Several men who watched Zhao Gu go upstairs saw Zhao Gu directly rewarding with silver, revealing a curious look, and one of the twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old men stood up and said with a smile: "This brother is invited, in the next Zhang Zongli, seeing that Brother Tai is angry and has a heart, I don't know if Brother Tai can appreciate the light?" ”

Zhang Zongli was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, about eight feet tall, handsome, especially a pair of sword eyebrows, which made a very deep impression. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhao Gu smiled slightly and said, "Brother Zhang is polite, Brother Zhang has the heart to invite, and he can't ask for it." ”

The two laughed for a while, Zhao Gu sat at a table with him at the invitation of Zhang Zongli, the two sisters were quite eye-catching, and hurriedly separated one person to get the bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses, Zhao Gu ordered five or six dishes with a high price in one go, and Zhang Zongli on the side was surprised.

The six dishes ordered by Zhao Gu are not particularly expensive, but they are very particular, there are meat and vegetarian, greasy and light, and there is also a light soup, which is a person who knows how to taste life.

Zhang Zongli was surprised that Zhao Gu's style was not pretended at all, but from the inside out, just like an old man who has been enjoying life all his life, calm and elegant without losing taste.

But Zhao Gu was only a young man in his twenties, and Zhang Zongli couldn't help but wonder, could this be the son of a certain prince and minister? Otherwise, the children of ordinary families would never raise such characters.

Zhao Gu took Zhang Zongli's expression in his eyes, smiled secretly, but there was no change on his face, and said, "Brother Zhang doesn't mind adding a few dishes, right?" ”

"Where, where." Zhang Zongli hurriedly waved his hand, and after thinking about it, Zhang Zongli said: "I still don't know the name of Brother Tai?" That's a lot of names. ”

"Under the surname Zhao." Zhao Gu replied lightly.

Surname Zhao?

Zhang Zongli gasped in his heart, and felt more and more that his guess was completely correct.

It is said that there are many people with the surname Zhao, maybe one day Zhang Zongli accidentally stepped on the feet of ten people while walking on the street, there may be three people surnamed Zhao, but Zhang Zongli would not think that Zhao Gu was the kind of passerby who could be seen everywhere.

In this Great Song Dynasty, Zhao can be described as a big surname.

There is no other reason, who is called the royal family of the dynasty is the Zhao family, and when the dynasty is the chief assistant, the prime minister of Zhao who is above 10,000 people under one person is also surnamed Zhao, and there are many other high-ranking officials surnamed Zhao, and these people have a lot of clan relatives, and the number together is naturally very amazing.

Zhang Zongli instinctively felt that a person like Zhao Gu with a strong aristocratic atmosphere from the inside out should be the son of these high-ranking officials and dignitaries, or he was the son of a high-ranking official, or he was the younger brother of a high-ranking official at all.

Even Zhang Zongli doubted that this Zhao of Zhao Gu would be the Zhao of the royal family!

In fact, it is not to blame Zhang Zongli for thinking wildly, although his family is also a Kaifeng family, but it is all supported by his father Zhang Qixian alone, although Zhang Qixian is a high servant of the Criminal Department and a deputy envoy of the Privy Council, but he is not good at socializing, and his popularity among officials is not good. In addition, he has always advocated strengthening the army and rejuvenating the country, and he is not liked by the civil officials of the imperial court, so his career is not smooth. Zhang Zongli, as a son, was anxious in his eyes, so he always wanted to help his father close some relationships, whether it was to keep his family rich or noble, or to be promoted to a knighthood in the future.

Therefore, after seeing Zhao Gu, a person who may be a noble son, Zhang Zongli was naturally very happy, and with the idea of stabbing a rod with or without dates, he immediately had the idea of making friends with Zhao Gu.

"It turned out to be Brother Zhao, who was disrespectful." Zhang Zongli hugged his fists.

Zhao Gu waved his hand slightly: "Brother Zhang is polite." ”

Zhang Zongli saw that Zhao Gu was not very enthusiastic, his eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "My father, Zhang Qixian, is an official in the same dynasty as Lord Lingzun, I don't know if Brother Zhao has heard of it?" I have seen Lord Lingzun Zhao, you look quite similar to him, now that I think about it, I shouldn't have asked, I should have guessed your surname Zhao a long time ago. ”

Zhao Gu rolled his eyes in his heart, glanced at Zhang Zongli, and said secretly: "This guy looks quite shrewd, why do you open your mouth and talk nonsense?" My cheap dad may not be where he is now, and he is still an official in the same dynasty, talking nonsense and not making drafts. ”

But Zhao Gu did not explain that he came to this Chunmanlou to make friends with officials and inquire about information, and since this Zhang Zongli was in a hurry to make friends with him, he was naturally willing to make a plan.

Zhang Zongli's thoughts, Zhao Gu only thought about it a little bit to understand, it was nothing more than that he regarded himself as the son of a high-ranking official surnamed Zhao and wanted to take the opportunity to make friends.

Even Zhao Gu guessed that Zhang Zongli didn't really believe that he was the son of a high-ranking official, and the purpose of his words was not to deceive Zhao Gu.

Now that he had insight into his thoughts, Zhao Gu's posture became higher and higher, and he looked like Zhang Qixian was something, and in Zhang Zongli's eyes, he naturally became more and more mysterious.

So, two guys with their own ghosts chatted happily at the dinner table.

Zhang Zongli made up his mind to believe that Zhao Gu was the son of a high-ranking official of the Zhao family, and Zhao Gu was waiting for an opportunity to extract information from Zhang Zongli's mouth.

After some conversation, Zhao Gu heard a trace of valuable information from Zhang Zongli's complaints, intentionally or unintentionally, and also had a more intuitive understanding of Zhang Zongli's old man.

Zhang Zongli's father's name is Zhang Qixian, who is almost fifty years old this year, and has been respected by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, but he is a jinshi during the Taiping Xingguo period, that is, a jinshi admitted by His Majesty today.

Zhang Qixian is quite talented, whether he governs one side or leads troops to fight, he is a good hand. It is worth mentioning that he was a jinshi in the same year as Lu Meng, the second assistant of the current dynasty, but Lu Meng was the champion of that scientific examination, while Zhang Qixian was only a jinshi.

Speaking of Zhang Qixian leading the troops to fight, naturally I have to say that the second Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, when the golden knife general Yang Ye died on the battlefield, the Liao soldiers once hit the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the current emperor was furious, and wanted to send troops to resist, Zhang Qixian then led the troops to the battle, defeated the Liao army, and greatly increased the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty.

After that, Zhang Qixian led the troops to go out several times, fought many victories, and won the love of many soldiers and the praise of the people.

But because of this, Zhang Qixian's career was gradually affected.

Because since the failure of the Second Northern Expedition, the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty were unwilling to fight again, and the generals did not dare to ask for war because they were afraid that the emperor would suspect them, so the wind direction above the entire court gradually became interesting.

But Zhang Qixian did not have the consciousness of being a civil official, or he had regarded himself as a military general, and he still advocated the war, which naturally caused the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty to look at him unpleasantly, and how could his career be good.

Still last year, through the recommendation of the old prime minister, Zhang Qixian sat in the position of the squire of the Criminal Department, and hung up the name of the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and became a second-class official.

But this still can't change his isolated state, the civil officials still don't want to see him, although he is a second-class official, but he is controlled everywhere and has no real power.

Because of this, as a son, Zhang Zongli will be so eager to change the status quo, he relied on some of his own connections, and made many official children, although there are no particularly big official children, but some four or five official children still know a lot.

And when he came to Chunmanlou this time, he heard that the son of a high-ranking official of the imperial court liked to come here, so he invited someone here.