The ancient Han Dynasty architectural style is ancient and atmospheric, the people's life style is simple, in order to facilitate kneeling and sitting, the furniture is some low objects, even in the palace.

Stools, chairs, and desks have not yet developed in the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty has been kneeling for a lifetime, allowing him to sit on the dragon chair, and all the ministers who look directly on weekdays have to raise their necks and raise their eyebrows to look up, which is the temperament that the emperor should have.

Under the fiery gaze of the princes, Emperor Jing Longyan Dayue announced on the spot that he would reward the crown prince with 50,000 gold, and announced that the dragon chair would be seated by the emperor after today, and the official identity of this chair was recognized.

In this gift, Liu Chebao overwhelmed the crowd, stabilized his position, grew his face in front of the princes, and valued Han Yan more and more in his heart.

Too womb.

The flowers and plants are dense, the vines are around, the birds are pecking, and the goldfish are wagging their tails.

Under the mulberry tree, the sunlight shines down through the dense branches and leaves, a little dazzling, Han Yan climbs up with a wooden ladder to pick purple-red mulberries, which are purely naturally grown, sweet and juicy, and saliva flows down just by looking at it.

"Shizi, be careful." Xi'er looked under the tree, holding the wooden ladder with one white and tender hand, and blocking the sun with one hand, very worried, she should have done such rough work, but Han Yan disagreed. In the words of his grandfather Han Rongdang - I didn't die when I was poked in the stomach, and if I fell to death by climbing a ladder, it would be fate.

"You go on." Han Yan held a handful of mulberries in his left hand, turned his head to look down, threw the fruit in his hand to Xi'er, and then picked some more and went down step by step.

"Grandpa, you eat too." Gave half of the mulberry in his hand to Han Yan, and squinted to enjoy the sweet fruit.

"That's why you dare to be so presumptuous." Han Yandang shook his head with a smile, sighing with emotion.

The mulberry is a tonic for the emperor's royal family, the Taigong is a treasure, used by the royal family, and those who pick it without permission will be severely punished, but Han Yan can eat it whenever he wants, and the soldiers guarding the Taigong Palace should not have seen it, so it can be seen that the grandson is more comfortable here than in the Gonggaohou Kingdom.

At the edge of the pond, the little raccoon dog curled up in a circle, its eyes moved with the goldfish in the pond, its eyes were motionless, if the fish swam over, it would poke out a small fluffy paw to quickly and clumsily probe the water, if it failed to strike, it would squint and lick the water stains on the paws with its tongue to comfort itself...... It's like eating the most beautiful food in the world.

Seeing Han Yan coming over, the little fox glanced back and ignored it, and continued to stare at the goldfish, full of arrogance.

"Grandpa, how is the expansion of our paper workshop?" Han Yan touched the smooth and delicate short hair of the little fox, and exchanged it for a slightly disgusted "meow".

"Now it is a workshop of 500 people, and the supply of paper that the king of Hejian wants is about to be completed, and some merchants have come to me when they hear the news and want to resell the paper, but the price is very low."

"How so?" Han Yan said suspiciously: "Our paper has not yet been supplied on the market, and even the order of the King of Hejian has not been completed, and the rest of the people can't buy paper, so the price should be very expensive, right?" ”

"I thought so too, and I inquired with those businessmen to learn that there were people in Chang'an City who were selling paper on a large scale, and recently I heard that there were also people in Luoyang who sold elm paper, which was cheap, and caused the people to rush to it. I came to congratulate Your Majesty on his birthday this time, and I also want to ask you about this matter by the way, has someone passed on the secret recipe of papermaking without permission? ”

"This ......" As soon as he talks about this, how can Han Yan not understand?

It must be the complicity of the Shaofu God and the people of the papermaking department, seeing that they don't care about things, they are becoming more and more rampant, and it is not enough to fill their own pockets, and they are even more blatant to spread the papermaking technology to the outside world and grab huge benefits.

Although the emperor gave himself intellectual property rights, promised the benefits of paper, but the actual implementation is very difficult, the ink greed is your top boss, when one of the nine kings, in charge of the royal family, it can be seen that he is very trusted by Emperor Jing, although he has the crown prince as the backstage, but now the most important thing for Liu Che is Taoguang Yanghui, Emperor Jing does not die for a day, he will have to hold for a day.

"When the emperor celebrates his birthday, I will deal with this matter." Han Yan thought for a while and said, "Grandpa, you have to urge the carpenter to develop new paper, as long as there is better paper, the elm paper will be eliminated, and they will not be able to make waves." ”

"In the past six months, the carpenter has made great progress, mixing white ash into the pulp can turn white, but the smell is not very good, and he is working to solve this problem."

"Blank paper won't work." Han Yan shook his head in disappointment, the longer he stayed in Dahan, the more things he understood, the whole people of the Han Dynasty were superstitious, white objects were incinerated for the dead, and it was ominous to use it to write and read. What the people don't accept is made and no one buys, "pure white paper or don't make it, the color is bright, find a way to improve the smoothness of the paper, flexibility, quality is the main thing." ”

"According to the agreement between you and Wei Juan, even if we improve the elm paper, the secret recipe will still have to be handed over to the imperial court." Han Yan sighed and persuaded: "The leakage of the secret recipe must have been done by the insiders of the Shaofu, they have a huge organization and are widely implicated, you are still young, grandpa doesn't want you to fall into the officialdom struggle too early, as long as they don't go too far, just turn a blind eye." ”

"I know grandpa." Han Yan smiled on his face, but there was a coldness spreading in his heart, daring to snatch Lao Tzu's food and break your teeth.

"Your Majesty will have a night banquet in the suburbs tonight, and tomorrow there will be a spring hunt, and you will test the skills of the princes' heirs, you can go with me." Han Yan saw that the little fox was cute, and he wanted to reach out to touch it, but he was so frightened that the little guy screamed, his back bulged, his hair exploded, and he bared his teeth in demonstration, ready to pounce at any time.

Han Yan laughed embarrassedly, secretly scolding a good brute, but he didn't bother with it.

Seeing this, Han Yan waved his hand at the little fox, and gently said "go" in his mouth, the little guy collected the fierce momentum, and ran away, giving some face to the owner who fed the food.

"I still don't want it, I'm not good at bow horse skills, and I can only be a foil when I go."

"This is a good opportunity to make a name for yourself, outsiders say that you are a servant next to the crown prince, and you can only talk and flatter, so you might as well take this opportunity to change everyone's opinion of you."

"But I don't have a trick up my sleeve?" Han Yan hesitated.

"The bow horse is just a small Doyle, and there are many people who can fight in the big Han, but there are very few educated princes." Han Yan sneakily glanced around, turned around next to Han Yan, blocked the gaze of Xi'er behind him, let the sunlight reflection of the two on the ground merge into one, took out an object from his big sleeve, and whispered: "I bought you two songs, and they will be a blockbuster at the banquet then......"

"......" Han Yan was dumbfounded.

……

Han Yan didn't stay to eat at noon, although Han Yan was like a fish in water in the Imperial Palace, he was not the master here after all, and the rules couldn't be broken.

Regarding the matter of grandpa buying words, Han Yan felt ridiculous, he had read these two words, but they were just idle articles, praising the peaceful and prosperous times, and there was nothing surprising about it. But if you think about it, you can understand, if the lyrics are really brilliant and coquettish, why bother selling them for money, wouldn't it be good to have a reputation for a talent?

In the Han Dynasty, money can't buy status, King Zhuo's grandson is rich in the world, and he has to wear coarse linen clothes, only titles, official positions, talents, and reputation are the foundation of respect from the world.

As for tonight's banquet, Han Yan will go to participate, but he is not prepared to show his edge, so as not to suppress the limelight of others and be hated.

The dinner was held in the suburbs of the west of Chang'an City, where the flowers and plants are numerous, the mountains are high, the Jingshui Weishui, the flow in and out, the field hunting activities of the previous years are held there, and later the Han Wu Emperor repaired the Shanglin Garden, Sima Xiangru made the "Shanglin Fu" in order to shoot the emperor's fart, and the name has been passed down through the ages.

Liu Che didn't return to the palace all day, only Emperor Jing's edict was issued.

"The crown prince offers a dragon chair, the emperor is happy, and he will be rewarded with 30,000 gold."

It shows that the gift prepared for Liu Che has successfully won the first place.

It was night, at sunset, and the sky was filled with crimson clouds that shone in the pond, dyeing the surface of the water a sparkling pale gold, and scattering them in golden circles as the fish swam with their tails wagging their tails.

After a restful dress, a clean face, and fragrant clothes, Han Yan beckoned the coachman and the bodyguard Han Erdan, and prepared to go to the night banquet, but Xi'er searched around the palace and didn't find Han Erdan.

Leaving the mansion without the permission of the owner is equivalent to "fugitive slave", and he will be caught and punished heavily.

Han Erdan left the palace without asking for instructions and at great risk...... Han Yan stroked his chin and thought about it, and then he realized something.

When Xi'er finished looking for the palace, the sky was completely dark, and the dinner was about to be delayed, so she had to call the two soldiers of the palace to be guards and let the pig drive to the suburbs.

"Don't question Han Erdan when he comes back, just don't blame him, just don't have such a thing." Before leaving, Han Yan instructed Xi'er.

"But......" the little maid was angry.

On weekdays, everyone is in harmony, Han Yan only has the three slaves, the bodyguard, the life secretary, the coachman and the errand runner, everyone performs their own duties, there is no conflict of interest, but Han Erdan is unruly, saying that it will last for a long time, but you slip away halfway, which makes Xi'er feel very unhappy.

Han Yan waved his hand and motioned for her not to say more, "Everyone has friends and their own circles, you have met a lot of little sisters in the Tai Palace, in addition to me and them in life, there are also people who are sophisticated, Han Erdan will naturally have friends, his friends may be rangers, maybe soldiers, or the Huns who also live in the Han Dynasty, I once said that he should be treated as a brother and be on an equal footing, so he can leave freely, and this matter will stop." ”

After a pause, he asked with a smile: "As long as we understand each other more, the world will be full of harmony, right?" ”

"......" The little maid's round face bulged, and she was speechless.

And at this moment, Han Erdan is facing a life choice.

A few days ago, because of the old witch, the immortal and other sons ordered the whole city to find him, so that the rangers knew that he was a person, and later Han Yan was besieged by hundreds of domestic slaves, he stepped forward, with one enemy and one hundred, sacrificing himself to savior, and was spread out afterwards, and he also became a celebrity in Chang'an City.

Loyalty and courage are a good story in the Han Dynasty, so Han Erdan is respected by the rangers, and everyone is no longer hostile to him because he is a Huns.

People are famous, not only the Han people know you, but the Huns will also come to the door.

Thousands of Han people are plundered by the Xiongnu every year, and there are many Huns who come to the Han Dynasty for trade, marriage, escape, etc., Chang'an City has a population of 200,000, at least 1,000 people have Xiongnu blood, and even Han Yan is among them.

It is not easy for everyone to live in a foreign country, so they naturally have to support each other, and after a long time, Han Erdan also knows some friends.

Emperor Jing's birthday, the people were allowed to gather to drink, and the people celebrated, but under this peace, there was an undercurrent.

The residential areas of Chang'an are distributed in the north of the city and are divided into 160 Lu Li, and there are "Chang'an Nine Cities" in the northwest corner, which are the places where ordinary people live.

If Han Erdan wants to come out, in fact, he only needs to say hello to Han Yan, and he usually asks for leave, but this time it is extraordinary.

Ordinary bungalows, blue bricks and gray tiles, the courtyard is closed, the windows are nailed with thick wooden boards, the room is as dark as night, only the fiery red wax on the candlestick tears gurgling, burning with the faint seepage of the ground, imprinting two majestic black shadows on the wall.

"I asked someone to inquire about your children and wife, they were placed near the royal court of Dadanyu, they lived a good life, and with the care of your former subordinates, no one dared to bully them." One of the shadows spoke fluent Chinese.

Hearing this, Han Erdan's eyebrows twisted into a pimple, obviously not convinced, "My wife was not married by my eldest brother?" ”

According to the habits of the Huns, if the father dies, the child can marry the mother, the elder brother dies, and the younger brother can marry the sister-in-law.

In the past, it was a common practice that soldiers who entered the Han land and did not come back would be "killed", whether you died or not, the household registration in the Xiongnu would be eliminated, because they knew the laws of the Han Dynasty, if there was no transmission and identification, even if they did not die, they would be arrested as slaves and would not be able to return for the rest of their lives.

Yigu Li's cheekbones are wide, the bridge of the nose is high, he is dressed in a felt coat, and there is a faint smell of sheep on his body, and the fat mutton of the Xiongnu is the favorite food of the nobles of the Han Dynasty.

After listening to Han Erdan's question, he touched his chest with his hand, lowered his head, and covered up the fluctuations in his eyes, and replied loudly: "Of course I didn't marry, your wife envied the Han culture, was loyal to you, often cried silently during the day, and chanted your name by the lake at night, always hoping that you could return to the Xiongnu, and your children always sang the ballad of missing their father, how could you forget it without seven or eight years?" ”

"Did you tell them I'm alive?" Han Erdan looked forward to it.

"I've already told you, but when I came to Dahan, your subordinates were transferred out of the royal court by Da Shan Yu and went to the border city to maintain order, and they won't be able to go back for a while, and your wife and children are fortunate to have me to drive away the people who humiliated them, but the future life ......"

"What?" Han Erdan rose up angrily, and the big slap of the casserole grabbed Yi Guli's collar, like a fierce leopard, "Who dares to bully them, when I go back in five years, the whole family will not be left!" ”

"But...... But your wife and your children will suffer greatly for these five years. ”

Yi Gu Li stared at Han Erdan's eyes, and with a light word, the strong man who was nearly two meters tall lost his fighting spirit and sat down on the ground in a decadent manner.

The room was quiet, and the faint candlelight crackled, and the light and flames danced, making the shadow of Igu Li on the wall look cunning, "Actually, it's not impossible. ”

Han Erdan Huo Ran raised his head.

"You have been living in the palace for a long time with the princes' heirs, this Liu Che is the future His Majesty of the Han Dynasty, I recently heard that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty is in a worrying condition, and Liu Che has been involved in political affairs, you are by his side, you will definitely be able to access a lot of core secrets......"

"You want me to be a fine worker?" Han Erdan's eyes widened, and his fists clenched.

"I'm just relaying other people's words, Da Shan Yu conspirator let me tell you, if the family wants to live a good life, the husband has to go out to work hard, those who have no ability only deserve to eat leftovers, and starving to death is not worth pitiful, and the warriors who love the Huns will be bent on allegiance to Da Shan Yu, and will not be eroded by the silk and wine of the Han people, five years is not a long time, but it is enough for your wife to marry, and your children are called as slaves."

"You ......" Han Erdan gritted his teeth and trembled with anger.

How could he not understand the meaning, if you don't do it carefully, your family will become lowly slaves, let others humiliate, after five years, you don't want to go back to the Huns, your former subordinates will spit on you, and the Huns will not tolerate you.

"I'm sure you'll think it through, and if there's a situation, just inform the owner of the house." Iguli smiled, and his shadow detective on the wall patted the other shadow on the shoulder before opening the door.

A ray of sunlight shone into the room, and the shadows on the walls disappeared as if no one had visited......