Just like Gao Laozhuang outside the city, and its thousand acres of land.
With the power of the Gongsun family in Youzhou City, it is not difficult to find out the relationship between the palace and the Zhao family from this line.
After knowing the secret behind this matter, Zhao Meiniang suddenly took a breath of cold air.
She didn't expect that a simple business competition would involve a fight between the palace and the Gongsun family!
"I obey the prince in everything I do."
Zhao Meiniang responded meekly.
She knew very well that what had happened was beyond her control.
While they were talking, Zhang Changde walked in slowly and bowed first.
"Your Highness, Mrs. Zhao, several shopkeepers came outside the door, saying that the things Mrs. Zhao arranged for them to do have been completed."
Ji Lie nodded, looked at Zhao Meiniang aside, and chuckled,
"Mrs. Zhao, let's leave now?"
"I would like to obey the prince's instructions."
Several people stood up and left Zhao Mansion.
…
Drunken breeze.
There were already many people sitting in the private room on the second floor.
"Master Li, that girl Zhao Meiniang invited us here. What do you think?"
"How can I watch? Of course I have to sit and watch. Guocheng has given orders, so of course we must obey his orders."
"that is!"
"Let me remind you, if anyone dares to secretly sell food to that bitch Zhao Meiniang, Guocheng will not spare you!"
Everyone reached an agreement among their words, that is, they should follow Gongsun Qing's instructions and not sell grain to Zhao's trading house.
At this moment, footsteps came from outside.
"Shh!"
Someone rushed to alert others.
Everyone quickly fell silent and looked at the door.
The door was slowly pushed open, but to everyone's surprise, the first person to walk in was not Zhao Meiniang.
But a thin, graceful young man, it was Ji Lie.
Zhao Meiniang and Zhang Changde followed Ji Lie closely.
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Someone recognized Ji Lie’s identity.
"Your Majesty, why are you here?"
The others couldn't help but let out a low cry.
The handsome young man in front of me is actually the current King You? !
Everyone came back to their senses and hurriedly saluted Ji Lie.
"Let us meet the prince!"
"No need to be polite."
Ji Lie waved his hand and chuckled,
"I heard that Mrs. Zhao plans to have business negotiations with you, and I happen to have some cooperation with Mrs. Zhao, so I plan to come and observe."
"You won't mind, right?"
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at each other with strange expressions.
Today they plan to join forces to put pressure on Zhao Meiniang.
But he didn't expect that Ji Lie, as a prince, would actually come forward for Zhao Meiniang.
This caught everyone present off guard.
"Why do we mind? Your Majesty, please take a seat quickly."
The person who recognized Ji Lie's identity was a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face.
He stood up with a smile and gave the main seat he originally occupied to Ji Lie.
Ji Lie was not polite and went straight to the main seat, while Shi Shiran sat down.
"Your Majesty, this is the best West Lake Longjing. Please use it with caution."
After the middle-aged man gave up his seat to Ji Lie, he poured another cup of tea very attentively.
Ji Lie took the tea and did not drink it. Instead, he looked at the other party with a smile.
"May I ask your Excellency..."
The middle-aged man has piercing eyes, is dressed in a smart suit, and has calluses faintly visible on his hands. He looks like a martial artist.
"My lord, you are such a noble man who forgets things so much."
The middle-aged man smiled and said,
"My name is Captain Yang Zhen. I met the prince before when he came to Youzhou City."
As the King of You, when Ji Lie came to Youzhou City from the vassal vassal, all the officials in the city, big and small, had to come out to greet him.
Because of this, Yang Zhen was able to recognize Ji Lie.
Duwei is an official subordinate to the Prime Minister and is in charge of military affairs and hunting down thieves.
Generally speaking, a captain can control thousands of soldiers and horses.
In some counties with dangerous geographical locations and battlegrounds for military strategists, captains can even command tens of thousands of troops.
But Ji Lie's fiefdom was not that big.
The total number of county soldiers under Yang Zhen's jurisdiction in Youdi is only 1,800.
"So you are Yang Zhen."
Ji Lie said "Oh", glanced at the tea in his hand, and poured it on Yang Zhen.
The two sides sat down next to each other. At such a close distance, Yang Zhen had no time to react and was directly splashed in the face!
Not to mention Yang Zhen, everyone present was shocked!
No one could have imagined that Ji Lie would behave like this!
"You...your lord, what do you mean by this?!"
Yang Zhen stood up as he slapped the case, his face extremely pale.
As a captain in charge of nearly a thousand troops, who among the people in Youzhou City would not be respectful when meeting him?
But Ji Lie didn't give him face in front of so many people!
If it weren't for Ji Lie's identity, Yang Zhen would have chopped Ji Lie in half!
"Sorry, I don't like drinking green tea."
Ji Lie put down the tea cup and said with a smile.
"I don't know the prince's preferences. This is my negligence."
"But the prince shouldn't pour tea on his ministers, right? This would be too disgraceful!"
Yang Zhenzhen spoke eloquently, but secretly slandered in his heart. Didn't Guocheng say that Ji Lie's madness has been cured?
Why are you still acting so erratically?
"It's undignified, isn't it?"
Ji Lie's face turned cold and he scolded sternly,
"As the captain of You Kingdom, you are supposed to arrest bandits and calm the people."
"But you just sit back and watch the Black Mountain bandits run rampant and invade Gu's fiefdom wantonly."
"You are so weak and incompetent, you are really useless!"
"Don't tell me that I'm slapping you in the face. I wish I could report to my father directly and remove you from the post of captain!"
Yang Zhen's face turned green and white after being scolded by him, but he could not speak back.
Who told Ji Lie that everything he said was true?
After scolding Yang Zhen, Ji Lie felt much more comfortable.
Although Yang Zhen was polite on the surface, Ji Lie knew very well that this guy was the same as Gongsun He.
Ji Lie didn't believe that this guy didn't know about the Black Mountain bandits' attack on Gao Laozhuang before.
"Okay, don't you want to negotiate with Mrs. Zhao? Why haven't you started?"
Ji Lie didn't look at Yang Zhen, but looked at the others.
They looked at each other, and someone said cautiously,
"Replying to the prince, there are still people who haven't come..."
"If you haven't come, don't come. Commander Zhang, please remove all the empty chairs."
Ji Lie waved his hand.
Zhang Changde naturally did not hesitate, and immediately started with several guards to carry out all the empty chairs in the room.
"Mrs. Zhao, let's get started?"
Ji Lie said with a smile.
"Here!"
With Ji Lie as her support, Zhao Meiniang is very confident.
Her watery eyes looked around at everyone present, and she said in a clear and sweet voice,
"I have invited you all here today because I want to ask you clearly, how did our Zhao's Trading Company offend you all, so that you are so targeted?"
With Ji Lie present, no one spoke, for fear of being shot first.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Meiniang looked at one of them.
