Haoxuan Building, Dongcheng City.

This most luxurious restaurant in Quandong City welcomed several distinguished guests today, so the entire restaurant was booked down.

There are countless guards inside and outside the restaurant.

People who are tactful naturally avoid it from afar to prevent them from colliding with noble people, and even those who dare not even get close to this area.

There are countless powerful people in Chang'an City. Who knows which prince is coming to the banquet today, the young man from the Duke family?

Nowadays, four-legged toads in Chang'an City are difficult to find, but there are not too many powerful people on both legs.

Zheng Jie and Feng Hao naturally arrived early.

One is the invitation they sent, and as the banquet organizer, they should arrive first.

Secondly, the one they invited to the banquet was the Prince of the East Palace.

The prince is the king, and they are the ministers.

From this perspective, there is no problem for them to attend the banquet.

"Mr. Zheng, do you think His Highness the Crown Prince will attend the banquet as scheduled today?"

Feng Hao seemed worried.

Although they felt that with the prince's personality, no one knew what would happen until the last moment.

Judging from the current situation, the East Palace has not given any clear instructions yet, so everything is possible.

"Don't worry, Your Highness the Crown Prince will come to the banquet. I watched Your Highness grow up with my own eyes, and I can't understand Your Highness the Crown Prince very much. With Your Highness's personality, there is no doubt that you will not miss such an opportunity to make friends with powerful ministers."

Since ancient times, if the crown prince wants to take office, the best way is to make friends with powerful officials.

Powerful ministers either have a significant influence in the court, or simply hold military power in their hands.

Therefore, they can have several profound influences on the court, and even the king is afraid of it.

Therefore, generally speaking, the emperor would be very taboo to crown princes and make friends with powerful officials in the court.

However, for ambitious crown princes and vassal kings, it is a matter of time to make friends with powerful people. The difference is when to make friends, whether it is not revealed on the surface.

"Your Highness looks very gentle on the surface, but in fact he has a sense of ruthlessness. As long as there is this ruthlessness that should be fought for, he will definitely fight for. Don't worry."

Zheng Jie's words made Feng Hao feel a little relieved.

Now, for the sake of the country and country of Great Zhou, they have bet on their wealth and life.

I just hope that His Royal Highness will not let them down.

The waiting time was long, and Feng Hao took the initiative to chat with Zheng Jie in order to avoid embarrassment.

"Mr. Zheng, do you think we should join the academy in the current situation? His Majesty has been afraid of the academy in recent months, but it is probably because of the rift between His Majesty and the mountain captain. But aside from this relationship, the academy has not actually felt sorry for us."

Zheng Jie did not respond immediately to Feng Hao, but pondered for a moment: "Yes, the academy did not regret the court, and the mountain chief did not regret Your Majesty. Your Majesty is too narrow-minded. But from the perspective of the royal family, in fact, Your Majesty did nothing wrong. The mountain chief is protecting his calf, so why is Your Majesty also? It's just that the mountain chief is stronger, Your Majesty can only be defeated."

Zheng Jie's words made Feng Hao feel mixed feelings.

In this world, only the strong have the right to speak, and only the strong do what they do is right.

The weak will always only be able to watch from a distance, and there is no possibility of any choice.

"But now that the enemy is in front of us, the rise and fall of the country is just a matter of thought, so we must join forces with the academy to fight the enemy together."

Finally, Zheng Jie gave the answer.

Feng Hao breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he has always hoped to be able to join the academy.

But he was afraid that Zheng Jie would be afraid for various reasons.

Because Emperor Xianlong had a great influence on him.

Although Zheng Jie wants to put aside Emperor Xian Long's influence at present, it is not easy to do this.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Jie still has his own independent interpretation and decisive choices.

This made Feng Hao very impressed.

"Since that's the case, Mr. Zheng, when should we contact the academy?"

"No hurry, it's not the time. It's not too late to go to discuss cooperation with the academy after we have decided to talk about His Royal Highness. We have to eat all the food, so we can't hurry."

Zheng Jie said that the clouds and winds are light and they seem to be confident.

Feng Hao was a little calmer when he heard this.

"If the academy can take action, then Chang'an City will definitely be worry-free."

Feng Hao still fully trusts the academy and the mountain chief.

In his eyes, the mountain chief is the well-deserved strongest man in the world. Anyone who tries to compete with the mountain chief actually just wants to take advantage of the mountain chief's popularity and has no power to fight.

Including the high priest of the Demon Sect, the sword saint of the East Yue, and even the monk from the Western Regions is no exception.

The only difference is that they can support more than a few rounds in the hands of the mountain captain.

But in the end they will all lose.

If that's the case, what's the point of supporting more for a while?

"It's just that I heard that the mountain leader was injured in a fierce battle with the high priest of the Demon Sect in the void. Now he should be recuperating in the academy. I don't know that the mountain leader after the injury still has about a few more combat power at his peak."

Zheng Jie's words surprised Feng Hao again.

"The mountain leader is injured? How is that possible?"

"It should be because I was injured and didn't run away. I ordered my adopted son to go and test it. It was Yao Yan, the immortal sword in the bamboo forest. This shows that the mountain chief is still in seclusion and recuperating. Otherwise, with the mountain chief's personality, it would be impossible to sit idly by."

"Will the chief of the mountain feel that a mere first-rate master is not worthy of him coming forward in person?"

Feng Hao still felt that the mountain leader had reached his arrogance and gained the upper hand, so he was so disdainful of coming forward.

"No, I don't think this is the case. I thought about it at the beginning, but think about it carefully. Whenever you go to the academy gate, when did you watch the mountain with your back? Yao Yan, the immortal of the bamboo forest, said that he was an outsider. What's the point of asking an outsider to be busy here?"

Zheng Jie's words do make some sense.

The more Feng Hao thought about it, the more he felt that it was this taste.

"If this is true, the mountain leader must have been under the slightest. With the mountain leader's combat power, if the mountain leader fights head-on with the Demon Sect's high priest, it will be very difficult for the Demon Sect to hurt the mountain leader, not to mention that he will hurt the mountain leader, it will be a very difficult thing to tie the mountain leader."

"Yes. So, the High Priest of the Demon Sect is also a person who can tolerate it. In the battle of Chang'an, the High Priest of the Demon Sect challenged the mountain chief and finally failed. If it were ordinary people, they would have been discouraged and would not dare to challenge the mountain chief. However, the High Priest of the Demon Sect lie on firewood and tastes gall, and has been laid out for a long time. As a result, he really waited for the opportunity."

Zheng Jie sighed: "I suspect it was a war that took place in the void space. There must be more than one high priest of the Demon Sect, and he must have help. The mountain chief should have been ambushed and attacked, and was eventually outnumbered and was injured."

Although Zheng Jie did not see the situation at that time with his own eyes, his analysis was reasonable.

Feng Hao nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "That's it. The mountain leader is a peerless strong man after all, and even if he is ambushed, he will definitely escape unscathed. If he is injured, it can only be one point. The other party has an absolute advantage in the number of people, and the mountain leader is outnumbered and injured. These guys really do not talk about martial ethics."

"Not everyone is moral. Some people only have victory or defeat in their eyes. As long as they can win, they can do whatever they want."

Zheng Jie murmured: "This is why I look down on those so-called side-minded people."

The two were chatting themselves when they suddenly heard a sound.

They couldn't help but look towards the stairs.

They all knew who the person who came was.

Sure enough, a moment later, the Prince of the East Palace, Li Xiankun, slowly appeared in front of them.

The prince wore a casual robe today, but it was still difficult to hide his nobleness.

The temperament bonus brought by the whole day of luxury allows the prince to be recognized from the crowd from afar.

Not to mention that Feng Hao and Zheng Jie had met the prince.

The two of them quickly stood up and greeted the prince.

"Minist Feng Hao, my servant Zheng Jie pays homage to the crown prince."

The two of them gave great gifts to the prince respectively.

The corners of the prince Li Xiankun's mouth curled up slightly and said with a smile: "You don't have to be too polite. You are both the strong ministers of the Great Zhou, and you can only stay strong if you are in the Great Zhou. This time I came here for the Great Zhou, and the purpose is the same as yours."

Being obedient and listening to the voice, the prince’s intention was actually revealed.

Of course, Zheng Jie and Feng Hao understood.

They hurriedly said, "It's great that Your Highness the Crown Prince can think so. We are all willing to be loyal to Your Highness the Crown Prince and support the country!"

"Um"

"By the way, Your Highness, please come and take the seat."

Feng Hao suddenly realized that the prince of the East Palace was still standing, so he quickly made a gesture of delaying the invitation.

Prince Li Xiankun was not polite either. He lifted up the hem of his robe and sat down on the upper head.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this table of wine and food is very rich, you guys are both worried."

Zheng Jie and Feng Hao looked at each other and thought to himself that His Highness the Crown Prince is really good at joking.

If we talk about the banquet, what other banquets in the world can compare to the palace?

Any table of banquets in the East Palace is thousands of times more luxurious than here.

His Royal Highness said this so that they didn't know what to say.
To be continued...