No matter where a person is, he will naturally think about certain things.
The umbrella seller hopes for rain, and the fan seller hopes for summer.
Human nature has been like this since ancient times.
The Zhao family is like this now. They have gained huge benefits from the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Naturally, they don't want this pattern to be broken, and they don't even want to see anyone trying to change the pattern.
Therefore, for people like Shen Yi who keep saying that they want to look north, the Zhao family certainly has no good feelings. For the Zhao family, the best situation is to maintain the status quo. It is best for Northern Qi to come every two to three to five years to follow the Huaihe Navy
Let's have a fight and let the Huaihe Navy show its status.
After hearing Zhao Zhuo's words, Fan Dongcheng's eyes flashed, and then he lowered his head slightly and smiled: "Brother Zhao is saying that people like Shen Yi only know how to flatter the emperor, waggle their lips and talk, but they have not done anything for the country. In fact, it is me.
The treacherous traitor of the court!"
"If he becomes an official in the court in the future, he might become a disaster for me, Da Chen..."
After hearing what Fan Dongcheng said, Zhao Zhuo glanced at him and frowned slightly: "I know what you are thinking, but our Zhao family is a general. Although I have errands in the court, I only do it to relieve my boredom.
Live, my home..."
He said slowly: "I cannot interfere in the selection of talents for the imperial court."
Fan Dongcheng smiled and said: "Brother Zhao misunderstood. Of course I don't want you to interfere in the government affairs. But even if Shen Yi becomes an official in the future, with the influence of the Zhao family in the court, it would be extremely easy to suppress Shen Yi."
Fan Dongcheng said softly: "Young Master, please think about it, this Shen Yi is the most aggressive and the most famous among the young people now. If the Zhao family suppresses him and wipes out his future, in the future, Jiankang City,
Who else dares to mention the delusion of looking north again?"
Zhao Zhuo lowered his head and thought for a while, then glanced at Fan Dongcheng and suddenly smiled: "Listening to Dongcheng's words, it seems that you and this Shen Yi have more than just some holidays."
"Actually, it's just a small festival, a little thing, and I didn't pay much attention to it."
Fan Dongcheng glanced at the opposite side indifferently, and then smiled and said: "It's just that this Shen Yi comes from a small family. What is a small thing in my eyes may be a big thing in his eyes. Therefore, this small festival does not matter to him."
It shouldn’t be too small.”
Fan Dongcheng's words were a bit cryptic, but Zhao Zhuo had no intention of getting to the bottom of it. He lowered his head and thought about it seriously, and then said: "This Shen Yi should still be a student now. Even if everything goes well in the examination room, when he enters the imperial court
I don’t know how many years it will be, but let’s take a look, if he really enters the court a few years later, and he still has the same virtues that clamor for Beiwang now, then our Zhao family will indeed not tolerate him.”
Speaking of this, Zhao Zhuo glanced at Fan Dongcheng and said calmly: "Since I am Pingliangzi for Dongcheng, your Fan family, especially Fan Shilang, will also have to contribute."
Fan Dongcheng looked embarrassed because it was difficult for him to influence his fifth uncle Fan Shilang.
But after thinking about it, he still lowered his head and gritted his teeth: "Brother Zhao, don't worry, I will try my best when the time comes..."
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Shen Yi on the other side, of course, didn't know that the two guys on the opposite side were trying to hurt him. Because it was his first time visiting a brothel, and it was the annual oiran convention, so Shen Yi was also a little curious, so he followed Zhao Er, quite seriously.
to watch a performance by a group of little girls.
The reason why she is a little girl is because in principle, oirans only choose girls who are eighteen years old and under. In fact, those who participate in this kind of oiran convention are usually little girls who are sixteen years old and under.
After all, brothel girls, especially the so-called famous prostitutes who are doing business, usually start to find a way out for themselves when they are over sixteen years old, and usually choose a good family as a concubine.
Because the age of marriage in this era is too young, and in an era when people get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, brothel girls already have marital anxiety at the age of sixteen.
So tonight’s oiran convention, nearly twenty women participated,
Most of them were fifteen or sixteen years old. When all the girls finished their performances, Zhao Er's expression suddenly became excited. He reached out and patted Shen Yi on the shoulder, with a somewhat excited tone: "Qi Lang, Miss Gu is here!"
It was already late, and Shen Yi had been in Chunyi Tower for more than an hour. During that time, Shen Yi naturally found out where this girl Gu was from.
Miss Gu's name is Gu Hengbo. She is the most famous courtesan in Jiankang City in recent years. She has been the Oiran of the Qinhuai River for two consecutive years.
This Miss Gu is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. What's more, she is also quite talented in poetry. She has written many excellent works so far, which are widely circulated in Jiankang City.
Miss Gu is already eighteen years old this year.
In the prostitution industry, this age is not very old, but in the "famous prostitute" industry, usually by the age of seventeen or eighteen, you are already thinking about getting married.
But Miss Gu still participated in the Oiran Convention this year.
At this time, Miss Gu, wearing a bright red dress, stood on the stage pretty. She first saluted to the four people sitting there, and then said in a clear voice: "Sisters, Zhuyu is in front, and the slave family is showing off its shame."
As soon as she finished her entrance line, the four seats burst into applause. In various private rooms and on the stands, red flowers were thrown onto the stage as if they were free of charge.
After a while, there was a layer of red flowers piled on the table.
The craziest one is Zhao Jizhou.
I saw Zhao Er holding the wooden box in the room in his hands, calling Miss Gu's name, and then directly poured down the box of small red flowers.
Thousands of taels of silver turned into red paper flowers, fluttering in the air and falling on the stage.
The woman in red wearing a veil on the stage also saw this scene. She raised her head and glanced at the second floor, then nodded slightly and smiled brightly at Zhao Jizhou.
This smile made Zhao Erhun stop laughing and he could only stand in front of the window and giggle.
Shen Yi was also standing next to the window, looking at the stage covered with a layer of red flowers, and couldn't help but sigh to himself.
"This is the fan economy. A little lady standing on stage is enough for ordinary people to spend hundreds of years..."
At this moment, Gu Hengbo was looking at Zhao Jizhou, and glanced at Shen Yi by the way. Her eyes lingered on Shen Yi for a moment, then she hugged the pipa and sat on the chair on the stage.
The beautiful woman lowered her eyebrows and gently twirled the strings of the pipa, and suddenly the pipa started to vibrate, and there was silence in the Chunyi Tower.
Gu Hengbo was known as a great master on the pipa. He was said to have no rivals after he mastered his skills at the age of fifteen. Naturally, he played the pipa extremely well. At the end of the pipa song, he received countless applause.
After the pipa song ended, she was still sitting on the chair, her voice was soft and sweet.
"I heard a poem about the Qinhuai River some time ago, but it didn't have any music, so I couldn't sing along with it. After thinking hard for half a year, I finally came up with a pipa song. Please appreciate it..."
After that, she took a deep breath and seemed a little nervous because she was playing this piece of music in public for the first time.
Soon, her slender jade fingers started to move again.
A slightly soft, yet persevering pipa song jumped out from her fingertips.
Then, the beauty closed her eyes and sang slowly.
"Qin Huai was speechless and talked about the setting sun..."
As soon as this line was sung, Zhao Jizhou couldn't help but clap his hands and cheer.
On the other side, Zhao Zhuo and Fan Dongcheng both frowned slightly.
