Fanyang, Liaoyang, which relies on the capital, should be the place where the imperial power is most concentrated, but Fanyang Lu's family survived under the nose of the original ancient emperor, and opened up this territory belonging to Fanyang Lu's family.

Since the beginning of Fan Yang, the north of Liaoyang has belonged to the sphere of influence of the Lu clan of Fan Yang. The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty didn't want to pull out such a nail embedded in their noses, but the Fan Yang Lu clan was among the top in the Central Plains. Since the original ancients entered the Central Plains, they have adapted to it at the fastest speed. Up to now, Fanyang Lu's protégés are all over the world, and there are core officials in Zhongshu Province and Shangshu Province who are from Fanyang Lu's family or supported by the Lu family to sit in today's high position, and even the current prime minister Muren Gedatan is also interested in the Lu family. In the early years of the original dynasty, the capital was not in Dadu, and later the capital was moved to Yanjing for various reasons. Lu's strength may also be one of the reasons.

Recently, Fan Yang is indeed very lively, the news of Mrs. Lu's ninetieth birthday has spread all over the Central Plains early, as long as there is a little bit of power, everyone wants to send a congratulatory gift to Fan Yang.

Old lady Lu's birthday banquet is not for everyone, Wu Xing Shen and Longxi Li, who are also members of the gate valve family, naturally received invitations, and the officials in the court must be at least at the level of provincial prime ministers. However, Fan Yang Lu made a big deal for Mrs. Lu's birthday, except for the birthday banquet to control the entry and exit of people, those who do not hold an invitation card are exempted. In addition, during Mrs. Lu's birthday, in addition to the local people in Fanyang, the entry and exit of personnel were also strictly controlled. In other words, without Fan Yang's invitation during the birthday period, you can't even enter Fan Yang's door.

Of course, the invitations are also divided into three, six, nine and so on. Those who can enter the birthday banquet on the birthday of the old lady will be holding a gold sticker. The rest of those who can enter the inner city of Fanyang are holding silver stickers. Those who want to enter the outer city also have to hold copper stickers. Externally, this is just to ensure the safety of Fanyang City during the old lady's birthday, so as to prevent people with bad intentions from mixing in and disrupting the birthday banquet.

The standards for the issuance of silver stickers and copper stickers are not so strict, and officials at the state level can generally get silver stickers, while copper stickers need to be bought with money, so most of the copper stickers are businessmen who have money but no power.

For a time, the front of Fanyang City became a place for all kinds of people to compare, as if a gold, silver and bronze sticker could divide people into three, six, nine and so on. There is still a lot of time before the birthday banquet, and many people have come to Fanyang one after another with invitations. It's not because of how much they respect Old Lady Lu, but more because being able to enter Fanyang City now has become a kind of glory and a symbol of strength. When the copper sticker saw the silver sticker, he nodded and got out of the way. When the silver sticker saw the copper sticker, he looked arrogant, as if he was born superior. And when people with the same invitation meet each other, they are like friends who have not seen each other for many years, and they clearly meet for the first time, but they are in groups of three or five, and they talk happily and are like confidants. Not for anything else, but because the invitations in their hands are the same color.

Most of the people who received the gold stickers held their own identities, or they were far away, and no one had reached Fanyang so far. What most people don't know is that in the invitations sent out by Fan Yang Lu, in addition to gold, silver and copper, there is another color - black. The black invitations were sent to only one place, and that was Jiangbei Province, which had been occupied by the rebel army.

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"Friend, may I ask what kind of sticker you have in your hand?"

Outside the gate of Fanyang City, guests who came from all directions lined up in an orderly manner to enter the city under the maintenance of the Fanyang City Government Army. A man in a dark red luxurious silk robe, constantly shaking the silver sticker in his hand, looked proudly at the tall man lining up in front of him.

The silver sticker man just arrived in Fanyang today, he was originally the governor of Liaoyang Province, and he couldn't sleep happily all night after learning that he had received the silver sticker from Fan Yang Lu's family. On the way to Fanyang, he also met many rushers with the same purpose as him, but most of them were holding copper stickers. Even one of the copper stickers was his governor Yin of Linzhou, who had always looked at each other wrongly, but he didn't expect to receive a silver sticker from Fan Yang Lu's this time, so he was unwilling to buy a copper sticker. Looking at the copper sticker in the hand of his sworn enemy, and then looking at the silver sticker in his hand, this made him find an unprecedented sense of superiority.

"It's nothing, it's just an invitation." The man in front of him replied perfunctorily.

The silver sticker man stared at the man in front of him, disdainful in his heart, but smiled insincerely, "Presumably the brother is holding a copper sticker in his hand that he bought with a lot of money." ”

As he spoke, he held the silver sticker in his hand in front of his forehead, raised his head and squinted at the sun, "Oh, the sun is so big today." ”

The sun was indeed large, and the silver sticker in his hand shone brightly in the sunlight.

The tall man smiled faintly, "Brother Tai can hold a silver sticker, so he must be a high-ranking official somewhere." ”

"When this man saw the silver sticker in my hand, he didn't look envious or respectful." The silver-pasted man thought of this, but his face remained silent, and he pretended to be indifferent: "When you come to Fanyang on the occasion of Old Lady Lu's birthday, where do you dare to call yourself a high-ranking official." In the province of Lower Liaoyang, Yin Fanjin of Yifeng Prefecture. ”

Fan Jin arched his hand and asked, "I don't know where Brother Tai is?" ”

The tall man laughed and shook his head, "It turned out to be Lord Zhou Yin, who has no official position in his body, just a common man." ”

Fan Jin pursed his lips after hearing this, at this time, there were no official positions in Fan Yang, and nine times out of ten they were just businessmen with a few spare money. He was a dignified state Yin with a silver sticker in his hand, and he deigned to take the initiative to talk to a businessman, and this person had no sense of respect. Fan Jin suddenly had no interest in talking to this person again, smiled disdainfully, turned his head and fanned the wind with the silver sticker in his hand, and muttered in his mouth, "Hot, it's really hot." ”

Seeing Fan Jin's posture like this, the tall man shook his head and chuckled, and stopped talking. At this time, a slender woman with a good face walked on the side, charming but heroic between the swaying figures, really a rare beauty. Fan Jin's eyes lit up, and he raised the silver sticker in his hand and wanted to take the initiative to talk, but he didn't want the woman to ignore him, so he walked straight to the tall man in front of him, his face full of affectionate smiles.

Fan Jin held the hand of the silver sticker and had nowhere to put it for a while, so he waved his hand in annoyance, thinking to himself, "This kid is just a businessman, and Yanfu is really not shallow." ”

A flash of thought flashed in his mind, and a faint smile suddenly appeared on the corner of Fan Jin's mouth, "Hmph, when you enter Fan Yang City, Ben Yin will see if you can keep this great Yanfu." ”

He looked up at the woman, fascinated by her face. I faintly heard the wonderful woman smile and said to the tall man: "Brother Zhu, don't line up, we can go in directly with the invitation in our hand." ”

In a daze, Fan Jin smiled secretly in his heart, "Go in directly?" That's a privilege that can only be enjoyed by gold stickers, and he is a mere businessman, which is simply whimsical. ”

Then, Fan Jin saw that the man known as Brother Zhu touched the beautiful woman's hair dotingly, and said with a smile: "Ying'er is still smart, I know to ask first." I've been standing in line here for a long time, and I'm dying of heat. ”

The wonderful woman named Ying'er smiled coquettishly, obediently took Brother Zhu's arm, and the two walked side by side to a small gate next to the city gate where there was no queue.

Seeing the intimacy of the two, Fan Jin was even more jealous in his heart, and whispered to himself with hatred, "Hmph, Ben Yin wants to see how you make a fool of yourself." ”

In Fan Jin's eyes, Ying'er and Brother Zhu walked side by side to the VIP passage, but were stopped by the guards, and then the two took out two things that looked like invitations from their arms and handed them to the guards. Just when Fan Jin was about to watch Brother Zhu being driven back with a disgraced face, he unexpectedly saw the guards return the invitation to the two, and then bowed respectfully to the two and opened the barricade. Ying'er held Brother Zhu's arm, and in full view of everyone, Shi Shiran walked into Fanyang City Gate from the VIP passage.

Fan Jin was stunned, and he didn't understand what was going on for a while. Until I heard the sound of discussion coming from the crowd around me.

"Oh my God, did those two get in through the VIP tunnel?"

"Yes, is that young and the old lady Lu's golden sticker VIP?"

"It can't be a child of a family, right? is so young, he can't be a provincial prime minister-level official! ”

"Yes, yes, it must be a young son of a certain family."

Fan Jin was stunned.

No official position? Yes, the children of the family really have no official position. But that's because people don't need it, and having a family behind them is more effective than any big official.

"Oh my God, I actually provoked the children of the family! I also want to rob other people's lovers! ”

Fan Jin suddenly felt that his legs were weak and he couldn't walk. Until the person who was still queuing behind him looked at the silver sticker in his hand and carefully reminded him that it was time to step forward. Fan Jin woke up suddenly, and before he knew it, his back was covered with cold sweat, and his legs took a few steps forward mechanically.

"Did I just tell him who I am?"

Fan Jin thought in a daze, looked down at the silver sticker in his hand, and then looked up at the gate of Fan Yang City, which symbolized identity and glory in front of him, and was a little afraid to enter.