Chapter 437
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It is also a good thing to take the Zheng family's cousin as his concubine and marry the Zheng family. For the new wealthy family of the Li family, it can greatly enhance its influence.
Li Chao is very popular in the court now, with high official positions and titles, but what is lacking is the family background. The wife Li Chao married was a Cui family daughter. Although she was a branch of a branch in the Qinghe and Cui Zhengzhou house, she was also a Qinghe Cui. Even though this wife actually bought it for eight million yuan, it is true that her wife is a Cui family daughter.
If the head of the Zheng family is taken as a mother, it means that the three Li, Cui and Zheng families are in-laws. It is very helpful for the new wealthy family of the Li family.
The Li family is now regarded as more explosive households, more explosive households than Guanlong wealthy families, and even more powerful households than Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin's group of Shandong dilapidated families make those old gentry jealous and envious.
Li Chao has officials, titles, and talent, but the Li family still lacks foundation. To truly join the ranks of wealthy families, it still requires a lot of things. Marrying a five-nation surname is undoubtedly a good way.
However, Li Chao originally wanted to give a good idea for his wife and uncle's family today, and to match them up and let the Zheng family marry a daughter to Li Shimin. Who would have expected that in the end, the media got to his head.
He couldn't figure out whether Zheng Shanguo was really unwilling to marry his daughter to Li Shimin, or had planned to take out two daughters early in the morning, one to marry Li Shimin and the other to marry Li Chao. Anyway, these Li Er and Li San are the most worthy people to marry in Chang'an today.
With Li Chao's current status and status, it would be whimsical to take the legitimate daughter of five surnames as concubines, but it would not be impossible to just take a concubine daughter as a mother.
After all, Li San is a popular chicken in Chang'an, and is so red that he is the most meritorious minister of Xuanwu Sect.
Even Pei Ji only has 1,500 real titles. In terms of real titles, Li Chao and Qin Qiong are now ranked first in the Tang Dynasty, and Changsun Wuji and others have only 1,300 real titles.
In the Dali Temple Prison.
Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin and Niu Jinda were locked in a cell.
The cell in Dali Temple is more advanced than that of Jingzhaoyin. Those who can be locked up here are either higher status or civil and military officials. They are either more serious crimes, exiles, or beheaded.
"Old Cheng Laoniu, thank you. I didn't expect you to help you like this."
Old Yuchi has a black nose and a blue face. Although he is extremely skilled in horse spear, he is also beaten up in a group fight.
Cheng Yaojin snorted, "Who is helping you? I'm just not happy with that Wang Junguo. His son beat me up last time!"
Niu Jinda also said, "That's right, we're just beating Wang Junkuo, not helping you, don't be too sentimental!"
This made Yuchi Gong's face darker and he almost wanted to compete with the two of them. However, considering that the other party was two, Yuchi Gong would just forget it.
"It's so noisy. Can you sleep peacefully?"
A roar suddenly came from the cell next door.
The voice was full of energy, and he was not an ordinary person when he heard it. The old black, old Cheng, old Niu and the other two looked over there. The light in the prison was not very good. Before the three of them discovered it, there was an unusual neighbor.
"Oh, isn't this the King of Yan?"
Niu Jinda had good eyes and the first person to recognize the big man with fluffy hair was Luo Yi.
But after a while, Luo Yi was a little miserable, with a stubborn beard, a messy hair, and seemed to be thinner. She didn't have a few taels of flesh on her face, her cheekbones were prominent, and her eyes were even green.
Since Luo Yi made an appointment with Li Chao and was cleaned up by Li Yuan, he was forgotten by someone. More than two months have passed in a flash, and no one even told him that it is Li Shimin who is now the crown prince.
He was still very excited to see Yuchi Gongcheng bit Taurus Jinda and the other two coming in.
The three Li Er's thugs came in. Doesn't this mean that the prince finally got rid of Li Er and he was able to go out?
Although he was very hungry, he only had a few nests every day these days, and he was so hungry that he lost any fat. But his voice was still loud and powerful.
Cheng Yaojin also looked at Luo Yi through the fence.
"Luo Yi, you are not dead yet!"
Luo Yi was so angry that he hummed, "I won't die even if you die!"
"Then you keep sleeping on yours, don't interrupt when we talk!"
Luo Yi snorted coldly, "What's going on outside now? Is the prince already dealing with the King of Qin?"
"Wow, you slept here for two months and didn't know anything outside? Tell you, Jiancheng is no longer the prince, but Li Jiancheng. The King of Qin is no longer the King of Qin, now the Prince of Tang!"
"How is this possible!" Luo Yi shouted.
"You lied to me, it must be, otherwise, how could you be thrown into the prison?"
"We threw it into the prison because we beat Wang Junkuo at the banquet of His Royal Highness. Well, by the way, we beat Feng Li, Xie Shufang, Dazhi, Xue Wanche and others. But they are not as good as Lao Hei, and they directly blinded one of Wang Junkuo's right eyes."
"This is impossible!"
"impossible!"
Luo Yi didn't want to believe all this.
"How is it impossible? This is all true." A hateful voice sounded outside. Luo Yi would never forget this voice. It was the owner of this voice that made him jail here for two months.
Luo Yi rushed over and saw that it was him who came in through the fence.
"Zhang San, you're in too, hahaha."
Li Chao sighed and interrupted Luo Yi's laughter, "Look clearly, I'm not here to go to jail, I'm here to visit the prison." As he said that, Li Chao also deliberately raised the food box in his hand.
A pleasant aroma of wine and food came out, and Luo Yiqing couldn't help but sniff.
"beef."
"Well, you have a good nose, there is indeed a steak here."
"Give it to me!" Luo Yi stretched out his hand through the fence.
Li Chao smiled at him and then passed by.
"General Yuchi, General Cheng, General Niu, are you okay?" Li Chao threw Luo Yi down and said to the three people in the prison cell next to him with a smile.
"Hey, why are you calling me? Wen Yuan, you are not interested enough!"
"I've been holding a steak to see a few people. Is it not worth calling? Think about it, your own sons haven't come." Li Chao walked forward with a smile, and Zheng Shanguo, who was following behind, signaled the prison head beside him to open the door.
When he walked into the three of them, he was similar to the one he was squatting in Jingzhao Mansion. The conditions were better, at least there was a board and a broken quilt on it.
"Zheng Tingwei, can you make a few lamps, a table, a few chairs, and a few sets of tableware?"
Zheng Shanguo signaled to his subordinates that the man went to do it immediately.
"It's still the mighty Saburo, Saburo, you said you brought the steak and brought it quickly. You're really hungry. I had known that I should have waited for the banquet before I started. I'm still hungry now."
"What's the hurry?" Li Chao was holding the food box. These guys were actually only thirty or forty years old. They were all generals, but they were still scoundrels. Li Chao also had a headache for them. Now it is no longer as before. The unification of the world is all about pursuing martial arts and cultivating culture. However, these generals still like to act spontaneously, which makes it difficult for Li Shimin to do.
Only Li Shimin is a relatively large number of people, otherwise, ordinary monarchs would rather have the opportunity to catch the handle of their ministers and then keep their bows. Even if it is not time to keep their bows, they should be blacklisted.
Li Shimin is still good and is very polite to these old generals under his command. Even if they ignore the overall situation so much and create such a farce, Li Shimin never thought about what to do.
The tables and chairs were brought, the lights were lit in the cell, and bowls, plates, tableware, knives, chopsticks were placed.
I opened the food box and the few dishes I had just prepared were still hot.
Li Chao gave the fork a large piece of steak on each plate for the three of them.
This is the meat on the outer spine of the beef, which contains some fatty oil and brings a circle of white meat tendons outside the meat. This steak is tough after frying, the meat is hard and chewy. It is most suitable for young generals like Cheng Yaojin and others to eat.
Li Chao specially fried it into three-year-old seasonings and added pepper and other seasonings.
It was cut with one size fits, and it was slightly dark on the outside but pink and tender on the inside.
The three guys, regardless of the rest, took a knife and cut it into several pieces, then gave it to them and chewed it into their mouths.
"Sanlang, is there any wine? It's a pity to eat beef without wine."
Li Chao smiled and took out another jar of wine, the best imperial wine.
Pour a bowl for each of the three of them.
Take a few bites of steak and drink a sip of wine.
"readily!"
"As soon as you eat it, you will know it was Saburo's own craftsmanship. This beef can be made like this. It looks like a big piece, but it is tender and juicy, neither old nor tiring, and tastes good, not fishy or chewy. It's really good. It's so delicious than roasted and cooked. I have to go to your house to eat it in the future."
Luo Yi watched the three of them eat meat and drink a lot of wine, and his saliva was almost over.
"Give me a piece of beef too!"
Li Chao turned around and smiled and said, "Oh, it's a very unfortunate thing. I only fry three steaks."
"Then I'll give me a bowl of wine."
"Sorry, there is no extra wine."
"*Fuck*-You 00 Mother 0 Li San!" Luo Yi smelled it and couldn't eat it. He cursed with hatred. Li Chao smiled and turned his head and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
"Sanlang, it was Your Highness who asked you to let us go back?" Cheng Yaojin said with a smile while chewing the meat.
"Uncle Cheng, Your Highness is very unhappy this time. You have done something too much, but you even blinded Duke Peng's eyes and interrupted General Feng's nose. Alas, this matter is very bad. Your Highness has to punish you severely to show justice."
Niu Jinda stopped and said, "What does it mean?"
"It means you have to be in prison for a month here, and then, when I hear the Hou Falu, the prime ministers mean that they will demote you three to the frontier to be governors, not the Grand Governors, but ordinary governors."
"Are you kidding?" Cheng Yaojin asked. They are heroes of Xuanwu Sect. Although they are not first-class heroes like Li Chao, they must be second-class heroes or something. The contributions of Xuanwu Sect have not been rewarded yet, but they are now demoted?
"Don't worry, you stay here for a month. I will send you delicious food and drinks every day in the future. When I go back, I will send you a few beds and bedding to you to wait for you. Stay at ease for a month. Then I will stay in the neighborhood for a year or two and then I will be able to return to Chang'an."
Li Chao's words did not have any comforting effect, and the three of them were somewhat unexpected that this would be the result.
"Isn't it just a beat up Wang Junguo that bastard?"
"That's right, that bastard is still Li Jiancheng's person."
Li Chao reminded the three, "Now there are no Li Jiancheng's people, all of them are the prince's people and the Tang Dynasty."
"You should stay here, just treat it as a rest and rest."
Li Chao left the cell and stood in front of Luo Yi's cell.
"General Luo, let's go and follow me to see His Royal Highness!"
Chapter completed!