Zhennan General's Mansion, built adjacent to the General's Mansion, is located on the right side of the General's Mansion.

In the past half month, this brand-new mansion has been lit up with lights and beaming with joy, which is not only a housewarming to a new home, but also a big wedding.

The title of General Zhennan was the first official position of Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Liu Biao was promoted to General Zhengnan and led Jingzhou Mu in the last year, and since then this official title has been vacant.

Two days ago, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to entitle Li Xian as the general of Zhennan and the marquis of Wuxiang, and since then this mansion built on the right side of the hussar general has been hung with the door plaque of the Zhennan General's Mansion.

There are not a few generals who were awarded the title at the same time as Li Xian, and there are more than 60 generals with the same rank as General Siping and above, and there are more than 200 generals with the remaining positions such as miscellaneous generals, Zhonglang generals, and Pei generals. In other words, the generals who were rewarded this time covered all the middle and senior generals of the Xiliang Army.

It is worth mentioning that among the generals who were enthroned this time, there were 72 people who really worshiped the generals and marquises, and there were also more than 50 people who were added to the rank of civil officials.

And some of the new official positions of these civil and military generals are the existing official titles of various princes, that is, the so-called duplicate official positions, or the civil and military officials of Xiliang have replaced the official positions of some princes. In this regard, the old ministers of the court and the central government questioned it in court, but Li Li ignored it and ignored it, so these overlapping official positions were still valid, and the edict was still promulgated as scheduled.

After this large-scale reward, hundreds of civil and military generals in the Xiliang Army have the qualifications to enter the court to participate in politics, and their rank is not low, and there are more than 20 civil and military generals with the same rank as Jiuqing, almost completely replacing the existing civil and military officials in the court. The only exception to this is this. No one dares to encroach on the position of the three dukes, and at present, the three dukes in the DPRK and the central government are still Sikong Li Dao, Taiwei Zhu Jun and Taifu Ma Ri Chan.

However, this time, there is one person above the three princes. Officially promoted to the position of general, recorded the affairs of the prime minister, and took charge of the world's most important military and political affairs. It goes without saying that there is only one person who can be in such a prominent position today, and this is Li Li Wenchang, the former hussar general.

That is, to this day. Li Li finally came to the front from behind the scenes, officially entered the government, and governed the world for the Son of Heaven. Call the shots. And Li Wei, who was once in charge of the government, retired successfully, and still held the position of Sikong, and also served as the general of the chariot cavalry, in charge of the Chang'an Forbidden Army.

So far. The Eastern Han Dynasty was firmly held in the palm of the hand by the Li family's uncle and nephew. Officially entered the era of the Li family's relatives monopolizing power. Li Wei was in charge of the internal affairs of the Jingshi, and was responsible for guarding the city gates and prohibiting all passes in and out of Chang'an; Li Li is in charge of the overall situation and is in charge of the Xiliang army, and the focus is still on leading the troops to fight outside. two uncles and nephews, the uncle is in charge of internal affairs, and the nephew is in charge of military power and warfare; Unlike in the past, all important domestic affairs could only be carried out after obtaining the approval of the Shogun's Office (i.e., the Prime Minister's Office).

Today is the wedding day of Li Li's younger brother Li Xian, and he is also the new Pingdong general Huan Fei, one of the five tiger generals Hu Wei general Xu Chu, and the military division general and the chief secretary of the general's mansion Guo Jia. and the auspicious day of the wedding of the new Liangzhou Thorn Shi and the Prime Minister's Mansion Shi Li Xuan.

It was a belated wedding, and it was supposed to be married last fall. However, due to the sudden outbreak of the Sili war, the five couples had to postpone their marriage, and they were not able to get married until mid-February this year. Li Xian's newlywed wife room is Zhao Yun's sister Zhao Yu, while Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Huan Fei and Xu Chu's wife room is the fourth daughter of the Zhen family. After this in-law, the Zhen family is the first emerging family under Li Li's rule, and it is also the upstart of Chang'an.

The wedding ceremony was scheduled to be held together in the Zhennan General's Mansion, and Li Li personally officiated the marriage, and invited four heavyweight elders to come as witnesses. These four people are: Cai Yong, the dean of the Tai Academy, the great Confucian Kong Rong, a descendant of the Confucian saint Confucius, Sikong Li Dao, and Hua Tuo, the director of the medical school and the Tai bachelor. In addition, there were one hundred and two scholars (that is, famous teachers) from Tai College who came to watch the ceremony, and the representative figures were Zheng Xuan, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Zhang Ji, Guo Yuan, Bing Yuan, Cui Yan, Guan Ning, Hua Xin, Wang Yue, Shi A and others, and most of them were military officials under Li Li.

Of course, such a lively scene is naturally indispensable to the figure of the generals of the Xiliang Army, hundreds of generals and above all came to watch the ceremony, so that before the wedding began, the entire mansion was already boiling. Feasts have been set up in many side courtyards and side halls, and a group of generals gather in groups of three or five to feast on a large piece, and drink heartily early in the morning, so that the servants in the mansion are busy, and the maids and maids have run their legs thin, but they are still too busy. As a last resort, the old housekeeper Li Fu had no choice but to turn to Zou Jing, the housekeeper of the General's Mansion, and temporarily transferred 300 miscellaneous servants and 200 maids from the General's Mansion to help. In addition, all the furniture in the courtyard of the General's Mansion was also moved, causing the thousands of armor soldiers stationed in the General's Mansion to be busy.

Therefore, the entire Zhennan General's Mansion has been busy since early in the morning, and the attendants and maids in the inner courtyard are in a hurry, going in and out; The main gate of the front yard was full of traffic, and the carriages blocked the street outside the main gate, and the people who came to give gifts and congratulations rubbed shoulders one after another, queuing up to enter the house. Seeing such a grand occasion, Zhen's Zhang Ai, who has rarely shown his face, had to organize a large number of female officials from the Internal Affairs Office to come to help one or two, register and make a register, and dredge the crowd.

However, when the mansion was busy, the general Li Li was leisurely drinking tea with his father-in-law Cai Yong in the main hall, and there were more than ten people on both sides of the hall to accompany him, Kong Rong, Hua Tuo, Zhang Ji, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun sat on the left, and Li Xuan, Li Ru, Jia Xu, Guo Jia and Zhou Yu on the right.

Speaking of which, Li Li has rarely had time to sit with these great Confucians and famous generals in the past two years to drink tea and talk. Especially his father-in-law Cai Yong, who was sitting next to him, this old Taishan made Li Li both respectful and afraid. Respect him because Cai Yong not only married his daughter to him, but also helped Li Li a lot, which can be said to be Entong's recreation. I think that at the beginning, if it wasn't for Cai Yong vigorously recommending him to be the Taishou of Wuwei in front of Dong Zhuo, Li Liyan would have the day to get ahead, how could he get to the status of a supreme minister today? And the reason why Li Li is afraid of Cai Yong is not that he is really afraid, but that he is afraid that Cai Yong will keep nagging in his ear, repeatedly reciting loyalty and etiquette and the way of courtiers.

When Dong Zhuo died, Cai Yong pestered him all day long and muttered about collecting Dong Zhuo's body, which made Li Li a big one and two big, and he was miserable. In the end, he was forced to be helpless, Li Li had no choice but to let Cai Yan pull him away, and then accompany him every day to talk, read books, and practice calligraphy, so that the roots of his ears could be calmed down.

Since then, Li Li has been a little afraid of his father-in-law, Cai Yong, and is reluctant to sit with him; Even if I go to visit before the festival every year, I meet in a hurry, and then I slip away immediately. For this reason, Cai Yan and his sisters often made fun of him, and sometimes threatened Li Li to obey by inviting Cai Yong to come over and stay for a few days.

The seasons are like a stream, and time flies.

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed. Since Cai Yan gave birth to a big fat boy to Li Li, Cai Yong often went to Yiwu to visit his grandson, sometimes for half a month, and he had a momentum of lingering. However, there is one thing that is very strange, that is, since Cai Yong has a grandson, he rarely talks to Li Li alone, and occasionally meets only to say a few words of concern, and does not say much, and does not mention the way of courtiers. For this reason, Li Li was still very unaccustomed to it at first, and subconsciously thought that Lao Taishan was brewing something long, and when the time was right, they would break out together.

However, in the past few years, Cai Yong has no extra words except for doting on his grandson, and he is dedicated to studying knowledge and teaching and educating people. In the past three years, he no longer asked about the political affairs of the court, nor did he mention the courtesy of the monarch and the way of the courtiers, and it seemed that he had suddenly become much quieter, or he had turned a corner, knowing that his son-in-law was ambitious and tenacious, and it was useless to say more, so he simply stopped nagging.

Until not long ago, Cai Yan told Li Li about one thing, which made Li Li completely change his opinion of his father-in-law, and really respect him from the bottom of his heart. That was three months ago, Cai Yong and Kong Rong turned their faces in public in Tai Academy, and the two contemporary Confucians who were over sixty years old had a dispute, and they quarreled so much that their faces were red and their necks were thick, and they almost got into a fight. And the reason for the incident was that Kong Rong didn't know where he learned that Li Dao had wantonly reduced the supply of the royal family, so that Liu Xie, the son of heaven, was so hungry that he was yellow and thin, and he was often unable to go to court. For this reason, Kong Rong complained to Cai Yong, the purpose of which was nothing more than to hope that Cai Yong would inform his son-in-law Li Li and treat the Son of Heaven well.

didn't admit it, Cai Yong was furious when he heard this, claiming that the war ahead was stalemate, Xiliang was already short of food and grass, and as the king of a country, he should set an example and cut down on food and clothing for the army to fight, how could he take the opportunity to make trouble and disturb the stability of the rear. Then, the two gray-haired old men argued and did not back down from each other, which caused an uproar in the entire Tai Academy, and then divided into two groups of forces and debated vigorously, but no one could convince anyone. This matter then intensified, and the rumors spread so much that Li Dao had to come forward in person and lead the troops into the Tai Academy, as if it was impossible to solve it by force. At this time, Cai Yong stood up and prevented Li Dao from leading the troops into the academy, and Kong Rong also saw that the situation was not good, so he didn't dare to say anything more.

At this point, this dispute, which originated from the two Great Confucians, gradually fell silent, until the Xiliang army won a complete victory at the front, and the former dispute was also eliminated. After this incident, the students of Tai College greatly praised Cai Yong's remarks that "the national disaster is at the head and everyone is responsible", which made Cai Yong's prestige in Tai College soar, and he became the most loved and admired dean by students.

After Li Li learned about this, he finally understood that Cai Yong was not an old pedant who was ignorant of the world. The reason why he persuaded Li Li to abide by the way of the monarch and the minister was because he did not know that Li Li's ambition had far exceeded expectations. However, when he gradually understood that Li Li had the world in mind, even though it was difficult to accept it in his heart, it was inconvenient to say anything.

Today, the Xiliang army is getting stronger and stronger, and Li Li is even more prosperous, and his prestige in the Xiliang realm has long overshadowed the Son of Heaven, so that the people of Xiliang only know the general Li Li and do not know the Son of Heaven. This made Cai Yong feel that Li Li might be successful, so he deliberately maintained Li Li's reputation in his daily teaching, publicized Li Li's achievements, made Li Li's image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and invisibly promoted students to worship Li Li.

Don't underestimate what Cai Yong did, this is the best way to really support Li Li from the source. Ideologically, he influenced the students to respect Li Li, and when these students grew up, Li Li was an unattainable god in their hearts, and it was their inevitable choice to support and be loyal to Li Li.

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