Chapter 692: Giving Face to Each Other
Starting from Chang'an at the beginning of June, swaying and walking lazily along the way, walking thirty or fifty miles a day, chatting is the only way to pass the time, Wang Ziyu is the most knowledgeable, all the way down to each place she can always quote scriptures to say something, of course, the eldest grandson queen, the Yang family also knows a lot, but the age, the identity is there, it is impossible to talk to the juniors about this and that.
The one who talks the most is Wang Ziyu, and then sometimes Xiangcheng, Changle Daya, Erya, Princess Wei, etc., will also talk about it and add it.
Talking about the history of the wild, talking about the future generations of TV and movies, Wu Yuanqing can always say something, but to be serious, especially they always like to tell the source, who wrote which book, etc., Wu Yuanqing was blindfolded, looking up at the confused face and listening to the confused look is really confused.
The days passed little by little, and the distance between them and Jinyang was also shortened little by little, from Longmen to Hejin, and then along the Fen River valley all the way north to Jinyang in early July.
Ten miles south of Jinyang City, Li Zhi, the king of Jin, took his subordinate officials early and waited for the arrival of the queen's Luan.
Wu Yuanqing and his entourage escorted Li Zhi, the king of Jin, and those officials, whom Empress Changsun met at noon.
Li Zhi stepped forward to salute, and then the mother and son, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, said what they missed, and they cried as they spoke. Then the officials who were saluting continued to bow down and maintain a saluting posture.
Datang is not accustomed to kneeling, except for very important occasions, he never kneels in the morning every day, and he bows and salutes when he speaks back.
Wu Yuanqing has always felt that it is really too human to stand and talk to the emperor and empress, but now looking at the mother and son who are looking at each other and crying, and then looking at the officials who have been maintaining a bowing posture, looking at the pitiful appearance of some elderly bodies beginning to sway and unsteady, Wu Yuanqing suddenly felt that it was actually good to kneel at this time.
Of course, this kneeling is because you are tired of bending down to salute, so kneeling, and when you don't feel tired, you can stand up at will, which is the best.
Anyway, it's how comfortable and how to come is the most perfect.
Wu Yuanqing also knew that it was purely a dream to be as comfortable as he wanted to be by temperament, but it was because he couldn't realize it that he thought about it, otherwise why would he want it.
Wu Yuanqing thought boredly, the officials continued to staggered and insisted on bowing and saluting, until it was almost the time of a stick of incense, the mother and son finally finished speaking, and their mood calmed down, at this time, the eldest grandson remembered that there was still a special vote of officials to salute him, and quickly let the family be exempted, but it turned out that these officials still maintained the action of bowing, and the eldest grandson wondered why these people are still addicted to saluting?
In fact, these people have been practicing for too long, and their waists are sore, and they can't do it if they straighten their waists suddenly.
The ten-mile road, coupled with the official road outside Jinyang City, was wide and flat, and the speed of walking was far faster than before, and after more than half an hour, Queen Luan drove slowly to the outside of Jinyang City.
Outside the city, there were a bunch of people who greeted him, this time it was not only officials, but also the squires and the Taiyuan Wang family, the largest family in Hedong, and Wang Ji, the patriarch of the Wang clan, was the leading boss.
Before, whether it was Li Zhi or those officials, the eldest grandson was sitting in the car, but the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan greeted him outside the city, and even the eldest grandson, the queen of the Tang Empire, had to get out of the car to meet him.
From here, you can see how influential the five surnames and seven hopes have in the Tang Dynasty, this is still the five surnames and seven hopes after so many years of weakening, if it was before, the influence of the five surnames and seven hopes is even greater.
Maybe the five surnames and Qiwang don't have many private soldiers, and the force is not strong, but the family inheritance that lasts for hundreds or even nearly a thousand years gives them a lot of land in their hands, and with the land, there will be a large number of people who depend on them for survival. And they have a large number of tentacles in all walks of life, and the number of people who follow them to eat is tens of thousands.
This is where the confidence of the five surnames and seven hopes lies, because their every move may affect the lives of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people.
This is the same as a huge domestic employment enterprise in later generations, if you are a small business with only dozens of people and hundreds of people, and then you owe money to the bank, and the business fails and goes bankrupt, then the bank doesn't care so much about you, the country doesn't care so much about you, and if you go bankrupt, you will go bankrupt, and you will pay back the money you owe.
However, if you are a huge employer, a large enterprise with thousands or even tens of thousands of employees, then if you have a problem, the bank will not dare to force you to ask for money, and the state will not sit idly by, and the country will have to find a way to help you tide over the difficulties and let the enterprise survive.
Because once the enterprise goes bankrupt, it means that thousands of people, tens of thousands of people will be unemployed, which is directly a big unstable factor in society.
This is still in later generations, and even more so in ancient times.
People like Wu, surnamed Qiwang, they don't need to do anything, they just need to increase the rent or take back the land of the tenants in their hands, which will cause many, many people to not survive, and then there will be social problems, refugees will appear.
Dozens of people are nothing, but if there are thousands of people, or even thousands of families, tens of thousands of people who can't survive, it is a big thing for both the local and the imperial court.
If one is not handled well, there may be a civil uprising or even a rebellion.
If anyone dares to take this risk, the emperor is unwilling, which is why the emperor is very jealous of a big family like Wushi Qiwang, and has always wanted to weaken it, but he doesn't dare to cut it too hard, that is, he is afraid that these families will rebound and cause social turmoil.
Of course, these families have books, culture, and knowledge, and it is also an important aspect that there are many of their clansmen in the court, and there are also many officials who are attached to them.
Therefore, when the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan personally greeted the queen outside the city gate and gave the royal face, the queen must also give the Taiyuan Wang clan patriarch face.
Give face to each other, you and I are good everyone.
The people in the city also know that the queen is coming, so there are people in the city outside the city to watch, of course, the beautiful name is called the welcome of the road, in fact, it is the gossip to see the face of the sky, to see what the virtuous queen looks like, is it really like some people say like Guanyin Bodhisattva, like a fairy.
Two years ago, when the emperor returned to Chang'an from Luoyang, at the invitation of the people of Jinyang and the representatives of the squires, he made a special trip to Jinyang, the place where Li Tang made his fortune, and took a look, many people have seen the emperor, and then many people have seen the prince and princess many years ago, and then Li Zhi, the king of Jin, has often seen it in recent years. It can be said that among the most important people in the royal family, the queen has never been to Jinyang, and the people of Jinyang have not seen the queen. This time the queen finally came, and the people of Jinyang were eager to see what was going on. If you can see the queen's face, it can be said that your life will be complete.