Brother Ji wore a thick cotton jacket today, the style and material of this kind of clothing are very familiar to Fang Chongyong, because the cotton wool filled in it is from Shazhou, and even the "modern elements" here are added in accordance with Fang Chongyong's meaning, and the practicality is first-class.

The "expensive goods" in the Western Regions are indeed the luxury circles that are rampant in Chang'an.

Fang Chongyong secretly complained in his heart.

"Wechen is late, please forgive the saint."

As soon as they met, Fang Chongyong saluted Li Longji with his hands crossed.

In fact, he didn't come late, even earlier than the requested time, but he couldn't stand that Brother Ji camped here last night. Otherwise, Fang Youde, who was in charge of security, would not have been able to patrol outside the pear orchard so early.

"No crime, no crime, you didn't come early or late, just right."

Brother Ji said with a smile, as if he was in a good mood. He waved his hand to the eunuch beside him, and the little eunuch named Bian Lingcheng handed the small bow he was holding in his hand, which was significantly smaller than the hunting bow, to Fang Chongyong.

Attached is a pot of arrows with ten arrows in it.

Fang Chongyong took the bow and arrow, looked at it again and again, and gently pulled the bowstring. Then he was surprised to find that this bow is very "soft", how much is the longest range, don't expect too much from it, it is estimated that the distance is only one or twenty steps to the sky, and this year you can find a girl to play with this kind of "toy".

He took another arrow from the quiver and glanced at it, and found that not only was there no arrowhead, but the shaft was made of paper. And the head of the arrow shaft is also smeared with charcoal powder, and it has an indescribable pungent fragrance.

"This is the Merry Arrow, it doesn't hurt people to shoot the Merry Stream, has Aiqing seen it?"

Li Longji asked with a smug face.

Fang Chongyong put away the bow and arrows and hung them on his waist, and then saluted Ji Ge with his hands crossed: "Not only has it been unseen, but it has never been heard of." ”

He was telling the truth.

Fang Chongyong felt that shooting women with arrows, this kind of game that Shazhou doesn't play, the Liyuan Forbidden Garden actually played and flew up, who would believe it! It's normal if you haven't seen it, but it's not normal if you see it.

"Hehe, you don't need to see it, today you will open your eyes and see enough.

There are ten Merry Arrows here, and Aiqing will come to me again after shooting it. You're young, and you're strong, so you'll have to shoot a few more this time.

Don't be stupid to shoot when you see a palace maid, pick a young, beautiful shot. ”

Brother Ji was like a cynical little old man, with a wicked smile, and couldn't help but "instruct" Fang Chongyong how to "shoot Ji".

"Sage, today's event, I'm afraid Weichen won't be able to participate, I'm afraid of the dead."

Fang Chongyong said embarrassedly.

"Eh, I've thought of this a long time ago, didn't I say it, Merry arrows can't shoot people."

Li Longji laughed.

"No, saint...... Wechen doesn't know how to shoot arrows. This merry arrow, the minister can't use it. ”

Fang Chongyong stretched out his hands helplessly and sighed.

In fact, he can shoot arrows, and he is also riding archery, after all, he has practiced in Shazhou for four years. It's just that archery is quite average, and it's just not elegant.

The reason why Fang Chongyong didn't want to "shoot Ji in Liyuan" was just because he felt that the atmosphere in the home was very good now, Wang Yunxiu and Anaye got along very well, and the family could be regarded as one heart and one mind. If you add more women in, you're just asking for trouble.

So what's the trouble, he has no shortage of women now.

Isn't there a saying called family and everything is prosperous, Fang Chongyong is a person who is very afraid of trouble.

"Can't shoot arrows? I heard that Aiqing often leads troops to expeditions in Shazhou, and you are still the son of Fang Quanzhong, so tell me that you don't know how to shoot arrows? ”

Brother Ji asked in an unkind tone.

He was smiling just now, eager to tell Fang Chongyong about meat jokes, but now his face is gloomy like water, and turning his face is comparable to turning a book.

The horror of accompanying the king like a tiger is really not a legend of the rivers and lakes.

"Back to the saint, Weichen really can't shoot arrows, only hit Wuduo. The battle array kills the enemy, and it is also mostly fought Wuduo.

Today, if Weichen fights Merry Wuduo in the pear orchard, he will kill people. ”

Fang Chongyong bowed and bowed with his hands crossed and explained.

"Hit Udo?"

Ji Ge has no experience in battle, and he is not familiar with Tibetan customs, he has only heard of Wuduo, and he does not know much about how to use it. He glanced at Gao Lishi beside him, and Gao Lishi immediately leaned over and whispered an explanation.

"Yo, I can't see it, Aiqing will still fight Wuduo!"

Brother Ji looked at Fang Chongyong, and continued without smiling: "General Gao, send someone to Neiku to find a Tubo tribute from Wuduo, today I want to open my eyes and see how my good boy in the Tang Dynasty fights Wuduo." ”

He seems to be quite dissatisfied with the other party's "ignorance of current affairs". In Brother Ji's opinion, you don't know how to shoot arrows, you can come and have a good time, it's your fault if you don't end up!

Soon, the eunuch who rode to Neiku on horseback hurriedly handed over a Wuduo inlaid with precious stones and woven from yak wool to Fang Chongyong, as well as a box of "stone bullets" that matched this thing.

Fang Chongyong opened the wooden box and found that there were sixteen "stone bullets" inside, each of which was the same size and had a very smooth appearance.

In fact, from any point of view, we know that this set of Wuduo is a handicraft, and it is not used in actual combat at all. If Wuduojia has a set of stone bullets, if it is put on the border of Hexi and sold to the Tibetan nobles, it is estimated that it can be sold for a lot of money.

But now, Fang Chongyong is already difficult to ride a tiger. If he doesn't beat Uduo well today, Brother Ji won't let him have a good time.

"Please forgive the saint, then Weichen will be ugly."

Fang Chongyong saluted to Brother Ji.

"See that sparrow? Knock me down. ”

Kee Ge pointed to the sparrow on the branch not far in front of him.

"Whoa!"

Fang Chongyong saluted, but saw Gao Lishi slowly coming over, handed over an iron wrench in his hand and said, "The saint rewarded you, beat your Wuduo well." ”

Although playing Wuduo is not like archery, and you can't use an iron wrench at all, the meaning of the imperial gift has been clear.

Fang Chongyong took a deep breath, put the stone bullet into Wu Duo's "eye", held it in his hand and began to spin.

His eyes were fixed on the sparrow in the treetops, and he recalled in his mind the secret that a Tibetan man in Shazhou taught him to fight Wuduo: no matter how Wuduo rotated and accumulated, the final victory or defeat was at the moment when he threw it out.

Aim and shoot in one, the more resolute you hit, the straighter the trajectory!

"Smack!"

The branches were broken, the sparrows fell into the snow, and they kept fluttering but couldn't fly! But apparently he was not killed.

"Good! Good! Well played! ”

While shouting, Brother Ji ran over to observe like a child who hadn't had enough fun, only to find that the sparrow was only bruised, and could even jump on the ground, but it was not dead at all! I can't fly either!

Killing a sparrow is not unusual, after all, it is not far away. But it's not easy to "knock down" the sparrow and not die!

"The sage just asked Weichen to knock down the finch, and Weichen knocked it down.

Killing for pleasure for no reason, the saint does not do it, and the micro-minister will not let the saint be ashamed. ”

Fang Chongyong walked over and saluted with his hands crossed.

Brother Ji just said that he would knock the sparrow down, but he didn't say that he would kill it! What if he really kills the sparrow, and Brother Ji takes the opportunity to go crazy?

Fang Chongyong not only has a very strong thinking of harming the people, but also is quite cautious, Brother Ji said "knock it down", he really knocked down the sparrow, which can be described as a drop of water.

"Well, well said! Especially for me! ”

Brother Ji was very happy, looking at Fang Chongyong, who couldn't bow down, and suddenly thought of a crooked idea.

"Well, you can't do without a reward.

Then I will make you the Marquis of Wuduo, and reward 1,400 acres of Yongye land. ”

Brother Ki laughed and said.

Hearing this, several eunuchs around him all looked at each other, not knowing what this "Wu Duohou" was.

The title of the Tang Dynasty, although it is no longer a "real seal", but the name is basically reliable, because nominally it is to eat the "tax" of the fief, such as "Zhao Guogong" such as "Huaiyin Marquis".

What does this "Udohou" do?

Although the marquis of the Tang Dynasty was basically useless, and the specific power was smaller than that of the Qipin County Order, the ceremony of canonization was extremely grand.

It needs to be proposed by the prime minister or the Son of Heaven first, and after being approved by the three provinces and six ministries, it will be submitted to the Imperial Historical Observatory for review before it can be issued as a holy decree. And those who are awarded knighthoods must also come to Chang'an and participate in the knighthood ceremony before they can be regarded as a definite marquis.

Where is the Son of Heaven who can go through the entire process by saying a word casually? You know, the political process, to some extent, represents political power!

Ji Ge arbitrarily canonized his vassals as princes, in fact, he also deprived the power of the six ministries of the three provinces and the imperial history platform in disguise, which is a declaration of war on the entire civil official system!

"Don't be a saint."

Gao Lishi hurriedly dissuaded. He can't stand up, because although this is a small matter, it can pry into the big system and cause a lot of waves.

"Besides, there is no Wu Duohou in Datang to seal."

Colliers continued to whisper in Kego's ear.

"Can't I create one?"

Li Longji said in an unkind tone.

"Sage, even if he creates one, he has to go through the process of three provinces, six departments and the imperial history platform. This can't be saved. ”

Colliers persuaded bitterly.

"Then you remember to remind me, tomorrow I will make a holy decree and say hello to my brother."

Brother Ji waved his hand impatiently and said, he knew that it was difficult to say how Yushitai was, but Li Linfu from the three provinces and six ministries would not embarrass him, the emperor.

"Thank you for the grace of the saints."

Fang Chongyong pretended to be very excited and saluted, but in his heart he wondered what the intention of Brother Ji's move was. Hou Ye didn't care about Fang Chongyong at all, but the 1,400 acres of Yongye Field, he felt that there was a lot of article in it.

It is very likely that these fields are from the line of Li Heng who was killed.

Brother Ji has been immersed in power schemes for decades, and it is impossible for him to do something completely meaningless according to his mood.

Think about the large number of eagle dogs that Gao Wei raised for himself in the last years of the Northern Qi Dynasty, such as "Chi Biao Yitong", "Xiaoyao Junjun", "Lingxiao Junjun" and so on.

Even animals can get a "title", and Brother Ji gave himself a "Wuduohou", which doesn't seem to be an exaggeration.

Fang Chongyong thought as if he was comforting himself, but he smelled a hint of the death of the country from here.

Isn't that how a thousand-mile embankment was destroyed in an anthill?

At this moment, Li Linfu, the right minister of the Tang Dynasty, brought a group of courtiers to greet the Son of Heaven, and everyone directly ignored Fang Chongyong and stepped forward to salute Brother Ji.

In Fang Chongyong's expectation, these people should be standing aside to watch the play, and it is impossible for them to "shoot Ji". Unexpectedly, as if they knew in advance what would happen, they wore Hu Ren's trousers and half-arms in winter, as if they planned to wait for the meeting to "join in the fun".

This was not Fang Chongyong's conjecture, but Li Linfu took the lead in taking over the "equipment", that is, a soft bow and a "merry arrow" made of paper, and the courtiers did not feel ashamed at all, let alone raise objections.

Fang Chongyong suddenly felt that he was really too young!

"Hahaha, if you don't shoot today, it's all a bully, you Aiqing supervise each other!"

Brother Ji pretended to be displeased, and threatened the ministers with a tiger face.

"We will obey the orders of the saints!"

"Zheng Yushi, you are responsible for supervising and recording!"

Brother Ji pointed at Zheng Shuqing and said.

Fang Chongyong was stunned, but he didn't expect Lao Zheng to come and join in the fun. These two important ministers of the court, who had nothing to do, came to play the game of "Shooting Ji in the Pear Garden" with Brother Ji, and the festival was broken all over the ground.

If only they had a temperance before.

"At noon today, the game officially starts, and you can go to the camp over there to have some food.

General Gao, take them there. ”

Brother Kei commanded Colliers.

"Everyone, please go this way."

Colliers made a gesture of please, and immediately led the way in front.

After the many central courtiers left, Brother Ji summoned Fang Chongyong to his side, sighed lightly and asked, "Do you think I am a Daoless King?" ”

"Back to the saint, Weichen didn't think so."

Fang Chongyong said quietly, his face calm.

"Oh? Tell me, then, what you think. ”

"Back to the saints, this activity in the pear orchard seems ridiculous, but in fact, the saints are lonely and wasted their time in the palace, so they find an excuse to relieve them and give them a new life.

It is an act of good. ”

Fang Chongyong defended Brother Ji with a clear conscience.

"Exactly. I'm already in the last years of my life, what's the use of asking for 60,000 palace maids.

5,000 palace maids were released today, and 5,000 will be released after the year. Within three years, I will reduce the size of the palace maids to less than 10,000 people.

The world only thinks that I am messing around, but who can know my painstaking efforts? ”

Brother Ji said with a fake sigh.

At this moment, Fang Chongyong quietly calculated an account for Brother Ji in his heart. To raise a palace maid in the palace, on average, each person has to pay at least the same amount of money every month. 50,000 people a month is 50,000 guan, and 600,000 guan a year.

And according to the general procedure, every time the palace maid is dismissed, the inner court needs to give severance pay, and all this money is from the inner treasury, not the national treasury.

Counting these severance pay, the average person is almost 20 yuan, that is, 1 million yuan.

All of them add up, and they go directly towards two million! On weekdays, there are often some rewards or something in the palace, and all layers are greedy from top to bottom, Fang Chongyong doesn't dare to think about how much it costs to raise so many women!

All these expenses came from the small treasury of Kego.

However, these 50,000 palace maids, Ji Ge didn't enjoy any tangible benefits and pleasures from them at all, he didn't even touch these women!

Brother Ji, who has the notoriety of dominating tens of thousands of women, has not reaped any real benefits, as long as he is a normal person, he will not want this situation to continue!

Brother Ji spent all those millions on himself, for himself, isn't it cool, isn't it moist?

What are you doing with these 50,000 beauties?

At this moment, Fang Chong was brave!

On the surface, it seems that Brother Ji pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, but in fact, it is just a "year-end inventory" full of copper smell.

The courtiers enjoyed the fun of "Shooting Girls in the Pear Garden"; Kigo saved a lot of severance and adopted daughter fees; The ladies of the palace gained the coveted freedom and "flew into" the homes of ordinary bureaucrats.

Three parties participate, all three parties are happy, this trick is simply killing three birds with one stone!

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't be too arrogant on this occasion now, Fang Chongyong would have wanted to call Brother Ji crazy.

Just as he was stunned, an inappropriate word suddenly came to his ear.

"Sage, Weichen begs to stop gathering people for fornication in the pear orchard, this move is insulting to the national dignity!"

There was a middle-aged man with a gray beard kneeling in front of Brother Ji, Fang Chongyong had a relationship with him, this person seemed to be Shi Yan Zhenqing, the palace servant!

"Presumptuous, are you saying that I am the faint king, I am the king of the Xuan, and I am playing with the wine pond and meat forest?"

Brother Ji turned around and scolded Yan Zhenqing, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Returning to the saints, it is true, please take back the saint's destiny."

Yan Zhenqing still saluted with a forked hand with a lot of head, and couldn't kneel for a long time.

(End of chapter)