After passing through the back garden and two more yards, we came to the Mingyue Pavilion of the Wang family. It was said to be Mingyue Pavilion, but it was just a hexagonal pavilion in the lotus pond of the Wang family. A small bridge with stone railings ran directly along the lotus pond. There is a plaque hanging on the hexagonal pavilion with the words "Ming Yuexuan" written on it. The inscription on the plaque has the words "Wang Wei".
Wang Yi is Wang Gui's father, and is now the leader of the Wang family in Taiyuan, that is, the head of the family. After all, although Wang Gui is the prince Zhongyun, Li Yuan was an army soldier in Taiyuan at the time, and he has a very good relationship with the Wang family, especially Wang Gui. "Father is more important than son." Wang Yi naturally became the head of the Wang family in Taiyuan, and the three characters "Ming Yuexuan" were written very powerfully. After all, he was once the prefect of Leling County in the Sui Dynasty, and the handwriting was quite impressive. Yes, although I can’t be called everyone, I still have a lot of skills.
"Ming Yuexuan" is a hexagonal pavilion with six red-painted pillars that two adults can hug together, supporting the cornices and brackets above. A banquet has been set on the stone table in the middle of the pavilion. Wang Gui is in the main seat, and he The left hand seat was empty, obviously reserved for Xiao Yu. No one else used their chopsticks at this time. The wine glasses in front of them were all filled with fine wine. The aroma of the wine wafted out from the pavilion with the breeze, but No one here touched the wine glass, they were just talking to each other. It was obvious that everyone was waiting for Xiao Yu's arrival.
Xiao Yu followed Wang Xing and walked into the pavilion slowly. Everyone headed by Wang Gui saw Xiao Yu arriving and hurriedly stood up to greet him.
"I'm sorry, everyone! I'm busy with business, I'm late! I'm late!" When Xiao Yu saw everyone standing up to greet him, he immediately smiled and apologized to the people from the aristocratic families here.
"Lord Xiao, what you said is serious! We have just sat down not long ago!" Wang Gui and everyone hurriedly returned the greeting to Xiao Yu.
"Master Xiao, please take a seat quickly!" Wang Gui extended his hand to invite Xiao Yu to take a seat. Xiao Yu's position was the first one on Wang Gui's left hand.
Xiao Yu was not polite and sat down directly. After Wang Gui and Xiao Yu sat down, the others took their seats.
"Master Xiao, what do you think of Lu Chen?" After three rounds of wine and five dishes, everyone was almost done eating and drinking. Zheng Shanguo asked Xiao Yu with cupped fists.
In fact, don't look at the delicious food on the table. Xiao Yu was just humiliated by Lu Chen, so the meal was quite delicious. However, there were three people who tasted the same. One of them was Zhang Luo's host Wang Jia. Gui, the other two are Wei Ting and Zheng Shanguo. The one who suffers the most is probably Zheng Shanguo. After all, Wang Gui and Wei Ting together only have 15,000 acres of land. For a family with a big business, there is no What an expensive thing.
At this time, one acre of land was basically granted for about 30 yuan (yinji), which is about 30 guan. However, for high-quality fertile land, it was more expensive, about 40 guan. Of course, with With the character of the aristocratic family, how could it be possible to collect the land at such a high price? Of course, they used various means to acquire the land. And I only heard that there are a thousand-year-old aristocratic families, how can there be a thousand-year dynasty, so after so many years of accumulation, this Fifteen thousand acres of land is not even a drop in the bucket for the aristocratic family.
But for Zheng Shanguo, it's uncomfortable. There are five mines. Compared with the land, these mines are much more expensive. After all, if you take out one mine, you will lose one!
Therefore, Zheng Shanguo felt extremely uncomfortable eating this meal, especially when he saw other people chatting and laughing, Zheng Shanguo's interest could not be lifted, and he looked frowning.
"Lu Chen is definitely not from my family!" Hearing Zheng Shanguo's question, Xiao Yu put down his wine glass and sneered.
"Can't we bring him to our side? No matter what conditions he puts forward, we can negotiate!" The person speaking at this time was Yang Wen and Yang Gongren, the Duke of Guan. Obviously, he had some differences with Xiao Yu's decisive words. Opinion, Yang Gongren was born in the Yang family of Hongnong, and now he is a minister of Huangmen. Although his official position is not as good as Xiao Yu, he still has a title, and he is Guan Guogong. What's more, he has a younger brother, who is very famous.
One of the famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty, Yang Shidao is now the general manager of Lingzhou. Yang Shidao is also the consort of the Li family. He married Princess Changguang. There is another one of the three Yang brothers, Yang Xu, but this Compared with his brothers, his reputation is a little less prominent, but he is also the governor of Yunzhou and a high-ranking member of the party. Therefore, the three brothers are also called the "Three Heroes of the Yang Family" in the court.
Yang Gongren came here not because of his good relationship with these people, but because he still belongs to Li Jiancheng's family and has a decisive position in front of Li Jiancheng. What's more, he is the son of Li Yuanji's Princess Yang of Qi. Uncle, because of this relationship, he has to support Li Jiancheng. After all, Li Yuanji is Li Jiancheng's die-hard supporter.
As for his younger brother Yang Shidao, he is in a neutral state at this time. This is what Yang Gongren requested. First of all, Yang Shidao holds military power and is the general manager of Lingzhou. Secondly, Yang Shidao is also the Prince Consort and is marrying Princess Changguang. Moreover, the current situation is undercurrent. Yang Gongren didn't want to involve the Yang family directly and had to leave a way out, so he told Yang Shidao not to show any attitude as long as he didn't receive a letter from him.
As for Yang Xu, an expatriate governor had little influence on this kind of thing. However, Yang Gongren also sent Yang Xu a letter, warning Yang Xu to do his own thing and not to talk nonsense.
The reason why Yang Gongren said this was from the perspective of Li Jiancheng, and these aristocratic families also stated that they would support Li Jiancheng. Now they actually have to deal with the people Li Jiancheng wants to win over, how can Yang Gongren do anything.
You have "Five Surnames and Seven Hopes", and Yang Gongren is also a member of the "Eight Great Families of Guanlong". They are also from aristocratic families. Yang Gongren is not afraid of offending Xiao Yu. Moreover, you Xiao Yu is the Duke of the country, and I, Yang Gongren, am also the Duke of the country. If Lu Chen expressed his support for Li Jiancheng. When Li Jiancheng really succeeds in taking over, it is not certain who will be unlucky then! Lu Chen dares to deceive you with so many things now. Will he still be able to tolerate your mistakes when he has the power of following the dragon? What's more, don't forget, the relationship between Lu Chen and Li Xiuning. Even though Lu Chen only holds the title of Duke of Chang'an County, he still has the skin of a counselor of the Women's Army!
Yang Gongren's retort to Xiao Yu's words was not polite at all, "Lu Chen is the person that His Highness the Crown Prince likes. If you attack him casually, you will probably make the Crown Prince unhappy!" Yang Gongren said with a warning tone. Yang Gongren is such a person. He is a loyal person with a humble attitude. Because of this, Yang Gongren looks down on narrow-minded people like Xiao Yu. Therefore, the tone of Yang Gongren's words is very rude.
"Yang Guogong, Lu Chen obviously has a lot of criticism against us family members, otherwise he wouldn't have harmed us like this!" Seeing that Yang Gongren was a little unhappy, Wang Gui was also very unhappy. After all, he organized today's party , the purpose is to discuss a countermeasure to deal with Lu Chen. Now that someone is singing the opposite tune on the spot, Wang Gui is also a little unhappy.
"Is it Lu Chen who tricked you, or are you coveting other people's things?" Yang Gongren sneered and glanced at Wang Gui.
"You are also a member of an aristocratic family. If you let Lu Chen do this, I am afraid that our aristocratic family's legacy will be destroyed by this person!" Looking at Yang Gongren, Xiao Yu also sneered and said, "When the time comes, Duke Guan Guo will only I’m afraid that you will become the eternal sinner of the Yang family!”
"This..." After hearing Xiao Yu's words, Yang Gongren pondered for a moment, "Well, today's matter has nothing to do with me, and I have never been here, so you can take care of yourself!" Yang Gongren knew that so many people from aristocratic families were here. Here, it is definitely impossible for him to stop this matter. Yang Gongren doesn't know why. Although he has only met Lu Chen once with Li Yuan in Lujiazhuang, what he saw and heard that time made Yang Gongren feel confused. I have a very strange feeling that even if these people from aristocratic families are tied together, they may not be able to deal with Lu Chen.
Since he couldn't stop it, Yang Gongren was ready to leave directly. Yang Gongren felt that if he didn't leave now, it would be difficult for him to leave then.
While Yang Gongren was speaking, he stood up, cupped his hands with these people from the aristocratic families, and walked outside Mingyue Pavilion.
"Mr. Yang Guogong, you haven't been here today, have you?" Just when Yang Gongren stepped out of Mingyue Pavilion and stepped on the stone bridge, he heard Xiao Yu's voice behind him.
"That's right! I haven't been here today!" Yang Gongren stood still, turned around, cupped his hands towards Xiao Yu and others, and replied with a stern face, "Goodbye!"
"Wang Xing! See the guests off!" Since they were of different ways, they were naturally not conspiring against each other. Wang Gui did not give Yang Gongren a good look and directly ordered the butler Wang Xing to see the guests off. Wang Xing led Yang Gongren away from Mingyue Xuan.
"Hmph! You're so timid!" Wei Ting snorted coldly when he saw Yang Gongren being led by Wang Xing across the stone bridge to the shore of the lotus pond.
"Will Yang Gongren report this matter to the prince?" Seeing that Yang Gongren had disappeared, Wang Gui looked at Xiao Yu with some worry and asked. After all, Li Jiancheng valued Lu Chen very much, otherwise he wouldn't personally Go to see Lu Chen. If the news about their plan to deal with Lu Chen reaches Li Jiancheng's ears, it will affect the relationship between Li Jiancheng and the aristocratic family.
Of course, he would never have thought that if this matter really came to Li Jiancheng's ears, he was afraid that not only would Li Jiancheng not be angry, he would even hide in the palace and laugh. After all, letting Lu Chen directly deal with the family was what Li Jiancheng wanted to see most. , at that time, I heard that Lu Chen had tricked the family, and Li Jiancheng had an extra bowl of rice when he ate.
