The golden knife was too dazzling on his body, so Zhao Lanjiang packed it with a knife box and handed it to Yang Xiaoxiao, asking her to find a way to bring it into the City Lord's Mansion. She has been operating in Hidden Yang City for many years, and she has many eyes and ears, and it is not difficult to transport a thing.

Originally, in the Bloon organization, Xu Yang also had this ability, but Zhao Lanjiang always felt that they were Yuwen Tianlu's people, so he was wary of them.

When Zhao Lanjiang and Li Chengcheng came to Chai Gongwang's house, Chai Gongwang was packing up his things, and when he saw the two of them entering uninvited, he even covered the box with a piece of red silk.

Zhao Lanjiang stepped forward to look, "What baby?"

Chai Gongwang stretched out his hand to cover it and said hurriedly, "It's nothing, it's all some books." ”

Zhao Lanjiang opened the box, and sure enough, it was a book, and wondered, "Aren't you not reading?"

Li Tingcheng's eyes lit up when he saw these books, "Chai Junshi is really in good taste, this "Four Books and Chapters and Sentences Collection Notes", if you read it correctly, it should be a rare book of the Song Dynasty, right?"

Chai Gongwang said proudly, "This book is written by Zhu Xi himself, the only one book in the world, I bought it from the market with 100,000 taels of silver, and when I return to the capital in the future, I will have to sell it for 200,000 taels." ”

Li Chengcheng stretched out his thumb and said with a smile, "Chai Gong's method is wonderful, and he will transport hundreds of thousands of taels of wealth out of Hidden Yang City without knowing it, even Li Xiancheng can't see the way, but ...... It looks like a fake. ”

Chai Gongwang was a little unconvinced, "I have found four people to identify, and there is no problem, why are you talking nonsense?"

Li Chengcheng smiled slightly, and then said: "This paper is like a membrane, as clean as jade, although it is a Chengxintang paper, but in the two Song Dynasty, the books were mostly folded and butterfly-packed, and this book was packed with a bag, which was only framed at the beginning of the country, so most of them were forgeries of later generations." ”

"Why should I believe you?"

Zhao Lanjiang explained, "His name is Li Chengcheng, the third young master of the Li family in Jinling, and he has a collection of 100,000 books at home, and what he says still has some weight. ”

When Chai Gongwang heard this, he felt a pain in his flesh.

Li Chengcheng comforted, "Chai Gong doesn't have to be too sad, although it is not written by Zhu Xi himself, it is also a rare treasure, and there are seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver on the market." ”

Zhao Lanjiang opened another box, and there were dozens of small yellow croakers neatly stacked inside, and he couldn't help but speak, "You're just the chief of staff, where did you get so much gold?"

Chai Gongwang said, "Don't underestimate this chief of staff, there is no rank and no rank, but this is Yinyang City, and there are many people who ask for the city to host the city every day, if you want to see Li Xiancheng, you have to go through my joint, and my favor is indispensable." ”

This is true, Yinyang City is the first border trade city in the West, the smuggling of salt, iron and tea silk in the Ming Dynasty is rampant, if you don't have a good relationship, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to get out of the city, if you are detained by the officers and soldiers, you will naturally find the city lord's mansion to make some connections.

"The court has investigated so tightly and done it, so it's naturally easy to say, what if things can't be done?"

Although Chai Gongwang doesn't know anything about reading, he is extremely familiar with this way of drilling, he said, "Most of the people who come to see him do things that are not visible, if I don't collect something, they don't have a score in their hearts, right?"

"What's more, there are also those three big Kou of the Hidden Yang Business Road, who have an inexplicable relationship with the City Lord's Mansion, Li Xiancheng's identity is special, and it is inconvenient to participate, some things are mediated by me, the City Lord's Mansion eats meat, so we have to drink some soup for our people, right?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "In my opinion, you are the one who knocks the bone and sucks the marrow, and Li Xiancheng eats all leftovers." ”

Chai Gongwang smiled, full of pride, "In terms of the ability to steal and accumulate wealth, if I say that I rank second, no one in the world dares to rank first!"

Seeing his expression, Zhao Lanjiang couldn't help but think of Fan Wuchang, Zhou Xiao and others, and said with a smile, "I know a few people, and I should really let you have a chance to communicate." ”

He patted the box and said, "As the saying goes, when you meet,

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Divide it in half, these gold and silver, we can achieve three things. ”

Chai Gongwang said loudly, "No! This money is what I have saved through hard work for more than ten years, if you want a piece of the pie, you might as well kill me!"

Zhao Lanjiang persuaded, "Lao Chai, I advise you to open a little, the silver is gone, you can earn it again, your life is gone, but there is nothing!"

Chai Gongwang pushed Zhao Lanjiang away, locked the box with a lock, lay on the two boxes, and refused to let go of the way.

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "Okay, I'm kidding you." We're coming to you and asking you to find a way to get the two of us into the City Lord's Mansion. ”

Chai Gongwang heard that the two of them didn't talk about the money, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There are two ways to get in, I will attend the banquet tonight, and you can bring two entourages in, but this method can't bring a blade." ”

"What about the other way?"

Chai Gong said, "Isn't Li Xiancheng going to prepare to ascend the throne, now the city is looking for eunuchs, let me find him two eunuchs with swords, do you want to think about it?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "It's still the first method." ”

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The Western Army was pinned down by the Northern Zhou and Western Chu in the Hengduan Mountains and could not move, and was temporarily unable to attack Yinyang City, which bought Li Xiancheng time to become emperor.

The number of people in Yinyang City gradually increased, and near noon, the surrounding eighteen city lords entered the city, as well as the envoys of Western Chu and Northern Zhou, all of whom also entered Yinyang.

For this reason, Li Xiancheng prepared to hold a banquet in the city lord's mansion, first, to fulfill the friendship of the host, and secondly, to show the "national prestige".

The specifications of this night banquet are very high, the entire Yinyang City is full of lights, and before night, the city lord's mansion has been lit up with lanterns all around, and the bells and drums are ringing in unison.

Zhao Lanjiang and Li Chengcheng pretended to be attendants, and followed Chai Gongwang into the City Lord's Mansion, but there was no hindrance.

From the outside, the city lord's mansion is built within the wall, it looks like a city within a city, after entering, I feel that the city lord's mansion is big, covering an area of about hundreds of acres, five steps and a sentry, ten steps and a post, heavily guarded, there are a number of patrolling dragon cavalry guards, and there are many masters of the rivers and lakes that Li Xiancheng has snared, secretly hidden, as Chai Gongwang said, the city lord's mansion is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and it is difficult to enter.

The banquet was set up in the Taiji Building, located in the artificial lake in the city lord's mansion, and now this building has been changed into the Taiji Palace, as a place for Li Xiancheng to entertain guests.

This building is built extremely extravagantly, located in the middle of the lake, from the shore of the lake to the center of the lake, there are eight corridors to connect, the whole lake is divided into eight places, and the meaning of Taiji gossip is implied.

Above the building, inlaid with hundreds of night pearls, in the pool outside the building, four huge candlesticks, carved with the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, the Xuanwu four divine beasts respectively, on the candlestick, the tung oil burns, the fire soars to the sky, under the reflection of the night pearl, the whole building does not burn a lamp, but it is as bright as day.

Even Li Tingcheng, who is accustomed to seeing the world, can't help but praise this design and sigh to himself.

It's not that the Li family doesn't have the financial resources, the Li family in Jinling has been a family for hundreds of years, and the buildings are mostly simple, paying attention to the beauty of taste and style, which is in stark contrast with this Fengyue Building.

Chai Gongwang introduced, "The name of this building is Taiji, which was built by the ancestors of the Li family. ”

Li Chengcheng asked, "But the Li family craftsmen who participated in the construction of the eight-armed Nezha City?"

"Exactly. ”

Li Chengcheng suddenly said: "No wonder this is the case!"

Different from the Central Plains banquet, the seats of the night banquet of the city lord's mansion, one guest and one seat, in front of each seat, there is a small table three feet square, looking at it, there are about more than 300 seats, which are loosely placed in the banquet hall, and there is an open space of more than three zhang in the middle, Zhao Lanjiang and Li Chengcheng do not know what it is for.

The hall is hollowed out, the second floor, the third floor also put more than 100 seats, the whole Taiji Building, if the same time full, can be for thousands of people to feast.

As soon as Chai Gongwang entered the banquet hall,

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When he boarded, many people gathered around, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and greeting him. It is conceivable that the chief of staff of the City Lord's Mansion is very likely to become the first prime minister of the Hidden Yang Dynasty.

Chai Gongwang talked and laughed freely, calmly, and did not have the humility in front of Zhao and Li before. At this time, a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears walked towards Chai Gongwang, shouted "Mr. Chai", and stepped forward to hug the bear.

It's a pity that the two fat people, their stomachs are too big, their arms are too short, and they only touch each other's shoulders, and the middle-aged man said, "Chai Gong hasn't been to our Kangju City for a long time, and recently I got two Persian beauties from Persia, blonde and blue-eyed, and have the opportunity to come and sit with me." ”

Chai Gong Wangpi didn't smile, "Is the Kangju City Lord really willing?"

The middle-aged fat man said, "Of course I am willing!"

"If you were really willing, you would have been sent to Hidden Sun City a long time ago. ”

The middle-aged fat man smiled embarrassedly, "I also got two Persian cats, also blonde and blue-eyed, I'll send them to you another day!"

As he spoke, another man dressed in a beard robe and with a pigtail on his head also came over and said in an urn voice: "Chai Gongwang, is there any news about the closure of our Longquan City?"

Among the nineteen cities, the Hidden Yang is the first, although the rest of the cities are also cities, but the overall control of the Hidden Yang City, when Li Xiancheng rebelled, promised the remaining eighteen city lords that the eighteen people would be crowned kings.

However, not long ago, there was news that Li Xiancheng was ready to seal the Nine Kings and Nine Dukes according to the different strengths of each city, so the two city lords of Kangju and Longquan came to inquire about the news from Chai Gongwang in advance.

Chai Gongwang coughed dryly, "It's not convenient to reveal this, why don't you go and ask Emperor Longyang directly?"

The city lord of Longquan said unhappily, "You guy, you like your mother-in-law and mother when you do things, so you are making a fool of yourself, Lao Tzu will ask Li Xiancheng by himself!"

The city lord of Kangju came over and stretched out his hand to hand over a silver ticket, "It's convenient." Chai Gongwang whispered a few times in his ear, and the man's face was overjoyed, and he hugged his fist at him and returned to the banquet.

Taking advantage of the vacancy, Zhao Lanjiang pointed to the empty space in the venue and asked Chai Gongwang, "How come there is an empty place here, is there still singing and dancing?"

Chai Gongwang said, "Singing and dancing is only secondary, there is a tradition in the nineteen cities, tonight, Li Xiancheng is the emperor, and he needs to accept the challenge of the other eighteen city lords in the field, if there are dissatisfied, they can compete in this competition, only the eighteen people agree, or the challenge wins, can be officially called the emperor." Although it is only a formality, it is still necessary to go through the motions. ”

"What if Li Xian succeeds or fails?"

"Li Xian has been planning this matter for twenty years, and it is impossible to lose. ”

Someone at the door sang, "The Northern Zhou Guanli Mission has arrived!"

As soon as the words fell, six people walked in, and Zhao Lanjiang looked at it, and it turned out that they were also familiar with each other.

Feng Chitose, Lang Dazui, Chun Yuying, and three other people in military uniforms under the seat of the Northern Zhou National Teacher.

Not long ago, the Tuoba Cattle sent Feng Chitose to fight against Zhao Barrage, but they waited on the Shuangfeng Mountain all night without seeing anyone, and they were also infected with wind and cold, and they were holding back their anger.

When the Tuoba Oxman saw him come back alive, he looked disgusted. Li Xiancheng was independent, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty sent Tuoba Niuren to attend, but Tuoba Niuren naturally did not like this kind of occasion, and on the grounds that he was busy with military affairs, he sent Feng Chitose and his party over.

Li Renjie, the young city lord, dressed in a red robe, led the group to the upper seat.

Someone shouted again, "The envoys of Western Chu have arrived!"

Zhao Lanjiang suddenly heard someone pushing behind him, "Let go." ”

Looking back, it turned out that the envoys of Western Chu came over from the corridor they had just had, Zhao Lanjiang didn't want to make trouble, turned his body to the side, looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

There are acquaintances every year, especially this year.

The person headed by the envoys of Western Chu is not an outsider, but an old acquaintance of Zhao Lanjiang, the former prince of Western Chu, Chu Xiang.

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