Thief Emperor

Chapter 785 Seeing Li Jin bow his head

After a whole day, Hongnong City was cleared, and Li Yun successfully entered Hongnong and took charge of the city.

After entering Hongnong, Li Yun was naturally invited to join the Hongnong Yang family.

Over the past thousand years, the Hongnong Yang family has produced many talented people. During the Wu Zhou dynasty alone, they produced nearly twenty prime ministers. It can be said that their family is prominent and unattainable.

In the peaceful times of the past, let alone someone like Li Yun, even Du Qian, who was from the Jingzhao Du family, would have had some trouble meeting the patriarch of the Yang family.

As for the officials in the court, there is no need to mention them. Without an official position of the fifth or fourth rank, they are not even qualified to submit a letter to Yang Xian.

But now, the world is no longer peaceful.

Many noble families have seen this clearly, including the head of the Hongnong Yang family. Therefore, he almost gritted his teeth, put aside all the arrogance of the old noble families, and was respectful and polite to Li Yun.

The reason why he was so polite was not only because of Li Yun’s current strength and influence, but more because of Li Yun’s background.

Thanks to the Imperial City Bureau, after the spread of the news, many places across the country now know that Li Yun was born a "bandit".

Although this news has not been completely confirmed, it has after all reached the ears of these big families.

These aristocratic families have been operating for so many years, and their reputation, prestige and status are still very high. If the one who attacked Hongnong at this time was not Li Yun, but Du Qian, or some other people in the "aristocratic circle" of Wu Zhou, the Yang family of Hongnong would most likely put on airs, throw a tantrum, and pretend to be decent.

But now it’s Li Yun who is here.

Yang Xian looked down upon Li Yun, a military leader who was "suspected" to be a bandit.

Even though Li Yun was not a bandit and came from a grassroots background, he looked down on him even more.

But at this moment, what he feared the most was people like Li Yun. Who knew if this bandit leader would suddenly have a brain attack after entering the city and burn down the Yang family's ancestral home?

It would have been fine if they had just set fire to the ancestral home, but what if they had also smashed the Yang Family Ancestral Hall and thrown all the members of the Yang Family in Hongnong into the pot and cooked them all.

The thousand-year-old Yang family was destroyed in the hands of Yang Xian.

Therefore, the Yang family of Hongnong, at the risk of offending the Shuofang army, took their servants and seized the city gate at night to welcome the Jiangdong army into the city.

Yang Xian was even more disregarding his dignity by fawning over Li Yun, completely lacking the bearing of a head of a thousand-year-old family.

At this time, in the main hall of the Yang family, Yang Xian held a cup of tea in both hands and handed it to Li Yun respectfully, forcing a smile on his face: "A few years ago, I heard about the king's reputation. I wanted to go to the king and do something, but due to my status and family affairs, I have never been able to get away."

Li Yun took his tea but did not drink it. He just put it aside and said with a smile, "A few years ago when I was in Jinling, a young man named Yang came to see me. He claimed to be from the Hongnong Yang family and came to seek refuge with me. I arranged a job for him as a county magistrate. Now he should be in the southeast and has become a governor."

"If I remember correctly, that person's name is Yang Jian."

Li Yun smiled and asked, "Does Mr. Yang recognize this man?"

"I recognize it."

Yang Xian bowed his head slightly and said, "That is my cousin. He informed my family before he went to seek refuge with the king."

Li Yun sighed, "That Governor Yang, if I remember correctly, was only in his twenties when he went to Jinling, about the same age as me. I can't tell, but he's quite senior."

Although the head of the Yang family in front of him looks only in his forties, he is actually at least fifty years old. He is just spoiled and it is difficult to tell.

Yang Xian smiled at Li Yun and said, "My lord, the seniority of the great clan is usually low."

Li Yun smiled and nodded: "That's right."

This kind of family usually has the eldest son inherit the business, and they also control a large amount of social resources. Sometimes some old men are still having children in their fifties or sixties, which leads to a large generational disparity in the family.

In just two generations, there will be an exaggerated generational gap.

After chatting for a while, Li Yun talked about serious matters. He said lightly: "Master Yang, I am not here to be a guest. After I arrived in Hongnong and the entire Guozhou."

"But I won't leave."

Yang Xian looked at the cup of tea that Li Yun had not drunk, and quickly forced a smile, saying: "I know that the king is trying to annex the world. Now that the king has saved Guozhou, even if the king wants to leave, I believe that the people of Hongnong and Guozhou do not want the king to leave." Li Yun looked at Yang Xian, smiled, and said nothing.

Yang Xian was silent for a while, then he forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty should know that our Yang family has been in Hongnong for a thousand years. Now that Your Majesty has saved the people of Hongnong from danger, we, the Hongnong Yang family, must repay Your Majesty's kindness."

"The Yang family of Hongnong had previously accumulated some land. Apart from the land reserved for the children and grandchildren to eat, the rest of the land is willing to be presented to the king as a thank you gift."

"also."

Seeing that Li Yun was silent, Yang Xian whispered, "I am willing to give the little property I have saved to the king."

Li Yun then looked at Yang Xian and shook his head slightly, saying, "Mr. Yang, who do you think I am? The Yang family helped me break the city, and I can't thank them enough. How can I take away their property?"

"If this gets out, wouldn't I, Li Yun, become a bandit?"

Yang Xian quickly shook his head and said, "It was Yang who volunteered to support the king. There was absolutely no intention of forcing him."

Seeing Li Yun smiling but not saying anything, Yang Xian gritted his teeth and bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty has been sweeping across the world these days, and the women in my clan all admire Your Majesty. I have a daughter, only 28 years old, who has admired Your Majesty for a long time. If Your Majesty does not abandon me, I am willing to marry her to Your Majesty and make her your concubine."

"All of Yang's assets will be given as dowry!"

Concubines had a very low status and almost no human rights. In the past, no matter who the children of these thousand-year-old families married into, there was no such thing as being a concubine.

But now, the situation is stronger than the person, and the head of the Yang family has to bow his head in front of Li Yun.

At this moment, he no longer cared about dignity. He was really afraid that the "bandit leader" in front of him would suddenly go crazy and destroy the Hongnong Yang family.

By then, all the things accumulated by the Yang family will still be looted by others. Instead of leaving them with nothing, it is better to be proactive and give them away.

Li Yun waved his hand and said with a smile: "The Hongnong Yang family is still very righteous. Since they are very righteous, it is not reasonable for me, Li, to eat and take."

"The Yang family's land and property will be counted by Jiangdong officials later. As for the Yang family's property, gold, silver and copper, they are not very useful now."

Li Yun said calmly: "You can give me the copper coins, I will keep them for the Yang family, but I don't want your gold and silver."

"But the Yang family's food."

Yang Xianchang breathed a sigh of relief and quickly bowed his head and said, "When the king occupied Luoyang earlier, our Yang family also sent people to meet with Du Xianggong, and they have already been supplying food and grass to the Jiangdong Army. In the future, the Yang family will do its best to provide the Jiangdong Army... No."

He said in a deep voice: "Supply food and grass to the king's division."

At this point, Yang Xian paused and continued, "As for my daughter becoming Your Majesty's concubine, I beg Your Majesty to reconsider this matter. This matter is not about me, Yang, trying to please Your Majesty."

He looked at Li Yun and simply told the truth: "In the future, when the king unifies the world, this will be a good thing for the Yang family."

Li Yun glanced at him and said with a smile: "I heard that you, the thousand-year-old families, don't think highly of the royal family. You don't want your women to marry into the royal family, and you are even less willing to marry the daughters of the royal family."

Yang Xian said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty is as virtuous as the sky. How can the royal family of Wu Zhou be compared with Your Majesty?"

Li Yun smiled dumbly, stood up and stretched, and said: "I have been very busy recently and have no time to play with the girls of the Yang family. Wait until I settle down in the Central Plains and Guanzhong."

He walked out with his hands behind his back: "Let's take a look at Mr. Yang's daughter. Is she pretty?"

After saying that, Li Yun put his hands behind his back and strode out, leaving only the cup of cold hot tea on the table.

He wouldn't even drink tea in a place like the Yang family, let alone live here. After leaving the Yang family, he quickly moved into a house that the Jiangdong Army had cleared out for him. He pulled Meng Hai, Su Zhan and a group of people to sit down and have a meal together, then went back to bed and had a good sleep.

In a blink of an eye, three days had passed and most of the work in Hongnong had been done. Just as Li Yun was about to leave Hongnong and go to Tongguan to take a look, Meng Hai trotted over to report.

"Sir, there is a scholar who claims to be surnamed He who wants to see you. He says he is..."

"The Shuofang Jiedushi's staff."

(End of this chapter)