Before Sun Ming's army could move, he received a commendation for the First Battle of Takayanagi approved by the imperial court.

Moreover, one of the powerful eunuchs of the palace, 'Hou Lan', personally came with a commendation order.

Now that the people are in Gaoliu City, they asked Sun Ming to go to the Taishou Mansion to receive the reward, and ordered that as soon as they arrived at Sun Ming's camp, all the generals were afraid of accidents, and they persuaded Sun Ming not to go.

In the eyes of everyone, half of the reason why today's world is so dark and miasma is that this group of eunuchs is in power, and everyone is generally disgusted with eunuchs.

But that was the commissioner of the imperial court, Sun Ming couldn't go if he didn't go, after some discussion, Sun Ming took Li Meng and Guan Yu, the two protectors, plus a hundred personal soldiers to the appointment.

Before leaving, Yu Li also specially explained, "Li Meng, you must stand by the side of the owner every step of the way, if you make a slight mistake, you come to see you." ”

Li Meng patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, if the owner is missing a hair, I don't need to do it myself, I will screw my head off myself." ”

And Yu Li was much more relieved to Guan Yu, just a few words of advice.

Sun Ming led hundreds of people through the Gaoliu City Wall, the stone pit of the past has not been repaired, those scars are like the merits of this high city, and Sun Ming is now going to accept his merits.

The group came to the Taishou Mansion in full gear, and those personal soldiers could only stay outside the mansion and wait, Sun Ming took Li Meng and Guan Yu into the mansion.

As soon as I came to the main hall, there were two people sitting on the big seat, one was Wang Ze, and the other was a man wearing a blue arrow coat with a soft towel wrapped around his head, looking feminine.

That person was Hou Lan, Sun Ming swept his clothes, walked to the two of them, and saluted, "Xiaguan Sun Ming has met Huangmen Ling and seen Taishou." ”

Li Meng and Guan Yu were standing outside the hall, their eyes staring at Sun Ming.

When Hou Lan saw Sun Ming, the smile on his face was like a flower, and he beckoned, "Come, come closer, let our family take a closer look at you, a little hero of the court." ”

Sun Ming walked up, and Hou Lan touched left and right, and muttered, "Okay, handsome, capable, good." ”

That Wang Ze didn't like eunuchs either, so he sat there without saying a word the whole time, not like his character at all.

And Hou Lan didn't care about Wang Ze's attitude, and pulled Sun Ming to a meal, and he didn't boast about it.

I have to say that when eunuchs say good things, they are comfortable to listen to, not to mention a big eunuch like Hou Lan, whose control of language has long been perfected.

"Our family came this time, just to meet you, and by the way, I will hand over the rewards and rewards given by the court, and I will hand over everything to Wang Taishou, and you will get it with him later."

Hou Lan came all the way, went to several places and met several people, and all of them refused his solicitation.

He didn't 'come to see Sun Ming specially' as he said, and now Sun Ming is not qualified to let him come to see him alone.

"But our family hasn't eaten today, Sun Ming, boy, you will accompany our family, let's go eat outside."

Sun Ming thought for a while and replied, "I'm afraid it's too late to arrange the time now, or wait for the lower officials to charter the best restaurant, and then have a banquet tomorrow." ”

Hou Lan is already the Marquis of Guannei, so Sun Mingzun called him the Marquis.

Hou Lan waved his hand and said, "No, our family has already arranged it, you just follow our family." ”

Wang Ze stood up at this time and interjected, "The lower officials still have military affairs to deal with, so they won't go, don't blame the prince." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, Wang Taishou is going to be busy, just have Sun Xiaozi with me."

Wang Ze's refusal to go to the banquet was also expected by Hou Lan, anyway, this time his target was only Sun Ming.

When Sun Ming followed Hou Lan, he checked his attributes.

【Hou Lan】

[Brawn: 32 (Weak)]

[Intelligence: 91 (one in ten thousand)]

[Command: 76 (one in a hundred)]

[Politics: 84 (one in a hundred)]

[Opinion: 31 (Normal)]

"With such a high IQ, it is really worthy of being able to mix well in Luoyang, the center of power."

Sun Ming immediately increased the favorability of Hou Lan to 79 (respect) at once.

Although the favorability will fluctuate over time, adding favorability is undoubtedly the most efficient use of attribute points.

After Sun Ming's attribute points were added, there were seventy-five points left.

Two carriages stopped at the door of one of the best local restaurants, and hundreds of people surrounded the restaurant, and the restaurant had sent people to charter the restaurant in advance.

The owner of the restaurant stood at the door, and his feet were almost unsteady when he saw the battle of hundreds of troops.

Two men got out of the carriage, he lowered his head and glanced at it, one of which he had seen, it was General Sun, the thief's first meritorious.

He didn't dare to look any further, and the two distinguished guests floated past them and went up to the box on the second floor.

The owner of the restaurant hurried to the kitchen and said in a panic, "Today you all cheer me up, no one can make a mistake, my head is pinned to your trouser belt." ”

When Hou Lan came to the seat, he sat down by himself, and motioned for Sun Ming to sit opposite him with his eyes.

Guan Yu, Li Meng, and Hou Lan's guards were all standing outside the room.

"We heard that your main family is Luoyang Sun Miao's family?" Sun Miao is the head of Sun Ming's main family in Luoyang.

"Back to the prince, yes, but we have settled in Zhuo County for many years, and we have little contact with the master's side."

"We know, and we know the good deeds you have done in Zhuoxian, but now, there are not many promising young people like you."

"We came to you this time to save your life and future."

When Sun Ming heard this, what are these words, save me?

"That Wei Zhou is in the same breath as that group of scholars in the court, I wanted to suppress your reward and not give it, and even your master Sun Miao was silent."

"But we think it's a pity that you are such a heroic talent, so we don't hesitate to send you a commendation order."

Hou Lan's face was not red or out of breath when he said this, and he had already told several people similar things.

As soon as Sun Ming heard this, he understood, it turned out that he had already received the attention of Luoyang, and that Wei Zhou did not allow himself to be promoted.

Hou Lanpai felt that Sun Ming was a great talent, so he helped him win recognition and won over Sun Ming by the way.

Sun Ming quickly thought in his mind, the enemy of his enemy was his friend.

Immediately stood outside the attendance and gave a ninety-degree gift, "Thank you for the cultivation of the prince, and the lower officials will remember it in their hearts." ”

"Everything the lower officials do is to help my Han family, then Wei Zhou took revenge on the lower officials with selfish intentions, and hoped that the prince would help me deal with one or two."

As a person who has lived a modern life for more than 30 years, Sun Ming does not feel that it is a bad thing to be with the Yellow Gate faction.

"Before we came here, we also went to Yuan Shao's side, and the Zhangjiao rebels in Jizhou have almost been wiped out, so we also gave him a taishou."

"Then the Yuan family learned that we were going to give you a reward, and they sneered at you and didn't think so, you should be careful of the Yuan family in Jizhou in the future."

Hou Lan kindly reminded Sun Ming that his enemies were not only those Beijing officials in Luoyang.

But this sounds like a beating, because Sun Ming's rise has infringed on the interests of other Dashi clans, and now only the eunuch faction can be his backer.

Sun Ming thought about it, "The lower officials should remember the teachings of the prince, and if there is a need for a boy in the future, please command." ”

Hou Lan didn't expect Sun Ming to understand it at all, and he didn't have to bother talking at all, and he was in a good mood.

At this time, the servants began to serve the wine, Sun Ming took the wine jug, poured a glass for Hou Lan first, and then toasted him.

"Sun boy, let's be in a good mood today, let's talk to you a few heart-wrenching words."

"The lower officials are listening."

"You have also seen Wang Ze's attitude towards us, it is said that it is the eunuchs who take power, it has been like this since ancient times, the world has made this tragic situation, but the world has poured all the dirty water on people like us."

"As everyone knows, we are just a waste person who conveys the edict for the emperor, we are all rootless people, what use do we need for all that money and power."

"We are loyal to the emperor, do you understand?"

Of course Sun Ming understood, but what Hou Lan said meant was that his Hou Lan's backer was the emperor.

But he didn't dare to answer this, so he could only sit opposite and bow his head sharply.

Hou Lan was not embarrassed by Sun Ming, he had to force him to show his position, or Sun Ming was not qualified to be involved in the central battle now.