Night falls and lights are on.

The night in Hanjing is lively. When night falls, Hanjing City does not fall silent. On the contrary, Hanjing City has a special night market and an inner city has a special commercial street. Street lights are lit at night, and the shops are also on, and there are all kinds of people selling clothes, shoes and socks.

Going further south, there are shops and stalls that sell late-night snacks, which are also very lively. If you go further south, you will find a special block in the outer city, and you can see the big red lanterns hanging high from afar, which is the brothel entertainment street in Hanjing.

The brothel Chu Pavilion, as well as opera, dance, and juggling, are all concentrated here. Hanjing Mansion has regulations that brothels and gambling houses are not allowed to operate in the inner city, and even in the outer city, they have to be located in this designated professional neighborhood.

In addition, the government also imposes heavy taxes on these industries and has strict supervision. Those who make gambling dare to pay a thousand loans, while those who open brothels dare to force good people to become prostitutes. Once investigated and punished, not only will the license be confiscated, but they will also be fined severely, and the owners will even be arrested and imprisoned.

At night in Hanjing, only the palace city and the imperial city are locked in curfew. Inner city and outer city, Jinwu is not allowed. Many shops are open all night, and people can walk on the streets in the middle of the night, but you must bring your ID cards when walking at night. Otherwise, if you encounter patrolling soldiers and yamen runners, you will have to be locked up without ID cards.

It should be said that the public security in Hanjing is still very good.

Especially in the two areas of the Upper East District and the Upper West District of the Inner City, it is a place where honors, officials and wealthy businessmen gather, and ordinary people dare not come here to commit rash things.

Upper East District, Zhao Wang Mansion.

Under the night, the Zhao Palace was brightly lit.

It was the end of the year again, and the envoys from all over the country came to Beijing one after another, with officials from the border and princes from the local areas.

At this time of year, the Li family is also the most lively. Li Chao's disciples and former officials, and the family of good friends, must come to the Li family to visit when they enter Beijing.

Today, my father came to Beijing and the mansion naturally prepared a fine wine and banquet.

I heard that my dad is coming, so there is no need to invite me. Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Luo Shixin are all here too.

Even though Li Chao deliberately kept a low profile, Li Chao's family still focused on the seven kings of Li Chao, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Su Dingfang, Li Shiji, Yuchi Gong and Guo Xiaoke, and the other Duke also focused on more than 30.

These are all very close relationships. Li Chao has not invited other people yet. Even Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, and Ma Zhou have not invited them. Today, they are just military generals.

But these guests of the Li family still alarmed six doors.

Every time a guest comes, the people at six doors will be shocked.

Finally, looking at the list of customers in the Li family, these people reported them uneasyly.

When Wang Chengen received the report, he couldn't help but be shocked. He shook his head and reported it to Li Shimin truthfully.

"Today, Li Chao's father came to Beijing, and Qin Qiong came to visit him, um." Li Shimin looked through it several times, then nodded with a expression, indicating that he knew.

Wang Chengen bowed and retreated.

Li Shimin picked up the note again and looked at the personal name above, Li Shimin sighed. He found that Li Chao was more popular than others.

All the military generals above are top generals of the court. Two deputy Privy Councilors, three great governors, not to mention many great generals, great protectors, and gurus.

This is also under the current military general system of the Tang Dynasty. If so many princes and generals had gone to Li Chao's house for dinner in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin would not have thought of falling asleep tonight.

Under the system now, civil and military separation, the military command and dispatch of troops are also separated, and military generals do not have that much power.

But then again, looking at these names, Li Shimin was still under great pressure.

"This Li Chao!"

Li Shimin shook his head. As long as he became the emperor, he would not be afraid of Li Chao, he could suppress this monster. But the problem is that Li Chao is younger than him, and he is the prince's father-in-law and the prince's teacher. He has such a high reputation and great wealth. Such a person will definitely be able to support the prince in the future, but what about the future?

If Chengqian can control Li Chao after his big career in the future?

Could Li Chao be someone like Wang Mang and Yang Jian?

But Li Chao's current performance is nothing wrong. With Li Chao's reputation, if he does not have any solid evidence, he will not dare to easily touch Li Chao. This is not the case if he was not purged by the Restoration Party. He purged the Restoration Party, and no one of the Honorary Sects did not support it.

But it is never easy to clean Li Chao.

The army is Wuming, and important officials like Li Chao cannot move casually.

With Li Chao's reputation and his relationship, it is impossible to slander it. Just look at the list in his hand and you will know that unless Li Shimin has the courage to clean up all these people.

But is it possible? These people are the pillars of the Zhenguan Dynasty.

Besides, this is just the tip of the iceberg of Li Chao's relationship network. These are just top dukes. So many prime ministers among the civil servants are closely related to the Li family. The Li family's relatives are all over the world. This sentence is not finished.

Finally, Li Shimin picked up the secret song and placed it in front of the lamp, burning it.

Upper East District, Zhao Wang Mansion.

Today, more than 30 princes and princes attended the banquet, but everyone just drank and chatted and talked about the past, without talking about any state affairs at all.

Prince Lu and the commander-in-chief of the Central Army Cheng Yaojin laughed at his father, "The old tree of Lao Tie Gun is now in its second spring. In recent years, my concubine has taken one room after another, and the children have given birth to one after another. How many children are there now? Five men and four women?"

"Hahaha!"

Luo Shixin was not polite either, "You should forget a few less, it should be six men and six women. How could you forget Wen Yuan?"

There were no female relatives on the table, so my father just laughed. He has been in the fiefdom of western Liaoning in the past few years and has indeed had a very comfortable life. Qi Niang gave birth to a son and a daughter for him, and helped him take five concubines. In recent years, he has sprouted new buds in the old tree and gave birth to five men and four women in a row. It can be said that when he is old, he has a bunch of leaves and leaves.

Now the Duke of Luo State has a population of tens of thousands. At that time, another city wall was built outside the small fort, and there was more than 30,000 people in the city.

There are markets outside the city and villages, which are prosperous and lively. The port where my father invested and built in Lingnan is now becoming more and more lively.

My father's face is red now and he feels younger and younger.

"Old Cheng, don't talk about me. You marry the Cui girl of Qinghe as a successor, and you also eat young grass. Your wife is one year younger than your son Chumo. You said I will take concubines, you will take more concubines, and you will have more concubines in the dozens of concubines, and you will have more than twenty sons, right?"

Lao Cheng was not ashamed, but said proudly, "That's because I, Lao Cheng, have the ability."

Niu Jinda, the great capital of Anxi, is destroying his platform, "In terms of childbirth, Lao Cheng, you are almost the same as Wen Yuan. Wen Yuan is now a wife, twelve concubines, eighteen sons, and twenty-one daughters. Are you more than Wen Yuan?"

Cheng Yaojin said unconvincedly, "I am busy. I'm always in Luoyang for four years. Can I compare with Wen Yuan? He has been in Hanjing for three years. Do you think he is doing anything? I've done nothing except having children with wives and concubines every day."

Laughing at home.

However, Li Chao felt that he actually didn't have much birth.

He has only taken two more concubines in the past three years, and he has given him two more concubines, and he has been rewarded by the emperor, so he has to accept them.

With so many wives and concubines, one person only has three children on average. It’s not too many. Ordinary farmers can give birth to more than ten in their lifetime, but they generally cannot raise so many, and they are sick and poor. Children are more likely to die of premature death when they are young, or they are malnourished and starved to death.

Some families can't afford to raise babies, especially for babies, which is a tragedy of human ethics, but this is the case in this era. It's still good now. There are special money withdrawals from the court, and the charitable relief associations from the Queen and Cui Yingying. Many nurseries and orphanages have been built in the local area to adopt these abandoned babies.

The Li family has good conditions and many children have given birth to them, but no one died. This is also envied by others. Even the emperor has died of several children, but none of the Li family has died.

Ordinary families cannot raise too many children and do not have the means of birth control and knowledge, so they can only give birth until they cannot.

The Li family has good conditions, so no matter how many children are born, they will only feel that there are fewer children. In history, there are many children, such as the King of Zhongshan in the Han Dynasty and a prince in the Ming Dynasty, who have given birth to more than 100 children. All of them are because they have good conditions and can raise their lives.

Li Yuan and Li Shimin also gave birth to more than 20 sons and a lot of daughters.

In fact, there are not all the princes here in each family. However, these families generally divide the children into relatively clear categories. The sons and daughters are completely different, and the legitimate sons are different from the illegitimate sons. The maids and maids and sons are not even named as family members. They are only considered traitors and even follow their mothers' identities as slaves.

No inheritance rights.

There is no dignity.

Li Chao had no maid to give birth to a son. He had a princess Pingyang outside, and had a son and two daughters with her. Now only his son can recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown. Cui Yingying had to recognize him as his legitimate son, which was considered to have a status. But the other two daughters did not join the Li family.

Pingyang couldn't bear to part with them either, these two were illegitimate daughters.

Li Chao felt that it was necessary to submit a memorial to amend the marriage law of the Tang Dynasty. He would not violate the principle of not marrying good people, but he should still be guaranteed after giving birth, especially the status of these children. They should also be able to obtain the right of inheritance. Even if they only get part of the inheritance rights, at least they must be part of the family, not a slave.

"Wen Yuan, I heard that Nian is really going to conquer Liao. Is this news accurate?" asked Niu Jinda, the great patriarch of Anxi.

This is actually well-known news. Everyone knows that the Liao Dynasty must not be delayed anymore, and the fight will definitely start next year.

Li Chao smiled and said no.

"Old Niu, you are your arch-capital in the Western Regions, what are you doing in Liaodong?"

Lao Niu put down his wine glass, "I will return to Beijing to the court this time and I want to ask His Majesty for approval. I will use troops to the north of Tianshan next year and destroy the Li Li in one fell swoop, and Mo Hedu!"

"Isn't Mo Hedu very obedient? Why did you mess with you?" Cheng Yaojin asked.
Chapter completed!