The fiancée of King Li You of Qi is Jingzhao Weishi, the daughter of Wei Ting.
Wu Huaiyu and Wei Ting have never gotten along well with each other. His dislike of Li You does not mean that he hates Wu Jiwu.
"Your Highness, please come with me."
At Qin Qiong's house in Licheng, a maid asked Li You to see Alang.
"My sister is really good-looking. How old are you this year?" Li You, who was wearing a purple robe, was tall and thin, and had not grown out at all. He had started to grow a mustache on his mouth, and his voice had just begun to change. He had a very ugly voice.
This guy is not a big guy, but he is quite a dandy.
Even the maids in Qin Qiong's house would tease Qingbu, grabbing their hands directly, and even smelling their scent,
"Sister, she smells so good. No matter what kind of soap she wears, she still uses perfume. The color of her lipstick is also nice. Let me try it."
The maidservant was only around 28 years old. Although she had seen some things in the house, she was still young. She had never seen such a frivolous person.
For a moment, my face turned red all the way to the root of my neck,
But the other party has a noble status and dare not scold him.
Li You really held the girl's hand and smelled her body several times. Finally, he stretched out his hand to pull the girl's head over, kissed the maid's lips rudely, and actually ate the maid's lipstick.
“So fragrant and sweet,”
Shi Xue Dading, the chief minister of the Prince of Qi, looked on with helplessness, "Your Majesty, this is the residence of the Duke of Qi. Don't lose your etiquette."
Sima Yan Hongxin sneered at the side, "She is just a cheap maid, and the king can like her. It is the blessing she has cultivated for several generations. If she reveals it to the state of Qi later, with just one sentence, the Duke of Qi will definitely treat this humble maid. Give it to the king."
His younger brother Yan Hongliang said even more boldly, "Your Highness got tired of playing with it, so he gave it to me, hehe."
The maidservant's face turned bloody and she was trembling because of what they did to her.
Fortunately, Li You didn't dare to be too presumptuous in Qin Qiong's house. After treating the maid lightly, he let her go and let her lead the way.
The maid led several people to a courtyard where Qin Qiong was staying.
The Qin Mansion in Licheng occupies a very large area. It was built by Qin Qiong when he came back to worship his ancestors after the Tang Dynasty unified the Central Plains. It was renovated and expanded on the basis of the old house. It was much larger than before.
The Qin family has always been a powerful local power in Qizhou and has been an official for generations. They are not the generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty in the novels, nor are they the poor people who had to work as catchers in the Sui Dynasty.
Just like Cheng Yaojin's family in Jeju next door, they were also powerful for generations and had a great business, so they would not sell illicit salt at all. Even in the Sui Dynasty, the court did not prohibit private people from collecting and selling salt, and there was no such thing as illicit salt sales.
"Alang,"
The maid came in, her face was still very bad, and her voice was trembling when she reported.
Qin Qiong saw that she was strange and glanced at her a few times. The maid did not dare to look at her or complain.
Huaiyu waved to her directly,
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Zi Yan."
Huaiyu brought her closer and said, "What happened just now? Tell me directly. Don't hide it."
The maid named Zi Yan bit her lip and did not dare to speak.
"With me and my adoptive father making the decision for you, what are you afraid of?"
Li You was very unhappy when he heard this.
"Teacher, she's just a cheap maid. This slave came to deliver a message just now. I saw that she was pretty, so I just teased her for a few words."
Huaiyu ignored him and continued to ask Zi Yan. Zi Yan's face turned red and white, but she did not dare to say a word. After all, he was the prince and she was just a slave.
After hearing this, Qin Qiong understood what happened, her face became extremely ugly, and her pale golden face turned red and angry.
"King Qi," Huaiyu turned to Li You, "it is rare for you to dare to do something. In this case, please tell me in detail what happened just now."
Li You was even more dissatisfied when he saw Huaiyu's aggressive appearance, but he didn't want to directly offend him and Qin Qiong.
"Teacher, I was wrong just now. I apologize to Duke Qi,"
"In addition, I am willing to compensate the Duke of Qi for ten slaves. They are not valuable anyway. In the disaster area, one stone of grain can be exchanged for a big girl. She is clean and beautiful, and her virginity is guaranteed. Those little yellow-haired girls under ten years old , now even two or three buckets of grain can be exchanged for one,”
He said proudly,
He even insinuated that Wu Huaiyu was using the topic to make trouble.
Yan Hongliang said proudly, "I will also give ten to the Duke of Jin."
"Who are you?"
"The lower official is Yan Hongliang, who serves as the commander of Prince Qi's palace."
The rank of the Prince's Palace Dianjun was not low, and he was on the fifth rank. Wu Huaiyu had previously heard from Qin Qiong that Yan Hongxin, the brother-in-law of Li You's uncle Yin Hongzhi, was the Sima of the Prince of Qi's Palace. This Yan Hongliang must be Yan Hongxin's brother.
He glanced at it,
Sure enough, behind Li You he saw someone who looked very similar to Yan Hongliang.
Yan Hongxin, Yan Hongliang, a Sima of the Prince of Qi's Palace with a fifth rank, and a Dianjun of the Prince of Qi's Palace with a fifth rank. I heard from Qin Qiong that Yan Hongxin was the grandson of Yan Rong, the general manager of Youzhou in the Sui Dynasty.
Concubine Yan Xian in Li Shimin's palace was Yan Rong's granddaughter and Wu Erniang's aunt and cousin.
The Yan brothers are cousins of Concubine Yan Xian.
The Yan family is also a general, and there are two relationships in the palace: Concubine Yan Xian and Concubine Yin De. No wonder.
I wrote down the names of these two brothers in my mind. If I want to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys, these two brothers are a better target.
When the sky is crazy, it will rain, and when people are crazy, there will be misfortune.
If the Yan brothers are so crazy, their butts must be dirty and easy to find out.
Li You is crazy, he is Li Shimin’s son after all, so who do you think you are?
"Your Highness, you, the noble prince, came to visit the Duke of Qi, but you molested the master's maid. This is very rude.
Your Highness is young and doesn't understand the rules. If you make a mistake, you can still correct it.
But when Your Highness just made a mistake, you were surrounded by the Chief Shi, Sima, and Dianjun of the Prince of Qi, but no one said anything to advise you.
Even this Yan Dianjun can say such nonsense in front of Qi Gong and me, which is really shocking."
Qin Qiong shouted loudly,
"Come here, beat this rude person out," Qin Qiong pointed at Yan Hongliang and shouted.
Immediately, several strong men came in, all of them were Qin Qiong's servants. They were all former pawns. They were all very tough with scars all over their bodies.
In their eyes, they didn't care about Concubine Yan Xian's cousin, Concubine Yin De's relatives, or Prince Qi's confidants. They directly stretched out their hands, grabbed both arms, and pushed them out.
"Mr. Qi, my brother is a rude man and has offended Mr. Qi. Please forgive me. We will apologize to Mr. Qi," Yan Hongxin stood up.
"Get out of here too," Qin Qiong was really angry.
Although the two brothers from the Yan family are both fifth-grade officials in Fei Pao, they are nothing in Qin Qiong's eyes. Such people who relied on nepotism to get a Fei Pao position have no face to show off in front of him.
"Duke Qi, give me some face," Yan Hongxin said with a gloomy face.
"Kick them out together. Such people and wild dogs will not be allowed in again."
Qin Qiong's words are a bit hurtful,
The faces of the Yan brothers turned red and white, but this was the Qin family, and the servants of the Qin family didn't care about your identity. Four strong men directly captured one of them and forced him out of the door.
Li You was originally quite arrogant,
Unexpectedly, Wu Huaiyu and Qin Qiong did not give him any face and beat his right-hand man out like this. Li You was very angry, but also a little scared.
After all, his arrogance and arrogance were actually promoted by his subordinates.
After all, he is just a fourteen-year-old boy.
He turned his attention to Xue Dading, the Sima, and brought in three people, and this was the only one left.
"Shi Xue Dading, the chief minister of Prince Qi's palace, has met Duke Qi and Duke Jin. Please calm down."
Xue Dading actually didn't persuade Li You outside just now. It's not that he and the Yan brothers have the same virtues, but that since he became the chief historian of the Qi Palace, he has seen too many bad and dirty things, and it's a little bit... No wonder,
I had tried to persuade him before, but King Qi turned a deaf ear to him, and his long history's words were of no use at all, so he didn't waste any words just now.
Now that I think about it, I'm actually a little ashamed. After all, he is the chief historian of Prince Qi's palace appointed by the emperor, and is a fourth-rank official.
"Why didn't you advise and teach the king before?"
"Why didn't you reprimand the Yan brothers just now?"
"How did you become the chief historian of Prince Qi's palace?"
Qin Qiong asked three times, and then asked someone to beat him out.
Xue Dading lowered his posture and apologized repeatedly, for himself and for the Xue family, becoming the King of Qi.
Wu Huaiyu stood up to smooth things over at this time, not to give Li You face, but to know that Xue Dading was different from the Yan family brothers. His experience was also very legendary, and Li You was now the governor and governor of the six states of Qi and Qing Dynasty, but Because he was only fourteen years old and spent all day eating, drinking, playing and hunting, he, the chief official of the palace, was in charge of affairs on behalf of Li You.
During this disaster relief effort, Li You was also Qin Qiong's deputy envoy, but he went hunting in Mount Tai and hunted whales in the Bohai Sea. He didn't bother to care about these matters at all.
Like Huaiyu's father-in-law Fan Xing, this man once worked as a palace slave.
Of course, that was a matter of the previous dynasty. Xue Dading was from a famous Xue family in Hedong. His father was a governor in the Sui Dynasty. When Yang Liang, the king of Han Dynasty, rebelled, his father was involved and lost his life. Xue Dading was sold as an official slave. Exiled to Chenzhou.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he returned to his hometown and went to Li Yuan to make plans and made great achievements. In the fourth year of Takeru's reign, he served as the deputy ambassador of Shannan East Road.
The reason why he is now serving as Chief of the Qi Palace is because Li Shimin valued his ability and specially selected him to assist Li You, who was only fourteen years old.
But Xue Dading is good at doing practical things, but he has no ability to teach Li You.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away, Li You doesn't listen to Xue Dading's advice at all.
Wu Huaiyu still wants to help Xue Dading. It is rare for an official to be able to do practical things. In fact, most people really have no way to deal with an evil obstacle like Li You. He just won't listen to you. What can you do?
Just like in history, Emperor Qian was later rebelled against, and various famous teachers and ministers could not correct it no matter how hard they tried.
Cheng Qian was still under the eyes of Emperor Chang'an, but Li You was in Qizhou, which was far away and he was in his second year of school.
"His Royal Highness King Qi, please go back first."
Qin Qiong and Wu Huaiyu didn't have a good attitude towards Li You, so they invited him back directly. Without their minions around, Li You became much more honest when facing Huaiyu and he quickly ran away.
"Xue Changshi,"
Qin Qiong and Huaiyu stared at this person. Xue Dading felt uncomfortable all over, but he had to be careful not to smile. The expressions of these two people were too serious.
Huaiyu sighed, "Xue Changshi was sold as a slave and exiled to Chenzhou during the Daye Year. This experience was quite difficult, wasn't it?"
Xue Dading nodded, it was hard to look back on that past.
"In this case, why does Xue Changshi still want to make the same mistake again? If you continue like this, I'm afraid you won't be far away from being sold into slavery again and exiled to the frontier."
"Your Majesty has entrusted the fifth prince to your care and guidance, but has Xue Changshi fulfilled his duties? Now, how will His Majesty feel if he knows about the messy and dirty things done by Prince Qi's Palace? Who in the Prince's Palace of Qi can escape punishment? ?”
Wu Huaiyu's few words made Xue Dading sweat like rain and turn pale. He was really scared and really didn't want to go back to the days when he was a slave.
"Please save me, Duke of Qi and Duke of Jin!" Xue Dading said in a side voice. He knew that there was still room for remedy. Wu Huaiyu and Qin Qiong must have left a hole by leaving him.
But this mouth must come at a price, but he has no choice at this time.
Wu Huaiyu likes to cooperate with smart people and doesn't need to waste words.
So he and I were very direct, "His Majesty will be very disappointed with King Qi's current situation, but this matter cannot be hidden, let alone delayed. We can only take the initiative to expose it.
If Xue Changshi could take the initiative to reveal these things, especially if he reported all the details to His Majesty, he would not be so passive.
Whose contribution and fault, who has a major fault and who has a minor fault, must be clearly stated. Although Xue Changshi has also made mistakes, his faults are small and cannot be blamed for others."
Wu Huaiyu made it clear, and Xue Dading also fully understood that now he had to pick himself out and pass the blame to others.
Dump it to whom?
Of course it is not Li You, the king of Qi, but the Yan brothers, and behind them Yin Hongzhi, the minister of the inspection and official affairs department and the official of the Prince of Qi, and Wei Ting, the minister of Xingtaichang and the official of the Prince of Wei.
Wu Huaiyu even promised Xue Changshi that he would be transferred out of the Qi Palace afterwards. If he was willing to go to Lingnan, he could at least be guaranteed the position of governor.
