The sandalwood in the hall was refreshing, and the green smoke rose in the silent air.

The reason for this incident is clear to all three of them.

Today's Great Wei is based on the family. The family is powerful, and most of the officials in the world come from it, which invisibly threatens the royal family, so Emperor Taizong opened the imperial examination and promoted the scholars of the Han family.

Since the opening of the imperial examination, there has been a clear distinction between the family and officials from poor families, and there have been fights from time to time. However, in the past hundred years, the family still occupies a firm advantage, not to mention anything else, there are 12 people in the court, and there are 8 people from the family!

The struggle between the royal family and the family has never stopped, and a single family may not be enough to confront the royal family, but if they are united with an iron heart, even the emperor of Great Wei will not be able to take these people.

In the past 100 years, there have been many times of conspiracy between the families and the competition between the scholars and the poor families!

Today, it is the concerted efforts of several scholars that let Sima Wen of the Sima family win the post of secretary of the ministry, and the biggest contribution is the Xiangguo Mansion and the Zhang family!

When today's son was furious because of this, he hated the house and Wu, so he turned his anger on Zhang Guifei's head.

The three of them were silent for a moment, and Sima Shi couldn't help but say loudly: "Or...... After a while, let's find someone who will give up the position of the secretary to the emperor from the beginning, right?"

Zhang Wenshan shook his head, and was about to speak, when a handsome young man strode in outside the door, and said loudly: "Absolutely not!"

The person who came vaguely looked a little like Mrs. Sima, it was the eldest son of Xiangguofu, Zhang Xuan.

Looking at her son, who had served as the head of the Criminal Department at such a young age, Mrs. Sima showed a hint of pride in her eyes, but she said with a straight face: "Why not? Do you really want your eldest sister to have trouble with the emperor to the point of inextricability?"

Zhang Wenshan shook his head, and secretly said that it was indeed a woman who could not be conspired with, and looked at Zhang Xuan with consideration at the moment.

This matter can be big or small, and it all depends on how to deal with the aftermath. It is a foregone conclusion that the secretary of the ministry is still the secretary, but he might as well extinguish the emperor's anger from other aspects. Otherwise, if Tianwei attacks and other families get in the way, the Zhang family may be unlucky.

Balancing all parties and living with light and dust is the way of doing things for the family.

Zhang Xuan bowed upwards and said proudly: "A hundred years ago, when Taizu founded the country, there were eight pillar countries, each of which was no less than my Zhang family, and when the flames were raging, the power of one family was enough to suppress the royal family, and now it is safe?"

"Step back, step by step! The world's families, like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. If he backs down today, the emperor will want more, and at that time, will he let it go?"

"Furthermore, if my Zhang family and the Sima family don't have the prestige to support the eldest sister today, let alone the promotion to the queen, I'm afraid that even the position of the noble concubine will not be guaranteed. ”

"The younger brother's words are a little rougher, and I hope my sister will forgive me. After speaking, Zhang Xuan waved his hand at Zhang Duanya.

"That's it, the younger brother is also thinking about the lintel. Zhang Guifei said lightly, but as a woman, hearing such words that didn't think about her at all, she was still annoyed in her heart.

What did you say at the beginning?

asked his daughter to enter the palace to wait for the emperor, and be careful to please the emperor everywhere, so that after giving birth to an heir, he could inherit the unification, so that if something unbearable happened in the future, he could also leave a way back.

Okay, my daughter went, all these years I have been walking on thin ice, trembling in the deep palace compound, dealing with those scheming concubines openly and secretly, and even two unborn children died, and it was hard to keep one, and I saw that a good day was coming.

If he is snubbed by the emperor at this juncture, then the son will not even be able to get the position of prince in the future, how can he talk about the unification?

It's not like there has never been a precedent for a poor official to serve as a secretary, how can it be said so seriously, as if the family will be ruined if he is let go!

In fact, Zhang Duanya didn't expect the family to make much concessions, this trip out of the palace was mainly to breathe and complain, only some stupid women from poor families had read too much, and they would fantasize about how glorious the emperor's concubines were, and they couldn't wait to plunge into the big dye vat.

As a daughter of a family, she was born extremely wealthy, and she is not rare at all for royal titles, let alone the depressing and perverted life in it!

Unexpectedly, I wanted to go home to relax, but I heard these words that taught people to be evil!

What a family, what a brother!

Looking at her father's look of appreciation, the more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became, and just as she was about to get up and go back to the palace, a maid suddenly stumbled into the hall and said, "Old lady, it's not good, it's a disaster!"

Mrs. Sima's face was cold, and she recognized that this was her personal girl Dong Ju, her narrow eyes suddenly narrowed, and she shouted sharply: "Come on, pull this down and beat her to death!"

Although she is a trusted family girl, she dares to rush in without being informed about such secret discussions, and she really spoils these minions!

The two family members were about to drag it down, but Zhang Wenshan coughed lightly: "Let her finish her words, the old man wants to see, what is the disaster in my Xiangguo Mansion?"

Dong Ju stomped on a family's foot, glanced at the other party, and then knelt down in the hall and kowtowed repeatedly, and said in a panic: "Madame's forgiveness, it's that cheap...... It's the fourth son, he ...... He's killed!"

Mrs. Sima was stunned when she heard this, and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, who can a powerless son of a chicken kill?"

"Madam, it's true......! Li Dazhuang is killed!"

Zhang Xuan on the side was stunned and said: "It's really nonsense, Li Dazhuang is a soldier in the army who was personally released from the prison by the official, so can the waste kill him?"

"It's the other way around!" Seeing that Dong Ju didn't look like a lie, Mrs. Sima shouted: "Take a few people to bring that little here, I want to see if he can win the sky!"

Zhang Duanya's eyes showed a hint of interest, as if waiting for a good show to start, and slowly sat down.

The Xiangfu occupies a very wide area, from the east end to the west end, it takes no less than half an hour, and when Dong Ju took a group of nurses to break into the small broken courtyard where Zhang Yuan lived, the nurses who had confronted Zhang Yuan and then instigated the head of the sect said something in her ear from time to time, which made Dong Ju's face more and more ugly.

A group of people walked into the courtyard, but they were stunned to see that the young man had just cleaned himself cleanly, his cloak was scattered but not messy at all, his temperament was graceful and calm, and there was no trace of blood on his body, and he stood leisurely as if nothing was right.

"Humph!"

Dong Ju looked at Zhang Yuan contemptuously, and walked up to him proudly, her pretty face full of mockery: "Fourth son, fourth young master, I heard that you want to sleep with me?"

As he spoke, he walked around Zhang Yuan and sneered: "I really don't know if you are blinded by lard, or if you have taken some kind of disorderly medicine, why do you dare to say that about me?

Zhang Yuan looked calm, glanced at the woman, and his eyes were fixed on the sky again, with a little thought, as if there was something there that impressed him.

"Don't speak?" or are you speechless?" Dong Ju said with a cold face, raised his chin, and said: "Don't pretend to be crazy and stupid, don't you want me to untie my clothes?

Zhang Yuan frowned, and said lightly: "I said so, but now I have changed my mind and don't want to sleep with you." ”

"Oh?" Dong Ju pursed the corners of her mouth: "Do you know that you are soft? You understand, I am the maid next to my wife, even if I am not the concubine of the lord in the future, I will be the person of the two sons, as for you, if the lady is gracious, maybe I will give you a fire girl who is born like your mother, that is your duty, understand?"

Zhang Yuan didn't look back, continued to look up at the sky, and faintly felt that there would be a very important thing there, but he couldn't say exactly why and when it appeared.

What else can appear in the sky but the sun, moon and stars?

The blue sky is so clear and lofty, but there are always villains around you...... He raised his arm impatiently, waved his hand at Dong Ju, and said lightly: "You have turbidity in your body and tacky in your heart, stand far away and don't smoke me." ”