Speaking of Xiao Qin, the wife of the Marquis of Bohai, few people may know about it in the imperial capital, but in Liangzhou and Bohai County, it is a household name.

In Liangzhou, Xiao Qin, the daughter of the Xiao family, is a top talent that everyone admires! At the age of eight, she could write poems, at the age of nine, she could play the piano, at the age of ten, she was admitted to the Imperial University at the age of fourteen, and after graduating at the age of eighteen, she married Shen Mu, the Marquis of Bohai, who was fifteen years older than her. It is modest to describe her as being proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and it may be a bit accurate to say that she is beautiful and wise, virtuous and virtuous.

Of course, this is the evaluation of Liangzhou people on her, but in Bohai County, she has another extreme evaluation: mean and unkind, her heart is like a poisonous scorpion, the city government is very deep, she has insight into human feelings but is not skilled, and her demeanor is dignified but pretentious...... It boils down to one word, "scorpion beauty"!

These two extreme evaluations were entirely caused by herself. Liangzhou is located in the western part of the empire, and it has been a bitter cold land since ancient times, and the people are not as rich as Bohai. Every year, whether it is a big year or a small festival, Xiao Qin will send gifts to his father thousands of miles away, not only his father, but also a member of the Xiao family. In this way, it is naturally well-known. But in Bohai County, she is extremely domineering. not only beat and scolded the Shen family, but also kept all the money from the food as his own.

Some people may ask, why didn't Shen Mu stop it?

This has to start with the marriage of Shen Mu and Xiao Qin. Shen Mu's original wife was originally Shen Yun's own mother, Shen Yuan, and the two respected each other like guests, raising their eyebrows together, and they were originally a fairy couple that everyone admired. But since an unsolved case ten years ago, the Bohai Hou family has suffered a great crisis, and in order to keep the family, Shen Mu has no choice but to marry the Lianggong family.

At that time, Liang Gong intended to give his eldest daughter Xiao Qin, who was only eighteen years old at the time, to Shen Yun, who had just turned fifteen, but Shen Mu insisted on marrying Xiao Qin himself. According to Shen Wu's statement, Shen Mu didn't want to involve his grievances on Shen Yun, and although Shen Yun was only fifteen years old at the time, he already had the demeanor of a caged bird, and Liang Gong also agreed to come down after the inspection.

In this era, a woman's lifelong event is still to obey the orders of her parents, and Zhuo Wenjun is precious, but there is only that one. Xiao Qin naturally will not be interested in this man who is fifteen years older than herself, it seems that she is taking revenge for this marriage that was combined for the purpose of marriage, after marrying, Xiao Qin does not have a good face for anyone at all, picking and choosing everywhere, and taking all the dowries given by Liang Gong to herself, and not allowing Shen Mu to touch half a point.

Each title in the empire has a corresponding eupon, and of course, it is impossible for Han Shengzu to be almost a country within a country before him. Take Liang Gong as an example. Duke Liang, living in Liangzhou, but his food is in Xiang County in the extreme south, and the duke's food is 3,000 households. It seems to be a lot, but the food is not allowed to collect in kind, but the total amount of taxes reported by the magistrate in that year is converted into silver and handed over to the household department, and Liang Gong goes to the household department every year to withdraw the corresponding silver money.

The food town of the Marquis of Bohai is 2,000 households, but fortunately it is not far away, in the territory of Liaozhou. Every family has a lot of places where they have to spend money, and they can't afford such a large expense by relying on food alone, so the average family will have to do business or earn money through other means. As long as it is not illegal, the Empire will not interfere.

The Bohai family is mainly engaged in medicinal herbs and shipping. The annual profit is at least millions, but this money is shared equally with the eldest lady. When Xiao Qin got married, Liang Gong negotiated with Shen Mu that the business of the Bohai family must be shared equally with the Liang family in the future. This is also an important reason why Shen Mu didn't dare to do anything to Xiao Qin.

As for the curse of the Bohai Hou family by the descendants of the Yuan family, it was actually spread by the eldest lady Xiao Qin. The purpose is to make everyone jealous of Shen Yun--- because Shen Yun's mother's surname is Yuan!

But this Yuan is not the other Yuan. Yuan Shao's lineage, which rebelled back then, had already been killed by the Holy Ancestor and the Ten Clans, and it was impossible to leave any traces. But Xiao Qin really did everything in order to let his son Shen He, who had just turned ten years old, inherit the title of Marquis of Bohai.

The Shen family has been inherited for a hundred years, although it cannot be compared with the families of Liang Gong and Ying Gong, but it is also flourishing in Bohai County, and there are many clansmen. In addition, the Shen family's business is not small, so many clansmen rely on the Shen family to survive. Now the most important thing in the Bohai family is the two younger brothers of Shen Yin, the 29th generation of Bohai Marquis, Shen Fu and Shen Chong, Shen Yun calls them the eldest uncle and the second uncle. As for Shen Mu's family, there is only one sister left, Shen Silan, and Shen Mu wants to call her aunt. All three of them will support Shen Yun strongly, because they are all in charge of a part of the family's business. I have long been dissatisfied with Xiao Qin's dominance of the Shen family.

In addition, Shen Wu also specially emphasized to Shen Yun that although the Marquis of Bohai lived in Bohai, he did not actually have the right to manage Bohai County. Bohai Taishou is called Xiao Rang, who was originally a member of the Ministry of Government Affairs, known as a clear name, and has a good hand in governing the place, and when he was young, he served as a county magistrate in Huaiyin for two terms, and his political achievements were remarkable.

Of course, the reason why Shen Wu emphasized this person to Shen Yun was because Xiao Rang was the brother of Xiao Teng, the Duke of Liang, that is, the uncle of Xiao Qin, the eldest lady of Bohai Hou!

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The Bohai Sea, located in the northeast of the empire, was the state of Korea in ancient times. During the period of Emperor Wu, he conquered Korea, and established the four counties of Lelang, Xuansu, Lintun and Zhenfan, which were the "four counties of Han". During the period of the Holy Ancestor, the four counties of Han were attached to the rebellion, and were later recovered by the Holy Ancestor and established as Bohai County, which consisted of four counties of Daifang, Xuansu, Lintun and Zhenfan, which were under the jurisdiction of Liaozhou. The ethnic groups that lived here included 貊, Wofu, Fuyu, etc., but they were all incorporated into the Han nationality later, and their language and clothing were no different from those of the Han people, and generally speaking, the Han people did not distinguish between them.

But only the more than 100,000 people living in Bohai County and Daifang County are very different from the Han people. Although they also called themselves Han Chinese to the outside world, they continued to advertise themselves internally as descendants of Goguryeo. Not only are the costumes very different from those of the Han Chinese, but even the language is different. So the place where they lived became Goryeo County. Of course, this is a folk name.

And this Goryeo County is on the edge of the port of the outlying islands, an important port from Bohae County to Dahan Lelang County---.

On the 20th day of the seventh month of the Han Dynasty, Shen Yun set foot on the outlying island.

The outlying island is not an island, but it is named "island", why? Because there is actually a long and narrow piece of land like a bridge between the remote islands and the mainland, but this land will be flooded by the sea at high tide, and it will only be revealed when the tide falls, so it is named the outlying island.

As soon as Shen Yun's fleet arrived on the outlying islands, it was greatly welcomed. However, this welcome is not the beating of gongs and drums, but the overwhelming white banner plain clothes. I saw that on the wharf of the outlying island, the crowd of people like mountains were all wearing filial piety clothes and standing on the spot. It was already dusk, and the sunset sun was shining between the mountains, reflecting a desolate color.

"This ......" When Shen Yun stepped on the pier trestle, an old man standing in front of the crowd of white flowers suddenly held a spirit card in his hand and knelt in front of Shen Yun with a pop.

"Ah, elder, why is this, Yun can't afford it!" Shen Yun hurriedly flashed to the side, wanting to help this person up.

At this time, I only heard the old man shouting in a mournful tone: "This worship is not for the son of the world, but for the unfortunate death of the Marquis of Bohai!" The heroic spirit is immortal, and the soul returns! ”

"The Heroic Spirit is immortal, and the soul returns!" The people in the mountains all let out a mournful soul-calling sound.

Shen Yun was shocked, and when he looked at Shen Wu, Shen Wu also became sad, and secretly explained: "The outlying island port was built by Hou Ye, which fed thousands of people nearby!" Therefore, they are grateful for the kindness of Hou Ye! ”

Shen Yun was stunned.

This time, it was the Izumo that was repaired in time and had not yet completely sunk. And the two turtle boats had already been handed over to Hou Kan halfway, and at the same time, more than 20 clever Shen family members were assigned to him, and the turtle boats were first sailed to a hidden place to hide--- this is a dark chess arranged by Shen Yun, and it is not yet the time to unveil the cup!

Hou Kan is the shark king of the East China Sea, and he is extremely familiar with the East China Sea, and it is easy to hide two turtle boats. I drove the boat and left first. So this time only the Izumo arrived on the outlying islands.

When Shen Wu arranged for Shen Mu's coffin to get off the boat, there was another earth-shaking cry. provoked Shen Yun to almost cry again.

It wasn't until the sun set that Shen Mu's coffin was placed in the ancestral shrine of the outlying island port. Shen Yun meant to rush back to Bohai Mansion, the capital of Bohai County, overnight, but the people on the outlying islands repeatedly kept him, hoping to let the Marquis of Bohai receive their incense for another night, and they had to keep a vigil for the Hou Ye all night. Shen Wu also persuaded that it was not safe to travel at night, so it was better to stay first and talk about it early tomorrow morning.

The outlying island is not large, and there are only 100 families living here, and there are about 1,000 people. Shen Yun couldn't refuse their kindness and agreed. I just didn't want to live in this house, but there was a problem with the stay.

Shen Yun lives in an apartment next to the ancestral hall, which is the best house in the entire island port, with an all-wooden structure and two floors. The lower floor is the living room, and the upper floor is inhabited.

After midnight that night, Shen Yun returned to the upstairs of the apartment to rest, but he didn't sleep for two hours, when an earth-shattering shout of killing suddenly came from outside!

He hurried up, only to find that there was a fire all around the apartment where he was staying! Huge flames rolled up with billowing smoke, spreading unbridled in the night! And the whole port was actually full of panicked figures, women and children, old and young, all howling, and countless voices gathered together to form a message:

"Weasel Thieves are back!!"

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Note 1: Goguryeo is divided into Go's Goryeo and Wang's Goryeo. The former was an ethnic minority regime that entrenched itself in northeastern China during the Sui and Tang dynasties. The Sui Dynasty's three expeditions to Goryeo and the later Xue Rengui's expedition to the east were all aimed at this Gao Goryeo. And Wang's Goryeo is the ancestor of the stick. It should be noted that Gao's Goryeo and Wang's Goryeo are just historical coincidences, and there is no relationship between the two.

Wang's Goryeo has never been a confidant of the Central Plains Dynasty, and as for the Bangzi's claim that their ancestors had established a "great empire" that could compete with the Central Plains regime, I should simply be a consolation for their arrogance!

In addition, Goguryeo in this book is a descendant of Go's Goryeo, not a stick. If you want to use it as a stick, you can also use it, hehe, let the Japanese slave and the stick become Shen Yun's stepping stone together!