The long-awaited envoy from Chang'an finally arrived. They came with a hundred cavalry from the Forbidden Army. They changed horses without changing people along the way. They traveled day and night alternately by land and water. When they arrived at Yongzhou, their legs were worn out and their lips were all chapped.
"The sage's decree calls upon Prime Minister Wu to return to the capital immediately."
After finally getting the order, Wu Huaiyu asked the captain's name and found out that he was from the eldest son's family. He expressed his kind thanks and gave him a gift, and asked him to rest in Yongzhou for a while. Huaiyu immediately set off back to Beijing.
First take the Xijiang Waterway to Guangzhou.
A Liu was still reluctant to say goodbye. It was originally said that she and Dugu Zuo could stay in Yongzhou, but she begged to be sent to Guangzhou.
The boat moves along the current and is very fast.
After arriving in Guangzhou, Huaiyu first visited Foresta and a pair of twin children. They had been separated for a few months. The two children had grown very strong. Forresta was also well taken care of in Guangzhou and became even plumper.
Some, even with a milky scent.
When she saw A Liu brought back by Huaiyu, she didn't mind at all and arranged the room very carefully, looking very friendly. However, A Liu was a little alienated from this blond Persian beauty and kept her distance.
Forresta arranged for A Liu and Dugu to be masters and apprentices, and then personally served Huai Yu to take a bath.
There is an indoor hot spring pool and an outdoor swimming pool in the manor. Winters in Guangzhou are not too cold, and it is summer again. Huaiyu is also relaxing in the swimming pool. Afu is accompanying her, giving her back rubs and massages. Although she just
I gave birth to two children, but after being separated for only half a year, I still feel like a separation is better than a newlywed.
She pressed Huaiyu's strong muscles, her eyes gradually tightened.
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for a long time,
About half an hour later,
Wu Huaiyu was very satisfied.
For young people, this is a good way to relieve the fatigue of travel.
"Will Alang return to Lingnan?"
"Well, I probably won't stay in Beijing for long this time."
"Then we, mother-in-law, are waiting for Alang to come back in Guangzhou." Forresta looked satisfied, but suddenly her brows furrowed, "Oh, the time has come, and I have to go to breastfeed. I almost forgot the time, and I didn't know until I felt the pain."
After feeding the big one, there are still two little ones.
Huaiyu looked at her and saw that she was so full. No wonder the two children were so fair and fat.
When Huaiyi heard that Huaiyu had arrived in Guangzhou, he immediately came to the manor to meet him.
After changing into a set of light and comfortable clothes, the brothers drank tea on the verandah under the big tree in the courtyard.
"I vaguely heard something, but I don't know much about it. Are you okay?" Huaiyi asked his brother.
"The situation is not good, so I have to go back to Chang'an,"
Naturally, there was no need for Huaiyu to hide anything from his brother. He told him what he knew and what he had guessed.
"You really don't want to depose the prince, do you?" Huaiyi was shocked.
"It's not that serious, there is still a chance."
The Wu family is now completely tied to the East Palace ship, and this matter is closely related to the Wu family.
When Huaiyi heard that the prince actually had a male favorite, he was shocked and speechless. "I always thought that someone deliberately spread the rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true."
"Actually, it's not a big deal at all. It's just that the prince is young and can't help himself for a while."
After brewing a pot of tea, the brothers were not in the mood to drink tea. They took advantage of the rare opportunity to get together and communicated quickly. Huaiyi was a little panicked, but Huaiyu was relatively calm and felt relieved.
"This time I returned to Beijing, mainly to do two things. One is to find a way to repair the rift between the saint and the East Palace, and the other is to help my fourth uncle return to Beijing."
"Our Wu family already has you as the Prime Minister, and your teacher, Medicine Master, is in the court as the Prime Minister. My fourth uncle won't be able to worship the Prime Minister when he returns to the capital, right? Especially at this juncture?"
Huaiyu did not hide it from his brother. Based on the information he had now and his analysis, he felt that the emperor might want to keep him in Lingnan for a long time, most likely as long as Li Ji stayed in Bingzhou.
So next, he will either be the emissary still holding the post of Tong Zhongshu, or he may want to take the title of prime minister, but no matter which way, he will be far away from the central government.
In this case, it is still possible for the samurai Yu to enter the political hall and become the prime minister.
Of course, the premise is that the crown prince's position is still stable, otherwise the warrior Xun will not have the slightest chance.
Huaiyi served as the governor of Guangzhou, and everything went smoothly. The rebellion of the Lingnan barbarians was mainly in the mountains of Yunkai and the area west of Yonggui. Guangzhou could not be in chaos.
Now Guangzhou is not only not in chaos, but is becoming more and more prosperous. Guangzhou Port is connected to the rivers and seas, Xijiang and Beijiang not only connect the east and west of Lingnan, but also connect the mainland of the Central Plains.
One hundred thousand warriors from the imperial court went to Lingnan and suppressed the barbarians in Lingnan, which also led to the rise of Guangzhou.
Huaiyu transferred Hou Junji from Guangzhou to Yongzhou, and then dismissed him and sent him back to Chang'an. With Huaiyu as the prime minister patrolling Lingnan Province, Huaiyi, the governor of Guangzhou, was naturally very stable.
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Huaiyi did not stay at the manor for long and left soon.
Wu Huaiyu sat alone on the porch. The tea had cooled down. He boiled a pot of water again. The situation in Chang'an was unclear, and his future in Beijing was uncertain. Although he felt somewhat confident, he had reached this point.
Wu Huaiyu also felt a headache.
The current situation proves more and more that my original idea was actually right. The water in the East Palace is very muddy and it is not suitable to be involved too deeply.
But now that we've reached this point, it's too late to say anything.
The prince was only fourteen, and the emperor was only thirty years old. The Wu family was still tied to the East Palace ship too early. Even if this matter can be solved, there will probably be a lot of trouble in the future.
And if you take one wrong step, you may be in danger.
After returning this time, it would be better if he could stay in the court and still be the prime minister in the political hall, even if he did not serve in the three provinces. But he had a hunch in his heart that the emperor would not keep him in Chang'an, and even those few people in the court or
Overt or covert forces may not want him to stay in Chang'an.
Taking advantage of the fact that the rebellion in Lingnan has not been settled, keeping this young prime minister in Lingnan will marginalize him.
Political struggles are always so realistic and cruel. Even if you are your own allies, sometimes they will attack you.
Boil water.
Huaiyu opened the tea can, took out some green tea, put it into the purple clay teapot, and poured boiling water into it.
make tea,
This year’s new tea has a fragrant aroma,
He sipped the tea carefully and his mind entered a state of very focused thinking.
In fact, it would be good to stay in Lingnan for three to five years.
Shoot the first bird.
The struggle in Chang'an will definitely become more and more intense. If Wu Huaiyu stays in Chang'an, even if he becomes prime minister, he will be more likely to be the target of attacks from all parties. If there are many parties fighting fiercely, those who are too strong or too weak will always be easily eliminated first by a joint attack.
Just like everyone knows that the Three Families were divided into Jin Dynasty, but they don't know that before the Three Families were divided into Jin Dynasty, the Que family was actually stronger, with half the wealth of the family and half of the army.
Among the eight ministers of the Jin Dynasty, the Que family occupied only three seats.
When he was at his strongest, he had three ministers and five officials.
There are eleven aristocratic families in the Jin State. They take turns serving as generals and assistants of the three armies, and take turns in power. The families are hereditary, just like the electorate families.
After hundreds of years of fighting and fighting among the eleven families, six major families were left. After decades of fighting, they became the four families of Zhi, Han, Wei, and Zhao.
After several decades, the Zhi family was destroyed, and eventually the three families of Han, Wei, and Zhao were divided into the Jin Dynasty.
The Que family, the Zhi family, and even the Zhao family were all once the strongest families in the Jin Kingdom, but they were all jointly attacked and destroyed because they were too strong. The famous Zhao family orphans were actually born under this background.
The situation in the DPRK is becoming more and more complex. It is no longer the battle between the veteran Wu De and the upstart Zhenguan when Li Shimin first came to power. The veteran Wu De has basically been purged from the center.
In the Zhenguan court without the old minister Wu De, there are more factions on the mountain top, and there is even a tendency to form two major camps around the prince and the king of Wei.
Wu Huaiyu and the Wu family are now the princelings in the open, so the target is too obvious and they can easily be targeted.
If Wu Huaiyu had stayed in Lingnan with peace of mind, he would not have become a target of fire. Wu Huaiyu could even take the opportunity to secretly develop and turn Lingnan into an important base camp and base for the Wu family and the East Palace.
In the final analysis, the Wu family is a nouveau riche with little foundation. If Lingnan is managed well, it can train its own direct descendants here.
However, the Wu family also had to guard against being oppressed by others after leaving the center. Therefore, if the warrior Xun could be promoted to the political hall, even if he could not have an influential say in the court like Wu Huaiyu, he would at least have a seat at the table.
Fang Xuanling.
Wu Huaiyu sighed in his heart, Fang Xuanling might be his enemy, and even Du Chuke and Wei Ting, the two major clans of Jingzhao and Weidu, might also be his opponents.
