The mid-year festival is the day of worshipping ancestors in the middle of the year, also called the Obon Festival, it is also the ghost festival since ancient times, on this day, Chang'an City does not close the city gate all night, let go of the curfew, people put lights in the large and small rivers, in order to attract the soul of the family members who come out of the underworld, at the same time, every household is to put some grain food at the door, for the soul of the deceased relatives to eat when they go home,

The activities of the Chang'an Midyear Festival are mainly concentrated in the Qujiang River and the major monasteries, and thousands of lantern people gather on both sides of the Qujiang River, so that the water and light in the Qujiang River are reflected, and the lights are brilliant and magnificent.

Monasteries of all sizes hold obon pujas, and monks will hold various ceremonies such as purifying the altar and circumambulating the scriptures, making offerings to the orchid basin, and feeding the monks.

Chang'an Bao'en Temple is no exception, hundreds of monks gather in the temple square, and devotees from far and wide bring all kinds of food into the monks to show their supreme reverence for the Buddha.

But on the night of the Midyear Festival, Chang'an Bao'en Temple also held another important event, that is, a secret meeting of the Guanlong nobles to re-establish Wuchuan Mansion.

This is the agreement between Dugu Shun and Dou Qing in Luoyang last year, although Dou Qing has died, but it has not affected the restart of Wuchuan Mansion, on the contrary, Dugu Shun is more active, after a year of planning and communication, all the Guanlong nobles were persuaded by Dugu Shun and unanimously agreed to re-establish Wuchuan Mansion.

In the backyard meditation hall, more than 20 leaders of the Guanlong aristocracy gathered together, they were representatives of each family, and everyone's expression was very serious, they all understood in their hearts what it meant to re-establish Wuchuan Mansion this time? It means that the Guanlong nobles officially broke with the Sui Dynasty.

In the lobby, Dugu Shun stood in front of the main seat and slowly said to everyone: "Back then, Yang Jian's ascension to the throne was jointly elected by our Guanlong nobles to replace the declining Yuwen family, Yang Jian killed the Yuwen family, and we didn't object, we just hope that he won't violate our interests."

But it backfired. Yang Jian not only deprived us of military power, but also abolished our chosen crown prince Yang Yong, he completely forgot his promise and who supported him to ascend the throne, but his son Yang Guang was even more deceitful, completely trampling our Guanlong nobles under their feet. We can't forget the death of Wei Chi Yuan, and we can't forget the death of Dugu Luo, Yuan Guan, He Ruobi, and Yuan Min."

Dugu Shun's voice was very low, his eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, everyone was listening to his remarks, thinking, this was the thought in his heart, suppressed in his heart for many years, and today he was finally able to vomit.

"A tree without roots is destined to grow into a towering tree, and crops without roots will soon wither. Yang Jian's father and son dug up the foundation of the Sui Dynasty with their own hands, without the support of the Guanlong nobles, their dynasty was destined not to last long, it turned out that the Sui Dynasty was in rapid decline, and it was no longer able to return to the sky, Yang Guang Xiaoer also fled to Jiangdu, and the world was about to be in chaos. So we Wuchuan will be re-established today, and we will establish a new dynasty. We want to bury this Sui Yang Dynasty that betrayed us with our own hands. ”

The night has come to a watch, the family representatives who participated in the establishment of the Wuchuan Society have gone back, only Dugu Shun and Dou Wei are left in the meditation hall, Dou Qing died, marking the weakness of the Dou faction, so Dugu Shun can lead the re-establishment of Wuchuan Mansion. There is no suspense to become the new head of the association.

But this does not mean that Dugu Shun can cover the sky with the nobles of Guanlong, the strength of the Dou system still exists, and Dugu Shun does not dare to despise it, without the support of the Dou forces, he will not be able to do great things. Dou Wei was naturally elected as the vice president.

"Why didn't Brother Dugu announce Li Yuan as the representative of the Guanlong nobles just now?" Dou Wei said with some dissatisfaction.

According to their previous repeated consultations, it was finally decided that Li Yuan would come forward as the representative of the Guanlong nobles and establish a new dynasty to replace Sui Yang, Li Yuan's mother was the daughter of Dugu, Li Yuan's wife was Dou Wei's niece, Dugu and Dou had common interests, and Li Yuan was generous, by no means as ruthless as Yang Jian, and more importantly, Yang Jian had already mastered the military and political power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and had enough strong capital, but Li Yuan was inactive, even if he became an envoy in Hedong, the military power was still in the hands of others, which shows Li Yuan's weakness.

But what Dugu Shun and Dou Wei want is Li Yuan's honesty and weakness, he has learned enough lessons, and will never let the second Yang Jian come to power again, only the mediocre and incompetent Li Yuan will rely more on the support of the Guanlong nobles.

Dugu Shun sighed, and said helplessly: "You also saw the expression of the Yuan family, if Li Yuan is announced as the representative of the Guanlong nobles too early, it will arouse the strong opposition of the Yuan family, but it will cause disunity within the Guanlong nobles, now the Yuan family is very important in Jiangdu, and they cannot be stimulated too early, in short, I promise the virtuous brother that I will definitely let Li Yuan be the representative." ”

Dou Wei lacked the courage and qualifications of his brother Dou Qing, and since Dugu Shun had already made his position clear, he no longer insisted, and asked, "How is the situation in Jiangdu?" ”

Dugu Shun sneered and said: "It's ridiculous that the faint monarch is desperately suppressing the Guanlong nobles, but more than seventy percent of his Xiaoguo army are Guanzhong disciples, which is really a great irony, but he forgot that the children of Guanzhong are under our control, a few tiger generals, Yuan Li, Sima Dejiao, Zhao Xingshu, and Meng Bing are all my people, Yuan Min is responsible for planning, using the Yuwen brothers to overthrow the faint monarch, but the time is not yet ripe, once the time is ripe, it can provoke chaos in the world." ”

Dou Wei sighed, "I hope this day will come soon!" ”

Dugu Shun nodded, he looked at the hourglass, and said, "I still have to go to the Yuan family, appease them, and go back to rest early!" ”

Dugu Shun and Dou Wei each took a carriage away, but Dou Wei was a little worried, he was not at ease with Dugu Shun's promise, Dou Wei knew that Dugu Shun had been choosing between Li Yuan and the Yuan family, Li Yuan had roots in Taiyuan, and the Yuan family had a certain amount of power in Longyou, this time Wuchuan Mansion was re-established, and Dugu Shun gave himself the vice master, so how could he appease the Yuan family?

Dou Wei suspected that Dugu Shun wanted to give the Yuan family the opportunity to represent the Guanlong nobles, so he did not make a clear statement today to nominate Li Yuan as the representative of the Guanlong nobles.

Dou Wei sighed secretly, since the death of his brother Dou Qing, the Yu family and the eldest grandson family in the original Dou faction have turned to Dugu Shun, and the Dou clan only has the Du Dou clan and the Li clan left, and they are simply powerless to compete with the joint efforts of Dugu Shun and the Yuan clan.

The carriage entered the Wubenfang and slowly stopped in front of Dou Mansion, at this time, Dou Liang ran out and said in a low voice: "Second uncle, Shude is here!" ”

Li Yuan actually came, Dou Wei couldn't help but be stunned, since Li Yuan was in Chang'an, why did he let Li Shentong come to participate in the establishment of Wuchuan Mansion tonight, such an important matter, Li Yuan actually avoided it.

Dou Wei was really puzzled, he got out of the carriage and walked towards the mansion.

In the inner hall, Li Yuan was pacing back and forth with his hands, the Zhongyuan Festival was the second largest day of the clan sacrifice after the New Year, he specially asked for leave to rush back to Chang'an to worship his father, of course Li Yuan knew that tonight was the day of the establishment of Wuchuan Mansion, which was very important, but Li Yuan thought about it again and again, and decided to let his younger brother Li Shentong participate in the establishment ceremony for himself.

At this time, a gentle cough came from the hall, followed by Dou Wei's voice, "How long has Shude been here?" ”

Li Yuan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "The little nephew just arrived not long ago, see the second uncle!" ”

Although Li Yuan is Dou Wei's niece and son-in-law, the Dou and Li families are world friends, and it is not inappropriate for Li Yuan to call Dou Wei his uncle.

Dou Wei waved his hand, "Sit down!" ”

The two sat down, the two maids served them tea, Dou Wei took a sip of tea and asked, "Why didn't the virtuous nephew participate in the establishment of Wuchuan Mansion tonight?" ”

"Back to the second uncle, the little nephew was originally going to participate, but after thinking about it repeatedly, I still have some concerns."

"What concerns?" Dou Wei asked.

"The little nephew knows that the Son of Heaven must have an internal response in the Guanlong nobles, and the little nephew has a military position, if the Son of Heaven knows that the little nephew participated in this meeting, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to me and will ruin my plan."

Dou Wei secretly praised in his heart, Li Yuan's prudence is very necessary, they are all idle officials, even if they are known by Yang Guang, it doesn't matter, but Li Yuan is different, he is a Hedong envoy, once the Son of Heaven knows that he is against Sui, he will inevitably be dismissed, so that Li Yuan's efforts in the past few years will be in vain.

Dou Wei stopped mentioning the matter, and changed the topic and asked, "How is the construction situation?" ”

"He is good now, he has established a foundation in Hanoi County, and has 25,000 elites in his hands, once we raise troops in Taiyuan, this army will be our capital, and so many years of hard work have not been in vain."

Dou Wei nodded, "I didn't expect him to be a weak scholar who could make a career, I think he should be very different from before." ”

"Indeed!"

Li Yuan made no secret of his praise for his eldest son, "It can be said that he has been reborn, become calm and courageous, and he can no longer see the former weakness in him, even if it is really Li Mi, he may not be stronger than him." ”

"Is he ready to continue impersonating?"

"It's not appropriate to expose it for the time being, but henchmen like Wei Zheng and Xu Shiji know his true identity, and I also told him that once his subordinates are trustworthy, they should take the initiative to confess their identities, so that they can slowly replace Li Mi."

"The virtuous nephew is right, you should be cautious."

At this time, Li Yuan cautiously asked, "I heard that the master of the Dugu Guild did not announce what the second uncle said last time tonight, what is the reason for this?" ”

Li Yuan cares more about Dugu Shun's attitude than anyone else, will he declare himself as the representative of the Guanlong aristocracy? Replace Sui Yang's position.

Although once the announcement will bring him a huge hidden danger, the Son of Heaven will not let him go in the first place, but this benefit is really difficult for him to refuse, he would rather take risks than hope to get a name, but Dugu Shun did not announce it today, which really made Li Yuan's heart hang.

Dou Wei understood his worries, but he really didn't want to say it clearly, so he had to say perfunctorily: "The virtuous nephew himself also said that once he announced it, he was afraid that he would be retaliated against by the faint monarch, and the master of the Dugu Guild did not make a clear announcement out of protection for you, don't worry, it must be you!" ”

Li Yuan was silent, he heard Dou Wei's perfunctory meaning, and said after a while: "The Dugu Guild Master has clearly told me that he will choose one between the Li family and the Yuan family. ”

Dou Wei was also silent, and after a while, he said slowly: "I only have one sentence, my fate cannot be pinned on the choices of others." ”

．．．．．．．．． (To be continued.) )