Chapter 19 Strict jing

As night fell, Yang Yuanqing's husband left and did not persuade the Pei family to stay. Today was Yang Yuanqing's first day back, so the couple naturally had endless things to say. Pei You also knew how to stay in Pei's mansion and did not follow them back.

With Yang Yuanqing's departure, the tension in Pei Ju's study gradually dissipated. The two Pei family giants finally reached a compromise. They took two steps to use Pei Yun's plan first and support Yang Yuanqing behind the scenes. The Pei family did not come forward.

Once the Guanlong forces expand the attack surface and target the Shandong gentry, the Pei family will be responsible for it.

In the carriage, Pei Minqiu finally snuggled in her husband's arms as she wished, but she did not disturb Yang Yuanqing's thinking. She knew that her husband was considering important things. As long as she could snuggle in her husband's arms, she felt his broad xiong and that

She was satisfied with the warmth that made her extremely dependent.

Yang Yuanqing leaned against the cushion and gently hugged Minqiu in his arms. The light in the car was dim. He stared at the pedestrians outside the window, and his thoughts were still slowly moving on the road of political struggle.

Although Pei Ju and Pei Yun both believed that it was not Li Yuan, their intuition told Yang Yuanqing that the prophecy must have been emitted by Li Yuan, in order to provoke a direct conflict with him and Yuanshou and deepen his hatred with Yuanshou.

No one knows that he and Li Yuan secretly attacked the case of Yuan Shangying, but they both knew in their hearts that Li Yuan was put on his own, so how could he stand by and watch? More importantly, if Li Yuan is really loyal and courageous

How could a young man become the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty?

It is easy to avoid open guns, but hidden arrows are hard to defend against. Yang Yuanqing is not afraid of the struggle with Yuan, but he is a little worried that the hidden arrows from Li Yuan and the cold arrows produced by a man wearing a loyal and honest cloak will be unpredictable.

Li Yuan must be given a harsh sue.

In fact, the Guanlong nobles may not be a bad thing to deal with him. He can take the opportunity to unite the Shandong gentry with him. This is an opportunity.

"Husband, is it serious?"

Pei Minqiu felt that the muscles on her husband were tense, and she couldn't help but feel a little worried, "I think you seem a little nervous."

Yang Yuanqing relaxed his body. He didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble to his wife, so he lowered his head and kissed her earlobe, and smiled in her ear: "I'm not nervous, I'm thinking about what name to give our children in the future.

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Pei Minqiu smiled with a pursed lips and said, "Husband is thinking about naming the child now, it's too early!"

"It's not too early, won't it happen tonight?"

Pei Minqiu then understood what he meant. He was very embarrassed and struggled to sit up. However, Yang Yuanqing held her firmly in his arms and teased in a low voice: "Don't you want to have your own baby?"

Pei Minqiu was hugged by him. Although she was shy, a sweet feeling surged in her heart. She shyly buried her head in her husband's arms, but a white and fat baby appeared in her mind, and her eyes gradually became brighter.

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There is a house covering an area of ​​15 or 6 acres in the northwest corner of Zhengpingfang. This is Li Yuan’s mansion. Like other Guanlong nobles, Li Yuan’s ancestor Li Hu was also a garrison in the six towns. He was a Han man from Huhua.

The conflicts between Hu and Han broke out within the Northern Wei Dynasty, and some military nobles representing the interests of the Xianbei and Hu people instigated soldiers in six towns to launch an uprising. They were finally suppressed by the Tuoba family, who was transformed into the Northern Wei Dynasty, with the sword, Rouran army.

Hundreds of thousands of Hu people and Hu Hua Han people in six towns were escorted to the Central Plains to be resettled, most of which were placed in the Hedong area of ​​Hebei. Later, Gao Huan's Northern Qi power was formed, while the garrisons and family members of the Wuchuan Town in the six towns were resettled.

In the Guanlong area, the backbone of them gradually gathered around Yuwen Tai and formed the Guanlong force. This is the origin of the Guanlong nobles and why so many famous officials from the Sui and Tang dynasties were from Wuchuan.

With the rise of Yuwen Tai, Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu also appeared on the political stage and was one of the eight pillars of Guanlong. According to Yuwen Tai's request to return to Guanlong, Li Hu sent a home to Longxi and became a famous member of the Li family in Longxi.

The descendants of

Although Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu has a high status, his father Li Bing died young and failed to catch up with the establishment of the Sui Dynasty. In the first year of Kaihuang, Li Yuan was only sixteen years old. Their family was unable to do so in the Zhou Dynasty in the Great Sui Dynasty.

The Li family quickly declined after seizing the opportunity and did not receive the dividends of the Sui Dynasty.

Although Yang Jian was nostalgic and still named Li Yuan Duke Tang, among the various families of Guanlong Group, the Li Yuan family could only rank at the bottom and became an inconspicuous small force.

Li Yuan has always been known as loyal and honest, cautious and timid. Such a wise personality was first taken by Yang Guang, who was determined to suppress the nobles of Guanlong, and he was attacked by him. He was repeatedly demoted. He gradually became deposed from the wealthy Longxi and Xingyang prefect, and was gradually demoted to the bitter cold and poor.

The prefect of Loufan, the border land of Loufan, this time if he had not made contributions to the Fenyang Palace, he would not have made any progress.

In history, Yang Guang was concealed by Li Yuan's cowardly and timid disguise, and believed that he would not rebel, and he entrusted him with the right to use it.

The night was getting deeper and Li Yuan was sitting in the study reading. He seemed a little restless. It was not a prophecy. He believed that no one would have thought that Yang Yuanqing's prophecy was done by him. He was for the meeting in Yuanshou Mansion this afternoon.

Yuanshou actually asked him to impeach Yang Yuanqing's arbitrarily killing Yuan Shangying. Yuanshou's reasons are indeed very sufficient. He knows the most about this matter. It is the most convincing that he will impeach, but Li Yuan does not want to bear this head, which will not only cause trouble.

Moreover, Yuan Shangying was once the confidant Shiwei of the King of Qi. Who knows if he had anything to do with the King of Qi being deposed? If he was involved in the matter of King of Qi, his career would be in danger.

Li Yuan was worried and was thinking about how to avoid this matter, neither having to show off nor offend other Guanlong families.

At this moment, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside, and the butler reported in a panic: "Master, go out and have a look. Something happened to the big men!"

Li Yuan was startled and hurriedly got up and walked out. When he reached the men's mouth, a cold wind blew, which made him shudder. Then he realized that it was autumn and winter, and he was wearing only a thin inner robe.

I was about to go back to the house to get dressed, but my thoughts suddenly moved, and I didn't care about getting dressed, and hurried out to the mansion.

More than a dozen family members had gathered on the steps of the big men's entrance. The eldest son Jiancheng, the second son Shimin and his nephews all rushed over to hear the news. Menfang was saying something to them.

"I heard someone calling the master's name in the dark night, asking him to take an arrow, and then heard a 'click' sound. I drove out and saw that this was not good."

Li Yuan walked out of the big men quickly. He saw everyone looking up above the mansion. He looked up and was shocked. He saw an arrow on the plaque of the 'Duke of Tang', which happened to be in the 'Tang'.

On the word, there seems to be a letter on the arrow shaft.

"Quick! Take it off!" Li Yuan shouted anxiously.

Several family members brought the ladder, "I'll do it!" Li Shimin climbed up the ladder, pulled the arrow from the plaque, and handed it to his father. Li Yuan hurriedly opened the letter, and suddenly, his body became stiff.

His face was pale and his hands were trembling slightly. Li Jiancheng stood behind his father. With the faint light of the lantern on the big men, he also saw the contents of the letter clearly. He was shocked. There were also a few prophecies on the letter.

‘The Eighteen Sons of the East China Sea, Longxi sent their ancestral homes, wearing Yang Sui robes, and calling Li Chaoqiu.’

Li Jiancheng was shocked to his feet and his hands were cold. Suddenly, Li Yuan shook his body and fell head-on and rolled down the steps, scaring the Li family's children all rushed. Li Jiancheng ran down to help his father up and shouted: "

Father, Father! How are you?"

All the children gathered up, Li Shimin ran back to the inner house to report to his mother, and the housekeeper was about to invite a doctor. Just as everyone was panicking, Li Jiancheng felt his father gently pinching him. He was stunned, but immediately reacted.

He shouted: "Don't rush to ask a doctor, carry my father back!"

The next morning, Li Jiancheng was entrusted by his father and asked for leave from the Ministry of Personnel. His father suffered from wind and cold at night and his chronic illness relapsed. He asked for leave for ten times.

At the same time Li Yuan was sued, in the Gudu Mansion, the head of the family Dugu Zhen was receiving a heavyweight guest, the inner historian Ling Yuanshou.

Among the Guanlong nobles, the Dugu family and the Yuan family have the same high status. Both families are leaders of the Guanlong nobles. In terms of economic strength, the Dugu family is even better. If the Yuan family wants to unite,

The Guanlong forces jointly dealt with Yang Yuanqing and even the Shandong gentry, but he could not avoid the Dugu family.

The relationship between the Yuan family and the Dugu family has always been very good, and they have been married for generations. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, due to the Dugu family, Dugu family became the largest relative of the Sui Dynasty and took good care of the Yuan family, at least two before Yang Guang ascended the throne.

The relationship between the big family was solid, but as Yang Guang ascended the throne, a rift began to occur between the two families.

Especially in the He Ruobi case, the real mastermind Dugu Luo was released, and the second mastermind Dugu was only sentenced to death, saving his reputation, while Yuan Zhou, who was accidentally involved, became the mastermind and was killed and was ruined. This is how

This made Yuan's family feel a little dissatisfied with Dugu's family, including Yuanshou's second son Yuan Shangjun who should have married the Dugu family's nv, but Yuanshou broke up on the excuse of the inconsistent eight characters.

Although the relationship between the two families was rifted, it was still good on the surface. For example, when Yuanshou visited, Dugu Zhen personally went out to greet him. The two of them talked about each other and were as close as usual.

Yuanshou's purpose was very clear, that is, he hoped that the Dugu family would also participate in dealing with Yang Yuanqing and the Shandong gentry. Of course, he also knew that he could not command the Dugu family and was not allowed to make great profits, and the Dugu family would not participate.

"If we can attack the Pei family this time, if one of the Pei family officials is brought down, we will support the Dugu family into the cabinet." Yuanshou said carefully.

Dugu Zhen couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Who did he think he was and could dominate the composition of the prime minister? Even if he killed one of the two ministers of the Pei family, the quota of the prime minister would still be the Shandong gentry. It was not their turn to Guanlong nobles, so he took a step back.

Even if this quota belongs to the Guanlong nobles, will it definitely be given to the Dugu family? Yuanshou is too presumptuous.

Although I thought this way, Dugu Zhen did not express his lulu on his face and smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter whether he is a prime minister or not. If all the nobles of Guanlong agreed unanimously, the Dugu family would not be able to survive alone. Brother Changshou, please rest assured, Dugu family

Although the population is small and there is no talent available, at least we will support it in terms of financial resources and take half of the money and goods needed by the Dugu family."

Yuanshou smiled bitterly in his heart. If you want money, the Yuan family also has it. In fact, Dugu Zhen’s meaning is to clearly not want to participate and stay out of the matter. But if the Dugu family does not participate, other families will inevitably retreat, resulting in the last scattered sand. This is Yuanshou’s death.

If he would not see anything, he would bring the Dugu family in any case.

Yuanshou also knew that the promises of the prime minister were not reliable, and the Dugu family did not take the general interests seriously, but there was something that Dugu family must be interested in.

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