At the end of June, Li Zhengshan's mother and son finally rushed back from Fucheng.

They rushed back to Ninghai County in their own carriage, and the cedar who sent them to Fucheng had already returned to Ninghai County alone at the end of May when Mrs. Li's physical condition stabilized.

In the next month or so, Su Shen received two letters from Li Zhengshan, because he and Meng Hao knew that Mrs. Li's health was fine, but none of them knew that Li Zhengshan had actually found his long-lost biological father.

That's not true.

Li Zhengshan actually did not take the initiative to find his biological father, and the reason why he and Mrs. Li were able to reunite with Li Zhengshan's biological father was entirely because Li Jianhui wrote a long letter to Li Zhengshan's biological father.

This time, Li Zhengshan's mother and son returned to Ninghai County, and Li Zhengshan's biological father also came here with them.

On the third day of their return to Ninghai County, they boarded the door of the Su family together on the day Su Shen went home.

It was only at this time that Su Shen and Meng Zhen heard something from Li Zhengshan that shocked them extraordinarily.

It turned out that Li Zhengshan's biological father was actually Li Xun, the younger brother of Emperor Xuanwu Li Xi, the founder of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Li Xun was named the king of Qin, and he was the only one-word king in the Great Zhou who stayed in the capital and did not go to the domain.

When Leng Buding heard such exciting news, Su Shen and Meng Hao couldn't help but look at each other.

They never dreamed that they would have friends who were the sons of the prince.

Speaking of which, it can't be blamed for Su Shen and Meng Hao's lack of imagination, it is really their old Li family, except for His Royal Highness the Prince, whose name is Li Zhengyuan, other side branch children or concubines of the Li family who are of the same generation as Li Zhengshan, they are not qualified to use the word "Zheng".

Emperor Xuanwu Li Xi and King Qin Li Xun, because these two people are the sons of their generation, their names are also completely different from their brothers of the same generation.

Like Li Jianhui's father and uncles, they were all cousins of Emperor Xuanwu and King Qin, but their names were all three characters.

As for Li Jianhui's children of the Li family side branches of their generation, as well as several concubines of Emperor Xuanwu, their names, the middle word is all used in the word "Jian".

This is a family rule that has been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the Li family.

This family rule not only clearly distinguishes the names of the sons of the branch and the side branches and concubines, but also clearly stipulates the right to inherit the property of the sons of the branches.

According to this family rule, the successive heads of the Li family have the right to inherit ninety percent of the wealth left by the previous head of the family.

As for the other sons of the previous head of the family, they were pitiful, because they could only inherit one of the inheritances left by the old head of the family.

If the old family owner has fewer sons, it is fine, if the old family owner has many sons, and there are still concubines between the sons, then the old family master's concubines will basically not be able to share anything.

Although they are not sons-in-law, they are also the second son, the third son, etc., who are not from the main family, and they can't share much of their father's property, and they can turn their heads to share their mother's huge dowry.

Their biological mother was a concubine, a person who belonged to the lord's family and did not deserve a dowry.

If they meet the kind of magnanimous mother-in-law who has no enmity with their biological mother, then they may be able to get some private money and private property from their biological mother.

But if they have a mother-in-law who hates the likes of concubines, then they don't want to spend money from their biological mother, whether they can get their biological mother out when they split up depends on the mood of their mother-in-law and brother-in-law.

Such a family rule that almost does not give the concubine a way to live, and is also very unfair to other concubines other than the eldest son, it is said that it should not exist for such a long time, but this family rule has a special origin, and any successor head of the family, in order not to let people say that they have forgotten their ancestors, they will never dare to touch this family rule set by the ancestors of their Li family.

Yes, the person who set this family rule was the ancestor of the Li family who miraculously developed their old Li family from a farming family to one of the small families at that time in his short sixty-six years of life.

The portrait and spiritual position of this old man have been enshrined by the descendants of the Li family in the most middle and conspicuous position of the Li family ancestral hall for more than two hundred years.

And the reason why he did this, on the surface, seemed to be to ensure the interests and status of his sons and daughters to the greatest extent, but in fact, it was to ensure that the power and wealth of the Li family could always be highly concentrated.

Because only in this way can the head of each generation of the Li family make the best use of the resources left by the previous head of the family, and continue to grow the entire Li family, so that the Li family can become a small family into a big family, and from a big family to a behemoth that has stood for hundreds of years without falling.

I have to say that this old man is really quite far-sighted.

With the ten clan rules he established, the Li clan he established single-handedly has really slowly grown to this point.

Not to mention the sons and daughters who benefited, they are all the elites of the elite that the family has done their best to cultivate since childhood.

And those children of the side branches and concubines who seem to have been miserable by their ancestors, but because they knew since they were children that they would not be able to be children who would eat and wait for death in the future, they all consciously redoubled their efforts in order to be able to live and live well in the future.

In terms of educational resources, the ancestors of the Li family did not treat these collateral children and concubines badly.

Not only do they have the same right to education as their sons-in-law, but they also don't have to pay for the school's expenses like their sons-in-law.

All they have to do is do their best to strengthen themselves.

Whether they choose to follow the literature or choose to follow the martial arts, the Li family has the right gentleman to teach them.

It is also thanks to the Li family's vigorous investment in education that the Li family was able to grow deep enough to overthrow the previous dynasty after hundreds of years of accumulation.

Of course, the Li family did not think about raising the flag and seeking the world from the beginning.

The development plan left by the ancestors of the Li family to future generations does not include the article of overthrowing the imperial court and being the master of the house himself.

The reason why Emperor Xuanwu Li Xi and King Li Xun of Qin embarked on this road of no return was actually forced out by those in power in the previous dynasty.

At the end of the previous dynasty, one of the two brothers of the Li family served as a feudal official in northern Xinjiang, and the other was a general guarding the southwest of the country.

At the same time, there are many side branch children of the Li family who are distributed all over the country, and they are officials of different ranks.

Most of these people are very peaceful, even if the officialdom is dark, what they want to do is only to protect themselves, just to protect their clansmen as much as possible.

However, if the family is large and the number of people is large, it is inevitable that there will be one or two outliers.

The Li family was not spared.

In the critical period when the Li family, headed by Li Xi and Li Xun, all clamped their tails and behaved, only looking forward to the early end of the replacement of the old and the new, the Li family had two enthusiastic side branch disciples who started uprisings like others.