Chapter 224: Li and Jiang negotiate, Jiang Taiyuan comes to Jiang to die!
Li Mansion.
Guests gathered together, talking and laughing happily.
In addition to the Bai clan members, all the families with some status sent people to congratulate.
In addition, the prince personally presided over the welcoming banquet and did not treat the Bai family unfairly at all. Just listening to what everyone said, one might even feel that the Bai family is about to become the new fourth family of the Li Kingdom.
This attention.
This made the Bai clan members extremely excited.
Even after the Li officials withdrew, they all had smiles on their faces.
"Hua Chao, you should go back to the bookstore first!"
When Bai Yi saw Zhao Ning and Li Caimei leave, she also sent Hua Chao away. Although they were all her daughters-in-law in name only, some things were after all the Bai family's family affairs and were not suitable for them to participate in.
Wait until everyone leaves.
Only the Bai family members were left in the Li Mansion, not even a maid was left.
Everyone had just had a round of drinks and was now a little tipsy, with high spirits.
Bai Yi glanced at everyone and said with a smile, "Everyone! Wuji just came back, let's go to the meeting hall and talk!"
Speaking of.
Made a please gesture.
Everyone looked at each other and responded. The senior members of the Bai family followed Bai Yi and her son towards the meeting hall.
Some young people started a second drinking party under the arrangement of Ying Wuji.
Looking at these young people toasting each other, they look like they have been reborn.
Ying Wuji couldn't help but smile slightly. After all, they are still young people, even those from the Celestial Clan. Although they all have ideals and ambitions in their hearts, their thoughts are still simple. Most of them don't think about the future of the family as thoroughly as the old guys.
Those who were able to think things through also followed the mother and son to the meeting hall.
The Li family’s meeting hall is very large.
Bigger than the Wei family and the Han family.
I heard from Li Caitan that the Li family's meeting hall is used very frequently. Whenever there is a marriage alliance with a larger family, a meeting will be held to discuss which lineage of women to let in order to gain greater benefits.
It's a bit ironic to say that the Li family really treats their women as the family's main resource.
After operating in the State of Li for so long, the power within each family is so intertwined that there is almost no external force that can threaten their position, and no one is willing to threaten their position.
But unfortunately.
The situation suddenly changed.
The State of Li was undergoing reforms and the separation of Wei and Han was imminent, so the State of Gan extended an olive branch.
The chess game they had painstakingly prepared for hundreds of years seemed impeccable.
But there was no hope that someone would overturn the chessboard!
The huge Li Mansion.
There is no more member of the Li family.
Instead, it was completely occupied by another family that was nearly wiped out in another country.
It's really sad.
"Grand Elder, please take a seat!"
As soon as he entered the meeting hall, a young man named Bai Hui made a gesture of invitation to the great elder. The direction he pointed was the main seat in the meeting hall.
Everyone was talking and laughing.
After hearing this, I subconsciously fell silent for a moment.
Ying Wuji glanced at Bai Hui, then looked at the Great Elder with a smile.
The Taoist master of the Bai family is also the grand elder.
However, he was the great elder of the previous generation, and everyone present was his junior.
Today, the Bai family is generally quite united, but it is still divided into two factions. One is the Yingtian faction headed by the Great Elder, and the other is the Yingchen faction headed by the Second Elder.
The former advocated welcoming back the Celestials.
The latter advocated trusting Ying Wuji, one of the two saints mentioned by the old elder.
Although the latter make up the majority, the great elder still has higher prestige.
It’s not that the Great Elder is more assertive.
It was that the Bai family had not yet established a firm foothold in the human dynasty. Now the Bai family's biggest goal was to gain a firm foothold, and they had no time to consider the differences in the two factions' ideologies. They had not even established a firm foothold, so it was far from the time for internal fighting.
It’s just that Bai Hui…
The Yingtian faction wants to cause trouble?
The Great Elder didn't seem to notice anything was wrong and still had a smile on his face. He paused for a moment and then took another step forward. It was unclear whether he was walking towards the main seat or the secondary seat next to the main seat.
Are you testing me?
If he was really indifferent, the great elder would probably just reluctantly sit in the main seat.
It seems that my mother's people are really worrying.
Ying Wuji smiled faintly: "I heard from my mother before that the Bai family is different from ordinary human nobles. They don't judge by seniority. Today I see that it is indeed true. It turns out that it is my cousin Bai Hui who arranges the seats. Cousin, where do you think I should sit?"
Bai Hui was stunned for a moment, looking a little embarrassed.
Unexpectedly, Ying Wuji directly put the problem back on himself.
How could he be qualified to arrange seats in the clan?
If you accept this vaguely, you will be criticized in the future.
He quickly explained with an awkward smile: "Wuji misunderstood, of course not, I just said it casually, hahahaha..."
The great elder Bai Nong then looked as if he was suddenly enlightened.
Looking at Bai Hui, he reprimanded: "Why are you talking nonsense after drinking? We are discussing business, not having a second round of drinking. How can we follow the old-fashioned rules of seniority?"
Bai Hui pretended to be dazed for a moment, then quickly slapped his forehead: "Ah! Look at me, I'm drunk! Blame me, blame me!"
Bai Nong looked at Ying Wuji with a smile: "Wuji! Our Bai family is different from the pedantic nobles in the Central Plains. When discussing serious matters, we never consider seniority. Whoever can lead the whole family better will come.
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