"Brother, the news from Mu Guo's side." Yan Hongyi entered the house with a deep face.

"The news from the people who Zhan Xiaofei left behind in Mu Country?" Yan Suyi raised his head from his official duties, pressed his eyebrows, and a feeling of soreness came up.

"Yes." Yan Hongyi sat opposite his brother and said with a stern expression: "Emperor Mu issued a holy decree to make the Wei land obtained by Mu Guo the fief of the Wing King. When I got the news, I was startled, and my hands trembled and I couldn't hold the thin paper roll.

"Oh?" Yan Suyi's voice was slightly raised, bringing out a little different meaning.

"Oh what." Yan Hongyi's cheeks bulged out and he said indignantly, "Don't think it's strange, how can the fief of the Wing King be used to defend the land, although it is said that Mu Guo should not put the beak, but this is like a joke, how can a prince's fief be so big!" "It's impossible not to be jealous, that's half of the land of the country, and fourteen cities can be the emperor of the soil.

"The generosity given by Emperor Mu has its own reason, why are you in a hurry." Yan Suyi glanced at his younger brother and said indifferently, "The Wing King has made war exploits on this trip, and his identity is already the highest, and the reward has become the most headache problem, don't look at the Wing King to get such a place, due to the war, it can be said that he threw the mess to the Wing King to deal with, saying that it is the surface scenery of the reward, and it is still the Wing King who contributes." ”

"These superficial articles are made for others to see." Yan Hongyi was depressed for a while, "I'm afraid that the Wing King will know that Weidi will belong to him early on, so he works so hard." ”

"No wonder the Wing King is as steady as Mount Tai all the time, how to toss and how to toss, anyway, it is his own territory." Yan Hongyi couldn't stop the sour water in his heart.

Yan Suyi couldn't laugh or cry when she looked at the look on her brother's face. "Envy the Wing King, you will also have your own fief in the future."

"That's different." Yan Hongyi was unconvinced and said, "The fief of the Wing King was won by himself. And our future fiefdom is indeed a reward, and the difference in essence always makes people feel that they are much worse than the Wing King. "There was a feeling of imbalance in my heart.

"And what do you want?" Yan Suyi put away the ridicule on his face and looked at his younger brother sternly, "You also want to be like the Wing King?" ”

Noticing his brother Yan Sù's face, Yan Hongyi felt aggrieved in his heart, "How dare I, I'm just complaining, sighing for the good life of the Wing King." ”

"You. Say what you are good about, why are you still as stubborn as a child when you are an adult? Yan Suyi didn't mean to admonish his younger brother, and admonished. You don't know what your father is thinking, don't show too much in front of people, there is no shortage of people in the court. ”

"Why do you want to abolish the identity of our prince?" Yan Hongyi sneered, "It won't be that I have found a more suitable person than the queen mother to fill the harem." "It's like a woven farce.

"Which courtier is light and dead-hearted. In all dynasties, no one favored the harem. The offspring are thin. Yan Suyi's eyes were full of helplessness, and he inadvertently fantasized that one day he could live as chic as the Wing King, at least he could call the shots instead of being asked.

"Cut, I still don't give up after all these years." Yan Hongyi's evil fire was extremely unpleasant to the officials of the DPRK and China, "Who can be blamed for such a result, if it weren't for the grievances of the previous generation, hum, you can't live if you do your own evil!" The words that came to his lips were not fully spoken.

That is, the curse that is not really man-made. It was those courtiers who couldn't wait to find a way to crack it. Yan Suyi has experienced too much, from the initial fear to the current indifference. I read too much irony, and the irony is even worse.

"Even if there are no harem concubines to make trouble, the queen mother is still unhappy, and the mother of a country is really difficult to live under the oppression of hundreds of officials." Yan Hongyi lowered his eyes to block the tears in his eyes, "We can't do anything as parents and children, it's so infuriating." The clenched fists showed the anger and sadness that burst out at this moment.

"Fortunately, you have been in the army for several years, and your position has gradually stabilized." Otherwise, the conspiracy of deceit in the Light Palace was too tiring, and Yan Suyi was a little reluctant to go back.

"I hope it's a curse, the curse of the royal family is not destined to marry, other women are not qualified to give birth to royal blood, how clean, there is no harem of fighting, the treachery of the court, a qiē looks so quiet." Yan Hongyi felt a faint pain in his heart, sad for the realm of his mother and his brother.

"The father and the emperor are not giving up, and the courtiers under him cater to the wishes of the superiors, and they will solve this cursed mystery, and maybe they will succeed one day." Then his father and emperor will be the king of a country with beautiful women, and his wives and concubines are full of children and grandchildren, heh, how ridiculous, Yan Suyi couldn't help but sneer.

"It's a shame that there is no heir born, you and I will have a few more brothers and sisters, and the status is not as good as before, it is obviously the fate of being abandoned." Who made the queen mother unhappy with her father, but she had to be pampered, Yan Hongyi's red eyes looked elsewhere blankly.

"Don't think about these upsetting things, it's a day to hide and be quiet, and it's too early to go back." Yan Suyi stopped this heavy and sensitive topic, bringing back not very pleasant memories of childhood.

"We have become the test horses of the courtiers, and my father is afraid that we will get out of control, if it weren't for the fact that there is a blood inheritance, I really want to, I really want to." Yan Hongyi gritted his teeth and showed a fierce light, really thinking that the words behind the two words were obvious.

"Just vent here, pack up your feelings and don't get yourself into trouble." Yan Suyi was worried that his irritable younger brother would make an outrageous move, so he told him, "We don't do anything before we are fledgling." ”

"Hmm." Yan Hongyi is not a three-year-old child, he understands the stakes, now is not the time to make a move, just wait for patience and waiting.

"Do I want to send a congratulatory gift to congratulate the Winged King on having a fief?" Yan Hongyi stopped talking about other things, so that the gloomy mood could be restored to its original calm, and after stepping out of this room, he must return to his original state without leaving a trace.

"Well, by the way, ask how long the Winged King will be in the Guardian Land." Yan Suyi remembered that the boundary needed to be redrawn and established, and he didn't know what the Wing King had in mind.

"Okay, I'll prepare the gift." Yan Hongyi got up, blinked his eyes twice, and straightened his clothes and went out.

Xichao has already accelerated the pace of packing his bags, Hongrui doesn't want to stay here for a moment, or go back to his familiar place to be comfortable, and make what he wants. So he urged the army to speed up.

"You and the emperor have a relationship?" Xu Mian had a new understanding of the matter of Wei Di after listening to it, and it was rare that he didn't make too much of a fuss, but there was a special case that happened to the Wing King. I get used to seeing more, and the initial surprise has become exactly what it should be, how interesting.

"As I said, if the results are good, the official decree will be implemented in Muguo." Xi Chao briefly explained the internal causes, and stared at the account book in his hand without raising his head, which was a series of expenses such as building roads in Weidi. There are two large entries and exits that need to be verified.

"That's good." Xu Mian's face was full of joy, as if he had been cheapened.

"How?" Xi Chao heard Xu Mian's tone a little strange, and raised his eyes and glanced at it to inquire.

"The Palace." Xu Mian said excitedly, "Even if you have a fief in the Imperial Palace, all the qiē can be used." It's beautiful just to think about. "The use here doesn't mean to really take it for himself, he doesn't have the guts.

"By the way, are those hand-copied scrolls of the Library finished?" mentioned the Patriotic Palace, Xu Mian suddenly remembered that there was such a stubble, and he was in a hurry. Things are in the preliminary stages.

"Half there." The tide court has heard the red rui back.

"That's good. It's busy to go back. Xu Mian finally had the leisure to study the books of the patriotic country calmly, and various ideas kept coming to his mind, where to start first, the history of the patriotic country seems to be very good, and it is all fun to read the picture in the book.

"The road to Weidi is almost repaired, what are the new plans?" Xu Mian was curious about the Wing King's movements when he went to the fiefdom.

"Spring ploughing." Xi Chao immediately replied, "Xu Chenlin said that the farming tools and cattle have been distributed, but the lack of strong labor in the people's families can't cope with it. ”

"What about the Guards?" Xu Mian asked abruptly. "How many people are willing to retire and return to farming?"

"No one doesn't want to. Coming from a poor family, it is not a big problem that he hates wars and conquests. Xi Chao finished the accounts, put down the account book, picked up the teacup, and sipped lightly.

"Even if all the guards go home to farm, the land will still be idle." Xichao got up and took the topographic map that the dark guards had been making for months.

"Some of the land is not of good soil quality, which is not suitable for cultivating crops, and a lot of it is wasted." The Xi Dynasty didn't know how to farm, but he knew that the land should not be wasted, even if it was to plant grass.

"Shouldn't you use Mu Jun to farm?" Xu Mian wondered if there were 70,000 or 80,000 surviving guards, so many manpower was not enough?

"Hmm." Xi Chao nodded and gave the exact answer, "Don't look at the strong men with big shoulders and round waists in the guards, in fact, there are not many people who can farm, some have forgotten how to plant in the army for a long time, and some have been drafted into the army without contact." ”

"Haven't touched it?" Surprised, Xu Mian frowned and said, "It's not that most of them come from poor peasant families, how can they not farm?" "It's more surprising than the fact that a sow can climb a tree.

"Not all people can have even a small piece of land of their own, and most of them are employed by large families such as merchants to farm." After careful understanding, the Xi Dynasty made up his mind to re-measure the land and redistribute it so that everyone had a piece of land in their hands and would not starve to death, which would be of great benefit to the coming of famine.

"I plan to use the guards to go down to the ground to farm, and only by paying sweat and hard work can I know that a porridge and a meal are not easy to come by." Xi Chao has already set up a plan in his mind to wait for the return trip, "Enable the way of veterans and novices to cultivate in pairs of two or five, which can speed up the progress of spring ploughing." ”

"In the future, the major wars will gradually decrease, and there will no longer be so many soldiers in the army, and some of them will be divided into other tasks, and they will be exchanged with the soldiers left in the army, which can also alleviate some of the food and grass problems." Xi Chao spoke his thoughts.

"I see what you mean." Xu Mian felt that the method of the Wing King was ingenious, that is, it saved part of the military spending, and it did not cause the officers and soldiers in the army to be inert, and they would not think about other unreliable things when they had work at hand, and make reasonable use of manpower.

"Open Mongolian schools, one to two in each city." Xi Chao continued to talk about the general plan.

"Isn't there a private school, why do you still have to open it?" Xu Mian couldn't understand what the wing king was doing with this spare money?

"Private schools are places for the children of cable families to study, and how many children from poor families go to school in places where you can't see, which has created today's poor family." The Xi Dynasty has the intention of educating and defending the country.

"Don't you take a single child?" Just starting a business costs money, not to mention the money, and then does not charge any fees, a typical loss-making business, Xu Mian can't figure out why the Wing King has always been a loss?

"Of course, the upfront investment is larger. The later harvest was relatively impressive. Xi Chao had a faint smile on his face, "What is this silver compared to the same talents?" ”

"Also, how many people want to get ahead in the imperial examination." Xu Mian was all emotional. "How many people keep their hearts, they say that they are good to be a parent official for the people and are praised by the people, and when they become officials, they find that a qiē is too naïve and ridiculous, and the blow of reality is often the most cruel, enough to change a person's heart."

"The path chosen is different, and the result of repayment is different." Xi Chao understood what Xu Mian was reminding him of, "Not collecting money is not the same as being really free, and it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish." There are not a few things that Shengmien fights against Mi. ”

"No, it's really a hateful gritting of teeth." Xu Mian hates people who are cheap and too little.

"My family has land, and the food they produce is used as education. There are not many symbolic points, warning everyone that going to school is not easy to come by, and you must cherish it. "Xi Chao doesn't want to see the scene of the smoke and miasma in the school, and a certain binding force is particularly necessary.

"Where is the gentleman from?" Xu Mianke Profit King intends to invite people from the hidden family to educate the people of the country. However, it backfired and was not achieved.

"Conscription. It's not that there is no one to defend the country. "Xi Chao thinks it's a big deal to summon a group of people from Mu Guo, and those who are at home are just right, or they can be lifted after repeated attempts.

"You just have to know what you know." Xu Mian only serves as a reminder.

"You haven't said anything about the border demarcation." What Xu Mian wants to know most is, "The other half of the patriotic people really want to be isolated?" has the same blood flowing in his body, even if he has become Mu Guo's identity here, his essence has not changed. "This is a troublesome and difficult problem to solve, a bad handling will produce public resentment, and the previous efforts will be in vain.

Xi Chao swiped his finger across the topographic map on the table and said, "With the Xianghe River as the boundary, the situation on the Yan Country side is unknown. With just a river that is not very wide, it is really difficult to build a city defense committee. ”

As soon as the words fell, the two brothers Yan and Suyi came with congratulatory gifts. Xi Chao raised his eyes and looked at Xu Mian, and at a glance, he saw four words in the eyes of the other party - come quickly.

When the Yan Suyi brothers entered the house, they saw the Wing King pressing the topographic map under his hand, and roughly guessed that the Wing King was thinking about building a defense and demarcation.

After a brief greeting, Yan Suyi opened his mouth and got to the point, first asking when the Wing King would leave for his return, and then asking about the border.

After discussing with each other for a while, both sides failed to come up with a suitable method, one was that the two sides wanted to build a city-based military camp with the Xianghe River as the boundary, and both sides were patriotic people, and some families lived separately in the two places, how could they move, that was the ancestral house and the ancestral tomb, and it was not easy to relocate, so the people on both sides could not get along with each other.

No, the room was quiet for a while, and each of them wrinkled their eyebrows and pondered, this problem had not been carefully thought about in the matter of distribution, and now it was completely difficult.

After a while, Xi Chao spoke: "Let it go, both sides need to rest and recuperate, since there is no contradiction to establish a city defense, it doesn't hurt to push it back for a year." "I don't approve of the complete separation of the two lands, which is not good news for the people of the country.

Yan Su Yi thought for a moment and nodded, Mu Yan and the two countries did not have an excuse for war, and it was fundamental to restore their life at the moment, and being too defensive would affect the established relationship between the two countries.

After chatting a little bit, the Yan Suyi brothers went back, and the business under them was piled up, and there was no movement in Yan Guoguo until now, and he was blushing and thick-necked for the matter of transferring officials, and he had to bear it himself for a while.

"You don't seem to have enough to say?" Xu Mian's ability to observe words and emotions is good, and he can see that the Wing King has reservations.

"To prevent Yan from being greedy enough to hit the crooked idea on the other half of the land, the previous plan was slightly changed, the city defense is unnecessary, and the people of the two sides can only achieve the desired effect by interacting with each other." Xi Chao has his own calculations in his heart.

"Commerce?" Xu Mian's brain turned fast, and he suddenly realized the original intention of the Wing King, only in this way would he not be targeted to death by the Yan Kingdom, once the Yan Kingdom issued a decree prohibiting the other half of the people from defending the country to the other side, the backlash to be received was exactly the strength needed by the Wing King, and the proper public resentment was boiling, and the people complained that the reputation of the Yan Kingdom was damaged, and it became an urgent matter to choose how to live.

"Yes." Xi Chao did not hide the light in his eyes, "There must be a garrison, if you want the people to be rich, in addition to food self-sufficiency, trade is the fastest means of profit." ”

"No wonder you're building roads." One after another, the meaning of what is to be expressed could not be more obvious.

Xi Chao instructed Hong to send a message to Xu Chenlin, so that he could be prepared, and the talk with Xu Mian would end here.

The departure of the Wing King made the Yan brothers feel a lot brighter, and their defensive hearts slowed down, concentrating on the one-third of an acre of land in front of them.

Mu Guo, the Great Prince's Mansion, Mu Zhao has been close to the side concubine Ouyang Yun for several days, except for Ouyang Yun, who couldn't help but be happy, the other aunts in the backyard gritted their teeth with secret hatred, and the helpless shape shì is stronger than the identity of the person there, under the premise that there is no concubine in the house, the side concubine is the most in charge of the housekeeping in the house, of course, the management here is not like the housewife in other big families to exercise their legitimate power, but only to distribute the small matter of monthly silver.

This is also a little sweetness given to Ouyang Yun when the eldest prince began to re-enter the backyard, Mu Zhao has never lacked the means to coax women, but he is not used to it, a woman is just a tool to have children and maintain the relationship between the two families in his eyes, there is no need to be serious enough to allocate too much time for women.

Mu Zhao listened to the official's suggestion, contacted Ouyang Yun's little trick and coaxed the brainless person to obey the words, endured the impatience in his heart, and briefly mentioned the Prime Minister's Mansion with him, implying that he had not returned to his parents' house for a long time, and told Ouyang Ye about the love between father and daughter.

Ouyang Yun lost her brains under the coaxing of the eldest prince, blindly silent in the sweet words and couldn't extricate herself, laughing silly all day long, sharing her joy with her grandmother, maybe she would be pregnant with the flesh and blood of the eldest prince soon, and then become a real concubine was just around the corner.

Mama had the heart to persuade one or two, and warned Ouyang Yun not to get carried away about this, but now Ouyang Yun can't listen to it in her left ear and out of her right ear, so she no longer wastes her lips and tongue, just waiting for Ouyang Yun to be disillusioned and find her true nature.

There has never been a real peaceful day in the backyard, Ouyang Yun is now favored thanks to the Wing King, these grandmothers have not said anything to Ouyang Yun, and if they say it, they will only increase their troubles, pick a suitable opportunity, Ouyang Yun calmed down and did not get carried away by the good things of the past few days. (To be continued......)