The seven countries of the Central Plains are constantly at war, and from an emotional level, they are definitely not friends with each other, but from the perspective of interests, many times they can still sit together and drink wine and eat meat, and talk about ideals.

In a word, never be soft when you should fight, and never be embarrassed when you dare to talk.

Emperor Zhou's banquet for the royal delegations of the six countries belonged to the latter.

As a small country that has been established for less than 50 years, it is a great glory for the Zhou people to have the opportunity to receive the core members of the imperial family of the six countries, especially the Spring and Autumn Ancient Kingdom.

Therefore, the scene of this night banquet is extremely spectacular.

There were seven or eight hundred members of the Zhou clan who attended the banquet alone, plus the large and small princely officials of the court and their families and children, the lineup of guests to receive guests actually reached as many as 3,000 people!

There are a lot of people, but it's not chaotic.

The ceremonial officer in charge of receiving the guests had already arranged for the officials to sit at the table according to the size of their official positions.

The seating area of officials below the fourth rank is the farthest away from the VIP area in the middle, so far that they can't hear someone standing in the guest area talking and shouting at the top of their voices.

The third-rank official is a big step closer to the position of the fourth-rank official, but he can only barely hear the voice of the VIP area.

Followed by the second grade minister, a grade of important ministers, followed by the emperor's relatives, and finally a king and four marquis sit around the main escort area, the whole banquet venue is a ring with a ring, from low to high, from the outside to the inside, showing a hundred birds and a phoenix, the stars hold the moon, if you look down from the air, you will find that the arrangement and distribution of banquet seats and the five ring cities of Xianyang of Qin State have the same effect.

When Zhang Qingfeng walked into the banquet hall, this luxurious palace built by the emperor of the previous dynasty at great cost was already full of people, and when he heard the eunuch shouting that the Marquis of Wu'an had arrived, the eyes of all the Great Zhou magnates looked in the direction of the palace gate almost at the same time.

I saw the god of war Zhang Chaoyang wearing a purple and red dragon robe, holding his head high, his air was magnificent, with Zhang Qingfeng, Zhang Beitian and his wife, the little black dragon Bai Xue, accompanied by the thunder and lightning high priest Lu, the poisonous priest Li, the maid Xiaochan, Du big-eyed rabbit and other leaders of the Black Dragon Guard, stepped into this banquet hall named Jinyang Palace.

"Xia Guan has seen Wu Anhou. ”

"I've seen Wu Anhou. ”

The outermost ministers and officials stood up one after another and bowed to Zhang Chaoyang.

The matter of the suppression of the Wu'an Hou Mansion by one king and three marquis is well known in Quanyangcheng, and the matter of Emperor Zhou's visit to the Wu'an Hou Mansion and Zhang Chaoyang eight years ago was also spread in the aristocratic circle.

Everyone knows that the relationship between the Marquis of Wu'an and the royal family has been completely broken.

Those high-ranking and powerful wealthy elites have long begun to stand in line and take a stand, either openly or covertly.

or completely draw a line with the Wu'an Hou Mansion, or eyebrows and eyebrows, or simply blatantly surrender to the Wu'an Hou Mansion, tying fate to Zhang Chaoyang.

But none of these petty officials on the outermost side dared to offend.

Loyal to one king and three princes? People are soft-spoken, and they are not even qualified to speak to several princes.

Surrendering to the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion is even more self-defeating.

Zhang Chaoyang may not embarrass them because of their allegiance to the imperial family, but Emperor Zhou and the three princes will never take their future and fate seriously, and they can fall into the abyss from which they will never recover.

This is the sorrow of the little people.

Zhang Chaoyang didn't ignore these people because of their humble status, nodded frequently with a smile, and shouted 'good, good, good' in his mouth, which was considered a return gift, but that's all, he didn't say a word to anyone, nor did he slow down for anyone, and continued to walk towards the seating area in the middle.

Zhang Qingfeng followed behind Zhang Chaoyang two steps behind, and when he looked around, he found that many people in the crowd were excited, and some even had red eye circles, quietly touching tears, Zhang Qingfeng noticed that when his grandfather's gaze swept over those people, his gaze suddenly became extraordinarily soft.

"Many of these people are veterans who followed your grandfather back then, and some of them have received the favor of your grandfather, but with the scenery of the Hou Mansion no longer coming, they will be implicated, not to mention adding officials to the knighthood, it would be good to be able to keep the official position. ”

Zhang Beitian saw Zhang Qingfeng's strange appearance and explained in a low voice on the side.

Zhang Qingfeng suddenly said, "I see, but I remember that among the people who came to the Hou Mansion to show goodwill this year, there were no them, and grandpa never mentioned that there was such a group of old ministers working as errands in the court." ”

Zhang Beitian said: "That's because your grandfather was afraid of affecting them and cut off contact with them more than ten years ago, at that time even I felt that the old man did a little too much, now it seems that Jiang is still old and spicy, if it weren't for your grandfather's original decision, these old departments don't talk about participating in the banquet, whether they can live or not is two words." ”

Although in Zhang Qingfeng's mind, even from the perspective of a thousand years ago, grandfather Zhang Chaoyang was a rare person of great wisdom, but when he heard Zhang Beitian say this, he realized that his evaluation of him was still a little low.

While speaking, the group walked up the stairs and entered the seating area of the third-grade officials.

When they arrived here, although these officials who had already been called upper and middle nobles also stood up and saluted, their expressions and eyes were obviously less sincere and more perfunctory.

Looking at Zhang Chaoyang again, his expression remained the same, smiling in return, the natural and sincere smile, Zhang Qingfeng was ashamed to see it.

Zhuge Fengyun once said that Zhang Chaoyang is a treacherous and cunning old fox, this comment that does not sound good is actually the greatest praise for Zhang Chaoyang, just from Zhuge Fengyun's expression when he said this, it can be seen.

With the return of Zhang Chaoyang, Zhang Qingfeng, who has always been seen as a child, finally has the opportunity to enter the heart of the Great Zhou God of War.

He doesn't know if there are any true countrymen like Zhang Chaoyang in the Seven Kingdoms of the Central Plains who care about the world and are willing to go to the soup for the sake of national stability and people's safety, but looking at all the past experiences, the so-called one king, four princes and eight famous generals of the Great Zhou State are not as good as one-tenth or two-tenth of Zhang Chaoyang in terms of mood pattern.

Even Zhang Qingfeng himself is dwarfed.

Let's take the present.

Although these officials with evil intentions are smiling, they have long wished that Zhang Chaoyang would die immediately, and when they see Zhang Chaoyang's smiling face in return, they will definitely scold him for being hypocritical, but only Zhang Qingfeng knows that in Zhang Chaoyang's heart, he really sincerely hopes that Da Zhou can unite as one and have less infighting.

Especially now, the Zhou State is about to face the catastrophe of annihilation, and this group of ignorant officials who are still in the dark will be reduced from high-ranking nobles to lowly slaves at any time.