Late Tang

Three wives and four concubines, enjoying the blessings of all people, maybe this is the dream of many men, and even this was once regarded as a small dream of Li Jing.But now, lying on the glass terrace basking in the warm winter sun, Li Jing felt that there must be a limit to everything, otherwise it would be unlucky to cross that line.In the past few years, Li Jing has indeed married one after another, all of whom are as beautiful as flowers and jade, and the children are more fertile than each other.In the early years, he spent most of his time fighting outside, visiting various places, and he hadn't felt the fullness of his harem yet.

This year, Li Jing stayed at home for almost a whole year, and suddenly fell into the flowers.At first, I thought it was not bad, a little green among thousands of flowers, but it didn't take long for Li Jing to feel a little annoyed and had a headache.Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are women, there is war.What's more, he still has so many women and groups of children.Since Youniang gave birth to a boy in her first child last year, the atmosphere in the harem of the Forbidden Palace has changed drastically.

It has to be said that Li Jing is a person who likes beauties. He likes those beauties and admires those pleasing to the eye. Moreover, he has to admit that Li Jing has been able to get up so fast in recent years. big force.Behind almost every wife is a big family power. With the marriage, they support Li Jing with all their strength, and they don't spare any effort.

The more soldiers you lead, the bigger the territory you fight, and the higher the rank of officials.Li Jing's wives and concubines have also broken through the ten-person mark, including those who are not famous, the Queen of North Korea Zhang Yingying, the Princess of the East China Sea Li Huier, the Prime Minister of the Supervisory Office Sun Lan, the Governor of Shanxi Liu Yuniang, Li Jing's harem Almost got together two full-fledged guys.

In the past, Li Jing didn't have time to spend outside, but now that he's staying in Yanjing, he has no choice but to take turns to spend time with these wives, concubines and children.Li Jing is not interested in any flop, everyone has to be taken care of, their natal family is not small, and Li Jing can't neglect anyone at will.In addition to the dozen or so in the palace, the four outside had to be taken care of.Having to take time out to spend time with the sons and daughters who have almost made up a capital, Li Jing sometimes feels really lacking in skills.

Today it was Li Jing's turn to accompany Youniang according to the schedule. In March this year, she gave birth to Li Jing's eldest son. Now her status in the palace is extremely noble, second only to Li's mother Han, and even the always strong Wang Wanjun They were all completely suppressed by her. Although Wang Wanjun has three sons, it is a pity that she is not the wife of the princess, so her three sons can only be bastards.Even Li Dezhao, the eldest son who had long been crowned king of Lanling County, was only the eldest son of a concubine. In this patriarchal era, the gap between the eldest son of the concubine and the eldest son of the legitimate son was almost a gap of heaven.

Yu Youniang conceived as soon as she got married, and then gave birth to a son-in-law in her first child. This really made the Yu family extremely happy, and made Wang Wanjun secretly grit his silver teeth.But there is no way, although Yu Youniang gave birth to a child in her 20s, it went smoothly.Now, it has only been nine months since the birth of her first son, but she is already pregnant. If she has another son, then no one can really shake her position in Qin Palace.

Li Jing deliberately put down the affairs in hand today, and spent time with Yu Youniang and the child.When eating at noon, Yu Youniang mentioned one thing to him, that is, she hoped that Li Jing could officially crown his son Li Deyuan as king.Li Deyuan was only nine months old, and Yu Youniang could not wait to ask him to ask the emperor to make Li Deyuan king.He sighed in his heart, Yu Youniang was not the kind of person who likes to fight, otherwise she wouldn't have waited for him for seven years.But Yu Youniang is also a very stubborn person, if she really has this intention, then this matter has to be seriously considered.

It is only a trivial matter to confer the title of king to his son, but there is a major event involved behind it, that is, Qin Fan's position as the heir of the eldest son.Li Dezhao, the eldest son of Wang Wanjun's concubine, is nearly seven years old this year. Although Li Jing hasn't taken care of him much in the past few years, he has established a lot of strict rules. In addition, he has a mother who is determined to see his son become a dragon, so he is very strict. A sensible child, at a young age, but a bit mature, he is excellent in reading and practicing martial arts, and he is polite. The bachelors who taught him also praised Li Jing for being smart, studious, polite, and full of benevolence and compassion.Except that he is not a legitimate son, Li Dezhao has already shown various characteristics of a qualified heir at a young age.

Li Dezhao has always satisfied Li Jing, so over the years, he is also the only son who has won the title of Duke of the County, and the highest among the remaining dozens is the Duke of the County.

In the past, the concubine Wang Guiniang had no son, and she had no desire to have another son, and devoted herself to worshiping the Buddha. Qin Fan treated Li Dezhao as a son.But now, Yu Youniang is also the main wife and concubine, and she gave birth to a son as soon as she married into the palace. Although the child is only nine months old now, it is undisputed. There is a rule that the elders do not establish the virtuous, and Li Deyuan automatically became the heir of Qin Fan as soon as he was born.

At this time, the Yu family proposed to ask Li Deyuan to be crowned king, and the meaning behind it was self-evident. They felt Li Dezhao's threat to Li Deyuan, and they wanted to determine the title of son as early as possible, so as to eliminate the disputes and differences within the Qin clan.

Behind the eldest son Li Dezhao, King of Lanling County, are Wang Wanjun, her father Wang Pu, and her uncle Wang Gai.And the many aristocratic families in Guanlong, Shandong who were behind the circle in Duli Town back then.In addition to the influence of the mother clan, there are also many officials in Qin Fan who agree to establish elders rather than young. They think that Li Dezhao is wise and seven years old. It is obviously better for the stability of the entire feudal town to have an older prince.After all, Li Deyuan is too young, and who knows whether Li Deyuan will be as wise as Li Dezhao when he grows up?

Of course, Li Deyuan has the orthodox name of the eldest son, and his mother is the concubine of Qin Wang, and his mother's clan is not weak. Yu Youniang has three cousins ​​in the palace, not to mention Yu's family. Men, four brothers, three of them are military envoys outside, each holding a town of soldiers and horses, and the remaining one in Yanjing is also a minister of the Ministry of History who participated in political affairs.They have always had a very good relationship with the Cui family, the Zheng family and other big clans, and their influence even surpassed the Wang family. Moreover, in the name of orthodoxy, there are more people in Qin Fan who tend to support Li Deyuan as the son of the prince.

Li Jing once thought that this kind of heir struggle would take at least ten years before it could be staged.But he didn't expect that he was just thirty, entering his thirties, when he was at the prime of his life, but such disputes had already begun within Qin Fan, and he needed to make a choice at this time.

Under the expansion of Qin Fan in the past few years, it is not without internal troubles.It's just that some internal contradictions have been concealed by successive victories. Those contradictions have been temporarily suppressed, but the embers have not been extinguished. If the hole is opened, it may resurface at any time.

The pace of Qin Fan's expansion for more than a year has begun to pause, because the huge consumption after several years of war has greatly damaged its vitality, and the lives of the people in the Fan have also begun to decline a lot, and some people have begun to take advantage of the opportunity.

People have no long-term worries, but near-term worries.

Liu Yuniang walked in holding her half-year-old son with a scent of milk. As the year was approaching, Liu Yuniang, who had been governor of Shanxi for a year and a half, also rushed back to Yanjing.First, I missed Li Jing, and second, I came to participate in the New Year's Day gathering.On New Year's Day, at the Palace of Supreme Harmony Conference in the royal palace, all the chief officials from the provinces, prefectures, and counties outside Beijing must come to Yanjing to attend the meeting, report on their work, and accept the assessment.

"Why do you work here alone, I'll be hard to find!" Liu Yuniang sat down on the soft bearskin chair beside Li Jing.For Li Jing, she didn't use those honorifics too extravagantly, instead she was as casual and direct as an old couple.

Li Jing liked this kind of straightforwardness, and turned to look at this woman. When she was asked to go to Shanxi, it meant to borrow her prestige.But what surprised him was that Liu Yuniang did a good job in the position of governor. Not only could she lead the army, but she also did a good job in changing her identity to handle civil affairs.Li Jing, who had been paying close attention to her all the time, after knowing some of her efforts and achievements, issued instructions to let the left and right governors of Shanxi and the various departments below fully cooperate with her work.After staying in Shanxi for more than a year, Liu Yuniang was able to take care of her child while confinement and handle official duties.During the period since the Qin army captured Daibei for more than a year, under the governance of Liu Yuniang and others, Shanxi has never had a single rebellion, and the immigration has gone smoothly. Gradually tamed.

The half-year-old son Li Deyu seemed to sense his father's presence, opened his red eyelids, revealing a pair of dark pupils, and looked at Li Jing curiously.

"This kid, it seems that he still recognizes me and knows that I am his father!" Li Jing hugged his son from Liu Yuniang's arms happily, and raised his son a few times, which made Xiao Deyu giggle, Li Jing She leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek, but the needle-like short mustache hurt him so much that he burst into tears.Li Jing quickly lifted him up again, trying to coax him to laugh, but the son pissed on his father while crying, which happened to urinate all over Li Jing's face.

Li Jing couldn't laugh or cry, Liu Yunniang snatched the child while laughing, and in front of Li Jing, she unbuttoned her coat directly, lifted up her little coat, and a pair of bulging breasts immediately bounced out, exposing herself to the winter day. Under the warm sun.

"I just ate for a while, and I'm hungry again. I really can eat it." Liu Yunniang smiled and stuffed the milk into Li Deyu's mouth. The little guy is a mother if he has milk, and finally calmed down, just sucking the milk quietly.

Sitting while wiping his son's urine on his face, Li Jing smiled and said, "My boy, you are still the first guy who dares to urinate on my king's head. Just for this, you will definitely be a good man in the future." (unfinished to be continued.)