The weather forecast in Dasima Province is still bad, and it will snow after dark, and the wind and snow will get heavier. Jin Yi, Guan Liu, Yin Lou, Song Yu, Kong Qian, and Crane Guanzi...... When these people arrived at Ruoying Palace, it was already dusk, attacking Yin Lou and Kong Qian were old and frail, and after ascending to the hall, they fought straight up, roasted the fire next to the brazier in the hall for a while, and drank a hot soup before relieving themselves.

"Does the king want to welcome Mi Xuan as queen in person?" Concubine Zhao sat in the middle, and the Chu people worshiped the left, so Song Yu and Kong Qian were on the left, and Lan Hao and Zhao Huang were on the right. All five of them looked at Xiong Jing with expressionless faces.

As soon as Xiong Jing arrived at Ruoying Palace, his hair stood up. Of course, this is not a political struggle, this is a family admonition. However, the family admonition is not good, the former king Wen 'Dedan's concubine, lewd, do not listen to the court for a long time, Taibao Shen Moss fifty'. Xiong Jing didn't want to be supported on the board by Song Yu or Kong Qian, it was too dignified.

"Jing'er!" Xiong Jing was thinking about the precedent of Taifu Taibao whipping the monarch, and forgot to answer Concubine Zhao's words.

"After returning to my mother, this is true." Xiong Jing thought fiercely of Li and that bastard, and admitted it without making any excuses.

"The first king entrusted the society of Chu to you, and you are the king of a country like this?" The son grew up, but the son was stubborn by nature and didn't listen to his own words, Concubine Zhao could only sigh about this, and her dislike for Mi Xuan increased by another point.

"Queen Mother!" Xiong Jing didn't understand Concubine Zhao's mother-in-law psychology, so she only said: "Taifu once taught me that you have no jokes, I once said that I wanted to marry her as my wife, and I can't break my word." ”

Xiong Jing pulled Song Yu in, which made Song Yu a little embarrassed. Thinking of her son's stubbornness, how could she force her son, Concubine Zhao's tears suddenly fell: "You marry her, how can you go out to Xianyang?" If you are ......"

The more Concubine Zhao spoke, the more she couldn't cry, no matter what the result of the kiss, she felt that her son had been snatched away by others.

"Queen Mother!" Xiong Jing is in a hurry. When Concubine Zhao cries like this, he may be called unfilial.

"Hey. Why should the king marry his wife? Seeing this, Lan Hao interjected. Accompanied by fifty horses, out of the fortress for 5,000 miles, the northern county of Qin State is full of mountains and jungles, in case of loss, what is the state of Chu, what is the sheji? ”

"Da Ao doesn't know." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "The Qin State is my enemy, but I have never seen the Qin State, and I have never seen the Qin people. There is a saying that it is better to see than to hear, and what you know and what others have heard is not as good as seeing it yourself. Entering Qin is one, and seeing Qin's national sentiment is two. ”

"If you see it in person, why go to Northland?" It was difficult for Lan Hao to tell if Xiong Jing was quibbling or if he really had such thoughts.

"The north of Beidi County is Henan, and the north of Henan is Yinshan. Di people are the mortal enemies of Qin, Zhao and Yan, and how Di people are, they should also see in person. Xiong Jing argued. Of course, he remembered Mao Dun, Mao Dun killed his father, and then defeated Yu Zhi Donghu and dominated the grassland. Lu Gao and Lu Chan went to the court of the Xiongnu in order to pretend to be the Hu people, although Mao Dun did not know whether he was born or not, but Touman was already a Xiongnu Shan Yu.

"It is very dangerous to visit the enemy, and the king should not go in person." Lan Hao couldn't say that Xiong Jing was a left, and Zhao Huang, who had been a disciple of the left, pouted and didn't speak. Song Yu had no choice but to speak up. "Even if the king keeps his promise, why should he be welcomed?"

"Teacher: In the past, the Wuling King of Zhao wanted to attack Qin from the clouds and Jiuyuan to the south, so he tricked himself into Qin. What the students are doing is not an exaggeration. Xiong Jing said again. He was glad that no one who knew the other was present, and no one in the room was a general.

"How the king probes the enemy, the minister does not know. How the king attacked Qin, the ministers don't know. The minister only knew that the king led fifty horsemen into the enemy country to welcome a woman, which was rude. "Kong Qian is old and has lost his teeth, and his speech is leaky, but he is not swayed by Xiong Jing at all." The minister also knew that the king went to Sheji for 5,000 miles and entered the Qin State, which was not careful.

The princess is already the concubine of the king of Qin, why is the king his wife? The king is a princess and ignores the society, why is the king the king? The king worships the ministers and learns the rites and music for the Taifu, how can he be a gentleman if he does not deny himself?

A gentleman has three precepts: when he is little, his blood is undecided, and his precepts are in color; and its strength, the blood is strong, and the ring is fighting; and his old age, the flesh is declining, and the abstinence is in it. The king is young, so he should quit sex. The minister asked the queen mother to remove all the maids and palace maids to prevent her from being charming. Kong Qian turned to Concubine Zhao, "If you don't want to be in charge, you should ban the king from leaving the palace." ”

Xiong Jing was on trial, and Kong Qian, as a prince, had the right to discipline, and his proposal Concubine Zhao did not fail to agree. Xiong Jing didn't think anything, he was going to quit sex, but he just went out into Qin's ......

The three sessions were quickly completed, and after Xiong Jing retired, the ministers were still stranded in Ruoying Palace. Song Yu was the first to break the cold field and said: "The king loves Mi Xuan very much, and he can't do it." After the merger, the two governments, the coupling of the country, and the foundation of chaos. ”

After that, there was no dignity in the harem, and the concubines were juxtaposed with the queen by virtue of the king's favor. This situation will lead to a concubine, and the status of the concubine is equal to that of the concubine. In the end, the troubles in the palace will extend beyond the road gate, and the concubines and concubines who are favored by the monarch collude with the courtiers, and then a courtier is very favored by the monarch, and then he is in charge of the state alone, which is for the two governments. The result of the two governments is to couple the country, and the big city of the favored vassals is strong enough to compete with the national capital.

After the internal favor is merged, the external favor is secondary, the branches are suitable, the minister is the master, and the way of chaos is also. The summary of the ancients makes a lot of sense. With Mi Xuan's background, even if he has not been Mi Xuan's wife, it is impossible to be the queen of Chu. Xiong Jing knew this, so he only dared to say that he was his wife, and he didn't dare to say that he was the queen in front of everyone. Such a woman who is favored by the king marries into the Chu Palace, and it is certain that he will marry and succeed.

"The king should be a woman." Lan Hao said very pertinently.

"The king doesn't want to marry the girl, what can I do?" Zhao Huang understands Xiong Jing's preferences, and he also looks down on Qi people, how can Qi women inherit the throne of Chu if they have a cowardly sister-in-law in the future? "Instead of being a woman, it's better to be a woman and a girl of Zhao."

"The Yue Nu is also the daughter of the Yue Jun." The Chu State has a tradition of marrying Yue women, but Kong Qian thought that the Yue people were barbarians.

"Ruowan Zhao Nu......" Lan Hao and Zhao Huang glanced at each other, and could see the opposition in each other's eyes. Zhao State is being attacked by Qin State, and a Zhao woman is equivalent to saying that Chu State wants to save Zhao, and the ministers in the court do not want to save Zhao in their hearts, at least they don't want to send troops to rescue Zhao immediately, which is the reason why Xiong Jingli launched a plug attack on Qin.

"In terms of the world, if the king is not a woman, he will be a woman." Song Yu coughed. "With courtesy, be a woman; With the state of Chu, she should be a woman. Although the Yue people are just kings, they are a country of their own, which is different from the landless feudal monarchs of the Qin State. ”

Concubine Zhao listened quietly, the words of the ministers have their own truths, and when her son grows up, it is time to seriously consider his marriage. I can't be sure who will be appointed for the time being, but you can always marry one or two concubines first, right? If you don't have a son-in-law, you can always be a concubine, right?

Concubine Zhao thought of this idea in her heart, and when the ministers retreated, she began to write letters. If you want to marry a concubine, of course, you have to choose Zhao Nu. Ying Nan has seen the portrait, she was born extremely beautiful, and she was wronged that Ying Nan would be a concubine first, and then be a wife and queen after giving birth to a son in the future.

"Please give this letter to the Plains-kun." Concubine Zhao sealed the letterhead and handed it to Ge. Ge is Concubine Zhao's vassal, and after Xiong Jing took Changjiang as his servant, he has been obeying Concubine Zhao's orders.

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Snow covered the hull of the shipyard's dock, and the unfinished gluttonous-class cargo boat was like a big fish that had eaten up its meat, and its thick skeleton was undisguised in front of everyone. Xiong Jing stood on the side of the dock, looking at the hull of the ship in the dock under Gong Zhijian's explanation. This is an improved model, mainly for transporting horses.

Ocean shipping of horses is a problem. If the mortality rate exceeds 20 percent, like transporting stallions, to 25 percent, then only 45,000 of the 6,000 Nissa horses are left in the Chu State, which is a big loss. Xiong Jing rummaged through the wooden trees that had recorded various memories from time to time in the past few years, and found a way: when transporting across oceans, the horse could be hoisted up with a belly belt, so that the horse's hooves had just hit the ground, so that the mortality rate of the horse could be minimized. This is how European immigrants to the Americas transported horses.

Nissa's shoulder height is more than 1.5 meters, and the head height is estimated to be more than 2 meters, and before the space was not saved, the height between the gluttonous decks was only about 1.7 or 8 meters, and a horse could not be put down, how could it be lifted? In order to lift the horse, the floor height needs to be increased to at least two meters, which requires a modification of the ship's shape.

The Glutton's ship was actually the 24-Gun gunboat of later generations, with a depth of 4.6 meters - the Glutton's draft was 3.1 to 3.2 meters, and in order to prevent surges, the gun doors had to be at least 1.2 meters above the sea surface, preferably 1.6 meters. However, the cannon was heavy, and in order to control the center of gravity of the entire ship, the bilge depth could not exceed half the width of the lowest deck, that is, half of the nine.8 meters.

4.6 meters is a suitable height, not too low to get too close to the sea surface, and not too high to cause the center of gravity to be too high or roll too much. The determination of this deck is related to the upper deck and the lowest deck. The height of 4.5 meters below the lower deck can be divided into three layers, the lowest deck covers the keel, so that the bottom of the ship is flat, and the height is 1 meter; The upper floor is one meter six, the upper one is one meter eight, and the lower deck is only one layer high, which is one meter eight. The height of the upper deck is six meters, and the lowest part of the hull is seven meters, including the freeboard.

It is definitely not possible to transport horses with a floor height of 1.8 meters, so the beams of the entire ship have to be adjusted, from the original four layers to three layers. The lowest deck is so humid that horses are transported only above the upper deck, between the upper deck and the lower deck, and between the lower deck and the second lower deck.

The gluttonous class is 35 meters long, the actual length is only 30 meters, and the widest point is 9.8 meters. In this way, 90 horses can be transported on each deck, and about 200 horses can be transported in two floors and part of the upper deck. It's just that horses need space, and people also need space, and minus the space needed by the crew, a ship can only transport about 12 or 30 horses.