Chapter 84: To Gusu
The king and the crown prince left Hanyue by boat with their retinue, and the eight boats rented by Qu Wu pulled his goods, along with the three Chen siblings, Ziyan, Ji Zhi, and Chen Shi.
At this time, it is the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the weather is already warming, the willow strips and willows by the river, like the beautiful long hair of a girl gently swinging, the people on the shore are as hurried as Qu Wu first came to Hanyue to see, but there is no strange feeling.
Qu Wu looked at Han Yue, who was gradually moving away, and his heart was full of emotion. This is the first time I set foot in a small town after traveling to ancient times, and I had the happiness of Mengyao; This was also his own Waterloo, plotted by the shipwrights, chased and captured by the soldiers, and had frustration and hesitation; This is also the starting point for his high-spirited ancient life, from a business Bai Ding jumped up to show his strength, scolding Fang Xuan, for a few months ago he was just a truck driver, like a dream.
When he first came to Hanyue, Qu Wu didn't have a single copper plate on his body, except for the fluorite balls that he wasn't sure if they were really valuable. And at this moment, the largest restaurant in Hanyue is under his name, and the remaining seven valuable night pearls, hundreds of catties of jade and jade, dozens of catties of gold, and more than 20 tons of goods are worth enough to make him rich.
The only regret is Meng Yao's departure, which is a painful experience that no amount of wealth can exchange.
The safety of the fleet was the responsibility of Prince Shoumeng, and each ship was guarded by soldiers, and Qu Wu gathered his brothers and sisters on the last ship to carry the goods, and the two wolf dog buns and steamed buns also boarded this ship. The ship also kept the cargo to a minimum, and half of the cabin was vacated for everyone to rest.
As they were about to face a new living environment, these young people were full of joy, and it was rare for them to get together like this, and in addition to the cold weather, everyone huddled together to warm each other and strengthen their relationship.
Ziyan was huddled around Qu Wu, she remembered that she was so close to her brother when she went to Zheng Guo, and she was busy in Hanyue for so many days, although she saw her every day, she didn't have many opportunities to speak.
"Boss, have you been to Gusu before?" Chen Shi asked Qu Wu.
This is a question that Qu Wu doesn't even know how to answer. It is true that he has never been to Gusu in this era, but he is very familiar with Gusu more than 2,000 years later.
"I've been in Gusu for a while." Qu Wu said half-jokingly.
"Is fugue sleepwalking?" Chen Qing asked.
"Yes and no. Gusu is a historical city and a city of the future. Qu Wu said ominously.
"How do you understand that?" Ziyan asked puzzled.
"Gusu is close to Taihu Lake, and now we don't see any superior geographical characteristics, but from here we can build a grand canal to the north, running through the north and south, so that our grain and aquatic products in Wu can be transported to the north in large quantities to sell, and the minerals and other goods in the north can also be transported to the south, and it must be a rich place in the future, and there will be many cultural attractions, and a large number of cultural celebrities will be born." Qu Wu said.
"That's your wish, isn't it? It's too difficult to build a river, right? Ji Zhi said.
"It seems difficult now, but in a few hundred years, someone will do it, and then Gusu will be even more brilliant." Qu Wu said.
"The boss is a prophet." Chen Damao said.
"Hehe, don't I have a witch in my name? The upper horizontal is the sky, the lower horizontal is the earth, the upper is astronomy, the lower knows the geography, and knows the affairs of the world. Qu Wu said with a smile.
"What do you mean by the two other people in the witch word?" Ji Zhi asked.
"Do you need to ask? The one on the left is the boss, and the one on the right is the boss's wife. Chen Damao said, everyone laughed when they heard it, Qu Wu also laughed with everyone, and after laughing, everyone suddenly found that Ziyan was not smiling alone, and her face was flushed.
"No, there's a wall between the boss and his wife." Ji Zhi said again.
"It's not a wall, it's a veil that breaks when you poke it, and now it's up to the boss on the left to pierce this veil and take his wife's hand on the right." Chen Damao said, everyone laughed again, and Ziyan's face turned even redder.
Chen Ermao was stunned and asked, "Ziyan, why is your face so red?" Everyone's eyes were focused on Ziyan.
"I hate it, my face is not red, it's always been like this, the north wind blows." Zi Yan scolded.
"Haha, the north wind is not blowing you alone, everyone is not popular, you are red alone." Chen Ermao said.
"Okay, other girls are like this, the water is good." Qu Wu hurriedly relieved Ziyan.
Chen Qing, who was sitting next to Ermao, also kicked him, and Ermao didn't continue the topic.
"Boss, since you know astronomy and geography, tell us some stories." Chen Qing said.
Qu Wu thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll tell you a story about the war."
When Qu Wu was in the army, he studied war the most, and he had the most ancient and modern war stories, especially those classic battles that combined the 36 strategies, and he was even more familiar with them.
Qu Wu told them the story of the Three Kingdoms, because the story of the Three Kingdoms was easier for them to understand. If you want to tell them about the three major battles, the Korean War, and the Gulf War, there are a lot of modern weapons and terminology to explain, and it is very difficult to understand.
Qu Wu first talked about the three knots of Taoyuan.
Qu Wu still remembers this story deeply, and when he talks about this story, it is very vivid, and even he can recite the words of Liu, Guan, and Zhang when they bow down: read Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, although they have different surnames, they are brothers, and they work together. Rescue the needy, report to the country, and go down to Lishu. I don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I want to die on the same day and month of the same year. The emperor and the queen of heaven have learned from this heart, betrayed their righteousness and ungrateful, and killed heaven and man.
Chen Damao was the first time they heard such a story, in addition to being moved by the righteousness of Liu Guanzhang and the three of them to marry Jin Lan, they were also deeply impressed by Qu Wu's erudition, Ziyan and Chen Qing both listened to it.
"And what happened to the three of them?" After listening, Ziyan asked.
"That's really a long story, the three of them worked together, and after many years of struggle, they pulled out a team to create a world, Liu Bei later became the emperor, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became fierce generals. But Guan Yu and Zhang Fei both died miserably, and both of them were murdered by plots. Qu Wu said.
"Boss, what is the emperor?" Chen Shi asked puzzled.
"The emperor is equivalent to the current Zhou Tianzi." Qu Wu explained that he didn't know which Zhou Tianzi was now, but he knew that the influence of Zhou Tianzi was far less than that of Qin Shi Huang and later emperors.
What they don't know is that at this time, Zhou Tianzi, that is, King Zhou Ding, has a declining influence on various countries. At the beginning, the Zhou Dynasty divided a poor mountain and bad water to the Chu State, who knew that the Chu people were angry and tried to be strong, and constantly annexed the small countries by force, at this time its territory almost covered the entire southern region of China, and its strong strength made it have the ambition to covet the entire Zhou Dynasty and try to replace it; And the other powers were also ready to act on their own, and the days of Zhou Tianzi's ostensible command of the world were numbered.
The Warring States period when the kings of various countries were kings was not too far away, and the state of Chu had already been called king, and the monarch of Wu Quqi, who was sitting in front, was the last monarch of Wu who did not claim the title of king.
After the monarchs of various countries established themselves as queens, the etiquette collapsed, the world was in chaos, and the annexation and anti-annexation wars between countries became the norm. The law of the jungle is rampant in the world, the weak eat the strong, the fittest survive, and all countries have resorted to almost all means in order to expand their territory or seek self-preservation, and the political and military struggles between open and covert battles and joint efforts to resist a strong enemy are splendid, and the chaotic times are coming, but the people in the midst of it do not feel the astonishing process of this change from quantitative to qualitative change.
(Author's note: The situation in the late Spring and Autumn period is similar to the current international situation. The situation in which the United States dominates the world is changing, and great changes unseen in a century are taking shape. The big change that is about to take place now lies in the rise of digital currencies in the Internet era, and the position of the US dollar is in jeopardy. Once the dollar loses momentum, the U.S. economy will become decadent, and the U.S. military's global power will inevitably retreat, and who will fill the power vacuum formed after the U.S. military retreats? Various forces and groups of countries will compete for it, and the law of the jungle will once again be carried forward, and an enlarged version of the Warring States era is coming. )