As the saying goes, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. Whether it is Shen Gui, who is busy with 'spreading rumors and making trouble', or Wang Dashao, who is passionate and generous, his mouth will be dry if he talks too much, and he will be hungry if he moves too much. So, the two parties met in the first-class restaurant Zhuangzi located on Hezhong Street-Huiyou Building.

Of course, although Shen and Wang are doing similar things at present, they don't know each other, and their current identity classes are very different, and even the friends around them don't know each other; Therefore, for 'comrades' who have the same purpose, they can only end up with 'seeing each other but not knowing each other'.

On weekdays, the main hall on the first floor of the Friends Building is mostly filled with ordinary people who have a little extra money in their hands and occasionally come to 'improve their food', and the open-air garden in the atrium is also a customary meeting place for young talents from Youbei. The shouting in the main hall and the wind and the moon in the garden are also the most famous unique scenery of the Huiyou Building.

Today, Shen Gui took his friends from the rivers and lakes to the main hall of the entire Friends Building. There are even a few people dressed as beggars, who are also sitting in this first-class restaurant in Youbei, saying that they want to 'protect the young helper', but they can pick up two chopsticks, but others can't even see the phantom clearly.

And Wang Xu, the president of Sanbei Academy, also brought his students to the 'old place' for a banquet today. In all fairness, Wang Zhi, who had just taken a 'policy lesson', didn't care about the true opinions of Li and Wan's predecessors; He didn't care if the two seniors hinted at him anything; He didn't even care what the juniors here thought of him; is all because the ultimate purpose of his trip to the Prime Minister's Mansion today is just to gain some attention for himself who is about to embark on a career.

is all because of Wang Dashao's father, Wang Qi and Wang Shangshu, who are the most cautious in their lives. Although the ethics of officials have not yet reached the level of 'clear as water, clear as a mirror', if we compare horizontally according to the atmosphere of the court on Youbei Third Road, it is indeed worthy of the word 'clean official'. Moreover, this Wang Daren, whose ancestral home is Nankang, is not only honest and honest, but also adheres to the principle of 'gentlemen and not the party', which is even more rare.

However, even Wei Anheng, the largest 'wall-riding faction' in Fengjing, once secretly fell to the first emperor Yan Hunt, and his father, who upheld the rules of a gentleman, was really willing to be an official and observe the festival impartially. Although he can be called a moral gentleman in such a way of acting, no official is willing to associate with him. In this way, even if there is any good errand, it will naturally not be his turn. This is also the main reason why until now, Wang Qi still guards the idle yamen of the Ministry of Rites and has a mediocre life.

And Wang Dashao is obviously different from his father, he is not a 'stupid man' who is willing to abide by the dignity of a gentleman.

Wang Zhi was born in a first-class mansion since he was a child, and his appearance can be regarded as dignified, coupled with his family history and quick thinking, he naturally lives the life of a proud son of heaven on weekdays, and he is also praised by teachers and peers in terms of schoolwork; In his opinion, he is like a peerless sword that has been tempered for 20 years, and when it is unsheathed, it will inevitably see blood, and when it dances, it will inevitably leave a sound. With such a sharp way of being an official, even if it may only be splendid, he is absolutely unwilling to be like his father, who is first put on a high place and then offered in a leisurely manner.

Therefore, when he finished that somewhat inexplicable 'strategy class', he suddenly realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for for 20 years had finally come.

As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, although the troubled times on the tip of the knife have ended; But with the sudden death of Emperor Xuande Yan Hunt, the troubled times above the Youbei Dynasty naturally kicked off. As the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, he doesn't believe that Yan Tian will have no intention of introducing newcomers to the court after he ascends the throne; He also didn't believe that after his fame, he would be ignored by Yan Day, the new king who was eager to find talent.

And the enthusiasm he shows today, the arms raised, the tears that flow, are all just means to achieve the goal; It may seem absurd, but in Wang Xu's mind, his ultimate goal in planning all this is not as simple as taking over his father's position. In the depths of his heart, there is actually a greater desire - he wants to replace Li Deng and become the prime minister of Wang Cheng, who is in power in the three roads of Youbei.

Everything he does now is also modeled after Li Deng in his youth, learning from him to become famous. He is extremely convinced that as long as he can win the hearts of these scholars in the Sanbei Academy, then those 'junior officials' in the Youbei Dynasty in the future will not only look forward to themselves?

So, today, the back garden of the Huiyou Building is brightly lit, and according to Wang Dashao's instructions, even the candles that are lit are high-grade Nankang goods that can emit fragrance.

At this time, in the back garden, the air is filled with the refreshing fragrance of osmanthus flowers, the table is also full of pastries and delicacies with good colors and flavors, and there is still a small pot of chilled Western Regions grape wine with water droplets hanging in front of everyone. This kind of extravagance has some ethereal scenes, coupled with the crescent moon hanging in mid-air, the children of the family who are present are deeply intoxicated.

I have to say that in order to win the hearts of these classmates, Wang Dashao really made a bloody investment this time.

"Fellow students, fellow disciples! Today, we are brothers and sisters to be able to listen to the teachings of our teachers and seniors, and we are really blessed to be able to ask for more. Wang is not talented, and for the time being, he calls himself your eldest brother, and wants to say something from the bottom of his heart and disturb the Yaxing of your virtuous brothers. At first, when Wang heard the words of his mentor and senior brother Changning, he didn't feel how deafening he was; But when Wang returned to the academy and saw those exquisite artificial landscape pavilions and the roof cornices of the stone carved animal heads, he figured out the painstaking work of the two great sages of the time......"

Speaking of this, Wang Dashao, who was full of 'grief and indignation', picked up a small wine pot with water droplets in his left hand, and a transparent glass wine cup with his right hand, raised his hands flat on his chest, and showed the week to the students present:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Wang spent a huge amount of money today to gather all the virtuous brothers to have a banquet here, not because Wang was greedy for pleasure; On the contrary, Wang wants you to see with your own eyes what kind of life we people are living now......

After that, Wang Dashao playfully poured himself a cup of dark red grape wine, first raised his hand to compare the moonlight, then put it on the tip of his nose, closed his eyes and sniffed the wine deeply, and then let out a satisfied moan, and then his eyes were blazing, and he stared at the contents of the blood-red cup with a resentful expression:

"Now that it is the height of summer, we can drink cold and delicious grape wine in this Huiyou Building, which is really rare, really rare! But do you know where this cold wine from the Western Regions came from? ”

After Wang Dashao asked this sentence, the students present began to analyze the subtleties of this grape wine.

The gossip in the backyard also alarmed Shen Gui, who was sitting in the main hall and fighting with the cattle dealer Yu Liang'an. He waved his hand back, directly opened a bamboo curtain in the garden aisle, and 'eaves' listened to the students' high-minded arguments.

Of course, Shen Gui's action of opening the bamboo curtain also fell very clearly in the eyes of Wang Dashao, who was standing alone. However, he only has a desire to be 'famous', and naturally he doesn't mind having more listeners he doesn't know.

So in the face of Shen Gui's eavesdropping, an uninvited guest, Wang Dashao not only did not expel him, but nodded at him and smiled.

"What you say is true, the grapes of this Huiyoulou originate in the land of Western Xinjiang. However, like the burning knife in our northern region, this grape is also a very common common wine in Western Xinjiang. But after going around and around, after crossing the hinterland of Huayu Continent, the value of this grape wine has skyrocketed by a hundred times. Now if you want to taste the taste of this grape wine, you have to pay at least twenty taels of snowflake white. Why did Wang say the least? It's all because if this grape is made after being chilled, five taels of silver will be added to the ice cellar silver! "Yes, the grapes are so colourful and unique that the price is fair in the eyes of people of our origins. However, have you ever known what you can do with twenty taels of silver? ”

When Shen Gui heard Wang Dashao's words, his heart was suddenly shocked!

According to Shen Gui's inference in his heart at this time, according to the style of this student's words, he is afraid that his next words may make the entire Huayu Continent immediately set off a monstrous wave.

However, Wang Dashao's next words obviously told Shen Gui, who was listening to the root of the wall: he was thinking too much.

"This best grape wine, in the Western Regions, is only two dollars a pot of silver; But after these profiteers changed hands several times, we had to spend twenty taels of silver. The difference between the two, which is more than 100 times, has been earned by those villains who only know how to chase profits and stink! Have you ever known that the ordinary people in Youbei only have a mere twenty taels of silver a year! ”

With Wang Dashao's last angry roar slapping the table and being hoarse, all the Youbei students present suddenly became indignant.

"Look, the color of this grape is clearly the anointing blood of the people of my northern region!" ...... "These profiteers who knock out the bones and suck the marrow are all leeches attached to the poor people!" "You don't know yet, those villains took advantage of the war between the two northern countries to wantonly manipulate and raise food prices, and ordinary people will soon change their children and eat......"

Shen Gui, who breathed a sigh of relief, looked at those students with tears and laughter, and his mind was stuffed with question marks.

When Shen Gui heard that the students began to count the various crimes of those 'profiteers', he completely lost interest in listening to the 'heart of the scholars'. However, while he lowered the curtain, he also reflexively let out a 'cut' mockery.

Even though the complacent Wang Dashao didn't know Shen Gui and didn't understand the true meaning of his 'cut', the disdain in this 'angry word' still pierced Wang Dashao's ears deeply.

If it is the usual Wang Dashao, he doesn't disdain to see such a 'scoundrel in the market' at all. After all, he is a disciple of a saint who has read poetry and books and righteous rites, and he is also a child of a family from a first-class mansion, and those profound and mysterious topics cannot be understood by these laypeople, and it is not an accident.

But today, Wang Dashao has the ambition of 'uniting all the people of Youbei and building momentum for himself together', and naturally he can't turn a deaf ear to the disdain of the eavesdropping teenager.