Chapter 8: The Seven Princes
However, it is undeniable that Xiao Weisong is a good person, perhaps because of the relationship between literature and martial arts, his person is a little more strong, and the original elegance is intertwined in one place, forming the demeanor of a Confucian general.
His clan brother Xiao Yin is more mysterious, after all, a person always wears a mask and can't see his face clearly, but Yu Ying has an indescribable momentum on his body, and he is directly separated from ordinary people.
This point cannot be misunderstood.
How did this family come about? The Seventh Prince was a little curious.
So when the Seventh Prince was drinking the celebration wine with Xiao Weisong, he asked with a little temptation: "Lord Xiao, you are the descendants of the Xiao family in Lanling, and you really deserve to be the queen of the family." ”
As he spoke, the Seventh Prince was a little drunk on his face and hiccuped.
Speaking of which, the Lanling Xiao clan back then was indeed a family, and the children and grandchildren did not know how many generations they had reproduced, and when it came to our generation, it was already regarded as a side branch. ”
What? It's not the main branch of the Lanling Xiao clan? The Seven Princes have some mosquito coil eyes.
When he spoke, Xiao Weisong was already drunk in a daze, and poured the wine bowl into his mouth.
"What a bullshit family, the current Xiao family is no longer the Lanling Xiao family. In our generation, there are three generations of people who have not been officials, what kind of family is there?" Xiao Weisong said.
As he spoke, he didn't know what was in his mind, and he started crying.
"The former clansmen don't know where they went, if I really were the son of the former family, would I be thrown here to wait for death?" Speaking of this, Xiao Wei was so angry that he threw out the wine bowl in his hand.
So the wine bowl was smashed all of a sudden, "Meow!" The Seventh Prince was startled, and he didn't expect Xiao Weisong to hate others.
However, this time, the Seventh Prince felt that Xiao Weisong was also a human being, so he smashed the bowl in his hand and heard a crisp sound.
This is simply a new way to vent, and others have followed.
So, a faint commotion sounded.
"Brother, you're drunk. Yu Ying, who was attracted by the sound of smashing the bowl, saw this scene and had an urge to touch her forehead.
Men really have a big child at some point, and they never grow up.
"Hahaha!" When the Seventh Prince saw Yu Ying and several more bowls in the open space, he felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't help but snort.
Then he stood up, but the Seventh Prince had drunk a little too much, so his steps staggered a little, "Mr. Xiao, it's too late, it's better to punish a few drinks." ”
Seeing that the Seventh Prince bent down, he was about to pour wine into Yu Ying, but he was drunk and confused, so he didn't find the wine jar.
"Your Highness. The attendant shouted.
As a chamberlain who has a lot of experience in seeing people's eyes in the palace, he can naturally see that this Mr. Xiao Yin's full body voice is that he refuses to drink, so he hurriedly supports the Seventh Prince.
"Mr. Xiao, Your Highness the Seventh, I've drunk a little more, I'm already drunk, so let's take a break. The chamberlain hurriedly said.
Then he hurriedly helped the Seventh Prince back to lie down, lest it be too late for a while, and Mr. Xiao's punishment would come.
"I'm not drunk, and I can drink a jar of wine. "I heard the Seven Princes shouting.
Yu Ying shrugged her shoulders, didn't care about the two masters and servants of the Seven Princes, and beckoned someone to help the drunks back.
In fact, the chamberlain who followed the Seven Princes didn't realize at all that Yu Ying was a woman, but his intuition told him not to offend Yu Ying.
Although Yu Ying does not have an official position, everyone else listens to her, and she can be said to be the invisible second-in-command of Beiyuan.
Xiao Weisong welcomed the money and grain transferred by the emperor, after all, it was impossible for him to use the Xiao family's own money to build Beiyuan, if he really did this, the emperor would definitely not rest assured.
For the people sent by the emperor, is it supervision, or surveillance?
Xiao Weisong didn't care too much, anyway, from the beginning, Xiao Weisong didn't plan to embezzle this money and food, it was better for someone to stare at it.
And in this way, there is no one to talk about corruption.
In fact, the Seven Princes learned a lot here, such as: how to do more with the least amount of money?
In addition, when saving money, it also takes into account the lives of ordinary people.
Therefore, in the hearts of the common people, the emperor of the Liang Dynasty was a good man and sent a good official to Beiyuan, so the people of Beiyuan respected the emperor very much.
Of course, this situation was guided by Yu Ying.
If you don't do this, you will snatch the hearts of the people to the Xiao family, no matter how you look at it, the end of competing with the emperor will not be good, and the day when the Xiao family will perish is not far away.
Anyway, in addition to the people's gratitude to the emperor, the Xiao family's popularity in Beiyuan is also good, which is enough.
When Xiao Weisong knew what his sister had done, he was very moved.
Because what my sister did was to let the Xiao family pass on better, which is very important.
Xiao Weisong knows a lot that the Lanling Xiao family was indeed a top family, and it has been inherited for many years, even longer than the royal inheritance.
I also know the power of the family.
There was even a time when the family controlled the official positions in various parts of the court.
At its worst, if the family does not agree with the emperor's decree, then the emperor's decree is a piece of waste paper.
It's just that after the emergence of the great unified dynasty, the implementation of centralized power is bound to get rid of the checks and balances of the family.
So the imperial power began to implement the imperial examination, supporting the disciples of the poor family to compete with the family.
In this way, the strife between Confucian disciples intensified.
The final result was that the poor disciple won.
Although the probability of a poor disciple becoming a talent is small, the base is too large, so there are many poor disciples who have successfully entered the court, and in the end, the family is defeated.
The decline of the family is inevitable.
The disappearance of the family is the trend of the times, and they are powerless to resist, so they can only sail with the current.
Of course, not only the family is embarrassed, but even the people on the emperor's throne have changed a lot, this year's Liu family, next year's Cao family, the next year's Sima family, the dynasty that wants to be thousands of years old does not exist.
It's just that after the decline of the old family, the victor turned out to be envious of the family, so he established a new family.
This situation seems funny, some people hate the family on the one hand, and on the other hand, they learn many things from the family, and they want to build a family themselves.
It's not even a poor disciple who does this, every poor disciple who wants to embark on a career in the official career, although he says that he is a poor disciple, but it is still different in his bones, even if he can't become a family, but it is good to become a scholarly family.
This situation is paraphrased from a sentence in the Dream of Red Mansions: Messy baking, you sing and I will appear.
For these situations, Yu Ying knows, and Xiao Weisong also knows.
But Yu Ying and Xiao Weisong knew that the time when the family was in the limelight had already passed, after all, there were originally many people in the family, and there were also special subordinates in the family, rich and powerful, of course, they had the ability to confront the emperor.
Now their Xiao family is two or three kittens, property, land, and personnel are shrinking everywhere, according to the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, the Xiao family they represent has long fallen out of the scope of the family.
Speaking of which, the Xiao family is not a family now.
Then Xiao Weisong decided that it would be good to pass on this family honestly, at least the Xiao family would not be broken in his generation.
In this way, Xiao Weisong made up his mind in his heart, he no longer cared about the glory of the so-called ancestors, just raise his son.
If all men die, all glory is empty.
Even the current Xiao family is very dangerous, Xiao Weisong knows that there are too few people.
Now there are two men in the Xiao family, if there is no action from his sister, his body does not know, and it is a question whether he can recover?
If only Da Lang is left, relying only on Mama Qian, can the remaining property of the Xiao family be kept?
The same is a problem.
Thinking of this, Xiao Weisong was a little glad that his sister ran back to her parents' house, which was a good thing for the Xiao family.
However, Xiao Weisong is not grateful to the Li family at all, especially Li Zhexuan's bastard, waiting for him, thinking that the people of the Xiao family are so easy to bully?
During this time, the reason why I didn't want to get rid of them was because my sister said: Only the higher you climb, the harder you will fall, and you may even fall to pieces.
Let them climb higher in a nest of snakes and rats of the Li family, and when they settle accounts in the future, they will know that some people are not easy to provoke, and once provoked, it will definitely attract revenge.
In addition, Xiao Weisong also knows his sister and is also paying attention to the Li family.
Anyway, my sister, who has experienced the catastrophe of life and death, has one idea after another in her heart, even more capable than men, and she is lucky to find a follower, which is really powerful.
This made Xiao Weisong feel happy in his heart.
And the reason why Yu Ying is not debunked now, of course, is more because Yu Ying and the Xiao family don't have much help at this time, and they don't have the time and energy to deal with others, so it's better to stand firm first.
Of course, this does not mean that Yu Ying does not plan to check the information of the Li family.
In the information, Yu Ying knows that the Li family has been related to many families over the years, and has become a relatively famous family in the cold family, and even said that there is an elder of the Li family who is still an important minister of the emperor, and he is quite favored by the emperor.
On the contrary, the Xiao family is taboo by officials of certain classes because of the brand of an old family.
This made Yu Ying glad that she didn't start and set out to take revenge.
Because of the Li family at this time, the relationship network behind them is relatively strong, after all, the Li family is considered to be the leader of their class.
In fact, the Li family is now Emperor Chrysostom Yuyan: the family of goodness.
So if you compare it with the Xiao family, then those officials will not help the Xiao family now.
It is even possible that after this incident was exposed, the scholar class who were in a group with the Li family would be more partial to the Li family, quietly kill the fake one, and then say that Yu Ying had hysteria, and directly stuffed Yu Ying to the Li family.
And it is also possible for the Li family to try to kill this daughter-in-law.
Although Yu Ying knew that if she was treated like this, she would definitely not be arrested, but would kill the Li family.
It's just that the end of this is that the reputation of the Xiao family may be damaged, so it's better to take it slowly.
Because if you can't do it now, it doesn't mean you won't work in the future.
Yu Ying remembers that the struggle between the literati factions was very fierce.
The current prosperity of the Li family is actually stepping on many people's homes, so there must be other enemies.
So Yu Ying is not in a hurry, some grudges are not not reported, but to choose the right time.
Of course, Yu Ying has already sent Ah Yi to investigate, and the so-called Xiao family daughter and Li family wife are actually the so-called cousins.
Originally, it was a concubine room with a second room, but she became a lady.
I just don't know who the mastermind is?
Cousin?
Or cousin?
Yu Ying thought about it, is there a difference?
For their own selfishness, they murder others, no matter who comes up with the idea?
Even Yu Ying didn't believe that the rest of the Li family wouldn't know?
In fact, Yu Ying's arrival disrupted some people's plans.
originally thought that the Xiao family's assets were about to fall into their hands, but Xiao Weisong actually came back to life, and even sent his henchmen back to the ancestral land, caught out some of the moths, and disposed of them cleanly.
Then, their plan to send Xiao Weisong to death also went bankrupt.
It can be said that they never thought that Xiao Weisong would be able to turn a disadvantage into an advantage, and actually build Beiyuan quite well.
But this time the emperor directly sent his own people, so Xiao Weisong was registered with the emperor.
The Li family was a little annoyed, originally thought that they could easily get the Xiao family, but they didn't expect Xiao Weisong to get up again.
And it was too late to find out that the young lady, as the eldest lady of the Xiao family, should have a year without contact with Xiao Weisong.
Similarly, the Xiao family also broke off contact with the eldest lady of the Xiao family.
At this time, the Li family naturally knew that something was wrong.
In fact, when the original owner was there, the Xiao family would give the Li family some New Year's gifts every year, but now nothing has been sent, so the Li family feels a little wrong.
But because the Li family had ghosts in their hearts, they didn't dare to say anything.
After all, the imposter at this time looks a little similar to the original owner, but there are still some differences in appearance and temperament.
So they had to plan to contact each other after a while.
After waiting for the impostor's face to open, he went to meet Xiao Weisong again, but he didn't look like the original lady, and it could be said that because of his age, his appearance had changed.
In this way, the Li family pretended that nothing had happened, and even swallowed the Xiao family's tone of not contacting the Li family.
And Yu Ying and Xiao Weisong did not hesitate to take care of the Li family at all, and took care of their own development of Beiyuan.
Time passed in the blink of an eye, and a lot has changed in ten years.
A lot of things have happened during this period, for example, Xiao Weisong has married another wife and gave birth to two sons and a daughter, which means that the master of the Xiao family has finally increased a lot.
There is also an important event, the old emperor has died, and the new emperor is the seventh prince.
When Yu Ying and Xiao Weisong found out, they felt that they would not stay in Beiyuan anymore, after all, the Xiao family had been in Beiyuan for too long, so they should make a move.
Sure enough, the decree arrived.
Xiao Weisong was transferred and wanted to return to the capital.
In fact, many courtiers did not expect that the emperor would hand over the responsibility of guarding the capital to Xiao Weisong, and the Xiao family became a hot family.
As a result, many people came to contact their feelings.
But what is more pitiful is that people in the capital found Xiao Weisong's wife, and they didn't know each other.
Even speaking of which, his wife is just an ordinary family, which makes people feel a little embarrassed, if he knew that Xiao Weisong could get up, he would introduce the relatives of his seven aunts and eight aunts to the surname Xiao.
In this way, they have an important in-law.
When they saw Mrs. Xiao Weisong, many noble ladies felt very painful in their hearts, and they had a sense of déjà vu that a good cabbage made the pigs arch.
Even though this Mrs. Xiao Weisong appeared on the stage, her dress, appearance, and manners were good, but there were always people who wanted to pick thorns and wanted to catch some leaks.
Later, I didn't catch it, and I was a little stupid.
However, to the surprise of the people in the capital, there are many children of Lord Xiao, so there is still a chance to get in touch.
Therefore, Xiao Weisong's wife, Zhang, first received a lot of disdainful glances, and then received a warm welcome.
But the Zhang family was taken aback, in fact, she was originally an ordinary woman, and after marrying into the Xiao family, she realized that the so-called noble lady was not so easy to be, and after Yu Ying's training, she finally passed the test.
But after all, she was not educated since she was a child, so when she appeared, she was still a little uncomfortable.
I still have my daughter by my side to get used to it.
But Zhang's is also a person who has been trained by Yu Ying, so she can naturally see that outsiders' perception of her, in fact, Zhang's heart has written down all the women who showed disdain for her.