I opened a mall in ancient times

Even if he was exhausted, Luo Chaoxi couldn't refuse Eunuch Cui at this time.

Before Luo Chaochao refused to meet at the banquet, Luo Chaochao used not wanting to meet so many people as an excuse, and the emperor understood.But now it is not a banquet, but the eunuch who accompanied him was sent to invite alone, and he went to the palace alone in the middle of the night, and received him in the imperial study alone.

This has been achieved to this point, Luo Chaoxi understands that he cannot refuse no matter what.

He had already refused twice, so he couldn't refuse a third time.

Once or twice is reserved, and three times is ignorance.

Eunuch Cui prepared a very simple sedan chair, and the drivers who pulled the carriage were all eunuchs and guards in the palace. Seeing that Luo Chaoxi was still holding a cat in his arms, he was still asking Luo Chaochao: "Your cat... do you want to hand it over to me?" Keep it for our family? This is taboo in the palace, if you bring it in, you have to give it to me."

Luo Chaoxi was holding Luo Jinbao to warm his hands, and was still worrying about how to take Luo Jinbao back. Hearing what Cui Gonggong said, he simply opened the car curtain: "No need, my cat knows me back home. He can go back by himself without bothering Eunuch Cui."

The huge silver-gray fur cat just jumped out of the window, stepped on the eaves, and left a trail of plum blossom footprints. After a few jumps, it disappeared at the end of the street.

"Your cat is quite spiritual."

"If an ordinary cat accompanied me from Kangzhou City to the capital, it would have been scared away." Luo Chaoxi smiled and praised his cat, and the system also replaced it at the blind spot of Eunuch Cui and the others. Luo Jinbao's body returned to Luo Chaochao's sea of ​​consciousness.

Because he had a good impression of Luo Chaoxi, Eunuch Cui reminded him a few words on the way to the palace, telling him the taboos of Emperor Luo Chaoti, and told him not to mention these things when he was talking.

Luo Chaochao fully accepted Eunuch Cui's overtures, and secretly handed over a bag of money, "Thank you, Eunuch."

The sedan chairs of the two stopped outside the palace, and they couldn't enter in the sedan chairs here, so the two of them got down together with a few eunuchs and guards who followed, and walked in on foot.

Eunuch Cui shouldered the task of the emperor, and he was not questioned when he entered or left.Although the imperial palace is large and has a beautiful scenery, it is in strict order, with high red walls everywhere. As far as the eye can see, there are only spacious corridors and eunuchs and maids in a hurry.

It was Luo Chaochao's first visit to the palace, but the first time he came to the palace, he knew that he didn't like it at all.

Eunuch Cui specifically asked Luo Chaoxi not to look around, and led Luo Chaoxi all the way, walking for nearly 20 minutes before reaching the outside of the imperial study.

As the place where the emperor stayed most often, there were many guards around the imperial study.

They watch every corner in the middle of the night, beware of danger.Eunuch Cui greeted these guards, and the guards also politely returned the salute, while Luo Chaoxi followed the eunuch and saluted in a regular manner.

Everyone is human, but their identity as a businessman is not as good as these guards who work beside the emperor.

That's why Luo Chaochao didn't want to go to such a place with strict rules.

Although those guards saw Luo Chaochao, nodded their heads, and even smiled friendlyly at Luo Chaochao, but they didn't speak to him.The guards understood that why Luo Chaochao came to the palace was beyond their ability to ask.

After the transmission, a very young man's voice came from inside: "Come in, you all go out and wait."

Afterwards, the door of the Imperial Study Room was opened, and two young eunuchs and three maids came out from inside, saluted Luo Chaoxi and the guards outside, and then walked out from Luo Chaoxi with his head bowed.

Luo Chaochao waited until no one came out before going in, saluted the emperor according to etiquette, did not look up the whole time, and was stopped by the emperor when he was about to kneel down.

"You don't need to perform these empty rituals." Emperor Qing sat behind the desk, looking at the man in thin spring clothes below with great interest.

The Qing Kingdom has strict rules and regulations. There are very strict restrictions on the clothes that ordinary people can wear and the clothes that officials can wear. Even hairstyles are also required.Luo Chaochao didn't go beyond. He was wearing light-colored clothes that weren't too bright, and his hair hanging down covered most of his face. From Emperor Qing's angle, he could only see Luo Chaochao's forehead and straight nose bridge.

Emperor Qing asked Luo Chaoxi to sit aside and said, "Usually I heard about you from Yin Aiqing, and I was curious about you at that time. Later, when you came to the capital, I heard about you from Cui Defu. To describe it, their evaluation of you is not bad, so I am more and more curious."

"The grassroots are terrified." Luo Chaoxi still didn't dare to raise his head.

"You don't have to panic in front of me. How you talk to your friends in the past, you can talk to me now. At this time, you don't have to regard me as an emperor, how about treating me as a friend of the same generation?" Emperor Qing said.

"That's it."

Emperor Qing said that's what he said, but Luo Chaochao didn't have this attitude towards his real friends of the same generation.Luo Chaoxi knew that treating Emperor Qing as a friend was just a polite way of saying that Emperor Qing was a corporal.

He would be a fool if he took it seriously.

Emperor Qing changed his self-proclaimed: "In fact, I have always wanted to see you, but you have been busy with things in the store these days, so you can't find time. I am also busy with my birthday ceremony, and in time for the Chinese New Year and palace affairs. I was busy, so I couldn't take the time to meet you. I finally got some time at this time, so I took the liberty to call you over, and I hope you don't blame me, I will be busy with work again tomorrow."

Emperor Qing said, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Compared to me, you are more free."

Luo Chaochao lowered his head and almost rolled his eyes.

What is the difference between this and why not eat minced meat?

But he held back.

Emperor Qing is actually very young, in his 20s, wearing a black uniform, with a heroic brow and eyes, a tall and straight figure, and looks like he exercises regularly.

Now is the break time, the other party is wearing this clothes that look quite comfortable, Luo Chaochao also saw a section of a very familiar cashmere bottoming shirt exposed in the regular clothes.

"Your busyness is for the whole country."

"What you're saying is that I'm satisfied when I see that the people can eat enough. The potatoes you planted have been harvested, you should know."

Luo Chaochao nodded: "Yes, I was there at the time."

"Then... how did you get these?"

Emperor Qing was very curious.

He stared at the young man sitting on the side, the room was dimly lit, and Luo Chao Chao's face was dimly illuminated.

This face is very delicate, with fair skin, without the slightest trace of wind and rain.If he hadn't known in advance that he was a businessman, there would be no sense of disobedience in putting him in the Imperial College, or in a certain poetry meeting.

Emperor Qing even felt that he was more temperamental than that young master of the Luo family who was well-known in the capital.

However, such a person actually chooses to be a businessman, he has no desire for the fame and fortune at his fingertips, and can easily reject the identity and status that everyone can't resist.

This is a path that can change fate, Qingyun goes straight up, he really can't understand Luo Chaochao's choice, and feels that Luo Chaochao is a bit ignorant.

But from another aspect, Emperor Qing admired the other party very much, and felt that Luo Chaochao was very persistent and a very firm person.

In fact, Emperor Qing didn't like such people. Persistence meant that it was very difficult to control, which was not conducive to his own rule.If Luo Chaochao didn't even want money, then Emperor Qing would really suspect that Luo Chaochao had bigger plans.

No one does anything for no reason unless he wants more than he can apparently get.

But now Luo Chaochao told everyone very frankly that although he didn't love power, he liked money.

In Emperor Qing's view, this is a weakness of Luo Chaochao, and it is also a good place to handle.

Money is much better than power.

If Luo Chaochao offered these things for money, then it would be understandable.In order to win over Luo Chao Chao, he would not give these things to other countries, and Emperor Qing didn't mind meeting Chao Chao's needs in terms of money.

But before that, there are still some necessary procedures to go through.

"The seeds were found outside the Great Wall. I tried it out of curiosity, but I didn't expect to be pleasantly surprised. As for the others, you know that I am a businessman. In Kangzhou City, you can meet businessmen from all over the world. They have many Strange stuff. I see interesting ones, and I buy them, or barter."

Luo Chaochao's reason sounds serious, but there is no way to get to the bottom of it.

Why did you take away so many good things and just pass by your hand?

But everyone doesn't care.

In the end, it was just an excuse for Luo Chaochao, an excuse that everyone could accept.

Because it is Sheng Guo who is benefiting now, and Luo Chaoxi understands how important these things are, and his choice to present these things is enough to explain everything.

If it's your own, then it's fine.

The two didn't seem to say anything, but Emperor Qing had already made up his mind. He leaned back, found a memorial among the piles of memorials on the table, handed it to Luo Chaochao, and motioned him to open it.

Inside, it was a report related to the Lu family.

Recently, the emperor is busy with the New Year and his own birthday, and other officials in the capital are also busy with these things, temporarily suppressing the affairs of the Lu family and delaying them to deal with them later in the year. Torment the minds of the Lu family.

The few Lu family members who were locked in the big prison can still barely keep awake, but the Lu family members who were left outside can only be locked up in a small courtyard in fear every day. The emperor's people looked at it and couldn't use it for consumption. Now they can barely maintain food and clothing.

It's not that they don't want to save themselves, but the yard they live in can't even fly out, so how can they contact people outside?

There are quite a few Lu family members in the capital. Under such mental torture day after day, some people soon couldn't hold on anymore and offered to confess the disgraceful things the Lu family had done before.

However, the Lu family members who confessed these things were not released, but were taken away and put in prison, waiting for a centralized trial.

It seemed that during this time the capital was busy with the emperor's birthday, but in private the emperor and the people around him never relaxed.

Not only the Lu family, but also several officials who had a close relationship with the Lu family were also recorded in the small book by the emperor, and he waited for a suitable opportunity to take them down in one fell swoop.

After Luo Chaochao finished reading this short but clear report, he seemed to understand what the emperor wanted to do.But he wasn't sure if his guess was true, so he could only look at the emperor silently.

The emperor smiled at him.

Luo Chaoxi closed the memorial, stood up and saluted the emperor: "Caomin will go to Jiangnan after the beginning of spring."