The entire Guogong Mansion is divided into three layers, the place where Yang Tian lives belongs to the last one of the Guogong Mansion, his younger brothers except for Amand and he also live here, the other three live closer to their parents, Yang Tian and Amand have an independent courtyard, which also includes several subordinates, because both of them are not yet adults, these subordinates are also under the unified control of the Guogong Mansion, and the power is in the hands of the hostess Dugu.

During this period of Yang Tian's illness, the Dugu clan first took care of Yang Tian personally, and then assigned Ah Xiang and Ah Lan to take care of them, and no one was allowed to approach Yang Tian, so Yang Tian came out today to see the people in his yard for the first time, there were two couples who specialized in rough work, responsible for cleaning and scrubbing in the courtyard, and there was a gardener and two guards. When these people saw Yang Tian, they hurriedly bent down to say hello.

Guogong Mansion covers an area of several hectares, it takes more than half a day to walk around, Yang Tian is already tired and wheezing after walking a circle, although his body is better, but he is not suitable for walking too much at once, Ah Xiang looked at him and said worriedly: "Young master, let's go back." ”

Yang Tian didn't want to go back immediately, and asked, "Ah Xiang, where is my father's study?" I want to check it out. ”

Ah Xiang shook his head and said, "Young Master, Lord Guogong's study is an important place, and I don't dare to take the young master over without Lord Guogong's permission." ”

Yang Tian didn't expect it to be so difficult to read a book, but it was almost evening for this titular father to come back, so Yang Tian had to find a place for a rockery, sat down quietly, and looked at the reflection of the rockery in the pond in a daze.

Guogong Mansion not only has a garden, there are rockeries, there are ponds, this pond alone will occupy an area of several acres, the pond is planted with willow trees, at the moment the willow trees are full of catkins, the breeze blows, the catkins have floated into the pond, occasionally a fish shows its head on the water surface, swallows a caterpillar that falls from the willow tree, and quickly burrows into the water, and makes a circle of ripples on the surface of the pool.

Yang Tian now feels like a caterpillar falling on the water, coming to this strange world, everything is involuntarily, and he will be swallowed by a fish at any time.

"No, I will never be a caterpillar, I will be a fish that eats caterpillars."

Ah Xiang stood behind him, and was puzzled when he heard Yang Tian's words: "Young master, what caterpillar, what fish, young master is the son of the prince of the country, it is unspeakably expensive, how can he say such a thing." ”

"Nobleman, yes, I am a nobleman now." Yang Tian became optimistic again, I am not a caterpillar, nor a fish, but a fisherman who catches fish, no matter what time it is, this place is at least hundreds of years behind my own era, I don't believe that there are hundreds of years of advanced knowledge here.

"Ah Xiang, are you Han?"

Ah Xiang said gloomily: "The slave maid is the Han people. ”

"Is the status of the Han people very low?"

Ah Xiang shook his head: "No, there are also many Han officials in the court, but the court established by the Xianbei people in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the princes and nobles are all Xianbei people." ”

Yang Tian is even more convinced that this court is a Xianbei court with deep sinicization: "Is there more Han people or more Xianbei people." ”

Ah Xiang laughed: "Young master, of course there are many Han people, even in the Great Zhou, the number of Han people is also ten times that of the Xianbei people, not to mention the Chen State in the south, the number is not below the Great Zhou, they are all Han people." ”

Yang Tian has been racking his brains to know if all the places he has are ancient China, but Da Zhou has no reflection in his mind, so he didn't ask any more, but he didn't expect to learn from Ah Xiang that there is a Chen country in the south, and he was immediately interested: "Ah Xiang, are there any other countries besides Chen?" ”

"Of course there is, there is Qi, there is Liang, the Liang country is very small, it is a vassal of our Great Zhou, and Qi is not much different from our Great Zhou, however, Your Majesty has continued to conquer in person, and now a lot of territory in Qi has been occupied by our Great Zhou, listening to the grandfather of the country, Your Majesty may soon launch a pro-expedition again, and will merge Qi into our country in one fell swoop."

If he had a little knowledge of the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Tian would not have to look for books and should know when he was now, but Yang Tian knew nothing about the Sui Dynasty except that it was a short-lived dynasty and that Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was a tyrant, maybe if someone mentioned it, he would still remember that the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty was Yang Jian, Yang Guang was not the crown prince, the prince was his brother Yang Yong, and Yang Guang killed his brother to seize the throne.

But now Yang Guang's name is Pu Liuruying, that is, he heard a Yang character from his father's mouth that day, and it was also Yang Ying who changed his name to Chinese, although his own name has a Yong character, he only remembers that he is Pu Liuruying, so Yang Tian is still at a loss.

However, Yang Tian was already very satisfied with the fact that he unexpectedly got so much knowledge from Ah Xiang, judging from Ah Xiang's mouthful of our Great Zhou, the regime of this Great Zhou is still very consolidated, at least Yang Tian does not have to worry that his status as the eldest son of the Duke of the Kingdom will be lost soon.

"Ah Xiang, tell me how Chen Guo is?" Since Ah Xiang said that Liang was only a vassal of Zhou, and Qi was about to be destroyed by Zhou, he didn't have to worry about these two countries, but needed to understand that this was a Chen state composed of Han Chinese.

"Chen Guo is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and the slaves and maids don't know much about Chen Guo, but it is said that their country is richer than our Great Zhou, and the silk and porcelain used in our Guogong Mansion are all transported from Chen State."

"Then what about their troops, they can't beat our Great Zhou?"

"Of course, we can't beat it, Chen Guo still needs to pay tribute to us every year, and many of the things that the emperor rewarded to the Guogong Mansion are Chen Guo's tribute."

In this way, Yang Tian is even more confused, the Great Zhou is so powerful, then it is very likely that a northern dynasty will unify the whole country, although his own history is not well learned, since the beginning of Qin, there is no unified dynasty called the Northern Zhou, and the living standard here can not be the Zhou State before Tai.

Yang Tian hoped that he could find the history book as soon as possible and thoroughly understand the era he lived in, but his father's study could not go for the time being, so he could only cry out in vain.

Yang Tian had a general understanding of the current situation from Ah Xiang's words, if what Ah Xiang said was true, then after this Great Zhou destroyed the Northern Qi and Liang, there is no doubt that the soldiers would definitely go south to destroy the Chen State, Yang Tian never believed in the tribute, and the tribute was tantamount to showing weakness and supporting the enemy.

I am now a Xianbei person, but in my previous life I was a Han person, and when the time comes, should I help the Han people or the current Da Zhou. However, Yang Tian quickly threw this trouble again, he was still young, and he didn't know the situation, so it was useless to think about it.