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Chapter 568 The Imperial Family
After coming out of Jia's mansion at night, Li Xia went back to the mansion for a nap, got up in the fourth watch, changed into a grand court dress, and walked towards the Ouchi Miyagi.

Today is going to hold a grand court meeting.

The sky was still dark and gray, and the imperial street was already brightly lit and full of traffic.

"Wow." Liu Jinsuo kept turning his head and said with emotion: "There are so many officials..."

In the inner city of Lin'an, which is a small Qiantang County, there are more than [-] officials and family members, of course many.

It can be said that as long as the ruling officials are pulled out to form a large army, the number of them can already surpass Meng Ge's army.

Squeezing through the Imperial Street, Li Xia saw that the time was still early, so he went to the leaky courtyard to take a look. Seeing that there were too many people, and there was no resting place for a military official like him, he simply withdrew again and lined up in front of Lizheng Gate.

Although he was resting with his eyes closed, he was tall and straight, with outstanding posture, which quickly attracted the attention of others.

"Hey, a fourth-rank earl at such an age... dare to ask your high name?"

Li Xia turned his head and saw a red-robed official in the queue of civil servants next to him, stroking his beard and asking each other.

"Your Excellency, please ask me, I dare not be famous. Li Xia, Li Feiyu."

"Zhao Yuxi, whose name is Zhongfu."

Hearing this word, Li Xia was silent for a while.

Zhao Yuxi was about 45 or [-] years old, with an elegant demeanor and a strong character. He gave his name with a smile, and introduced himself: "Doctor Zhongfeng, Minister of the Household Department, and also knows Lin'an Mansion."

"It turned out to be Fu Yin in person, so I was rude." Li Xia hurriedly bowed his hands.

Li Xia actually knew about Zhao Yuxi, the clan of the Great Song Dynasty.

Because he has been secretly inquiring about clan figures recently, in order to prepare to compete with the loyal king.

The reason why I have an impression of Zhao Yuxi is because I heard that Zhao Yuxi has a son... the great calligrapher Zhao Mengfu.

But this is Zhao Yuxi, it doesn't work at first glance.

Zhao and Xi are of the same generation as today's officials, and both are the tenth grandson of Emperor Taizu Emperor Zhao Kuangyin.

However, the official family is the descendant of Zhao Dezhao, king of Yan, and Zhao Yuxi is the descendant of Zhao Defang, king of Qin.

The difference is too far, and it has been forked since the ninth ancestor.

In terms of blood, there are hundreds of people in the clan ahead of Zhao Yuxi.

"Feiyu is from the Li family in Jiaxing?"

"Yes, the Li family moved to Jiaxing for more than a hundred years." Li Xia replied, he didn't know much about this, and he had heard Li Zhaocheng say a little about it.

Zhao Yuxi nodded, and asked again, "May I ask Yuzhai who is Feiyu?"

"It's the younger uncle's grandfather."

Li Xia knew that Duke Yuzhai was referring to Li Renben, the head of the Li family, and Li Yong's uncle.

Because Zhao and Xi did not call their official names, but only their name, this was a private story, so Li Xia had no choice but to follow the ceremony of the younger generation.He didn't like the answer very much.

"Then you and I are still related." The smile on Zhao Yuxi's face became thicker, but with a bit of sadness, he sighed: "The deceased wife, Li Shi, is the niece of Yuzhaigong's family. Duke Yuzhai is the 'Bo Chang', she and your father are also brothers and sisters in the clan..."

It was the first time Li Xia had heard of this.

All he knew was that Li Renben had married his eldest daughter to King Rong Zhao Yurui, causing troubles all over his family.But they didn't know that the Li family had distant relatives who married the clan Zhao Yuxi.

Of course, this is not uncommon, there are many royal families in the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Yuxi is the last branch of the clan, the ninth grandson of the King of Qin, secretly recruited a Sihu to join the army, his status is very low, worse than that of the current officials before they succeeded to the throne.

It is indeed his personal ability that he can be appointed as a senior official of the fourth rank now.

The Song Dynasty's method of raising the clan seems to be better than many other dynasties...

In short, Zhao and Zi married a daughter of the Li family back then, and they were in the same family.

"I think back in the past, when Concubine Xianrong first married, I was also there, and I had a relationship with your father... I didn't expect that King Rong and the Li family would have such troubles."

Zhao Yuxu shook his head and sighed.

Li Xia could understand that Zhao Yuxi was expressing his position - I don't like King Rong Zhao Yurui.

Zhao Yufu seemed to have misunderstood something and regarded Li Xia as Wu Qian's person.

Or, deliberately testing Li Xia's attitude...

No matter how you answer this question, Li Xia simply doesn't answer.

Zhao Yuxi smiled, and asked again: "Is Feiyu not yet twenty? Have you ever been married?"

"I'm already married to a woman from the Gao family in Sichuan."

Zhao Yuxi was slightly taken aback, feeling a little regretful.

Afterwards, the drums in the palace sounded, the palace gate slowly opened, and the court meeting had already begun...

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Li Xia walked through the palace tower, entered the main hall and stood still, thinking about things all the time.

He realized that he knew too little about the Li family.

The Li family used to be a scholarly family.

At that time, the head of the family, Li Renben, was quite talented and famous, but he didn't want to be an official. He wrote a poem: "The gold belt is heavy, and the purple robe is wide, and it is not like a room of feathers. If the king promises to offer incense, the crown will be hung in front of the Shenwu Gate."

Only this poem can show the background of the Li family.

Many of the Li family's clan daughters married to the Zhao and Song clans, and their families were not so prominent, not comparable to the Xie, Jia, and Yang families, but they were not bad.

When the official Zhao Yun succeeded to the throne, the younger brother Zhao Yurui became King Rong. Zhao Yurui was equivalent to leaping from a commoner to a nobleman.

Therefore, Zhao Yurui married the eldest daughter of the Li family in order to borrow the prestige of the Li family.

One of the maidservants accompanying Li's parents and daughters as dowry was named Huang Dingxi, who hooked up with Zhao Yurui and became pregnant.

Li's parents and daughters gave Huang Dingxi a set of medicines for falling, but they failed to fall. As a result, when Zhao Yu was born, he was mentally deficient.

For many years, this matter has been nothing, and not many people know about it.

Until the official Zhao Yun planned to accept an heir in the clan.

At that time, Li Renben and a group of courtiers resolutely opposed the official's choice of Zhao Xuan.

I don't want to talk about whether I have a public heart, but I only talk about Li Renben's family's private schemes, because the concubine Li has passed away for many years at that time, and Zhao Yurui also had a successor concubine.As for Huang Dingxi's son, he has no kindness with the Li family, only enmity.

It was Li Renben who helped to confirm and spread the news that Zhao Yu's birth mother was humble and mentally handicapped.

Later, Jiaxing was attacked by thieves, and the thieves entered the Li family, Li Ren himself died, and the Li family was destroyed.Li Yong, who was an official in Yuhang at that time, and Li Zhaocheng, who survived, remained.

At this point, the opposition to Zhao Yu died down, and Zhao Yu became the son of the official family from the son of King Rong, and was named King Zhong.

A dose of abortion pill has become a family feud...

In these years, Li Yong was able to survive, obviously because he was protected by a group of courtiers.

So according to Li Yong's thinking, is it possible to survive only by defeating Zhao Yu and changing to another clan?

……

Thinking of this, Li Xia suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

He turned his head slightly and glanced at Zhao Yuxi, the prefect of Lin'an, who was standing in another row.

Think from Li Yong's point of view.

If you support a clan...

For example, to use an unlikely analogy, such as this Zhao Yuxi.

Zhao Yufu had ten sons and fourteen daughters, and he was very talented and had an excellent family education, teaching his sons very well.

If one of these ten sons is randomly chosen to be the heir of the official family, he must be better than Zhao Xuan.

Let's not talk about how it is beneficial to Da Song Sheji.

In terms of Li Yong's private affairs, Zhao Yuxi's deceased wife was also a daughter of the Li family.

Among the ten sons of Zhao Yuxi, five sons were born to his dead wife Li...

Of course, this is an example.Zhao Yuxi was far from qualified, knowing that the Lin'an prefecture was just a "send", and the prefect of Lin'an changed almost every year.

Moreover, among Wu Qian's forces, there is far more than one Li Yong, and there are too many people who are married to the clan.

Among the clan clan, there are too many people ranked ahead of Zhao Yuxi.

But this is the meaning of Wu Qian's "whale sinks to the bottom, and there will be a time to jump".

Well, this is actually what Li Yong meant.

……

Li Xia found out that she underestimated Li Yong.

I thought that Li Yong wanted to escape to Lin'an with a foolish heart of repaying his gratitude, and ruin his hard work.

Now it seems that Li Yong has his own calculations in his heart.

I thought that if Wu Qian had found Li Yong, he would immediately explode and overthrow the loyal king Zhao Yu.

no.

He was the number one scholar at the age of 22 and has been an official all his life.If you want Yi Chu, how can you not even make arrangements for how to clean up the situation after Yi Chu Chu?

Then, with Wu Qian's level, I'm afraid he wouldn't believe the saying "Li Yong was captured by King Rong".

why not ask?

It is very possible that Li Yong has already met Wu Qian.

Wu Qian was not cheated at all when he tried to protect Li Xia.

Instead, he intends to borrow his strength from Li Xia.

A conversation on the West Lake, although Wu Qian didn't persuade him, but he still hasn't given up...

Calculating further, it was not a coincidence that Zhao and Xi had a sudden conversation today.

Zhao Yuxi also had thoughts.

This person is from Wu Qian's lineage, but he is not Wu Qian's best choice. He is ranked after the blood of King Ji, and behind the blood of Emperor Guangzong and Emperor Xiaozong.

However, Zhao Yufu wanted Wu Qian's support and helped Wu Qian persuade Li Xia.

Today's greetings, when I think about it carefully, those friendly and laughing words, there were only two words——

"help me."

How to help?Or sacrifice Li Yong alone, falsely testifying that Zhao Yu, the king of Zhong, is not a nephew of the official family.

And it was he, Zhao Yuxu, who persuaded Li Xia to be willing to be protected by Wu Qian, so Li Yong was willing to come forward after arranging for his son.

Since Zhao and Xi have worked hard, should Mr. Wu also persuade the officials? Anyway, they are all relatives of the Song clan. No matter how close or distant the blood is, they should choose a sensible, filial, and smart child, and the most important thing is to preserve the ancestral temple...

No matter how slim the hope is, Zhao Yuxi also wanted to try it for his sons.

……

At the same time, this was the first time Wu Qianqian added another bargaining chip after failing to convince Li Xia.

"The officials don't trust you, and the loyal king wants to kill you. Let's avoid it, not for a while, but for the country. Let's see, who are the candidates for the crown prince? How about Zhao Mengsong, the fourth son of Zhao Zhifu's family? Good family education, good character, his biological mother is your family aunt, his father is very nice..."

Is Li Xia tempted?
A little.

But he still didn't forget that all that Wu Qian did was basically protecting the Zhao family community.

He glanced at Wu Qian, only to see the old Prime Minister standing in front of the queue of civil servants, as if he had fallen asleep, his body was like a dead tree, but he was still struggling to support the Zhao family community...

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I have been distracted until here, and the ceremony and music at the court meeting have stopped.

"My dear friends, who has a book to play?"

"Minister Li Xia, I have something to play..."

Li Xia held the wat in both hands and went out.

He wants to impeach Ding Daquan in public.

This was actually arranged when he got the news that he was going to attend the court meeting, and he was asked to recite the previous memorial.

In fact, the government and the Privy Council officials had already discussed overnight how to deal with Ding Daquan.

The court meeting was never used to discuss political affairs, but to go through the process again to express the holy will.

It doesn't mean much.

……

Zhao Yufu, who knew Lin'an Mansion, read aloud the evidence he had examined all night.

However, Zhao and Zi's thoughts are not in the court meeting or Ding Daquan, but in the little encounter before the court meeting.

Which of these red and purple senior officials would take a second look at Ding Daquan?

Everyone is already planning the next dispute...

(End of this chapter)