When screams rang out from the next door, Zi Jiaer, who was kneeling on the edge of the kang, shook her hands, and the potatoes wrapped in branches suddenly fell into the fire, causing large sparks to fly.
She looked at the direction of the sound in horror, and whispered uneasily: "Sister Liu!"
Liu Qian came over wearing thick socks, sat down next to Zi Jia'er, and said nonchalantly: "Don't be afraid, there are a lot of tooth soldiers in the room next door. Besides...
"
She patted the dagger on her waist and said, "We still have this!"
The panic in Zi Jia'er's heart subsided a little, and she asked in a low voice: "Does Mr. Chen often hit people?"
Liu Qian tilted her head and thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "Master doesn't like beating people, he likes fighting!"
"Ah?" Zi Jia'er asked in surprise: "How could someone like to fight?"
"Wars are fun!" Liu Qian blinked her big eyes and pretended: "You are still young now. When you grow up, I will teach you horse riding and archery, and then we can go to war together!"
Zi Jiaer said weakly: "I don't like fighting."
"If so what do you like?"
"I...I like dancing..." Zi Jiaer whispered: "Ada said before that I would become the best dancer."
"Dancing...uh...dancing..." Liu Qian wrinkled her face and thought for a long time, then said: "Then I'll teach you first
Can you teach me how to dance while riding horses and archery?"
"Yes!" Zi Jiaer nodded vigorously.
Liu Qian stretched out her fingers with a smile on her face and said bluntly: "Come on, let's pull the hook, and we won't change it for a hundred years!"
After Yang Qiu returned to his residence in Lian County, he immediately ordered his subordinates to take several of his descendants back to Fuping City immediately.
"No, uncle!"
"Uncle, it's still snowing outside. Even if you want to leave, you have to wait until the snow stops!"
"Go, go, go," Yang Qiu yelled, "It's you bastards who make me so passive now! Go back to Fuping, and don't come to Lian County again without my order!"
The young man who was beaten said angrily: "Uncle, I've been beaten like this, isn't it enough? We didn't send people to be assassins!"
"You said it's not true?" Yang Qiu said irritably: "If I hadn't begged for mercy, you wouldn't be able to save any of your heads!"
The young man shouted in dissatisfaction: "Who dares to kill our Yang family members?"
Yang Qiu really wanted to slap these loudmouths on himself. Last time he said he would drive these guys back, but in the end he let them stay in a muddle. He couldn't make such a mistake this time! He stopped paying attention to them.
The nephew was so noisy that he directly ordered Bu Qu to forcibly escort him out.
Even so, he still felt a little uneasy. Could such a big thing as assassinating the king and killing the emperor really be passed off so lightly? Although there were hundreds of people in his house, they were really not enough. Yang Qiu became the Ministry of War.
After becoming the Minister, many people were deployed in the army, especially among the imperial troops guarding Lian County, where many close confidants were inserted.
He asked himself, would the Lord think that he had planned it beforehand?
After a few days of trepidation, Xu Wen, the newly appointed minister of the Ministry of War, handed over a list of military attaché transfers. Yang Qiu could not have a good look at Xu Wen, who was obviously here to decentralize power, so he opened the list with a stern expression.
His face turned darker, and he said angrily: "What does this mean?"
Xu Wen cupped his hand and said, neither humble nor arrogant: "Returning to Yang Shangshu, this is a document to clean up the unqualified people in the army and transfer some military attachés to local areas."
Yang Qiu became even more angry. He slapped the table hard and shouted: "Then why did you transfer all my people to Shuofang and Wuyuan?"
Xu Wen turned a blind eye to his anger and said calmly: "Please forgive me for not understanding what Yang Shangshu said. Shuofang County and Wuyuan County are also under the lord's rule. It is common for officers and soldiers to move around. Isn't this strange?
?”
Yang Qiu stared at Xu Wen, "I will not sign this document!"
Xu Wen sighed, and then shouted to the soldiers who were looking around: "What are you doing? Are you trying to spy on military intelligence?"
The soldiers originally heard Yang Qiu roaring in the hall, so they came over to find out what was going on. When they heard Xu Wen's reprimand, they quickly retreated. Just kidding, the Liangzhou army basically inherited the military discipline of the Han family.
It's strict, and it doesn't matter if you are lazy or do some fun things, but if you really violate the prohibition, you will really be beheaded.
Now that they are on duty, they can not only get a salary, but also some subsidies. Their life is much better than before. After leaving the office every day, they can go back and hug their mother-in-law and have sex. They are enjoying their little life, but they don’t want to do it because of
Curiosity cost me my life.
When the soldiers outside were far away, Xu Wen said to Yang Qiu with a dark face: "Yang Shangshu, I have been appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of War, in charge of the assessment and selection of military attachés in various places, and I have the right to inform my subordinates.
When the time comes for a reply, the official document will be distributed to each army. If it doesn't have the signature of the Minister of War, I'm afraid it will cause some bad comments."
"you dare!"
Xu Wen said calmly: "I just told you a fact. The documents are placed here, and someone will come to pick them up in the afternoon. There are other matters in the office, so I will excuse myself."
After that, he took two steps back, then turned and left. Yang Qiu grabbed the official document on the table and was about to tear it into pieces. After thinking about it again and again, he put it down, then signed his name on the back and stamped it.
received the seal of the Minister of War.
He also calmed down at this time, and he was actually a little lucky in his heart: This huge disaster has passed like this, fortunately, fortunately! Although he was deprived of the right to select, coordinate and assess military attachés, he can still mobilize troops and horses everywhere, as long as he
Have a suitable reason.
Yang Qiu comforted himself and said: Anyway, those troops were not his, so it would be okay to let them go now...that would be weird!
Human beings always want more, and it is always easier to put other people's things in your own pocket. If you just have to spit out what you have eaten, it will be uncomfortable. Originally, Chen Cheng appointed Lu Fang as the
The Northern Captain made an exchange of interests with him as the price for letting him become the Minister of the Ministry of War. Now, what's good, after getting the fat, a piece of it was cut back. Do you think this is annoying?
After returning to the mansion, the more Yang Qiu thought about it, the more unwilling he felt. He walked back and forth in the lobby a few times and shouted: "I quit, this Minister of War, Nai Gong, quits. Let's go back to Fuping!"
A concubine just walked into the hall. When she heard what Yang Qiu said, she said happily: "Master, do you really want to go back to Fuping? I don't want to stay here for a long time. There are not many people on the streets here. How can they compare with us?"
Fuping!"
Yang Qiu sat down on the chair, held Concubine Ji in his arms, and while reaching under his clothes, he said, "What do you know?"
"Ah, Master, you pinched me so much!"
"Huh," Yang Qiu started doing something on the chair, "Will Cheng Yi and the others laugh at me when I go back to Fuping? I won't go back even if you beat me to death!"
It has been snowing heavily for several days. Every morning when I wake up and open the door, I can see the ice under the eaves. The snow on the ground is several feet thick, and the water tank in the yard is also completely frozen.
Liu Qian took the stone and smashed it with the ground several times. The ice layer only cracked a few gaps and was not penetrated.
On this day, the weather finally cleared up. Chen Cheng got up in the morning and after checking "The Theory of Probability" several times, he felt that there was no problem, so he finally had some free time. He opened the door and walked along the eaves to where Liu Qian lived.
He walked into the room, knocked on the door, and asked: "Are you up? Today we are going to the river, do you want to come with us?"
"Creak", the door was opened a little, Liu Qian poked her little head out from behind the door and shouted: "Hey, do you want to go to the river to play today? Then wait for me!"
The door was closed again, and another little girl's voice came from inside, "But I can't ride a horse!"
"It doesn't matter, let's go by carriage!"
Without letting Chen Cheng wait for an hour or two, the two little girls inside quickly put on thick clothes and hot hats, and then walked out of the room. In this regard, Chen Cheng still
Very satisfied.
Chen Cheng's outing this time was not something he did on a whim, but something he and Xu Chao had already discussed. In the past, when Xu Chao was in Lingzhou, every winter after the Yellow River froze, he would take people to smash open a big iceberg on the ice.
Make a hole and fish out some fish.
Productivity in the feudal era was very low. In addition to farming, annual autumn hunting and autumn and winter fishing were important means of supplementing food. Although Lian County is relatively far away from the Yellow River, there is a river outside the south gate.
The Yellow River diversion channel used for irrigation. Before winter, Xu Chao and his people finally cleared it out. By this time, it was already frozen to the bone.
The river is not far from Lian County. It arrived less than half an hour after leaving the south gate. Hundreds of people cheering and cheering stopped their horses and carts at the edge of the river. Chen Cheng looked at the ice several feet wide.
, said to Xu Chao, whose nose was red from the cold: "One of the most correct things I did this year was to let Xu Shangshu also take over the errand of the Ministry of Industry."
He pointed to the frozen river water and said: "If it weren't for this step, how could we have seen such a scene? With this river, the harvest here next year is guaranteed!"
Xu Chao saw that Chen Cheng was very interested and took the opportunity to say: "If the upper and lower parts of the Yellow River can be controlled, the east and west sides of the Yellow River can be like this!"
Chen Cheng's hand was still in the air, and his arm froze when he heard this. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "Xu Shangshu, please spare me. My little money is not enough to spend. Every time I eat, I only have
Every vegetable is eaten, and the money saved is subsidized into the salaries of officials at all levels. If I can skip meals, I will definitely save even the last bit of food expenses. The little money I have is really not enough to manage the Yellow River!"
Not far away, two little girls were wrapped like balls. Zi Jiaer leaned next to Liu Qian and whispered: "Who is that person? He is not afraid of Mr. Chen!"
"That one is Xu Shangshu from the Ministry of Revenue."
Liu Qian stretched out her hand, broke off a piece of frozen soil, and threw it on the ice. With a "snap" sound, the soil hit the ice and scattered into small pieces.
Xu Chao glanced at it, and then said to Chen Cheng: "My lord, please step back, I am going to lead someone to cut the ice and fish!"
