Chapter 1 On the Stage of History

The huge red wall is thick bricks, and the golden glazed tiles that symbolize the majesty of the royal family look noble, but a pair of dirty little hands destroy the noble atmosphere.

A young body climbed up the high wall at some point, a small gown made of fine silk, and a piece of strange treasure jade hung around his neck, with the words "Wang Xi's handbook" on it, those who can wear this kind of jade pendant are either rich or noble, not to mention that such a jade pendant worth a thousand gold is actually worn on a child's neck, which can't help but make people have a strong interest in the identity of this child with a round face and a cute appearance.

"Brother Xingtang, this is not good, trespassing on the palace is a big crime, the last time we went to the forbidden garden to dig up treasures and was caught, we were punished for half a month and couldn't go out, after that time, the queen mother always warned me to obey the rules, if we do this, will we be punished?" Under the huge high wall, there was a milky soft male voice.

The child standing on the glazed tile heard the voice under the high wall, pursed his mouth, and said to the child below: "I said childish slave, when will you change your timid and fearful temperament, all day long, the queen mother said, the queen mother said, every time I go to the Lizheng Palace, my godmother is very good to me, how can I talk so much like you said?" ”

The boy under the high wall suddenly had a look of grievance on his face, "Brother Xingtang, every time you come to Xujiazhuang, you bring the latest shampoo to the queen mother, of course the queen mother is good to you, in fact, you have never seen the queen mother angry, every time the queen mother has a straight face, it is so terrible." The boy shuddered as if he remembered something to be afraid of.

When the boy standing on the high wall heard this, he laughed and said, "Childish slave." No wonder my dad always says you're weak. Even your mother is afraid. Not a man. ”

When the boy under the wall heard this, he showed a look of grievance, and there were tears in his eyes.

"Brother Xingtang, how can you say that about Brother Childish." Another small man climbed up the high wall along the ladder, wearing a pink silk dress, bangs, big eyes, and two ponytails tied with red bows. It was a little girl.

When he saw the girl, Xu Xingtang was stunned, and then shrugged his shoulders a little wryly, "I don't mean anything else." ”

"Hmph." The girl's head was raised and she said very arrogantly: "Daddy said that Brother Child's character is really precious in the royal family, how can you say that about him?" ”

Xu Xingtang showed a defeated look, raised his hand and surrendered: "Okay, okay, my fault, okay." ”

The little girl looked satisfied. He said to Li Zhi under the high wall: "Brother Child, come up quickly." We already have servants in the Yeting Palace, so don't be afraid to ...... it......

"Husband, the concubine has been looking in the courtyard for a long time and has not seen Tianwu and Jingshi, where did the two of them go?" Liu Mengli walked in from outside the hospital with a sweaty body, and the heat in June Guanzhong was already a little steaming, and he felt sweaty when he moved a little.

Xu Yang was holding a newspaper in his hand, and he didn't raise his head to let out a sigh, and it took a while to react, and said vaguely: "Maybe go to the palace to play." ”

"Hey." Liu Mengli sighed, and said with a little worry: "They are too spoiled by them, now they are running around all day long, the heavenly things are fine, after all, it is a boy, Jingshi is a girl, but she also runs around together, what kind of system." ”

Xu Yang put down the newspaper in his hand at this time, raised his head, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "This girl is also with me, and she can't be quiet." ”

Liu Mengli shook his head, "There are so many nobles in Chang'an, just these two of our family are the craziest, a while ago they went to the forbidden garden of the palace to talk about digging treasures, and then they were caught by the forbidden army, you don't care." Liu Mengli showed a dissatisfied look, there were more than twenty people, and she muttered like a child.

Xu Yang also shook his head and laughed, "The guards in the palace all know the two of them, so you don't have to worry about it." He looked down at the newspaper again, but when he looked at it, he suddenly turned pale, shook the newspaper in his hand, and asked, "Did our family go to express the death of the Tobe Shangshu Samurai Tong from illness?" ”

Liu Mengli seemed to have found a new topic, and hurriedly said: "When the martial arts were the largest timber merchant in Chang'an, we had dealings with many industries in our family, and the head of the warrior Tong family of the martial arts family died of illness, how could our family not say that we had sent 10,000 pieces of mourning silver and wreaths, and my father and old lady also attended his funeral." ”

Xu Yang had already stood up at this time, time was really passing so fast, it seemed that in the blink of an eye, a great god-level figure who shocked the universe was about to appear on the stage of history again, and he was also ready to meet the challenge of a generation of empresses.

"Liu Qi, prepare the carriage and go to the martial arts ......" ......

Wu Shi Tong, also known as Wu Xin, is a native of Wenshui County, Shanxi, and has four brothers in the family, and he is the fourth.

The samurai family was originally a small family, and the four brothers had a hard time at the beginning, they were all poor peasants, living by renting the land of the landlord's old rich family, but the fourth samurai Tong was born with a business mind, careful calculation, and far-sightedness, in order to improve his life, he started a business of grinding tofu and selling tofu with the support of his fellow villagers.

There are three kinds of hardships in the world: striking iron, supporting boats, and grinding tofu. Although it was bitter, but with hard sweat, the samurai took off the hat of poverty in a few years. If there is no accident, the tofu company of the Wu family can basically be listed in Wenshui County, but the accident came, and Yang Guang, the second child who had endured it for a long time, unexpectedly sat on the throne of the emperor.

As soon as he came to power, he was full of extravagance, and many people from towns and villages who dug rivers went to empty buildings and built luxurious and extravagant palaces everywhere. The people, the rich, ran away; If you don't have money, you will dig rivers, fight Goryeo, and build palaces. If you have money, it has become a catastrophe, let alone eat without money, and you can't even eat tofu dregs.

The samurai tofu company then closed down and closed its doors.

Just when the samurai family was sitting on the mountain, there was a shortage of wood in the market, and the price was higher than that of cloth cotton. This is thanks to Yang Guang, because it takes a lot of wood to build houses everywhere. The discerning warrior Tong invested all his capital in the timber business, and became one of the top nouveau riche and gold tyrants in Wenshui, Shanxi.

At this time, the samurai family is not short of money, what is missing?

Status!

Since ancient times, China has paid attention to the country of origin and bloodline, the more noble, the wider the circle of acquaintances, as far as the low-level bloodline and origin of the martial arts, even the gold and silver mountains can not change anything.

So Wu Shi Tong spent a lot of money to make friends with some powerful people at that time, and spent money to buy a decent officer in Yingyang Mansion in Shanxi.

Sui is a year, the Turkic envoy Bik Khan led an army of 100,000 to invade the Sui, the emperor's comrade Yang Guang appointed the old cousin Li Yuan as the ambassador of the governor of Penn and Hedong, Li Yuan had great power at that time, he ran around at both ends of Bingzhou and Hedong, and on the way he must pass through the samurai villa built next to the official road by the warrior Tong, at this time, the ballad of "Tao Li Zhang" has been very popular, the proverbs are full of excitement, the keen warrior Tong feels that Li Yuan is a strange commodity to live in, a Li Yuan surname Li, responded to the ballad and proverbs, The second is that Li Yuan is the cousin of the emperor's comrade Yang Guang.

Therefore, Wu Shitong resigned from his official position, and the company commander quit, and went home to open a very luxurious private club, just to entertain Li Yuan who passed by for free several times a month.

In less than a year, Wu Shi Tong was like Li Yuan's brother, and the relationship was very iron.

So when Li Yuan raised an army against Sui to his ascension to the throne and became emperor, Wu Shi Tong has been supporting him and providing material sponsorship, Li Yuan is also very kind to this hardcore brother who shares weal and woe, and all kinds of help the samurai family to improve their status, and Wu Shi Tong's official position is also all the way up, and finally he was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Households, which is today's Minister of Finance.

However, it is said that there is no perfect thing in the world, and since the samurai has reached the pinnacle of glory, according to the laws of philosophy, it must go into decline, so when the samurai Tong died of illness, the samurai family began to decline.

At this time, the youngest daughter of Wu Shi Tong, who later became Wu Zetian, was only twelve years old...... (To be continued......)