Wu Huaiyu is obviously the son and daughter of the emperor, but Li Shimin insisted on saying in front of all the ministers that my sons are young and I regard you Wu Huaiyu and Changsun Wuji as my biological sons.
Bah, isn't this an advantage? It's shameless.
But at that time, all the ministers in the palace looked at Wu Huaiyu with envy. Many people wanted to be the emperor's son, but they were not qualified.
I don’t know how many concubines came today because the emperor regarded Huaiyu as his son.
There is no shortage of people in this world who are the icing on the cake, but there are very few who offer help in times of need.
Cheng Chumo, Doulu Huairang, An Yuanshou, Niu Jianwu and other distinguished young men looked at the long queue in front of Wu's house.
"I heard that Yongxingfang gate had to be temporarily closed."
"Well, I almost couldn't get in just now. It seemed like half of the people in Chang'an City were squeezing into Yongxingfang. Li Zheng was about to cry, so I had to temporarily stop him from entering, unless he is a guest of the Wu family."
Yongxingfang is only a thousand acres of land, and so many people came at once. Not only were the four gates crowded together, but the streets were also blocked. Long queues formed in front of several doors of the Wu family.
Too exaggerated, but true.
Everyone carries the sedan chair.
Several people envied Wu Huaiyu. Their backgrounds were better than Wu Huaiyu's. Even if Jian Wu was awesome, his family was also a family of officials. His grandfather was the county magistrate of the Sui Dynasty, and his father Wu Dechao also had the title of founding baron of Weicheng County.
He also joined the Xunwei as an errand early on.
But in fact, the station they went to was also the envy of everyone in the long queue.
Cheng Chumo, the Duke of Dong'a County and the eldest son of Lu Guogong, had already become the governor of Yinzhou in his twenties. He was even married and engaged to the Cui family of Qinghe, and successfully married a girl with the fifth surname, which was a lifelong dream for many men in the Tang Dynasty.
Doulu Huairang, the consort of Princess Wanchun, the sixth daughter of the Supreme Emperor, is the sixth brother-in-law of today's emperor. At a young age, he is also a doctor of Yinqing Guanglu. He was also granted the title of Duke. Although he was previously implicated in the Nanshi incident, he was removed from the post of Governor of Lingzhou Governor's Palace.
, the post of governor of Yanzhou, but with his family background and status, it will not be a matter of time before he recovers.
Even Niu Jianwu, although his father is now the county official and he himself is only a county son, he is now the Sima of the Dudu Mansion.
A group of young talents and sons of meritorious officials are enviable.
Li Yifu was waiting in a long queue, and he didn't seem to move a few steps for a long time. He looked at the young people in purple and crimson with envy on their faces.
At such a young age, he has already become a prodigy, and he is known as a child prodigy. He is a master of splendid articles, but now he has to wait in long queues to give gifts.
Li Desheng saw his envious look and said, "It's just that you didn't get a good birth. You have no ability."
The Li family's hometown is from Raoyang, Yingzhou, Hebei. Their ancestors have always been small officials such as county magistrates, and have never been promoted to the fifth grade. They are a small local gentry. Li Desheng studied hard for many years, but in troubled times, there was a shortage of officials in the early Tang Dynasty.
, Li Desheng was willing to go to that remote place, so he was awarded the title of Prime Minister of Shehong County in Sichuan.
Although his official position was not high, he was good at reading and writing good articles. Of course, what Li Desheng was most proud of was that he took his son with him and taught him personally, and he taught him well.
Not only has he been known as a child prodigy since he was a child, but he is also handsome. Especially when talking to others, he always smiles and looks like a humble gentleman.
The article was well written, eloquent, and relatively long. Li Desheng believed that his son would have great potential in the future. This time he came to Beijing on official business and brought his son with him, hoping to recommend him to the powerful people of the day.
It's a pity that his official position is too low and he doesn't have a distinguished family background. Although he has submitted many invitations and poems, he has not received any reply so far.
Maybe people have never seen it at all.
But he always believed that his son was excellent and just needed a chance.
Li Yifu also thinks so.
At this time, a few people came, but there was no need to queue. The shopkeeper at the gate took them directly past the long queue and came to the gate of the Wu family.
The servants at the door of Wu's house bowed respectfully when they saw them, and invited them in directly.
"These two people look very young, how come they can directly enter and leave Duke Yi's mansion?"
In the queue, a middle-aged man in Jianggong uniform in front of Li Yifu heard this and said with a smile, "These two are extraordinary. The sons of the former Rong Guogong, the adopted son of the current Prime Minister Qin Gong, and the adopted brothers of Yi Guogong,"
Li Desheng said, "The former Duke Rongguo? But here comes the general?"
"Exactly, these two are both Jinshi of the Wude Dynasty. Now one is a direct bachelor of Chongxian Palace, Prince Literature of the East Palace Economics Bureau, and editor-in-chief of the Beijing News, and the other is the Secretary Lang of the Secretariat Province and a direct bachelor of Hongwen Palace.
They are all sixth-grade officials, and they are all extremely important positions."
Li Yifu was surprised to hear that his brothers were so young that they were already in the sixth rank and wanted to hold official positions.
Even if they were born as Jinshi, they would usually be selected as ninth-rank county captains by the Ministry of Civil Service. However, these two brothers were so young that they were already in the sixth rank.
Sure enough, a well-written article is not as good as a fetal transfer.
If you have a prime minister as your adopted father and a popular favorite as your adopted brother, your official career will be smooth.
This made Li Yifu more and more determined, and he wanted to worship Wu Huaiyu's family.
If he could become Wu Huaiyu's disciple, and with his writing skills, he could reach the sixth rank in ten years.
With this thought in mind, another person jumped in line.
This time, it was personally delivered by Wuhou, a veteran of the street shop who maintains order at the entrance of the square.
"Who is this again?"
The middle-aged man in front of Li Yi Mansion was wearing a crimson official uniform. He could tell at a glance that he was a foreign official from Chang'an. He looked at it for a few times, and then lowered his voice after the person passed by and said, "This one is also very impressive. He was born in Gaoyang."
The Xu family is from a famous family, and he is the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel of the former dynasty. He was once the eighteenth bachelor of the Qin Dynasty, and later he was promoted to the sixth rank of Tongshiren. Last year, he was demoted again and again due to crimes, and finally he was demoted to Xunyang County Cheng, which is forgotten by people.
It’s in Jiangbiao.”
"Have you heard of the long poem Pipa Xing?"
"Yi Guogong's masterpiece is very well written." Li Yifu said.
"The Jiangzhou Sima who was referring to him in the pipa performance was him. Duke Yi Guo performed a pipa performance in front of the emperor in the palace, which made your majesty miss him again, so he issued an edict to summon the court to pay homage to the fifth rank of his disciples and give him to Shi Zhongjie.
Compiling the history of the country can be said to be a turnaround."
Li Yifu understood now. It turned out that this was Xu Jingzong, whom the scholars in Chang'an City talked about so much.
It is said that he is also a very talented person. He has a good relationship with Duke Yi. A song played by Duke Yi on the pipa promoted this guy from the position of Prime Minister of Xunyang County back to the court, and he also took on such an important position as Shizhong.
It can be seen that Xu Jingzong, who has just returned to Beijing, is a bit proud, but compared to before, he is a bit more calm and less impetuous.
There are many people who can go directly into the building without queuing.
The middle-aged man in Jiang's official uniform was a shulingshi from Shangshu Province, and he recognized the identities of many people. Anyway, they were either relatives of meritorious officials or high-ranking officials.
No one can go in directly.
There are no businessmen or scoundrels.
"That is the young master of the Wei family in Jingzhao and the younger brother of Concubine Wei."
"Those are the sons of the Du family, the son of You Pu She and his brother's son."
"That belongs to Cui family of Qinghe, that belongs to Zhengzhoufang, that belongs to Yanlingfang, that..."
"That one belongs to the Lu family of Fanyang. That one is the new Wannian County Magistrate of Yongzhou, and he has the title of Duke of Fanyang County."
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Jiang Gongfu Shuling Shi and Li Yifu kept introducing those who entered the Wu family. He liked this young man who called himself Li Yifu very much. He always spoke with a smile, was very polite, and made people feel like spring breeze, even though he was just a foreign Shuling Shi
, but the son of the county magistrate was extremely polite to him and gave him enough respect to make him feel comfortable.
When working as an official in Chang'an, one thing that is very important is that you must be able to recognize people. You must be familiar with the nobles, relatives, and even relatives of the clan in Chang'an City, otherwise you will be in trouble if you accidentally provoke them.
Jiang Gongfu has been working as an official in Shangshu Province for a long time and often travels around in various offices. He is quite familiar with the families of famous nobles and relatives in Chang'an.
With his introduction to Li Yifu, he got to know many nobles and gained a more intuitive impression of the status of the Wu family.
He has heard a lot these days that Wu Huaiyu offended Jingzhao Weidu and Guandong Cui Zheng, and the consequences were serious, but now the folk rumors are not very reliable.
Weidu from Jingzhao and Cui Zheng from Shandong also came to give gifts, and many of them were direct descendants. Even the Zheng family in Xingyang had descendants.
"These top aristocratic families are like this. Even if they stab each other behind their backs, they will always smile and play when they meet, and it won't even affect their marriage." Jiang Gongfu is not surprised. What he sees on the surface is
, does not represent the real situation.
Li Desheng stroked his beard and sighed, "It's a pity that I didn't give birth to a suitable daughter. Otherwise, I guess it would be easier to send her to Duke Yi's mansion than to send my son."
Jiang Gongfu liked the two of them very much and couldn't help but persuade them, "Actually, how many people want to be apprentices to Duke Yi, whether you want to learn painting, poetry, elixirs, or even Taoism, art of war, etc.
Wait, but it’s not easy to really get in.
Think about it, if you were Duke Yi Guo, would you have so much skill that you could just accept and teach disciples?"
"It's even more difficult for ordinary people to send their daughters to the Wu family. Is there a shortage of women for this class of nobles? Look at the Qiu sisters who passed through the family today. They are the granddaughters of Tan Guogong and the legitimate daughters of Tianshui County Duke. They are just concubines."
This undoubtedly poured cold water on Li Yifu and his son.
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Sunset dusk.
Wu Huaiyu welcomed the Qiu sisters back from the Qiu family. There were many people to pick them up and many people to see them off.
Yu Wen, Chengdu, and An Lushan were two young men with red silk flowers hanging on their chests, holding Huaiyu's white hoofs.
Qiu Shenji and his brothers escorted his sister's float.
There is a long queue behind.
It was supposed to be simple at first, but it turned out to be extremely noisy in the end. Yongxingfang was blocked and the streets were full of people.
There were even long queues at several entrances of the Wu family.
Even if they only register their names and don't receive any gifts, the team still keeps growing. Even if the street drums sound and the city is closed, these people are not willing to go back like this.
They would rather stand on Fangzhong Street tonight than they intend to leave.
When Huaiyu came back from picking up the people, he couldn't help but feel a headache when he saw this scene.
A bit too ostentatious.
I'm just afraid that some officials will be impeached tomorrow, which is helpless.
This was not his intention.
"Immediately arrange for people to go and persuade everyone to go back first. The city will be closed soon. It's so cold that we can't stand on the street all night."
"Send people to the entrance of the workshop again. If you haven't entered the workshop yet, please don't come in again,"
Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Wu Huaiyu took the Qiu sisters into his home, hurriedly went through the ceremony, and immediately ended it early.
Let Su Lie, Huai Yi, Cheng Chumo, Doulu Huairang, Wu Fatty and others help apologize and see off the guests, otherwise he is really afraid that everyone will be stuck in the square today.
"The reception was not good enough, I will visit you another day."
Everyone can understand that this scene was indeed too noisy.
Originally, if there were only a few people, the close relatives and friends who came would just stay at Wu's house for one night. After all, there are many houses in the 18-acre mansion. We could also arrange for people to stay at the Duke of Qi's mansion in the same house.
But now there are really too many people.
Whether you are invited or uninvited, you can only see them off first.
Cheng Chumo smiled and said to him, "If you take a concubine, the only one who can make such a fuss is you, Wu Erlang, right?"
"Stop talking and help me see off the guests." Huaiyu was helpless.
