou.

A Liu was still reluctant to say goodbye. Originally, it was agreed that she and Dugu Zuo would stay in Yongzhou, but she begged to be sent to Guangzhou.

The boat moved along the current and was very fast.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Huaiyu first went to see Foresta and a pair of twin children. They had been separated for a few months. The two children had grown very strong. Foresta was also well taken care of in Guangzhou and became even plumper. It even smells like milk.

When she saw A Liu brought back by Huaiyu, she didn't mind at all and arranged the room very carefully, looking very friendly. However, A Liu was a little alienated from this blonde Persian beauty and kept her distance.

Forresta arranged for A Liu and Dugu to be masters and apprentices, and then personally served Huai Yu to take a bath.

There is an indoor hot spring pool and an outdoor swimming pool in the manor. Winters are not too cold in Guangzhou, and it is summer again. Huaiyu is also relaxing in the swimming pool. Afu is accompanying him, rubbing his back and massaging him. Although he just After giving birth to two children, they were separated for only half a year, but it still felt like a separation was better than a newlywed.

She pressed Huaiyu's strong muscles, her eyes gradually tightening.

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  for a long time,

About half an hour later,
  Wu Huaiyu was very satisfied.

For young people, this is a good way to relieve the fatigue of travel.

"Will Alang return to Lingnan?"

"Well, I guess I won't stay long in Beijing this time."

"Then we, mother-in-law, are waiting for Alang to come back in Guangzhou." Forresta looked satisfied, but suddenly her brows furrowed, "Oh, the time has come, and I have to go to breastfeed. I almost forgot the time, and I didn't know until I felt the pain."

After feeding the big one, there are still two little ones.

Huaiyu looked at her and saw that she was so satisfied. No wonder the two children were so fair and fat.

When Huaiyi heard that Huaiyu had arrived in Guangzhou, he immediately came to the manor to meet him.

After changing into a set of light and comfortable clothes, the brothers drank tea on the veranda under the big tree in the courtyard.

"I vaguely heard something, but I don't know much about it. Are you okay?" Huaiyi asked his brother.

"The situation is not good, so I have to go back to Chang'an,"

Naturally, Huaiyu had no need to hide anything from his brother, so he told him what he knew and what he had guessed.
  "You really don't want to depose the prince, do you?" Huaiyi was shocked.

"It's not that serious. There's still a chance."

The Wu family is now completely tied to the East Palace ship, and this matter is closely related to the Wu family.

When Huaiyi heard that the prince actually had a male favorite, he was shocked and speechless. "I always thought that someone deliberately spread the rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"Actually, it's not a big deal at all. It's just that the prince is young and can't help himself for a while."

After brewing a pot of tea, the brothers were not in the mood to drink tea. They took advantage of the rare opportunity to get together to communicate quickly. Huaiyi was a little panicked, but seeing that Huaiyu was still relatively calm, he felt reassured.

"This time I returned to Beijing to do two main things. One is to find a way to repair the rift between the Saint and the East Palace, and the other is to help my fourth uncle return to Beijing."

"Our Wu family already has you as prime minister, and your teacher, Medicine Master, is in the court as prime minister. Fourth uncle can't worship the prime minister when he returns to the capital, right? Especially at this juncture?"

Huaiyu did not hide it from his brother. Based on the information he had now and his analysis, he felt that the emperor might want to keep him in Lingnan for a long time. There was a high probability that he would be kept there for as long as Li Ji was in Bingzhou.

So next, he will either be the envoy who still holds the title of Tong Zhongshu, or he may want to take the title of prime minister, but no matter which way, he will be far away from the center.

In this case, it is still possible for the samurai Yu to enter the political hall and become the prime minister. Of course, the premise is that the crown prince's position is still stable, otherwise the warrior Yu will not have the slightest chance.

Huaiyi served as the governor of Guangzhou, and everything went smoothly. The rebellion of the Lingnan barbarians was mainly in the mountains of Yunkai and the area west of Yonggui. Guangzhou could not be in chaos.

Not only is Guangzhou not in chaos now, but it is becoming more and more prosperous. The Guangzhou Port is connected to the rivers and seas, and the Xijiang River and Beijiang River not only connect the east and west of Lingnan, but also connect the mainland of the Central Plains.
  One hundred thousand warriors from the imperial court went to Lingnan and suppressed the barbarians in Lingnan, which also led to the rise of Guangzhou.

Huaiyu transferred Hou Junji from Guangzhou to Yongzhou, and then dismissed him and sent him back to Chang'an. With Huaiyu as the prime minister patrolling Lingnan Province, Huaiyi, the governor of Guangzhou, was naturally very stable.

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  Huaiyi did not stay at the manor for long and left soon.
  Wu Huaiyu was sitting alone on the porch. The tea had gone cold. He boiled a pot of water again. The situation in Chang'an was unclear, and his future in Beijing was uncertain. Although he felt somewhat confident, he had reached this point.
  Wu Huaiyu also felt a headache.

The current situation more and more proves that my original idea was actually right. The water in the East Palace is very muddy and it is not suitable to be involved too deeply.

But now that we've reached this point, it's too late to say anything.

The prince was only fourteen, and the emperor was only thirty years old. The Wu family was still tied to the East Palace ship too early. Even if the matter can be solved this time, there will probably be a lot of trouble in the future.

And if you take one wrong step, you may be in danger.

After returning this time, it would be better if he could stay in the court and still serve as prime minister in the Political Affairs Hall, even if he did not serve in the three provinces. But he had a hunch in his heart that the emperor would not let him stay in Chang'an, and even the several overt or covert forces in the court might not be willing to let him stay in Chang'an.

By keeping the young prime minister in Lingnan for a long time while the rebellion in Lingnan is still ongoing, he can be marginalized.

Political struggles are always so realistic and cruel. Even if you are your own allies, sometimes they will attack you.

Boil the water.

Huaiyu opened the tea can, took out some green tea, put it into the purple clay teapot, and poured boiling water into it.

out of tea,

This year’s new tea has a fragrant aroma,

He sipped the tea slowly, and his mind entered a state of very focused thinking.
  In fact, it would be good to stay in Lingnan for three to five years.

Gun hit the bird.

The struggle in Chang'an will definitely become more and more intense. If Wu Huaiyu stays in Chang'an, even if he becomes prime minister, he will be more likely to be the target of attacks from all parties. If there are many parties fighting fiercely, those who are too strong or too weak will always be easily eliminated first by a joint attack.

Just like everyone knows that the three families were divided into Jin Dynasty, but they don't know that before the three families were divided into Jin Dynasty, the Que family was actually stronger. His family was half as rich as the official family, and his family was half as powerful as the three armies.

Among the eight ministers of the Jin Dynasty, the Que family occupied only three seats.

When he was at his strongest, there were three ministers and five doctors.

There are eleven aristocratic families in the Jin State. They take turns serving as generals and assistants of the three armies, and take turns in power. The families are hereditary, just like the electorate families.

After hundreds of years of fighting and fighting among the eleven families, six major families were left. After decades of fighting, they became the four families of Zhi, Han, Wei, and Zhao.

After several decades, the Zhi family was destroyed, and finally the three families of Han, Wei, and Zhao were divided into Jin.
  The Que family, the Zhi family, and even the Zhao family were all once the strongest families in the Jin Kingdom, but they were all jointly attacked and destroyed because they were too strong. The famous Zhao family orphans were actually born under this background.

The situation in the DPRK is becoming more and more complicated. It is no longer the battle between the veteran Wu De and the upstart Zhenguan when Li Shimin first came to power. The veteran Wu De has basically been purged from the center.
  In the Zhenguan court without the old minister Wude, there were more factions on the mountain tops, and there was even a tendency to form two camps around the prince and the king of Wei.

Wu Huaiyu and the Wu family are now the princelings in the open, so their targets are too obvious and they can easily be targeted.

If Wu Huaiyu stays in Lingnan with peace of mind, he will not become the target of everyone's fire. Wu Huaiyu can even take the opportunity to secretly develop and turn Lingnan into an important base camp and base for the Wu family and the East Palace.

After all, the Wu family is a nouveau riche and lacks foundation. If Lingnan is managed well, it can cultivate its own direct descendants here.

However, the Wu family also had to guard against being oppressed by others after leaving the center. Therefore, if the warrior Xun could be promoted to the political hall, even if he could not have an influential voice in the court like Wu Huaiyu, he would at least have a seat at the table.

Fang Xuanling.

Wu Huaiyu sighed in his heart, Fang Xuanling might be his enemy, and even Du Chuke and Wei Ting, the two major Jingzhao and Weidu clans, might also be his opponents.

(End of this chapter)