Chapter 809 Hongmen Banquet at the Princess’s Family
Xuanyangfang,
Crossroads.
People from all sides are coming, and the situation is getting more and more complicated.
The one with the highest official title present is still Wu Huaiyu, who is a first-rank official in the Kaifu Yitong Sansi, the crown prince, Taibao, and the Duke of Jin.
However, Wu Huaiyu is no longer the prime minister, and he has no jurisdiction over the conflict that occurred in the village.
Wannian County Magistrate Yang Hongli is directly responsible for this case.
This is his jurisdiction, even what happened at the gate of his county government office,
But now Yongzhou’s troops have arrived, and they have brought two Zhizhong officials with them.
The current shepherd of Yongzhou is Li Yuanchang, the Seventh Emperor's younger brother, King of Han Dynasty, but that is a distant leader. The person actually in charge of the affairs of the eighteen counties of Yongzhou is the consort Yang Shidao.
He was also born in the Yang family of Hongnong, but he was from Guanwangfang, but he was still of the same clan as Yang Hongli.
The two Yang family members greeted each other, and Yang Hongli gave a brief report. Yang Shidao already knew what was going on. He greeted Wu Huaiyu and chatted briefly.
Yang Shidao is a good old man, well-connected and well-connected, a handsome nobleman, he likes banquets the most, and he can also write good poems.
Originally, if this happened to him, nothing would happen today, he would just pay the injured old man some money and let it go, but he didn't expect it to turn out like this.
He is also a very smart man,
The key to this matter does not lie with the injured old man, nor with the Li brothers or the Taiyuan Wang family. In fact, the most critical thing is that the two idiot kings offended Wu Huaiyu, and then Yang Hongli happened to be promoted to Shusheren, so he took the opportunity to take advantage of these two people.
I want to gain fame and get closer to Wu Huaiyu.
Those two straw bags, pure and innocent bastards,
Of course, he is the kind of person who deserves it. Why do you deserve it? If you dare to pretend in front of Wu Huaiyu, just keep a low profile if you encounter him.
"How does Prime Minister Wu plan to deal with this matter?" he asked Huaiyu.
Huaiyu looked at this elegant young master and chuckled, "I am just a bystander in this matter. How to deal with it is up to Magistrate Yang, right? Or should Consort Yang take over the case?"
Yang Shidao quickly shook his head like a rattle.
He is not stupid. He came here because the Wang family notified him and invited him to come over. Although the Wang family ran away, it still had something to do with it after all, and they didn’t want to make a big fuss.
The eldest princess of Tong'an is the aunt of Yang Shidao's wife, and they are all relatives. It is more suitable for him to come to Hexini, especially because of his official position.
He happened to be in charge of Wannian County Government, and the Yang family also had a good relationship with the Wu family.
Yang Shidao called Yang Hongli over, and he smiled and said in front of Wu and Yang, "Magistrate Yang handled this matter very well. The vicious dog has been killed with a stick, which is good.
The evil slave who allowed dogs to hurt people has been arrested. I think there is no need to interrogate such evil slaves. They can just be killed with a cane.
Then invite the two county princes to Wannian County to cooperate with the investigation, and finally ask them to pay for the soup and medicine for the old man's family, and give him some money to comfort him."
Inviting the two county princes to the county government, saying that they were cooperating with the investigation, was actually just to give Yang Hongli and Wu Huaiyu face, and it was just a formality there.
It's good that this matter ended like this, and all parties were taken care of.
Wu Huaiyu agreed without opening his mouth.
Yang Hongli knew what he was doing, so he said bluntly, "It would have been okay if we had dealt with it this way in the beginning. But it doesn't work now. The King of Bohai ordered people to block the arrest of the dog slave Liu Han, and later he openly insulted the court officials.
Now the county will take them back to the county government to deal with them according to law, and the county will also pay homage to them to the saint,"
Yang Shidao looked at Yang Hongli, this guy is really brave,
"They are the princes of the clan, the sons of the saint's uncle, and the cousins of His Majesty the Emperor. This matter should be handled with caution."
Wu Huaiyu smiled and said, "The prince broke the law and was with the common people. The Bohai King Longxi King can still kiss the prince. Besides, today's matter is so big. If it is not dealt with impartially, then where is the majesty of the court?
How does the Wannian County Government govern the local government today?"
"Prince-in-law Yang, it's better not to get involved in this matter, otherwise you'll get into trouble."
When Yang Shidao saw this, he smiled and finally stopped trying to persuade him.
Although Wu Hou's patrolling cavalry and Wu Hou came over there, this was something that happened in the square. Their jurisdiction was not large, and there was no real conflict.
So the street envoys, generals, and lieutenants on duty just watched, and no one dared to intervene easily.
But with them behind,
On the contrary, the two Li brothers became much more honest, especially when they saw that Yang Shidao came to plead with Wu Huaiyu and they didn't let go, they suddenly became speechless.
In the end, Yang Hongli wanted to take them back to the county government office. Finally, he did not dare to be arrogant, let alone stop them. They all followed him to the Wannian County government office in his hometown for investigation.
They still had some luck in their hearts, thinking that they could just go through the motions and go through the motions.
Who would have thought that after entering the county government, even though they were not shackled, they were directly placed under house arrest in a side courtyard.
As expected, Yang Hongli directly sent a memorial to impeach the two kings.
Wu Huaiyu, Yang Shidao and Wu Houwei's people went to the Wannian County Yamen for a formality, and then left each other.
But this matter is not over yet,
The two princes are still detained in Wannian County Yamen.
The blood on the cross street in the square has not yet dried. The dog slave Liu Han was killed with a cane, and all the hounds were also killed with a cane.
The dead were dragged to mass graves outside the city and buried.
As for the dead hunting dogs,
The delinquents of Wannian County Government, the servants, as well as the villagers, Wuhou, etc. were divided among them. Although it is summer in July, dog meat is still a good thing.
After leaving the county government office, someone was waiting outside.
"The eldest princess would like to invite Prince Consort Yang and Mr. Wu to visit the palace for a chat."
The person who came to invite people was Wang Renbiao, the eldest son of the Wang family and a former governor of Qizhou.
The face of Princess Tongan has to be given,
The eldest princess of Tong'an now lives in Xuanyangfang. The house is very large, but it is not as big as Wu Huaiyu's Duke's Palace of Jin, which once occupied a quarter of the square.
The eldest princess's house occupies about one-sixteenth of Xuanyangfang, about 60 acres of land. The house is very luxurious, with courtyard gardens, corridors, pavilions, lotus ponds and side hills.
More than sixty acres is actually quite large.
However, this is just a house in Chang'an for the eldest princess. She has many houses in Chang'an, but she usually spends more time living in Wugong's manor in the west of Beijing, or in villas in Lishan and Fanchuan.
Wu Huaiyu and Yang Shidao were led by Wang Renbiao to the banquet garden.
I found that Princess Tong'an had been waiting for a long time, and there were several guests.
They are all acquaintances.
The general of the town army, the general of Xiaowei on the right side, the Duke of Qiao, the consort Chai Shao,
The governor of Yanzhou, the general Zuo Wuhou, and the king of Wei Li Tai.
Wu Huaiyu was a little surprised when these two people appeared here.
However, Chai Shao is Li Yuan's son-in-law, Princess Tong'an is Li Yuan's half-sister, and Li Tai is Li Yuan's direct grandson. They are all relatives.
Yang Shidao was also Li Yuan’s son-in-law.
But Wu Huaiyu is not related to them.
The eldest princess of Tong'an is also over sixty years old. She has silver hair, good complexion, and a very honorable temperament. She is highly respected in the royal family and has a high status.
Li Tai, who had not seen him for a long time and was getting fatter, quickly came to Huaiyu and gave him a respectful salute.
"Students meet their teachers,"
This little fat man had a third-rank official whipped him because he didn't dismount his horse to avoid saluting him, and even directly complained to him.
Now he pretends to be very gentle and courteous towards Wu Huaiyu.
The chubby guy is pretty good at pretending.
Today's banquet doesn't seem to be a good one.
Chai Shao is still the same as before, but now he seems not as energetic as he was in Longyou. At that time, Chai Shao felt like a sharp heavy sword unsheathed, but now he feels weak, as if the sword has long been gone.
Rusty and incomplete.
"Is Prince Consort Chai sick?"
"Qingyang has good eyesight, but his old illnesses have relapsed recently. They are all old injuries left on the battlefield. As he gets older, his health is getting worse day by day." Chai Shao said with some emotion, "Qingyang is becoming more and more calm."
He was indeed a little emotional. Seven years ago in Longyou, he could not have imagined that the young man who was just starting out would actually stand taller than him now.
The group took their seats.
The silver-haired princess first raised her glass to toast Wu Huaiyu, "This glass of wine is to apologize to Mr. Wu on behalf of my two unhappy nephews.
My second brother died early, leaving those two boys behind. They were neglected when they were young. When they grew up, they were uneducated and dissolute. They made a big mistake today. They even bumped into Mr. Wu, hoping that he would be the prime minister.
I can punt the boat and forgive them once."
Seeing the elderly eldest princess toasting to him to apologize, Wu Huaiyu could only pick up the wine glass and return the favor.
Little fat Li Tai also picked up his wine glass,
"Teacher, on behalf of my two cousins, I also apologize to the teacher. I hope the teacher can give them another chance. Students should do it first,"
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Wu Huaiyu looked at the little fat man. He was so chubby that he knew how to drink, and he could even say such respectable words.
Somewhat unexpected.
He also knew that this little fat man had been especially favored by Li Shimin and his wife in recent years. After Cheng Qian had an affair with Cheng Xin, Li Shimin even publicly said that if there was no prince, the mother and brother would be the next, hinting that he would establish the king of Wei.
Although he knew that these words were more just to put pressure on Cheng Qian,
But Li Tai would definitely take such words seriously.
Now that the relationship between the emperor and the prince has eased, Li Shimin also realized that there are some things he should not say. Back then, Li Yuan also told him several times that he wanted to make him the heir apparent. This also gave him the determination and ambition to fight for the heir apparent, which eventually led to trouble.
fratricide,
After Li Shimin came to his senses, he cut off Li Taiji's position and gave up the idea of moving him to Wude Palace as he waited for the various governorships.
He even planned to divide them into feudal states and establish a country.
This sudden change undoubtedly hurt Xiaopang the most.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, especially when there was no hope, but you gave some hope and then took it away.
This is very disturbing.
After all, the little fat man is still young. Even if he is quite precocious and may even be a bit mature, he is still a young man after all.
Definitely unwilling to do so.
What's more, the current Wei Prince's Mansion is not just for the interests of the little fat man. A group of people have gathered behind him.
Wu Huaiyu thought that next, the eldest princess and the little fat man would ask Wu Huaiyu to agree to settle the matter, and even bring the Li Fengci brothers from the county government to apologize and toast in person.
As a result, they never mentioned the brothers again.
It seemed that the two brothers were just an inducement and a prop for them to invite Wu Huaiyu over.
Could it be that their real intention was to drag Wu Huaiyu onto King Wei's ship?
Could it be that the eldest princess, Chai Shao and even Yang Shidao all supported King Wei?
