Chapter 441： trade-offs

Chapter 441 Advancing and retreating

May 18th, the weather is fine, the warm wind is blowing, it is a good day for marriage.

On this day, in the eyes of the world, Ye Anlan, who is already an "old girl who can't get married", ushered in her grand wedding with Li Jing.

In her British residence, Ye Jinkui and Mrs. Li brought their other children, busy arranging trivial matters and entertaining guests.

In Li Jing's An Guogong's mansion, Li Jing's grandmother, mother, and clan members were equally busy without touching the ground.

The two competed with each other for their position and weight, and each of them gained Xie Yuan's respect and trust. Li Jing got married and Ye Anlan got married.

Because of Xie Yuan, those who were officials in the same court as them, even if they didn't like Li Jing's ruining his family and marrying a daughter-in-law in private, or Ye Anlan's appointment as the Duke of the state as a woman, but they couldn't do it publicly. Show your own blatant disdain.

Just like the queen and those concubines who followed Xie Yuan's wink, they also gave Ye Anlan and Li Jing some makeup and congratulatory gifts after Xie Yuan.

The two made a lot of money as a result, but the number of guests they needed to entertain reached a terrifying number.

There are not enough cooks and servants in the mansion, so the two families can only temporarily borrow from the family they have made friends with.

Ye Anlan borrowed the cooks and servants from the residences of Ye Jinkui, Yang Xiaotao, Wen Liuniang, and Zheng Fengshou, while Li Jing borrowed the cooks and servants from the Li clan, Chang'an, and Hualiang residences.

Unlike the vast majority of aristocratic families who are in a hurry to get involved in the court and wish to make all the children in the family into officials in a second, the Li family that cultivated Li Jing actually arranged only a few people after the founding of the Great Qi. People become official.

Moreover, those Li's children who were appointed by the elders of the Li family to participate in the selection by the court, without exception, all of them only sought the inconspicuous official positions of the fourth rank and below.

Three of them entered the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, and Dali Temple as unremarkable officials. The other two, one went to the southwest to become a state magistrate, and the other worked as a colleague in Yancheng, which was near their hometown. Know.

In terms of the number of members of the Li family, the number of people who have become officials is ridiculously small. In addition, the five of them are just inconspicuous foreign officials and small officials. Compared with other families, the Li family is in the officialdom of Daqi. influence is almost negligible.

But this does not mean that Li Shi is easy to bully, and the sun has already set.

On the contrary, it is precisely because the Li family has been able to see the situation clearly that they only let five clansmen become officials, and only let them be foreign officials and small officials.

The patriarchs and elders of the Li family are not like some shallow-sighted family rulers, who can neither tolerate the income from the offspring than the direct ones, nor can they bear that the family they belong to is weaker than other families.

They are well aware of Xie Yuan's fear of the aristocratic family, and they know that Xie Yuan wants to get rid of the division and restraint of the imperial power by the aristocratic family. At the same time, they also know that Li Jing is the Li family who will be able to gain Xie Yuan's trust the most in the next few decades. The one you lean on.

As for the rest of the Li family, it is absolutely impossible for them to surpass Li Jing in Xie Yuan's place.

If the members of the Li clan scramble to become officials, then the result waiting for them will only be that they and Li Jing will be feared by Xie Yuan.

Once Xie Yuan grew jealous of them and Li Jing, their Li family could only drag Li Jing along and not be reused, or passively part ways with Li Jing, and each formed a branch from then on.

Both of these situations are not what the current Li clan chiefs and clan elders want to see. Rather than that, they prefer to make Li Jing the leader of the Li clan in the next few decades.

They believe that as long as Li Jing shines in the court, their Li family will never really decline or decline.

Facts have proved that their ideas are indeed very correct, not to mention Li Jing, at least Xie Yuan is very satisfied with their understanding.

In order to prevent the Li clan from dragging Li Jing down, before the Li family made their own decision, Xie Yuan actually thought about separating Li Jing from the Li clan.

After the sect is divided, Li Jing will not be affected by what the Li family does, and he can confidently and boldly entrust Li Jing with important responsibilities.

However, before he reminded Li Jing, the current ruler of the Li family had spontaneously started to restrain the children of the clan. When Xie Yuan got the news, he simply stopped being this villain.

Because of this, the Li family was able to continue to gain a foothold as Li Jing's relatives. Even because Li Jing was grateful for the retreat they made for him, he usually took care of them a lot. It used to be superior and detached.

This time when Li Jing got married, Li Jing's grandmother also wrote a letter in advance, firstly to solemnly invite the clansmen to Beijing to attend Li Jing's wedding, and secondly to borrow cooks and servants from the clan members of the direct branch.

It's not that Li Jing can't borrow enough and suitable cooks and servants in the capital. Li Jing's grandmother's move is actually expressing that her family does not treat Li's descendants as outsiders.

She used such a small matter to convey to Li's direct branch that she recognized that her family and Li's direct branch were a family. As a family, it is natural to help each other when something happens. This time it was the other party who helped them, and next time the other party had something to do, they would naturally help them back in turn.

The direct branch of the Li family obviously understood this routine very well. Not only did they not find it troublesome for Li Jing's grandmother's request, but they were all bloody, desperately trying to bring their servants along.

That was the Duke’s Mansion in the capital, and all the dignitaries including the royal family were entertained. If the servants of their family can be useful in this kind of occasion, their masters will also be honored.

In the end, because each family was fighting, the current patriarch of the Li clan and his wife could only select a group of relatively top-notch servants for each family.

As for the cook, the current patriarch of the Li clan did not select according to the "equal sharing" method.

He named and selected the best cooks in his family, as well as several excellent cooks from the Li family's hometown, and transferred them to the team in Shangjing.

Other craftsmen who were not human enough to join in, the patriarch of the Li clan blocked them all sternly and selflessly.

Just kidding, the maid who serves tea and pours water, guides the way and passes the dishes, and the servants who are a little less advanced can arrange them in less important positions. Creatures like cooks must be seen by their subordinates. In the past with mediocre craftsmanship, isn't it Li Jing and their Li family who are ashamed?

The patriarch who wants to give Li Jing strong face and maintain the image of the Li family said that the one who is qualified to go to the capital to show his skills must be the most outstanding cook in the clan!

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