The weather has become colder after entering the winter months. After nearly a year of war, Chang'an City has not become depressed, but has become more prosperous. The reason is that Chang'an is safer, and many merchants and people from other places want to stay.
Chang'an. Moreover, when the war broke out, business became more and more prosperous.
After Li Shimin's death, the position of Jingzhao Prefect became vacant, and Li Yuan asked Li Zhiyun to temporarily take over the position and manage Jingzhao. This shows how much Li Zhiyun was valued by Li Yuan during this period. However, he paid attention to it, and he had to be busy with the same things.
Quite a few.
Jingzhao is not as easy to manage as other places. Fortunately, the civil officials in Shence Mansion are very capable and have helped Li Zhiyun a lot. Otherwise, letting him manage Jingzhao alone would have exhausted his mental and physical strength.
After all, if you throw a stone from the top of the city and hit ten people, nine will be nobles and one will be from a noble family.
A carriage drove slowly down the street, with dozens of soldiers guarding it on both sides.
In the car, Li Zhiyun was holding Shun Niang and talking to Wei Gui, who was holding his son Chenglie.
"To tell you the truth from my husband, I have had little contact with my uncle since my father and mother passed away. This time Xiude invited me, it really surprised me."
"Well, the reason is quite flimsy. His son is one month old, but he asked you and me to go together. I remember that Dugu Xiude and I have no friendship." Li Zhiyun said with a smile.
If we really count, he and Dugu Xiude still have a little intersection. That was a few years ago. At that time, he was ordered to go south to conquer Hanzhong Bashu, and Dugu Xiude and Dugu Huaien were accompanying him.
Later, Wang Defa's son reported the incident, causing heavy losses to the Dugu family.
Since then, he and the Dugu family have basically been on two parallel lines. Although there is a Dugu Ying in the Shence Mansion, Li Zhiyun has been downplaying his existence. There was no way, the Guanlong family supported the King of Qin at that time, who knew Dugu Ying was
They are not spies sent by King Qin.
"Woo." Xiao Chenglie whined and went to pick off Wei Gui's clothes. It seemed that he was hungry.
Wei Guiyao's son fed him.
Li Zhiyun took a look and couldn't help but joked: "This little guy actually ate his father's share."
Hearing this, Wei Guifeng's face turned red, she glared at her husband fiercely, and said angrily: "Husband, the children are still here!"
It's true that you speak pornographically and don't pay attention to the occasion.
Li Zhiyun laughed and changed the subject: "By the way, madam, how many uncles do you have?"
"My mother has two elder brothers, one is Mingji and the other is Mingbin."
Li Zhiyun muttered: "I remember that Duguji was the governor of Cangzhou, and Dugubin was in the Imperial College."
Due to the ongoing war in Hebei, Duguji was appointed governor of Cangzhou by Li Yuan, but he never took up the post. Li Zhiyun defeated Dou Jiande and repelled Shibobi, and Duguji was about to leave for Cangzhou.
Wei Gui said: "That seems to be the case, I am not very clear about my identity."
"Yeah." Li Zhiyun nodded and didn't ask again.
In fact, he knew very well that this trip to Dugu Mansion was not to celebrate the full moon of Dugu Xiude's son. It should be that Dugu had something to do with him.
How could such lame excuses and reasons be concealed from him?
He was quite curious as to why the Dugu family was looking for him. Could it be that they were preparing to persuade him to support the prince?
Li Zhiyun thinks this idea is possible. After all, the Dugu family and the Dou family are very close. Recently, Dou Kang has lost his moral integrity and shamelessly showed favor to the prince. The Dugu family may also have similar ideas.
Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun suddenly lost interest and didn't want to go.
When he first heard that Wei Gui and Dugu Xiude were cousins, Li Zhiyun really didn't expect it. Later, after thinking about it, he realized that Jingzhao Weishi was also a member of Guanlong, and it was normal for Guanlong to marry each other.
That's how it is with aristocratic families. There is a little bit of kinship between them.
Now he finally understood why he used words such as 'complicated' and 'tangled' to describe the aristocratic family.
At the same time, he also understood better why the emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties regarded the aristocratic family as a scourge. The Guanlong line alone could be extremely involved, let alone the Shandong aristocratic family that had been passed down for nearly a thousand years.
Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun gave a bitter smile. He thought he had figured out the details of everyone around him, but he didn't expect that something unexpected happened.
In fact, Li Zhiyun did not expect it to be normal, because few people in later generations knew that Wei Gui was actually the niece of the Dugu family. It can only be said that unless they carefully studied the Sui and Tang families, no one would know that Wei Yuancheng was the son-in-law of Dugu Zang.
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After all, later web browsers would not specifically mark the relationship between Wei Gui and Dugu.
"Husband, what's wrong with you?" Wei Gui saw that her husband was not very interested, thinking that he didn't want to go, so he apologized: "If my husband doesn't want to go, if this happens next time, I will reject them directly."
"That's not necessary." Li Zhiyun held her hand and said, "Blood is thicker than water. Since my uncle is alive, he should move around."
"Thank you for your understanding, husband." Wei Gui was slightly moved. Although she didn't ask about the affairs of the family, she also knew that her husband and the Dugu family were not close, and were even a little distant.
Little Chenglie had eaten enough, Wei Gui had tidied his clothes, and they were almost arriving at Dugu Mansion.
Upon arriving at Dugu Mansion, Dugu Ji and Dugu Xiude, father and son, greeted him outside at the same time. Not to mention the little plot in their hearts, the current status of King Chu alone prevented them from neglecting him.
After getting off the carriage and seeing Duguji, Li Zhiyun remembered that Duguji had been loyal to Wang Shichong in Luoyang. After he and his second brother captured Luoyang, he followed the trend and returned to the Tang Dynasty.
Yes, originally in history, both Dugu Ji and Dugu Wu should have died in the hands of Wang Shichong.
But because of the emergence of Li Zhiyun, history has changed.
"I've met my uncle." Li Zhiyun and Wei Gui greeted him at the same time.
Duguji hurriedly said: "Your Highness, please don't be too polite. We are all one family, so there is no need to care about false etiquette."
"Okay." Li Zhiyun replied with a smile, and then greeted Dugu Xiude again.
We haven't seen each other for a few years. Dugu Xiude is much more stable than before, and he no longer has the habit of looking at people with his nostrils.
"Kowtow to your uncle, kowtow to your cousin." Xiao Shun Niang bowed obediently.
"Hey, good boy, get up quickly." Duguji helped Xiao Shunniang up.
Wei Gui teased his son, "Hurry up and call me uncle."
Little Chenglie opened his big black eyes and looked at the stranger curiously.
Duguji's eyes fell on Cheng Lie's face, and he said with a smile: "This is Lie'er, he is a great boy."
After everyone chatted for a while, Wei Gui took his children and followed the Dugu family to the inner courtyard, while Li Zhiyun was led by Dugu Ji to the study.
Dugu Xiude didn't come with him, he still had to greet the guests.
In the study, Duguji and Li Zhiyun were talking.
"Now that Dou Jiande has been destroyed, my uncle can leave for Cangzhou to take office." Li Zhiyun said with a smile.
Duguji said: "I was an official in Hebei during the Sui Dynasty. This time I go back to my old place."
Li Zhiyun chuckled, "The war in Hebei has ended, and because Dou Jiande led the Turks southward, the whole of Hebei was devastated. My uncle has gone to Hebei, and he has a long way to go."
Duguji said: "As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, this is what I should do. Your Majesty loves you so much, and as a minister, I should repay you."
"It's a blessing to have an uncle in the Tang Dynasty." Li Zhiyun boasted awkwardly.
It was so embarrassing. Duguji didn't talk about business, and Li Zhiyun didn't know what to talk to him. After all, they had never met before and had no common language at all.