A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 880: God’s madness brings rain and man’s madness brings misfortune

The fiancée of King Li You of Qi is Jingzhao Weishi, the daughter of Wei Ting.

Wu Huaiyu and Wei Ting have never gotten along well, and their dislike of Li You does not mean that they hate Wu Jiwu.

"Your Highness, please come with me."

At Qin Qiong's house in Licheng, a maid asked Li You to see Alang.

"Sister, she's really good-looking. How old are you this year?" Li You, who was wearing a purple robe, was tall and thin, and had not grown out yet. He had started to grow a mustache on his mouth, and his voice had just begun to change. He had a very ugly voice.

This guy is not a big guy, but he is very dandy.

Even the maids in Qin Qiong's house would tease Qingbu, grabbing their hands directly, and even smelling their scent,

"Sister, she smells so good. She used perfume on whatever soap she was wearing, and the color of her lipstick is nice. Let me try it."

The maid was only about twenty-eight years old. Although she had seen some things in the house, she was still young and had never seen such a frivolous person.

For a moment, my face turned red all the way to the root of my neck.

But the other party has a noble status and dare not scold him.

Li You really held the girl's hand and smelled her body several times. Finally, he stretched out his hand to pull the girl's head over, kissed the maid's lips rudely, and actually ate the maid's lipstick.

"So fragrant and sweet,"

Shi Xue Dading, the chief minister of the Prince of Qi, looked on with helplessness, "Your Majesty, this is the residence of the Duke of Qi, please don't lose etiquette."

Sima Yan Hongxin sneered at the side, "She is just a cheap maid. The king can like her. It is the blessing she has cultivated for several generations. Once she reveals it to Qi Guo, just one sentence, Qi Guogong will definitely treat this cheap maid. Give it to the king."

His younger brother Yan Hongliang said even more boldly, "Your Highness got tired of playing with it, so he gave it to me, hehe."

The maidservant's face turned bloody and she was trembling because of what they did.

Fortunately, Li You didn't dare to be too presumptuous in Qin Qiong's house. After treating the maid lightly, he let her go and let her lead the way.

The maid led several people to a courtyard where Qin Qiong was staying.

The Qin Mansion in Licheng occupies a large area. It was built by Qin Qiong when he came back to worship his ancestors after the Tang Dynasty unified the Central Plains. It was renovated and expanded on the basis of the old house. It was much larger than before.

The Qin family has always been a powerful local power in Qizhou and has been an official for generations. They are not the generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty in the novels, nor are they the poor people who had to work as catchers in the Sui Dynasty.

Just like Cheng Yaojin's family in Jeju next door, they were also powerful for generations and had a big business. They would not sell smuggled salt at all. Even in the Sui Dynasty, the court did not prohibit private people from collecting and selling salt. There was no such thing as selling smuggled salt.

"Alang,"

The maid came in, her face was still very bad, and her voice was trembling when she reported.

Qin Qiong saw that she was strange and glanced at her a few times. The maid did not dare to look at her or complain.

Huaiyu waved to her directly,

"What's your name?"

"My name is Zi Yan."

Huaiyu brought her closer and said, "What happened just now? Tell me directly. Don't hide it."

The maid named Zi Yan bit her lip and did not dare to speak.

"With me and my adoptive father making the decision for you, what are you afraid of?"

Li You was very unhappy when he heard this.

"Teacher, she's just a cheap maid. This slave came to deliver a message just now. I saw that she was pretty, so I just teased her for a few words."

Huaiyu ignored him and continued to ask Zi Yan. Zi Yan's face turned red and white. She didn't dare to say a word. After all, he was the prince and she was just a slave.

After hearing this, Qin Qiong understood what happened, her face became extremely ugly, and her pale golden face turned red and angry.

"King Qi," Huaiyu turned to Li You, "it is rare for you to dare to do something. In this case, please tell me in detail what happened just now."

Li You was even more dissatisfied when he saw Huaiyu's aggressive appearance, but he didn't want to directly offend him and Qin Qiong.

"Teacher, I was wrong just now. I apologize to Duke Qi,"

"In addition, I am willing to compensate the Duke of Qi for ten slaves. They are not valuable anyway. In the disaster area, one stone of grain can be exchanged for a big girl. She is clean and beautiful, and her virginity is guaranteed. Those little yellow-haired girls under ten years old , now even two or three buckets of grain can be exchanged for one,"

He said proudly,

He even insinuated that Wu Huaiyu was using the topic to make trouble.

Yan Hongliang said proudly, "I will also give ten to the Duke of Jin."

"Who are you?"

"The lower official is Yan Hongliang, who serves as the commander of Prince Qi's palace."

The rank of the Prince's Palace Dianjun is not low, and he is above the fifth rank. Wu Huaiyu had heard from Qin Qiong that Yan Hongxin, the brother-in-law of Li You's uncle Yin Hongzhi, was the Sima of Prince Qi's palace. This Yan Hongliang must be Yan Hongxin's brother.

He glanced at it,

Sure enough, behind Li You he saw someone who looked very similar to Yan Hongliang.

Yan Hongxin, Yan Hongliang, was a Sima of the Prince of Qi's Mansion with a fifth rank, and a Dianjun of the Prince of Qi's Mansion with a rank of five. I heard from Qin Qiong that Yan Hongxin was the grandson of Yan Rong, the general manager of Youzhou in the Sui Dynasty.

Concubine Yan Xian in Li Shimin's palace was Yan Rong's granddaughter and Wu Erniang's aunt and cousin.

The Yan brothers are cousins ​​of Concubine Yan Xian.

The Yan family is also a general, and there are two relationships in the palace: Concubine Yan Xian and Concubine Yin De. No wonder.

I wrote down the names of these two brothers in my mind. If I want to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys, these two brothers are a better target.

When the sky is crazy, it will rain, and when people are crazy, disaster will happen.

If the Yan brothers are so crazy, their butts must be dirty and easy to find out.

Li You is crazy, he is Li Shimin’s son after all, so who do you think he is?

"Your Highness, you, the noble prince, came to visit the Duke of Qi, but you molested the master's maid. This is very rude.

Your Highness is young and doesn't understand the rules and can correct mistakes even if he makes mistakes.

But when His Highness just made a mistake, there were Chief Shi, Sima, and Dianjun of Prince Qi standing next to you, but no one said anything to advise you.

Even this Yan Dianjun could say such stupid things in front of Qi Gong and me, which is really shocking. "

Qin Qiong shouted loudly,

"Come here, beat this rude person out," Qin Qiong pointed at Yan Hongliang and shouted.

Immediately, several strong men came in. They were all Qin Qiong's servants. They were all former foot soldiers. They were all very tough and covered in scars.

In their eyes, they didn't care about Concubine Yan Xian's cousin, Concubine Yin De's relatives, or the confidants of King Qi. They directly stretched out their hands, grabbed both arms, and pushed them out behind their backs. "Mr. Qi, my brother is a rude man. He was disrespectful and offended Mr. Qi. Please forgive me. We will apologize to Mr. Qi," Yan Hongxin stood up.

"Get out of here too," Qin Qiong was really angry.

Although the two Yan brothers were both fifth-grade officials in Fei Pao, they were considered trivial in Qin Qiong's eyes. They relied on nepotism to get themselves into Fei Pao. How could they show off in front of him?

"Duke Qi, give me some face," Yan Hongxin said gloomily.

"Kick them out together. Such people and wild dogs will not be allowed in again."

Qin Qiong's words were a bit hurtful.

The Yan brothers blushed and turned pale, but this was the Qin family. The servants of the Qin family didn't care about your identity. Four strong men directly captured one of them and forced him out of the door.

Li You was quite arrogant at first.

But who would have expected that Wu Huaiyu and Qin Qiong would not give him any face and beat his right-hand man out like this. Li You was very angry, but also a little scared.

After all, his arrogance and arrogance were actually brought out by his subordinates.

After all, he is just a fourteen-year-old boy.

He turned his attention to Xue Dading, the Sima, and brought in three people, and this was the only one left.

"I have met the Duke of Qi and the Duke of Jin, Shi Xue Dading, the chief minister of Prince Qi's palace. Please calm down."

Xue Dading actually didn't persuade Li You outside just now. It's not that he and the Yan brothers have the same virtues, but since he came to be the chief historian of the Qi Palace, he has seen too many bad and dirty things, and it's a little bit... Don't be surprised anymore,

I had tried to persuade him before, but King Qi turned a deaf ear to him, and his long history's words were of no use at all, so he didn't waste any words just now.

Now that I think about it, I'm actually a little ashamed. After all, he is the chief historian of Prince Qi's palace appointed by the emperor, a fourth-rank official.

"Why didn't you advise and teach the king before?"

"Why didn't you reprimand the Yan brothers just now?"

"How did you become the chief historian of Prince Qi's palace?"

Qin Qiong asked three times, and then asked someone to beat him out.

Xue Dading lowered his posture and apologized repeatedly, for himself and for the Xue family, becoming the King of Qi.

Wu Huaiyu stood up to smooth things over at this time, not to give Li You face, but to know that this Xue Dading was different from the Yan family brothers. His experience was also very legendary, and even though Li You was now the governor and governor of the six states of Qi and Qing Dynasties, he Because he is only fourteen years old and spends his days eating, drinking, playing and hunting, he, the chief historian of the palace, is in charge of affairs on behalf of Li You.

Li You was also Qin Qiong's deputy envoy for this disaster relief, but he went hunting in Mount Tai and hunted whales in the Bohai Sea. He didn't bother to care about these things. It was Xue Dading who cooperated with Qin Qiong in the disaster relief. Qin Qiong said that he performed well.

Like Huaiyu's father-in-law Fan Xing, this man once worked as a palace slave.

Of course, that was a matter of the previous dynasty. Xue Dading was from a famous Xue family in Hedong. His father was the governor of the Sui Dynasty. When Yang Liang, the king of Han Dynasty, rebelled, his father was involved and lost his life. Xue Dading was sold as an official slave. Exiled to Chenzhou.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he returned to his hometown and went to Li Yuan to advise and make great achievements. In the fourth year of Takeru's reign, he served as the deputy ambassador of Shannan East Road.

Now he is appointed as the Chief of the Palace of Qi because Li Shimin valued his ability and specially selected him to assist the fourteen-year-old Li You.

However, Xue Dading was good at doing practical things, but he had no ability to teach Li You.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, Li You doesn't listen to Xue Dading's advice at all.

Wu Huaiyu still wants to win over Xue Dading. It is rare for an official to be able to do practical things. In fact, most people really have no way to deal with an evil obstacle like Li You. He just won't listen to you. What can you do?

Just like in history, Cheng Qian later rebelled, and various famous teachers and ministers could not get it right no matter how hard they tried.

Cheng Qian was still under the eyes of Emperor Chang'an, but Li You was in Qizhou, which was far away and he was in his second year of school.

"His Royal Highness King Qi, please go back first,"

Qin Qiong and Wu Huaiyu didn't have a good look towards Li You, so they invited him back directly. Without their minions around, Li You became much more honest when facing Huaiyu and his father, and hurried away.

"Xue Changshi,"

Qin Qiong and Huaiyu stared at this person. Xue Dading felt uncomfortable all over, but he had to be careful to smile. The expressions of these two people were too serious.

Huaiyu sighed, "Xue Changshi was sold as a slave and exiled to Chenzhou during the Daye Year. This experience was quite difficult, wasn't it?"

Xue Dading nodded, that past was too painful to look back on.

"In this case, why does Xue Changshi still want to make the same mistake again? If you continue like this, I'm afraid you won't be far away from being sold into slavery again and exiled to the frontier."

"Your Majesty has entrusted the fifth prince to your care and guidance, but has Xue Changshi fulfilled his duties? How will His Majesty feel when he knows about the dirty things done by Prince Qi's house now? Who in the Prince Qi's house can escape punishment? ?”

Wu Huaiyu's few words made Xue Dading sweat like rain and turn pale. He was really scared and really didn't want to go back to the days when he was a slave.

"Please save me, Duke of Qi and Duke of Jin!" Xue Dading said. He knew that there was still room for remedy. Wu Huaiyu and Qin Qiong must have left a hole by leaving him.

But this mouth must come at a price, but he has no choice at this time.

Wu Huaiyu likes to cooperate with smart people, so he doesn't have to talk so much.

So he and I were very direct, "His Majesty will be very disappointed with King Qi's current situation, but this matter cannot be hidden, let alone delayed. We can only take the initiative to expose it.

If Xue Changshi could take the initiative to reveal these things, especially if he reported all the details to His Majesty, he would not be so passive.

Whose contribution and fault, who has a major fault and who has a minor fault, must be clearly stated. Although Xue Changshi also had his faults, his faults were small and he could not be blamed for others. "

Wu Huaiyu made it clear, and Xue Dading also fully understood that now he had to take it out himself and pass the blame to others.

To whom?

Of course, it is not Li You, the king of Qi, but the Yan brothers, and behind them Yin Hongzhi, the minister of the inspection and official affairs department and the official of the Prince of Qi, and Wei Ting, the minister of Xingtaichang and the official of the Prince of Wei.

Wu Huaiyu even promised Xue Changshi that he would be transferred out of Prince Qi's palace afterwards. If he was willing to go to Lingnan, he could at least be guaranteed the position of governor.

(End of this chapter)