This is a sign of a small amount of inner strength.
This night's practice was enough to be worth the past three months or even half a year of hard work. Luo Xing glanced at himself in the bronze mirror. The originally ordinary edges and corners became much softer, and the brilliance in his eyes also became
It was different, and I couldn't help but be secretly excited.
One step closer to the extraordinary little goal.
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On this day, all Luojing officials, all those of fourth rank and above, got up early in the morning and rushed to the Dazheng Hall of the Imperial City.
Today is a big court meeting.
The envoy of the Xirong delegation, Zuo Prime Minister Alehai, led by the courtesy officer, met with His Majesty Ye Rong, Emperor Yongxi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, in the Dazheng Palace. He had a stout body, a dark face, and a silver scimitar inlaid with various gemstones on his waist.
As soon as Prime Minister Zuo of Xirong entered the palace, he gave the civil and military ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty a sense of oppression!
Emperor Yongxi, wearing a dragon robe and a crown, sitting on a dragon chair, was a forty-year-old middle-aged man with a slender face, slightly divergent eyebrows, thin lips, and slightly raised cheekbones.
Judging from his appearance, he does seem a bit mean and unkind.
"Foreign Minister Alhai is here to see His Majesty the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty!" Alhai looked arrogant and only half-kneeled to Emperor Yongxi.
"Prime Minister Alhai Zuo, please call me. How is your wolf master? What's the purpose of this trip to the Great Zhou Dynasty?" Emperor Yongxi just nodded slightly, raised his hand and asked.
"Your Majesty, Lord Wolf, everything is well. The foreign minister came here this time to ask for Princess Liuli from His Majesty the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty to my Wolf Lord." Alhai stood up and looked around, with bright eyes, as if he was a gift from the emperor.
With an expression on his face, he said loudly, "To this end, I have brought the betrothal gift for Princess Liuli from my wolf master, ten thousand cattle, one hundred thousand sheep, ten thousand war horses, ten thousand kilograms of gold sand, and ten carts of various gems!"
As soon as these words came out, the entire Dazheng Palace was in an uproar.
Emperor Yongxi, who was sitting on the Dragon Throne, also had a serious look on his face. Alhai, the left prime minister of Xirong, had brought so many gifts to Luo Jing as an envoy. It was obvious that he was well prepared.
Both the government and the opposition hold a "happy-to-see" attitude towards the peace and friendship with Xirong, because once the peace and friendship is achieved, not to mention permanent peace between the two countries, at least there will be no major wars in the border areas for ten years.
However, the people in the Zhou Dynasty mostly decided on the adult sons of the Wolf Lord of Xirong as candidates for marriage. After all, the princesses in the Zhou Dynasty were of the same age.
What he never expected was that the man from Xirong who wanted to marry the Princess of Zhou was actually the Wolf Lord of Xirong himself.
The Wolf Lord of Xirong is over fifty, and is older than Emperor Yongxi. If he marries a princess of Zhou Dynasty, wouldn't the marriage become a marriage between husband and wife?
Moreover, the person he proposed to marry was Princess Ye Liuli of Anping. She was the first of the four beauties of Luojing, and Ye Liuli's identity was very special.
She is the only daughter of the former prince.
Regardless of her beauty, or her bloodline and political status, the risk of marrying into an enemy country and marrying a close relative is too great.
"Alehai, how old is your wolf master, and you still want to marry the youngest and most beautiful princess of our Zhou Dynasty?"
"It's really an old cow eating young grass, shameless!"
"Old thief Xin Li is so shameless..."
The ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty immediately started to quarrel. There were many opponents, and they even shouted loudly regardless of their dignity. Other matters that were originally planned to be carried out were delayed. In the end, Emperor Yongxi walked away without expressing his position on the spot, which ended the debate.
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But this matter is not over yet.
As soon as the court meeting broke up, the news that the Wolf Lord of Xirong wanted to marry Princess Liuli was instantly known to the entire Luojing.
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Shang Chen, the deputy envoy of the Xirong Mission, has returned and brought back many boxes, which are very heavy and he is moving them one by one to the embassy.
In addition to the Xirong wolf cavalry, they were accompanied by some men and women who looked the same as Zhou people. Although they were dressed in the clothes of servants and maids, ordinary people could not tell them apart, but Luo Xing in the crowd could tell them at a glance.
Everyone is a master of martial arts.
The Xirong Puppet Shadow Hall is as famous as the Jing'an Division of the Southern Government of the Great Zhou Dynasty!
Xirong's wolves were riding on the outside, while these people vaguely formed a protective phalanx inside for the slender man in the middle.
They moved very quickly. It only took ten seconds from getting off the car to entering the embassy gate, and then everyone disappeared behind the door.
He is very familiar with Shang Chen. He usually likes to ride a carriage when going out, but today he actually rides a horse. He is not a typical Xirong person. In fact, his ancestors, like the Zhou people, avoided war and went to Xirong and settled down there.
Gen, he intermarried and merged with the Xirong tribe. Because he was proficient in the Zhou dialect, he was reused by the wolf masters of Xirong in the past generations and became a diplomat dealing with the Zhou Dynasty.
Shang Chen is the deputy envoy of Xirong stationed in Luojing. He has been in Luojing for the past three years. He only occasionally goes back to report on his duties. He usually returns within a month. This time he was away for three months, and he was still like this when he came back.
There was a big battle, something was obviously going on.
No matter what big event happens when Shang Chen comes back this time, Luo Xing knows that his leisure days are over and he has to meet his immediate boss.
Chunyu Tower.
Contact point for supervisory secret agents of the Nanya Jing'an Department.
"Qilang is here." The clerk at Chunyu Tower saw Luo Xing walking in with his hands folded, and quickly greeted him. From the clerk to the dogs in the backyard, as well as the rats and cockroaches in the sewers, all of them were affiliated to the Nanya Jing'an Division.
A pack of secret dried tofu snacks was handed over: "Where's Mr. Han?"
"The accounts are being settled inside." The waiter took over skillfully. Every time Luo Xing came, he would bring them some of these secret dried tofu snacks. No one outside could eat them except them.
This thing is homemade by Luo Xing and is not for sale, but it is a good dish to go with wine.
"Okay." Luo Xing nodded, opened the curtain of the back door and walked in.
Here is a zigzag-shaped patio, passing through the corridor and entering the backyard. There is a small lotus pond made of blue bricks in the corner of the courtyard. It is already autumn and winter, and the lotus flowers have long since disappeared, with only a dead leaf floating on the water.
There is a wintersweet tree in the corner, with a few delicate flower buds sprouting from the branches. They look a bit sparse, indicating that the owner here is not a "flower-loving" person.
Hearing the sound of abacus beads coming from the room, Luo Xing easily found the person he was looking for, Han Qifeng, the shopkeeper of Chunyu Tower.
"Han Tou."
"Qilang is here, come here quickly and help me calculate the accounts for this month. I've done it several times and it's wrong every time. I won't be able to explain it when the accounts are checked at the end of the year." said Han Qifeng, who was a little fat.
When he looked up and saw Luo Xing, his little eyes instantly flashed with a hint of "life-saving straw" joy.
"Han Tou, I've taught you this accounting method, why haven't you mastered it yet?"
"I get a headache when I see these numbers. Otherwise, I will tell the superiors that after the three-year inspection period, you will take my position. You are more suitable to be the shopkeeper than me." Han Qifeng hurriedly gave the position to me.
Let it go.
This was not the first time this happened. Luo Xing cupped his hands and sat down naturally, holding a pen in one hand and resting on the abacus with the other.
Then I saw his fingers moving, like an afterimage, and a "crackling" sound of abacus beads hitting each other was heard in the room.
About a quarter of an hour later, Luo Xing's hand moving the beads on the abacus stopped, and so did his pen.
"Han Tou, let's do the math. Chunyu Tower has been open for a total of thirty days this month, and the average daily income is one hundred and twenty-four taels and two cents. After excluding the daily purchase and labor costs, and subtracting the taxes paid, it's about
The daily net profit is forty-one taels and one-cent cents, multiplied by thirty, the total profit is one thousand, two hundred and thirty-three taels and nine cents." Luo Xing reported a number.
"It's almost the same as what I calculated, hahaha." Han Qifeng rubbed his hands and smiled. This number is completely consistent with the money on the account, and there is no difference.
"Han Tou, Shang Chen has returned to Luojing."
"I know, a big event happened at the court meeting today. Your Majesty originally wanted to discuss next year's Spring Festival, but ended up putting it on hold." Han Qifeng nodded.
"Something happened?"
"Well, the Wolf Lord of Xirong asked Your Majesty to marry Princess Liuli to form a marriage alliance."
"Who, it seems that the Wolf Lord's adult sons are married and have children?" Monitoring Shang Chen, how could he not understand Shang Chen's background and the situation in Xirong behind him.
"Guess?"
"It can't be the Wolf Lord himself, right?" Luo Xing frowned. The Wolf Queen of Xirong has been dead for more than ten years. Although there is no shortage of women in the harem, the position of Wolf Queen has never been established again...