0098 Coming to Luoyang again
Liu Jing and Cao Cao arrived in Luoyang City in less than a day, and now in Luoyang City, it is another scene. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
I saw the army parading back and forth in the streets, heavily guarded, and no official or soldier was allowed to wander back and forth or leave the city at will.
And Liu Jing and Cao Cao also disguised themselves as merchants, and then contacted the members of the 'Hengshe' in the city, guaranteed by them, and then sent some bribes to the soldiers defending the city, so that they were fortunate enough to enter the city safely.
After Liu Jing and Cao Cao entered the city, they stayed temporarily in an inn belonging to the 'Hengshe', and then Liu Jing sent two spies from the 'sticky pole' out to investigate the situation in the capital first.
Jian Yong is responsible for contacting Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun, because there are more Dong Zhuo people in Luoyang City, so Jian Yong's actions are also extremely careful and secretive, and the people at the 'twisting pole' are only about a dozen people in the capital, and the distribution of 'Hengshe' in the capital is okay, but after Dong Zhuo came to power, it shrank slightly.
Because the business environment in the capital has become very bad since Dong Zhuo came, and especially the rise of Xiliang businessmen, the businessmen from Xiliang are also taking advantage of the situation, with the help of Dong Zhuo's power, they are rampant and domineering in the capital, forcibly monopolizing, and bullying the street and dominating the market, resulting in foreign businessmen and even local businessmen, some of whom are unbearable, so the business community is also full of complaints about Dong Zhuo, but they dare not speak out.
After investigation, Jian Yong found that although Zhu Jun was still serving in the court, Dong Zhuo's supervision of him was not lax at all, but Lu Zhi seemed to be ignored by Dong Zhuo.
In the middle of October, it is the late autumn world, the weather is dry, the leaves on the trunk have begun to turn yellow, a shake, a lot of falling, everything is killed, the autumn wind sweeps the leaves, the sky is very refreshing and dry, people's clothes are gradually thickened.
It was night, and a horse-drawn carriage walked alone down the wide street, gurgling and crushing the earth, creaking and creaking, breaking the slightly peaceful, quiet night.
Since Dong Zhuo took power, the curfew has long been a piece of waste paper, almost no one cares about that, those nightclubs are still in full swing, and those rich people are also happy to enjoy the last feast of the last days, staging the last madness.
Lu Zhi's residence is a gathering place for the rich on the outskirts of the city, and the people who live here are literati, rioters, small officials and small merchants, and it can be regarded as a place where people with a certain status and money can live.
The carriage carried Liu Jing, Cao Cao and Jian Yong, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Cao Ren did not follow, because Liu Jing was afraid that more people would attract attention, so he only brought Jian Yong out, because Jian Yong could give them some ideas.
Because the people at the 'twisting pole' had already greeted Lu Zhi, so that night, the people in Lu Zhi's mansion had already been prepared, and the housekeeper had already stood at the door, and from the crack in the door, he looked outside from time to time to observe the pedestrians.
Just as the butler was probing his brain, he suddenly saw a slow-moving carriage, slowly approaching here, and the butler showed a look of joy on his face, and immediately opened the door and welcomed the carriage in.
The reason why the housekeeper was so sure that the person who was pulling the car immediately was Liu Jing, because he saw that the person driving the car was Jian Yong, and Jian Yong happened to be here before, so he and the housekeeper also had a relationship.
The carriage drove slowly into the courtyard, and the butler immediately came to the gate, poked his head out, looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no vision, he slowly closed the gate, and then walked quickly to the carriage.
Jian Yong got off the horse and whispered a few words to the housekeeper, and at the same time, Liu Jing and Cao Cao also walked down from the carriage one after another, and the two of them greeted the housekeeper in turn, that is, they walked towards the house, while Jian Yong returned to the car, took out two wrapped gifts, handed them to the housekeeper, and then followed Liu Jing and Cao Cao to the house.
Before Liu Jing and the others walked into the house, Lu Zhi greeted them with a smile, and he hugged his fists to Liu Jing and Cao Cao and welcomed: "Xuande and Mengde, you are here, you have not been far away, forgive me, forgive me!" ā
Liu Jing hugged his hands and smiled: "I haven't seen the teacher for a long time, the students are here to visit the teacher, there is a lot of disturbance when you visit at night, and I hope the teacher doesn't mind!" ā
Cao Cao also bowed his hand and smiled: "Lu Shangshu is polite, we are here to disturb you, as long as you don't annoy us!" ā
Lu Zhi also smiled happily, and said kindly: "You young people are really, I'm now, unofficial and light, I read every day, raise flowers and plants, and are very leisurely, people, when I get older, I am a little idle, it is rare for someone to talk to me, you come to chat with me, I, it's too late to be happy, okay, it's dawn outside, hurry up and come in and talk!" ā
Lu Zhi led Liu Jing and Cao Cao into the back room, the three of them sat on the earthen kang, Jian Yong sat aside, and the housekeeper also made the tea very neatly, slowly brought it up, and handed it to Liu Jing, Cao Cao and Jian Yong in turn.
Lu Zhi gave everyone the tea, then picked up the hot tea himself, lifted the tea lid, gently blew the hot air in the teacup, took a sip gently, and then looked at Liu Jing and Cao Cao, and asked, "How is it, are you okay to come in?" ā
Liu Jing was drinking tea with a teacup, and when he heard Lu Zhi ask so generally, he turned his face and looked at Cao Cao, and at this moment, Cao Cao had just finished drinking a sip of tea, and when he saw Liu Jing looking at him, he smiled.
Liu Jing also smiled at Cao Cao, turned around, and hurriedly said: "I'm tired of worrying about the teacher, the student is all right!" ā
Lu Zhi moved his gaze to Cao Cao again, looked at Cao Cao, did not speak, and seemed to be asking Cao Cao the same question.
Cao Cao also had a smile on his face, and immediately said: "Lu Shangshu has a heart, Meng De is all right!" ā
Liu Jing saw that Cao Cao no longer spoke, knowing that Cao Cao was embarrassed to talk about business directly, so he immediately asked Lu Zhi: "I haven't seen you for a long time, I don't know how the teacher is doing, I heard that the teacher has been staying in Beijing, talking about elegance and elegance, reading poetry and books, which can be regarded as cultivating sentiment and killing time!" ā
Lu Zhi smiled and said lightly: "Oh, Xuande, Xuande, I didn't know you on the first day, how I was doing in the capital, that is a secondary matter, the important thing is how your current affairs are, and the purpose of your coming to Beijing!" ā
Liu Jing couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard Lu Zhi's words, he didn't expect Lu Zhi to ask so directly, Liu Jing and Cao Cao glanced at each other, Cao Cao also showed surprise, and then, Liu Jing looked at the housekeeper, and then looked at Lu Zhi, without speaking. (To be continued.) )