Chapter 1770 Consideration
Chang Yu was reluctant to leave. Seeing that everyone had stood up, she hesitated for a moment but still couldn't help but walk forward and stare at the piece of venison that was still roasting on the rack.
Mingda had already put down the plate and reached out to pull her, "Let's go, let the servants clean up these."
Changyu was crying. Seeing many people turning back to look at her, she could only put down the plate and follow them.
She couldn't get over it until after lunch and felt very sad. Venison was not hard to come by in the palace, but roasted venison, especially roasted by herself, was extremely rare, even rarer than seeing Yang Heshu.
Changyu looked depressed and could only steal a glance at Yang Heshu before getting on the car, but unfortunately it didn't do much to heal his feelings.
Yang Heshu was used to ignoring these gazes. He only spoke to the fifth and sixth princes, reminding them that it was getting late and they should return to the palace early.
Lord Yang was the elder, so it was not appropriate for him to see people out personally, so he stood on a high place and watched his son see people off one by one.
"I don't even know what Changbo and the Fifth Prince said?"
The servant lowered his head and whispered, "Yes, at that time, only Wantian was with the master in the mansion."
And Wantian is Yang Heshu's confidant, he will definitely not tell Lord Yang the truth.
Lord Yang sighed, having already guessed his plan was doomed. Seeing Yang Heshu at the door sending Tang He and the others away, and the couple turning back to their residence, he stood and watched for a while before saying, "Send Changbo to my study... Forget it, you go check on him and I'll go find him."
Yang Heshu separated from his wife at the second gate, asked her to go back to see the children, and then he turned and went to his study.
Wan Tian asked his servants to light a brazier and bring it in. Afraid that he would be cold, he also brought a blanket to cover his legs.
Yang Heshu waved his hand and said, "No need. You can go down. If father comes, just let him in."
"Yes." Wan Tian responded and bowed and retreated.
Yang Heshu sat on the chair, pondered for a moment, took out the purse from his sleeve, and when he opened it, he found the torn letter paper from the fifth prince inside.
He took them out and put them into the brazier piece by piece to burn.
When Lord Yang strode in from outside, there was not much left of Yang Heshu.
He saw the letter in Yang Heshu's hand and asked with a gloomy face, "What is this?"
Yang Heshu did not stand up, but continued to place the letter in his hand into the brazier. He said, "This is the letter that my father asked the Fifth Prince to pass on to the Imperial Concubine."
Lord Yang was furious, his anger rising. He stepped forward and asked angrily, "What are you doing?"
Yang Heshu raised his head and looked at Lord Yang with some sadness, saying, "Father, you taught your son to be upright and honest. What are you doing now?"
Lord Yang opened his mouth and said dryly after a while, "I'm doing this for the clan..."
Yang Heshu said, "For the sake of the clan, this is even more wrong. His Majesty is not a fool. He knows who was responsible. Pushing the Imperial Concubine and the Fifth Prince will only make His Majesty even angrier."
Lord Yang said coldly, "The emperor's favor is important, but not so important that he is indispensable. But do you know what would happen if the crime fell on your cousin?"
He said, "Let's not talk about the real estate and land owned by his family. Our Yang family's salt and grain business in the Jiangnan area is all in his hands. If we don't save him, the Yang family will lose at least half of its money."
Yang Heshu said calmly, "Let's just cut it off. We are a family of farmers and scholars, and we shouldn't be too extravagant. That part of the business was originally established ten years ago, so we can just go back to ten years ago."
"That's easy for you to say. Nothing in this clan requires money. Forget about anything else. Your family paid you to be successful in Luojiang County. And after returning to Beijing, what needs to be done without money..."
"Father, that's how you use it when you have money. There are ways to do things when you don't have money."
Seeing that he was calm, Lord Yang said angrily, "What you wear and use..."
Yang Heshu said calmly: "Sons can also wear coarse clothes."
Lord Yang: "Are you going to piss me off to death?"
Yang Heshu shook his head, "Father, this is also for the good of the family."
Lord Yang couldn't help but stamp his feet. He looked outside, but couldn't help but close the door and whisper to him, "Father taught you wrongly. He only wanted you to be a loyal and righteous gentleman since you were young, but forgot to teach you...some rules of this world."
Yang Heshu looked at his father helplessly. Did his father treat him as a simple child?
Marquis Yang didn't understand his gaze and paused before continuing, "There are many implications here. Our business in Jiangnan isn't limited to ours, there are other families as well. If His Majesty were to use this as evidence to eliminate our presence in Jiangnan, do you know what would happen?"
"Your Majesty's men will arrive, and the other families might vent their anger on us. That's fine, but almost half of our clan's wealth is invested there. If we lose the money in Jiangnan, our Hongnong Yang family might even lose our place in the clan's annals."
Lord Yang seemed to have aged several years. He sighed and said, "Do you think the status of aristocratic families is static? Look at the Cui family. They haven't had any outstanding disciples in two generations, but His Majesty has demoted them from first to third rank. The other aristocratic families appear to be expressing their sympathy for the Cui family, but in their hearts, they are mostly mocking them."
Even he, although he recognized the Cui family's background and the education they gave to their female family members, still secretly looked down on them in his heart, thinking that their prosperity over the generations was almost entirely supported by the women in the family, not the men.
But even so, the Cui family was not expelled from the profit chain of the aristocratic family. If the Yang family's manpower and property in Jiangnan were taken over by the emperor...
Marquis Yang shuddered. He grabbed Yang Heshu, stared at him, and said in a deep voice, "Changbo, it's right to listen to father. The game between the monarch and his subjects sometimes depends on the strength of each party. The emperor's favor is not as important as you think. Once the Yang family loses power, our most important concern will not be facing the reckoning of His Majesty, but the various aristocratic families. Do you understand?"
"If the Cui family didn't have the support of the mistresses in the backyards of various families, they would have been squeezed out long ago. You don't have so many aunts and sisters."
The Cui family has many daughters and has been keen on marrying into various families since three generations ago. Their daughters are well educated and are almost all popular candidates for the clan wives and eldest daughters-in-law of each family.
At that time, the emperor wanted to ask the prince to marry the daughter of the Cui family, but Cui Jie said something unpleasant while drinking outside and the prince heard it.
Therefore, the prince swore that he would never marry a girl from the Cui family. Later, the emperor did not choose a princess from a noble family, but chose a girl from the Su family among the military generals who followed him.
The Cui family also felt offended and spread the word that no girl from the Cui family would marry into the royal family, implicitly showing their disdain for the Li family. Otherwise, when the fifth prince proposed marriage, both Yang Guifei and the Yang family would have preferred a girl from the Cui family.
The Cui family can maintain their status by relying on their daughters, but the Yang family cannot, as they don't have that many daughters.
Yang Heshu said calmly, "The Yang family has me, as well as cousin Jie and the others. The Yang family has many disciples with outstanding abilities."
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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