Tibet

Chapter 185 Interest Exchange
Yuan Xiao doesn't live in the school, but lives in Yuan Mansion. It is very convenient for him to go home. Yuan Mansion is in Wubenfang, and he is not restricted by the closure of the gate when he returns home.

Of course, students have to be bound by the school. After the gate of the workshop is closed, the gate of the school will also be closed. The students can only pack the food and drink and go back to the dormitory to continue drinking.

After drinking with Li Ye, Yuan Xiao hurried back to the mansion.

In the study room of the Yuan Mansion, General Yuan Yuan listened to his grandson with a serious expression. Of course, Yuan Yuan knew that Li Ye would not come to find his grandson for no reason. Li Ye's coming to find his grandson was actually Li Linfu's attitude. Li Linfu wanted to find him.

Li Linfu couldn't come forward, so he used a roundabout method.

"Grandfather, can Li Ye represent Li Xiangguo?" Yuan Xiao asked in a low voice.

Element nodded, "At the age of 15, he won the title of Duke of the county with his military merits. With such a grandson, Li Linfu must regard him as his heir. This is what Gao Lishi told me himself!"

"Then he must have another reason to find his grandson today?"

"You are right, there is indeed a great reason for him to come to you!"

Element pondered for a moment and asked again: "He asked you a lot about Yuwen Siwu?"

"After asking a lot, my grandson has an intuition that the real purpose of his inviting me to drink is for Yuwen Siwu, but he didn't say why?"

Yuan Yuan paced back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, pondered for a long time, and then said to Yuan Xiao: "Go and invite your great grandfather!"

Yuan Xiao hurried to go, and not long after, an old man with white beard and hair and a little sloppy clothes came. He was Yuan Tai, the elder brother of Yuan Yuan, and the head of the Yuan family. Planting flowers and raising cats, the family affairs are also handed over to the eldest son Yuan Sheng.

Of the five Yuan brothers of their generation, they are the two of them who are alive. Yuan Tai can't understand many things, so he will ask his elder brother for advice.

"What's the fifth brother looking for me for?"

"Third brother, please sit down, there is something I want to discuss with my brother."

Yuan Tai sat down, and Elemental relayed what his grandson said to his elder brother. Yuan Tai pondered for a while and asked: "The key to this matter is to confirm that Li Ye's approach to Ah Xiao represents Li Linfu's attitude? He himself just wants to turn an enemy into a friend?"

The tone of the element is difficult to say with certainty, "I think it represents Li Linfu's attitude, and does it have some kind of purpose?"

"What's the reason?"

"The situation during this time is quite strange. Third Brother, do you still remember the assassination of Sun Jiliang I mentioned a few days ago?"

Yuan Tai stroked his beard and said: "That case is really weird. It came out of nowhere, and it went away out of nowhere. It's a small assassination case, and it's not an important person. It actually needs the emperor to decide, because it involves Li Linfu's grandson?"

Element sighed: "Before I was as puzzled as my brother, but something happened yesterday, which made me suddenly realize that yesterday the emperor proposed to restore the deliberation system of the political affairs hall and add three more deputy ministers. Tianbao has mentioned it for seven years, but all failed because of Li Linfu's strong opposition.

But yesterday Li Linfu expressed his full support for the five-phase system, and I realized that the Sun Jiliang case that broke out two days ago was aimed at Li Ye on the surface, but in fact it was the emperor who was beating Li Linfu, and Li Linfu had to compromise. Know that Li Ye is Li Linfu's heir. "

Yuan Tai nodded, "When you say that, I also feel that under the current situation, Li Ye's sudden contact with Ah Xiao is indeed a bit unusual. What do you think is the reason?"

"I just can't see through it, so I asked the third brother to discuss it?"

Yuan Tai pondered for a long time and said: "Intuition tells me that it is very likely to be related to the newly added three phases."

Element spread his hands, puzzled: "I am General Qianniuwei, what does the newly added three phases have to do with me?"

"Li Linfu must have more secrets than us. Ah Xiao, invite Li Ye to drink tomorrow. Don't be too reserved. You might as well be more open and honest."

"Grandson understands!"

At noon the next day, Yuan Xiao came to Taixue, and met Li Ye who had borrowed books at the door of the library.

"Brother Li still watches "Da Tang Western Regions"?" Yuan Xiao asked with a smile.

Li Ye smiled and said, "I'm studying the language and customs of the Western Regions. I plan to go to the Western Regions in a month or two. I'm making preparations now."

"That's a good thing!"

Yuan Xiao changed the subject: "Brother Li, are you free tonight? I want to invite Brother Li Xian back."

Of course Li Ye knew that the other party wanted to continue the in-depth conversation, but he had something to do tonight, so he really didn't have time.

Li Ye smiled and said, "Maybe I don't have time tonight, let's do it now! Just go for a drink at noon."

"Well, let's go to the tavern yesterday. It's quite quiet there. What do you think, my brother?"

"Brother Yuan's treat, of course Brother Yuan decides, I don't care!"

Li Ye didn't go back to the dormitory either, he entrusted a scholar he knew to send the books back to the dormitory for him, and he followed Yuan Xiao to the Sanyuan Tavern yesterday.

There were quite a few drinkers in the tavern, but it wasn't full. They still sat down in the same seats as yesterday. Yuan Xiao ordered seven or eight dishes and a jug of wine.

Yuan Xiao smiled and said, "Your brother, are you going to join the army in Anxi?"

Li Ye shook his head, "It's okay to go to Anxi to get some credit, but it's fine to join the army. I'm actually just traveling."

Yuan Xiao sighed: "I really envy my brother's freedom. I am different. I have carried too many family hopes, and I can't help myself often."

Li Ye touched a glass of wine with him, drank it all with a smile and said, "In fact, most people are like this. The system has such and such rules. If you want to get ahead, you have to follow the system. For an alternative like me, the world Unique, you don't have to envy me."

Yuan Xiao was just talking casually, of course he had to follow the path paved for him by his family, and if he was asked to go out on his own, how could he get ahead?
Yuan Xiao then turned to today's main topic, he pondered for a while and said: "Yesterday, my brother mentioned Yuwen Siwu to me. I feel that my brother still has something to say. Can we be honest with each other?"

"Is that what your grandfather meant?" Li Ye asked without hesitation.

Yuan Xiao nodded.

Li Ye looked around, dipped his index finger into the wine and wrote on the table: "There are three new Xiangguo? Do you know?"

Yuan Xiao still nodded.

Li Ye went on to write: "One Yang, one Wei, and the third is a representative of the military."

Yuan Xiao's eyes lit up, and he asked anxiously, "Who will be the third one?"

Li Ye dipped in some wine and wrote: "It's probably Yuwen!"

Yuan Xiao opened his mouth wide in surprise, "How could it be him? Impossible!"

"Very likely!" Li Ye wrote again.

"What did your grandfather think?"

Li Ye nodded, dipped in the wine and wrote: "My grandfather wants to recommend Lingzu as a chancellor, but there is one premise!"

Yuan Xiao immediately understood that Li Ye's premise was to jointly attack Yu Wenjing's superior position.

Yuan Xiao also dipped in wine and wrote four words, "Yuwen heir to Wu?" '

This Yuan Xiao is a smart person, Li Ye laughed and nodded slightly.

Element widened his eyes, "Let Yu Wenjing be a military representative?"

Yuan Xiao nodded, "He said grandfather Li Linfu judged it, it's very possible!"

Element can't bear the excitement in his heart, and he actually let the important military minister into the photo, this opportunity is too rare.

But Yu Wenjing, this piece of shit, what qualifications does he have to be a military representative?

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Guanlong nobles were always ranked first by the Yuan family and second by the Dugu family.

The Empress Changsun appeared in the Taizong era, and the always low-key Changsun family jumped to the top three of the Guanlong nobles, but no matter what time it was, the Yuwen family was the follower of the Yuan family.

Regarding the matter of the military representative becoming a prime minister, even if the Yuan family cannot get this phase, the Yuwen family will never be allowed to ride on the Yuan family's head.

The element turned to look at the brother who had been silent all the time.

After a long silence, Yuan Tai finally spoke.

"If this opportunity is missed, there will be no next time. We must seize this opportunity and cooperate with Li Linfu with all our strength!"

(End of this chapter)