Xin Youwei's team left in the early morning of the second day, taking advantage of the cold weather, the long convoy walked quickly on the official road, and they needed to rush to the next city before it got dark.

Dressed in new clothes, the Bone Danor, and the Sho Omur sat together in a carriage, and the two sat like this, and no one spoke. The two have been in this form since last night. In addition to showing up every day when eating, he stayed in the carriage. Xin Youwei didn't pay attention to them, for him, it was just two more people on this trip back to Beijing.

Speaking of Jingshi, he had some thoughts. His home is in Beijing, and he has been away from home for half a month, and he doesn't know how his home is, and he doesn't know how Beijing's master is, the Queen Mother's birthday banquet should be extremely grand. Xin Shilang sat in front of the carriage, one leg casually, looking in the direction of Jingshi, and a magnificent picture of clothes seemed to appear in front of him, which was the scene of the birthday banquet.

…… Look back to Jingshi.

In recent days, because of the proximity to the birthday banquet, there have been many more people in Beijing, and not only locals in Beijing, but also foreigners have come and gone. Several markets in the city were also lively, but fortunately, the official arrangements of Haoguo were appropriate, and another market was opened on a few idle streets, otherwise, the Gentiles and the locals of Beijing would have to compete for business.

There was no conflict between the merchants, which was naturally what the emperor wanted to see. Because he can focus on other things instead of worrying about them.

These envoys from other countries who came to congratulate the Empress Dowager Haoguo on her birthday, His Majesty the Emperor let the officials of Honglu Temple be responsible for receiving them early, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites assisted them. As for the position of the birthday banquet, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were in charge, and Honglu Temple assisted. This is light and heavy, and things are done in an orderly manner, but in a few days, the list of birthday banquets was arranged, of course, including the belated Xiliang Kingdom, and at the end of the list, the name that should not have appeared, Li Xiao.

Li Xiao's name, the officials of the Ministry of Rites first inquired about who this person was, and found that this person did not have any official titles, nor was he an envoy of a foreign country, let alone a relative of a nobleman in the court. At first, they wanted to react to the emperor, but the result was still the same, let them add, since this is the case, there is no way, add it, anyway, add a pair of chopsticks, troublesome, it is also the imperial dining room.

As for the envoys of the Western Liang Kingdom, they always felt that their behavior today was deliberate, and they didn't come early, but they chose to appear five days before the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, so that the people in the Ministry of Rites had to change the list in a hurry. Although His Majesty said that if you don't come, you won't come, but at least it is a larger country, and since you have come, you still can't lose face.

His Majesty the Emperor didn't say anything about this matter, he just came, but asked the people from Honglu Temple to inform the envoys of Liang State, saying that Honglu Temple had no room, so they could only arrange them in an inn outside. Of course, the envoys of Liang Guo disagreed, and appealed several times, but to no avail, so they had no choice but to temporarily stay in a nearby inn.

The inn is not good, nor bad, but it is close to the downtown and will be woken up by the noise outside every day. In this regard, they had no choice, because this downtown was temporarily set up by Haoguo officials for merchants from other countries to sell. Even if the envoys of the Liang State wanted to attack, they had to consider those states. So they can only sprinkle their anger on Haoguo.

Regarding the arrangement of Liang Guo, although it was just the emperor's nonsense, it really breathed a sigh of relief for the people of Haoguo. There has always been a feud between the Liang countries, and most of the land of the Hao Kingdom was pulled from the Liang State. The war between the two countries has never stopped, and it was only ten years ago that they made peace with each other. But both countries know that this is only a temporary situation, and that in the end, the two will fight to the death.

The matter of Liang Guo is just a small episode, and no one will pay too much attention to it, just as a joke. Approaching the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, Emperor Hao issued an order to stop most of the cases in Jingshi, including the case on Wencheng Street. The Queen Mother believes in Buddhism and doesn't like to kill, and in this day, it is not what the Queen Mother likes to use knives and guns.

There is no case, and the major yamen are idle. In addition to the procuratorate and the East Factory.

Although there is no need to investigate the case, the procuratorate still needs to sort out the recent events, and at the same time, it needs to keep an eye on the changes in the Northland grasslands, especially the movements of Anamzar. Indeed, as General Cao of Shanhaiguan thought, after Anamuzhar attacked the Heshute Department, he took several tribes who surrendered to Cheng and hid in the mountains. No matter how skilled the secret agents of the procuratorate are, they can't enter the mountains, so they can only check the news outside. In addition to the affairs of the Northland Prairie, they also need to be responsible for the affairs of other states and counties.

Compared with the procuratorate, Dongchang does not have so many places to manage, but the amount of tasks is not low. There are many foreigners in the Jingshi, and the people of Honglu Temple alone can't see it, especially those in the Liang Kingdom, which is the most important thing. In addition, they also need to check the information of outsiders who have recently entered the capital division, not only foreigners, but also other Haoguo people who have entered the capital.

There are tens of thousands of people, which has indeed made Dongchang tired in the past few days, but there is no way, if you don't do it, if there is a bad person mixed in among them, no one can bear the impact when the time comes.

In addition to these, there is another thing that people pay attention to, that is, the three princes who were in Texas for disaster relief a few months ago have returned to Beijing.

Everyone in the world knows what the status of the current prince of Haoguo is in the court, a prince who can't even live in the East Palace will be deposed by His Majesty sooner or later, so this prince will still fall into the hands of the eldest prince, the second prince, and the third prince. Among Emperor Hao's sons, the eldest prince is now the crown prince, and the reason why the prince is the prince is because the two dragons born in front of him died at an early age, and the prince's biological mother died, so he is the eldest son, and for this reason, he is the prince.

The eldest prince, Gao Youwen, is not the prince, but the prince becomes the prince, and he becomes the prince. It's a pity that the eldest prince is crippled, his body is weak, and he has not been crowned king so far, even if he is twenty years old, he can only live in the palace like the prince of the same age, and live in his mother's bedroom.

For this reason, some people say that the eldest prince's heavenly remnants are because of Wan Guifei. Of course, who said it, now that person is no longer there, no one knows whether the eldest prince really became like this because of Concubine Wan.

The second prince, Gao Youwu. Although he is famous for martial arts, he does not practice martial arts. The nineteen-year-old second prince likes to drag the text, but he doesn't want to offer the king's love of poetry, his drag text is in the category of green words. When he was ten years old, the second prince was named King Yong, moved out of the palace, lived in the palace of King Yong, and became the prince who was crowned king for the first time.

The third prince, Gao Youqi, he was crowned king in the year after the second prince was crowned queen. Although he was crowned king a year late, the court thought that His Royal Highness, who was courteous and polite, would replace the prince who still lived in the palace and live in the mansion next to the palace, the East Palace.

King Xian is also working hard for this, he recruits wise men, and the monthly poetry meeting is not only because he loves poetry, but also because he wants to find some people who can use it. At the same time, he often shares his Majesty's worries, and he will be the first to ask for disaster relief except for disasters. In the eyes of the world, King Xian is a courteous literati, and he is a good king of Corporal Lixian, and there is no one who has seen him who does not praise him.

Li Xiao didn't have much interest in this His Royal Highness Xianwang, although he knew that he was in Suzhou, and the two songs he recited in the bamboo forest were amazing, but he never thought of having anything to do with His Royal Highness Xianwang. The dispute between the imperial power was the most dangerous thing in all dynasties, and those involved in it, if they stood on the wrong team, they would die. is like Yinyu who was tortured to death by Yongzheng. A good person, because of this, died unexpectedly.

He didn't want to be reborn and end up like this. Who the throne ultimately belongs to depends on how the emperor chooses. In this world, the emperor is still the biggest.

But the king didn't think so. In the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer talented scholars, and all the poems written by talented people who come to participate in the poetry club have a strong official flavor, and he doesn't like such people. So I finally met a different person, how could he not be moved, but he was in Texas for disaster relief and couldn't meet on the spot. Therefore, as soon as he returned to Beijing, after meeting His Majesty the Emperor and his biological mother Concubine Chen, he brought people to Li Xiao.

In his eyes, Li Xiao is a person who can be used.

"His Royal Highness, ...... are you" Li Xiao looked at the three princes in front of him, and couldn't help but have a headache.

In the past few days, he has been mixing with Gao Changyu, busy with the "tofu" business. He first spent 500 taels of silver to buy the tea stall of Aunt Huang that the latter helped, and then spent a few hundred taels to ask the relatives of Aunt Huang's family to provide him with raw materials all year round, that is, Guanyin firewood leaves and lotus seeds. Of course, these hundreds of taels were not paid off at once, but given a few dozen taels first, and as for the rest, wait for Aunt Huang's relatives to transport the materials.

There is a stall, there is "tofu", Li Xiao, who is full of confidence, is about to make a fortune, but finds that no one drinks this thing, fortunately, with the help of Aunt Huang, the old customers tasted it, and fell in love with this "tofu" all of a sudden, so the business is getting better and better, and some people even buy a few bowls at a time, in the hot summer, regardless of the price of ten cents a bowl, how did this be made.

Looking at Rijin Doujin's pocket, Li Xiao was not happy, but began to worry about the things in the palace. He didn't want to do a good business, because several women in the palace were ruined.

The third prince sat on a wooden bench with a new silk cloth under his buttocks. He asked for a bowl of "tofu" for the people who came with him, regardless of the type, and served it casually. He didn't want to drink "tofu", but to give face to the young man in front of him. He rarely comes to these markets, and it's not just dirty, it's messy. He glanced at the "tofu" in front of him, and the few broken leaves floating on it made him unable to swallow it.

"Li Gongzi, how about coming to my mansion and being my staff?"

The third prince spoke very slowly, his voice was very soft, and his words always had a literati flavor.