Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

There are many standards for when people start to grow up. Li Tai feels that when faced with unsatisfactory things in life, people do not just complain, be sad, and face changes in things emotionally, but proactively To seek and explore aspects that are beneficial to oneself, then one can be said to have grown up or matured.

Before, his uncle Lu Shuhu had a serious conversation with him about family matters. Li Tai had a deeper association with him, and became more and more aware that he now embodies so many people's well-being, future, and desires. This is not the case for him when it comes to personal issues. He must have a more comprehensive consideration of people and things.

This change will not only have a great impact on him, but also on the people close to him, especially his wife who is closest to him.

In the past few days, his wife has experienced important life events such as giving birth to a son and losing her father. She has also had to adapt to the huge changes in her identity and family status. Her own emotions have been in a huge gap between joy and sorrow, but she can still cope with this complicated and intense situation. Li Tai is deeply gratified to find a way of dealing with himself that is suitable and beneficial to him amidst the changes in human relationships.

Nowadays, he seems to be the leader of the domineering government with unlimited fame, but he also needs to work hard to coordinate and integrate the situation of all internal parties. The so-called parties are not necessarily tit-for-tat and full of conflicts of interest, but they are different in origin, background, culture, habits, etc.

Previously, Li Tai was a participant, traveling around to gain the greatest human power. Now, as the leader of the Bafu, he needs to think more comprehensively, minimize internal friction and internal friction, coordinate the ideas and demands of all parties, and allow the masses to work towards a common goal.

At the end of the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, the national laws were already in dire straits, and human relations also played a huge role in political activities. Therefore, being his wife also requires a lot of social wisdom, because she needs to deal with not only the internal affairs of the family, but also the network of human relationships and social relationships that extend outward from the family.

Through the conversation between his father and his wife just now, including the previous reminder from his uncle Lu Shuhu, it was not difficult for Li Tai to guess that there must have been similar rumors that slandered his wife.

The reason is also very simple. Many Kanto Shiliu came to Kanto because of their relatives and friends. For them, the fastest and most effective way to integrate into the Kanto Shiliu was through marriage. Relative relations among families with five surnames are already intertwined, and they now have such needs. It will naturally be of great benefit to them to stir up such a public opinion.

Faced with such a situation, it would be very inappropriate for Li Tai to impose severe sanctions with criminal orders or to comply with their wishes and take the initiative to accept a woman from a family with the fifth surname.

The former will undoubtedly hurt people's feelings. After all, it is a fact that these people abandoned the Kanto family business and came to Kansai to join themselves. The latter will directly introduce conflicts and disputes into their own family. From then on, both the family and the heirs may be troubled.

Miaoyin is in such a situation, relying on her husband's favor and the friendship between her husband and wife for many years, ignoring the complicated human relationships in the outside world, and living a leisurely life in seclusion is certainly a way of life.

But there is no doubt that she is not as proactive and wise as she is now. The first is to express her willingness to take concubines for her husband, and the second is to confirm and demonstrate her right to speak as a big wife. In this way, those who intend to obtain more political resources through in-law relationships naturally have no reason to attack her, but need to win her favor.

Li Tai is not disgusted with his wife's growth. On the contrary, he is very happy to see it. The relationship between husband and wife has never been a game, but an ethical relationship that is closer than blood ties. Of course, whether any relationship is intimate or not depends on how the individuals in the specific relationship manage it. When this relationship is based on the pursuit of sex and material resources, there is no ethics at all, just business ethics.

He did not eagerly ask his wife what kind of concubine she wanted to take in for him, but he talked about taking advantage of today's free time to hold a family banquet at home to entertain all the relatives and friends who had defected from Kanto.

"Aweng has already planned this matter, but since my husband is traveling far away, I am worried that it may be inappropriate."

After hearing her husband talk about this matter, Miaoyin also returned to the room and took out a list recording the family status of relatives and friends.

Similar information was previously recorded by the officials responsible for settling these families, but the content was not as detailed as what Miaoyin compiled. The name book not only records the population and age of each family in detail, but also details the relationship and origin between each other, and even Li Tai is not clear about these contents.

So Li Tai wrote the invitations in the room according to the order of the list. Of course, the writing and ink work can be left to the staff to do it for him, but it is not as sincere as writing it himself. Sometimes the warmth of the details of this kind of favor even exceeds the gift of large sums of money and goods.

Although Miaoyin's mentality has become more mature with experience, she still cannot change the habit she has developed over the years of being tired of being around her husband whenever he is idle. Now that she is pregnant, her figure is not as graceful and graceful as when she was a girl, so she leans on the desk and holds the dark ink with her white fingers to grind the ink for her husband.

At this time, the spring was bright outside the courtyard, and the bright sunshine passed through the buds of the locust willow and fell on the brick steps in front of the house, beating lively like broken jade and gold chips.

The sunlight hits the screen window, is dizzy by the tulle, and penetrates into the room to become balls of soft light. The light falls on people like a flowing warm current. The young woman sat sideways on the mat, her brocade skirt spread between her legs, and half of it hanging on the side of the mat. The soft light danced here again, reflecting and interweaving into a gorgeous brilliance, just like the same beautiful youth.

But the woman was not attracted by the brilliance of the brocade. Her gaze was like the most precise paintbrush, carefully tracing over every line of the man beside her, including his posture, appearance, and expression, and traced them in her heart over and over again, exactly.

The girl's youthfulness has long since faded, replaced by a more touching plumpness and softness. As her eyes continue to trace, the corners of her lips are also raising smiles from time to time, and what comes out of the pear vortex is that the heart can no longer contain it, but it is still swarming. The sweet affection that grows.

As Li Tai was turning his pen, he glanced sideways at the lady leaning against the desk with her head tilted up, her face lazily intoxicated. He became playful, raised his left hand and brushed the lady's red lips with the pad of his thumb, but unexpectedly The lady's warm tongue poked out and dexterously chased the fingertips. Her eyes were so rippling that people unconsciously drowned in it. It wasn't until the slight pain from the fingertips being bitten by the shell teeth that Li Tai woke up.

"It's already past noon, and there are still many invitations to write!"

Li Tai turned his eyes and realized that the sun was shining into the room from the west side. He raised his fingers and tapped his wife's smooth forehead, and said with a smile: "My dear, it disturbs people's will and wastes my time!"

When the lady was criticized, she wrinkled her nose and snorted, then poured a few drops of water into the inkstone and continued grinding the dried ink.

After that, Li Tai concentrated on writing, and his writing efficiency was greatly improved. The invitations he wrote were sent to each house by his family.

In fact, there is no need for invitations. Many relatives and friends from Kanto came to the school early after hearing that Li Tai was at home today. They almost missed the invitation for some reason. When the invitation was delivered to their hands, the smiles on their faces couldn't help but become happier.

In addition to these relatives and friends from Guandong, Li Tai thought for a while and sent someone to invite several Feng to attend the family banquet. He said with a smile to his wife: "Years ago when I was in Shannan, I asked my wife to visit matchmakers for Bodhidharma. , how is the progress now?"

When he was in Xiangyang before, Li Tai wanted to introduce Shuofeng to his cousin Li Gang's cousin, but he still felt inconvenient to speak, so he entrusted the matter to his wife.

"How dare I forget what my husband told me. I have visited the house before, and my uncle's family is generally satisfied with it. After all, my husband has taken care of Bodhidharma since he was a child. Of course, I can rest assured for this reason. ”

When Miaoyin heard her husband mentioning old things again, she smiled and replied.

After hearing this, Li Tai nodded and said, "In that case, let's get things settled as soon as possible. Needless to say, my uncle's family, although Bodhidharma does not have his father as the head of the family, he still has me to take care of him, so he will definitely not be in trouble with personnel matters."

The reason why he wanted to finalize this matter at this family banquet was not only to take care of his little brother Shuofeng, but also to let these relatives and friends from Kanto recognize the reality and put away the idea of ​​being self-conscious about their family background. , If you want to develop better in today's world, you must recognize the trend of the times and stop adhering to the outdated concepts of the past.

Although he has a relatively negative view of Zhenbing as a whole, he has to admit that the reason why Zhenbing can become so big is also because these noble families also gave them opportunities and failed to use them. Nowadays, the Zhenbing has become a powerful political force in the current situation. If they still remain in a state of resistance and unwillingness to cooperate, it will only intensify the collision and friction between them.

Even if these people come to Kansai, it is impossible for Li Tai to tilt all political resources towards them and create a situation similar to the Taihe restructuring in the Northern Wei Dynasty. What he can provide these people is a more equal, gentle and dignified complementarity and integration, instead of being choked to the ground and beaten violently, with their eyes smashed out.

When Miaoyin heard her husband mentioning this matter at this moment, she probably understood what Li Tai was thinking, and after thinking for a while, she also said: "I also have a guest to add to my family, Mrs. Yao, who helps me a lot at home. Madam Yao has worked tirelessly to save Aweng and help me raise the children. She should not be treated like an outsider due to emotion and reason. What do you think, husband?"

When Li Tai heard this, he couldn't help but think of the alluring spring scene last night. He blinked away the distracting thoughts, and then nodded and said, "I'll follow my wife's plan."