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"What is Li doing now? Has he not agreed to be appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat?" Li Shimin asked the eunuch Wang next to him helplessly. This Li San was very active in recruiting soldiers and horses for his family. He recruited more than a hundred outstanding scholars at once, all of whom were from the imperial examinations in the imperial court.

It hurts to think about it. Those people should have been in his trap, but now they all went to the Li family. The Li family has recruited 3,000 households, most of which are craftsmen's families. There are 3,000 households, and the average family of five to six is ​​more than 10,000 people.

Li took away his fiefdom of 600 miles, and now the Duke of Zhao alone has poached more than 10,000 people in the imperial court, but he cannot object. After all, the feudal division is his willingness.

"Go back to your Majesty, Li Xiang is entertaining guests at the mansion."

"Are you two, Xiao Xiang and Chen Xiang?"

Eunuch Wang whispered, "Not only two, but also eleven prime ministers in the court. Except for the two prime ministers Changsun and Gao, the other eight prime ministers were all guests at Li's mansion."

"Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also went?"

"besides……"

"what else?"

"Nine of the 12 generals of the Central and Southern Yaya were also guests at the Li Xiang Mansion, and two of the four generals of the Northern Yaya were also guests at the Li Xiang Mansion. The six ministers of the six ministries all visited the Li Xiang Mansion, and there were nine ministers, and there were six."

On New Year's Eve, there were endless civil and military officials who visited the Li family. Ordinary officials and even nobles could not see Li Xiang. Today, those who could receive Li Xiang himself were either prime ministers or ministers, or ministers, or ministers, or generals, or at least a duke who was actually granted the title of princes.

Li Shimin's eyes twitched when he heard this.

If he hadn't known Li well enough, and had asked Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and others to persuade Li today, otherwise, Li Shimin would have decided to collude with the important officials in the court and make a ill-gotten plan.

But then I thought about it.

Why does such a smart person do things that are so easy to be taboo? Did Li deliberately? This guy, without asking him last time, lured and killed 68,000 Turkic prisoners in Loufan Pass. Now he is in the mansion, and openly invites so many important officials in the court in such a high-profile manner.

Could he want to make himself angry and stop him from becoming the Secretary of the Republic?

This Li San must still want to pile up his picks and go to his Duke Zhao. Li Shimin really has the urge to confiscate Li's territory now.

If you want to pile up picks, I will not be as good as you wish.

"Eunuch Wang, I'll go to Li's Mansion, and I'll call Wuji and Gao Xiang. Today, I and all the prime ministers under the Secretariat will have this New Year's Eve dinner in Li's Mansion."

The eunuch Wang was a little stunned. What is the emperor doing?

But he looked at the emperor's expression carefully and found that this was not a word of anger. The emperor seemed to be really going to Li's mansion.

It's New Year's Eve, and it's going dark in a while.

The prince on the side was very happy to hear this, "It's so good. The New Year's Eve dinner at the teacher's house must be delicious."

The sun is about to set.

The guests at Li's mansion are also preparing to say goodbye and go home. Today is New Year's Eve, they will definitely have to have a reunion dinner with their parents, wife and children at home. They have to get up early tomorrow morning to attend the Grand Chan Festival.

As a result, one came from inside.

The emperor issued an oral decree. On the way he came, His Majesty said that he would have dinner with the prime minister and ministers in the Li Mansion and talk about something by the way.

The ministers looked at each other and could not leave now.

Even Cui Yingying in the backyard was alarmed.

The emperor is coming, this is not a trivial matter, and he has to do a good job in reception. Especially when the emperor said he wanted to have a meal at the mansion, he had to prepare a banquet.

Li was not too surprised to receive the order.

Anyway, when he was at home, the emperor did not come to the house once or twice. Other ministers were so excited that they didn't know where to put their hands. However, Li Shimin often came to the Li family to flee, and Li was often left in the palace by Li Shimin and Empress Changsun and his wife for dinner, so they became accustomed to it.

When other guests outside heard that the emperor was coming, they didn't dare to stay for a long time. Everyone said goodbye with tactful farewell, and the emperor could not get together in the fun of the emperor.

As the host, Li signaled to the guests for a while and walked to the backyard. The emperor was about to come, but as the head of the family, he still had to explain.

In the courtyard, a group of noble children were playing there. These people were not ordinary noble children, but Li's disciples. They were not old, but the Li family was not unfamiliar with them. They were often staying in the past, and the people in the mansion were familiar with them.

At this time, their fathers were talking in the house, but they were playing snow outside, making snowmen and playing snowball fights, running wildly in the yard, chasing and playing. Fang Xuanling's son Fang Yiai, didn't know where to catch a mouse, and then the group of guys planned to tie oil-soaked cloth strips on the mouse's tail, and then prepared to light the fire, watching the fired mice running around.

Li walked over and kicked Fang Yiai's butt, and slapped the kid in the snow.

"Idiot, the rat's tail is lit, won't it run away crazy? Have you never thought about the consequences? In this winter, the weather is dry and the things are dry. If the rats rush into the house or even in the pile of firewood, wouldn't it be enough? You little bastards want to come and burn my Duke Zhao's mansion today?"

Fang Yiai usually relies on his reliance on the fact that I was the prime minister of the current dynasty and was a bit proud. As a result, Li Yi kicked the dog to bite, but he didn't dare to say a word. He lowered his head and honestly took off the oil cloth from the rat's tail.

"No matter how much you play, I remember to have a solid foundation, don't do it too much." After saying that, Li was too lazy to pay attention to these guys, but these children were still young, and secondly, he didn't have much time to teach them, so he really had few people to take care of.

Li entered the backyard, and Cui Yingying was taking a group of women from the Li family to arrange work for the servants and housekeepers at home.

Cui Yingying is very majestic. She has just given birth and is in good spirits. She sits in the upper seat, and other women in the family, such as Hong Shi, Cai Wei, Wanyan, Si Niang, etc., are standing aside.

Below Cui Yingying, the men and women in the family stood in a row, listening carefully to Cui Yingying's arrangements and assignments. One by one, the arrangement was arranged in an orderly manner.

Li came in and nodded to them, so that they would not have to stop and continue.

He sat down on the chair next to Cui Yingying. Several older children in the family were about the same age. They could walk and talk. When they saw Li come in, they shouted to Li Ya in their arms.

The eldest son can even clearly call out his father.

But the best part is the eldest daughter Xia Hua. Her voice is slim and sweet. She saw Li sitting down and even jumping to help Li with slippers. This was so cute.

Li lowered his head and grinned at her. This little girl was so cute. When she saw her, she always made people happy. Xia Hua grew more and more like Cui Yingying, and of course she also had a little mold of him. This girl was as beautiful as her mother, with a very dark and straight head, and her skin was both white and tender, and she could break her breath.

Especially the pair of black eyes, extremely dark.

Li changed into the slippers his daughter brought. Although he was actually wearing a pair of cotton slippers on his feet, he picked her up.

Xia Hua laughed and hugged his neck and sat on his knee.

Li smiled and grabbed her chin with a short beard but stabbed her forehead, and then she smiled and avoided. Cui Yingying was still giving instructions there, while the father and daughter were playing the game of hiding their beards.

This little girl, Li Gang came back, but she didn't recognize her child at all. She called her father so nicely, she really was his little cotton-padded jacket.

Cui Yingying finished her instructions and asked her servants to leave.

"Why is Your Majesty suddenly coming?" she asked her husband.

"It must be that I haven't eaten the dishes I cooked for a long time. I missed them very much, so I came." Li joked. Cui Yingying glared at him. Her husband was all of whom with such a noble status, but sometimes she always likes to joke. It would be better if she was in the room, but there were many people here, especially in front of the children.

Zheng Wanyan held her daughter and sat next to Li, "Your Majesty must have come because her husband refused to take over the position of Shangshu." She was a little confused about why her husband had refused this appointment.

"Maybe." Li reached out to tease her younger daughter. She was only over one year old and could not speak, but could laugh. Li teased her, and she smiled at Li, very cute.

"Why is my husband unwilling to be the Minister of the Secretariat?"

"I think this official is not easy to be a good official."

Cui Yingying snorted, "I feel that my husband went out and was caught by someone. My husband was determined to leave Xiangyang and go to Zhao Duke. He despised us women at home and wanted to spend time with the wild women outside?"

Li Ming knew that she was talking about Li Xiuning, but he knew that, "Who is the wild woman outside?"

Cui Yingying was extremely angry, "Hmph, who? There are so many, I can't figure it out." She remembered that the princess of the East Girl Kingdom had also entered Beijing recently. She heard that she had a daughter, so she was angry when she thought about it.

Zhao Siniang poured Li a cup of tea, Li took it, said thank you, and slowly took a sip.

"Are you really not going to accept Your Majesty's edict?" Cui Yingying asked, her husband had Li Xiuning and Qingluan outside, which were all fait-made facts, and it was useless to argue. What she was more concerned about now was whether her husband would accept the appointment of the Shangshu Order. This matter made the prime ministers come to persuade him, and now the emperor is going to arrive in person.

Li smiled bitterly.

"Do you think I have a choice?"

He really didn't want to take on this official position. He originally wanted to delay it, but maybe Li Shimin would change his mind, but now it seems that Li Shimin has made up his mind, so this matter cannot be changed.

Tomorrow is the main dynasty, and he has no time to persuade Li Shimin to change his mind.

"Prince, Madam, Your Majesty is here, please accept the emperor." Butler Li came in to report, and was still very excited. The emperor is here. As the butler of the Li family, he felt honored.
Chapter completed!