Chapter Seventy-three 

The trader bought Zhang Qubing and the rest of the remaining group to see Tai De Liu. At first, Zhang Qubing instinct was screaming at him not to get close to Tai De Liu and his instinct was spot on. As time passed by, Zhang Qubing had slowly built up his empire in Taixi using the influence of Tai De Liu. And thus, was able to search for information on his childhood in Taixi and why he landed so far away from his hometown in the far away land of Tai Ping.

As Tai De Liu was seriously powerful to the state of nearing able to take over Taixi, Zhang Qubing easily built up his empire in Taixi. As how Tai De Liu was powerful, the opposite end was how Tai De Liu did not bother taking care of his family unless the family member show himself or herself to be of great use to him. Zhang Qubing only maintain contact with Tai De Liu is just to make use of his name to build his empire in this foreign land. No matter what as Zhang Qubing know that in order not to disappoint Ying Zetian and go back to Tai Ping with an empty hand, he need to tolerate Tai De Liu. And up to the day, Zhang Qubing left the foreign lands for the hometown in his heart, Tai Ping, he never mentioned staying permanently in Taixi or going back to the Tai family.

As Zhang Qubing had information of how a concubine of Tai De Liu had caused the death of his mother, the original wife and sell him to human slave traders. And in fact, this particular concubine was now even officially the wife of Tai De Liu. Zhang Qubing even smile at Ying Zetian when he recalls of him stealing the ashes of his mother from the Tai family home and Tai De Liu did not even give a dang about it.

Zhang Qubing then told Ying Zetian of the details of the lands of Taixi, Daqin and Tianzhu and the empire he built there. In another words, Zhang Qubing told Ying Zetian, he had already successfully built a trade route for her from these three foreign countries in preparation for her when she takes over Tai Ping. Zhang Qubing had also pretended to be a Taixi person so he could explore of the ways from Taixi, Daqin and Tianzhu to reach Tai Ping, Rouran and You Ye.

Zhang Qubing also mentioned that he had bought his best people from Taixi, Daqin and Tianzhu back with him in hopes of helping Ying Zetian. Zhang Qubing then mentioned at how he had come from the direction of You Ye and was in fact going back to Changan. It was lucky that Zhang Qubing first thing that he did when he was back in Tai Ping was to search for the location of Ying Zetian. And that is why Zhang Qubing had appeared in Changping. Zhang Qubing knew Ying Zetian well, so he mentioned that he did successfully assassinate the murderer of his mother, only leaving his father as he was still useful to them at the moment. Zhang Qubing also mentioned of the fact that he will spend his time in Changping drawing down of the lands he sees and especially the details of the plot of land between You Ye and the three foreign countries. Ying Zetian then took the hint that was in Zhang Qubing eyes and start to mention the details of her past nine years that her elder brother was not around her.