Li Su walked in the Kshatriya residential area of Chora City, admiring the demeanor of Hu and Han women on the street, but also felt quite interesting. Moreover, in this area, you can also see some Brahmin young men and women playing here from time to time, especially the Central Plains goods in the shops on both sides, which makes them linger.

Li Zhen and Li Yun next to him also kept helping Li Su introduce the buildings on both sides, some of which restaurants and famous shops are the focus of the introduction, and the place they are walking now is similar to a commercial street, with various shops on both sides, and there is a lot of traffic, but after passing through this street, it is a residential area one after another.

Walking through the dwellings, Li Su and the others came to a street with few people, and on the east side of the street, there was a huge mansion, the whole house was dominated by Tang style buildings, which were also mixed with some local decorative styles of Tianzhu, which was unique.

At this time, Li Yun pointed to this mansion and introduced: "Sixth brother, this is Wang Xuance's home, last year he and others moved his family from Datang, and now in addition to their husband and wife, there is an old mother, as well as three children, and some old servants brought from Datang. ”

"Oh?" When Li Su heard that it was Wang Xuance's home, his heart was also moved, and he immediately said, "I don't know if Xuance is at home, if he is at home, we can go and visit?" ”

"Xuan Ce asked for leave today, saying that a friend is visiting, so he should be at home now, and let's ask for a cup of tea and water by the way, the climate in Tianzhu is really terrible!" Li Zhen said while holding the folding fan violently, only to see that his head was now full of sweat. After all, it happened to be in the tropics, plus they had been walking the streets for half a day. Naturally, the heat is unbearable.

Li Zhen's attendant stepped forward and knocked on the door, only to see an old servant coming out of it. This person saw Li Zhen and Li Yun next to Li Yu at a glance, and he was also startled at that time, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and then welcomed Li Yu and them into the front hall to drink tea, and at the same time, someone went to report to Wang Xuance.

Wang Xuance was drinking with a few visiting friends in the garden in the front yard, and he was even more shocked to hear that Li Zhen and Li Yun had come together, accompanied by a young man, although he did not know the news of Li Zhen's arrival. But can Li Zhen and Li Yun accompany him personally, is there anyone else besides Li Su?

Thinking of this, Wang Xuance immediately stood up, and was about to rush to the front hall, but a young man wearing a cyan robe and an elegant dress next to him grabbed him and said, "Xuance, why do you drink well, but you want to run?" ”

Just now, the servant leaned into Wang Xuance's ear and whispered to report, after all, the news of Li Zhen and Li Yun's arrival was not known to everyone. However, when Wang Xuance saw that he was stopped by the young man next to him, he was also stunned at the moment. Then he patted his head and said: "You see I'm confused, Brother Cui, don't you want to see His Royal Highnesses King Jiang and King Yue, now they are in the front hall of my mansion, and there is a young man who came with them." I guess it's likely to be His Royal Highness King Qi, just for my brother, I can help you introduce it! ”

When the young man surnamed Cui heard that Li Zhen and Li Yun were coming, his face was full of joy. However, when he heard that Li Su might also come, his face was shocked. Then he looked at the other three people seated, except for one of the young men with two beards, who was delighted. The other two were the same as the young man surnamed Cui, with a complicated look on their faces.

Wang Xuance didn't notice the different colors on the faces of several friends, and immediately pulled them to the front hall. As a result, he soon saw the three Li Xuan who were drinking tea, and when Wang Xuance saw that it was really Li Xu, he immediately stepped forward with great excitement and said: "Your Majesty Wang Xuance, meet His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and meet the two popes!" ”

Li Su almost laughed out loud when he heard Wang Xuance's name for Li Zhen and Li Yun, the name of the pope Li Zhen and the two of them took it themselves, and they suggested that they both call themselves the pope, but they all felt that they were not imposing enough, plus a little selfishness in their hearts, so they changed the pope to the pope.

However, when Li Su saw a few people behind Wang Xuance, he was stunned, because he always felt that one of the young people who was tall and thin, about the same age as himself, seemed to have seen it somewhere, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't seem to have any impression.

At this time, Li Zhen opened her mouth and smiled: "Xuan Ce, are the few friends behind you who are going to entertain today, why don't you introduce us quickly?" ”

When Wang Xuance heard this, he also pulled the elegant young man surnamed Cui and introduced: "Your Royal Highness Qiqi, these are all my friends when I was in Chang'an, and all of them are from a big family, among them, this Brother Cui Jing is from the Boling Cui family, and his talent is the first of us. ”

Then Wang Xuance pointed to a handsome black-faced guy behind him and introduced: "This is Brother Li Bing, from the Li family of Zhao County, not only can be literate, but also capable of martial arts, he just graduated from the military academy this year, and he is still the junior brother of the two popes!" ”

Li Zhen and Li Yun's eyes lit up when they heard this, they were born in a big family, and they were able to graduate from a military academy, so this alone could make them look at each other differently.

Next, Wang Xuance introduced the other two, and the results were all from big families, among them, the one with two beards was Zheng Xiao from the Zheng family in Xingyang, and the young man who made Li Su feel very familiar was named Cui Huang, who was born in the Cui family of Qinghe, and was the cousin of Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue.

As soon as he heard Cui Huang's identity, Li Su suddenly remembered, no wonder he saw that the other party was familiar, when he pursued Cui Mengxue, he had a conflict with Lu Hong of Fanyang Lu's family, it was this Cui Huang and Lu Hong who were together at that time, and later Li Su once suspected that the reason why Lu Hong went there was probably this Cui Huang's ghost, but later because there was no evidence, and Cui Yu wanted to solve the internal problems of Qinghe Cui's family by himself, so he ignored this person, and he didn't expect to meet the other party here in Tianzhu.

And remembered the identity of Cui Huang, and the identity of Cui Jing and Li Bing, he also remembered that he and the five surnamed Qiwang had a conflict because of the suppression of industry and commerce, and these young people saw the role of the newspaper as a tool of public opinion, so they set up a Confucian newspaper, hoping to compete with their own Datang Daily, but unfortunately they failed miserably in the end, but they did not give up, and still struggled to support the circulation of Confucian newspapers. Although the influence of Confucian newspapers is still not comparable with Datang Daily, it is also one of the most influential newspapers in Datang, which shows the ability of these young people.

Only that Zheng Xiao he hadn't heard of, but if he could walk with Cui Jing and these young people, he would definitely not be an ordinary person.

Although these people were in an opposing position with him at the beginning, with Li Su's current identity, he naturally did not have any revenge against them, but also admired the ability of these people, so he laughed and said: "It turns out that a few people are the founders of Confucianism, and this king has only heard the names of a few sons, but it is really not until today that I have the fate to see them, which is really gratifying!" ”

Hearing Li Su mention the events of the year, Cui Jing and the others were quite embarrassed. Especially that Cui Huang, his father took the position of the patriarch of the Cui clan in Qinghe from Cui Yu, but now Cui Yu's sister is one of Li Su's Confucians, and Cui Yu himself also holds an important position in the hands of Li Su, plus the events of the year, which made him feel very embarrassed when facing Li Su.

As soon as Li Zhen and Li Yun heard Li Yu's words, they immediately understood, and looked at Cui Jing and the others with some amusement at the moment, while Wang Xuance was stunned at first, but he quickly reacted, and he also frowned at the moment, and regretted pulling a few friends over.

However, Cui Jing and these people are worthy of being from a big family, and they quickly recovered, only to see Cui Jing, who was the leader, step forward and said: "The grass people didn't know the height of the sky back then, and they offended something, so please forgive His Royal Highness the King of Qi!" ”

And Li Su smiled again when he heard this: "Don't get me wrong, everyone had different positions back then, so there was nothing right or wrong, but now everyone is overseas, so naturally we must unite as one, otherwise wouldn't it be a joke for those aliens?" ”

Hearing that there was no meaning of blame in Li Su's words, Cui Jing and several others were relieved, even the irrelevant Zheng Xiao was the same, although he did not participate in the Confucian newspaper back then, but he was also a big family, and those who fought with Li Su in the ring at the beginning also had their share of the Zheng family, so from just now, he was also a little worried about being blamed by Li Su.

In fact, the reason why Cui Jing and the others were so cautious in front of Li Su was mainly because in recent years, the life of the big families in the Tang Dynasty has become more and more difficult, with the rise of industry and commerce, they can no longer control some key industries, resulting in a great reduction in the clan's finances, and land alone is simply not enough to feed all the clansmen.

So in this case, these families had to put down the so-called face and began to take the initiative to participate in some business activities to make profits.

In addition, after the prosperity of commerce in the Tang Dynasty, the income of the treasury also increased day by day, in this regard, Li Shimin immediately increased his investment in the education of the poor, and built many libraries, so that more and more people have the conditions to study, as a result, this also makes the young generation of the family face more and more competition, and the road to the imperial examination is becoming more and more difficult.

It is precisely in this situation that the influence of the big families in the Tang Dynasty has declined sharply, which also makes the children of the family like Cui Jing and Li Bing no longer have the arrogance they used to be. For example, like Li Su, if Cui Jing and others saw him back then, they would definitely not take the initiative to apologize like now.

Of course, there is another reason why Cui Jing and the others lowered their posture so much and asked for Li Su's forgiveness, and this is also the main purpose of their visit to Wang Xuance today. (To be continued......)