Northern Dynasties

Chapter 424 Duke of Xihe County
The imperial court arranged a very large number of people to welcome them this time. The single ceremonial team stretched out for several miles on the north bank of the Weishui River. It's really a bit of a confrontation between the two armies.

The standard of welcoming personnel is also very high. From Crown Prince Yuanqin and Guangling Wang Yuanxin onwards, several Yuan clan kings, Duguxin, Li Hu, including Gao Zhongmi, the titled Situ, and other court ministers are all here.

"It seems that the DPRK and China are also warmly welcoming the triumphant return of the heroes!"

After Yu Wentai got off the car, he looked at the scene for a while, and then said to Li Tai with a smile.

After Li Tai heard the words, he hurriedly said respectfully: "The Lord is in the grasp of the wisdom pearl, and the opportunity is determined, so that the Yuchen and others can once again defeat the offensive of the Eastern bandits, and eliminate the catastrophe for the society. Pay homage to the Lord!"

The reasoning is the same, but in the past when Yu Wentai travels to and from Gyeonggi, such a grand welcome scene is rare, of course Li Tai did not dare to be arrogant enough to attribute this to himself, so he made this answer.

Yu Wentai didn't make any further statements after listening, and strode towards the clan and court officials and other people who were coming here. After the group met, they naturally greeted each other for a while, and then surrounded Yu Wentai and the prince. A pair of Weng and his son-in-law, who were at odds with each other, sat down in the tent near the left.

After all, the safety of Daxingtai is the most important thing. They have to wait until the guards of the Taifu have crossed the river and entered Beijing to arrange all security matters before they can welcome Daxingtai into Beijing.

The inside of this tent is not small, but there are only a dozen seats, and there are as many as five or six relatives of the single unit family present, so naturally there is no place for Li Tai.

While everyone was taking their seats, Li Tai was planning to go to his father-in-law Dugu Xin to greet him. When he was outside just now, he noticed that the father-in-law was obviously a little emotional.

As soon as he took two steps behind the crowd, Prince Yuanqin, who was already seated above, raised his finger and said with a smile: "Guzanghou Li Kaifu, we meet again today."

"I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Hearing this, Li Tai quickly stepped out of the crowd, and made another obeisance.

"Li Kai's house is free of courtesy, you are a hero who has served the country, so you don't need to be so restrained."

The crown prince looked at Li Tai with a smile, and immediately said with emotion: "After we met a few days ago, a few people around me said that Li Kaifu has extraordinary qualities, and you will definitely be a great talent in the future. You will surely become a good story on the day when you succeed. Just because you are still attached to me at that time, and I have not been harassed by the waiters, I don’t think that after a short period of time, Li Kaifu will already stand out and show his sharpness!"

Li Tai has experienced this kind of scene not only once, but before the prince's courtship to him also meant to demonstrate to his father-in-law, Yu Wentai, but this time it was obviously more aimed at Li Tai, and there was a regretful look in his eyebrows and eyes The color is probably regretful that he didn't take the matter of wooing Li Tai seriously before.

Before he could answer here, Dugu Xin also stepped out, pointed at him and said with a smile to the crown prince: "Li Boshan was originally a minister of food and wealth, and he served as a consul in the country. The fate of the country is prosperous, if he is responsible for the wealth, even if he has no private righteousness, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can also blame him."

The prince smiled awkwardly when he heard this. It is really not suitable for him to say what he said just now, but Li Boshan's deeds are so touching that he couldn't help but imagine that he would accept him as his confidant before the other party became famous. , can definitely become the face of the East Palace now.

After a short pause, when everyone in the tent was seated or arranged, the crown prince looked at Yang Kuan who was sitting below and smiled, "Hua Monkey, I'm sorry."

After Yang Kuan heard the words, he stood up from the table, and took an edict from the waiter standing aside, then he held the edict and turned to Li Tai and said: "Li Kaifu, please come out and accept the edict."

As soon as these words came out, Li Tai's face changed slightly, and Yu Wentai who was sitting above couldn't help but frowned, and then lowered his eyelids, but there was a sparkle in his eyes, and his gaze slowly followed the audience. Everyone moved slowly, especially looking at Dugu Xin twice.

The imperial edict first praised Li Tai's achievements, and then jumped directly to the most important content, including Li Taijia's servant, general of Hushi, Kaifu Yitong and the three divisions, and at the same time he was named Duke of Xihe County, Shiyi Thousands of eight hundred households.

This kind of reward can be regarded as directly filling up all the items. The county prince, hussars, and Kaifu can be regarded as the best match for the civil and military ministers of the Western Wei Dynasty.The only shortcoming is that Shiyi is still a bit low among the ranks of the Duke of the county, but this thing is inherently false. Since the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty, no one has received any benefits from the feudal city.

Li Tai entered the country in the ninth year of Datong, and only three years have passed. Now in the 12th year of Datong, he has obtained the highest official title from the initial white body.This kind of promotion speed simply left the Rockets far behind.

But no one can say that such a reward is unreasonable. In the face of real credit, one can only admit that it is well deserved.

After receiving this honor and award, Li Tai still had some doubts in his heart, because on the way here, Yu Wentai had mentioned to him more than once the issue of the award after entering the court.In other words, the result of the present award is not a decision made by the Overlord's House at all, but drawn up by the court.

This is a bit embarrassing, although it is said that Li Tai is rewarded for his meritorious service and is fully worthy of this honor, but who will award the award is a serious issue.

Although it is said that the titles and decrees come from the king, but now the military and government powers belong to the hegemony. If the emperor wants to turn the false into the real and break the current political tacit agreement, if he fails, he will have to pay a heavy price!
Although he hesitated in his heart, Li Tai didn't dare to refuse the imperial order in full view of the public. It's not a time when he was posing stupidly and standing in line. Discord and contradictions between?

After bowing to Xie En and accepting the imperial edict, he couldn't help but look at Dugu Xin again, but Dugu Xin put his hand on the table and raised his finger to shake him lightly and tapped on the table again. He said that he was not aware of the case but felt that it was not a serious problem.

Li Tai held the imperial edict and returned it. After thinking for a while, he also felt that the point of the imperial court bypassing the overlord's mansion to carry out such an operation was not to win over and show favor to him. In the interior, even the false food towns were not given indiscriminately.

Therefore, the purpose of the court's behavior was not to make Li Tai grateful, but to emphasize his right to speak.

This can be regarded as a relatively cautious test. There is no violation of the reward scale and procedures. Even if your Overlord Mansion wants to pick a mistake, you can't pick it out, so you can only acquiesce in such a result.

But for others, it means that the imperial court's rewards are not only from the hegemony, and the imperial court still has a lot of say in this regard.

But what makes Li Tai feel helpless is that he is not the only hero in this battle. Why was he chosen to give eye drops to Bafu instead of Wei Xiaokuan?

Not long after the Eastern Wei army withdrew, before Li Tai's troops completely evacuated the Eastern Wei territory, the imperial court happily dispatched envoys to Yubi City to confer Wei Xiaokuan, and it was also the county magistrate Hussar Kaifu Laman.

The two envoys sent to Yubi City, one is Changsun Shaoyuan and the other is Wang Yue, one is from the Changsun family and the other is from the Jingzhao Wang family, and they both hold official positions in the overlord's mansion. It reflects the care and consideration of the imperial court and the overlord's government for Wei Xiaokuan, a great hero, and did not say that Wei Xiaokuan must be forced into any political force by this.

The reason for doing this is nothing more than hoping that Wei Xiaokuan will not be disturbed by various situations in the country, and only needs to stay in Yubi City to guard the east gate for the community.

But Li Tai naturally didn't have such strategic considerations. Northern Shaanxi, where his power is distributed, was a tasteless tasteless rib before, and he didn't have to worry about any adverse effects on national defense if he was used to achieve some political intentions.

Moreover, the planners may have also guessed that the Bafu needs to stir up Li Tai to eliminate part of Wei Xiaokuan's presence and influence in the incident. As Li Tai's popularity increases, of course the recent issues surrounding him have attracted much attention. No discordant voices can be tolerated.

This wave, it is true, has a certain amount of force, ingenious timing and accurate prediction. It not only emphasizes the court's right to speak, but also makes the overlord's government helpless.Li Tai peeked at Yu Wentai's face turning dark, which shows that he is also very depressed at the moment.

Such a style of means is obviously not something that the prince, a mild-mannered junior high school student, can do. Li Tai couldn't help but think of the emperor's Yuanbaoju, which he had seen a few times at the court ceremony, and felt relatively unfamiliar.

It is said that the emperor was also known for his strength back then, but now he has no edges and corners and is willing to be a puppet. But now it seems that no one is willing to stand still and wait for death, and he still wants to seize the opportunity when he sees it.It's just that the general trend is now, even if there is any cleverness to resist, it will be weak.

They stayed here for more than an hour, and in the evening, Chang'an banned another visitor to ask Daxingtai when he would enter the palace for an audience, and said that His Majesty the Emperor had set up a banquet in the palace to entertain Prime Minister Yuwen and the triumphant men.

"It's getting late today, and I really don't dare to enter the palace to disturb the Chenju. The tents here are fully equipped, so I will stay overnight and cross the river tomorrow morning to worship."

Yu Wentai first stood up and walked out of the tent, and everyone in the tent followed suit, but he stood outside the tent and looked at the sun that was still some time before sunset, and walked back to the tent while talking middle.

Seeing this, the officials of the other overlords naturally followed Daxingtai to return to the account, but the courtiers present were a little embarrassed, some also returned to the account, and some leaned in front of the prince whose face had become unsightly , There are also many who hesitate and don't know where to go.

Li Tai couldn't help being a little funny seeing this scene, he didn't have to worry about where he was going, and went straight to his father-in-law Duguxin who was standing by and watching.

(End of this chapter)