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Chapter 9 Prime Minister Qi sets wine

Dongqi was known as the country of ritual and music. The royal family regarded Confucius as the ancestor of the sage and ancestors, and valued etiquette and rigorous system. As the place where the chief lord of Qi was stationed, the Prime Minister's Mansion was naturally extraordinary: just see a thousand-year-old ancient locust tree, with a canopy cap, covering the main gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion. A pair of vermilion gates, two feet high and three feet wide, were decorated with seven and forty-nine gold nails, and together with the pair of mighty stone lions in front of the door, it showed the identity of the owner of the palace, the noble and princes.

Qin Lei got out of the car and stood under the high steps of the Prime Minister's Mansion. He seemed a little cramped, his eyes were scattered and his body was slightly hunched. Tieying handed the wrinkled invitation to the guest with a dark face, and then stepped into the palace without saying a word.

Qin Lei reacted and hurriedly followed Tie Ying. The hem of Qi Guo's dress was tight and the steps of the Prime Minister's Mansion were high. The little proton couldn't help but stagger, with a bitter face, lifted up his clothes and chased after him.

The guards and guests of the Prime Minister's House looked at each other, then whispered to laugh. After a while, they remembered their duties and sang together: "The Lord of Ge is here..."

As expected, the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion was deep, and the layers of news were still running in front of the guests and entering the main hall of the banquet. At this time, the wedding banquet had already started. Looking at the guests' slightly drunk, it seemed that they had been drunk for thirty years...

Hearing the newspaper, the hall suddenly became quiet. The dignitaries turned their heads and looked at the door, wanting to see what the hottest topic figure in Beijing looks like recently.

The first person who came in was indeed a giant man with a 8-foot-tall face, a beard, and a door god. After seeing the color of his guard uniform, the nobles breathed a sigh of relief. The reality and ideals were too far apart, and it was always uncomfortable.

After the man stood still, he clasped his fists and said in a rough voice: "The envoy of the Great Qin Suijie, the Fifth Prince, wishing the Prime Minister of Daqi a happy life!" After saying that, everyone saw a person moving from behind the Tietahan. He was pale, his eyes were wandering, his body was dull, his expression was flustered, his expression was flustered, his timid, and cautious. That's right, this is the unfortunate appearance that the poor proton who had been imprisoned by Daqi for 16 years should have. The adults calmed down and hung various expressions of preparatory or mocking, contempt, or sighing on their faces, and turned around and continued to drink and have fun.

Qin Lei bowed, and everyone in the hall looked at it. The white-bearded and thin old man sitting in the main seat must be Shangguan Laoer. He was twisting his wine glass and talking to the fat old man with a big yellow-bearded man on the left. However, the two of them glanced at each other from time to time, especially the fat old man with a bad face. The third person in the room caught his attention was a bearded man sitting by the door. At his age, he had been drinking and not talking to others. He seemed out of place in the room.

No one seemed to hear Tieying's announcement. The host and the guests were busy talking to each other. They had no time to look at the door. The master and servant stood at the door, blushing.

Iron Eagle was about to attack, but when he heard a faint cough in his ear, he held back his fists clenched. Iron Eagle looked at His Highness with his light. He was lowering his head slightly, as if he was at a loss. But from the perspective of Iron Eagle, he happened to see the fleeting joke in His Highness's eyes.

Since receiving the invitation, Qin Lei knew that his plan with Shen Luo was half successful. Shen Luo made countless tricks and several big moves finally made this meeting. The Prime Minister of Qi wanted to see if this legendary silly and stupid proton was really useless. If it could not pose a threat to Qi, then giving Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager a face, and at the same time avoiding war, and giving Qi a few years of preparation time, why not do it?

Through the confirmation with Chen Luo, Qin Lei almost confirmed Shangguan Yunhe's thoughts. In psychology, if a person wants something to develop in another direction, he will pay attention to the information that can support his inference, and ignore the information that is contrary to the inference. This is what daily said preconceived.

As a boy who started his hostage career in his infancy, he really cannot attract the attention of the giants of Qi. If Shangguan Yunhe had not been cautious by nature, it would be unnecessary to meet this.

So from the beginning, Qin Lei had to do was to follow Shangguan Yunhe's judgment on himself, and try to strengthen it naturally, so that things could develop in the direction that Prime Minister Shangguan hoped. This would reduce a lot of trouble, and this would mean to follow the trend.

If your thoughts are clear, you will not be angered by the laughter of the people around you. Instead, you will feel the pleasure of fooling others. At least Qin Lei is very happy now.

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Shangguan Yunhe looked at the pitiful host at the door, but he thought about another thing in his heart. Qi State was very bad these years, with severe droughts and difficulties in the lives of the people. But those royal relatives, officials and gentry were addicted to the glory of winning over Qin State more than ten years ago and could not extricate themselves from the glory of thousands of miles of land. They were arrogant and extravagant and luxurious all day long. The treasury was sucked by these lees, and it was useless. They had to increase taxes and fish in the waters, causing the people to live in poverty, sell their children, and riots from time to time.

He wants to implement reforms, he has a large set of policies to clarify administration, protect agriculture, develop arms, and strengthen elite troops. He wants to suppress the rebound of vested interests and ensure the implementation of the new policy. All of this will take time!

Therefore, the State of Qi cannot happen and cannot withstand wars within ten years. Although there is Yu Shenggong, who is known as the God of War, and Yu Shengjun who is victorious in every battle. That is why he ignored his years of friendship with Zhao Wujiu and advocated releasing his hostage back to his country. If he hadn't been willing, who in the world could control the attention of the Prime Minister of Qi? The emperor would not have been able to do so.

So he decided to let Qin Lei return to the country and block the Qin army's mouth. Of course, if Qin Lei was outstanding to a certain extent, he would not let the tiger return to the mountain.

It took him a long time to get out of his thoughts, and he seemed to see the two people at the door, laughing: "It turns out that it is Mr. Zhi Ge's grandfather. Mr. is late. Come to the table quickly and get three glasses of wine!"

The guests and friends agreed, "Three glasses of wine are fined", "How can you come late?" "Disrespectful, very disrespectful" and other nonsense.

Tieying was furious and bullied people too much. You said at the invitation that we came half an hour in advance, but we still didn't catch up with the opening. What's more annoying is that, where is the seat? Where is there an empty seat?
Chapter completed!
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