On the morning of the third year of junior high school, Yi Feng sat in the study all morning, and after New Year's Day, there were all kinds of entertainment invitations, but he didn't want to cater to these boring entertainments, and he was about to leave Beijing, and he was still in Youyan at all. But during lunch, the two women who brought them to the capital, Chen Wan and Xiao Sumei, were sullen and unwilling to talk more. Yi Feng guessed that it was because he had stayed in the study all morning and forgot everything he had promised them before. A few days ago, Yi Feng promised Chen Wan and Xiao Sumei respectively, saying that he would take Chen Wan into Beijing to meet his aunt Xuanhua's wife Chen Hui'er, and also said that he would set up a family banquet in Zhao Wang's Mansion when he returned, and invited the princesses of Nan Chen, who were now scattered in the palace and the palaces of the meritorious ministers, to gather together. He also agreed to Xiao Sumei, saying that he would accompany her to meet her aunt Princess Jin, and also to meet the uncles and brothers of the Liang Xiao family who were in Beijing. However, Yi Feng is too busy these days, but he has forgotten about it.

"A, Your Majesty summoned me to enter the palace in the afternoon, I want to take you into the palace together, and when I meet Your Majesty, I will accompany you to see Concubine Chen." In order to break this cold atmosphere, Yi Feng remedied, "After I come back from the palace, I still have to go to the Jin Palace, and when the time comes, Mei Niang will accompany me, and by the way, I will pay New Year's greetings to King Jin and Concubine Xiao." Well, tomorrow I will take a day, and I will simply let the house hold a more lively banquet, and then call the relatives and friends of the Chen family and the Xiao family over to have a lively time, what do you think? ”

The expressions on Chen Wan and Xiao Sumei's faces softened and smiled. Yi Feng called Zhang Zhongjian, who had stayed in Zhao Wang's Beppu during his time in Beijing, and was invited by Yi Feng to temporarily succumb to Yi Feng's position as the temporary butler of Zhao Wangfu. Although Zhang Zhongjian has a big beard, he has outstanding martial arts. But he is also very handy in dealing with many affairs of Zhao Wangfu, and he takes care of Zhao Wang's Beppu in an orderly manner. Yi Feng asked him to arrange tomorrow's banquet, and he agreed. As the son of the richest man in Yangzhou. Zhang Zhongjian is capable of writing and martial arts, and is more proficient in calculation. He is now the head of King Zhao's mansion, not because he wants to take the opportunity to take advantage of King Zhao's power to seek an official position or something. Following Yi Feng all the way to Daxing from Youzhou, Zhang Zhongjian was already impressed by the young King Zhao, and he had previously discussed with King Zhao about going to sea to Tianzhu to sell Wuzi steel, and he had already written down the details in a letter for people to send back to Yangzhou. His father quickly replied that it was a viable business to sell Uzi steel in Tianzhu and then process it into Damascus scimitars. His father also said in the letter that last year, the imperial court issued a new ban on the construction of large ships by the people, and he had to have a big ship to go to Tianzhu. This has to rely on King Zhao. Originally, the Zhang family was also engaged in maritime trade, and the imperial court's edict last year became a rope stuck in their necks, although the Zhang family already had some relationship with the King of Jin who sat in Yangzhou, but the friendship was not deep. The Zhang family sends a lot of money to the Jin Palace, but they don't get much courtesy. This made Zhang Zhongjian's father feel unstable, and he always wanted to find a more reliable backer. Now this King Zhao is very favored by the Son of Heaven and is the grandson of the emperor, but he has such a relationship with his son, so Zhang's father is very happy. Let his son be sure to have a good relationship with King Zhao.

It doesn't matter whether you can make money by going to Tianzhu to sell Uzi steel. The important thing is that the Zhang family can continue to build sea ships and operate a sea trade business. Zhang's father also mentioned two things in his letter, so he must be attentive. One is that he has now heard that King Zhao has become the governor of Youzhou. In charge of the northern part of the river and the land of Saishang, and the east of its jurisdiction was the sea, and the Zhang family wanted to divide their shipbuilding workshop with some craftsmen. He went to the sea under the rule of King Zhao to build a new shipyard for sea ships. Second, Zhang's father knew that King Zhao had a fairly advanced sucrose refining technology in his hands. Therefore, the Zhang family wanted to partner with King Zhao to do this sugar business, and the Zhang family recruited people to build a sugar cane plantation on the Ryukyu Island opposite Fujian. Growing sugar cane. After harvesting the sugar cane, it was roughly made into ordinary cane sugar, which was supplied to the sugar factory of Zhao Wang Huaihuang to refine into better frosted sugar, snow sugar and rock sugar, and then they obtained a share and sold it through the guò sea trade. This is a relatively large plan, one has to have money, two has to have people, and three has to have power. There is no shortage of money in the Zhang family, and there is no shortage of people, but what the Zhang family lacks is enough to cover their powerful figures, otherwise, no matter how big the business is, the government can take away their official documents. The Zhang family had also purchased a small amount of snow candy rock candy from Huaihuang, and after shipping it overseas, the sales results were very gratifying, and it was a very popular commodity. The people who can refine sucrose so beautifully and popularly only the Tianzhu people have the strongest sucrose refining technology, but the frosting sugar they refine is not half a star worse than the snow sugar and rock sugar refined by Huaihuang. As soon as the sugar was shipped overseas, it immediately became the favorite of those nobles and royal tycoons, and it was the favorite commodity of those traders. The caravan steward of the Zhang family reported to Zhang Zhongjian's father that if there was enough sugar to sell, the Zhang family's sea trade profits would be ten times higher than they are now, or even more than. The Zhang family wants to make this business bigger and stronger, but first, they have to increase the number of sea vessels, and second, they have to have enough goods. The Zhang family has its own shipbuilding workshop, but this kind of sugar refining method is only available in Huaihuang, and the sugar mill in Huaihuang is King Zhao's.

Zhang's father is very business-minded, he didn't simply think about how to get more sugar from Huaihuang, but thought of a win-win plan. He found a way to build a larger sugar cane plantation and master more upstream raw materials, so as to cooperate with King Zhao to refine more snow sugar. In this way, one controls the supply of raw materials, the other masters the core technology, and they are inseparable from each other, and the business can only be done in the long run.

The Zhang family had already begun preparations for a sugar cane plantation on Ryukyu Island, but they were now faced with a problem. That is, there are still many natives on the island of Ryukyu, and although the Zhang family has a lot of guards, they lack enough weapons. Therefore, Zhang's father hoped that his son could get support from King Zhao's side, and the best result was naturally that King Zhao agreed to the entire cooperation plan, and sent a force to enter Ryukyu with the Zhang family's reclamation group, sweep away some natives for them, let them build a reclamation plantation, and it is best to help them build some tunbao, train some armed guards for the Zhang family, and provide some weapons and armor.

The Zhang family's plan is really good, and after Yi Feng heard Zhang Zhongjian mention it, he also began to think about it carefully. But he didn't reply to Zhang Zhongjian immediately, this is a very huge plan, Yi Feng can't just listen to their side of the story, he must have his own investigation, and then make a judgment. So now he neither agreed nor refused, but just asked the Zhang family to provide him with more detailed plans, and he needed more time to think about it. Although Zhang Zhongjian was anxious, he could only calm down and wait, while waiting, he gave Yi Feng the temporary butler of Zhao Wangfu by the way.

Zhang Zhongjian should be given the task of organizing a banquet tomorrow, and after going down for a while, he came to the front hall again.

"King, someone from the Qichun County Mansion has reported that Da Xi has arrived!" Zhang Zhongjian said.

Yi Feng was stunned for a moment, and didn't remember who the Duke of Qichun County was, and then remembered the word Da Xi, and finally thought of who it was. This Qichun County Duke is called Da Xi Changru, the current governor of Jingzhou, is a famous general of this dynasty, once in the second year of the opening of the emperor when the Turks invaded, led 2,000 subordinates to encounter more than 100,000 Turkic horses, Da Xi Changru army was outnumbered, at that time the subordinates were afraid, but Da Xi Changru was impassioned, and his expression was more heroic. Da Xi's army was hit by the Turkic army, scattered and gathered, and fought and retreated, turned to fight for three days, the arrow was broken and the spear was broken, he still led his subordinates to fight bloodily, and the Turks fought, with fists as weapons, with teeth to kill the enemy, even the bones on the hands were exposed, they killed and injured tens of thousands of Turkic warriors, and finally the Turkic people fell in popularity, and found that most of the Sui reinforcements were coming, so they had no choice but to break the siege. Da Xi Changru suffered five wounds, two of which were killed and pierced. Nine times out of ten, his soldiers were killed and wounded.

This battle was extremely tragic, but it showed the indomitable and mighty of the Sui army. After the war, Da Xi Changru was promoted to Shangzhu State, and his fallen subordinates were posthumously awarded the third rank of the officer. After that, in the northwest of Daxi Changru Town, the Hu people were frightened and discolored, and they did not dare to approach.

Last year, Wei Shikang, one of the four major governors of Jingzhou, died of illness, and the Son of Heaven was succeeded by Xi Changru, but Xi Changru was too seriously injured in the war that year, and he has not been well over the years. He had previously played several times, asking the emperor to remove him from his official post and appoint another official to serve as the governor of Jingzhou. The Son of Heaven never agreed, and sent many famous doctors to treat him, only saying that he would go to his post when he recovered from his illness. On the day of the court meeting, Yi Feng also saw the chief manager, and even talked with him personally, and he looked very good that day, but unexpectedly, he had died in just a few days.

Yi Feng sighed and said, "General Da Xi is young and courageous. The knot is from Rong, and there is a strong strategy. The president's division and brigade are good at defending against insults. In the past, with 2,000 foot soldiers against 100,000 captives, the division was wiped out, the courage was exhausted, and every time I thought about it, I admired it infinitely, but unexpectedly, such a famous general, I went, it was a pity, and it was painful. Tell the flag guard to prepare the carriage and horses, and I will go to pay my respects immediately. ”

When Yi Feng arrived at Xi's mansion, there were relatives and friends who came to mourn everywhere, and there were many people and the atmosphere was chaotic. Officials, nobles, and the retinue of the governors of the provinces also came and went. Although Da Xi Changru has not been able to take office, but he died in the post of the governor of Jingzhou, and he is the pillar of the country, so as soon as the news of his death was reported to the palace, the Son of Heaven immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to be responsible for the funeral, and personally selected the word "Wei" as the nickname for Da Xi Changru, and ordered his son Da Xi Hao to inherit the title of Duke of Qichun County, and specially awarded Da Xi Hao as the pillar country.

Such a famous general died of illness, and the civil and military officials, generals, and nobles in Beijing were basically all present.

Daxi's family is extremely grieved. (To be continued......)