Li Zhi was on the road in the afternoon, alone, and sat down with a mighty seat.

If he wants to drive to Luoyang in one go, there is no problem, there is Zhenyuan to provide power for the crotch to dismount, and it is a hundred times more energetic than resting all night.

More than 700 miles, in the next day before noon, a flash of time, in a blink of an eye, the Luoyang City Gate is close in front of you.

As the eastern capital of the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang is full of humanities and prosperous economy, which is his first perception after stepping into the city gate.

Hetuluoshu was born here, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Xuan, and Rationale began here, and the Silk Road and the Sui-Tang Grand Canal converged here.

From here, you can go directly to Mingzhou by waterway, which is much more convenient than Chang'an City.

In order to consolidate the political power, the feudal rulers fought frequently and conquered constantly, and in order to ensure the transportation of a large amount of grain and grass needed for military operations, they occupied a dominant position in water transportation, and it was undoubtedly necessary to communicate the water transportation between the north and the south, and dig canals.

Since the city was established less than 80 years ago, the outer Guo City, the Imperial City, and the Palace City seem to be much better than Chang'an City.

Shangyang Palace is such a large building complex, in addition to the topography occupies the advantage, the palace building reaches dozens of places, the main hall of the palace is called the Wind Palace, Li Zhi drove a horse to come, there are several people waiting.

When he entered the palace gate, because he was carrying a sword and the conspicuous royal character on the back buttocks of Wei Lingbi, he did not need to dismount, and he was successfully released after a little stagnation.

Not far away, someone beckoned to him, and when he got close, the man gave him a note and walked away.

At this moment, the people waiting in front of the gate of the Guanfeng Hall had a portrait in their hands, and after the comparison, they quickly arrived, knelt on one leg and said: "Greet the arrival of the King of Loyalty!" Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping is waiting in the Fragrance Palace! ”

Li Zhi nodded, followed immediately, turned three times and two times on the wide palace road, and came to the Fragrance Palace.

Compared with the Guanfeng Palace, the decoration of the Fragrance Hall is much worse, but the majestic momentum is not left behind.

In a quiet hall, Princess Taiping looked at Li Zhi who came with a smile, waved her hand to disperse a group of people, walked lightly, and walked around Li Zhi in front of her.

Li Zhi crossed his hands in front of his chest, "Your Highness, please respect yourself, Weichen is very conservative!" ”

Taiping smiled, "What, are you afraid that I will eat you?" However, at the moment, your ladies are not around, and I don't mind giving you a taste! ”

Li Zhi glanced at her, imitated her appearance, and looked at her figure: "In the end, it is a milk body, the scale is not small!" ”

Pang Qi was happy again, and deliberately straightened his chest: "But I don't know what the scale of Your Excellency is?" ”

Li Zhi gestured a two-foot long distance with both hands, and his body trembled for a while.

"Don't you dare to make any more trouble, quickly lead me to wash my face and be busy all the way, my mouth is full of sand!"

Li Zhi hurriedly shifted the target, the girl in front of him was really not simple, and a pair of charming eyes could almost hook the soul.

Taiping retreated a few steps, high-fived and summoned two palace maids, led Li Zhi through a few doors, and cleaned up briefly.

Returning again, someone was already waiting in front of the palace with a sedan chair, and Taiping squinted at him: "Let's go to Zhengqing Wenqi Hall to have a look, do you dare to share a sedan chair with me?" ”

"If the princess is confident that she will not be known by Xue Gongzi, Li is happy to accompany her!"

Li Zhi knew that what Taiping said was purely provocative, saying that this was in the palace, that is, on the ordinary official road outside, in the Tang Dynasty, non-married men and women riding in the same sedan chair were far worse than giving or receiving kisses.

The reason why he only came to a four-person sedan chair was because he let Li Zhi drive a horse with him.

The two came outside, and when Taiping entered the sedan chair, Li Zhi's Wei Lingbiao also took him.

Four palace maids carried it, each side was supported by a palace maid, Li Zhi boarded the horse, a window curtain on the sedan chair was picked up from the inside, and Taiping showed his head: "Mr. Li, talk closely!" ”

Li Zhi drove his horse closer, and after getting up the sedan chair, Taiping talked eloquently: "The core building complex of Luoyang City is a seven-day building, and we call it a seven-day building. They correspond to the seven constellations in the sky, from south to north: Tianque, Tianjie, Tianmen, Tianjin, Tianshu, Tiangong, Heaven, is the central axis of Luoyang City. Our shop is located in Tianmen, the northwest corner of Luoyang City, which is the south gate of Ziwei Palace. ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "It's close to you when you go in and out, and when you get out of Ziwei Palace, it's a store!" ”

"I don't live in Ziwei Palace, I live in Zhenguan Hall with my mother!"

It seems to be a casual question, but in fact, Li Zhi is exploring the residence of Taiping and Empress Wu, otherwise how much time will it take him to find out about the huge Luoyang City.

Taiping continued: "Yingtianmen is a huge gate-shaped building complex consisting of gatehouses, battlements, east and west towers, and corridors between them. There are two views on it, the purple microcosm of the book, the left and right are connected with the corridor in the middle, like a pavilion in the air. Our Zhengqing Wenqi Hall occupies the entire West Tower. ”

Li Zhi was surprised: "It's not a commercial area? Who do you think can climb the West Tower? ”

"Don't you worry? Xirong Building is the Zhengqing Wenqi Hall, where it is only the place to undertake the bulk orders of the imperial court, and the official façade is in the South City, an independent three-story building, which is in the core position of the South City. We first went to Xiyun Tower on this trip, in order to welcome your arrival, the first batch of orders are waiting for you! ”

Li Zhi laughed, but suddenly came over, and before he left the palace gate, he hurriedly stopped laughing.

"The northeast and south of the city are the residential areas of Fang City, a total of one hundred and three squares, and there are three markets in the Fang District, namely the South Market, the East Market, and the West Market, among which the South City is the largest, and the goods from all over the world are piled up, and there will be merchants from all over the world who trade there in different languages every day. Therefore, there are also a large number of foreigners and Hu people living in the square, and I have bought you a mansion from there, occupying a whole square, and the name of the house is Wenqitang Garden! ”

Obviously, Li Zhi didn't expect Taiping to be so thoughtful, and he couldn't help but look at her twice.

Taiping grinned and said, "You're grateful to me in your heart, aren't you?" The title deed of Man Chi Tong Garden has been changed to your name, and you do not need to compensate for this part of the expenses, how should Mr. Li repay me? You don't have to look at them, even if you sleep with me now, they don't dare to confide! ”

"I said princess, your current performance is very different from that in Chang'an City, which one is the real you?"

Li Zhi looked at him, and was very surprised by the fierceness of Taiping's words.

"Which one do you think is nagging! I'm far away from my mother-in-law's house, you're far away from my wife, how do I want you to repay me, you don't know? ”

"Are you really?"

"Of course!"

"Can I return the Wenqitang Garden to you?"

"No, or I'll ask you in front of them when your wives come!"

"Can we negotiate later?" There are palace maids around, and he really feels that it is an eyesore.

"It's fine, but only today!"

After that, Taiping retracted his head and lifted the curtain, leaving only a corner of the gap, Li Zhineng saw her half-lying on the bright yellow satin cushion from the outside, looking straight at herself.

"Goblins!"

Li scolded in his heart, but he was surprised that there was no anger in his tone, but some expectation.

When the gate of heaven arrived, under the west tower, there were three people in official uniforms, who were hurriedly coming up.

When the first person was a eunuch, named He Baoquan, the head of the inner court, soon after the settlement of the West Tower, he handed over a paper procurement contract, in duplicate.

"Mr. Li, this is the first batch of orders from the imperial court, all of which are purchased on rice paper, with a total value of 13,653 taels of silver, Mr. leaves a word in the blank space to take effect, and within three days, the palace will purchase cars and horses to pick up the goods at the façade of Nanshi!"

Li Zhi looked at Taiping, saw that he nodded slightly, so he took the brush that had already been dipped in ink, and wrote down his name.

He Baoquan and a few others packed up everything, bowed and withdrew, Taiping exhaled heavily: "How is it?" Mr. Lee, how about my gift? ”

"How can there be a whole thing?"

"You are also a businessman, and you don't know how clever you are when dealing with the imperial court? You look at the matching of rice paper, until you have enough silver taels! Okay, how about here? What needs to be rectified? ”

"Why do you have to put some samples on the table, don't you? It's so smooth, you can't see a trace of business, is it straightforward to tell others that only the cash is collected here? ”

"Hehe, too! I immediately asked people to arrange two rows of display shelves, and add a dragon bookcase, with all the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, is it a businessman's atmosphere? ”

"That's it for the time being, I guess I won't have much time to come here in the future, as long as you look satisfied!"

Then there was a long silence, and both of them were silent.

Li Zhi actually sympathized with her in his heart, the fate recorded in the annals of this person was extremely miserable, because he was suspected of rebellion, he was captured by Tang Xuanzong and died at home, and her son and henchmen were executed dozens of people.

If all this is consistent with the facts, he thinks that it comes from the Empress Wu, the princess of Taiping, Shen Min, has more power and strategy, and the Empress Wu thinks that she is like herself, so she loves the best among the sons.

With the queen mother as a guide, she will develop her contempt for everything in the future and be bent on running rampant, and because of this, she will really be in power for a while.

Regarding her ambiguity to herself, Li Zhi wondered why his first reaction was not to refuse, but to deliberately welcome him.

The longer this ambivalence lasts, the more Li Zhi feels embarrassment, and is about to speak, Princess Taiping is the first to speak:

"Mr. Li, in fact, I am not a dissolute woman, but what happened when I was a child made me have to give up my original innocence. As for you, Mr. Li, I have something similar to Princess Yiyi's heart, of course, she gets what she wants, but I will never get it! ”

"Princess, you ......"

"Just call me Ling Yue!"

"Ling, Lingyue, when you say this, I don't know how to answer?"

"Mr. Li, you don't have to answer, and you don't have to be responsible for me. I have always felt that I am a two-faced person, one yin and one yang, the yin side is wild and uninhibited, but I am currently desperately suppressing it, and I have not yet found an outlet; On the sunny side, I only face children, not even parents, meek and virtuous, and have no distractions. Do you understand what I mean? ”

"Like, maybe, probably ......"

Giggles, I didn't expect Mr. Li, who has always been strong, to be speechless in the face of a woman! I miss the wisp of innocence buried deep in my heart, and now I want to give it to a man, and this man is you! ”

"Too, Ling Yue, this is not good, I will feel guilty!"

"I don't care, I can't feel the guilt of you! Relax, as long as you treat me as a weak woman who needs to be rescued, my future days will be very colorful, before that, I want to throw away the shadow hidden in my heart, I hope you can help me? ”

"How can I help you? Why did you choose me? ”

"How can I help you understand in your heart that I chose you because you are strong enough, so strong that the thought of you makes my heart tremble, there is no fear in this trembling, only the desire to be conquered!"

"I seem to understand the reason, but apparently it came too abruptly, can you give me a time to think about it?"

"Yes, of course, but you have to make sure I have hope."

Li subconsciously nodded, but he didn't want Princess Taiping to become cheerful immediately, "Okay, I understand, I won't force you!" Let's go, take you to Nanshi to have a look. ”

With that, she turned around and left, her body slid past Li Zhi's side, and a faint fragrance reached his nose.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, he followed her downstairs, looking at the waist in front of him that was deliberately twisting for himself, Li Zhi laughed dumbly!