Chapter 401: Plenty of money

A great dynasty, the Wei people set off an uproar in Beiliang.

Frustrated Qu Muqian's halfway out of the group, pretending to be sick all the way, and climbing and biting Li Shun, who was unfortunately attacked by leopards and suffered from hydrophobia, etc., have all become the targets of his attacks.

With the help of people with a heart, Fuqu Muqian once offended the noble children of Pingcheng in the plum garden of Wei State just to establish his authority, and as a result, the fact that he was severely humiliated and beaten by Hua Mulan and couldn't take care of himself was also exposed.

All at once it dawned on everyone.

It turned out that he was sick all the way because he was beaten to half by Mulan, and I am afraid that the temporary departure from the group is also an excuse for fear and hatred of Mulan.

The "facts" in this world are originally the more you cover up, the more mistakes you make, not to mention that what you said is not the truth at all, and it is normal to cause such a result.

Just when the good deeds of the frustrated canal and the herdsman were spreading, Gu Zang gave birth to a few more things, which caused people to talk about it.

First, the generation from Zhangye to Dunhuang has been in drought this year, so that there is no grain harvest, and the people have repeatedly rioted.

On the second day after the Wei envoys arrived in Beiliang, the lord of Fuqu Mengxun ordered relief to transport grain and grass from the eastern cities to the west for disaster relief, and sent a 3,000-strong escort to prevent mobs and horse thieves from looting grain and grass along the road.

In this disaster relief, Xingping Gong in the palace took the initiative to donate their fat powder money to many concubines in the harem, as well as some ornaments without royal insignia, and used these money to entrust the inner government to gather some food and send it to Dunhuang to help the old, weak, sick and disabled.

As soon as this move came out, there was a lot of discussion.

Because Princess Xingping was not a woman with political means before, and rarely acted in a high-profile manner in the deep palace, before she was named "Princess Xingping", people didn't even know that Fuqu Shana was the first princess.

Some people think that this is a play for the envoys of Wei State, and some praise this princess for her kindness, no matter what, the good reputation of the people has spread, and now they praise her as "Bodhisattva Princess".

The State of Wei is also happy to see it, and it is a good thing for the State of Wei to have a princess with a good reputation as a concubine.

The second thing is that Li Jingai, the princess of Fuqu Muqian, was proclaimed to be admitted to Beijing and presided over the marriage as the maiden family of Princess Xingping.

It stands to reason that Princess Xingping's marriage will not be the turn of this third sister-in-law, but unfortunately her two sisters-in-law are widows, and the blessing is not enough, and the second sister-in-law has already practiced for the nun, and her mother's position is low.

The royal family and nobles of Beiliang have great respect for this woman, in addition to her beautiful appearance and outstanding literary talents, the greater reason is because she represents the belonging of the remnants of Xiliang.

Last year, Dunhuang rebelled, and Fuqu Mengxun was named Fuqu Muqian and Dunhuang Taishou, and Li Jingai traveled back and forth between Jiuquan and Dunhuang several times to persuade the remnants of Xiliang to give up resistance.

The second is because she is out of the mud and not stained, and she has not been taken by the entire Beiliang royal family to be profligate and presumptuous, and even, the frustrated Qu Muqian only dares to come to Guzang Hulai, and after returning to Jiuquan, it has always been a rule, and the remnants of Xiliang left behind in Dunhuang respect this princess very much, and there is often no good end to anyone who laughs or disrespects this princess.

Combined with the fact that Fuqu Muqian had returned to China but no one knew about it, many people in Beiliang believed that Li Jingai should have been summoned as a reason to divert everyone's attention.

The outside world is boiling, and the palace of Beiliang is also in chaos.

When Fuqu Muqian pulled out Li Shun, Fuqu Mengxun really couldn't save the situation, so he had to suddenly "faint" on the main hall, and a chaos covered up the next thing, and even made the envoys of the Northern Wei Dynasty be invited out of the palace in the past few days and lived in Guzang's embassy, and no one could touch the news in the Changming Palace.

No one knows what the situation of Fuqu Mengxun is, Fuqu Muqian stayed in the palace to "serve the sick", He Mulan's original purpose was not really to force Fuqu Muqian, at this time, he also accepted it when he saw it, and stayed in the embassy to wait for news.

Changming Palace.

"How's it going? Who is it?" Since the disappearance of the eunuch who summoned the eunuch of Fuqu Mujian, the palace attendants have been busy for several days, checking the situation of the new official's old days.

These eunuchs have followed Fuqu Mengxun for many years, and they have always been loyal, and everyone is articulate, and they can also do some martial arts, Fuqu Mengxun is not a person who treats his subordinates harshly, the eunuchs in the palace want to go to his side when they squeeze their heads, so much a big wave has been washed for more than ten years, and all those left behind are trustworthy candidates with loyalty and ability.

Unexpectedly, these trustworthy candidates almost tore their faces to Wei and Liang today.

"I didn't find anything, they are all cautious people, they don't even have a discord with each other on weekdays, and they have little contact with all parties." Several royal servants have been checking for a few days without sleep, and the palace people don't know how many have been arrested, and the news they got is equivalent to nothing.

"Only Wang Liu has been in and out of the eldest lady of the East Palace a few times, but he has always been ordered by His Majesty to send things to the eldest lady, and none of them have passed a quarter of an hour."

"There is no need to suspect that Da Li is there, she can't leave the house at all."

Frustrated, Meng Xun waved his hand irritably.

Da Li is dissolute by nature, and has a bewitching appearance, which has long been a taboo for several men of the Fuqu royal family, she knows that she has a bad reputation, and she is ridiculed a lot when she goes out, she has not been socialized for a long time, and she doesn't go out much at all, and she doesn't have any ambitions in politics at all.

"What about the Queen? Is there any movement on the Queen's side?"

Frustrated Meng Xun thought that Empress Meng's brain hurt even more, he didn't dare to imagine if he had always been open-minded or said that it didn't matter. [,! Once Meng Shi has an opinion about him, how should he live this day.

How many guards in the Changming Palace have martial arts taught by the Meng family.

All princes were cared for by this queen when they were young.

Even if she designed the frustration and shepherd, I'm afraid that his son would not dare to bare his teeth.

"I don't think it's Her Royal Highness." One of the guards bowed his head and said boldly; "The queen has been hunting in the imperial garden for the past few days, and she doesn't care about the affairs of the previous dynasty."

The palace of Beiliang is too chaotic, in addition to protecting her son Bodhi, Queen Meng is thinking about distraction in the palace, she does not believe in Buddhism, nor does she believe in religion, and she even cares very little about the affairs of the harem, which is considered an outlier in Beiliang.

If she hadn't saved Frustrated Mengxun three or four times, I'm afraid that this queen would have been removed from the throne long ago.

"Is it possible that the ...... of the Heavenly King's faction" Prime Minister Song Xuan knew that Fuqu Muqian was not the "Heavenly King" candidate selected by the "Heavenly King Faction", and Fuqu Mengxun had offended many people because of his refusal to completely implement the "Heavenly King System", and felt that it might be a demonstration and warning from Buddhism, so he asked this question.

"I'm afraid I'm afraid it's over there......"

Frustrated Meng Xun couldn't help but feel dizzy.

"If you can't bear it over there, it's really troublesome."

"The king should take care of his jade body." Song Miao saw that Meng Xun was suddenly frustrated, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him. With Princess Xingping around, at least Liangguo will be safe for a few years. As long as the king and the third prince can settle down, Buddhism appeases the people, and the Han people govern the place, how can they be afraid of the iron horses of the Wei State?"

"Don't comfort me, my Da Liang has reached the point of life and death, and if I don't go well, I won't have a few years at all." Frustrated Meng Xun shook his head. It's useless to continue to investigate like this, so I'll go to the queen."

"The King's ......"

Song Miao wanted to speak and stopped, not knowing how to speak.

"Don't worry, although the queen has a strong temperament, we have been married for decades, and she won't really do anything."

Frustrated Meng Xun smiled, patted the prime minister's shoulder, and drove to the middle palace.

The three sons born by Empress Meng are all people who are both civil and military, all because of Empress Meng's martial arts group. Twenty years ago, the eunuch Wang Huaizu sneaked to the Mengxun dormitory in the middle of the night and suddenly assassinated, the king of Beiliang was unprepared, and was stabbed in the foot.

Empress Meng's father is the leader of the White Horse Qiang in the Western Regions, the grandmaster of swordsmanship, and the brothers of Empress Meng are all in the army, but when the Meng brothers talk about their own martial arts, they all say that this sister is the real heir of the family who inherited her father's mantle.

When he was still the son of the chief, he heard about Meng's martial bravery, so he went through the test and asked to marry back to Meng, and then fought for many years Meng's never gave up, and on the battlefield Fuqu Mengxun fell into danger many times, relying on Meng's best efforts to rescue.

The merits of the Meng family are really killed with the king's companion, and what is even more respectable is that this family is not good for fame and fortune, and the Meng family only continued to serve as a general in the army after becoming the king of Liang, and had no interest in the disputes and conflicts between the government and the opposition.

There is a great reason why the two brothers, Fuqu Xingguo and Fuqu Zhengde, were able to lead the army to fight in the east and west, and set up the name of both civil and military, and the strong support of the mother family in the army.

And Fuqu Muqian was taught by Han celebrities since he was a child, and he was a well-known virtuous king in the Western Regions, but this kind of virtuous name is really inferior to the name of martial arts for the Hu people who advocate heroes.

Doesn't Fuqu Muqian want to be "both civil and military"? He is also a burly man, if he has no pursuit of martial arts, he will not take the risk of cheating in the plum garden.

But it is really impossible for him to achieve the goal he pursues in the Northern Liang Army, and the concubines of the two queens of Fuqu Zhengde and Fuqu Xingguo have long occupied the reputation that they deserve, and no matter how much he catches up, he can't catch up with the two brothers who have a congenital advantage.

can only retreat to the next best thing and achieve his reputation as a "virtuous king" first.

Sending away Fuqu Mengxun, Song Miao also went out of the palace and returned home under the escort of the palace people.

Before leaving Changming Palace, he turned around and glanced at the courtyard wall in the palace again.

He was the first person to realize that Fuqu Mengxun actually belonged to Fuqu Muqian, so he recommended his brother to Fuqu Muqian's side as a strategist.

But this qiē is based on the fact that Empress Meng had no intention of fighting for the throne for her son.

Fuqu Zhengde is dead, Fuqu Xingguo is dead, Fuqu Bodhi is only seven years old, as long as this queen knows to take care of the overall situation, no matter how much the foreign minister plans for Bodhi, Fuqu Mengxun's edict can change a qiē.

Pity......

"Hey, if Empress Meng is a person to be provoked, why is the wall down now that everyone is pushing ......" Song Miao sighed.

"This day, it looks like it's going to change."

Beiliang Embassy.

On the grounds of "being unwell and having no time to receive him", the lord of the Liang State was frustrated with Meng Xun, and let the Wei envoys who stayed in the palace on the day of the night banquet live in the embassy, which was not unexpected by the Wei people.

It was not suitable for the ministers to live in the palace, and on the day of the night banquet, it may be to let everyone see Princess Xingping to act like that, but when it really came to the stage of sending relatives, the people of Liang did not necessarily want the people of Wei to live in the palace and spy on them from time to time.

Beiliang is located in the important place of Hexi, the envoys and merchants of the two places do not know much, the embassy is more magnificent than that of Pingcheng, and even in order to take into account the taste and customs of the envoys from all over the world, the embassy has been built into many styles of other courtyards, each of which has a translator belonging to the style of the courtyard, Langzhong, cooks and other servants.

As far as comfort is concerned, the Wei people even think that the embassy is stronger than the palace

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Moreover, the courtiers of Beiliang have realized that this group of Wei people may be an important object to interfere with the selection of the next Liang king, especially the officials of the Jiuquan faction and the Dunhuang faction behind the Fuqu Muqian, and they are actively trying to repair the relationship between Wei and the Fuqu Muqian.

Even all the entourage around the envoy gained a lot of benefits, just because these officials wanted to inquire about the preferences and character of the envoy, and some got a dozen taels of gold, and some of them got at least a few taels.

These officials have spent a lot of money for the future candidates and the current allegiance of the masters.

Most of the supporters of Fuqu Bodhi were generals in the army, and the way to deal with the envoys of Wei was to come to "learn martial arts" and go directly to He Mulan.

He Mulan's body is too yang, the master of compassion once built yì she tried to consume her body every day, many of the generals of Beiliang have real skills, and the generals of the Tiger Ben Army continue to learn every day, which can be regarded as reaching the "instructions" of the master of compassion, and the name of He Mulan's martial arts and courage has also spread.

She is currently fighting more than 20 battles, not a defeat, many of her generals are also more victorious and less defeated, although there are also reasons why the Beiliang people dare not really kill the killer, but since ancient times, "there is no second martial arts", where can they really take care of so much, under this competition, the Beiliang people are frightened day by day, I am afraid that the Wei State Iron Cavalry is all at this level, and the day of the death of the country is not far away.

It is precisely because of these open and secret battles that the envoys of Wei have lived a very successful life, and the Wenchen has people who like him every day, chanting poems against each other, and occasionally a pair of beautiful orchids;

The generals have people to learn every day, demonstrate the art of war, and there are more famous BMW weapons to send each other, and it is not happy to cross the horse and parade the streets.

Even Hermulan and his group, who have always been accustomed to diao, have been red in the eyes of this prosperous life, and they don't know how to turn back after moving from thrift to luxury.

"General, there are good things again!" The elated Chen Jie pulled the Tiger Benjun guards and carried a few huge round melons in and placed them in the center of the hall.

"General, it was sent from the palace, it was brought by a merchant from Persia in the west, called Bogua, it was hot and bad all the way, only so much can be eaten, except for General Yuan and a few envoys, King Liang sent it to you."

He Mulan had just sent off a military general, and he was sweating, when he saw a basket of emerald green watermelons with patterns being brought in, he was suddenly shocked, and tears were about to fall.

Who can understand her tragedy! Traveling to the present, the fruits eaten all day and night are dates, plums, apricots and the like, once His Majesty Xià gave "courgette", she thought it was watermelon or cantaloupe, but the thing came to see it.

I rub the class! Isn't it just a few poorly nourished cucumbers?

There are only a few kinds of vegetables, and the staple food is the tasteless Hu cake and various bean rice.

There are a total of seven kinds of beans that Wei can cook, seven kinds of Ah Hey! No one knows the difference except the cook, and a meal of bean rice can be eaten for a night's fart.

Rice is a rare thing, husked and not husked together, wheat flour can choke to death, chestnut rice is eaten too much and is not digested, and the planting method of all vegetables is "dung and water", so that He Mulan, who has seen how to grow vegetables several times, is almost meatless and unhappy.

Since arriving in Beiliang, there are countless kinds of vegetables and fruits every day, and it is said that most of the rare goods brought back by Zhang Qian through the Western Regions are now in the Southern Dynasty, because the Hu people in the north are not good at breeding and cultivating, and He Mulan also went to Beiliang to really see a variety of common fruits in later generations.

"General, why are you in tears?" Mangu was taken aback, "Could it be that there is something wrong with these boguas?"

"No problem, no problem, okay very!"

He Mulan fished a watermelon from the basket and patted it expertly.

Hmm, it's empty and floating, and it feels good.

Bang, it's a ripe melon.

"Bring the knife!"

He Mulan reached for the knife.

"This one has to be eaten as much as possible, it's going to be bad."

"Huh? King Liang also gave us the melons that are about to spoil?" Chen Jie muttered as he took out a knife that he had already prepared. These days they open many different kinds of melons, and the knife is almost always with them.

He Mulan waved his arm to cut the watermelon in half, then again, and then again, evenly divided into eight equal parts, and took the lead in taking out a piece of "boldly" and gnawed it.

The familiar sweetness entered the mouth, although some overripe taste affected the taste, and the melon pulp was also sandy and not crispy, but He Mulan still ate it and was satisfied.

Everyone saw that He Mulan was happy to eat, and one took a slice, and gnawed one by one as if eating ginseng fruit, and they couldn't wait to lick the melon skin again.

"It's delicious, it's so sweet!"

Gai Wu actually has a sweet tooth, and he eats the most these days.

"What are these black ones?" Yuan Fang noticed something else, and spit out one from his mouth and spit it in the palm of his hand, "It's a melon seed?"

Chen Jie, Mangu and the others didn't even bother to vomit the seeds when they ate them, Na Luo Hun even gnawed the melon skin, He Mulan was the first to eat it, nodded after eating it three or two times, opened another melon, and nodded as if he was not sure.

"It should be melon seeds."

They had eaten a lot of melons before, and He Mulan would pick melons without eyesight, but it would be strange to see how often they ate them.

Yuan Fang is a businessman, and when he heard it, he shouted: "Don't swallow it for me!" Spit out all the melon seeds! "

Mangu was in a hurry to eat, and was choked by Yuan Fang's yelling.

"Ahem...... What the! It's scared to death! "

"There are melon seeds that mean you can plant them! This melon came from Persia, and even the king of Liang sent the almost bad one to entertain guests, which can be seen that it is not very common. [,! See, these melon seeds are left to take back, maybe they can grow melons and sell them! "

Yuan Fang picked up the seeds that had been spit on the ground one by one.

"The general is so poor now, it would be good to buy some land to run it. It's rare to come to the cool land, is it true that you can get some gold and silver like those envoys and go back?"

Yuan Fang clenched his fists.

"The cool country is full of treasures! We just picked up the baby...... Ouch! Who is plotting against me! "

Zheng Zong gnawed half of the melon and spit it on Yuan Fang's face.

"Hehe, it's not me plotting against you, I'm persuading you to eat a few more bites......"

He smirked and pointed at the others.

Hearing Yuan Fang's "great exhibition", the rest of the people took the opportunity to quickly gnaw on the watermelon, and they didn't mean to leave a piece for Yuan Fang at all, but fortunately, they all listened to Yuan Fang's words, and spit out the melon seeds to the ground while gnawing, which was not considered to be swallowing dates.

"It's easy to say, but I'm afraid it's not that easy." He Mulan muttered while eating: "After I go back, the melon seeds are probably dry, I don't know if they can sprout. I don't know how to grow these melons, and I'm afraid that those Persian merchants also bought them on the road and don't know how to grow them."

"Zhang Qian brought back so many seeds from the Western Regions, could he plant them?" Yuan Fang hurriedly grabbed a piece of melon and copied it in his hand, "One of the envoys who came with him is from Nongcao, I'll ask when I go back."

"Hey, from today onwards, don't swallow all the seeds of melons and fruits, you know!" Yuan Fang saw that no one paid attention to him, so he hurriedly shouted: "Now it's gone after eating, and you can only eat it if you can grow it when you go back!" I can't say that we will be famous in history because of these melons and fruits in the future! "

"Come on!"

"You're crazy about money!"

"I'll leave it for you later, you can eat it quickly!"

A group of people were gnawing melons together, and after a while, a merchant from the Western Regions or an official from Beiliang sent something new.

The merchants of the Western Regions came to protect some merchants when they heard that the mission was coming, and wanted to make some connections and wait for the mission to return and go together, while the officials of Beiliang were brushing up friendship for their masters.

He Mulan had spoken to the mission before, and he would not refuse anyone who came, and all the envoys were really comfortable with Hemulan, eating and holding it, and no one was left behind.

Something was brought in, a basket of walnuts, a few melons, and some fruits and vegetables that even Hermulan couldn't name.

"I know this." Gai Wu picked out a few walnuts from the basket and smashed them with the handle of a knife, "There is also a kind in Qinzhong, it is a Qiang peach."

Walnuts were passed to the Ganshan generation during the period of Zhang Qiantong's Western Regions, but there were not many people who planted them, and they were called Qiang peaches because they came from the Gansu generation.

If it weren't for Gai Wu's demonstration, everyone wouldn't know how to eat this ugly thing, and when they saw that Gai Wu was going to knock it open with the handle of a knife, they immediately held the walnuts one by one and looked at He Mulan with blank eyes.

Seeing this, He Mulan reached into the basket and took out a handful of slightly forced, the stunt of "breaking walnuts with no hands" moved, Yuan Fang was prepared, took out a clean square scarf from his arms, wrapped the broken walnuts in it, and a group of people knelt on the spot and began to twist walnuts to eat.

"This day is really beautiful, no wonder His Majesty wants to fight Beiliang...... Na Luo Hun ate the sweet and crisp walnuts, watched He Mulan skillfully throw away the clothes in the walnuts, and picked out the brain kernels to get rid of them, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"The general looks very skilled?! Have you eaten it before?"

"Speaking of which, yesterday's Youtan bowl is also very easy for the general to eat."

Chen Jie shouted.

What a good bowl, it's a fig!

Hermulan wanted to roll her eyes.

"And grapes! The general will spit out the grape skin when he eats grapes! "

He nearly choked to death.

"Eat the melon!"

"Saying that purple melon is a vegetable that can't be eaten directly is also a general!"

Hey, hey, that's eggplant!

Have you ever seen an eggplant eaten raw?

A group of people looked at He Mullan after gossiping, staring at He Mullan sweating, and the whole person stiffened and didn't know how to explain.

It's over, they won't be wearing themselves!

You won't suspect her!

"Lord, in fact, you are the illegitimate son (daughter) of a nobleman, don't you hide it!"

Yuan Fang has always felt that He Mulan's bearing is not like that of a rude military family.

"General, did you eat a lot of food alone from us in Changming Palace!"

Chen Jie's eyes were full of tears.

Woo woo, our general doesn't love us anymore, and he eats secretly!

"General Hua, Your Majesty is really kind to you, I have only heard many things, but I have never seen them, could it be that you have already been given them in the palace?"

Zheng Zong thought more normally, but the eyes of worship pierced He Mulan and he was about to go blind.

He Mulan, who had raised his throat in one breath, instantly breathed a sigh of relief, slowly picked up a pomegranate and broke it with a dagger, grabbed a handful and stuffed it in his mouth.

"I really didn't eat alone, heaven and earth can learn from ......"

Hermulan chewed inarticulately.

"You think it's easy for me to eat, probably because I have a special knack for eating."

All:......

Believe you're a ghost!