Shangjing is still the same Shangjing, standing for thousands of years without falling.

There is no way to verify how many years has been stored in Shangjing, and the only thing that is known is that no matter how humanity changes, all the imperial palaces of all dynasties are located here.

The expeditionary force finally returned to Shangjing again, and this time the expedition became a farce.

"General Li, what reward do you say Your Majesty will give me this time?" said Chen Jiu on horseback and followed behind General Li.

General Li tidied up the clothes on his body: "No matter what the final outcome is, what calculations the barbarians have, but we have indeed captured millions of barbarian soldiers, and the reward will definitely not be too stingy."

Chen Jiu touched the smooth bottom: "I'm sixteen years old this year, if I am named a young general, it will be very cool."

Li Guang looked Chen Jiu up and down for a while before he said: "Don't say it, you have made such a great contribution in this southern expedition, and it should be no problem to be a general, but your age is a little young, so I am afraid that Wenchen will use this to suppress you."

Chen Jiu smiled coldly: "Suppress, why should they suppress, a group of corpses wrapped in food, I have made such a great contribution at a young age, they are more than half a hundred years old but have not built an inch, if I were them, I would have found a person to die a long time ago, where would I still have the face to accuse others."

The army returned to the camp tent smoothly, and the general Iron Wolf summoned all the soldiers to the camp to make a summary of the expedition, and then went on vacation.

To be exact, it's a holiday for all the generals.

Chen Jiu and Chao Xiaoyu rode back to Chen's mansion, Chen's mansion was still the same, and Shen Luoying was sitting there chewing petals, looking like she was gritting her teeth.

"Hmph. I actually dare to take advantage of Miss Ben's confinement to go to the south, and when you come back, I have to pick your skin."

As he spoke, he removed the petals and threw them into his mouth.

"Hey, why does Miss Shen eat flower petals in my Chen Mansion?, although my Chen Mansion is not a big business, but there is still food, how can you treat guests like this" Chen Jiu's voice sounded behind Shen Luoying.

Shen Luoying was clever, jumped up suddenly, and waited until she turned around. Seeing Chen Jiu and Chao Xiaoyu standing behind him in iron armor. Fang Cai showed surprise: "How is it?, when did you come back, Nanban is so fun, you dare not bring me." It's so uninteresting. I'm going to ignore you."

Chen Jiu smiled and found a place to sit down: "I just heard someone chewing petals behind his back and saying that he wanted to pick my skin." Oh, I'm so scared."

"You,. Shen Luoying pointed at Chen Jiu, looking like she was about to go crazy.

Chao Xiaoyu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Don't say that this time Nanban is weird enough, have you heard any rumors in the capital?"

Shen Luoying rolled her eyes and said prettyly: "Alas, it also needs to be said that now the city is full of barbarian kings entering Beijing, and the barbarian kings not only offer a large number of treasures, but even their own daughters have to be dedicated to the human emperor."

Chen Jiu showed a look of disbelief: "What are you talking about?, the barbarian king actually dared to give his daughter to the human emperor."

As soon as he thought of the barbarian woman's appearance of being five big and three thick, with big shoulders and a round waist, Chen Jiu showed a cold expression.

"What's wrong with barbarian women, barbarian women are not women, maybe the emperor likes the women of the Southern Barbarians" Shen Luoying looked angry.

Chen Jiu shook his head and looked at the petals on the table, which had been tortured by Shen Luoying.

"Why did you run out, weren't you locked up at home by your father?".

"My father can't control me" said, drank a cup of tea, and looked at Chao Xiaoyu: "Sister Xiaoyu, tell me about Nanban, let's go talk and ignore this bastard."

Shen Luoying pulled Chao Xiaoyu away, Chen Jiu smiled, walked back to the house and changed the iron armor: "This iron armor is cold on the body, and it will be cooler to wear gold silk armor in the future, but unfortunately every rich gold silk armor is worth tens of thousands of gold, not something I can afford."

Putting on a purple shirt, the luxurious atmosphere comes to the face, people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, this sentence is not lost for no reason.

"Childe, there is a scholar named Jiang Qianqiu outside the door who is looking for you," a servant said outside the door.

Chen Jiu paused, revealing a strange look: "Jiang Qianqiu, what is the matter with him coming to find himself?"

"Invite him to the hall for tea, I'll be there later".

Picking up a comb and gently arranging his hair, tying his hair with a ribbon, Chen Jiu walked outside.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, underage men were absolutely not allowed to erect crowns, which represented adults, and even ordinary civilians were not allowed to erect crowns, and only nobles could erect crowns.

Civilians simply put their hair together and then tie it with strips of cloth in the same way as a vertical crown, but the real crown is not allowed.

Chen Jiu was not surprised that he and Jiang Qianqiu were able to find this place, the Jiang family was also a big family, although Jiang Qianqiu was with his grandfather, he was a member of the Jiang family after all, and there was no problem in mobilizing a little family resources.

"Brother Jiang, rare guest, rare guest" Chen Jiu slowly walked into the hall, Jiang Qianqiu was sitting there drinking tea with drunken eyes.

"Brother Chen, you're here, if you don't come, I'll fall asleep" Jiang Qianqiu's eyes lit up and opened suddenly.

Chen Jiu sat down with a smile: "I just came back from the battlefield, I always have to wash up and get rid of the evil spirit, unlike you, Brother Jiang, you have a family to take care of, and the officialdom will be proud in the future, and it will be smooth sailing, I still have to fight by myself."

Jiang Qianqiu turned his head noncommittally and looked at Chen Jiu's hall: "Your house is good, even in Shangjing, where the powerful gather, it can be regarded as an upper-class level, you just came to Shangjing and you have such a big industry, if you are really better than me, you deserve to be the champion."

Chen Jiu ignored Jiang Qianqiu's nonsense, but drank tea.

After savoring it carefully, Chen Jiucai said: "You are so leisurely, it seems that the imperial court has given you a good errand job."

Speaking of errands, Jiang Qianqiu spat loudly: "Don't say it, my errand job is not good, although it looks leisurely, but I don't have time to sleep when I am busy."

As he was talking, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and a servant came to the hall with light steps: "Proprietor, there is a scholar named Li Mingyi outside the door who wants to see his son."

Li Mingyi's family is also a hegemon in Yuzhou, and the last time I saw that they were familiar with Shen Luoying, their relationship with Chen Jiu was average.

Jiang Qianqiu was stunned when he heard this: "This guy is also here."

Chen Jiu was puzzled: "I don't know why he came here."

"Brother Chen, let's invite him in first."

"That's exactly what happened," Chen Jiu said to the slave, "Invite him in."

"Li Mingyi is said to have also participated in this scientific expedition?" asked Chen Jiu.

There are only a few people in Yuzhou who can have the strength to participate in this scientific expedition, and even if they don't deliberately inquire, they can hear some rumors.

Jiang Qianqiu sighed: "Actually, Li Mingyi's talent is still good, not even inferior to me, but unfortunately, he was implicated by his brother and ended up on the list."

Chen Jiu was stunned: "How can you say this?"

Jiang Qianqiu looked around, then lowered his voice and said, "According to legend, one of Li Mingyi's elder brothers joined the Fangwai Sect, and he is the most powerful sect outside the Fangwai."

Chen Jiu's eyebrows furrowed: "Even if his brother joins the sect, it shouldn't affect him."

"But what if his brother is the future seed figure of that sect, or even the future sect master?"

Chen Jiuyi was surprised: "It's amazing here, his brother's talent is so high."

Jiang Qianqiu nodded deeply: "The spies of the imperial court are everywhere, although it is said that the secrets of the major families are secret, but the spies of the imperial court are pervasive, and some children of big families have to be sent to the sect, this is a tacit thing for everyone, after all, there is one more way back, but only the sect that his brother joins cannot, and even said that it is the sworn enemy of the imperial court."

Chen Jiu suddenly didn't ask Jiang Qianqiu which sect Li Mingyi's brother joined, these are not important, the important thing is which sect and the imperial court can survive after becoming mortal enemies, the strength is definitely not simple, and Li Mingyi's brother wants to become one of the future successors of which sect, this matter is not simple.

The imperial court is infiltrating the sect, but the sect is not infiltrating into the court.

It's just that I don't know which sect Li Mingyi's brother joined, and he actually made the court so jealous, and there are definitely not many people or forces in this world that can make the court jealous. (To be continued......)