In the south of Huazhou City, Li Tai's cousin Li Pei and second brother Li Chao waited here with a few servants early in the morning, and when they saw Li Tai and his party approaching, they all strode up to meet them.

"Thirteen Lang."

"Brother!"

Li Tai turned over and dismounted, responded to the two brothers and said to Li Pei: "I encountered some accidents on the way, and I returned two days late, and Brother Lao was waiting." ”

Before leaving Jingzhou, Li Tai sent people to inform his family of his general return date, but it was inevitable that there would be emergencies on the long-distance trip, and Li Tai encountered heavy rain on the way and delayed the trip.

"Family, what's polite."

After hearing this, Li Li waved his hand and said with a smile, and then said: "According to the instructions of the Thirteen Langs, I did not inform the masses of your return date, but the Daxingtai envoy came to ask this morning, now that you have returned, do you want to go home to rest first or enter the house to visit?" ”

Li Tai's previous return to Guanzhong was before the New Year's Festival, and the itinerary was not kept secret, so there was no shortage of people who came to greet him. But this time he returned in the middle of the year, and there were some discordant situations at home, so he didn't want to make a big noise, so as not to tell the truth, so he told his family to keep a low profile.

"Let's go to the house and see you first."

After thinking about it, Li Tai said, the situation in the country is now changing more delicately, and Li Tai, as a military and political officer in charge of southeast affairs, will inevitably be closely watched and overly discussed and interpreted.

Li Li also nodded after hearing this, and then said to Li Chao: "Then Fourteen Lang will go home first to inform the news, if there are relatives and friends to visit, and entertain them in the middle hall first." ”

Now their family is no longer Li Tai's previous thin people, in addition to their respective ministries, internal and external family affairs and interpersonal communications also have different divisions of labor, such as Li Pei is responsible for the interpersonal exchanges here in Huazhou. Although Li Tai has been guarding outside all the year round, the relationship between relatives and friends is also maintained by cousins, and he will not be alienated and cold.

After Li Chao heard this, he nodded, said his hard work to his brother, and then led a few servants and some goods brought back by Li Tai in Jingzhou to return home first, and Li Tai returned to the Chinese and foreign mansions with Li Tai.

After some renovation and expansion, today's Chinese and foreign palaces are more magnificent, and the scale is not inferior to the palace of Chang'an, and when it comes to the busyness of personnel in the palace, it is even more than several times that of the palace of Chang'an.

The group had just arrived at the gate of the Chinese and foreign mansions, and people who had already recognized Li Tai hurriedly entered to greet them. Li Tai dismounted in front of the mansion and exchanged pleasantries with a group of government officials, and the number of people gathered around him suddenly increased several times, and whether they knew or didn't know each other, they all wanted to come to the front and say a few words.

In just such a short time, the front of the house was already overcrowded, and the front door of the entire Chinese and foreign mansions was completely blocked by people who rushed to hear the news. A number of Feng and the others who accompanied the guards held the handle of their swords in their hands, and followed Li Tai every inch to move through the crowd, even if they met other acquaintances to greet them, they were all deaf.

"Get out of the way! The journey in Taiyuan is hard, don't wait to obstruct the audio-visual! ”

After a while, a team of sword-wielding guards came out of the mansion to control the noisy situation, and Wang Yue, who led these armor soldiers to maintain order and greet Li Tai, stepped forward to disperse the crowd, and then walked all the way to Li Tai, and said deeply: "The Duke of Taiyuan returned to the house today, and I missed the welcome, please forgive me." I remember the grace of relieving the predicament before, and after I go to worship the Lord, I implore the Duke of Taiyuan to come to the house so that I can entertain and thank you! ”

Li Tai naturally knew Wang Yue, but they didn't have too close contact with each other, just a nodding acquaintance.

The reason why Wang Yue was so respectful and courteous to him was because he was besieged as a result of the battle in Shu last year, and finally relied on Li Tai to capture the son of Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, and then sent people to Shuzhong to negotiate, Wang Yue and others were able to evacuate Shuzhong and return safely. Putting aside official considerations, from his own point of view, Li Tai also has a life-saving grace for Wang Yue, so he has such an attitude.

Li Tai's current position of power, even if he doesn't do it deliberately, there will be many people who have benefited or suffered a lot because of his actions, and he will accept Wang Yue's gratitude with a smile, and agree to visit him on a later date.

The Jingzhao Wang clan is also a big clan in Guanzhong, even if Li Tai does not need to be cared for and supported by him in official affairs, but the family moves into Guanzhong and settles down and has to spread out its branches, it is also beneficial and harmless to maintain a good relationship with these indigenous clans in Guanzhong.

With Wang Yue leading people to guide the house, although there were still people on both sides of the road to say hello, there was no direct congestion of the road, so the group came straight to the outside of the Chinese and foreign mansions.

The change of the name of the original Taiwan government to the Zhongwai government was not only a change in name, but also a change in the personnel structure and various articles of association.

To put it more bluntly, that is, the power of Daxingtai has become greater, and the entire Chinese and foreign governments are operating around Daxingtai alone, and some things that still need to be discussed before can now be decided by Daxingtai in a word, eliminating a lot of intermediate procedural links.

Changing the operation of the hegemon to be more dictatorial and efficient, and making the personnel of the imperial court more complex and bloated, this is a keynote of Yuwentai's reform and adjustment in recent years. Including the later implementation of the six-official system, it was not for the purpose of regularizing the operation of court personnel.

Although the evaluation of the six-official system in the history of system reform is not high, Yuwen's casual performance of protecting and killing the emperor like pinching chicken cubs later also proves that at least from the perspective of the overlord, this set of things is still quite useful.

It is difficult for the emperor to accumulate his political capital through normal government handling and personnel operations, so as to solve the problem of power and ministers at the political level, and in the end, the transfer of power still relies on street ruffians such as beating the stick.

Li Tai was still thinking about the personnel reform of the overlord that he knew, and several people came out of the straight hall in front of him, and the first one was actually Yu Wendao, the governor of Qinzhou.

Seeing Yuwen Dao striding towards him with his fists hugged, Li Taizi didn't dare to slack off, and took two steps towards Yuwen Dao with a fist and said with a smile: "Zhang Wugong, it's been a long time!" ”

Since Yuwen was appointed as the assassin of Qinzhou, Li Tai's contact with him has decreased. After that, the two successively took the position of chief and general, and the current public opinion often discussed them together, but in fact there were fewer intersections. Yuwentai also seems to avoid direct contact between the two of them, even when they return to the court to report on their work and entertain them at family banquets, they rarely arrange for the two to meet.

"Taiyuan Gong, alas, I still call it Boshan, so that I can slightly reduce my shame of being clumsy and backward."

Saying this, the smile on Yuwendao's face was still very kind and kind.

Compared with his brother Yuwen Hu, Yuwen Dao feels a little less shrewd, and a little less yin, and because of Daxingtai's appreciation and reliance on this nephew, he has a good reputation inside and outside, and his popularity is not bad.

In recent years, although the two of them are compared, even if some people are far inferior to Li Tai for Yuwendao's merits, they often have to add a sentence, if it weren't for Zhang Wugong, who had to stay in Guanzhong every time he used his troops, his merits would inevitably be stronger, and they would not be limited to his current deeds.

"Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements, those who do good things are messing around, and who in the matter does not know Zhang Wugong's ability and thoughtfulness!"

Li Tai naturally will not underestimate Yuwendao because of the current public opinion, and his person can take over Longyou from his own father-in-law and govern it smoothly and steadily, not just because he is Yuwentai's nephew. And even if it is Yuwentai's name, after passing the Longguan, it is not as loud as the pass.

In addition to Yuwendao, there were also Wei Chi Hui and several other tyrant generals, because Daxingtai was still waiting in the hall, and several people entered the hall together after a little salute.

When Li Tai walked into the straight hall, Yu Wentai was also walking slowly, glancing at each other, and speeding up their pace, like a couple who had been reunited for a long time and went both ways.

Li Taifang bowed down to worship, Yuwentai rushed up with an arrow, hugged Li Tai's arm with both hands, and laughed in his mouth: "Thinking of my love general, I am hungry and thirsty!" Although the words of the old messengers are like encounters, how can the ink marks be so intimate and impressive as the real people? Eating no fine millet cheese makes people emaciated, but who can do it in the southeast except Boshan? I am by no means the Lord who cannot be committed, I will see you today, and I will only feed and drink enough from Boshan, and I will not say anything else! ”

Li Tai couldn't go down with his arms in his arms, and then he indulged in this sweet talk, and twisted his jaw for a while before taking advantage of Yuwentai's strength to make a deep gesture with his old age, and at the same time replied in his mouth: "The upper and lower relatives, the lord and the countryman treat the ministers, and the ministers dare not repay them with the countrymen?" The lord thinks of the ministers as hungry as he is, and the ministers are not crazy about the lord? There are only 100 categories in the country, but the ministers are only in the middle of the upper reaches, how dare they say that they are incompetent! Only this is to repay the heart, in order to make my lord envy in Jianghan, so he does not let things go, and there is no retreat! ”

"Good, good! Whenever Boshan has a suggestion, it always makes people so happy and refreshing. With this good minister to pacify Jianghan, I don't have to worry about it! ”

Yu Wentai took Li Tai's hand again and said with a smile to everyone in the hall, his satisfaction overflowing.

Although Yu Wentai said that he would not be satisfied with Li Tai's feeding and would not talk about other things, Hou Jing, the devil, was naturally not an ordinary person, and Wang Seng Wei sent his siblings so upright, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the national gift was not exaggerated, of course, it should be presented to the boss for the first time to admire.

So after Yuwentai returned to the throne and sat down, Li Tai was busy starting the matter, and asked the Daxing stage staff to come out of the hall to take Hou Jing's siblings to the hall for a look. That thing was so panicked that he didn't bring it with him!

After Yu Wentai heard this, he was also very interested, and hurriedly beckoned people to get it quickly.

When the wooden box containing Hou Jing's hands and feet was taken and presented to the case, Yu Wentai immediately laughed after a few glances: "Although I hate this stubborn thief and failed to kill me, but now I look at this flesh and blood is also a pleasure!" The herald ordered that the people in the house feasted on this day, so that the people in the house also passed on the thief bones. Such an ungrateful person, even if it is rampant for a while, it is inevitable that the sky will abandon it after all! ”

When he said this, Yu Wentai was also indignant in his heart. Although Hou Jing tossed in recent years, he did the most damage to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, especially the Southern Liang, while the Western Wei Dynasty benefited from Hou Jing's toss and greatly increased its income and national strength.

But Hou Jing, this guy, reversed his word in the old years, and also slapped Yuwentai hard, which made him feel that his face was greatly damaged, and he naturally lacked a good impression of Hou Jing in his heart. Moreover, these two or five boys can be regarded as interpreting betrayal to the extreme, which is a good material for any gang boss to strengthen the team's ideological construction.

Thanks to Li Tai's achievements between the Jiang and Han Dynasty and the deterrence of the Jiangling Military Government, the Western Wei Dynasty finally got a share of Hou Jing's bones, which is really a bit of a waste if it is not taken out to disgust the masses, so Yuwentai decided to gather everyone to take care of a meal and criticize Hou Jing, the big villain.

There are hundreds of people in the Chinese and foreign governments, and it will take a certain amount of time to prepare for the banquet. So Li Tai first chatted with Daxingtai in the hall for a while, mainly talking about his interaction with the Jiangling military government during this time, as well as the process of Wang Shengbi and other Jiangling people to quell Hou Jing's rebellion.

"Who is this Chen Baxian? Although this name has been heard occasionally, but I don't know everything about it, but listening to Boshan's description of the Southern Liang military, this disciple seems to be very bold and scheming! ”

Yuwentai couldn't help but ask when he listened to Li Tai's narration.

Although Chen Baxian is not low in fame in later generations, many people only know him but do not know about it. Specific to the present, although Chen Baxian has played a prestige and fame in Jiaozhou to suppress the rebellion, he is also a relatively unfamiliar existence in the Northern Dynasties. After all, the Northern Dynasty is a world of soldiers, and the most important thing is the brave deeds of elite soldiers, and a Southern Dynasty general in Lingnan does not pay much attention to it even if he hears about it.

But one thing to say, Chen Baxian's military and political talents, as well as the pattern shown in the process of counterinsurgency, are obviously much stronger than Wang Sheng's arguments. Including the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty, they are gangs and crimes, not to mention, everyone who can make some achievements has also scratched out a lottery ticket that belongs to them. But Chen Baxian is really a brilliant career that he has done with one hand and one foot, and he is well-deserved as a fierce man in Lingnan.

Li Tai just told Chen Ba Xian and his person a little, Yu Wentai noticed the extraordinaryness of his person, and after a more detailed understanding, he couldn't help but sigh: "If this disciple really has the demeanor that Boshan said, then don't underestimate the enemy!" At the beginning of the coming day, the southern country is decided, and the one who can compete with Boshan and you up and down the river may be this person! ”

Hearing Yu Wentai say this, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that the old guy was quite accurate in seeing people, and at the same time hurriedly said: "Chen Baxian's talent is really good, but it's a pity that the people in power in the south are jealous of their talents, and even if they have good talents, they are difficult to make good use of." Xiangdong is self-squinting and the rat's eyes are bright, how can it be as thoughtful as the Lord? Although the minister is iron, he has to be the lord, and he is not afraid to confront Longquan! ”