One early morning in late October, the grass and trees on the outskirts of Yuncheng withered, the withered yellow leaves were covered with a layer of frost, the coating road was dry and firm, and the horses' hooves and footsteps were very steady.

Although the weather was a little cold, but it did not stop the enthusiasm of the people of Yuncheng, the ranks of the people started from both sides of the city gate, and were discharged half a mile away, crowded on the side of the Tianmu Road, and the soldiers from Xiaqiu held their spears and vigilantly maintained order.

The reason why it is so lively is because today, the new doctor Yuncheng is about to return.

"Meng Tan, when did you learn to engage in this form?" On top of the car, Zhao Wuxian said while wiping the car and saluting the people who bowed to him on both sides.

A few miles out of the city to greet him, Zhang Mengtan, who is now in the same car with Zhao Wuxian, said with a smile:

"Si Kou doesn't have to look at me like this, the subordinates are completely unorganized, and these people are all spontaneous. Si Kou fought bloodily with all the soldiers, arrested his uncle Sun Zhi, who had been oppressing Yuncheng all the year round, and imprisoned him; He also drove out the robbers who came to plague the villagers, and gave peace and tranquility to this town. I heard that Si Kou had returned from a bloody battle and a great victory, how could the people not welcome him? Not only in the city, but also in the surrounding villages, I don't know how many people came. ”

After several months of conspiracy, the situation has finally settled, and Zhao Wuxian's forces have obtained a huge harvest, so Zhang Mengtan is also in a good mood.

"I see."

Indeed, compared with the insatiable uncle Sun Zhi and the rich and unkind Yang Hu, Zhang Mengtan's governance in the name of Zhao Wuxian can be regarded as extremely lenient. In the final analysis, Wuxian has to thank Uncle Sun Zhi, if it weren't for the fact that the lower limit of his death was too low, he wouldn't have let the people of Yuncheng change the lord. There is an illusion that I have suddenly gone from prison to a well-off world.

"Meng Tan should not be humble, you are indispensable here for your contribution to governing this town."

Zhang Mengtan said modestly: "I don't have any credit. Hu Sima repelled the robbers and maintained order; Calculate the income of the slaughter and allocate grain relief; Gongxi Zihua presided over the sacrifice of the dead everywhere. To appease the people's emotions, they are the real meritorious heroes. ”

This welcome made Zhao Wuxian feel that the hard work of more than half a month was worth it, compared to standing up by force in Zhencheng, and compared to building a letter in Liaoqiu with burning coupons in the city, the support he has now received in Yuncheng is more solid and stable, this is the real people's heart!

He was even considering whether to move the center of his rule from Liqiu to here, so that Yuncheng could have a wider area. There are benefits of fishing and hunting, and there is a little bare stone resources in the ground, that is, coal. Second, there are 5,000 households in Yuncheng, with 30,000 mouths, which is almost the sum of Zhen and Liaoqiu.

It is also easier to get east to Qufu, and if you can open up the waterway of Onozawa, you can also use the water network to transport the supplies from Taoyi, of course, provided that the threat of theft is eliminated.

From time to time in the middle of the road, the elders of the village come to offer wine. For the local clan leaders in this place, Zhao Wuxian had to answer them one by one, so the team stopped and stopped.

Zhao Wuxian is not arrogant because of his status, nor is he impatient because those villagers are verbose. The locals were relieved and felt that they should be able to live a stable life in the future.

After walking slowly for half a moment under the welcome of the people, I saw the city tower of Yuncheng in the distance. When the robbers attack. The water gate was broken, and part of the frontal wall was damaged. Zhang Mengtan organized the local unemployed vagrants to repair the city tower and city wall, saving them from having nothing to do and disturb the order. So now it looks completely new. The castle tower was painted with new paint, and the sun shone brightly, brightly and brightly, and it was a good atmosphere of peace after the war.

The closer they got to the city, the more enthusiastic the people became, cheering, and the children were carried in the arms of the adults, or sat on the shoulders of the adults, looking curiously at the armor, mounts, and weapons of the warriors. Especially the light knights riding on the big horses are the most popular, Yu Xi and the others because of pride, holding the horse's belly and straightening their chests, the more the people cheer, the more they do not squint, and the eyes of the soldiers who have been single for a long time sweep over the handsome women and girls.

Zhao Wuxian didn't have this kind of thought, he was curious about who the "guest from the Song Kingdom" in Zhang Mengtan's message was.

As soon as he asked, Zhang Mengtan looked at him meaningfully and said: "It's a woman dressed as a scholar, she claims to be the messenger of Si Kou's old people, she comes from the Song Kingdom, and she can't explain her intention until she sees Si Kou himself......

……

When I entered the Yi Temple, I saw the visitor, and it was indeed a handsome woman wrapped in black clothes to hide her appearance.

After she put down the veil, Zhao Wuxian felt that it was the palace maid of the Song Kingdom who had led him for a while in the thrilling night with Nanzi in the Huangtang of the Song Kingdom.

The matter between Zhao Wuxian and Nanzi is a secret agreement, and very few people know about it, when Zhao Wuxian and Zhang Meng talk about conspiracy, other things can be spread out, but Nanzi is not exposed. No matter when and where, conspiring with a palace woman to form an alliance is a matter of criticism.

Zhang Mengtan also knew that this was probably a sensitive little secret of the lord, and he would never ask half a sentence, he just asked people to take good care of this female envoy in the past few days, which would lead to the entry of Wu Xian, and everyone else retreated, leaving only Mu Xia to protect him.

Thinking of Nanzi, that elusive and bewitching princess, who was simply the incarnation of Daji, Zhao Wuxian had a headache.

At the beginning, Zhao Wuxian was lured into the Yellow Hall of the Song State Palace by Nanzi with a trick, and he couldn't get out, so he was in a hurry, and took advantage of Nanzi's reluctance to marry Wei Houyuan, and made an oath with her, saying that if she could achieve success in the future, he would help her.

This is just a temporary excuse to get out, but the jade ring that Ji Huan gave him is still in Nanzi's hands. In addition, Zhao Wuxian didn't want to lose his trust in a woman, and hoped to have a helping hand in the Song country, so he didn't perfunctory about it.

But Nanzi and Wei Hou's marriage is still a year and a half, and now that his territory has been decided, Xiao Sikou's position has not yet been hot, Nanzi, who has had nothing to do with him in the past few months, rushed to ask for help?

Before his feet were stable, Zhao Wuxian didn't want to let himself be the focus of the princes for the time being, so he regarded Nanzi as a source of trouble, and his tone was not very kind.

"Why did the princess of Song send you here?"

The palace maid lowered her head and said, "On the order of the princess, I came to congratulate Si Kou and offer a gift for the new year......"

Giving a gift? This is something that Zhao Wuxian never expected.

"It's winter. The princess sent her concubine to offer the best horses and lacquerware of the Song Kingdom. Some of the gold wars obtained from the Chu State, the concubines brought them this time. The princess expected that Si Kou would get three new things. There must be an urgent need for a lot of craftsmen, so I also sent more than 100 craftsmen such as weavers, silkworm girls, wheel people, lacquer people, etc., because they could not be brought over explicitly, so they could only be transported in by Si Kou's merchants in Taoyi one after another......"

Wu Xian knows that in ancient China at this time, the princes stood side by side, and even the calendar was not unified. There are a total of six kinds of calendars that exist in the world, namely the Yellow Emperor Calendar, the Zhuan Calendar, the Summer Calendar, the Yin Calendar, the Zhou Calendar, and the Lu Calendar.

When Zhao Wuxian was in the Jin Kingdom, he lived a summer calendar; When he arrived in the Song Kingdom. then use the Yin calendar; to Cao, with a weekly calendar; After entering Lu, he followed the customs of the locals and changed to the Lu calendar.

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder will definitely drive them crazy if they play like this.

The Lu calendar is only used by the Lu State, which is slightly different from the Zhou calendar, it is a luni-solar calendar, and before the fifth year of the reign of Lu Xuan (656 BC), the month of Jianchou was adopted as positive (equivalent to the 12th month of the lunar calendar), and then it was changed to the method of Jianzi. That is, the month of the winter solstice is the first month (the month of Jianzi, which is equivalent to the 11th month of the lunar calendar).

It's late October, which can be regarded as the end of the year for the country of Lu. After this month, the beginning of November is the New Year.

But the Song people are the remnants of Yin Shang and retain the Yin rites. Therefore, with the Yin calendar, December (ugly month) is the first year. It's still early for the New Year. So if a businessman is in Lu in November and Song in December. In January, you can spend three consecutive years in Jin......

In short, this so-called New Year's gift was specially prepared by Nanzi for Zhao Wuxian, but he had a heart.

Although he didn't send charcoal in the snow at the beginning of Zhao Wuxian's business, he knew that he was icing on the cake when he was not yet big enough to win favor.

This Nanzi's emotional intelligence is also quite high, and she knows that friendship is to be cultivated slowly, and her attitude of knowing how to advance and retreat makes Zhao Wuxian hate it. If it is harmless to yourself, it is understandable to help you, but you can stay away from this woman, and if you are too deeply contaminated, you may be entangled.

In addition, there are two silk silks full of words, one of which is Nanzi's letter, and the other is handwritten with juanxiu, Zhao Wuxian naturally recognizes that it is Le Lingzi's handwriting. and a basket of medicines that have been divided into times and amounts, including winter medicine to keep out the cold, and ulcer medicine to treat swords and arrows, all from the girl's heart.

He couldn't help but feel a little anxious, in the past six months, although the two of them had also corresponded, Zhao Wuxian was either in a bloody battle, or he was busy running for his future and did not talk deeply. This silk looks quite thick this time, and there must be a lot of words on it.

But he resisted the urge to pick up and read immediately, and first glanced at Nanzi's silk book.

Nanzi's handwriting actually has a bit of a fierce killing meaning, and it does not drag the mud and water at all, but the language inside is like a cloud, which makes people unable to see through the deep meaning hidden under the seal characters.

It turned out that the traffic at this time was really lagging behind, and it was not until mid-October that the rebellion of the Yanghu of the Lu State and the fact that Zhao Wuxian became a small Sikou because of the efforts to quell the chaos were successively spread to the neighboring Qi, Cao, Song and other places of the Lu State, which immediately caused a sensation......

As for the Jin Kingdom, I'm afraid this news has just crossed the Taihang Mountain, and it hasn't arrived in Xinjiang yet!

……

Ten miles of different days, the west of Lu is sunny and cloudless, but the Song Kingdom, which is hundreds of miles away from Yuncheng, is a haze, because of a winter rain the day before yesterday, the winter solstice has not arrived, but Songcheng Shangqiu is already cold to the bone.

In a simple and warm living room in Sicheng Le's mansion, smokeless charcoal is burning in the beast's mouth copper furnace, and two daughters are sitting opposite each other on the pu mat, drinking warm soup to keep out the cold.

Nanzi, the princess of the Song Kingdom, wore a sable fur, gorgeous and noble, with black and shiny hair tied into a high bun, and a jade flute made of black jade was inserted in the bun, which was carved with Yin Shang's totem Xuanniao. Her eyes are charming, her lips are as red as cherries, and she is a little more glamorous than when Zhao Wuxian saw her half a year ago.

She said to the girl opposite with some disgust: "Look at you, I haven't seen you for a few days, and you have lost a few more weights, and your chin is as sharp as the white fox fur on your body, what if you let your 'heavy ears' in the Lu country see it, how would it be ......" (to be continued......)

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