Chapter Twenty-Three: Cooking is as important as fighting

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-Yang Ze felt that the Tang Dynasty, like its name, contained a certain power that would not be changed for a thousand years. There was also an empire called Tang in his world, but he didn't personally experience that era, but he could clearly realize that the two were fundamentally different.

First of all, there is a world where practice is the driving force, far more than the medieval period in his world. It is a place where buildings are like forests of buildings. There are eighteen rivers that traverse the empire, and along each river, there are thousands of miles of fish and rice water towns.

Cultivators are hidden in the city, hunted in the wild, contributed to the army, and suppressed the clan. All the time, it does not show the great force of the empire.

Standing in it, walking in the willow forest on the river embankment, the small courtyard buildings with lights stretched endlessly into the distance, and on the river, the woman figured out the song of the shadow and the qin from time to time faintly floated, which was probably a gathering of dignitaries. But there is an air of elegance. Yang Ze is often confused in this kind of situation, not knowing where he is.

"It can be said that in Weijing City, there must be all kinds of banquets every day. If you look at the painting boat on the water, it seems to be the exclusive car of the seventh prince of the prince, and there are three boat guards around it, so it is not majestic! This side used to be the famous Yanyun Lane, where the Weijing celebrities gathered, it is said that tonight is the gathering of the imperial cabinet officials, and many people from the six ministries have been there, and the military and the students of the Changcang Academy have also been invited. ”

It was Lei Luo, an official from the Sect Department, who was transferred by the Sect Department to contact their Da Ye's protectors. From the six-rank official position, in the empire, palace members of this level can become state officials in the state and county, and they are thousands of generals in the army, and they are already counted as high-ranking officials. But in Weijing City, there are too many officials of this rank to mention.

"Qingyan?" Yang Ze, who was walking with him on the water's bank, raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this.

"During the banquet, we may talk about elegant things and literary tastes, or indulge in singing and drinking. or fighting to practice, proving each other's skills, this is the so-called Qing feast. In fact, it is the most enjoyable activity among people. Lei Luo laughed, "This is the best of Weijing. During the day, all the provinces and ministries of Weitang were in order, doing all kinds of things to keep the empire running in an orderly manner. And the place where the sheng song starts at night is the place where the group gathers. Many of the empire's major events that could affect the outside world were often negotiated at these feasts. ”

Yang Ze secretly thought that this is the same everywhere, there is a lack of entertainment in this era, so these gatherings, drinking, and fighting have become people's lively activities. In the imperial capital of Weitang, this has been the case for thousands of years. A variety of programs and events are always held every few days.

Among these green banquets and various banquets, it is also the best place for many people to pursue fame and fortune.

"Dignitaries and dignitaries love to participate in these things for fame and fortune. The banquets in this Weijing City have different levels. He used to be the dean of Hanlin, and his protégés were all over the world, and he held the imperial capital poetry meeting, which was naturally a good reputation. As for the participants, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, as long as they are scholars and scholars, they can participate, which can be said to be the meeting with the lowest threshold. However, in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer people who like to go to poetry meetings, after all, how many people are willing to listen to the sour poems read by literati? ”

Empires are known for their military might, and in this era, spiritual practice is also a manifestation of strength.

People yearn for the unpredictable power in this world. Therefore, often the competition between many practitioners can make people's hearts surge and be revered and admired. The victor will be courted by countless forces and obtain supreme glory. That's why it's even more eye-catching. It has attracted many people to rush to it. "You see the boat of the prince on the river." In fact, they themselves are not called princely seven sons. Instead, they call themselves the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest". It's just that they were born in a princely family, so they were laughingly called "the seven sons of the princes" by the people of Weijing City. However, they were not ambiguous, the seven of them were all famous cultivators in this imperial capital, and everyone was proud to be able to board the painting boat and know them. “

Yang Ze smiled slightly, "Lord Lei is also a member of the guests?"

"Xiao Yang Shizi, don't hurt me like this. I, Lei Luo, am just a six-rank official from the Ministry of Sects, where can I be seen by others. Although the "Seven Princes and Princes" are not among the four valves, it is said that they have some relationship with the mysterious four major valves, and the family status is more or less cultivated by the four valves. People have such a relationship with the four major valves. There will be countless officials who are higher in power than me and who are bigger than me, and where is the ship of my Lei Luo, a petty official from the sixth grade, boarded the ship. Haha"

Yang Ze had already had some good feelings for this little official who explained the situation in the imperial capital to him, and when he heard his self-deprecating words, he smiled slightly and was noncommittal.

Lei Luo smiled again, "In a few days, a few of me will serve as court lieutenants, and the officials and friends of the Hanlin Academy's historiography editor hope to have a small gathering with the prince." It's not an orthodox banquet, it's just a small gathering between friends, and I hope that Xiao Yang Shizi won't refuse. ”

"Where it will be, it will definitely come. Yang Ze nodded.

Although Wei Tang is generally enlightened, the invisible hierarchy is still like a chasm, between countless people.

And the most essential thing that divides these levels is strength. The size of the status in the empire can be converted into the strength of a person. Money is sometimes more terrible than swords and guns, and it is an integral part of all power, so the amount of wealth can also be regarded as a component of a person's strength.

Cultivation represents the ultimate force that runs rampant in this world, so the level of cultivation can also show whether a person has the strength to be admired and respected or even afraid to retreat. Even this strength is more effective and more valued. I believe that no matter how powerful the force is, even the empire, it is not willing to easily offend a grandmaster-level cultivator. Sometimes it even represents a catastrophe, and what can make these forces fearful is strength.

And the various gatherings in this Weijing City have also invisibly divided this strict hierarchy.

At the banquet of Lord Xiangguo, there can only be Princess Qingping, the Great Cultivator of the Empire, and the Great General of the Empire, and people in the past can only look up to characters with great energy.

Most of the poetry clubs invited by the poetry and book families are from the scholarly families, because in this way everyone can talk about it.

In the painting boat of the seven sons of the prince, the guests on the seat are also famous people in the imperial capital. A small official like Lei Luo naturally couldn't be included in the ranks of the other party's banquet. Because they are not above the same level at all, it is naturally impossible for those big people to look down on a small official like Lei Luo, who is not very prominent.

But fortunately, there are still people who invite themselves. Yang Ze felt that he was not out of place in the imperial capital of this Weitang Dynasty, this was a good start. So I gladly accepted it.

Of course, in this imperial capital, there are also many nobles with good reputations, there are famous Qinglou top brands, talented and beautiful talented women, and the banquets around these beauties have become the most lively place for the big people in the imperial capital to gather. Many people are scrambling to look forward to kissing Xiangze and chasing under the skirt, which is naturally the topic that men and males are most interested in.

So talking about all kinds of things at the banquet attended by the famous ladies of the imperial capital. Lei Luo is spitting and drooling. He may not have seen it with his own eyes, but the movements of those high-level people have long been spread below, and people will always organize the words to paint the situation and pass it on by word of mouth. It is like witnessing it with your own eyes, to satisfy many people's longing for a noble lady. ..., Yang Ze thought to himself, invisibly, as if he had also become a member of the vast army that inquired about the gossip of the imperial capital. I can't help but laugh a little.

He now had many goals to turn the empire into a change in its stance towards the Orthodox Church through Queen Qingping. Find out who is behind the assassination of the queen, because that is at stake for their safety in the future.

and the current safety of his two eldest brothers, now he seems to be at a loss and aimless.

There are many watchers outside the hospital who are monitoring their Da Ye and his party, and it is not appropriate to act rashly.

And the marriage of Ji Ling'er and Yu Wenjing in Xituo Hall is still more than a year away. During this time, what can he do to change some of the established results? He didn't even know if Ji Ling'er had really fallen in love with Yu Wenjing. Yu Wenjing's strength is outstanding, not to mention that he has the recognition and extraordinary status of the two empires, and he definitely has the qualifications to surpass Yang Ze to replace him, thinking of this, Yang Ze's heart was slightly dull, if this is the case, it will be an unbearable blow to him in his life.

But now, he can only choose to wait for Shen Chang, the secret line of the Heavenly Supervision Department, to find out the exact whereabouts of Yang Que and Yang Wenyuan as soon as possible. and waiting for Queen Qingping's influence on the upper echelons of the empire to be effective.

Separated from Lei Luo, Yang Ze showed his move, so that those who were watching him in the dark could not feel the shadow, and in a few quarters of an hour, he appeared in an inconspicuous mansion in Dongcheng District.

Luo Xiong and his entourage, who came to Weitang one step ahead of Yang Ze and others, have already purchased a house in the east of the imperial capital of Weijing City.

The chosen location was a courtyard by the river, which was not as good as the luxurious mansions in the west of Weijing City, and was the courtyard of a merchant in the east city, which was purchased by Luo Xiong for 250,000 pounds of gold. After settling down in Daye, another batch of medicinal materials from Qishan County was sold to make up the money. That's all they have to do.

Luo Xiong was also shocked by the high housing prices in the imperial capital, and when he saw the arrogant quotation of the merchant and the prices of the surrounding houses and courtyards, he knew why this was the imperial capital.

At the same time, this also made a lot of money for everyone who originally thought of selling the previous batch of fourth-grade elixirs, which was enough to be able to put on a lavish show in the imperial capital.

Such a large amount of money, if it was placed in Qishan County in the past, would be enough to cover the five-year expenditure of the entire county, which is the military expenditure of some small mainland countries for half a year. And now I can only buy a small courtyard in Dongcheng District. Not to mention those luxurious mansions in Xicheng District, it is said that those mansions of dignitaries and dignitaries are hundreds of thousands of gold pounds, and some can even reach hundreds or tens of millions of pounds. It's a terrifying accumulation of wealth. At the same time, it also highlights the heritage of this thousand-year-old imperial capital.

There are many big trees in the courtyard, and Yang Ze stands under these big trees, looking at this courtyard where they really settled in the imperial capital.

There were a few waiters in the courtyard, as well as a few young men and women from Qishan, who saw Yang Zeyue falling from the sky, opened their mouths wide, and didn't come back to their senses for a long time.

Luo Xiong, who had already been notified to enter the inner hall, greeted him. At this time, Luo Xiong was followed by the powerful county protector of Qishan County and several Luo family elders, who bowed and bowed with Luo Xiong's Yang Ze welcome.

For the people of Qishan County, originally located in the ancestral homeland, Qishan County used to be surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there was more earth, qi and spiritual veins, so the pasture of pastoral plants was developed to sell these elixirs, which caused the glory of Qishan County back then. However, the world is always unpredictable, the earth qi and spiritual veins are gradually drying up from generation to generation, and the Changlu country where Qishan County is located has already become a three-regardless zone because of its weak national strength and some remote states and counties.

On the one hand, there is the threat of bandits and bandits, and on the other hand, there are some powerful forces oppressing, such as the Great Sun Sect. The most odious thing is that this kind of sect acts as a tiger, openly greedy and seeks to seize the surrounding area, and even disguises itself as bandits, often killing and forcibly plundering. And Yu Li, the sect leader of the Great Ri Sect at that time, had already set his sights on the Qishan County Spirit Plantation Field, and sooner or later it would be the production place for the Great Ri Sect to cultivate spiritual objects. Of course, not a single copper plate will be given to the county, and not even a single living mouth will be left behind, and there will be flames that may fight back. ..., at this moment, the young man in front of him brought the legendary spirit plant artifact that only the greatest spirit planter had ever seen, and took them out of Qishan County and embarked on a new path. They didn't know where this road would go, but they knew that the people of Qishan County had been shrinking into a corner of Qishan for generations, and finally left there in the twilight after three hundred years, changing their predetermined fate.

Yang Ze hurriedly helped everyone up, Luo Xiong stared at him and said, "We already know what you are doing along the way. The third prince was really powerful, he dared to attack the ships of the Song valve, and he was unscathed. The Weijing people were also surprised that I had such a cultivator in Da Ye! Later, we learned about the considerations and plans of the third prince, which was really the best choice at that time, if it weren't for this, how could the queen of Qingping have such a great influence now. What do the high-level Weitang leaders, and even the emperor think, is now a topic of great concern to the people of Weijing City, the war against Daye has angered the Weitang people, I am afraid that now the three kingdoms of Liushuang, Ludao, and Anhui and Jin are enough to eat a big pot. ”

Yang Ze nodded, "That companion, how are you preparing?"

"Those several elixirs are all being prepared, we are already speeding up the progress, and some medicinal materials have been lost, but I believe that there will be results soon. Luo Xiong said.

Preparing elixirs, even the best ones, is an extremely difficult process. The most important thing is that the better the elixir, the higher the quality of the materials required, and it is common for them to fail if they fail to reach the grade, but in the preparation process, who can guarantee that they can find the best grade of materials, most of the available quality is medium, so they can only sacrifice quantity in exchange for success. Every link requires a large amount of loss of those precious medicinal materials in order to prepare the most qualified elixir. And the higher the elixir, the higher the demand for theoretical materials, and the higher the actual material loss. However, the effect is also excellent, and the negative effects can be minimized. Therefore, it has caused the reason why the high-grade elixir is expensive, but it is still sought after by all forces.

"Well, I will come to see you from time to time, now that the princess's mansion is being watched by all parties, the connection between us cannot be exposed, it will only make you fall into embarrassment, and if something happens, it will really be wiped out. "Princess Qingping is involved in many secrets in the empire, and this time she is even involved in determining the position of the empire, and if they are not careful, they may all be in danger. Of course, the relationship between Luo Xiong and Yang Ze cannot be exposed.

"Rest assured, if there is