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In the Qinghe Hou Mansion, a large pot of cooked zongzi was brought to the restaurant by the cook.

Xing'er and Yu Ji, the two little girls, couldn't wait for a long time, watching the zongzi come over, and suddenly shouted excitedly that one person took one, Xing'er looked at the food wrapped in leaves, hesitated for a moment and didn't eat it directly, but Yu Ji took a bite directly, and then threw the zongzi on the table and pointed at Chen Xu's nose and got angry: "Brother Xu is deceiving, this zongzi is not delicious at all, Yu Ji can't bite it!" ”

"Click~" At the same time as the two little girls made their moves, Yu Wuya, who was the number one senior foodie in the Qinghe Hou Mansion, had already followed suit, took a zongzi and took a bite directly, and gnawed a mouthful ......of zongzi twine, and frowned while spitting out the twine and zongzi leaves: "Engong, it is indeed soft and glutinous and sweet, but the skin made of this reed leaf is too unpalatable, and it will be changed next time."

Before Yu Wuya finished speaking, he saw that Chen Xu had already pounced and ripped the twine apart, and then peeled off the dumpling leaves, revealing a ball of glutinous rice mixed with red beans and preserved fruits, and then brought it to his mouth and took a bite, and then showed an intoxicated look on his face: "Well, it's delicious~delicious~"

Yu Wuya: ......

Shui gently covered his mouth and sneered, and picked up a zongzi, untied the twine slowly, peeled off the zongzi leaves, and handed it to Chen Jiang: "Mother, you taste the zongzi made by Chen Lang!" ”

"Good!" Chen Jiang took it with a smile, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was happy.

The two little girls finally figured out how to eat the zongzi, so their interest increased greatly, and they quickly peeled off the zongzi and ate it, and kept shouting to see who could eat the lucky coin first while eating.

A family eats zongzi in the restaurant, whether the people of the Hou Mansion are housekeepers or groom slaves, all received one or two zongzi, and they all gathered everywhere to taste at this time, but most of them are full of confusion and don't know how to eat, although some people carry forward the way of eating Yu Wuyan, even the belt filling is eaten once, but people with sufficient life experience still quickly found the correct way to eat zongzi, untie the twine and peel off the zongzi leaves, eat the soft glutinous and sweet zongzi filling inside, and was immediately conquered by this new food invented by Hou Ye, One by one, they are full of praise.

"Ah, I've got a lucky coin!" A servant girl screamed excitedly with a copper coin.

"You're so lucky, I heard that this is the coin that Hou Ye has used immortal arts, bless you with peace in the future, quickly find a thread to hang on your body!" A senior woman hurriedly said.

"Wow, I got a lucky coin too!" A groom also took a copper coin out of his mouth and jumped up for joy.

"Good luck for Lao Hei, the few horsemen who got together are all envious and jealous!"

"Lao Hei, I have a rope here, give it to you to tie up and hang on your body!" A servant girl blushed and twisted and handed over a red hemp rope.

"Oh~~" A group of grooms followed suit.

The old man stood up with a smile, touched his head, handed the coin to the servant, and said, "I have no place to hang on me, or ...... Give...... I'll give it to you! ”

"Haha, old black, who said you don't have a place to hang on your body, and there's an object in your crotch that can't just be hung ......," said one of the grooms, laughing.

"Hahahaha~" A group of grooms laughed along.

"Sigh~" The servant girl blushed and spat at a group of grooms, then took the coin in Lao Hei's hand and whispered, "I'll help you tie it with a thread, and ...... at night." You come to me in the evening! ”

"Okay~" Lao Heihan smiled and nodded again and again.

"Tsk, Lao Hei, this ramming thief is good!" A group of grooms all looked at the departing servant girl's twisted big ass, full of envy, jealousy and hatred.

"Don't look at it, this ass will be old and black in the future, eat the zongzi quickly, and see if there are any lucky coins, I heard that Hou Ye put a total of five!"

The Hou Mansion wants to eat lucky coins from the zongzi, because this Caitou Hou Mansion is also a lot more lively.

In the restaurant, the two little girls yelled and ate several zongzi in a row, touching their little belly and humming that they couldn't eat anymore but didn't eat a single coin, so the two little girls were very sad and disappointed, so Chen Xu had to find out two copper coins and one person divided one, and the two little girls broke off their plans to continue to eat a few more zongzi, and happily took the coins everywhere to show off.

An imperial chef with two cooks came in from outside the door and saluted, "Master Hou, the zongzi have been sent to the palace!" ”

"Well, you guys have a few too!" Chen Xu nodded, feeling that he couldn't eat two zongzi anymore, so he stood up and went out to eliminate food.

Half an hour later, Chen Xu was playing with two giant pandas in the panda garden, and the monkeys kept jumping around on the wooden frame and a few peach trees in the panda garden, eating the peaches on the trees, and then using the peach pits to keep throwing the giant pandas, which were thrown to Chen Xu several times.

"Master Hou, Your Majesty invites you to enter the palace!" The palace man saluted respectfully and said.

Although Chen Xu was a little inexplicable, he quickly turned around and went back to wash and change clothes, and then followed the palace people to the palace by car.

Inside the palace, Qin Shi Huang, who had not returned to the palace for a long time, was sitting in the pavilion in the garden of his dormitory, and there was a plate on the stone table, and there were several zongzi on the plate, one of which had been peeled off and eaten, but Qin Shi Huang was still looking at it with a coin in his hand.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Qinghe is here!" A chamberlain walked to the edge of the gazebo to give a report.

"Please~" Qin Shi Huang put down the coins in his hand.

After a while, Chen Xu followed the palace people who passed the decree into the garden, and sat down in the pavilion after the ceremony.

"The zongzi sent by Aiqing today is soft and glutinous and sweet, I like it very much!" Qin Shi Huang first praised Chen Xu, and then pointed to the copper coins on the stone table and said, "I heard that Aiqing made hundreds of zongzi, and only wrapped five coins, and it happened that I ate one of them first, it seems that I must also be a person of great luck this year!" ”

Chen Xu said with a face full of surprise: "Your Majesty is really the true dragon son of fortune cover, the minister's own wrapped zongzi, when I ate it today, I didn't find it for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be eaten by His Majesty first, I'm afraid that only Your Majesty in the world has such luck and good fortune, it is really gratifying!" ”

"Haha!" Qin Shi Huang has a big heart, "Every time I talk to Aiqing, I feel comfortable, today's Duanyang Festival, I haven't seen Aiqing for a few days, so I want to chat with Aiqing, and at the same time I want to discuss with Aiqing!" ”

"Your Majesty's words are serious, please speak up, the minister will definitely share your worries and solve problems for Your Majesty!" Chen Xu hurriedly surrendered his hand.

"Aiqing doesn't need to be like this, although you and I are monarchs and ministers, but in fact, teachers and friends, this time Henan and Hebei are all victorious, the Huns have suffered heavy setbacks, and I have no worries about the Huns invading in the northwest border, and with the new horse equipment, I plan to send troops to attack Donghu after the autumn, so as to completely pacify the two places in the northwest, so that I have enough time and manpower to deal with Baiyue, so I want to listen to Aiqing's advice......"

Qin Shi Huang originally wanted to conquer Lingnan and then attack the Huns, but after meeting Chen Xu, he completely changed his original intention, and with the support of the ordnance and equipment developed by Chen Xu, the Xiongnu who had been attacking the Central Plains for hundreds of years was quelled in less than two months.

The Xiongnu used to be a plate of scattered sand, and the tribes attacked each other and were not united, but because the attributes of the nomads were that they had no fixed place to farm, and they all relied on animal husbandry and robbery for a living, so the Central Plains was used to fixing the residence of the people who had a headache to deal with, and they did not take advantage of it for hundreds of years, even if the Zhao State had expanded its land to the west for thousands of miles to occupy a large area along the river and south of Yinshan, but because of the blockage of Yinshan, it was never possible to continue to attack to the northwest, and could only build the Great Wall to block the harassment of the Xiongnu.

In the past ten years, the Central Plains melee, the Six Kingdoms were finally wiped out by Qin, the Central Plains was unified at the same time the Xiongnu also began to thrive, there was a heroic figure Touman Shan Yu, and gradually gathered a huge force to create the Xiongnu royal court.

Although the Central Plains and the surrounding Xiongnu and Qianghu are hostile to each other, but they are not without contacts, there are caravans on the border all the year round walking between the Central Plains and Zhuhu, the leather goods, cattle and horses and gems in the land of Huns, and the pottery and grain cloth in the Central Plains are traded with each other, so Hun Hu still has more or less understanding of the situation in the Central Plains and the Central Plains for Huns.

Hun Hu knew that Great Qin had now unified the Central Plains, and the Central Plains also knew which tribes were the most powerful in Xiongnu and Donghu.

The king of Donghu and the king of the Xiongnu are both thorns in the eyes and flesh of Qin Shi Huang, and they must be pulled out quickly.

However, this time Jiang Hu went out to fight against the order, and the rabbit was beaten crookedly and killed the head Man Shan Yu, which was simply an unprecedented surprise, Wang Ting was attacked, Shan Yu was killed, and the power that the Xiongnu had gathered for more than ten years would soon turn into a plate of scattered sand again, and the tribes would once again fall into each other's battles because of the pasture, so before the Xiongnu had no other eloquent hero, it was impossible for the Xiongnu to put any pressure on Daqin, What's more, the fierce combat strength of the Qin army this time will definitely make the Huns move to the grasslands farther northwest, and the border in the northwest of Great Qin will basically be completely calm.

At present, there is still a Donghu left in the north, occupying the vast grasslands and mountains in the northeast, but the current Donghu is no longer the Donghu of the past, except for the title of a Donghu king, the strength has long been greatly reduced, and the scope continues to shrink to the northeast under the dual pressure of the Xiongnu and the Central Plains, and it has long been unable to form a big threat to Daqin.

Donghu, known as a branch of the Yellow Emperor tribe, has a descendant of the Xiong family, which is a nomadic people formed by Dongyi's migration to the northeast, and the ancestor of the Xianbei people in later generations.

The most powerful time of Donghu was the Spring and Autumn Period, when the Donghu royal court controlled almost the entire Northeast region, and even across the Mongolian steppe today, the sphere of influence reached the Beijing area of later generations, and the Yan State at that time formed a dog-tooth intertwined situation, at its peak, it was known as 200,000 people who controlled the strings, and millions of good horses, but in front of the Central Plains countries, no matter how powerful the nomads were scum, the Yan State was very different from several overlords of the Central Plains in the Spring and Autumn Period, and even the strength was almost the weakest among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, but it was this weakest Central Plains scum prince, but when dealing with Donghu, he was incomparably strong, and he directly attacked Donghu Ganggang into a disability.

Around 280 B.C., the Yan general Qin Kai, who was taken hostage in Donghu, returned to China, and then led the army to launch a revenge attack, driving Donghu north for thousands of miles in one fell swoop, and Yan also expanded the land to the northeast for thousands of miles, placing Liaodong, Liaoxi, Youbeiping, Shanggu, Yuyang five counties, and then built a Great Wall from the north to the east to the Korean Peninsula, and then turned Donghu out of the country, so that Donghu began to go downhill.

And later, when the general Li Mu of Zhao attacked the Xiongnu, he also slashed a few knives on Donghu to open the way, Donghu suffered heavy casualties and completely did not work, plus the gradual rise of the Xiongnu, in order to survive and constantly squeeze Donghu's sphere of influence, so Donghu is getting weaker and weaker, and now after the unification of the six countries of Daqin, Donghu has not much threat to the Central Plains, but the characteristics of the nomads have not changed, and every year there will be more or less some tribes who continue to harass the border of Daqin, plundering women and goods, Therefore, King Donghu was also a very important target of Qin Shi Huang.

Xiongnu Shan Yu is dead, and this Donghu king can also die!

This is Qin Shi Huang's simplest and most straightforward idea.