The capital of Yanbong is located in the northeast direction of the main part of the country, a little far from the north and a little closer to the coast of the east, and is in a climate position with four distinct seasons.

Although the capital city has city gates on the four main roads in the southeast, west, and northwest, it has not built any city walls, and the whole city is centered on the palace city, and it is built outward in a circle.

The direction of the north-west of the capital is the gathering area of the common people, the neat streets and houses are lined up, on the main road that can just walk two carriages side by side, there are people shuttling from morning to night, especially when it comes to the meal every day, as soon as you walk here, you can feel the breath of all kinds of life rushing to your face.

Because the people's lives are relatively wealthy, and the Yanfeng royal family attaches more importance to public health, this large-scale gathering area is very clean, and there are even special positions responsible for cleaning the streets, similar to sanitation workers, not only cleaning up the daily garbage of residents, but also supervising the sanitation of each household.

This practice of "loving cleanliness" is not only in the capital, but basically all the towns and villages in Yanfeng pay attention to public health issues, which also makes Yanfeng pay a very small price in several plagues that spread to the entire continent.

Because there is no relationship between the city wall, the household department is very strict with the census of the population of the residents of the capital, and each household has a few people, and what work and what kind of livelihood they do there must be clearly written on the register, and at any time there is an additional person who imports or dies and moves away, it must be reported in time. In this way, it is difficult for the foreign population to fish in the troubled waters of the capital.

Due south and northeast of the junction with the gathering area of the common people are two commercial districts. The business district to the northeast is relatively small, and it is a pure "luxury" business district, where high-priced goods such as fine cloth, jewelry, tea, chariots and horses are gathered, and only the very sophisticated wealthy dignitaries will consume in this area.

The south is a very large commercial area, and more than seventy percent of the shops, restaurants, tile shops, and green buildings in the entire capital are concentrated here. There are all the places to eat, drink and have fun here, from high-end to affordable, which can meet the needs of any class. Therefore, it is also the most lively place in the capital at night.

Of course, this is also the most troublesome place for the patrol battalion. Whether it's because of drinking too much and getting into fights, or all kinds of jealousy in the Qinglou prostitution house, anyway, there will be all kinds of incidents here every night.

For the sake of law and order, at least half of the patrol battalion is on duty here every night.

In the east direction of the capital, there is a gathering area for dignitaries and nobles, and all the officials above the seventh rank in the capital live here. Because this is the residence of officials and wealthy families, most of the residences here are large courtyards one after another.

The largest courtyard is the courtyard of the household department next to the edge of the palace city, the courtyard of Gu De and Gu Shangshu, covering an area of nearly fifty acres.

It's mid-July, and it's the height of summer. The summer in Yanbongyeong is quite cool, after all, the location is north and not very far from the sea, so the days are relatively good now, especially at night, the breeze and cool temperatures will make people feel very comfortable.

There are two waterways in the capital, one is a small branch of a large natural river flowing here, which is simply and rudely named the capital inland river. This inland river runs directly from west to east from the commercial district to the south of the capital. The other is a canal dug from the foot of the northern mountain range, called the East Canal. From north to south, it passes through the southwest direction of the capital and reaches the southern border.

On the southeast bank of the junction of the natural river and the artificial canal, there is one of the most upscale restaurants in the whole capital - Chenglou.

On both sides of the river from west to east and on both sides of the canal from south to north, the restaurant has built two very magnificent bridges, which are wide enough to run eight troikas side by side. At night, the two bridges are lit up as if it were daylight, and when you look out into the water from the side of the bridge, you can see the fish in the water.

And this Cheng Lou is built to be even more magnificent and gorgeous, covering an area of nearly ten acres, the building is four stories high, and even part of the building is built in the canal. Moreover, Chenglou has its own dedicated wharf by the canal, and the game caught from the northern mountains will be transported directly to Chenglou through the canal.

With such a high-end Cheng Building, the consumption is not generally high. Some so-called big families are not even qualified to sit on the first floor here, and from the second floor, they are all places where only people with heads and faces in the capital can consume. On the fourth floor of the top floor, there are only sixteen private rooms, and these sixteen private rooms have been rented by the most powerful families in the capital except for the Yanfeng royal family.

It's not that the Yanfeng royal family can't afford to cover here, but they don't need to pack a place here, because this Chenglou is opened by the royal family. And not only this Cheng Building, but more than half of the industries in the entire capital are all owned by the royal family.

Every year, although the money from taxes from all parts of the country is charged into the national treasury, the money is not used for the royal family, but for national construction. From the emperor to the empress to the prince and princess and the royal children, everyone has a fixed "salary" every year, although the personnel and maintenance expenses in the palace are funded by the state treasury, but all other expenses of the royal family - food, clothing, travel and other private behaviors, must be paid by the Yanfeng royal family themselves.

For the sake of the face of the royal family, and because they can live a better life after being rich, the Yanfeng royal family has a royal monopoly business in the capital and all over the country.

And the capital, as the territory of the Yanfeng royal family, naturally has the most transactions.

This Chenglou is the sincerity of the royal family, and it is naturally not rich to want to charter one all year round, and this is one of the most effective ways to tie the knots to the royal family.

At this time, the lights are on, and the lights inside and outside the Chenglou illuminate the whole restaurant brilliantly. Although there are not many customers coming and going in the restaurant, most of them are people with Eguan Bo and people with fragrant clothes and sideburns.

In the largest private room on the fourth floor of Cheng Building, there are more than a dozen people sitting.

This box was chartered by Gu Detong, the head of the household, on behalf of the Gu family, and the person who set up the banquet in the house at this time was the daughter of the Gu family, Gu Nan.

"I said Third Sister Gu," in the house, a young man with a warm and fat body said to Gu Nan a little boredly: "Although you have set up such a big table today, can he come to the person you want to invite?"

"What's the matter, Qi Gongzi can't sit still?" Gu Nan sat by the window, looking at the water feature and drinking fragrant tea.

"Second Brother Qi didn't mean that," the thin man sitting with this Qi Gongzi squeezed his eyes at him, and said, "Second Brother Qi just wants to confirm that the Prince Yanfeng you said you want to invite will really come to the banquet?"

"Huh. Gu Nan's laughter was very pleasant, but it was also full of disdain.

"Seriously, if I hadn't brought you in, the door of this Chenglou, you two so-called 'big families' in this small southwest city would not have been qualified to enter. Gu Nan put down the tea cup in his hand and picked up a delicate pastry in his hand, "You know, just this plate of dim sum is not something you can afford to eat." ”

"Okay, well, I know that you people in the capital will enjoy it if they have money," Qi Gongzi and the thin man next to him didn't speak, and another middle-aged man with sharp-beaked monkey cheeks but extremely flamboyant clothes said impatiently: "But our people have been waiting here since the afternoon, why hasn't this prince come yet?"

This middle-aged man, who was very undressed and looked very incompatible, said very politely, but Gu Nan didn't make a sound, just looked at the faces of these people in the room.

Except for the young man Qi and the thin man next to him, everyone else seemed to agree with the middle-aged man's words, and Gu Nan suddenly felt a little tired.

Alas, people in different realms, no matter how rich they are, cannot communicate.

These people in the house today are all "rich businessmen" from all over the world, except for Qi Gongzi and the thin man, who are natives from the southwest border of Yanfeng, the remaining seven or eight people are from the surrounding neighboring countries.

The Yanfeng royal family has a rule in the industries of all parts of the country, that is, one city and one place, only one place remains.

Except for the capital, no matter how big the other cities are, they only buy and sell in one shop in the business district. Because of the royal signboard, no matter what kind of business you do, there will always be a lot of people and approved customers, but if the shop is opened like in the capital, it will inevitably affect the business of merchants in other places. After all, this is the royal family's business, and the merchants who buy the same thing as the royal family, no matter how good their own things are, have no courage to compete with the royal family's goods. In any case, it is to give the royal family a face.

And there is only one shop, which allows everyone to have a business to do.

In addition to doing business by themselves, the Yanfeng royal family will also cooperate with some merchants, as long as the goods and character of these merchants are passed, the royal family will be like an "endorsement", to this merchant to hang the "royal" brand, and this merchant only needs to give the annual profit to the Yanfeng royal family 20%.

In this way, whether it is a person who gives face to the royal family, or a person who recognizes the "brand" of the royal family, it will definitely be a win-win situation for those who can carry out this kind of cooperation with the royal family.

In the same way, in order not to affect the entire market, this "royal exclusive" model of the Yanfeng royal family only cooperates with one merchant property at a time, and the cooperation is up to five years at a time.

So these people sitting in the room today are all businessmen, and they all want to come to do this business with the Yanfeng royal family.

As of October this year, the merchant who cooperated with the royal family will be five years old, which makes many merchants with relatively large business find opportunities. And now not only the merchants in Yanfeng, but also some foreign merchants who have import and export business in Yanfeng also want to talk about this business with the Yanfeng royal family.

There are many people who want to do business with the royal family, and there are also many people who find shortcuts through relationships, and those who can find Gu Shangshu's family in the capital are really quite resourceful people in the merchants.

In fact, there are many people who come to the Gu family every year to do business, but the Gu family is not everything, and everyone will see it. A businessman like this used money to smash his relationship to find him, and the Gu family had never taken care of it before.

But this time, Gu Nan made an exception. From the dozens of letters of visit from domestic and foreign merchants received by her father, she personally sent someone to investigate the side, carefully screened out so more than a dozen people who were more reliable in business, brought them to this Cheng Building, and invited a prince to a banquet to take a look.

If this prince feels that he can cooperate, then he may mention it when he returns.

Gu Nan gave a lot of face to these merchants who came to spend money to build relationships, but he didn't expect these merchants who were materially rich to be so lacking in other aspects.

The rules in the shopping mall are not the same as those in the officialdom, first of all, the first point is to distinguish between the "elder and the young".

But think about it, for these people, they probably haven't encountered anything that can't be solved with money, including today when Gu Nan said that he would bring them to see the prince, they may really think that they have made those silver good.

Gu Nan frowned slightly, not to mention their Ministry of Rites Shangshu family, even if it was the Ministry of Officials' Family, they couldn't look down on the little silver handed over by these people at all.

Alas, if it weren't for the excuse of trying to find a prince to come out and ask something alone, who would want to stay in the same room with such a group of people who are not up to class.

"Okay, even if His Royal Highness the Prince hasn't come yet, can I ask Miss Gu something first?" The middle-aged man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks saw that Gu Nan didn't pay attention to him for a long time, and he said something again.

"I'm just a girl from an official family, I don't know much, if you think I can answer, then you can ask. Gu Nan picked up the teacup again and blew lightly.

"Hehe, I heard that the eldest prince of the Yan Feng family is going to get married," the middle-aged man smiled very obscenely: "I want to prepare some congratulatory gifts for His Royal Highness, I don't know if Miss Gu has a way to do this." ”

"Click", Gu Nan's hand holding the teacup shook slightly, and then raised his head silently, looking directly at the middle-aged man calmly.

"Oh, I haven't heard of anything like that. Gu Nan said. Of course, she didn't tell the truth, today she wanted to ask the prince to come out and ask about it alone, and that was this matter.

"Miss Gu hasn't heard?" The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked guy rolled his eyes, and pretended to be surprised and said, "No, girl, it seems that you almost had a marriage with the eldest prince back then." This eldest prince is getting married now, it's impossible not to tell the girl, right?"

"Brother, who did you listen to when the eldest prince wants to get married?"

"What about such a thing?"

"I've never heard of it. ”

"Oh, you're so well informed. ”

The people in the room began to flatter the middle-aged man.

Of course, Qi Gongzi and the thin man didn't say anything. Of the people in this room, only the thin man could see the anger quietly burning in Gu Nan's eyes. He hurriedly squeezed his eyes at Qi Gongzi again, and the two of them lowered their heads as if they hadn't heard anything.

"Hehehe. Suddenly, Gu Nan laughed, "This gentleman is indeed very good at getting news." ”

Putting down the teacup, Gu Nan smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. is not an ordinary businessman, and he is quite powerful in some places." ”

"Where, where. The middle-aged man's mouth was so split that he didn't mean to be modest at all, "Listening to the girl's words, are you saying that this matter is true?"

"That's not it," Gu Nan shook his head with a smile, "I'm ashamed, I really haven't heard anything about this matter." ”

"Ahem. The middle-aged man clapped his hands, "How does this seem that the news of a scholar's family is not as well-informed as me, an overseas businessman." ”

At this sentence, everyone in the room burst into laughter.

"It's—it shouldn't be. ”

Maybe it's just that Miss Gu's family didn't tell her. ”

"Brother, where did you get rich, take a brother?"

Except for those two, of course, who still had their heads down.

"Oh, not only did the eldest prince not marry the girl at the beginning, but now he doesn't even tell the girl the news of marriage. The middle-aged man who was arched a little by everyone licked his lips, stared at Gu Nan obscenely, and said with a wicked smile: "Girl, do you want to consider entering my house, I'm not a person who forgets my old love when I get a new love, and besides, I'm still very rich, am I?"

"Hahahaha!"

"Brother, Niu X. ”

"Hey, hey, hey, hey. ”

The middle-aged man's rabbit-headed brain's appearance caused even more laughter.

And Gu Nan just picked up the tea cup that had been just warm, and drank it slowly. Just because she didn't speak doesn't mean she's not angry, and because she hasn't had a seizure, it doesn't mean she'll spare the person who offended her.

Maybe this guy doesn't know that today may be his last night on this earth.

"What makes you laugh so much? The door to the room was suddenly pushed open, and a young man dressed in fine clothes walked in with two attendants, a man and a woman.

"Your Royal Highness the Sixth Prince, you can count it on. Gu Nan put down the empty teacup unhurriedly and got up to greet him.

Well, that's right, the prince of Yanfeng invited by Gu Nan is the sixth prince of Yanfeng, Zhao Hongxing, who just turned thirteen this year