Chao Gai and Lu Zhishen had another good drink in a small wine shop not far from the vegetable garden of Daxiangguo Temple.What they didn't mention about Lin Chong was that after all, this was Lin Chong's own housework, and the two of them talked too much about it, and they always felt that it was not a thing!
After eating and drinking, Chao Gai said goodbye to Lu Zhishen, and agreed on the time and place of the next meeting, so he went back to his residence without mentioning it.At this time, he had already forgotten about Lin Chong's matter, and he didn't have the heart to pay attention to it and was not in the mood to think about it.In the next half month, Chao Gai was hanging around in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and followed Lu Zhishen to contact again and again, inviting him out to eat and drink from time to time, and the relationship heated up quickly.Chao Gai also had a discussion with Lu Zhishen for a while, this time Lu Zhishen took out a heavy convenient shovel, Chao Gai had a cooked copper stick in one hand, and the fight was fierce, and the trouble was huge to the extreme.In a series of golden and iron sounds, Lu Zhishen finally failed to hold on to defeat, and he admired Chao Gai's martial arts and innate divine power so much that he threw himself to the ground.Chao Gai didn't say anything to solicit, with Lu Zhishen's personality and his current identity was not suitable.However, he said that if Lu Zhishen had leisure, he could go to Yuncheng, Shandong, and he would do his best as a landlord.Lu Zhishen readily agreed, and that's it.He was a real Buddhist at this time, and although his behavior was too far from that of a Buddhist, he had no idea of wandering the rivers and lakes.Otherwise, with his strength and the ability he has cultivated in the army, he will be the king of the mountain!
Chao Gai saw this, so he didn't open his mouth to solicit, some people can't be accepted by opening their mouths, and he has to figure it out himself and take the initiative to invest.Gossip aside, the time hurried and soon arrived the day before Cai Jing's birthday.In ancient times, the longevity of the powerful was very widespread, so it was impossible to just hold a banquet on the right day, and most of them would be postponed a few days in advance, and they would hold a total of ten days and half a month before they were willing to stop.On this day, Chao Gai took his subordinates to enter the door with the birthday gang and gave a gift list.The welcome at the door of the "Yuncheng County Order Birthday Gift ......" took the gift list, stretched his voice and read out the gifts on the gift list aloud, which attracted the attention of some people for a while, and at the same time, he also wanted to show off in front of Cai Jing.Chao Gai entered the door of Cai's house, the prime minister's house was naturally extraordinary, and it did not lose the elegant beauty of Jiangnan, like a maze that made him dizzy.With his identity, as well as the status of the Yuncheng County Order, he can naturally only occupy a place in the corner of the banquet, and the peers around him are all gorgeously dressed and extraordinary, but they are very restrained when they sit here, and even their hands and feet seem to be a little stiff, and their actions are very unnatural.This is, was shocked by Cai Jing's power!
Chao Gai saw the clue at a glance, but he didn't say much, the slightest expression on his face was not revealed, he picked up the chopsticks and slowly tasted the craftsmanship of the Cai family's cook, acting neither ostentatious nor too humble, compared with the surrounding guests with stiff looks, he naturally looked much more generous!
It's a pity that he is in a corner, and no powerful magnate is willing to take a second look here, and few people notice that Chao Gai is unusual.It's the guests sitting next to him, all of them who can't keep their souls, how can they have the heart and effort to pay attention to such a stranger as Chao Gai!
Yes, the people sitting in Chao Gai should all be birthday greetings from all over the world, either on behalf of the local small magnates behind them, or on the initiative to come to the door to celebrate their birthdays but their status is not high.It is said that this is a good opportunity to expand the scope of communication, but unfortunately this is Cai Xiangfu, which guest with insufficient status has the courage to act like this?
Chao Gai dared, but unfortunately he was not interested in communicating with strangers around him, not that he was too lonely and arrogant, but that the dialect was too sharp and he couldn't understand a lot of words.It's really a sad story, because the capital of the Great Song Dynasty is Bianliang, Tokyo, so naturally the Henan dialect at this time is the official dialect.Ahem, anyway, Chao Gai feels a little voice barrier, and he can still understand when he slows down his speech, but if he speaks quickly......
The greeting guests here are either court officials or local powerful figures, who will deliberately accommodate Chao Gai to talk and chat?
If there really is such a guy, Chao Gai can't say that he will be vigilant and suspect the other party's motives or something.Of course, it is impossible to say that Chao Gai is inconspicuous and stands out to everyone, just his more than 1.9 meters, Kuiwei's abnormal figure can be eye-catching.Not to mention, the boss should be used to it, although he deliberately pretended to be low-key, but he couldn't cover it with a heroic atmosphere, and sat in the corner area, directly comparing the surrounding guests to dust.There are still people who pay attention to Chao Gai, there are people in Cai's mansion and people with hearts on the side.It's just that Chao Gai is indeed sitting too far away, and no one can get up too conspicuously.Chao Gai was a little sensitive, but he didn't care much, his mind was focused on the many guests who came to celebrate his birthday.Cai Jing's power is really not covered, the people who come to the door today should be his cronies and guests, from Chao Gai to the door has almost passed more than half an hour, and the ceremony at the gate has not stopped, and the list of various birthday gifts is endless, as if there is no end.He entered the door from almost noon, until the sun on the horizon was obviously slanting westward, and he sat for at least two hours, and the guests who came to celebrate were still in an endless stream, and all kinds of gift lists did not stop, and the celebrant who sang the salute at the door changed several times in a row.The atmosphere in the area where Chao Gai sat was festive and a little strangely depressing, in short, made him feel a little uncomfortable.It's a pity that the eunuchs, especially the banquet rules of Cai Jing's family, are not easy to move around at will, so he can only stuff a table of exquisite dishes into his mouth in a depressed manner.Delicate is exquisite, but the taste is not very good in Chao Gai's opinion, which makes Chao someone, who is used to not getting tired of his mouth, feel very uncomfortable.There is no way, the iron-making process of this era is not up to par, and it is impossible to make a thin-skinned iron pot like that of later generations, so it naturally saves the process of making dishes such as copying and frying.Everything is steamed and boiled, or a barbecue, and the ingredients are not very complete, so the taste is naturally hehe.Chao Gai made a vegetable copying thing in his own territory, and the cost was definitely not a joke, a single set of large and small pots and pans cost hundreds of times!
Coupled with the prosperity of river and sea trade, there is no shortage of all kinds of strange spices at hand, and the taste of his family's dishes is absolutely unique, and it is basically impossible to eat outside.At the moment, the ingredients on Caifu's birthday banquet are definitely the best, and it is estimated that they may be better than the ingredients in the palace, but how can he break it if he just can't eat it?
After the initial excitement is gone, the time after that is torment.The names of unfamiliar greetings came into his ears, and the positions of listening to the prefix were very extraordinary, but Chao Gai basically didn't hear much about it, so that he couldn't afford to make friends or explore the slightest.Also, he sits in Yuncheng all the year round, and he rarely even goes out of Shandong, and he also pays attention to the news of Shandong, where does he have the heart to pay attention to the changes in officialdom on Bianliang's side?
Knowing that the six thieves in Tokyo are still too notorious, it is unfortunate that today's birthday star is the head of the six thieves in Tokyo.Coupled with a skinless gangster who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, the top level of the Great Song Dynasty is full of such guys, and it really can't be said that he won't die.What's even more congestive, the so-called court is clear, and even these six thieves can't compare, I really don't know what to say.As for those civil and military generals who shined later, they were either slowly struggling in the middle and low levels at this time, or they had not yet entered the officialdom.If there were no foreign enemies, the Great Song Dynasty should be able to delay for nearly a hundred years.As long as there is an emperor who has made achievements during this period, it is not impossible to rise up with the profound heritage of the Great Song Dynasty.It's just a pity that the princes in the court only thought about recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, but they did not hesitate to seek skin with the tiger and introduce the Jin soldiers into the Central Plains in advance, and in the end, they naturally couldn't pounce anymore.Of course, these are just thoughts in Chao Gai's heart, and they are a little out of place with the lively and festive atmosphere around him.Fortunately, none of the guests present had the ability to read minds, so they naturally didn't know that Chao Gai was eating Cai's banquet while slandering the birthday star in his heart.Through the small talk of the surrounding guests, Chao Gai also found out a lot of information.Sure enough, as he expected, the birthday gift of Liang Zhongshu, who stayed in the Daimyo's Mansion, had been sent to Cai's Mansion!
The birth gang that Yang Zhi escorted before was really just a cover!
It's just that from the mouths of the congratulatory guests around him, although the birthday gift made up by Liang Zhongshu is controversial, it is worth less than 100,000 yuan!
What's going on, could it be that there is something dirty between Liang Zhongshu and Cai Jing?
Thinking about the officialdom system of the Great Song Dynasty, as well as Liang Zhongshu's status at this time, Chao Gai felt that he understood something, and it was estimated that the interests of officialdom were causing trouble!
Liang Zhongshu's title of Zhongshu is a fictitious title, and if he wants to go further in the officialdom, he will enter the ranks of the governor and become one of the real prime ministers.Even if Song Huizong's mind is confused, it is impossible for Cai Jing and Liang Zhongshu to become prime ministers at the same time, otherwise the Zhao family may really change hands.In other words, as long as Cai Jing remains in the position of prime minister, Liang Zhongshu has no possibility of continuing to move forward.Of course, the three envoys and other ministers can also be regarded as one of the prime ministers, and with such good conditions as Liang Zhongshu, it is absolutely impossible to be willing to be only a deputy state-level finance minister.The contradiction comes out, it is estimated that there is a dirty relationship between Cai Jing and Liang Zhongshu, but I don't know how big the crack is.Chao Gai drank a little wine and listened to the gossip, only until the sun was about to set on the horizon, and his cold bench this time finally came to an end, accompanied by an inconspicuous greeting guest to say goodbye to the master, and then his head would not leave this flowery prime minister's mansion.Back at the inn, Chao Gai called another table of meat and vegetables to eat, and then filled his half-full stomach to eight points full, which made him feel better.His task has been completed, and as for the 'great opportunity' in the mouth of the Yuncheng County Commander, it is nonsense at all.It is estimated that he came over in person, and he also accompanied the fate of the last seat, saying that he would be favored by Cai Jing, and he dreamed.Chao Gai felt that it was not interesting to stay any longer, and the thought of leaving came to his heart, but he ......