- The imperial doctor, who explained a lot of theories, frowned when he heard this, and secretly said that he was almost negligent, and he shouldn't have explained so much to this person outside of the medical path, even if she was His Majesty's favorite imperial concubine. If she is allowed to grasp a few words, I am afraid that Dr. Chen has suffered innocently for this, and she will feel embarrassed when she meets him in the future.

After pondering in silence for a moment, the imperial doctor regained his composure, straightened up slightly, and said calmly: "The experience of using this herb is already quite rich, and it is absolutely impossible to have such a strict adverse effect. Forgive the official for being rude, dare to ask Concubine De Niangniang, what kind of ingredients did His Royal Highness use for today's dinner? ”

Concubine De's eyes revealed a hint of coldness, she didn't answer, she just turned her face away, and glanced at the several palace maids of Huayang Palace who were standing aside.

The three palace maids all saw what happened to the palace maid who held the lamp before, and when they touched Concubine De's sweeping gaze at this time, they immediately had an ominous premonition. They knew that there were some things that even His Royal Highness the Second Prince would not be partial, but they couldn't avoid it, and the three of them, you look at me, I see you, hesitated and struggled for a moment, and finally one of them stepped forward and said cowardly: "Your Highness drank a cup of ginseng soup." ”

It's just ginseng soup, or the kind that the prince usually drinks, what will go wrong?

This should have been a harmless diet, and the palace maids never thought that there would be anything wrong with it, but at this time, the palace maid who replied was forced by Concubine De's gaze, as if she meant that she brought a cup of boiled water to serve the prince to drink, which was equivalent to sending a cup of arsenic to the prince.

The second prince, Wang Hong, sat on the couch in the soft brocade quilt, and after being diagnosed by the imperial doctor, he had been quietly listening to the conversation between Concubine De and the imperial doctor. He had thought that the imperial doctor's diagnosis was fine and that he would leave soon. Concubine De wouldn't stay any longer, but she didn't expect that the conversation between the two would unconsciously pull on the palace maids in her palace.

At Concubine De's place just now, he finally managed to earn some value for the maids in Huayang Palace to continue to stay, but he didn't expect that there would be an incident now. If it is allowed to be extended, the plan of the Huayang Palace's maids and maids will be replaced. Concubine De will definitely not let it go.

Didn't think much about it. The second prince, Wang Hong, suddenly said loudly: "I don't have much appetite in this palace for dinner today, I just want to rest early." The ginseng soup is made in the dining room of the main palace, and it is relatively simple to eat. It's also the kind that I drink on weekdays, so what's the problem? ”

Just now, he also suddenly added a sentence when Concubine De was talking to others, but it was a sentence that indirectly sent the innocent lantern maid to the Huanyi Bureau to do hard labor. And this time, it was also a sudden opening. The mood is very different.

The palace maid who replied to Concubine De pursed her lips tightly, and she felt a little grateful in her heart. But at this moment, she didn't dare to show the slightest affection in front of Concubine De.

The imperial doctor first waved his hand to the second prince, and then explained slowly: "Ginseng soup is a great tonic and positive yang qi, and it is indeed a healthy medicinal diet suitable for the second highness to eat regularly. But the warm tonic properties of ginseng decoction. It will aggravate the symptoms of fever caused by 'monkey grass'. The medicinal properties are blocked, which is similar to not taking mung bean soup during the period of taking medicine, and the lower official advised His Royal Highness that he should stop taking ginseng soup in the past few days. ”

"There is a reminder from the medical officer. Presumably, all the maids in Huayang Palace will not make this mistake again. As the second prince Wang Hong spoke, his eyes looked around. Did you hear the doctor's words clearly? ”

Several palace maids and eunuchs in Huayang Palace all knelt down and kowtowed when they heard this: "Slaves and maids remember, thank you for the advice of the imperial doctor, and thank the Second Prince for your kindness!" ”

The second prince, Wang Hong, raised his hand and waved his hand to signal those palace maids to calm down, and then he said to the imperial doctor: "This palace has been weak since childhood, and thanks to the love of my father, I have been participating in soup all year round, which is no longer a secret thing. Presumably, Medical Officer Chen should also be aware of this partial effect of 'Monkey Pucao', why did he not mention it when he bandaged his hand injury in the main palace in the evening? How could the maids in Huayang Palace know about this kind of thing, wouldn't they have to bear the blame for it? ”

In short, it is necessary to try our best to suppress Concubine De's idea of preparing to "clean" Huayang Palace, this disaster of ginseng soup, how far can it be kicked, even if it is for the time being, it will make Medical Officer Chen feel a little wronged. However, my father has always been respectful to doctors, and even if the medical officers of the Imperial Medical Bureau occasionally make mistakes negligently, they will only be punished lightly, right?

After listening to the prince's words, the imperial doctor's face turned slightly pale, knowing that his plan to expose Doctor Chen was bound to be miscalculated, so he had to lower his eyes and say: "The gold sore medicine is only used after it is prepared, it may be that Doctor Chen was careless about the formula details." His Majesty was in the peak of spring and autumn, the Holy Body was strong, and there were very few medical missions, and this evening Physician Chen was suddenly transmitted, presumably because he was worried about the Holy Lord, which caused the loss of a ......."

Before the imperial doctor's words were finished, Concubine De suddenly became angry and said out of thin air: "How can a medical hall with such an impetuous mood be of great use? Later, the palace will go to remove him from the south courtyard, and His Majesty will send another medical officer over. ”

Seeing that Concubine De was angry and punishing people again, Wang Hong gradually became tired in his heart. Not counting what he persuaded him to stop openly and secretly, just count the time of Medical Officer Chen, who is already the third person who has been punished by her in the past half an hour tonight, and then I don't know which people she is going to see who are not pleasing to the eye.

I don't know why she's so angry today?

If even the palace maid accidentally sneezed when standing beside him, someone slipped his foot when the guard of honor walked, and the maid poured tea a little full...... Such trivial matters have to be punished and punished, and all the servants in the palace have to serve their masters in shackles.

If this is the case, what servant is truly serving the Lord? Everyone has grievances and awkwardness in their hearts, so things like today, when the master can't drink ginseng soup and the slave and maid have to go up, it is likely to really evolve into a deliberate matter.

The pleasure of punishing the person for a while - or not bringing pleasure to the person who punished him at all - but the hidden misfortune left behind can be passed on endlessly.

Wang Hong was originally a forgiving personality, tired of this kind of style, usually when getting along with Concubine De, he tried his best to choose to ignore Concubine De's means, just thinking that this was also her personality and could not be completely reversed. But at this moment, he has been patiently dealing with Concubine De for so long, and his physical discomfort has made him more tired, and he has really reached a situation where he doesn't want to continue to accompany him.

With a long sigh of relief, Wang Hong raised his hand and rubbed his somewhat sluggish chest. The tone was full of tiredness: "Okay, mother, this is not a big deal, the sons will be careful in the future, and the medical officers should pay more attention." All the medical officers of the Taiyi Bureau have been selected from all over the country, and most of them are famous doctors. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness. Xia Guan Ming felt guilty. I will definitely return His Royal Highness's original words to all colleagues of the Tai Yi Bureau, so as to motivate all the medical officers of the Tai Yi Bureau to do more work for the royal family in the future. The imperial doctor waved his hand and bowed to the prince, after a slight pause. He also said: "The lower official has finished the diagnosis and treatment for the Second Highness, and seeing that the night is dark, it is the most important thing for the Second Highness to rest early, and the lower official does not dare to delay." I hereby resign. ”

……

Leng Yi was also staring at Qingqiang's face.

He felt that the sister Qiang'er in front of him, who had been frolicking together since the beginning of his entry into the Prime Minister's Mansion, had not seen each other for a while. It looks like it's changed. Her eyebrows and eyes are softer, and her cheeks are not as round as before, but they are a little more feminine, which still makes him look good.

Subsequently. He noticed the slight stunned look in her eyes again, and before she could speak, he smiled again and said, "Maybe the housekeeper uncle is too busy and forgot to say it." But. Now it's up to me to convey this to you, and it's the same. ”

His thoughts. There are some similarities with Qingqiang's unspoken pondering, but there are some differences.

Qingqiang smiled a little reluctantly, glanced at the direction where the firewood cart was going away just now, and said, "I thought you were here to help those two big brothers." ”

Leng Yi followed Qingqiang's gaze, and soon saw the firewood cart, but the firewood cart had already reached a turnaround on the road, and disappeared at the intersection in the blink of an eye, almost equivalent to almost leaving the back door of the Shifu.

"Ha, that's the fifth brother and the seventh brother." Retracting his gaze, he said coldly: "It's the fifth brother and the seventh brother who want to help me, and in the future, I must live next door to the courtyard where the eldest lady lives, and they will clean up the firewood house." ”

"Oh......" Qingqiang hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "These trivial affairs, you can call the miscellaneous servants in the house to do it, aren't the two eldest brothers just doing things for Xiangye?" ”

"The fifth brother and the seventh brother are not on duty today, they are in the mansion in their spare time, and they were originally going to accompany me to practice swordsmanship. Later, the housekeeper came to me and ordered me to be responsible for guarding the safety of the eldest lady in the future, and the two elder brothers were also present, so they knew about it and started to help me. ”

Looking at Qingqiang coldly, Wen Yan recounted what happened. As he spoke, he always had a smile in his eyes. This gentle attitude, against the backdrop of his extremely young face, seems extraordinarily pure, without any other feelings.

"My two brothers always take special care of me, so I have to do it myself. However, I heard from the servant in the firewood room that the firewood in the small firewood house had been stored for almost a year, and the moisture was very heavy. If I asked the little sisters in the house to help me do those things, I am afraid that I would be scared enough. ”

Speaking of this, Leng Yi raised the futon in his hand again, and said loudly: "If you have some strength, you should do it with a man." ”

Qingqiang's heart warmed when she heard this, and she finally completely let go of the vigilance and fear just now. At the same time, she also silently reminded herself not to always dwell on the 'things' she just saw, and not to indulge in thinking about those ordinary things.

Thinking about it, as a prime minister, although his status is extremely high, when he uses his power to make decisions, it is inevitable that some people will be unconvinced, jealous, and then cause trouble. The ten families will be by the master's side, and occasionally need to draw a knife to eliminate trouble, also to protect the master. The loyalty of the protector could not be more normal.

Although the members of the ten generals are all from martial arts training, if you look closely, you will find that they are not rough people who only know how to use martial arts. They are loyal to their head of the family and love their brothers.

Of course, there are also delicate people like Leng Yi!

Seeing that Leng Yi's tone did not lag when he spoke, and he looked straightforward, Qingqiang no longer suspected him.

When her mind calmed down, Qingqiang was worried about the very damp little firewood house he mentioned. After pondering for a while, Qingqiang advised: "If it's too humid, don't live in it immediately, be careful of the smell of mildew and moisture." ”

"It's still Sister Qiang'er's heart." Leng Yi blinked and smiled, "I listen to my sister, I won't live in tonight." ”

……

The fifth brother and the seventh brother mentioned in the cold words, the former is surnamed Ji, and as his name is, he ranks fifth among the ten generals. The latter's surname is Tian, in fact, Qingqiang should have a little impression of this person. Because she had only met this person a few days ago, Tian Qi was one of the two people who were in charge of escorting him along the way when Cen Chi went to the temple in the southwest corner of the inner city of Kyoto that day.

In addition to being more familiar with Leng Yi, Qingqiang couldn't distinguish the names and appearances of the other nine members of the ten generals. She didn't have a chance to get close to the chariot just now to take a closer look, so she ignored Tian Qi, who had several faces, and also missed an opportunity for her to see the dark side of the ten generals.

What she had been speculating about just now. The facts are indeed cold enough.

Out of the back door of the Shifu. Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled a firewood cart through the streets and alleys and came to the vicinity of the garbage mountain in the south of the city.

While business is thriving throughout Kyoto, there is also a phenomenon of large amounts of garbage being discarded every day. After cleaning, an output port is also needed to stack it. However, the main component of the garbage mountain is construction waste, and it is difficult to completely eradicate the inner city area for a while. The garbage mountain has been standing here for a long time, and gradually formed its unique 'garbage culture'.

A corner of the garbage mountain, except for the usual dirty image on the surface. The inside is also the existence of sin.

The root of the evil lies in the garbage that is piled up here. In addition to the waste caused by livelihood activities, there are also discarded lives.

If it weren't not far away, the bells and chanting of the Buddha in the small temple would come from time to time, but I was afraid that the south of the city would be because of the sin located in the corner of the garbage mountain. And the empty city is half-empty.

In the nameless lake next to the garbage mountain, the water of the lake is dark blue all year round. In the past, the swamp near the lake often devoured passers-by, and it was difficult to find the dead. There is a rumor that the reason why the lake is blue is blue. It is precisely because it is a symbol of the pool of the earthly death.

This kind of rumor spread to the people, and gradually caused two phenomena. In addition to those who are passively swallowed up by the swamp, some people who can't think of it will also take the initiative to come to this place, but not deliberately to step on the swamp, but to deliberately jump into the lake, with their lives, hoping to get a good reincarnation.

Later, the swamp was filled in, and the shallow water in the swamp was pushed into the lake area and piled up, raising the water level of the nameless lake, but the disappearance of the murderous swamp weakened the rumors, and instead caused far fewer people to run to the lake to seek their deaths.

But between the huge lake and the mountain of garbage, which can never be cleaned up, there is another area, which is the corpse dump.

Originally, it was strictly forbidden to dispose of corpses in Kyoto, and those who did not have the money to bury their deceased relatives could go to the yamen to receive subsidies. Emperor Nanzhao took the land closest to him as the first model of his statecraft after he took power, and after nearly ten years of management and control of the official and civil order in Kyoto, until now, there will never be a situation where people die for a few days and are not buried in the territory of Kyoto.

And if the city patrol team sees a wandering beggar who died silently on the street, they will also send their bodies to Yizhuang in the south of the city for burial. Every year, Yizhuang receives material support from the imperial court and is obliged to take care of these affairs.

However, although Nanzhao established these comprehensive laws and implemented them very efficiently, these were the treatment of adults, and there was another outlier among the dead bodies, that is, dead babies.

Whether it is a difficult birth in the mother's womb, or suffocation at birth, or a more cruel death...... In short, this kind of corpse is the most difficult to dispose of, and it is a dead body that even Yizhuang is unwilling to receive.

There is an eternal legend that is difficult to dissolve, saying that the infant spirit has three uncertain souls, seven souls lack six, and only one human soul is the strongest, and it has a trace of anger of the reincarnation of the undead in the previous life. This kind of soul after death is not easy to overcome, but it is easy to be held hostage by the evil spirits in the world, so no one in the world wants to touch the dead baby, and perhaps only their mothers do not mind.

But the dead babies who have left traces of life in the world and therefore do not need to erect a monument to commemorate them are not cats, dogs, livestock, but also human beings, and they also need to be buried seriously. If no one or department wants to take over this kind of thing, there is only a private settlement.

And most of the things that need to be settled in private are not in order, and being in this environment inevitably adds to the weird atmosphere.

Although the living standards of Kyoto residents have improved in recent years, and no matter how poor they are, they cannot afford to have children, there are still a few accidents that occur when women give birth.

In that gloomy corner next to the garbage mountain, although the place is not big, occasionally every month or two, there are women with red and swollen teary eyes carrying baskets, maybe to bury the corpse, maybe just to burn a few yellow watches, to enshrine the land here, to commemorate some regrets and sorrows.

The main reason why it became a burial ground for dead babies is because of the nearby temple, which has long been rumored to be there mainly for the purpose of suppressing evil spirits.

However, there are people who are outside the rules everywhere, and sometimes other dead bodies are buried in the infant burial ground. And this change in this phenomenon is actually a practice that the people of Kyoto know in private.

Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled the firewood cart to the area where the baby was buried next to the garbage mountain, and then stopped.

When the two of them left the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, they had already untied the saber on their waists, took off their coats, wrapped them, and hid them in the firewood cart. At the same time, they untie the hair bands and use their fingers as a comb to break up their hair. So slightly redressed. The two of them didn't look much different from ordinary chaifu.

Camouflage is a skill that the Ten will have to learn. These are just small tricks, and it is enough to deceive passers-by.

At this point, when they arrived at their destination, they took out their respective clothes with knives wrapped in them from the firewood carts. Throwing them on the ground, the two of them pulled out two bamboo tubes from under the board, tore off the wooden cork, and splashed them on the firewood cart.

A thick yellowish liquid from the bamboo tube is sprinkled on the firewood cart. There is no smell and it seems to be a relatively pure oil. But it's a little different from the oil used in stir-frying. The two not only sprinkled the firewood with this grease, but also did not miss the firewood cart.

After doing this, the two threw the bamboo tube into the car, and each found a fire fold from his sleeve. After blowing, light the firewood cart before and after.

Chai He, who originally looked so damp that it was about to rot, seemed to be aided by the kind of grease that had been poured before. It burned violently in an instant.

The fact that a cart of wet wood burns and then burns up is not only a phenomenon that does not seem to make sense. The temperature and color of the flame on the pyre also seem to be strange. The two who lit the fire only hesitated for a moment, and the skin of their arms exposed outside their clothes was scorched red by the heat wave that churned out from the flames.

The flame seemed to be attached to a kind of magic, it didn't seem to come from the firewood, but as if the air was burning, and then it actively devoured everything it could get its hands on - even the damp wood, even the three newly dead corpses covered under the wet wood.

The sound of "zi-zi-zi-" could still be heard in the flames, but it quickly faded away.

With the flames that soon dimmed, the firewood, the firewood, and the three corpses all turned into burnt white ashes, and there were not even half strips of carbon left.

The two of them, who had stepped back a few paces away, watched the scene change with cold eyes, until the fire was extinguished, and then they slowly approached again.

In the place where the body was burned, the fire had been extinguished, but the temperature was still relatively high. The kind of flame that seemed to be able to swallow a qiē almost instantaneously was only ignited on the firewood cart at first, and after the firewood cart collapsed, the flame stayed on the surface of the ground for a short time with the ashes, but it was only because of this moment's work that the slightly wet land was scorched.

Ji Wu walked to the pile of white ash left behind after the burning, squatted down and stretched out his palm, probed close to the white ash, and then he nodded sideways to Tian Qi beside him.

Tian Qi didn't speak, just exchanged glances with Ji Wu, and he knew something in his heart.

After killing people, the corpses were cremated, and it was not the first time that Tian Qi and Ji Wu had done this. The two of them have cooperated on this kind of thing several times. There are some rules that are already familiar with each other.

It's just to do this kind of thing to the people in your own house, after all, it's very rare. When Ji Wu stood up and walked away, a complicated look vaguely slipped in his eyes, but Tian Qi, who was standing, didn't see this scene.

After Ji Wu walked away a few steps, Tian Qi pulled out the knife wrapped in his clothes and fiddled with it a few times in the white ash. After some inspection, after making sure that there were no complete items left, he held the hand of the knife, turned his wrist slightly, shook the blade, picked up two burnt and deformed iron rings on the ground, and threw them into the blue lake water on the side.

The two rings, which had been nailed to the wheels, were now the only remnants of the flames. If you leave iron sheets, it is easy to wonder why even the car is burned when the garbage is burned. Removing these, the white ash of the ground is closer to the residue of burning the garbage.

The blade turned, cut off a section of the sleeve of the underwear, and brushed away the ashes stained on the blade, Tian Qi put the knife into the sheath, wrapped the knife into the coat again, and then looked sideways at Ji Wu on the side, and said calmly: "You can go." ”

Ji Wu nodded slightly, and walked with Tian Qi, at this time he was vaguely different from when he came, when he left the crematorium, Ji Wu did not walk side by side with Tian Qi, but was a step behind.

Ji Wu's temperament is a little silent and withdrawn, Tian Qi has long understood this, so he doesn't care. And even if he had the leisure to chat with Ji Wu about how he felt when he burned the corpse just now, he knew that now was not the time.

After walking a distance, Ji Wu and Tian Qi did not go back to Shifu directly, but turned a corner and walked into the emerald green bamboo forest next to the nameless lake.

Tian Qi and Ji Wu entered the bamboo forest. But it's not about going to the small temple deep in the bamboo forest to worship the Buddha. The two of them really wanted to take advantage of the dense cover of the bamboo forest to take off the camouflage on their bodies.

By the time the two of them came out of the shade, their loose hair had been neatly tied up, and their saber coats were neatly put back on their bodies, and the saber hung on their waists as they were used to.

The two of them came to the nameless lake again. I didn't think much about whether the blue water of the lake would contain any harmful substances. I quickly took a handful of water and washed my face. After the firewood ash that was deliberately wiped on their faces when they left the Shi Mansion just now was wiped clean, the two of them had already recovered the kind of spiritual qi that belonged to the ten generals.

Stand up on the shore of the lake. Ji Wu glanced at the faint surface of the lake, looking at his distorted reflection in the water, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

……

Unlike the quirky seclusion of the southern suburbs of Kyoto, today's Nishijo Gate. Congestion as always.

Although this is bound to cause inconvenience to the people of the city, it also represents another important meaning. A lot of supplies will be imported into Kyoto, giving more life to this new imperial city.

And the protagonist of the blocking door seems to have no suspense, and it is still the Yan family caravan hanging the Feiyan flag.

The Yan family's relevant passwords for their caravans. The management is close to the strict order of the military soldiers. There is a saying in the business world that describes it very well: business battles are like battlefields. Therefore, the Yan family, a behemoth family in the business world, can manage the people below like this. It can also be regarded as a subtle form shì creation.

If the people present at this time were familiar with the meaning of the Yan family's password, when they heard the password guidance from the front of the convoy. Even if you don't look closer, you can roughly guess that in the middle of the convoy, there is now a place for three carriages.

Cen Chi was originally going to persuade Gao Qian to wait a little longer, but after hearing those few commands, he paused. After a few moments, the words had changed when he spoke again.

"The Yan family has been in business for many years, and they have always been committed to perfection in the arrangement of matters, and there has never been a case of replenishment halfway, it seems that they are really waiting for someone this time, presumably we can leave soon." After Cen Chi said this, he climbed back into the car again.

The curtain of the carriage that had been lifted by him and hung down was still shaking slightly, and not far away there was the sound of other carriage axles turning and grinding on the ground.

Gao Qian turned his head to look at the place where the sound came from, and saw three carriages coming not far away, but judging from the standard of the carriage, all three carriages belonged to the van, that is, they were used to carry people.

From the appearance of the manned van and the cargo car, there is little difference, but if you compare it with the tall and wide commercial car in the Yanjia fleet, the difference is more obvious.

The three carriages were not moving fast, allowing the high diver to see who was driving. In fact, if it was an ordinary groom, it would be fine, but Gao Qian suddenly found that the person holding the reins and controlling the carriage led by him was probably not as simple as an ordinary groom. After a few more glances, Gao Qian came to a conclusion that made him a little unbelievable.

The person sitting in the driving seat of the carriage at the head, judging from the estimated value of the piece of jasper embedded in his hair crown and the abacus hanging from his waist that was half-exposed outside the brocade bag, even if he was not the young master of the Yan family, he could not be separated from the decision-making level of the Yan Chamber of Commerce.

Originally, Gao Qian was still a little suspicious, these three carriages may have been sent by other big families who wanted to leave Kyoto, but after seeing the young man with the crown jade on the carriage at the head, he no longer doubted that the people who rode this carriage were by no means idle people, and they might not be the descendants of the Yan family, but they were definitely related to this big family.

It's just that after understanding this, new doubts rose in Gao Qian's heart.

What is the Yan family going to do?

Although the Yan family's current family business has reached the top of the land merchants, and the business in the Zhao region also accounts for the majority of the Yan family's total industry, the head office of the Yan family chamber of commerce is not in the territory of Zhao Kingdom, but in the small western country where the Yan family made its fortune.

Located in the north of Zhaoguo, squeezed between Beiyan and Daqingchuan to the west, there is also a country that is not very large, but very rich, and the country is called Liang.

The founding of the Liang State is not too early, the difference is that the Northern Yan is a branch of the much older Great Cause Empire before the Great Zhou, while the Liang State is considered a branch in the middle of the Great Zhou. If it is only divided by time, the founding of the Liang State was earlier than that of the Zhao State, but it was later than the Northern Yan.

There is a saying in the historical compilation industry that the Northern Yan was in the northern Xinjiang to build the country, and its strengths were biased towards the strength of the army, and the civilization construction of the Northern Yan and the Southern Zhou Dynasty were inherited from the experience of the Great Cause Empire.

However, the northern goose has been absorbed and transformed for more than 100 years. And after the test of slight changes in the situation, it has far surpassed the Southern Zhou in terms of military capabilities, but it cannot completely match the comprehensive national strength of the Southern Zhou. In a border defense between the two countries, soldiers have been in a state of confrontation for a long time, which is like a sword against a spear, no one is convinced, but it is necessary to really fight. No one has a complete chance of winning.

In this case. It turned out that in the territory of the Daye Empire, in addition to the two centralized states of Northern Yan and Southern Zhou, which were the first to be divided, each on one side. There are also a number of small regimes that have emerged around it.

After hundreds of years of time testing and washing, the Southern Zhou collapsed ten years ago, but it was not annexed by the Northern Goose, but was covered by another new monarchy. And in the periphery of these two countries. Several small countries also rose and fell and replaced, and now there are zài. It is the thieves in the Qingchuan River Basin and the Liang State that is relatively complete in all aspects.

The Liang State was biased towards a commercial power, which the current Southern Zhao monarch had seen more than ten years ago when he was still in the northern frontier. The spirit of business can make the cold silver exude extreme brilliance; A person in the business road, with an extremely sharp and slippery tongue. It is almost the wisdom of a strategist, but it is not in love with power at all, and it is a very special group.

The reason why some historians say that the Liang State is a branch of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. It is because the founding time of the Liang State can be traced back to the specific time, which occurred more than 200 years ago in the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, the national strength of the Southern Zhou Dynasty had reached its peak. However, the monarch of the time still rejected private commercial activities. So some merchants came together on their own, and no longer stayed in this land where the spirit and wisdom of business could not be distributed, and went to the northwest corner to open up new horizons.

Therefore, the culture of the Liang State was greatly influenced by the Southern Zhou Dynasty, but it also had obvious national characteristics.

The Liang State is heavy on business, the Yan State is heavy on the military system, and as for the Southern Zhao Dynasty, which has not been born for a long time, it seems that it has inherited the great comprehensive characteristics of the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

In fact, the national policy implemented by the previous dynasty did not make much mistake in terms of social welfare and people's livelihood, but the authorities themselves made a mistake and wanted to 'demolish the house', that is, an iron plate had to be made out of the hole by themselves.

It has been more than 100 years since the founding of the Liang Kingdom, but the Yan Family Chamber of Commerce really began to crisscross the vast north and south continents, and the whole process is only reflected in one generation. And if you want to deduce, even if the Yan family made a fortune in the Liang country, it is probably because of the specialties of other countries.

The Liang State only provided the Yan family with institutional convenience, which was originally the characteristics of the Liang dynasty, but this does not mean that the lord of the Liang State took special care of the Yan family with his monarchy. And the mountain-like wealth accumulated by the Yan family is still their own private assets of the Yan family, and it has nothing to do with the national treasury reserves of the Liang State.

From a plane perspective, when the Yan family made a fortune, the Southern Zhou Dynasty was taking the last section of the downhill road, with displaced people everywhere and wars raging everywhere. During that period of time, even if the ancestors of the Yan family did not care about the Changnong of the Southern Zhou Dynasty and degraded the merchants, and insisted on taking root in the territory of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, it would be like a big gamble that would be lost, and it would be absolutely impossible to do it.

Now that the Southern Zhou Dynasty has collapsed, the newly born Nanzhao court has become the master of this land, and the Yan family has begun to do business in this area. Business is heavy and prosperous, and in this gradually peaceful territory, the Yan family's business expanded rapidly.

Although the head office of the Yan family is still located in Xiaoliang Kingdom, the Nanzhao monarch did not express a certain sensitive attitude towards this, in addition to the fact that the Nanzhao monarch was very interested in business, and also considered the origin of the Yan family. For the Yan family, Xiaoliang Kingdom is almost the survival of their hometown, even in the future, the Yan Family Chamber of Commerce may have to move all to the territory of Nanzhao, and it is impossible to forget the mother's family so quickly.

In addition, the Yan family has always maintained the posture and principles that a businessman should have, and has not been attached to power at all, which is also a reassuring pill for the Nanzhao monarch.

In addition to being in charge of the whole government, the monarch of Nanzhao also left a hand in the trade route, leading a group of Beijing merchants to take over the only East China Sea shipping in Nanzhao. In the business on land, the Nanzhao monarch was very generous to the Yan family, but only the shipping part, although the scope of the matter did not seem to be large, he was unwilling to let the Yan family interfere at all.

The Yan family neither supported nor objected to this, and they seemed to have 'forgotten' about the business in this field.

The Yan family has been in contact with the Nanzhao monarch for nearly ten years, and the Nanzhao monarch has only expressed his position once, and the Yan family has not even made tentative moves since then. Not only that, but even the Cao Yun, which is almost related to shipping, has never been touched, and it is extremely pure and purely a commercial land.

Because the place of origin is in Liang State, in addition to the general office of the Chamber of Commerce of the Yan family is set up in the territory of Liang State, the relatives of the Yan family are also in Liang State.

Although the territory of Nanzhao is vast, several times that of Xiaoliang Kingdom, the activities of the Yan family in the Nanzhao region are still relatively pure for business. Even if the Yan family made some friends in Nanzhao, they were all business friends.

The Yan family rarely interferes with their family's business operations because of friends' affairs, and in these two aspects, their family is very open. People who have business dealings with their family know this and agree with it.

But today, the Yan family caravan was interspersed with three vans interspersed with exception, and in order to wait for these three non-commercial caravans that arrived late, the entire Yan family caravan stalled at the city gate for nearly an hour.

For businessmen, time is profit, which is a very sharp one in business, so who will make the Yan family make such a sacrifice? Who's in the car? What other friends does the Yan family have in Kyoto that is worth working so hard? ――

(To be continued)