Chapter 90
Xiong Jing's words are 'women of Chu only marry men of Chu State', but there is a momentum of 'my women are only mine' in his tone. It's natural for adults to say this kind of thing, but when it comes to him who is still wearing a tie clothes, there is an indescribable awkwardness. Hearing this, Mi Xuan finally couldn't help laughing, her laughter was very crisp, and only then did Xiong Jing take a serious look at her whole person.
She wears a small hat that is common to women, with a pointed top, and the tasseled ribbon on the side of the hat is also colored, like a riding hat in later generations. It is covered on the forehead and knotted under the chin, even if the long hair is draped behind him, the whole face still looks heroic. The lip color seems to be a little light under the anointed candle, but the eyes are dark, and the smile looks like a flower is blooming, exuding the unique innocence of a girl.
Xiong Jing's aesthetics have evolved to the lower body, he is not used to looking at women's faces, and he does not often look at women's breasts, looking at a woman often starts from the waist, then all the way to the calves, and finally returns to the face. It's a pity that because of kneeling, he can only see a chic white wide belt on the dark green coat of Qi Xuansu, with his hips and thighs stacked, and there is no arc in the dimness. Only the hem of the deep coat did not completely cover the foot clothes for some reason, and the white jade-like calf was exposed, even if the light was dim, it was very eye-catching.
The sensitivity of the woman made Mi Xuan notice the strangeness in Xiong Jing's eyes, but she didn't understand the gaze of a man, she found that she didn't sit down, and immediately knelt down and said: "Mi Xuan is rude, please forgive Brother Wang." Then he sat the mat upright. After sitting upright, the deep clothes covered the footwear, and Xiong Jing couldn't see anything.
"You're not guilty." Xiong Jing, who couldn't see Xiao Yu's legs, was a little disappointed. The Qin people, or northerners, are always five or six centimeters taller than the south. According to the statistics of the Great Sima Mansion, the height of the adult commoners of the Chu State is mostly between 160-164, and the higher the north and the shorter the south; According to Lian Po, the average height of Qin Zhao's adult commoners is about seven feet five, and Zhao Qi is shorter than Qin Qi, that is, about 168-170 tall. And women, women are naturally ten centimeters shorter than men.
Tall men are revered, and eight feet is called a great husband; A tall woman who is over seven feet tall is considered a beauty. When Tian Chang was the prime minister of the Qi country, he 'selected the women of the Qi country who were more than seven feet long as the harem'. This was the case before Qin, and so it was after Qin. The Eastern Han Dynasty and the Emperor Empress Deng Sui was only fifteen years old when she entered the palace, but she was 'seven feet two inches long (166cm), beautiful and beautiful, absolutely different from the public, and the left and right were shocked'.
Most of the women Xiong Jing saw, including some concubines, were very short, and except for Zhao Nu and Yan Nu, most of the women had short legs and very uncoordinated body proportions. Mi Xuan's calves are long, so I don't know if the figure is symmetrical.
Mi Xuan didn't know the man's obscene thoughts, so she said again: "Sister Qian married into the Qin State, she is the queen, and after a country, what an honor." In the future, he gave birth to an heir, and he was the crown prince of Qin. Long live the King of Qin, and after a thousand years, he will be the King of Qin. Qin and Chu have been married for hundreds of years, the crown prince is the king of Qin, the princess is the queen mother, and Uncle Ji is the prime minister. Isn't what Brother Wang wants is the Qin Chu Alliance? ”
Mi Xuan was smart, and she also knew what the Empress Dowager Zu thought, but Xiong Jing shook her head at her as she had done to Xiong Qi before, and said, "It's late." ”
"Late?" Mi Xuan was puzzled. "Where did Brother Wang say this?"
"I can't wait for King Qin to live for a thousand years, and more than ten years later, Sanjin will already die. It is followed by the state of Chu, and it may also be the state of Qi, but neither the state of Chu nor the state of Qi can fight with Qin. Xiong Jing said, with great regret. Comparing it with Europe, he found that the era in which he lived was not the Age of Discovery, but World War II.
The Qin State was a latecomer barbarian, and the Chu State and the Three Jin Dynasty were the first-mover barbarians. When the nobles of the Chu State regarded Chu Ci as the beauty, and the successors of the Jin State, the nobles of the Zhao State, began to be 'noble ladies', the Qin State had already implemented the first type of general warfare.
The prototype of the general war first originated from Zheng Guo, and Zheng Guo's offspring was the earliest Shang martingale. The reason why Zheng Guo changed the law is probably because of the border with the country. Wei Guo is different from the Song State, the Song State would rather cooperate with the Zhou people than help the Zhou King, Wei is the descendant of the Shang King. Yin Shang ruled the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and he could always accumulate some ruling skills in hundreds of years, but the king of the country was the Zhou people, and the people of Wei traveled to various countries, but they did not contribute to the king of Wei, and they even had to let the crane go to war.
After Zheng Guo's reform of the law, it was the Jin State, and Yin Duo, the retainer of Zhao Jianzi, the doctor of the Jin State, Zhao Ying, 'lost the number of his households' in order to reduce taxes, and the background was naturally that the Jin State had popularized the primitive household registration system, and the common people could not evade taxes, and naturally they could not escape military service.
This is just the first wave of the overall war reform, and the second wave is Li Xianzhi to Wei, Zhao Liehou to Zhao, Wu Qi to Chu, Shen Buxian to Han, Zou Ji to Qi, and after Shang Ying, there is Le Yi to Yan, and the six countries of Kwantung have all changed their laws. As soon as Qin Xiaogong's recruitment order came out, the scholars of all countries on his head flocked to Qin with the overall battle plan that he had tested, and the defender Shang Ying was one of the masters.
Can you fight such a Qin State? There are no accidents, and there is no indulgence, so it must not be beaten.
All countries that have changed their laws to a greater or lesser extent have times when they are strong, and at the same time, they have also been beaten and defeated by other countries. Only the Qin State, because of the Hangu Pass, although the siege was defeated, it could not be defeated every time.
The most dangerous one was that after the defeat of Danyang, the king of Chu Huai, he sent troops from all over the country to attack Qin, broke through Wuguan and fought Lantian with the Qin army left behind in the country - Qin announced a great victory over the Chu army in the Battle of Lantian, but this kind of victory was actually not as good as the Battle of Qingshui. Lantian is more than 100 miles away from Xianyang, if you really want to fight, the Qin State will definitely be defeated, but unfortunately Han Wei sent troops to attack Chu to save Qin, and the Qin State escaped the most dangerous catastrophe.
"Brother Wang......" Xiong Jing was thinking about how the world had come to this point, and he didn't hear what Mi Xuan was saying in a trance.
"I was rude." Xiong Jing said apologetically. "The situation in the world will be completely different after ten years, and there is nothing to be done about Princess Qian. Most of the monarchs of the Qin State lived a long life, and it is impossible for the current King of Qin to die early. After Princess Qian became the king of Qin, maybe she was beautiful, but he could attack Qin in the future? Xuan Xuan should know: Since Fan Sui, the Qin army has been 'attacking its people without attacking its place alone'. Do you know what it means to attack someone? ”
"I don't know." Mi Xuan was born in a wealthy family, and was favored by the Empress Dowager, and most of the things outside the palace were unknown.
"The so-called attacking people is slaughter!" Xiong Jing thought of Yiyi again, and the blood in his chest was tumbling. "Men from five feet to sixty can wear armor, adult women also have to be transported, and the Qin army counts merit by the first rank, in order to promote the knighthood, it is not enough to kill on the battlefield, and it is necessary to search and kill in the house. Princess Qian is a Chu person, her mother is a Yue person, and his subordinates under the command of King Qin slaughtered Chu and Yue people, what do you let her think?
And the king of Qin ......" Xiong Jing took a deep breath to calm his excited mood, "The king of Qin is suspicious, Qin and Chu are at war, and the queen, the crown prince, and the prime minister are all Chu people, is it possible?" Cutting Zhao, the cousin can be the prime minister, and the cousin Chu, the cousin will go to work like Lu Buwei. You may not be able to save it yourself, so why do you want to pull it into the fire pit? ”
"But the Empress Dowager is still there." Mi Xuan was a little frightened by Xiong Jing's words, "The first king was enthroned as the king because of the Empress Dowager, so the king has revered the Empress Dowager since he was a child, and if the Empress Dowager Zu is here, the King of Qin will not attack Chu." Empress Dowager Zu is worried, just worried......"
"Worried about what?" Empress Dowager Zu was mentioned again, but this time Xiong Jing's reaction was a little different.
"I'm worried that after long live, the king will be cut down Chu, this is this, this is ......" Mi Xuan wanted to cry, what Xiong Jing said was really terrible. …… I want Princess Qian to marry into the Qin Palace. ”
"It's useless." Xiong Jing sighed. "If the Empress Dowager ......, the King of Qin will definitely raise troops to destroy Chu, and then destroy Qi, the last day. My brother and I once said that he would be the king of Qin and conquer Chu, and he would sit on the throne of the state for a maximum of fifteen years, and after fifteen years, he would no longer be the prime minister of the state of Qin. At that time, did you stay in the state of Qin or in the state of Chu? ”
"I don't know, I ......" Mi Xuan instantly thought of her father, mother, royal father, and other brothers and sisters, and her dark eyes suddenly turned gray. As long as I stay by your side, let you, let you not be confused by Zhao Nu. ”
"Let's eat." After all, it's a little girl, and she can say everything when she is scared.
"I'm not hungry." Thinking of the fall of the Empress Dowager Zu, the resignation of Uncle Ji, the attack of the Qin State on Chu, and the lack of appetite for Mi Xuan. She likes Qin and Chu, and it is better for the two countries not to attack, and never to fight.
"Let's eat. Knowing that you came, I specially let people catch fresh fish and a big turtle. Mi Xuan seemed to be about to cry, and Xiong Jing began to coax this little Lori. Her hands were cold, and although they were larger than her own, they appeared thin and soft, as if they had no bones.
“…… You haven't seen a turtle, have you? There must be no on the Qin side. Have you ever heard the story of Yu Ding? Say, when the first monarch Mu Wang, he suddenly sent a turtle to Zheng Linggong, the monarch of Zheng Guoguo, Zheng Guoren is all earth leopards, not to mention eating turtles, even if they have never seen it.
So, Zheng Linggong feasted and invited everyone to taste it together, but he hated the son... Guisheng, don't give him food, Gongzi Guisheng ran to the front of the tripod by himself, stretched out his hand and dipped it in the ding, and tasted what it tasted like. Afterwards, Zheng Linggong was furious and threatened to kill Gongzi Guisheng, but he didn't want Gongzi Guisheng to kill him first......"
"Brother Wang is wrong," Xiong Jing was crying constantly when she spoke, Xiong Jing was so comforting that she had to hold back her tears. "It's... It was the son of Song who dyed his fingers, and the son of the non-son was born. ”
"You also read history, huh?" Xiong Jing was wrong, but he was surprised that Mi Xuan also read history.
"I often read the slips in the Qin State Library, which are the slips that the scholars dedicated to the King of Qin in the past, and I can read them if they are not important." Mi Xuan finally stopped crying, she got up and bowed to Xiong Jingsu, "Brother Xie." ”
When she stood up, Xiong Jing finally saw her figure. This little Lori is really tall, and her legs are also very long, and the most difficult thing is her aura and sensibility. How to train it...... he began to think crookedly again.