The Duan family is a well-known scholarly family in the imperial capital, and they have always had little friendship with military generals, but this time they suddenly married the Cao family, and there must be a lot of stories in it. Kong Yingjie has been away from the imperial capital for several months, so he naturally doesn't know the inside story of Lu Dao, and it is not good to comment on the marriage of Cao and Duan.

But in any case, the Cao family must have great benefits in this marriage, and it is estimated that it has also paid a lot of price, which can be regarded as a signal that the Cao family has launched an impact on Wenchen's power!

It seems that the Cao family is no longer satisfied with just having the right to speak in the military, but wants to further expand their power!

This kind of approach, the Confucian family can also understand, because although the foundation of the Confucian family is on the side of Wenchen, but the Confucian family has secretly been sending strength to the military, except for the Cao family's fiefdom of Birdlong County, the military everywhere already has the children of the Confucian family, but it is not a high power, and there has not yet been a big warlord mouth with an army in one place, in addition to the infiltration of the children of the Confucian family into the army, making friends with warlords and nobles around the country is also a means to increase the influence of the Confucian family in the military. For example, the Fang family in Huayu City is even a powerful ally of the Kong family in the military.

However, the Cao family is not silent, and it is extremely amazing that they have directly formed an in-law with the Duan family! You must know that the status of the Duan family in the Cangnan Empire is a first-class wealthy family, and with the influence of the Wenchen group, it is second only to the Kong family!

If most of the students in the world come from the schools held by the Confucian family in various places, then most of the officials at all levels after entering the office can be said to be protégés of the Duan family!

Because the position of prime minister above the court of the Cangnan Empire is basically held by the people of the Confucian family, but the position of the secretary has always been held by the Duan family. Especially in the past 100 years, the Duan family has also produced a good story of "one family of seven servants, father and son, three books!"!

If the Cao family really joined forces with the Duan family, its influence in the Cangnan Empire would definitely be very far-reaching, and it might even affect the power division within the empire! If all this was done by the Cao family in silence, then the Cao family's methods were really commendable.

Because the Cao family's move is equivalent to nailing a nail into the imperial capital, so that their Cao family's strength can truly gain a foothold in the imperial capital!

According to common sense, whether it is the Kong family or the Hu family, they will not watch the marriage of the Kong and Cao families, but will exert some pressure in secret. But this time, the Cao family gave the dowry with such fanfare, which naturally means that the matter has been settled! Even if the Kong family and the Hu family are dissatisfied with this matter, they can only send blessings on the surface now!

Now, as soon as the convoy of the Cao family to send dowries appeared in the imperial capital, it was also a signal to the forces of all parties, that is, their Cao family and the Duan family had formed an in-law, and the distribution of forces in the imperial capital was only afraid that it would have to be redivided!

As soon as Kong Yingjie thought of this, he felt a little impatient in his heart, and he couldn't wait to go home immediately to find out what had happened in the imperial capital in recent months. It's just that I don't know if the Cao family is deliberately showing off their might, or if they have too many things to transport, and they have been grinding for a long time, and there is still a queue in front of the teleportation array!

Kong Yingjie was unhappy in his heart, so he couldn't help but stomp his feet, and said hatefully: "The people of the Cao family are really hateful, they are obviously dragging time!"

Kong Ming said indifferently at this time: "No matter how much Uncle Jie's Cao family makes trouble, in this imperial capital, is their background as deep as our Kong family? Besides, Emperor Hu can sit firmly on the throne of the Cangnan Empire, and the emperors of all dynasties are all eloquent and "set sail ☆ no harm in the starry night", how can they let the Cao family mess around? I think this matter can be relieved, this emperor will not change the sky because of the Cao family! As long as we return home, someone will definitely inform us of the cause and effect, and it is useless for us to be in a hurry!

Kong Yingjie is not an ordinary person, hearing Kong Ming say this, he immediately calmed down, nodded and said: "Our Kong family and the Cao family have been fighting for hundreds of years, and it is not so easy for their Cao family to override our Kong family!"

Next, Kong Yingjie and Kong Ming calmly closed their eyes and sat down, waiting for the Cao family's convoy to transport their dowry.

Almost half an hour passed, and the Cao family's convoy finally finished transporting their things, and the passage in front of them was empty. Cao Chengping and Cao Chengwei did not come over to greet Kong Yingjie, but went directly to the convoy. In fact, with the relationship between the Kong and Cao families, it can be said that they do not get along with each other, although the "Five Tigers of the Cao Family" are as famous as the "Five Elders of the Kong Family", they have no friendship with each other, but are quite hostile. Cao Chengping, Cao Chengwei and Kong Yingjie had a "greeting" before, but they just imagined that the marriage of the Cao and Duan families would hit Kong Yingjie, since the goal has been achieved, what else can they say between them and Kong Yingjie? Naturally, they are leaving!

In the eyes of the Cao brothers, being able to let the people of the Kong family eat soil behind their convoy can be regarded as a victory for the Kong family!

Kong Yingjie had no intention of entanglement with the Cao family brothers at this time, and ordered the coachman to directly drive the carriage onto the small teleportation array, preparing to rush back to the Kong family in the fastest time.

When the carriage came out of the teleportation array, you could see a huge palace, which was very luxuriously decorated, called the State Guest House, and everyone who came out of the VIP passage would be received in this State Guest House of extremely high standards! With the status of the two brothers, Cao Chengping and Cao Chengwei, a separate area would definitely be set aside in this State Guest House for the use of the Cao family.

As for Kong Yingjie and the others, the Kong family, who represents the imperial capital, naturally did not have to live in the guest house, but after changing to a carriage, they rushed towards the manor where the Kong family's family was located!

The imperial capital of the Cangnan Empire, Biluo City, is so big that it can be said that it is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, if it is an ordinary person who takes a carriage and runs for a day and a night, I am afraid that he will not be able to come to the west of the city from the east of the city!

Kong Yingjie once introduced to Kong Ming that Biluo City is so big that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an independent country, but in fact it is also true. Because it is difficult for ordinary people to imagine that in the middle of Biluo City, there is actually a majestic and majestic mountain range!

The imperial palace of the Cangnan Empire is built on the mountain range, and the entire mountain range is also the private land of the Hu royal family, and outsiders are not allowed to enter it. How this mountain range was called before, now there is no way to verify, anyway, since the founding of the Cangnan Empire more than 500 years ago, this mountain range has been called the Emperor Mountain, which is the symbol of imperial power of the Cangnan Empire!

Around the Emperor Mountain, Biluo City is divided into nine areas, and the Emperor Mountain is guarded! Each of these nine areas can be regarded as an independent city, and its scale is not much smaller than that of Huayu City.

These nine areas can be regarded as the nine sub-cities of the imperial capital Biluo City, and each has its own main function. For example, the Diwu District, which is mainly used for garrisons, the Chuanliu District, which is the most commercially developed, and the Changyang District, which is very complex.

Among them, there is a district, called Chongwen District, which is the most unique district in the nine districts of the imperial capital, because this district is a fief belonging to the Kong family, which is privately owned by the Kong family, just like the royal emperor mountain, outsiders cannot enter casually.

If Biluo City can become a country of its own, then the Emperor Mountain of the Hu royal family, as well as the Chongwen District of the Kong family, can be regarded as two smaller countries within a country!

Coming out of the guest house, it belongs to the Antai District where the dignitaries of the valley in the city live, and is adjacent to Chongwen District. However, despite the fact that they are two adjacent districts within the same city, it takes at least two hours to travel by horse-drawn carriage to cross the districts...,

Based on this alone, we can also know how huge the Daoist Imperial Capital Biluo City is!

Kong Ming and others made on the carriage, watching the scenery of Antai District along the way, because this district is full of dignitaries and nobles, as well as the rich in the city, all the people they see along the way are high-ranking families, and often one family is enough to occupy a street!

Nine times out of ten, the civil and military officials who served in the imperial capital lived here, and most of the wealthy and noble families moved to this area in order to raise their own value. Therefore, the wealth of this district, compared to other districts, is completely incomparable, and the people in the imperial capital once joked that making money in the Chuanliu District and then living in Antai District is the biggest dream of the vast majority of the imperial capital!

While speeding past in Antai District, Kong Ming also looked up at the Emperor Mountain in the distance!

The first peak of Emperor Mountain, called Emperor Peak, is said to be more than 3,000 meters high, and the emperors of the Cangnan "Set Sail ☆ Starry Night No Injury" Empire are buried on the Emperor Peak, so that they can look down on the empire that once belonged to them forever!

It's a pity that this place is too far away from Emperor Mountain, and you can only see the clouds and mist in the distance, and you can't see the whole picture of Emperor Mountain. However, it can be seen that there are many red walls and yellow tiles exposed on the high part of the mountain, and it is obvious that there are a lot of large buildings. It seems that after hundreds of years of development, the Hu royal family has managed the Emperor Mountain quite prosperously, but I am afraid that on the Emperor Mountain, its style and landform are completely different from the mountain city in the impression of ordinary people!

Under Kong Yingjie's continuous urging, the coachman drove the carriage quickly, and it only took a little more than an hour to rush from Antai District to Chongwen District, where Kong's family is located!

At the junction of Chongwen District and Antai District, a huge memorial arch was erected, and the two archway pillars were extremely wide, so that even if five or six carriages could pass through at the same time, it would not be particularly crowded.

On the archway, there are eight dragon flying phoenix dances engraved with vigorous characters: "Civil officials get off the sedan chair, and military generals get off the horse!"

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