A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 978 His Majesty bestows a nun
Back home, Fan Xuanfu and others were drinking tea with Wu Huaiyu's four sisters.

The fourth sister Yu Wan has now married into Wei Zheng's family and became the wife of Wei Erlang Wei Shuyu. She sat there with a bulging belly. When she saw Huai Yu coming back, she stood up with a smile and said hello.

The four sisters of the Wu family look quite similar. The eldest sister has been married for four times and is now the wife of the Yan Kingdom. She is truly rich and honorable. The second sister and the third sister are all married to children of Yuancong's imperial army, because the two brothers-in-law don't have much ambition and are content to be small officers in Chang'an.

Of course Wu Huaiyu would not force them. Now both brothers-in-law are working as captains in the Wei Mansion, starting from the seventh grade. Although the official positions are not big, Wu Huaiyu's family's property will also be transferred to the two sisters' families. , so my life is still very prosperous,
On the other hand, the fourth brother-in-law, Wei Shuyu, was the second son of Prime Minister Wei Zheng and the student and brother-in-law of Wu Huaiyu, so he had a smooth career at a young age. He was a second-ranking scholar, and with his family background, he started his career as the prince Qianniu Beishen, Zhengqi Pin, in charge of the Eastern Palace Qianniu Dao Suwei.

A dignified Jinshi is appointed to a military position, but this is not a bad thing. A normal Jinshi first class can only be awarded a ninth-grade official through the selection process, and at most he is a local county captain.

But relying on his family background, he directly became the seventh-grade prince Qianniu Bei and started his career. Compared with many scholars from poor families who passed the imperial examination, they took twenty years less detours.

Huaiyu sat down and greeted his sisters. Among the four sisters, he had the best relationship with the eldest sister, followed by the younger sister. He was not very close to the other two sisters.

"What were you talking about just now?"

Xuanfu talked about some family matters, such as his eldest brother Huaiyi's appointment as the Protector of Yanran and the Governor of Fengzhou, and Wu Huailiang was about to take the Ming Jing examination.

The second brother-in-law and the third brother-in-law may need to be promoted to a higher level after the year.
The fourth brother-in-law Wei Shuyu may also be sent to Luozhou to join the army.

Just like the Wu sisters just laughed and said that Wu Huaiyu has five sons who have been knighted, and the third son, a commoner, has already received the hereditary title of Luzon County Male and Luzon County Magistrate.

Since the emperor granted marriage, there was no way to refuse the matter. These people were all smart people. They had already heard the helplessness from Wu Huaiyu's words, and even saw that this was not a good thing. Taking this concubine would only lead to a bad relationship with the Zheng family. good.

"It's not urgent, it depends on the attitude of the Zheng family,"

"Shu Yu goes to Luozhou? Is this what Prime Minister Wei meant?"

Others have to go through level after level. Even before the fifth rank, every time they serve as an official, they have to stop serving for a certain number of years before they can be re-elected. Even if the performance evaluation is good, it is not possible to rise step by step. You may have to go back and forth from one level to the next.
This is what is called someone born in Rome.

Wu Huaiyu had no choice but to briefly explain the matter.

In short, with Wei Zheng as the prime minister's father, Wu Huaiyu as the uncle, and Ma Zhou as the brother-in-law, Wei Erlang's career must be smooth sailing.

"Okay, I'll listen." Fan Xuanfu stared at him. Previously, the Zheng family took the initiative to apologize and gave Zheng Chongsi's sister to Wu Huaiyu as a concubine, but Wu Huaiyu kept saying she didn't want it.

"This matter was known to everyone in Chang'an at first, and it must have been an uproar. Didn't I remember that she later said that she was a nun?"

How could Wu Huaiyu agree?

"His Majesty has ordered Mrs. Zheng to return to secular life and asked Zheng Renji to take her back to his home."

"This matter is really hard to explain in words."

"The Zheng family given by His Majesty is the Zheng Renji who was favored by Empress Changsun and wanted to be included in the palace for Your Majesty?"

"How can they do this, especially now," Yang Muyun smiled, "If it were different, Zheng Renji's daughter would marry Lu Shuang, and Zheng Xuan's daughter would marry our husband, everyone would be happy."

The emperor gave Wu Huaiyu Zheng, the daughter of Zheng Renji, a doctor in the Treasury, as his concubine. The emperor also gave a pair of silver vases as a congratulatory gift.

"Ah, Your Majesty wants you to take a nun as your concubine?"

The prince Qianniu prepared his body and jumped to Luozhou to join the army. This step was very correct. Wei Zheng would definitely help his son plan well in this regard. He was a Jinshi, and then he complemented the prince Qianniu and joined the army. As a result, he became the Luozhou army soldier. After joining the army, Wu Huaiyu's next step is probably to return to the court and be transferred to the East Palace. At that time, he will be appointed as Si Yilang or Dali Si Zhi, or he may be transferred to the county magistrate.
This road is even wider. If you have enough political achievements, you can also be appointed to the positions of general secretary, secretary Lang, and secretary wailang.

Wu Huaiyu was sleeping in Fan Xuanfu's house.

It is also possible to seek a position as a county magistrate, or to become a censor in the censorship station.

"Well, I heard that the etiquette of being conferred as a second-grade Chonghua is half completed," Li Sanniang said on the side.

"Well, my grandpa said that if he works in a state or county, he will have a better future and get better training."

After all, Zheng Renji was admitted to the fifth rank of Kubu doctor, and he was from a fifth-ranked sect. He still had to observe the superficial etiquette of the Wu family and save some face.

Wu Huaiyu thought to himself, how could the emperor make everyone happy?

Didn't the down-and-out scholars like Wei Zheng and Ma Zhou also start from scratch, and now they are promoted to prime ministers, and are given the title of Duke?
I sat down and had a cup of tea before I finished it.

Is this fair? Of course it's not fair, but that's how it was in this era. The titles of Wu Huaiyu's sons were also obtained by virtue of their father's meritorious service.

Everyone looked at Wu Huaiyu,
Wu Huaiyu has been a Taoist priest for nine years, and Zheng Liwan has also been a nun for several years.
How could the emperor have imagined that a Taoist priest would match a nun?

Although Wu Huaiyu didn't think that Zheng Renji dared to resist the emperor's decree, after all, if they really had the courage to do so in the first place, then Zheng and Lu Shuang had a marriage contract, so they would have just refused the emperor.

Fan Xuanfu stared at him,
"Madam, please listen to my explanation."

"Can the Zheng family agree?" asked the second sister.

After accepting the decree, Wu Huaiyu didn't bother to think about it anymore. Anyway, this matter was controlled by the emperor, so he could only cooperate. It could be considered that it was caused by the clan's will, and because of the wantonness of the eighth son of the fifth surname.

Someone came from the palace to announce the decree.

As a result, His Majesty now gave the daughter of Zheng Renji, the second wife of the Southern ancestor, to the husband as a concubine, which makes us all confused. "

"What Xiang Wei said is correct, the prime minister must be from the state and county, and the strong generals will be sent from the army,"

Ten-year-old Wu Chengsi has already been named the Duke of Sanyuan County.

Yang Muyun looked like he was watching the excitement and didn't mind the matter, "It's quite complicated. Previously, Donglinfang, the northern ancestor of the Zheng family in Xingyang, wanted to give his daughter to the husband as a concubine.

Fan Xuanfu understood the outcome of the matter, so he was not angry, and he could not commit the crime. "I have no objection to this matter. When does your husband think that he will send someone to Zheng's house to deliver gifts and set a date to pick him up?"

"I became a nun at the Ganlu Ni Temple in the north of Shengyefang Street in the east of Chang'an City." Wu Huaiyu explained helplessly.

"This matter is actually a bit complicated,"

Even the eldest sister Wu Yu'e could only sigh after hearing this.

Taking a concubine does not require too complicated etiquette. The essence of taking a concubine is to buy it. Send the money to take the concubine, and then write a deed, and the transaction is completed.

at night,

"I heard that Zheng Renji's daughter is extremely beautiful. You must be very happy, right?" Xuan Fu sat in front of the mirror and took off her hair.

Wu Huaiyu leaned against the bedside, wearing light and comfortable cotton pajamas.

It was still cold in the first month of the year, but there was a constant fire in the house, so it was quite warm.

"If I couldn't refuse, I would never want to have anything to do with the Zheng family again."

"Why is Your Majesty doing this?"

"The Zheng family seeks death, and the saint punishes them,"

"how about you?"

"Knock and knock from time to time,"

Fan Xuanfu also understood, so he stopped talking about this topic and said instead, "Yunniang, Sanniang and Runniang also said that they would stay with me in Chang'an. When you return to Guangzhou, take care of their children." Send someone back to Beijing."

"You really don't want to go back?"

"I'm definitely not going back because I'm pregnant. Besides, I can't bear to leave the four children in the palace. Why do you think the saint had to take them to the palace to raise them?"

"Proton." There was no one else in the room, so Wu Huaiyu whispered. "Hey," Fan Xuanfu sighed, and she thought of her father Fan Xing, who was forced to leave Beijing years ago. He was demoted from the governor of Liangzhou to the governor of Lizhou. It was true that he was with the emperor like a tiger.

"You said that His Majesty established a county in Luzon. Do you know the details of Luzon?"

"It's impossible. The people over there in Luzon are all members of our Wu family. Moreover, even though there are now ten strongholds there, there are only a few people in total. Even the managers of those strongholds have only just gotten to know some of the surrounding tribes. In fact, no one knows how big Luzon is and what its situation is.”

Even the gold that the Wu family obtained in Luzon was kept strictly confidential, and only a handful of core management members knew about it.

Where did the emperor know?

Wu Huaiyu also knew that the emperor had many spies, but he was confident that the emperor was not yet capable of knowing the details of Luzon.

"Don't worry, Emperor Luzon doesn't care about it, and he doesn't even care about it,"

To be honest, as long as the Wu family received a large amount of gold from Lu Song is not exposed, then not to mention the emperor and the court, even the dignitaries and wealthy families of the Tang Dynasty will have no interest in Lu Song.

There are many places that are better developed, plundered and managed than Luzon, including Nazhong, Qianzhong, Annan, and even the Mobei and Liaodongxi regions. These are much more reliable than Luzon in the sea.

Only Wu Huaiyu would work hard to open up Liuqiu and then Luzon.

"Then Luzon will be handed over to Saburo from now on?"

"Well, let's arrange it like this first, and we'll look at it later. Luzon will manage things slowly and use it as a retreat."

Chang'an,

Dongcheng, Zheng family.

Zheng Renji, the doctor in the Treasury, held the decree and forgot to thank him.

His eyes were blank, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

"This this,"

Everyone in the Zheng family was stunned by this decree, and the Xu family of Zheng Xuan was also shocked.

Zheng Xuan and Xu Yuan were serving as officials in Wuxi, Jiangdong, and their eldest son, Chengsi, smashed a fan tower and was forced to seek an island for a long time.

The house is already messy enough;

As a result, according to the decree, the emperor gave his eldest daughter in marriage to Lu Shuang, the general secretary.

The person who came to deliver the edict accepted several gold leaves sent by the second son of the Zheng family and revealed the news that the emperor had given Zheng Renji's daughter to Wu Huaiyu as his concubine.
"The one who almost entered the palace and became a rich man," after saying that, the man left with a smile.

Everyone was left in shock.

"Is there a mistake?"

"The decree should be to marry Zheng Renji's daughter to Tongshiren Lu Shuang, and to marry our eldest daughter to Wu Huaiyu, right?"

"That's right. Isn't it because Zheng Renji was engaged to Lu Shuang that she couldn't enter the palace to make money?"

The Second Young Master Zheng opened the imperial edict and read it twice carefully. The result was correct. He was betrothing his sister to Lu Shuang as his second wife.

Not to be Wu Huaiyu's concubine.

Zheng Xuanxu's wife also quickly looked at it carefully several times, and then showed it to Sanlang.
It turned out that the content on the yellow silk silk was that the eldest lady of their family had given a marriage to Lu Shuang, a member of the general family.

Why did the emperor interfere in the marriage of his ministers' children? He actually directly decreed the marriage without any prior consultation.

If the emperor hadn't granted the marriage directly, or if the Zheng family hadn't previously offered to give the eldest lady to Wu Huaiyu as a concubine,
If it hadn't been for these two things, or if Lu Shuang hadn't been a coward and denied his engagement to the Zheng family,

Then this kind of gifted marriage is not too bad.
After all, the Lu family is also a famous family in Hebei, and Lu Shuang is now a sixth-rank Tongshiren, and his future is not bad.

Even though my eldest wife had a second marriage in the past, she was still the first wife.

But because of those few things,

This marriage decree made everyone in the Zheng family feel as sick as swallowing flies.

They had already humiliated them enough, but Wu Huaiyu refused ruthlessly without giving any face, and now the emperor wanted to intervene again.
Even this time, the two major branches of the Zheng family in Xingyang, the third branch of the northern ancestor and the second branch of the southern ancestor, were trampled together.

After a long time, Zheng Erlang said, "Mom, this time Dalang has caused a huge disaster, and the Wu family is unwilling to give up. Now that Dalang has been living in Lingnan, Aye's career will definitely be affected.

We can no longer disobey the Holy One at this time. Let’s just obey the Holy Will and handle this matter. "

On the other side, at Zheng Renji’s house,

Zheng Renji was stunned when he saw the imperial edict and was stunned for a long time.

After a long time, he sighed and said, "Since it is the holy will, then I will obey it. Tomorrow, my wife will go to the nun temple to pick up my daughter. I will personally go to the Duke of Jin's Mansion in Xuanyangfang to discuss the marriage with Duke Wu in person."

His wife burst into tears with red eyes, "The face of our family, the face of our women, is it so worthless?"

"Why are you talking so much useless stuff?" Zheng Renji sighed.

Their faces had already been torn apart and trampled to pieces back then, and now, after a few years, they were trampled on again. What could they do?

"If you think about it on the other side, at least this time my daughter can finally return to secular life and go home. My daughter is still young. Do you really want to see her stay in a nunnery for the rest of her life?"

"It's not that bad to be Wu Huaiyu's concubine. Wu Huaiyu's concubines include many noble relatives and noble families, including princesses, county lords, and Princess Hu."

Zheng Renji comforted himself,
If the emperor really decreed that the aunt should be Lu Shuang's second wife, it would be an even greater insult to their family.

"Alang is right. Then I will pick up my daughter early tomorrow morning."

This night, many people couldn't sleep.

Wu Huaiyu couldn't sleep with his wife that night. She didn't sleep well in the early stages of pregnancy, and her body couldn't bear the stimulation, so the couple chatted for a while, and then she drove Huaiyu away.

Finally, Yang Muyun pulled Huaiyu into his room.

"You have to try your best before that nun from the Zheng family comes in. I want to have another child." Yang Muyun said.

"Not in the mood."

"Then you lie down."

Wu Huaiyu was indeed in no mood. He was thinking about the many things he would face after entering Beijing this time, especially after seeing the emperor again, he felt a great change in him.

These changes gave him an uneasy feeling.

He already wanted to leave Chang'an immediately, but the emperor had no intention of letting him go.

Very painful.

Yang has already started moving on her own. She hopes to be pregnant with a daughter this time, so that she will have both a son and a daughter.

(End of this chapter)