In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States without women

After Furen finished speaking, he looked at Xia Yu for a long time, and said, "Ah Yu, can I call you that? I used to hear Qi people call you that, even people close to you."

Xia Yu didn't say a word, she naturally agreed that Xia Yu agreed, sighed, and said, "Ah Yu, I said this to tell you, actually... well, I'm just stupid, I can't always speak clearly. Actually, I want to say...well..., when I was with my adoptive father, I used to eat with my mouth full, stuffed my mouth full, and made noises. I didn't have any manners, but my adoptive father never thought I was ugly. Ah, in fact, it is someone who can reveal the appearance of making mistakes or even being ugly and embarrassing without pretending. Well, what I want to say is, next time, if there is something unpleasant or something to make up for if you make a mistake, don’t hit yourself , tell me, let’s figure out a solution together.”

Xia Yu looked at the convincing person, the guy opposite was dark and thick, and the clothes were neither shabby nor luxurious. Although he was not vulgar, he really didn't have aristocratic demeanor, but he was not half aristocratic. The guy with demeanor, his pair of eyes are as firm and peaceful as ever, like a mountain looking up, making people unconsciously attached to him.

After a long time, Xia Yu finally said awkwardly: "Well, I understand, next time... I will tell you directly next time I have something to do."

When Furen heard this, his eyes lit up, and a somewhat silly smile appeared on his face.

Seeing that the spring festival is approaching, the plowing ceremony is also under preparation. In addition to the successive battles, how to arrange the soldiers and soldiers after serving, how to distribute rewards and punishments for military achievements, etc., it is naturally quite busy to serve people as the crown prince. After a short night in the mansion, I will go to the state mansion to deal with these messy things.

The man in night clothes slept in Xia Yu's main room. When he got up in the morning and wanted to exercise his muscles, he met Young Master Qi who came to Xia Yu's room to report the fief matters.

Young master Qi Cong served as Furen's companion not long after he was found, so he was naturally acquainted with him like a buddy. Seeing Furen come out of Xia Yu's room in the morning, the somewhat wretched Court Furen squeezed his eyes.

Naturally, Furen could guess the meaning behind Young Master Qi's wretched gaze, that gaze was saying - buddy, last night was a lot of fun, right?

Furen stared back at Young Master Qi fiercely. Since he gave the gift, there have been many rumors about Xia Yu in the country of Yan. Furen knows a little bit about it. Some of them are about Xia Yu's convincing appearance. He was fascinated, and there was no such thing as convincing people.

It's a pity that I know about my own family affairs, and I served people last night. Haha, to be honest, Xia Yu was a little nervous when I went to change into pajamas. While criticizing the bamboo slips, they still complained there, saying that "the bamboo slips are used to record the account books and household registrations, which take up too much space, and the paper should be made out as soon as possible", and "this accounting method is too backward, so the fief officials need to be trained in accounting" and so on. of.

The most important thing on Furen's desk is the report of rewards and punishments of soldiers and soldiers. Basically, as long as Furen decides to report these, Yan Guoguo and Di Shi will not have any objections, and generally they are directly approved. , the servants are very careful, because he understands that many low-level soldiers are poor people. For the low-level people, rewards and punishments or the need for rewards and pensions for soldiers who died in the country are all important matters about whether the family can survive. His A negligence is likely to cause the destruction of countless people's families.

Therefore, after each battle, Furen will carefully check all the quotas of sergeants to ensure that there will be no omissions or omissions.

However, to be honest, Furen has always felt that he is not the material to settle accounts. Every time he looks at the piles of bamboo, he feels dizzy, but his sense of responsibility supports him not to slack off. After all, he has been in court for many years. Shen Fu has a dispute with his eldest brother, even if he is as honest as he is obedient, he knows that some powers cannot be handed over to outsiders, even if that person is as confidant as Sun You and Qin Kai, and this matter of rewarding and punishing merits and demerits is one of the powers that cannot be handed over to outsiders .

Xia Yu and Fu Ren reviewed the case and approved the official documents, and worked almost all day. When it was evening, Fu Ren was forced by Xia Yu to take a bath and change clothes.

Convincing people protested: "Etiquette is fixed, rest for ten days."

Xia Yu got angry immediately, and said: "I don't care what the etiquette is. Now the streets are all loess roads. A horse-drawn carriage ride makes dirt all over your body, inside and out, and even your hair. It is necessary to take a bath!"

Then, after entering the bathroom, another servant respectfully put a piece of fragrant lard-like thing with patterns printed on it in a tray lacquer box and handed it to Furen. : "I heard from the Lord that this is soap. The Lord has been busy studying pig breeding recently. It is made from the fat boiled from pig pancreas mixed with plant ash and spices. It can be used for bathing."

Furen slightly frowned and stared at the thing called "soap", and said, "It's too extravagant."

In this era, productivity was underdeveloped, and most people had no surplus food to raise livestock. Only nobles could afford meat, because unlike later generations, there were so many "artifacts" to feed pigs, and only natural feed. It was not easy for livestock to grow some fat. Therefore, meat in this era is considered fat, and "lard" is naturally very precious, so the service people will frown on this soap made of lard, thinking it is too extravagant.

The servant who served the servants to take a bath said: "The Lord said that the nobles in the country of Yan are rich and luxurious, but the people are poor and weak. When this soap is produced, it is like the weapons in the government. It can be sold by a special manager. As long as the country is expensive Qi Xiai will spend a lot of money to buy it, then the money will flow into the Crown Prince's treasury, and with the Prince's temperament, he will definitely use it to help the people, what is the 'redistribution of wealth', it can be regarded as a good deed."

This person is Xia Yu who accompanied Shi Shi from Qi State to enter Yan State. Naturally, he will defend Xia Yu more or less. In the future, the treasury of my Prince’s Mansion will no longer be empty, um, it’s really a good thing that I don’t have to worry about money anymore if I have a good Nai Zuo to manage the house.”

After taking a bath and changing clothes, I saw Xia Yu who had also bathed and changed into a light jacket with wet long hair. For a moment, I felt my heart skipped a beat, and my mouth was a little dry. "Rumors and gossip", although the queen's right and wrong words are absurd and despicable, but some of them are not wrong - Xia Yu's beauty is unparalleled in the world.

Convincing people, I am convinced that if I search all over the sky with lights on, I am afraid that I will not be able to find a person more beautiful than Xia Yu!

Such a beauty, bathing and changing clothes, drying her hair, her black long hair shawl, contrasting with her fair and delicate skin, the black is blacker, the white is whiter, like the facial features outlined by the gods, fascinating, slightly clenched Convincing people who raised their fists thought, if the King of Chu Zhuang saw the Xia family in the past, was it just like how he felt at this time.

Uh, my confused head resisted guessing, Xia Yu and Xia Yu, could it be that Xia Yu is a descendant of Xia Shi?It's not impossible, it's more or less inherited from the ancestors to grow up like this.

Such a beauty, what did he do to share the same room and share the same bed?

Did nothing!The two share a bed, each with a quilt, and the quilt is purely chatting, well, it can't be regarded as pure chatting, because Xia Yu is nagging and reporting to him the plan for the second half of the year and even next year, for example, if Wuyang Zuyongzhi If the system is successful, next year he will transfer some of his manpower to Fangcheng. The land in Fangcheng is fertile. If the agricultural system reform is successful, it will provide more food. If it fails, Fangcheng can use the food and grass to support a standing army.

Xia Yu also discussed the necessity of a standing army with Furen. The military system of Yan State was still the old Spring and Autumn system. After watching Furen struggle with the merit list all day, Xia Yu felt something in his heart and chatted with Furen about the military merit system. I am also very interested to know that Zhao Zhifu, the military merit system, was only able to use it when he quelled the internal turmoil in Jin Dynasty.

Then, just like this, the two of them covered the quilt and just chatted until they fell asleep until they were too sleepy. When they woke up the next morning, looking at Xia Yu's sleeping face so close to him, they felt that their self-control and perseverance were simply enough. Said to surpass King Zhuang of Chu.

After washing up and going out, seeing Young Master Qi's eyes implying "Last night was a lot of happiness", I really wanted to punch Young Master Qi in the face.

Furen has the habit of waking up early to practice swords. This was developed during his years in the military. He practiced in the spacious courtyard in front of Xia Yu's main room after washing and grooming. Putting a lot of newly refined weapons, Furen is not limited to practicing swords, and tried every new weapon.

Xia Yu woke up a few minutes later than Furen, hurriedly washed up, and handed over a lot of things with the young master Qi who came to report, then changed into short and tight clothes and left the house, only to see Furen practicing in the court. The sword, the convincing swordsmanship is different from Wu Bao's. The routine of a typical northern swordsman, wide open and close, chopping horses and swinging to block, has a bit of a sense of later generations of swordsmanship.

Seeing that Xia Yu got up, Fu Ren stood in front of the house and said, "Have you finished chatting with Young Master Qi? Why did you come to see you so early in the morning?"

Chatting too far away is always uncomfortable, Xia Yu walked down from the steps in front of the house, approached Furen, and said: "It's nothing serious, I heard that you have returned to Jidu, and I will leave the matter of Wuyang to Young Master Qi." , came back early, son Qi came to report to me about the aftermath of Wuyang. In fact, there is a difference of one day between the front and the back. Be careful everywhere."

Furen put down the precious sword he was playing with at this time, picked up a long dagger, swung a few moves, put it down, picked up a short sword, and said: "You want to practice martial arts? Why don't you fight me?"

Xia Yu was also somewhat curious about Furen's skills, and he was happy to learn from Furen's invitation, so he immediately ordered his servants to take the two swords he usually used for sword practice, one long and one short, and let Furen see them. Looking at the swords of different lengths, all of which were cut blades, he was a little curious, and said: "How did you think of practicing long and short swords? It's not easy."

Xia Yu said: "It's not easy, but with my start and my physical strength, no matter what kind of swordsmanship I practice, I'm afraid I can't take advantage of it. I used to think that in terms of physical strength and hands-on, I was pure. However, after starting to practice swords, I found that my body's quality and reaction are much stronger than before, so maybe I can be a little more confident." After a pause, Xia Yu tilted her head and said , "And I found that maybe I have been practicing both hands diligently before (technical home requires the dual cooperation of keyboard and mouse), so my left and right hands are very flexible. Since my foundation is poor, why can't I make good use of my hands to be more cooperative and more cooperative?" What about the advantage of being flexible?"

Convincingly smiled, and said: "Why do you have to do this? Regardless of your previous status or your current status, if you reach the point where you need to draw your sword and no one is desperate, then the entire army may not be far away."

Xia Yu frowned upon hearing this, tilted her head to look at the convincing person, and said, "Are you praising yourself in disguise?"

Convincing people rubbed their noses, knowing that Xia Yu was referring to the fact that he almost captured Xia Yu outside Changdi City, so he said with a naive smile, "That's right."

Xia Yu was speechless, whoever said that the Crown Prince of Yan Kingdom was just and honest, he must have a dark heart hidden under his honesty.

Taking the sword handed by the servants, because it was for sword training, Xia Yu pointed the long sword at the servant, and said, "Attention, I'm coming."

Furen also saluted with a sword in a dignified manner, saying: "Please enlighten me."

Xia Yu slashed straight with his long sword, and the two fought together.

Wu Bao has been used to getting up early in Xia Yu's courtyard to teach Xia Yu how to practice swords in the past few months. When he got up early today, Wu Bao entered Xia Yu's main courtyard according to the practice of the past few months, and only heard shouts. Zhisheng, looking again, saw that Xia Yu and Prince Yan Furen were already fighting at the same place, obviously practicing swords, and the two of them were coming and going, both sweating profusely.

Wu Bao froze for a moment.

Furen saw Wu Bao enter the yard from a distance, just in time for Xia Yu's blow, the other hand grabbed Xia Yu's wrist holding the dagger, the two couldn't stand each other, and Furen said: "Okay, let's go today!" Come here, it's time for me to go up."

Xia Yu was also sweating profusely at this time, and was extremely tired. After being told to stop, he also felt that he had no energy to continue practicing, and said, "Okay, let's stop here today, let's have breakfast first."

Convincing smiled and retracted his sword, and looked at Wu Bao from a distance with peaceful eyes, but Wu Bao felt that there was a hint of warning in those peaceful eyes.

After convincing people to go to court, Xia Yu summoned Young Master Qi and Eunuch Qiao, and said directly: "I want to hold a banquet at the Prince's Mansion."

The son Qi and the eunuch Qiao were both taken aback. When Xia Yu first entered the mansion, they both planned to persuade Xia Yu to hold a banquet according to the usual practice to get acquainted with the noble relatives of the Yan Kingdom, but Xia Yu became the shopkeeper and ran to the fief. For more than three months, Furen seemed to be acquiescing to Xia Yu's actions, and the two of them didn't mention the banquet anymore. Why did Xia Yu bring it up again at this time?

Si Renqiao had doubts in his mind, Xu because of his older age, Si Renqiao directly asked Xia Yu's intention to hold a banquet.

Sitting behind the desk, Xia Yu flipped through various bamboo slips and said, "Yesterday I followed the prince into the palace." After a pause, he said, "I saw Qian who was raised in Guochu Palace."

Eunuch Qiao was taken aback, but Young Master Qi bowed his head and remained silent.

Xia Yu put down the bamboo slips in his hand, and said: "After I and the Yan Kingdom temple, I should know more about the affairs of the inner chamber."

Hearing this, Si Renqiao had a sarcastic smile on his face, and said: "Nai Zuo only now wants to understand this matter, but it took a lot of time, and it is only at this time that he wants to communicate with the noble relatives of the country. Familiar, isn't it too late? Isn't it rude?"

Young Master Qi took a look at Eunuch Qiao, lowered his head even lower, but Xia Yu was not angry at Eunuch Qiao's rude words, but raised his eyebrows and said, "Mr. You are polite, Young Master Bai is familiar with the nobles and relatives of the country, but today the Crown Prince of Yan Kingdom is my lord and servant."

In a word, the face of the eunuch bridge was so blocked that his face turned red and white. When Young Master Qi saw this scene, he hurriedly wanted to open his mouth to make things right, but before he could speak, Xia Yu waved his hand and said, "Okay, we don't have to worry about it." There is a dispute over these matters, and I called the two of you here because you know more about the interior masters of Yan’s country than I do, I can’t handle this matter without you, and I need your assistance.”

Eunuch Qiao, who had a bad complexion at first, softened his complexion when he heard Xia Yu's weak words. After all, although he was a little dissatisfied with Xia Yu's actions, but seeing the prince convincing people step by step until now, his heart is still Facing the obedient man, he pondered for a while, and said: "Seeing that the spring festival is coming, and after the spring festival, there will be a plowing ceremony, but every family must be busy, so why don't you hold a banquet before the spring festival, and don't worry about it." As the head of the inner room, as the crown prince's neizuo, it is considered proper etiquette to ask all the nobles and relatives of the country to come to the mansion for a banquet."

Eunuch Bridge can be regarded as an old man in the Palace of Yan. Apart from other abilities, he is really familiar with arranging noble banquets. In addition, it is the first time for his inner assistant to invite noble relatives from Jidu to the mansion after he was conferred the crown prince. Naturally, I was so full of energy that I didn't want to embarrass the servants. You must know that in the past, the nobles in Yan State did not like the servants, and even the eunuch Qiao who served the servants was also very eye-catching. At this time, the eunuch Qiao naturally wanted to The idea of ​​shame and publicity.

Standing next to the main hall of the Prince's Mansion, Xia Yu saw Eunuch Qiao reprimanding the servants at this moment, "How is that food utensil placed! Why is it crooked!?", "Oh, why are you still using the old curtain, you have to replace it with a new one?" of".

Si Renqiao worked hard, going up and down, inside and out, wishing to use ten pairs of eyes to keep a close eye on the slightest mistake and not to make any mistakes. Xia Yu was a little bit puzzled, and asked in a low voice the young master Qi behind him, saying : "He's always been like this?"

Young Master Qi rubbed his nose and said: "No", in fact Young Master Qi was a little embarrassed to speak, and said, "Well...the Prince's Mansion has never held a decent banquet, so..."

Xia Yu was puzzled, even if he was not appointed as the heir apparent, he was still a son of a country, how could he not hold the usual banquet among the nobles in the mansion.

Young Master Qi felt even more embarrassed, and said: "The mansion is too poor, and the crown prince thinks that holding banquets is a waste of money."

Si Renqiao is very satisfied at this time, seeing that... What is the name of that... from Heze, leading the Qi people accompanied by Xia Yu to bring out the ritual utensils and food utensils, Si Renqiao is so happy, finally our house is also "rich" Wake up, there are exquisite and decent ritual utensils!

He couldn't help wiping away his tears, and Si Renqiao's dissatisfaction with Xia Yu has subsided a lot at this time. After all, who made Xia Yu rich? There are also silk and bamboo musicians among the people, woo woo woo, as the prince of a country, there are finally decent silk and bamboo musicians in the mansion, well, people in Qi are rich, and they can turn out so much money by studying food (actually It’s not Qi people, it’s Xia Yu’s delicious food), hehe, when the time comes, those guys who looked down on the prince in the past will eat it until their tongues fall off, huh!How dare they look down on us!

Outside the mausoleum of the ancestors of the Yan Kingdom, strict guards guarded a simple house inside and out. Inside the house, a man with disheveled hair was silently copying the clan genealogy, but it was Bai, the eldest son of the Yan Kingdom.

At this time, the eldest son Bai who was concentrating on copying only heard the sound of light knocking under the couch, his eyes lit up, and he coughed and said: "Come here."

A guard came in from outside, looked at Young Master Bai expressionlessly, and said, "What's the matter, Young Master?"

Young Master Bai said: "I'm going to bed, take these slips away."

The guard had no expression on his face and ordered his servants to remove the case slips. Young Master Bai ignored the servant's movements, and just blew on the light and put on his clothes and lay down. He left without saying a word.

The light had already been turned off, and Young Master Bai lay on the couch for a long time, until the guards outside seemed to be tired and relaxed, then he got under the quilt, and secretly removed a wooden board on the couch, and saw that there was a cave several meters deep below. typical.

A dwarf in the tunnel saw Young Master Bai and said, "Young Master, I am Gou San."

Young Master Bai suppressed his excitement and said, "I remember you, your ancestor was..."

The person who called himself Gou San smiled and said, "My ancestors were grave robbers."

Young Master Bai whispered: "Thanks to your ancestor's skill, otherwise I would really die here."

The dog said: "It's all due to the villain, the young master is too guarded here, we still need the help of a noble person before we can see the young master again."

Young Master Bai was puzzled, and said, "Your Honor? Who is that Honorable Man?" Although he thought he had a very good relationship with Lord Yan, when something happened, none of the nobles and relatives who had good friends with him in the country would help him, and they would all cast aside their names to avoid causing trouble. The appearance of the upper body really makes the young master gnash his teeth in anger. Is there any noble person in the Yan Kingdom who will help him at this time?

The dog said: "It's not the nobleman of Yan State, but the Qi State."

Young Master Bai was taken aback, and said, "Qi State?"

Gou Sandao: "It's the nephew sought by Tian Xiangxin of Qi State, the concubine son of Zhao Zhifu of the Jin State Zhao family."

Young Master Bai was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Qi Jinlian fainted?"

Gou San nodded and said, "It happened not long ago."

Young Master Bai frowned and said, "Why did the nephew Tian Xiangxin ask for help me?"

Gou San whispered: "I heard that Tian Chang, who is in charge of the Qi State, fell ill, and Tian Xiang supervised the administration of the country. We guessed that it might not be Tian Xiang's nezuo, but Tian Xiang himself who wanted to help the young master."

Young Master Bai frowned even tighter, lowered his voice and said, "Why did Tian Xiang help me?"

Gou San smiled with a hint of wretchedness, and said: "Hehe, the villain guessed that it was probably for revenge."

In the State of Jin, in the Zhi clan's mansion, the head of the Zhi clan frowned, staring at the nephew he personally selected in front of him, Zhi Yao, the heir of the Zhi clan, and said: "This... can this work? Zhifu knows, it's not easy to mess with."

Zhiyao is tall, with a graceful appearance, elegant beard and black eyes, which seems a bit scary at first glance. Compared with her elder uncles and elders, she is very calm and calm, and said: "This time Even if things are successful, it will be two years later, why should uncle be so restless."

The patriarch of the Zhi clan wants to know that his nephew is very talented. If not, he would not have chosen his son as the heir of the Zhi clan. You must know that the domestic officials of the Jin state fought fiercely, and if they moved, the family would be wiped out. The choice of heirs by the ministers is usually not based on their status, but more on their talents. If it weren't for this, it would be impossible for Zhiyao, as a descendant of the Zhi family, to be established as the heir of the Zhi family.

Zhiyao sighed at this time, and said: "Uncle, no matter how powerful Zhao Zhifu is, he is just a person. As long as a person is mortal, how many years can Zhao Zhifu live when he is old? According to Jin State According to the system of rotation of officials and ministers, after the death of Zhao Zhifu, my Zhi family was in power, but based on the situation at this time, Han Wei and the Zhao family were close, and they were in a relationship with each other. Li Zuoyin intends to make good friends with Yan State. I heard that Yan Guoguo and Zongzheng Gong Bohou intend to give the son of Lord Yan to the Zhao family to strengthen the goodness of Yan and Zhao. If this situation develops, my Zhi family will sit in the Jin Dynasty As the country's ruling position, is our position stable?"

The patriarch of the Zhi clan sighed and said: "I also know about this matter, but what can I do?"

Zhiyao said: "There is a Zhongshan country between Zhao's fiefdom and Yan country. If we really want to do something, I'm afraid we will have to make arrangements at this time."

The head of the Zhi clan frowned and said, "Zhongshan?"

Zhiyao said: "Yes, it is Zhongshan."