The weather is still hot.

The willows by the Weishui River are clinging, and under the shade of the trees, the eldest grandson Wuji wears a white folded cloth robe, with his face open and breasts, and only a dark green jasper belt is tied around his waist. The hair was tied in a bun very casually, and a wooden hairpin was inserted.

His outfit has a bit of the madness of Wei and Jin celebrities, but it also reveals low-key luxury. After all, a jade belt around someone's waist is estimated to be worth hundreds of yuan. The cloth clothes on the body are also more expensive than silk, but there is really only a piece of wood stuck in the head.

The large black chest hair on the chest of the eldest grandson Wuji is very eye-catching, and he is more like a martial artist, fat and round like a butcher, I really can't see that this is a veteran minister who has served as the prime minister of the Tang Empire for decades.

"The old man still thinks that your kid ran away like this, and today you know that you want to come and say goodbye to the old man?"

"Zhao Guogong laughed, the kid must come to say goodbye before leaving Beijing."

Li Xiao spoke very carefully and politely, and there was no way to be careless. The eldest grandson Wuji called him here, he thought that the eldest grandson was there, but when he came, he found that a large group of veterans and important ministers had gathered here in his mother's house.

The eldest grandson Wuji is showing a large lump of black chest hair here, and there is a shirtless Chu Suiliang next to him, a barefoot Han Yuan, Yu Zhining in a Confucian shirt, and Laiji who is soaking in water with red fruits, and a big fat man Gao Cheng, and Cui Dunli in a purple robe.

In this group of people, except for Gao Cheng, the others are all former prime ministers or current prime ministers, and all of them are veterans and ministers.

This is obviously the gathering of the major incense hall masters of the Guanlong Gang.

Li Xiao's head sweated slightly, have these people gathered here to report to the chief helmsman Li Zhi? Is it an illegal assembly?

Han Ying slapped Li Xiao on the shoulder, "In your kid's eyes, you're just the eldest grandson and the old horseman, so there is no one for me, Han?" ”

Li Xiaolian said that he didn't dare.

"That's no one with me?" Cui Dunli squinted his eyes and said.

Doesn't this raise the bar?

But then again, Li Xiao is curious about what Cui Dunli is doing here, this was originally a fishing activity for a group of retired old cadres, why did you, a current prime minister, come here?

After thinking about it, I seemed to understand something again.

Cui Dunli is the head of Boling Cui's family, and he is a representative of the five surnames and seven old scholars. Originally, they didn't pee in the same pot with the Guanlong faction, and in the past, the Shandong scholars and the Guanlong nobles didn't like each other. But later, under the leadership of the hall master Liu Zheng, everyone got together for a common goal.

This goal is to support the crown prince Li Zhong.

Later, Liu Zheng died of illness, and before he died, he specially told his eldest grandson, Lao Pifu, to unite the Shandong Shi clan, especially the five surnames and seven gates. As a result, there was a later visit to Cui Dunli.

To put it bluntly, Cui Dunli is the Standing Committee that replaced Liu Zheng's lack of advancement, and he represents the interests of the Shandong Shi clan, but at the same time, he was also promoted by the Guan Long Gang and pulled him in.

Emperor Li Zhi also worshipped Cui Dunli at that time in order to balance the interests of the major gangs.

Now that the Guanlong Gang has almost been cleared out of the court, Li Daozong replaced the eldest grandson Wuji to go in, but it also represents another group of people from the Guanlong Gang.

Cui Dunli used to think that Li Xiao was okay, but now he hates Li Xiao.

"You kid only has Uncle Changsun, Uncle Han, Uncle Chu in his eyes, and you haven't even looked at me Cui someone here. You kid, is this a dog's eye looking down on people? Or do you only have Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, Xue Rengui, and Li Daozong in your eyes? ”

"Cui Xianggong, if you say this, you will be ashamed." Li Xiao was not polite to Cui Dunli, it didn't matter if he called Uncle Wuji, but he wouldn't call Uncle Cui Dunli.

Some people, who are not destined to become friends, are too lazy to do useless socializing.

The eldest grandson Wuji laughed, "Xiangrui Mo needs to pay attention to Cui Pifu, you are from our Guanlong, don't pay attention to them from Shandong." ”

Cui Dunli was speechless.

Li Xiao couldn't help laughing, saying that he had indeed been labeled as a Guanlong faction, but he had a good relationship with the Shandong Juntou Gang in the past, anyway, he had a bad relationship with the Shandong Shizu Gang.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, there are now two major factions in the DPRK and China, one is the Guanlong faction and the other is the Shandong Gang. And there are two factions in the Guanlong Gang, and there are also two factions in the Shandong Gang.

The literary department in the Guanlong faction is naturally headed by the eldest grandson Wuji, although Chu Suiliang, Yu Zhining and others did not completely belong to the Guanlong aristocracy before, but they still became the helmsman of the Guanlong eldest grandson Wuji. The martial arts department of the Guanlong faction is naturally headed by Li Daozong and Xue Wanche, and when Zhenguan, this faction also has famous generals such as Li Jing and Li Xiaogong, as well as Chai Shao, Duan Zhixuan, Yin Kaishan, Liu Hongji, Qu Tutong and other famous generals are all martial arts.

And Du Ruhui and Gao Shilian at the time of Zhenguan were literary.

There are small hills in the big mountains, which is an inevitable thing throughout the ages, and even if it is really subdivided, there are still many small hills in the two factions of the civil and military.

However, the civil and military factions are relatively obvious mountain divisions in any big mountain.

Just like in the Shandong Gang, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, etc. are from the Wen faction, while Li Ji, Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, etc. are from the Wu faction. And if it is further subdivided, Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling are of the same sex as Qin Qiong and the others in the Shandong Military Meritorious School, and the five surnames and seven families in Shandong are represented by the old school of Shandong, and Wei Zheng belongs to the Xinwen School of the Shandong Gang.

The Tang Dynasty has been established for decades, especially after the destruction of the Eastern Turks during Zhenguan, there is already a state of invincibility with a sword in all directions, and a major consequence of the peak of national power is the rise of Wenchen power.

As the saying goes, things must be opposed, and the generals are invincible all over the world, so at this time, the literati began to propose that the martial arts cultivate the literature, and there is no place for the world to be used, and the status of the generals is naturally beginning to decline.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the generals charged ahead, but now, it has become the time when the civil servants are active.

Although the eldest grandson Wuji and Cui Dunli belonged to the Guanlong faction and the Shandong faction respectively, they were both Wenchen, and they were once allies in the alliance.

In the words of the eldest grandson, Li Xiao is one of them.

The eldest grandson said that Li Xiao was sent by Wenchen, and it was also from their Guanlong Gang.

Li Xiao didn't expect that he was still from the Wenchen faction, and he thought that he would be classified as a craftsman and villain by them.

"Don't think about it, you kid, I called you here today, and I don't mean anything else, I know that you are going to Baekje, so I call you to say goodbye. In addition, you made the old puppet Cui and the old puppet angry before, and I don't care about the right or wrong in the court, but in private, you have to apologize to them. ”

This Li Xiao doesn't care, he doesn't look at the face of the monk and looks at the face of the Buddha, and the public and private are clear. It's nothing to apologize, if he can ease the relationship a little he wants, he actually doesn't want to make enemies everywhere.

"There is another matter, before His Majesty issued that bond, we all bought it, the land of Baekje taken by the imperial court as a mortgage, and our families have a lot of land over there, and now you have to go over to take office, and you will have to take care of it more in the future."

The eldest grandson Wuji told Li Xiao that this time these old cadres would send some stewards to Baekje to take over the fields and manage them there, so they would go with Li Xiao along the way, and let Li Xiao take care of them more in the future.

"Thank you, Uncle Eldest Sun." Li Xiao's uncle is very sincere. He knew that this was actually a great gift from his eldest grandson, and it was really a long way to go to Baekje and he was single-handed, and it was not easy to be a good assassin. Now the eldest grandson and they arranged for people to go to develop Baekje together, that is, they are helping him Li Xiao.

This is equivalent to attracting investment and taking office.

What a big gift, Li Xiao accepted it with a smile.

"Thank you, the old man and the others don't want to waste a lot of money in Baekje."