After sending Wang Changling and the others away, Xue Chongxun stayed in the inner house to hang out. He is not idle during this time, but the pace of life at this time is relatively slow, and he does not have to work hard at home, and he only sees important people on weekdays, so he is not busy. It was not easy for others to see him. Every day, people who ask for officials come to the door, and they are all screened by Xue Liu and make excuses to resign, and only some people who Xue Liu thinks have serious things will report to Xue Chongxun and let him decide whether to see or not.

Just as he was looking at the sparkling lake and moaning, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Yao Wan, who was on duty during the day today. She lowered her head and bent her knees lightly and said, "The housekeeper asked someone to hand over the name card and came in, and asked Lang Jun if he saw it." ”

Xue Chongxun took the name card and looked at it, it read: Xia She (space) Li Yu. He pondered for a moment, wondering in his heart who this person was, because the people Xue Liu could ask someone to hand over the post were all people who might have the value of meeting.

At this moment, Yao Wan said: "The housekeeper said that Lang Jun had seen this person before, and he also funded a sum of money to set up a book club. ”

"Oh......" Xue Chongxun suddenly remembered, this guy appeared at the roasted tail banquet of Cheng Qianli's house, and his rhetoric was fierce on the issue of the "Huayi debate" that the scholars had begun to discuss in recent years, and there was quite a shadow of nationalism in later generations, which attracted Xue Chongxun's attention; Later, Li Yu came to the palace to raise money to build a book and write a book, wanting to compete with opponents of the argument, Xue Chongxun thought that there was potential political value in investing in this matter, so he made a sum of money. But he hadn't heard of any results for a year or two, and he had long forgotten about it. I don't want Li Yu to come to the door again today, and I don't know if I want to continue to raise funds or deliver results.

"It seems that he is the family of Ghost Li?" Xue Chongxun asked casually, and then realized that there was only a close attendant and not a staff member beside him, so he stopped.

Unexpectedly, Yao Wan replied: "He called the hermit Li Xuanyi his uncle, but his father is not Li Xuanyi's brother, but the same clan." ”

Xue Chongxun glanced at her in surprise, and she hurriedly said: "Li Yu has some slight names in Kanto, and because he is of the same clan as Li Xuanyi, the guests in my family used to occasionally talk about it, and I also heard about it. ”

I saw that although Yao Wan was wearing a light cloth dress, she was no longer dressed as the daughter of a family, but she seemed to be able to see a trace of inky temperament between her words and deeds, coupled with her tall figure, in short, she was a little different from Pei Niang Dong's family, after all, her background was different. She saw that Xue Chongxun was looking at herself, her face was slightly red, and her head lowered.

Xue Chongxun turned his gaze to the lake and stood for a while. Yao Wan asked again: "Lang Jun sees him now, or set a date, so I can reply to the housekeeper." ”

Hearing her tone suddenly turn cold, as if the bureaucrats in the yamen had a businesslike tone, Xue Chongxun couldn't guess what she was thinking just now, so he only said: "Take Li Yu to the living room of the inverted room and wait for me, and I'll go over." ”

Before meeting Li Yu, Xue Chongxun couldn't remember the person's appearance and age, and only after seeing the person did he faintly feel a little familiar. It was a young man, a few years younger than Xue Chongxun, wearing an old cloth robe, a bun tied with a cloth towel on his head, a sallow narrow face, and his figure was taller and stronger than Wang Changling.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Yu took out a book and a booklet, put them on a few cases next to Xue Chongxun and said: "Thanks to the prince's funding, this is an article published by the Xia Society for more than a year, and it has been collected into a book and engraved into a book; The other is the account, the money and goods to maintain the book club come from the Jin Palace, and the money is not for profit, and the whereabouts of the money can be checked. Please take a look at it. ”

Xue Chongxun threw the account aside, picked up the book directly, flipped through it casually, and looked at it one after another, he didn't read the content carefully for a while, just nodded occasionally to show encouragement. Anyway, what he often does is to put on a show in front of bureaucrats and literati, and he is already very skillful.

Li Yu said: "Originally, we went to the palace account every month to withdraw money to maintain expenses, but recently the number of people who have joined the society has been increasing, and we are gradually unable to make ends meet, so please look at the accounts carefully to increase the subsidy......"

"It's not a problem, you can talk to Xue Liu about specific things." Xue Chongxun readily agreed, looking wealthy. Because he got the news a few days ago that the money bank of the household department had completed the preliminary preparations, and the first batch of trial banknotes was about to be printed, and Xue Chongxun naturally had enough confidence to spend money.

He patted the book in his hand again and said, "In the future, I will talk to Xue Liu about the accounts, and you only need to send this kind of thing in." ”

"Yes......" Li Yu hesitated for a while, "There is one more thing, all the yamen in the Jingshi region have secretly found out that the money and silk of our Xia Society came from the Jin Palace, so they did not interfere, and everything went smoothly." However, Wang Shaoyin of Jingzhao Mansion went to the book club to detain him for crimes such as ill-intention, and threatened him in many ways. If we get together to read and talk, and we haven't committed adultery, will we be convicted for our words? ”

Xue Chongxun smiled: "You don't have to worry about this matter...... Surname Wang? As he spoke, he picked up his pen and wrote it down on the paper, "I will dispose of it properly, and you can rest assured, if there are outstanding people of virtue and ability, you can also recommend them to enter the court as officials." ”

Li Yu replied, and the matter was almost finished, so he took his leave.

Xue Chongxun wrote a note about Wang Shaoyin, and asked someone to hand it to the pro-kingdom, what should he do with his own staff to arrange it. Because it involves an official with a large position in Jingzhao Mansion, Xue Chongxun may be asked to come forward and say a word or two, and when the staff comes up with a plan, Xue Chongxun only needs to follow their arrangement.

Most of them are beatings and the like, and the pro-kingdom staff's plans are based on the premise of rationality, and they will achieve the set goals at the minimum cost, and of course they will not be rash.

He wrote a note and put the matter out of his mind, and seeing that the sun was not too early, he got up and went back to the inner mansion to rest. Along the way, he couldn't help but think of Li Bi, this person was a son of Bu two years ago, and now he can come in handy. Xue Chongxun had already added Li Yu to his plan.

As he paced, he was bored guessing Li Bi's thoughts, maybe this person was a little ambitious, and he thought that the relationship was too slow to start with a petty official, so he wanted to join the Xue family and take a ride?

Obviously, the similar nationalism in the "Huayi Debate" was of great help to Xue Chongxun's usurpation of the throne, because Li Tang had long been questioned by the Shandong scholars that he was from the Hu people, and his ancestor changed his surname to Li. Xue Chongxun didn't know much about it, and those literati didn't dare to be too arrogant to investigate it...... But these are not problems, as long as it is not related to the foundation of ethics, you have the right to say black into white in your hands. It only needs to set off the public opinion of the Han nationality, in fact, it is just a blind coaxing of the Qing Tan faction, because the power of the gate valve at this time is still the same, in their eyes, what nationality is not a nation is just talking, the highest interest is the family, in comparison, the rise and fall of the country does not care much.

There is also a bit of a problem with this, as there are also branches of the bloodline faction in the Huayi debate: one that only follows the patrilineal lineage; The other extreme is according to the theory of pure bloodline, matrilineal, this faction is a bit nonsense, because the Han itself is not pure, there have been several large-scale ethnic integration in history, and it is impossible to check the family maternal line.

If the latter is the truth, Xue Chongxun's position will also contradict itself: if he says that the Li family is a Hu person, then the three generations of the Xue family are all royal blood, and he is also an ironclad "Hu person". Only the first faction is the most beneficial to him, based on the patrilineal genealogy, the Xue family Hedong clan, the genealogy is well documented and the "Ji" surname branch of Zhengmiaohong.

I'm afraid that Li Yu's gang didn't see the situation clearly and talked nonsense in the article...... Because in Xue Chongxun's impression, this person's remarks in public are a bit radical.

He thought about it and returned to his room, so he hurriedly re-read the Xia Society books in his hand and pondered their opinions.

After a while, Sun's voice interrupted his struggling reading: "Is Xue Lang reading, am I disturbing you?" ”

Xue Chongxun looked back and saw that there was his wife Li Yan'er next to him, and there were two maids behind him, so he stood up and pretended to salute and said, "I'm just looking at it at random, it doesn't matter." ”

There was a maid behind the Sun family carrying a wooden plate with two bowls on it, and at Sun's signal, the maid walked up with the wooden plate and placed the two bowls on the table in front of Xue Chongxun. Xue Chongxun looked at the things on it in amazement, and saw that one bowl was filled with black soup, a bit like medicinal soup, and in the other bowl there was some brown sugar made of a straight wind gun stove or a chain pot, so he asked, "What is this, is this soup?" ”

Sun's face was a little embarrassed, and after retiring from the maid, he said with an unspeakable look: "It's a recuperating decoction, it's harmless to drink, Xue Lang doesn't have to worry." ”

"Who's going to make it?" Xue Chongxun asked casually again, he trusted that the Sun family would not harm him, but his intuition was wary of those who opened the prescription.

"Yuwen Ji opened it." Sun's face turned red, "I'll just say it directly, otherwise it's not a matter for you to drink an unknown decoction...... She pondered Xue Lang's pathology, and prescribed some medicine to possibly have an heir......"

Sure enough, Xue Chongxun was also embarrassed, and his face was a little hot. He didn't give birth to children, of course it's not a woman's relationship, so can't several wives and concubines all suffer from infertility, right? In ancient times, it was a relatively strict thing to have no heirs after a long period of marriage, so although Xue Chongxun felt a little embarrassed, he didn't blame the Sun family.

Sun Shi hurriedly persuaded: "Although it is said that the medicine is poisonous, but Yuwen Ji said that it may not be effective, but it is not harmful......"

She was busy persuading, but unexpectedly, Xue Chongxun said very quickly: "Cheng, I'll drink." ”

Sun's face was happy, and he hurriedly picked up the spoon to scoop the brown sugar in the bowl: "Add some sugar to it, it won't be so bitter." ”

"What's so hard to swallow?" Xue Chongxun picked up the bowl and raised his head and poured it down, not to mention that the taste of traditional Chinese medicine is really not ordinary bitter, but for Xue Chongxun, it is completely within the tolerable range.

Seeing this, Li Yan'er glared and said, "Lang Jun is really amazing!" ”G