Wei Zheng's wife came from a well-known family, the Pei family in Hedong.
Although the Pei family in Hedong is not among the five surnames Qiwang, its family is not inferior to the five surnames Qiwang at all. Its ancestor was Feizi, the founder of Qin Dynasty. Feizi's branch grandson was granted the title of Peixiang, and he was regarded as his surname.
The Pei family is divided into three branches, living in Hedong, Yanjing, Xiliang and other places, especially the Hedong Pei family is the most prosperous. It has a long history of being a hero and a handsome man, famous for its ministers and ministers, and is famous for being one after another. It is especially good at producing capable ministers.
Pei Ji, the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was born in the Pei family of Hedong.
Wei Zheng's wife, Pei, was born in such a famous family.
Among the records about the Pei family in later generations, "jealousy" is the most famous. According to legend, the allusion "jealousy" comes from this: Li Shimin learned that Wei Zheng only had one wife and no concubines, and felt that he was pitiful, so he wanted to give him a few concubines in order to enhance his beauty.
Give it to him. But Wei Zheng didn't dare to ask for it. Li Shimin asked why, and Wei Zheng said that he had to ask his wife about it.
Li Shimin secretly thought that if a man dare not even have a concubine, he must be afraid of his hen. In order to protect Wei Zheng's face, Li Shimin said, otherwise, I will decree a marriage. No matter how powerful your wife is,
You don’t dare to refute the emperor’s face, right?
Unexpectedly, this face has not been given yet.
Li Shimin was a kind-hearted man, so he called Pei and asked, "I gave Wei Zheng my concubine, why don't you let me?"
Mr. Pei replied: "He has the final say in national affairs, but he has to listen to me in family affairs."
Li Shimin seized on the flaw in this statement and said: "When the emperor rewards his ministers, is it a state matter or a family matter?"
Mrs. Pei was silent for a long time, unable to answer this question, and finally said: "She is there without me, there is me without her!"
Li Shimin was slapped in the face for the second time. He was so angry that he asked people to bring poisoned wine to scare Pei. Unexpectedly, before the threat was uttered, Pei picked up the wine glass and drank it. Fortunately, it was not really poisonous wine, so Pei could save his life.
Dead.
When Li Shimin saw that Pei was really upright, he was convinced and never mentioned the reward for his concubine. Because rice vinegar was used instead of poisonous wine, later generations called a woman's jealousy 'jealousy'.
Mrs. Pei manages the family well and is very dignified. At home, even Wei Zheng would not dare to provoke her easily. But this time when Wei Yingluo was punished, Mrs. Pei did not intervene. It is not that she also felt that her daughter was wrong, but
It was Pei who understood Wei Zheng's difficulties.
After a battle with Li Mu, most of the power of the Shandong nobles in the court was lost. Now among the six tribes, there are very few Shandong nobles left. Most of the power is in Yushitai.
The Yushitai seems to be a noble yamen. But if you think about it carefully, you will know that it is a useless place. Because the Yushitai has no real power, if you impeach the emperor eight hundred times, the emperor's inaction is no different from farting.
And if you want to refute someone with your mouth, it is very difficult. At first, Wei Zheng was happy because of his promotion, but then he gradually came to appreciate it. During this time, he has been depressed and has not made any move for a while.
However, he is now the leader of the Shandong gentry in the court. In his position, he must seek his own affairs. Wei Yingluo's relationship with Li Mu was found out by a censor from Shandong. When he came to visit, Wei Zheng must
Come up with an attitude.
The Shandong gentry and Li Mu are at odds with each other. You, Wei Zheng, are the spokesperson of our Shandong gentry. Your daughter is entangled with him. What does this mean?
Unless Wei Zheng changes sides, he must punish Wei Yingluo. Anyone can have a relationship with Li Mu, but only Wei Zheng's daughter must draw a clear line between them.
There is nothing right or wrong about this, it's just that it's not okay.
What's more, Li Mu gave Wei Zheng his biggest setback in the decades since he entered the industry, and made Wei Zheng, an old troll, doubt his life several times. Personally speaking, he also hated Li Mu.
If my daughter had any involvement with someone like Li Mu, would she still have a reputation? Even if it was nothing, if word spread, the family reputation would be ruined.
The reason he wanted Wei Yingluo to admit his mistake was to make it clear that she would never have anything to do with Li Mu in the future. But the annoying thing was that Wei Yingluo was unwilling! Could it be that this girl already had an affair with Li Mu?
Wei Zheng's eyes turned red immediately, his father's anger hit his forehead, and his blood pressure surged up, and then he punished Wei Yingluo severely.
As for this matter, Pei couldn't say anything.
She originally thought that Wei Yingluo was her daughter after all and could not bear such great suffering. She would kneel for a few hours until she couldn't bear it anymore and Wei Zheng's anger had subsided. But she didn't expect that the tempers of the father and daughter were so bad.
She was so stubborn that no one would give in. Wei Yingluo even knelt down until she fainted, but it made her feel bad.
Now that the children have grown up, this little daughter is the only one left. How could she not care about the flesh that fell from her mother's body?
At this moment, he could no longer care about his reason. The doctor was treating Wei Yingluo inside the house, and the two of them started to quarrel in the outer room. Although Wei Zheng could quarrel with the scholars in the court, one of them would criticize three, but at home, he
His fighting power is not even half that of Pei's. He was scolded so much that he finally shut up. You can scold me as much as you want, why don't I just keep silent? You can kill people with nods, and I won't even speak. You
What else can you do to me?
It has to be said that Wei Zhengzhan clearly understood the survival rules of middle-aged men. Other tricks did not work, but this trick really worked. Pei was tired of the quarrel, took a breath, glanced at Wei Zheng, and said: "Now, what should I do?
?!"
"I don't know." Wei Zheng said firmly: "Anyway...as a father, I can't apologize to my daughter."
"I didn't ask you to apologize." Mrs. Pei said: "The censor who came to see you made it clear that he wanted to make a fuss about this matter. But this matter is related to our daughter's reputation. What I asked is this
, what are you going to do?”
Wei Zheng remained silent.
According to the official battle, the best way to gain the most benefit is for Wei Yingluo to stand up and falsely accuse Li Mu. But looking at Wei Yingluo's attitude now, it is clear that she will not agree. Moreover, Wei Zheng is not willing to do this.
do.
But the problem is that he is unwilling to do anything. Those censors born in Shandong are not all gentlemen. You can think with your toes what choices they will make.
Seeing Wei Zheng's silence, Mrs. Pei said angrily: "You old guy, you can't show some attitude and tell those people not to have ideas about our daughter. If they dare to use our daughter to make an issue, you will switch sides."
, if you don’t stay with them anymore...don’t you dare to say this?”
"Oh!" Wei Zheng said angrily: "How can important matters of family and country be trivial?"
Mrs. Pei sneered: "You also said that it is a matter of family and country. You can't even handle family affairs well, how can you handle national affairs well?"
After saying these words, Mrs. Pei got up and went to see her daughter, leaving Wei Zheng alone, in a daze.
Little did he know that the censor left his home and wrote a memorial when he returned home, which is now placed on Li Shimin's desk. If Li Shimin hadn't been upset when he learned about Li Mu's illness, he would have been so upset long ago.
Just saw it.
The thing is so wonderful. The same memorial, read at different times, will produce different effects.
Naturally, the effect of seeing Li Mu before learning about his illness will not be the same as seeing it after learning about Li Mu's illness.
Li Zheng Palace.
Li Shimin talked to Empress Changsun for a while, and when they talked about Li Mu's illness, Empress Changsun was also very sad. They also talked about Empress Changsun's own illness, and the sky became dark. So Li Shimin passed the meal to Changsun in the Lizheng Hall.
The queen dines together.
After dinner, Li Shimin thought of the memorials that he had not finished reading, so he asked the young eunuch to bring them over. He would rest in the Li Zheng Hall today and read these memorials before going to bed.
After a while, I saw this memorial from the censor signed "Lu Zhilin".
Li Shimin became more and more angry as he read it. After reading it, he threw the memorial on the ground and cursed: "Asshole! It's the censor again! It's the Shandong nobles again! Li Mu suffered from brain disease, so these people thought he was about to lose power and slandered him.
Extremely annoying!"
Empress Changsun bent down to pick up the memorial and asked, "Your Majesty, what's the matter?"
Li Shimin's anger remained: "The queen will see for herself!"
Empress Changsun had no choice but to open the memorial and frowned after reading it.
This censor named "Lu Zhilin" wrote a letter to impeach Li Mu on three charges. One is, stealing national wealth. The second is, arrogantly showing off wealth. The third is, molesting women of the people. Stealing national wealth means that Li Mu set up a company to win over powerful people.
, stealing the profits from the salt tax. The arrogant flaunting of wealth refers to Li Mu acting arrogantly and taking pleasure in wealth. The one who molested women of the people refers to Wei Yingluo, saying that Li Mu kidnapped Wei Zheng's daughter and wanted to do something wrong.
Empress Changsun put the memorial on the table and said, "Your Majesty, I also feel that I have wronged Li Mu."
"Isn't that an injustice?" Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, "If it weren't for Li Mu, how would there be fine salt? Without fine salt, where would the taxes come from, and where would the profits come from? And the man who molested civilian girls, why don't I believe that Li Mu would
Why did he do such a thing? He even molested Wei Zheng’s daughter... Why didn’t he say that Li Mu molested my daughter?! He was trying to make excuses!"
When Empress Changsun saw that Li Shimin mentioned the first and last two things, except the middle one about "acting arrogantly and taking pleasure in wealth", she knew that Li Shimin was deliberately defending it. Of the three points mentioned by Lu Yushi, only the middle one can be considered as saying.
By the way. Li Mu has always been arrogant in his actions. Let’s take a detailed look at the things he did. First it was Kong Yingda, then Wei Zheng, plus people from various powerful families. Who was not his elder, who was not older than him? But he never cared.
Yes. This can be regarded as arrogance based on talent, but it would not be wronged to say that he is arrogant.
As for using money for fun, it is even more difficult to argue with. Datang Daily published an advertisement for three days in a row. Chang'an City is now full of people looking for treasures. What is it but using money for fun?
But I can't blame him for this. He earned the money himself, so why shouldn't he be allowed to spend it? Yushi Lu probably didn't have much to say when he listed this item, so he took it out to make up the numbers.
As for the other two, it is impossible to escape the suspicion of Luo Zhi.
"I must deal with this Lu Zhilin tomorrow and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys!"