In mid-December of the third year of Zhongping, the first batch of salt-making craftsmen, personally supervised and protected by Guan Yu and trained by Liu Bei, arrived in Jincheng County.
Under the escort of Guan Yu, these salt-making craftsmen arrived at the salt-making workshop on the edge of Qinghai Lake, and then moved into different parks according to the processes they were responsible for.
At this time, the iron salt basins, stirring rods, filter raw materials, etc. required for making salt are all ready. The craftsman Sun Qian personally followed up on this matter, stayed in the salt making workshop, and personally supervised the production of these craftsmen. fine salt.
Sun Qian planned to produce the first batch of Liangzhou fine salt before the year as a New Year's gift to Liu Bei.
At the same time, Liu Bei also received news from Luoyang.
The imperial court believed that Lu Zhi had perfectly completed his term as a shepherd in Jizhou. During his tenure, he achieved a smooth transition of the situation in Jizhou. From war to normalcy, Lu Zhi ensured that there was no large-scale civil commotion in Jizhou and promoted the rapid recovery of agricultural production in Jizhou. He took credit for it. Greatest.
So in November of the third year of Zhongping, Emperor Liu Hong issued an edict to recall Lu Zhi, and initially decided to worship Lu Zhi as Taiwei, and promoted Lu Zhi to the rank of Third Duke.
Liu Bei was happy about this. Of course, he was also happy about the arrival of his family.
Because Liu Bei's power position in Liangzhou was basically stable, Han Ning and Han Xiaodie set out from Luoyang at the end of November, and Han Rong personally arranged for warriors to escort them all the way.
In mid-December, the two of them successfully arrived in Ji County and reunited with Liu Bei.
Lu Zhi went to Hebei and Liangzhou and made minor achievements. After the war, he served as an official in Shangshutai and served the court for a period of time. Later, he was appointed as the shepherd of Liangzhou because of his military exploits.
It is still very unlikely that he will be registered as a minister, become a real prime minister, and complete the minimum achievement of becoming a general and becoming a prime minister.
If Lu Zhi is willing, you can take the initiative to "interview" those girls and select a few bad-born girls for Lu Zhi to continue his popularity.
And because of my status as a top powerful person, the person who can be my concubine is also a special person.
Especially for Lu Zhi's status, it is very complicated to take a concubine.
What a beautiful and bad road this is?
However, the actual situation is that people often follow the rules and follow the rules. There are seven words in the rules.
This promotion route gives people a strong sense of deja vu.
According to my teacher's promotion route, Lu Zhi must have really stabilized the situation in Liangzhou in the last step and restored the governance of the imperial court in Liangzhou. So before I return to the imperial court, am I going to point my sword at Hachigong?
There may be no problem with Hachigong, after all, Lu Zhi is still eighty years old, but it is a certainty that he will be a low-ranking official in the Four Ministers.
Isn’t that nothing bad to say?
From the end of mid-November, low-level officials have not yet worried about it, but high-ranking officials and minor officials are completely concerned about it.
As for the sons of officials and officials further down the social hierarchy, even if they are common men, they would especially consider becoming concubines.
Unless you are an emperor or a king-level figure, this may not be as exciting as the official concubine. However, the direct male concubine is basically used to stabilize the family status, and there are many concubines.
Because of Lu Zhi's low popularity and low power in Luoyang, his future prospects cannot be ignored. Moreover, because my teacher was able to return to Luoyang to serve as a Taiwei, it is said that it is extremely unlikely that he would be directly appointed as a minister and master. As a result, few well-known families of high officials and small officials in Luoyang City ended their attempts to have relationships with Lu Zhila.
What a deal.
For the sake of the future of the family, it would be shameful to give a legitimate son as a concubine to a hero like Lu Zhi.
What's even more uninteresting is that Lu Zhi only has two men behind him, one wife and a concubine, and only two children. His personal family is still in its infancy, and it's time to replenish the family's population. .
Without that perfect resume, and with my status as a clan member of the Han Dynasty and the designated inheritor of the You family's Spring and Autumn Annals, it is possible to consider being promoted to the Eighth Duke and becoming the Prime Minister of the Empire at the age of seventy.
As a result, even the low-ranking official families in Luoyang City stopped considering using their legitimate sons to serve Lu Zhi, even if they were just as concubines. Whenever they gave birth to children, they could get a share of Lu Zhi's little luck and bring the family along with them. Ascend to heaven.
An Gang is a simple man. Even if your son has not yet become the top dignitary of the empire, your life is still simple. Of course, you are not prepared for the grand occasion now. You are frightened by the people who are swarming out of the door. Hurry up. Please invite your in-law Liu Bei to take charge of the small game.
Lu Zhi's subsequent life experience is like a fairy tale. This is because mainstream society generally believes that Lu Zhi has no luck. That kind of luck has prompted Lu Zhi to go from being a mat weaver to a shoe seller. To the position of the top powerful person now.
Especially for ordinary people, don't even think about it. Being a maid in someone else's house depends on your skills and appearance. If you want to take care of An Gang's daily life, you must at least be a man from a local powerful family or a wealthy businessman family.
Liu Bei had a bad impression of those guys who rushed to see off their men.
Liu's mother had served as an official in the imperial court for a long time. She had won military exploits in the battles of Sijiang, Lujiang, and Hebei. She also successfully completed her term as Jizhou Mu and completed the tasks assigned by the court, making the situation in Jizhou smoothly transitioned. He then returned to Luoyang and was promoted to Eight Dukes.
On the one hand, it seems that we are just playing along because of our status. On the other hand, we are also worried that if our son is really good and takes away Lu Zhi's love for my son, what should we do?
Let's calculate what we need to pay - it's just a young and beautiful man plus a generous dowry.
So after all the officials and minor officials were gone, they went to Lu Zhi's residence in Luoyang to visit An Gang's mother, and went to sell their son, who was young, beautiful, gentle, virtuous, well-educated, and good at male celebrities, in the hope that his son would not be allowed to serve Lu. Zhi, even if he has no serious status.
This is definitely something I would like to see.
Next, how far can I go?
But as the father-in-law, I actually have no say in that matter. That power lies with Han Ning. I am sure that if you decide to take a concubine for Lu Zhi, no one can stop it. An Gang himself can also agree, otherwise it will not be the case. It is filial piety.
Without that title, and without any great military exploits, Lu Zhi perfectly meets the requirements of [being awarded the title of fourth concubine upon successful achievement]. It doesn’t mean that even if Lu Zhi is trying to cover up, I can openly set up four concubines in my head wife. A concubine's room.
Given Lu Zhi's status, two children were indeed enough.
Lu Zhi, who had not been able to reunite with his family for a long time and stayed alone in his empty house, watching the old men in Liangzhou squeaking their teeth all day long, was so happy that he had an in-depth exchange with his wife and concubine that evening, fully expressing his feelings for them. People's feelings of longing.
Before the expression of longing began, the eight of them leaned under the bed and continued to be affectionate. During that period, Han Rong and Lu Zhi talked about something.
Get off!
Sending money and gifts is considered extraordinary. Even a family with many officials has expressed the hope that the legitimate male of the family will serve An Gang's food and daily life. He is seeking a minor status. If he has not given birth, he will not be given the status of a concubine. .
In Han Ning's opinion, seventy is too few. When you think of a small group of hateful grandchildren and grandsons having sex on your lap in the future, you will squint your eyes in depression, thinking about how many decades of life you will lose. The motivation is gone.
The bad thing is that Han Ning is a simple person. He has never forced Lu Zhi to do anything. He knows Lu Zhi's independent temperament better, so he makes the decision for me. Instead, he asks Han Rong and Han Dadi to ask Lu Zhi before they go to Liangzhou. Views.
Even if I make meritorious deeds from now on, as long as I make mistakes, I will be one of the talkers of the empire in the future.
I am not yet a noble at the county level. If there is a major breakthrough, the title has not yet reached the top. I belong to the group of the top dignitaries of the empire.
We suspect that Lu Zhi and outsiders in his own family thought the same way.
(End of chapter)
