Coming out of the palace, Wu Jin did not go back to the Lanling County Mansion directly, but walked on the street alone, and too many changes happened in just two days, which made it difficult for him to adapt for a while, so that in the past two days, he felt like a puppet, without his own thoughts, dancing with the high-level royal family.

Whether it was his recognition of his ancestors and his return to his ancestors, or the emperor's reception, these were all up to him to do things according to his own ideas, he thought that he could behave by being received by the emperor, but he soon found that the emperor received him with another deep meaning, and he never wanted to see him perform, and he never gave him the opportunity to perform.

Just like Huangfujiang arranged his fate, the emperor also arranged a road for him, he had never heard of a three-no person with no qualifications, no military merits, and no talent, only worked in Meihuawei for two days, and was promoted to the deputy governor of the Chuzhou Navy in one step, perhaps because he was a royal family, but Wujin felt that the emperor ordered him to hold this high position, not because he was a royal family, but had a deeper purpose.

He felt that he had become a chess piece, a chess player, with the emperor Fujiang of Lanling County on one side and the current emperor on the other.

Although Wu Jin has decided to inherit his biological father's unfinished career, it does not mean that he wants to become a puppet, become a puppet with others holding the string, and become a chess piece, this is not what he wants, maybe everyone thinks that he is only eighteen years old and cannot take on heavy responsibilities, but he knows very well in his heart that he is by no means only eighteen years old.

He has to play his cards according to his own rules and play chess according to his own wishes.

Before he knew it, he had come to Nanshi again, and the streets of Nanshi were still full of people, lively and noisy, full of merchants from foreign lands, and caravans of camels passing by him.

Wu Jin wandered in front of one shop after another, in fact, he still liked the life of a businessman, simple and happy, he began to miss the fifth uncle, I don't know what kind of expression he would have when he heard that he had won the title of high-ranking official.

When he passed by a jewelry shop, he was suddenly stunned, and he seemed to see a familiar figure with a woman buying jewelry.

What Wu Jin saw was a man about thirty years old, he closed a jewelry box, handed it to the shopkeeper and asked, "Shopkeeper, my wife likes rubies more, are there any other styles besides these?" ”

"I'm sorry officer, the gems have been out of stock recently, and there are only a few pieces left in the shop."

"Oh well! I'll go to another store, ma'am, let's go somewhere else!" ”

The man stood up and walked out of the store with the woman, Wu Jin finally saw the young man's appearance clearly, it was him, it was Zhang Rong, the county magistrate of Weiyang County, how could he appear in the capital?

The man in the jewelry shop is Zhang Rong, the county magistrate of Weiyang County, whose term expires next month, and returns to the capital under the pretext of visiting relatives, today he specially brought his wife to buy a few pieces of jewelry, and he has been an official outside in recent years, and he has neglected his wife, and he wants to make up for it.

As soon as Zhang Rong walked out of the store, Wu Jin shouted from the side: "Lord Zhang! ”

As soon as Zhang Rong turned around, he suddenly saw Wu Jin, and couldn't help but be surprised, "Wu Jin, why are you here?" ”

"I'm here to run errands in the capital, why did you come to the capital?"

"I'm going back to Beijing to visit relatives."

Zhang Rong hurriedly smiled and introduced Wujin to his wife, "This is the young man I wrote to you about, the emperor has no Jin, and he earned tens of thousands of taels of silver by building a bridge." ”

Wu Jin hurriedly saluted her, "I've seen Madame!" ”

Zhang Rong's wife's surname is Liang, the daughter of Liang Su, the imperial master of the dynasty, she is gentle and elegant, and she nods with a smile to Wujin, indicating that she has heard of him.

Zhang Rong knew that Wujin was escorting the East Palace tax and silver into Beijing for Su Hanzhen, and he had only been back in Beijing for a day, so he heard his father talk about it, and his father was very interested in this matter, but unfortunately although he was the commander of Weiyang County, he didn't know the specific situation.

Unexpectedly, when he met Wu Jin, his first reaction was to take the opportunity to learn more about it.

"Wu Jin, do you have time now?"

"My lord, I'm fine!"

Zhang Rong whispered a few words to his wife, and his wife nodded, and then took the maid into the carriage, and the carriage started and left quickly.

Zhang Rong patted Wujin's shoulder and said with a smile: "When you meet your old acquaintance in another country, you will have four joys in life, I invite you to have a glass of wine." ”

Wujin was also very happy to meet Zhang Rong, he had a very good impression of Zhang Rong, and Zhang Rong's father was the secretary of the court and the secretary of the ministry, and he also wanted to get to know him.

He also smiled happily: "I should invite Master Zhang, let's go to Baifu Restaurant, where the environment is good." ”

Zhang Rong smiled, "Okay! I'm going to beat you up today. ”

The two came to the Baifu Restaurant, the shopkeeper of the restaurant happened to be seeing off guests at the door, and when they saw Wujin at a glance, they hurriedly stepped forward with a smile, "It turned out to be General Huangfu, welcome!" ”

Zhang Rong glanced at Wu Jin in surprise, he wondered if he had heard it wrong, and actually called General Wu Jin, "Wu Jin..... What's going on? Are you employed? ”

Wu Jin smiled bitterly, "It's a long story, I'll tell you about it later." ”

He said to the shopkeeper, "Arrange a private room for us." ”

The shopkeeper was very afraid of Wujin, and hurriedly agreed: "No problem, General Huangfu, please go up to the second floor." ”

He hurriedly led Wujin up to the second floor and arranged a private room, Wujin ordered more than a dozen dishes, asked for two pots of good wine, and the shopkeeper retreated, leaving only Wujin and Zhang Rong in the room.

Zhang Rong's heart was uncertain, and he hurriedly asked, "Wujin, what happened?" ”

Wu Jin sighed and poured Zhang Rong a cup of hot tea, "There are many things that even I can't think of, my lord, I am no longer a child of the East China Sea Huangfu clan, in fact, I have not been a member of the East China Sea Huangfu family since I was born, mine should be a child of the Beijing Huangfu clan." ”

Zhang Rong picked up the tea, he somewhat understood what Wu Jin meant, if it was really as Wu Jin said, then it would not be surprising that he became a general.

"You're saying that your real background is royalty?"

At this time, several guys came in with wine and some cold dishes, Wu Jin filled Zhang Rong with a glass of wine, poured himself a glass, he smiled bitterly, "I never dreamed that I was actually the grandson of the royal family, and my grandfather already knew about it, so he also asked me to go back to Beijing, in fact, they had already arranged it." ”

Zhang Rong asked curiously: "I don't know which prince it is?" ”

"King of Lanling, have you heard of it?"

"It turns out that you are the queen of the Liang King!"

Zhang Rong's eyes showed a look of shock, Lanling County Wang Huangfu Jiang is one of the three elders of the imperial court, although he himself is idle, but he has the entire Xiliang as the background, and his power is extremely great, if Wujin is the descendant of King Liang, the future is simply immeasurable.

"Do you have a knighthood now?" Zhang Rong asked again.

Wu Jin nodded, "I just sealed it today, let me inherit my biological father's title, Duke Liangguo." ”

Zhang Rong gasped, oh my God! turned out to be the prince of the country, and his father was the prince of the county, and this young man suddenly became the prince of the country.

In his heart, he was envious and happy, envy was that he did not have the luck of Wu Jin, he could become a royal family and ascend to the sky in one step, and he was glad that he and Wu Jin were friends and not enemies, so as not to give his father a strong enemy.

He raised his glass and smiled: "For your ascension, I toast you." ”

The two clinked glasses and drank the wine as soon as possible, Wu Jin wanted to pour him wine, Zhang Rong hurriedly grabbed the wine jug, "I'll come!" ”

He poured a glass of wine for Wu Jin, and asked him with a smile, "Generally, a high lord must have a high position, I don't know what position the emperor is going to seal you?" ”

Wu Jin smiled and said: "It's been sealed today, it's a military ....."

"Wait!"

Zhang Rong stopped Wu Jin's words and said with a smile: "Let me guess." ”

He groaned for a while and said: "Since you have been named the Duke of Liangguo, it is obvious that you will be allowed to go to Xiliang to develop, but you are still young and can't stand alone, you should be the deputy governor or something, I guessed correctly!" ”

Wu Jin shook his head, "It's not to go to Helong, my lord guessed wrong." ”

Zhang Rong was stunned, "Where is that?" ”

"Or go back to Donghai County, and the emperor will appoint me as the deputy governor of the Chuzhou Naval Army."

Zhang Rong was really stunned, he looked at Wujin blankly, and after a while, he said slowly: "Do you know who the governor of Chuzhou is the naval army?" How many ships are there? How many troops are there? ”

"I really don't know..."

Wu Jin hurriedly asked: "I also want to know this, can Master Zhang tell me?" ”

"Let me tell you, the Chuzhou Navy has five naval palaces, more than 20,000 people, distributed in seven ports along the East China Sea, the yamen is in Jiangning Mansion, the governor of the Chuzhou Navy is led by the king of Chu, and the deputy governor Yang Song, who is in charge of real power, married the sister of Uncle Shen Guo, is Uncle Shen's henchman, he is the same as me, his term of office expires at the end of next month, and he will be transferred back to Beijing, the Chuzhou Navy has always been Uncle Shen's sphere of influence, we all think that it should be another Uncle Shen's henchman to take over, but I didn't expect it to be you, which is very unexpected, What is the emperor's intention in this move? ”

Zhang Rong's words surprised Wujin, he always thought that the so-called deputy governor of the navy was just an idle position, and the emperor would not let him let an eighteen-year-old young man take real power, but he didn't expect that the governor of the Chuzhou navy was actually the king of Chu, in this way, he was the actual ruler, and he was actually in charge of more than 20,000 sailors? Forcibly took away Uncle Shen's power territory, what does the emperor mean by this?

He was really a little confused, he kept thinking about the emperor's intention to not let him go to Helong, but he didn't expect that he had inserted Uncle Shen Guo, was it to make enemies for Uncle Shen?

This time, he was escorting the East Palace tax and silver into Beijing, and the emperor must have known that on the surface, he should be the person of the crown prince of the East Palace, but he believes that as an emperor, he will definitely not be so simple to belong to the East Palace party, maybe he is making enemies for Uncle Shen, making the Liang Dynasty an enemy of Shen Guo's uncle, or conversely, making Shen Guo's Uncle an enemy of the Liang Palace's family, but in this way, isn't it a cheap prince?

It shouldn't be so simple, Zhang Rong seemed to think of something, and after speaking, he pondered silently, and after a long time, he suddenly drank the wine, and said to Wu Jin: "Would you like to go and see my father and see what explanation he can give you?" ”

(To be continued)