Mrs. Qin Xiangguo

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The next morning, in Huayang Palace.

"Replace the helper?"

Mrs. Huayang was furious when she heard the words: "She dared to send back the person I sent over?!"

In the end, she was so angry that she stretched out her hand and patted the long table suddenly.

On weekdays, Mrs. Huayang's style is strong, and she flew into a rage, making the whole hall silent.The waiters and female officials all chose to keep their heads down and shut up, for fear that Mrs. Huayang's anger would be directed at her if she made any noise or met her eyes.

Others dare not speak, and this huge responsibility falls on Mr. Yangquan.

He looked at his sister helplessly: "Calm down first."

Mrs. Huayang was so angry that she couldn't help herself: "It's just a small family from Handan. Mrs. Meng Wei is very courageous! She thinks that people who don't listen to me and accept me can live well in Xianyang? !"

Mr. Yangquan couldn't help muttering: "It's not your people who made trouble first. Gongzizheng was taught by Mrs. Meng Wei himself, so it can be a good thing?"

Mrs. Huayang glared at Mr. Yangquan: "Why are your elbows turning outward?"

That's because your female officer has done something stupid, which may implicate your own younger brother in the court!Mr. Yangquan slandered wildly in his heart.

I met Lu Buwei by chance yesterday afternoon, Mr. Yangquan saw his embarrassed and worried face, so he asked a few more words.

Thank you for asking so many questions!Otherwise, Mr. Yangquan would be kept in the dark if his sister's female official caused trouble.

Recalling the words relayed by Lu Buwei yesterday, Mr. Yangquan still couldn't help feeling afraid.

What did you say to Gong Zizheng that you and your mother were not born well, go crazy!

Ying Zichu and Zhao Ji are loving couples, even a blind person can see that.Even if Zhao Ji is just a woman from a commoner family, Ying Zichu still firmly establishes her as his wife, which is enough to show the relationship between the two.

To look down on Zhao Ji is to look down on Ying Zichu. Isn't this making yourself uncomfortable?

Moreover, Ying Zheng is the great-grandson whom the previous king cherished in his heart!It has only been so long since King Zhao left, and he has treated his great-grandson badly. Mrs. Huayang is not afraid, but Mr. Yangquan is afraid that the late king will come back in the middle of the night and scold him.

Thinking of this, Mr. Yangquan shuddered suddenly, and he complained and looked at Boyao, a female official from Chu State who was standing in front of Mrs. Huayang with lowered brows.

"Sister, there is a good saying that the people below should follow suit as the people at the top do things." Mr. Yangquan reluctantly said, "Your female official made such a statement, which shows that you have not let Gong Zizheng and Mrs. Gui go. In the eyes. But Mrs. Meng Wei is close to Gong Zizheng, everyone in Xianyang knows this, you are not, you are not waiting to turn against her!"

Mrs. Huayang said angrily: "Even if you turn against her, so what?"

Mr. Yangquan was shocked: "You can't turn your back on Mrs. Meng Wei. You have to think about it. Now there are students from the Meng family and Wang family in her school. If they turn their faces, the family behind them will definitely stand on the side of Mrs. Meng Wei." Even if sister doesn't want to do this, you have to think about your brother's precious grandson is still in his hands!"

Not to mention anything else, Mr. Yangquan was afraid that Mrs. Meng Wei would be unhappy and treat his grandson Mining badly.

This will not work.

Thinking about it carefully, Mr. Yangquan’s words of admonition became more sincere: "Sister, think about it again, Mrs. Meng Wei still has the sword of commandment bequeathed by the late king. You have to weigh the weight of that sword."

Not to mention that the sword was okay, but when it was mentioned, Mrs. Huayang was a little more afraid while getting angry.

In her opinion, Mrs. Meng Kai has become so unscrupulous because of the sword of commandment.

and……

It's not that Mrs. Huayang doesn't understand why Mr. Yangquan came here.

She glanced at her own brother coldly, and pulled her face down: "How much did you charge Lu Buwei?"

Mr. Yangquan: "The money is confiscated."

Mrs. Huayang snorted: "That's why he has collected a lot of rare treasures that he has been thinking about. Lu Buwei is just a lowly businessman. He has such a status, but he does business by speculation. If it weren't for you and me, he would Can I have the position today?"

Knowing the intention of coming, Mr. Yangquan was not shy at all.

He even retorted frankly: "I'm not speaking for Lu Buwei, sister, he is speculative, but his eyes are really vicious. Don't say anything else, do you think it's a loss for him to support Zi Chu, or is it a loss for him to marry Mrs. Meng Wei? Even if you gained power by being close to you, but now it seems that you are not at a loss, sister?"

Madam Huayang: "..."

She fell into silence, not because she was speechless, but because she was shocked by how cheeky her own brother was.

"Furthermore, no matter what, it was your female official who caused the trouble first." Yangquan Jun persuaded: "If you hit someone in the face, how can you blame him for not being able to fight back? Sister, the crown prince doesn't know about this for the time being. Don't deal with it, let the prince know, you... think about the consequences yourself."

There was a lot of foreshadowing ahead, and now it finally comes to Mrs. Huayang's weakness.

No matter how powerful the Chu family is, it still depends on the face of the monarch.

Now the monarch is newly mourned, and the prince is in charge of the country.A year later, the prince will be the future King of Qin.

No matter what, Mrs. Huayang can't offend her husband at this time.

Besides, no matter how unhappy Mrs. Huayang is, she has to admit that Mr. Yangquan is right.

What is your attitude in private on weekdays should not be shown on your face.Although Mrs. Meng Wei's actions are hateful, there is nothing wrong with emotion or reason.

Boyao was rude first, and Mrs. Meng Kai dismissed her, which is actually not a problem.

Besides, she replaced Mrs. Boyao with Zhao Ji, and she was still from Huayang Palace, and even Ying Zichu's official wife. Even if Mrs. Huayang wanted to find fault, she couldn't find it.

After all, it was not Mrs. Meng Kai who made her ashamed, but her own female officer Boyao.

Thinking of this, Madam Huayang took a deep breath.

She looked at Madam Boyao.

After marrying and coming to Qin, Boyao has been with her for decades. Although she is a female official, she is closer to Mrs. Huayang than her younger brother Yangquan Jun.

But Mrs. Huayang didn't want to create a quarrel with the prince because of this matter, and she didn't want the prince to blame her.

So no matter how close she was, she had to be ruthless.

"You are getting old." Mrs. Huayang said to the female officer Bo Yao faintly: "I feel uneasy about having you serve me. Find a good time, and I will send you back to the state of Chu to reunite with your relatives." , let’s take care of yourselves.”

Mrs. Boyao's body trembled when she heard this.

She raised her head in disbelief, a look of terrified surprise in her gray hair.

"Husband, madam..." Boyao muttered, "I—"

It's called pension, but it's actually expulsion!

Every white hair and every inch of wrinkle on this aged face was born for Mrs. Huayang.But now, just because she said two more serious words, she is going to be expelled from Qin?

Mrs. Huayang waved her hand and said wearily: "I'm tired, I don't want to say any more, you go down first."

The female officer Boyao was silent for a long time, and in the end he could only say dejectedly: "Yes."

When Boyao left, Mrs. Huayang said angrily: "You go too. Don't dawdle in front of my eyes, I can live a few more years."

Not only did Mr. Yangquan not leave, but he also comforted him with a smile: "Why are you angry? You are sulking here, but I heard that Mrs. Meng Wei went out early this morning to find the craftsmen of the Mo family. This matter is on your mind, why bother?"

——At the same time, Xianyang Workshop.

Zhao Weizhen winked, but couldn't hold back, and sneezed loudly: "Ah!"

Wei Xing couldn't help laughing: "Madam, it's quite warm today."

Zhao Weizhen rubbed his nose resentfully: "Who is thinking about me?"

After finishing speaking, she raised her head and looked at Qin Yang, the great son of the Mo family, and behind him several farmers in plain clothes of different ages.

"Mrs. Meng Wei."

Qin Yang introduced enthusiastically: "Didn't you want to find people from the farm before to discuss the improvement of farm tools? I found them."

Zhao Weizhen's eyes lit up: "Gentlemen from the farm?"

The leading farmer seemed to have entered middle age, his skin was tanned, and his hands, feet, and appearance were already covered with calluses and wrinkles.But even though he looks like a farmer and dresses like a farmer, when he speaks, he can speak fluently.

"The grassroots are showing their power, and I have seen Mrs. Meng Wei."

After the middle-aged farmer saluted, his words were full of admiration and enthusiasm: "I heard about Mrs. Meng Kai's name earlier, and I finally saw it today! The lady made Quyuan plows and waterwheels to benefit the people. Madame is learning to ask for advice!"

The meaning of intimacy is the same as when Qin Yang met before.

The other party was enthusiastic, so Zhao Weizhen also smiled.

Since ancient times, the minds of working people have been the most complex and the simplest.The simplicity lies in the fact that their pursuit is not high or far away, they only want the people to have enough food and clothing, so that everyone can live a prosperous life.

But it's complicated, and it's also complicated here. How easy is it to make everyone rich?

Whoever feeds them is a good person.

Therefore, Zhao Weizhen took out the drawing of the harness, which did not make the people of Qin feel so powerful.

However, the promotion of Quyuanli and waterwheels made everyone in the Qin country remember Mrs. Meng Wei's name.Even among prominent schools such as Mohist and Nongjia, Zhao Weizhen is highly evaluated.

The so-called farmers, as the name suggests, they advocate is to focus on agricultural production.

But in the same way, Zhao Weizhen did not expect that there would be peasant children in the Qin State.

Thinking about it again, "Lushi Chunqiu" contains four chapters, "Shangnong", "Rendi", "Distinguishing the Land" and "Judging the Time", among which a large number of ideas and techniques in the farmer's "Houji Nongshu" are recorded.In later generations, "Houji Nongshu" has long been lost, and only the text in "Lushi Chunqiu" remains.

Lu Buwei's "Spring and Autumn" was written in Qin State, and Qin State regards farming and warfare as its national policy and pays attention to farming, so think about it, it is normal for Qin State to have peasant children.

It seems that this Dangwei is the leader.

"Mr. laughed."

Zhao Weizhen said modestly: "Meng Kaikong has some ideas, but he has never cultivated it himself. He still has to learn from you gentlemen."

This is also the purpose of Zhao Weizhen's wish to meet the farmers.

Not to mention anything else, she really has never been to the ground!

In an interview with King Qin Zhao in the past, Zhao Weizhen talked endlessly about the improvement strategies for future generations, but she knew very well in her heart that if she wanted to reform, no matter how and when she wanted to reform, there was a precondition: to lay a good foundation.

The basics are productivity.

Food production has increased, farming efficiency has improved, and the common people can have enough to eat and pay taxes. Then who will rebel?

Therefore, it is too far away to think about how to reform the system right now.

Zhao Weizhen thinks it is better to change the farm tools first!This requires the children of the peasant family to come and help.

"Meng Kai thinks that the Quyuan plow is used to plow the land, and the water mill is used to crush the husk of the rice. The whole agricultural process can be done with the help of tools. Can the planting and harvesting in the middle also be done? What?" Zhao Weizhen said eloquently: "It's just that Meng Wei has never planted it himself and has no experience, so I want to ask the farmers if they can make some small tools from it, so as to facilitate farmers' life and work."

"small tools?"

Dang Wei was taken aback for a moment, and retorted subconsciously: "But ma'am, transplanting and sowing seeds is just a matter of bending over and bowing the head, and harvesting is as simple as wielding a sickle. No matter how you use tools, where can they be used? "

Qin Yang, who was in charge of making tools, suddenly became unhappy: "Dangwei, I don't like to hear your words. Before there was no Quyuanli, didn't the plows have to be pulled by humans and oxen? Now?"

Thinking about it carefully, it is true.

It wasn't Mrs. Meng Kai's ingenuity. Who would have thought that plowing could save energy without oxen, and who would have thought that even grinding could be done without manpower and livestock?

He immediately asked in anticipation: "Madam, what new ideas do you have?"

Zhao Weizhen smiled slightly: "It's not something mysterious, please take a look."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and invited several technicians to the workshop.

Wei Xing had already laid out the silk script she had drawn in advance on the workbench.

It is unrealistic to say that it is unrealistic to move out modern seeders and harvesters, but it is always possible to borrow the wisdom of the ancient working people from the "future"!

In order to meet with the farm children today, Zhao Weizhen lay down in front of the long case and thought hard for several days, before he drew all the old farm tools he had seen in the museum before time travel based on his memory.

Working people are very smart. They may not be as educated as Confucian scholars from aristocratic families, but they also know what tools to borrow to save effort.

Say sowing?

There are seedling horses in the planting waterway, but it is just a simple stool, but it can save farmers from bending over when planting and pulling out seedlings. Even Su Shi wrote poems about it.

Even dry land is not afraid. In the Western Han Dynasty, Zhao Guo invented the columbine cart, and wheat, beans and even sorghum could be sown by it.A columbine cart, pulled forward by borrowed livestock, can plant three rows of seeds at a time, which is equivalent to three times the manpower.

Besides harvesting, there is also a three-piece set of Mai Samarium, Mai Chuo and Mai Long, which has been recorded in the "Nong Shu" of the Yuan Dynasty.The three-piece suit is used for harvesting, gathering and dressing in one go, which is much faster than slowly harvesting with a sickle.

The point is that these tools are not troublesome in terms of production technology. Most of them are made of wood or rattan, and metal parts are rarely used.

The problem is that although Zhao Weizhen has a very good memory, he can't memorize all the making and weaving methods of tools at a glance.

This requires craftsmen and farmers to help study and debug together.

And when Dangwei picked up the silk book and looked at it, his eyes suddenly lit up and told Zhao Weizhen that it was right to find him.

Even though rice is rarely grown in Beidi, when Dangwei saw the seedling drawn by Zhao Weizhen, he still slapped his head excitedly.

"Yes!"

Dang Wei raised his voice: "It takes time and effort to transplant rice seedlings, especially when you have to bend down. How many farmers have toiled all their lives because of this, and their bodies can't stand it when they are middle-aged. Isn't it enough to stand and sit down?"

Zhao Weizhen echoed with a smile: "Isn't it? I usually teach in the school, and I can't stand just possessing my body to instruct children on their homework, let alone working in the fields all day."

"Madam is really kind and kind."

Dang Wei was so happy that he couldn't help but spare no effort to praise Zhao Weizhen: "You can care about the common people so much, I believe that Madam is a fairy sent from heaven!"

After speaking, he continued to look back.

The rest, such as columbine carts and wheat samarium, I couldn’t understand how to use them at first glance. Under Zhao Weizhen’s introduction, Dangwei quickly understood them with his rich experience in farming.

Several farm children were so happy that they could not wait to jump high on the spot.

"Qin Yang." Dang Wei urged: "You have to hurry up and make these agricultural tools, so that we can debug and modify them easily!"

Qin Yang couldn't laugh or cry: "No matter how anxious you are, I have to make it for you with my hands and feet, right? And—"

Dangwei: "Is there any trouble?"

Qin Yang didn't even look at the farm boy who was in a hurry, and instead picked up the blueprint of the columbine cart.

"Mrs. Meng Wei." Qin Yang pointed to a joint of the columbine cart: "Is it here deliberately reversed?"

"Uh……"

Zhao Weizhen couldn't help but feel guilty: She can't remember clearly either!

I just wrote it down while visiting the museum. Zhao Weizhen knew nothing about mechanics and physics, let alone how to make it.

If Qin Yang sees that it is reversed, then it is likely that she has drawn it backwards.

"If Juzi thinks something is wrong, he can use his past experience first." Zhao Weizhen said: "I just swallowed the paintings based on my ideas, and they can only be used as reminders. Don't refer to everything. And it's not just this one, There are a few more places, I'm not sure."

"Madame please point it out for me."

"it is good."

Zhao Weizhen immediately raised his hand, pointing to several positions in the silk book: "Here, here, and there, I have drawn a rough idea."

Qin Yang hurriedly wrote down: "I know, this is—"

The following words came to an abrupt end when Qin Yang's gaze touched the gold bracelet exposed from Zhao Weizhen's sleeve.

Qin Yang took a breath: "Madam, your bracelet..."

Zhao Weizhen was taken aback: "What's wrong with the bracelet, but there is a problem?"

No way, this is from Lu Buwei, what other strange things can he send?

Qin Yang: "It looks so expensive."

Zhao Weizhen: "..."

In the pre-Qin period, everyone admired jade, and few people would wear gold bracelets.Moreover, the bracelet on Zhao Weizhen's wrist still looks like it is made of pure gold, so that the corner of it is shining brightly from the sleeve, it almost blinds Qin Yang's eyes.

Selling him is not worth so much gold!

and--

Damn it, as a craftsman, Qin Yang could tell at a glance that the pattern on the gold bracelet came from Shu.

Not only is it exquisite, but it is also complicated. A picture can be drawn on a bracelet as wide as the little thumbnail.Qin Yang couldn't help feeling envious and jealous of his colleagues: This craftsmanship is too exquisite.

Not only is the skill demanding, but the eyes must also be useless. Could it be that the Shu people really have protruding eyes like the legends, and can see more clearly than the Central Plains people?

"The bracelet is exquisitely crafted."

Qin Yang praised sincerely: "It is very suitable for my wife."

…………

……

It was at this time that Lu Buwei entered the workshop.

He just happened to pass by, thinking that he could wait in the workshop for a while, so that he could pick up Zhao Weizhen for a ride.

However, stepping over the threshold with the front foot, Lu Buwei saw Qin Yang staring at Zhao Weizhen's gold bracelet with the back foot, and said, "It's very suitable for my wife."

Lu Buwei, who was always pure and gentle in front of people, had a white and friendly face, and his face turned dark immediately.