Li Shentong stared, rode his horse, and rushed to the pavilion angrily.
Xie Shufang also followed on horseback to the pavilion, jumped off his horse first, walked quickly to Li Shentong's horse, and held the horse for Li Shentong.
With the support of Xie Shufang, Li Shentong hummed and got off the horse.
Li Yuanji joked again: "You're not even over fifty yet, so you can't do it? Do you need someone to help you get off your horse?"
Li Shentong's nose was not a nose, and his face was not a face. He hummed: "This is a child's filial piety. He knows how to be filial to my father-in-law. You know nothing."
Li Yuanji nodded and smiled: "Yes, yes, I don't understand anything. After all, I am not as old as you, nor do I have a daughter as virtuous as yours, let alone a son-in-law."
Li Shentong became angry all of a sudden. He yelled at Xie Shufang with his beard and eyes wide open: "Shufang! Beat him!"
Xie Shufang seemed not to have heard Li Shentong's words, but carefully helped Li Shentong to walk into the pavilion.
Li Shentong and Li Yuanji were bickering, but it was not something he could get involved in, let alone take action. Li Yuanji looked at Li Shentong with a half-smile.
Li Shentong felt a little burning in his face, and angrily shouted to Xie Shufang again: "Uncle Fang! Don't you even listen to my words? Do you still want to marry Huaide?"
Xie Shufang raised his head in embarrassment and looked at Li Shentong.
Li Shentong threatened Xie Shufang with his eyes and shouted: "Go and beat him up!"
Xie Shufang said with a bitter face: "My father-in-law, don't say that my son-in-law is not the opponent of His Highness King Qi. Even if he is the opponent of His Highness King Qi, my son-in-law cannot fight against His Highness King Qi. He is my son-in-law's lord, and my son-in-law is against him." If you take action, you will be quartered with knives."
"Okay, okay, no matter how old you are, you don't feel ashamed to embarrass a junior."
Li Xiaogong sat astride the horse and swayed to the pavilion. After jumping off the horse, he curled his lips and walked into the pavilion with lazy steps.
After entering the pavilion, he did not forget the words of Li Shentong in the wind. Li Xiaogong couldn't stand Li Shentong's current style. Li Shentong and Li Yuanji were bickering. If they can't fight, just admit defeat.
It is not embarrassing for the common people to admit defeat to the direct line. It would be a bit embarrassing to embarrass a descendant with a foreign surname.
"If I don't embarrass him, why should I embarrass you? Do you dare to help me teach him a lesson?" Li Shentong asked Li Xiaogong with his eyes wide open.
Li Xiaogong sat down on the stone bench with all his strength, and said in a neutral tone: "I dare, but I am not his opponent. Besides, I will help you as an elder to teach him a lesson. My uncle will come out later." When we seek justice for him, which one of us will take the lead? Is it me or you?"
Li Shentong was a little heartbroken by Li Xiaogong's words.
If he teaches Li Yuanji a lesson as an elder, the elders behind Li Yuanji will definitely come out to help Li Yuanji.
The problem is that the elder behind Li Yuanji, no one in the Tang Dynasty can afford to offend him.
Just him and Li Xiaogong, plus all the people in their houses, as well as rats, ants and other living creatures, were not enough for the elders behind them.
"Tell me, why did you ask us to come over? You can't really invite us to have tea, right?" After Li Shentong was speechless, Li Xiaogong looked at Li Yuanji and asked.
He didn't think that Li Yuanji would have nothing to do, so he specifically asked him and Li Shentong to come and taste tea together. Although tea is good and Li Shentong's favorite, it is not his favorite.
He prefers wine to tea.
Li Yuanji asked a man who was a good drinker to come over and taste tea. It was obvious that he had something to discuss.
Li Yuanji asked Li Shentong, who was still glaring at Li Xiaogong, to sit down. After instructing the maids to make tea, he asked the maids and eunuchs to retreat to a distance, and then slowly said, "I really want to treat you to tea."
Li Xiaogong's eyes were slightly stunned. Are you kidding me? Li Shentong was also stunned for a moment.
Li Yuanji smiled and added, "By the way, I want to talk to you about family matters."
Li Xiaogong rolled his eyes, picked up the tea cup and began to taste the tea. After only two sips, he felt that it was tasteless, so he greeted the maids and eunuchs in the distance and asked them to serve a table of wine and food.
Li Shentong asked Xie Shufang to take away the tea in front of him in disgust, and then took out tools for cooking tea soup one after another from a small leather bag that he carried with him. While cooking tea soup for himself, he taught Xie Shufang the art of tea.
Li Yuanji saw Xie Shufang's mouth twitching when Li Shentong crushed the tea cubes and cardamom together.
Obviously, Xie Shufang knows the art of cooking tea better than Li Shentong.
Although the Xie family where Xie Shufang belongs has declined in the hands of his father, the family tradition that has been passed down for countless generations has not been cut off.
Therefore, Li Shentong seemed to be a bit imitating others when he taught others his rudimentary tea art.
However, Xie Shufang is obviously a very knowledgeable son-in-law. Even when facing his father-in-law, he still shows an open-minded attitude of asking for advice.
Wait until the maids and eunuchs have prepared wine and food for Li Xiaogong, and wait until Li Shentong has cooked a good tea soup for himself and his son-in-law.
Li Yuanji just picked up the tea cup and tasted it while saying, "Uncle Wang, cousin, what do you think of what happened in Chang'an City in recent days?"
Li Shentong waited for his son-in-law to praise him after drinking tea, so he said nothing.
After Li Xiaogong took a sip of wine, he asked doubtfully: "A lot of things have happened in Chang'an City in recent days. Which thing are you talking about?"
Li Yuanji looked at Li Xiaogong in confusion.
Li Xiaogong explained patiently: "Since the news that your father was going to rebuild the Hussar Mansion and the Tongjun Mansion was released, the turmoil in Chang'an City has not stopped. From time to time, someone will write to your father, hoping that your father will give up this idea. From time to time, people will write to your father. News of a mutiny by local government soldiers will reach Chang'an City."
Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment and said thoughtfully: "Who is causing trouble here?"
The government soldiers are not professional soldiers. They will not gather together at all when there is no war.
Even if government troops need to be mobilized to suppress bandits or quell chaos, they must be reported to the higher-level government office and approved by the higher-level government office before they can be mobilized together.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for this, the person who mobilizes the soldiers and the person who commands the soldiers cannot come from the same yamen, let alone the same person.
In this case, the soldiers could not even gather together without an order, and they could not even get their armor, let alone mutiny.
It is more reliable to say that they gathered to make trouble, or that they rebelled, than to say that they mutinied. Therefore, you don't need to guess to know that someone is causing trouble. "There are many people who are causing trouble, both in the north and in the south."
Li Xiaogong said with an unclear expression. It's impossible to explain this kind of thing too clearly.
After all, there are many troublemakers, and it is impossible to beat them all to death with one stick.
So we can only focus on the typical ones, and which one should be targeted as a typical example. That is something that only Li Yuan can consider, and it is not Li Xiaogong’s turn to intervene.
Li Yuanji nodded slowly and said: "It seems that they want to use this method to force my father to give up the idea of rebuilding the Hussar Mansion and the General Manager's Mansion."
Before Li Xiaogong could speak again, Li Yuanji said again: "It's just that their methods are too low-level?"
This kind of person can see all the problems at a glance, so he really can't get on the stage, let alone force Li Yuan.
"hehe……"
Li Xiaogong said with a non-smiling smile: "Without a significant person to take the lead, they can only achieve their goals through such low-level means."
Li Yuanji opened his mouth, and then Li Xiaogong said again: "This is the brilliance of your father."
At this time, Li Shentong had finished tasting the tea soup he had cooked, and added in a neutral tone, "In the Tang Dynasty, all those who hold great power are either members of our family or relatives of our family. We
Neither your relatives nor our relatives can try to undermine your father. If other people want to undermine your father, they won't be able to make any big waves."
Li Xiaogong nodded in agreement. Li Yuanji also agreed with Li Shentong's statement.
Li Yuan always liked nepotism, so when Li Yuan was emperor, the people who really held power in the Tang Dynasty were either royal family members or relatives.
So far, the people with the highest authority under Li Yuan are Li Yuanji himself and Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.
Under the three Li Yuanji brothers, most of the people with the highest authority are also royal family members and relatives.
Pei Ji, Li Gang, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and others may have high status, but when it comes to power and the power they can mobilize, they are not as good as those of the royal clan and relatives.
Therefore, no matter what Li Yuan wanted to do when he was emperor, as long as the royal family members and relatives did not undermine him, no one could really make things difficult for him.
In history, the feudal dynasty is often described as a family and a world. But Li Yuan is probably the only one who can truly achieve the goal of a family and a world.
Because other people's family world is more or less watery, but Li Yuan's family world is real.
Li Yuan is not only capable himself, but also his brothers, his sons and daughters are even more capable, his nephews can also help, and his relatives are not ordinary people.
With so many capable people helping him, it would be difficult for Li Yuan not to reach the level of success he has achieved in his family. After all, there are plenty of talents in his family, so there is no need to work hard to find talents.
Li Yuan's attitude towards talents is probably 'If you are willing to use it only for me, then I will use it. If you don't want to, I won't be too interested in it'.
"So, my father's reconstruction of the Hussars' Mansion and the Steward's Mansion is a foregone conclusion? Even if those people make trouble again, they won't be able to change anything?"
Li Yuanji said with a smile.
Li Shentong glanced at Li Yuanji and hummed: "If you have any objections to this matter, you can jump out and help them carry the banner. Maybe you can also take the opportunity to recruit some useful talents."
Li Yuanji shook his head without hesitation.
Even if Li Yuan plays tricks on the reconstruction of the Hussars' Mansion and the Governor's Mansion, it will not affect his interests. Why would he jump out to go against Li Yuan.
Perhaps, there are quite a few people waiting for a reputable idiot to jump out. He doesn't want to jump out and become a target for others.
