The fast horses in the official stables in Handan were really three hundred miles a day, and the men and horses sent by Lu Yuan soon returned to Zhaodu with a large number of large reeds and pears and information that was ten thousand times more precious than pears.

And Lu Pheasant, who is far away in Luoyang, is making final preparations for the southern tour.

Early in the morning, as soon as the sky was white, the palace people came to report, saying that Bo Ji outside the palace was waiting to see him.

Lu Pheasant was stunned for a moment, but he didn't care, their friendship was good, and before leaving, Bo Ji came to see him off privately, which was reasonable, and it was human nature.

Besides, she happened to have something that was not trivial or serious, and she wanted to take the opportunity to test Bo Ji's wisdom again, so she hurriedly said,

"Let her come in quickly, the cold wind in the early morning is biting, how can I make her wait longer."

The palace people opened the door of the palace in response, and Bo Ji led a maid to hurriedly walk in, each holding a large stuffed bag in their hands, and after saluting, they carefully put the burden on the ground.

The burden is obviously not light, and there are angular, and there is a sound of clattering and clattering when it touches the shiny wooden floor that is flat and brushed with tung oil.

Lu Pheasant's question has been replaced by curiosity, and he asked with a smile,

"What kind of good things do you have to bring all the way to get it yourself?"

As he spoke, he got up from his chair and looked at it.

"The queen doesn't move, just sit quietly,"

Bo Ji hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, and casually untied a burden, and it was vaguely visible that inside was a pair of pairs of different patterns and patterns.

***

Before Lu Pheasant could react, Bo Ji had already picked up a pair of red faces with silver threads, walked two steps quickly in front of her, squatted down, and put them on her feet wearing white diamond brocade stockings without saying a word, and gently shook them from side to side a few times, only then did she smile with satisfaction, and said in a gentle but commanding tone,

"The size is just right, please get up and take a few steps to try to see if it is stable."

The sole is used for one layer, which is called the shoe, and the double layer is called the shoe [1]. It is a kind of thick-soled shoe, or rather, a kind of shoe with a wooden sole instead of a twine leather sole.

Due to the thickened sole, the piercing prevents muddy water or dirty floors from staining the upper.

But because the soles are too high and the wooden soles are too hard, it is very uncomfortable to wear, which affects walking, and it is difficult to walk if you wear it for a long time.

But in the face of Bo Ji's beauty, Lu Pheasant couldn't refute her face, so she had to smile reluctantly, stood up according to her words, and slowly walked around the hall.

Who knows, after trying it, there was a surprise, the shoehorn brought by Bo Ji fit naturally with the feet after putting it on, and it was effortless to walk.

She looked down and looked closely, only to find that the shoes of the pair were tighter than the ones she had worn before, and the bottom of the shoes was not directly glued to the leather sole, but a thick layer of soft cotton.

"It turns out that you have transformed it, no wonder it is so comfortable, and it will not fall off while traveling." Lu Pheasant said happily, while watching, he couldn't help but joke,

"No matter how comfortable it is, you don't need to sacrifice so much at once.

Could it be that you want me to go to the south to open a shop and sell your clothes? ”

***

"The queen doesn't know that the concubine used to ...... When the concubine was in that palace before, there was a sister of the palace people, who was ordered by the first emperor to migrate the people, married to Nanhai County, and became the wife of the soldier. ”

Qinzhi Nanhai County is today's Zhao Tuo's Nanyue, and the one in Bo Ji's mouth refers to the time she spent in the palace of Wei Bao, King of Wei, before she became Liu Ji's concubine.

Bo Ji's mother was a collateral clan of the old Wei State, after the collapse of Qin, the revival of the former Six Kingdoms, the old nobles were ready to move, Bo Ji also hoped to restore the old glory as soon as possible, so she deliberately sent this good-looking illegitimate daughter to the palace of the Wei king.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and King Wei was soon broken by Han Xin, and Bo Ji entered Liu Ji's harem naturally because of his outstanding beauty.

Although she has given birth to the prince Liu Heng for Liu Ji now, Bo Ji has a gentle temperament, delicate and sensitive mind, and always hesitates a little when she mentions old things, looking quite ashamed.

Lu Pheasant knew that she was not ashamed of her second husband, but she was only sad that she was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, weak and powerless, unable to compete with her mother who clinged to the powerful, unable to control the direction of her own destiny, and could only be like a delicate object, from one king's palace to another's palace.

"Well, the pawn's wife, and then?" She reminded.

"Yes, after marrying the soldier of the South China Sea as his wife, he also wrote to the people of the palace several times."

Bo Ji came back to her senses, looked around slightly at the palace people who were far away from the left and right, and said in a low voice,

The family letter said that since their group entered Nanjun, except for the only dignitaries, they have never seen anyone wearing them, and even straw sandals are rarely worn.

It is said that many local natives do not wear much clothing, which is very terrifying. ”

Bo Jixiu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and her mouth was tightly pursed, showing an indescribable look.

Seeing that Lu Pheasant's face was as usual, for fear that she would underestimate the horror of the south, she was in a hurry, so she changed to a tone of an old grandmother who scared children with demon stories, and continued,

"The queen knows that the concubine was originally born in Huiji County-"

"-I know, Xi Shi is from Zhuluo Mountain on your side, which is a place where beauties have been produced for generations," Lu Pheasant interjected.

***

Bo Ji lowered her head and smiled, and said,

"My hometown is vast and sparsely populated, not as good as the Central Plains, but it is also the most prosperous county south of the Yangtze River. But the days passed without words, let alone going further south[2].

Thinking about it, the southerners don't wear shoes, perhaps because of the barbarism of the south, coupled with the humidity and bitter heat, the rain continues, the rivers and ponds are all over the place, and they are full of mires, so everyone simply does not wear shoes, and they will always get wet if they wear them anyway. ”

"Oh, that's why you prepared me so many shoes, because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find them locally." Lu Pheasant suddenly realized, clapped his hands and smiled.

Bo Ji nodded slightly,

"Exactly, the concubine has been thinking about it since she knew that the queen was going to tour the south, and it was good to say, in case our shoes are stained by muddy water and rain, and we can't find a hearty replacement, we will be wet all day long, how can we survive along the way?

Just bring more guns, first, not afraid of water, and second, even if you give up a pair every three or five days, it is enough. ”

Lu Pheasant was a little moved for no reason, but he was amused by Bo Ji's hearsay about the southern kingdom, and after thinking about it, he also understood that Bo Ji's worries were not groundless.

In her previous life, she was familiar with the vast area south of the Yangtze River, with a total of more than 100 counties and more than 700 counties, with dense household registration, well-developed water conservancy facilities, gentle habits of the people, diligent cultivation and weaving, and thousands of acres of lakes and fields.

Bo Ji's hometown Huiji area is the richest place in the Tang Dynasty, one year old or Nim and several counties forget hunger, there are 100,000 husbands to pay taxes, and 5,000 children to guard the territory.

It's just that the Jiangnan in my memory, which is half the world's food and clothing, exists after nine hundred years after all.

In the past 900 years, a large number of people living in the Central Plains chose to go south to avoid disasters, and finally the vast and rich water and soil and unique climate in the south were fully exploited [3].