In the afternoon, Pei Ju rushed from Qinghe County to Beihai County. He had just received an emergency document from the court, and asked him to return to Jiangdu immediately.

Pei Ju knew that this was because Li Yuan raised an army, and the situation was indeed urgent. He had to change his plan to announce the imperial edict in Qinghe County and rushed directly to Beihai County to announce the imperial edict to Zhang Xuan. Although the details did not match the system, Pei Ju also knew that under the current circumstances, the emperor would not blame himself for this little matter.

In Beihai County, under the rituals of nearly 100 military generals and civil servants, Pei Ju officially read the emperor's imperial edict to Zhang Xuan, and appointed Zhang Xuan as the general of the Right Guard, Duke of Qi, the three departments of Kaifu Yitong, and the chief censor Fu Jie, and rewarded him with a reward of 10,000 taels. At the same time, he named Zhang Xuan's wife, Lu, the wife of the first-rank imperial wife, and his son as the viscount of Gaotang County and the Wuqiwei.

After the ceremony, Zhang Xuan asked Pei Ju to sit in the inner hall. Pei Ju smiled and said, "I originally wanted to announce the edict to the general in Qinghe County, but the emperor urged me to return to Jiangdu, so I had to come to Beihai County to announce the edict. In addition, the emperor allowed the general to build the Duke of Qi's Mansion. Do the general have any ideas?"

Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "Donald Pei wants to report to the emperor?"

"According to the regulations, I want to return the imperial edict to the emperor, but I personally want to know where the general plans to build the Duke of Qi's Mansion?"

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "Mr. Pei can tell the emperor that I have no plans to build a mansion for the time being. If Mr. Pei personally wants to know, I might build the mansion of Duke Qi in Yecheng."

Pei Ju raised his thumbs up and praised: "The general is indeed far-sighted!"

"I said that this is a teaching by Mr. Pei. If Mr. Pei hadn't reminded me, I originally planned to build a government in Qi County, but now I decided to build a government in Yecheng."

Pei Ju sighed softly, "I can help others, but I can't help myself. Can General Zhang give me some advice?"

Zhang Xuan was really grateful to Pei Ju for helping him, and he also hoped that the Pei family would not suffer a severe setback. Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said slowly: "To be honest with Mr. Pei, I have set up a very powerful intelligence network in Jiangdu. I have obtained the exact information. Various clues show that Jiangdu may have a mutiny in the past few months. I advise Mr. Pei to stay in Qingzhou."

Pei Ju was shocked, "Is General Yu Wenji?"

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "Yu Wenhe is only used. The power behind the scenes is Guanlong nobles. The mastermind should be Yuan Min and Yu Wen Zhihe. Now the military power of the 100,000 Xiaoguo Army is in Yu Wenhe's hands. Unless the emperor can lure Yu Wenhe and regain control of Xiaoguo Army, the situation is hopeless."

Pei Ju said sadly for a while: "At the beginning, many ministers advised the emperor not to go to Jiangdu, but they were either killed or demoted. Zhao Cai, the general of the right guard, advised the emperor not to value Yu Wenji. The emperor refused to listen, but instead accused him of being jealous of being able to demote him to a commoner. Now Yu Wenji and his wings have become established. They are arrogant and powerful in Jiangdu. Even the princes and nobles have to bow their knees when they see him, but he is extremely humble in front of the emperor and is deeply favored by the emperor. No one can persuade the emperor."

"I just care about Mr. Pei, and the others have nothing to do with me."

Pei Ju was moved and bowed and said, "Thank you for your concern and for your good wishes. But I must return to Jiangdu. This is my destiny, but I will be extremely careful and will not put myself in danger."

After pausing, Pei Ju asked carefully again: "Does General Zhang know about the marriage?"

Zhang Xuan has already considered mature. Even for Bingzhou, he could not refuse this marriage. He pondered for a moment and asked with a smile: "I wonder if the girl Zhizhi, who had dated me last time, had already gotten married?"

Pei Ju was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Our Pei family is planning to marry the general as a wife."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "If she doesn't want to, I won't force her."

Pei Ju smiled faintly. How could such a political marriage be considered to bring about her own wishes? Since Zhang Xuan has taken a fancy to her, it is her.

Bingzhou has always been said to be the Northern King of Pei, which refers to the two major families in Bingzhou. The north is the Taiyuan Wang family and the south is the Hedong Pei family. The Pei family has many branches, but the main house of the family is in Wenxi County, so the Pei family is also called Wenxi Pei family.

Traces of the Pei family, the Pei family ancestral hall, the Pei family school, the Pei family school, the Pei family school, the Pei family houses, and the palaces of the Pei family houses, etc. can be seen everywhere in Wenxi County. They are mainly concentrated in the south of the county town, occupying almost 30% of the land in the county town.

Like other aristocratic families, the Pei family's income mainly relies on manors and commerce. The Pei family manors are spread all over Hedong, with more than 20. Even Guanzhong has a manor covering an area of ​​5,000 acres. As for shops, there are Pei family shops in major cities such as Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan, and Jiangdu, with as many as a hundred stores in all sizes.

These manors and shops have brought wealth to the Pei family and have also invested a lot of wealth in education. Therefore, over the past few hundred years, not only have the Pei family children and talents emerged, but there are countless disciples who have learned from the Pei family. Most of the Bingzhou officials are disciples of the Wang family and the Pei family.

In addition, since Bingzhou is at the junction of the two strategic regions of Hebei and Guanlong, the two families of Pei and Wang became the balance point between the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong geniuses. This is also the reason why the two families of Pei and Wang were highly valued by the emperors in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Pei Yun's mansion is located on the east street of Chengnan, facing the street from Pei Ju's mansion. Since the emperor moved east to Jiangdu, the Pei clans living in Luoyang have returned to their ancestral land one after another. Pei Yun's eldest son Pei Xuanqi also led his wife and children to return to the mansion of his father in Wenxi County.

In the study, Pei Xuanqi was carefully reading the letter from the head of the family. Ten days ago, he also received a letter from his father in Jiangdu. His father decided to let Zhizhi marry Zhang Xuan as a flat wife, so that he could be mentally prepared. This was the second time he had discussed marriage with Zhang Xuan.

After the first marriage discussion failed, Pei Xuanqi cut off the idea of ​​marrying Zhang Xuan and wanted his daughter to get married as soon as possible.

At the beginning of the year, Pei Xuanqi took a fancy to Feng Jun, the second son of Feng Chongqing, the governor of Xihe County, when he was teaching at the Pei family, who was only eighteen years old, one year older than Zhizhi. He has been studying in the Pei family for five years. He is outstanding in literary talent, gentle and gentle, and polite. The key is that the Feng family is also a large clan of Xihe County. Although it is far from comparable to the Pei family, it is a match for the Feng family to marry the concubine daughter of the Pei family with the Feng family's legitimate son.

The reason why Pei Xuanqi was eager to get his daughter married was that there was an internal reason that was difficult to talk to in the family, which led to the worsening relationship with her mother Wang, and it was already at the point where she would quarrel when she met.

Pei Xuanqi also knew that Zhizhi's biological mother died of ignorance after drinking the medicine given by Wang. Although there was no evidence of this, everyone understood it in their hearts, so Pei Xuanqi was ashamed of her daughter. Even if her daughter was so angry that she was rude to her mother, Pei Xuanqi tried her best to tolerate it and added a little punishment.

Seeing that the relationship between mother and daughter was irreconcilable, Pei Xuanqi could only let his daughter get married as soon as possible. Everyone would be at peace without meeting each other.

But Pei Xuanqi did not expect that a few years later, the marriage between his daughter and Zhang Xuan was mentioned again. What made Pei Xuanqi very uncomfortable was that he actually married Zhang Xuan as his subordinate wife. When did the daughter of the Pei family encounter such grievances?

But Pei Xuanqi had no choice. This was a joint decision between his father and the head of the family. Today, he received a letter from the head of the family that the marriage had been negotiated with Zhang Xuan. Zhang Xuan's wife, Lu, was willing to accept Zhizhi's entry.

While pondering, my wife Wang's voice sounded outside, "Is there anything wrong with me, Master?"

"Good wife, please come in!"

A gust of fragrant wind blew on my face, and my wife, Wang, who was full of pearls and jade, walked in. Wang was the legitimate daughter of the Wang family in Taiyuan. The two families of Pei Wang have been married for generations and have a very harmonious relationship, although Pei Xuanqi did not like this wife very much.

Especially after his beloved concubine, Zhizhi's mother, died more than ten years ago, Pei Xuanqi once hated his wife Wang, but they had lived together for more than 20 years, and Wang also gave birth to two sons and a daughter for him, so Pei Xuanqi finally forgave his wife, and the relationship between them was once again respectful.

Wang sat down and smiled and said, "Is the Feng family here to propose marriage?"

Now Wang's biggest wish is to marry Zhizhi quickly, preferably to marry a small civilian household. She feels comfortable. Although the mother and daughter rarely meet, even if they meet by chance, she will be in a bad mood. After marriage, she will never see each other. Although Erlang of the Feng family has a good family background and is gentle and gentle, he is half a shorter than Pei Zhizhi. With this, Wang is willing to Pei Zhizhi marry Feng Jun, and she is trying her best to promote this marriage.

Pei Xuanqi smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid he won't get married into the Feng family!"

"Why? The Feng family doesn't want to?" Wang asked in confusion.

Pei Xuanqi Yangyang's two letters, "My father and the head of the family wrote to him and decided to let Zhizhi marry Zhang Xuan as his subordinate wife."
Chapter completed!