As night falls, the lights come on.
The night of Hanjing is lively, and when night falls, Hanjing City is not silent.
On the contrary, there are special night markets in Hanjing City, and there are special commercial streets in the inner city, which are lit up at night with street lamps and lights in front of the shops, and there are everything from clothes and shoes to the store.
Further south, there are also shops and stalls selling late-night snacks, which are just as lively.
If you go further south, to the outer city, there is a special block, and you can see the big red lanterns hanging high in the distance, which is the Qinglou entertainment street in Hanjing.
The Qinglou Chu Pavilion, as well as those who sing, dance, and juggle, are all concentrated here.
There is a rule in Hanjing Prefecture that Qinglou gambling houses are not allowed to operate in the inner city, even in the outer city, they must be in this designated professional block.
Moreover, the government also imposed heavy taxes on these industries, and the supervision was very strict.
Once investigated, not only will the license be confiscated, but also a very heavy fine will be imposed, and even the owner will be arrested and imprisoned.
At night in Hanjing, only the palace and the imperial city are closed and curfew.
Many shops are open all night, and people can also walk on the streets in the middle of the night, but they must bring identity cards when walking at night, otherwise they will encounter patrolling soldiers and officials, and they will have to be locked up without identity cards.
It should be said that the security in Hanjing is still very good.
Especially in the inner city, the Upper East District and the Upper West District, which are places where the nobles and bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen gather, ordinary people dare not come here to make trouble.
Upper East Side, Zhao Wangfu.
At night, the palace of King Zhao was brightly lit.
At the end of another year, envoys from all over the country entered Beijing one after another, and the officials of the feudal territory and the local princes all came.
At this time of year, the Li family is also the most lively time, Li Chao's protégé and former official, Tonghao family, will definitely come to visit the Li family when he enters Beijing.
Today, when my father entered Beijing, the house naturally prepared a banquet of fine wine.
I heard that my father is here, so I don't need to invite him, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, and Luo Shixin are also here.
Even if Li Chao deliberately kept a low profile, but this night, Li Chao's family still focused on Li Chao, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Su Dingfang, Li Shiji, Wei Chigong, Guo Xiaoke, and more than 30 kings.
These are all very close, and the others Li Chao haven't invited yet, even Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, and Ma Zhou haven't been invited, and they are just some generals who come today.
But these guests of the Li family still alarmed the six doors.
Every time a guest comes, the people at the six doors are shocked.
Finally, looking at the Li family's guest list, these people reported uneasily.
When Wang Chengen received the report, he couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at it.
Shaking his head, he still truthfully reported to Li Shimin.
"Today, Li Chao's father entered Beijing, and Qin Qiong and others came to visit, um."
Li Shimin looked at it a few times, and then hummed without any expression, indicating that he understood.
Wang Chengen bowed and retreated.
Li Shimin picked up the fold again, and looked at the personal name on it, Li Shimin sighed.
He found that Li Chao was better than his popularity.
The generals on this are all top generals of the imperial court.
Two deputy privy envoys, three metropolitan governors, not to mention many great generals, metropolitan protectors, and metropolitan protectors.
This is also under the military system of the Tang Dynasty today, if it was the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, so many princes and generals would have gone to Li Chao's house for dinner, Li Shimin would not want to fall asleep tonight.
Under the current system, the civil and military forces are separated, and the power to command and transfer troops in the army is also separated, and the military generals do not have so much power.
But then again, looking at these names, Li Shimin is still under great pressure.
"This Li Chao" Li Shimin shook his head, as long as he is the emperor, he is not afraid of Li Chao, he can suppress this demon.
But the problem is that Li Chao is younger than him, he is the prince's father-in-law and the prince's teacher, his reputation is so high, and his wealth is so huge, such a person will definitely be able to support the prince to succeed to the throne in the future, but what about the future If he goes on his own trip in the future, will Cheng Qian be able to control Li Chao?
Will Li Chao be people like Wang Mang and Yang Jian?
But Li Chao's current performance is not at all wrong, with Li Chao's prestige, if he doesn't have some solid evidence, he won't dare to move Li Chao easily.
This was not the original purge of those restoration parties, he purged the restoration party, and there was no one in the Xun faction who did not support it.
But to clean Li Chao, it is by no means simple.
The teacher is unknown, and an important minister like Li Chao can't move casually.
And with Li Chao's reputation, his relationship cannot be framed casually.
Take a hair and move your whole body, look at the list in his hand, and you will know, unless Li Shimin has the courage to clean up all these people.
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But is it possible that these people are the pillars of the Zhenguan Dynasty?
Besides, this is only the tip of the iceberg of Li Chao's relationship network, these are just top-level national princes, so many Zaifu in Wenchen are closely related to the Li family, and the Li family's in-laws are all over the world, this sentence is not finished.
In the end, Li Shimin picked up the secret piece and put it in front of the lamp and burned it.
Upper East Side, Zhao Wangfu.
Today, more than 30 princes went to the banquet, but everyone just drank and chatted about the past, and did not talk about any state affairs at all.
King Lujun and the governor of the Chinese army, Cheng Biting Jin, laughed at his father, "The old tree of the old iron gun is now bursting into its second spring, in the past few years, the concubine has taken one room after another, and the children have also given birth to one after another."
Now there are five boys and four girls in a few babies."
"Hahaha" Luo Shixin was also polite, "You counted a few, it should be six men and six women, how can you forget Wen Yuan." ” There were no ladies at the table, and the father just laughed.
He has been in the fiefdom of western Liaoning in the past few years, and he has indeed lived a very comfortable life.
Qi Niang gave birth to a son and a daughter for him, and helped him take five concubines, in recent years, his old tree sprouted, and gave birth to five boys and four girls in a row.
Now the Dukes of Luoguo have a population of tens of thousands, and a wall was built around the small fort, and there are more than 30,000 people in the city.
There are also markets and villages outside the city, and they are very prosperous.
And the port that Dad went to Lingnan to invest in and build is now becoming more and more lively day by day.
Now Daddy is red and feels younger.
"Lao Cheng, don't talk about me, you marry the daughter of the Cui clan of Qinghe for the continuation of the string, and the old cow eats tender grass, your wife is one year younger than your son Chu Mo.
Say that I take concubines, you take more concubines, there are more than a dozen concubines, and there are more than 20 sons."
Lao Cheng was not ashamed, but said proudly, "That's my Lao Cheng has the ability." ” Most of Anxi's cattle guards Jinda, but they are demolishing his platform, "In terms of the ability to have children, Lao Cheng, you are almost far away from Wen."
Wen Yuan now has a wife, twelve concubines, eighteen sons, and twenty-one daughters, have you compared to Wen Yuan?"
Cheng Yanjin said unconvinced, "My old Cheng is busy, I am in Luoyang all the year round, and I stay for four years."
Can you compare with Wen Yuan, he has been in Hanjing for three years, and you see what he is looking at, he doesn't do anything else every day except for having children with his wife and concubine. ” Laugh at home.
However, Li Chao felt that he was actually not too much.
One wife and twelve concubines, in the past three years, he has only accepted two more concubines, which are still rewarded by the emperor, and he can't help but accept them.
With so many wives and concubines, in fact, one person has an average of three children.
It's really not much, ordinary peasants can give birth to a dozen or so in a lifetime, but they generally can't feed so much, disease and poverty, children are more likely to die when they are young, or they are also malnourished and starved to death.
Some families will drown babies because they can't afford to raise them, especially for female babies, which can be described as a human tragedy, but this is the case in this era.
Now it's okay, there are special funds from the imperial court, as well as funds from the queen and Cui Yingying's charity relief association, and many nurseries and orphanages have been built in the local area to adopt these abandoned babies.
The conditions of the Li family are good, and there are many children, but none of them have died.
This is also the envy of others, even the emperor has died several children, but the Li family has not had one.
Ordinary people can't support too many children, and they don't have the means and knowledge of birth control, so they can only give birth to children until they can't give birth.
The Li family has good conditions, and no matter how many children are born, they are not afraid, but they will only be too few.
In history, those who had many children were those with good conditions, such as the King of Zhongshan in the Han Dynasty, and a county king in the Ming Dynasty, who gave birth to more than 100 children.
It's all because they have good conditions, and they can live when they are born.
Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son also gave birth to more than 20 sons, and there are a bunch of daughters.
Speaking of which, in fact, none of these princes here are full of children.
It's just that these families generally divide the children more clearly, sons and daughters are completely different, sisters-in-law and concubines are different, and the maidservants of the maidservants don't even have the name of the family, they are only considered adulterous children, and even follow the identity of the mother as a slave.
There is no right of inheritance.
Not even dignity.
Li Chao did not have a child, he had an outer room Pingyang eldest princess, with whom he had a son and two daughters.
Now only the son recognizes his ancestors and returns to his ancestors, and Cui Yingying has to recognize him as his son-in-law, which can be regarded as having an identity.
But the other two daughters did not enter the Li family.
Pingyang is also reluctant to them, these two are illegitimate daughters.
Li Chao felt that it was necessary to revise the marriage law of the Tang Dynasty, and he would not violate the rule of not marrying, but he should still be protected if he gave birth to children, especially the status of these children, they should also be able to get the right of inheritance, even if they only get part of the inheritance, at least let them become a member of the family, not a slave.
"Wen Yuan, I heard that Liao will really be conquered next year, is this news accurate?"
asked Anxi Dadu Niu Jinda.
In fact, this is already well-known news, and everyone knows very well that the expedition to Liao will definitely not be delayed any longer, and it will definitely start fighting next year.
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Li Chao smiled and was noncommittal.
"Lao Niu, you are the protector of your capital in the Western Regions, what are you doing in charge of Liaodong."
Lao Niu put down his wine glass, "I will go back to Beijing this time, and I want to ask Your Majesty for approval, and next year I will use troops in the north of the Tianshan Mountains to destroy the power in one fell swoop, as well as Mo Hedu."
"Isn't Mo Helu quite deferential, why did he provoke you?"
asked Cheng Yanjin.
"Respectfully a fart, this bastard eats inside and out, in recent years, the strength of his subordinates has risen, and he began to plot against him, I got the news that he has taken refuge in Mo Hedu, and Mo Helu secretly reached an agreement with the Persians to borrow troops from Persia to recapture the Western Regions, and now they are gearing up, and they are gathering troops and horses, and they can fight at any time.
I'm going to strike first, and I'm going to take the first step to destroy Mohelu and the Persians, and don't let the Persians in." t1706231537: