The spring rain is pouring from the sky. The sky and the earth seem to have drawn a white curtain in the misty rain. The raindrops knock on the tiles of the waterside pavilion, emitting the purest crisp notes in the world. The ripples on the lake in front are endless. , one inside the other.
The waterside pavilion has a small red clay stove that is burning brightly. Seven or eight water snakes caught by Pei Shuying are stewed in an earthenware cauldron on the stove. The thick aroma is boiling and spreading with the milky white soup.
Pei Shuying stood in front of the stove, happily adjusting the snake soup with a spoon. The tile cauldron was a large stoneware bowl that was relatively durable, and it catered to the simple atmosphere of the slanting rain and drizzle, and it was paired with a pair of soft and delicate The slender plain hands are a bit more beautiful.
She was even more unlucky than Yang Ji in fishing. Yang Ji managed to catch a few fish cubs a few years ago. But this guy was really good. There were so many fish, and she couldn't hit even one with a crossbow. Then she fished here and there with the fishing rod, and in the end, all the fish she caught were water snakes.
At first, Pei Shuying thought the water snake was an eel and happily caught it with her hands. Then, after Yang Ji's "kind-hearted" reminder, he was frightened by the name "snake" and cried loudly.
She stopped crying until the kind-hearted Murong Xianyue said that the water snake was no different from the eel. Not only was it non-venomous, did not bite, and was more nutritious than fish, she stopped crying.
After shivering for a long time, she fiercely picked up the kitchen knife and chopped up the water snake and boiled it.
Yang Ji rested his head on Liu Rumei's strong thigh, half sitting and half lying on a couch, watching Pei Shuying's work.
He was knocked down by Xiao Ying at the wine table today at noon. At this time, his stomach was burning and uncomfortable. At this time, a pair of soft thighs were pillowed behind his head, which was extremely comfortable.
"Alang, we left our children to grandma, isn't that too much?" Xiao Ying walked to Yang Ji and sat down at this time. She is a conscientious and good daughter-in-law, even though she had agreed in advance that she would be there all day long. They were having a picnic by the lake in Fuzhong, but when she thought of Dugu Min with her baby, she felt very uneasy.
Yang Ji now has six children, namely Yang Hao, Yang Ming, Yang Chang, Yang Hui, Yang Yao, and Yang Xi. The three little ones were born in the first month of this year. As long as they are fed, they will sleep peacefully and don't have to worry. The key is that the three naughty ones in front of them make Xiao Ying really worried that her mother-in-law won't be able to handle them.
Yang Ji didn't even raise his eyelids and said: "My mother-in-law is very good at teaching children. The three idiots left to her will definitely be more reliable than us and will definitely be more promising than the children we teach ourselves. Don't worry. ”
Although Dugumin dotes on her three grandsons very much, she has a strong grasp on education. While taking her grandsons to play outside, she uses the people and things around her to make sense, subtly establishing their three views and letting them Have fun and learn some lessons at the same time. When the children have fun and have a sense of responsibility, they are also particularly attentive when learning.
Yang Ji fully agrees with this educational method of entertaining and entertaining. His son was either a prince, or a prince, a county prince, or a county prince. In the future, he would be able to become a high official without taking any exams, so there was no need to learn a lot of knowledge that was required for scientific exams but had no practical use. What they want to learn is the quality of being a person and an official, practical knowledge, the knowledge of distinguishing right from wrong, and the academic knowledge of commanding subordinates.
These academic studies may seem very difficult, but once you learn them in conjunction with the royal palace and the surrounding environment, they are easier to learn and less difficult than some useless "Zhihuzheye".
After glancing at Xiao Ying, Yang Ji added: "I don't know how happy the four of them are without us around to interfere! Why are you so worried? If you go to the backyard now, the children will not have fun. , you think about this again, aren't you being a bitch?"
Seeing that he said something unpleasant, Xiao Ying pinched her thigh in anger.
"Hey!" Liu Rumei almost jumped up and looked at Xiao Ying with an innocent face: "Auntie, why are you pinching me?"
"What else can she do? It's nothing more than getting angry from shame. But she couldn't bear to pinch her lovely husband, so she took it out on you." Yang Ji looked at Liu Rumei's small chin through the chest gap between the two mountains. , promised very naturally: "But it doesn't matter, I will get her drunk later and give you bad breath."
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Not to mention drinking, it was fine. When I mentioned this, the girls burst out laughing: Yang Ji's drinking capacity was actually not bad, and none of the civil and military generals from the Wei Wang family who claimed to be "not afraid of getting drunk, just afraid of not getting drunk" were his opponents. . However, he is afraid of comparison in everything, and there is no distinction between men and women in terms of drinking capacity. Once he meets Xiao Ying, who doesn't like wine and "can't drink", Yang Ji's drinking capacity will no longer be enough.
Xiao Ying couldn't help laughing. She sat aside elegantly, picked up one of Yang Ji's legs and put it on her knee. While pressing it gently, she asked Uncle Yang: "Aren't you going to the front hall to see Zhao Deyan, the envoy of Jieli Khan?" What's wrong? Why are you back so early? Could it be that the talks have collapsed?"
Yang Ji's wives are all his right-hand men. The only difference is that they have different abilities and different management affairs. There are no outsiders here at the moment. He has nothing to hide. He said directly: "Zhao Deyan and Mr. Song (Song Zhengben) are from the same hometown. He is also the 'outer' disciple of Mr. Liu Zhuo and the nominal junior brother of Xuancheng. He is not Jieli Khan's confidant at all, but one of his own. After we negotiated, we sent him away."
Xiao Ying was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is this person reliable?"
"Reliable!" Yang Ji replied with a long sigh: "He is from a prominent family in Anle County. Since the Han Dynasty, his ancestors have passed down poems and etiquette to the family, treated the villagers well, and protected their hometown. In the early days of the emperor's reign, Turkic Shaboluo Ke Photo taken by Khan Ashina. Taking advantage of the internal instability of the Sui Dynasty shortly after the founding of the country, he invaded the Sui Dynasty many times. In addition to bloodbathing Wuwei, Tianshui, Anding, Jincheng, Shangjun, Honghua, Yan'an and other counties in Yongzhou and Liangzhou, he also The northern part of Youzhou was completely slaughtered, and Zhao Deyan’s parents and brothers were all killed by the Turks’ scimitars..."
"Li Min's father, General Li Chong, knew he was outnumbered. In order to reduce casualties and ensure the safety of Youzhou, he had no choice but to lead thousands of infantry and cavalry to lead the Turkic army of more than 100,000 to the northeast, using the lives of all the soldiers in this army to fight for reinforcements. time to give the people a glimmer of life. After all the troops led by General Li Chong died in the battle in the isolated city, General Yin Shou, the father of Yin Shishi, finally came. Not only did he defeat the Turkic army and rescue the remaining people of Anle County, he also Move them to Zhuojun, including Song Zhengben and Zhao Deyan."
"When the young Zhao Deyan saw his relatives being killed by the Turks one by one in the wall, he swore to God at that time: In this life, the Turks will definitely exterminate the Turks and avenge their relatives and fellow villagers. Since then, he has been living in Youzhou and Jizhou While traveling and studying, I will pay attention to the situation. When I am successful in my studies, I will go to the Turks to look for opportunities to exterminate the Turks."
When the girls heard this, they were all in awe: There are many "Zhao Deyan" in the north, and there are countless people as pitiful as him. However, 99.9% of people choose to cherish the present and give up hatred for various reasons. Therefore, Zhao Deyan, who practices and is unswervingly determined, is particularly precious.
After pondering for a moment, Xiao Ying asked: "So, Zhao Deyan found an opportunity in Jieli Khan and became his confidant?"
"Exactly!" Yang Ji nodded and said slowly: "The Turks are a loose tribal alliance. Each tribe is a highly autonomous state within a state. They control military power, political power, financial power, and law enforcement power. In the hands of tribal chiefs, and king-like chiefs put their own tribe first, when tribal interests conflict with the great khan, they will either move elsewhere or directly lead their tribes to rebel."
"Facing this situation, Jieli Khan Ashina Dubi's mentality was completely different from that of his father and brother. His father and brother believed that the grassland people were the descendants of the wolf god and the lords of the grassland. The essence of being brave and good at fighting was the nomadic life. It is the law of competition of the weak and the strong. As long as the Ashina family maintains its own strength, other tribes with a high degree of autonomy will surrender and be slaughtered by them. If they interfere too much and force too much, it will lead to continuous grassland wars. "
"And Du Bi does not recognize this very loose and dangerous alliance system. He advocates weakening the rights of the chiefs like cutting down vassals, putting military power, political power, financial power, and law enforcement power into the hands of the Great Khan, and ultimately establishing an imperial power. The supremacy and centralized power of the dynasty completely changed the situation of the grasslands being fragmented, and then expanded externally as a whole. So Zhao Deyan fell in love with him and became his confidant."
"Don't think too much!" Xiao Ying shook her head and said one by one: "Our Central Plains has a history of more than a thousand years. Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, trust and brotherhood have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, until now It is impossible to bring all military power, political power, financial power, and law enforcement power to the central government. If Du Bi imitates the Central Plains, he is simply seeking death."
"The grassland has always believed in the way of survival where the strong is respected. The vast majority of people have no ethics, no country, no loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. Everyone is proud of killing. If the Central Plains system is used to restrain the people , depriving the chiefs of their rights will only be counterproductive and cause chaos."
"That's true, but Duo Bi thinks he can." Yang Ji agreed with Xiao Yingzhi's statement.
There is an essential difference between the Central Plains people and the Hu people. The Central Plains people have a deep obsession with unification. Every hero and every anti-king regards unification of the world as the lofty goal of their struggle. This is not the case with barbarians.
The living environment of the Hu people is very harsh, and a blizzard can completely wipe out a tribe. Therefore, they never care about land, cities, or even wealth. They only care about food and clothing to survive. In order to allow their people to obtain food, clothing, and medicine for the winter, chiefs often went to war with other surrounding tribes and plundered their supplies for their own use.
Everyone has this mentality, so in order to deal with natural disasters and threats from surrounding tribes, the chiefs had no choice but to try to plunder the population and strengthen their own military strength. And before the Great Khan could solve the problem of "survival", if he rashly robbed them of their power, it would be equivalent to turning their entire tribe into a group of death row prisoners waiting to be slaughtered and killed. How could they agree?
This is also the fundamental reason why Qimin Khan, Shibi Khan, and Chuluo Khan let themselves go and focused on strengthening their headquarters. However, Jieli Khan Ashina Dubi believed that he could solve all problems and change everyone's destiny, so he reused Zhao Deyan, who was "like-minded and far-sighted".
Zhao Deyan knew very well that Ashina Dubi's idea was not realistic at all. Once he became the Great Khan and acted according to unrealistic dreams, the Turks would definitely betray their relatives and collapse. So he took advantage of the opportunity of his mission to find Yang Ji. He hoped that Yang Ji would support Ashina Dubi, and it would be best if the imperial court canonized Ashina Dubi as Jieli Khan, making him a "justifiable" scourge.
In fact, the imperial court also planned to canonize Shibi, Chuluo, and Jieli at the same time, so that the three brothers would be on the same level, and then let them fight. So after Yang Ji listened to Zhao Deyan's explanation and request, he agreed.
"Alang, can Zhao Deyan be trusted?" Xiao Ying asked after listening to Yang Ji's explanations.
"Of course it's believable! This is how the Jieli Khan in history was betrayed and alienated by his tricks." Yang Ji accidentally let it slip.
"Ah?" The girls were stunned, and Xiao Ying asked with surprise: "Alang, your divination skills are back?"
Just when Yang Ji, who couldn't explain it, found a step to go down, he immediately got off the donkey along the slope. He pretended to be serious and said: "When I was sleeping during the day, a Vajra came into my dream and gave me a signal. However, there are no loopholes in the heaven's secrets and the heaven's punishment is terrible. You guys Don’t ask, if you ask, I can’t tell you.”
Xiao Ying and others were really scared when they heard what Yang Ji said.
Liu Xu hesitated for a while and said: "Master, King Kong is a Buddha and you are a slave of King Kong, so you should be a vegetarian. But after all, Master is the Optimus Prime of the Sui Dynasty. It is reasonable to eat meat with big mouthfuls, drink wine with big bowls, and chop people with big swords." , but now that King Kong has given it, shouldn’t we keep silent for a few days?”
Yang Ji pointed at Xiao Ying and said: "The taboo on meat and fish is a method devised by her ancestors. In fact, it has nothing to do with Buddha. There is no need to worry, let alone taboos."
Xiao Ying's ancestor, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, was a genius among geniuses and a strange person among strange people. During his reign, Xiao Yan was diligent, caring for the people, and frugal. He made great contributions to military, political, cultural, and educational fields, as well as to classics, history, and literature. He has outstanding achievements in music, painting and calligraphy.
Under Xiao Yan's painstaking management, the Liang State became the most powerful country to unify the world at that time; however, when he became obsessed with Buddhism, everything changed.
Xiao Yan not only spent the country's wealth to build the splendid 480 temples, but also evaded his position as a monk many times. Liang Guo's important officials had no choice but to ask the Buddhists to "let" him go back to be the emperor. The important officials had no choice but to hand over an unimaginable ransom to Buddhism.
Buddhism tasted the sweetness, and soon encouraged Xiao Yan to become a monk, and then asked Liang Guo to pay more ransom... With so many back and forths, Liang Guo soon went from being prosperous and extremely powerful to the people being miserable, complaining, and betraying their relatives.
"..." Xiao Ying didn't bother to refute; in fact, she didn't believe in the trick created by Xiao Yan. Apart from not being able to chop people, she was good at eating meat and drinking, and she especially liked eating cold Houttuynia cordata.
"Soup is here!" At this time, Pei Shuying brought a large bowl over. The milky white water snake soup was sprinkled with finely chopped emerald green coriander and young leaves of Houttuynia cordata. The aroma was refreshing and appetizing.
"What kind of soup should I drink? I'm just drinking today!" Xiao Ying looked at Yang Ji and chuckled: "Alang, don't you think so?"
Yang Ji felt awe-struck when he heard this. This woman must have wanted to ask for an explanation at the wine table because she talked about her ancestors. However, even though he was frightened, he spoke very hard and said, "That's right. Whoever wants to talk about her ancestors tonight?" Get drunk and throw them all into the lake."
"This is what you said!" Xiao Ying said meaningfully.
Yang Ji frowned, thinking about it, and said to Xiao Ying seriously: "Hui'er is still drinking nǎi. You can't drink. If he drinks nǎi and gets drunk, he will be in big trouble."
Everyone: "..."
