Under the scorching sun, hundreds of warships flying the flag of Qi were driving mightily in the turbid river.

This is the envoy headed by the envoy of Jingxiang Chu of the Great Qi, who is heading up the river from Wuhan to Jiangling Mansion in Jingzhou.

It is early summer, the flowers on both sides of the river are red and willow green, and the scenery is very beautiful.

In the flotilla there was a so-called large tall ship with a wide hull with three compartments in the front and rear.

At this time, Lu Ning was in the front cabin, chatting with several officials in the foreign affairs room.

Peng Hong, the head of the foreign affairs room, didn't know what to feel in his heart at this time, because the two officials who stood on the left and right to listen to the conversation between him and the Ministry of Cultural Envoys, one used to be the prince of Jiangnan, and the other was the minister of Jiangnan.

These two bigwigs are now his subordinates, and the envoy also said that he wanted him to listen to the opinions of the two more, Peng Hong just wanted to put these two high and put them on the shelf, but it was really a lot of pressure to treat these two people as his subordinates.

Lu Ning was telling Peng Hong that when he arrived at Jiangling Mansion, how could he hint that Gao Baorong, the king of Nanping, would donate his household registration to Qi.

Peng Hong nodded again and again when he heard this.

"Feng Gong, Sun Gong, what do you two think?" Lu Ning looked at Feng Yanlu and Sun Sheng with a smile.

"Don't dare, don't dare to ......" Feng Yanlu hurriedly smiled, and said: "According to my humble opinion, why not persuade Gao Baorong's several important ministers, and let them persuade him, Gao Baorong will feel that all thoughts are lost, he is a person with no ambition, and it is also the trend of the times to submit to our dynasty!" ”

Lu Ning nodded slightly: "Not bad!" That's what it means. "Indeed, if Gao Baorong's subordinates persuade Gao Baorong, the effect will be much better than that of himself and other envoys of Qi State.

Sun Sheng sneered beside him: "Gao Baorong, that mediocre master, there must be a lot of people like you under his command!" ”

Feng Yanlu's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he said with a smile: "Professor, it seems that Sun Gong also agrees with his humble opinion." ”

Lu Ning smiled, "Gao Baoxuan, I don't know if it will be dangerous?" ”

Gao Baomiao is the younger brother of Gao Baorong, the king of Nanping, and the military and political affairs of Nanping Sanzhou are actually in charge of Gao Baomiao.

After all, he thinks very differently from the people of this era, I don't know if this Gao Bao is unwilling to surrender because of things like integrity, and he even wants to slaughter all his envoys and other envoys, as for the next conquest of Qi State, that is another matter.

Although his own mission was deterred by the 3,000 soldiers of the Shenwu Army, when these 3,000 soldiers arrived in Jingzhou, it was naturally difficult to enter the city.

Feng Yanlu was stunned and said, "Does the professor want to enter the city?" Let Gao Baorong come out to meet him, and the professor will sit in the Chinese army, enter Jingzhou City to negotiate and persuade Gao Baorong's courtiers, and he will have Peng in charge to do it. ”

Lu Ning is used to doing it himself, and he thinks about it, but in fact, if he doesn't enter the city, the chance of causing a rebellion in Jingzhou is smaller.

Nodding, Lu Ning said: "It's okay, for the matter of entering the city to negotiate, Peng Hong and Feng Gong will go together." ”

Feng Yanlu immediately had a bitter face, bowed down and said: "The villain will do his best to say that Gao Baorong will return to my dynasty!" ”

Lu Ning smiled, and said in his heart that this Feng Yanlu is a talent from a certain point of view, and I hope this trip will go well.

For example, in history, the Northern Song Dynasty forced to land in Nanping, that is, there was a war in Chu, and there were small warlords in Chu to ask for help from Nanping and Song, and the Song army entered Chu under the pretense of Nanping, so that Nanping had to surrender.

The same is true for leading 3,000 troops and horses across Jiangling, the excuse is to crusade against Li Chongjin, and to attack Li Chongjin from the north and south with the Hubei army of Qi in Dengzhou, he led the people to land from the Jiangling ferry and attack Xiangzhou from the north by land.

Li Chongjin has not been a vassal to the State of Qi, when he left alone to go to Bianjing to help his Emperor Qi escaped, it is well known to everyone, and now Emperor Qi has only conquered Li Chongjin, which can be regarded as giving him a long opportunity to surrender.

Of course, now Li Chongjin is a minister, and Emperor Qi will not agree, and the surrender of Xiang, Fu, and Yingzhou under his rule is the only way out.

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When the night was dark, Lu Ning went to the deck from the front cabin, and then came to the middle cabin, in the cabin, it was another situation, the musk was quiet, and there was a bewitching beauty in a red dress in the cabin, it was Jiao Cailian.

Seeing Lu Ning enter the cabin, she hurriedly took the soft shoes to meet her, knelt on the ground, and helped Lu Ning take off her official boots and pull on the soft shoes.

Being served like this by her, Lu Ning doesn't have any psychological burden, if it is Gui'er and Wu Niang, two people who have been by her side since she really came to this world like her girlfriend, wife, and relatives, if you do this, Lu Ning will feel very awkward in her heart.

Lu Ning gave Jiao Cailian the title of an internal record room, which can be regarded as officially recognizing Jiao Cailian as a servant girl close to her, and sometimes in the office, Jiao Cailian will also help send some official documents to each room.

Sun Sheng heard that he was on an errand in the Zhaofu Division, and sometimes he could see Jiao's family, so he agreed to enter the foreign affairs room.

Of course, Lu Ning asked Jiao Cailian to do an internal record room, of course, not mainly to recruit this old stubborn man.

If it is said that Lu Ning was in the East China Sea back then, and there was an element of banter when he asked Gan and You Wuniang to do things, then now Lu Ning's view of women coming out to work is completely different.

It is a good thing to liberate women's productive forces and enable women to create more value for social development.

Of course, for the common people, the contribution of men to farming and weaving and women has always been not small, not to mention the fundamental contributions of the entire human society, such as having children.

However, the so-called male ploughing and female weaving, and women's work, is not very efficient.

Nowadays, the textile factory of Donghai Baixing has a waterwheel spinning, and with the promotion of cotton planting, the collective operation of cotton spinning is much more efficient than that of a single person, and the spinning wheel is gradually improving to how to spin cotton efficiently.

These jobs are suitable for women to do, and men are used instead, but labor is wasted.

In the textile factory of Baixing in the East China Sea, in addition to female officials and slaves, there are also many girls from poor families.

In Zhao Yuanwei, it is another kind of management for some of the women and ladies who are literate in the former dynasty's criminal officials, and they basically can't do hard labor, so they choose talented and literate female officials and slaves to learn the newly learned arithmetic and accounting, which can be regarded as a crash course in accounting in this era.

The audit and accounting of the inner treasury and Zhaoyuanwei and other royal industries such as the equal degree of the branch office, the gold department room, the file room, etc., have been filled by more and more female officials.

Female officials were originally in charge of palace affairs, and now Lu Ning has expanded them to the royal estate, of course, just some number accounting supervision, file management, and so on.

Lu Ning feels that women are careful, and they are completely engaged in file management, accounting, and other work, so that they can participate in social work that women can't participate in, after all, from the perspective of productivity, men are much stronger than women.

Of course, that's about it.

After all, female officials can only manage royal affairs, and it is impossible for female officials to appear in the various yamen class rooms in a grand manner.

After all, it is impossible for people of this era to accept it.

However, in this Zhaofu Division, Lu Ning began to be lazy again, especially when he was in Yangzhou, he officially issued an order to implement the "sentence break mark", and in the future, official documents, files, etc., all need to be broken sentence mark.

This also indicates that Qi Guo's promotion of the abbreviated literary style, after all, the ancient texts are also waiting, which is itself a kind of broken sentence.

In fact, when Lu Ning wrote the new textbook, he used punctuation marks, and many professors and students also learned to use the symbols in the textbook to break sentences, which is quite good, but it has not been systematic.

Now the file of the Zhaofu Division, because it is a new style, some officials have problems with broken sentences, Lu Ning is ready to order Jiao Cailian to learn how to make sentences and mark, and she will help do this kind of eye-consuming work in the future.

However, although she was caught to be a coolie, but when night fell, there were only two people in the cabin, the river was rippling, the red candles were swaying, the beautiful woman in front of her was smiling and beautiful, and her pretty face was all flattering, which couldn't help but make people feel something different.

Let's go and see Zhumao, Lu Ning pulled out his legs and went to the rear cabin.