Yang Yuanqing has always been quite complaining about the Taiyuan Wang family, every time he talks to Wang Xu, he will find that he always reveals such hypocrisy in his bones, which is different from the Pei family's desire to monopolize power, but it is a kind of hypocrisy that keeps saying support, but is unwilling to take action.

Moreover, Yang Yuanqing knew from the Xue brothers that the Xue brothers responded to him in Taiyuan City, and they were actually entrusted by the Taiyuan Wang family, but Wang Xu flatly denied it, to put it bluntly, the Taiyuan Wang family was still at both ends of the rat's head, or sold at the price.

Although Yang Yuanqing doesn't like the Wang family very much, he has to do some gestures, especially when the Pei family is big, the status of the Wang family becomes a little delicate.

In the evening, a carriage slowly approached the Wang family's house under the escort of hundreds of cavalry, and stopped in front of the steps, on the steps, Wang Xu and his wife Gao, Wang Tong's wife Xue, and dozens of Wang's daughters and Wang's wives and daughters had been waiting for a long time.

When Pei Minqiu walked out of the carriage with his son Yang Ning, Wang Xu and his wife came up, "See Mrs. Chief." ”

Wang Xu is Pei Minqiu's uncle, but they don't see each other much, they met a few times when they were children, after the age of ten, they only saw their uncle once when Pei Minqiu got married and returned to the door, in the final analysis, it was because Pei Minqiu's father Pei Wenyi had no status in the Pei family, Wang Xu was not very satisfied with his sister's marriage, so he snubbed a few nephews and nieces.

But today is different, Pei Minqiu's arrival has made the entire Wang family busy, new lanterns have been replaced in front of the gate, the decorations in the noble guest hall of the inner house have been rearranged, all the servants and servants have avoided it, and Wang Xu took the family members of the clan to go out to greet him in person.

Pei Minqiu is the first day to come to Taiyuan today. Less than half a day after entering the city, he came to visit his uncle and aunt, which made the Wang family feel extra face, and Wang Xu's face was smiling. This shows that Yang Yuanqing attaches great importance to the Wang family.

Pei Minqiu saluted, "Minqiu has seen my uncle and aunt. ”

Gao smiled: "I haven't seen Minqiu for several years, the last time I saw Minqiu was married, and the children are so old this time, they are six years old!" ”

"Hmmm! He turned six years old in the first month. ”

Min Qiu was about to let his son salute his maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother, but Yang Ning obediently knelt down and kowtowed, "Ning'er to meet your maternal grandfather." Maternal and maternal grandmothers. ”

This is Yang Yuanqing's eldest son, Wang Xu hurriedly helped him up, "Good boy, get up quickly!" ”

He hung a unicorn jade pendant around Yang Ning's neck. Seeing that the jade pendant was delicate and crystalline, and the preciousness was abnormal, Min Qiu hurriedly said, "Uncle, how can this be?" ”

"Hey! Why can't this be, the child kowtows to me. Shouldn't it be given as a greeting gift? Wang Xu feigned displeasure and said.

Minqiu was helpless, so she had to say to her son, "Don't thank your uncle and grandfather yet." ”

"Ning'er Xie Uncle Grandfather!"

Wang Xu smiled, "Come into the mansion!" It's cool outside. ”

All the daughters of the Wang family stepped forward to give Pei Minqiu a salute, Yingying Yanyan. A large group of female dependents surrounded Pei Minqiu and the child into the inner house, and Wang Xu's heart was as careful as a hair. had already arranged for his children to invite Yang Yuanqing's personal soldiers to dinner, and each of them stuffed a red envelope. There were five coins of money in it.

In fact, Wang Xu regretted it very much in his heart, when Yang Yuanqing and Li Shimin confronted him, he couldn't see the situation clearly, and adopted a vague and low-key attitude, striving not to anger Yang Yuanqing at the same time, but also not to offend Li Yuan, until Li Yuan's forces fully withdrew from Hedong, he realized that Yang Yuanqing had captured Hedong, at this time, he began to desperately make up for his previous miscalculation, and personally went to the counties north of Taiyuan to lobby various families to support Yang Yuanqing.

Compared with the self-confidence of the Pei family, they are not afraid of offending Li Yuan, and they are not afraid that Li Yuan will not use them in the future, the vision of the Wang family is so low, afraid of offending this, afraid of offending that, there is also a reason for the cowardice of the Wang family, the reason is that the Taiyuan Wang family only has one signboard left.

In fact, the essence of the Wang family crossed the river to the south in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 'the king and the horse, the world', the real talents of the Wang family went to the south, and the Taiyuan Wang family had already declined, because of the strong support of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was revitalized, but it was slaughtered nearly half of the Heyin Incident, which made the just prosperous family suffer a heavy setback.

The mistake of the Wang family also lies in supporting Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty, which angered Yang Guang, so that in the great cause, there were very few people in the Wang family who became high-ranking officials, but in history, the Wang family bet on Li Yuan, so that the Wang family was revitalized again, and the queen of Gaozong was the Wang family.

Today's unexpected visit of Pei Minqiu made Wang Xu understand some subtle things, although Pei Minqiu is the daughter of the Pei family, but she brought Yang Yuanqing's eldest son Yang Ning, her identity is no longer the daughter of the Pei family, but Yang Yuanqing's wife, and the arrival of the eldest son Yang Ning has a self-evident meaning.

These subtle signals can be experienced by Wang Xu, an old and sophisticated person.

Pei Minqiu entered the inner house, Wang Xu could no longer accompany him, it was his wife and daughter's business, and he called his brothers Wang Tong and Wang Su into the study.

Among the three brothers of the Wang family, the second Wang Tong is the most famous, he is a famous Confucian, Taiyuan Wang Xue is famous because of his presiding, when he teaches in Guozixue, many high-ranking officials and children are honored to worship him as a teacher, including Yang Xuangan's eldest son Yang Jun, he is to worship Wang Tong as a teacher.

As the so-called prosperous article in the troubled world, with the chaos in the world, the atmosphere of studying has subsided a lot, Wang Tong can only sit in the family school, teach some of the children of the scholar family who are still eager to study, but Yang Yuanqing's strong seizure of Hedong made him see a glimmer of hope, Yang Yuanqing's imperial examination in Fengzhou left a deep impression on Wang Tong.

Although Wang Tong does not support the imperial examination, he supports Jiupin Zhongzheng in his bones, but in troubled times, the imperial examination can improve the status of scholars, and can allow those who have abandoned school to pick up books again, which is what Wang Tong is looking forward to, and it is this contradictory psychology that makes Wang Tong look forward to holding an imperial examination in Hedong.

The three brothers sat down in the study, and Wang Xu said to the two brothers: "What did you realize when the chief manager's wife arrived today?" ”

Wang Tong is a person of learning, and he is relatively slow to be subtle in this kind of officialdom, he has no idea, but the third brother Wang Su is the magistrate of Lishi County, and he has been rolling in the officialdom for 20 years, he realized the meaning of his brother's words, and after a little thought, Wang Su said: "Today she is the first day she came to Taiyuan, and there are a lot of things. She shouldn't have time to visit us. ”

"That's right! But when she came, she also brought her eldest son Yang Ning, saying that she was visiting her uncle, but my uncle was very cold to her in the past. Wang Xu's eyes flashed with a glint. Some things he couldn't figure out in his heart gradually unraveled.

Wang Tong also understood what the two of them meant, and he hesitated and asked, "Are you saying that Mrs. Yang's arrival is what Yang Yuanqing meant?" ”

Wang Xu and the third brother Wang Su laughed at the same time, even the second brother saw this, it was not easy!

Wang Xu nodded, "That's right, her arrival is what Yang Yuanqing meant." Yang Yuanqing is hinting to us that the Wang family is very important, and I think Yang Yuanqing may mean that he wants the Wang family to participate in the balance of the Pei family. To prevent the Pei family from becoming dominant, after all, in Hedong, only the Wang family can compete with the Pei family. ”

There is an unwritten saying in Hedong that the south of Taiyuan is the power of the Pei family, and the power of the Wang family is the power of Taiyuan and the north of Taiyuan. That's why Wang Xu had this idea, but in fact, the strength of the Wang family was far weaker than that of the Pei family, and Pei was in power for more than ten years after the Great Cause, which made the Pei family's power expand rapidly.

The third Wang Su pondered for a moment and said, "I'm worried about whether we can defeat the Pei family. Pei Ju is a very powerful character, and I heard that he has always held the acting king in his hands. Moreover, he lives in Yang Yuanqing's mansion, and he has such deep qualifications......"

Wang Xu smiled and said, "Actually, the acting king is a puppet. It doesn't have any effect, and I got a definite news, Yang Yuanqing has already moved some of the Pei family's people to Taiyuan, so Pei Ju will definitely move out, and more importantly, Yang Yuanqing will not only use Pei's and Wang's, such as Cui Junsu, he is an important figure in Qinghe's Cui family, and Du Ruhui, who is also a famous family in Chang'an, I estimate that Boling Cui's and Fanyang Lu's will also have high-ranking officials, and Gao Gong's eldest son Gao Dehong is the Taishou of Shangdang County, as well as Su Wei, in fact, several forces have joined forces to completely compete with the Pei family. The key is Yang Yuanqing's own attitude, it is obvious that he also wants to restrain the Pei family, then we have a chance, we must find a breakthrough point to beat the momentum of the Wang family, so that the Wang family can smoothly enter the phase. ”

At this time, the relatively silent Wang Tong said: "It is a good way for the Wang family to preside over the imperial examination. ”

Wang Tong is very conceited, if the imperial examination is held in Hedong, the chief examiner must be him, Wang Xu nodded slowly, the brother is right, the biggest advantage of the Wang family over the Pei family is education, the Wang family has a famous Confucian, and the Pei family does not.

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Yang Yuanqing did not accompany his wife to the Wang family, on the one hand, in order to reduce attention and try to hint at the Wang family in a more subtle way, on the other hand, Yang Yuanqing was indeed very busy, before the establishment of a political power system, large and small government affairs were basically handled by him, making him busy every day.

Yang Yuanqing's office was originally Li Yuan's Taiyuan Left-behind Governor's Mansion, and now the words 'Taiyuan Left-behind' have been removed from the sign, and it is simply called the Governor's Mansion, and the official name has not yet been decided.

During this time, Yang Yuanqing was mainly busy reviewing the resumes and qualifications of officials in the fifteen counties and dozens of counties in Hedong, and when he occupied Hedong, the officials of several counties abandoned their officials and followed Li Shimin to withdraw, such as Dugu Huaien, the Taishou of Jiangjun, Li Xiaoji, the Taishou of Shangdang County, and others.

Yang Yuanqing transferred Shi Gao Dehong, the magistrate of Changping County, to serve as the Taishou of Shangdang County, and appointed Pei Shiqing as the Taishou of Jiangjun County, and he also had to consider the power composition after the establishment of the imperial court in the future.

The resume of the official is very important, the resume can see the background, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the background of the official is the first important, Yang Yuanqing was a little distressed, he found that many county officials in Hedong have a common background, that is, born Pei Xue, that is, Pei Valve, before he has not sat firmly in Hedong and got enough talents, he has to continue to use them.

When Yang Yuanqing was busy, a guard reported at the door, "Meiyang Gong asks to see!" ”

When he first came to Fengzhou, everyone respectfully called him Su Ge Lao, but after a long time, many people gradually disliked him, mainly because his fame and fortune were too heavy, and there was no Gao Gong's indifferent fame and fortune, and everyone did not want to compare him with Gao Gong, so they no longer called him Ge Lao, and called him Meiyang Gong instead.

However, Yang Yuanqing needs this kind of old minister who is keen on fame and fortune, he needs Su Wei to do practical things for him, although Gao Gong is famous, he refuses to be an official, so he can only be a decoration.

Although Su Wei loves to make friends and is keen on fame, he himself is very capable, participated in the establishment of the Great Sui canons, has extremely rich experience in the founding of the country, and he can bear the will, and has no family background, Yang Yuanqing needs such an important minister very much.

"Let him in!"