I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Get back on your feet?

It can only be said that this is just the wishful thinking of Empress Dowager Dou—even Liu Sheng himself, who said this sentence, did not believe what he said.

Look at what Dou Ying has been doing all these years?
During the reign of the first emperor, he was proud of his merits and interfered in the affairs of the crown prince, so he couldn't figure out his own position at all!
When the first emperor was seriously ill and lay on the couch, he began to become active secretly again, clearly wanting to take advantage of the handover of power to return to the power center of the court.

If you want to return to court, just think about it, but you still don't want to bow your head to the late emperor?
——While making an aloof posture of "Your Majesty has offended me, I'm very angry", while walking repeatedly between Donggong Changle and Tangyi Hou's Mansion, pureness is both want and want.

Neng Empress Dowager Dou made it clear that she wanted to hide Dou Ying temporarily, so as to grind the temper of this good nephew, Dou Ying began to get angry like a child again, just like Empress Dowager Dou did this, it is so indignant and unreasonable thing.

In the current Liu Sheng Dynasty, Dou Ying hesitated for a while, but still refused to give up;
After realizing that no matter what she did, she could not change her established destiny, Dou Ying gave up completely.

Drinking and having fun all day long, reciting poems and composing Fu;

And not alone, or in small groups - today's Wei Qihou's mansion has already become a paradise that scholars and poets all over the world yearn for.

But any literati who can write three or five lines of Fu that people don't understand, can get the hospitality of Wei Qihou's Mansion.

What size treat?
——Guaranteed the identity of a diner, clean clothes, thousand or eight hundred "entry bonuses", and enough salary to feed a mouth.

This is just the most basic treatment.

In addition, everyone who becomes a guest of Wei Qihou's mansion will get a chance to change their destiny within three to five months.

Dou Ying, the Marquis of Wei's death, held a banquet at his mansion almost every day, and asked thirty or fifty guest scholars to recite poems and compose Fu.

Since it is a banquet, there are naturally some games exclusive to literati, such as pairing, or improvisation.

At this time, it is the opportunity for those disciples to perform.

only one song;
You don’t even need a whole poem—you just need to have such an astonishing poem, spread from any corner at the right time, and it will change the fate of a poor man.

Sleeping with enough feet, long talks all night, or rewards of gold and silver are still second to none—the most flocking to these diners is the official position that is like rice, which is thrown out by Dou Ying in a drunk state. !
——Dou Ying couldn't carry on with her dream of being a prime minister for a long time;
But even so, even if he has become an abandoned son of the Dou family, Dou Ying still has the surname of Dou after all. He is the nephew of the former great general, Marquis of Wei Qi of the current dynasty, and the current Empress Dowager Dou whose blood is thicker than water.

Just like in later generations, people often say: When a person's status and status reach a certain level, there is no need to worry about or even ask about many things.

As long as in such a banquet, it is enough to praise a certain diner for his "outstanding literary talent", even if he is in a state of drunkenness.

In Wei Qihou's words, there are countless flatterers in the world who are willing to go up and flatter their feet.

Even those officials who didn't intend to go against the principles, and were not used to breaking the rules, might feel in their hearts: This Wei Qihou Dou Ying, I'm afraid it's not easy to mess with?
Don't look back and put yourself in it for the sake of principle...

Therefore, with intentional or unintentional connivance inside and outside the Chang'an court, and Dou Ying's own madness, the three characters Wei Qihou have gradually changed from an awe-inspiring hero after the Wu-Chu Rebellion to a person with mixed feelings. Chen, a special existence that he is reluctant to mention.

Up to now, there are thousands of diners in Wei Qihou's mansion, and all the diners who committed themselves to Dou Ying's family could not be resettled in Chang'an Shangguanli, and instead were scattered and resettled in Dou Ying's various manors around Chang'an.

This day was another ordinary day for Wei Qihou's mansion.

—About one hundred and eighty guests were summoned and gathered at Shang Guanli from Wei Qihou's manor around Chang'an.

And on this day, Wei Qihou's Mansion, as usual, welcomed several distinguished guests...

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"it is good!"

"Good gift!"

"Ten gold rewards!"

Not long after the banquet started, a scribe who was already in a state of drunkenness won a lot of applause with a fu about unrecognized talents.

——Mainly because it was highly recognized by Dou Ying, and thus received polite applause from everyone present.

Dou Ying's hand was as generous as ever, and with a wave of her hand, the accumulated rewards for today's banquet were raised to a height of seventy gold.

Seventy gold, what concept?
According to today's unwritten default exchange ratio in Chang'an, a piece of gold with impurity content "invisible to the naked eye" can be exchanged for a full [-] yuan, and it is five baht coins in good condition.

Seventy gold, this is 70 yuan.

Converted into grain, you can buy 100 shi millet, which can feed a family of five for [-] years, and there is still [-] shi left.

Converted into property, it is all the assets of the seven middle-class families.

But for Dou Ying, money is now just a string of numbers.

With Wei Qihou's stable tax income, as well as the rewards from East Palace Changle and West Palace Weiyang during festivals, plus the fixed rewards that Dou's nephews can get from Empress Dowager Dou, Dou Ying no longer needs to worry about money. .

Anyway, I have contributed to Sheji, and my surname is Dou, and if the money is gone, someone will always come to the door.

Dou Ying is naturally accustomed to the scribes who give clothes to the scribes and the doormen who distribute money, as indifferently as if they drank saliva and scratched their backs.

On the other hand, the two distinguished guests at the side, one of them saw the scene in front of him, his complexion changed only slightly, and he immediately let go of the hand that had been stretched into his arms from the thick stack of land, manor, and shop title deeds. , Drank like a normal person.

——The scene in front of me tells the distinguished guests: If you want to ask this Wei Qihou to do something, the most worthless bargaining chip may be finances.

Even if you come empty-handed, it is likely to be easier to succeed and get Dou Ying's help than offering property.

But at this moment, this honored guest is also a little confused.

Because apart from wealth, this distinguished guest really can't think of what else he can give in exchange for what he wants...

"Prince Jiaoxi, why do you look a little depressed?"

"Is it because the poems and prose of the literati under my school are boring, or is the dirty wine in my Marquis Mansion not clear enough?"

"or……"

Just as the honored guest was frowning and thinking, Dou Ying was lying down on the side of the head seat in a relaxed manner, with one hand under his head, and the other hand did not forget to pat on the side of his thigh rhythmically.

The more joking words caused the distinguished guest to quickly put on a smiling face, but before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Dou Ying's raised hand.

Originally thought that Dou Ying raised his hand because he wanted to say something to the distinguished guest, but this Wei Qihou sat up indifferently.

"Go down."

"Everyone who attends the meeting today will be rewarded with a gold."

With another light word, raising today's reward to 150 gold, Dou Ying lay down on her side again, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

And after the hundred and eighty literati thanked and retreated, there was no need for Dou Ying to speak again, and there was a burst of "decadent sounds" in the huge living room.

Accompanied by the music, the dancers filed in one by one, showing off their dancing postures in front of the nobles in the living room.

——To be more precise, he showed off his beauty.

Because none of the dance music was over yet, the three most beautiful dancers in the team were already sitting next to Dou Ying and the two distinguished guests.

Dou Ying is obviously used to this kind of world, and she is her own dancer, so she has long lost the novelty.

He just still lay sideways on the head seat, allowing the dancer on her body to force a smile, pouring wine for herself tremblingly.

The distinguished guest who flinched halfway back and hid the land deeds of the farm house and shop in his arms back to the original taste was obviously worried, and he didn't care about enjoying the beauty in front of him, and drank his own wine in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, the other honored guest, as if this Wei Qihou's mansion was his own, pulled the dancer girl to sit in his arms, and then without any hesitation, he threw his hands up and down.

Seeing this situation, another honored guest, the "Prince of Jiaoxi" in Dou Ying's mouth, couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Seeing that Dou Ying raised his eyebrows playfully, he said kindly, "It's been so many years since Wu Chu Luanping, and he still looks like this."

"I really don't know who is willing to be your friend in this huge city of Chang'an."

Hearing that Dou Ying obviously didn't have the slightest malice in it, but instead showed an intimate tease, Guan Fu just laughed heartily, and then continued to flirt with that shy dancer;

Beside Guan Fu, Tian Fan, who had never been able to figure out the identity of this person, understood immediately, and took another deep look at Guan Fu on his body.

If it is said that Dou Ying after the Wu-Chu Rebellion gained military power as a foreign relative and ushered in the pinnacle of his life by fulfilling his mission, then Guan Fu is a model of counterattacking as a grassroots during the Wu-Chu Rebellion.

Guan Fu's surname was Zhang, style name Zhongru, and he was born in Yingyin, Yingchuan County.

Because his father Zhang Meng was a retainer of the founding father: Yingyin Hou Guanying, Fang Ju's family changed his surname to Guan.

If you think about it, you will know that to be able to be a retainer under the family of a founding father of pure force like Yingyinhou Guanying—a retainer rather than a retainer, Guanfu Zhang Meng himself must have a certain degree of force.

And such a person with a clean family background and a servant of the founding father will naturally not be let go by the general in charge.

In the third year of Emperor Xiaojing's reign, the rebellion between Wu and Chu broke out, and the imperial court sent Taiwei Zhou Yafu and General Dou Ying out of the pass to make a judgment.

And Guan Fu was the grassroots talent that Dou Ying harvested in that——the only experience of being a soldier.

When Wu Chu was in chaos, Guan Fu followed Naifu Guan Meng and led a thousand volunteers from the village to join the army.

At that time, the second Yingyin Hou Guan any general was placed under the command of the Taiwei Zhou Yafu, so he recommended Guan Meng to Zhou Yafu as the school lieutenant.

It's just that Guan Meng was very old at that time, Guan He reluctantly recommended him out of affection, and Zhou Yafu only appointed Guan Meng out of affection, but he didn't regard Guan Meng as a real subordinate, and regarded Guan Meng as his subordinate. Treat it like a real army.

Unhappy, Guan Meng fought desperately every time he fought, often attacking the positions firmly held by Wu Chuzhi's rebels regardless of the casualties and the difficulty of the attack.

As the saying goes: often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet.

Guan Meng, who repeatedly challenged his physical limit, should have been killed by the Wu rebels because of his own recklessness.

According to the provisions of the military law of the Han family, father, son, and brothers join the army to fight together. When one of them dies for the country, the survivor can retreat from the front line and escort the coffin of the deceased relative back home.

But after his father died, Guan Fu rejected Guan He's proposal to "take your father's coffin back", and instead said impassionedly: "I hope that the head of the king of Wu or the general of Wu can be beheaded to pay homage to my father's spirit in heaven! "

After that, Guan Fu was wearing armor and holding a spear, and dozens of warriors who had always had friendship with him and were willing to go with him gathered together;
When they walked out of the military gate, many people stopped because of fear and did not dare to move on.

In the end, there were only two old men, and Guan Fu's slaves, a total of no more than ten cavalry rushed into the formation of the Wu army, killing them all the way to the Wu army's general's flag, beheading dozens of Wu and Chu rebels!
Seeing that the way forward was blocked, all the people flew back to the camp under the leadership of Guan Fude. All the people who followed Guan Fu out of the barracks died in battle, and only Guan Fu returned to the barracks smoothly.

Even though he returned to Daying smoothly, Guan Fu suffered more than a dozen serious injuries, and he was finally able to save his life after receiving valuable medical treatment.

The injury improved a little, and he asked the superior officer for a foreign war, saying that he had already understood the fighting methods of the Wu-Chu coalition army, and he would definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the enemy!
In desperation, he was worried that Guan Fu would go out of the camp again without authorization to win the official, so he had to report the matter to Taiwei Zhou Yafu.

In the end, under Zhou Yafu's patient persuasion with affection and reason, Guan Fu finally gave up and retired to the front line to recuperate.

After the rebellion was quelled, the name Guan Fu became a figure that people all over the world admired.

——It is too easy to move people when the father dies and the son continues to use it on the battlefield.

However, it is not difficult to see from the fact that Guan Fu went out of the camp without authorization: Guan Fu is actually an extremely undisciplined person.

Think about it on the battlefield, do what you want to do, completely disregarding the strategy of the army, or the battle orders of the commander.

That's all right--although it was wrong for someone to attack Ping'an County without authorization, but if he has the ability, he really took it down.

But when such a person walks off the battlefield, with supreme glory, with the respect and expectation of the whole world, and returns to daily life as a military nobleman, it will be a big deal for the common people in nowhere. a disaster.

This is also the reason why Guan Fu, the prefect of Huaiyang, will appear in the house of an old acquaintance and old friend Dou Ying as a guest today.

——Tan Fu, you've gotten into trouble again...

"The king of Jiaoxi came from a long distance, and the horses and horses were exhausted, but he didn't rest at the mansion for a few days, so he came to the door in such a hurry..."

"If you want to start Jiaoxi King, or if there is anything wrong with the Queen Mother, please drag the king to tell me?"

"Now that you're here, Prime Minister Wang can speak out."

"Anyway, the situation of my Dou Ying is already clear to Wang Xiang at a glance..."