After saying goodbye to Li Yi and returning to the road, Li Zhi was still thinking about it, but before he could get within a mile of the Ming Palace, he was shocked by the continuous stream of guests.

Reaching out to the senses, even the old king was shocked, this is not yet the right day, how did he come to these many people?

At this moment, the sky has dawned, outside the gate of the Ming Wang's Mansion, the people from the Inner Servant Province and the Inner Palace Province have been stationed there, and at this moment they are organizing enough people to come, because there are more and more people coming to the Ming Wang's Mansion.

They were contacted by King Ming himself, so that the guests were allowed to enter in an orderly manner, but there were two rows of Praetorian Guards lined up in front of the palace gate, and they pulled up a horizontal wooden barrier, just like a palace forbidden posture.

Some officials stood on the carriage and explained loudly that the reason why there was no commotion in front of the door was because the sudden flow of guests was not crowded, and everyone was full of smiles, and it was obvious that they were expected to be stopped at the door, so more people were still talking and laughing and waiting.

The Praetorian Guards stopped them, but they were just doing identity verification, and they would be allowed to enter once the conditions were met, and there were many officials above the fifth rank among the people who came, and there were even silver-trimmed cyan official robes wearing royal status symbols, which were even closer to light purple.

These official robes are different from the purple robes of officials of the third rank and above, and the embroidery on them is also different from the bird and beast patterns of ordinary officials.

However, this kind of robe does not have the nature of a court dress that a real official robe has, and is more of an identity symbol for entering and exiting various access controls, but it is also a universal dress that can participate in ceremonies and banquets.

To put it more colloquially, although it has no actual official role, it is a kind of royal status symbol, which is used to distinguish it from other races, and in principle has no power and effect, but who wants to provoke such an existence, it is impossible to say that his family will be a member of the third rank or above, or a prince or a concubine of a certain sequence.

Li Zhi in the distance also understood in a blink of an eye that his first-class public name should have been determined, and now there are only eight kings left among the ten kings, and the number of ten is the inherent system structure of the ten kings' mansions, and his name of the loyal king is obviously the first display of the ten kings.

However, those who are from the lord to the ten kings, the most important are the core ministers who are in the ranks of the nine kings, and the light ones are at least the prime minister, the metropolitan governor or the commander-in-chief, and the second generation also has a class of important positions in the court, which shows the great power of the first-class duke.

More importantly, Li Zhi, the newly given person, also has Shang Fangjian and three gold medals for avoiding death, although he does not necessarily have much authority to participate in political affairs and staff affairs in the court, but he has another royal title, with Shang Fangjian in hand, it is equivalent to the presence of the Holy Emperor, although it does not have the function of beheading the king and beheading the ministers, but he has the right to supervise and punish the members of the royal family.

Perhaps even if Li Zhi had the rank of Marquis of the Third Rank before, the real royal family did not take it seriously, and that level was only between the people and the imperial title, and he did not pose much threat to the members of the royal family until a certain moment mentioned in the seal.

Now the first-class public seal his body is very different, imagine that he does not need any name or privilege blessing, he has the same deterrent power as Jiuqing's official position, even some royal people such as horses and county lords, and they dare not provoke him, otherwise Shang Fangjian will be killed on the spot, which is his authority.

Therefore, the children of the core level royal family, who have always been extremely noble, will come to congratulate the wedding so enthusiastically.

Since the people of their level are aware of the terrible things about the future first-class dukes, ordinary officials naturally flock to them even more, for fear that once the name of the Loyal and Righteous King is truly implemented, they will fall behind.

Thinking in his heart, Li Zhi never stopped moving forward, these things are always to be faced, and there is no point in him hiding anymore.

Fortunately, when everyone saw Li Zhi, they automatically dodged a passage between the crowds and let him ride by, and all kinds of noisy sounds immediately became much less.

In a congratulatory voice, Li Zhi slowly passed through immediately, and nodded with a slight smile to the surroundings very reservedly, he knew that the dignity of a first-class duke was not something that these people could let him dismount and greet.

The guards opened the fence for Li's men and horses in time, and King Ming was the first to catch up.

Hurriedly jumped off the horse, Li Zhi didn't have time to open his mouth, King Ming was already smiling and said softly: "What is the matter to enter the door, these people also have a keen sense of smell, and they all know that there will be an emperor today!" ”

When the two entered the mansion, King Ming smiled: "Now do you know the influence of power?" You can't help this matter, and then you disdain it in your heart, can't you blast out the people one by one? The visitors are guests, and they have their own subordinates to settle them one by one, so you don't have to worry about them. ”

Invited to see someone beckoning in the distance in the courtyard behind the shadow wall, and after respectfully inviting King Ming to enter, Li Zhicai turned around and went there.

The people who beckoned were Guan Ming, Li Qi, Ji Tong, Li Ying, and Zhang Xu.

Especially the fat man Li Ling, he has long lost his fat body as before, although he still looks stout, but he has nothing to do with obesity.

He didn't wait for Li Zhi to get close before he shouted: "It is estimated that when I came at this time, I should have met Li Yi halfway, I think he has already told the reason, right?" It also saves us from paraphrasing! ”

Several other people also spoke up, but none of them asked the reason why Li did not return overnight.

Li Zhi nodded and said: "Li Yi has said it, these people outside are also here for the matter of the first-class public gift, right?" ”

"The order should arrive after noon, and the palace has to wait to pass the book to the flying pigeons in Luoyang City, such as the new positions such as the city envoy, which need to be issued by the Holy Decree, and the title of the King of Loyalty and Righteousness can be promulgated in advance, and it is said that as early as a few days ago, there was a relevant holy will to be conveyed."

It was Li Qi who spoke, and Li Fanghua, the current secretary of the Ministry of War, but at the moment, his identity was only Li Zhi's best friend, except for Zhang Xu and Geng Kang, all of them had extraordinary identities, but they interacted as ordinary people, and none of them were wearing official uniforms.

"According to my estimates, there is no such thing as a market envoy, at most a Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy will be arranged to vacate his post and send me away, right? Is it because of the arrival of the Imperial envoy from Afifa's side, so that there is this new pit? ”

Li Qi laughed, "What a new pit, such a description is too ugly!" What you said is true, but the previous Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy was not really in vain, although I also need to jointly supervise it, but you yourself have to go to perform your duties temporarily, even if it is only for ten days and a half months. Now that I have the position of the city envoy, you kid is out of the way, but I really fell into the ditch! ”

"It's also true that you are the secretary of the military department, and that Shuofang Jiedu is like a chicken rib, and there is not much actual merit added to the future career."

It was Guan Ming who spoke, he was a scholar of Shangshu Province at this time, and he was worth the same as Li Qi, so he understood the stakes.

"You can't say that, once there is a war in the northwest border region, your side of the Wu will be of great importance, as long as the merits are outstanding, it is inevitable to return to Chang'an City and go further." Li Ying retorted.

"Are you still expecting a war?" Richie gave him a blank look.

Li Yingle said: "I'm just talking about things, and if you have the heart of a villain, I can't do anything." ”

Everyone is happy. Slightly flat, Li Zhi looked at Zhang Xu: "This time you are sent back, you can't think that you are out of the sea of suffering, if you go to Changshu is not a distribution, stay there for two or three years, and then come back with officialdom experience, then you can carry the long history of Jinwu to retire with peace of mind." ”

Everyone present knew that Zhang Xu really had no career in his career, and his life was inseparable from calligraphy and wine, but he had the heart to help him retract his wanton thoughts, and only Li Zhi knew that he would eventually become a generation of grass saints, and the good wine was finally listed as one of the eight immortals in the drink with Li Bai, He Zhizhang and others.

Because of him, his words attracted the dissatisfied eyes of the rest of the people, but unsurprisingly attracted Zhang Xu's touching look of hatred as a confidant.

He sighed: "I didn't expect that among the elder brothers, only Mr. Li can deeply understand the essence of my life, and the time we have known each other is the shortest!" ”

Li Qi was about to reprimand him, but Li Zhi stopped: "Brother Bo Gao is uninhibited, open-minded, more talented, knowledgeable, and unique compared with us. Instead of forcing him to set foot in officialdom against his will, it is better to let him develop freely after having a certain foundation for making a living, otherwise with his temperament, he will not be able to be put on a name in a year or two, and he will be really assigned to a remote and barren land! ”

Li Qi immediately closed his mouth, what Li Zhi said was actually the most rational, Zhang Xu don't look at his young age, Zhang Dian's nickname has been around for a long time, that is, Guan Lugong and his family took turns to force education, and they couldn't change it, as his reputation in calligraphy became more and more famous, there was actually no possibility of reform.