Yang Wu couldn't laugh or cry about Yang Xingmi and the others who set up a family affair for him without making a sound, but just as Yan Ke begged them to think, the current situation and Zhong Chuan's marriage was good for Huainan, so he didn't object. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Political marriage, it is inevitable for a person of his status, even if it is a marriage with Zhou Mengjie, it is because Zhou Ben is a general in Huainan, and marrying his daughter is to win over Zhou Ben, isn't this a political marriage? It's just that Yang Wu and her have a relationship in private.

So he is not opposed to marrying Zhong Chuan, the only thing that worries him is that this daughter of the Zhong family was born noble, and Zhong Chuan was born old, and she is highly valued, and the environment in which she grew up must be a collection of thousands of favors.

Behind every successful man there is often a virtuous wife, not to mention the famous queens such as the eldest grandson of Tang Taizong in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's Empress Ma, and now Zhu Quanzhong's wife Zhang is a good example.

Zhang's is virtuous and smart, dares to speak out, has a law, and is deeply loved by Zhu Quanzhong; And Zhu Quanzhong has a violent personality, moody, and easy to kill people at every turn. Whenever Zhu Quanzhong was angry and wanted to condemn innocent people, only Zhang dared to persuade and save innocent people.

This provided a guarantee for the early stage of Houliang to maintain unity between the upper and lower levels, reduce internal friction, and be consistent with the outside world, so as to provide a guarantee for the rapid rise of the land of the four wars in Bianzhou.

Later, Zhu Quanzhong did a lot of ridiculous things in his later years, and wantonly killed heroes, causing turmoil and turmoil within the Houliang, and the Houliang also began to go downhill until it was finally destroyed by the Later Tang Dynasty. Although this cannot be said to be entirely due to Zhang's death and the loss of someone who can advise him, it also has a lot to do with it.

Although Yang Wu does not have character flaws like Zhu Quanzhong, it is indispensable for a virtuous wife to guard the back house. Now that he is ready to marry the two girls back home, Zhou Mengjie has a gentle personality and is not a difficult person to get along with; He Yiyi is even more naïve. It must have been a blessing for him to marry these two girls.

But if you marry a woman who doesn't know the reason and blindly messes around, then you will have to bear it in the future.

"Wu'er, the marriage between you and the girl of the Zhou family should be set in January next year. Of course, the specific time still needs to be discussed with the people of the Zhou family. In the back house, Yang Xingmi said with a smile.

He is fifty-two years old this year, and according to the sayings of this era, fifty years old is the age of knowing the destiny of heaven; Compared to others, he is now a prince, and he has an outstanding son who will inherit his family business, which can be said to be perfect in every way.

The only regret for him is that he hasn't hugged his grandson at this age. Now that Yang Wu, as his eldest son, has finally reached the time to start a family, of course he feels happy.

"Next January, that's next month? Why is it in such a hurry? Yang Wu said with some surprise.

According to the etiquette of this era, marriage must go through six processes: Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, asking for date, and greeting relatives, which is a bit complicated to handle. And this is just an ordinary civilian, and it is more complicated for a person of Yang Wu's status to get married.

Fortunately, in July this year, more than half of the six processes have been completed, and now there are only two processes: the later invitation and the kiss.

Among them, the invitation period is that the man sends a messenger to the woman's home to inform the selected marriage date, and the marriage date can be set after the woman's parents smile and accept the dowry, and then the woman is officially waiting for the bridegroom to welcome her.

"Don't worry, no, now that the war in the south is urgent, the elimination of Qian Biao has reached a critical time, without Wu'er, you will personally stare at it, and you will not be at ease!" Yang Xingmi said with a smile.

To be honest, he didn't expect Yang Wu to have such an outstanding performance today. He still remembered that when Yang Wu first went to the battlefield last year, it was with Li Shenfu to conquer Feng Hongduo, the assassin of Shengzhou. At that time, he was not worried about Yang Wu's safety, the only thing that worried him was whether Yang Wu would do anything to lose his identity when he arrived on the battlefield, such as running away from the battle.

But what happened after that made him feel unbelievable and pleasantly surprised again and again. Over the past year, victory after victory has made Yang Xingmi feel that his son's ability to lead troops to fight is indeed far superior to him.

In fact, a long time ago, some generals reacted that the command of the Huainan army was scattered, and many times the generals fought separately, and only the few times when Yang Xingmi personally went out to fight had a unified command.

For this point, Yang Xingmi is not unaware of the drawbacks, but he himself is not very good at commanding troops to fight, if the command is concentrated, there will definitely be the possibility of a certain general taking sole control of the military, which Yang Xingmi strongly opposes.

However, now that Yang Wu, a son who can fight well, he will naturally put the command in his hands.

"January is January, anyway, you have the final say on these things, and the child's opinion is not important." Yang Wu said with a smile.

"What, are you still angry that your father arranged a marriage for you without telling you?"

"It's nothing to marry Zhong Chuan, but what the Zhong family girl's personality and appearance are, these children don't know. No matter how you say it, you have to inquire clearly before making a decision! ”

"Don't worry, my father has already sent someone to inquire, although that girl has heard that she is a little willful, but she is a sensible person, and she will not disturb your back house. Besides, this is Wu Wangfu, not the Nanping Wangfu of his Zhong Chuan, and his daughter can't help but make trouble here! If she really makes your house uneasy in the future, you will just divorce her! Yang Xingmi said with a relaxed face.

Yang Wu couldn't help rolling his eyes, he couldn't help but think of Yang Xingmi's original wife, Mrs. Zhu, after Zhu Yanshou was killed, Mrs. Zhu, who had no major faults, was directly divorced by Yang Xingmi.

However, what makes Yang Wu feel funny is that in this case, after divorced his wife, he would let her become a monk, or let her live alone in a certain courtyard, just like entering a cold palace, but Yang Xingmi did not choose these two ways, but took the initiative to marry Mrs. Zhu to the original Qizhou Thorn Shi Shishan, and I don't know what he thinks.

At this time, Mrs. Shi suddenly came over and said with a smile: "This marriage, your little maid will also marry, she and you grew up together, and have a deep relationship, last time she helped you block the catastrophe, why do you have to give someone a name." ”

Yang Wu was stunned for a moment, remembering He Yiyi's innocent appearance, and hurriedly requested: "Father, speaking of Yiyi, the child is trying to mention this matter to you." The child wants to marry her as a flat wife, but according to her background, her background is too low, and her parents died early, so the child wants her to recognize a father-in-law and give her a background, what does the father think? ”

"Let her recognize her father-in-law?" Yang Xingmi suddenly became serious, it is not a trivial matter to recognize his father-in-law, especially He Yiyi is just a maid after all, if she proposes it rashly, I don't know if others are willing to accept it.

However, his son put it forward so solemnly, and he didn't want to refuse directly, so he asked, "Who are you going to let her recognize as her father-in-law?" ”

"How is General Lee Seung-hee?" Yang Wu said.

"Lee Seung-hee?" Yang Xingmi frowned, but he had a plan in his heart.

Let He Yiyi's Li Chengsi be his father-in-law, and then marry home as a flat wife, so that he can have an explanation for He Yiyi, and secondly, he can also win over Li Chenghe, which is also a good way.

Li Chengsi has a very high prestige in the army, and now he is one of the six governors, commanding an army of 20,000 and holding military power. And among the six governors of Huainan today, in addition to Yang Wu, Li Shenfu and Tai Meng, both of whom are Yang Xingmi's old brothers, Wang Maozhang is his guard, and Zhou Ben is now an in-law, but Li Chenghei, although he is loyal to Yang Xingmi, but if there is no other relationship, his heart is not so reassured.

Originally, if Li Chengsi had a daughter, it would be best for Yang Wu to marry him directly, but unfortunately he didn't. The idea that Yang Wu is proposing now is a different way of thinking.

Thinking of this, Yang Xingmi said: "It's also a good idea to let that girl recognize Li Chengsi as her father-in-law, but will Li Chengsi agree?" And what does that girl think? ”

Yang Wuxi said: "Father, don't worry, there will definitely be no problem on Yiyi's side, as for General Li Chengsi's side, I want my father to go and talk to him." ”

Yang Xingmi smiled and said, "For my father, I thought that you had agreed with Li Chenghei, so if you are your father, I will find an opportunity to help you ask." ”

At this time, Mrs. Shi said again: "What about the other girl?" I heard that you are in the process of matching her with one of your generals, how is it now? ”

"Mother said Ye Cuicui, her marriage with Zhu Siqing can almost be decided. By the way, father, or you will also consider Ye Cuicui as a righteous daughter, she was originally raised in the Jiedu Embassy. ”

In this era, the matter of recognizing righteous sons and righteous daughters was very common, especially righteous sons, in this troubled era, recognizing righteous sons was also an important means used by various feudal towns to win over their subordinates.

For example, the famous "Thirteen Taibao", except for the second Taibao Li Cunqiao, the other twelve are Li Keyong's adopted sons.

Zhu Quanzhong also likes to accept righteous sons very much, such as Zhu Youwen, he is versatile, and older, and he is deeply favored by Zhu Quanzhong, Zhu Quanzhong even wants to make Zhu Youwen the heir, which caused the dissatisfaction of his son and son Zhu Youqi, Zhu Youjun launched a coup d'état and killed Zhu Quanzhong and Zhu Youwen together.

The righteous son who passed on the throne to himself, in addition to the failure like Zhu Youwen, there are also successful and more famous ones, such as Xu Zhihe and Chai Rong in history, who were inherited as righteous sons.

In addition, there is also Li Keyong's righteous son Li Siyuan in the "Thirteen Taibao", who later became the Later Tang Mingzong.

Therefore, Yang Xingmi was not surprised by Yang Wu's proposal to let He Yiyi and Ye Cuicui recognize a stepfather.

"You want to use this to further win over Zhu Siqing, right? That Zhu Siqing is indeed a good general, and this time he made a great contribution to the expedition with Li Shenfu. It is necessary for you to win him over, but you must know that you cannot trust only one person at any time, and you must also try your best to win over other generals, and you must not slack off. ”

"Yes, the child knows." Yang Wu nodded in response.

"As for Ye Cuicui, being a father is as you wish, and recognizing her as a righteous daughter is." Yang Xingmi smiled, and then patted Yang Wu's shoulder: "Okay, I won't talk about these things." This time you will be asked to go back to Guangling, mainly because you get married. However, these things are mainly done for the father, you don't have to worry about it, you should do a good job of the imperial examination during this time. ”

"Imperial examinations? Has the time been set? Yang Wu was a little surprised, last time he and Yang Xingmi had already mentioned that they wanted to open the imperial examination, but later because of the fact that the three major feudal towns came to attack together, plus many things in Guangling at that time, this imperial examination was temporarily stopped.

"Yes, it has been determined, the time is in March next year, first by the states for a rough selection, and then to Guangling to come directly from the Jiedu Embassy for further selection." Yang Xingmi said: "I didn't think that this time in the southern expedition, Wang Maozhang conquered the land of the four states within a few months, and they all need to be governed, but now there are not many people in Huainan who can be used, how can I do it if I don't cultivate it as soon as possible?" ”

Yang Wu said: "It is to be cultivated as soon as possible, the child estimates, if everything goes well, it should not take a few years to completely eliminate Qian Di, when the time comes, many places in Jiangnan will be directly converted into internal states, and a large number of civil officials are needed to govern, if you don't train as soon as possible now, you will continue to use military generals to serve as assassins in the future." ”

In fact, at this time, he can also understand why Yang Xingmi used a large number of military generals as assassins, no way, there are enemies all around, and it is difficult to reassure people at all without military generals serving as assassins.

For example, the four states that have been defeated now, Muzhou and Wuzhou are directly facing Qian Biao, and they may be counterattacked by Qian Biao in the future; The situation in Chuzhou and Wenzhou is even worse, with Taizhou and Mingzhou in the east still in the hands of Qian Biao, and Wang Shenzhi entrenched in Fujian in the west.

Now there is no grudge between Huainan and Wang Shenzhi, but with the large-scale expansion of Huainan's forces, Wang Shenzhi will definitely feel a serious threat, at this time, Wang Maozhang's army is stationed, it is good to say, once Wang Maozhang evacuates in the future, it is difficult to say whether Wang Zhenzhi will take the opportunity to send troops to attack.

In this case, only the appointment of a military general can be reassuring. However, these are only temporary, once the places are pacified, if the military generals continue to be used as assassins, it is difficult to guarantee that no one among these generals will rely on the Tiangao Emperor in remote places to engage in secession.

Therefore, after the pacification of the south, it is still necessary to use civilian officials to replace military generals as assassins.

"The things you need to pay attention to this time are to determine the topic of this imperial examination, the second is to confirm the candidates for the examiner, and the third is to formulate a system for my imperial examination in Huainan." Yang Xingmi continued.

"Yes, the child will definitely hold this course."

At this time, a maid came to inform her that lunch was ready, and asked when the lunch would begin.

"Okay, our father and son haven't been alone together for a long time, so let's have a drink at noon today!" Yang Xingmi said with a smile on his face.