[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 23 Sons and Daughters 15

When Li Xiaojiu came back in the evening, Wu Xu told him what he had said to Yang during the day.

After Li Xiaojiu heard it, she couldn't help laughing: "Awu, do you think that even the talents who can be admitted to Chang'an can't get married?"

Wu Xu was embarrassed when he heard this: Yes!The talents who can be admitted to Jinshi are at least in their early twenties. They seem very young in the 21st century, but in this era, young people who have passed the age of 20 and are not married are rare!

It's really rare to see someone like Li Sanlang who became a Jinshi in his teens, or someone like Wei Shuyu who is almost 30 years old and hasn't married yet!

"Awu, don't worry about it. Sanniang is lively by nature, and she is not beautiful if you keep her in the palace..." Li Zhi thought about the cute appearance of Xiao Sanniang, and he didn't really want her to marry so early in his heart. He said: "There are many rules in the aristocratic family. Even our daughter will feel aggrieved when she marries in. Why not keep her for two more years and see..."

Wu Xu thought about it too.

Moreover, if the princess of Li Tang's family wanted to marry later, it would be fine.

Now that the little Sanniang was mentioned, Wu Xu inevitably had to talk about the other two princesses in the palace.

These two are also hard-pressed.

Auntie Princess Yiyang just married Ji three years ago. Wu Xu and Xu Xiaomei went through a lot of information about unmarried young talents in the two capitals, and finally appointed her the son-in-law of Jiangzhou Chen's son-in-law. I don't know what happened, but shortly after receiving the marriage edict, he actually broke his foot while hunting!

After all, Princess Yiyang is the eldest daughter of His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, how can she marry a cripple, Wu Xu just needs to cancel the engagement.

Later, when Yang was inquiring about gossip, she came back and told Wu Xu the truth of the matter.

It turned out that the son of the Chen family didn't want to marry the princess at all, and was afraid of offending the second saint, so he deliberately broke his foot in order to cancel the engagement!

No one in the ladies' circle knew about this matter, Yang also said that as soon as Wu Xu's side canceled the engagement, the Chen's side began to impatiently blind date their son!

After Wu Xu heard this, she almost died of anger, let alone Xu Xiaomei, who raised her aunt herself.

These aristocratic families are really deceiving!

The aunt has been sad for a long time because of this matter, if Xu Xiaomei hadn't stopped her and thought about the future of her younger sister Erniang, she would have almost become a monk.

As for the second mother, she is also a sad child. This baby was adopted by Concubine Xiao Shu back then. When she was young, her adoptive mother didn't like her very much, and she depended entirely on her to take care of her.

Later Concubine Xiao Shu fell from power, and she and the aunt suffered a lot in the harem, and only relying on the crown prince's advice, the two of them could live a good life under the protection of Concubine Xu Xian.

However, her elder sister was so gentle and was rejected for marriage. The second mother immediately became prejudiced against the man she was talking about, and she refused to consider marriage.

Now Erniang has long since grown up, and she is still very resistant to her marriage.

Xu Xiaomei was in a hurry and couldn't tell Wu Xu, so she had to mention this to Yang through her own mother so that Wu Xu could know.

Mrs. Yang is quite a chivalrous woman, after hearing Mrs. Xu's request, she didn't say anything else, and immediately told Wu Xu about Concubine Xu Xian's difficulties.

Wu Xu was still in Luoyang at that time, and after hearing Yang's words, she was quite touched, and immediately said that when she returned to Chang'an, she would definitely find a good marriage for the two princesses.

But then many things happened, and Wu Xu forgot about it when she was busy.

Now that we are talking about the marriage of the third lady, Wu Xu will inevitably have to think about her two concubines.

On this day, Mrs. Yang happened to come to the palace to visit Wu Xu, and Wu Xu mentioned to her about the two princesses.

"It's my fault that I didn't pay attention to this matter, but it made those blind people look down on the big lady and the second lady..." Wu Xu still has a lot of resentment towards the brat who tried to escape marriage back then, but I heard that the kid didn't know how to offend him. Who the hell was beaten up with a sack, and both legs were crippled, which really made Wu Xulong very happy.

"If it wasn't for Ah Xu who insisted on choosing a son from a noble family for Da Niang, it wouldn't be like this." Wu Xu actually saw through it a long time ago. Not bad, marrying a princess can still serve in the army and politics.

Yang Shi agreed with Wu Xu's point of view, saying: "Concubine Xian is from a scholarly family, how could she understand that instead of marrying into a family and being restricted, it is better to find a general to be a son-in-law!" She herself is an example.

"Aniang's words make sense!" Wu Xu's eyes lit up when he heard this.

It is said that in the past few years, the Tang Dynasty has repeatedly fought abroad, and there are not a few young people who have been promoted to rank because of martial arts.

And there should be many unmarried among them, right?

When Wu Xu thought of this, he was in a pretty good mood, and immediately asked Awei to call Xiao Shunzi in.

At this time, a notification came from outside, saying that the emperor and King Pei had arrived.

Yang hurriedly stood up to greet her.

"Ma'am, you're welcome." His Majesty Li Xiaojiu was in a good mood today, and after letting Mrs. Yang sit down, he smiled and said to Wu Xu: "The auspicious day for canonization has been set..."

Although the imperial edict to establish Li Xian as the East Palace was issued before, the date has not been fixed, because there have been no auspicious days in the past month, and Li Zhi is also worried that the weather is too hot, and he is afraid that Wu Xu's body will not be able to bear it. The Ministry of Rites selects the days for autumn coolness.

It just so happened that today the Ministry of Rites selected several auspicious days and asked Li Xiaojiu to make a decision.

Li Xiaojiu took a look and found that they were more satisfactory, so she pointed to an in-between day, and then went to Zichen Hall to talk to Wu Xu.

"But I don't know which day Jiulang you chose?" Wu Xu saw that Li Xiaojiu and Li Xian were both hot when they came in, so she hurriedly asked Awei and the others to serve some fire-reducing scented tea, and asked Xiaoyu to mix a bowl of fruit for Li Xian Here comes the smoothie.

Because Wu Xu was pregnant, she couldn't eat cold food, so she could only watch Li Xiaojiu and Li Xian father and son drinking herbal tea and cold drinks to satisfy their cravings.

Of course, Li Zhi's physique can't eat too cold food, he can only drink herbal tea made of mint and jasmine.

Still, it's pretty good...

"The date is set on September [-]th, when Persia, Tianzhu and other countries will send envoys..." His Majesty Li Xiaojiu drank a sip of herbal tea, breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Da Lang, I will also send someone to The letter has passed..."

When Li Xian on the side heard this sentence, he paused for a while while eating dessert.

When Wu Xu heard that the date was set in September, she was also very satisfied.

Counting the time, there is still at least one month until the first day of canonization of the East Palace, and all kinds of preparations are completely in time.

Seeing that Wu Xu was about to discuss business with Li Xiaojiu and his son, Yang quickly got up and left.

Wu Xu asked Awei to send Yang out of the palace, and then turned to Li Xian and said, "Although you haven't been canonized yet, Erlang, you should go to the East Palace more often to get acquainted with your subordinates..." Now is the time to sharpen your presence!

It's all because the baby was too low-key at the beginning, so many ministers didn't know His Royal Highness Pei Wang, let alone accept him as the second in command ==

Li Xian bowed and said yes when he heard the words.

In fact, Li Xian has not been idle these days. Apart from supervising the building and rebuilding of the Hebi Palace, he also carefully screened his subordinates.

He used to be Prince Pei, although he lived in the Daming Palace, Chang'an also had his Prince Pei's Mansion, and there were many officials in the mansion who were hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

The first thing I want to mention is Li Yiyan, the Chief History of King Pei's Mansion and a scholar of Chongwenguan. He also opposed his father's decision to pass the throne to his aunt together with Hao Chujun, the left minister at the time, and was demoted from Chang'an...

Li Xian may not appreciate such an upright elder who is almost pedantic, but he can't bear to repeat the mistakes of his previous life.

Another one is Secretary Lang Wei Chengqing.

This person was the official of the Eastern Palace that Li Xian hated the most in his previous life, but now that he thinks about it, he is the person who cares most about the Eastern Palace.

Even Li Yiyan, Hao Chujun and others sometimes dare not speak out to him, but Wei Chengqing dares to reprimand him for his indiscretion in private life without fear of death.

If at that time, he just listened to Wei Chengqing's remonstrance and corrected his mistakes, how could it cause subsequent tragedies?

Sometimes when I think about it, he didn't die unjustly at all!

Because, even when he hurt A Niang the most, his A Niang never thought of killing him, but he went to find his own death!

Sure enough, he deserves death!

Li Xian twitched his lips in a self-deprecating manner, recalling the past just now, but he did not miss hearing about the officials of the East Palace that his parents had chosen for him.

Similar to the previous life, apart from Li Yiyan, Hao Chujun, and Wei Chengqing, those who were put into the East Palace this time also included several backbones in the Political Affairs Hall: Li Yifu, Changsun Quan, Xue Yuanchao and others.

Father and mother have allocated half of the husbands in Zhengshitang to him!

They are also the people they can trust the most.

In addition to a few ministers with temporary positions in the East Palace, Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu also negotiated and arranged for other officials, such as serving the bachelor, the prince washing the horse, and Dian Shan.

Of course Dalang's team was good back then, but Xu Jingzong, the leader, was not young, and most of the other attendants had reached the age of retirement. Wu Xu simply gave up and planned to build a new working team for Erlang.

Although Li Xiaojiu's ideas are different from Wu Xu's, he also agrees with a new team composed of young and strong people, and only a few experienced husbands will be sent in to sit in the township.

Li Xian sat down and listened quietly until he heard that his father said that he would choose Gao Zheng, the eldest Sun Quan's cousin, as the Eastern Palace Dian Shan, he couldn't help but speak.

"This person is wrong." Even if the eldest grandson's family has not been ruined because of his aunt in this life, and the Gao family has not been implicated by the decline of the eldest grandson's family, Li Xian still cannot tolerate Gao Zheng who intensifies the conflict between him and his mother and son. In the East Palace.

Seeing that Li Xian didn't like people from the Gao family, Wu Xu said, "Since Erlang doesn't like people, let's change to another..." The Gao family is the uncle of the eldest grandson empress, and most of its people are known for their prudence. Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu chose Gao. Zheng is to see that he is more cautious in dealing with people...

But, if Erlang doesn’t like it, forget it ╮(╯_╰)╭

Speaking of which, the Wei clan actually has quite a few talents...

Li Xian didn't expect his mother to be so talkative, she agreed to change without even asking him why she didn't want Gao Zheng.

On the contrary, his father, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, seemed to have noticed something, and gave him a meaningful look, but he didn't say anything.

Wu Xu sat for a long time, and discussed political affairs with Li Xiaojiu and Li Xian for a long time, but he couldn't handle it anymore, so he left the father and son to continue the discussion in the front hall, while he went to the back hall to rest.

As soon as Wu Xu left, Li Zhi put away his smile, looked at Li Xian solemnly, and asked coldly, "Erlang, do you have something to hide from us?"

The author has something to say: Xiao Jiu, what exactly do you know? !