Chapter 47: Returning to the Dynasty on Meritorious Deeds

Nangong Yuan and Yan Li brought a hundred people from Fengdu into the city, and Zhai Hong led the crowd back to Dongdaying.

The people of Donglong City were all welcomed, especially seeing that the number of people entering the city was small, their hearts became more and more stable.

After Yu Li and Nangong entered the city, they quickly transmitted the news to Fengdu. When Bai Qi read Tan Li's letter and knew that he had not compensated one or two pieces of silver, he was overjoyed, and wanted to immediately seal Tan Li and others, considering that the situation mentioned in Tan Li's letter was just stable, it was not appropriate to do it for the time being, and everything would be discussed after returning to the court, and he felt that it was very reasonable.

After Zhan Li and Nangong entered the city, after half a month's efforts, Donglong City had some improvement.

The original city lord Dongfang Prison has been killed, and it is sad to re-investigate the murder of Teng Yisheng, the uncle of the Xiaoyao Kingdom, and the clues are all broken, which is even more difficult. Fortunately, Cao Shaocheng, the master of criminal code who was sent by Fengdu, came, and handed over the matter to him. Cao Shaocheng is known as the King of Cao Yan, iron-faced selfless, fair and strict, and judges the case like a god, and soon sorted out his eyebrows, peeled off the cocoon, followed the vine and touched the melon, locked the suspect for a few days, boldly speculated, carefully verified, after three court trials, the whole case was slowly sorted out, and all parties corroborated the evidence, sorted out the document, and reported the separation. Zhan Li greatly appreciated Cao Shaocheng, and decided to wait until he returned to Fengdu, please be the princess's teacher, Cao Shaocheng saw that he couldn't refuse, so he had to agree.

He selected the officials of the original Donglong City one by one, selected a few capable people, and began to arrange the opening of the mutual market together, personally took field investigations and research, and invited the wealthy merchants in the city to come and propose, and worked day and night to handle this matter, and also selected candidates who were suitable to be the lord of a city in the future.

As soon as the seal of Fengdu was granted, the candidate for the new city lord of Donglong City was decided.

In order to standardize the mutual market transactions, the Qin Commercial Supervision was set up to deal with various cases of trade entanglements, and the Chengdong Chamber of Commerce was specially set up to receive foreign businessmen to eat and stay, so as to ensure the safety of foreign businessmen in Donglongcheng, and had the right to directly submit to the monarch.

The matter of Donglong City, the dust has settled, the new city lord Mu Xuan is a responsible and talented young man, diligent and loyal, and has come up with a lot of new policies that benefit the people. It has been more than a month since I left Fengdu, and I miss Xiao Yue'er's girl very much when I am free, so I found Nangong Yuan to discuss the matter of returning to the court, and after setting a date, I hurried to inspect all the affairs in the city with the new city lord Mu Yu.

"Mu Qiu, the lessons of the previous car should always be vigilant, check the people's feelings, the people's aspirations, and accommodate all things", Yu Li stood at the door of the Chamber of Commerce in the east of the city, looked at the businessmen and gentry who came and went, and explained to Mu Qiu.

"Yes, master, the student wrote it down", Mu Xuan stood beside him and replied respectfully.

"That's good...", Zhan Li looked at Mu Xuan, and both of them had benevolent and compassionate intentions in their eyes.

Before leaving, he found Zhai Hong and asked him for Zheng Ke, so that Zheng Ke could bring people into Donglong City, take charge of the guards in the city, and ensure the safety of Donglong City, so he was relieved.

Outside Donglong City, the group saw off Yu Li and Nangong Yuan, before getting on the horse, Zhai Hong specially whispered a few words to Yan Li, Yan Li smiled, patted him on the shoulder and whispered: "Yu and I, wait for you in Fengdu."

"High Priest, General Nangong asked if it was time to leave", a person dressed as a lieutenant general walked over and saluted Yan Li.

"Let's go...", Zhan Li replied, and turned to Zhai Hong and said, "Don't send it, there will be a period later."

"Okay...", Zhai Hong smiled and waved his hand, and saw that he was walking to the front of the team on horseback, and hundreds of people were getting away from each other.

After Bai Qi received the news of returning to the court, he personally led the ministers to the palace gate to greet him, such a glory was also shared by King Kang Yan Moyu, and now he is far away from Nangong, which made Bai Lu, who was standing in the crowd, feel very stinging in his heart, but his face was full of smiles, and he was really happy.

Zhanli and Nangong traveled far away to the palace gate, and when they saw such a battle, they were all stunned, and they dismounted and walked away.

Yan Li and Nangong walked in front of Bai Qi, clasped his fists and saluted, and were helped up by Bai Qi.

"High Priest, General Nangong, it's hard work, there's no need to be polite", Bai Qi's face smiled, his words were full of approval, and all the ministers on the side also echoed.

In the Zhongtian Palace, the military attaches all straightened their waists because of Nangong Yuan, and they all looked a little mighty, on the contrary, there were some whispers among the civil officials, and Bai Lu's face was even more cold, and the jealousy in his eyes had turned over the river.

Bai Qi praised Zhanli and Nangong Yuan above the court, Zhanli felt a little too much, extremely helpless, but it was not easy to interrupt, and the corners of his forehead were oozing beads of sweat, but Nangong Yuan's face was calm, as if he was not talking about himself.

After Bai Qi finished speaking, he glanced at the ministers in the hall, handed Kou Sen a look, and motioned for Kou Sen to read out the holy call to confer the seal.

Kou Sen, holding a holy call in his hand, cleared his throat and read: "Fengtian Decheng, this peaceful settlement of the dispute in Donglongcheng, the general Hou Nangong Yuan, the high priest Zhan Li, and the great meritorious, each gave a thousand taels of silver, and the general Hou Nangong Yuan was crowned as the prince of Zhenguo, and the high priest was crowned as the Marquis of Xinshang, and all those who made meritorious contributions to the peace and war were promoted to one level, and the reward was one hundred taels of silver, and they were admired."

"His Royal Highness the Marquis of Xie Qi", he saluted with his hands.

"His Royal Highness Marquis Xie Qi", Nangong Yuan hugged his fists and thanked him.

Kou Sen accepted the call and retreated to the side, Bai Qi nodded with satisfaction, and retreated happily.

Zhan Li wanted to go back to the Great Si Ming Palace a little like an arrow, and was in a hurry to go to the Xiangsheng Temple to see Xiao Yue'er, and the front foot went out of the Zhongtian Temple and was chased by the chief manager of the palace on the way to the palace gate.

"High Priest, you can go so fast", Ko Sen said a little breathlessly: "His Royal Highness Qihou will set up a banquet to celebrate you and General Nangong."

"Mr. Coe, can I not participate?" asked the tentatively.

"High Priest, it's a joke, it's just for you, how can you not go"?

"It's... Okay", Zhan Li knew that he couldn't escape now, so he reluctantly followed Kousen.

In the Cheng'en Palace, the civil and military officials were already seated, the singing and dancing silk bamboo had risen, and they walked to the front from the right side of the banquet in a low-key manner, and saluted Qihou: "His Royal Highness Qihou."

"Why are you coming, sit, sit, come, and serve wine to the high priest."

A young maid in pink walked over, filled a cup of fragrance for Zhan Li, and when her eyes glanced at Zhan Li, a pair of bright eyes clearly hid a trace of admiration.

He only wanted to see Xiao Yue'er soon, and he didn't have time to care about anything else.

"High priest, this marquis respects you", Bai Qi seemed to be really happy, he had already drunk a lot of wine, and he was slightly drunk.

"His Royal Highness Marquis Xie Qi", Yu Li thought that he was here after all, so let it be, so he drank it all.

Bai Qi saw that Yan Li drank dry, and was very satisfied, the more he felt in his heart that Yan Li could be a person he depended on, with him and Nangong Yuan as his right-hand men, his position would be more stable.

In the middle of the banquet, Yan Li had already drunk a lot of wine, and looking at Nangong Yuan, who was in the upper position on the left, he estimated that he had drunk more than himself, which was really a bit unbearable for this wave of compliments. Zhan Li felt a little dizzy, and wanted to get up and go out for a walk, and at a glance, he just bumped into Prime Minister Bai Lu's cold face and the cannibalistic gaze, and he really didn't want to pay attention to it, so he automatically skipped it.

In the crowd, because he was the younger brother of the company, he was also poured a lot, and he noticed that he was a little too strong to drink, and he went out of the Cheng'en Palace, and finally got rid of the person who persuaded him to drink.

Xun Xun walked and looked for finally saw the figure of Zhan Li in a corridor in the garden, and wanted to walk over and tease, but saw a woman in pink who walked to Zhan Li first, and said something to Zhan Li, and was pushed away by Zhan Li, the woman refused to give up, caught up and pulled and pulled, for some reason, Zhan Li suddenly hugged the woman, and buried her head in the woman's chest. Yan Xun was a little happy, his brother finally opened his mind, he was interested in women, thinking about not disturbing his brother's good deeds, turned around and prepared to leave, just took a step, vaguely felt wrong, with his own understanding of his brother, and then think about the scene he just saw, he suddenly found that he was tired, and this was in the palace, I was afraid that there would be trouble, so I turned around and shouted, and ran in the direction of Zhan Li.

The woman in pink was startled when she saw someone shouting, and then she saw someone running towards her, she definitely couldn't escape with Zhan Li, so she had no choice but to put down Zhan Li and run away alone.

Yan Xun came to Yan Li's side, found that he had fainted, probed his nose, everything was normal, and then put his mind at ease, it seemed that the woman just stunned him, and did not murder, but remembered that if he was really careless just now, he was afraid that he was going to hurt his brother, and he still had palpitations, and warned himself not to do this again next time.

Yan Xun helped Yan Li, and felt that there was no need to go back to the celebration banquet, so he asked the palace people to explain a few words, and then helped Yan Li out of the palace gate and sent him back to the Da Si Ming Palace.

Fan Zhangshi received the news of his return to the court early in the morning, and ordered people to clean up the whole palace of the Great Si Ming, especially Shang Zhutai, which was clean and tidy, and Yun personally distributed fresh fruits and prepared hot tea.

"It's so late, will the high priest not come back tonight", the high priest ordered the gate of the palace, Yun kept looking.

"No, the High Priest will definitely come back," Fan said firmly.

"It's all this hour", Yun still didn't quite believe Fan's words.

"If there is no high priest to say that he will not come back, then no matter how late it is, he will definitely return, just wait."

"Fan Zhangshi, why are you so sure"?

"Because I've been with the High Priest for almost ten years, I know."

Yun didn't have anything to say this time, ten years, no wonder he was so sure, so he followed Fan Zhangshi and waited at the gate of the Great Si Ming Palace with peace of mind.