Chapter 16 People from all walks of life

"Your Excellency, Your Highness is here again."

Hearing the maid's complaint, Cai Hongzhang's eyebrows frowned slightly, but his expression gave him another attractive temperament. Suddenly, several maids around him stared wide at the same time, and their intoxicated eyes did not leave him at all.

"Forget it, let's see you." Cai Hongzhang stood up and said, "Your Highness, please come in... No, I'll go by myself."

Say, he tidyed up his clothes and strode to the door.

"I have met His Royal Highness."

Seeing Chu Xiuji outside the door, Cai Hongzhang solemnly bent down and saluted. Chu Xiuqi's original face was gloomy, but at this time suddenly turned into a smiling face. He quickly stepped forward and floated Chu Xiuqi and said kindly, "Caiqing doesn't have to do this. Have you forget that I told you don't have to salute when you see me."

Cai Hongzhang looked straight and said loudly, "There are national laws and family rules. The subordinate is a minister of Chu Tang, and he must play an example for other officials and the common people.

"You saved my life. Chu Tang will rely on Cai Aiqing's revitalization in the future. It can be said that Cai Aiqing is the only person I can rely on now." Chu Xiuyi said righteously, "Caiqing took care of Wanji every day. Originally, I shouldn't have bothered him. Since I came here, I already felt sorry for Cai Aiqing, and I'm sorry for you to salute."

Cai Hongzhang sneered in his heart: If I really don't salute you, I'm afraid you won't trust me so much in your heart. Thinking of this, Cai Hongzhang is still as humble as before: "It won't be long before the prince will ascend the throne. If I get used to it now, I won't salute the prince. I'm afraid that at that time, it will inevitably forget the etiquette. Although His Royal Highness is broad-minded and informal, it is inevitable that some officials do not understand His Royal Highness's mind and impeach his subordinates, which may cause some unnecessary disputes and affect my internal stability.

"Forget it. Since you insist on doing so, it's up to you."

Chu Xiuji seemed to be a little impatient. He walked into Cai Hongzhang's office, looked at it, and immediately frowned and said, "Why do you work here? Broken and small, not even a few flowers?"

Cai Hongzhang's office is not luxurious at all and looks extremely ordinary, which makes Chu Xiuyi, who has long been used to gorgeous and elegant living, feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Your Highness, this is what I asked for. First of all, I used to be simple and didn't like things that were too luxurious. In addition, there are so many government affairs that ministers need to deal with, and I'm afraid that things that are too exquisite will be distracted. Second, I have just taken up the position of Marshal of Chu and Tang. Living in the palace has exceeded it, and it is not suitable to use luxurious things. Your Highness's kind-hearted ministers are very clear, but please don't mention this matter again.

Chu Xiuji was extremely satisfied and nodded. He sat on the chair in front of Cai Hongzhang's desk and shook his body, feeling quite comfortable. But he didn't see a flash of dissatisfaction in Cai Hongzhang's eyes at the moment he sat down.

Cai Hongzhang does not like the luxurious atmosphere of the Chu and Tang royal family. As a genius who grew up in the reincarnation organization, he has long liked the elegant and classical decoration. The decorations and utensils used by the Chu and Tang royal family are like local steamed buns in the countryside in Chu Xiuyu's eyes. So he would rather not use it than let the royal family decorate the office for him. And the chair he was sitting in was the only thing he took down from his own spaceship and brought out of his family. * The wood used in this chapter chair is only produced in a very small amount on a planet under the control of the Cai family, which is expensive enough to be jaw-dropping. Cai Hongzhang loves this chair very much and will never allow anyone to use it. But now Chu Xiuyi actually sat up like this. If it hadn't been for the task of reincarnation, Cai Hongzhang would have kicked it directly, regardless of whether you were the emperor of Chu and Tang or the prince.

"This chair is good. I didn't expect the wooden chair to be so comfortable."

Chu Xiuyi's words immediately made Cai Hongzhang very angry. He couldn't help thinking about whether to give or not if Chu Xiuqi asked him for this chair. Fortunately, Chu Xiuji didn't come for this chair this time.

"Do you know why I came to you this time?" Chu Xiuyu turned his head and looked at Cai Hongzhang with a smile.

"I dare not guess Your Highness's thoughts."

"Uninteresting!" Chu Xiuji waved his hand and said, "I want to ask you, what do you think of Qin Shou wants to fight against Lin Jiaoyang with us this time?"

Cai Hongzhang opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief, "Does Your Highness have any plans? I saw that Qin Shougang sent a message, and Your Highness agreed without thinking about it. I thought Your Highness had already had a plan.

"What can I care about?" Chu Xiuji curled his lips and said, "At first, I thought that when he came to Chang'an Yixing, I would let your people do him and take the opportunity to take over his territory." Cai Hongzhang looked at him in disbelief and said in a daze, "Your Highness... is this the idea?"

"Hi, that's what I thought at that time. But later, I thought about it and pulled Qin Shou to fight against Lin Jiaoyang, which seemed to be a good idea. I just came to discuss it with you.

Cai Hongzhang secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said in his heart: Fortunately, you came to discuss with me. If you really kill Qin Shou in Chang'an, not to mention whether you can win or not, even if you win, I'm afraid you will be retaliated by the Dragon Slayer. If those crazy people play for real, even if the whole army is reincarnating, they may not be able to take advantage of it.

"Your Highness's idea now is... to form an alliance with Qin Shou?"

"Well, that's right." Chu Xiuyu said carelessly, "Lin Jiaoyang, this old man, is too strong now. Every time I think about it, I will have a sense of fear. I am afraid that he will take the army to Chang'an that day."

When he said this, Cai Hongzhang could clearly see that Chu Xiuqi's face was slightly pale. It could be seen that Lin Jiaoyang brought him not only pressure, but also the long-lasting fear. When it comes to that person, even Cai Hongzhang himself has no confidence to win. The support that reincarnation can give him is very limited. With a Chang'an system alone, he absolutely has no strength to defeat Lin Jiaoyang.

Unless you can unite with Qin Shou and use the power of the Dragon Slayer, it is possible to find a little opportunity to rise in this chaotic situation.

After a moment of meditation, Cai Hongzhang said, "The current situation is not clear. Our intelligence organization can't figure out how much power Qin Shou has in his hands, which is very unfavorable to the upcoming alliance negotiations."

"I don't know how much strength that old guy Qin Shou has." Chu Xiuyi said disdainfully, "He just controlled the eight main fleets with money and some people. Although his number is large, if there is a real fight, I can guarantee that the eight fleets are definitely not the opponents of our four royal fleets.

Cai Hongzhang nodded. He has also seen the strength of the royal fleet. Although it is not as good as the reincarnation fleet in terms of warship quality and technology, it is enough to compete with those elite fleets mastered by the reincarnation in terms of personnel quality and training. Moreover, the warships in the first fleet are an advanced fleet built by the Weilong Group at a very high cost. The cost of each of those warships is more than ten times that of ordinary [Wu-class], and many advanced technologies are used, such as energy shield technology, which is still in the laboratory stage, and other countries Home is still in the initial stage of research, and Chu Tang has installed this device on the 15,000 warships of the First Fleet. This expenditure alone is as high as 20 billion imperial gold yuan, and this money can be used to buy all the materials of the five main fleets, including equipment such as warships and mecha.

However, Cai Hongzhang knew that Qin Shou's hands were definitely more than eight fleets on the surface.

As the spokesperson of the interests of the Dragon Slayer Association in Chu and Tang, Cai Hongzhang is sure that Qin Shou is absolutely strongly supported by the Dragon Slayer Association, and it is even very likely to have a powerful fleet composed of advanced warships of the Dragon Slayer. If the two sides really carry out, the probability of Qin Shou's victory will definitely exceed 80%!

Cai Hongzhang felt a headache and looked at the guy in front of him who didn't know anything. He was secretly angry. How could he meet such an idiot? If he had known this, he would never have chosen the Chu and Tang royal family as the starting point. But think about it, who can he choose if he doesn't choose the Chu Tang royal family? Qin Shou is a member of the Dragon Slayer Association, which is absolutely impossible. Lin Jiaoyang? Cai Hongzhang smiled bitterly that Lin Jiaoyang was indeed the best choice, but the person who should have died at his feet became Lin Jiaoyang's granddaughter-in-law. With such a relationship, Cai Hongzhang knew that he was unlikely to enter Lin Jiaoyang's power. Even if you go in, the other party knows that he is a reincarnation person and will never let himself have the possibility of taking power.

Forget it, although this guy is useless, at least he is the orthodox prince of Chu and Tang, and he also has four powerful fleets. Even if the strength is the weakest of the three forces, it is not impossible.

Thinking about this, Cai Hongzhang cheered up and discussed specific matters of cooperation with Qin Shou with Chu Xiuji.

However, Chu Xiuyu came with great interest and talked for less than half an hour, and the look on his face became more and more impatient. Seeing this situation, Cai Hongzhang had to sigh and said, "Your Highness, the specific framework has been completed. As for the details, leave it to me."

Chu Xiuyi had wanted to leave for a long time. Hearing this sentence, he suddenly looked happy and patted Cai Hongzhang on the shoulder and said, "That matter will bother Cai Aiqing more. When it is done, I will write it for you!" After saying that, he couldn't wait to pat his buttocks and leave.

Looking at his back, Cai Hongzhang's face gradually became cold and said to himself, "Remember the work? I am now the Marshal of Chu Tang. What merit can I remember? Are you going to give me the cheap title of Chu Tang? That's funny."

After saying that, he looked at the maids standing on both sides and smiled at them.

Cai Hongzhang fully believes that after his smile, these maids will never reveal what they just said, but will only remember their smile. Looking at the details of cooperation that only two or three were completed on his bare brain, he shook his head and muttered, "Qin Shou, Qin Shou, I hope you don't be too greedy. Our reincarnation is not weaker than your dragon slaughter."

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"Your excellency, the spaceship mecha has entered the Chang'an system."

Hearing the servant's voice, Qin Shou stood up from his seat with a slight excitement on his face. He came to the porthole and looked at the approaching star system not far outside with a complicated expression.

"Finally... I'm back again."

It took only three months to leave Chang'an and come back here again. For others, it may be just a blink of an eye, but for Qin Shou, he always doesn't want to return to this starry sky.

Thinking that three months ago, he mistakenly thought that Lin Jiaoyang had taken Chu Xiuyu away and took the army to pursue him, but he did not expect that Chu Xiuyi did not leave the Chang'an system at all. Instead, with the help of those nobles, he captured Chang'an star, which was supposed to be Qin Shou, and followed the royal fleet. Qin Shou knew that at least for the time being, he had no chance to return to Chang'an. I didn't expect that he would be able to return to Chang'an after three months.

When he came back this time, Qin Shou was nominally still the prime minister of the empire. Externally, the imperial excuse was to suppress some * armed forces, and sent Qin Shou to the Songzhou Star Domain to garrison in case the * army was large. Now that the armed forces have been eliminated, the Prime Minister of the Empire has successfully completed the task and returned to the imperial capital.

When he thought of the excuse of the royal family, Qin Shou showed a cold smile on the corners of his mouth.

I'm afraid such an excuse can only deceive those ignorant people. People who are slightly more concerned about politics, economy or military should know what happened in this empire. However, these have nothing to do with Qin Shou, but Chu Xiuyi used to maintain his poor royal authority. Qin Shou neither opposes nor supports it. Anyway, his semi-star domain and the fleet controlled by his men have been firmly controlled in his own hands, and it is absolutely impossible to throw himself into the arms of the Chu Tang royal family again. .

"Your Excellency."

A voice suddenly sounded behind him. Qin Shou's body trembled imperceptiblely, but he did not look back and said, "This is your hometown."

"Yes, my lord." The voice behind him was calm and there was no fluctuation: "My grandfather used to be the president of Chutang Military Academy, * military rank. I grew up in Chang'an Erxing. I never left the Chang'an Department before I was 20 years old.

Qin Shou said "Oh" and said after a while, "I remember. Your grandfather's name is Feng Yeyan."

A moment of silence.

"I have been with your grandfather. But I seem to remember that he is from New America. Qin Shou turned around, patted him on the shoulder and smiled. Feng Qingyun's face changed, pushed Qin Shou's arm away, and said coldly, "I'm from the Dragon Slayer Club now. Everything in the past has nothing to do with me."

"Ha ha, young people are just excited." Qin Shou was not angry. He turned his head and continued to look out of the window and said leisurely, "What a beautiful star system, just like the most beautiful jewel in the crown. I have been to countless galaxies, none of which can compare with the Chang'an system. I have worked here for 30 years, so that one day I can hold this jewelry in my hands. Unfortunately, I didn't expect such a thing to happen at all. If it hadn't been for that, maybe we wouldn't have come here in this way now.

Feng Qingyun sneered and said, "I didn't expect that Lord Qin, who has always been cunning, would make such a simple and naive mistake."

Qin Shou did not say anything or refute, but just looked into the distance, and his eyes were full of intoxication.

For a long time, he turned his head and looked as cold as usual, with a gloomy chill in his hands and feet.

"Feng Qingyun."

"There." Feng Qingyun glanced at him and knew that Qin Shou had put aside all his emotions. At this time, he would not anger Qin Shou, which was of no benefit to him.

"From now on, you must not appear in front of the public. I will arrange an identity for you to successfully stay in Chang'an. At that time, I will give you instructions again. This matter can only succeed and must not fail. The chill on Qin Shou's body spread everywhere, which made Feng Qingyun in front of him shiver.

"Do you understand?"

......

"Master, how far is it? I'm so bored on the boat all day long that I'm going to suffocate."

Do you think it's boring? Let's go to the gym. I'll find you something not boring to do."

"Ah!" With a scream, the little girl stepped back two steps, looked at the master in casual clothes in front of him, who looked particularly handsome, trembled and stammered, "Master... Master, I... Ah, I remember that today's mecha engineering homework has not been completed yet."

After saying that, the little girl turned around and ran out in a panic.

"Ah...it hurts."

The little girl grabbed her hands randomly, but there was no way to take a step forward, because her long chestnut ponytail had been firmly grasped by the man behind her.

Li Lingfeng looked at Natasha funny, pulled her hair and smiled, "What, do you want to escape?"

"No, Master!" Natasha hurried back to Li Lingfeng's side and stood aside obediently, pouted and looked unhappy: "Master knows how to grab other people's hair, and he is not afraid to scratch it. At that time, it will be you who will laugh at you. Master, think about it. In the future, as soon as others see me, they will secretly say, "Look, that is the apprentice of Li Lingfeng, the first master of the fleet. I didn't expect that a super master like Li Lingfeng would have an ugly bald apprentice..."

Li Lingfeng tilted his head and thought, as if that did have an impact on his reputation. Unconsciously, his hands were a little relaxed.

Natasha's eyes turned around and suddenly jumped up and pointed out of the window and shouted, "Master, look, there is a man flying over in space!"

"Ah! Where is it?" Li Lingfeng rushed to the port window in an instant and stared out, but he didn't expect that Natasha had slipped to the door.

"Master is so stupid, haha, he lied to you!"

Natasha made a face at him, and then closed the door with a "bang". A silver bell-like laughter sounded outside and gradually disappeared.

Perhaps when Natasha thought about it, the master should already be blue. But she didn't know that Li Lingfeng's face was full of smiles.

"What an interesting child, and it's fun to play with her occasionally." Li Lingfeng smiled to himself, but looked out of the window. Look at the time, it's almost time to arrive in Chang'an. Alas, I didn't expect this to come out for nearly four years. I don't know how my mother is doing at home? Does she still remember eating and sleeping without my care?

Li Lingfeng can be said to know his mother Xiao Tongyun very well.

No matter how difficult the mecha engineering and design are in the eyes of others, it is just a piece of cake for Xiao Tongyun. But in life, Xiao Tongyun is not just a "confused" that can be summarized? Children are in their 20s, but they can't even peel an apple. They don't fold the quilt when they get up in the morning and don't take off their clothes when they go to bed at night. They must be urged to eat, otherwise they have to eat at least three meals until they are really hungry. It's the same when she sleeps. She will never go to bed until she can't hold back and fight with her eyelids.

Throwing such a confused mother to the Chang'an Department alone. To be honest, Li Lingfeng has been abroad for more than three years, and what he is most worried about is his mother.

However, every once in a while, Xiao Tongyun would send him a video email to tell him that his life is very good, so that he doesn't have to worry.

To be honest, Li Lingfeng feels that he is very close to his mother.

In Xiao Tongyun's eyes, Li Lingfeng is just a mecha warrior of a security company that rarely fights. It's also quite interesting to wander around various countries in a spaceship when you are free. But in fact, her son is not what she knows, but a star pirate! There are no 1,000 or 800 people who died under Li Lingfeng; there are several battles that have participated in almost every month, and every month or two, there will be a medium-sized battle!

Sometimes Li Lingfeng will also guess whether she will faint directly if she knows the truth.

"Di Didi..."

Li Lingfeng took a look and turned on the communicator.

"Captain, what's the matter?"

The person on the screen is the captain of this luxury cruise ship. He said with apologetically, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li. Chang'an Department didn't know what happened and blocked it. Because we came from the Kingdom of Yangming and didn't know about it. So... we have to go back."

Li Lingfeng was stunned and said quickly, "Is there no other way to get in?" Otherwise, let's wait a little longer. Maybe we can contact the blockade tomorrow.

The captain shook his head: "I have asked some acquaintances, and I will not contact the blockade for at least a month."

Li Lingfeng was a little dull. He didn't expect that the vacation he had finally got from Hong Tie wasted like this.

"But..." The captain hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard from my friends that as long as there are nobles above the viscount to guarantee and pay a deposit of one million imperial gold yuan, they can also enter."

Li Lingfeng's eyes suddenly lit up, "So that's it. Haha, this matter is troublesome for the captain. Guarantee and deposit are not a problem for me. As long as the captain can help me do it well, there will be a reward afterwards.

The captain's eyes suddenly widened and carefully took a large number of Li Lingfeng. He didn't expect that there would be such a rich nobleman on his ship and quickly agreed.

If he knew that Li Lingfeng was the first heir of Xingyun Group, Chu Tang's most popular mecha company in recent years, he would faint directly?

A day later, Li Lingfeng, with a curious Natasha, entered the Chang'an system under the eyes of more than a dozen warships...