The reason why Wu Zhi was stunned was not only because the person who sent this invitation to him had a very high status in the court. What's more, this person has always been above the top of his eyes, and he has nothing to do with Wu Zhi, Wu Zhi never thought that he would invite himself to his mansion for a banquet.

This person is the deputy prime minister of the dynasty, the emperor's little iron buddy Wang Huang.

Wang Hao is also one of the six thieves of the Great Song Dynasty, but this person is a little special, although he is high and powerful, but he is not good at forming gangs, and there are not many ministers who are close to him in the court, but he does not seem to need to cultivate cronies in the court, because he and Emperor Zhao Ji are cronies.

With this ironclad relationship, even officials in the Cai Jing faction in the DPRK and China will try their best to appease Wang Huang, including Cai Jing himself, as the prime minister, he must be polite in front of Wang Huang. There is also Zhu Mian, he is actually Wang Hao's subordinate on the surface, because Zhu Mian is only responsible for the specific affairs of the "Huashi Gang", and the manager behind it is Wang Hao.

More than half of the property that Zhu Mian looted fell into Wang Huang's pocket.

Wang Hao has only two hobbies in his life, one is money, no matter what faction the officials of the DPRK and China, as long as they send him money and the amount is in place, then he will not refuse to come, and he will respond to his requests.

This person's other hobby is more dark, which is "jealousy".

In layman's terms, it means that he can't see others good, and he can't see others overriding him. The manifestation of this dark side in the imperial court is the almost perverted "attack" of the high-ranking and powerful. Wang Huang was not born in Jinshi, although he had a good relationship with Zhao Ji, but after Zhao Ji ascended the throne, he has always been a middle-level official in the court.

When Wang Hao was still a middle-level official, he tried every means to speak ill of his boss, wantonly slandering him Every time he changed an official position, the first thing and the only thing he did in office was to constantly attack his boss.

In fact, he has an iron relationship with the emperor, and he doesn't have to be like this to be promoted quickly, but he is just a good one, not only that, if someone in the court impeaches others, he will inevitably follow the trend and fall into the ground, which is a psychopathic act.

Wu Zhi heard that when Zhao Ji first ascended the throne, the great writer Su Shi was being demoted to Hainan as an official, Zhao Ji was a popular emperor after all, and Su Shi was already in his last years, Zhao Ji wanted to pardon Su Shi and let him return to Bianjing to spend his old age.

Su Shi and Wang Huang have never seen each other, and they have nothing to do with it, but at that time, Wang Hao tried his best to persuade Zhao Ji not to pardon Su Shi, and also sneered at Su Shi, which caused Zhao Ji to hesitate for a few years before making an order, and later Su Shi was almost at the limit when he got the holy decree of pardon, and finally died on the way back to Bianjing.

Su Shi's biggest dream in his later years was to be able to take a look at the prosperous Bianjing where he had been away for several years and squandered his passionate youth, but it was a pity

Now, Wang Hao has become the prime minister of Dongfu, ranked as the governor of the political affairs, and is the top official of the Great Song Dynasty, but his perverted stinky problem has not changed, when Li Qingzhao's father-in-law Zhao Tingzhi was the prime minister, he was not less calculating behind his back, and now Zhao Xianggong has been ousted from power, and there is a Cai Jing Cai Xianggong.

This Cai Xianggong was in the same camp as Wang Hao to calculate Zhao Xianggong at the beginning, but after Cai Jing became the prime minister, Wang Hao aimed the spearhead at Cai Jing again, and Cai Jing's first dismissal was because he calculated from it.

Cai Jing also knew that Wang Hao was scheming against him behind his back, but Cai Jing didn't dare to take Wang Hao well, the relationship between Wang Hao and Zhao Ji was too iron, and dealing with Wang Hao was equivalent to dealing with Zhao Ji, so Cai Jing could only be obedient to Wang Hao, but fortunately, Cai Jing had a deep foundation in the court, and Wang Hao couldn't help him for a while.

Wu Zhi stayed in the court for half a year, and he didn't say a word to Wang Hao, even when he saw Wang Huang next to Zhao Ji, Wu Zhi just saluted and said hello to him, in fact, the emperor's favorite ministers such as Li Yan such as Cai Jing Tongguan, and even Zhu Mian, these people often enter the palace to meet them, and Wu Zhi is already familiar with them around the emperor, and Zhu Mian also has to pretend to say hello to Zhu Mian.

But the reason why I am not familiar with Wang Hao is because Wang Hao does not often enter the palace, and it is generally Zhao Ji who takes the initiative to go out of the palace to play with him in Wang Hao's mansion, and it is said that Wang Hao's mansion is more luxurious than the palace.

If it weren't for the little connection between Wu Zhi and Wang Hao, I'm afraid it would have been Wu Song who had saved his nephew Ye Liangchen when he was quelling the chaos in Hebei, but if Wang Hao had invited Wu Zhi because of this matter, I am afraid that he would have asked him a long time ago, and this is not a glorious thing, so Wu Zhi guessed that Wang Hao invited himself because of something else.

Knocked the invitation twice in his hand, and Wu Zhi also decided not to think about it anymore, and he would know when the time came.

What's more, the banquet between officials is not just to invite Wu Zhi alone, maybe it is just a courtesy, but Wu Zhi thinks too much.

The time of the banquet was at night, and before the sun set, Wu Zhi was dressed and came to Wang Hao's mansion on time in a carriage.

There were already many richly decorated carriages parked at the entrance of the mansion, and it seemed that Wang Hao really didn't just invite himself.

As soon as Wu Zhi got out of the carriage, another carriage came not far away, and this carriage Wu Zhi was very familiar with.

"Wu Zhi haha, it's a coincidence"

After Murong Yanda got out of the car, he immediately walked over happily when he saw Wu Zhi.

"Haha, I didn't expect that a small character like me could be invited by Wang Xianggong." Wu Zhi laughed at himself, this year, the people who invited Wu Zhi to the banquet were all small Beijing officials, and most of them were colleagues from the Hanlin Painting Academy, and other high-ranking officials Wu Zhi could only prepare gifts according to etiquette.

"Why is my brother arrogant, since I invited you, then you can just eat and drink when you go in, this banquet of the prince's family is a unique in the world" Murong Yanda smiled mysteriously.

"Could it be that you came here to eat," Wu Zhi asked.

Murong Yanda is the secretary of the household department, and he has received countless invitations from various high-ranking officials at the end of the year, but Murong Brother is also big, and he didn't even accept the invitation from Prime Minister Cai Jing, so Wu Zhi asked this question.

"What else can you do if it's not for food?"

"Haha"

After Murong Yanda finished speaking, he and Wu Zhi looked at each other and laughed, indeed, in addition to calculating others, this Wang Huang Xianggong is fighting for power and profit, and his government affairs ability is basically zero, and even Cai Jing's fur is not as good, what else can he do in his mansion except for entertainment

"Let's go, brother, let's go in together."

Entering the gate and handing over the invitation, Wu Zhi couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the luxury of Wang Huang's home is really not blown, carved beams and paintings everywhere, whitewashed gorgeously, the pillars in the rich house are all painted with gold paint, five steps and a lantern, seven steps and an incense burner, the lanterns are all precious glass lamps, the incense burner is the palace tribute ambergris, these prices are more expensive than gold ambergris is actually burned outside the house in vain, you can imagine how luxurious the indoor consumption is.

After detouring for a long time, passing through a garden that was more chic than the imperial garden of the imperial palace, and even the path was paved with shells, Wu Zhi and Murong Yanda finally came to the outside of a courtyard.

"My master is inside, please come in."

After making a gesture of please, the family stopped at the gate of the courtyard.

Wu Zhi and Murong Yan nodded slightly, and walked into the courtyard.

At this time, although Wu Zhi's face was determined, his heart was extremely shocked, what he was shocked was not the luxury of Wang Hao's family, but the disgust of Wang Huang's profligacy and luxury, and even the golden pillar was suspected of overstepping, but Zhao Ji, who often came here, didn't care at all, which shows the iron relationship between Wang Hao and Zhao Ji.

Wang Huang is the most harmful tumor to the people in the imperial court, and after getting rid of Zhu Mian and Li Yan in the future, if Wang Huang is not eliminated, then officials like Zhu Mian and Li Yan will still appear.

It can be seen that the relationship between Wang Hao and Zhao Ji is also understood that it is impossible to rely on Zhao Ji to deal with Zhu Mian.

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