Although Fan Li relied on the old relationship between Wen and Ye Gong to catch a ride with the envoys of the Chu State, and also won the hearts of Wang Sun Yu with his talents and insights, but when Fan Li arrived in Yecheng, his mission did not go smoothly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After Wang Sunyu expressed his intention on his behalf, Fan Li was not immediately received.

Maybe it was because he had declined Zhao Hou's invitation many times before, which made Zhao Wuxian feel embarrassed, or maybe he had already understood why Fan Li came to Yecheng and deliberately wanted to dry him. Hearing that Fan Li was coming, Zhao Hou just sighed and didn't show much urgency.

Fan Li had no choice but to find his teacher Ji Ran again and formally request to meet Zhao Hou. Ji Ran is now one of the six ministers of the Zhao family, in charge of financial power, under his mediation, among the many envoys waiting to be met outside the Weiyang Palace, there is a place for Fan Li.

In the past few days, the threshold of Weiyang Palace has been almost flattened by messengers from all directions. According to the process, after the Chu State, Zhao Wuxian will also meet with Lu Guolai's own son Zhao Cao, and the great Sicheng Leru of the Song State, these two are the closest relatives of the Zhao family, and they are also the main battlefield of wrestling with the Qi State of Wu next year, which cannot be seen.

Behind is Zhongshan and Yan Guo, who have been fighting for most of the year, need to make a good bid, and at the same time use the bait of "the widow wants to help Zhongshan Jun be listed as a prince, and the Son of Heaven will be named a viscount, so that Zhongshan Guo can get out of the ranks of Rong Di and become a Chinese man" to let Zhongshan continue to be Zhao's horse, and at the same time knock Yan Guo to keep them away from Qi State. As for the envoys of the Yue Kingdom who came in, they were ranked at the bottom, only higher than the small states of Sishang and the surrounding barbarians, which is enough to see the priority of Zhao Hou's diplomacy in his heart.

According to the Zhao Rite Officer, who let the Yue people not go through the process? In that case, let's wait slowly. Fan Li was helpless about this, Yue Guo was a vassal of Wu State, how could he dare to openly meet Zhao Hou? Now they have something to ask for, so they can only wait silently outside.

This wait was two days, and it was not until the evening of December 31 that Fan Li was able to carry the gift and enter the Weiyang Palace.

The grandeur of Weiyang Palace is shocking, unlike when he first took over the family business, and now Zhao Wuxian strives to hold a ceremony to be decent, so although the decoration in the palace is not luxurious, it is not cheap.

The heavy hall is magnificent, the floors are sparse, the stairs are connected, and many erected temples and palace maids are busy in the snow for tomorrow's founding ceremony. Looking at the palace room of Zhao Guo, which was rejuvenated under the goose feather snow, Fan Li was full of thoughts, but it was still far south, and his monarch Gou Jian was living a hard life.

Since Gou Jian successfully escaped and returned to China three years ago, it was like a different person, he was afraid that he would not be able to stand the temptation, greedy for a comfortable life, and consumed his ambition for revenge, so he slept on the straw pile at night with his weapons on his pillow. He also hung a bitter gall in his house, and he had to taste the bitter taste before every meal, reminding himself: I can't forget the suffering in Wu Kingdom!

The misery of being a slave and a maid, the shame of tasting dung for Wu Wangfu, when I think of those years, Gou Jian can't sleep at night, and there will be symptoms of retching.

On weekdays, he does not live in the palace room, but wears coarse cloth, eats coarse rice, and goes barefoot to work with the people in the paddy fields every spring and autumn harvest. Mrs. Yue Wang led the women to raise silkworms and weave cloth to develop production.

In addition, at the suggestion of Wen Chong, Gou Jian also emulated some of Zhao's initiatives to rejuvenate the country.

The land of Yue is actually very fertile, and the climate is suitable, as long as the seeds are sprinkled and the rice seedlings are planted, it is easy to get a bumper harvest, and it is no wonder that in later generations, there is a "Suzhou and Hangzhou are ripe, the world is full", but the biggest disadvantage is that the population is sparse.

In the second year after returning to China, Gou Jian announced to all the Yue people to recuperate: "Today, the widow can't, and the handsome two and third sons and the couple will be in Tibet!" ”

In the decree, Gou Jian stipulated that in the country of Yue, a man in the prime of life was not allowed to marry an elderly woman, and an elderly man could not marry a young wife; If a girl does not marry at the age of 17, her parents are guilty, and if a man does not marry at the age of 20, her parents will be sentenced. When a pregnant woman is in labor, she must report to the government in a timely manner, and the government will send a doctor to take care of the delivery. give birth to a boy, enjoy two pots of wine, and a dog; give birth to a girl, enjoy two pots of wine, and a pig; If a child gives birth to three children, the government will send it to the wet nurse, and if one child gives birth to two children, the government will provide rations......

The above are all laws that are conducive to the reproduction of the population, so the Yue people were overjoyed, moved by Gou Jian's actions, and the complaints about his loss of teachers and country slowly disappeared. All the hardships suffered by the Yue people over the years have turned into hatred for the Wu State. Although there are few people in Yue, everyone works hard and hopes to destroy Wu Xue's shame as soon as possible.

However, Gou Jian knows very well that the Yue State can only muster more than 10,000 people with the strength of the whole country, how to confront the Wu State that dominates the Jianghuai? So he adopted Fan Li's suggestion and bribed Wu Dazai with a lot of money to let him speak for Yue Guo in the imperial court; donated timber and craftsmen, and spent Wu manpower and material resources to build the platform of Gusu; At the same time, spread rumors and drive a wedge between King Wu and Wu Zixu.

But this was not enough, the king of Yue asked Fan Li to personally look for beauties among the people and send them to the Wu Palace to confuse the husband, and at the same time, they could also be sent to the north to make strong contributions to the Yue country......

Fan Li first found a girl named "Zheng Dan" from Zheng Dinulu, although she was not very old, but her appearance was beautiful, and she was quite talented in dancing, so she was bought by Fan Li.

But Zheng Dan is not his favorite work.

Fan Li turned to look behind her, she still followed him closely, maybe because of the cold, maybe because of apprehension, one hand still gently tugged at the corner of his clothes, in this regard, Fan Li showed a helpless smile.

"Xizi, pay attention to some etiquette, we will be there soon."

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Most of the residents of the Yue Kingdom are indigenous Yu Yue people, but there are exceptions, such as Zhuji Ramie Mountain, which was a remnant of the Xu State who fled here decades ago, and was protected by the Yue State to multiply, and has been providing beauties for the Yue court in the past.

After Fan Li found here, he selected more than ten girls of appropriate age and brought them back to Huiji for training. Meiyu will always shine, and the sharp awl will always stand out, and he soon fell in love with one of these more than ten people, the daughter of a Huansha family, whose surname is Shi, because the family lives in the west of the village, so it is called "Xizi".

She was born beautiful, and when she grew up, she was even more beautiful, and in the description of others, she was so beautiful that the fish in the river could sink to the bottom of the water with fascination......

Just as no matter how good the jade is, it also needs to be carved, in the heart of Fan Li, who has read countless women, a real beauty must have three conditions, one is beauty, the second is good singing and dancing, and the third is posture.

Although Zheng Dan and Xizi are beautiful, they are not qualified in other aspects.

So these more than ten girls stayed in Huiji for three years, during which Fan Li did everything possible to find the palace maids of the Chu Palace, teach them singing and dancing, walking, etiquette, etc., of course, for the key training of Zheng Dan and Xizi, there is more than that, but also teach them how to compete with other women in the palace, and even self-defense assassination......

Beautiful butterflies may have poison on their wings! When dancing, you may be able to kill people.

Three years have flown by, and when Fan Li returned to Huiji from the further south to complete the city-building training, these girls were already ready to go out of school.

It was night, in the melodious music, all the women danced, graceful and charming, but when Zheng Dan appeared on the stage, all the women were covered by her demeanor, like the stars holding the moon.

However, when Xizi walked out slowly on the clogs, the moon and the stars were ashamed and could only retreat to the side......

Fan Li also lost his mind for a while, completely fascinated by Xizi, and only a poem written by Zhao Wuxian in the Song Palace was left in his mind: A smile captivates the city, and then a smile captivates the country......

Not only does she dance like a celestial person, but her gestures have also grown from a beautiful girl from a raccoon yarn family to a well-cultivated beauty, every action is not deliberate, but it can show the beauty of graceful posture, extremely sultry, treat people and things, and is also very decent, but people can't help but feel close.

Even though Zheng Dan is not convinced, I have to say that she is still not as far away as Xizi......

If it weren't for Fan Li's firm will, he would almost be stuck in the middle and couldn't extricate himself.

In the end, Fan Li decided to send Zheng Dan to Wu Guogu Su Zhitai to curry favor with his husband and let him relax his vigilance against Yue Guo. A few months later, he sent Xizi to Zhao Wuxian in the north to win a strong reinforcement for the Yue Kingdom.

"The two daughters were sent to the two countries separately, but there is a reason?" Wen Chong raised doubts at that time.

"The beauty of Xizi is better than Zheng Dan, if Zheng Dan accidentally confides in the matter in front of the husband, with the character of the husband, I am afraid that he will immediately raise troops to the north......" Fan Li smiled innocently, Yue Guo sent people north to curry favor with the Zhao family, if it can be kept secret, try to keep it secret, if not, then it is necessary to use the matter itself, it is said that Zhao Wuxian forcibly asked for a more beautiful Xizi, and led the anger of the husband to Zhao, so that Yue Guo would have an opportunity......

This is not a simple beauty plan, but a serial plan to win Zhao Hou's friendship and add a fire to the conflict between Zhao and Wu......

If you simply rely on the few hundreds of thousands of Yue people, the revival of the Yue country is too difficult, and if you want to help the monarch realize her long-cherished wish in his lifetime, Fan Li can only hope for external forces.

Thinking of this, Fan Li raised his head and found that under the guidance of the erector, they had bypassed the side of the Yang Palace and arrived outside the Riju Hall of Changle Palace.

The master of ceremonies asked them to wait, and in this interval, Fan Li looked back again and looked at the woman he brought, his proud work.

Southerners can't bear the cold, let alone snow, behind Fan Li, the girl is wearing a thick red leather jacket, which is a full-length lilac deep skirt, but this can't hide her slender figure, her face is covered with a veil, but she can't cover the face of the city. At this moment, she was looking curiously at the snowflakes falling from the sky in a daze, the snow falling on the tips of her hair, as white as her face, and there was still a bit of frozen pink in the whiteness, like a tender peach blossom that bloomed in advance. Because of the closeness, the hot breath exhaled from her cherry lips blew on Fan Li's neck......

Fan Li was stunned again.

Although his teacher Ji Ran shook his head after understanding his intentions and said, "Young Uncle, Zhao Hou is not an ordinary monarch, let alone the kind of person you think. ”

It's useless, Fan Li thought, no matter what kind of person he is, whether he is a hero or a sage, even if it is the rumored Yanagishita Hui, as long as he is a man, as long as he still knows what beauty is, he will definitely be fascinated by the woman next to him.

Gou Jian, the kind of heroic king who only aims at revenge and shame, almost forgot his ambition when he saw Xizi at first glance, and wanted to include Xizi in the palace......

Just a little bit, Fan Li couldn't take her north, just a little, Fan Li almost couldn't hold back, and took her away halfway. He has experienced many women in his life, or he is entangled in death, or wild and promiscuous and sexual, or dewy mandarin ducks, but he has never felt like this, just respecting each other like a guest, and being able to love her so much without skin.

Because she is Xizi, she has the appearance of a sinking fish, and she is a rare wonderful beauty in the world?

Perhaps sensing that Fan Li was looking at her, the girl also turned her head to look, her dark eyelashes were condensed with frost, and there was a mysterious mist in her big innocent eyes.

Fan Li almost lost his mind, and then found that he and the girl were looking at each other, so he immediately removed his eyes. I don't know why there was a pain in his heart, because later, he had to give her to Zhao Hou......

He took a deep breath of air, forced himself to calm down, and continued walking.

As everyone knows, there is a faint disappointment in the girl's eyes.

The road is at the end of the road, the majestic Riju Hall has arrived, a pair of Rui beasts in the town house looked at her fiercely, she can no longer pull the corners of Fan Li's clothes casually, the only thing that can bring her a sense of security in this foreign country.

Gently retracting Rouyi, retracting the frozen reddish hand into the sleeve, Xizi lowered his head as if resigned, and sighed in an inaudible voice:

"The mountains have trees and branches, and the heart is happy, and the king does not know ......"

ps: These chapters are recommended to listen to kaiser's "Yue Ren Song" to see, o(n_n)o~ (to be continued.) )