There was still a night feast in the front hall of King Lu's mansion, but the atmosphere in the back hall was extremely depressing.

Li Tong first sent the concubine Fang and the princess back to his palace from the side gate of the palace, and then returned. When he entered the back hall, he saw Li Shouli sitting alone in the hall, drinking by himself, raising his hand to wipe his tears while drinking, completely losing the spirit and majesty of asking for ten just now.

"Aunt Zhang, she ......"

"San Lang, you scold me, scold me a few words, I'm more comfortable!"

Li Tong was just about to ask, Li Shouli had already taken the first step to speak, and as he spoke, he also knocked on his head: "I'm really stupid, I can't even realize that someone has passed such an evil plan into the mansion!" My aunt she, alas, she's also gullible, she, she's ......"

Li Tong raised his leg and kicked Li Shouli to the side, and he also sat down in the seat, sighing: "This kind of gossip, there is no need to say more. It's not been a day or two since you've lost your meticulousness, but luckily you haven't made a big mess this time. Otherwise, our brothers, hey, will really become the laughing stock of the times! ”

The matter of their brother's being sealed was already manipulated, and the meaning of sowing discord was very obvious, and it directly put Li Tong in an extremely embarrassing position. Li Shouli received the original title of their father Li Xian, and Li Tong received the later title.

On the surface, this arrangement seems to be no big problem. There is the Tang generation, and it is the United States that is sealed in the customs. And after his great-grandfather Li Shimin became the emperor, the title of King Qin was basically not awarded.

Therefore, the title of King Yong is the most noble prince in Guanzhong, and to some extent, it even represents the prince. After all, Yongzhou is where Gyeonggi is located, and the food seal here is naturally extraordinary. Li Tong is the first person to set the chaos, and being named King Yong is also a kind of praise.

But now he is still the heir of his uncle Li Hong, and King Yong is the name of his father Li Xian, which is full of hints. For example, the Fang family, the Zhang family and other female relatives felt that this was a clear signal that he had returned to the clan and joined the heirs, but the court deliberately avoided talking about it.

If he does not return to the sect, there are also many problems, which means that after Li Tong succeeded, he turned around and encroached on the original family business, depriving him of the honor that should belong to his father.

Like his third uncle Li Xian, who was so mean and unkind, before he died, he also left an edict to change his second brother Li Shouli from the King of Yong to the King of Yipin. This seems to be a preferential treatment, but in fact, it completely removed Li Xian's children and grandchildren from the order.

It's because the title of King Yong is too special, even if it's just an heir. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this is a trick played by Empress Wei or his fourth uncle and his aunt, after all, after Li Xian's death, the situation in the DPRK and China is already chaotic, and everyone is holding back the bad.

Li Tong was really busy during this time, and with the initial establishment of the Dugi Provincial Governor's Office, he was busy transporting materials and troops to Shaanzhou and Puzhou, Fenzhou and other places on the other side of the river.

Just last night, he had just returned to Shendu City from Mengjin on the south bank of the Yellow River, and it could be said that he was too busy to touch the ground, and he didn't have much time and energy to ask about the court affairs in detail.

So after being canonized this morning, his heart was also full of suspicions, and he just inquired about a little bit of the inside story, and he didn't have time to deal with it, but he didn't expect that the backyard had already caught fire first, so he also had a fire in his heart at this time.

"I asked clearly, and my mother didn't dare to hide it, and it was her mother's brother Zhang Yan who wanted to cling to the famous clan and join the Qinghe Zhang family, but she was worried that there was no momentum to be respected, so she hit me with the idea. It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous...... They want to cling to distant relatives, but they want to make me feel heartless! ”

Li Shouli's expression was heavy, if it weren't for the fact that there was also his biological mother Zhang's mixing, I was afraid that he would have been angry and scolded.

Li Tong was happy when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the opponent in the dark would have this kind of.

Although Qinghe Zhang's family does not belong to the well-known five surnames and seven wangs, it also has a long heritage and an extraordinary family background. For example, Zhang Xi, the prime minister who had just been cleaned up, was born in the Qinghe Zhang family.

There is a very awesome name called "Wanshi Zhang Family", which is about Zhang Xi's uncle, Zhang Wenjun, the prime minister of the Gaozong period, Zhang Wenjun himself is already a high power, and his four sons have also successively lived in the third grade, so he is such a nickname.

As for Li Shouli's biological mother Zhang, her background is not high, she was just a soldier from Guanzhong, and she was selected into the palace of their deceased father Li Xian by virtue of her appearance and luck.

Being able to join the clan with a famous family like the Qinghe Zhang family is naturally very tempting for this kind of small family, not only for the scenery in front of them, but also for future generations.

This kind of thing can't be said that Li Shouli's biological mother Zhang is too stupid or too selfish, at least in Zhang's opinion, it can not only raise the social status of herself and her mother's family, but also bring a strong reinforcement to her son.

Obviously, this kind of thing is by no means Li Shouli's grandfather's family is thinking about it.

Although it is said that the trend of impersonating famous families is prevalent nowadays, after all, it is also a division of people, even if the family background is not high, but because of the relationship between Li Shouli, it cannot be said that there is no sense of existence at all, and if the operation is improper, it is a big scandal.

Therefore, Li Tong suspected that there should be someone behind him, and he may even have given a clear instruction, as long as the Zhang family can pull his son out to stand on his own, the Qinghe Zhang family will give their family a name of the same clan.

That Zhang Yan happened to be a guest in the middle hall of the palace right now, and long before Li Tong returned, Li Shouli had people introduce him into the inner hall of the palace and temporarily detain him. Because it was about his biological mother, he didn't know how to deal with it, so he waited until the third brother returned to interrogate him together.

Zhang Yan is in his early thirties, and he is still white, and he has not been touched by any royal relatives. Although Zhang's temper is not good, his appearance is not bad, but his appearance is not bad, and Li Shouli, who was born, is also square-headed and big-faced, and can be called handsome.

It seems that the person who secretly stirs up trouble has also been selected, if Zhang Yanchang is so hateful, he is afraid that he will not bother to take care of it.

But although this Zhang Yan looks good, he is actually a straw bag, no matter how to interrogate, he soon recruited several names, Beizhou native Lu Jinglian, subordinate Shaoqing Zhang Xungu and so on.

Lu Jinglian, a native of Beizhou, was responsible for contacting Zhang Yan and introducing him to Zhang Xungu, a subordinate of the Shaoqing, although Zhang Xungu did not say it directly, but hinted at Zhang Yan through others that if Li Shouli's biological mother Zhang could become the princess of Lu, their family's affiliation with the Qinghe Zhang family was greatly discussed.

After knowing these names, Li Tong sketched out the personnel behind him. Qinghe Zhang was originally from Beizhou, and Zhang Xungu, a subordinate of Shaoqing, was the cousin of the former prime minister Zhang Xi, and the middleman Lu Jinglian was not important in itself, but his cousin Lu Jingchun was a famous genealogist in the early Tang Dynasty.

The so-called genealogy is the study of the genealogical inheritance of the family. In this way, it is no wonder that the Zhang brothers and sisters are convinced of this, with the family of the great master of genealogy coming forward, and the descendants of the Qinghe Zhang family guaranteeing that it is too simple to arrange for their family to be attached to the Qinghe Zhang family.

At the same time, Li Tong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, as his position became stronger and stronger, he would unconsciously have entanglements with many people's interests, and malice in many invisible places would suddenly breed.

He did not have any direct conflict with Qinghe Zhang himself, and even at the beginning of the year, Qinghe Zhang was quite eager to marry his daughter to her. Even if there was any evil, it was only during Zhang Xi's tenure as prime minister, but at most, Zhang Xi didn't give him much face, and there was no direct conflict.

Therefore, in the next issue of dealing with Zhang Xi, Li Tong also knew that he would not ask questions, and did not meet Li Qiao, who asked for Zhang Xi. But in fact, the one who really wants to engage Zhang Xi is Prime Minister Li Zhaode.

If you look at it on the surface, Zhang Xungu tempted the Zhang brothers through others, let them do things, and pull Li Shouli away. may really just feel that he can't hold Li Tong's thigh, so he retreats and wants to have a good relationship with Li Shouli.

But long before returning home, Li Tong asked people to inquire about their brother's canonization, and also inquired about the social relationship of Zhang Xungu as a subordinate Shaoqing.

Zhang Xungu is an in-law with the Lu family, and he has a good relationship with Lu Jingchun, a genealogy scholar, and it is because of this relationship that he can serve as an official of the Si Affiliated Temple, that is, the Zongzheng Temple.

Further down the line, this layer of relationship is interesting. Lu Jingchun has a daughter who married into the Hedong Liu family, and the imperial heir Li Dan has a concubine who is also from the Hedong Liu family, and is the granddaughter of the prime minister Liu Zheng, who was killed with the eldest grandson Wuji during the Gaozong period, and gave birth to Li Dan's second son Li Chengyi.

The Liu clan in Hedong was quite hit during the Wu Zetian period, because Liu Zheng supported the queen and empress, his nephew from the Taiyuan Wang clan, and opposed Wu Zetian's feudal queen. Similarly, there is also a concubine Wang De in Li Dan's harem who was born in the Taiyuan Wang family and gave birth to a son, Li Dan's fifth son, Li Longye.

What's even more coincidental is that Wang Defei's father, Wang Meichang, is one of the few people still alive among Li Dan's father-in-law, and he is currently in Shendu. Originally, this Wang Meichang served as the assassin of Runzhou, but because he was implicated in the case of the former winter official Shangshu Su Gan, he was arrested and returned to the capital.

Originally, a guilty person could be escorted to the execution ground every minute, but with the success of the coup d'état of Li Tong and others, Wang Meichang's murder was naturally lifted, and it was also convenient for him to become one of the few relatives in the court.

Many personnel clues are connected in this way, and a small circle centered on Wang Meichang, a foreign relative, is about to come out, and Li Tong and their brothers were sealed and the backyard caught fire, which should be the handiwork of this small circle.

After understanding the connection, Li Tong couldn't help but sneer, and asked people to temporarily put Zhang Yan, who was used as a gun, in the mansion, and then looked at Li Shouli and asked, "Aunt Zhang, how do you plan to deal with it, second brother?" ”

When Li Shouli listened to this complete personnel context from the mouth of the third brother, he couldn't help but gasp, originally thought that it was just his biological mother who was stupid and deliberately flirted with things, but he didn't expect that there was a conspiracy connection.

"I, I really don't know what to do, I've never only listened to Saburo you, you say what to do, then I'll do it."

Li Shouli covered his head and groaned in pain, and sighed: "My mother was bewitched by others this time and ruined my family's righteousness, which is really excessive. But Saburo you, you...... Alas, I don't know what to say. ”