Chapter 3 Troubled Times Descend Section 49 Double Happiness Comes to the Door

Two days later, the emperor's holy decree to deal with me was officially issued, and the holy decree severely reprimanded me, announcing the appointment of me as the secret prince of Beihai County, Qingzhou, and the small county order. In addition, 200 proscribed soldiers were dismissed, and they happily ran to report to me.

Since I had already checked up and down, the eunuchs had received the money, so this time the emperor was not able to pay the fine. In the war-torn land of Qingzhou, the small county order could not be sold at a good price, and the official position of Mi Cheng was only symbolically asked me to pay 100,000 yuan. But then in a holy decree, I was assigned to Izumo Castle to give an order, asking Izumo Castle to hand over all the craftsmen, ordering the craftsmen to come to Luoyang to produce glaze, and at the same time asking Izumo Castle to pay 8 million yuan a year and 100 pieces of each of all kinds of goods.

I took the decree and smiled coldly. When Izumo was attacked by Xianbei, where did the emperor go? Where did the emperor go when the homeless people were starving and begging for food? When the people had no way to survive and became "vegetable people" for others to eat, where did the emperor go? Now that the construction has been completed, the emperor has appeared, and the officials have appeared, they want to lead the people, confiscate the people's property and become their own property, force the people to move to become their own slaves, and ask the people to be cattle and horses, and be grateful to them, so shameless.

Under Lu Zhi's gaze, I resisted the urge to throw this holy decree into the toilet, or wipe his buttocks, pretended to thank the emperor for his grace, and offered money to thank the eunuchs for their hard work, and when the eunuchs went out, I respectfully put this bullshit holy decree into a wooden box.

I was joined by Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo. Cao Cao was appointed as the Taishou of Yanzhou East County with military merits, and although Dong Zhuo lost the battle, he fought up and down, not down but up, and was promoted from the position of the governor of the state.

On the afternoon of the day the appointment came, the reply from the three ladies also came.

These three sentences were written on the three posters, and the shortest was Miss Huang, who wrote a single word: "can". Looking at this soft handwriting, I can't help but think of the soft whispers, green shirts, green willows.

Zhang Yaner's post is hearty, and there are two words written on the post: "Excellent". Looking at this unrestrained handwriting, Zhang Yan'er's unintentional bright smiling face jumped on the paper.

Cai Zhaoji's post has the most words, but it also makes me feel the most cold - "People are still in sight, and books need to be read again". I held the post, and my heart was cold and stunned.

"Lord, in my opinion, this post is not a refusal, if the lord really likes Miss Cai, with the relationship between Duke Lu and the Cai family, we will never refuse to propose marriage." Tian Feng was cautiously comforting on the side.

"According to Fu Hao's opinion, how should this matter be handled?" I slowly sorted out the three reply stickers and put them in front of Tian Feng one by one.

Tian Feng carefully looked at the three reply posts, reached out and picked up Cai Zhaoji's post, and analyzed: "Cai Yilang is talented and profound, Cai Nu's family has a deep history, and her talent is even more extraordinary. The talent of the lord is also the talent of governing the world. Fu poems and essays, such a carving insect skill of finding chapters and extracting sentences, the lord is disdainful. The little woman is ignorant, and she looks down on the world's great talents with this, and I am worried that after the lord marries her, she will be unwilling to suppress the lord everywhere, so she can't be the mother of the world. ”

In the world, Tian Feng chose my wife with the attitude of choosing a queen, and I immediately stopped: "Fu Hao, the second half of this sentence has exceeded the etiquette system, and it is not allowed to say that there is no father and no king, well, this word is not enough for outsiders, and I will quickly send a few attendants to guard the door." ”

Receiving my reprimand, Tian Feng continued indifferently: "If the lord really falls in love with the daughter of the Cai family, I will reluctantly make it difficult for the lord to promote this matter." ”

I pondered silently for a while, and urged: "Fu Hao, you try to talk about the other two women first, I'll think about it for a while, and then reply to you." ”

Tian Feng picked up Zhang Yan'er's post: "Miss Zhang's family is innocent and cute. Getting along with the lord, but you can play together, so the post says 'excellent'. But I'm worried that Miss Zhang doesn't know what to do. The lord is now in the entrepreneurial period, everything is difficult, I and others are only waiting for the lord to lead, if the lord intends to pursue the joy of fish and water, old age between the bed, Miss Zhang is the best playmate. ”

I nodded and encouraged, "Fu Hao, go on, go on." ”

Tian Feng picked up Huang Ying's post, and said: "Miss Huang Family, Derong Xianshu, Knowledge, Righteousness, Deeply in line with the golden mean, the foundation of the Lord in the future, for the thousands of subordinates who follow the Lord Father, and for the people living under the Lord Father, Feng is not self-sufficient, and dares to ask the Lord to marry this woman." ”

After speaking, Tian Feng left the table and knelt down deeply in front of me: "Lord, Fengzhi invites, not selfishly, cares about the lord's inheritance, I hope the lord will agree to me for the sake of following you." ”

My heart was aching, my head was spinning, my tone was trembling, I grabbed the table in front of me tightly, tried my last strength, and replied in a light tone: "What Fu Hao is worried about is exactly what I am worried about; What Fu Hao thinks is exactly what I think. I have made up my mind, so I will do what Fu Hao said. ”

Tian Feng turned over and sat up excitedly: "In this way, the lord will quickly spread the good news to Izumo and Qingzhou, so that the people can enjoy with the lord." ”

I pondered for a while, nodded and agreed: "The appointment of Gong Jingqing Prefecture Pastor has been in my arms for a long time, so let people pass on this good news to Zizheng (Fu Zhi), and let him inform Gong Zhoumu." ”

Tian Feng tilted his head and thought: "I'm thinking about it, Gong Qingzhou has ascended to the state pastoral throne with our strength, will it conflict with us in appointing officials from all over the country?" I want to write a letter to Gong Qingzhou in the name of the lord, saying that although the lord has been appointed as the next secret, the heart of assisting Gong Qingzhou has not been given up, and if there is no better candidate for Gong Qingzhou, the lord is willing to continue to serve as the other driver of Qingzhou. ”

I immediately praised and said: "Fu Hao handles things, everything is thorough, I have Fu Hao, why worry about Qingzhou not being governed, the world is ......"

Gaffes, when I said this, I immediately realized that I had lost my words. On the surface, although I reprimanded Tian Feng for saying the words of transgression, the word "world" is not something I can say.

Realizing this, I immediately swallowed the second half of the sentence.

When Tian Feng heard my words, a hint of joy quickly flashed through the corners of his mouth, and immediately, he lowered his head, pretended to sort out the three reply letters, and said sullenly: "Lord, since we have made up our minds, I will do what the lord wants." ”

"It's fine," I said cheerfully, "just do as we have agreed." ”

After thinking about it, I advised, "You can do two things for me by the way." First of all, I sent someone to Qingzhou to summon him, and this person was the most suitable person to choose Li Wei, but I can't do without him now. Well, let's organize the people of Wang Yue Wuguan to go to Qingzhou, led by Wen Qian (Le Jin). Let Zizheng place these people in all townships and counties, and be responsible for organizing the township and county guards, and we will start to hide soldiers and people from today. Also, send the outstanding ones to Izumo Castle first, and enter the military academy to study the military command. Two years later, he will rotate with the current county lieutenants. In this way, in four years, we can build Qingzhou into a city of warriors. ”

Tian Feng immediately nodded and said: "The lord is very good, your junior disciples are distributed in all counties and townships, and the military power and defense power of each county and township are grasped in their hands, and Qingzhou in the future will be ours, and no one can shake our position." Hmm, this matter has to be done quickly, I will inform Zizheng, let him not care about what Gong Jing proposes, and resolutely arrange our people, the bottom line of our concession is - the main position is delegated by him, so how about the lord? ”

"Fu Hao," I was a little displeased: "This is a very good thing, how can you make this arrangement, it sounds full of conspiracy, your words are ghostly, this is not the way of a gentleman." ”

Tian Feng said viciously: "I will wait for a hundred battles to stabilize this Qingzhou, if someone wants to take away a piece of paper, I'm afraid it will not be so easy." ”

I understood what he meant, he was insinuating an attack on the emperor's edict, however, this was not suitable for talking about in public, I raised my hand to stop him: "Stop, Fu Hao, I have my own opinions about Izumo City, but now in Luoyang, it is not suitable to talk about this matter, we will talk about it in Qingzhou." ”

Tian Feng changed the topic and asked, "So, what is the second thing that the lord wants to do?" ”

I turned my gaze to the three letters, stared deeply, and said hesitantly: "Fu Hao, I remember that there is a cherry ditch near Luoyang, you ask Wang Yue, maybe some of his disciples live in that vicinity, I think, gather hundreds of farmers with experience in planting cherries, carry cherry branches, and plant cherries in a large area around the city." ”

Tian Feng asked in surprise: "The lord wants to plant cherries, why?" ”

I pondered for a while, straightened out my thoughts, and explained: "That day, I saw the cherries in the Maolong Garden, and suddenly it occurred to me that the cherries produced in the cherry ditch in the depths of the mountain were sacrificial treasures in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. There are 11 kinds of purple cherry blossoms, wax cherry, slippery cherry blossoms, vermilion cherry blossoms, dry cherry blossoms, Wu cherry, sweet cherry blossoms, thousand leaf cherry blossoms in the ditch, it blooms in March and April, bears fruit in May and June, and the fruit is red and bright and durable, and the flowering and fruiting time is long, and it can be used as a good ornamental tree species. If we plant cherries all over the city, it can be regarded as a scene of our wide circle. The cherry fruit is pure and luscious, and has the effect of regulating the spleen, removing cold and stopping diarrhea, and is known as a good name. Endless cherry fruit is also an excellent ingredient for sake brewing, and picking cherries in autumn and winter is also a beautiful thing to enjoy yourself.

Well, after the autumn is suitable for planting trees, find hundreds of households, let them bring seedlings, to Guanghuan to plant trees, I still remember, I Donglai County Yuli area (Yantai Fushan), once produced a kind of big cherry (is the birthplace of China's big cherry), we 12 north-south streets, planted 12 kinds of cherries, how? ”

Tian Feng pondered for a moment, a little overwhelmed: "If the lord wants to plant cherries, then order the planting, why do you say so many reasons, do you need a reason?" However, cherries are suitable for growing in ravines, and growing them in the city, I'm afraid it won't be easy to live? ”

"So?" This time it was my turn to be at a loss: "Well, let's look for 12 ravine slopes around the city and plant cherries all over the city." As for the city, how about planting vermilion cherry blossoms near my official residence? ”

Tian Feng nodded and agreed: "It's not a big deal, the lord wants to eat cherries, so give an order." ”

When the flowers bloom and the cherries are delicate, my beauty, can you still reach out under the tree and pick the fat fruit?

A wave of fatigue welled up in my heart, and I waved my hand and repulsed Tian Feng. Alone in the empty house, my heart was overflowing with sorrow, and I wanted to cry without tears.

Under the successive operation of Tian Feng, my wedding date was quickly set - 15 days later, on the ninth day of the seventh month of the seventh year of Guanghe, the priests divined and said: The god of happiness is in the south, the god of fortune is in the east, and the god of wealth is in the west.

It's on this day.

Luckily, the day before my wedding, the Izumo merchant arrived just in time. The leader of this caravan is actually Zhou Yi! On my own happy day, I am very excited to see my brother who is suffering in the same situation and to have my brother witness the wedding. I was about to pull Zhou Yi to prepare for the wedding, but he anxiously retreated, and a sentence interrupted my peace.

"The reason why I asked the Izumo caravan to lead the team this time is that I want to raise as much grain and grass as possible before winter comes, and the goods we sell this time will be exchanged for food. As for what you said about going to Yishu for trade, the Izumo Senate appointed Liu Zhou to lead the team, and he will arrive with the second group of caravans. Also, regarding the Qingzhou Guild Hall, the Senate hopes that I will be the first official, and I will have the right to choose the location to build this Qingzhou Guild Hall. ”

Then, Zhou Yi said slightly apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'll disturb you when your good time is approaching, but I heard that you are in Luoyang City, and you chose to build the Qingzhou Hall near the Wang Yue Martial Pavilion, and on behalf of the Senate, I hope you will stop the construction immediately." ”

I covered my head and looked at Zhou Yi, puzzled.

Zhou Yi then added: "Of course, half of the hall can't be left behind, we can convert it into a restaurant or inn." ”

"Why?" I'm a little.

"On the surface, the Senate meant that it was afraid that all the goods brought into the city would be slaughtered by others, which was not conducive to tax evasion. But privately, I discussed it with Yin Dong Gaoshan and felt that it was more appropriate to do so. On the one hand, we have passed a resolution to veto your proposal, so as to facilitate the development of an atmosphere of letting the people make their own decisions in the future, and the important thing is that you will understand what we mean by using two words - Dong Zhuo. Zhou Yi looked at me with burning eyes and said these words calmly.

Ah, I really forgot about this, Dong Zhuo, he will come to Luoyang in five years, it is said that he will rob things when he sees them, and he never cares who this thing is. Under our education, the people of Izumo knew that they had property rights, and in order to defend their property, even if they shed blood, it was the work of warriors, so it was definitely the people of Izumo who first clashed with Dong Zhuo. And Luoyang City, as soon as the city gate is closed, where will our caravans and people flee?

It seems that I was too careless. I bowed my head and expressed my obedience to the Senate's decision: "Then, according to the Senate's wishes, where should this Qingzhou Hall be established?" ”

Zhou Yi shook his head: "This Senate didn't make a specific suggestion, the three of us think that in times of war, it is not suitable for excessive decentralization, and it is enough for the Senate to veto it once. ”

Speaking of which, he smiled and added, "Plus, you're not stupid either, just a little bit of it, and you'll come up with a good idea." ”

I nodded, in agreement. Presumably, Zhou Yi encountered great resistance when they passed this resolution. Therefore, the resolution is non-binding and can only be implemented if I so wish.

"When you say this, I think of a better place, on the south side of Luoyang City, 2 miles away, on the edge of Luoshui, near Taixue, there is a wharf, we only need a little repair, we can dock large cargo ships. In case something happens, we only need to cross the Yellow River and destroy the ships on the other side, and then we can flee from Yingchuan to Yanzhou, and from Yanzhou to Qingzhou. When the time comes, no one will try to catch up with us. I touched my chin and thought about it, "There is another advantage in this place, the cargo ships of Izumo City enter the Yellow River at Jieshi, turn into Luoshui near Chenggao, and you can reach Luoyang without changing ships, and the goods purchased in Luoyang can be loaded directly onto the ship, and you can go down the river to Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Jizhou for sale." Well, it's a really good place, so it was decided. ”

After speaking, I looked at Zhou Yi and asked, "We have been separated for many years." After talking about business, let's talk about private matters, I'm about to get married, how about you brothers, whose woman do you fall in love with, tell me, I'll go and grab it for you? ”

Zhou Yi immediately showed a salivating expression: "Hehe, that kid Yin Dong fell for you, and now he is the bishop of the Creation God Sect, he can't get married, not to mention, he has to drink secretly." Gao Shan has been to Korea a few times, and now he is a Korean princess. Poor, I'm not settled now, I'm ready to look up to you and solve my life's problems in Luoyang. Ah, it is said that Luoyang is as beautiful as a cloud, and I specially robbed this errand just to come to Luoyang to soak my sister. Beautiful sister, brother is here......"

I smiled and woke up Zhou Yi: "Botong, this Luoyang is a place that pays attention to family background, you have no roots and no bottom, don't throw your heart easily, so as not to be sad the day after tomorrow." ”

Speaking of which, my heart aches.

"What are you doing, I'm a savage from Liaoxi, who do I fancie, it's a big deal to grab it. The matter was so big that I left my official and ran to Liaoxi to see who dared to come to Izumo City to bite me. Besides, we're brothers, can you not wipe my ass for me? Hmph, I've made up my mind anyway, you appoint the next official first, get ready. I can tell you, maybe I'll rob someone tomorrow and run away. Zhou Yi said with a shy face and shamelessly.

"Brother, you're better than me." I patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder and said with emotion.

Zhou Yi suddenly remembered something: "Ah, I forgot, when Gao Shan was preparing to get married, he carefully studied your inheritance law, and scolded you every day, saying that you kid is not bottom, brothers came to this ancient world, I wanted to marry a third wife and four concubines, and lived the blessing of Qi people, but I didn't expect you to be insidious, and you actually laid an ambush on the inheritance law and broke the brothers' thoughts." ”

"Are you talking about the Law of Primogeniture and the Law of the Indivisibility of Property?" I smiled with ulterior motives.

"Yes, you see, on the surface the law says that the property of the deceased is indivisible and that it is inherited by the eldest son, and according to you, this can limit the number of property, land, or titles. But in fact, if the eldest son inherits all the property, the rest of the children must struggle on their own to survive, and whose woman is willing to marry someone as a concubine, and has no inheritance right to have a child, and needs to make a living by herself. Besides, if a man really loves that woman, how can he be willing to let her be a concubine, and the crystallization of love will be lost? Therefore, your law is really condemnable. It is said that the Korean princess was willing to marry more than a dozen women, but Gao Shan was so frightened that he didn't dare to agree. ”

Zhou Yi said this, learning Gao Shan's tone and saying, "Don't be a negative person, it's better to suffer yourself." ”

"Admire and admire, Comrade Gao Shan has such an ideological consciousness and understands the deep meaning of this law, which is worthy of being a great punishment" I mocked: "Marrying two beauties less is not to suffer yourself, but to self-restraint." The purpose of this law is to change the bad habit of our people who do not care about their children, and if they do not care about their children, if they have the ability to raise them, no matter how many children you have, as long as your children grow up and have a skill, they are not afraid of not being able to survive. Takayama, be too careful. However, Gao Shan is right, what this law ultimately leads to is really monogamy. ”

"Insidious, too insidious, you guy always hides murderous intentions like this, I'm really careless in making friends", Zhou Yi let out a burst of sad cries.

"Okay, let's get down to business, the emperor has made a decree to Izumo Castle, here, you can take a look first." I took out the emperor's decree and handed it to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi looked at the holy decree over and over again: "Well, this thing can't be shown to Gao Tanglong, I'm afraid that after reading it, they will hurry up and hand over the craftsmen to the emperor." ”

"And what do you think?" I asked for his opinion.

"I, I'm now your Qingzhou official, these goods are purchased by Qingzhou merchants in Izumo City, and Izumo pays tribute, and it has nothing to do with my Qingzhou merchants?" Zhou Yi blinked teasingly. Breathing a sigh of relief, he added, "If I'm a citizen of Izumo City, hmph, it's okay to ask for money, but not to ask for people." These people are all taught by us, and they have no strength at all, so why give it to them. Besides, whether the craftsmen are willing to go to the emperor as slaves, we have no right to call the shots, and in what qualifications do we trade with other people's freedoms? ”

"Very good", I nodded: "You know this thing will be done, and how to deal with the rest of the matter, you have to plan in your heart." Well, fortunately you came, otherwise, there are some things that I really don't know how to say to these people of the Three Kingdoms. ”

"Okay, I'm now a savage from Liaoxi, because I lived in Izumo, so I was appointed by you as the manager of the Qingzhou Guild Hall, responsible for counting Izumo's goods and keeping a running account. It's my specialty, and when I can't get around anymore, I'll kidnap a bride and run away, so you're ready to wipe my ass. Hehe, playing with the emperor is really a life's opportunity and challenge, dead eunuchs, your nightmare has arrived, hehehe......" Zhou Yi let out a Zhou Xingxing-like ghost howl.

On the second day, on the ninth day of the seventh month of the seventh year of Guanghe, I officially married Huang Ying, and the Han Dynasty wedding did not have so many trivial rites, but under the leadership of Lu Zhi, I went to the outskirts of Luoyang and shot four ceremonial arrows - this is the marriage etiquette of the scholar, called "suburban sue Quartet".

After these four arrows were fired, as the only descendant of King Zhongshan Jing, a clan member of the Han family, I went to Zongzheng Mansion to register my marriage accompanied by Lu Zhi.

The so-called Zongzheng Mansion is a special institution for the management of the clan within the family, and all the descendants of the Changmen and Changzhi branches in the family are married and raised, regardless of poverty, they need to report to Zongzheng. If it is the eldest man, it is necessary to report to the sect for record. I think that back then, when Liu Bei was born, although his family was poor, he also went through such procedures.

The previous position of Zongzheng was Liu Yan, and he is now in Yizhou as the pastor of Yizhou. By February next year, he would use Zhang Lu's occupation of Hanzhong as an excuse to make no pilgrimage and take possession of Sichuan. The position of state pastor began with Liu Yan, and the division of the heroes also began with him.

After these official ceremonies, all that remains is a simple wedding. There is no worship of heaven and earth, no glass of wine, the bride directly enters the bedroom (let's call it the cave room), the guests are all relatives, and the subordinates wait at the side table to serve, and the rest of the acquaintances just send a congratulatory gift, but they are not present. It was completely different from the ancient weddings I was familiar with.

It is said that five days after the wedding, the couple would go to the door one by one to thank the person who gave the gift. At that time, further feasts were held, which was a marriage of scholars, with strict rules of etiquette.

Although there are few people, under Zhou Yi's uproar, the wedding seems to have some modern flavor of informality, and the drunken Confucians don't seem to care about the blame, and under the backdrop of the wine, they also do some rude things, such as repeatedly forcing me to make poems and verses to describe my mood. Under the rise of alcohol, I didn't care about copyright issues, and actually plagiarized Wang Wei's hunting poems. I rode the spirit of wine, dancing and singing all over the hall:"

The wind moves the horns and the bow sounds, and the general hunts Weicheng.

The grass is withered, and the snow is light.

Ignore Xinfeng City and return to the fine willow camp.

Looking back at the place where the geese fall, thousands of miles of twilight clouds are flat. ”

After singing, I couldn't get enough of it, and shouted Lu Lun's stopper song in the Tang Dynasty: "Eagle Lingjin maid, swallowtail embroidered canthalid arc." The new order of independence was raised, and thousands of battalions were called out. ”

These two poems are in the genre of Han Yuefu, and although they are not four-character and one-sentence Chinese poems, their impassioned places make people's blood boil.

Huang Ying's maid Xiaoqiu saw that I was wild and unrestrained, and immediately rushed to the bedroom to inform Huang Ying: "Miss, the husband is drunk in the hall, and he is reciting poetry?" ”

Huang Ying asked in surprise: "What poem?" ”

“…… The new order of independence was raised, and thousands of battalions were called out. ”

Huang Ying was silent: "Sister Zhaoji said that he 'needs to read the book again', and Xianggong may have pain in his heart, so he said this wild thing." Xiaoqiu, don't wake up the guests, quietly send a bowl of sobering soup to Xianggong, just say that I asked him to drink, and he will understand what I mean. ”

Xiaoqiu understood, and immediately ran out of the bedroom and did what she was told.

When I received the decanting soup, I was horrified - it was too much, I was too profligate today. I quietly looked at the crowd at the table, and it seemed that everyone had drunk too much, hoping that they had not noticed my behavior. I immediately found a place to sit down and quietly watched the crowd play.

Zhou Yi also drank and didn't know the north and south, three points of madness, three points of fraud yelled: "Come, today my father-in-law gets married, after the father-in-law, I also have a subordinate, a toast to the little lord who was not born." On behalf of the people of Izumo Castle, I would like to congratulate my lord on his marriage. ”

As he spoke, he shouted in a half-foolish voice: "Come, come, come, present the Izumo congratulatory gift—a hundred glass lamps, and illuminate the hall." After the banquet is over, the guests can take away a glass lamp as a commemoration of today's banquet. ”

Yes, there is no better advertising effect than today. The so-called glass lamp is a glass lamp we make according to the principle of kerosene lamp, but it is lit with food oil. The cooking oil burned under the glass cover was less smoky and brighter than the torches, the main lighting tool of the time. These greetings are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries who are very close to us, and through their mouths, it is difficult for this glass lamp not to sell well.

However, in my opinion, this glass lamp should be a strategic material. In this era, due to the lack of lighting means, people continue the habit of resting at sunset, and the glass lamp is widely sold, doesn't it give the enemy more time to move?

Was Zhou Yi too imprudent?