"The Heike family has already been defeated, and they can't even hold the Heian capital and have fled to Kyushu Island, although they have gathered all the sea ships of western Japan in the Seto Inland Sea, and are ready to return to the capital after a decisive battle, but if this naval battle fails, the small lord of Antoku on their ship may have only one way to jump into the sea and sink himself-"

She sighed softly and told Rui Niang that the rebellious lords of Eastern Japan had already set up a new emperor in the occupied Heian capital.

"Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Fusang people have not claimed to be vassals in Middle Earth, but now the Ping clan suddenly sent Shibu Cheng to the ship of the Great Song Dynasty envoy and invited them to land, just to use external forces to add another layer of bargaining chips to this decisive game."

She didn't know if Lou Yun, the envoy of the Great Song Kingdom, could see the mystery in this.

It's just that he must be suspicious, so the fleet will stop five miles away and not enter, and suddenly set up a state banquet under the moon.

"Big lady, did Third Brother Ji find out that the Seto Inland Sea was full of warships, and even the inland merchant ships of the Fuso maritime merchants were requisitioned, so he didn't go to rob them? Instead, he went to the East China Sea ......"

Ji Ruiniang finally figured out the twists and turns, but she was puzzled again, quietly looked at Ji Qingchen, and asked in a low voice:

"That'...... That third brother wanted to take advantage of the Fusang people's own war to grab a few pieces of land, so that the brothers in the workshop could start a family, can't it......"

“……”

Surprised, she looked sideways at the child.

You must know that the prohibition of marriage with Fusang people and the prohibition of confusing bloodlines are the rules of the workshop that are discussed in the workshop, and it is also her insistence on the same principle in the face of Saburo's request to invade Fusang and change her surname and name.

Others may not know. But this kid must understand.

"But, didn't the eldest lady say—"

Ji Ruiniang was a little timid by her, but she still whispered,

"This rule was set because of the situation that the uncles and uncles in the north and south squares would not quarrel, do business together, and get along well with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, if the situation changed. The rules can also be changed...... I...... I think that's changed now. ”

“…… You're right. ”

She smiled wryly. Even this kid is not convinced, let alone Ji Chenhu.

Fortunately, this half a year. So that she has collected enough news about the civil strife in Fusang, and has also arranged a plan to relocate the villagers, she has even more reasons to convince Ji Chenhu.

"This civil strife came too quickly, and Saburo's riding and archery skills can't reassure me......"

The car has already walked out of Zhongfang Street. Driving in the direction of the old street, behind the Ji family's small courtyard is her inner library workshop.

"If you think about it, although the Heike family was born on the sea of Kyushu Island, they also had decades of accumulation in Heian Capital, but they still lost on land. It was only after being driven to the Seto Inland Sea that I barely stood on my feet, and most of the more than 3,000 people in our workshop had never even seen horses, and they risked their lives to fight in order to snatch a woman as a wife-"

Thinking about those ten-year-old young students in Nanfang. She shook her head,

"We are not Fuso natives. We rely on the concerted efforts of 30,000 people to survive in this foreign country, and to have food and clothing, even if we are injured and die, where can I afford it in Tangfang? ”

Ji Ruiniang suddenly shut up when she thought that her brother Ji Dalei was not married, and maybe he would also go to the battlefield, and there would inevitably be a danger of death and injury.

"San Lang wants to set up his own door, this is a good thing, why don't I want to do what he wants? Put the inner library and the grange in his hands, let him ask for food, money, and money, plus the firearms, crossbow arrows, armor, and trebuchets that have been imitated in the workshop, if he only needs a few pieces of land to accommodate him, and I and Erlang help him, he may not necessarily change his surname to ......."

She was still talking to Ji Ruiniang, but later, it gradually turned into muttering,

"But he can't even fill in the accounts of his own clothing and food, and most of the people under his hands are trying to be happy in front of him, and there is no long-term plan, so he takes this group of people out to fight, I am afraid that they will not be out of the workshop for a few days, and they will all become a group of rogues who rob houses and houses......"

What worries her even more is that if San Lang's madness attacks again, there will be no Master Kongming to diagnose his pulse now, and there will be no old warrior monk who didn't even have the Dharma name left to help him adjust his disordered internal breath.

She told in such detail, at the beginning she was still teaching Xiao Rui Niang, but later she was already whispering to herself, Xiao Rui'er only heard two or three intermittent words with her ears pricked up, and only felt that her palms were slightly cold.

She grabbed the eldest lady's hand and looked up at her worriedly.

As if because he felt her gaze, Ji Qingchen lowered his head, looking at the girl's white and delicate face in the moonlight, and in her big eyes, the half-grown child was particularly frightened and worried.

She couldn't help but think of the more than 1,000 Tangfang women outside the fang, driving pointy fishing boats, lighting fishing fires, and laughing with the neighbors and sisters cooking home-cooked fish porridge, spending this long night......

She is willing to see them learn the customs of the Great Song Dynasty people, and in addition to their usual work and exercises, they also freely organize various clubs such as the Bow and Arrow Society, the Herbal Medicine Society, the Musical Instrument Society, the Formation Society, the Dance Club, the Embroidery Society, the Pearl Diving Society, and even the Crossbow Machine Society, which not only entertain themselves, but also strengthen their bodies and increase their knowledge.

But she never thought that one day she would let them go to the battlefield without being directly attacked by Tang Fang.

"Big lady, do you really want to reconcile with Wang Gangshou?"

Ji Ruiniang hesitated, wanting to ask something.

She clearly remembered that half a year ago, the eldest lady also inquired about the eight maritime business leaders in Fujian from the Chen family of Quanzhou, who had come to propose marriage, and inquired about the more than 3,200 Fujian maritime merchants in Fujian who took the Nanyang sea route under their command.

The eldest lady also once asked whether these Fujian maritime merchants had the habit of marrying the foreigners, and she even remembered that the eldest lady also asked them at that time whether the Fujian people had moved to a nearby place called Ryukyu, and the eldest lady also called it the matter of clearing the wasteland on the island of Taiwan.

Just like when she asked Zuo Ping just now.

It's just that at that time, the eldest lady and the Fujian maritime merchants were friends and enemies at all, and the questioning with the Chen family steward was more of a side knock, rather than a straightforward confrontation with Zuo Ping like today, so she didn't understand it at the time.

If it weren't for the fact that she was listening to it this time, she wouldn't have suddenly figured out that the eldest lady had moved back to the Great Song Dynasty half a year ago when she said goodbye to the Chen family in Quanzhou. The plan to marry the Song people.

So she Xiaorui Niang finally figured out that Tangfang had a population of 30,000, and even she knew that it was impossible to move to the Great Song Dynasty in one go......

The eldest lady is still very wary of the Fusang merchants in Xifang, there are so many old and young people in their fang, which government of the Great Song Dynasty would dare to let them all stay?

It's just that the eldest lady must have been prepared.

"Big lady, ...... on Fujian Road"

She asked quietly. Ji Qingchen has always liked her quick mind. Then he also smiled:

"You can't put all your chips on Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

The ox cart walked slowly along the moonlit stone path uphill. After passing the small courtyard of the Ji family, we drove in the direction of Neiku.

The Watergate Wharf behind the inner library is leading to the Zhuma Temple.

Ji Qingchen didn't mention much about moving people back to the Great Song Dynasty in the future, but just smiled:

"Wang Gangshou is this person. If you are too stubborn and stubborn, sometimes you will lose your favor. Even if he didn't mention whether he was greedy for the new and hated the old or fell in love at first sight, he regretted his marriage with me, even if he was all for the sake of national affairs and the Northern Expedition - he could regret his marriage for the Northern Expedition. Wouldn't he have sold all of Tangfang to outsiders for the Northern Expedition? Moreover, if the war in Fusang continues like this, sooner or later the Fuso people will begin to forcibly requisition and rob Tangfang's manpower, cargo and food. Naturally, I have to think more about the way out......"

Xiao Ruiniang nodded as if she didn't understand, and tried to express her worries. Road:

"The eldest lady is right, there are a lot of children in the workshop, we have to bring our grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters to the Great Song Dynasty, Jiangsu and Zhejiang must not be able to live, right? Big lady, is there ten Tang Fangs so big in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? ”

She tried her best to recall the map she saw in the big lady's house, but she still couldn't intuitively imagine the map of the Great Song Liangzhejiang Road the size of a tea cup, and the Tang Fang with just a small dot.

"It's a lot more than ten Tang Fang."

Ji Qingchen laughed, and didn't explain to her immediately, just smiled,

"Even the Taiwan island on the other side of the Fujian Sea is bigger than ten Tangfang."

Xiao Rui'er knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she turned her head shyly, quietly opened the curtain of the car, and looked at the end of the stone road.

In the depths of the inner library where the sky and the earth are connected, the tall Liuwa gatehouse and the lotus stone pillar are the Tang style buildings of the old Honglu Museum 500 years ago.

Five hundred years ago, the nineteen Tang envoys once lived in the pavilion hall and pavilion have been repaired several times, at this time it has been abandoned, only a few barely able to repair the palace was bought by Tang Fang, and rebuilt into the residence of Wuzhu, Nukou, and the northern escape from the Han craftsmen.

Seeing the approach of the ox cart and the firelight, the five women who had been waiting for a long time in front of the gatehouse slowly greeted them.

"Big lady, the boat is ready."

The witches of South Kyushu Island seem to have walked out of the ancient darkness, and their foreheads are the same as the leader Ji's mother, using grass juice to describe the evil charm diagram, and the moonlight falls on the dark green zigzag runes, reflecting the fierceness of the fierce beasts in the desolate jungle.

"What about Xu Qi Niang?" She lifted the curtain and looked at Ji's mother.

Because Ji Chenhu couldn't come back, she originally wanted to take Xu Qi Niangzi to Zhuma Temple, and let her put a pillar of incense on behalf of San Lang to the old Zen Master Kongming, and she had already instructed Ji's mother in advance to let her take Xu Qi to wait for her here.

Ji Ruiniang helped her out of the car, and when she asked about Xu Qi Niangzi, she quietly let go of the little hand that was holding the corner of Ji Qingchen's clothes, and stood aside with her head down.

- The eldest lady likes Xu Shuqing and Sister Xu the most, she knows it.

"Didn't she say today that she was going to come to Necuri to see her dog?"

“…… The eldest lady forgave her sins, and Xu Niangzi heard the sound of Guan Xiao Qu coming from the banquet of the envoy outside, so she sailed out of the workshop alone, saying that she wanted to see if the envoy was as handsome as in the painting, and the slave maid didn't have time to stop her......"

Ji's mother hasn't answered yet, but the first to speak out is the tile lady who rushed back from the small courtyard where Chikuzen Chuan Jijun gave birth, and rushed back from the monitoring mission.

Even when the thirty-year-old woman came to Tang Fang, she still wore her hair in a high bun and inserted red gold hairpins, and refused to change out of the Jin-style curved skirt and deep skirt with dark bird pattern twisted red edges that she used to wear for Wu Zhu in the past.

Although Ji Qingchen, who has seen a lot of Song paintings, feels that she draws a talisman on her forehead like this, and the dress of the curved skirt and deep clothes is a little nondescript, neither like the dress of the Han Dynasty witch Zhu in the Central Plains, nor like the female dress of the Gaomen family inherited from the Wei and Jin dynasties by the Wang family.

But perhaps this is what the remnants of Middle-earth, who have migrated overseas for thousands of years, have preserved for generations. (To be continued) R655