After a while, someone from the Cheng family came over to open the door.

The subordinate looked Meng Qi up and down, and said with a strange face: "You are the emperor?" You can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense. ”

"What do you say, look for death." Hearing this person's disrespectful words, Sauron's face turned cold, and he was about to draw his knife to make a move, but was stopped by Meng Qi on the side.

Meng Qi looked at this subordinate just now, he was wearing a plain color gown, but the material was very good, it could be seen that even the subordinates of the Cheng family were well fed and dressed, and after a long time, naturally there was no one in their eyes.

Meng Qi motioned to Zoro to take out the emperor's gold medal, looked at the Cheng family's subordinates and said with a smile: "You little guy, I will spare you for being open-mouthed this time, and next time, you will definitely die." ”

When the subordinate saw the gold medal in Sauron's hand, he confirmed Meng Qi's identity, but his face was normal, and he was not afraid at all, and he didn't seem to take Meng Qi's words to heart.

"Please." The subordinate opened the door, vacated the way, and let Meng Qi in.

Zoro glared at the little guy fiercely, and followed Meng Qi into Cheng's house.

Before closing the door, the little servant stretched out his head to inspect the outside, making sure that the cheap emperor really only brought one person over, and couldn't help but shake his head.

As soon as you enter this Cheng family, from the south gate, a wide avenue runs through the north and south courtyards of Chengfu, and the green corridor in the east-west direction complements each other, elegant with atmosphere, showing aristocratic luxury.

On both sides of the road, there are also many potted plants of precious plants, there are pots of mountain pines curling and circling, like an old man meditating, Meng Qi remembered that when he was on the earth, a potted plant like this was auctioned for more than three million, and now it is placed on both sides of the road at will.

'Damn, this Cheng family knows that I came today, so they must have deliberately shown it off to me. Under the stimulus, Meng Qi has the inertial poor thinking again.

"Your Majesty, please come here." The subordinate took Meng Qi to the living room, and then asked Meng Qi to sit and wait, saying that the master of the Cheng family would arrive in a while.

The subordinate served Meng Qi a cup of tea and withdrew.

Zoro said with some indignation: "Your Majesty, how can you say that you are also an emperor, this Cheng family is not ten miles away, and you should also be ready to welcome guests in the mansion, and now you are still waiting for them here, without the courtesy of a monarch and a minister!" ”

Meng Qi came back to his senses, it seemed that this was really the case! He had just taken a sip of tea and was about to have a seizure, when suddenly his voice changed and he said, "Hey, this tea is really delicious, a hundred times better than the tea in the palace, and when you leave, take a few catties with you." ”

The corners of Sauron's mouth twitched, and he shook his head helplessly.

After a while, a middle-aged man walked out of the back hall and said with a courtesy smile: "Your Majesty is here, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive me." ”

Meng Qi smacked his lips, put down the teacup, and said, "Are you the head of the Cheng family?" ”

"No, it's the third son of the Cheng family, my father is taking a nap, I'm bothering Your Majesty to wait for a while, and when my father wakes up, I'll come to see you." The middle-aged man replied.

Zoro couldn't help but say, "It's such a big shelf, and it actually made Your Majesty wait for him to wake up." ”

The middle-aged man still smiled, neither humble nor arrogant: "My father is not in good health, please ask Your Majesty Haihan." ”

Meng Qi was also a little angry at this time, he pretended to smile on the surface and said, "It's okay, just let that old man sleep, he won't be able to sleep for long anyway." ”

Meng Qi's words were full of puns, superficially implying that the head of the Cheng family would soon wake up, and the deep irony was that the old man would not live long.

Hearing this, Zoro next to him laughed, and his face with a scar suddenly turned hideous.

The middle-aged man naturally understood what Meng Qi meant, a gloomy color flashed in his eyes, and the next moment he returned to normal, still with that polite smile on the surface.

When Meng Qi drank three cups of tea, the head of the Cheng family finally came.

Meng Qi raised his eyes to see that the old man was full of white hair, but he was in good spirits, he walked steadily, without a hunchback, he could see that he had a good figure when he was young, and then he looked at the eyes, he did not become cloudy because of his age, but exuded a danger signal, like an eagle falcon waiting for his time.

The middle-aged man stepped forward to help the old man sit in the middle hall, and whispered in the old man's ear for a while, but the old man's expression remained unchanged.

After speaking, the middle-aged man stood aside.

Meng Qi smiled: "Old man Cheng, you look very good, you can live to be a hundred years old!" ”

"The old man is ninety-eight years old this year." The old man laughed.

Meng Qi was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, it was originally a compliment, but now it has become a curse that others will die in two years.

"Oh, I can live another hundred years, one hundred and ninety-eight!" Meng Qi hurriedly spoke.

"Oh, can't you live that long, don't you become an old monster?" The old man joked.

Meng Qi found that this old man was quite talkative, and couldn't help but let down his guard.

"Old man, I'm here to ask you a question." Meng Qi said.

"Your Majesty, please speak." The old man laughed.

"You know that the relationship between our Hirata Kingdom and Qu Yuguo has been very stiff recently, and the next war between the two countries is inevitable, but the strength of our Hirata Country is far inferior to Qu Yuguo, so as the emperor of a country, I can't sleep well." Meng Qi pretended to look sad.

The old man smiled: "Your Majesty wants to completely tear your face with Qu Yuguo?" ”

"It's not that I want to, but Qu Yuguo deceives people too much, and as a native of Hirata, everyone is unwilling to let their country be a vassal state of another country, and its status is inferior, for the sake of freedom and equality, my generation should pick up the sword and defend what belongs to us." Meng Qi said with emotion.

The old man muttered, "For freedom and equality, good for freedom and equality." ”

"So now it's the most important thing to improve the strength of Hirata Country, you say yes." Meng Qi said.

"Your Majesty said yes." The old man nodded.

"And the foundation of a country's prosperity is population and land, and in between the two comes first is population, because with population, wasteland can be turned into fertile soil and food can be cultivated." Meng Qi said.

"And now the huge number of slaves in the Hirata country is in the hands of the aristocracy, which is a waste of a lot of labor." Meng Qi said.

The old man said: "Slaves are in our hands, and they also have to do things, you see that the people who opened the door for you just now, the people who cleaned the yard, and the people who served tea and water are not idle, right?" In addition, we have also contracted a lot of land, and let the slaves work on the land and pay taxes every year, how can it be said that it is a waste of labor? ”

"You have a Cheng Mansion, hundreds of people who are responsible for serving, eighty percent of them are idle laborers, as for the slaves who are responsible for farming, they farm for the nobles, and their natural enthusiasm is not high, and the grain production has not been able to rise, if they regain their freedom and pay taxes to the country themselves, then their enthusiasm will definitely be high, and the grain output will also rise, in addition, there will be more people who join the army." Meng Qi explained.

The old man couldn't deny it, he tapped his fingers on the table, and said, "Just because of your words, our nobles have to give up these slaves for free, isn't it a little unreasonable." ”

Meng Qi said: "As a member of the Hirata Country, for the prosperity of the country, I should be like this, and for the sake of freedom and equality, I should also be like this. ”

The old man put away his smile and said expressionlessly: "What Your Majesty said is reasonable, I don't seem to have a reason to refuse, but I still can't promise you." ”