Chapter 12: Business Affairs
The Han system of vassal states is the prime minister, the county is the Taishou, the Hou State is the commander, the large county is the county commander, the small county is the county magistrate, the highest administrator of the feudal state in the liehou is the Hou commander, and the highest magistrate in the county at the same level is the county commander or county magistrate, and the two levels are exactly the same.
The geographical area of Pingyang Hou is not small, the country has a large population and a very good economy, even if Pingyang Hou only has a pitiful right to collect taxes, he is not willing to be dragged down by a mediocre and incompetent Hou Lingchang Hou Guo's serious taxes, Ding Hui and the like of the jumping clown can make Pingyang Hou Mansion for more than ten years like a fish in the throat, if you change to a more greedy nasty ghost to add to the Hou State will make the Hou Mansion even more angry.
Feng Xin consulted Cao Shi every five days as usual, and now he is a disease doctor who treats diseases in the Hou Mansion, and is also responsible for checking the ingredients of each dish, as well as the amount of seasonings used by the food doctor, the research of Han family health is far more than imagined, the dining is not only to pursue the ultimate in color and flavor, but also to pay attention to the nutritional high and low dietary taboos, and the taboo customs of certain foods can not be compared with other foods are also widely spread from this era.
It is not that Cao Shi is extremely bored to check every five days, but that there are too many unpredictable diseases in this era, and if he is not careful, he suffers from a certain kind of evil disease that cannot be solved in the era, and it is too late to consider acupuncture and moxibustion to save it.
Doctor Sun Qi has been busy recently, and the time for teaching swordsmanship has been compressed to less than half an hour, Cao Shi is very dissatisfied with the slackness of the first master of the Hou Mansion, his predecessor has a very good foundation in swordsmanship, such as stabbing at the big tree two thousand times a day, and the training has long been completed, and what is lacking now is one-on-one actual combat training.
There are many veterans in the Hou Mansion who have been on the battlefield of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and they are very proficient in the art of killing in the upright battle, but the veterans are very good at using the spear and long gege of military formations, and the long swords and swords of the short soldiers are not very good at it, and they can neither teach nor talk about the effect of actual combat training to hone their skills.
When Uncle Chen was young, he played with bows, horses, pistols and swords, but the old man was already seventy years old, and he was a little unable to care about it when he barely lifted the long sword and danced twice, which made Cao Shi sigh that he was quite old.
Halfway through today's actual combat training, Cao Shi put on his shirt and complained to Wei Junru: "What has Sun Qi been busy with lately? In the past few days, none of the actual combat training has completed the training, and there are always servants looking for him to do things, what can he do as a doctor? ”
"I heard that Doctor Men is busy preparing for the return of the caravan in Mayi." Wei Junru picked up Luo Pa and carefully wiped the sweat off Junhou's forehead, every time he saw Junhou sitting on the stone steps with his chest and back bare, his heart and liver were like a lively rabbit jumping wildly, and the maids who came and went in the backyard would blush their cheeks every time they peeked at Junhou's eight-pack abs.
Smelling the smell of men coming closer, the strange smell makes people happy, every time you get close to Junhou, you have to be dizzy by the smell of smoked head, like losing your soul and can't walk, Wei Junru feels that his cheeks are like red-hot coal: "Wei Junru, you are thinking of spring!" ”
"Ma Yi's caravan, I remembered, Zhao Meng, one of the three masters of our Hou Mansion, took that caramut, right? Where have they gone? Cao Shi thought for a while and remembered to call Meng Qiren, Zhao Meng Ben did not have the surname Zhao, only because of the crime and murder after the incognito name changed the surname Zhao, it is said that the ancestor was a famous wrestler in the Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the fifth ancestor was once a fierce general under the general Li Mu of Zhao State.
When Zhao Meng was a teenager, his sister was humiliated by her husband's family and committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, sixteen or seventeen-year-old Zhao Meng held a long sword to kill her brother-in-law's family, and then fled to Jianghuai to do a chivalrous and righteous ranger, when the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the name of Mu Pingyang Marquis served under the door of Cao Qi's father, and followed Cao Qi to attack Liu Wei, the king of Chu, Liu Wu, and Liu Jianglu, the king of Qi.
As early as the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, he often competed with Sun Qi for the vanguard, the two fought dozens of times because of the merit, fortunately each time ended in a draw, after the war, the two became friends of life and death, Cao Qi in the prime of life suddenly collapsed, Sun Qi was responsible for staying in the Hou Mansion to protect the young Cao Shi, Zhao Meng took the caravan to cut through thorns and thorns to the border to do its foreign trade.
At the moment of reminiscing, Wei Junru woke up from the girl's dream, took a small step back and involuntarily moved back, and replied with a red face: "I heard the officials in the Hou Mansion say that the horse team has passed the upper county and is almost to the territory of Huocheng, and after Nanguan is the hell of the Hou country, I think I can come at the latest in the evening." ”
Cao Shi blinked and nodded unconsciously, vaguely remembering that Cao Qi had talked to him about the characteristics of these two people in his memory, summoning Meng to kill a fierce general who is very good at charging forward in the battle, and no one can stop him from killing him, just like the Qin State killing god Wu Anjun Baiqi, on the contrary, Sun Qi's temperament is plain and calm, even if he is still calm as ice above the battle, the more people kill, the calmer he is, and he is careful not to forget to protect the prince and the marquis, and he is more suitable for guarding by his side as the guardian of the Hou Mansion.
Thinking that there were two big masters in the Hou Mansion, Cao Shi's heart suddenly became a lot, and he reached out to grab the scented Luo Pa and sniffed and smiled: "It is said that the daughter's house is made of water, and the waist is as soft as boneless as flowing water, I think this sentence is still inaccurate, the daughter's house should be born from a hundred flowers and water, how can this natural woman's fragrance smell so good, let me smell it." ”
Saying that, the two hands consciously touched into her clothes, and the frightened Wei Junru grabbed the clothes and retreated straight: "The prince can't, the writer said that the maid can't have a skin-to-skin relationship with the prince, and the princess blames the maid for being scratched." ”
"Cut, what are you afraid of, I won't say who else dares to tell the princess, besides, I remember that the princess is a good person and will not hurt you." Dissatisfied with the flat mouth, Cao Shi still chose to give up very wisely, the status of the princes respected the attention of thousands of people, every move was seen by people with a heart, and the slightest carelessness in the gutter overturned abounded.
For example, Fan Taguang, a scholar who admonished him, is a living example, as long as he has the right reason, the Son of Heaven will never mind taking the Liehou knife, don't look at the Hou Mansion's great respect for him as a prince, to talk about the top priority of the Hou Mansion's safety is still not an inch, a person has to live for the glory and wealth of thousands of people, and the stable life of nearly 100,000 people, I always feel strange in my heart.
Lunch is a new thing in the Hou Mansion, Cao Shi asked the men to eat lunch with him on the grounds of heavy work and heavy consumption, and in recent days, he has asked the maid to eat lunch too, no matter how much or how little he eats, he has to eat anyway, although eating lunch has become a new trend, but the ordinary lunch in the Hou Mansion is still very simple, it can only be regarded as a "plus meal" between the morning food and the main meal, which feels a bit similar to the nature of supper.
Cao Shi ate a Yellow River carp more than a foot long for lunch, a stack of vegetarian fried vegetables and a pound of roast mutton, and ate three bowls of corn to pat his stomach satisfied.
During the rest after the meal, Fan Qiguang hurriedly walked over and said: "The things ordered by the prince have been properly handled, and after the merchants who went to the banquet that day went back, it was rumored that the iron craftsmanship of the Hou Mansion was very powerful. ”
"What are the merchants talking about? Are there any plans that are attractively priced? ”
Fan Qiguang was unimpressed by the strange words that appeared from time to time in the prince, shook his head and said: "The merchants are more cautious, they have seen the display of iron stoves and iron pots in the Hou Mansion, and the family members have also burned a few dishes with stone charcoal fire for them to taste, and the merchants are still discussing the amount of the price, and they can't be sure for the time being. ”
Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign businessmen always have a significant profit-seeking, and have an almost natural instinct in compressing costs and pursuing profits, Cao Shi knows these merchants very well and has also thought of countermeasures: "Let out the wind and say that the merchants of Jingshi, Luoyang and Qidi are coming, if they can't give a satisfactory price, these iron furnaces and iron pots will be shipped to other places for sale." ”
"This ...... It's not good to lie to them, right? Fan Taguang hesitated, although he didn't like the faces of the merchants, but he did not have a sense of moral superiority that it was okay to deceive the merchants, and he would instinctively resist the behavior of violating morality.
Cao Shi rolled his eyes: "Who said I lied?" At least ten of the thirty merchants I asked you to invite are from outside Hedong, as well as those scholars who have traveled abroad to study and the high sirmen who have business dealings, this news has already flown hundreds of miles away, do you believe that in half a month, the merchants of Qi will definitely come? ”
"Alright, I'll do it." Fan Itguang felt that his brain capacity was not enough, and he was not good at intriguing with businessmen, so he retreated when he saw that Cao Shi's plan was fine.
In the afternoon, it was an equestrian class, and there were a few cavalrymen in the Hou Mansion who had served in Zhou Yafu's camp, and these old soldiers began to correct his bad habits little by little from getting off the horse, the posture of ordinary horseback riding, the posture of sprinting with the belly of the horse, the posture of waving the sword when riding, etc., if he made a mistake, he would do it again, if he did not be an old pawn, he would kneel on the ground and not get up, unless he completed the training course on time and in quantity, he would have to start again the next day.
He sometimes regretted that he had let Uncle Chen strictly demand his orders, and swore that he would be a famous general like the Han general Li Guang and even the Taigong Cao Shen.
They boasted that their riding skills could run unhindered in the Han land, but they were still a lot short of the Huns' ability to ride and shoot horses without reins and bow left and right.
On the way back, he looked up at the sky with a straw stick in his mouth: "I don't believe that Wei Huo was born to know, I eat better than them, practice better than them, why can't I practice?" The ancients said that diligence can make up for clumsiness, and the riding chair (teacher) said that my riding comprehension is superior, I have never eaten pork and have always seen pigs run, and the days ahead are still very long, let's see! ”
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