Dragon's Origin

“Does this have anything to do with what we were talking about before?” Wang Sheng, not forgetting what Marquis Lu Wen had said earlier, frowned and asked. What was the necessary connection between taking the female owner away from Baoqing Yu Tang and the potential crisis facing Yu Bao Zhai?

“As long as you take her away from Baoqing Yu Tang, then even if Baoqing Yu Tang falls in the future, with her there, she can still support a Baoqing Yu Tang.” Lu Wenhou had one good point, he was honest enough when talking to Wang Sheng: “As long as she can still support Baoqing Yu Tang, then Yu Bao Zhai will never be able to dominate, and those worries you mentioned will no longer exist.”

Wang Sheng looked at Lu Wenhou speechlessly for a while. Aren't you competitors? Is this how business is done? Saving a competitor?

But Wang Sheng still had to admire Lu Wenhou. This guy was not only smart, but also had a big heart. Just like a saying Wang Sheng had seen on Earth, the bigger the heart, the bigger the stage. Lu Wenhou's stage was definitely bigger than all the people in power at Baoqing Yu Tang combined.

The two continued drinking for a while before Lu Wenhou got up to leave, taking Ling'er with him. He had already achieved his main purpose in coming, and there was no need to stay and disturb Wang Sheng.

However, Lu Wenhou left, and it was getting dark, but Wang Sheng's plan to have some peace and quiet still fell through. As soon as Lu Wenhou's carriage left, when Wang Sheng returned to the courtyard, the shadow eunuch was already on the wall.

Now that the old Taoist was still living in Wang Sheng's courtyard, the shadow eunuch wouldn't dare to show off in front of a seasoned red-brand killer even if he was beaten to death. The shadow eunuch's cultivation was at most at the peak of the seventh stage, and it was unknown whether he had crossed the eighth stage after so many years, but the old Taoist had casually killed three eighth-stage experts outside the city. There was no comparison between the two.

Until now, the sects of those three eighth-stage experts were still regretting sending out those three reckless youths, offending Wang Sheng for nothing. Fortunately, Wang Sheng was too lazy to pursue the matter. If Yu Bao Zhai casually set a threshold for those sects, not allowing their people to enter that camp, they would cry to death.

With the old Taoist sitting in town, the shadow eunuch wouldn't dare to jump into Wang Sheng's courtyard even with a hundred guts. Moreover, because the old Taoist was there, no one outside could hear any sound from this courtyard. Only Lu Wenhou's farewell outside the door was a bit loud, so the surrounding people knew that Lu Wenhou had left.

It was rare for the old eunuch to be so polite as to wait for Wang Sheng to take the initiative to invite him over, so Wang Sheng didn't make things difficult for the old eunuch. He called out to the old eunuch, "Come, have a drink!"

Even though he had already had two rounds of drinks, enough to rival the amount of beer he drank on Earth, Wang Sheng still had to accompany the old eunuch for another round.

Seeing that Wang Sheng treated him as before, the old eunuch was slightly relieved. After jumping over and clinking a cup with Wang Sheng, he couldn't wait to take out the things he wanted to give Wang Sheng as treasures.

Wang Sheng picked up a delicate gold medal that the old eunuch had placed on the stone table and pushed over. He carefully admired the patterns on it, which were obviously meticulously crafted by a master craftsman, and asked the old eunuch, "What is this?"

“The three characters on the back are ‘Marquis Chang Sheng’.” The old eunuch knew that Wang Sheng didn't recognize this kind of seal script, so he specially explained to Wang Sheng: “The Emperor conferred you as a Marquis.”

The Emperor actually conferred him as a Marquis? Wang Sheng stared wide-eyed at the old eunuch, as if to see if he was joking. As far as Wang Sheng knew, there were only a few people in the whole world who could be conferred as a Marquis. Song, Tang, Qiu, Shi, Dai, plus Xia, Feng, Gan, the Song Kingdom conferred a Duke, and the remaining seven were all Marquises, and then there was Marquis Wu You. In other words, at most, there were only eight national Marquises in the whole world now, and the Emperor suddenly conferred him as a Marquis at this time? What a joke?

Not that Wang Sheng was being humble, but these eight national Marquises, except for Marquis Wu You because of his special territory, which one didn't have thousands of miles of land and tens of millions of people? Speaking of wealth, they could easily kill Wang Sheng eighteen times over.

What about Wang Sheng himself? He had no people, no land, and could barely be considered rich among ordinary people or cultivators, but compared to the eight national Marquises, even the weakest Marquis Wu You could make Wang Sheng feel ashamed.

Under these conditions, the Emperor still dared to confer him as a Marquis? Was this too blatant an expression of his desire to win over Wang Sheng? Was he not afraid that other vassal states would be unhappy?

“The Emperor said, Marquis Chang Sheng, if you want to make it public, the Emperor will make it public. If you don't want to make it public, the Emperor will keep it a secret.” The shadow eunuch's mission this time was to convey goodwill to Wang Sheng and commend Wang Sheng's previous contributions, so as to prevent Wang Sheng from becoming disloyal, so he was particularly polite.

Some words, like the ones above, if the shadow eunuch hadn't confirmed them again and again, he wouldn't have dared to believe his ears. In the past, the royal family was in decline, so of course they kept a low profile and didn't dare to show it at all. Now, the Emperor's reputation was at its peak, and he even had to ask Wang Sheng's opinion on whether he was willing to make the conferment of a Marquis public. This kind of courtesy was simply maddening!

Not to mention anything else, just take the old eunuch himself. He was also a person who was rewarded by the Emperor for his merits and conferred a title, but the Emperor only rewarded him secretly and never asked his opinion. Even so, the old eunuch felt that it was a great favor from the Emperor, and he didn't know how many times he kowtowed in the direction of the imperial city.

But when it came to Wang Sheng, it was necessary to see what Wang Sheng meant, and he was given a Marquis title, which was simply terrifying.

“Then let's not make it public for the time being!” Wang Sheng held the gold medal in his hand and stroked it. In the old eunuch's eyes, it was because he was excited about being a Marquis, but little did he know that Wang Sheng was just appreciating this gold medal as a treasured work of art. The two people's positions and identities were different, and their knowledge was different, so their perspectives on the same thing were very different.

“There is a Marquis residence specially prepared for you in the capital, a hundred acres of mansion, right in the imperial city.” The old eunuch continued to express the royal family's goodwill: “But it hasn't been made public until we got your opinion. The Emperor's rewards of palace maids and eunuchs are all complete, and all kinds of treasures have also been moved into the Marquis residence. As long as you take this card to the door at that time, you can take over the Marquis residence at any time.”

Wang Sheng nodded. A large house of a hundred acres in the capital, more than 60,000 square meters, was not bad. There were also all kinds of treasures, palace maids and eunuchs, the configuration was really complete. Unfortunately, Wang Sheng didn't know if he would have the opportunity to enjoy it in this large Marquis residence.

“There is also a royal manor of more than 2,000 acres in the suburbs of Beijing, which has also been allocated to your name, Marquis.” This was not the end. The old eunuch waited for Wang Sheng to digest the previous things before saying the subsequent rewards: “The output of this manor every year will be handed over to the Marquis residence, and you can take it at any time.”

Even though Wang Sheng didn't take the Emperor's reward to heart, after hearing this series of things, he had to say that the Emperor was really attentive in order to win him over.