In early winter in the south of the Yangtze River, the vegetation is still green and the rivers are gurgling. If it were Yuan Feng's hometown, the bitter cold land in the northwest, the vegetation would have been withered and yellow, and the ground would be covered with frost.
In the past, the greatest swordsman in the northwest, who monopolized the salt, iron and tea horses, has now become the dominant force in unifying the north and south of the Yangtze River. Although there are still some remaining enemies, they can no longer be called a problem. With the financial and manpower of the big man, he can easily
Loose stool can extinguish it.
Nowadays, the wealth in the world is Jiangnan, Suzhou and Hangzhou are ripe, and the world is rich. This sentence does not mean that Suzhou and Hangzhou produce a lot of grain, but that the economy in the Jiangnan area is developed. There are relatively many farmers working in textiles, ceramics, iron smelting machinery, and real cultivation.
On the contrary, there were fewer crops. The original physical tax implemented by the Great Zhou Dynasty required grain to be paid according to the area of land. Cotton and mulberry silkworms were mostly grown in the Jiangnan area. When it came time to pay taxes, they had to purchase grain from various places. This created a situation where every time
During the harvest season, grain from other regions flows to the south of the Yangtze River.
The large-scale flow of goods and people has further prospered the economy of Jiangnan. Even the rich people in Jiangnan will not convert money into silver and hide it in cellars like rich people in other places. Instead, they will deposit it in banks to earn interest, and the economy will
It's about liquidity. With the money rolling in, there's no need to worry about Jiangnan not being rich.
The porcelain tea produced in the south of the Yangtze River is sold overseas. In addition to supplying the countries in the Western Regions to the west, it is also sold to the South and West by sea ships. Even the European countries, which are half a year away, order porcelain in the south of the Yangtze River and put their family crests on it.
The designs were sent thousands of miles away, and the iron factories in Jiangnan were also very developed. The workers were highly skilled and had high smelting skills. They could also use water power to make steel. The imitation version of Western-style armor they produced was half the price of the same product in Italy.
, but the quality is even higher.
Yuan Feng conquered the south of the Yangtze River, and his strength increased by leaps and bounds, more than tenfold. He reduced taxes and treated the people well, and issued more than a dozen decrees in a row. After two or three years of war and the great changes of dynasties, the abnormal phenomenon of over-concentration of land was clearly eliminated.
It eased, the war subsided, the exiled people returned to their hometowns one after another, and the Han army soldiers who were disarmed and returned to the fields were all assigned crop lands that would exempt them from paying land taxes for five years. The people began to recuperate and recuperate, and the country's strength slowly recovered.
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In Suzhou, the loess paved roads and alleys were newly decorated. This was because the King of Han was coming here. The common people walked out of their homes and took to the streets to welcome the Holy King. Incense burners, large and small, were placed all over the ground.
In the welcoming team at the city gate, Xia Nanfeng and Mu Ying looked at each other speechlessly. You must know that not long ago, they were still plotting to assassinate Yuan Feng, but now they were standing here to welcome the King of Han as ministers.
"I can't figure it out, why did we fail?" Mu Ying said with emotion.
"It's not that you don't understand, it's that the world is changing too fast." Xia Nan said something that sounded quite philosophical without turning away from the limelight.
The King of Han came to Suzhou, not to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the water town, nor to find beauties from the south of the Yangtze River, but to find someone.
This person was the founder of the Southern Han Dynasty, Xia Qinxin's mother Xia Nanyu, and she was also the late emperor's widow. In terms of seniority, Yuan Feng also had to call her mother concubine.
According to the information collected by the Military Control Department, Xia Nanyu was a very scheming and persevering woman, and she did have an affair with Emperor Wu. This history was widely circulated at that time, and none of the parties involved has denied it, so it should not be false.
If Emperor Wu had not died in the mutiny, he would have already married Xia Nanyu into the palace, and Xia Qinxin was a serious princess. They and Yuan Feng were real relatives.
Outside the city of Gusu, there are pastoral huts, small bridges and flowing water. Xia Nanyu lives here in seclusion. The situation in Jiangnan has been determined. There is no need for her to hide in Tibet. She has already told her daughter in the capital the address and is waiting for her to visit her.
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Xia Qinxin is here, and she also brings another guest, the current ruler of the world, the King of Han Liu Yuanfeng.
Nowadays, the elegant pastoral scenery is unbearable to destroy. Yuan Feng left the guards on the outside. He and Xia Qinxin walked into the pastoral. They saw a commoner peasant woman plowing the field with a hoe. Her back was slim and slim, she seemed to be a girl.
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Xia Qinxin rushed over, shouting: "Mother!"
The woman turned her head, her eyes full of love and pity: "Xin'er, you are back."
Yuan Feng stood still and looked carefully at this unnamed folk concubine. She had a graceful appearance and a good figure. She didn't look like Xia Qinxin's mother but her sister. Moreover, the gap between the two sisters was still small.
The older Xia Qinxin, who is in her early twenties, is not as good as her mother who is in her forties.
"Mom, the King of Han...he's here." Xia Qin said to her heart.
"Oh" Xia Nanyu turned his head and looked towards Yuan Feng. After just one glance, he was stunned.
Time flies, time flies, so many years have passed in the blink of an eye, but that person is still as young as the first time he saw him.
Xia Nanyu was in a daze for a moment and took two steps forward involuntarily. He murmured: "Is it you? Are you back?"
Realizing her mother's gaffe, Xia Qinxin quickly grabbed her and whispered: "Mom, this is the King of Han!"
Xia Nanyu smiled indifferently: "He is indeed the son of sister Kuokuo Zhen. If you look closely, there are some similarities between his features."
He even knew the name of Yuan Feng's biological mother. She was indeed his father's old friend. Yuan Feng no longer doubted this and immediately said: "I have seen..."
It was hard to call her what to call her. Although Xia Nanyu helped her father give birth to a daughter, endured so many hardships, and devoted all her energy to avenging her father, she had no status after all.
As if guessing Yuan Feng's hesitation, Xia Nanyu smiled calmly again, like a narcissus blooming.
"Just call me Aunt Nan."
It was noon, and the family happened to have a reunion dinner together. Inside the hut, on the wooden slatted table, there were several farm side dishes. Although they were simple, they were extremely elegant and delicious.
Yuan Feng sat on the small bench, feeling a little embarrassed. Big winds and waves had passed by, but this was the first time for him to be in such a warm and homely environment.
A small red clay stove was specially placed next to him. Xia Qinxin helped him fill a bowl of rice in a pottery bowl, placed it in front of him, and looked at him with a smile: "Eat."
Although there were thousands of words in his heart, Yuan Feng still picked up the rice bowl first: "Aunt Nan, Qin Xin, let's eat."
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After the meal, the family gathered around the small stove, holding tea melon seeds, and began to reminisce about the past stories.
Turning back the time thirty years, it was still the period of the Yuan Dynasty. Although the Southerners had a low status and belonged to the fifth class, by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were no clear boundaries. The wealthy Southerners were still as powerful as the Mongolians who had no money.
I can't eat it either.
The Xia family in Gusu is a well-known local rich man. They own hundreds of hectares of mulberry fields, thousands of looms, and business in silk and satin shops all over the south of the Yangtze River. They even offer most of them as tributes, and they have considerable influence in the local area.
There is a daughter in the Xia family who has just grown up. Although she is only fourteen years old, she is already as good as a flower. She is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Many talented people from Jiangnan flock to her, and the matchmaker can break the threshold of the Xia family.
However, Mr. Xia did not want to marry off his daughter so early. He just kept his daughter in a boudoir. Miss Xia could not leave the house or walk outside the door, so she rarely went out several times a year.
In April of this year, Miss Xia went to Hanshan Temple outside the city to offer incense and fulfill her vows, but she met a strange man who influenced her life.
This man stood at the entrance of Hanshan Temple like a fool and jumped up and down, attracting a large crowd of people to watch. His style of clothing was extremely weird, short and short, and definitely not like people from the Middle Kingdom. Some idle men deceived him into losing his mind.
He wanted to drag him away and rob him of his property. Fortunately, Miss Xia was compassionate and ordered his servants to rescue him.
Miss Xia was only fourteen years old, which was the age for curiosity, so after paying homage to the Buddha, she asked questions in person in the Zen room. This young man with a strange background said that he was Saio from Funakoshi, and his name was probably
He is from Japan, and his Chinese is very weird. He can speak Mandarin with a slight Dadu flavor, and he can also speak Jiangnan dialect, but the flavor of this dialect is also somewhat mutated.
So Miss Xia called this man Funakoshi Saio. The man argued for a long time, but finally accepted it helplessly, and said that the name really suited him.
What is even more amazing is that the clothes on this person are very strange. The top does not have buttons, but is interlocked with extremely fine metal chains. The styles and materials of the pants and shoes are also unheard of. There are seven or eight things on his body.
A bag filled with all kinds of weird but useless gadgets.
Miss Xia was playful and thought she had found a treasure, so she took the homeless man back to Xia's house. The boy was happy to do this. He peeked at Miss Xia from time to time and muttered silly things like "Loli is so cute"
talk.
The young lady went out to offer incense and unexpectedly brought a man back, which added fuel to the fire of Mr. Xia who was anxious about his old mother's condition. He immediately ordered the man of unknown origin to be driven away. Unexpectedly, the young man actually claimed that
Can diagnose diseases for old ladies.
At first they didn't believe his lies at all, but after he showed a few magical treasures, everyone believed that he had indeed returned from overseas travels and had been taught by an expert in the Penglai Fairy Mountain.
The old lady sees a doctor.
This man didn't know how to feel his pulse at all, so he just took out a small glass bottle from his body, saying that it was a fairy medicine that could cure all diseases. Everyone was impressed by the exquisiteness of this small bottle, and the old lady was even more convinced that it would use Yin and Yang to cure all diseases.
After boiling the root in water and taking it, it actually got better.
So Funakoshi Saio, who came from overseas, worked as a second-class servant in the Natsu family and began what he called "ancient life."
This man had a lot of clever ideas and helped the Xia family improve the jacquard weaving machine, which increased the weaving efficiency tenfold. The Xia family's business was booming. At the same time, his status was also constantly improving, from a second-class servant to a steward.
Mr. Xia originally admired this young man and even wanted to give him a maid. However, this man actually had evil intentions and hooked up with the young lady by relying on poems he plagiarized from who knows where.
The two were in love and a good match was made in heaven, but how could Mr. Xia tolerate his daughter marrying a poor boy of unknown origin, and the boy's value was almost squeezed out, so he cruelly broke them up and drove him away.
When leaving, Miss Xia gave him her precious jewelry as a gift, and the young man also gave him a personal item as a token, and the two parted in tears.
Later, as Miss Xia grew up, there were more matchmakers, and Mr. Xia also fell in love with several candidates and wanted to marry his daughter off, but he didn't know that Miss Xia refused to marry and even threatened her with death.
A few years later, the little girl grew up into a beautiful young lady, and Funakoshi Saio, who had worked as a second-class servant, finally came back.
However, his identity is different now. He is already a famous national hero, who expelled the Han Dynasty Emperor Wu who dominated the Central Plains from the Tartars!
And his name has also changed. There is no Funakoshi Saio in the world anymore, there are only Liu Che and Liu Ziguang.
Emperor Wu made a private visit to Jiangnan incognito just to relive his old dream. After so many years, Xia Nanyu still has not forgotten him. On the first night of meeting, the two went to Wushan together, and they became pregnant.
Papers can't keep fire. After Mr. Xia found out about this incident, he secretly rejoiced, thinking that he had climbed to a high branch. Unexpectedly, before the team to pick up the bride, a mutiny broke out in the capital. The emperor died, and Xia also died together.
My father-in-law’s dream.
Dynasties changed, and the Han Dynasty became the Zhou Dynasty. Seeing that his daughter began to vomit and eat acid, Master Xia saw this and became anxious, and strictly ordered his daughter to have an abortion and get married!
When the conflict between father and daughter reached its peak, Xia Nanyu escaped on a rainy night and drowned himself unsuccessfully. However, he survived several times and relied on his intelligence and perseverance to raise his children and create his own world.
This is the story of Xia Nanyu and Emperor Wu. It is not as simple and blunt as everyone imagines, but is bizarre, twists and turns, and touching.
Unfortunately, this story remains a tragedy.
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After the story was told, there was a long silence. Xia Qinxin's eyes were filled with tears, and Yuan Feng was also sighing.
"Father, he is really a legendary person." Xia Qinxin said softly.
Xia Nanyu smiled: "My child, actually, mother lied to you. He is not your father at all, and mother is not your biological mother."
Xia Qin was stunned: "I don't believe it! This is impossible!"
Xia Nanyu said: "The child he and I had died when he was three months old. You are the orphan I picked up and have been raising as my own flesh and blood."
Xia Qinxin finally understood why she was not as good-looking as her mother. It turned out to be the case, but she was a little secretly happy. The uncle was really right. Since she and Yuan Feng were not related by blood, wouldn't it be okay...
"So, what is the token that my father left for you? Can you let me see it?" Yuan Feng asked cautiously.
There are very few things left by my father, except for a "Tianshan Blue Lotus", which is the Iron Age book. Now any traces left by my father are important clues and cannot be let go.
Xia Nanyu smiled slightly: "I knew you would want to see it. I have treasured this thing for a long time. Even in the most difficult times, I never thought of pawning it. I will show it to you."
A red brocade box was solemnly opened. Inside was a small square box with brushed metal and inlaid with blue glass. It was exquisite and unparalleled. There was also a strange soft cord, and the end of the thread connected two weird little ones.
thing.
There are four faded Western characters on the small box: oppo