"Report to the master, today Tian Kezhang went to visit Yao Jia, and the news we got was that Tian Kezang assured Yao Jia that Qi would never join the cooperation of various countries, and hoped that Qi and Qin would continue to maintain good relations."

"Oh, then what is Yao Jia's attitude."

"Naturally, he was very happy, not only did he drink with Tian Kezang on the spot, and guaranteed that the Qin State would not attack the Qi State, but also gave Tian Kezhang a thousand gold and a hundred pairs of white walls."

The scene of the conversation takes place in a tall building. The ancient building, that is, the house built on the high platform, such as the pedestal of many palaces, are high platforms, and according to the etiquette law formulated by the Zhou room, only the nobles can build the building, and the common people build the building, it is to destroy the etiquette law, and should be punished by beheading. But later, many commoners far exceeded the wealth of the nobles, and wanted to build buildings to live in, but they were afraid of violating the etiquette law, so they came up with a law and built another floor on top of the house.

This kind of house on the house is not built on a high platform, it is not a violation of the etiquette law, but it can also be called a building, and with the development of building technology, the building of this kind of house on the house is also built higher and higher, because each floor of this kind of building can be inhabited, not only the utilization rate is much more convenient than the house of the high platform, and the cost is much lower, so later some nobles also built this kind of high-rise building in their mansions.

Linzi is the gathering place of the world's wealthy businessmen, so there are many high-rise buildings in Linzi City, there are many high-rise buildings as high as three or four floors, whether it is height or construction technology, it is not inferior to the house on the platform.

The current high-rise building is a house on such a roof, and it is as high as five floors, if you look at it from the upstairs by the railing, almost the entire Linzi City can be seen. However, at this time, the four people upstairs had no intention of watching the scenery of Linzi City.

On a huge screen. There is a huge tortoise shell three feet square, surrounded by shells, pearls, and Biwang, and in front of the screen, there is a table made of fragrant wood produced in the deep mountains of the Yue Kingdom, and the surface is covered with a piece of green jade that is crystal clear and transparent, shining with strange brilliance. Four bronze coins of different shapes are placed.

Behind the press table, a carpet made of several white fox skins was spread, and a big man with a red face, big eyes and a slight beard under his chin was sitting diagonally on this white fox skin, and the elbow of his left hand was supported on the green jade on the table. His right hand was playing with the four coins placed on the jade, making a clanging sound.

On the opposite side of the red-faced man, there were two men and one woman, but their demeanor was not as relaxed as that of the red-faced man.

At the head on the left is an old man over fifty years old, with a long beard hanging down to his chest, with a crown and a broad belt, quite a bit of Coats's demeanor; In the middle was a young man of about thirty years old, with a handsome face, but a strong figure, and although he was sitting, he was more than half a head taller than the other two; And on the right, there is a girl who is only seventeen or eighteen years old, born with bright eyes and bright teeth.

"Hahahaha!"

The red-faced man let out a burst of laughter and said: "After giving up the alliance, Tian Kezang has become a little smarter, so that he can sit firmly in the position of the big Sima, and he will have a hard time with Hou Sheng, it seems that in the court of Linzi in the future, there will be a good show." ”

The long-bearded old man also nodded, and said: "Giving up his false name and taking real profits, Tian Kezang's trick is really good, it seems that there must be a master behind Tian Kezang's back, it is very likely that it is Li Yi from Dai County, because just yesterday, Li Yi secretly came to Tian Kezang's mansion and talked with Tian Kezang for a long time, and today Tian Kezhang went to visit Yao Jia." ”

The young man said: "If it weren't for Li Yi, we would have already succeeded in assassinating Tian Kezang, so master, I will immediately arrange for people to assassinate Tian Kezang." ”

The red-faced man said, "Is there a whereabouts of the dog butcher?" ”

The girl shook her head and said, "No." After a pause, he said, "If a master like the dog butcher deliberately hides his whereabouts, I'm afraid no one will be able to find him." ”

The young man snorted and said, "It's not that we can't do great things without the dog butcher, he wasn't ours in the first place, and without the dog butcher, we can still assassinate Tian Kezang again." ”

The red-faced man said lightly: "Ziyu, you think things too simply, the dog butcher is a master who can match the five god generals, if even he can't help Li Yi, so none of us can underestimate this Li Yi." ”

The young man said: "Master, I don't underestimate Li Yi, but Li Yi can't always protect Tian Kezang's side, so if we want to assassinate Tian Kezang, we don't have to worry about Li Yi at all." ”

The red-faced man shook his head and said, "No, after the last assassination, Tian Kezang must have increased his vigilance, and we don't have a master like a dog butcher here, so it's not easy to assassinate Tian Kezang, and we have another task now." ”

The young man said, "What task?" ”

The red-faced man turned his head to the long-bearded old man and said, "Mr. Yin, has Li Yi's origin been clarified?" ”

The long-bearded old man said: "No, according to what we know, among the main subordinates of the Daijun Plateau, there is no one named Li Yi, but we have limited information at hand, but we have found out that on the road to Linzi, Tian Kezang's caravan of smuggling helmet weapons was actually rescued by Li Yi, and he defeated Huang Jingyuan's army of seven or eight thousand with only a few hundred troops accompanying him. And judging from his appearance in Linzi City in the past few days, he was able to save Tian Kezang under the hands of the dog butcher, such a person, under the hands of Gao Yuan, would definitely not be a nobody. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the information we have is incomplete, and there is no information about Li Yi. ”

The red-faced man nodded and said, "That's why I suspect that Li Yi is actually a pseudonym for Gao Yuan, and the person who came to Linzi is actually Gao Yuan himself." ”

The other three obviously knew about the speculation of this red-faced man for a long time, so after listening to his words, there was no surprise, and the long-bearded old man said: "Judging from the current information, this possibility is at least seventy percent, but the exact conclusion can only wait for detailed information from the Qin State, if there is indeed no Li Yiqi in Daijun, then it can be determined that he is Gao Yuan himself." ”

The red-faced man shook his head and said, "But when the detailed information comes from the Qin State, I'm afraid that Li Yi has already left Linzi and returned to Daijun, so it's definitely too late." After a pause, he said, "Sword Dance Ji, is there any news?" ”

The girl said: "No, since the sword dance Ji entered the pavilion, she has never shown up again, and the things you need to use are all purchased from people, and the guard of the pavilion is tight, so our people can't sneak into the pavilion at all and contact the sword dancer." Therefore, the sword dance girl can't count on it. ”

The red-faced man nodded, and said: "Actually, I still have a good way to test whether he is on the plateau, tomorrow is the day when the Daijun shop opens, so it depends on tomorrow." ”

―――――――― the dividing line――――――――― dividing line―――――――― the next morning, Gao Yuan came to the shop early, after a few days of preparation, the shop has been newly decorated, in addition to the books, paper and fur brought from Daijun, there are a large number of goods purchased in Linzi City, at this time it has also been filled with shelves, and there are also lights at the door, and the sound of drums and bamboo, it is very lively, there is indeed a shop. It's just that there are no firecrackers and firecrackers in this era, so the plateau always feels a little bit worse.

Soon after Gao Yuan arrived at the shop, the heads of the Tian family, the Duanmu family, the Tao Zhu family, and the Guan family, also came to the shop together and congratulated Gao Yuan and Lin Wenqing.

Everyone also made a noise, and Gao Yuan and Lin Wenqing invited the four of them to sit upstairs. At this time, there were guests coming one after another, of course, ordinary guests did not need Gao Yuan and Lin Wenqing to accompany them, just leave them to Liu Hong to deal with. But the crowd didn't say a word after talking, only to see someone come upstairs and say, "My lord, madam, Canghaijun has arrived." ”

After Gao Yuan heard this, he immediately got up with Lin Wenqing, confessed to the heads of the four families, and went downstairs to greet Canghai Jun. And the heads of the four families were also very surprised, because Canghai Jun is also a well-known big merchant in Linzi City, but Canghai Jun is a seafarer, so he does not often live in Linzi City, but in terms of identity and status, Canghai Jun is not under the heads of these four families. He actually came to congratulate Dai Jun's shop on opening, and it seems that Dai Jun really has some means.

Gao Yuan and Lin Wenqing came to the door of the shop, only to see Canghaijun, Zhang Liang, Ao Whale, Hongxiu and others waiting at the door. Gao Yuan immediately rushed up to greet him and said, "Canghaijun, you came so early." ”

Canghaijun said with a smile: "The opening of the shop in Daijun should naturally be congratulated in the next place." Then he saluted Lin Wenchun and said, "Mrs. Wenqing, I have heard the name of Mrs. Wenqing for a long time." ”

Lin Wenchun also returned the salute and said, "Canghai Jun has spoken, Wen Chun has seen Canghai Jun." ”

Then Gao Yuan said hello to Zhang Liang again, because there were many people here, it was not easy to talk in detail, so he just said a few words, and then Gao Yuan and Lin Wenqing invited Canghai Jun to sit upstairs, while Zhang Liang, Ao Whale, Hong Xiu and others were hanging out in the shop pù on the first floor.

After going upstairs, Tian Chenghei, Duanmu Qiming, Tao Zhujin, Guan Yi and other four people came to the staircase to greet Canghaijun, although they did not have deep friendships, but they had some contacts with each other, so they were very polite.

After everyone meets, it is a mutual greeting, and then basically it is a free conversation, talking about some business things, you entered that batch of goods, I did that business yesterday, and those goods in Linzi are easy to buy recently, etc., of course, at this time, it is also a time to communicate with each other, and sometimes you can negotiate a few businesses, and wait for the woman to serve with wine and snacks around.

After a while, I saw a servant hurriedly running upstairs and said, "My lord, come down and take a look, something is wrong." ”