"Wu De, when will they arrive?"

"Back to Your Majesty, in two hours, they should be there."

"Then there's no hurry, let's go to the city gate to greet me later!"

Emperor Tang didn't want Princess Yilan to marry far away, and the third prince of Wu was obviously suspected of forcing the palace this time, which made Emperor Tang even more disgusted.

But Wu Guo's army is strong, and he doesn't dare to offend openly, so he can only use this method to disgust people.

Aren't you the prince, let me, the emperor, go out to greet you - that's impossible, as for the crown prince, Emperor Tang didn't plan to let them go, so he chose Zhang Twelve and the four of them.

"Twelve, how did you buy the restaurant?"

Emperor Tang asked seemingly unintentionally, but the other three people were confused: Who is twelve?

They only knew that Zhang Twelve's name was Zhang Yi, and only the Zhang family knew about the word twelve, so after hearing Emperor Tang suddenly say such a strange number as "twelve", they were a little confused.

But the three of them had experienced yesterday's restaurant turmoil, and vaguely felt that this matter must be related to the Zhang family, and their eyes looked at him.

Sure enough, he spoke: "Your Majesty, the restaurant has been bought." ”

"How many?"

"One family!"

"Family? Didn't you say you were going to open ten? ”

Emperor Tang asked dissatisfiedly, this kid, but he got a lot of things from him, how did the ten families who said good become one?

"Your Majesty, that's right. We have just opened a restaurant, we should focus on quality rather than quantity, and devote all our energy to this first restaurant. If this first one can be made, it will be twice the result with half the effort to open other restaurants! ”

Listening to Zhang Twelve's unhurried words, Emperor Tang had to admire, this Zhang Twelve really has a set of business!

But he still said with a straight face: "I don't care about this, anyway, when the one-month deadline is up, you have to return the money you took from me!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

promised on his lips, but he was complaining in his heart: The king of a country is only 20,000 taels...... Pick it out!

The conversation between the two was listened to by the other three, and their impression of Zhang Twelve changed dramatically: he could borrow money from Emperor Tang to do business...... He is the only one in the world!

And Yang Zexin broke out in a cold sweat, fortunately he was decisive enough yesterday, if he entangled with him too much, today he said a few bad words in His Majesty's ear - wouldn't he be done......

No, it seems that revenge on him needs to be considered in the long run......

…………

After staying in the imperial study for a while, the four of them came out of the palace and went to the city wall under the escort of the palace guards, waiting to greet the three princes of Wu and the envoys.

Less than a quarter of an hour before noon, Zhang Twelve saw dozens of cavalry outside the city escorting the two carriages in the middle rushing towards them.

"They're coming!"

Mo Ye said on the side.

The two carriages were nothing different except for the ornate decorations, but the war horses were different, and the horses were covered with a layer of black armor-like things, which looked very strange.

Zhang Twelve pointed there and asked, "What is that black thing right away?" ”

"Black Threaded Clothes!"

"Black Thread?"

It was the first time Zhang Twelve had heard this title, and he was a little curious.

"This is a kind of protective clothing made of special materials that is specially matched on the soldiers and war horses of Wu State, because this protective clothing is black all over, so it is called black wisp clothing."

After all, coming from a military family, Mo Ye is still very familiar with these things.

"How's that going?"

"Dressed in black clothes, the sword does not hurt the body. These words were made up by soldiers from other countries who had fought with Wu. Because in the battle, people can avoid arrows from afar, but horses can't avoid it, and many soldiers die on the battlefield not because they were killed, but because the horses were frightened by arrows, and they directly threw people under the horses and trampled to death! ”

"And after the black wisp clothes are applied, the arrows from afar cannot penetrate the black wisps, which greatly enhances the combat effectiveness of the army, so the current combat power of Wu State will be so strong!"

Looking at the black-clothed war horse that was getting closer and closer, Mo Ye said with envy.

"Don't be envious, everyone is here, let's go down!"

Yang Zexin said lightly, and then walked under the city wall, and the other three immediately followed.

Because of the visit of the three princes of Wu, Jingzhou had closed the city gate a day in advance, and in order to ensure safety, martial law was put in front of the city gate in advance, so at this time, there was no one else at the city gate except for the defenders and the palace guards who escorted Zhang Twelve and them.

Soon, the third prince of Wu came to the gate of the city, and his speed gradually slowed down, and he stopped after coming to Zhang Twelve and Four.

At this time, a white-faced and beardless middle-aged man walked down from the first carriage and looked at the four people with a smile: "You ......"

The middle-aged man has been an envoy for many years, and Jingzhou has been here a few times, and there are many people who greet him, but these men, he really hasn't seen them - and he's too young, right?

"This is Zhenyuan General Zhang Yi!"

One of the eunuchs who had come with them spoke.

At this time, of course, we can't let them take the initiative to say who I am, wouldn't that be a shame? These things can only be done by their subordinates!

However, when the introduction was made, the eunuch was a little difficult, and the sons and daughters of the Mu family and the Yang family had no official positions, how could they be introduced? Say who is this grandson? Doesn't that seem too contemptuous?

The other two are both generals, but the rank is not high, so he can only pick a slightly taller Zhang Twelve - General Zhenyuan said.

After the middle-aged man heard this introduction, he was obviously stunned, and then frowned!

These Tang Dynasty people don't take them too seriously, and dare to send such a small general from the third rank to greet their Highness? Don't you look down on them Wu Guo!

So the middle-aged man said with a smile: "We are really tired of rushing for a day, let's go to the palace to see Emperor Tang first!" ”

The implication is that I don't want to talk to this kind of petty official!

Zhang Twelve is a little unaccustomed to the arrogant appearance of this middle-aged envoy, if you don't talk to me, then the labor and management don't talk to you, what kind of thing are you?

So he shouted loudly to the carriage behind: "I heard that the third prince of Wu has traveled thousands of miles to visit the Tang Dynasty, and His Majesty specially ordered me and the other four to congratulate the big driver here." It's been a long journey along the way, and the three princes have worked hard! ”

After saying this, Zhang Twelve felt that even if the three princes didn't get out of the car, they would at least have to reply, right?

But he was wrong!

The third prince of Wu did say a word, but he didn't say it to them: "Liu Yong, don't just talk nonsense if you're a person, go!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the middle-aged man didn't even say hello, got in the car and left quickly, leaving a few people with a confused face......