The Guanzhong Plain is surrounded by many mountains and rivers, forming the image of "the spine of the world, the dragon's head of the Central Plains, eight rivers surrounding the city, and the state of the emperors". In addition, there are four dangers of the pass. They tried their best to exaggerate and add fuel to the flames, making it known as a perfect place for feng shui.
Although Ganzhou, located in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, cannot be compared with many ancient capitals and cities, there is also a saying among the people that "four mountains surround Zhangye, and eight rivers surround Ganzhou." Among them, the four mountains are the Qilian Mountains in the south, the Heli Mountains in the north, the Yanzhi Mountains in the southeast, and the Ganjun Mountains in the southwest; the eight rivers are the Jiedan River, Qiang River, Shi River, Hula River, Lu River, Gheekou River, and Dayekou River. , weak water.
The first seven of the "Eight Rivers" are tributaries of Weak Water, and the length, status, and value of Weak Water in the Sui Dynasty are comparable to those of the Yellow River, Huai River, Han River, and Jiang River. As the saying goes, "Three thousand Weak Rivers, only take This is how the concept of "one scoop of drink" came about. The weak water flows through the entire territory of Ganzhou and finally flows into Juyanze, which is more than 2,000 miles away in the north. The area it flows through is full of fertile fields and pastures.
However, because Ganzhou has many hot springs, geothermal heat, and is surrounded by "four mountains", in winter and spring, it takes on an fairy-like style of mist and clouds.
Yang Ji couldn't tell if there were any legendary ghosts and gods, but at least he found that the Ganzhou people in the clouds and mist had very white skin, and almost all young men and women had fair and fair faces.
After leaving the main courtyard, Yang Jicai realized that it was getting late. The reason why he thought it was still early was because there was heavy fog today, and the extremely low visibility gave people the illusion that it was still early.
At this time, the sky was bright and the rising morning glow reflected in the thick fog, showing magnificent colors.
Phew! Phew! Phew!
An eagle and two gyrfalcons that were looking for food saw Yang Ji come out, and immediately took off from the trees, hovering happily around him. The eagles that had been subdued by them also flew over one after another, creating a scene of "a hundred birds." "Chaofeng" picture scroll.
Xiao Ying, who was walking with Qiu Shui and Qiu Yue, was awakened by the chirping birds and turned her head to look in confusion.
"Crack!"
The sword in Xiao Ying's hand fell directly to the ground, her mouth opened slightly, and her big eyes were filled with incredible color.
I saw Yang Ji wearing a purple robe and a jade belt around his waist. His expression was calm and serene, and his facial features were extremely handsome. The soft morning light shone on his body, as if there was a layer of halo.
He walked in naturally and casually with a sword in his hand, as if he were a banished immortal who had fallen into the mortal world, looking noble and extraordinary.
When Xiao Ying saw Yang Ji walking towards her, her face flushed, her heart beat faster, and she almost lost her mind.
"Madam!" Yang Ji walked over and looked at Xiao Ying anxiously.
"Mr. Lang!" Xiao Ying bowed her hands and picked up the sword with a blush.
"What's going on with your sword?" Yang Ji pointed at the sword in Xiao Ying's hand, his heart beating wildly.
This girl brought a sword as never before. Could it be that she was here to kill her cheating fiancé? Liu Rumei who "seduces" her fiancé?
Xiao Ying lost her composure just now. She felt very embarrassed and explained shyly: "Didn't Mr. Lang say that practicing martial arts can strengthen the body? So he found a sword and came to learn swordsmanship from Chuchen and Rumei."
"Let me take a look at your sword." Yang Ji stepped forward to take Xiao Ying's sword uneasily. When he pulled it out, he saw that it was a nanmu sword with the same style as the Han sword. He felt relieved now.
He pretended to play a few tricks, returned the sword to Xiao Ying, and said with a smile: "Although it is a little lighter, it is suitable for you as a beginner. When you have mastered the swordsmanship, I will find a famous craftsman to make it for you." Create a truly peerless sword.”
"Thank you, sir." Xiao Ying took the wooden sword back and thanked her happily.
"You're welcome." Yang Ji said to the timid Liu Rumei, "Rumei, you stay and teach them swordsmanship. I'll go to the manager's house."
After Yang Ji finished speaking, he slipped away.
"I've met Madam." Liu Rumei hurriedly stepped forward and saluted Xiao Ying with a forced smile.
"No courtesy." Xiao Ying helped her up and said with a smile, "My mother-in-law told me."
"Ah?" Liu Rumei was so frightened that her face turned pale. She quickly knelt down and saluted, and said in a clear tone: "Madam, I didn't mean it, I..."
She was a young girl who was first ordered by Dugu Min to be Yang Ji's tutor, and then was given the job by Yang Ji. Now she was worried about Xiao Ying getting angry with her, so she was so frightened that she hit Xiao Ying who could strangle him to death with one hand. It was really difficult for this extremely skilled deputy commander of the Suzaku Guard.
However, this is normal. Due to thousands of years of male-dominated society, this society has built a strict and strict family system.
A set of etiquette continues to this day, so that every big family has a strict and strict clan system. Most of the nobles have three wives and four concubines, and it is not uncommon to have dozens of concubines. Even Yang Jian, Yang Shuang, and Yang Su, who were particularly afraid of their wives, had many concubines. For example, Su Yuniang, the steward of the inner chamber of the palace, is Yang Shuang's little wife. If she was an outsider, how could Dugu Min let her take charge of the private inner chamber?
As many women share a husband, it is normal for them to invite favors and courtship. However, the way they compete for favors is to rely on their own advantages to win more favors from their husbands. Very few women frame and slander their husbands' other women.
If you use despicable means and conspiracies, how many people can you hide and how long can you hide it? And among men with three wives and four concubines, which one is not a well-informed and thoughtful person?
How could such a determined man go against his parents' powerful wife for the sake of a humble concubine? If the restless concubine was not severely punished, could he allow the fights that started with her to continue in his own house? So if a woman who was born in, grew up in, and raised in a deep house really thinks that this man with three wives and four concubines is a fool at her disposal, then she will only be the fool in the end.
Of course, the harmony between wives and concubines is mostly not as good as their relationship, and not every woman who is a head wife has the authority to control everything, but is restricted by strict rules.
If anyone dares to play tricks and conspiracies in the back house, she will first become the public enemy of the back house. If her fight becomes a rare big news, causing the entire family to lose face and become a laughing stock for others, even if her husband wants to protect her and the weak head wife can't do anything to her, the family rules controlled by the elders, the family rules controlled by the elders and the family Clan rules and government-administered laws will also punish you.
The smart and beautiful women in "Jin Ping Mei" and "Dream of Red Mansions" did not use extraordinary methods to treat other women, nor did they use extreme methods to make their husbands pamper themselves and not touch other women. Even Wang Xifeng, who is famous for being fierce, did not do this , if she dares to challenge the authority of family rules and clan rules, she will still be shattered to pieces.
The real house fighting drama is something concocted by later generations of literati to cater to the modern marriage system. They reshaped the intrigues in the workplace and officialdom, and then magnified it a thousand times and used it on women in deep palaces and mansions. A series of extremely tragic daily images of ancient noble women emerged. This method and purpose are exactly the same as the new dynasty's attempt to discredit the previous dynasty. They are all driven by the political needs of the dynasty for legitimacy and justice.
As for the court battles in the palace, they cannot be regarded as house fights. First of all, it is because the concubine and her son in the palace are supported by a political force. They are the spokespersons of political interests promoted by political forces. Even if the mother and son do not want to fight, they are pushed to the front desk to fight. Secondly, the concubines are fighting for the queen and their son to be the crown prince. If they win the fight, they can change the rules and establish rules. There will no longer be rules to punish them. Compared with the house fights of powerful people, the benefits are endless. Therefore, the battle for the palace is a battle for power and factions at the political level, which is completely different from ordinary house fights.
As for the powerful Liu Rumei, since she became Yang Ji's woman, she was naturally bound by the rules of the palace. When faced with Xiao Ying, who was defenseless and powerless, she didn't even have the consciousness to refute and resist.
This has been true since ancient times. If you want to move from one circle to another, you must accept the rules of the new circle. Otherwise, various rules and regulations will destroy you and ruin your reputation.
"Don't be afraid, Rumei. I don't mean to blame you." Seeing Liu Rumei's frightened look, Xiao Ying smiled and helped her up.
Liu Rumei let out a long sigh of relief. She stood up and said gratefully, "Thank you for your magnanimity, madam."
"It doesn't matter, we will be sisters from now on." Xiao Ying really has no bad thoughts in her heart. She is not worried about Liu Rumei competing for favor, just because she will not only be the princess that Yang Jiming is marrying, but also the biological sister of the future queen. To her, Personally, both relationships and status are quite strong.
As for having a man alone, she had never thought about it. Not to mention that Liu Rumei was appointed by Dugu Min, even if there was no such section, she would not have had such an idea.
This is just like Liu Rumei not dare to resist Xiao Ying's order, but the two of them are at different levels and face different problems.
Xiao Ying asked Qiu Shui and Qiu Yue to step back. After making sure that they could not hear the conversation between her and Liu Rumei, she whispered: "Rumei, let me ask you a question."
"Madam, please ask." Liu Rumei said quickly.
"That..." Xiao Ying's face suddenly turned red, her long eyelashes trembled, and she whispered coyly: "Langjun doesn't like going to brothels, the only one who goes there is It was also a fight. So, there are some bad rumors in the capital, saying that Lang Jun does not like women. Tell me, does Lang Jun like women? "
Even when facing women, Xiao Ying was extremely embarrassed, but these rumors about Yang Ji became a thorn in her heart. It would be impossible not to ask, just in case Yang Ji was like Li Yuan, and had an affair with a charming man. If she doesn't know, then she will be miserable.
Liu Rumei suddenly opened her eyes wide, her mouth slightly opened into an "o" shape, and she looked at Xiao Ying in disbelief. She was Yang Ji's personal maid. She had seen Yang Ji take advantage of Xiao Ying countless times. Sometimes she even put her hands into Xiao Ying's clothes and caressed her. She was a complete pervert. How could she not like women?
However, this person who had been taken advantage of was actually worried that Yang Ji didn't like women. This was so innocent... that she couldn't laugh or cry, and had nothing to say.
"Of course not. How could the young master like a man?" Liu Rumei said, holding back a smile as she faced Xiao Ying's big eyes asking for help.
"Oh!" Xiao Ying felt like her whole body was burning. She leaned closer to Liu Rumei again, almost smelling her faint body fragrance, and then she asked furtively, "Have you consummated your marriage with your husband?"
This time it was Liu Rumei's turn to be embarrassed. She thought of the storm and all the embarrassing postures last night, and she couldn't help but feel weak. She almost lost the strength to stand up. She lowered her head and said softly "Yeah" A sound.
Then, as if she was afraid that Xiao Ying would misunderstand something, she quickly raised her head and explained: "I didn't make the decision without permission, it was the concubine who asked me to teach the young master, so I had to..."
"I don't blame you, and I don't care about anything else." Xiao Ying didn't care or be interested in whether Yang Ji's "first time" was hers. She stared at Liu Rumei with her two beautiful eyes, like a The curious baby asked: "Rumei, how does it feel to consummate a marriage? How does it taste?"
Liu Rumei was almost embarrassed to death by her. How could she ask someone like that? How should she answer this?
"You two are so close, what are you whispering about?"
Dugu Min suddenly spoke from behind, causing the two girls, who were already shy, to scream and separate quickly.
Dugu Min was wearing a brocade robe and looked heroic. She glanced at Xiao Ying suspiciously and found that her neck was red with embarrassment. She said with a smile: "A Ying, you kid has a guilty conscience."
"No, no." Xiao Ying pretended to be calm and muttered: "Mom, I misunderstood. How can I feel guilty?" At the end of the sentence, her words began to stutter.
Dugu Min raised his eyebrows with phoenix eyes: "My child, did anyone tell you? When you lie, your eyes dodge and you look panicked."
"Auntie, I'm just asking Rumei for advice on swordsmanship..." Xiao Ying blushed and didn't know what to say.
"Swordsmanship?" Dugu Min looked at Liu Rumei, who was also half-dead with embarrassment. His thoughts changed slightly, and he immediately thought of what he had said to Xiao Ying before, "Liu Rumei taught Yang Ji", and then he also made a big blush, pretending He said calmly: "Well, I actually have nothing to do. You continue to study 'swordsmanship'... You stay with me in the afternoon and I will go to the store."
Dugu Min was afraid that she would laugh out loud and make them awkward, so she turned around and ran away without waiting for any reaction from the two of them.
"..." Xiao Ying and Liu Rumei looked at each other.
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But it was said that Yang Ji came to the general manager's house proudly and found that all the heroes gathered together. After saying a few words, they took their seats.
After everyone had dealt with the dozens of government affairs issues submitted by various states, Yin Shishi, who was promoted to Liangzhou Sima due to his merits, handed over his hands and said: "General manager, I have something to ask."
"If you have anything to say, it's okay to say it." Yang Ji glanced at the first man, smiled and said to Master Yin Shi, "There is no need to hide anything here."
"Here." Master Yinshi saluted and said, "When we were fighting against the Turkic Khanate, Murong Fuyun was doing a lot of trouble in Liangzhou. He not only sent troops to plunder the caravans, but also encouraged the Qiang people who were close to Tuyuhun. Tribes have stirred up troubles all over Liangzhou, and now it's time for them to pay the price. Now that the victims have been resettled, and the government affairs of the states have been sorted out one by one, how is the general manager going to deal with Tuyuhun and the Qiang tribe who colluded with Tuyuhun? ?Should we go to war with Tuyuhun directly?"
Yang Ji frowned and asked, "Want a war against Tuyuhun?"
"Exactly!" Master Yin Shi said in a deep voice: "General Manager, I don't think we can acquiesce to this loss."
"General manager, I humbled my position and praised Sima's proposal. You must not admit this loss." Cao Yu Shinan, an official who exercised the power of long history, also solemnly said: "Tuyuhun's plundering of merchants is well known in Liangzhou, even in Daxing. The city is not a secret. In the past, major events such as the Great Sui Dynasty and the Turkic War, the Henan floods, the restructuring of free warehouses, large-scale immigration, and the overhaul of the Yellow River embankment attracted the attention of the world, so Tuyuhun's bad behavior was not particularly prominent. Then. As all major events returned to calm, Tuyuhun's bad behavior in attacking the Sui Dynasty gradually became a matter of concern. The government and the public were paying attention to Liangzhou, hoping that Liangzhou would respond. If we don't do anything, I'm afraid everyone in the world will be in trouble. I feel disappointed, and then criticize the General Manager of Liangzhou with words and writings, so my attitude must be made, and this battle must be fought...but this year is not the right time to fight."
Yang Shanhui, the civil servant, raised his hand and corrected: "What Tuyuhun did in Liangzhou was an invasion and a declaration of war against the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, this was a war between two countries. It was not a simple plunder of merchants. We cannot think of it as a general war." It’s ordinary and easy to suffer losses,”
"I have been taught!" Yin Shishi and Yu Shinan saluted Yang Shanhui.
Yang Shanhui returned the gift, and then said to Yang Ji: "General Manager, there are many foreign races around my Sui Dynasty, but they all fear me, why are they afraid of me? It is my Sui dynasty who has the blood and is my Sui soldier. There is something that can be fought. Since Tuyuhun dared to invade the Sui Dynasty, it must be destroyed. Otherwise, other foreign races will mistakenly think that the Sui Dynasty is weak and can be bullied, and everyone will follow suit in the future. But Yu Li Cao just said, 'This year "It's not appropriate to fight." I agree very much. After all, it's already winter, and it's freezing cold and snowy on the plateau. If we march rashly, I'm afraid there will be huge damage before the battle begins."
"The war is going to be fought, but not this year." Seeing that his views were gradually unified, Yang Ji made a decision.
"The general manager is wise!" Yu Shinan heard this and breathed a sigh of relief. What he was most afraid of was that Yang Ji would be blinded by his previous military exploits, and the troops who didn't know the importance of the battle would pull him up to the snowy plateau. If he did this, what would happen to the support team? It would have been a costly disaster for the troops.
"There are natural dangers in Tuyuhun. If we cannot overcome them, the non-combat losses of our soldiers will probably be far higher than those in frontal combat." Yang Ji knew that the Tang Dynasty seriously underestimated the plateau climate when fighting Tibet, and appeared suffered several disastrous defeats.
Although the Tubo army obtained the essence of Chinese civilization and science and technology out of thin air, which enabled their army to make a qualitative leap, making the weapons, equipment, and combat power of the Tubo soldiers no less than those of the Tang army, the plateau climate was indeed a nightmare for the Tang army.
Before every battle started, a large part of the Tang army was knocked down by altitude sickness, and the remaining ones were not much more powerful. If I had foolishly gone to the plateau in winter, I would probably have failed miserably.
"Natural danger?" Master Yinshi asked the question in his heart: "General manager, I know something about Tuyuhun. Although the mountain is dangerous, it is not considered a natural danger?"
"The natural danger I'm talking about is acclimatization." No one knows about altitude sickness, and Yang Ji himself couldn't explain it clearly, so he simply summed it up with the well-known "acclimatization".
Master Yinshi pondered for a long time and said: "Even so, we can't just be beaten passively because we are not accustomed to the climate, right?"
Yang Ji said: "Of course not, but we can send troops to adapt to the climate above. As long as they pass the adaptation period, the soldiers will be the same as they are now."
Master Yinshi cupped his hands and said: "Please give the order from the chief manager."
Yang Ji stood up and said, "Go to the military aircraft room and discuss over the map."
"Here." Everyone stood up one after another and followed Yang Ji towards the military engine room.
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