There is a street in the more remote area to the north of the capital, where many merchants live, because most of them are houses bought by foreign businessmen in the capital, and there are few people who usually live in them, which makes this street different from other streets.

There are many large mansions here, and there are also small mansions compact, although they look quite neat, but they are sparsely populated, revealing a kind of loneliness and desolation, and occasionally there are ox carts passing by, and they are also hurrying by.

Among them, there is such a house, the front and back two into the courtyard, because it is an ordinary merchant lived, the courtyard is narrow, the inside area is not too large, into the gate is the merchant himself with a few servants to live in the place, the back is to pile up sundries, not much use.

Even if the gate was fully opened, only an ordinary ox cart could barely pass through, so a vacant space was opened next to the house for the next ox cart to stop.

Towards evening, only a few houses were filled with smoke, and the sound of cows' hooves was heard in the distance, and a simple ox cart pulled by a cow came to a halt in front of the house.

"Huh-" The driver was a burly man, the reins were pulled, and he jumped out of the car, followed by a middle-aged literati, but this person was not the real master, the literati turned around, and helped a person down, and the last one to come down, dressed in a green shirt, with trimmed eyebrows and handsome eyes, although it was just an ordinary dress, but it revealed an indescribable temperament.

"This is where Liu Da lives?" the young man asked softly as he glanced up at the house.

The middle-aged literati said, "Childe, this is it." ”

"Ada, go call the door. The young man retracted his gaze and commanded lightly.

The burly man answered, strode up the steps, and knocked on the door.

"Who?" After a while, someone from inside came up and asked through the door.

"My son-in-law's surname is Cao, and he came from afar to meet his old friend. The man who knocked at the door replied.

"Cao Gongzi?" Menzi listened, and didn't know who the "Cao Gongzi" here was, so he asked, "Which Cao Gongzi is it?"

"Hugh has to ask more, you go to report, your master naturally knows. Ah Da replied politely.

So unkind, Menzi was already in his heart, there are too many nobles in the capital, and if he is not careful, he may bring trouble to himself or his master, so he hurriedly said: "Please wait a while, I will go to report to the master." ”

The sound of footsteps ran towards the main house.

"Master, master!"

Businessman Liu Dazheng is frolicking with his concubine, he is over forty years old, he looks like he has not made much fortune, and the woman who is being held in his arms is twenty-eight years old, with beautiful eyes, and he is holding grapes in his mouth, to feed them to the master.

Because of the laughter, although he heard a knock on the door outside, and knew that someone was coming, he didn't pay attention until the door ran in, and then casually asked, "Why, someone is coming again?"

"Master, the other party said that it was Cao Gongzi who came from afar, and said that you would know who it was as soon as you heard it, ...... you looked"

"Young Master Cao?" Liu Da's eyes, which were originally a little drunk and misty, widened suddenly.

"Ouch!" The beautiful concubine was pushed away violently and snorted softly, Liu Da didn't pay attention to it, he stood up on the ground, and his head was a little dizzy.

How could that person come to the capital of the Zheng Dynasty? This is not in the past!

"Sir?"

As if realizing that he was a little out of shape, Liu Da cleared his throat first, and instructed his concubine: "You go back to your house first, and I will catch up with Gongzi Cao for a while, don't disturb." ”

The merchant's concubine is a slave who buys and sells at any time, and she usually sees her master drinking and talking with others, so she immediately responds obediently and withdraws.

Liu Da straightened his clothes a little, then trotted out, opened the door in person to greet him, crossed the man at the door, looked at the young man behind him, his legs were weak, and he almost knelt down on the spot.

But when he met the young man's eyes, Liu Da immediately barely held on, hunched his waist slightly, and said enthusiastically: "Master Cao, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

Cao Gongzi smiled: "Yes, I went to Beijing to see you this time." ”

"This is not the place to talk, please come inside!" While letting the three people outside the door in, he instructed the door to place Cao Gongzi in an ox cart aside.

When Cao Gongzi came into the house, he did look like a gentle guest at first, but when he was let into the small hall, there were no outsiders, and he sat down on the chair in the center with a faint expression.

Liu Da, a businessman who had already instructed the servants to catch up with Master Cao and not to receive guests and not to disturb them, entered the small hall, closed the door, and knelt down towards the young man with a pop.

The merchant's anger also changed, and he kowtowed and said, "My lord, why are you here......? How dangerous this is!"

It turned out that the Cao Gongzi sitting in the center was Cao Yiyan, the new lord of Yingguo, who had ascended the throne in Yingguo.

For more than a year, it was enough for Cao Yiyan to gradually sit on the throne in Yingguo, especially the two big victories in a row, with a bit of killing temperament, although he was originally the heir of Wei, he always felt a little empty, but now he has calmed down, and it is real.

Liu Danai has been with the old man for a long time, and it is Cao Yiyan who ordered the descendants lurking in the capital more than a year ago, Cao Yiyan nodded slightly, and said calmly: "Get up, it doesn't matter, the two pieces of land have been divided into counties, and there is generally a cabinet to preside over things, and it needs to be paid more attention here, after all, ...... Time waits for me. ”

The two small countries near Yingguo, on the one hand, Yingguo is actually ownerless and no one presides over the crusade, and on the other hand, it is to keep it in order to reassure the Zheng Dynasty - nature alone attracts attention.

But now that the heavenly opportunity has been revealed, Cao Yiyan will naturally not connive at it anymore, and if he annexes the two countries, he can double the territory, and the population has increased by seventy percent, and his strength has increased greatly.

And in the process, he also established his own prestige as the lord of the country.

Of course, after doing all this, he had to quickly enter the capital—he wanted to know where the heavenly machine was.

Thinking about it, let Liu Da report on the situation of Zheng Jingcheng this year.

"The king, in the past year or so, if you want to say that the capital has changed the most, it must belong to the acting king......" Liu Da reported on the evolution of the capital, focusing on the promotion of the acting king.

"It's only been a year, from the acting marquis, the acting prince, to the acting king. ”

"Everyone is saying that the emperor cherished the prince back then, but unfortunately he died of illness, and now that he has found the prince's son, even if he doesn't immediately set up a grandson, he will take care of it - and now it has been proved. ”

Speaking of which, Liu Da is not bad: "This is the public opinion in the capital, many people say so. ”

"Oh, such a legend in the capital?"

As the king of a country, Cao Yiyan glanced at it slightly, and thought about it.

"In contrast to the promotion of the acting king, that is, the kings are not obedient, and the most unsatisfactory among them is the king of Lu, I heard that the mother of the king of Lu has a close relationship with the Shuiyun Temple, and the king of Lu may not be the emperor's son. ”

"Now that he has been reduced to the king of Ninghe, it is also reasonable, after all, there is a suspicion. What Liu Da said was full of relish, and the former King Lu of Qianlu, who was suspected of being a cuckold by the people of the capital and was demoted to the king of the county, explained it one by one.

Su Ziji became the acting king, Cao Yiyan had actually heard of this, but he didn't know the more detailed content, sitting in the hall at the moment, listening to the narration, he couldn't help but change color slightly.

It's too fast.

How long has it taken for this Su Zi to go from being a person when he first met him to being the king now?

Could it be that Su Ziji was one of the double stars of the day?