Liu Qi is happy now, the Huns are lonely, the ministers are shocked, and the soldiers are excited. Ouyang Xuan raised his long sword and stood still in the field, the sword god reflected the sun, shining brightly, and pierced the eyes of everyone in the field. The silver armor, the long sword reflecting the strong light, in the sunlight, it seemed that Ouyang Xuan had blended into the light, and everyone was in a mood that fluctuated.

There was a long roar, using the way the grassland people gave the warriors a funeral, their hands and swords were raised above the country's heads, and they raised their heads and roared, awakening the gods and taking away the warriors. The white wolf brothers and sisters are very human, and just when Ouyang Xuan howled, two wolf howls sounded at the same time. Drowned out the shouts of the soldiers, echoing in the field. Summoned the white wolf siblings and motioned for them to lick each warrior's forehead. Dismounted, closed eyes for everyone. When the white wolves are done with their work, let them lead the horses to the sidelines and lick them. Two heavy blows in succession will damage the horse's leg.

"Hun envoy, how many troops can our Han Dynasty resist you?"

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, the divine envoy is enough to defeat the 10,000 troops of our Great Huns. Now there are eight of the top ten unparalleled warriors in Dadanyu, who have died at the hands of the gods. I grieve for the loss of my warriors to the Huns. The people of the Kunlun God will remember these warriors."

Ouyang Xuan had already come to Liu Qi's side, "Your Majesty, please ask the Xiongnu envoys to bury the warriors according to their customs, and also ask for a meritorious burial for the Han warriors who died in battle." "Zhun Song, Hun envoy, you can bury your warriors, each warrior will be given 100 gold, 10 silk horses", "Thank you for your majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and thank the divine envoy for the awe of the warriors, the descendants of the wolf, and finally sent off by the wolf, which is the glory of the people of Kunlun." After speaking, he knelt down on one leg and bowed to Ouyang Xuan.

"Doctor Yushi, pass on my will, all the generals and soldiers who participated in the war have been promoted to the third class recently, each of them is still 100 gold, for the old and weak, and the clan will be exempted from taxation for three years." "Chen Chao is wrong, Your Majesty, this pawn was originally the prime minister of Zhao, and the Xiongnu envoy entered from Shanggu, is it ...... with cutting the feudal domain behind it", Liu Qi waved his hand and didn't let Chao Cuo say any more. In addition, I will pass on my will, the general of the chariot cavalry Hou Ouyang Shixuan can wear a sword to the palace, this time with the Han family meritorious service, reward the good land thousands of tilts, increase the population of the city by 2,000 households, and give a thousand catties of gold." "Your Majesty, this ......" Chao Cuo was about to say something, but Liu Qi waved back.

"Hu Hou, the field of soldiers and horses can be prepared next month, and please wait for the training of the * ", "The minister's decree, another minister recommends Shandong Nie's family as a minister", "Oh, tomorrow he will send his family tree to Cheng to get along, and the proposed music will be concise for me to read". "Thank you, Your Majesty". The rest was rituals, Ouyang Xuan didn't participate, just let the white wolf do what the Huns wanted. With the brigade back to the inner city.

I went into the courtyard and found Nie Ping, and told me what happened today. Nie Ping was silent for a long time before he said: "Brother Xian, Handi is really not a place where you can stay, you will resign from the general of the chariot and cavalry tomorrow, and be an idle marquis with peace of mind, it will not be easy to live to the end." Nie Ping drank a cup of tea, ordered his subordinates to go out, and looked out of the door for a long time before he said again: "Today is your reputation in the Western Regions, so that the conscience of the Huns found and saved you, do you know who that Liu Tong is?" ", "I don't know, it shouldn't be the royal family", "He is given a surname, and today's Yaoqiu Marquis Liu She and Dehou Liu Tong are all given surnames, Liu Tong was originally the prime minister of Zhao Guo, Chongru, and there must be King Zhao behind this matter. Virtuous brother, do you know why the Han and Hungarians continue to fight all year round? "The Xiongnu herdsmen are accustomed to robbing by nature". Ouyang Xuan drank tea and replied without looking up.

"Wrong, brother Xian, you didn't know it when you first came, and it was the Han side that provoked border affairs several times, and there was a force in the Han region to promote the Han-Hun war, but the first emperor and the current emperor were unwilling to fight, so there would be a policy of peace and affinity. There is no war, then the lower pick, from which to get its benefits, the war can be sealed Hou Jinshi, transport the family and the government, now on the way of favoring Huang Lao, other such as Confucianism, Legalism, soldiers, vertical and horizontal families and other families for their interests and pick side affairs, to Dazuo on the change of favor Huang Lao Tao for their own family, especially Confucianism. Nowadays, there are Chao Cuo and Yuan Ang as the leaders in the court, and the people have the Kong family and the Yan family. Another virtuous brother can shock the Western Regions, so that the Xiongnu and the virtuous brother, and only give light salutes to Your Majesty, which has aroused the envy of everyone, and I am afraid that Your Majesty will also feel this. The appointment of the general is not required to be approved by the prime minister, but only needs to be filed with the prime minister. How do you say that? ”。

"I see, Brother Nie's words are like an empowerment, so that the younger brother suddenly understands the original situation, it turns out to be so dangerous"

"Brother Xian, this is just one of them, the second brother doesn't know, with the influence of Brother Xian in the Western Regions, many court officials can't figure out what Brother Xian has learned, so they will naturally try their best to suppress it, until they take Brother Xian's life, which is the case today. Brother runs to the countries of the Western Regions all the year round, and he can communicate with him, without hiding his heart, just speak directly, and in the Han land, he needs to be thoughtful before he can talk, and the slightest carelessness will lead to death. The reason why it was spurned by the Western Regions and the Huns was not because of its ethnicity, but because of its words and deeds, and its strategies were contrary to the morality of its people, and it was only for one thing so far. Now that the border is in a Ning, the war will inevitably be introduced." Ouyang Xuan now admires Nie Ping very much, and he is worthy of being the first commercial strategist of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the master of Sang Hongyang.

"Tomorrow, the younger brother will resign and be an idle marquis, which is also very good. Brother Nie recently hurried to get some wooden branches, gathered loyal paper craftsmen, taught some small skills, and made a fortune with Brother Nie." "There are two more days for the craftsman to arrive, and the branches are not difficult, just go to the fiefdom of the virtuous brother to get some", "Haha, this is very good, the musician can go?" ”。

"After the virtuous brother left, he wanted to resign, but he didn't allow it." "I'm going to him and I'm going to talk about some musical issues." "If a virtuous brother is broad-minded and has more scheming, he will definitely achieve great things."

The next day, before Ouyang Xuan could finish packing up and enter the palace, the official had already entered the hospital. The edict was read from the main seat in the reception room. Roughly speaking, because the new lieutenant Zhou Yafu tried his best to oppose it, the matter of the Yulin Army was abandoned. Ouyang Xuan is now dismissed from his post as a general of the chariot cavalry. Because there is no worship of the general, the seal has not been awarded, so it will be stopped. Another title is the general of Zhenbei, 4,000 stones, gold seal purple ribbon. There is also a special will: the general headquarters of the north of the town is selected from 2,000 people, and the personnel of the original Yulin army. It took a morning to read all three letters. As a result, this official seemed to be very humorous, asked Ouyang Xuan for a cup of tea to drink, took out a slip, opened it and sat down on the desk and continued to read. This time it was an edict of reward, and I finished reading it. handed over the four edicts to Ouyang Xuan, and after the signing was completed, Nie Ping rewarded a large piece of copper ingots in time, and this guy took out the Weiyang Palace walking waist card and the waist card of going to the palace with a walking sword from his arms, and the small official who came with him brought in a plate with the seals of the marquis and the general. They all asked Ouyang Xuan to quickly unload the copper ingots on the car. When the work was over, I remembered that I hadn't eaten yet.

"It seems that His Majesty still wants to set up a guard army, and the original department of the four town generals has only 1,000 people, and the virtuous brother has obtained an idle general, and there is a department that can be slowly practiced. For the brother also thought about it, he and the virtuous brother to do some financial management, planning and other miscellaneous things, the family caravan shop has been handed over to the brother, and the future for the brother's family snacks and food are all dependent on the virtuous brother, and the caravan under the brother's name depends on the virtuous brother." The two of them were talking while eating. "So very good, very good, Brother Nie quickly brought the family to Chang'an", "As soon as the old wife was married, the two sons had already married a family, and they were all doing business and setting up their own doors, the eldest son is now the eldest princess pavilion pottery fiefdom, and the younger son is now with Liaodong". "Since Brother Nie has decided, the younger brother will give him an object," he said, handing the pass wolf skin and a crossbow arrow with monster teeth attached to Nie Ping. "Brother Nie also knows the usefulness of this wolf skin, and with the magic tooth and crossbow arrows, it can pass with the Xiongnu and the Western Regions unimpeded."

"It's a bit valuable, do you know how much this wolf skin is worth? What can this magic tooth be exchanged for in the Xiongnu and the Western Regions? ”

"I really don't know."

"This wolf skin is the seal letter of King Wusunnan, and there are only three in the whole world. One is with the virtuous brother, the other is with the prince of the Dayue clan, and one is owned by Wusun Wangcheng, and a wolf skin is worth a thousand taels of gold. Do you know that the manhole post will pull out all the teeth in his mouth, and the money sold is already a huge wealth in the Western Regions, and he has bought the two cities of Loulan Kingdom. The skin of the monster is now the thing that the kings of the Huns fought for, and it can be changed to a city, but fortunately, the brother left the neck and the fur of the hind limbs in the name of the virtuous brother at that time. Brother Xian didn't know that the tooth skin of the giant beast you killed in the Wolf Tower had already triggered several battles, and its fangs were already hard to buy. I don't know who got it. The wealth that the virtuous brother threw at the Western Regions and on the road is enough to rival the country."

"There are such things as this, which I have never heard of."

"No one will tell you about this, did you forget to collect your crossbow arrows yesterday?"

Ouyang Xuan then remembered that the crossbow arrows he shot were withdrawn every time, but this time he actually forgot to collect them. I checked the quiver, 49. "I really forgot to accept this."

Nie Ping took out a gold box from his sleeve and handed it to Ouyang Xuan. "This is yesterday evening, when the Huns and the shop were building boxes, they were seen by the brother, and they were temporarily borrowed in the name of the virtuous brother. A crossbow arrow is still gold-mounted, and its price can be seen."

"Forget it, give it back to them, this is what they deserve, just a crossbow arrow, there are still half a hundred arrows, and some water and wood will be made for a while."

"Brother, respect the faithfulness of the virtuous brother, then the brother will return it immediately, and today they will come to get the box."

After eating, I found a musician and practiced the guzheng again. He took out all the arrows, remade the crossbow arrows from the remaining sunken wood, and drew one to replenish the quiver. The rest was put in the backpack. The white wolf brother and sister are still playing with the servants and maids in the yard, laughing more than screaming, and the two brothers and sisters cooperate very tacitly.

After a few days in such a hurry, it was the beginning of September in a blink of an eye, and today was the first day of moving into the new mansion, and there was a special practice place in the courtyard of Sanjin, and there was a special practice place in the backyard for Ouyang Xuan and White Wolf* to practice, and it was still the kind of hanging wood mechanism on the shelf, and a lot of trees were transplanted. The middle courtyard is the residence of Nie Ping's two sons, the front yard is the place where the guests meet, and the maids and servants live in the wing rooms, and the buildings are all the same style. Through Nie Ping, he bought 500 orphans in the slave market as maids and servants.

The diet in this era is all made of animal oil, which is a headache for Ouyang Xuan. Thinking about it, it is an encyclopedia and an experiment. In the end, he mastered the method of using the principle of levers to press and refine soybean oil with stones and mortars, and found a few smart orphans and gave them the method. In this era, soybeans were used to feed horses, which was very cheap, and they bought 100 stones in the outer city, found a shop, and processed some for sale every day. It is not expensive to sell, ordinary people can afford it, it is a little cheaper than animal oil, and Ouyang Xuanding's profit cannot exceed 2%. After a few days of sales, the effect is not bad, in fact, Ouyang Xuan has another purpose in making soybean oil, which is to refine penicillin.

The daily meals are also to find orphans to teach them to use soybean oil to fry food, I was not a chef, but it is no problem to take a second-level certificate, using the existing ingredients to develop more than 20 kinds of dishes, but these children learn slowly, there is no way to be skinny one by one, and there are problems with a shovel.

After eating in the morning, I drank tea with Nie Ping in the backyard pavilion and watched the orphans exercise below under the supervision of the white wolf. "Brother Xian, what do you want to do with such orphans? Now their treatment is enough to surpass that of the sons of the rich family, just to do errand work for this Hou Mansion? ”

"A certain person who can't see orphans suffering the most is that instead of going to someone else's house to suffer, it is better to suffer some hardships with me and live happily. Later, when Brother Nie saw that the minor orphans could be collected, and the shops were mainly orphans and widows if they hired messengers." After taking a sip of tea, he waved his hand and let the children go to play on their own. He turned around and asked, "Has paper ever been mass-produced?" ”

"Well, the yield is acceptable, but for some reason I have to use shrub branches, and it is very troublesome to harvest them every day." "If the trees are cut down in large numbers, what will the children and grandchildren use in the future? In addition, the principal was told that the sewage from the shop could only be discharged into the river after passing through the carbon wood sand and gravel trough. When the potter arrives, he will open a porcelain workshop, and in the same way, he will thank Brother Nie for his help in rebuilding the mansion this time."

"Brother Xian, now the two shops of oil and paper are operated independently, for fear of arousing the suspicion of other princes and nobles, and causing trouble"

"It's okay, let's do it for the time being, let me think about it again"

"The fiefdom courtyard has also been completed, when does the virtuous brother plan to leave?"

"After a while, I will go and say goodbye to Your Majesty and the Queen Mother, and the family members of the ministry will also ask Brother Nie to be properly placed in the fiefdom, if the number of feudal households exceeds the number of feudal households, you can find the internal history to push off some of the original feudal households, and the rest will be decided by Brother Nie."

"In the future, the workshops will all be moved to the fiefdom, and a certain method will be provided, * training people, and the rest will be managed by Brother Nie. In addition, some high-level medical craftsmen were hired to be placed in the hospital clinic to purchase medicinal materials according to a certain listed item. If the money needed is insufficient, you can bring jade with the queen's noble relatives to sell and exchange some gold nuggets. Let's go settle in."

Through the Han philosophy instilled by Nie Ping these days, Ouyang Xuan has gradually opened up. is not a stupid person in the first place, coupled with 48 years of rich experience, it can be said that he is not only thorough, but also changing his original way of thinking about problems little by little, in fact, Ouyang Xuan is even older than Nie Ping in terms of age. A few days ago, at the first day of September, at the first day of September, because of the appearance of Ouyang Xuan, the original harmony, the Huns took the initiative to give up, and only put forward a request to open a business. Liu Qi readily agreed, but Chao Cuo, Yuan An, and others did their best to oppose it on the grounds that it would be detrimental to the dignity of the Han family to interact and trade with the Hu barbars, but they were all vetoed one by one. The final spearhead was pointed at Ouyang Xuan, the reason was that Ouyang Xuan gave the Huns ten crossbow arrows and promised to let go of his Dawan horse caravan. Ouyang Xuan also fought on the basis of reason, so as to improve the horse population of the Han region to benefit the war and do more. In the end, with the support of Liu Qi and the Empress Dowager, the Chao Cuo side was defeated, and in the end, Ouyang Xuan could only leave Chang'an as soon as possible on the grounds that the princes had no actual official position and were not allowed to live in the capital for a long time.

In the morning, he rode a horse and took the white wolf brothers and sisters to Changle Palace first, and said goodbye to the Empress Dowager Dou. The white wolf brothers and sisters who had just arrived at the gate of the hall were obviously very familiar with the grass and trees here, so they entered the hall directly, and gave the queen mother a salute according to Ouyang Xuan's previous training, "Haha, princess, are you very psychic?" Let's be flat" The brother and sister ran to the Queen Mother's side and lay down, waiting for Ouyang Xuan to come in. "The queen mother is well and blessed, and the minister Ouyang Xuan bowed his way and resigned", and hurriedly bowed his hand after entering the palace. "Calm down, Chang'an stayed well, Chao Cuo, these rotten Confucians have to drive you to the fiefdom, it's okay, it's clean there. Cui'er, sit down for Hu Hou. ”

"Empress Dowager Xie", found her place and sat down, surrounded and opposite by a group of old people, and there was actually a blind disabled person. Empress Dowager Dou began to introduce them one by one, the good guys are all some heroes of the Emperor Wen period, as well as the clan of the Empress Dowager Dou, and the disabled person is actually the niece of the Empress Dowager Dou. I chatted for a while. I gave a few old men a number of pulses, but none of them were healthy. It's just that the niece of the Empress Dowager Dou obviously judged that it was secondary diabetes according to the pulse and characteristics, and it had caused lesions such as fundus hemorrhage, so she took out the paper on her body, and wrote a prescription that could use the existing medicinal materials to achieve the therapeutic effect according to the syndrome differentiation and treatment experience of traditional Chinese medicine for thirst quenching syndrome accumulated in later generations, and instructed some precautions for life and diet, and specially explained that when the physical condition improved, the eye disease would be treated, and of course the prescription was handed over to the imperial doctor by the queen mother.

"The paper seems to be very different from the paper used in the palace, the paper in the palace is fragile, the color is black, and the loose ink cannot be written. When it was almost over, it was handed over to the imperial doctor and asked them to test the feasibility of the prescription. "It's just some small skills, the minister is handed over to the Nie family for production and operation, divided into three kinds, just what the Queen Mother saw is for writing, a copper coin is a tael, and the packaging is more expensive for pasting windows, ten copper coins are a tael, and there is a kind of indecent, please forgive the Queen Mother, it is for the purpose of wiping it. A copper coin is a pound. One is being developed for painting and calligraphy, but it has not yet been obtained."

"Haha, the old body heard that Hu Hou has a lot of talents, and the folk rumors have made the old artist want to leave the piano, I don't know how this painting is? Let the old body see it", this is a precursor to seeing the monkey. I had no choice but to bite the bullet.

"Carving insect skills, let the Queen Mother laugh". "Take a good pen and ink, the paper is not here, please wait for your own." Signaling Buick to go to Mana to get the package, the guy went out of the door, and returned in a moment, the brush was ready, and there was black ink in a large pottery bowl, which smelled of pine, and various color paint bowls. Ouyang Xuan doesn't know how to splash ink, only good at the kind of fine brush painting on ceramics or carved pieces, he learned some Chinese painting techniques in college, and often painted some when he was in service, and handed over to the propaganda officer to publish a few articles. Take out a two-meter-long piece of paper from the horse bag and spread it flat, this kind of paper was originally used by Ouyang Xuan for cutting in an emergency, and there is not much production, Nie Ping and the directors are all hand-owned and carried with them.

I thought about what I wanted to draw for a while. It took an hour to paint on the paper, and a colorful and full "Twin Phoenixes Traveling Map" jumped on the paper, and two golden phoenixes hovered in the mountains and rivers. Change the pen and dip the ink on the side to mention "Phoenix Panhuan double flying wings, the spirit of the mountains and rivers to bless the world, Hu Hou Ouyang Xuan inscription to the Queen Mother Fu'an Ding Hai year on the fifth day of the ninth month" is written in the official book, and after the ink is dry, take out his own Hu Hou gold seal dipped in red material and cover it to print. Holding it in both hands and sending it to the Queen Mother. This kind of painting Ouyang Xuan painted a similar one when he was working at the county CDC, but the phoenix was replaced with a national flag and a sickle axe pattern.

"Okay, the old body likes it very much. It's just that this paper is not easy to preserve, so can there be a solution? ”

"Queen Mother, just send this thing to the Nie's jewelry shop in Dongshi, and after pasting, you can hang it in the hall, and the minister will teach her how to paste paper." "That's very good, Cui'er will send someone to do it." "I heard that Hu is waiting to go to the fiefdom and want to open a medical hall?" "If the minister has this intention, the idle man should do some craftsman's work, so that his heart will not be scattered, and his deeds will not fall." "It's okay, just pay more attention to what people say." "Empress Dowager Xie mentions". "If there is nothing else to do, go to Your Majesty's resignation."

Out of Changle Palace, go straight to Weiyang Palace, not far away, see Liu Qi in Chengming Palace, Chao Cuo is also there, nothing to say, etiquette and Liu Qi resignation. As a result, when he was about to leave, Chao Cuo opened his mouth, "Hu Hou Zhiyong has surpassed ordinary people, and he is in such a hurry to return to the country, can he have any other plans?" ”

"Your Majesty, the courtiers returned to the feudal country because the courtiers were forced by the courtiers, what is the plan?"

"Your Majesty, this son ......" Chao Cuo had to say, but was interrupted by Liu Qi waving his hand. Wait, there is nothing else to do, and then step down." "Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister retires." After exiting the palace gate, there was a faint voice from inside, "Your Majesty, the wicked people must not stay, this son is too ...... Zhiyong"

I don't want to argue with a person who has entered the countdown to death, a person who is impossible to torture with both etiquette and law, but has been subjected to the most cruel punishment and exterminated the clan, there must be a reason.

When I returned to the mansion, I was in a much better mood, and there were a lot of copper ingots and silk cloths that the Queen Mother had just rewarded in the courtyard, and the orphans were busy carrying them. Cui'er, the old palace maid beside the Queen Mother, also brought the Queen Mother's decree. The queen mother liked the painting very much, and hung it in the middle of the fairy hall, and gave a special reward of thousands of gold and 100 silk horses.