Chapter 343 Betting?

  Leng Sa has attended a similar state banquet, but she has never attended a state banquet so purely.

  Because if you participated in this kind of banquet in the past, there was obviously only one reason-task.

  If it weren’t for any special tasks, there really is no reason for professional agents of their level to appear at such a banquet.

However, Leng Sa didn’t care. In her opinion, such a state banquet was no different from other banquets she had attended. It was nothing more than the identity of the participants was higher and more complicated, and there were more intrigues or games between the parties. That's all, but these are not her turn to worry about.

  Because the king has not yet arrived, all the guests have just gathered together and talked leisurely.

  Except for some people with specific goals and specific goals, most of them are still with their own people or the officials in charge of reception in Naga. After all, everyone really doesn't know them.

  Nowadays, no matter whether it is diplomacy or other matters, there are several big bosses above who are responsible. The young marshals who used to be alone have been idle, so a group of people also found a quiet place to sit and drink.

   But they are so solemnly on stage, naturally it is impossible to really be idle.

  In a short while, many ladies in gorgeous dresses came over to chat.

  It's not that these ladies really want to be with them, but they are also idle at the banquet. It is also a pleasant and proud thing to be accompanied by a handsome and handsome male companion, isn't it?

  First they came to the banquet hall, Zhang Huizhi enthusiastically encouraged Zhang Jingzhi to go to play with the beautiful foreign lady, but his brother pressed his face into the sofa blankly before he had to give up.

   had to shrink on the sofa, muttering to dislike Zhang Jingzhi's stodgy, boring and uninteresting, and she should not be able to get his wife out.

   Carlos came with two women in Nagar costumes and smiled at the crowd, "Why don’t you guys go there to play? Could it be that we didn’t entertain them well?"

  Zhang Jingzhi smiled and said, "The second prince joked. The banquet tonight is very grand and interesting."

   Carlos shrugged and said, "I heard that Anxia people are very conservative, and it seems that they are right."

  It’s not necessarily conservative. It’s definitely more interesting to play tricks at some domestic banquets than this kind of over-formal banquet. What have these young marshals never seen? They are just not interested in playing with those little girls who don't know where they are coming.

  Zhang Jingzhi smiled and changed the subject, looked at the two women following Carlos, and smiled, "I wonder if these two are?"

Carlos pulled one of the women in the bright red embroidered robe and smiled, “This is my wife Asha, and this is my sister Leah. Leah has also studied abroad, and she is also very curious about Anxia. I heard that two beauties were coming tonight in Anxia, ​​so they begged me to take her to have a look."

  The girl in a light blue dress looks very cute, and her deep facial features make her big eyes especially bright and lovely. Compared with women with fair complexion like Leng Sa and Zhang Huizhi, her complexion is light wheatish due to the sunshine all the year round, but it does not affect her beauty and cuteness at all. On the contrary, there is a kind of woman that An Xia does not have. Exotic.

   "Leah, this is Mrs. Fu, this is Miss Zhang." Carlos introduced Princess Leah very smoothly. Obviously, he not only knew Leng Sa, but even Zhang Huizhi's identity was very clear.

  This Princess Leia’s Anxia language is obviously not as fluent as her brother, but she obviously learned it specially, and she greeted Leng Sa and Zhang Huizhi with a bright smile.

  I am used to seeing princesses like Xiao Nanjia. Zhang Huizhi has a good impression of Princess Leia, who is cheerful and friendly. They also responded enthusiastically, and the two girls who were about the same age seemed to have a good match.

  As for the princess who followed Carlos, he obviously didn’t understand Anxia at all. Carlos introduced her to her in a low voice in Naga, and she greeted them with a decent smile on her face.

  Among the group of An Xia, and Fu Fengcheng also had three or four who knew Naga, they all greeted the princess.

  Zhang Huizhi and Princess Liya quickly became acquainted, so Princess Lia took Zhang Huizhi to his feet and went to play. The two originally intended to pull Leng Sa on, but Leng Sa said that she was a little tired and wanted to rest for a while.

  Princess Leia didn't care, she smiled and pulled Zhang Huizhi back to everyone.

  Waiting for the two of them to walk away, Long Yue asked thoughtfully: "What does Carlos mean?" Worried that Zhang Huizhi and Leng Sa were bored, specially asked the princess to come and accompany them? It doesn't seem to be the same no matter how you think about it.

  Zhang Jingzhi smiled and said, "Well...this is the matter of the Naga royal family, Long Shao should ask Prince Mu or the third prince."

  Song Lang looked back at the other side of the hall, Xiao Yiran, the second prince, and Xiao Nanjia were all with Prince Mu, talking with a middle-aged man who didn’t know what his identity was.

  Song Lang winked over there and asked, "Who is that?"

  Lou Lanzhou looked up and said, “That’s the chancellor of Naga, the uncle of Prince Carlos, but it is rumored that his relationship with Prince Carlos has not been very good recently."

   Hearing this, Song Lang touched the bridge of his straight nose, thinking about something.

   Fu Fengcheng raised his head to look at Xiang Zhang Jingzhi and Lou Lanzhou, "Naga wants to marry Anxia?"

  Everyone was taken aback, marriage...In ancient times, it should be called peace.

  But the word marriage is also very common nowadays, but marriage with the royal family is not common anymore.

  Because the symbolic significance of the current Anxia royal family is greater than reality, it is not as useful to marry a senior official who holds a heavy official in the Anxia royal family. But the problem is that the person with the highest authority in Anxia is changed every few years, and the timeliness of this marriage is greatly reduced.

  Carefully counted, the last time the Anxia royal family had a relationship with another country was decades ago.

  As for a country as far away as Naga, it has never happened before.

  Everyone looked at Fu Fengcheng one after another, Leng Sa was also a little curious, "Marriage? Is it necessary?"

Fu Fengcheng looked at Zhang Jingzhi, "Naga’s own opinions are obviously not very unified. The Minister of Finance...represented by the Nazhigui powers, should hope to marry the Anxia royal family, while the Naga Royal family... … Shao Zhang or Shao Lou?"

  Fu Dashao said such a long sentence in one breath, and the content is even more amazing.

Others all looked at the two protagonists named by Fu Fengcheng. Lou Lanzhou quickly clarified the relationship, "Fu Shao, please don't talk nonsense. Grandfather will never agree to me marrying a foreign girl. Older people will think about it when they are older. Be conservative, our Loujia doesn't mean that either."

  It can only be the Zhang family.

   "Brother Zhang?" Song Lang looked at Zhang Jingzhi with a smile, his face full of ridicule.

  Zhang Jingzhi was very calm, and the gold-rimmed glasses made him calm and there was a kind of near-sharp calmness.

   helped the glasses, Zhang Jingzhi smiled and said, "Shao Fu laughed. It is a tradition of the royal family to be married to each other. Where can ordinary people like us worry about it?" The Zhang family was not interested in the princess of Naga.

  The Zhang family really needs the support of capable people, but it is not the Naga who is thousands of miles away.

  On the contrary, if the heir of the Zhang family marries a foreign princess, it will shake the status of the Zhang family.

  "Hey, I think that little princess is pretty and cute. Brother Zhang is too ruthless." Song Lang sighed, and Zhang Jingzhi smiled, "Can't bear it, otherwise... Brother Song, please?"

Song Lang touched his nose and stopped talking. Others were not interested in teasing Zhang Jingzhi. Long Yue frowned, "Naga and An Xia are separated by thousands of miles by sea. What is the meaning of marriage? That Princess Leia is Ka Isn't it Loth's sister? The future crown prince, or even the king's sister, will it be good for Naga to marry Ansha?"

  Everyone was equally puzzled. No matter who the Princess Leia married An Xia, it would be of little benefit to Naga in the short term. If it comes to commerce, the two countries are interdependent, and there is no need to sacrifice a princess to get married. If it is not for short-term benefits, then for long-term benefits?

   Fu Fengcheng leaned on the sofa, looked down and thought for a while before faintly said: "God bless the island."

  Long Yue frowned, "Brother Fu is saying that the Naga people want to use marriage as the basis for negotiations with Anxia? Take advantage of Shenyou Island?"

  Fu Fengcheng said, “It’s not impossible, even if it’s not for Shenyou Island, it should have something to do with this.”

"for example?"

   Fu Fengcheng rubbed his eyebrows and said, "What kind of person do you think Carlos is?"

  Long Yue squinted slightly, and looked at each other a few times, and said, "Ambitious."

Fu Fengcheng said, "When he was in school, he once gave a speech on how to build a powerful empire that radiated around the island based on the island. At that time, the people in his first-year school didn't know his identity, and many people did. Laughing at him for being whimsical." Leng Sa blinked, "Have you heard of it?"

  Fengcheng Fu nodded and said, "I have heard it. I remembered it. And...I also think that if the shipbuilding industry in Naga is more developed, this idea is feasible. If I were Carlos, I would do it."

   "We..." Long Yue was about to say something when he saw Prince Mu approaching with Xiao Yiran's three brothers and sisters. Long Yue calmly swallowed half of the words into his throat along with the wine in the glass, "Let's talk later."

   "Prince." Prince Mu came over and everyone got up. Prince Mu himself is a very kind person. I am familiar with the elders of all of you here, and I feel like my nephews to these young marshals.

  He smiled and waved to the crowd to beckon them to sit casually, then glanced at Zhang Jingzhi’s side and smiled, "Where is Miss Huizhi?"

  Zhang Jingzhi said, "I went there to play with Princess Leia of Naga."

  Prince Mu nodded and smiled, “Sure enough, these young girls can play together, Nan Jia, you should also visit Miss Huizhi and Princess Leia. Mrs. Fu Shao?” Looking at Leng Sa inquiringly.

   Leng Sa smiled at him, “I was a little dizzy after drinking some wine, so I won’t accompany Princess Chaoyang.”

  Princess Chaoyang glanced at everyone, her eyes stayed on Fu Fengcheng for a moment, then snorted in a low voice, "I don't want to go either."

  Prince Mu shook his head helplessly, obviously also used to Xiao Nanjia's waywardness.

  He still had something to do and didn't have the time to dawdle with these young people. He stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Yiran on the shoulder to signal him to look at Xiao Nanjia, and then said to everyone that he turned and left.

  "Second prince, third prince, please sit down."

  Xiao Yiran is very familiar with these people, and he is not polite to sit down in the empty seat next to Loulanzhou.

  In contrast, the second prince seemed to be a little alienated, and said thank you to Song Lang before sitting down in the empty seat on the other side. As a result, there is no room for Xiao Nanjia to sit here.

Shen Sinian next to    hesitated for a moment or stood up and laughed, "Princess sit here, right?"

  Xiao Nanjia looked at everyone, except for Shen Sinian, apparently no one cared whether she was sitting or not.

   gritted her teeth with a sullen expression, until Xiao Yiran gave her a warning look, Xiao Nanjia hummed, turned and stepped on high heels and left.

  The second prince who had just settled down was a little embarrassed, he hesitated, stood up and apologized to everyone before chasing after him.

  The originally peaceful corner, the atmosphere became a bit awkward for a while.

  Xiao Yiran smiled slightly apologetically to Shen Sinian, wishing to pinch Xiao Nanjia to death in his heart.

  The Shen family is not as good as Fu Longsong, but even if it is not as good as the others, it is still a powerful force in the hands of the powerful. How can you, a princess who has nothing but a name, have such a strong confidence to give others a face?

  That is to say, Shen Sinian is a little bit interested in you and willing to let you, if Song Lang who changed his temper, maybe he would have kicked it a long time ago.

  Furthermore, Xiao Yiran can also see that since Xiao Nanjia and Sun Rui’s marriage began to talk, Shen Sinian has not been so enthusiastic about Xiao Nanjia. After all, Shen Sinian, who can become the heir of the Shen family, is not just a licking dog, knowing that you are boring to yourself and you still want to saddle you if you are engaged to someone else?

  Unfortunately, Xiao Nanjia has a pair of big eyes, but he can't see the situation clearly.

   "Third princes, the Nagar family wants to marry the princess to you?" Song Lang asked curiously.

  The smile on Xiao Yiran's face froze, and he coughed lightly: "This...no, the Nagas look down on me."

  Song Lang raised his eyebrows with interest, but Leng Sa had some eyebrows, "Is it the second prince?"

  It should be impossible to say that the Nagas do not look down on Xiao Yiran. It is impossible for the Nagas to not know that Xiao Yiran is the de facto crown prince. It can only be that Xiao Yiran does not want to marry Princess Naga.

  Also, the price-performance ratio for and relatives is too low these years.

  If it is Moro or Dayin, which is close to Anxia, ​​even some small countries around it are easy to say, Naga is a little too far away. Of course, whether the royal family wants to stay steadily or want to restore its old glory, it is not a good choice to be with princesses and relatives of other countries.

  The warlords and even the cabinet will naturally hostile and pro-princesses, and regard them as the royal family wanting to introduce external forces to provoke them.

  Long Yue said: "I remember the second prince got married?"

   Lou Lanzhou nodded and said, "Indeed, but this is not a problem."

  It’s not that divorce is impossible these days, and now the prince and concubine are not a promising career, and compensation can still be settled.

  In addition, although the royal family now also advocates monogamy, it has not completely abolished the concubine system. It's just that no certificate can be obtained except for the wife, but it is still possible as long as the royal family approves it.

  Xiao Yiran was a little helpless, "Can you guys talk so far ahead and they are all invisible things, just mentioned to Uncle Mu just now. By the way, why did you know so quickly?"

  Xiao Yiran looked at everyone with some suspicion, wondering whose information is so well-informed?

Others unceremoniously betrayed Fu Fengcheng, and the eyes of the third prince flashed suddenly, "Fu Da, you have news inside Nagar? Then do you know what they plan to do? Everyone is their own, provide some news Well."

   Fu Fengcheng glanced at him indifferently, "You think too much, I just said casually."

   "..." Do you say that you are like a talking person?

  Lou Lanzhou tilted her head and looked at Zhang Huizhi who was joking with Princess Leia in the distance, raised her eyebrows and said, "Anyway...at least, Naga has differences, right?"

  Otherwise, it won’t appear. The powerful party tried their best to show favor to the Anxia royal family, but the second prince went directly over them and introduced Princess Leia to Zhang Huizhi.

   Obviously, Zhang Jingzhi is valued more than the royal family Naga.

  Of course, if Fu Fengcheng is not married, Carlos is more likely to choose Fu Fengcheng.

Xiao Yiran lowered his voice and said, "Naga has not been peaceful in the past two years, and the nobles are a little dissatisfied with the king's sole power. King Naga is not a tough person. The Wang brother's rebellion at the beginning of last year has shaken his prestige. With Carlos pressed, this time the Five Congresses may have to be postponed."

   Lou Lanzhou raised his eyebrows, "The Naga royal family wants to win over the power of Anxia, ​​and can be their help if necessary, even if it is only symbolic. The dignitaries of Naga hope to marry the princess to the royal family, so..."

  The Anxia royal family can’t help the Naga, and it can eliminate the royal family’s bargaining chip in marriage, and it can also give the Naga royal a good reminder.

  Do you think that the Anxia royal family has no power and power, and it is also going well?

  Of course, this cannot be said in front of the third prince.

  Long Yue raised his eyebrows and looked at Fu Fengcheng, "Which side do you bet on?"

   Fu Fengcheng raised his eyes and glanced at him, "Carlos."

  Long Yue didn’t care, and nodded, “Okay, then Carlos.” ​​Turning to look at the others, Song Lang lazily shook the glass in his hand, “Follow.”

  Zhang Jingzhi and Lou Lanzhou looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

  Yue Li and Shen Sinian looked at each other, shrugged and said that you played too high-end, we don’t understand, just follow the trend and you decide.

  Xiao Yiran sighed, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, "I let Uncle Mu drag the Nagas, are you sure Carlos can win?"

  Fu Fengcheng Road, "70% possible."

  Xiao Yiran nodded, "It's done!" There is no future in negotiating terms with the loser. The current situation in Anxia does not allow them to intervene in disputes with other countries, so they can only choose the winning side to bet.

  As everyone talked, the courtesy officer announced loudly that His Majesty the King had arrived.

  The people who had gathered together to speak all stood up to greet them to show their respect to the king.

  The King of Nagar indeed seemed to be a very kind person with no airs. He wore a magnificent dress and came in surrounded by the attendants, and did not forget to greet the guests along the way.

  The king walked all the way to the front of the banquet hall and gave a welcome speech with a smile on his face. After a toast with the guests, he announced the official start of the banquet.

  The band played the music again, and the banquet hall, which had just become a little solemn due to the arrival of the king, became happy and peaceful again.

  (End of this chapter)