Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 168 Pass Token

Although Gaoming's Datang Royal Club has only been open for two days, it is already on fire, and the fire is in a mess.

Those who have been in the club are proudly bragging about their knowledge to others, while those who have not been in are pretending to be "insiders" and speculating wantonly. Under their propaganda, the Datang Royal Club quickly became a famous place in Chang'an City. hot topic.

Now in Chang'an City, anyone who thinks he has a status, no matter whether he has entered the Tang Royal Club or not, as long as someone asks, he will all say that he has entered, but the one who can really show the pass token is Very few.

It is normal for such a situation to occur, because among the tokens issued by the Datang Royal Club, the gold tokens and silver tokens are in the hands of princes and nobles, and even the copper tokens are in the hands of the princes and nobles. In the hands of officials for more than ten years, there are naturally very few chances for everyone to see these tokens.

It is no exaggeration to say that the token of the Datang Royal Club now reflects a person's identity.

Fortunately for the princes and princesses, as long as it is born by Li Shimin, even if he just learned to walk, he can get a gold token with a dragon and phoenix pattern on it.

But the ministers don't have this kind of treatment. Except for the third-rank officials, whoever can get the silver token with the tiger and crane on it depends on Li Shimin's mood.

Because these tokens were sent by Li Shimin to the ministers, in the eyes of the ministers, these tokens are naturally the emperor's opinion of them, and the silver ones represent attention, and the copper ones represent favoritism.

If you don't even have a copper galloping horse token, you need to work hard, otherwise your career is doomed.

As the saying goes, "Things are rare and expensive", everyone used to hang jade pendants on their waists, but from the second day after the opening of the Datang Royal Club, everyone began to use the pass token of the Royal Club as an accessory to hang around their waists , and there are quite a few people who do this.

Now when he goes to court, he doesn't need to look at the official uniform, just look at the token on his waist to know who he is.

The one with the golden dragon and phoenix tokens is naturally the prince, the one with the silver tiger and crane tokens is the important officials of the court, and the rest with the copper plaques are ordinary officials, which can be said to be clear at a glance.

And after the next dynasty, when everyone left the hall in twos and threes, the most talked about topic was the Tang Royal Clubhouse.

"Brother Liu, do you have free time today!"

"Brother Zhao Xian wants to invite me to the Royal Club for a hand-to-hand conversation? Tea, please!"

"Hahahaha, easy to talk about!"

Of course, these are the officials who got the tokens to say so, and those who didn't get the pass tokens were a little distressed.

"Master Zhao, do you have time to go to my younger brother's house today?"

"Oh, Mr. Wang, what a coincidence. I have already invited Mr. Zhao to play chess at the Tang Royal Club today. Why don't you go with Mr. Wang?"

"But I don't have a pass token!"

"Tsk tsk, that's really a pity, why don't we talk about it another day."

"..."

Those officials who came from poor families were lucky, because they didn’t have much salary, and they rarely even went to restaurants, let alone high-consumption places like the Royal Club, so it didn’t matter to them whether they had tokens or not.

But the situation is different for those officials who come from powerful families.

Under Li Shimin's deliberate action, all the officials belonging to the "Five Surnames and Seven Wangs", except for the ministers of the third rank and above who received a silver medal, all the others did not even get a bronze medal.

Being an official in the same dynasty, others have what they have but they don't have it. If it's an official position or power, it's fine, but this is just a pass for an entertainment venue. How can this make them feel ashamed of those who call themselves "rich nobles"?
As the person who supervised the production of these signs, Lu Zhi naturally knew some inside information, so when the officials of the Lu family who did not get the tokens found him, he immediately waved his hands confidently.

"Leave this to me!"

Of course Lu Zhi didn't dare to forge the token of the Royal Club privately. He planned to go to the East Palace to find Gao Ming to solve the matter. In his opinion, a mere token is just a trivial matter.

Faced with such a confident Lu Zhi, the young officials of the Lu family suddenly felt a sense of admiration from the mountains. Under the admiration of everyone, Lu Zhi began to feel a little self-inflated.

Obviously, this is not a good thing, because when a person starts to inflate himself, he tends to forget some very important things.

Lu Zhi also forgot things, he forgot that there was an underage little loli and an underage little tiger in the East Palace.

So the next morning, Gao Ming just woke up, before finishing a set of radio gymnastics, he was interrupted by Shi Jian with a panicked face.

"His Royal Highness, it's not good, Mr. Lu, Minister of the Household Department, is here!"

Seeing Shi Jian's flustered look, Gao Ming suddenly frowned strangely.

"He'll come when he comes. There's no need to panic. He's not a tiger... er... a tiger?"

Having said that, Gao Ming immediately turned his head to look at Su Wan'er.

"Wan'er, where are Sizi and Benben?"

"..."

Seeing Su Wan'er who opened her mouth but didn't say a word, Gao Ming slapped his forehead.

"Okay, I get it!"

After finishing speaking, Gao Ming couldn't keep up with the radio gymnastics. After he ordered the waiter to prepare breakfast for him, he walked quickly towards the front yard.

As soon as he entered the front yard, Gao Ming was once again stunned by the familiar scene in front of him.

Lu Zhi, who was wearing an official robe, was lying on the ground, his official hat fell about two meters away from him, while Li Mingda was standing aside, covering his mouth and laughing.

Of course, these are not the most important. The most important thing is that at this moment, the Siberian tiger Benben, who is as tall as half a man, is lying on his body, and at the same time, his big mouth is still covering half of Lu Zhi's head.

The only thing that surprised Gao Ming was that Lu Zhi didn't yell this time. After seeing Gao Ming coming, he just showed a little pleading to him.

"His Royal Highness, save me..."

"..."

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming rubbed his temples with a headache, then raised his eyebrows at Li Mingda.

"Si, please apologize to Lord Lu soon."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Mingda immediately stretched out his lilac tongue mischievously, and then gave Lu Zhifu a blessing.

"Lord Lu, I'm sorry, Benben didn't do it on purpose, please forgive him!"

Looking at the lovely and pitiful Li Mingda, a wry smile appeared on Lu Zhi's face.

"His Royal Highness, it doesn't really matter if I don't forgive it, what matters is whether it will forgive me."

"Whee!"

Hearing Lu Zhi's words, Li Mingda couldn't help laughing immediately, but when she saw Gao Ming's warning eyes, she quickly covered her mouth, and then ran towards the yard next to her. He ran and yelled.

"Ben Ben, let's go, drink mare's milk!"

"Ouch..."

Hearing Li Mingda's greeting, Benben immediately let go of Lu Zhi's head, then ran away following Li Mingda with a loud roar, and disappeared after a while.

At this time, Gao Mingcai ran helplessly to help Lu Zhi up, picked up his official hat and returned it to him.

"Master Lu was frightened, are you injured?"

As soon as Gao Ming finished speaking, Lu Zhi immediately shook his head, showing a helpless face.

"There is no injury, but the top of the head is wet. Your Highness, why does the tiger of the princess like to bite Weichen's head so much?"

Looking at the puzzled Lu Zhi, Gao Ming thought for a while, and then he smacked his lips uncertainly.

"Other people have never come across your situation. Maybe this is its way of recognizing you. I think your relationship can only be expressed in one word."

"What word?"

"Bond!"

"..."

Lu Zhi couldn't understand why he had a bond with a tiger, so he was silent, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh.

"Oh, Your Royal Highness, in fact, I am here to ask for something."

Seeing that Lu Zhi took the initiative to change his voice, Gao Ming naturally wished for it, so he immediately laughed.

"Lord Lu, it's okay to say, as long as it's something I can do, I will definitely not refuse!"

It's useless for Gao Ming to say that it's a burden. Anyway, to put it bluntly, he's just pretending to be bold. When the time comes, he can do it himself, and it's not too late to find an excuse if he can't.

Lu Zhi didn't know what was going on in Gao Ming's mind, but when he saw how bold he was, a smile appeared on his face.

"Actually, it's about the galloping horse token. There are a few juniors in my family who plan to go to the Tang Royal Club where His Highness the Crown Prince is, so I hope that His Highness the Crown Prince will be more accommodating."

Hearing his words, Gao Ming immediately understood that the "junior" Lu Zhi mentioned must want to enter the royal club but did not have a pass token, so Lu Zhi came to the door with a request.

After thinking about this, Gao Ming suddenly laughed.

"Those descendants of Mr. Lu can become officials? You also know that all the galloping horse tokens of my Datang Royal Club require official status."

The tone of the Datang Royal Club was set by Gao Ming a long time ago, taking the elite line, so naturally Gao Ming would not change because of Lu Zhi's words, but Lu Zhi seemed to understand this too. After Gao Ming's voice fell, he Hastily nodded.

"There are a total of 12 people, all of whom have already entered the official position, and they are officials of the seventh rank and above. They have not done anything bad during their term of office. If His Royal Highness agrees, I will go back and ask them to prepare money for the token!"

Hearing Lu Zhi's words, Gao Ming suddenly smiled, and then waved his hand towards Lu Zhi.

"Lord Lu, you are wrong. This money is not the money to buy tokens, but the construction fee they voluntarily sponsored for the Datang Royal Club. Master Lu understands what I mean?"

After finishing speaking, Gao Ming raised his eyebrows at Lu Zhi. Seeing his expression, Lu Zhi suddenly realized and nodded.

"Understood understand... What His Highness the Crown Prince said is that I just made a slip of the tongue, and I will go back and ask them to prepare to sponsor the construction cost of the Tang Royal Clubhouse. If His Royal Highness has no other orders, then I will leave first. .”

Seeing how "sensible" Lu Zhi is, Gao Ming immediately smiled even more happily.

"Then I'll wait for Master Lu's good news in the East Palace. By the way, my younger sister was naughty just now, why don't I ask someone to take you to Shangyao Bureau!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Lu Zhi suddenly burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha, His Royal Highness is worrying too much, what can a mere young tiger do to me? Your Highness, farewell!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Zhi turned around and left with a wave of his sleeve. Seeing his leaving figure, Gao Ming frowned suddenly.

"Huh? Why do I feel that Lu Zhi's words just now sound familiar, as if I've heard them somewhere..."

(End of this chapter)