"Young Master, you are back!" Li Zhang returned home in the palace carriage. As soon as he got off the car, he saw the old hater immediately ran forward to greet him.

"How are you doing today? Is it easy to do the errands in Jingcang grassland?" Li Zhang asked with a smile. After returning from the palace, he went to the store for a walk. Now Huozi is in charge of the braised meat shop, and Chou Niang and Xiuxiu are in charge of the breakfast shop. Although they are a little busy because of Li Zhang's departure, they can at least be able to hold on.

"Young Master, please persuade the master. He just took office today, but he has broken the rules in the officialdom. I am worried that the master will not be able to sit in this position for a long time!" Lao Qiu said bitterly at this time.

"Oh? Why did you break the rules in the officialdom?" Li Zhang was stunned when he heard this.

Li Zhang kept walking while talking, and at this time he entered the house. Lao Qiu also quickly followed and said, "It's my fault. Maybe I didn't explain clearly to the master that the grassland needs to purchase grass, beans, etc., so he needs to deal with some merchants. According to the unwritten rules of the grassland, whenever the chief official takes office, these merchants will offer certain filial piety money. The chief official not only needs to collect the money, but also has to give half of it to his subordinates. In this way, the merchants outside are relieved, and the subordinates are also beneficial, and everyone is happy."

"I understand. It's not that my father took the benefits but didn't give them to his subordinates, right?" Li Zhang immediately understood when he heard this. He had encountered such things in his previous life, just money-power transactions. Li Yonghe collected money from merchants and gave them the orders from the grassland. After his subordinates took the money, they would do their best to do things. Everyone took advantage of the public together.

"It would be great if the master is willing to collect money. Even if he is solemnly, his subordinates are not satisfied. But..." Lao Qiu said in the end, he looked helpless. He advised Li Yong and his wife for a long time for this matter, but the other party didn't listen at all. In desperation, he came to find Li Zhang, hoping that the young master who was the real leader of the family would persuade him.

"He confiscate?" Li Zhang asked in surprise when he heard this, and his steps stopped. This was not like Li Yonghe's personality. After all, as a gambler, there was no one who was not greedy for money.

"The confiscation and all the merchants who were sent to the filial piety were driven out. I wanted to persuade the master, but he didn't listen at all!" Lao Qiu said again with a bitter face.

Li Zhang stood in the yard with surprise for a while. Lao Qiu didn't know what he was thinking, so he didn't dare to disturb him. Finally, Li Zhang suddenly smiled and said, "It's interesting, Lao Qiu, what do you mean is that I want me to persuade his father?"

"Yes, those merchants have some background, otherwise they would not be able to take the orders of the grassland. The subordinates of the grassland were used to taking the filial piety of those merchants. If the master did not accept it, the subordinates would not dare to take it. Although they would not say anything, it would be difficult to make them obedient in the future." Lao Qiu said this time the disadvantages of not taking filial piety.

However, after hearing this, Li Zhang did not say anything. After a while, he smiled calmly and said, "Old Qiu, do you know why our father and son were awarded official positions?"

"Ah? This..." Lao Qiu didn't expect that Li Zhang suddenly asked about this matter, and he was a little hesitant at the moment. Of course, he knew that Li Zhang and his son were both relatives of the foreigners, but this status of relying on relationships was not glorious. Some relatives were more taboo about this, so he didn't know how to answer for a while?

"Haha, you don't have to worry about it. We father and son are officials who rely on the status of foreign relatives. You also know what our Song Dynasty's attitude towards foreign relatives is. God knows how many eyes are staring at us father and son, so it may be fine if other people accept the filial piety from merchants, but we father and son must not let others catch any handle!" Li Zhang smiled again at this time.

"This... the young master said, I was negligent!" Lao Qiu hurriedly smiled when he heard this, but although he said that, he didn't think so in his heart.

In fact, in Lao Qiu's opinion, although Li Zhang and his son have a relative relationship with the queen, they are not close to each other. Moreover, there are so many concubines in the palace, and they don't know how many relatives there are in the relationship like Li Zhang, and I'm afraid not many people will notice their father and son.

Li Zhang could see through Lao Qiu's thoughts at first glance, but he smiled calmly and said nothing. On the surface, their father and son were indeed inconspicuous relatives. At most, it was because they were related to Liu E, so they were a bit special, but they were not worthy of too much attention. But who knew that their Li family was the number one relative of the Song Dynasty. If Zhao Zhen ascended the throne in the future, then Li Yonghe would be the real uncle. Of course, no one dared to disclose this identity in a short period of time.

"Since my father has rejected filial piety, then don't accept it in the future. If the merchant's forage and beans are good and the price is reasonable, you can continue to receive it. But if it only depends on relationships, then just change people. As for the subordinates of the grassland who have complaints, it depends on your ability. I heard that your son is not young anymore and has not achieved any fame. If he wants, I will tell you and let him go to the grassland to be a civil servant!" Li Zhang said at the end, and patted Lao Qiu on the shoulder.

"Subordinate... I thanked the young master!" When Lao Qiu heard Li Zhang's words, he was excited and his whole body trembled. He was not young anymore and had no extravagance in the officialdom, but his son was all adult, and like him, he was not smooth in the imperial examinations. Now he started as a minor official, especially now that he was accused of Li Zhang and his son. If the other party was willing to support him, he might be able to be transferred from an official in the future. This is his greatest wish in his life!

"Haha, you don't have to thank me. As long as you do your best to help us father and son in the future, your benefits will definitely be indispensable!" Li Zhang smiled again at this time.

After sending Lao Qiu away, Li Zhang returned home. At this time, Xiuxiu had already prepared dinner. She took care of the breakfast shop in the morning and came to Li Zhang when the shop was closed in the afternoon, mainly to help with cooking. After all, although Li Zhang has many people, she has no woman in charge. Although she is young, she is proficient in cooking and housework, so now Xiuxiu has become the housekeeper of the family.

Lu Wu was also at home. When he saw Li Zhang coming in, he immediately asked him what happened in the palace today. Li Zhang also told the story, but he did not say that he had a conflict with Linte, mainly because he was afraid that they would worry. Moreover, he also saw through the villain like Linte. As long as he was Liu E, he would never dare to do anything to himself.

After dinner, Li Zhang returned to his room to rest. Now he finally had a separate room. However, thinking of promising Zhao Zhen to bring him some fun things, Li Zhang thought for a while and finally decided to make a deck of cards and a deck of flying chess, mainly because he didn't have much material on hand, otherwise he would have wanted to make a football or basketball.

The next morning, Li Zhang took a carriage to Zishantang again, and Zhao Zhen also liked the cards and flying chess he brought, but he was caught by Li Di while playing in the afternoon, and he was scolded by him. However, although Li Di was harsh, he was also quite enlightened. After Zhao Zhen repeatedly promised that he would not delay his studies, Li Di did not take away his things, but Li Zhang was beaten by a third-handed board.

Although Li Di discovered it for the first time, Li Zhang still brought some fun things to Zhao Zhen from time to time. The two got along more and more harmoniously. At this time, Li Zhang also discovered that Zhao Zhen was indeed a bad person and he had no pressure to get along with him. However, the more he did this, Li Zhang became more worried, because although Zhao Zhen's personality could be a good person, he became a good emperor.

"Cousin, good news, my father is going to treat you and my uncle tonight!" Early that morning, Li Zhang had just arrived at Zishan Hall, but when Zhao Zhen came to excitedly stepped forward and grabbed him and shouted.

"Ah? Isn't Your Majesty sick? How can you entertain us?" Li Zhang was stunned when he heard Zhao Zhen's words.

"My father's health is much better now, but sometimes he is confused and can't recognize people. But yesterday he woke up for a long time, and the eldest lady mentioned you in front of him. As a result, the eldest lady was very happy and said that the eldest lady has no relatives, so it was not easy to find you. So he decided to invite you to the palace tonight!" Zhao Zhen said excitedly again.

"That's great. I've long wanted to see Your Majesty, but do we need to prepare for the first time at the palace banquet?" Li Zhang was also very interested in the emperor Zhao Heng, and he had always wanted to go see the plane. If he could have a good relationship with Zhao Heng, he might find an opportunity to let the other party agree to him go to the plane.

The reason why Li Zhang wanted to see the plane was mainly for the useful things on the plane. Not to mention medicine, the most important thing was that he remembered that there was a luggage compartment under the plane. Except for the luggage carried by the guests, most of the luggage was placed there, and no one knew what was in these luggage. For Li Zhang, these luggage was like a big treasure, waiting for him to dig.

"There is no need to prepare. This time, the father prepared a private banquet. In addition to the father and the eldest lady, there were only you and me, and there was also an uncle, with only five people in total. In the afternoon, the father would send someone to bring his uncle. Then we will go to the banquet together and gather for a meal!" Zhao Zhen smiled again.

When Li Zhang heard that only Zhao Zhen and his family and his father and son participated, he was relieved. Then he asked Zhao Zhen about Zhao Heng’s preferences so that he would not say the wrong thing when he saw the other party. Zhao Zhen smiled and asked him to relax, because according to his statement, Zhao Heng was actually a very easy-going and easy-to-get-in-one person.
Chapter completed!