In fact, this is easy to understand, the county lord of Dingyang is not Li Shimin's biological daughter, but the daughter of Wei Guifei's ex-husband.

The biological father of the county lord of Jeongyang was Li Min, the son of Li Zixiong, the former Sui household department Shangshu.

Therefore, the county lord of Jeongyang is like the reorganized family in later generations, and it is difficult to integrate into the new family.

Especially since her stepfather is still the emperor, she is sensible and does not want to trouble her mother.

Seeing that Wei Guifei's expression was a little sad, Li Shen immediately said: "Mother concubine don't worry, I just want to ask Ashina Zhong how he treats the eldest sister, if they are husband and wife, then this little thing will help." ”

"I also asked people to investigate, their husband and wife are indeed very affectionate, and Ashina Zhong is also very fond of your eldest sister."

"That's good, if that's the case, let's help, the provincial concubine is worried about the eldest sister." Li Shen nodded after hearing this.

"Shen'er, don't be reluctant, the mother concubine knows that your eldest sister is different from Meng Jiang, and the mother concubine has given a lot of money every year in the past, and this is all your money." Wei Guifei also felt that it was a little inappropriate to let Li Shen pay.

"Mother, it doesn't matter, how can we say that we are also born to a mother and blood relatives, in fact, it is not difficult to help Ashina Zhong." Li Shen began to comfort.

For Li Shen, as long as his mother is happy, it doesn't matter if he has money or not.

"Mother, since that's the case, I'll go first. I went to Xue Guogong's Mansion, and they were all about to sell their property, so it should be quite difficult. ”

Wei Guifei also told Li Shen not to forget his marriage and clean up the palace. Li Shen nodded in agreement and left the palace.

Li Shen didn't know where Ashina Zhong lived, so he could only ask the stone to inquire about Jin Wuwei, and after knowing the address, Li Shen took people to the Xue Guogong Mansion again.

At this moment, in the Xue Guogong Mansion, Ashina Zhong had a sad face. In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, because of the need to prevent invasion from the north, Li Shimin ordered the Eastern Turkic tribes to be relocated to their original sites.

Ashinazhong's tribe was also moved, and he was transferred to the north as King Zuoxian to assist the Khan to guard the north gate for the Tang Dynasty, but he had lived in Chang'an for ten years and had long been accustomed to this flowery world.

He yearns for the Tang Dynasty and Chang'an, and his longing has been wandering in his heart, and he often looks at the direction of Chang'an and falls into deep thought. Later, when Li Shimin learned of this, he was very grateful for his sincerity and recalled the Ashina Zhong family to Chang'an.

His tribe numbered 30,000 or 40,000 people, and many of them were left behind by the war. Ashina Zhong couldn't bear these people to starve to death, and he paid for food and help.

It can be said that most of his annual income is used to buy food, and his life has been poor. In the past few years, because of the county lord of Dingyang, Wei Guifei often sent some money over to make their lives better.

But no one thought that for some reason, the cattle and sheep of their tribe began to die on a large scale. Now more than half of them are dead.

Their tribe is a nomadic people, relying on cattle and sheep for food, and now that the cattle and sheep are dead, the tribe will not all starve to death.

"Lang Jun, there is really no way, I'll go to my mother to help me." The county lord of Dingyang looked at Ashina Zhong's sad face, and he couldn't bear it.

"I'll think about it again, this time I need too much money, and it is estimated that it will cost more than 100,000 yuan to buy grain and livestock." Ashina Zhong also didn't want the county lord to borrow money from Wei Guifei, it was too embarrassing.

"More than 100,000? But Lang Jun, even if we sell some properties in our family, it will only be tens of thousands. There is still a hundred thousand pieces left to solve it. Why don't you talk to Your Majesty and see if the imperial court can help the disaster? ”

"The imperial court has exempted taxes for three years, and has also distributed some grain, which can support two months at most." Ashina Zhong knew in his heart that they were Hu people, and it would be good if the imperial court could give tax exemptions. Not to mention the return of two months' worth of food.

"Alang, King Ji is here."

Just when Ashina Zhong was at a loss, the housekeeper came in and said that Li Shen, the king of Ji, was here.

"King Ji?"

Although Ash Nazhong wondered why Li Shen came, after all, the two had never met, but he still said:

"Quick, open the door to greet"

Li Shen is the prince, and he doesn't dare to slack off.

"Lady, come with me to meet you." There is Princess Dingyang, and Ashina is loyal to the bottom.

"I've seen His Royal Highness King Ji." The middle door opened, and the two of them stood in front of the door and saluted Li Shen.

"No need to be polite, it's all family." Li Shen said with a smile, and then saluted to the county lord of Dingyang

"I've seen the eldest sister."

The two sides saluted, Ashina Zhong led Li Shen to the front hall, and after letting the subordinates serve tea, Ashina Zhong asked:

"His Royal Highness King Ji, I don't know why I came here this time?"

He and Li Shen have never met, and it cannot be said that they have not met, he also met Li Shen when he was in the Great Dynasty, mainly because he knew Li Shen, and Li Shen did not know him.

Li Shen took a sip of tea

"Well, yes, good tea, it's from the palace." Li Shen drank it in one sip, this is tribute tea

"What the prince said is right, they are all rewarded by the concubine." Ashina Zhong replied.

The county lord of Jeongyang on the side also replied:

"Every month, the mother concubine will send someone to bring some first-class tea, and some tribute tea. In the past few years, she has been taken care of by her mother, but she has not honored her mother as a daughter, which is really unfilial. ”

said with a sad face, it has indeed been Wei Guifei who has helped her all these years, otherwise the huge Guogong Mansion will still have a poor life, which will make outsiders look at the jokes.

"The eldest sister doesn't have to be like this, the mother concubine also knows your difficulties, and the family doesn't have to worry about this.

When I came this time, I heard that the government was going to sell its property to buy grain. So my mother asked me to come over and see if there was anything I needed help with. ”

Although Li Shen is not close to this eldest sister, he was also born to the same mother, so he is still more respectful.

Hearing that it was Concubine Wei Guifei who asked Li Shen to come, the county lord of Dingyang was immediately moved to tears.

She lost her father when she was a child and remarried with her mother. Later, he got married early and didn't get much love.

After getting married, because he married a Hu person, there are few people in the circle of noblewomen who can look at him.

It's just that in recent years, I don't know when it began, these noble ladies began to be commensurate with his sisters and intended to make friends. Even his husband has a lot of officials going back and forth.

At first, I thought it was the reason why Wei Guifei's position in the harem was stable, but I later learned that it was mainly because she had a half-brother.

This younger brother can move around freely in front of His Majesty, and he can face the saint at any time. And the family property is numerous.

Even the crown prince has received the favor of this younger brother, and the high-level people say that after Li Chengqian succeeds to the throne, King Ji will be reused.

Li Shen looked at the tearful county lord of Dingyang and sighed in his heart,

"Eldest sister, don't be like this, it's all a family. Xue Guogong doesn't know what specific difficulties you encountered? It needs to get to the point of selling the property. ”

"Hey~~ It's not a secret, most of the cattle and sheep of my Ashina tribe died, and tens of thousands of people in the tribe relied on cattle and sheep in exchange for food and clothing......" Ashina Zhong told everything that happened.

"Well, how much does it cost?" What happened was not important to Li Shen at all. You just say how much money you need.