Li Shimin sentenced Pei Ji to the four capital crimes, but in the end he still did not kill him. This prime minister who was favored by the emperor during the Wude Dynasty was also beaten down step by step after the Xuanwumen Palace Incident.
There were two Jingzhous in the Tang Dynasty, one in the center of Shu, within the Lizhou Governor's Mansion, and the other in the west of Lingnan. The Jingzhou where Pei Ji was exiled was within the Lizhou Governor's Mansion.
The Governor's Office of Lizhou is a bit special. Luo Shou and Li Xiaochang both served as Governors of Lizhou, and both were executed for treason.
Pei Ji, who held two death-free golden coupons, ended up having his official position, title, property, and property confiscated and was exiled.
The emperor spared his death twice, which can be regarded as the new emperor's keeping his promise to the iron coupon issued by the Supreme Emperor to avoid death.
From being dismissed as prime minister to being exiled, Pei Ji took one step at a time, and finally reached this point. Most people had expected it, but now it's just the last shoe that has fallen.
This also represents the complete end of an era.
From June of the ninth year of Wude to June of the third year of Zhenguan, it was only three full years.
"Liu Dewei wants to meet you. When you are free, I will bring him to visit you."
"Pengcheng County Duke?"
"Well, didn't his son go to Youzhou to join your shogunate and join the army?"
Liu Dewei is the Supreme Servant. He was formerly the Minister of the Ministry of Justice together with Wu Huaiyu. In his early years, he also served as the Inspector of the Dali Temple. Later, he became the Governor of Mianzhou and returned to the court. Now he is the Supreme Servant and concurrently inspects the six schools.
After Zhang Liang paid homage to the Prime Minister, he had taken over the leadership of the Six Gates. After Wu Huaiyu and An Yuanshou left, the Six Gates were now headed by Dugu Huairang, Gao Huitong and Li Dejiao.
Speaking of which, this Liu Dewei can be regarded as one of his own. He was from Pengcheng. He was a general of the Sui Dynasty in his early years and was under the command of Pei Renji. Therefore, he worked with Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin. Later they joined Wagang and followed Li Mi to Guanzhong and returned to the Tang Dynasty. Later he served as the general manager of Bingzhou.
Fu Sima, assisting Li Yuanji,
His mother was the Yuan family in Henan, and his first wife was the Zheng family in Xingyang. Later, he participated in the pacification of Wang Shichong and was instrumental in pacifying Wang Shichong. Li Yuan granted him a marriage to the county magistrate of Pingshou, and Qin Qiong also married a county magistrate.
However, Liu Dewei did not fight much since then and has been working in the judicial field, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment for more than ten years.
His younger brother Liu Demin and Liu Dezhi have been serving as generals in the Prince of Qin's Palace, and they are both very brave and good at fighting. Liu Demin was once the commander of the army of the Prince of Qin's Palace, and was honored as a pillar of the country. Now he is the general of the Left Guard Zhonglang, paying homage to the Duke.
"You want to see me if you have something to do with Liumen?"
"I just came to pay you a visit. After all, you are also a senior of Liumen, and the Northern Expedition is about to start, and Liumen will also participate. I want to say hello to you first."
"Another day, I will personally visit Mr. Liu to pay his respects."
The Liu family in Pengcheng is also a famous family, not to mention Liu Dewei and Qin Qiong are old comrades-in-arms, and Wu Huaiyu now has a good relationship with the general at Wagang Mountain.
The aunt asked the coachman to take Huaiyu to the gate of Duke Yiguo's Mansion in Xuanyangfang.
"Go home and spend more time with your wife, concubines and children."
"Let's go in and sit together."
"I still have something to do, I'll come back another day."
Gao Huitong waved his hand and drove away.
Standing at the gate of the Wu family, I felt that there had been a big change. As soon as he entered Beijing today, he was taken into the palace first, and he didn't even have time to enter the house.
Duke Yi's Mansion originally occupied an area of more than 200 acres, accounting for a quarter of the land. He used half of it to build Longmen Temple, and now it still occupies an area of more than 120 acres.
With the renovation of Chang'an Market, the walls of Xuanyangfang have also been demolished. The Wu family has also demolished most of the courtyard walls along the street, moved back a little, and independently transformed the land along the street into shops along the street in accordance with the requirements of Yongzhou Prefecture.
The Wu family renovated the shop themselves and it is still owned by the Wu family.
The main gate and side entrance still remain along the street.
The Wutou gate of Duke Yi's Mansion is still grand. To the left and right of the concierge are shops run by the Wu family, selling tea, medicinal materials, sugar, wine, salt, books, paper, ink, pens and inkstones, grain, silks and cloths, leather blankets, etc.
There are many things for sale, but most of them are now owned by the Wu family. There are also teahouses and inns owned by the Wu family. In the past, the street outside the wall of this square was very deserted. Although pedestrians and cars passed by from time to time, they were all in a hurry.
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Now that the square wall has been demolished, there is Dongshi to the east and Pingkangfang to the north. The markets here have also become golden markets. Even in front of Longmen Guan, because there is a large square, a market has been formed here, and there are regular
Many traders come here to market.
There are also many people going to the market.
It was really lively.
The door opened, and the concierge had already run out to welcome the owner back to the house.
Soon, the eldest lady Fan Xuanfu also came over with a group of concubines, and there was a large group of people holding their children.
"I received news that Alang would return to Beijing today. I had already sent someone to Baqiao Post to greet him, but I never saw anyone."
"I returned to Beijing with the grain fleet, and I specially looked at the current situation of grain ships entering Beijing, but I missed it."
"Did Alang just arrive?"
"I came back early, but as soon as I entered the capital, I was summoned to the palace by the saint."
Fan Xuanfu came up and looked at Huaiyu carefully. The couple had been separated for more than a year. When they left, it was still the early spring of the second year of Zhenguan. Now it is the late summer of the third year of Zhenguan.
When she left, Fan Xuanfu was just pregnant with her second child, and her eldest son was just over a year old. Now Fan Xuanfu has given birth to her second child, and the child is over half a year old.
The eldest son, Chengsi, is almost three years old.
"Dalang, call me quickly."
Wu Chengsi has a tiger-like head and bright eyes. The longer this boy grows, the more he looks like Wu Huaiyu. He even has the small mole on the bridge of his nose that is the symbol of their old martial arts family. This is really strange. Samurai Ke has it, Wu Huaiyu and Wu Huaiyi brothers all have it. Now
Wu Chengsi also had it.
The boy is not afraid of life. Perhaps there is a self-portrait of Huaiyu at home, which is very lifelike. Fan Xuanfu usually makes this boy scream at the portrait, but now he will come up and scream when he sees the real person.
"Yeah yeah."
"Hey, let dad give me a hug."
Huaiyu picked up this boy. He estimated that he weighed about thirty kilograms and was about to be planted.
When Chengzong, the legitimate second son in Xuanfu's hand, saw him, Yiyi gesticulated, "What's wrong, do you want Aye to hug you too?"
Wu Huaiyu held his eldest son, Chengsi, in his left hand, and his second son, Chengzong, in his right hand. The two brothers had a very good relationship. They kept laughing in his arms. The two brothers asked you to scratch their beards and he to scratch their eyes.
"Yeah, I want it too." Wu Yingluo, the eldest daughter who was over two years old, was being held by Fan Jiuniang. Seeing this, she also hugged Huaiyu's thigh and wanted to hug her.
"Hug, hug everyone."
But if you hug this one, you should hug that one too.
A crowd of children gathered around Huaiyu, hugging him and lifting him up.
"Lift high,"
Once one is lifted, all the others must be lifted.
Looking at the group of children around him, Wu Huaiyu smiled very happily. These children grew up so fast. When he left Beijing, he had only six sons and four daughters, but now he has twenty-four.
Thirteen sons and eleven daughters.
In terms of childbirth efficiency, he is no worse than the elder uncle.
Fan Xuanfu, Gao Huian and Duan Wan also gave birth to a second child. Over in Youzhou, Gao Twelve, Lu Sanwu, Yang Muyun and Jianyi were also pregnant.
This is really a prosperous population.
"Oh, I can't even tell you brothers and sisters apart,"
There were only ten eldest children, but they had to be hugged and lifted around him. Huaiyu smiled from ear to ear.
Fan Xuanfu said from the side, "You don't know how many people envy our family."
Marrying wives and concubines from aristocratic families does have advantages in terms of fertility. However, even if many families have many wives and concubines, they may not be able to have many children, and they may not be able to raise many children. Even the royal family often has children who die in infancy.
But in Wu Huaiyu's family, he now has one wife, eight concubines and fifteen concubines, as well as two outside wives, who gave birth to twenty-four children for him, and none of them miscarried or died in infancy. This is very unnatural.
People say that Wu Huaiyu is worthy of being a disciple of the gods.
Some people also think that this is because Wu Huaiyu has a miraculous medicine, which allows Wu Huaiyu to not only give birth, but also give birth to healthy children, and even diseases can be cured immediately.
This is indeed true. The method of calculating ovulation is quite outrageous in this era, and it is more than half the effort.
Not to mention that when the Wu family gives birth to a baby, not only the midwives, but also the pregnant women, Huaiyu has given them many lessons in advance. Not only are there exercises that can change the position of the fetus, but they will also disinfect the tools used during the birth.
In ancient times, the level of medical care was limited and knowledge was insufficient. There were a large number of difficult births, and many mothers died of postoperative bleeding, infection, etc., and many newborns also died due to this.
Baby care is also very important. If you are not careful, you may suffocate, choke on the milk, or catch a cold or fever, etc. If it is not handled well, it will be gone.
There are also many families whose conditions are not good and their babies have no milk to drink and are even malnourished.
Of course, there are also many babies that die prematurely due to lack of preparation during pregnancy or malnutrition during pregnancy, which leads to fetal congenital defects, malformations, etc.
Wu Huaiyu was well prepared in all aspects.
So far, all the children of the Wu family have been born full term and are quite healthy. They have been well taken care of during pregnancy and are well prepared for delivery. After birth, they have a dedicated wet nurse and a nanny to take care of the baby during the confinement period. The baby is in good condition and well cared for.
, each one grows up very healthily.
Moreover, although there were many people in the Wu family's backyard, the overall atmosphere was pretty good. There were no shady affairs like those in the backyards of some big houses, and there was no such thing as wives and concubines plotting against each other's children, and no one dared to do so.
Many nobles and even the palace came to the Wu family for advice.
This also makes the Wu family's Qianjintang Pharmacy now have six branches in Chang'an City, but the business is still booming.
There are indeed some prescriptions in Qianjintang that are used to regulate pregnant women and treat babies. The effect of symptomatic medicine is very good, which makes the name of the Wu family even more famous.
Empress Changsun now often lets Fan Xuanfu enter the palace to help teach the concubines in the harem how to raise children.
It took a long time before the children were willing to let Huaiyu into the house.
Seeing the whole house full of children, this feeling of satisfaction overflowed.
"Madam, when I am not at home, you have to take care of all the work in the house. It is really hard."
Fan Xuanfu said with a smile, "With so many people working inside and outside the family, how can it be hard for me? It's been almost two years since my husband left the capital, so it's really hard work, and it's very dangerous to fight abroad all the time. Fortunately, everything
Be well and be blessed by our ancestors."
"Jianyi was pregnant, so I left her in Youzhou. I betrothed the other seven sword girls to each other. You won't blame me, will you?"
"Since my husband has decided not to keep them, we can't object. Besides, my husband also found young talents to marry for them in Youzhou. He is not a lieutenant colonel in the army, but he also joins the army as a civilian. They are both high-quality officials, which is also good.
My destination is that I married a little far away and can’t see each other often.”
The four sisters of the Fan family each have four sword girls, and they are all guest girls of the Fan family. Although their status is higher than that of ordinary maids, legally, they have the same status. After a slave is released once, if he still lives with his master, he is a guest girl.
, and if he is exempted once more, he will become a civilian.
A guest girl can marry a slave, but she cannot marry a beloved.
When Wu Huaiyu went to Youzhou, Fan Xuanfu asked her to take eight sword girls with her, not only to take care of her, but also to let Wu Huaiyu use these guest girls as their personal dowry.
In the end, Wu Huaiyu only accepted Jianyi, and he released several others as good ones. The remaining seven eventually acted as matchmakers for them and were betrothed to low-level civil and military officials from Youzhou who were from poor backgrounds. They were all selected from poor family backgrounds.
But the kind who are young and relatively capable,
He also specially prepared a dowry for each of them, which is equivalent to marrying his adopted sister.
"The eight swordswomen in the family have all chosen the right one to get married, and I will also save the dowry and get married as my adopted sister."
"Okay, listen to Alang."
Although the Fan sisters really wanted to keep their personal dowry Jian Ji as a concubine or something, and have a helper and companion in the backyard, but now that Wu Huaiyu wanted to get married, they still agreed.
For Wu Huaiyu, there are too many wives and concubines now, and there are also many children. There is really no need to keep Jian Ji and the others as adopted sisters, buy a share of the dowry, and find a potential stock for them to marry off. In fact, it is not only to give them
They seek a good home, and for the Wu family, this is also a way to expand their power.
These talented people who married Huaiyu's good sister had ordinary family backgrounds and no backers, but they were capable. Now through this marriage, they became members of the Wu family. After being labeled as the Wu family, the Wu family provided assistance for their career.
