Yang Yuanqing has always complained about the Wang family in Taiyuan. Every time he talks with Wang Xu, he will find that there is always a sense of hypocrisy in his bones. This hypocrisy is different from the Pei family's desire to monopolize the power. It is a hypocrisy that always says support, but he is reluctant to take action.

Moreover, Yang Yuanqing knew from the Xue brothers that the Xue brothers responded to him in Taiyuan City, and in fact he was entrusted by the Taiyuan Wang family, but Wang Xu denied it. To put it bluntly, the Taiyuan Wang family was still at both ends of the rat head, or waiting for a price.

Although Yang Yuanqing didn't like Wang's family very much, he had to do some postures, especially when the Pei family was in power, the status of the Wang family became a bit subtle.

In the evening, a carriage slowly approached the Wang family's house under the escort of hundreds of cavalry and stopped in front of the steps. On the steps, Wang Xu, his wife Gao, Wang Tong's wife Xue, and dozens of Wang family daughters and Wang's wife and daughters were waiting for a long time.

When Pei Minqiu took his son Yang Ning out of the carriage, Wang Xu and his wife came up and said, "See Mrs. General."

Wang Xu is Pei Minqiu's uncle, but they don't meet much. They met several times when they were young. After the age of ten, they only met once when Pei Minqiu got married and returned home. After all, it was because Pei Minqiu's father Pei Wenyi had no status in the Pei family. Wang Xu was not very satisfied with his sister's marriage, so he neglected several nephews and nieces.

But today is different. Pei Minqiu's arrival has made the entire Wang family busy. New lanterns were replaced in front of the gate, and the decorations were redesigned in the guest hall of the inner house. All the servants and servants were avoided. Wang Xu took his clan members' family out to greet him in person.

Pei Minqiu came to Taiyuan for the first day today. Less than half a day after entering the city, he came to visit his uncle and aunt. This made the Wang family particularly proud. Wang Xu's face burst into laughter, which shows that Yang Yuanqing attaches great importance to the Wang family.

Pei Minqiu greeted her, "Minqiu has met her uncle and aunt."

Gao smiled and said, "I haven't seen Minqiu for several years. The last time I saw it was Minqiu getting married. My children are so old this time. You're six years old!"

"Yeah! He turned six in the first month."

Minqiu was about to ask her son to salute her uncle and grandfather, but Yang Ning knelt down obediently and kowtowed, "Ninger pays homage to her uncle and grandfather, and grandmother."

This is Yang Yuanqing's eldest son, and Wang Xu quickly helped him up, "Good boy, get up quickly!"

He hung a Qilin jade pendant on Yang Ning's neck. Minqiu saw that the jade pendant was delicate and crystal clear. It was extremely precious, so he hurriedly said, "Uncle, how can this be done?"

"Hey! Why can't this be possible? The child kowtowed to me, shouldn't he give me a gift?" Wang Xu said with displeasure.

Minqiu had no choice but to say to her son: "Isn't thankful for my uncle and grandfather."

"Ning'er thanks uncle and grandfather!"

Wang Xu smiled. "Come in the mansion! It's cold outside."

The daughters of the Wang family came forward to greet Pei Minqiu. The group of female relatives surrounded Pei Minqiu and her children into the inner house. Wang Xu was as careful as he had arranged for his children to invite Yang Yuanqing's personal soldiers to dinner. Each of them forced a red envelope, which contained five coins.

In fact, Wang Xu felt very regretful. When Yang Yuanqing and Li Shimin confronted each other, he could not see the situation clearly. He adopted a vague and low-key attitude, striving not to anger Yang Yuanqing, but not to offend Li Yuan. When Li Yuan's forces fully withdrew from Hedong, he realized that Yang Yuanqing had seized Hedong. At this time, he began to desperately make up for his previous misjudgment. He went to the counties north of Taiyuan to lobby various aristocratic families to support Yang Yuanqing.

Compared with the confidence of the Pei family, they are not afraid of offending Li Yuan, nor are they afraid of Li Yuan not using them in the future. The Wang family's vision seems to be a little lower. They are afraid of offending this and that. There is also a reason for the cowardice of the Wang family in Taiyuan, because there is only one signature left in the Wang family in Taiyuan.

In fact, the essence of the Wang family crossed the river south during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. "Wang and horse share the world." All the real talents of the Wang family went to the south. The Wang family in Taiyuan had already declined, but was revitalized because of the strong support of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Unexpectedly, nearly half of them were massacred in the Heyin Incident, causing the newly prosperous family to suffer a severe setback.

The Wang family's mistake was to support the Han Wang Yang Liang, which angered Yang Guang, causing the great cause to become a high-ranking official. However, in history, the Wang family bets on Li Yuan, revitalizing the Wang family again. Gaozong's empress was the Wang family.

Today, Pei Minqiu's unexpected visit made Wang Xu understand some subtle things. Although Pei Minqiu is the daughter of the Pei family, she brought Yang Yuanqing's eldest son Yang Ning, and her identity is no longer the daughter of the Pei family, but the wife of Yang Yuanqing. The arrival of the eldest son Yang Ning has an self-evident meaning.

These subtle signals can be experienced by people like Wang Xu, who are sophisticated.

Pei Minqiu entered the inner house, and Wang Xu could no longer accompany him. That was his wife and daughter's affairs. He called his brothers Wang Tong and Wang Su into the study.

Among the three brothers of the Wang family, Wang Tong is the most famous. He is a great scholar in the world. Wang Xue of Taiyuan became famous because of his presidency. When he taught at the Imperial College, many of the children of the great officials were honored for their worship, including Yang Xuangan's eldest son Yang Jun, who was appointed as Wang Tong.

As the saying goes, articles in prosperous times and martial arts in troubled times. With the chaos in the world, the atmosphere of studying has faded a lot. Wang Tong could only stay at home and teach some children of the gentry who were still eager to study. However, Yang Yuanqing's strong capture of Hedong gave him a glimmer of hope. Yang Yuanqing's imperial examination in Fengzhou left a deep impression on Wang Tong.

Although Wang Tong did not support the imperial examination, he supported the ninth-rank Zhongzheng in his bones, in troubled times, the imperial examinations could improve the status of scholars and allow those who abandoned their studies to pick up books again. This is what Wang Tong expected. It is this contradictory psychology that made Wang Tong hope that a imperial examination could be held in Hedong.

The three brothers sat down in the study, and Wang Xu said to the two brothers: "What did you realize when the wife of the general manager arrives today?"

Wang Tong is a scholar and has no idea about the subtlety of this kind of officialdom. However, his third brother Wang Su is the chief minister of Li Shi County. He has been in the officialdom for twenty years. He realized his brother's implications. After thinking for a moment, Wang Su said: "Today is the first day she came to Taiyuan. There are so many things she should not have time to visit us."

"Yes! But she came and took her eldest son Yang Ning and said she was visiting her uncle, but my uncle was very cold to her in the past." A light flashed in Wang Xu's eyes, and some things that he couldn't understand in his heart gradually resolved.

Wang Tong also understood what the two of them meant, and hesitated and asked: "Are you talking about Mrs. Yang's arrival, is Yang Yuanqing's meaning?"

Wang Xu and his third brother Wang Su laughed at the same time. Even the second brother could see this, it was not easy!

Wang Xu nodded, "That's right, her arrival is what Yang Yuanqing means. Yang Yuanqing is hinting that we are very important. I think Yang Yuanqing's meaning may be to let the Wang family participate in checks and balances of the Pei family and prevent the Pei family from becoming the only one. After all, in Hedong, only the Wang family can compete with the Pei family."

There is an unwritten saying in Hedong that the power of the Pei family is south of Taiyuan. The power of the Wang family is north of Taiyuan, so Wang Xu had this idea, but in fact the strength of the Wang family is far weaker than that of the Pei family. In the past ten years of Daye, the power of the Pei family quickly expanded.

The third old Wang Su pondered for a moment and said, "I'm very worried about whether we can defeat the Pei family. Pei Ju is a very powerful person. I heard that he has always grasped King Dai in his hands, and he lives in Yang Yuanqing's mansion, and has such deep qualifications..."

Wang Xu smiled and said, "Actually, the King of Dai is a puppet and has no effect. I got a definite news that Yang Yuanqing has moved some of the Pei family to Taiyuan. Then Pei Ju must move out. More importantly, Yang Yuanqing will not only use the Pei family and the Wang family, such as Cui Junsu, who is an important figure in the Cui family in Qinghe, and Du Ruhui, who is also a famous family in Chang'an. I guess the Cui family in Boling and the Lu family in Fanyang will also have high-ranking officials. Gao Yang's eldest son Gao Dehong is the prefect of Shangdang County, and Su Wei. In fact, several forces united to compete with the Pei family. The key is Yang Yuanqing's own attitude. It is obvious that he also wants to restrict the Pei family. Then we have a chance. We must find a breakthrough point and drive out the Wang family's momentum, so that the Wang family can successfully enter the prime minister."

At this time, the relatively silent Wang Tong said, "It is a good way to preside over the imperial examinations by the Wang family."

Wang Tong was very arrogant. If the imperial examination was held in Hedong, the examiner would be the chief examiner. Wang Xu nodded slowly. The brothers were right. The biggest advantage of the Wang family over the Pei family was education. The Wang family had a world-renowned scholar, but the Pei family did not.

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Yang Yuanqing did not accompany his wife to the Wang family. On the one hand, in order to reduce attention, he tried to use a more implicit method to imply the Wang family. On the other hand, Yang Yuanqing was indeed very busy. Before establishing a regime system, he basically handled all government affairs, making him busy every day.

Yang Yuanqing's office residence was originally in Li Yuan's Taiyuan Left-behind General Administration Office. Now the four words "Taiyuan Left-behind" on the sign are removed, and they are simply called the General Administration Office. The official name has not been decided yet.

During this period, Yang Yuanqing was mainly busy reviewing the resumes and qualifications of the 15 Hedong counties and dozens of counties. After he occupied Hedong, officials from several counties abandoned their posts and followed Li Shimin to withdraw, such as Dugu Huaien, the prefect of Jiang County, and Li Xiaoji, the prefect of Shangdang County.

Yang Yuanqing transferred Changping County Chief Shi Gao Dehong as the prefect of Shangdang County and appointed Pei Shiqing as the prefect of Jiang County. He also had to consider the power composition after the establishment of the court in the future.

The resume of an official is very important, and the resume can be seen in the background. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the background of an official was the most important. Yang Yuanqing was a little distressed. He found that many officials in Hedong counties and counties had a common background, that is, they were born in Pei Xue, that is, Pei Jiasheng. Before he could firmly sit in Hedong and get enough talents, he had to continue to use them.

When Yang Yuanqing was busy, a guard reported at the door, "Miyang Gong asked for a meeting!"

Meiyang Duke is Su Wei, and his title is Meiyang County Duke. When he first came to Fengzhou, everyone respectfully called him Su Ge Lao, but after a long time, many people gradually disliked him. The main reason was that he was too fame and fortune, and he did not have the elegance of Gao Yang who was indifferent to fame and fortune. No one wanted to compare him with Gao Yang, so he stopped calling him Ge Lao, and changed him to Meiyang Duke.

However, Yang Yuanqing really needed such an old minister who was keen on fame and fortune. He needed Su Wei to do practical things for him. Although Gao Yan was famous, he refused to be an official and could only serve as a decoration.

Although Su Wei likes to make friends and is keen on fame, he is very capable himself. He participates in the establishment of various rules of the Great Sui Dynasty and has extremely rich experience in founding the country. He is able to follow the meaning and does not have the background of a family family. Yang Yuanqing needs such an important official very much.

"Please come in!"

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Chapter completed!